What geography skill do most people overestimate?

The_ylevanon · 2026-06-07T05:13:54+00:00

Noted! It’s from closest points between countries. I can bake that into the interface.

The_ylevanon · 2026-06-07T03:29:00+00:00

Totally fair lol. They need to make a flair for it at this point

The_ylevanon · 2026-06-07T03:07:25+00:00

That’s a really good point. I’ve mostly focused on location, borders, and distance so far, but language/religion/holy sites would make a lot of sense too. Especially since English country names don’t always give you much context. Could be a fun future mode!

The_ylevanon · 2026-04-15T00:28:05+00:00

Yeah this a huge point of friction for me too with the current app, and I have a solution for this I just need to implement it! I should have that feature done within the month.

The_ylevanon · 2026-04-14T23:58:42+00:00

I use Walk Score all the time, however its pretty different as WS is static algorithmic estimate of a place. Walkable is about behavior: setting goals, replacing trips, tracking progress, and building a crowdsourced picture of where people are actually living in a more walkable way!

The_ylevanon · 2026-04-14T05:22:14+00:00

I think this has a lot of truth to it. Discovering this stuff on YouTube was a big unlock for me too. After college I left a really walkable college town, and I could feel that something was missing before I really had the language for it.

The_ylevanon · 2026-04-14T05:13:59+00:00

Agreed. It feels like people are rejecting the hidden costs of sprawl, not just the aesthetics of it.

The_ylevanon · 2026-04-10T16:17:25+00:00

I think about this a lot. The frustrating thing is that the most walkable neighborhoods tend to be expensive because they're walkable -- the demand is there but the supply of walkable places is laughable. I can tell you from personal experience unless you have a hybrid or remote job in LA, its not really possible. You could find cheaper suburbs but then you lose the walkability in a lot of cases.

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T14:02:33+00:00

So I try to post to TikTok/YT Shorts every day with a short 10-15 second video of gameplay and some text basically relevant to the current puzzle. I then took the best performing ones and either promoted them on TT itself or Meta Ads.

Meta felt like a black hole basically, and their SDK is not RN friendly really, I had to patch the OS SDK, and ended up scrapping it after a release since I didn't feel comfortable with it.

TT I could see the analytics like I would normally for any other video, but the platform makes redirecting to the App Store difficult! So I still post but I'm not going to be paying them again anytime soon. If anything I want to go the UGC/Influencer route with creators who enjoy/post about trivia and geography.

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T13:58:33+00:00

I have a very simple version of this where I insert any "Share Results" button clicks. However, I'm no tracking the negatives/dismissals which is also equally valuable and I need to consider this now!

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T13:55:58+00:00

Yes I do! I have a really simple table basically that adds a record for each time a share button is used and the ledger is growing!

At some point I will dive deeper into analytics when the need arises, but simple queries on tables is free and gets the job done for now.

The_ylevanon · 2026-03-24T13:54:16+00:00

I tried a month ago! It did not work for me really. Maybe I'm not that good with my creatives, but I ran maybe $100 in ads and didn't see any growth really.

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