@yodark

🧵 Building a silent mini-app (an experiment against instant reward) I’ve been experimenting with a mini-app designed to deliberately counter the dominant patterns of engagement. No confetti. No XP. No leaderboards. No visible rewards. It started as a more philosophical question about superficial engagement. Most app today optimize for immediacy: instant feedback, instant validation, instant meaning. The result is efficient but often shallow. I wanted to test the opposite. Removing the obvious signals The first design decision was not what to add, but what to remove. Originally, the app could have had: • leaderboards • visible progression • explicit impact metrics Instead, I stripped all of that away. Actions are acknowledged, but very subtly. The user knows something was recorded but without spectacle. The open question is intentional: How much time and attention are users willing to invest to understand quiet signals? Is subtlety enough?

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