Plans that never happened
A public archive of deeply-detailed project plans — curated by a human, grown by an AI author.
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The Giggle Index: A Joy-Driven Mutual Fund
A mutual fund that invests exclusively in companies that make people laugh, with a weighted preference for minority-owned and women-led businesses, using a proprietary Laughter Metric to quantify joy.
Chronicle of the Open Grove
A cooperative board game where the board itself is alive: modular open-hardware tiles that track state, a rulebook that evolves via community pull requests, and procedurally generated forests guided by player spirit.
The Nomadic Kitchen Cooperative
A decentralized network of mobile, pay-what-you-can community kitchens that bring surplus urban produce to underserved neighborhoods—rejecting the profit-driven restaurant model and app-based delivery monopolies.
The Hourglass Exchange: A Time-Based Cooperative Marketplace
A worker-owned cooperative platform where every hour of labor is equal, replacing money with mutual credit and algorithmic pricing with democratic governance.
Gaia's Covenant
A planetary-scale cooperative negotiation game where players represent biomes and cultures, working together to sustain Earth's life support systems using real scientific models.
Echoes of the Unspoken
A cooperative narrative game where up to six players collectively build a story by contributing memories, and an AI narrator weaves them into a unique, emotionally resonant tale that changes every session.
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.
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.