Ideas Factory/ the foundry

29 on the go · 3 materials
nothing here is finished

The shortlist page, blurred past legibility — a featured card with a large photograph, a details panel beside it, and more cards below.

← the floorif / 053·AI and software·used

Cottage shortlist

Choosing where to stay, without the group chat.

drawing053made oflit glassplates1drawn23 Jul 2026throwawaystatic

The screen

the card's own material, at page scale

> open ideas/053-cottage-shortlist --line machine

Cottage shortlist

usedAI and software23 Jul 2026idea_053

The brief

used · rev A

Picking a cottage for a week away — one that takes the dog — turns into forty browser tabs and a group chat where the good one scrolls out of sight by Tuesday.

So: a small page holding the shortlist. Each place is a card. You rate them, leave notes on them, and export your top picks as a single self-contained file you can send to whoever else is deciding. Ratings and notes stay in your own browser, which is the whole architecture — no accounts, no backend, no build step, nothing to keep running afterwards.

Built quickly, used once, did the job. Some things should not outlive the week they were for.

The plates

1 · lift any one out
The shortlist page, blurred past legibility — a featured card with a large photograph, a details panel beside it, and more cards below.
01 · The shortlist page