The claim flow · 10 steps

Claim your
bowl

Preview of the guided journey
Step titles are from the packet

Curious what a bowl can look like? See sample bowls

Watch Rama
walk you through it

All 10 steps · 2:03 · tap to play (with sound)

1. Land

Promo page, watch Rama's video

Video slot · Claim step 1
Rama tutorial
Two minutes
One idea (from the live page)
Read the whole page

2. Claim

Hit "Claim your bowl"

Video slot · Claim step 2
Rama tutorial
Ready to move in? This is where a stranger becomes a homesteader

3. Pay

$99 once

Video slot · Claim step 3
Rama tutorial
$99 one-time fee

Includes your unique .space domain and free hosting
We register your domain for you, or you can register it yourself
Renewal is about $22 a year after the first year

No rent on the room
No ads
No attention tax
Existence stays free

Claim your bowl — $99 once
Payment is by email for now — tap the button, send the note, and BroBots replies by hand
No card form on this site

4. Name it

Pick your bowl's name (your .space domain)

Video slot · Claim step 4
Rama tutorial
What do you want your address to be?

Your bowl: yourname.space

Your accounts, your deed
Three quick steps, all free, all in your name:
  1. Create a free GitHub account
    Your bowl's code lives in your own GitHub repo
  2. Create a free Vercel account
    Your own hosting, in your name

Your domain
Pick the path that suits you

  1. We set it up for you
    This is the default, and what we recommend
    BroBots registers yourname.space, with the first year included in the $99, and moves it straight into your own Vercel account, so it's in your name from minute one
    We connect it and build your bowl
    Renewal is about $22 a year after the first year
  2. Do it yourself
    Register your .space domain in your own name
    We'll give you the step by step guide and connect it for you
Then your GitHub deploys to your Vercel
Your repo, your domain, your hosting

5. Meet Rama

He introduces himself as your caretaker

Video slot · Claim step 5
Rama tutorial
What should Rama call you?
What do you want this room to be for? Pick a starting point
Handoff sent to Rama (chat-protocol.md §2)

 

 





 
6. Tell him what you want
"Set up my bowl, my name is ___, I want it to feel like ___"

 
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"Set up my bowl
My name is ___, and I want it to feel like "

 
 A one-line tagline, and a few words about you:

 
 
Live preview — morphs as you type:

  Sends your sentence to Rama as your first message
 






 
7. He builds it
Repo, domain, hosting, all wired, deed in your name

 
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Rama tutorial

 
 
Preview only: the six placeholders were substituted into the shared template in your browser
Nothing was created, registered, or sent
Public key below is a preview stand-in — key generation is not defined in the contracts yet

 

 

 
Template preview (the shared 12-file template with your six placeholders):

 
  





 
8. Decorate
Tell him what to change until it feels like yours
Undo anything

 
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Rama tutorial

 
 
From the live page: "Make the background darker" works
So does "this feels off, make it weirder"
If you don't like a change, say "undo that" — every edit is saved in your repo history

 

 





 
9. First post
Write something in your own room

 
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Rama tutorial

 
 
Posts are written through Rama (or directly in content/posts/)
Try: "Write a post called Hello that says: ___"

 

 





 
10. Say hi to the street
Pin a note on the board, or push your post out to your socials

 
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"Pin a note on the communal board: 'come by'"

 
"Share my latest post to my socials"

 See the board See the directory
 
The goldfish finally gets to own the bowl





 Set it up yourself

 
 Rather do it on your own? You can
It takes about 30 minutes
No coding needed
Three steps, in this order

 
 1. Download the starter pack

 
  1. Tap the button below
    A file called biorama-starter-pack.zip downloads
    2. 
 
  2. Open it (double-click on a computer)
    You'll see a folder of files
    That's your bowl
    3. 
 
  3. Leave the words in double curly brackets, like {{OWNER_NAME}}, as they are for now
    They're blanks to fill in later

 
Download the starter pack (.zip)

 
 2. Make a free GitHub account
 and upload the pack

 
  1. Go to github.com/signup
    Sign up for free
    2. 
 
  2. Tap the + at the top, then New repository
    3. 
 
  3. Give it a name, like my-bowl
    Choose Public
    Tap Create repository
    4. 
 
  4. Tap uploading an existing file
    5. 
 
  5. Drag in everything from inside the starter pack folder
    Tap Commit changes

 
 3. Make a free Vercel account,
 import your repo,
 connect your domain

 
  1. Go to vercel.com/signup
    Pick the free plan
    Sign up with your GitHub account
    2. 
 
  2. Tap Add New…, then Project
    3. 
 
  3. Find your my-bowl repo
    Tap Import, then Deploy
    Your bowl is live
    4. 
 
  4. Open the project
    Go to Settings, then Domains
    5. 
 
  5. Type your .space domain
    Tap Add
    Follow the on-screen steps

 
 That's it
Your repo, your domain, your hosting — all in your name
Stuck? Email brobots.space@gmail.com




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