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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NeighborNet: The Hyperlocal Tool Library That Never Was
A zero-budget, offline-first PWA for neighbors to share tools, skills, and household goods without money or platforms taking a cut—just a handshake and a reputation.
Terra Mesh: The Off-Grid Resilience Network
An offline-first, peer-to-peer communication and resource map designed to turn smartphones into community lifelines for climate refugees navigating hostile, disconnected environments.
Trench-Code
An offline-first IDE hardened for development in warzones, disaster zones, and space, with resilient versioning and collaboration via shortwave radio.
Talking Trees: A Mobile Audio Archive for Indigenous Oral Traditions
An offline-first, mesh-networked mobile app that empowers indigenous elders in the Amazon to record and share oral traditions in their native languages, preserving knowledge without the need for literacy or internet.
MeshTalk: Decentralized Off-Grid Messenger
A mobile app that enables peer-to-peer messaging and data sharing via Bluetooth mesh networking, with no internet or cloud required. Perfect for remote areas, disasters, or privacy-conscious users.
AquaSprint: Mission Control for Subsea Productivity
A synchronized task-rhythm platform for small crews living months in subsea habitats, blending circadian light cycles, life-support constraints, and deep-work blocks into one calm, resilient schedule.
Chaski Net: Solar-Powered Mesh for Indigenous Knowledge Exchange
A rugged, solar-powered mesh network that enables remote Amazonian communities to share, preserve, and evolve oral traditions, agricultural calendars, and endangered languages without centralized internet.
The Weft: A Hyperlink-Rich Personal Knowledge Base Without a Single Server
A cross-platform, offline-first personal knowledge base that stores everything locally and syncs peer-to-peer only on demand—no cloud, no accounts, just your thoughts.
Loca: The Offline Scrapbook
A mobile buffer that rejects the cloud, algorithms, and social sharing, focusing purely on local capture and physical output via a Bluetooth thermal printer.
NeighbourNet: The Offline Community Server
A plug-and-play physical server that creates a local, cloud-free digital neighborhood—file sharing, messaging, classifieds, and events—all on a private mesh network.
Village Vault: Offline Community Savings & Lending Rings
An offline-first platform for community savings circles (tontines/ROSCAs) that uses mesh networking and cryptographic tokens to record transactions without any cloud dependency.
PocketPal: Reviving the Focused PDA
A modern e-ink personal digital assistant that brings back the focused, distraction-free productivity of the Palm Pilot, synced with today's cloud and powered by open-source software.
The Offline Atlas: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Mesh for Privacy-First Education
A decentralized, zero-server learning platform that runs on local Wi-Fi mesh networks, allowing students to share and explore knowledge without ever touching the cloud or revealing personal data.
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.
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.