A demo for messaging people you can physically see
means contacting someone nearby without knowing their name, phone number, or account. It could be used for messaging, dating, sales, or payments when simply seeing the person is enough to start the interaction. The idea is designed to avoid exposing personal information.
A person can only be contacted after opting in and creating a temporary address based on their current look. The address naturally becomes less useful when that look changes, such as with different clothes or hair. It only works locally, where the person can actually be seen.
Harassment is an obvious risk, but contact and screening already exist in many services. A working demo messaging app exists, and the next step would be finding a and enough people to use it. The project is framed as .
Key points
- lets someone contact a nearby visible person through a temporary address.
- The design avoids sharing names, phone numbers, or other personal information.
- People must opt in and create their own look-based address before they can be reached.
- The address is temporary because it depends on the person’s current appearance and location.
- A working demo messaging app exists, but and a are still needed.