It is mostly a long train ride that turned into a website.
somewhere outside Brno · the night the list started
how it started
A few summers back, on a long train ride that turned into a longer one
because of a delay outside Brno, the two of us started a list. Trips
we'd taken. Trips we hadn't. The list got embarrassing fast — there
were countries we couldn't place on a map. We blamed school, then we
blamed ourselves, then we ordered another coffee and stopped blaming
anyone.
The list became a habit. Every couple of weeks one of us would name a
place neither of us had heard of, and the other had to find it within
ninety seconds. There was no prize. The game itself was the thing. We
kept playing for two years before either of us said the obvious: this
would make a website.
why we built it
We didn't build korb to make money. We make a living from other things,
which is lucky, because korb makes nothing. There's no deposit screen
because we don't want one. There's no payout because there is nothing
to pay out from. Points are points. The whole point of the points is
that they aren't anything else.
We built it because the corner of the internet that does this kind of
thing is, frankly, hostile. Most travel-themed games are skinned slot
machines aimed at separating people from their savings. We wanted a
place that took the same source material — the strangeness and beauty
of geography — and gave it back to the player without an angle. A
small, quiet site for grown-ups who like maps. That's it. That's the
company.
— m. & o., somewhere indoors
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