alt Hacker NewsI am working on Sidequests HQ:
SideQuests HQ is a mobile app that turns real life into a series of small, optional quests.
The idea came from noticing that most productivity apps optimize for work, and most social media optimizes for consumption. There aren’t many tools that encourage you to actually do interesting things in the real world.
The app generates challenges across categories like meeting new people, exploring your city, learning something new, creating, or helping someone else. Complete a quest, skip it, or save it for later.You can also add your own quests. There’s no streak anxiety, no leaderboard. The app is just quests designed to make life a little less repetitive.
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sidequests-hq/id6751321255 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=inc.sidequests...
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I really like this idea but don’t like your tagline on the Apple Store. Life’s better with cheat codes is wrong. Cheat codes make games easier and less fulfilling, your app is the opposite of that based on what you’ve said.
Life’s better when you find the way.
Be the friend with the hare brained idea.
Possibly related/tangental, my friends and I in high school were pretty big into the car culture of the time (90s Houston = fast and furious). Anywho, as a complement of the normal (illegal) drag race and burnout meetups we used to organize and run full city scavenger hunts. We’d run around town collecting clues, solving puzzles, and driving pretty reckless. It usually involved at least 2 people per car to be competitive. Knowledge of the greater area was important for navigating because this was right around the transition where GPS became common. We usually did it around 2am-4am so the streets were open and we could drive fast. It wasn’t safe at all but luckily nobody I know of ever got in an accident. We had about 100 cars participating when I left for college in 98. I think about it as something that was very special and the last of the fun analog lifestyle before the internet took over.