Fullcircle: From saved to lived
The idea behind Fullcircle and what brought it to life.
I’m sitting on my couch, wondering where to go with my current projects.
At first, I started planning a gallery app: an app that helps people find artworks and browse them to educate themselves. Another app was already in the making: Matchapp. I was so excited about this one for the longest time. But when it came to actually building it, I stopped relating to the concept and wanted to abandon it. So what? It’s not the first AI outfit-styling app on the market. I had nothing special to offer. More specifically, I had no motivation to build the thing that would make it special. In short, I didn’t feel it.
I wanted something I could relate to, something that would help me from day to day. And what was I doing from day to day the most? What are we all doing? Scrolling, consuming, saving content we’ll probably never see again.
Something about saving a post, a workout or a recipe makes us feel good about ourselves. As in: we’re not just passively consuming, we’re active. We took action. We planned to get back to it one day.
Well, guess what. We rarely come back.
This is what I suffer from. My social media is saturated with things I saved, things I want to try, places I want to visit. And I end up doing none of them, just adding more to the mountain of content.
I need a way to break the cycle. No, better: I need a way to finally come full circle.
This is where the concept sparked in my head. What if there was a way to actually revisit the things I saved? Not your usual to-do list or reminder app, but something smarter, something you can browse. Imagine everything you consume shaping your identity and your taste. Imagine everything you see and hear finally giving you the direction you’re desperately trying to find.
This is what Fullcircle does. Two lanes: something you want to do, and something you loved. You save anything from any app or bookmark, and you get AI-generated insights on what you consume and what you actually end up doing.
Fullcircle is here to help us shape ourselves.
So, how far did I get?
Fullcircle isn’t a sketch in my notes app anymore. It’s a real app on my phone: React Native on the front, Supabase behind it, and AI doing the thinking in between. It’s on its tenth TestFlight build. Ten! Each one fixed something the last one broke.
You can share a post from Instagram straight into it. The AI suggests which lane it belongs in. You can tell it when something should come back to you: this weekend, next month. And there’s a page that reads you back to yourself, your taste and what you seem to value, based on what you saved and why.
Now the honest part. I have too many ideas. Every week there was a new one: a mood checker, a chat space, a compass that shows you where you’re heading in life. I loved all of them. But an app that tries to be everything ends up being nothing, and I was building faster than I was deciding. So I had to learn the hardest skill of all: saying “not now.” The compass is parked, not forgotten. You’ll hear about it again.
And another honest part: I’m not proud of how it looks yet. It works, but it doesn’t feel the way I want it to feel. So before anyone else sees it, it’s getting a redesign. That one deserves its own article.
What’s next
A small private beta. Not hundreds of people, just a handful who, like me, have a mountain of saved things they never touch. I want to find out one thing: does Fullcircle actually make you go back and do the things you saved?
If that’s you, write to me at yaradebian@gmail.com and tell me the one thing you saved months ago and still haven’t done. I’d love for you to be one of the first to try it.
Let’s close some circles. ◯