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Days Since Hank Green Last Started a New Thing

website · in 6 videos (2021–2026)

A fan website (dayssincehankgreenlaststartedanewthing.com), born of a running joke among some people on Twitter, that counts the days since Hank Green last started a new thing and links a list of his projects, which Hank calls impressively long and riddled with failure.

Videos by year: 2021: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2026: 1

Website: dayssincehankgreenlaststartedanewthing.com

Elsewhere: the full list of his projects (fan spreadsheet)

Threads

Also named in the threads: Hank's 'million dollar idea' phone calls to John (2013)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

TikTok (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2021

  • 2021-04-09 · A Thought is Not an Idea — Hank mentions a website, born of a running joke among some people on Twitter, that counts the days since he last started a new thing; it stands at seven days, since the launch of the Life's Little Lies TikTok. (playful) — 00:00:00
    • The website lists everything Hank has started, an impressively long list riddled with failure: of 11 listed 2020 projects only four still exist, and three were jokes. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-09-03 · What the Heck am I doing? — Hank noticed the website counting days since he last started a new thing hasn't updated in 81 days, but he hasn't been doing nothing, so he lists what he is doing. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John says Hank has so many ideas that a website tracks days since he started a thing, and in a recent video John said Hank has an idea every 20 minutes and John's job is to say when they are bad. — 00:01:27

2023

  • 2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John: With Hank's enthusiastic encouragement, the website counting days since Hank started a new thing reset to zero, the new thing being not a channel or soap company but chemotherapy. (playful) — 00:00:43

2026

  • 2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie — Hank admits pride that the days-since-he-last-started-a-new-thing website sits at 42 days, which he calls significantly higher than average: by the site's count, his average gap between new things is about 50 days over 20 years and under 30 over the last five. (playful) — 00:01:17

Also named in other years (nothing said): How John and I Talk About Ideas (2022-02-04)