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Hi everyone! 👋
Want to hang out at the park? 🌳⚽️🌻🏈🐩
I created Parkhang for the #ConfigMakeathon.
It exists to make it easier to plan real-life hangs at local parks. Playdates, pickup sports, and picnics—come hang at the park!
*The inspiration*
I'm a dad of two young kids so we basically live at the playground. It's a great way for kids to meet new friends and me to connect with fellow parents.
But a tragic thing happened when a violent crime took place at our usual park. The community was devastated, kids were scared, and my wife and I got extra resolved to show up as the grown ups in the room—and to activate our neighbors to do the same. Our first monthly pizza night happened 1 week after the crime.
Kids need grown ups to set a culture of peace, freedom, and fun in our playgrounds. Whether parents with kids in the playground area or folks playing pickup basketball or tennis, we all get to enjoy the park together and help it to be a safe and fun place for all!
But there's a problem I noticed.
*The problem*
Ever shown up to the park and nobody's there? No kids to play with, shooting goals solo, hitting your tennis ball against the wall. Way less fun, no?
But at the same time, parks are great because anyone can just drop in, maybe meet someone new, or maybe connect with a new group to do tai chi or Zumba with (or whatever you're into).
How do we make it easy to organize activities while maintaining the "just drop in" feel of the park?
This is what I tried to capture in Parkhang.
*What it does*
Parkhang helps you:
1. Create a profile and tag your favorite park activities (like soccer, picnics, board games, running, or kids' playdates)
2. Follow your favorite parks and playgrounds
3. Post activities in your park to invite neighbors to hang
4. Be notified of posts in your favorite playgrounds that align with your favorite activities
That's the core of it, but other functionality is pending, such as connecting with friends and being notified of their Parkhang posts.
*How I used Figma*
Figma Make did the heavy lifting with building this prototype, and then I used Figma MCP and the exported code to build out the actual app in Codex. I'm currently building it out for mobile and web as a React app and hope to release a beta for testing soon.
*What's next?*
I'll keep polishing, building, and gauging interest!
If this strikes your fancy, please join the waitlist and share it. And I'd love your comments on the video for any feedback if you can spare a moment!
Thanks all!
Quick links:
• Figma community: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1649257346141925965
• Video: https://www.tella.tv/video/vid_cmqihmcgd000a0bjgcz2k6c36/view
• Waitlist: https://parkhang.com/ (let me know if you'd be interested in something like this!)
• X post: https://x.com/mt_barrios/status/2067451536268218774
• LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mattbarrios_configmakeathon-ugcPost-7473217001725952001-7Eb3/
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Did you know your home reflects how much you read?
Not a metaphor. A literal one.
Add a book. Set a timer. Watch your apartment slowly come alive as you read. Dust clears in real time. Rooms bloom from neglect to warmth. Stop reading and watch it all fade back.
The Problem
Most reading trackers are lists. Cold. Forgettable. They record what you have not done without making you feel anything about it. You open the app, see a number, close the app. Nothing changes inside you.
Shelf Life is built around a different belief. Your habits should live somewhere. They should breathe. They should have consequences you can see.
Your bedroom holds the book you read before sleep. Your kitchen holds the article you meant to finish over coffee. Your study holds the essay you keep putting off. Read consistently and each space blooms back to life through an organic dust clearing animation driven by your actual reading time. Neglect your reading and the dust returns. Your home becomes a mirror of your habits. Honest and quiet and impossible to ignore.
I deliberately chose not to let users upload or read books inside the app. The moment you can read inside a tracker it stops being a tracker and starts competing with the experience of actually holding a book. Shelf Life honours the ritual of reading without replacing it.
How It Was Built
I started with a design philosophy before I started with a prompt. Warmth. Craft. Human first. Every decision was made to make the user feel something not just complete a task.
The isometric apartment and all ten room images including the neglected and bloomed states for each of the five rooms were generated entirely using Figma Weave. I used Figma for rapid design ideation and layout exploration before moving into Figma Make.
In Figma Make I built the full app in React and TypeScript. The core technical challenge was the dust clearing animation. It uses an SVG mask system with organic circular spots growing via requestAnimationFrame running in parallel with the reading timer. Each spot has its own delay and duration so the reveal feels natural and alive rather than mechanical. The same spots reverse in mirror order when the room returns to neglected. The animation runs both ways. Forward when you read. Backward when you stop.
Room specific ambient music plays in each space. The bedroom has soft rain and piano. The kitchen has morning acoustic warmth. The living room has fireplace crackle. The study is near silence. Each room sounds like it feels.
Tools Used
Figma Weave for AI image generation across all ten room backgrounds
Figma for design ideation and layout
Figma Make for the full app built in React and TypeScript
The Moment That Matters
Start a reading timer. Watch your room slowly clean itself in real time. Organic dust spots grow across the image revealing the bloomed version beneath. It is not a progress bar. It is not a percentage. It is your home breathing back to life because you chose to read.
When the timer ends the room holds its bloomed state then gradually returns to neglect. The direction of the animation tells you everything about your relationship with reading that week.
Most people go quiet when they watch it happen for the first time.
Excellent presentation 👏
Hey everyone, excited to be joining the Config Makeathon ☺️
I wanted to create a place where people can anonymously share how their day went and read what others are going through. Sometimes you have something on your mind but no one to tell it to, Dear Diary gives people a space to feel heard and connected.
You can write one entry per day and receive a random flower as a reward. As you keep writing, you collect flowers and eventually unlock a bouquet you can share. The calendar lets you look back at previous days and explore thoughts and stories from people around the world.
Dear Diary is live, tell us what's on your mind ✨
Love seeing different approaches to the Makeathon. This is a thoughtful and well-executed project.
I built an anonymous corner for the internet. It's called the Fruit Market. 🍊🍓
Every visitor leaves behind a unique fruit that represents them.
You choose a fruit, give it a label, add a few pieces of identity, and answer a prompt about something you're carrying, longing for, or wishing someone understood.
Then you place it on the shelf.
The result is a market full of anonymous human artifacts:
A mango who is missing home.
A peach who is terrified of graduating.
A dragon fruit who is searching for purpose.
The idea came from a question:
How deeply can we understand each other when names are removed?
Built with Figma and Figma Make on my humble phone and tablet. My goal was to create a whimsical, imperfect, yet vulnerable space that feels somewhere between a community bulletin board, a missed-connections page, and a message in a bottle.
Please, if you’re willing, leave a piece of yourself at the Fruit Market. <3
Website: thefruitmarket.figma.site
LinkedIn Post (feel free to connect!): https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7471214902842470401/
Figma Community Link (a copy of the website w/o the backend): https://www.figma.com/community/file/1647270469719499321
Made for the Contra x Figma Makeathon.
Wonderful and worth th build
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