# Become One

Alexandr Tokarev — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:31:06 +0000

What if your phone could feel the crowd?

At every football match, concert, festival, or celebration, something fascinating happens.

Thousands of strangers begin moving together.

They jump.
They clap.
They chant.
They dance.

For a few moments, they stop behaving like individuals and become a single living system.

Nature has already solved this problem.

Bees communicate through synchronized dances.
Birds fly in perfect formations.
Fish form coordinated schools.

Humans do exactly the same—but we've never had a way to measure it.

Introducing Become One

Become One is a mobile app that passively senses collective movement using your phone's built-in motion sensors.

No buttons.
No check-ins.
No setup.

Just keep the app installed.

When you're part of a large event, it quietly analyzes anonymous motion patterns and compares them with everyone else nearby.

Open the app at any moment to discover:

How many people are moving in sync
Overall synchronization level
Crowd energy
Dominant movement rhythm
Whether you're part of the collective flow

When your movement drifts away from the crowd, subtle haptic feedback gently guides you back into rhythm.

Not as a notification.

As a heartbeat.

A New Kind of Sensor

Every phone observes only one person.

Thousands of phones together observe something entirely new:

Collective synchronization.

Instead of measuring individuals, Become One measures the emergence of a crowd acting as a single organism.

Imagine seeing:

18,542 people synchronized
Crowd Energy: 94%
Synchronization: 97%
Rhythm: 118 BPM

Not because someone pressed a button...

...but because thousands of independent devices detected the same collective movement.

Beyond Sports

The same technology could visualize synchronization at:

Football matches
Concerts
Music festivals
Flash mobs
Public celebrations
Dance events

Every gathering has its own rhythm.

Become One simply makes it visible.

Why this fits the challenge

Passion isn't only an emotion.

It's something people express together.

Become One transforms that invisible connection into something measurable.

Because sometimes, the most exciting thing happening isn't on the stage.

It's the moment thousands of people become one.

Time Spender v1

Alexandr Tokarev — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:33:32 +0000

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge
What I Built
Time Spender v1 is the ultimate productivity anti-tool. It is a web application designed with a single, highly optimized purpose: to waste exactly one minute of your life.

You click a button, stare at a mesmerizing cosmic art piece that slowly zooms and blurs over 60 seconds, and wait. Once the timer is up, you are congratulated with confetti for spending your time on absolutely nothing. It's "time hooding Art."

To make it a collective effort, the app features a real-time global counter tracking the total number of minutes humanity has collectively wasted staring at this screen.

Demo
You must see it yourself to understand how it works. Just try it and waste a minute:
Live Demo: Time Spender v1
https://ai.studio/apps/bd1c40d0-af8c-43be-b37e-2cd50f293dc0

GitHub
https://github.com/AlexSheff/Time-Waster-v1
Code
The project was built entirely within Google AI Studio.
The core logic revolves around a React timer and a Firebase real-time connection:
code
JavaScript
// The core "wasting" logic
const recordWastedTime = async () => {
const docRef = doc(db, 'stats', 'global');
await updateDoc(docRef, {
totalMinutesWasted: increment(1)
});
};

How I Built It
Frontend Framework: React with Vite for a fast, modern development environment.
Styling: Tailwind CSS for the sleek, dark-mode UI that makes wasting time look premium.
Animations: motion/react (Framer Motion) for smooth UI transitions and the agonizingly slow 60-second zoom/blur effect on the artwork.
Backend/Database: Firebase Firestore. I used real-time listeners (onSnapshot) to sync the global counter and atomic increments (increment(1)) to ensure every wasted minute is accurately tallied across the globe without race conditions.
Celebration: canvas-confetti to provide a sarcastic, celebratory burst of confetti when you successfully achieve nothing.