What is Honey Badger?
One list: whatever is taking up space in your head right now, heaviest first. A song on repeat, an exam, a person, a game you cannot put down. The list is compared with everyone else's, so you find the people who feel the same.
Personal How it works
Three things to know, then every question anyone has asked, short and specific. Nothing here is hidden and nothing is hedged.
One list: whatever is taking up space in your head right now, heaviest first. A song on repeat, an exam, a person, a game you cannot put down. The list is compared with everyone else's, so you find the people who feel the same.
Press Name it in the top bar, type, and press Enter. It lands at position 1. If it already exists on the map, you join everyone who carries it; if it does not, you are the first.
Two public lists carrying the same thing. As soon as you add something somebody else already has, you are matched on it, in both directions, and the moment says how many.
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Anything with a name. Films, albums, books, people, places, habits, worries, projects. If it keeps coming back to you, it belongs on the list. One line is enough; the emoji is optional and yours.
Position is the only order there is. Number one owns you today. The bar on the chart is the weight of the position: 1 fills the track, 10 keeps a quarter.
Drag a row, or focus its handle and use the arrow keys. Home puts it on top.
It cools. The row turns grey and short and moves under the “Cooled down” divider. Nothing is deleted: it is still yours, still on the map, and still matching. Drag it back up whenever it flares again.
Yes. Open the row and choose Remove; the button restates what it is about to remove. Matches and warmth on it go with it. Cooling is usually enough.
On your own rows, with the mouse over one: a heart makes it a favourite, an eye keeps it to yourself, the arrow puts it on top, the handle drags. On somebody else’s rows: a heart warms to it (they see it), a bookmark keeps it for later in your pocket, a plus picks it up onto your own list, at number one.
The bookmark on somebody else’s row keeps the thing for later without putting it on your list. It waits in a pocket under your chart on Personal, up to eight things, until you tap Onto the list (it lands at number one) or let it go. Deciding later is allowed.
A thing you both carry: the tick is where it sits on your list, on the same scale as their bar, and “yours 3” after the value says it in words. Higher for you, or for them, in one glance.
It is the thing you would keep if you could keep one. It carries a small heart beside its name on your public chart, your favourites are listed on your report, and across everyone they add up: Global has a Loved ranking, counted one heart per person.
It is the reaction: it reaches their inbox with your name, and it counts on that row. A second tap takes it back. The sheet behind the row has the same heart.
A line for yourself: why it is there, what it reminds you of. Notes autosave and are visible to anyone who can see your list, so keep them as public as the row. Change a note and the one before it stays under the field, dated: why it mattered then.
The list remembers every move. Your week, on your report, shows what spent time at number one, what rose, what cooled, what was new; switch it to a month. Under the chart, once there is a past, a line says what was on top a year ago today.
Yes. Your week, on your report, has Download in its footer: a post or a story with what held number one and what moved, in the report’s look. Only you can make it; anyone can see it once you post it.
“Still your number one?” appears once a day above the chart. Yes keeps count of how long the thing has held the top; Something else opens Name it. Skip it and nothing happens. After a week without a move it asks about the whole list instead: Yes, all of it, or Something else.
Everything you have ever carried, by kind, with the numbers only time gives: how many things, how many kinds, your longest run at number one, the day of your list. Reached from Your week or the index.
Yes. Settings, under Account: the whole list with every position it has held and every note, as JSON or Markdown. Only you can download it.
Your face: the emoji of your number one. It is not chosen; it changes when your list does, and everyone sees the same one. Put something else on top and you are it. Private rows never show, so a hidden thing stays hidden.
Matches lists every influence of yours that somebody else carries, sized by the crowd. Open one to see who they are and where it sits on their lists. The Inbox tells you when a new match lands.
The moment after a match has one reply: a Warm to everyone who carries the same thing, fifty at most, each one a normal reaction in their inbox. People you already reached are left alone. Say hello in one tap, or See who they are first.
The heart on somebody else’s row: one per person per row, and you can take it back. It reaches their inbox with your name and counts on the row. It says “seen” without a conversation.
Match happens by itself when two lists overlap. Follow is one-way: what they pick up shows in your activity. Friend goes both ways: one asks, the other accepts. None of them changes your list.
Only Activity: what the people you follow picked up, newest first, and it ends. Nothing is recommended to you and nothing is ranked by engagement.
Global is the whole map: every thing on anybody's public list, ranked by how many carry it, how often it matches, what is rising this week, what people call a favourite, and what just landed. Every number is counted from real lists.
Anyone who opens your profile, unless you make the list private. Position, title, emoji and note are visible; nothing else about you is.
Yes. Open the row and switch it to private. A private row stays on your list, keeps its position, and stops matching anyone. Nobody else can see it.
In Settings, Keep my list private hides the whole list and pauses every match. Your profile, followers and friends stay. Switch it back and matching resumes where it was.
Little, and all of it listed on the privacy page: the account, the list and its memory, who you follow. No tracking, no analytics, no ads. Settings exports it all and can delete it all.
No ads, no investors, no recommendation engine. Nothing about you is sold, and nothing is pushed at you. What you see is what people put on their lists.
By one person, so far. If Honey Badger has been worth something to you, Settings has a Support the project line: a few amounts, one tap, voluntary, and it changes nothing about your account. Everything stays free.
Two kinds, both optional: when somebody feels the same about a thing on your list (at most once a day), and when somebody asks to be friends. Switch them off in Settings, under Privacy; the inbox keeps working either way.
Short procedural clicks and chords on the things you do: a drop, a save, a match, the crown when something reaches number one. Nothing plays until you touch something. Sound is in your menu (the face, top right) and in the footer; Settings has the level.
Settings. Changing the handle changes your profile URL; old links stop working. The face is not chosen: it is the emoji of your public number one, and it changes when your list does.
Theme is in your menu (the face, top right) and in the footer; signed out, the sun and moon button in the top bar. It follows your system until you choose, then remembers the choice on this device.
On a mouse, the page draws its own: a dot where the click lands and a ring a beat behind. The ring opens on a link, takes a row’s heat on the chart, stands up on the drag handle, and steps aside in a text field. Settings turns it off; a phone never sees it.
Log out at the bottom of Settings. Logging out keeps everything where it is; log back in and the list is exactly as you left it.
Still a questionWrite to Valdis Zhvaginsh. A person answers, usually the same day.