A personal relationship map that helps you remember what matters, stay intentional, and be a better friend.
starmap is a relationship management tool. Instead of treating your network as a flat contact list, it models your social world as a living graph: people, clusters, and connections.
The goal is simple: remember the little things, follow through on plans, and maintain relationships with more consistency and intention over time.
Curious? Go try starmap live at starmap.lol →
TIMELINE
March 2026—ongoing
RECOGNITION
40 users so far :)
MY USER JOURNEY
Why does it feel like I have no time?
It was the busiest summer of my life between my job, travelling, courses, and time with friends and family. I felt really burned out and I just wanted to lie on the grass and read or paint.
Time Tracking
01
I was tracking my time 24/7 with TogglTracker, and I was spending about 8% with friends - about 16% of my waking hours. I had sleep at about 32%, and family at 7%.
02
Being picky
It seemed like the answer was becoming choosier with who I chose to spend my time with. But how without data, how would I know who was real and fake?
FIRST SOLUTION
A really long list (the Notion doc)
I wrote out the names of all 60+ "friends" I had along with journal entries on our friendship, how they made me feel, and things I should remember about them. I would update this whenever I saw them or something significant happened in our relationship.
With some problems…
It was such a long document and it wasn't well organized. But on the plus side, scrolling through so much other information while trying to update someone's entry reminded me of other things that happened that I should also update.
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3 FOCUS AREAS
Making data entry fast
Updating the doc manually was helpful for staying intentional, but ultimately it was a chore and taking more time than I would have liked. So.. obviously I made an Import with AI feature.
Visualizing the social graph
What brought the "starmap" concept together for me was making constellations. I wanted to visualize my high school friend group, volleyball friends, school friends, and international ones as clusters of stars across a night sky. Here's me and 2 Cansbridge friends lit up as I selected the Cansbridge constellation.
Remembering stuff
What I actually ended up using the Notion doc more for was writing down my friends' favourite books, shows and songs they recommended to me, their birthdays and plans we wanted to make.
TESTING
More brains = better
I voluntold about 10 friends to help me test my MVP and give me suggestions. I also demoed at a Treehouse session to get comfortable explaining everything.
BUILDING A BEAUTIFUL DESIGN SYSTEM
Home page
For the home page, I wanted some kind of motion— and the twinkling star animation worked perfectly! I researched lots of other landing pages, and a "call to action"/"what we do" short tagline worked best in the hero section. "Sohne" was the perfect font for my vision (found it on 50 fonts for 2025 (where I find all my fonts)).
I kept going back and forth between black and white backgrounds, while desperately wanting it to be colourful. Cursor understood my vibes and gave my a super pretty pastel gradient. I put my friends' names into this section if you can find them. I'm learning a lot about motion graphics and animation.
VERSION 2
Real users gave me feedback
I posted my project on LinkedIn and gained 30+ new users. After a week or so I emailed all of them for feedback on the app and got some interesting responses. I was able to immediately implement their suggested improvements (you might notice if you try it out!)
Mobile works too
I love the mobile version :)
REFLECTIONS
It's fun to make stuff that real people use.
