// 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
1,188 HiFi dealers; the 1,024 with coordinates sit on an OpenStreetMap basemap, searchable and filterable by brand, country and tier. This is the lab cut; the production version on madcoolhifi.com adds filter persistence and member-only drill-downs.
Brand Momentum Detection · retired
Brand mentions from six Reddit communities, charted live until Reddit's public feeds stopped answering browsers; those panels were retired on October 3, 2026. The nightly pipeline behind the page (YouTube, editorial RSS, Google Trends, HiFi Shark used-market prices, dealer stats) still runs, and the page shows each source's result in the last run.
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. 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.