Randonautica

I find out that he used to be quite the urban explorer, visiting abandoned locations and documenting them.

That's when he tells me about Randonautica.

For those of you that don't know, Randonautica is basically an app that asks for your GPS data and sends you a location using randomly generated nearby coordinates.

Little did I know at this point that there had been some true horror stories by people who have used this app.

I really wouldn't advise it, especially at night.

As we were a few beers down at this point and AJ already had the app downloaded, we decided it would be fun to go for a walk and see what was at the location selected by Randonautica.

It asked us to think about what our purpose was.

For example, find something scary or something unexpected.

And even when we decide to get lost for a while, we usually remain within a world that is familiar enough for us to find our way back home.

Randonautica takes that idea and turns it upside down.

Because it's choosing the destination for you.

You allow an application to generate a location somewhere within the radius around you, and then you are invited to go and see what is there.

And nobody will upload a viral video saying, we followed Rondonautica for 20 minutes and found this normal, perfect field.

Because the stories that we find out is normally when it's not very normal.

And that is how Randonautica became something much bigger than an usual navigation application.

During pandemic, when millions of people were spending enormous amounts of time indoors, and social media had become one of the main ways people entertain themselves and started their own business online, their own branding, Randonautica became a kind of a digital dare.

Mm-hmm.

And have you heard of this app called Randonautica?

No. What's Randonautica?

It's this app that you can type in, like, a mood or a vibe that you're going for.

Like, you can say fun or romantic or exciting.

[laughs]

Okay.

Well, I can't hear- I can't wait to hear more about Randonautica.