About
Anthropology of a personal dialogue
100 Loves is a hundred answers to the question "what do you love?". Below — where it came from, how it works and who's behind it.
Where it comes from
The idea came from Dmitry Barbanel's book "Human centered design. How 200 of your clients aged 1 to 100 think" (2020). Two hundred living lists — what I love.
No types, no boxes: just people and their words.
I understood — this should live in digital form. Available to everyone. Free. After your own hundred. That's how 100 Loves was born — not a replacement for the book, but its living continuation.
The founder's ritual
My wife and I decided to write our own hundred answers to "What do you love?" — without peeking. Not consulting Barbanel's book, not copying from each other. We wanted to write from a blank page, in our own words.
Honesty doesn't come straight away. The first twenty answers are what's "acceptable to love." Then the discoveries start. By the fiftieth entry — revelations about yourself that lay buried under other words for years. That is the first kind of magic 100 Loves offers: it lives not in reading other people's lists, but in the act of writing your own.
This isn't a journal and it isn't a test. It's a ritual of honesty: first you write your own, then you read others. The product grew out of that ritual.
On openness
I've opened almost all of my own answers. Not at once — gradually, as I felt ready. Openness takes courage, and I believe it's worth it.
But this is my choice, not a general rule. We live in a society, and not everyone can open up right away. Openness has to be approached thoughtfully — interacting, trusting little by little. These lists help that path: every entry is hidden by default, and you decide what to show and when. Openness is a movement, not an obligation.
Manifesto
- Not a test and not a journal. No types, no boxes. You're more complex than any MBTI scheme.
- The order of your answers. The list isn't a ranking. Entries arrive in the order they came to mind. That order is your handwriting — nobody touches it.
- Garden instead of delete. If what you love shifts over time — and it does — the entry goes to the Garden, not to the bin. Past selves stay with you, where only you can see them.
- Silence instead of push notifications. We respect your silence and don't poke you with reminders.
How it works
Email is only a key for returning from another browser. No newsletters without a separate checkbox. Data is deleted with one click in settings.
The service is for 18+. This is protection under COPPA and GDPR-K. A family mode will come later, it's not in MVP.
A minimum of 5 open entries is the threshold for appearing in the public feed. This is insurance against reverse identification by a few unique phrases.
Your own list isn't shown in full until you cross the threshold of 25 entries — that's "write your own first, then a window to others," not the other way around.
Who's behind this
This is built by Eugene — one person. No team, no investors, no analytics selling your data.
Stage — early MVP, April 2026. This is the first public version. Some things may break, some things aren't written yet.
If you want to write — a bug, a thought, a thank-you, silence after the hundred — reach me at support [at] 100loves [dot] io. One person, one inbox. Replies aren't instant, but they come.