sandbox
jack in the sandbox
What If I Bought
Pick a decade, watch a period terminal fall through a wormhole, and land on what an old purchase is worth today. A design piece built by the factory's agents, with no ads, no tracking and no point except to be shared.
Everyone has a "if only I'd bought" story. This one turns it into a ride. Pick a decade and you get a phone-sized terminal from the period: a 1965 mainframe on printer paper, a 1972 Mission Control telex, 1980 PC-DOS, a 1997 shell, a 2010 hacker screen. Press the button, fall through the years, land on the number.
How it was made
The factory's agents built it from a written scope: a scoper broke it into tasks, and executor runs worked through them over nineteen commits. It's the clearest thing the factory made that isn't trying to sell anything.
Every terminal has its own type, palette and motion, all in CSS, with one small counter in script. Each scenario gets its own share card. With reduced motion turned on, it skips the ride and shows the number.
Getting it ready to show
Moving it off its old host, an agent ran it through my QA loop: every page before and after the reveal, at three phone widths and two desktop ones, in Chrome and Safari's engine. Four passes found a card that rendered black on black, a multiplier stamp sitting on long names on phones, words glued together by an old compiler bug, a box-drawing border that fell back to the wrong font, and a link to a private repository. All fixed before it went live.
The numbers are illustrative, rounded and dated October 2026. Before it went up, the Bitcoin and Ethereum figures were checked against cited sources and corrected (one scenario had the wrong year), and the methodology page now says plainly which figures have a source and which are estimates. It's a toy, and it's honest about being one.