quite.spaceOn August 12 at 06:38 in the morning, the first version of Quite shipped. The chat already worked. With photographs, the relationship had not settled yet.
In a month it grew a shared map, a walkie-talkie, sensors, music projects with versions and comments. Even its own typeface — we drew it in one night, and then spent a while catching letters that had turned into dots.
But let me rather tell you what you can do with all of it.
Work on music together
Upload a mix, listen, leave “the bass sits better right here” pinned to the exact second. Then upload a new version — the previous one stays alongside, with its notes. No more remembering which file you were discussing yesterday.
A note on that very second.
The same works for the history of ordinary things: the saw in the workshop, the pump, the garden bed. What was changed, what was noticed, what needs fixing. Each has its own place inside the shared space.
Leave the house — and take the space with you
On the shared map you can mark a campsite, water, the route you walked. Share your position, send “I’m OK” or an SOS. If someone’s coordinates have not updated in a while, that is visible: an old point is not passed off as the person’s current location.
This month Quite also went out on a boat — recording the route. A very pleasant moment in development: closing the laptop and testing your own work on the water.
A campsite, water, the walked route — on one map.
Talk when looking at a screen is inconvenient
Hold the button, speak — your message is spoken aloud on the other side. A small trick happens inside: the phone recognizes the speech, sends the text, and the other phone reads it out. No audio recording travels at all.
With LoRa devices connected, you can talk this way without any internet. The radio part is still young — but possibilities like this are exactly why we want to keep building Quite.
Peek into the greenhouse from a conversation
Next to the chat there can now be temperature and humidity from a real sensor. Everyone in the space sees them — you can watch together what is happening on site.
The prototype is built from a small board and a sensor. The guide already exists. It is a special kind of joy to watch a thing assembled on your desk start sending readings into the app.
In the space: temperature, humidity, the door and the light.
And simply use it every day
Your phone and computer can now be linked into one identity: compare a code and continue the conversation from the other device.
For meeting someone, there is a conversation request. Write a few words about yourself, and the person decides whether they want to talk.
A lot of work went into the less spectacular things too: photo and video delivery, understandable loading progress, messages reaching a sleeping phone. The things you notice mostly when they break.
With the first big beta we also made a written commitment to keep compatibility with everything already recorded — and we check it with every release.
Beauty got its time too
Posts gained moving backgrounds: a nebula, an aurora, water and silk. The interface gained its own typeface. Quite is slowly developing a character of its own, and I want it to be a pleasant place to linger: listen to a track, look at photos, talk.
A little aurora in everyday correspondence.
Of course, the month was not without adventures. A release note did not fit into the new message limit. One version crashed right after a correctly entered code. The letters o, O, 0 and 8 of the new typeface once turned into solid dots.
All of that is part of the first month too.
Quite is still very young. But you can already build quite real things in it: music, plans for a hike, a workshop’s history, conversations with your people.
If you try it — tell us what made you want a space of your own. We are very curious to see what life you bring into it.