paperclip

No chat. Just vibes.

paperclip is a friends-only presence app: you broadcast your vibe with a single emoji and that's the whole thing. There's no feed to scroll, no chat thread, no likes or follower counts or read receipts. You pick an emoji, your friends see it, and when theirs changes you can get a quiet notification. That's it. I wanted the ambient warmth of knowing what your people are feeling without any of the pressure to perform or respond.

It's built native on both platforms — SwiftUI on iOS, Jetpack Compose on Android — over a shared Supabase backend that syncs in real time, so an emoji you set on your iPhone shows up on your friend's Android in seconds. It's monochrome on purpose: the only color on the screen is the emoji itself, which is exactly where I want your eye to go. Friends join by invite code, there's no public anything, and I built the boring-but-real parts too — push notifications with mute and quiet hours, block/report and account deletion for the App Store, a Cloudflare Worker proxy, even a Discord bot that mirrors your friends' emoji board into a server and Siri Shortcuts so you can set your vibe by voice.

I built it with AI help (Claude), which is how one person ships two native apps and a backend at all — but the shape of it, the ruthless subtraction, the decision that the anti-social-network should feel like a piece of paper and not a dashboard, that's mine. Deliberately styled to lean Apple, not startup. Just pushing it steadily forward like a boss.