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I thought I spent $120/month on subscriptions. Turns out I was off by $167. So I built the app I wished existed. It's called RELIEF. 💰
Here's the real problem : 89% of us underestimate our subscription total. Not because we're careless - because every app built to fix it is made for finance-savvy people. Dashboards, charts, jargon, rounded cards. If you're not already comfortable with all that, you close the app and keep bleeding $2,004 a year.
None of them make you "Feel" the money leaking. And feeling is the whole point. So I didn't design a finance app. I designed a sculpture.
RELIEF runs on Michelangelo's Idea - the statue is already inside the marble, you just carve away the excess.
– Your finances are the block
– Unused subscriptions are the red veins in the stone
– Cancelling is a chisel strike
– The money that returns is the figure emerging
13 screens, one system. Two colors carry all the meaning: vermilion for waste, gold for what you've reclaimed. Nothing else.
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Carve it Yourself
- Live prototype - RELIEF
- X post - Social Post
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WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT
01 · Demo - the full walkthrough: the story, the flow, and the drag-to-strike that cancels a subscription.
02 · Sites UI - the prototype in motion, no narration, just the carve.
03 · Flowchart - all 13 screens on the Flowstep canvas, wired end to end.
04 · Thumbnail - a six-second sweep across the finished canvas: strike, impact, gallery, share.
RELIEF - carve away what you don't use.
Turning subscription cancellation into a physical act of 'carving' is absolute genius. Most finance apps feel like spreadsheets wearing designer clothes - RELIEF actually makes the psychology work for you. Incredible execution on the concept and the 13 screens!
Thanks a lot 🤝
Cool stuff!
Thanks Shibangi 🤝
Framing financial cleanup around Michelangelo’s sculpture philosophy "carving away the excess" is pure storytelling. Do you plan to build this out into a live fully functional production app next.
Thanks so much ! That's exactly the plan - start with the story, then ship the production app 🤝
What I love most is the idea behind this project. Instead of treating subscriptions as numbers on a dashboard, you turned them into something people can actually feel. The Michelangelo metaphor is clever and gives the whole experience a clear purpose. It makes canceling unused...
Thank you so much for the kind words Olena 🤝
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I built it because developers have had real version control for over a decade, and designers doing equally iterative, collaborative work still don't. Figma's history and past tools like Abstract never quite cracked diffing and conflict resolution. This is the tool me and my partner just took up.
Flowstep File Link: Flowstep: GitDesign
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Wow! That rly good idea. Congrats 😎
Introducing KEEPS: A Digital Home for Physical Memories
KEEPS is a mobile app designed to preserve the physical objects that carry our memories.
While most memory apps are built around photos, KEEPS is built around everything else.
Concert tickets, boarding passes, receipts, handwritten notes, invitations, conference badges, and other small objects that people often keep long after their practical purpose has ended.
The idea came from a simple observation: many of us keep these items because they represent experiences, relationships, milestones, and moments we don’t want to forget. Over time, they become scattered across drawers, wallets, books, and boxes, making them difficult to revisit and easy to lose.
KEEPS transforms these physical keepsakes into digital artifacts.
Users can scan real objects, remove backgrounds, add contextual information such as location, date, people, and personal notes, and organize them into custom collections. Artifacts can also be created from templates, allowing users to recreate memories that no longer exist physically.
The prototype includes onboarding, collections, artifact detail pages, discovery flows, creation flows, profile experiences, and a connected navigation system that allows users to move through their archive naturally.
Rather than generating the entire product in a single prompt, I used Flowstep as a design engineering tool.
I started with a visual direction created in Figma, including custom illustrations, typography, layout systems, and the overall structure.
From there, I rebuilt the product inside Flowstep screen by screen, using detailed prompts to define hierarchy, spacing, interactions, navigation patterns, and user flows.
Each screen became the foundation for the next. Existing components were reused, refined, and expanded to create a cohesive design system across the entire application. The process was highly iterative: generating, reviewing, refining, and rebuilding until the product felt consistent both visually and functionally.
The result is not simply a collection of screens, but a connected prototype with clear user journeys, interaction logic, and product intent.
KEEPS is built around a simple belief:
The smallest objects often carry the biggest memories.
Flowstep file link: https://app.flowstep.ai/file?activeFileId=cb23715a-64af-4fb6-822a-c789fb99b461
The walkthrough, screen recording of the prototype working in Flowstep, my custom illustrations, and the screens designed in Flowstep are included below.
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Hello everyone I'm Prem, and this is ORBIT, my entry for the Flowstep.ai Challenge.
We all lose touch with friends we loved from school, from college. Nobody's fault. Life gets busy, and by the time you notice, it's been years.
Losing a friend isn't a decision you make; it's something you find out about, long after it happened. Everyone means to react out . Nothing reminds you that you haven't.
So I built the thing that keeps track. In Orbit you're the sun, and your friends are planets orbiting you. How far out a planet sits is how long you've been quiet. Tanmay hasn't heard from me in 212 days, so he's stopped moving he's asleep, with little z's floating off him.
The distance isn't decoration, the picture is the data. Your glance at your galaxy.
And it doesn't nudge you to "check in." It gives you a reason: her show opens Friday, and you saved her flyer in March. You send a Shooting Star, she replies, her orbit pulls back in.
It never reads what you wrote. It only notices that you talked.
I connected Flowstep to Claude Code over MCP and drove the whole build from my terminal. Loading my design system in as Flowstep's design guidelines first is what made 21 screens feel like one product. Then I put it live, so it's a real app you can use.
Send someone a shooting star and see what comes back 😊 .
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