Case study202600:15 Midnight sun

DONOTPRESS

Interactive web experience

A giant red button, a million presses until the end, and a numbered certificate for every paid press.

Built, in demo modeIndependent Jinjr product

DONOTPRESS: “There is a button. Do not press it.” above a counter at 1,000,000

01Context

Most of the web asks for attention and gives nothing back. The idea: one button the whole internet can press, where pressing it means something.

02Approach

One rule people understand instantly, a public counter, and a reason to come back: whoever pressed last holds the button until somebody takes it.

03Product

The first press is free. After that, each press costs $1 and puts a name on a numbered, permanent certificate, and a public clock counts the current holder’s reign.

DONOTPRESS after a press: 999,999 left, and a clock for how long you have held the button
DONOTPRESS on a phone: the counter and the big red button

04System

Payments are credited only from Stripe’s own signed message, checked so that every payment counts exactly once.

Built with React · Vite · Hono · MySQL · Stripe

05Outcome

Built, with payments wired to Stripe. Until payments are switched on it runs in demo mode, and says so on the page.

06Services delivered

  • Concept
  • Interaction design
  • Web application
  • Payments integration
Project
Independent Jinjr product
Status
Built, in demo mode