It's time to let your smartphone just be a homephone — so you can be more present at home with those you love.
Build updates once in a while, and the front of the line when it launches.
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Plug your smartphone in for the first time and pair it via Bluetooth. (Android needs the app.) After that, all you need to do is plug your smartphone in to dock.
It rings out loud, in the room, like phones used to. No subconscious need to constantly check. If someone calls, you'll know.
Press the button, say who you want to call. “Call Mom.” When you're done, hang up like landlines from 20 years ago.
Every feed on your phone is built by people who are paid when you keep looking at it. Your constant attention is the product they are selling.
We're not anti-smartphone — it's a great tool. But at home you deserve to live without your eyeballs glued to it.
HomePhone balances the power of that tool and the old style of phone technology that kept us connected to others at home without sucking our souls into doomscrolling. Calls still ring. People still reach you. The separation doesn't rely on willpower that's been hijacked by addictive technology — it's built into the HomePhone as a feature. The smartphone has a home now, and it isn't in your hand all night.
You are not the product.
HomePhone is being built the old way: designed, printed, and assembled one at a time in a garage workshop. The first units will go to the people on the list first, and the build is being documented as best I can while focusing on making the product great.