Nobody lands here alone

When you join littledots, somebody is already there to welcome you.

Not a notification. Not an onboarding screen. A real fellow traveler who said yes to you.

We call them your community guide.

One person who said yes

Every traveler in littledots is connected to at least one other traveler. The one who let them in.

It's a simple idea, but the shape it makes is the part we love. As the community grows, the tree of who-welcomed-whom grows with it. One yes at a time, each new traveler adds a branch. Every dot traces back, in the end, to a single first guide.

Not staff. Not a vetting committee.

A guide is just another traveler who flipped a switch in their settings that says "yeah, I'm up for welcoming new people." Off by default. People turn it on when they're ready.

They don't decide whether you're interesting enough. They don't grade your handle. They're one person on the inside saying yes to you.

What a community guide is for

You can ignore yours entirely. No harm done.

But you have someone. A real human, a tap away, who's been around littledots a little longer than you have. If you have a question, if something isn't quite making sense, if you're standing on day one wondering what the etiquette is, there's a friendly face to message.

Guides aren't there to plan your trips. That's your job, and what the rest of the app is for. They're there to help you find your way around our community. The unwritten "hey, how does this work?" stuff that doesn't fit in a help page.

You're with friends from the very first step.

How it actually works

You can install the app and create an account whenever. Once you've verified your email, you're in, and your guide is already there.

Right now the community is small. Honestly, very small. So for now every new traveler gets the same guide: me. There's nothing to pick and nothing to wait for.

If a friend sent you an invite link, sign up from that link and they become your guide instead.

Once a handful of fellow travelers are guiding too, joining opens up. You'll be able to search for someone you know by their handle, or let the app find a guide for you, and the first one to say yes welcomes you in.

Either way, you land in the app with a direct chat to your guide already waiting, so you can wave back.

Then you pass it on

Once the community has grown a bit, you'll be able to turn on Settings› Privacy› Available as a community guide and welcome someone in yourself.

That's how the chain gets one link longer.