The idea for a global view of the Recurse Center's network was raised at a group discussion on building community software during the RC annual alumni reunion, Never Graduate Week 2019. Jaryn Colbert completed the first iteration of the world map in her Summer 1 '19 batch shortly thereafter.
The initial codebase was based on Jason Owen's Recurse Faces App, which made building the first prototype much easier.
Here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS -- people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, provided feature ideas, helped answer questions, participated in code reviews, and generally made the app much, much better (listed alphabetically by first name):