My girlfriend has more hobbies than she can keep track of. Hobbly started as a way for her to log which one she did that day.
It felt like a waste to build something for two people, so I opened it up — anyone can sign up, collect their hobbies on one board, journal entries, and share them publicly if they want.
I come from the backend. Modules, auth and the database felt familiar — but layout, state, and making the UI feel cozy instead of functional was new ground. Almost everything on the frontend was hard.
Lean on what I knew: a shared packages/types so React consumes the same contracts NestJS serves, and TypeScript catches mismatches before the browser does. The rest was reps — shipping screens, then refining them.
Not very active yet, and that’s fine — it’s live, it works, and it’s being used. I plan to come back to it and polish the experience further.