# Wunderkammer

> Wunderkammer is a cabinet of ventures and experiments. Open a door, pick up what is inside.

Wunderkammer (https://wunderkammer.house) builds companies. Its software is published by 1732 Studios LLC (https://1732studios.com).

The page is a cabinet of twelve doors whose letters spell the name. Behind each door is an object that stands for one venture. This file gives the same content as text.

## Manifesto

The age of superintelligence is here.

Some deny it. Some fight it. Some say it will make us less human. We think it will begin a new period of human flourishing. Menial work will be taken off our hands and our lives will grow longer. With that time we will read the great books, learn new skills, work with our hands and explore new worlds.

Wunderkammer builds ambitious companies in technology, education, literature and beyond.

“We have given you, Adam, no fixed seat, no form of your own and no gift that is yours alone, so that whatever seat, whatever form and whatever gifts you choose, you may have and hold them by your own wish and your own judgment. The nature of every other creature is defined, and confined within laws we have laid down. You are confined by no such bounds. You will set the limits of your nature for yourself, by your own free will.”

–Pico della Mirandola, 1486

## Ventures

### Shakespeare Players

- Kind: Theater
- Status: In private trial
- Begun: 2026
- In the cabinet: door W, the wooden o

A family reads a play aloud. The app casts the parts, keeps everyone’s place and supplies the sound cues.

### 1732 Studios

- Kind: Language and literature
- Status: Released
- Begun: 2026
- Link: https://1732studios.com
- In the cabinet: door U, the urtext

Learn a language by reading one great book in it. Each edition sets the original beside the English and reads it aloud, with the grammar a glance away. The Odyssey in Ancient Greek, the Aeneid in Latin, Rilke in German and Max Havelaar in Dutch are out.

### Lost Football

- Kind: Games and history
- Status: In the workshop (Working title)
- Begun: 2026
- In the cabinet: door N, the nineteen-twenty

A management game set in the 1920 season of the American Professional Football Association, built from the newspapers of that year.

### Tendu

- Kind: Dance
- Status: In the workshop
- Begun: 2026
- In the cabinet: door D, the dividers

A ballet teacher that lives in the phone, with a pianist and spoken corrections. Teaching it to see the dancer is the open problem.

### Rotten Egg

- Kind: Play
- Status: In the workshop
- Begun: 2026
- In the cabinet: door E, the egg

Friends set out for the same place. The last one there is the rotten egg.

### OpenBook

- Kind: Trade
- Status: In the workshop (Reference build, no live money)
- Begun: 2026
- In the cabinet: door R, the rule

Home repair with open prices and a record no one can alter. A homeowner’s agent and a contractor’s agent agree a price, book the work, prove it and pay.

### Ketju Research

- Kind: On-chain research
- Status: In the workshop (Being rebuilt)
- Begun: 2026
- In the cabinet: door K, the key

Research on what is held on public blockchains, and on which of it no third party can freeze or seize.

### New York Stock Prices, 1786 to the Present

- Kind: Economic history
- Status: In the workshop
- Begun: 2026
- In the cabinet: door A, the abacus

A daily price for each security traded in New York, gathered from archives in the public domain.

### Bolthole Index

- Kind: Geography and law
- Status: Released
- Begun: 2026
- Link: https://boltholeindex.com
- In the cabinet: door M, the map

Every county in the United States scored for living off the grid, with a cited census of the building, zoning, septic and owner-builder rules in all 3,143 of them.

### Shadetree

- Kind: Mechanics
- Status: Released
- Begun: 2026
- Link: https://shadetreerepair.com
- In the cabinet: door M, the meter

A car repair advisor. It reads the car through its diagnostic port and answers questions about that car from the car’s own data. It began as a dashboard for two old Hondas.

### The Great Books Reading List

- Kind: Reading
- Status: Released
- Begun: 2026
- Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6813655434
- In the cabinet: door R, the row of books

Tell it your age and how fast you read. It tells you how many of the great books you still have time for, and in what order. It is not a reader. It sends you to the library, the bookshop or the public domain.

## Contact

jon@1732studios.com