Your privacy on The Wheel

The Wheel lists what is on, finds people for the shifts that need filling, and keeps who you are to you.

What holds today

• No phone number. The Wheel asks for no phone number to look, to add a listing, or to help. A number is your legal name in another form.
• The organiser keeps the door. Listings link to the organiser's own page when there is one. Tickets and shift sign-ups happen there, with them.
• A person checks every listing. Each one waits for a reviewer before it shows as checked, and links to where it was found.
• No ads, no analytics. The Wheel carries no advertising and no tracking code of its own. What it knows about anyone stays off the market.
• Hardware we own. The Wheel runs on a machine we own and look after, outside any big platform's cloud.

What we are building

• Phone-free accounts, so adding a listing is tied to a member, and spam has a cost.
• Proof in place of a list. Members prove they belong, and that they turned up, and The Wheel keeps no list of who went where. This uses zero-knowledge membership proofs, and it switches on once enough people have joined for the proof to protect anyone.
• Reputation that rewards the long run, earned by showing up and by good listings, set up after a study of how it can be gamed.

Compared with a phone-number login

gather.rsvp quotes read from gather.rsvp/legal/privacy on 20 October 2026.

Roadmap

What The Wheel does today, and what opens up as more people use it. Some steps wait for a number of members, because the privacy a check-in gives grows with the crowd.

Live now

• One list, three modes. Day for workshops, skillshares and volunteer shifts. Night for gigs and evening gatherings. Recovery for retreats, sound baths and rest.
• Listings people add. Paste a post or a link, or drop in a flyer. The Wheel reads it into a listing, and members check it before it shows as checked.
• Review weighted by rep. Each review counts by the reviewer's standing, and a listing settles once the reviews reach 70% sure.
• A pen name on a key. Joining is one tap. The key stays on your device, and with a copy of it you sign in anywhere as the same pen name.
• The code, public. On GitHub under GPL-3.0, for anyone to copy and run their own Wheel.

Finishing what's here

First, before new features: the tools that are live, made smooth.

• Review that is quick to work through. Soonest events first, past ones set aside, search by name, place or date, a filter by mode, and the two answers on each card. Done 20 October.
• Kinds kept tidy. Near-twin kinds (breath work, breathwork) suggested for merging, with a steward saying yes or keeping them apart; each listing keeps its own words. Done 20 October.
• Listings that read the same everywhere. Dates, times, links and flyers shown the same way in every mode.
• A steadier reader. A volunteer call read into the same shifts every time.
• Phones first. Every view tuned for a phone screen, and the wording checked line by line.

As the crowd grows

1. 3 members: check-ins open. At an event, a door code lets members prove they came. Today a steward opens the check-in from the listing and gets a 6-character code on their screen, good for 6 hours, to show or say at the door. Members type it into the listing. The Wheel keeps a count for each event, held apart from pen names.
2. 10 members: the small-crowd note lifts. Until then each check-in carries a note that a small crowd covers people less well.
3. 15 to 20 members: the crowd covers each person. From here a check-in says one of many.

Next to build

At the door

• Organisers open their own check-ins. An organiser who has claimed a listing gets the door code on their own phone.
• A door code that changes every minute, shown on the host's screen, so a code passed around outside the room stops working.
• Hosts scan each phone at the door, for events that want a check-in that holds firm.

Organisers and communities

• Organisers claim their listings. They keep the details right and post updates: cancelled, moved, sold out.
• A community board. A list of the communities that keep meeting, beside the one-off events.
• Pages for regular events. A weekly kava circle or a monthly open mic gets one page with all its dates.
• Anonymous interested counts. Members tap Interested and the organiser sees a number, proven like a check-in, with no list of names.

You on The Wheel

• Private profiles. Under your pen name: skills and experience you choose to add, which you can prove to an organiser while the rest stays with you.
• The volunteer layer. Sign up for shifts under your pen name, matched to what a call asks for.
• Volunteer thanks. An organiser thanks the pen names who did a shift, and it counts toward their rep.
• Rep for the long run. Turning up and following through over months counts, once check-ins are hard to fake.

Getting events to you

• Add to calendar, and a feed. One tap puts a listing in your phone's calendar; subscribe once and new events arrive by themselves.
• A map of events, filtered by mode, on the areas already drawn.
• A weekly digest pushed to your phone or read as a feed, with no email address asked for.
• Links to share. A link for each listing, ready to drop into a group chat.
• Share from your phone. Send a screenshot or flyer to The Wheel and Add a listing opens with it filled in, on Android once The Wheel is installed.

Your way around

• Favourite kinds. Star the kinds you follow; they come first, and My kinds shows only listings with them. Kept in your browser. Done 20 October.
• Your own menu. Pick the mode you start in, pin the tools you use, and tuck the rest away.
• Reading and comfort settings. Bigger text, higher contrast, less motion, and a font made for dyslexic readers.
• Install as an app. The Wheel on your home screen, opening with the last list it loaded when you are offline.

Trust and care

• Report a listing as wrong, out of date or unsafe, and it goes back to review.
• A public moderation log. Every steward action written where anyone can read it.
• Appeals. A listing turned down, or a rank reset, looked at again by other stewards.

Further out

• Beyond Auckland. Listings read in their own time zone, and areas drawn for any town that starts using it.
• Stewards chosen by members as The Wheel grows: by rep, by nomination, or by a vote of Reviewers.
• Te reo Māori alongside English, worked on with te reo speakers.
• An open feed for other sites. Checked listings offered to other community sites and other Wheels.
• A shared data hub. Listings held across many copies, so The Wheel carries on whoever looks after it.

Join on the Me page, add an event you know about, or check one waiting in Review.

How rep works

Rep is your standing on The Wheel. It grows when what you add and what you check holds up, and it opens more of the tools. Rep is earned here, by what you do.

What earns it

• A listing you added passes review: 2 points. One that reviewers turn down takes 2 away.
• Your review agrees with how a listing settles: 1 point. A review on the other side takes 1 away.
• A weekly limit: points count for up to 5 listings and 5 reviews a week, so steady use over months counts for more than a busy day.
• Points arrive once a listing settles, for the person who added it and for every review on it.

The four tiers

How a listing gets checked

Each review counts by the reviewer's tier at the moment they cast it. The reviews for a listing add up like this: two Regulars together reach 64%, one Reviewer alone reaches 70%, six New members together reach 74%. At 70% sure, the listing settles as checked, or as turned down when the reviews go the other way.

Fair play

• You review other people's listings. Your own go to someone else.
• A ban resets rank to zero. Your past reviews stay, so other listings keep their standing.
• Turning up to events: check-ins stay apart from pen names by design. Counting them toward rep is on the Roadmap, once check-ins are hard to fake.

Version 1. The numbers will change as The Wheel learns what works. Your rep and tier are on the Me page.

Support The Wheel

this is a project of love towards our communities, I run this on my own hardware and is dependant on my time and use of my resources, support to the project via direct application, feedback, contribution, use and when possible financially would be much appreciated! This is a public an open source project in nature so feel free to replicate! Plans to create a decentralisaed datahub so that this lives on regardless of who maintains it is in the works as the project scales

A project by Aurelius × Radix → · The code, on GitHub →

Give

Other ways

• Use it. Add the events you know about, and check in when you go.
• Review. Mark listings right or wrong; your rep grows as your reviews hold up.
• Tell us what to fix. Feedback on what works and what to change is how it gets better.