2010
1×
The hands
You type. The screen is the limit of your day. Your output is exactly what your fingers can produce.
Measure your tokens. Scale your existence.
output88 measures the work that ships from your station — every key you press, every token your agents generate.
↑ output88 lives in your menu bar — try typing.
The problem
You spent eight hours at this machine.
Doing what, exactly?
Calendar apps measure meetings. Fitness apps measure steps. The most important surface in your day — the one you stare at — is unmeasured. The hours blur together. The receipts are gone.
Beyond typing
You are an org of one.
You direct agents now. Their output is your output. The day's work isn't what you typed — it's what shipped from your station, from your hands and from the agents you ran. output88 counts both.
You
21,408
keystrokes
Your agents
184,209
tokens
Output
205,617
today
Most of the work in your day is no longer the work of your fingers. If you're not measuring tokens, you're measuring half of yourself.
Agent leverage
Wake up. Hit enter. Ship a day.
2024
8×
The pair
You direct one agent in a long loop. Your output gets a copilot. The keyboard is no longer the bottleneck.
2030
88×
The fleet
Wake up. Hit enter. Seventeen agents unblock. The day ships itself. You're an org of one running at the cadence of a team of fifty.
output88 is the meter for that day. It tells you which side of the multiplier you're on — and how fast you're climbing.
Meet output88
A quiet observer that lives in your menu bar.
Once installed, output88 listens to every key you press, every app you switch to, every minute the cursor moves. It builds a personal record of how your day actually unfolds — at the keystroke level — and surfaces it when you ask.
- Counts both streams: the keys you press and the tokens your agents generate.
- Runs quietly in the background. No new tab to remember to check.
- Built for the long horizon. The numbers compound.
What it shows you
Four numbers you've never seen about yourself.
88wpm
Your real WPM
Not the typing-test number. Your actual speed across every app, averaged the way it counts.
7h 22m
Where the hours go
Time on Slack vs. time in your editor vs. time in the browser. The split, not the spin.
205Ktoday
Total output
Keystrokes plus tokens, summed. The number that captures what your station actually shipped.
42days
Streaks & cycles
Find your best days of the week, your seasons, the patterns you didn't know you had.
The 88-year bet
You are the corpus you've been waiting for.
Eight hours a day directing your station. Multiplied by years. Multiplied by a working life. Your keys, your prompts, your agents' replies — a body of text dense enough to train a model on. Long enough to capture how you think, not a generic assistant.
205K
units of output a day
51M
in a working year
2.05B
over forty years
Most people leave no trace. The ones who measure leave a record dense enough to be reconstructed. Start now and the archive is enormous by the time you'd want one.
In public
A leaderboard for your keys.
Opt in and your daily totals appear on a public board. See who's on a tear, who's quiet this week, who types in their sleep. Turn it off whenever — your numbers, your call.
Today
keys
1 @geoff
38,221
2 @elena
32,809
3 @you
21,408
4 @marcus
19,054
5 @priya
14,776
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