The story

I started building Ground because I kept forgetting I had a body.

Not in any dramatic way. Just the ordinary forgetting that happens when you are deep in something and hours pass and you surface somewhere you did not plan to be.

I had been vibe-coding. Absorbed, losing track of time in the best way. And then I noticed something: eye strain. More than usual. The 20-20-20 rule kept coming to mind. Every twenty minutes, look at something twenty feet away for twenty seconds.

Simple enough. But every app I found felt like a productivity tool with breaks bolted on. Timers. Countdowns. Streaks. I did not want a manager. I wanted something gentler.

So I started pulling the thread. What if it arrived without warning? What if it brought something worth sitting with? What if it did not track anything, did not judge anything, just showed up and then left?

The deeper I went, the more the eye health thing receded. What I was really building was an invitation to return to yourself. Amidst the noise, the doing, the forward motion of a day. A gentle inquiry, again and again. A moment to encounter yourself, a little at a time.

That is Ground.