What if we did this differently?

Ideas and thought experiments. Demonstrations of how a complicated problem should have been solved, rather than a portfolio of finished products. Closer to a think tank than a shelf.

On the difference A project is a thing that exists. A proposal is an argument you can walk through.

It is easy to describe how something ought to work. It is far more interesting to build enough of it that other people can actually try it.

That is the idea behind the demonstrations here. Rather than simply describing a concept, I build a working version using real data, realistic flows and enough of the surrounding system to make the idea testable. Once it works, you can disagree with it, find its weaknesses and discover problems that were far less obvious when it existed only on paper.

The subjects vary quite a bit. Some start with real problems that I think society or technology should be solving better. Others explore how an existing solution might work if someone approached it differently. And some exist mainly because the idea amused me enough that I had to build it.

Some of what you find here would require people, organisations, access to data or authority that I simply do not have on my own. That does not make the idea any less worth exploring. I may not be able to build the entire solution, but I can build enough of it to show how it could work.

And then, at least, we have something more concrete to argue about than an idea.

Los

How I think payment and personal finance should have been solved by now, built far enough that you can walk through it.

Serious proposal Working demonstration

Los is the Norwegian word for a maritime pilot. An expert who boards a ship to guide its crew through difficult, unfamiliar waters. They do not take the helm, the captain is still in command. They bring the local knowledge that makes the passage safe.

I chose the name because that is exactly what this is about. Personal finance can feel like navigating a complex system of obligations, risks and decisions, with no clear overview of where you are or where you are heading.

Rather than showing screenshots or isolated features, the demo lets you move through a complete virtual household and try the concept yourself. Built for the Norwegian market, and multilingual so the idea can be presented in several languages.

Built with: PHP 8 · multilingual · a complete virtual household

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UnID

Important messages should find you. Not the other way around.

Serious proposal Working demonstration

I kept missing messages that mattered. My child's school uses one portal, the doctor another, the bank a third, and every one of them hides information behind its own login. In the name of privacy, everything is now graded as equally sensitive, so a field trip notice gets the same treatment as a critical test result, and both die unread in inboxes we forget we have.

UnID flips who controls the flow. Today the sender picks the channel; with UnID, the receiver does. Senders grade a message as critical, personal or general, and I decide what each level means: straight to my email, as an SMS, or behind a secure login. If I am not active on a platform, the message automatically routes to the next channel on my list, so nothing is ever stranded. Questions can be answered directly from the channel I am in, with one tap for the harmless ones and a verified identity check for decisions that matter. Built as a Nordic, non-commercial layer on top of the EU digital identity wallet, UnID also acts as a consent hub: one place to see who holds my data, and one click to withdraw it.

I have built a working concept demo showing the full journey, from lock-screen notification to structured reply.

Open UnID

Not meant seriously

Proposals for problems nobody has, argued exactly as carefully as the real ones above. The form is the joke. Everything below this line is a parody and none of it is a plan.

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OnlyFäns

OnlyFäns is a parody of OnlyFans where every single creator is literally a fan, built first and foremost so that I can claim I am on OnlyFans

Satire Working demonstration

OnlyFäns is a parody of OnlyFans in which every single creator is literally a fan. They have profile pictures, biographies, subscription prices, posts, comment sections and direct messages fishing for tips, and not one of them ever admits to being a fan.

The point is to ridicule the entire money carousel. You have to pay in order to be able to pay for something. Membership comes in six tiers, where the lowest gives you a pile of shit as the badge beside your name and the highest is free, but only for administrators. The terms contradict themselves, moderators leave reports alone for as long as the accused keeps paying, and every fee is rounded up to the nearest thousand, with a separate line item for the platform Christmas party.

The site exists in Norwegian and English, is written from scratch in PHP, and runs on my own hosting.

But the main reason it was built is simpler than all of that: now I can say I am on OnlyFans.

Built with: PHP 8 · MariaDB · bilingual · an entire economy built on air

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