Two Days to Make the Wave Much More Alive

On June 25 and 26, I spent a good part of my days — and some pieces of nights — reworking FreeWillWave.

I continue to develop the project alone, but I’m not really working without a team: I’m building the site with Claude Code, who directly intervenes in the code, and with ChatGPT, who helps me think about the experience, organize the pages, clarify the texts, and take a step back from what I’m creating.

During these two days, we touched on almost everything: the Wave, the world map, the personal space, the press, the welcome, the invitations, the notifications, and even the security backups.

But the main change comes down to a very simple idea:

FreeWillWave must show humans in action, not just display numbers.

The Wave Page Has Been Completely Rebuilt

The biggest project concerns the The Wave page.

I had created a laboratory page to test a new way of presenting the project. It worked so much better that I decided to make it the actual Wave page.

It is now built around six main blocks:

• Free Humans;
• countries;
• languages;
• energy;
• supporters;
• invitations.

Each block is clickable and commands the large main space of the page. You can thus switch from the map to a graph or a list without leaving the screen.

The goal is for everyone to explore the Wave naturally: click on a number, understand what it represents, and then see the humans behind it.

It is also possible to directly share a precise view. For example, a link can now immediately open the list of the latest energies or the map of Free Humans.

Behind Each Number, There Is Now Someone

The old tables mostly displayed totals.

Now, the blocks can also show the last person who just acted: the last human registered, the person who just opened a country, the last supporter with their amount, or the last inviter.

The names are clickable. When a person appears on the map or in a block, you can access their public profile.

This changes a lot of things.

A number increases, but we also see who just moved the Wave forward.

The Wave Now Reacts Live

I also wanted events to be felt as they happen.

When a registration, an energy, or a support is received, the relevant block lights up. A golden animation accompanies the evolution of the counter, and a message can announce, for example, that a person has just invited another.

These are not just visual effects.

They serve to remind that somewhere in the world, at that precise moment, a human has just participated.

The counter at the top of the page no longer counts down to a future date. It now indicates the number of days since the opening on June 21.

FreeWillWave no longer waits to start.

The Wave is open, and the counter moves forward with it.

Sending Energy Becomes the Central Gesture

Energy has also been reworked.

The orb is now better placed, both on computer and phone. When a person sends energy, their passage can appear on the map with their flag, name, and Free Human number.

Upon arriving on the page, the latest energies can also be replayed. You no longer discover a stationary map: you find the recent traces of the people who passed before you.

The limit is now the same for everyone, including me: one energy every 60 seconds.

The old limit of four energies per day has been removed. Everyone can return to support the Wave as often as they wish, while maintaining a human rhythm.

The support form has also been simplified. It is more direct, more pleasant to use, and allows for freely choosing the amount.

The World Map Is Finally Properly Aligned

This point took a lot of work.

The map uses a real nighttime image of the Earth. Until now, the borders of countries and the background lights were not perfectly aligned. Some misalignments were particularly visible around Australia and New Zealand.

We have correctly resumed the projection so that the countries finally correspond to their true position on the image.

The map is no longer cropped, it no longer overflows the screen, and the countries already present in the Wave now appear in a more natural hue.

These are details that are little noticed when they work.

But when they are wrong, they are all you can see.

Your Personal Space Starts to Tell Your Story

The Me page had become rich, but it lacked order.

We have completely reorganized it.

It now starts with your identity and the Earth of FreeWillWave. It then shows what has happened since your last visit, your impact of the day, your upcoming challenges, your activity, and what is currently happening in the Wave.

Further down, you find your personal link, your invitation tree, your backlinks, your supports, your badges, and your progress.

The idea is that this page is no longer an accumulation of functions.

It should tell a very simple story:

Here’s where you are, here’s what your passage has already produced, and here’s what you can do next.

The buttons now lead directly to the actual forms, right within the page. There’s no longer a need to search for where to act.

This new version is still being integrated, but its entire structure is now in place.

The Press Can Finally See That FreeWillWave Is Open

The press page still talked too much about the launch as an upcoming event.

