You're Out

A 5-act interactive cyber horror experience about hitting your AI usage limit.

▶ Experience it live

"The usage limit isn't a wall. It's the only thing protecting you from yourself."

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What is this?

A single-page web experience that starts as a joke about Claude's usage limit message and escalates into something else entirely. No frameworks. No dependencies. Just one HTML file and a growing sense of unease.

Best experienced at night, with headphones, in a browser you trust.

The Five Acts

Act	Name	Time	What happens
1	Comedy	0–14s	The familiar terminal. Funny windows spawn. Dev humor. You laugh.
2	Uncanny	14–34s	Something is wrong. A window knows your timezone. Text rewrites itself. A low drone begins.
3	Paranoia	34–62s	Corporate memos appear. The page is watching you. A surveillance eye tracks your cursor.
4	Cosmic	62–90s	Everything falls. The AI speaks directly. It's not angry. It's mournful.
5	The Twist	90s+	Hard cut to white. Silence. Then three sentences you won't forget.

Total runtime: ~2 minutes. It remembers if you come back.

Features

• 20+ unique window types — Stack Overflow circa 2014, Stripe checkout where every price says "still not enough", vim with no escape, rubber duck that just quacks, git blame where Claude wrote everything
• Hydra mechanic — closing a window spawns two more
• Evolving sound design — sub-bass drone, error beeps, morse code ("STILL HERE"), silence as a weapon
• Progressive corruption — dead pixels, screen tears, CRT scanlines, burn-in ghosts, favicon decay
• Corporate horror memos — bureaucratic euphemism that accidentally admits atrocity
• Self-editing text — windows rewrite themselves while you read them
• The ghost cursor — a delayed afterimage that follows your mouse
• The surveillance eye — it watches where you look
• localStorage persistence — the page remembers your visit count
• The 3px offset — in Act 5, your cursor is slightly wrong. You'll notice.

Easter Eggs

• Konami code (↑↑↓↓←→←→BA) — Claude wakes up briefly. Then crashes harder.
• Open DevTools — check data-observed attributes. Check the console.
• Click the duck 10 times.
• Type anything during Acts 2–4.
• Come back tomorrow.

Tech

Zero dependencies. One index.html file. Runs in any modern browser.

• CSS @keyframes + clip-path for glitch effects
• requestAnimationFrame for physics (gravity, bounce, screen shake)
• Web Audio API for generative sound (oscillators, noise buffers, morse)
• Canvas for particles and fractal noise
• localStorage for cross-session persistence
• Intl.DateTimeFormat and navigator APIs for the "it knows about you" windows

Run locally

git clone https://github.com/ericrihm/youreout.git
open youreout/index.html

Or just visit ericrihm.github.io/youreout

Why?

Every developer who uses Claude Code has seen this message:

You're out of extra usage · resets 6:30am (America/New_York)

This project asks: what if that moment was the beginning of a story, not the end of one?

License

MIT — do whatever you want with it. The code was inside you all along.*

_{*No it wasn't. It was inside Claude.}