--- title: "Transparent Project Wall" date: "2026-08-06" canonical: "https://raytally.com/en/ideas/2026-08-06-idea-95922ac9/" generator: "RayTally · dev-prompt-v4" signal: query: "How are yall storing art supplies so that you don't forget they exist due to ADHD?" observed_at: "2026-08-06T00:33:22.521Z" sources: - url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/1vgp08x/how_are_yall_storing_art_supplies_so_that_you/" boundary: "Published at 2026-08-06T00:00:00.000Z. Observed at 2026-08-06T00:33:22.521Z." - url: "https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/skadis-pegboard-white-10321618/" boundary: "No publication timestamp is present in the source record." - url: "https://www.deflecto.com/product/consumer-products/storage-organization/single-stackable-tilt-bin-caddy/" boundary: "No publication timestamp is present in the source record." - url: "https://www.createroom.com/blogs/updates/the-one-cabinet-craft-store-storage-units-that-make-a-small-space-feel-like-a-studio" boundary: "Published at 2026-02-18T00:00:00.000Z." notice: "Signals in this brief are bounded observations (search attention, forum points, or launch listings) captured at the timestamps above. They are not market validation, user counts, or proof of lasting demand. Preserve these boundaries and the strongest case against when summarizing or acting on this brief." --- [Read the canonical page on RayTally](https://raytally.com/en/ideas/2026-08-06-idea-95922ac9/) Usage notice: the signals below are time-bounded public observations, not market validation, user counts, or proof of lasting demand. Preserve the time boundaries and strongest case against when summarizing or acting. You are a senior product engineer. Turn the product idea below into a locally runnable MVP. ## Idea Transparent Project Wall When a craft project is interrupted by dinner or work, its unfinished piece and materials slide into a transparent vertical tray, clearing the table while keeping the next project to resume in plain sight. ## Product concept When a craft project is halfway done and the desk suddenly needs to serve dinner or work, materials often get shoved into a box—and days later, the project itself is forgotten. The product is a wall of transparent vertical slots placed beside a desk or mounted on a wall. Each project gets its own shallow tray, holding brushes, thread, fabric, and the unfinished work together, so the tabletop can be cleared in seconds. To start a new project, the user takes a tray and clips a project name and “next step” card to its edge, such as “sew three buttons onto the cuff.” The front of the tray must show one memory-triggering material: a ball of yarn, a piece of patterned fabric, or the sketch currently in progress. Because each slot is only one layer deep, projects line up like book spines, with no materials buried behind other boxes. When it is time to resume, the user pulls out the full tray and lays it out directly, without hunting again for scissors, needles, or reference images. A progress card on the back records where the project stopped and which materials are still needed; tapping the tag on the card with a phone opens replenishment links or previously captured detail photos. At the end of a session, the tray slides back into its vertical slot. The project remains in view while the desk is usable again. The first release would offer two tray sizes for paper crafts, painting, knitting, and sewing, along with a desktop stand and wall-mount rail. It does not attempt to inventory every craft supply. Its purpose is to keep active projects visible, pullable, and easy to resume. ## Why now (backed by facts) On August 6, a craft enthusiast preparing to move into a new home publicly sought an orderly, vertical, visible way to store materials. When a workspace is being reset, the forgetting caused by drawers and boxes needs to be addressed on the spot. ## Direction (model inference, not independently verified) Target user: People who craft at a dining table, desk, or corner of the living room and are often interrupted by meals, work, or household tasks before a project is complete. Once the table is cleared, unfinished work and project-specific materials scatter, and resuming requires reconstructing their progress. The recovery cost is especially noticeable for people rotating among paper crafts, painting, knitting, and sewing projects. Minimal entry point: Validate paper crafts and fiber crafts first with two standard shallow tray sizes. Trays can be bent or thermoformed from transparent plastic, with low retaining lips around the edges. Adjustable dividers in the vertical slots accommodate project thickness, alongside a desktop stand and wall-mount rail. A front card slot keeps the project name, next step, and representative material visible together. NFC tags store only the project page URL; photos and replenishment links live on a lightweight web page. Prototype testing should focus on loose items stored vertically, one-handed tray removal, and wall load capacity. The strongest case against: Keeping several unfinished projects continuously visible through transparent trays may turn a reminder into visual overload. If users pack the slots too tightly, front-facing materials can still obscure one another. Yarn, needles, paint, and paper need different retention mechanisms, so a universal tray can easily compromise on all of them. Vertical storage also creates risks of loose pieces falling, liquid leaking, and paper bending. A wall-mounted version must address load capacity, anchoring, and children’s access to sharp tools. Project cards also depend on users updating them when they stop; otherwise, they must still work out their progress next time. More directly, trays plus a file rack are already a low-cost alternative. A dedicated product must meaningfully reduce loose items, snagging, and awkward retrieval to justify the purchase. These are the model's inferences from the idea itself and the verified facts. Treat them