Hey there, Product Hunters! 👋 My name is Benjamin, the first employee at Lighthouse. I joined just under a year ago, when we started out with a simple question: "Can we build the Google Maps of the metaverse?" Since then, we evolved into something much greater where we not only index places, but also where your friends are, what events are taking place, and what groups are doing together. There’s been quite a lot of (polarizing) talk about the metaverse. What does it mean? Who wants it? Is it going to be fun or dystopic? With Meta as a de facto ambassador for the space, some negative narratives have understandably been building up over the last year. Despite all the noise, we are convinced that the metaverse is a huge step forward for our digital future. To us, the metaverse is the simple idea that technology, common standards, and open frameworks can empower greater, if not endless, interoperability between real-time 3D ecosystems. Now, what exactly is Lighthouse? 💪 Lighthouse is a metaverse navigation engine that indexes thousands of experiences across more than 20+ virtual worlds (and growing!) and make them searchable from a unified interface. What can you concretely do with on Lighthouse.world today? 👀 - Find your friends: Lighthouse tells you exactly where your friends are across and within our indexed virtual worlds (with consent granted by users first, obviously). No more wandering around for hours trying to find where the party's at. We make it simple for you via our free browser extension. - Discover experiences: Because the metaverse is built upon user-generated content, hundreds of experiences are added every day in our indexed words. Stay up-to-date on the latest trending places as well as the most anticipated events without constantly monitoring the development of dozens of ecosystems. - Create a Gate: The metaverse is a social-first experience, and we believe that its search engine should follow the same direction. Lighthouse enables users to create profiles (“Gates”) where they can pin their favorite experiences, add their own places and spaces, and build relationships with their friends. Gates are a great way to store metaverse memories, such as videos, pictures, etc. - Connect with creators: Finally, the metaverse would not exist without the creators behind it. Follow your favorite creators, interact with them in their spaces, and soon, share with them some of the memories you’ve captured while interacting in and with their creations. Whether you are sold on the metaverse or still skeptical about it, Lighthouse is worth trying. We’ve thrown a lot of love and energy into it over the last year and we hope that you’ll find some time over the holidays to come cruise across the 3D web with us! 🚀 P.S. All PH users who interact with this post and create a Gate on Lighthouse will receive an on-depth, gorgeously designed metaverse report that we’ve co-written with many of our friends in the industry, including the CEOs of Animoca Brands, Ready Player Me, The Sandbox, and others. P.P.S. Don’t forget to visit the portal and download the free browser extension: https://lighthouse.world/ https://extension.lighthouse.world Super excited for the PH community to take a look at what we're up to. Please share feedback, questions, and comment on what you think! Ben 🤞

Benjamin Couture

Lighthouse

Maker