I started this as a joke on X: giving out “Touched Grass” badges to random people when they actually went outside.
The process was fully manual: download their profile image, fire up GIMP, put a silly AI-generated badge on it, save it, and post it back. After getting more and more “requests”, I built a small Next.js tool that let me upload the profile image and choose a badge.
Last weekend I finally decided to turn it into a full project. It lets you look up any X user, loads their profile picture, and lets you choose from different badges. Each badge comes with a shareable link with a nice social preview, so it looks great on X, Slack, Discord, or anywhere else.
Yesterday I decided to add premium badges access costs $4.99. The feature took me about 1 hour to ship, and 20 minutes after deployment I got my first customer.
Absolute dopamine hit!