Why Your Brain Does That
A named-experience index website that turns behavioral explanations from short videos into searchable, standalone pages designed for dwell time, built with Next.js and React, and emphasizing the side-by-side presentation of conclusions and their sources.
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Why Your Brain Does That is a project built by The Compound team, based on Next.js and React, and is live at whyyourbrain.thecompound.tech.
Why Your Brain Does That is essentially a named-experience index: users enter a word, a room, or an action and can find the corresponding behavioral explanation entry.
Why Your Brain Does That's tech stack includes Next.js 15.5.25, React 19.1.1, TypeScript, @supabase/supabase-js, and posthog-js.
Why Your Brain Does That's data sources are divided into two layers: a static corpus committed to the repository (from phenomena.json, generated into generated/corpus.json via a derive script), and published rows from Supabase, which are merged at runtime to override the static corpus and sorted by publication time.
In Why Your Brain Does That's search interaction, the SearchField component trims leading and trailing whitespace from the keyword, encodes it, and routes to the entire index with a q parameter; SheetBody lowercases the query, checks each tile's hay string, and records the matching slugs, but does not remove other tiles—matching entries are enlarged and given an accent color, while non-matching entries shrink to their minimum width but remain in place.
Why Your Brain Does That explicitly states that it does not tell users 'what is wrong with you', does not provide diagnoses, and when facing greater distress guides users to seek professionals rather than rely on the content archive.
Why Your Brain Does That's registration mechanism allows flagging cases of 'source and entry mismatch', of which the doorway effect is one example.
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Why Your Brain Does That is a project built by The Compound team, based on Next.js and React, and is live at whyyourbrain.thecompound.tech.
50%UnverifiedWhy Your Brain Does That is essentially a named-experience index: users enter a word, a room, or an action and can find the corresponding behavioral explanation entry.
50%UnverifiedWhy Your Brain Does That's tech stack includes Next.js 15.5.25, React 19.1.1, TypeScript, @supabase/supabase-js, and posthog-js.
50%UnverifiedWhy Your Brain Does That's data sources are divided into two layers: a static corpus committed to the repository (from phenomena.json, generated into generated/corpus.json via a derive script), and published rows from Supabase, which are merged at runtime to override the static corpus and sorted by publication time.
50%UnverifiedIn Why Your Brain Does That's search interaction, the SearchField component trims leading and trailing whitespace from the keyword, encodes it, and routes to the entire index with a q parameter; SheetBody lowercases the query, checks each tile's hay string, and records the matching slugs, but does not remove other tiles—matching entries are enlarged and given an accent color, while non-matching entries shrink to their minimum width but remain in place.
50%UnverifiedWhy Your Brain Does That explicitly states that it does not tell users 'what is wrong with you', does not provide diagnoses, and when facing greater distress guides users to seek professionals rather than rely on the content archive.
50%UnverifiedWhy Your Brain Does That's registration mechanism allows flagging cases of 'source and entry mismatch', of which the doorway effect is one example.
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