Randonautica

## Randonautica App

### Follow the White Rabbit

From the beginning the guys of Fatum Project envisioned an app to visit random places while on the go. Their first concept for such an app was named "*White Rabbit*" after the *Alice in Wonderland* character. In February 2018 Newton Winter started working on programming the the Phone App but it was delayed and in 2019 only the needed Anomaly calculation library could be finished. Instead of continuing to program the White Rabbit app, the library called *libattract* (or *Newtonlib*) was added to 3rd version of Fatum Bot on Telegram.

### Randonautica Alpha

In May 2019 a randonaut and developer called Δ (Delta) released an Android app for internal testing purposes of his vision of how an app could look and feel like. He called it "*Randonautica*". This app was tried out by a handful few and featured random names for each of the points generated by the online random phrase generator watchout4snakes.

### Randonautica Goes Viral

In summer 2019 a talented and experienced developer named soliax joined the team and took up the task to improve and expand the Fatum Bot to a more interactive level using Telegram inline chat buttons. In order to be able to monetize Randonautica to cover the increasing development efforts and infrastructure expenses, the first Randonautica App was developed that ran the interactive chatbot but allowed the purchase of add-ons.

Also a more graphical Android implementation with buttons and Google Maps integration was developed by a coder named David Eagle.

The apps were released on February 22, 2020 by the freshly founded Randonauts LLC.

A notable innovation and addition to the original Fatum Bot was the implementation of CamRNG, a method of quantum random number generation on the randonauts' mobile phones.

    Both Randonautica apps took off in spring 2020 as a result of loosening Covid-19 lockdowns and after the influencer Emma Chamberlain made a YouTube video about the app. It went exponentially viral when a group of randonauts found a dismembered body at one of their Anomaly points near Seattle and the app ended up in news headlines around the world and randonauting became a hype on TikTok. This is when the first Copy Cat Apps popped up. User numbers were suddenly up to over 10 million and the backend infrastructure of the apps almost collapsed and drove maintenance costs up tremendously.

## Randonautica Reborn

Unsustainable infrastructure costs, internal company disagreements, and a series of back-end failures that left millions of randonauts with a blank white screen for weeks accumulated to a big bang in summer 2020. Eventually the developers soliax and David left the company and in the aftermath **Randonautica** had to be remade from scratch.

Already during summer the company had hired Tobias as *project manager* whose job was now to plan and execute a complete rebuild of the whole app infrastructure. Together with a fresh team consisting of the talented developer duo Taha and Ziad and graphic designer Kerry a new fully scalable Google cloud based back-end and a new graphical native Android application were built in just three weeks and released to the public on October 13, 2020. The Android app was built on top of the already existing codebase of the Forecast Fortuna app Taha and Ziad had built in the past. A senior iOS developer named Usman was also hired to port the newly made app to Apple devices. The iOS app was released on October 31st, 2020.

The new app featured a more graphically appealing, more intuitive and simplified user experience and introduced a subscription and optional microtransaction based ecosystem of Owl Tokens in order to avoid having to rely on advertisements for revenue.

The app has been stable since its launch, significantly reduced running costs and introduced some innovations, such as the Flower Power algorithm, the Discover social functionality allowing randonauts to publish their trip reports inside the app and since October 2022 features a completely new and exclusive Quantum Entropy source.