THINGS PEOPLE FORGET
Short reads. No savings tips.
The internet already charges you every month. These pages explain the object we built on top of that fact.
THE OBJECT
- The internet's most expensive leaderboardNot a metaphor. A URL. People pay every month to forget money, and the ones who opt in get a rank.
- Forgetting moneyThe verb is the product. You pick an amount. Stripe charges it. The site stops asking you to think about it — except when the rank moves.
- Why do people subscribe?Not for a feature matrix. For a rank, a ritual, and a sentence they can send to someone who will not believe them.
- Subscription cultureThe internet already charges you every month for things you forgot. FYCC is what happens if you keep the charge and add a rank.
NOTES
- Why recurring subscriptions feel invisibleYou do not forget because you are careless. You forget because the system is designed to be quiet.
- The psychology of recurring paymentsOne yes. Many months. A number that only becomes interesting if someone else can see it.
- Why people compete over meaningless numbersThe number is meaningless until two people look at it. Then it is a problem.
- The internet loves leaderboardsIf you can sort it, someone will try to be first. FYCC just sorted invoices.
- What happens when you gamify spending?You get a game. You do not get a better financial life. Those are different products.
- Why $1 can become a status symbolStatus here is not the amount on the button. Status is whether your name is on the board, and where.
The Forget Index is the public numbers, when they exist. The leaderboard is the game.