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A collective for the curious

Go beyondthe usual.

The internet is better with another choice.

Independent products for playing, thinking, discovering, and seeing things differently. Built by Busted Minds. Built around you.

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EST. 2020Six products.
One independent spirit.
An open green doorway filled with warm light, surrounded by a coral chess knight, folded paper, and glass spheres.The world is still
full of possibility.Your move
Busted MindsSix products. One independent spirit.
Another choice is a powerful thing.Independent by nature.Built for people.

01 The collection

Different pursuits. A shared point of view.

Follow what
moves you.

A game. An idea. A question you can’t leave alone.
There’s more than one way into Busted Minds.

06 / 06 products

Every product stands on its own. Your curiosity connects them.

02 A little hands-on curiosity

From our flagship, BM Chess

Small board. Good question.

One move.
Two possibilities.

A knight can change the whole conversation.
Can you find the move that attacks the king and queen at once?

  1. 01
    Look a little closer.

    Select the white knight. Its possible moves will appear.

  2. 02
    Follow the possibility.

    Choose a square. See what your move makes possible.

That moment when a pattern clicks?
That’s what we build for.

Discover BM Chess
Your move01 / The royal fork

Use arrow keys to move between squares. Press Enter or Space to select a piece or destination. Tab leaves the board.

White to move. Select the knight on f5, then find a move that attacks both the king and queen.

Play BM Chess

A different default

Good tools.
Clear intentions.

What we stand for

More choice. More room.

Powerful technology should stay accessible, competitive, and under your control.

01

Your account connects. Your activity stays separate.

One identity makes life simpler. Each connected product remains responsible for its own activity.

Read our privacy policy
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We earn our place in your life.

Clear permissions, honest limits, and the freedom to choose something else. Trust is part of the product.

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03 The reading room

Visit the Journal

Stay a little
curious.

Ideas behind the products.
Questions beyond the obvious.
Writing worth making room for.

A hand chooses a clear paper path through dark loops and digital traps toward an open landscape.6 min read
From Busted Minds

What “user-first” means in practice

A principle only matters when it changes a product decision. Here are the tests we use when convenience, growth, and the person using the product pull in different directions.

By Busted Minds
A mechanical calculating machine gives way to a human hand finding clear patterns on a wooden chessboard.6 min read
Chess & learning

A chess engine is not a chess teacher

The best move is only the beginning of an explanation. Useful chess technology must turn calculation into a pattern a player can recognize again.

By Busted Minds
A live football match glows at the center of a miniature stadium while noisy digital distractions fade at its edges.5 min read
Sports & fandom

The score is not the whole game

Live sports products are at their best when they respect urgency without reducing every match to a blinking number and a stream of noise.

By Busted Minds
A quieter corner of the internet. Take your time.Follow via RSS

04 Still becoming

Curiosity brought us here.

Eight friends.
No grand plan.

Before the products, there was a name shared by school friends. Then a blog. Then an idea that kept getting bigger.

Get to know Busted Minds
The origin2020

Eight friends. A beginning.

A name shared by school friends becomes a university-era blog, then a community. No grand plan. Just curiosity and the urge to make something.

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