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 Unrecorded School: Ephemeral, Accountless Peer-Learning Rooms
A privacy-first, zero-data learning platform where anyone can start or join a timeboxed, topic-based study room with nothing but a link—no sign-up, no tracking, no record of who was there or what they learned.
Project Sunflower: The Solar-Powered, Beginner-Built Smart Planter
A no-solder, no-code-required smart planter kit that teaches absolute beginners electronics, programming, and plant care through building their own solar-powered watering system.
Prompt Sandbox: Learn AI by Playing with Prompts
A no-code, gamified playground where absolute beginners explore how AI thinks by crafting prompts, seeing immediate visual feedback, and leveling up their understanding.
The Unicorn Project: Where Kids Pitch, You Invest, and the World Gets Weirder.
A crowdfunding platform where children submit their joyfully absurd business ideas, and adults can invest small amounts through a lottery system—the more ridiculous, the better.
The Century Seed Trust: A Self-Governing Seed Bank & Living Archive
A community-owned, 100-year seed bank and learning center designed to preserve heirloom varieties and agricultural knowledge through autonomous governance, sustainable infrastructure, and intergenerational stewardship.
The Green Commons: Urban Rooftop Garden Network
A grassroots initiative to transform underutilized urban rooftops into shared, accessible gardens that teach sustainable food production to absolute beginners from all backgrounds.
CodeCanvas: The Visual IDE That Grows With You
A drag-and-drop coding environment that builds executable Python or JavaScript from blocks, then gradually reveals the text underneath until you're writing code directly — a training-wheels IDE for absolute beginners that doesn't coddle, it teaches.
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.
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 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.