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Andrew Van DykeAndrew Van Dyke

2026 · Design & full-stack development

I Wish There Was…

A live two-sided community: people with problems post wishes, people who build things mine them — with voting, threaded discussion, and search keeping the good ideas on top.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • Supabase
  • Vercel

Problem

Half of every "what should I build?" conversation is guessing at demand. The site flips it: let people state their unmet needs directly — "I wish there was…" — and give builders a ranked, searchable feed of validated frustration.

What I built

A community platform with the full social loop:

  • Wishes — authenticated users post product wishes; the feed supports search and sorting by newest, most upvoted, or most discussed.
  • Signal — real-time upvoting surfaces demand; threaded comments hold the discussion about how each wish might get built.
  • Accounts — user authentication and profiles backed by Supabase, deployed on Vercel.

Outcome

A running marketplace of problems. It demonstrates the standard social-product stack — auth, user-generated content, voting, threads, search — shipped as one coherent product rather than a tutorial pile.