By order of the house
This is not a spinner. This is a stare.
Hold still. The first room is judging your shoes.
Room 1 is open
Winter Park, FL.
Live exhibit
The first of its kind · Winter Park
Four live windows on Helen. One arriving tank. Choose a pane. Step to the glass.
The house · five rooms here
Room 1 is a gallery of live windows — Helen’s four chambers, shown like tanks in a private zoo. Room 2 is an empty tank on purpose. Rooms 3–5 stay draped until a real animal earns the gold.
Room 1 · Live
Four windows on the wall. Water, food, treat, scratch. Click a pane. Step to the glass.
Room 2 · Arriving
An empty tank. No fish until the water is real. The fifth window is already waiting.
Room 3
Empty gold. Honest.
Room 4
Waiting.
Room 5
Then we expand.
The product people actually pay for
Every act is a priced, shareable moment and something genuinely good for the animal. The public never controls a body — a payment queues a request from a vet-approved menu, inside hard caps.
Five engines · already in the hive
01 · Cam
A live chamber for each resident. Helen’s four cams already run. The goldfish gets a tank cam when the water is real.
02 · Touch
Pay → Stripe → Home Assistant → a real treat lands on camera. Idempotent, rate-limited, daily-capped. Proven on Helen.
03 · Content
Daily clips from the same rooms you watch here. Helen already has a YouTube hall. This house will mint its own.
04 · Money
Later: merch and a Guardian membership per resident. Not bolted on tonight. Named so the contract does not need recutting.
05 · Care
80% of every act funds the resident. 20% is capped ops. When a 501(c)(3) exists, we will say so here. It does not exist today.
The ledger
Where a treat goes
Treats today: — · daily cap 120
Live Menagerie is a small LLC, not a registered charity. Donations are not tax-deductible today. We are working toward a Menagerie Fund 501(c)(3) so future giving can be — we will post the moment that is real. We do not call this a charitable arm, and we do not ask you to pretend.
The next room
Goldfish get surrendered because people put them in bowls. We will not. The campaign page is ready; the GoFundMe itself is not published yet. Leave the house through that door when you want the full story — you cannot donate today.