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Prototype · Location-Based Web AppWork in progress

Put a name to the room

A digital take on the paper "Hello, my name is" sticker — for a room full of strangers. Open Nametag somewhere with people around, and everyone here shows up as a wall of hand-tilted name tags: a face, a name, pronouns, and one line about what they're up to right now. No feed, no follows, no messages — just who's here, so you can go say hello.

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Nametag on a phone: the home screen headlined “Put a name to the room,” showing three tilted “Hello my name is” tags — Maya (she/her), Jonas (they/them), and Nabil — each with a photo, above a “Continue with email” button.
The Nametag home screen — a wall of tilted name tags, each a face, a name, and pronouns.
Try Nametag →

It's an early, vibe-coded prototype — a web app today, an iPhone app if it earns it. Works best on your phone, in a room with other people. Kick the tires and tell me what you think below.

Why I built it

Honestly? For a problem of my own. I'm not always great at remembering names — and pronouns — for the people around me at a party, and I wanted a graceful way to see them without the little dance of asking again. So I built the thing I wished existed, for the rooms I'm actually in.

The whole idea is the opposite of a social network. There's nothing to scroll and no one to accumulate. You wear a digital name tag for as long as you're in the room, you glance at everyone else's, and then you get up and talk to a real person. That's the entire loop.

How it works

Who's here, right now

Everyone in the room appears as a tilted "Hello, my name is" tag — face, name, pronouns, and a line about what they're up to.

No feed, no follows, no DMs

There's nothing to scroll and no one to message. The tags are a nudge to walk over and start an actual conversation.

Visible only while you choose

You appear only while you're visible, you can duck into a private party code, and your tag disappears the moment you leave.

Privacy is the point, not a setting

Because I built this for real rooms with real people, privacy is the core constraint rather than an afterthought. You're only ever visible while you choose to be, a party code keeps a gathering to just its guests, and nothing about your presence sticks around once you've left. The paper sticker you peel off at the end of the night was the whole design brief.