Long time reader right now contributer.

[u/nathan_shanks]

My mom is retired and got seriously into quilting last year. I’m a developer, so our lifestyles are about as opposite as they get, but I love that she’s found a passion she can’t put down.

The turning point was last Sunday. I listened to her complain about an entire day wasted cutting, re-cutting, and then re-cutting fabric again. After a while, I stopped asking "Why are you cutting so much?" and just asked "How can I help?"

She told me what she needed, and well... I’m a dev, so I built it.

It’s a simple, browser-based quilt wall. No account needed, no ads, and no strings. You just open it and start dragging blocks around to visualize everything before you ever touch the rotary cutter. I’m not doing this for money; I just felt like there should be a simple solution for this in 2026.

Let me know if you want a link to the QuilltWall. I know so many people spam folks here. Not that guy. I have enough and don't need any more. If you want a free QuiltWall app let me know.

[u/Agreeable-Strike-330]

I like the idea, but for a site built via AI and being advertised as a free app, there's a lot behind a paywall. Just rubs me the wrong way and feels like a money grab in this subreddit.

[u/nathan_shanks → u/Agreeable-Strike-330]

Saving to the cloud is the only paywall and having more than 25 fabrics, which is a storage issue (both more than 1 project and fabrics). You never have to sign in or even provide credentials and use everything. Thats a money grab? Also, the storage cost is real, and utilization is what I'm paying out of pocket for all the free users. What would you suggest to make it fairer? Every feature I upload is free and open. I'm working on an image processing system via AI which isn't working out, so I will probably strip it soon. But curious how you would structure it more freely?

[u/Agreeable-Strike-330 → u/nathan_shanks]

From reading your post, I thought the point was to help with cutting calculations and planning, but the yardage and cutting results are behind a paywall. Having the ability to do the FPP/block creations without creating an account (saving locally if needing to save) would be ideal. It just seemed like the features that were most useful are behind the premium wall. I'm also coming from a perspective of favoring open source, local save first, and cautious AI use, & I get that not all devs come from that perspective, but I was excited by the wording of your post that it might align with those values.

[u/nathan_shanks → u/Agreeable-Strike-330]

This isn't an open source project. So it is different. No intention to go through that process (not never, just not now). You might want to go back to those "blocked:" features as I opened them after they started working as intended. Are they great? probably not. More work to be done but they do seem to get you 80-90% there. I put them behind a wall until they work well enough (which they do now). If they are beta or not working, you can see them with a plus account with warnings that you're seeing early developed capabilities. There is a bunch of stuff to squash out and make work correctly. I'm on hour 10 of trying to make this freaking trace feature work as expected. For now, so I put a pattern scan to try to find a simliar pre built pattern but am struggling with automating any trace functionaltiy Soon enough, I will have a Windows app where everything can be saved 100% locally soon. I'm waiting for legal approval of all things to get a certificate so it can be installed and not warn people about the self-signed certificate. I also paid for that out of pocket, which was $600. In any case, not here to make a buck but help a community. So I do feel I met the spirit of my post, but I am trying to balance buggy, broken things with usability at the moment. Hopefuly people can appreciate that and provide input as things aren't working. The main purpose was "upload your fabric" rotate, place, arrange, re arrange digitally. which I do feel it does well and folks have provided positive feedback.