Y'all help me send some appreciation to @Michael Johnson! Michael was one of the very first people, that I don't know personally, to show interest in the building of this app. I am so grateful he chose to come along for the ride! Michael owns One Step Away Travelers where he's helping 55+ solo travelers go from overwhelmed → confident through community, not deals. Clarity before booking. Confidence before committing. Michael is exactly who 6Degrees was built for. He’s already guiding people to travel with clarity and confidence—6Degrees simply expands that by turning his trusted connections and recommendations into a global network (and income stream). Thanks, Michael, for being here!

I asked AI if we could create an "upcoming travel" feature to help people in their research stages of planning a trip. Here is what it said. DO YOU AGREE? Yes — not only is it technologically possible it is actually one of the most powerful features Six Degrees could have. And the good news is the technology to build it already exists. Here is how it works: The technical side: When a user sets up their profile they can add upcoming trips — destination, dates, and trip type. The app then does three things automatically: First it searches their network — up to 6 degrees — for anyone who has recently visited or lived in that destination and has recommendations posted on their profile. Second it surfaces those profiles ranked by how closely connected they are to you. A 1 degree connection shows up before a 3 degree connection because the trust is stronger. Third it shows you their recommendations with affiliate links already embedded — hotels, experiences, guides, restaurants — so you can book directly through their profile and they earn automatically. This is essentially a geolocation and graph database query. Supabase with PostGIS — which is already in your tech stack — can handle this exactly. It queries the network graph, filters by destination tag, ranks by connection degree, and returns the results. Technically straightforward for a good developer. Why this feature is actually huge: It flips the travel planning experience entirely. Right now, you go to Google, TripAdvisor, or Booking.com and hope the reviews are real. With Six Degrees you type Italy and immediately see that your college roommate spent a month there, your cousin honeymooned in Tuscany, and a friend of a friend just returned from Rome — all with specific recommendations you can book through with one click. That is not a feature. That is the whole product. 🌍 Add it to your developer brief as a core MVP feature: Upcoming travel search — users can tag upcoming destinations and the app surfaces network connections who have recently visited, with their recommendations ranked by degree of separation.

Have y’all heard of the game: 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon? It’s a fun little game and the goal is simple:👉 Connect ANYONE in the world to Kevin Bacon in 6 steps or less. Let’s say I pick Julia Roberts: - Julia Roberts was in Flatliners with Kevin Bacon 👉 BOOM — that’s 1 degree of separation. Now let’s try someone less obvious: Your friend Sarah. - Sarah knows her coworker Mike - Mike has a cousin who worked on a film crew - That crew worked on a movie with Matthew McConaughey - Matthew McConaughey was in A Time to Kill with Kevin Bacon 👉 That’s 4 degrees 💡 The idea: Everyone is connected… you just have to find the path. I’ll try one in the comments. See if you can too! P.S- I’m going to manifest Kevin Bacon doing a commercial for the 6DegreesApp!!! Who’s with me?!

Quick poll - where are you at with affiliate marketing right now? Never heard of it ☝️I know what it is but haven't tried it ❤️ Currently doing it and loving it 😏 Tried it. Gave up. Don't ask. 🔥 It changed my life and I will never stop Drop your emoji below — I genuinely want to know who is in this room! Now here is why I am asking 👇 Because Six Degrees Wiilt on an affiliate model - but not the kind where you are cold pitching strangers or spamming your Instagram stories with links nobody clicks. Inside Six Degrees your profile IS your affiliate engine. You build it once with your trusted recommendations and your network finds them through real mutual connections. Someone two degrees away books the hotel you loved in Costa Rica. Your commission fires automatically. While you were doing literally anything else. Here is how the earning works: 🏨 Hotels and accommodation - fully tracked through booking partners. You earn 40% as a Founding member automatically. ✈️ Flights — same thing. Tracked and paid automatically. 🎯 Tours, guides, experiences, and local businesses — minimum 5% paid directly to you by the business on bookings of $100 or more. 🍽️ Restaurants — okay this one is still being figured out. The most likely solution is a reservation link — if someone books through your referral link we can track it. We are still working on the best way to make that seamless. All ideas welcome in the comments The point is - this is Affiliate marketing powered by TRUST instead of cold traffic. And trust converts better than anything you have ever run. You already know that. So - drop your emoji and tell me — have you tried affiliate marketing before and what happened? Are you seeing the big affiliate picture? 📸

I Just Hit Level 2. Yee Haw.