A paste-a-guide tool that turns messy how-to pages into mobile step cards
Asked for by commenters on an r/SomebodyMakeThis 'what do you wish existed' thread · original source · more from r/SomebodyMakeThis
On a phone, how-to articles are buried in popups and videos have no chapters. Paste a URL and get a clean, tick-off list of steps shown one at a time, ideally as a floating step view while you work in another app. Works best for repairs, setup and cooking-style guides.
For builders: a suggested starting point
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- Done for one weekend
- You paste a how-to link and get its steps as clean cards, shown one at a time, that you can tick off on your phone.
- Suggested shape
- Phone-first web app
- In scope
- Paste a link and fetch the page from a small server route, since browsers block reading other sites directly. Many guides mark their steps as structured how-to data or numbered lists, which is easier to read than raw text.
- Show one step per card with its text and any picture from the guide, with big next and back buttons.
- Tick off steps as you go, and keep your place if you leave and come back.
- Let the user fix the steps when a page couldn't be read well: edit, merge or delete a step.
- Always link to the original guide and name its site. The cards are a reading view for your own use, not a copy to republish.
- Optional, if there's time
- A floating step view on top of other apps, which the poster asked for. A web page can't do this; it needs an Android app.
- Save guides to open later, offline.
Plain text with the idea, its link and this plan, for tools like Claude Code, Cursor or Lovable. Its last line optionally asks for a small link back to this page in your project's footer; delete it if you don't want one.
Open — nobody's building this yet