My sister is a nurse. One day I went to visit her at the hospital, and I saw someone living with paralysis.

I didn't know what to say to them. I still don't, honestly. But I remember going home that night thinking about all the stuff I do without even noticing — texting someone back, picking a song, just unlocking my phone. I'd never once thought of any of that as a privilege. It was just stuff I did. And here was someone who had things they wanted to say and do, and no way to actually do them.

That's honestly what pushed us to start this.

We're building a way to control a computer using whatever movement someone still has — could be an eye blink, could be just moving your eyes around, could be your head and mouth. We built three separate modes because paralysis doesn't affect everyone the same way, and we didn't want to build one thing and expect people to adapt to it. We wanted it to adapt to them.

Right now it's just a cursor moving on a screen. But that cursor could be a text to someone you miss, or picking your own music instead of someone doing it for you, or finally writing something you've wanted to say for a while.

We're still early. It's a hackathon build, so there's a lot we don't know yet, and a lot we still need to learn from actual users. But the whole point of this, for us, is one moment — someone doing something completely on their own and just thinking, "I did that myself."

That's what got me into this, and it's why I'm still here.

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