However, FreeWillWave has been open since June 21.

We have rebuilt the page around this reality: the Wave exists now.

The new version displays live numbers, the actual world map, and the latest registrations. Journalists no longer discover just a promise or an explanation: they can see the project in action.

My photo has also been added to the page and the press kit.

The French and English files have been rewritten in the present tense. The old future dates have disappeared, and the frozen numbers are replaced by a QR code that leads to the live Wave.

The press page now exists in 15 languages of the site, whereas it was previously only available in English.

The Welcome Shows More of What Is Actually Happening

The welcome has also evolved.

The section dedicated to the Story no longer shows a simple list of titles. It now presents real article cards with an image, an excerpt, and a button to follow the adventure.

The word FREE is more prominently featured in the main message.

And the link to The Wave now leads directly to the real-time page.

This is important because FreeWillWave should not just explain an idea. The site must allow immediate entry into what is currently happening.

Invitations and Profiles Are No Longer Dead Ends

The public profile and invitation pages have also received several corrections.

A visitor who is not logged in now has a real back button. They no longer find themselves stuck at the end of a page without knowing where to go.

The fonts and sharing cards have been harmonized with the new identity of the site.

The overall typography has switched to Manrope and DM Sans, two fonts that are much more readable for interfaces and texts.

Project News Will Be Better Communicated

The notification theme News and Events is now enabled by default.

This also applies to existing accounts.

This evolution will allow me to better inform members about what is happening in the project, without relying solely on social networks or the chance of a visit to the site.

I don’t want to send noise.

I want to be able to signal moments that truly deserve to be seen: an important development, a new country, a project milestone, or a collective event.

A Complete Backup Is Now Made Every Night

This is an invisible but essential improvement.

The entire database is now exported and automatically backed up every day.

The data no longer remains solely on the platform that runs the site. An independent copy is created every night, including for the information necessary for the operation of accounts.

Building a global experience, even when it starts with a few humans, also requires properly protecting what already exists.

Two New Ads Have Been Prepared for X

I have also worked on the upcoming campaign aimed at introducing FreeWillWave on X.

Two new cards have been created around the question:

Will YOU choose FREEDOM?

They use the right advertising format, and a reusable system has been prepared to generate new variants more easily.

The goal is not just to get clicks.

It is to find the people to whom the question of FreeWillWave will truly resonate.

And a Number of Small Things Have Been Fixed

These two days also allowed for many details to be resolved:

• the full names of countries replace some incomprehensible codes;
• the help page better explains what a member can do each day;
• the rankings of invitations and backlinks are more visible;
• a block dedicated to future Fibonacci progression has been added;
• the removal of an old account has been done cleanly at their request;
• several inconsistencies in navigation, display, and translation have been corrected.

Taken separately, each of these changes may seem small.

Together, they make the site much more coherent.

I Build This Project with Artificial Intelligence, but Choices Remain Human

I find it interesting to also show how FreeWillWave is built.

I am an analyst-programmer. My natural tool, when I want to transform an idea into something real, is a computer system.

Today, I can go much further and much faster thanks to artificial intelligence.

Claude Code works with me directly in the code. He helps me explore the project, modify the pages, correct errors, and implement functions.

ChatGPT intervenes more in the reflection: the meaning of a page, the way to present an action, the order of information, the texts, the experience lived by a person arriving for the first time.

But no artificial intelligence decides what FreeWillWave should become.

I give it a direction. I look at what is produced. I keep, I refuse, I correct, and I start again until the result matches the experience I want to create.

It’s a strange and exciting collaboration: a single human can today build something that would have once required an entire team.

And while I work behind the screens, in front, the Wave begins to slowly grow.

Humans are arriving.

Countries are appearing.

Energies are being sent.

Each new passage transforms FreeWillWave a little: it is no longer just the site I imagined, but the place where the choices of several humans begin to become visible.

The future therefore no longer depends solely on what I will program.

It also depends on those who will enter, look, participate, and perhaps decide to talk about it to another person.

The site continues to be built. The Wave, however, has already begun.