Technology

Quick intro for those wondering how it works:

1. It does ask for an email first thing, but it's presented as just an optional backup for your account.

2. Then comes the explanation I was looking for in my other comment.

Your Social Battery - Drag the dial to set how social you're feeling — from drained to fully charged. Your friends see this in real time.

Share Your Invite Link - Tap "Share your link" and send it to friends. When they join via your link you're connected automatically. https: //socialbattery. space/?ref={username}

See Friends' Levels - Once connected, you both appear in each other's friends list with live battery updates.

Then you're plopped on this screen:

Settings lets you select a profile picture, nickname (so you can show your real or gamer name presumably, but since your username is part of the link you share it doesn't do anything for security or privacy), and light or dark mode. ETA: I think the nickname feature should also be on a per-friend level, not global.

I think that should be sufficient to give people an idea what to expect when deciding whether to give it a try.

ETA: I am curious what happens when you don't have the PWA open. Do your friends just perpetually see what you last selected, or is there a timeout where it'll just say "offline" (and what is that timeout)?

I've made several edits/additions to this throughout, so you may want to scan it for those if you've already read this.

This is a fantastic idea! Love the concise easy-to-understand ui. As an AuDHDer, I think this will be a useful tool for keeping friends up-to-date on the likelihood of plans falling through lol

Edit to add: It would be cool to have a “busy/available” toggle too, as I could see situations where stating social battery + social availability would be useful (ie. when you’ve made plans for after work but are unsure if you’ll have the energy to follow through, could mark self as busy and update social battery accordingly throughout the day)

We talk less and less about how we're actually feeling, everyone just says "I'm fine" even when they're not. So I built a tool to make social energy levels visible between friends without needing the conversation.

Hmm, isn't this kinda ironic?

Seems like an interesting concept, but unless something like this is integrated into the platform which they are using to communicate, I doubt people would use it much.

And I think I would just leave mine on 0% permanently lol

This would be a cool thing to embed in a personal website.

Gonna need multiple batteries though

If it's not D&D my social battery is 0%

Would be nice if your mention of the site was actually a link, although I'll admit I'm just scrolling through "all" and have no idea if that's against the rules in this community (which would seem silly if a self-promoting post was allowed to begin with).

ETA: some explanation, and/or demo of how it actually works in practice would also be helpful so we can decide whether we want to invest the time.

Maybe I just don't have enough friends for this to make sense, but this makes no sense to me. If you wanna know if I'm down to hang out, just ask.

You're using technology to solve a psychological problem. Cool for building a portfolio, but come on.