timelines.silentinfinity.com — every Sunday at 8 a.m., three cinematic short stories of the lives you almost lived.
TIMELINES is a single-file mobile web app that drops three 200-word literary vignettes into your phone once a week. Each one is a fully realized version of you on a different branch — the job you didn't take, the city you didn't move to, the child you had sooner. Each comes with a procedurally generated SVG cover (sage, dusty rose, cream — washed like an old photograph) and a closing line: what this version of you knows that you don't. Below the new drop, an archive of every previous Sunday accumulates like a private literary magazine. At the bottom, one prompt — what would you ask the next timeline? — lets the user steer next week's drop.
The thesis: counterfactual thinking is the most powerful private engine in the human mind, and the worst-served by software. The pull is not the feed; it's the wait. Three stories, once a week, finite. A Sunday-morning ritual indistinguishable in feel from prayer.
Single HTML file. Inline CSS + JS. Mobile-first, dark by default, serif body. Works offline. ~500 lines.
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