You say where you’re going and what you care about. Doen Thang searches the web the way a person in that city would, then writes you a day-by-day plan with the places it found.

The whole idea was a “viewpoint”: a browser with a language, a time zone, a history and a location, all set up like a real local’s. I built it assuming location mattered most. The first proper experiment said otherwise. Searching in Thai and in English, from the same computer in the same second, gave results with nothing in common. Changing the country barely moved them, about as much as waiting five minutes. That finding changed the design.

A price check found one Bangkok hotel listed at about $546 from the US and $580 from six other countries. A small model called JEV reads each page and answers three yes-or-no questions: is this a bot wall, is it one hotel, is there a price on it. That way a check written for English pages doesn’t break on a Japanese one.

I was trying to recreate Rive, a tool for animations that respond to what you do. Then I added puppetry. A webcam reads your face expression and the character moves with it, live. You build the character in Godot, a game engine, and it plays in any web browser.

It went to sleep when serverBound woke up. It will be back.

flyWheel is named after Jim Collins’ flywheel: small pushes in the same direction that add up. Its job is narrower. It watches a folder, and anything I drop in (a PDF, an epub, an article, a bookmark) becomes an input. Inputs do nothing on their own. They only count once a quest that used them is finished and its output is shipped.

So the momentum gauge is built to ignore hoarding. It rises with quests completed against inputs added, with days I actually showed up, and falls with drift: inputs I haven’t touched in a week and quests left open for five days. Importing 800 bookmarks moves it by exactly nothing.

Three NPCs keep me company: the Scout proposes the morning’s plan, the Archivist reads an input and suggests what it could become, and the Watcher narrates the day in the evening. They need an API key for their voices. Without one the app still does everything; it just stops talking.

When an output is done, Export .md writes it with frontmatter into a folder of my choosing, like this site’s content folder. No git, no deploy. The file landing is the hook.

Everything stays on my machine except the optional language-model calls and the pages I ask it to fetch.

Pick two or three Steam tags. The tool reads Steam, opens each similar game’s store page, and keeps a copy and a screenshot of exactly what it saw. Click any number in the document and the receipt opens. Your browser checks the saved copy hasn’t changed since.

One run on Indie + Roguelike Deckbuilder + Pixel Graphics, on 1 October 2026: 298 games carry all three tags, the middle price is $9.99, and none of the 8 closest games say they used generative AI. A quarter of their negative reviews (169 of 665) were written inside Steam’s two-hour refund window.

It also says plainly what it can’t tell you: sales, revenue, wishlists, or why players liked a game.

The board is a small network. Your pieces are your machines and theirs are targets. Click an enemy piece and you see what it’s running and how it’s weak. Breaking in is a tiny capture-the-flag puzzle. Each piece has its own:

• pawns leak a secret through a careless input box
• knights have a guessable password
• bishops fall to a database trick
• rooks open if you knock on the right ports in order
• the queen has a backup tool that runs with too much power

Getting in costs data packets, and every move raises a trace alarm. Once you’re inside, you can plant a sleeper. Later you can detonate it, and that piece changes sides. The king can only be broken with the keys you stole from the others.

In the video: a pawn moves, the pawn on f7 gets hacked by leaking its environment variables, and then it betrays its own side.

One door. You describe what happened in your own words, in English, Hindi or Hinglish. The app suggests which official category it falls under, and you can agree or change it. If money has just left your account, it sends your bank a freeze request with only the six details a bank actually needs, while a countdown shows how much of that first hour is left.

It works without signal, too. You get an acknowledgement number straight away, and the complaint waits on your phone until it can send. Until then the tracker says so honestly: saved on this device, not yet delivered.

An independent hackathon prototype, not a government service. All data in the film is made up.

Numbers fly up and you slice the right answer. Slice a wrong one and it doesn’t just say “wrong”. It says “9 is 2 too high!”, so the mistake becomes the lesson.

Free text-to-speech voices read a passage aloud as a reference. Then you read it, and Praat, a tool phoneticians use, compares the two: pitch, pace, where the stress falls.

Google’s MediaPipe finds the points of your face on camera: eyebrows, eyelids, the corners of your mouth. Those points are sent to a 3D avatar, which raises its eyebrows when you do.