Here
A small daily ritual.
tap once → shuffled → receive once
- • one tap per day
- • one anonymous trace
- • no reply path
Once per day, you tap a single button to say: I'm here.
You don’t write anything. You don’t introduce yourself. No one is watching.
At some quiet, randomized moment later, you receive a single anonymous trace from someone else who did the same. It may be a few words, a short voice fragment, or nothing more than presence itself. You cannot reply. You cannot save it. After a brief moment of witnessing, it disappears.
Then you return to your day.
The Condition Being Tended
Presence without performance.
Loneliness is not a lack of communication.
It is a lack of felt presence.
Most digital systems turn presence into output: messages, reactions, metrics, identity. Even tools designed for reflection often demand narration and continuity.
Here removes narration almost entirely.
What remains is the smallest possible signal that still feels human:
someone was here, as you are.
The Ritual (Atomic by Design)
- • One screen
- • One button
- • One tap per day
Optionally, that tap may carry a small artifact:
- • a short text (≤280 characters), or
- • a single image
Nothing more is allowed.
Later, one artifact from someone else arrives.
No reply is possible. No history is kept. No anticipation is encouraged.
Witness — then release.
What Was Changed
- • Interaction was reduced to a single intentional act
- • Identity was removed entirely
- • Reciprocity was delayed and asymmetric
- • Content was made ephemeral by default
- • Accumulation, memory, and visibility were eliminated
No feeds.
No profiles.
No likes.
No replies.
Almost everything familiar was taken away.
What Emerged
A different quality of connection.
It isn't conversation or intimacy.
A brief recognition — often described as soft, grounding, and oddly sufficient.
Because there was nothing to do with it, it didn’t pull you anywhere else. The moment ended cleanly. People returned to whatever came next without residue.
Attention didn't increase.
It settled, then moved on.
The Artifact
"Still here."
one quiet trace
This is what remains at the surface:
a fragment, unclaimed and unanswerable.
It matters precisely because it cannot be kept.
One Cycle
What This Is Not
Here is not:
- • a social network
- • a chat tool
- • a habit tracker
- • mindfulness coaching
- • therapy
It does not want streaks, growth loops, or community layers.
Extending it would change its nature.
It’s closer to a signal than a system.
Status: Still tending.
The open question is not how to scale this,
but how small a digital interaction can be
while still reducing the feeling of being alone.
A note on fit
Pondr = return through structure and finiteness
Here = return through presence and disappearance
They rhyme, but they do not overlap.
That's good.