Some of Scanlings is built, finished, and shut. It opens when enough of the world has been found — not by you, by everyone together. Every barcode anyone scans counts toward it, which is the whole idea.
There is one catalogue and it belongs to all of us. Scan something nobody has scanned before and that creature exists from then on — not just in your collection, in the world. The same is true of the other things people keep turning up.
Which means there is nothing here to grind. You do not need a hundred hours or a hundred scans; ten barcodes nobody has found yet moves everyone forward by ten. Somebody who plays for five minutes a week and happens to buy unusual coffee is contributing more than somebody re-scanning the same cupboard all evening.
It is also why more people in more places opens all of this faster than any of us could alone. Your kitchen is not like anyone else's — a different shop, a different diet, a different job. Someone who works in a bakery can reach things a shopper cannot buy at all. Whatever is on your shelves, some of it is new to everybody.
There are no numbers on this page on purpose. We would rather build the thing properly than run a countdown to it.