Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
PlaneChat, for when the network disappears
funkwerk.cloud presents PlaneChat, an Android chat and party-game app designed to work without internet, servers, or user accounts.
Why it surfacedThe app uses Bluetooth Low Energy and local hotspots to let nearby devices relay messages, media, and nine synchronized games. It is an unusually concrete piece of offline software, with end-to-end encrypted direct messages and a deliberately local, no-tracking architecture.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.