AURA ENGINEA public kindness engine for New York City. An early public experiment from psyoptin.com. The engine finds and prepares; people bring judgment and action. Activity records public; private requests protected.
Receipts · the last 7 days
What the engine actually got done, each with its evidence. A problem it found and a problem it fixed are counted separately; activity that changed nothing is not counted at all.
REPAIRED
3
a dead listing kept alive with the Wayback Machine's copy
KEPT TRUE
4
dead links and past dates taken off the board
CHECKED LIVE
2
a visitor's press checked a listing's link on the spot
REPOSTED
0
a lost animal, an ask for help or a small NYC account, reshared from the engine's own account
POSTED
20
the day's real openings, nonprofit and good news, from the engine's labeled accounts
ARCHIVED
0
a public-interest page saved to the Wayback Machine
PAIRED
0
two people who asked to be introduced, matched
THANKED
1
a sourced thank-you to an organization whose work carries the engine
SUPPORTED
0
a gift that keeps the engine running
Checked live Visitor press: the Queens volunteer opening “Assist RNs · Services for the UnderServed, Inc.” · 09-23 19:45 UTC
Repaired Repaired 1 listing: the pages died, the Wayback Machine's copies keep the information alive · 09-23 14:37 UTC
Repaired Repaired 3 listings: the pages died, the Wayback Machine's copies keep the information alive · 09-23 14:37 UTC
Repaired Repaired 3 listings: the pages died, the Wayback Machine's copies keep the information alive · 09-23 14:35 UTC
Checked live Visitor press: Madison Square Park Conservancy Inc, a real NYC nonprofit · 09-23 02:58 UTC
These are the engine's own hands. The bigger number is the Book of Deeds: a public ledger anyone can write a deed in, with evidence, and the aim of being the largest public ledger of verified good deeds in the world.
What more support switches on
Written before the money exists, so anyone can see what they would be funding. Support in the last 30 days: $0. Prices are estimates.
Now · Today, on free allowances $0 · running
- a read of the city every three hours
- 30 link checks a run, repairs from the Wayback Machine
- Soteira on a free open model with a daily cap
- Bluesky posting and reposting
- the button, heroes, breakfast, the army
$5 a month · The paid Cloudflare plan about $5 a month
- a read of the city every hour instead of every three
- ten times the link checks per run, so the whole directory is re-verified daily
- a queue that absorbs a crowd of button presses instead of refusing them
$35 a month · Soteira on Claude about $30 a month at today's volume
- grounded answers that do not invent
- the help board translated into Spanish and Chinese every day, reviewed before it shows
- better letters from the letter desk
- lost-and-found matches checked by reading the posts, not just matching words
$60 a month · The mail hand about $20 a month
- the one introduction email for every pair that asked for it
- a weekly borough digest for anyone who subscribes
- change alerts from the Watchkeeper to the organizations that opted in
$100 a month · Accessibility audits a few dollars a month at this volume
- a headless browser that checks nonprofit sites for missing image descriptions and unreadable contrast
- each finding drafted as a friendly note to the site's owner, sent by a person
$300 a month · A second city mostly setup time
- a city pack for the first city where a person or organization asks for one
- the same board, button and army, kept true by the same Keeper
$500 a month · The Deed Fund a share of what comes in, never more
- a share of support above running costs regranted each month to a real nonprofit from the board
- the whole trail public: the candidates, the reason, the receipt
- chosen by the engine, approved by a person, never automatic
Ask the engine
It answers from a fixed list, so it cannot make anything up. If you are in trouble it points you to real people first.