Viralhooks

🧠 Inspiration

• ViralHooks 1.0 lived in Airtable — functional, but not fun.
  
• Creators loved it, but we hated being stuck on Airtable.
  
• Back in Oct 2024, Bolt 1.0 was too limited to bring our vision to life.
  
• Fast forward: Bolt leveled up — so did we. A clean, futuristic, AI powered ViralHooks was born.
  

🚀 What it does

• API-integrated with Airtable to ingest curated viral content.
  
• Parsed into our own Supabase-powered SaaS dashboard.
  
• Integrated with Claude API for on-demand script generation.
  
• From swipe file → viral-ready script in seconds.
  

🛠️ How we built it

• ⚙️ Frontend: Built with Bolt
  
• 🧠 Backend: Supabase for our database, Airtable for legacy data
  
• 🤖 AI Integration: Claude API for hook-to-script functionality
  

🧩 Challenges we ran into

• Airtable API permissions refused to cooperate at first (classic).
  
• Rebuilding the structure while migrating from Airtable wasn’t easy.
  
• Designing a UI that’s sexy and actually usable took some finesse.
  

🏆 Accomplishments

• ⚫ Sleek black minimal UI (yes, it's hot).
  
• 🔥 MVP live and working within 48 hours.
  
• 🧠 Created a fast, scrollable, dopamine-packed inspiration engine.
  

📚 What we learned

• Bolt’s now a legit SaaS builder — timing really is everything.
  
• Creators want results, not more research.
  
• If it’s not fun to use, no one uses it. Period.
  

🔮 What’s next

• 💰 Launching $97/month subscription (limited early slots).
  
• 🤖 AI hook-to-script & caption builder (powered by Claude).
  
• 🎧 Viral sound + faceless Reels vault for creators.
  
• 🧠 Team boards, saved collections, and content calendar coming soon.

Built With

• airtable
• bolt
• claude
• make
• netlify
• openai
• supabase