Erid: An Umbrella Domain, Not a Product Landing

What this means for you

erid.tech is the public-facing directory and voice for the rocky-hq superproject. Twelve subsystems named from Project Hail Mary canon, addressed as *.erid.tech so the conceptual map and the DNS map agree. The apex is one paragraph and one list. There is no waitlist, no pricing page, no testimonial wall.

The pitch

Two paired primitives, equally weighted. A scene paragraph in italic regolith locating the reader in the operational world the system inhabits. A monospace directory of citizens with subdomain, role, and live-or-reserved state. The operator console at rocky.erid.tech is one citizen, not the headline. So is the docs reader. So is everything else.

Who it’s for

A peer or collaborator who saw the domain on a commit, in a dependency, or in a conversation, and wants to understand the conceptual map of the system in under a minute.

Proof points

• Twelve named citizens listed at apex: rocky, eva, petrova, cairnet, lore, hearth, ralph, pebble, airlock, hatch, relay, hubble. Every name traces back to Andy Weir or WALL-E canon
• Three apps in the umbrella ship as Next.js 15 static exports: erid-apex, erid-coming-soon, erid-docs; cairnet ships as a Next.js 14 product surface
• Reserved citizens render in the directory in the same row, same monospace, same role label as live citizens, dimmed only by 60% regolith opacity per DESIGN.md §5
• Forced-dark, no toggle: dark is a substantive choice, the mineral substrate is the brand, documented in DESIGN.md to prevent re-litigation

mindmap
  root((erid.tech))
    Scene paragraph
      italic regolith
      operational register
      capped at 68ch
    Citizen directory
      monospace rows
      live or reserved
      hand-typed feel
    Twelve citizens
      rocky console
      cairnet feed
      docs reader
      nine reserved
    Refusals
      no hero CTA
      no waitlist
      no logo wall