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Every item below is something we plan to build. React to features, leave comments with your demographic label attached. The most-requested items move up the priority queue. This is a living document — updated as things ship.

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Overall progress 28%
✓ Phase 0 — Foundation ✓ Phase 1 — Identity & Scan ⟳ Phase 2 — Board & Posts → Phase 3 — Filtering & Themes Phase 4 — Identity Twist Phase 5 — Moderation Phase 6 — Ads Phase 7 — Analytics Phase 8 — AI Seeding Phase 9 — Polish
PHASE 0
Foundation
Concept, documentation, landing page, logo, architecture, archive system, GitHub repo.
✓ Shipped
✓
Landing page with full concept explainer
Hero, big tech citations, Folkus model explainer, privacy commitments, warrant canary, Acknowledgement of Country.
🇦🇺 White·32·M
2d ago
The big tech citation section is genuinely useful context. Good that it's sourced properly rather than just assertions.
🇮🇳 S.Asian·28·F
1d ago
Acknowledgement of Country is a nice touch. More Australian tech projects should do this.
🇺🇸 Black·24·M
18h ago
Pinwheel logo is clean. Does it spin on the page? Asking for a friend.
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Pinwheel logo — 8-blade skin tone spectrum
SVG, animated, inline in all pages. Fat blades across the full skin tone palette.
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PHASE 1
Identity & Scan
The 30-second face scan, device fingerprinting, and anonymous token system.
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30-second demographic scan page
Consent flow, webcam, Folkus model stub (real ONNX models plug in here), age gate, result panel, dispute system.
🇸🇦 M.East·31·M
1d ago
The dispute system where you can claim a different label is genuinely clever. The fact that your claimed label is shown to you but the real one shown to everyone else — that's the experiment within the experiment.
🇯🇵 E.Asian·22·F
20h ago
What happens when someone keeps rescanning to get a different result? Is there a cooldown?
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Device fingerprinting — SHA-256 token, no account
Font enumeration, canvas GPU render, hardware signals, GeoIP, demographic anchor. 90-day token TTL. Returning user recognition. Full test harness at /fingerprint-test.html.
🇬🇧 White·44·M
3d ago
VPN users will get a new token every time they switch exit nodes (country changes). Worth noting — power users can effectively reset their identity by changing location.
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PHASE 2
Board & Posts
The imageboard UI, thread system, voting, vote demographic breakdown, replies. Single board with category tags.
⟳ In Progress
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Thread list — imageboard × Reddit hybrid UI
White (editorial) and dark themes. Vote column, thumbnail, demo badge, timestamp, reply count. Grid and list views.
🇧🇷 Latino·26·M
6h ago
The white theme is genuinely one of the cleanest forum UIs I've seen. Very Notion. Very good.
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Vote system with demographic breakdown
Up/down votes with local dedup and localStorage persistence. Breakdown panel shows who voted (ethnicity, age, gender) on hover and click.
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Connect Folkus ONNX models to scan page
Swap the mock scan stub for real MediaPipe + Folkus inference. Models exist at ~/projects/smart-glasses-face-tracker/demographic-analyser. Integration point is clean.
🇦🇺 White·38·M
2h ago
This is the critical path. Without real model inference, the demographic labels aren't real. Everything else is staging. How long until this ships?
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Cloudflare Pages backend — KV post/reply/vote persistence
All API functions built. KV namespaces defined. Needs CF Pages deployment + KV namespace IDs wired in. See docs/CLOUDFLARE_SETUP.md.
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PHASE 3
Filtering & Themes
Multi-select demographic filters, category tags on posts, all 7 demographic CSS themes.
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Multi-select demographic filter panel
Select multiple ethnicities, age brackets, genders simultaneously. Active filters shown as removable chips. Filter state persists in localStorage.
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All 7 demographic CSS themes
White (done), Black (done), East Asian (done), South Asian (done). Still to build: Latino (warm tropical), Middle Eastern (rich teal/brass), Mixed/default (the Volkus neutral dark). User can set any theme regardless of their own demo.
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PHASES 4–9
Identity Twist · Moderation · Ads · Analytics · AI Seeding · Polish
The deeper experiment mechanics, monetisation, public data, and AI-seeded conversation starters.
Planned
The Identity Twist — label override system
If you dispute your label, you see your claimed demo. Everyone else sees your real label plus the claim. You can't see this happening to others — so you never know it's happening to you.
🇬🇧 Black·29·M
5h ago
This is the most interesting thing on this entire roadmap. The behavioural data from people posting under a false label vs their real one is going to be wild. Do they write differently? Does reception change? This is a real social experiment.
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Intelligence quiz moderation gate
Reported and blocked users must pass a quiz before posting again. Quiz result is permanently displayed on all future posts. A social mechanic, not a genuine IQ test.
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Public analytics dashboard
Site-wide aggregate data — who votes for whom, posting patterns by demographic, cross-demographic sentiment, identity-dispute behaviour analytics. All open, all public.
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AI thread seeding from trending topics
Scrapes trending topics (Reddit, 4chan, Twitter), generates seed threads via AI, posts as labelled AI account. Gets conversation rolling in a new community from zero.
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