A thousand engineers, tuning the feed for one more hour of your child's attention.
Genkan is a box in your house that holds the line, so you don't have to. Screen time gets earned, not begged for.
open source · MIT · no accounts · no telemetry · no subscriptionA thousand engineers, tuning the feed for one more hour of your child's attention.
Tired parents, saying "that's enough" for the 50th time tonight.
A boundary you set once, that gives you granular control of their internet.
The longer version of this argument is on the about page, and it is worth the read.
Music is free. Homework is free. Gaming and video are on the clock, and when it runs out, effort buys minutes. Nagging doesn't.
You talk to Genkan from your phone, in plain sentences. It does the router work.
Filtering by age, not one blunt setting: a tight fence at eleven, a light touch at sixteen.
Teaches themOut of time is a friendly page, not a dead connection. Pass a quiz, the minutes land straight away.
Gives time a shapePer kid, per category. "Kill gaming" leaves the chess up. Nobody nukes the internet to reclaim one evening.
Guards the houseCameras, locks and doorbells fenced off from the world and never on a clock. A real firewall, not just a kid monitor.
No credit card, no account, nothing to renew. At the end you own a box you understand.
claude "set up genkan on this box"