I meant it as a rhetorical question, but that's kind of my point - instead of a new project, maybe see if lichess would be interested, and then work on adding it (it's at least open source, although if you don't get lichess.org buy-in then it's kinda moot - I know they get a lot of new mode requests and have pretty much said "no new modes!").

With that though you get a huge player base, many (most?) of whom have never played OTB, some of whom would be interested in trying out OTB chess, but are intimidated by hustlers at the park, dusty old chess clubs, etc.

In any case I applaud the effort to get more players away from their screens, and have signed up and am watching my local thread.