Pure creative play: building an animated passport view
Today I wanted to do something purely creative, with no pressure, no roadmap, no expectations.
A few months ago, during Shipaton 2025, I built Stampie — a React Native app for collecting digital passport stamps. It’s a small idea, but one I’ve always felt emotionally connected to. Travel, memory, collecting moments: it all fits naturally.
Today I went back to it from a different angle.
I’ve been playing around with Nano Banana Pro on Google recently, mostly to understand its strengths around animated views, which is honestly one of my weaker areas. And… it completely blew my mind.
I added animated passport pages to the Stampie landing page, and suddenly the whole idea clicked in a new way.
Now I’m thinking:
- moving the stamp illustrations I already created to the web
- building a simple, playful web version using local storage
- treating it as a creative showcase rather than a “product”
- adding share functionality later
- syncing it with the mobile app eventually
- and even reusing the same animated view inside the React Native app
It feels like one of those ideas with a natural viral pull: not because it’s optimized, but because it’s emotionally relatable. People who love traveling tend to love collecting little proofs of where they’ve been.
For me, it also has a strong personal backstory, which makes it even more fun to revisit.
I’m not rushing it. I’ll pick it up slowly and let it evolve when the time feels right.
For now, there’s a very early prototype live: 👉 https://stampie.app