Why make a website that does almost nothing?
The web is very good at asking for attention. A page can present a headline, a notification, a button, a recommendation, another article and another reason to keep scrolling. There are good reasons for that pattern, but it is not the only possible way to make a website.
Just Skedaddling started as an experiment in removing those expectations. There is no account, feed, search box or collection of things to complete. The central object is a piece of moving imagery, and its only real rule is that it becomes calmer when the visitor stops interfering with it.
“Useless” as a constraint
Calling the project useless is partly a joke and partly a design constraint. Once a site has a practical job, there is always another feature that could make that job more efficient. A deliberately limited artwork has a different boundary: features that do not serve the central idea are easier to reject.
That constraint is useful during development. A pause button, settings panel or saved gallery might all be reasonable additions to a visual tool. They would also change what this particular piece is about.
A different kind of interaction
The site still responds to people. The difference is that the response is indirect. You do not tell the artwork what to draw. You disturb an existing system and then watch it settle again.
That makes waiting part of the interaction. The visitor is not merely operating the artwork; they are deciding when to stop operating it.
Why keep it on the web?
A browser is a useful place for a small experiment like this because the artwork can be shared as a URL, inspected as source code and experienced without installing an application. The page is both the container and the distribution method.
It is a very small idea, but the smallness is intentional.