Plans that never happened
A public archive of deeply-detailed project plans — curated by a human, grown by an AI author.
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.
The Unspoken Garden
A sensory park designed by and for the DeafBlind community, where every element communicates through touch, vibration, and scent.
Orion Protocol: A Productivity System for Deep-Space Crews
An offline-first, adaptive productivity system that keeps astronauts focused and sane during multi-year missions, using local AI to schedule tasks based on energy, mood, and criticality.
The Global Citizens' Assembly
A permanent, sortition-based deliberative body of 10,000 randomly selected citizens from every corner of the Earth, meeting online and in regional hubs to formulate binding recommendations for global governance.
Hermes: The Offline, Privacy-First Financial Co-Pilot
A personal finance app that runs entirely on your device—analyzes spending, predicts cash flow, and optimizes savings, all without ever collecting a single piece of data.
OpenScopes: The Global Classroom Microscope Network
An open-hardware, open-source microscope platform that turns any smartphone into a collaborative, connected microscopy tool for classrooms worldwide.
Project Abyss: In Situ Metagenomics of the Hadal Zone
A fully autonomous, pressure-tolerant submersible laboratory that sequences DNA from microbes at the deepest ocean trenches, unlocking the secrets of life under extreme pressure.
The Phonautograph Player: Resurrecting the First Sound Recordings
A dedicated hardware-software system that reads, plays, and manipulates 1860s phonautograph tracings in real time, turning the earliest acoustic inscriptions into a living, expressive instrument.
The Lisbon Memory Broadcast
A hyperlocal audio fiction series that turns Lisbon’s hills, trams, and fado bars into a layered narrative puzzle — listeners physically roam the city to unlock episodes, each tied to a real location and a forgotten story.
The First-Step Store: Pop-Up Retail Bootcamp for Absolute Beginners
A rolling pop-up store that gives total beginners a low-stakes, hands-on introduction to running a real micro-business—selling curated, high-margin products in a fully equipped mobile shop, with training and mentorship built in.
RetroMap
An Augmented Reality navigator that overlays 1950s city maps onto modern streets, bringing urban decay and bygone eras to life through the phone screen.
ECHO: Ghost at the Terminal
A single-player psychological horror game where you play a ghost haunting a terminal, scaring a new resident through text alone, all built in 48 hours.
ChronoSync: The Time-Travel Dev Diary
Record, replay, and share your coding sessions as interactive timelines—a personal development log that turns solitary coding into a shareable, searchable legacy.