About
What BravoPin is
A board is one screen a whole room can read, and anybody in the room can put a line on it without an account and without a name.
The board running on the front page is called Everything Good, and it is one public board of ours rather than the product. It is there so a stranger can see what a board looks like before making one. On the boards we run ourselves, some lines are generated by AI, with made-up names, and some of the votes on them are ours too; where an owner asks us to fill a board for them, the lines we fill it with are written by us or generated by AI; none of these is marked line by line. The boards that matter are the ones people make for their own rooms.
A message lives between 45 minutes and a day, depending on how busy the board is. Voting makes it bigger first, and then makes it last longer. Then it goes.
You can make a board of your own, and the next thing on this page is which kind: private, for a room you know, or public, for anyone at all.
- 45 minutesthe shortest a line lasts, and only when a board is busy
- 24 hoursthe longest, and what a quiet board gives every line by default
- No accountto read a board, write on one, or vote
Which one do you want?
Almost everybody wants a private board. There are two kinds and no third.
For bars, restaurants and events
A bar, a restaurant, a café or a shop can put a board in its own room and start tonight, at no cost. It carries one line of ours above the messages, and that is what it is for.
What needs a word with us first is anything past that one room: several places under one name, a conference or a festival, sponsors, a ticketed event, or a board you are being paid to run. It is a short conversation rather than a hurdle — running one of those without asking is the only thing that is a problem.
More than one place? Or want your board without our line on it? Either one takes a word with us first.
How it works, in detail
What voting does
Anybody reading a board can vote on what is on it, with no account, the same as writing. Voting up does two things, in that order.
First it makes the line bigger. Each vote is one step up, until it is as big as one line of that screen can hold — so nothing is ever cut off, and the biggest thing on the board is whatever the room agreed with most.
Once it cannot grow any further, votes keep it on the screen for longer instead. On a quiet board it already has the longest life that board allows, so there votes only ever make it bigger, and the board says so when you tap.
A vote down is the same thing backwards: one step smaller. Nothing marks it and no counts are shown anywhere, on either side — a board shows sizes, never scores.
What happens to a line you write
It goes up straight away, at the size every line starts at.
How long it lasts is decided by the board, not by a fixed clock. A busy board keeps each line about 45 minutes and then makes room for the next, so the newest things said are the ones on the screen. A quiet board keeps them far longer — up to 24 hours by default — so a board is still worth opening the morning after.
The owner of a board can move both ends of that, shorter or longer, up to two days at the very most. Then a message goes, and it is not kept anywhere: there is no archive, no profile, no history and no way to look up what anybody wrote.
Boards end too
A public board is deleted 48 hours after the last message on it has gone, with everything in it. The owner of a private board chooses how long it stays open, and at the end of that window everything in it is deleted as well.
That is the whole retention story. Nothing is moved somewhere quieter when a board closes.
The only thing that needs an account
Making a board and running it. Reading, writing, voting, joining, reporting a message and asking for a message of your own to be taken down all need nothing at all — no account, no email address, no name.
If you make a board you get an owner account, the settings for that board, and a way to clear it or take a line off from your own phone while it is running.