Blanking on gift ideas for someone you actually know well
“My partner mentions things they'd love all year — and the moment their birthday comes I remember none of it and panic-buy a gift card.”— Hacker News ↗
Gift-suggestion sites generate generic ideas from a category. The real signal — the offhand things this specific person said they wanted — is never captured. A 'jot it when they say it, recall it at gift time' log is the missing piece.
Anyone who buys gifts for people they care about
Build a 'gift idea catcher' in Next.js. Per person, quickly jot any hint they drop ('wants a good chef's knife', 'into bouldering now'). At gift time, view the list and optionally have an LLM turn vague hints into concrete, purchasable gift suggestions with a price range. First 3 steps: (1) people list + quick-add hint form, (2) per-person hint timeline, (3) an 'ideas for upcoming occasion' view that expands hints into specific suggestions. Local storage is fine.