... Tried everything for long-distance hangouts and nothing felt right. Google Meet and Zoom felt like meetings. Discord felt cluttered and not built for just hanging out. So I built Couch. It s a simple space where you can watch movies, play games, and hang out with friends in real time without switching apps or dealing with setup. The goal was to make it feel like sitting on the same couch

... brainstorming features and broadcast logic with ChatGPT . For the initial POC, I used Base44 and Lovable to get a feel for the product. However, I wanted to be more "hands-on" with the code, so I moved to VS Code with Copilot . Once Google's Antigravity (Gemini 3 Pro) was launched, I used it heavily for UI/UX it absolutely blew everything else out of the water when it came to designing the retro remote interface. The Tech Specs: Linear Broadcasting ... ... hurdles: edge cases in broadcast logic, performance issues, and moments where the AI suggested inefficient solutions that required my experience to optimize. Now, I m finalizing an Android TV APK so we can zap through channels from the couch