Check what's true right now before you knock, pick up, or show up.

Current public truth on real doors, tags, and places — published by whoever maintains them, not guessed from who walked by.

  • No account
  • Community-run boards
  • No scan surveillance

Browse by need

Public boards group live places by community. Only intentionally listed boards appear here — not a map, feed, or scan history.

Public live boards

Open a board to browse places, then check what's true on site. Cards map to the shelves above — city games, resources, markets, and events. See all listed public networks. New to Wake the City? What a scan proves (2 min read) — Cedar Rapids is the reference public network.

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Live object carriers

Physical artifacts with a unique QR tied to your Humanity Card — update what strangers see from your phone without reprinting.

Start with one live object

Print once. Update from your phone. The sticker stays — the status changes.

Privacy and signed state No scan trails · no behavioral dossiers · public status only

Opening a link is not logged by default. Live status is steward-signed — not inferred from who scanned it. No scan trails. No behavioral dossiers.

Saved on this device

App settings

Design choices Optional, revocable, no scan surveillance by default, not legal ID

Engineering decisions - each tag names a concrete mechanism, not marketing copy.

  • Optional Scanning needs no account. Create a live object only when you want one — control stays on your device, not on our servers.
  • Revocable Owner signs revoke with an Ed25519 key held locally; the resolver verifies the signature and updates server-side status for that qr_id. The printed URL stays - the live answer changes.
  • No scan tracking Opening a QR is not logged by default. The resolver returns object state, not a trail of who scanned, when, or where.
  • Public object state Live status on the object — revocable, signed, readable by any camera. On game nodes, optional contributions can update a public count on the object, not a player profile.
  • Not legal ID Signed public status for communities - not government ID, KYC, employment proof, or a hidden trust score.
  • Architecture & security Threat models, failure modes, tests, and tradeoffs
Clear limits What a scan does not prove or guarantee
  • Not proof the holder owns the object
  • Not KYC, employment, or “verified forever”
  • Not mandatory identity or social scoring
  • Merch does not grant vouched status
  • What the network stores
Documentation Features map, case study, architecture, data policy

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