Heyo! Maik here, excited to launch for the first time on Product Hunt! 🚀
I'm not here to just pitch a project; I'm here to share my story and invite you along for the ride.
When I was a teenager, I discovered a new world: the internet. I fell in love with a game called Runescape, where I could complete quests, meet people, and build up my in-game skills - I even maxed out many of them 😄. One skill that particularly caught my attention was the construction skill. It let me create a virtual home and invite friends over, which was really cool.
🕹️ The internet became my second home, a place where I felt safer than in the real world. It's where I learned English and made friends from all over the globe; it was my first close experience with some form of a metaverse. If you've read the book or watched the movie Ready-Player-One, then you might relate to what I am talking about. If not, you should definitely do it!
This virtual life sparked an interest in me for digital design and architecture, so much so that I ended up getting a degree in architecture, and I now work as a product designer for a web3 startup.
Last year, I wanted to do more than just dream about the metaverse. I wanted to build on it, to be part of the future. But when I started to research, I hit a wall.
❓There wasn't a lot of info out there, and the existing communities were pretty hard to find. Plus, no one was (or is) really talking about metaverse designers.
🏠 Despite these obstacles, I managed to launch a metaverse project on Spatial and Decentraland. As an architect and a gamer, this experience was so much fun! It reminded me of my teenage years when I did things purely for the joy of it.
🌐 Fast forward to 2023, and I still couldn't find a platform that was mainly focused on metaverse creators. So, over a weekend, just for fun, I decided to create one myself.
I call it metahub, a combination of 'metaverse' and 'hub'. I know it's not the most original name, but it gets the job done, and 'meta' was already taken, heh.
💡 The idea is simple: To help metaverse designers get noticed and help others learn how to design for the metaverse.
Being a metaverse designer isn't just about building houses in a decentralized virtual world. It's far broader than that! You could be a Roblox designer, a fashion designer, a designer of vTuber avatars, a VR artist building digital experiences - the list goes on!
Some people write off the metaverse as a trend that's already passed, but I see it as the next step for the internet.
My hope is that Metahub can help discover new talent and even assist many in becoming a part of this emerging and exciting field.
➡️ So if you're curious or want to get involved with the metaverse community, all you have to do is visit the site and click 'Join'! or DM me, that also works :) .
I can't wait to meet the amazing metaverse designers out there, and those yet to come!
- Maik
@ianwdj It wasn't that hard actually 😁. It just took a long weekend to do it. It doesn't have authentication right now, so it's just connected to a CMS, which to me was the quickest solution I could think of. However, user-login and more features will come in the future. :)
@andrei_costea2 correct! This term covers all sorts of areas in the metaverse, like digital architects, digital fashion designers, and others. It's a small scene right now, but with tech advancing all the time, we're seeing new niches emerging more often.
Hello @maikwithm congrats on launching such a cool product. I hope you have a successful launch.
Do you want to host a live demo for your users today? We are launching our live-streaming SDK product on the 18th of July and giving it free to fellow makers before the launch.
Let me know if you want to try it out. Happy to set it up.
Cheers!!
@zerosand1 thanks! And about your product, it sounds interesting! It would be great to try it out. I couldn't find your DM details on your profile. Why don't you send me a DM? My LinkedIn URL is in my bio. :)
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