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Found one of the websites I designed on Pinterest today.
A little while ago, I found a few of my Dribbble shots there too. And a couple of times, I’ve randomly spotted my work in someone else’s moodboard.
It feels pretty surreal :)
Most designers, myself included, spend years collecting other people’s work for inspiration. So seeing something I made end up in that same loop - as a reference for someone else - feels really nice 🙃
You post a project, move on to the next one, and eventually forget about it. Meanwhile, the work keeps travelling around the internet without you even knowing.
No big lesson here. I just think it’s cool 💫
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if i had to start over tomorrow, i wouldn't try to be a better designer. that race doesn't end. someone's always faster. someone's always cheaper. someone's always got a shinier profile.
i'd go look at what everyone else is offering. properly look. and then find the thing nobody's doing.
that's the gap. that's the whole thing.
and then, this is the part people skip, you say it. out loud. over and over until it's boring to you and obvious to everyone else.
because a gap you found and never talked about is just a hunch you had once.
Finding the gap instead of trying to out-skill everyone already in it is genuinely the smarter play
Stoked to see 500 creatives are following me here!
Thank you all 🙌
For years I've done the same pointless thing: I pause a film because someone's wearing the exact coat I've been looking for, then I screenshot it, reverse-search it, scroll past forty results that aren't it, and give up.
The thing I wanted was right there in the frame. It just wasn't connected to anything.
So I built it.
Vantara is a streaming service where you pause any moment and it tells you what's in the shot and where to buy it: the exact piece, or its closest match. Because you're never going to find the real 1912 opera coat from the costume department, and you don't want to pay for it either. You want the look, at a price that makes sense.
It's 11 screens across desktop and mobile, including the player, the pause-to-shop panel, item pages with real prices and delivery, a Vault that watches prices and tells you when something drops, and a search that runs backwards. Describe a look, and it finds you the scene it lives in.
I built every screen in Flowstep, driven through the Flowstep MCP server with Claude, on one design system applied across the whole thing.
This is the idea I keep coming back to. Full walkthrough video + case study here: Full Walkthrough
Built with @flowstep_ai #FlowstepChallenge
Wow ! Just Read your case study as well & TBH this is some submission you deserve to win this. 👍