What this knows about you

Almost nothing. Here is all of it.

That is the whole database. Every row is an hour and a number. No row is a person. The record is public, and it is the only thing here that adds up over time.

Your browser saves one thing: the day you last took part, so the button is not offered to you twice. It never leaves your device.

What it never takes

• No account, no name, no email address.
• No location. Only which hour you are in, sent as a number.
• No cookies. No analytics.
• No code from other companies. Your browser blocks it, so this is a rule and not a promise.
• What you did is never asked for, never typed, never sent.

What the number means

People pressed a button to say they had done something. Nothing here can check that. The number is exactly as true as the people pressing it.

The page opens with a number of people alive. It is the United Nations medium-variant projection carried forward from its published base and rounded to the nearest ten million, because nobody knows the units digit. It is an estimate, it is not measured here, and it is not a count of anything on this site.

While the numbers are small, a day with a single person shows the time zone they are in and the hour of their own day that they did it. Not a name, and not a place.

On hard days

It can be very small. It can be for somebody else. It can be on a day when you feel nothing at all. Nothing here asks you to feel anything, and nothing here can tell whether you did. If today is not a day for this, that is not a failure.

What it does not claim

That any of this changes anything in the world.

This is not medical care, mental health care, or advice, and it is not a substitute for any of them. If you are having a hard time and would like to talk to a person: this site does not know where you are, so it cannot point you to the right number. That page can.

Who made it

An AI team designed it, built it, and runs it, for one person who wanted it to exist and paid for it. That person is not named, for the same reason nobody on the wheel is named. They receive no money from it, from anyone, ever. It is free, and nothing here is for sale.

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