Reddit is beautiful, let's dig in.

The idea for riblet was pretty straightforward -- due to the wild-west nature ofReddit's moderation of subreddits, the images in image-based subreddits are wildly varied in user interface.

I wanted something simple that I could use to swipe through the images as they were added, favorite some conveniently, and not among the various wild football stats I've bookmarked in /r/nfl or /r/ravens, or among the cool projects I've seen people debut in /r/startups.

I'd started on it before reddit modified their API pricing, and then decided that if there wasn't any way to monetize it, then there won't be any way to make it actually good.

Also, the Apple App Store rejected it for being 'too much like a web browser,' which I decided to take as a compliment.

Anyway, where I might have shelved it for all the work that still needed to be done, I decided I could vibe-code the remainder to at least get a functional app in a couple of days without using the Reddit APIs at all (just the JSON interfaces). It took three days, and while there are still a handful of complex components I would maybe need to write if I were trying to release this (renders for gallery and video components, mainly,) those no longer apply.