📍Building #4: I Made a Kaomoji Playground!

hey friends from anywhere (っ'-')╮

I built a little kaomoji playground over the weekend — my first-ever tool!
૮ ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈ෆა Experimenting was so much fun (and chaotic in the best way).

It’s still rough around the edges and has a long way to go before it’s truly good and beautiful — but! I made it!

🔗 Check it out here → amywhere.app

home for all my side projects

ᰔ ❨•¨⬮ ᰔ Here’s how it works

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Generate random kaomojis
Customize them + click to copy (with a cute sound!)
Drag them around
Tidy them up into a grid
Save to folders, create & rename folders
Export your collections
you can even pick your favorite app color 💖

And yes… you can leave and come back to play anytime.

No more messy copy/paste from everywhere. Now I can create and keep my own kaomoji collections!

˶• ༝ •˶ Thoughts from a no-code, business-background designer

Building this as someone with no engineering background made me realize a lot — especially how AI helps us approach design and product differently:

1. AI helps us experiment faster

Stuck on a visual? Screenshot a reference and ask AI to remix it.
Don’t like what you got? Just roll back to a previous checkpoint.
It’s like working with an assistant — but you’ve got to be super clear.
Show examples. Describe the vibe. Otherwise, AI has no idea what you’re imagining.

2. But… product taste is the key

To make something truly yours (and not just another AI-generated Tailwind template), you need taste. The more design references you’ve absorbed, the more unique your output can be. AI is amazing for generating — but you still need to choose, tweak, and vibe-check it.

3. Test quickly → learn quickly

Building fast means you can gather feedback fast too. And that’s how you grow.

I’m also learning to think more systematically — how features connect, the logic behind every action, and how to design for all the edge cases.

4. Limitations

Debugging with AI takes patience — it’s not perfect. Sometimes when logic gets too complex, changing one feature breaks another.

So now I ask things like:
→ “Can you explain how all these parts connect?”
→ “What are your limitations before I request this?”

This saves me time and helps avoid messy loops.

Still learning, still vibing. Hope future me gets better at this!

stay up late but so much fun

⋆⑅˚₊♡ Things that kept me inspired lately

Framer’s new live editing — update content directly on the site without touching the canvas. Just click & change!

Sunset Rollercoaster’s new album — Quit Quietly
Calming, dreamy, and jazzy synth-pop magic.
(They’re a 5-piece band from Taiwan and I love them!)

Movie: Perfect Days
A slow, beautiful story that made me fall in love with quiet routines again.
“Next time is next time, now is now.” — this line lives rent-free in my head.

After leaving this building…

Thanks for stopping by — hope this one left you feeling a little more inspired 🌷

I also went on a solo trip to Chicago recently and totally fell in love with the city. Sharing a few fav shots here — and if you’re curious, come hang on my Instagram for more♡

see you in the next building 📍
Amy H. • ༝ •