The calendars show what's happening; they never show how it's going to feel.
So I built Barometer in
@Flowstep , an emotional weather report for your week. It reads the shape of your calendar and gives you an honest heads-up about the next week.
❓Why I built this:
I like taking a moment to reflect on my day, sometimes looking back at it, sometimes looking ahead at what's coming. I always wished calendars did a bit of that too. Plus, it also helps you answer the question “Am I just lazy or was my day really exhausting?”
⚒️ How I built it:
- Started in Claude: app brief, user flows, and a design system.
- Connected Claude to Flowstep and prompted straight from that project context.
- Built home, one example day in full, then generated the rest as variants of it to keep the system consistent.
- Used Flowstep's design panel for the small, final tweaks.
📚 What I learned along the way:
- Flowstep needs clear color, copy, and reference, but also room to make its own decisions. Over-specify and the layout gets confused; give it space and it makes a really good judgment.
- Prompting multiple related screens in one pass kept the system tighter than one screen at a time. But even prompted individually, it remembered the guidelines across screens.
- Sometimes plain chat, not a structured prompt, got the better result for a tweak.
🧐 One thing I kept thinking while building this: it doesn't need to be its own app. This could just as easily live as a "forecast" layer inside a calendar app you already use.
Flowstep file &
Prototype 🎨
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