Interlude is a shared canvas where strangers draw light trails. Everything fades within seconds. You draw with your finger. Others around the world draw too. Their trails appear as white light on your screen. When your light touches theirs, both phones vibrate softly.
There's no chat, no profiles, no way to follow someone or be followed. You won't know who was there with you. Just that someone was.
Most digital spaces are built on accumulation. They want you to build a profile, grow an audience, post things that stick around. There's always something to maintain, something to check back on, some version of yourself you're curating for others.
I've been thinking about what the opposite of that would look like. A place where nothing is saved, nothing is measured, and you can just be there without it turning into anything else. Not a feed to scroll, not a network to grow. Just a quiet room you pass through.
I believe apps can be warmer and more human than we've come to expect. They don't have to track us or turn our attention into currency. Interlude is my attempt to build something like that.
