2026
Side project

The Board

A minimal space for visual inspiration.

Intro

I tried all the usual tools. Pinterest, Cosmos, Are.na, even messy Figma files. They all kind of worked, but never quite the way I wanted. There was always too much friction and too much noise around the actual thing I cared about, which is just collecting and looking at visuals.

So in a weekend I started building my own.

What it is

The Board is my take on an inspiration tool. No feeds, no algorithms, no distractions. Just a clean space where you can drop images, tag them if you want, and come back later to make sense of it all.

It’s built around how I actually work. Quick collecting first, organizing later. You paste an image, maybe add a label, and keep moving. Everything lives in a simple grid, you can filter, search etc.

In the local version I managed to have image compression by default when you paste an image, so you dont end up tons of images that are too heavy.

The Board project interface with image grid layout
The Board project interface showing inspiration board details

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