u/alxbee77

So fresh off the back of a serious vibe project, I wanted to keep learning, and just wanted to mess around with the idea of loot boxes.

https://deadmans-vault.vercel.app/

Ended up creating this basic loot box pirate themed 'experience' - lots to improve, but just wondered what people think of it, what they'd add, what they currently like about it, don't like etc... I'm enjoying learning these new things.

Build points below:

- 104 unique cards across 5 categories (food, rum, equipment, weapons, cursed relics), every one generated and styled as an aged playing card - better quality to be made here...

- Custom Web Audio engine — no audio files, everything synthesised, with a different musical key per rarity tier

- Pity system, collection bias toward uncollected items, streak detection, endgame reveal

- Aerial island map with 20 zones where collected items pin in their lore-appropriate location

- Global "plunder counter" backed by Supabase so every player's pull contributes to a world total

- Vanilla JS + Vite, no framework

Three things I'd particularly love feedback on:

1. Does the reveal pacing feel right?

2. Is the map/collection loop rewarding enough to make you want to keep pulling?

3. If you were going to monetise this, what direction would you take it? (Physical card deck is one idea I'm sitting on?

Let me know, I'd rather hear what's wrong now than after I've built more on top of it!

What are you using for time tracking and invoicing right now, and what’s your biggest frustration?

I posted here a week ago about my project summree.io - a tool that monitors your YouTube channels and delivers AI summaries to your inbox the moment new videos drop. YouTube without the watching.

Personally I love it, it's solved massive things for me, i had too many channels of really good content I wanted to follow but never enough time to watch them. The summaries land in my inbox and I can catch up, never miss out, and move on.

The cold reality is I have zero users. None, not even a single free trial user. I didn't build this initially for other people, but as I was building it for myself, i really felt this would help other people too, so I commited to building it our properly. I had some great feedback from my initial post a week ago, quite a lot saying it was cool, they recognise that pain etc, but no one signed up. I didnt go into it expecting them to, but for people to say those things and not sign up even for a trial gets me a bit concerned.

I'm now where i think I've built something good, but no one sees it, i'm not sure if i'm doing something wrong, or haven't done the right things for long enough, whatever those are...

I've got SEO infrastructure in place, public summary pages are starting to get indexed, topic pages with content, a blog...seo is slow i know, but I'm just feeling a bit lost in all of this now...I know the theory, like find people expressing that pain on reddit and reply genuinely, i heard about Pulse to find that intent, but initially the 3 free leads it proposed weren't particularly good so i lost confidence in that...also i'm aware it was setting itself up for my old messaging which has since been updated.

Has anyone else been in this boat, and what did you actually do that made the difference. specifically? Thanks,

I follow a lot of business content to learn and try and grow my own business more. These are on YouTube and across podcast content, interviews, Diary of a CEO type stuff.

There's just too much of it, new videos drop constantly and I couldn't keep up, and when I did, it was usually at the worst time, like lying in bed at 11pm watching 45min videos, thinking i was being productive when i should have been winding down, sleeping.

I built something to fix it, which wasn't planned, but now whenever a video drops from a channel I follow, I get a structured summary delivered to my by email, with key points, actionable takeaways, notable quotes and also a recommendation if it's actually worth watching in full.

In the first week about 10 videos came through and i didnt watch a single one. The emails coming through were giving me everything i needed, everything i was originally watching the videos for, but without any of the actual watching and time sink. Literally a couple of minutes for each one.

It's really felt cathartic, removed a massive weight i was carrying trying to keep up, and fixed the bad sleeping habit that had taken over...

I've realised what's happening is actually because of two problems. Not enough time, and no way to filter what's worth your time before you're already deep into YouTube at 11pm (at least in my case).

I'm building this into a proper product now and even just using it personally has changed things massively for me. Now I'm wondering how others deal with this type of problem, if they have the same problem... Do you have a system, or do you just accept you won't keep up and miss out on stuff?

I've been trying to grow my main business and as a byproduct of that, I got into a bad habit with YouTube. Basically, most nights I'd get into in bed and fire up YouTube and start watching videos finding it hard to stop... AI, business, side hustles... it was draining and overloading.

Those types of videos aren't relaxing ones either, and 30–40 minutes really adds up and began messing with my sleep.

I didnt really get on top of it either, I'd miss some videos and wasn't really keeping up with them, and i didnt want to miss out...so during the day when I saw those videos I’d missed and didn’t have time to watch them, I started copying the transcript from the video, pasting it into ChatGPT, and asking it to summarise for me.

It worked really well, I got the key points without watching the whole thing. But it was really manual and I'd still miss videos.

This all changed when I began experimenting with Claude, I've always been in ChatGPT but for work i wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out, and straight away I was impressed.

I thought about trying vibe coding again, or whatever it would be in Claude to build something, and thought why not automate my YouTube summary habit... I'd experimented with lovable about 12 months ago and never really got anywhere with it, whatever i was creating at the time would bug out and never resolve, it got frustrating and I left that whole scene.

I have zero code experience so it's like doing everything blind and not knowing what anything does.

Anyway, I thought I'd give it a go with Claude as I'd heard about claude code etc...but I didn't really know where to start, so got a pro sub, and I started vibe coding the project but ended up doing it all in chat, not sure if that was right, or if i should have used claude code!

Either way, I managed to actually build my project and complete a first version that I'm super proud of, its's the first time I've ever built something like this from start to finish and with it actually working and in something i think is really useful.

What it does is:

- lets you add the YouTube channels you want to follow
- it watches those specific YouTube channels for you
- pulls the transcript as soon as a new video drops
- turns it into a structured summary (TL;DR, key points, actionable steps, etc.) and emails it to you straight away in a nicely formatted email
- you also have your own dashboard to view all your summaries in

Now instead of watching everything and trying to keep up, I just add the key channels i don't want to miss out on, they get scanned when they drop automatically, and I get all the key content in email/dashboard and can decide whether i still need to watch it or if I have the best bits already.

I can basically check what 10 channels posted in a few minutes instead of hours. I love it!

Like i said, I’m not a developer (used AI to build all of it), which feels like a massive achievement as I felt blind through it....i'm sure i've done lots of stuff in weird ways, but for me it really works, and i've tested it loads.

Launched it yesterday (woohoo!) and… currently have 1 user (me 😅)

Main thing I’m wondering about:

Does this sound genuinely useful, or is this just solving my own behaviour?

I can’t tell if this is:

- a real problem a lot of people have
- or just something I personally over-optimised

If you'd like to check it out... www.summree.io is the link.

Also, my next fear is never getting eyes on it, need to work that part out too...all feedback would be super-helpful.

Thank you