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The Dome

A home on the web for a geodesic dome on a Catskills mountain, built from everything its guests left behind.

252guests' messages

13places, a game each

2days to build

What it is

A dome, its guests, and a house of its own

A hand-built dome on a mountain, and years of guests who wrote 252 messages about their stays. In the spring of 2026 it passed to new keepers, who wanted to step off the rental platform and have a place of their own. They had the guests' words, a summer of drone footage, thirteen favourite spots on the land, and no website.

So I built them one, with Claude, in two days.

What it does

Four things, for two kinds of people

Shows the dome as guests know itThe pages are made from the guests' own words, quoted exactly, and the drone footage.

Turns the land into thirteen placesEach place has a card to scan and a small game played with your body: knock on the table, blow on the embers, lie still for one song.

Gives every guest something to keepEach game ends with one line to keep. It stays on the guest's phone and nowhere else.

Lets the keepers shape it by talkingThey tap any part of any page and say what they think, and every note gets an answer. Prices, bookings and guests' ideas sit on their own dashboard.

The idea underneath

What a guest gives here comes back to them.

A line kept at the fire pit comes back at the end of the stay. An idea left on a card comes back built, with their first name on it. The house is how the dome learns its story from everyone it has held.

Where it stands

Built, and being walked

Live for its keepers. The whole house, every page, game and tool.
Designed, not yet built. Booking and payments.
To try on the land. The games that use the phone's microphone, compass, motion and camera.
Next. A public version, at the dome's own address.

Go further

Three ways in

The guide · two minutesWhat it is, and how to walk itThe four parts of the house, a walk through it, and what's real so far. The System Book · fifteen minutesHow every part worksEach path through the house, step by step, and every part in plain words. The house itselfWalk the DomeIts guide is open to anyone; the rest opens with the keepers' code.