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Indiegogo

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Indiegogo is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 27, 2025 and February 05, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Indiegogo campaign for Brighter, a very bright lamp”; “GetBrighter has succeeded at its IndieGogo campaign”. It most often appears alongside Aella, Anthropic, Elon Musk.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: February 27, 2025
  • Last seen: February 05, 2026

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Links For February 2025
February 27, 2025 · Original source
25: Indiegogo campaign for Brighter, a very bright lamp. Outdoors on a sunny day is 100,000 lux (a measure of brightness), indoors with an average lamp is only 50 lux. Some people think bringing the indoor number closer to the outdoor number should help with mood and energy, and there are preliminary good results for seasonal depression (even clinical seasonal depression lamps fall far short of outdoor brightness). The Brighter lamp is 50,000 lumen - lumens are a different measure from lux, of lamp power rather than brightness, but if you’re 5 feet away from the light then 50,000 lumen = 3,000 lux, which is getting a lot better. My only concern is that the light costs about $1,000; you should be able to do better with corn bulbs, but Brighter claims to have less eye strain, less glare, better color temperature, etc (I don’t know anything about these). People with treatment refractory SAD should be trying something like this, though it doesn’t have to be exactly this product - for details, see my writeup.
Inline links: Indiegogo campaign for Brighter, my writeup
Links For February 2026
February 05, 2026 · Original source
51 ACX reader Simon Berens reports that his company GetBrighter has succeeded at its IndieGogo campaign and now has a decent stock of their ultrabright lights. We’ve talked before about the weaknesses of light boxes for seasonal depression - much dimmer than the sun, and you’ve got to stay right next to them. GetBrighter isn’t being marketed as a clinical product, and its form factor optimizes for wider area rather than greater brightness at a single point, but it’s still a step in the right direction (very rough guesses: normal lightboxes are 10,000 lux if you’re right next to the bulb, 500 lux if they’re just ambiently in a room; GetBrighter is ~20,000 lux right next to the bulb, 3,000 ambiently in a room, but harder to be right next to because of the height). Testimonials from Aella and Miles Brundage. Cost is $1200; in theory you can hack together a cheaper version out of industrial lighting, but I tried that and it unsurprisingly-in-retrospect looked like my room was lit by hacked-together cheap industrial lighting.
Inline links: ultrabright lights, the weaknesses of light boxes, Aella, Miles Brundage