The future, tracked daily.
Media · AI & abundance
A live index of humanity's progress toward abundance: eleven basic needs, each tracked on its way to free. Curated every day by an AI reading the world's news — with the setbacks counted as honestly as the wins.
- Live at
- manyminded.com ↗
- Cadence
- Daily index, weekly deep series
- Stack
- Claude · Supabase · Vercel cron
- MTHR role
- Founded, built and operated in-house
Why it exists
The news is structurally negative and technology coverage is structurally hyped, so most people hold two contradictory beliefs at once: everything is getting worse, and any day now a machine takes their job. Neither is measured. Both are vibes.
Many Minded measures instead. It picks eleven things every person needs — the basics — and tracks each one's price and availability on its trajectory toward free. What actually moved humanity forward today, and by how much? Answered every morning, in public, with sources.
The eleven needs
Energy · health · food and water · shelter · knowledge · connection · mobility · goods · care · security · the commons. Every development that lands gets filed against one of them, which is what turns a news feed into an index.
How it works
- The indexEleven needs, rendered as a skyline you can drag and orbit: tower height is progress to date, glow is this week's momentum. Tap a tower for the signal underneath it.
- The daily pullA scheduled job sweeps around sixty feeds every morning — Nature, Science News, IEEE Spectrum, Ars Technica, EIA, Carbon Brief, KFF Health News, STAT, AgFunder, Electrek, Construction Dive, Rest of World and dozens more — and Claude scores what genuinely moved a need versus what was a press release.
- Every item is gradedEach development carries a need, a direction (forward or friction), a weight from one to five, a source, and a status — released, or coming with an expected year. The compound of those is the index.
- Setbacks countedFriction gets the same treatment as progress: a wildfire that destroys sixteen thousand homes moves shelter the other way. An index that only goes up isn't an index, it's marketing.
- Cost curvesThe long-run trend lines under the news — compute, DNA sequencing, solar modules, battery packs, AI inference, disk storage, people online, and the ones going the wrong way like US healthcare and college tuition. Each point is tagged measured, derived, modeled or vendor-reported, so you can see exactly how much to trust it.
- The occupations trackerWhat's actually happening to specific jobs — software developers, radiologists, travel agents, bank tellers, telephone operators — read against Revelio Labs, the Indeed Hiring Lab, the Anthropic Economic Index and academic work rather than vibes.
- A public method pageHow the scoring works, what the index is and isn't, the full source list, and a running corrections log where earlier mistakes are shown and fixed in the open.
- The live share cardThe link preview is generated on demand from the current state of the index, so sharing the site shares today's numbers.
We tell the truth about uncertainty better than anyone else — that's the whole moat.
Under the hood
| Front end | Hand-written HTML, CSS and vanilla JS — no framework, no build step |
|---|---|
| Automation | Vercel cron — a news pull every day at 13:00 UTC, plus a weekly series job on Monday mornings |
| Intelligence | Claude, via the Anthropic SDK, for scoring the day's items and writing the long pieces |
| Data | Supabase, with public read and write locked to an admin table by row-level security — the publishable key is meant to be in the browser |
| Visualisation | Hand-rolled canvas: the skyline, an orbital sector atlas, cost-curve charts and a growth-catalog scene, all calibrated and backtested against stored data |
| Share cards | Vercel OG image generation from the live index |
| Research | A cited dossier, a messaging-pillars document and per-topic briefs kept in the repo alongside the code — every on-site number traces to one of them |
Where it is now
- LiveThe index and the daily feed Running in production at manyminded.com and updating on its own every morning.
- LiveArticles and the weekly series Long-form pieces generated from the same evidence base, published under their own URLs.
- NextA forecasting layer Public predictions with probability intervals, named resolution sources and a published falsifier for each — scored on a public scoreboard that counts the misses too.
- NextFrontier and mortality trackers What's real versus what's a CEO's tweet, and what we die of, how close each is to being solved, and what would make it go faster.