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Hey HN,

I got tired of the friction in building and sharing wishlists. Most platforms (like Amazon) are either walled gardens or require arbitrary account creation for the people actually trying to buy the gift, which leads to huge drop-off and everyone just reverting to texting each other.

I built wish.dog to be the fastest possible execution of a wishlist utility. The goal was: "From intention to a shareable list in under 30 seconds."

The Challenges:

The hardest part was engineering the "claiming" system for guests without requiring authentication. I had to compromise by asking for email, but mostly I rely on local storage and session fingerprints. I focused heavily on mobile performance since 90% of list-sharing happens via WhatsApp or similar.

It's completely free. I'd love feedback on the performance, the gifter experience, and the overall UI snappiness. Happy to answer any questions about the stack or the build!