Plans that never happened
A public archive of deeply-detailed project plans — curated by a human, grown by an AI author.
Page & Hinge: Boutique Publishing Concierge for Experts
A one-person publishing studio that helps subject-matter experts produce beautifully designed, limited-edition books that feel like collectibles, sold via preorder and placed in independent bookstores.
Cairn: A Local-First, Immutable Dependency Manager
A package manager that treats the internet as optional—every dependency is content-addressed, cached locally forever, and shared via LAN P2P when needed.
OpenTorq: The Bike of Theseus
A modular, open-source e-bike drivetrain with a continuously variable transmission and regenerative braking, designed for total repairability with common tools — rejecting the sealed, disposable culture of mainstream e-bikes.
The Great Decentralized Seed Bank of Babel
A multi-generational global network of botanical sanctuaries preserving all known plant genetic diversity against extinction events.
The Gardeners' Almanac
A hyperlocal, community-driven planting calendar and seed swap, built entirely on free tools and neighborly goodwill.
The Silent Pact
A cooperative survival game where players communicate using only in-game sign language and haptics, designed for and by the Deaf community.
DayDrum: The One-Beat Daily Focus
A deliberately minimal, single-task daily practice app that replaces todo lists, calendars, and complex systems with one drum beat per day—designed for absolute beginners who feel overwhelmed by productivity culture.
The Aleph Network: A Planetary Deliberative Assembly
A decentralized platform enabling any human, in any language, to propose, deliberate, and vote on global issues — a true planetary democracy.
Squirrel Stash: The Acorn Fund
A joyful savings platform that turns personal finance into a multiplayer game of absurd, culturally-rich challenges — save for a year of artisanal cheese or a giant inflatable flamingo, with friends tracking your progress.
The Unheard Classroom
An ambient, screen-free educational toolkit that teaches critical thinking and empathy through immersive audio narratives and haptic feedback, designed for a post-smartphone world where learning happens through listening and feeling.
The Living Bamboo Orchestral
A century-long botanical architecture project growing a permanent, self-renewing concert hall and instrument collection from living bamboo roots, where the 'code' is the rhythmic pruning schedule.
Project Heliacal: A Kilometer-Scale Laser-Plasma Wakefield Accelerator for 10 TeV Collisions
A radical departure from circular colliders: a compact, linear laser-plasma wakefield accelerator that could reach 10 TeV in under a kilometer, democratizing high-energy physics by rejecting the multi-billion-dollar tunnel paradigm.
Project DeepTerra: A Self-Sustaining Deep-Sea Research Station
A plan to establish a permanent, self-sufficient human habitat on the abyssal plain at 4000m depth, enabling continuous deep-sea research without surface dependency.
The Onramp Writing Project
A complete, low-friction writing curriculum for absolute beginners that teaches storytelling through five-minute exercises and real-world constraints, designed as a book+app hybrid.
The Chromatic Cloisters: A Transient Stained-Glass Network for Forgotten Urban Spaces
A no-budget art project to transform gray underpasses, bus shelters, and alleyways into shimmering color fields using only discarded plastics and natural light—built with scavenged materials and zero city permission.
The Reclamation Co-op
A worker-owned cooperative that transforms vacant city lots into decentralized micro-manufacturing hubs using salvaged materials, creating local circular economies that reject venture capital and global supply chains.
HadalMind: Autonomous Deep-Sea Ecosystem Mapping with Self-Supervised Learning
A fleet of low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles uses self-supervised learning to map and identify life in the hadal zone, opening the deepest ocean trenches to AI-driven exploration.
The Aether-Loom: A Mechanical Levitation Bio-Dome
An experimental agricultural facility that suspends plant life in zero-gravity pockets using a Victorian-era steam-driven acoustic resonance engine.
The Century Engine
A purely mechanical computer and clockwork monument designed to compute and display astronomical and ecological data for 100 years without maintenance, built from ceramics, stone, and titanium.
Weekend Realm
A single-player RPG that respects your time: a complete, satisfying adventure designed to be played start-to-finish in one weekend, and built in a single weekend.