Three proofs of the chrome://side-panel fixture, pulled from press at 2:14 AM. Live broadcast, idle standby, and replay with the Cue channel muted. Same chrome, same pressmarks, same copy discipline.
Proofs 01 – 03 / Approved for run
01
Live broadcast
State A · On air
Audio feeding into Deepgram. Four critics warm. Waveform hot, stamp red. Counts ticking up in real time.
● LIVE4 critics up6 in queue
Peanut Gallery
ON AIR · No. 001
E1926 · Founder Friday w/ Lex Fridman
This Week in Startups · 00:04:12 / 01:42:09
BBBillFact
CTCrowDunk
FNFoleyCue
JMJoelBit
On air"…the round was oversubscribed at a point-two…"
04:02FACTJason said Uber was 2007. Founded in March 2009.
04:05DUNKOh cool, another AI wrapper. Very 2024.
04:07CUE[record scratch] [sad trombone]
04:10BITIf it has AI in the name and a pulse, it's a yes.
04:12FACTPer the 10-K — closer to 2.4B.
● LIVE
Fact
Dunk
Cue
Bit
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02
Standby
State B · Idle
No tab captured. Four critics dressed, nothing to react to. One click on Go Live and the room opens.
Staff: TWiST0 items
Peanut Gallery
STANDBY
No broadcast captured
Pick a tab · any tab
BBBillFact
CTCrowDunk
FNFoleyCue
JMJoelBit
— silent —awaiting capture…
Dark stage.
Open any tab with audio — a podcast, a livestream, an interview, a Zoom window. Tap Go Live and the room warms up.
● IDLE
Fact
Dunk
Cue
Bit
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03
Replay, cue muted
State C · Rewind
Scrubbed back to the 02:30 mark. Cue channel muted because the sound FX got noisy. Everything else still in rotation.
REPLAYCUE muted
Peanut Gallery
REPLAY · -01:42
E1926 · Founder Friday w/ Lex Fridman
This Week in Startups · 00:02:30 / 01:42:09
BBBillFact
CTCrowDunk
FNFoleyCue
JMJoelBit
Replay"…so what I keep telling founders is…"
02:31FACTYC batch size cited as "about 80." W25 was 254.
02:33BITThe pitch deck is just a fear-of-missing-out generator in Helvetica.
02:35DUNKThat's a mood board, not a moat.
02:38FACTHe said "10x." Growth rate from the deck is 2.1x.
02:41BITThat runway isn't a runway, it's a driveway.
◀◀ REPLAY
Fact
Dunk
Cue
Bit
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— Pressroom notes —
The wire runs at four critics, thirteen bars.
The side panel is the fixture. Everything else — the Tweaks, the pack picker, the self-host console — decorates around it. The waveform is a printed receipt: when it jumps, the feed is hot; when it flattens, the stage is dark; when it steps, you're in replay.
Three rules for the wire: one channel per role, one tag per line, one reaction per beat. No threaded replies. No emoji. If a critic needs more than a sentence, send them to the back.
Jason would have to say it qualifies — because it's not AI sludge. It's four voices, a timecode, and a waveform that moves when somebody is actually talking.
Chrome footprint
340 px
Docks to the native side panel. No floating windows, no layout shift.
Word → wire
< 300 ms
Transcript chunk to reaction, measured on the hosted backend.