Stop searching. Start watching, listening, reading or playing.

The problem

The average person spends nearly 20 minutes choosing what to watch then gives up and watches nothing. Streaming platforms are optimised to keep you in their ecosystem, which means their recommendation engines surface more of what you already know, not something genuinely new. Modnar was built to break that loop.

The idea

One tap. A random suggestion. No account required to start, no algorithm deciding who you should be based on your history. Modnar randomly surfaces movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, and video games filtered by mood, genre, or rating if you want, or completely open if you don't. The goal was to make discovery feel like flipping through a friend's shelf, not scrolling a feed.

Building it

I designed and built Modnar myself as a native app within 2 weeks. A year later I used AI to assist me with development, using Claude and ChatGPT, throughout the build. Accessibility was a requirement so the app is fully screen-reader accessible. Offline modes (Guess Quest and Trivia Quest) mean it functions without a data connection, which matters in markets where coverage is inconsistent.

What it became

Modnar now covers five content categories, lets users track everything they've watched, read, listened to, and played, and syncs progress across devices. It's live on the App Store. The feedback that stuck: people say they finally watched something they'd never have found on their own.