Reflective apps
Available on Android and iPhone
- Put your photos and videos on the map. Create spotlights of events and places and share them with your friends or the world. Control who can see what and for how long.
- Discover the world. Send rays to any place on the planet and have other users reflect them with photos and videos.
- Create interactive tours of the places you visit, complete with photos, videos, descriptions and voice notes.
- Get real, fresh and verifiable content. See what and where is happening on our planet.
- Communicate instantly and share files with your friends via built-in messenger.
- Keep track of whereabouts of people dear to you (with their permission)
Reflective vs Primitive
Psychology teaches us that people’s decisions can be motivated by thoughtful consideration from their higher reflective mind or fear-based survival instincts from a more primitive mind. When our decisions come from our reflective mind, they are more likely to lead to positive outcomes. Alternatively, decisions driven by survival instincts can hold us back. Unfortunately, most of the established social networks force their users to keep the mindless interaction going, simply to keep them glued to the screens, so that more and more ads can be shown. They invent metrics that promote the quantity of interactions over their quality, stimulating users’ primitive mind. Let’s change this trend. Let’s create the network that truly connects people and appeals to their higher sense of reasoning.
Spatiality
We live in a three-dimensional world and most of the events that happen in it take place somewhere, in a physical space. Yet, when it comes to discovering them on social media, we are at the mercy of an algorithm that decides if we want to know about them for the reasons unknown to us. Why not put such news on the map and let the users browse it freely?
Rays, reflections and spotlights
Have you ever wondered how Taj Mahal looks in the first rays of the rising sun? Or wanted to look down from the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower? Or find out how the house far-far away in which you grew up looks today? Certainly, it would be best to experience all that first-hand, but it is not always easy. And sometimes you want to travel back in time and see how something looked 10, 20, 30 years ago – and that is simply not possible. Or is it? We think it is and are trying to transcend the space and time. Please help us accomplish that.
World, interactive
One of the early slogans we had for the first working prototype of Reflective was “World through strangers’ eyes”. We later changed it to “Make your mark upon the Earth” but not because we changed the projects’s direction. The idea of helping our users to safely and productively communicate not just with friends but with total strangers is still there. Through our ray/reflection interaction we make it possible for anyone to discover more about our beautiful planet and people living on it, request and receive information about places and events, no matter if they happen on the other side of the globe or just next door. Initially these interactions would produce nothing more than a few photos or videos. Later, we are planning to add different layers like travel, services marketplace, transportation and build a foundation for AR platform. But first and foremost we hope that all these interactions would create a real human connection that otherwise wouldn’t be possible.
Rewarding content creators
Any social network depends on quality content. All such content is usually created solely by the users of the network. They publish and share it for very different reasons. Some would share something with their friends, while others would share it with the entire world. Some would share the photos of their recent vacation trip or the concert they went to, while others would share the video of the protest march they participated in. Some would share it without any expectation of the reward, others would try to monetize their content. In any case, fresh, interesting and genuine content that is posted publicly for anyone to see, is the essence of any social network. This is something we want to see more of, it’s why we keep coming back.
Amalgam
We created a blockchain and a cryptocurrency tightly integrated with Reflective network. It will be used to reward content creators and curators, to verify authenticity and authorship of the content, enable commerce within the network. It is based on extremely fast, public and permissionless blockchain that uses Distributed Proof of Stake algorithm. We named this blockchain and the currency Amalgam. It is an open source project that we run separately from Reflective. The term “permissionless” means that we would not control this cryptocurrency, anyone with enough technical expertise would be able to follow our documentation and run additional nodes for Amalgam blockchain.
Project timeline
Project roadmap
Our leadership
Arthur Boyarsky
Founder and CEO
Yuri Zykov
Founder and lead developer