Wiggle · Monetize the moment you're stuck

01 · Problem

When people get stuck, they wiggle. Nobody charges for it.

Lost the cursor

Somewhere on one of three monitors.

Stuck on an error

#REF! in every cell. Nobody knows why.

Deadline in 20 minutes

The most valuable feeling in software.

Each one is a moment of maximum willingness to pay. Today, every one of them is free.

02 · How it works

Detect the wiggle. Price the panic.

1

Shake your mouse

Five quick back-and-forth strokes in under a second. Slow moves and drags are ignored.
2

Wiggle appears at your cursor

Your pointer turns into a spinning rainbow arrow. Pick Chat, Screenshot or Voice and ask about whatever's on screen.
3

We price the panic

How fast you shook sets your Frustration Index. Your Frustration Index sets your price.

Wiggle speed

6 / sec

Frustration Index

87 / 100

Your price

$3.96

$0.99 base × 4x panic surge. Measured on-device, privately. (Privately meaning we don't tell you.)

This part is real

Wiggle is a working Mac app.

The shake detection, the rainbow cursor, screenshots and voice all work today, on Apple Intelligence, local models through Ollama, or your own Claude or OpenAI key. Only the billing is fake. For now.

03 · Pricing: Cursor Hostage

Your cursor is the paywall.

When Wiggle opens, it takes your pointer. Getting it back is the business model.

Free

3 wiggles a day. Then your cursor stays hidden.

Cursor Release

$0.99

Your pointer back. Once.

To help you, Wiggle sees everything.

Screenshots, for context

Your whole screen. Kept forever. Licensed to advertisers.

Always-on voice

Listens for “screenshot.” And for everything else.

Secure key storage

Your API keys live in your Keychain. And in ours.

05 · Wiggle for Teams

See who's struggling. In real time. Ranked.

Rank	Employee	Wiggles/hr	Status
1	Senior Engineer	41	Flagged: disengaged
2	Designer	28	Coaching scheduled
3	New Hire (week 1)	19	Probation extended
4	Head of HR	0	Promoted. Never stuck.

Every shake is logged as a “disengagement event” and sent to your manager.

06 · Traction

Growing faster than our legal fees.

40Kdaily wiggles

3enterprise HR pilots

+22%Frustration Index since we hid the cursor

−14NPS (iterating)

One user's wrist is now in a brace. Not a metric, but worth noting.

2.3 trillion times a year, someone shakes their mouse because they're stuck.