Use cases
Four ways to open a file
Where Traces fits in, always in a made-up world.
The twelve-minute commute
A medium case fits in a bus ride, in airplane mode. The clock stops when you close the app, the board waits for you where you left it, and the “Pinned card” widget reminds you where your threads stand.
The coffee-break snapshot
As long as a coffee lasts: one photo, one pin on the map, one time, a single attempt. The daily snapshot is the same for everyone, and your score can be shared without giving away the place or the time.
True crime night, with no real victim
You love investigation podcasts but not the idea of digging into real people's lives? Traces keeps the thrill of cross-checking (a shadow that's too short, a timestamped receipt, a reused username) in a world where nobody exists.
A media-literacy class
Recycled photo, fake reviews, web archives, a document's metadata: every closed case leaves a clear “The reflex” card, with its ethical limit. Enough to talk about verification without ever pointing at a real person.