It is live. I keep imagining the first connection.

Double Stop is live. I have told almost nobody. I am not sure that is a strategy so much as just how I am. But I keep thinking about it: somewhere, someone posts that they are sitting in a café with their laptop, wearing a green scarf, there until four. Someone else sees it, unlocks it, walks in, sits down nearby, and says something small. It does not have to be important. It just has to happen.

I still think about the man by the mushrooms. I don't know if he was lonely. Maybe he was perfectly fine and just bad at shopping. But I think about all the people standing in their own version of that supermarket, hoping for a small opening that nobody provides. Double Stop is probably not a solution to loneliness. But it might be a small opening.

My wife asked what I hoped for with this. I said: I hope someone makes a friend they otherwise wouldn't have. That's it. One connection that wouldn't have existed without a slightly over-engineered app built in a flat in Salzburg. That would be enough for me.