A browser start page that respects your attention.
Dense. Calm. One screen. No dopamine loops.
status: in development · launching soon
Most browser start pages are either a search box and nothing else, or a dump of widgets organized by type — all your bookmarks here, all your news there. Neither serves attention. The first does too little; the second invites you to scroll a homepage feed.
frontdoor is organized by a different rule: the psychology of how a person consumes information at the start of a session. The page is a short arc you read top to bottom. You arrive. You act. You get a small reward. You read. You discover. You depart.
- 01 Arrive grounding — stoicism, a quote, a word, a historical anchor
- 02 Act tools & time-sensitive briefings — news, weather, your apps
- 03 Reward a beauty break — NASA photo, Bing daily
- 04 Read daily & weekly depth — long reads, economics, business
- 05 Discover the rabbit hole — Wikipedia featured, science & research
- 06 Depart a poem, a photo of the day — leave the way you arrived
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No spinners
Every external API is fetched server-side and cached daily. A page load is a cache hit. No loading states on the hot path.
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No motion
The only animation is the clock ticking. No carousels, no autoplay, no notification badges, no red.
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No feed
There is nothing to scroll. The page is the page. You read it once at the start of the day, not refresh it compulsively.
A finished page, rendered from the original build. Click into the iframe to interact, or open it full-screen:
Sign up by emailing yourself a key (live once the app deploys):
curl -X POST https://frontdoor.app/api/keys \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"email":"you@example.com"}'
You'll receive a one-time link. Click it — your browser opens to your start page, signed
in via an httpOnly cookie. No accounts to manage, no passwords, no recovery
flow.