Movies for the moment you're in
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What if picking a movie was actually fun? (◕‿◕)
A gamified movie picker
Role
UX Designer + builder
Skills
Vibe Coding, Design System, AI-assisted workflow
Timeline
One day lol
Tools
Claude Code, Google Stitch, Github, VS Code, Gemini - Nano Banana 2
The Problem
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You know the drill. Friday night, time to watch a movie, zero agreement. You've been scrolling Netflix and Letterboxd for 20 minutes and your movie meal has gotten cold.
ReelFeel flips the model. Instead of browse stalling, you answer a quick set of questions and get a match.
Planning + lo-fi
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Lo-fi via Claude
Before any visuals, I listed out what I was looking for such as core user needs, key flows, and constraints. A lightweight PRD to get aligned with myself first.
Then I asked Claude to generate a lo-fi based on that spec.
But the visual direction wasn't quite there yet. I played around with some design decisions… different type treatments, layout ideas, color approaches but I still wasn't happy with where it was landing.
The pivot — gamified
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The original direction was too generic…I wanted something faster, more opinionated.
So I gamifying the flow into a mobile app version. This way every question had purpose and a payoff : your movie actually felt earned.
Finding the aesthetic
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Once the interaction model clicked, the visual direction followed.
The gamified mobile app format called for something tactile and lo-fi.
UI patterns via Mobbin
I landed on a retro sketchbook / tamagotchi aesthetic: hand-drawn energy, monospace type, a muted analog palette while using Mobbin to gather more inspo.
Logo via Gemini/ Nano Banana 2
Generated and refined the mark to fit the editorial-meets-cinema direction.
Building with Google Stitch + Claude
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Claude Code + Google Stitch
Built in Claude Code with the Google Stitch API I added to generate and refine the UI.
The output aligned closely with the retro sketchbook direction with minimal back and forth, high fidelity to the design intent.
Final product
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Deployed via GitHub
Designed and deployed in a day. A fun, gamified movie picker where the flow moves fast and you walk away with one solid recommendation. No scrolling, no overthinking, just pick your vibe and go.
Currently
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Since this was built in a day, there's already a list of things I want to add.
Waiting on TMDB API access to pull in a real movie catalog (Letterboxd doesn't have a public API unfortunately).
Also planning to add a "seen it" toggle so users can mark films they've already watched and have that saved to their profile.
More to come.
Reflections
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This was a fun, quick vibe code project that came together faster than expected. Calling the Google Stitch API within Claude Code made the whole build feel fluid, generating and refining UI all in one place just makes sense.
Currently expanding it so I can use this with my friends!
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