// the b-side
madcoolstuff lab · 13 experiments
Everything on this site is a draft. Production versions live on madcoolhifi.com and madcoolsocial.com. This is where the design language gets stress-tested before it ships.
Geographic Signal Mapping
1,187 HiFi dealers, geocoded and heatmapped against live Reddit brand mentions. Dealer locator with a brand-momentum overlay — this is the lab cut; the production version on madcoolhifi.com adds filter persistence and member-only drill-downs.
Brand Momentum Detection
Nightly aggregation across Reddit, YouTube, editorial RSS, Google Trends, and HiFi Shark used-market prices, plus live Reddit mention counts fetched on every load. One global filter, nothing cached from last quarter. The intelligence dashboard the trade press should have built.
Editorial Filter
Hand-curated industry coverage rendered from markdown. Slow, deliberate, no churn. The opposite of an aggregator — the noise is in volume; the signal is in restraint.
Brand Index
Every brand the dealer dataset touches, dynamically routed at build time. Click a brand → every carrier worldwide plus a five-signal score. Production version on madcoolhifi.com adds editorial cross-links.
Content Demo Console
Video console with a D-Pad + ABXY + keyboard transport. MP4, WebM, YouTube — loads any URL, queues a playlist, hits fullscreen on Y. Built to embed the lab's video work without ceremony.
Services · For Hire
Four lines of work, one compiler. HiFi consulting, AI workflow architecture, product design, automated video. In the operator voice — less marketing, more menu.
Browser Games
Speaker Setup Simulator (Godot 4, 3D, the hi-fi placement primer) plus ColorBlock (canvas, shared-board strategy). First two in a series.
Manifesto
The noise→signal compiler, stated. Live canvas resolves chaos into a clean sine left-to-right while you read. Three columns: the noise, the channel, the signal.
Network Tuner
Cross-site routing surface for the MadCool family. Six tiles, each its own channel: HiFi, Social, Brand, Studio, Finance, Lab. Pick a frequency.
The Signal Tuner
Interactive radio dial. Drag, scroll, or arrow-key from zero to one hundred and watch shaped noise crossfade into a clean sine wave. Click `audio` to make it audible — bandpassed white noise crossfades into a 220 Hz tone. Locks at 80%.
Static · Untuned
Full-screen TV-static noise field at chunky half-resolution. Every three to seven seconds a fragment of brand thesis resolves through the noise — motto pieces, network echoes, transmission lore. Click to re-seed. The thesis as ambient art.
Robotics · Deep Research
Humanoid robotics signal sources. Eighteen YouTube channels grouped by role — first-party labs (Boston Dynamics, Figure, 1X, Unitree), commentary (AI Revolution, Wes Roth, ColdFusion), and research feeds (Two Minute Papers, IEEE Spectrum). Stats refreshed nightly through the same pipeline as /trends.
AI Model Landscape
Two views of the field. Twenty-five open-weights models under 500GB with GitHub, HuggingFace, and Featherless run links — plus a regularly-updated radar chart pitting eleven cloud models across eight capability axes. Overlay up to four at once and read the shape.