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borneo · familiar strangers

Someone next to you
already thinks the same

Not a shop window of people — the contour of one place. A beach, a bar, a yacht club, a campsite: a code on a sticker takes away one thought, «I'm probably the only one».

How it works
entry · one code

The place makes it legitimate.
Not the app

A sticker on the bar counter, at the lift ticket desk, on the campsite board — you scan it and you're in. No form, no email, no password: the code is the invitation.

Every contour is the server of one place. One code opens only that one.

how you're seen

Anonymous.
Or not

Two states, not a ladder of five steps. While you're anonymous you're seen as a mask — «Terracotta 8», not a name; you switch when you decide to.

Your own face is your business. Someone else's isn't.

the truth as a number

Not names.
A number you can trust

0 here today, and everyone thought the same

The count isn't a head count: it has a threshold, a publication step and a random delay. «It was 33, someone walked in, now it's 34» will never be readable in the digits — one leak like that would cost the trust of everyone else.

The dots in the background follow the published number, not people: not one of them belongs to anybody.

ether · an intention for 25 minutes

Intentions meet.
Not forms

«Looking for a third for durak», «free bag of ice» — a cry lives 25 minutes and fades with its responses. You're visible only to whoever's intention matched: the rest don't know a conversation started.

The cry faded, the conversation stayed. There's no algorithm here: nothing is sorted for you.

what's inside · switched on at setup

One codebase.
The inside fits the place

Modules don't know about each other and switch on separately: a market doesn't need a backgammon table, a yacht club can keep only the business layer.

The board
One-off posts from neighbours — swaps, help, a found thing. They live a week, the place host approves them.
Storefront
A standing catalogue for one seller. Payment goes straight to them — there's no commission.
Tables
Durak and backgammon — a game takes 5 to 15 minutes. It doesn't matter who won: you're not strangers anymore.
Radio
One shared air for the place: the host plays music and talks over it.
the clan's signature · four levers

A detail of its own.
Not a system of its own

Palette, font pair, the order of rows on the hub, the mark of the place — picked from a closed set, not one colour code typed by hand. Tap a palette and a font: the screen next to it is real, not a picture.

font

Mesh and accent. Glass, text and the green dot are the same for everyone.

who it's for · starting points

Beach, bar, yacht club —
same contour, different character

Places where people already walk past each other every day. A starting point gives you defaults instead of an empty form: everything after that you edit by hand.

Beach
A season, maximum anonymity at the entrance
Bar and veranda
One evening, one shared table
DJ night
The clan lives one night and goes with it
Festival
Three days, then nothing is left
Campsite
Borrow an axe without walking every pitch
Ski resort
Company on the slope instead of riding alone
Market and fair
The next row sees the trade, not the face
Yacht club
The business layer matters more than a chance meeting
setup · one command

It lives on your server.
Not in someone's cloud

The tarball unpacks onto an ordinary VPS in one command. You own your own world: the clan's data never leaves its server.

curl -fsSL https://get.borneo.place/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- --ticket TICKET

HTTPS, migrations and the first 8 hours of work are all inside that same command.

demo · no risk for real people

Touch a contour
right now

A live clan that resets every night. Some of the activity there is staged and marked on every screen — in a real clan there's none of that.

Open the demo clan

In this prototype the button leads to the configurator: the live demo contour doesn't exist yet.

configurator → setup ticket

Seven answers —
and you have a command for your VPS

1

<b>A starting point</b> — beach, bar, coworking, or your own from scratch

2

<b>A conversation and edits</b> — modules, signature, texts, with a live preview

3

<b>A domain</b> — yours, or a subdomain from the creator

4

<b>A ticket</b> — one command and the setup status on the same page

Build your clan
not a subscription · a contour that lives at your place

A licence for a contour.
Not rent on someone's service

licence / a season or open-ended

The clan's data never leaves its server

No commission from the storefront or the board

The first 8 hours run with no licence at all

The author hasn't named the numbers yet — they're deliberately absent here.

questions · short and to the point

Thirteen questions.
Not one evasive answer

What people ask before installing. Where there is no answer yet, it says so.

How do people get in?
By the code on a sticker at the place itself. Scan it and you are inside — that is the only way in. The place gives legitimacy, not an app: no code, no clan.
Do I have to register?
No. No email, no password, no confirmation: there is no sign-up, only the code you scan. In return you get a mask — a colour and a number, «Indigo 47».
What does the owner of the place see?
Mask labels, complaints by template, and numbers. No conversations, no names, no record of who crossed paths with whom. This is not a promise in words: the panel reads the database through a separate role that physically cannot see those tables.
And what reaches the creator?
Numbers, once an hour: whether the contour is alive, which version it runs, how many points and cries there were. Not a single name and not a line of text. The report is described field by field and checked by a test.
What does «here and open» mean?
It is a number, not a list. It has a threshold, rounding and a delay: below the threshold it is not shown at all. An exact number in a small place would give away who just walked in.
How is this not a social network?
No feed, no likes, no algorithm. No list of people — for anyone. No profiles to fill in: intentions match, not questionnaires. And no shared server: every place runs its own.
Who do people write to here?
To someone they already shared something with: a cry, a table, a post on the board, a shop. A conversation never starts with «let's get acquainted», and it always has a quiet exit — the other side is not told you left.
Can I stay fully anonymous?
Yes, that is the default state, and everything works in it, conversations included. The second state is «not anonymous», and you can switch at any moment. A name you opened is seen by the person you talk to, not by the place.
What is inside a place?
The Ether with cries that live 25 minutes, a business board, a seller's shop, game tables and the radio of the place. Which of these is on is up to the owner: one codebase, different contents.
What is a clan event?
A place that lives for one evening instead of a season: a rave, a wedding, a festival. The evening ends by the clock, then a «remember» window stays open — to finish reading and see who you crossed paths with. After that window the contour collapses whole and without a trace.
What goes away after the season?
When the season ends, codes stop letting anyone in and the place closes. A cry lives 25 minutes, a board post until its term, a point until the end of the day. Everything else goes with the server when it is switched off.
Why on its own server?
One server, one place. The clan's data never leaves it, there is no commission, and nobody can take the place away from its owner: closing it means switching off a server the owner rents.
How much does it cost?
The answer will appear here. The price has not been set — neither fixed, nor per place, nor per module — and inventing one on this page would be dishonest.

The answers are written from the code: if something does not exist, it says so.

who's behind the code

One author.
Not one page about us

Borneo is written by one person. A question, a request for a contour, an idea for a new starting point — write directly.

Prototype: the form sends nothing and writes nowhere.

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