# Troviii — Your Taste Is Your Currency
# https://troviii--worldbuilding-75585.us-central1.hosted.app
# Last updated: 2026-02-07

## What is Troviii?

Troviii is a social platform where taste is currency. Your aesthetic preferences, cultural knowledge, and personal style earn you real value — through recommendations, event connections, and commerce attribution.

Unlike traditional social media where attention is the product, Troviii rewards genuine taste. Recommend something someone loves? You earn credit. Wear something that gets snapped at an event? You earn attribution. Your taste profile (Taste DNA) is portable, private, and valuable.

## Core Concepts

- **Taste DNA**: A multi-dimensional profile of your aesthetic preferences built from your interactions, not self-reported surveys. Dimensions include: visual aesthetic, cultural depth, risk tolerance, era affinity, sensory preferences.
- **Snap-to-Earn**: See something you love at an event or in the wild? Snap a photo. AI identifies the product. If someone buys it through your snap, you earn attribution credit.
- **Event Gatherings**: Events where attendees are matched by taste overlap, not just proximity. Before the event, set your intent (networking, dating, discovery). During, find your people through real-time taste matching. After, receive AI-generated artifacts from the collective experience.
- **Attribution Chain**: Every purchase traces back through the discovery chain. Wearer (30-40%), Snapper (25%), Host (15%), Platform (30%).
- **Archetypes**: Your taste profile maps to cultural archetypes (Parisian, Nordic, Mediterranean, etc.) that help match you with people, products, and experiences.

## How It Works

### 1. Discover Your Taste
Take the Taste Quiz or import your social media. Troviii analyzes your aesthetic preferences across multiple dimensions to build your Taste DNA — a living profile that evolves with every interaction.

### 2. Find Your People
Your Taste DNA connects you with people who share your aesthetic wavelength. Not followers — resonance. See taste overlap scores, discover niche shared interests, find your cultural tribe.

### 3. Earn From Your Taste
Every recommendation, snap, and discovery earns attribution. When someone buys something you surfaced, you get credit. Your taste literally pays.

## All Routes

### Public (no auth required)
- / — Landing page explaining the platform
- /discover — Browse trending tastes, products, and people
- /events — Upcoming Troviii gatherings and events
- /login — Sign in / sign up

### Authenticated
- /home — Curated feed with taste-based discovery
- /profile — Your taste profile, DNA visualization, earnings
- /scanner — Snap-to-earn camera for product identification
- /merchant — Merchant dashboard for brands
- /collections — Your saved collections and wishlists
- /rituals — Daily taste rituals and streaks
- /wrapped — Your annual taste wrapped (like Spotify Wrapped but for taste)
- /map — Geographic taste map showing where your aesthetic tribe lives
- /social — Social connections and taste-matched people
- /import — Import taste data from Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest

### Onboarding
- /onboarding — Initial taste onboarding flow
- /onboarding/vibe — Vibe selection (visual mood board matching)
- /onboarding/quiz — Deep taste quiz across 8 dimensions

### Events
- /event/[id] — Pre-event page: RSVP, who's going, set your intent, see taste previews
- /event/[id]/live — During event: real-time signal bar, people in your room, mutual matches, room DNA visualization
- /event/[id]/after — Post-event: AI-generated artifacts, new connections, missed connections, next event suggestions

## Features

### Taste Discovery
- **Taste Quiz**: 8-dimension assessment covering visual aesthetic, cultural knowledge, sensory preferences, era affinity, risk tolerance, and more.
- **Social Import**: Connect Instagram or TikTok. AI analyzes your content to extract taste signals.
- **Taste DNA Card**: Shareable visual card showing your taste dimensions. Export as image or link.
- **Taste Wrapped**: Annual summary of your taste evolution, top discoveries, and cultural connections.

### Events & Gatherings
- **Intent Matching**: Before an event, privately set your intent (networking, dating, friendship, mentorship, discovery). Matched with others who share compatible intents — revealed only on mutual match.
- **Taste Overlap**: See how your taste aligns with other attendees across multiple dimensions. High overlap = your people.
- **Room DNA**: Real-time visualization of the collective taste in a room. See which aesthetic dimensions are dominant.
- **Blurred Photos**: Photos stay blurred until mutual match. Privacy-first discovery based on taste, not appearance.
- **AI Artifacts**: After an event, AI generates collaborative artifacts from the collective experience: playlists, visual mood boards, recipe collections, constellation maps, and more.
- **Connection Bridge**: Post-event, connections are bridged from offline to online. Exchange taste cards, not business cards.

### Commerce
- **Snap-to-Earn**: Camera-based product identification using Gemini AI vision. Photograph a product → AI identifies brand, category, price → generates affiliate link → you earn attribution on any resulting purchase.
- **Attribution Chain**: Full transparency on who discovered what. Creator, wearer, snapper, and host all earn proportional credit.
- **Merchant Dashboard**: For brands — see which products are being snapped, by whom, and the taste profiles of your customers.

### Safety
- **Age-Safe Defaults**: Users under 18 have structural protections: no DMs, no photo reveal, no location sharing. These are architectural constraints, not content policies.
- **Trust Escalation**: Trust is earned through behavior: Presence → Contribution → Encounter → Connection → Direct. Each level unlocks new interaction capabilities.
- **Safe Profiles**: Event profiles show taste data only — no real names, no photos (until mutual match), no personal details.

## Technology

- Built with Next.js 15 (App Router, React Server Components)
- Firebase Authentication and Firestore
- AI: Gemini 2.5 Flash for product recognition and taste analysis, with OpenAI and Claude fallbacks
- Stripe for merchant payouts
- Server-rendered pages with JSON-LD structured data
- Progressive Web App capable

## Relationship to Vivere

Troviii and Vivere are companion platforms:
- **Vivere** = the worlds (stories, locations, products, experiences)
- **Troviii** = the people (taste profiles, events, connections, attribution)

Your Taste DNA from Troviii determines how you experience Vivere worlds. Events hosted on Troviii can take place inside Vivere worlds. Products discovered in Vivere earn attribution tracked by Troviii.

## Structured Data
All pages include JSON-LD schema.org markup for Organization, WebApplication, and Event schemas.

## Sitemap
/sitemap.xml

## Contact
- General: hello@troviii.com
- Events: events@troviii.com
- Merchants: merchants@troviii.com