Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
Showling — Little Shows for One Small Person
An in-development iPhone and iPad app for ordering short, gentle animated shows that a grown-up approves before a child watches.
Why it surfacedShowling defines its product as much by its omissions as its features: no family photos, social layer, advertising, or endless feed. Its finite library and passcode-locked child mode make this a notably deliberate response to the usual tablet experience.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.