The point of the whole project
What this gives you
Everything on this page is something you press, play, ask for, or join. The machines, the rooms and the wiring are on other pages because nobody wants to read about them on a Friday night. The promise is simple: you never install anything, you never type a number, and you never read a manual.
01The lineup
Working today live and in use now Being built working, not finished Planned designed, not built Undecided tell us what you want
Films and television, on every screen Working today
Our own shelf of about 11 TB, on our own disks, played by Jellyfin — the one service on this page that is live and in use today. It plays on the television, on a tablet, on a laptop, in the car. No app store, no subscription, nothing to rent, and nothing that quietly leaves the catalogue next year.
What you do: press play. If a film will not start on an old device, it is re-shaped on the fly — that is the server’s work, not yours.
11 TBAny screen at homeAway from home: after the front door
Audiobooks that keep your place Being built
A shelf of audiobooks with a bookmark per person. Stop in the car, pick it up on the phone, and it starts where you stopped. The one service that is genuinely, completely ours — no licence expires. The software runs on our own disks today, and the books are on the shelf; what is missing is the shelf being switched on, an account each, and the bookmark proven on a real book.
What you do: press play. Everyone gets their own place in the same book.
Running, shelves not switched onBookmark per person: not proven yet
Our own music Planned
The records we own, on our own shelf, playable anywhere in the house. Nothing to stream from someone else’s library, and nothing that disappears when a licence changes hands.
What you do: pick an album. That is the whole interface.
Planned
Ask for a film by name Being built
Type a title, forget about it, and it appears on the shelf. The finders, sorters and fetchers do the rest, inside a hard disk allowance so one enthusiastic weekend cannot fill the server. The request page and the machinery around it run today. What they cannot do yet is search: the search accounts were lost in the rebuild, and they live only in a person’s records.
What you do: type the name. That is genuinely all of it.
Running, not connected
Someone to ask, at any hour In testing
Our own AI helpers, answering from our own machines. Ask the question at 2am; nobody sees the conversation, nothing is logged by a company, and it does not stop working when a price changes. Today they live in a window on a desk; the plan is a chat page with an account for each of us.
What you do: ask. Away from home, the plan is a plain web address — no app, no settings, no tunnel. Three seats are planned: the quick one, the deep one, and a second deep seat named Veronica by Haley.
Answering on our machinesSign-ups after alpha testingSecond seat: model not chosen
The story corner In testing
A quiet corner where the AI is good at writing stories, with its own characters, its own memory, and room for more than one person’s worlds. It is a creative tool, not a search engine, and it is the service we built for the person who writes.
What you do: open a world and start typing. Two accounts already exist, so nothing anyone writes gets mixed up with anyone else’s.
In use by us twoIts own front door
A game server of your own Being built
Our own 18-core games machine, in a datacentre, with room for a dozen servers at once. A server for you is a conversation, not a favour — and the plan is a page where you start, stop and see who is on it yourself.
What you do: tell us which game. Later, you press the button yourself.
The machine runs todayYour own control panel
Books read aloud in a chosen voice Planned
The voice machine is measured and proven on our own hardware: it can read faster than a person speaks, and the samples are on a desk for anyone to judge. The shelf around it — pick a book, pick a voice, press play — is what gets built.
What you do: choose a voice once, then press play. The samples are already recorded; the ranking is a family decision, not a technical one.
Measured, not builtWhich voice wins is your call
A page that tells you what is broken Working today
One page that says what is up and what is down, plus alerts in our family channel for the serious things only. A watcher that pings for everything is a channel nobody reads. It runs today: 18 checks, all green the day this site was last rebuilt, and an alert that fires on three failures in a row rather than one.
What you do: check it before you blame the Wi-Fi. Green page, red app — the problem is the device.
18 checks, all green
The family photo shelf Undecided
Every device in the family quietly copying its pictures to our own shelf, so nobody loses a childhood to a dead account. Very doable. It is not in the plan yet because it needs decisions about space, and about which albums stay private between family members.
The question, in plain words: do you want your phone to copy its pictures to our own drives as soon as you are home — the same thing a big company does, on our own disk, with nobody training on your faces and nothing deleted when an account lapses? Say so and it goes into the plan.
Tell us
02Everyday moments, in order
- Friday, the television. Everyone watches something from our shelf. Nobody is searching through four apps to find one film.
- The school run. The audiobook starts where yesterday’s car journey stopped.
- A question at 2am. Asked, answered, on our own machine. Nobody keeps it, nobody trains on it.
- Saturday. A game server is up, friends join, and it is not sitting on anyone’s home computer.
- Sunday. A book is read aloud in a chosen voice, on a device in your pocket.
- Any day. Something breaks, the status page says so, and the family channel already knows.
03What we promise the family
The promises
- No family member will ever be asked to install software to use a family service.
- No service will ever need you to type an address, a port, or a setting.
- Nothing you use will ever depend on a subscription we cannot cancel.
- Nothing you write, watch, photograph or ask becomes somebody else’s product.
- When something breaks, you will be told, and the status page will already say so.
What we will not do
- No “temporary” open door. Temporary doors are still open in three years.
- No service gets a public door because it was quicker than putting it behind the front desk.
- No helper of ours gets the ability to spend money, reveal a password, or delete a thing without a human.
- No machine gets a job it was not chosen for, because the hardware could theoretically manage it.
One thing on this page is live and in use today: the film shelf. Everything else is marked honestly — Being built means it works and is not finished, Planned means it is designed in detail and not built. One of those is a real weakness: we have no backups today. The plan is agreed and the destination is not chosen. We would rather say that here than have you discover it in a year. And the sentence everyone is waiting for: family sign-ups open when alpha testing finishes. That is when each of you gets your own account.
The doors page is the one list of links: what opens today, what is coming, and why the rest has no link at all yet.