Your Images in a Crowd

A second product built on Fielder's code, for browsing a friend's taste.

Strategy
Identity
Applications
Production

You start with your Instagram handle, bring your Instagram download, and Moshpit turns it into a pit of collections that anyone with the link can open.

The Moshpit orb, a sphere in a split warm and cool spectrum — The Orb

Brief

Instagram has no API for Explore, follows, likes or saves, so the taste it has learned about a person can't be browsed by anyone else. Fielder already sorted images by how they look; Moshpit needed the same engine louder and social, without a second codebase.

Approach

A build script copies Fielder's source and applies Moshpit's identity on top. Every copy change names the exact Fielder text it replaces, and the build stops if that text has moved or if the word Fielder still appears anywhere. The two sites share one database.

A pit is built from what a person brings. The Instagram download is read inside the browser, opening only the files it needs, so the topics Instagram assigned you become live collections searched on Are.na and your posts come in as images. The pit stores sources, never images. The mark is Artifactory's Orb, a wobbling sphere raymarched in the browser and colored in a split spectrum, warm on one side and cool on the other.

Outcome

Three views: Mosh pushes images into labeled crowds by likeness, Color lines them up by hue, Recent orders them by arrival. Every image links its Are.na block and its source. A pit is shared at its own link, and a friend who opens it sees your collections first. Live at moshpit.codexfoundry.com.

Client: Codex Foundry
Sector: Product
Medium: Product
Timeline: Q4 2026
Role: Designer + Developer
Website: moshpit.codexfoundry.com