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Built Shelf, a visual way to save the links I find online. Instead of another list of bookmarks, links become books, notebooks, folders and other objects on a bookshelf, making them easier and a little more enjoyable to come back to.
It's a small project I'm exploring with Flowstep, experimenting with interactions and animations. I'll be posting the build process video in the thread.
This is such a nice idea. Turning saved links into objects on a shelf makes bookmarking feel way more personal and fun to come back to. Good luck.
Thank you, I appreciate.
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I built it in Flowstep, aiming for something closer to a rare-book catalog than a typical SaaS dashboard — warm paper background, a single brass accent, serif for the repertoire, monospace for every number. It's a niche profession nobody else was likely to design for, which is exactly why I wanted to build it.
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www.louvre-flowstep.ai/pdf
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Live app: https://louvre-flowstep.ai/
Flowstep link: https://app.flowstep.ai/louvre
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For this challenge, I didn’t want to build just another app. I wanted to solve a real problem. I live in France, and I wanted to bring real value to visitors of the Louvre Museum in Paris by helping them discover every must-see masterpiece, understand the art, and know exactly where to go next.
Wow! That rly good idea 😍
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.
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...