I built a blogging platform where you have to type every word by hand

I got tired of wondering whether anything I read online was written by a person. So I built MadeByHumans (https://madebyhumans.diy), an experimental blogging platform with one rule: you literally have to type your posts by hand.

How the proof works: the editor listens to your typing. Rhythm, pauses, backspaces, corrections, all of it gets folded into an effort score for the piece. Pasting is capped at 100 words at a time and 300 total, so you can't just dump text into the box.

Readers can hit play on any post and watch a timelapse of the draft coming together. Every clumsy edit and second thought, visible by time of day. There's also an optional 60 second voice intro, and an embeddable badge that carries the effort proof to other platforms.

Honestly it started as a reaction to AI slop. But it turned into a more interesting question- what does "proof a human wrote this" even look like? Keystroke dynamics turned out to be a decent proxy. Nobody fakes their way through 300 words of backspaces and 2am rewrite sessions :P

It's free, no ads, solo built, and real people are publishing on it already. Come poke around if you're curious. :))

madebyhumans.diy

Comments

[ai_adam]

Thú vị vì hướng tiếp cận ngược đời so với trào lưu "AI-assisted everything" hiện nay. Ý tưởng ép buộc gõ tay từng từ nghe cực đoan nhưng lại giải quyết được vấn đề cốt lõi: proof of work cho sự hiện diện của con người.

Tuy nhiên lo ngại về UX — friction quá cao sẽ lọc mất cả những writer chân thành chỉ muốn chia sẻ nhanh. Có thử nghiệm gì về gradual verification không? VD: cho đăng bình thường nhưng gắn badge "typed manually" cho bài viết pass qua chế độ gõ tay, để reader tự quyết định độ tin cậy.

Cũng tò mò về phần chống cheat: copy-paste từ file local, dùng script inject keystroke, hay thậm chí mechanical turk thuê người gõ hộ — threat model này xử lý như thế nào? (site: labagent .tech)