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(de)Motivator

A long-running side project that does exactly one thing: lower your self-esteem on demand. Press the button, get insulted.

Year
Apr 16 2021
For
Myself
Live at
demotivator.web.app
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(de)Motivator

A long-running side project that does exactly one thing: lower your self-esteem on demand. Press the button, get insulted.

It started in 2021 as a single-page HTML site and has since grown into:

  • A web app with a steadily expanding insult library
  • MEGAMODE, a rapid-fire mode for people who really want to be told off
  • An account system (Firebase Auth) with a per-user counter — some users are well into the thousands
  • A mobile build, via Capacitor, wrapping the same Svelte codebase into native iOS/Android shells

The whole thing lives in a Turborepo monorepo so the shared insult engine, the web app, and the mobile shell can all evolve together. Not the most serious thing I’ve built, but it’s my longest-running project and I still enjoy maintaining it.

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