48 decisions for v1.0. So Very Word is a little tool I built to fix a habit of mine: reaching for "so" and "very" in front of words. You type a word after "so/very" like so happy or very tired and it gives you stronger, more precise alternatives (elated, jubilant, euphoric… exhausted, weary, drained).
"So" and "very" are lazy filler words ("so happy," "very tired"). Swapping in a stronger, precise word normally means stopping to search a thesaurus.
A mobile-first React/Vite app: type a word after "so/very" and get ranked stronger alternatives with closeness bars, pronunciation, and definitions. A curated list handles common words instantly; the Datamuse API covers the rest. Lean stack, with every design decision logged and its reasoning.
The value was in small, tricky problems: ranking by result position instead of Datamuse's near-identical scores, converting phonetic codes to readable pronunciation, filtering suggestions by part of speech, and working around iOS's block on auto-opening the keyboard.
Shipped a working, tested, accessible tool — plus a transparent decision log capturing the whole build.