Proxee
Messages, markets and games that travel from radio to radio, phone to phone, with no server to depend on and nobody to sign up with.
It runs on Meshtastic LoRa radios. A message can take a week and arrive anyway, carried by whoever passed by.
Private by design
Every message is sealed end to end before it touches a radio. The phones that carry it see a size and a sequence number, never a name or a word. Your local store is encrypted. Position broadcasts stay off.
Delay-tolerant
There is no server to be offline from. Records sync whenever two phones meet: over LoRa in the background, over Bluetooth side by side, or over the Wi-Fi you share. Only when none of those has reached anyone for a minute does the app try an internet relay, which passes the same signed records along and can't read the private ones; a setting turns it off. A chess move can arrive a month late and the game is fine.
One persona that lasts
One account per device from a 12-word phrase, with up to ten characters under it. Levels, ratings, items and your record in the market follow the account for good. Nothing is deleted; a post you regret is hidden, not erased.
How it works
Everything shares one account
Each feature below reads the same account, the same characters and the same groups.
Messages
Direct messages sealed to one person. Carriers see a size and nothing else.
Groups
Family, club, crew. Groups inside groups, each with its own key.
Board
Posts for your group, and for the region once public posts open.
Market
Text listings signed by your account. Deals settle between people.
Check-in
"I'm OK" or "need help" to your group, with your location and a receipt.
News wire
A phone with internet relays weather alerts and headlines to the mesh.
Events
Meetups, game nights and campfire sessions, with RSVP.
The arcade
Characters level like a tabletop RPG, one class level at a time, and carry their levels from one game to the next. Public-domain Legends (Holmes, the 1928 mouse, Dracula, Joan of Arc, Musashi) are playable templates anyone can pick.
Board games
Chess, checkers, Five Captures, Go, Flip. Your clock starts when the move arrives.
Card game
Your squad's kit is the deck. Duel one on one, or set a Daily Lineup.
The Grid
A shared text world. Farther from the tree is harder. Notes stay forever.
Ground
Walk your neighborhood to hold it. Souls, forts, sieges, a weekly standing.
Campfire
Wolves, trivia and bluffing games for a circle of people in radio range.
Campaigns
A game master runs a tabletop campaign for players over the mesh.
Brawl
A side-scrolling beat-'em-up. Scores verify because every run replays.
Install on Android
- Download the APK on your phone.
- Open the download. Android asks you to allow installs from your browser; allow it once.
- Open Proxee, write down your twelve words, pair your radio.
- Scan a group code from someone who already has the app, or start a group of your own.
Proxee is not in an app store, by choice. A newer build installs over the old one and keeps your account and records. Phone to phone sharing of the installer is coming so the app can spread with no internet at all.
The radio
Proxee is an app layer on top of Meshtastic, the open LoRa mesh. You need a Meshtastic radio and the Meshtastic firmware on it; Proxee pairs to the radio over Bluetooth and uses its own port number, so the mesh keeps working for everyone else.
- Meshtastic Web Flasher: put the firmware on a radio from your browser.
- Meshtastic Android app: set up the radio and your region once.
- LilyGO T-Deck: the handheld with a keyboard. A Proxee build for it, screens and all, follows the phone app.
Meshtastic is a registered trademark of Meshtastic LLC. Proxee is an independent project and is not affiliated with Meshtastic.
Mini commercials and sponsored listings
Games in Proxee run on energy that refills slowly. Watch a ten-second mini commercial and get one back. Until there are outside sponsors, the commercials are ours: short spots about other corners of the app, the Grid, the campfire games, the market.
A business or a person with something to sell can sponsor a listing. It sits at the top of the Market and the Board for the group or region it was bought for, and the sponsor's spot joins the rotation ahead of the house ads. Sponsored items are signed and labeled, they can be hidden by group moderators like any post, and because nothing in Proxee is ever deleted, a sponsor's record is permanent too.
There is no coin and no in-app payment. Sponsorship is arranged with us directly and switched on with a signed voucher that every phone can verify.
Sponsor a listing
Local businesses, markets, events, services. Tell us the group or region, the dates, and what the spot should say. Text only: a LoRa packet is 237 bytes.
Talk to usPrinciples
Privacy
The radio is an untrusted pipe. Our own end-to-end encryption, encrypted storage, hidden recipients, no position broadcasts. What can't be hidden: that your radio transmitted, roughly when, and, when the internet relay is used, that your phone connected to it. If the app crashes it can send a report so the crash gets fixed: the app version, your phone model and where in the code it failed, never your account, messages or location; a switch in Settings turns that off.
Accountability
Feeds are append-only. A post stays on your record; a "delete" is a visible request to hide it. New accounts start with nothing until someone vouches for them, and the vouch is on the voucher's record too.
Open
GPL-3.0. The protocol is the product; the phone app and the T-Deck build both speak it. Game rules are the classics, under our own names and our own art.
Proxee is a project of Nellson Associates. It is alpha software: expect rough edges, and keep your twelve words somewhere safe.