Our Mockup Invented Sensors, Brainwaves, and Live Data, So We Cut Them
1. What we're building
Globie Earth: Guardians of the Forest is an Android app where you adopt a real tree in the Isaan Valley of Northeast Thailand, grow a digital guardian that mirrors it, and watch a forest come alive as deeds turn into planted saplings. The partner is a real NGO (OpenmindProjects), and the trees are real trees in real ground.
The whole thing runs on one rule, and the rule is not a marketing slogan. It is a filter that has already cost us eleven features.
2. The rule
If it isn't derivable from something the device, the register, or a recording actually did — it doesn't get a number, and it doesn't get a label.
That's it. No live feed we don't have. No sensor we don't own. No percentage we can't compute. No physiology we can't read.
Sounds obvious. It's brutal in practice, because the...
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