there's a bit on this at the bottom of the post: it's free for the rest of the year, and starting in 2024 the teams-based features will be paid. similar to figma or notion
Looks beautiful! Trying to think up ways that real estate agents or brokers could use this, but all of the examples seem to be on a much larger scale like regions or states, as opposed to neighborhoods or small cities. Do you have any users doing fascinating things for real estate customers/agents/brokers?
I've tried to get a set of vector tiles (`.pbf.json` generated with tippecanoe) working as a background, but the docs don't specify if vector tiles are accepted, and all the examples are raster tiles.
Can you use vector tiles as a custom background? If so, how, and are there limits on format support?
> don't have a good sense of where/how they are used
This is arguably a main problem with geocodes, however they are well designed or not (I believe plus codes are actually pretty well designed). It is obvious that they can't replace street addresses---unless they don't already exist, in which (uncommon) cases geocodes can actually be a solution---so they have to solve some different problems than street addresses, but those problems are too niche. If they look like solutions looking for problems, that's because they mostly are.
As someone with formal education plus getting on for 20 years in the field I've often wondered whether the software really needs to be so damned hard to use! I like the interface and I think nobody has yet conclusively cracked the problem of providing a super simple map creation app, so I wish you luck and think it looks interesting.
I'm interested to know options for import and export of data/maps? Can data be sourced from a database? Also why should someone use Felt instead of AGOL, mapbox etc? And what support do you offer for open APIs e.g. OGC? What integration options do you offer e.g. API for scripting creation of maps - or are the maps always envisaged to be manually created?
Can people add their own layers, like a WMS overlay? and, relatedly, have you considered adding georeferenced historical map layers? It seems like a good platform for story-telling.
I tried Felt and it looked good. However for me the marker / polygon moved significantly with different zoom levels which is a fairly big issue. This was in 54,-1 area (lat/lng) - I don't know if it could be as simple as different coordinate systems on markers vs mapping?
(Felt engineer here) That does sounds like a big issue! Are you able to reproduce the marker or polygon moving based on zoom levels? I tried for a bit and I wasn't able to reproduce this. How are you changing the map zoom?
Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Felt is the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping app, designed particularly to help with climate-related disasters like wildfires and hurricanes. Think "Figma for Maps".
We're founded by me – the former founder of Remix, which we sold for $100M [1] – and my co-founder Can who you've probably heard of [2].
We're particularly looking for great front-end folks who want to build a multiplayer experience on the web. Our FE stack is built using React, Jotai, Stitches, and a lot of other designed-to-be-fun technologies [3]. Ask us for a demo, it's hard not to love it!
Felt is the best way to make maps on the internet. It's surprisingly hard to make a map today, and people in 15+ industries rely on them to do their jobs. Felt is the first easy-to-use collaborative mapping app, designed particularly to help with climate-related disasters like wildfires and hurricanes.
We're founded by me – the former founder of Remix, which recently sold for $100M [1] – and my co-founder Can who you've probably heard of [2].
We're particularly looking for great front-end folks who want to build a multiplayer experience on the web. Our FE stack is built using React, Jotai, Stitches, and a lot of other designed-to-be-fun technologies [3].
I'm the former founder & CEO of Remix (YC W15)[1], a city planning software company which recently sold for $100M[2].
Now I'm teaming up with the best technologist I know and starting something new: Felt[3]. We're keeping a low profile, but it's an interactive web tool in the same vein as Figma, Webflow, etc but for a very different industry and with a climate focus. We can share the full details when we chat.
We're well-funded and hiring our founding team. Looking for senior software engineers and product designers.
