hushtimer lock in

The seconds are passing. Spend them with each other.

Hushtimer is a shared clock. You set a moment, you get a link, and everyone on that link watches the same countdown toward the same thing. When someone needs more time, they say so, and everybody sees it.

Clocking in to each other's lives. Send someone the clock.

Pick when you're meeting and who is coming. Everyone who opens the link holds the same countdown to the same moment, a way to stay accountable to the time you have in each other's lives. If someone is running late, they say how much. Their extra minutes wait beside their name and start counting only once the meeting time has arrived.

Something you are working toward. Commit until you see the results.

Growth is time you actually gave. Name the thing, set the clock, and show up for it. Every session you run gets counted, so you can see exactly how many hours you have put into this and how many times you came back to it. Not how long you meant to. How long you did.

Someone is waiting to hear back. Hold the same clock.

Say what it is, who is asking, who is doing it, and when you expect to hear back. Send the link. Both of you see the same countdown, and the person doing the work can ask for more time before it runs out, so nobody has to chase.

Lock in together. One clock on every desk.

Name the work, pick how long you are giving it, and send the link to whoever is working alongside you. Everyone watches the same countdown from their own device. Nobody talks until it hits zero. If the table agrees on more, anyone can add it.

I don't want to talk right now. Check my timer for when I do.

Sometimes the patience you need is with yourself. Take the break, and let the people around you know you are taking it. Set how long you need and send the link to whoever should check on you. They can see you are not ignoring them, you are resting. When it hits zero, they know to check on you. If you need longer, add to it, and their clock moves with yours.

Hushtimer makes hand drawn worlds you walk through while you get ready.

Nothing in the drawing moves. It is one long illustration, and the camera crosses it slowly toward the way out. Where the frame sits is how much time is left.

The figure crossing your world is the person using it. Someone else is already in the frame. Not helping. Just there.

We need worlds. As many as we can get.

A bedroom at 6am. A locker room. A kitchen at the end of a shift. Somewhere that exists only in your head. There is no cap on how many we want.

The brief

Draw a place someone crosses when time is short.

One continuous horizontal scene, roughly eight to twelve times wider than it is tall. The camera pans across it slowly, left to right, for as long as the timer runs.

Must be in it
  • A clear way out on the right. Door, gate, exit, edge
  • Landmarks along the way, so passing them feels like progress
  • A clear walking band at ground level, with nothing crossing it
Leave the walker out
  • The figure crossing your world is the person using it. Their avatar sits on top as its own layer, so the walking band stays empty
  • You may draw a resident, someone who lives in that scene and stays put. Send them as a separate file
Yours entirely
  • Where it is, what time it is, the weather, the palette, the mood, whether anyone is late
The rules
  • Hand drawn. Digital tools welcome, generated images not
  • Paid per world, agreed before you start
  • You keep your copyright and you are credited by name

Founding artists.

The first ten in stay credited as founding members for as long as this exists. Everyone who makes a world is Hushtimer, including you.

Build a world

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