Read itsadoor as text
itsadoor is an app that keeps what you write, plan and collect in one home that you own. Your home is stored on your own devices and locked with your passphrase.
Your own computer reads your life so the AI does not have to. It hands a small, private AI a short, true briefing, so the answer fits you and nothing leaves your house. Not finished yet This is what the AI is being built to do. The app has no AI in it yet.
This page says everything the website says, in plain text, with no pictures and no movement.
The opening
The main page opens with five questions, one at a time. Each one is stamped with one word, and then the next one comes.
- infinite scrolling? “gone.”
- email data collection? “gone.”
- advertisement fatigue? “gone.”
- unwanted tracking? “gone.”
- your own private AI? “coming.”
The first four are each followed by “gone.” The last one turns from what is gone to what you get. It is stamped “coming.”, not “gone.”, because the app’s AI is not built yet.
After the last one, the sentence “When I own my data, I can…” appears and the five doors arrive. A Skip button goes straight to the doors, and so do the Escape, Enter and Space keys and a click or tap anywhere. The opening plays once per visit. A link near the bottom of the main page plays it again. With reduced motion turned on, or without scripts, the doors show at once.
The sentence
When I own my data, I can…
The site opens with that unfinished sentence. Five doors finish it.
The five doors
- projects: When I own my data, I can… build stuff and finish work. Work that takes many steps, kept together so you can put it down and pick it up again.
- relationships: When I own my data, I can… connect and share my story. How you share with people outside your house: family, a partner and friends.
- day: When I own my data, I can… have a greater day. One day with itsadoor, from the morning check in to the evening check in.
- home: When I own my data, I can… keep my house in order. The household: what you own, what needs doing, and how the house runs.
- learn: When I own my data, I can… learn and grow from everything. Skills you practice, and things you read and study.
Each door opens the same starting room that the app gives a new person who picks that purpose. The door carries the promise. The room keeps its real name.
How a home starts
- Call button: safe, private, local AI in everything
- Desk: edit documents
- Mini fridge: manage calendar, notes and to-dos
- Locking drawer: locked health and money records
- Git: keep versions of your projects
- Picture frame: look back at journals and good moments
- Wardrobe: list what you own
- Dumbbells: track exercise, skills and routines
- Bookshelf: keep research, collections and news
A new home starts empty. You pick one thing you are here for, and the home puts a few objects in its main room to match. Nothing else is locked out. Everything else is one step away.
Every start has the same four things: a call button, a small desk, a mini fridge and a locking drawer. Your purpose adds more. Projects adds Git at the desk. Every home has the front of the house outside the front door; in the relationships room it is what the room is about. Day adds a picture frame. Home adds a wardrobe. Learn adds dumbbells and a bookshelf.
Each object shows about three views at first, and an “add a view” button. A view is one way of looking at your information, like a journal or a to-do list. The room chooses which three come first. You can change them.
The lockbox and the second lock
Health is not a door. It lives in the lockbox. The lockbox is the locking drawer at the desk, and it has a second lock. You pass that lock every time you open it, even to look at your own data.
Health and money start inside the lockbox. You choose what else goes in. itsadoor may suggest a kind of thing to put there, like papers and records or private writing. It never picks single items for you.
On this site the lockbox is visible and cannot be opened. That is why Robin’s health and money are never shown.
- Health, inside from the start
- Money, inside from the start
- Papers and records, if you add it
- Private writing, if you add it
How things grow
In the app nobody picks a size of home. Every function starts as one object in the main room. Each object can grow, in its own way, when you want it to. A mini fridge can become a full fridge, and then a kitchen. A locking drawer can become a cabinet. A small desk can become a bigger desk, and then an office.
On this site, each room has a control called “See it grow” with three steps: studio, house and mansion. Those three words belong to the website. They show the same objects climbing their own paths. The app does not use them.
Nothing prompts you to grow something. You can leave an object as it is for as long as you like. You can always go back. When a room folds back into its object, the separate things in the room become views you pick from a list.
Growing never changes your information. Only the place where you stand to look at it changes.
The example person
The rooms on this site show an invented person named Robin. Every room says: “Example data. Robin is invented.”
Rooms start empty, as the real app does, and then fill in. For about a second the room says: “A new home starts empty.”
Inside each room a switch changes what Robin’s things say. It has four choices, in this order: living alone, having a partner, raising kids, caring for a parent. The switch changes the example contents. It never changes the room.
The call button and the guide
The call button is in every room, and it knows which room you pressed it in. On the picture version it hangs on the wall just to the right of the front door, drawn large, with its name under it. A smaller one with the word “Call” is in the band at the top. Both open the guide.
The guide is a chat box that answers only questions about itsadoor. It works from the project’s written plan and from the “What exists today” page. It can say “I don’t know.” It shows where its answers came from. A one-tap button under each answer, “That answer was wrong,” says what it will send before you tap it: that question and that answer, with the room and the sources shown. Nothing else is kept, and an answer you do not tap is kept nowhere. Beside it, a separate “Share your thoughts” button is the only way an opinion from this site reaches itsadoor.
No person answers. Only an AI does. It runs on a smaller AI model on a computer that itsadoor owns, so it is slower and less capable than the large AI services. The app is meant to work the same way.
Join the beta
Signing up for the beta is free. When it opens you get the free house. From there you can buy a key or become a founder.
The beta has not opened yet. Nothing can be bought on this website yet. The page Beta has the sign-up, what you get free, and the keys and founders packages that come after.
The one tap is a light way to say you are interested. To sign up, with your email, use the page Beta.
You ask from inside a room, so the room is known from that moment. Nothing tracks you. There is one tap: “I would want this.” It is anonymous. An email address is optional.
After you ask, you see a confirmation and a promise of occasional news only.
What is stored: the name of the room you were in, as part of a count. Your email address, only if you gave one. Nothing else.
For employers and small businesses
On the main page, a small button called “Explore the employer and small business experience” leads to the office. You tour it the same way as the home: you come in to the lobby, open each of its five objects, which hold the nine modules, and read example contents for an invented company called Fernside Nursery. One door in the lobby is marked Your office. Walking through it opens a floating page over the lobby. The lobby and Your office are the app’s own.
The office has its own invitation, separate from the home beta. It is a control called “I would want this for my workplace”. Its sentence is: “We own our work and get better from it.”
Some of how the office will work is not finished yet, and the page marks each of those parts “Not finished yet”. Those parts are: owner, admin and member roles, a conference room, the employer seeing what employees ask the office call button, live presence in the lobby, the office growing like the house, what a company may send, and shared document drafting. The locking drawer is the employer’s setting, and it is built.
What is real today
This site shows how itsadoor is meant to work. The “What exists today” page says what has actually been built and run, and what has not.
A place you host
Not finished yet
A place you host will be a separate room that you create and run on your own server. It will not be inside your house, and your house stays private.
You will build it the way you build rooms at home, and you will decide what is in it.
It will start closed, and it will stay invitation only. You will be able to invite anyone you are connected with, not only a few people. There will be no way to open it to strangers.
It is for people you are connected with: a meeting place for a family, a club, a class, a neighborhood or customers. A person will be able to host one. A business will be able to host one.
You will be able to sell goods there. A customer will connect with you first, and then be invited. The seller brings their own way to be paid; itsadoor never handles the payment.
It will not be the backyard. The backyard is for a few people you are connected with. A place you host will run on its own server and will be able to hold a community.
You will arrive at a place someone hosts through this website, the way you join a server in an online game: the website will show the door, and your invitation will let you in. Nothing is listed today.