In-progressNext.jsTypeScriptVercel
ClockThatDaily
A 4-minute daily gauntlet testing your internet and pop-culture memory: cinema, gaming, anime, music and brainrot lore.
Timeline
2026, ongoing
Role
Design & Fullstack
Team
Solo
Status
In-progressTechnology Stack
Next.js
TypeScript
Vercel
Key Challenges
- Writing a new set every day
- Stopping streak and leaderboard cheating
- Four game types in one app
Key Learnings
- What brings people back daily
- Print-style design on the web
- Content pipelines
Overview
ClockThatDaily is a daily game like the NYT ones, except it's about the internet. New questions every day, about four minutes to play, covering cinema, gaming, anime, music and brainrot.
The four tracks
- Emojidle: decode a movie, show, game or song from five emoji clues, with three guesses.
- Bad Plot: name the work from a deliberately terrible plot summary.
- Soundbite: identify the clip.
- Cluster: group the connected items.
Streaks and Aura
You earn Aura, keep a streak going and show up on a global leaderboard. Visually it looks like a printed catalogue, with numbered "artifacts" and a press date on each day's set.
Built with
Next.js and TypeScript, deployed on Vercel. The source is private for now.