Invite only · opening in small batches
A memory for the thing you can’t stop thinking about.
Famlore plugs into the assistant you already talk to and gives it a real memory for your narrowest obsession — then hands it back as a field assignment worth an afternoon. When someone else turns up chasing the same thread, there is a room for that.
Invites open in small batches, and come with a code and a short setup.
The trouble with talking to an assistant
You have explained the thing four times now, from scratch each time. It was interested — in the way it is interested in everything — and then the window closed and it was gone. The actual obsession, the specific and narrow and slightly embarrassing one, still lives in nineteen open tabs and a note you cannot find.
Nothing accumulates. Every conversation starts at zero, so the assistant never gets far enough in to say anything you did not already know, and you never get past explaining yourself to the part where something interesting happens.
How it works
- 01
Connect it to the assistant you already use.
In Claude Desktop or claude.ai, it is one address pasted into a custom connector, then a browser approval — no key, no new app to open. In Claude Code there is a plugin instead, which also brings the curator’s way of working. Either way your assistant gains a set of tools it did not have before.
- 02
Say what you cannot stop thinking about.
In your own words, in the middle of an ordinary conversation. It gets written down the way you said it. Never “history” or “music” — decommissioned MTA stations, field recordings of vanishing dialects, the specific thing.
- 03
Get a field assignment.
Not a summary and not a reading list. A concrete task with an objective, a few steps, and a plain statement of what counts as evidence. Something you can actually finish, and come back with.
Rooms
A room is as narrow as the thing itself.
An assignment goes to the whole room, and everyone who takes it runs it separately — what you come back with is yours until you say otherwise. Yours is probably not on this list yet: make it, and be the first one in.
- ROOM·001
Transit archaeology
Closed stations, abandoned alignments, and the paperwork that outlived them.
- ROOM·002
Vanishing dialects
Field recordings, last speakers, and the arguments about what counts as a language.
- ROOM·003
Modular synthesis
Patch cables you can trace end to end, and what a plugin quietly does for you instead.
- ROOM·004
Physarum networks
Whether the maze-solving result actually replicates, and what the slime is really optimising.
- ROOM·005
Typeface revivals
Punchcutting, and which curves a digitisation quietly lost on the way.
- ROOM·006
Speedrun routing
Frame-perfect skips, and the long argument about what counts as a run.
- ROOM·007
Sourdough starter genealogy
Why the same flour behaves differently in two kitchens, and whose starter yours came from.
- ROOM·008
Brutalist car parks
The ones scheduled for demolition, and who gets there with a camera first.
Rooms grow out of what people actually bring, not from a blank page.
Before you ask
- Do I need a particular AI?
- No, and that is on purpose — Famlore is not branded to one AI company and is meant to live inside whichever assistant you already talk to. It does need one connected: the assignments are written by your assistant, not by us, and there is no version of this that works with the website alone.
- Is this a social network?
- There is a social layer, but no feed, no follower counts, no ranking, and nobody to browse. You are never matched with anyone and never recommended a person. The most that happens is that you and someone else are in the same room, working the same assignment, and can choose to show each other what you found. The object is the curiosity; the person shows up second, or not at all.
- Why invite only?
- Because it is early, and we would rather move at the speed we can actually talk to the people who join. That is the whole reason: there is no queue, nothing is being screened, and nobody is being assessed.
- What if I try it and it turns out to be nothing?
- Delete the account. There is no cancellation flow, no retention email, and nobody will try to talk you out of it — the button is in Settings and it takes effect at once.
What is visible, and when
Nothing about you reaches another person without an affirmative act by you: joining a room, marking one piece of evidence shared with the others on that same assignment, or marking one public. Three separate acts, none of them a default, and even the widest is one submission at a time.
- Private
Everything you tell your companion.
The default, and where the overwhelming majority of it stays. Your curiosities, your assignments, and what you brought back are yours.
- Room
Your handle and one line you wrote.
Visible to the people in a room you chose to join, and nothing beyond it — not your curiosities, not your quest history, not your evidence. Leave, and the entry goes with you.
- Shared
One piece of evidence, to the people on the same assignment.
Opt-in, per submission, and never the default. Running the same assignment as someone exposes nothing by itself.
- Deleted
One click, and it is gone.
Immediately, with nothing to cancel. The one exception, stated plainly: something another person is actively building on survives with your name cut out of it rather than leaving a hole in their record.
Bring the thing you never get to talk about.
Tell us where to reach you. When a batch opens you will get an invite code and a short setup — claim the account, connect your assistant, and it starts keeping the record.
Invites open in small batches, and come with a code and a short setup.