GrowGrid
capture → reflect → connect
GrowGrid turns things you save into things you actually remember. Capture a link, idea or thought as a Seed, reflect on what made it useful, and turn it into a Node. As you learn, those Nodes connect into a visual network of your interests, helping ideas stick instead of disappearing into bookmarks and open tabs.
role
Solo build
stack
SwiftUI, Supabase, Node + Groq
status
iOS 17+, in progress
story.
I kept saving things I never looked at again. A recipe here, an article there, a line from a book I told myself I’d think about later. Later never came, it just piled up across Notes and fifty Safari tabs until it was easier to pretend the pile didn’t exist than to sort through it.
What I actually wanted wasn’t another bookmarking app. It was somewhere that made me stop for ten seconds and ask why something mattered before it got buried. That’s the whole idea behind GrowGrid: capture fast, reflect slow, and let the stuff you save start connecting to each other instead of sitting in separate lists forever.
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HOW IT WORKS
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HOME
A nudge, not an inbox
Open the app and it doesn’t dump your backlog on you. It surfaces one saved thing and asks a single question. A Momentum ring tracks what you’ve captured, reflected on, and your streak, so progress feels visible instead of buried at the bottom of a list.
REFLECT
Turning a pile into a queue
Every Grid’s unreflected Seeds land in one Reflect queue, tagged by topic so working through them feels like a few quick reps instead of a chore. A clarity percentage keeps the ratio of captured-to-reflected honest, no hiding from the backlog.
CAPTURE
It reads the page so you don’t have to
Paste a link and GrowGrid fetches it, figures out what kind of thing it is, and normalizes it. A recipe becomes real ingredients, steps, and prep time instead of a wall of ad copy above the fold. The same detect-and-normalize pipeline handles articles, videos, and social posts, on-device first, a Groq-backed LLM when it needs the extra reasoning.
built with.
SwiftUI, iOS 17+
Supabase (auth + Postgres)
Local-first sync
Node / Express
Groq · Llama
iOS Share Extension