Idea Nebula

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Inspiration

As my use of AI has increased, my creative capacity has also been growing. With this, I have a ton of ideas that come to me daily, if not more frequently! Keeping track of all these ideas, prioritizing them, and avoiding the loss of previous ones are all challenges I face. In my day job as a software engineer, we use tools like JIRA or ADO to manage work, but something like that is way overkill for a single person working on a few passion projects. To solve this, I built Idea Nebula.

What it does

It's a simple interface that lets you add new ideas. New ideas have a title, description, and category. The intent here is not to be a project management tool, but just a place to incubate and evolve ideas. Everything is client-side and built with the user's privacy top of mind, ensuring no data ever leaves their device.

How we built it

I used bolt.new and started with a general prompt. It created "Idea Manager" with a pretty cool design, but I hated the name so I went to ChatGPT to help come up with a better name. Once I had my name, I came back to bolt.new to iterate and provide it the new name. It came up with a cool space-themed design to match the name, which I immediately fell in love with. I eventually got it to a point where I just needed to take over and get it more production-ready. It's still not 100% where I want it - a lot of duplicate code and large files that I want to split into multiple modules - but it's working software! I deployed to GitHub pages to minimize costs and set it all up as progress web app so you can install it on mobile devices (or any device that supports PWAs).

Challenges we ran into

The initial generation from Bolt.new was phenomenal. However, iterating on the project was challenging as it would often introduce bugs and break functionality that was previously working.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

From idea to execution and delivery in 24 hours (6/14/2025-6/15/2025)

What we learned

Bolt is a very powerful alternative to similar tools that I've used like Lovable and V0. I prefer that Bolt can generate Angular code where V0 does React of course. I really like the Bolt interface and the results from Bolt felt a bit more creative than what I've seen from competitors.

What's next for Idea Nebula

I'm wondering about the idea of teams or families. I think offering a version that does persist data and allows you to share ideas with a group, team or family at a cost could be an interesting business model.

Built With

• angular.js
• bolt
• chatgpt
• copilot
• github
• material
• nx
• pages
• pwa
• typescript