Congratulations - you found, or were given access to, coltonbox.com. The more private version. Please don't talk about what's in here unless Colton gives you the nod.
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You Found
The Box

This is the mirror of colton.land that Colton doesn't mention in public. Same park, different gate: things in the Box may be earlier, rougher, or made just for you. House rule is simple: what's in the Box stays in the Box until Colton says otherwise. The best-or-worst-use-of-your-time warning still applies; the birds don't care which gate you came through.

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EO Marketing + Partnerships // Amsterdam

The Rides

Members-only-ish. The bouncer is an honor system.
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FP-T01 // AppLive

Forum Timer

A full-screen meeting timer for forums, retreats, and anyone who has ever said "quick 5% update" and meant 20 minutes. Presets, chimes, slow-motion birds.

Start timing → + Put it on your phone
Slow Motion Birds screenshot
Sibling Park // FilmsLive

Slow Motion Birds

240 frames per second of backyard birds in Nashville: owls, cardinals, snowfall, lo-fi beats. Put it on a TV and let it run. The owl earned the full screen.

SlowMotionBirds.com →
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LD-01 // Real-Life DemoNew

The Home Movies

How to build a website that captures the top 20 most cinematic moments of the last decade of your life. Colton's real one, plus the actual prompt so you can build yours.

See the demo-that-isn't →
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Sibling Park // Resource HubLive

Forum Playbook

The resource hub for forums, moderators, and facilitators. 46 resources, clearing rounds, repair processes, and how to apologize like an adult.

ForumPlaybook.com →
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Sibling Park // AppLive

1000 Great Questions

Skip the small talk. One thousand conversation questions in three depths, for dinner tables, road trips, and forums that finished early. It happens.

1000GreatQuestions.com → + Put it on your phone
The Gift Shop // Source CodeBy request

The Repo

Much of the code behind all this, probably free until Colton decides to charge for it. If he ever does, it won't be expensive. Right now it just requires asking.

Request access →
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The Vault

Empty for now. In the Box, this is where early cuts, private drafts, and made-just-for-you things will live. If Colton promised you something on a call, it lands here.

Sealed →

Put It On Your Phone

Coming soon to zero app stores. Install it anyway.
  1. Open this site in Safari. Not Chrome, not Instagram's browser. Safari. (If you're reading this anywhere else, copy the link and paste it into Safari.)
  2. Tap the Share button. The little square with the arrow pointing up, bottom center of the screen.
  3. Tap "Add to Home Screen," then "Add." Done. It gets the icon, it opens full screen, it looks and feels like an app.
  1. Open this site in Chrome. The regular Chrome browser on your phone.
  2. Tap the three-dot menu. Top right corner.
  3. Tap "Add to Home screen" (or "Install app"), then confirm. Done. Icon on your home screen, opens like an app.

Works for this whole site, the Forum Timer, and 1000 Great Questions. Same three steps on any of them.

[ Why bother? ]

It's an app now. That's it. That's the trick.

No app store, no download, no update nags, no 400MB. The icon sits on your home screen next to the real apps, and nobody needs to know it took three taps instead of a development team. Moderating a forum? Open the timer straight from your home screen like a professional.

Watch Colton Build. Live.

Bring a project. Or heckle. Both are honored traditions.

Book a Build Session

Do a screen share with Colton: he shows you how he built this stuff for real, and helps you set up yours. Pitch him the project you want to see, and we'll find out how far it gets in 30 minutes. Two years ago this would have legitimately cost you $125,000. Now it might cost you a drink.

How it works right now: you'll get a meeting invite with the demo title, plus an email listing what to prep on your end so you might have the thing built for yourself by the end of the session. Disclaimer: Colton likes to be efficient with his time, so other people may be allowed to join. Sessions are capped at 10. You get priority focus on your project, and you're the only one who gets the live screen-share help. Everyone else joins as spectators and hecklers.

Session Schedule

Upcoming build sessions get posted here, with whatever seats remain of the 10.

[ Schedule ]

No sessions posted yet. Colton schedules these in batches, usually right after someone sends a pitch too fun to ignore. Send yours; be the reason a batch exists.

If you are nice, prompt, and buy him a drink next time you see him, your odds improve considerably.

Why In The Hell Is Colton Giving Away So Much Cool Shit For Free?

A wildly honest disclaimer: Colton has type 1 bipolar disorder. He goes through phases of mania, and in those phases he pumps out as much creativity as he possibly can: spinning up projects, designing things, building crazy-complicated-yet-impressive-as-hell stuff. The mania only lasts so long, and he's learned that building things like this is one of the healthiest uses of it he's ever found.

Also, despite the sense of humor, he genuinely loves people. Especially EOers. He's a big believer that if he gives helpful stuff away for free, the people he loves can grow their businesses faster, make more money, and spend more time on the things that matter: family, friends, bird watching, making home movies that look like films, grabbing drinks, all of it.

How this site actually happened: Colton was running a Forum training. At the start of a break, he handed Claude the prompts and the pile of weird creations. By the next break, the website was live. That's the system. He'll show you the whole thing if you book a session.

The philosophy: Colton thinks really great creative work should be either 100% free or priced appropriately to the value the client gets. Unfortunately, cinematic home movies, slow-motion bird videos, and video games you can just play are not yet things anyone is willing to pay for. So: free.

The Part Where He Feels A Little Bad

A small part of Colton feels bad, because his agency literally does this for a living: campaigns, websites, rebrands, video, the works. And they get paid pretty well to do it, because they make clients look unbelievably cool. Sadly, while he should have been more focused on the agency stuff, he was here, building things to give away for free. His two business partners / best friends have been unsuccessful at convincing him to stop.

Hire FoxFuel Creative

For the stuff worth paying for.

Ask Colton For Things

Security by vibes. Access by request.

Request Access

Colton is more creative than he is concerned with security, but Claude said it's best to require a request. The real reason: Colton just wants people to create more things, and he enjoys hearing what you're building. Want the GitHub repo, the source, a template, a walkthrough? Ask.

Free until Colton decides to start charging, and even then it probably won't be too expensive. Make it your own.

The Newsletter

Colton is thinking about doing a newsletter. Cadence to be determined by Colton at a future date, using a process best described as "when it feels right." The CRM is still spinning up, so for now this list lives in a very fancy inbox.

Go ahead and whitelist colton@colton.land. Yes, that address looks fake. It is not. It is simply mail from the world's worst theme park, and spam filters have no respect for the park.