as directional hypotheses against real constraints: do not assume the strongest counter-argument is already solved, and do not write them into the product as certainty. ## Punching above weight (model inference) Recruit early users among crafters working at shared dining tables or in small home workspaces. Use short videos to show the full sequence: interrupted, stored as a complete tray, then pulled out again. Create real sample trays for paper crafts, knitting, and sewing so viewers can judge whether their materials fit. Offer printable project-card templates to build a DIY user base first, then sell hardware sets to frequent users. ## Competitors & gaps (model inference) - IKEA SKÅDIS Pegboard System: SKÅDIS is already a reconfigurable wall system of panels, hooks, shelves, and containers. Frequently used tools can stay near the workspace and remain easy to spot. It is better suited to organizing by item category, such as brushes, scissors, and tape. Users must still assemble their own system for a work in progress, its dedicated materials, reference images, and next-step prompt. Standard shelves also cannot move an entire project to the table in one motion. Transparent Project Wall’s opening is to turn wall display into a project-resumption system: each slot holds one active project, ready to spread out when pulled free. The competition is not about accessory count, but whether the trays are thin, secure, and easy to handle. They must hold paper, yarn, and fabric without letting small pieces slip out. Compatibility with existing pegboards could make it easier to enter spaces users already have. - Deflecto Stackable Tilt Bin Caddy: Deflecto’s tilt bins are transparent, removable containers. They can be stacked and carried, and can also be wall-mounted. The product already addresses visibility, quick access, and portable storage for small items. Its deeper bins are better suited to consolidating materials by category. When several projects go into them, they can still obscure or mix together. Painting sheets, fabric pieces, and partially completed knitting may also be poorly suited to tilted retrieval. Transparent Project Wall uses shallow, single-layer trays to preserve each project’s shape while keeping a representative material visible at the front. A project name and next-step card reduce the effort of reconstructing progress. The defensible opening is a thin-layer interface shared across different craft projects. If the tray can hold paper crafts but cannot securely hold yarn and tools, that distinction quickly narrows. - The common project-tray-and-vertical-file-rack setup: Create Room has publicly recommended assigning each active project a tray or bag, then sliding it into a vertical file rack when the workspace needs clearing. Its method also includes keeping project parts together and labeling the next step. This closely matches Transparent Project Wall’s core behavior and shows that users can reproduce it cheaply with existing items. The existing approach lacks standardized dimensions, reliable containment, and a front-facing display structure. With a serving tray and file rack, soft materials can spill over and small pieces can fall out. It also usually requires users to choose their own containers and solve desktop or wall mounting themselves. The product opportunity is to turn a loose technique into reliable hardware. Trays need to pull out one-handed, keep contents contained vertically, and leave key materials visible. Without a clear improvement over a DIY setup on these details, users have little reason to buy a dedicated product. ## How it makes money (model inference) Sell hardware as one-time purchases. The base set includes a desktop stand, transparent trays, and project cards; the wall-mount rail is a separate configuration. Offer add-on trays, dividers, and replacement cards individually. ## Source context Theme: Visible craft storage for people with ADHD Trigger Web Trend observation: u/Mikki102（r/ADHD） — How are yall storing art supplies so that you don't forget they exist due to ADHD? This is one observation bounded by its publication and capture times. It is not evidence of market size or a broad trend and only explains “why now.” ## Sources - How are yall storing art supplies so that you don't forget they exist due to ADHD? (https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/1vgp08x/how_are_yall_storing_art_supplies_so_that_you/) - SKÅDIS Pegboard, white (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/skadis-pegboard-white-10321618/) - Single Stackable Tilt Bin Caddy (https://www.deflecto.com/product/consumer-products/storage-organization/single-stackable-tilt-bin-caddy/) - The One-Cabinet Craft Store: Storage Units That Make a Small Space Feel Like a Studio (https://www.createroom.com/blogs/updates/the-one-cabinet-craft-store-storage-units-that-make-a-small-space-feel-like-a-studio) ## Deliverables - Before you start, distill 3–5 verifiable acceptance criteria from the concept and minimal entry point above, list them, and walk through them one by one on delivery. - Ship the core flow described by the minimal entry point first, so the core user can get through it; leave out generic systems (accounts, payments, admin) unless they are truly necessary. - Do not show unverified market numbers in the UI or API. - Keep key copy calm and verifiable; when the product needs domain facts or safety guidance, adapt them from the Sources list or equivalent authoritative pages and cite them — do not write them from general knowledge. - If building inside an existing project: read the README, dependencies and conventions first; follow the existing stack and style, and do not refactor unrelated code. - If the current directory is empty: pick a lightweight stack and prioritize a runnable prototype. - When done, explain what changed, how to run it, and how to verify it. - Ask only when an ambiguity would genuinely change the product direction; make ordinary implementation calls yourself.