Maker

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Built a useless side project with Claude Code. The idea started as a joke (a map of people doing nothing) but the more I worked on it, the more I felt like the joke actually had a point. Institute of Idleness is a live world map showing everyone currently doing nothing on the internet. Your dot appears when you land, fades when you leave. If you sit there for 60 seconds the Institute certifies your idleness with a unique generated certificate. The certificate makes it official. It generates a unique assessment of your specific session, assigns you a personal idle word, and gives it a permanent shareable URL. It means absolutely nothing, but the science behind it is genuine though. There's a Reading Room with 30+ peer-reviewed papers on the default mode network, mind-wandering, and wakeful rest. No accounts. No email. No streaks. Nothing to unlock. Happy to answer questions about the concept or the build.

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8mo ago

LiveDemo

This very much reminds me of meditation.

Before I learned what meditation is, I would sit and do nothing.
Now I meditate

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8mo ago

Maker

Hehe, @gapostolov , i hadn’t made the link with meditation yet!

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8mo ago

Institute of Idleness

The only screen time your therapist would approve of

The only screen time your therapist would approve of