u/GlassChange9161

Last year my girlfriend and I spent a few weeks in South Africa. We did the Kruger safari, met some genuinely kind people, ate too much, and — almost by accident — fell in love with the wines. Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, a stoep in Hermanus with the ocean below.

We started a list in our notes app. By the second week it had outgrown a notes app. So we tried Vivino and the rest. They work, technically. But every screen was an ad. Every bottle wanted to be bought. The "social" feed felt like a marketplace pretending to be a memory.

We just wanted a small, quiet place to remember what we drank, and to compare scores between us.

So I built it. It's called **Sippd**.

- Rate a bottle in a few taps. Score, notes, photo, region, location if you want

- Local-first — your data lives on your device, syncs in the background

- Works offline (rate something on a plane, sync later)

- Private groups with friends, no public feed

- No ads. No selling. No "you might also like."

- Free forever plan. Pro tier for deeper analytics (body, tannin, balance)

Where it's at:

- **Android** https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.sippd.app

- **iOS:** https://testflight.apple.com/join/1e9GnmAD

- **Source on GitHub:** https://github.com/martin-dehlan/sippd

- **Site:** sippd.xyz

Built solo with Flutter + Supabase + Drift (local-first SQLite).

Honest feedback wanted — what's missing, what's annoying, what feels obvious that isn't. Not trying to be Vivino. Trying to be the thing I wished existed sitting on that stoep.

Cheers