Timeless

Inspiration

We kept noticing something. People around us were saying time felt faster than it used to, harder to hold onto. And nobody was talking about the actual mechanism behind it.

That led us to chronoception, the brain's internal sense of time. Stress warps it. Sleep resets it. It feels fast when we run late and slow when we are waiting for something. Flow states collapse it entirely. So we asked, what if you could see it, feel it closely?

What it does

Timeless asks you to tap whenever it feels like a second has passed. When 12 seconds are up, it stops and calculates how long you felt a second was. It gives you data about how different your perception of time is from actual time itself. It also has a relaxing simulation that calms you down and helps you focus.

How we built it

We built it through Figma Make. We planned our initial idea and provided the color, font, theme, and specifics we needed, and built the whole app from there. We connected Supabase for the database and asked Figma Make to connect React with Three.js for the 3D sphere.

Challenges we ran into

We found it really challenging to come up with a good idea that works well with the prompt. The rest of the app was easy to build since both of us added features and designs we wanted the app to have.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are really proud that we addressed something we all feel but never research. Time is a part of daily life, and measuring the different perceptions of it was really exciting for us. We are also very proud of the UI we chose, since it gave the app exactly the vibe we were going for.

What we learned

We learned that design has a responsibility beyond aesthetics. The biggest lesson Timeless taught us was that restraint is a feature. Every instinct in design says to give users tutorials or guidance. We had to unlearn that. The silence, the darkness, the lack of a countdown, those aren't gaps in the design. They're the design.

What's next for Timeless

More experiments, because chronoception is just one of many unnamed senses. Timeless could become a platform, not just a single session. Longitudinal tracking, because your internal clock changes daily and a check-in over weeks would reveal patterns nobody has ever seen. We want it to be a part of life when you want to speed up or slow down time, or simply play around. We also need more data to make the results more accurate and compare them against a much larger pool of users.