Thanks for reading it so closely! 🙌 The idea started with wanting to build something different from the usual scrolls, tabs, hamburger menus and side drawers. I tried a few ideas, and luckily none of them satisfied me, so I ended up with this one. A macOS-style desktop without the genie effect would feel incomplete, and a genie effect that lags would be even worse. To me it’s the hook, so I kept working on it until I got that pause down. SEO wasn’t in the original plan. I added it later so the site is search-friendly now and ready in advance: it’s on Vercel for now, but I’ll buy my own domain in the future, and I wanted it prepared for that.

That makes sense — treating the genie effect as the hook explains why cutting that pause from 58ms to 9ms was worth it, since a laggy first interaction would undermine the whole desktop idea. Adding SEO early was smart too, especially with a custom domain planned later: the server-rendered content will carry over cleanly instead of needing a rework then.