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AI builds message-in-a-bottle app from vague prompt

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 31, 2025
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A Reddit user going by enigma_x asked Claude AI to “build me an app that would delight me.” It generated a digital message-in-a-bottle service where strangers send anonymous notes across a pixelated ocean.

You write something, cast it into the virtual sea, and receive someone else’s bottled thought in return. The messages range from genuinely moving (”Be…

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