In March 2022 I started my first design/front-end project after more than half a year without frontend. The idea of Lubymo is not new: what if we made a Tinder where the first step in getting to know each other was not face and body photos, but interests?
I distilled the it from “filling out multiple forms about your interests and tastes in different areas of life” to “users create cards with a photo and a couple of words about what they like and dislike, and others swipe these cards to like or dislike”. Like TikTok, but the main content is the interests of others, and the result is the recommendations of other users who often voted the same way as you.
I managed to make a pretty bold design and most of the frontend. I wanted to make a web application in which gestures and animations would feel like they do in good native apps. I managed to do it better than many, but still not as well as I wanted (at least on an old iPhone XR). Inability to reach perfection hit my motivation hard and I abandoned the project.
Among the useful things that could have been taken out of it: a small WAPI-based library for gesture-based animations; an algorithm for selecting the perfect saturated color pair for text and background from a photo. If you are interested in the code of these modules, please contact me and I will make it publicly available.
