Fold
Send messages at the speed of a paper airplane
Details
- External ID
- 1262838
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Macbook Duo - Fold like iPhone Duo
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9529345734445157
- Tags
- Messaging, Funny Games, Maps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Every other messaging app races to deliver instantly. Fold does the opposite on purpose: you fold your note into a paper airplane and throw it across a real map, and it takes real-world time to arrive. The time is shaped by the actual distance between you and your friend, the plane you chose, and the live wind along its route. A message to someone across town might land in minutes. One to the other side of the planet can take days or weeks. You can open the map and watch it fly.
Enrichment
- Theme
- meeting scheduling and notetaking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- messaging app for personal communication
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A delayed messaging app with simulated flight physics and map visualization is straightforward to vibe-code using Mapbox/Leaflet, Supabase/Firebase, and scheduled database triggers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 115 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 116 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 294 days after the earliest competitor.
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