I'm a Designer Who Hoards Tutorials. So I Built a Fix.

Let me paint you a picture.

It's Sunday afternoon. You've blocked off two hours to finally learn that Figma Auto Layout trick you've been meaning to nail. You open your bookmarks folder (the one confidently titled "Learn Later") and stare into the abyss.

247 items. Tutorials, courses, YouTube videos, Figma community files, random blog posts from 2022 you saved at 11pm on a Tuesday thinking this is the one that changes everything.

You scroll. You hover. You open three tabs. You close all three. You end up on Instagram.

Sound familiar?

That's my life. That was my life. And it's why I built StackMark, a bookmark manager for designers built around one idea: actually finishing what you save.

Hi. I'm Mert. I'm a designer who hoards tutorials for sport.

I'm a UI/UX designer based in Istanbul, and I've spent years collecting design resources the way other people collect vintage sneakers: with enormous enthusiasm and absolutely no intention of ever using them.

My system, if you could call it that, looked like this:

• A Chrome bookmarks folder called "Figma Stuff" (83 items)
• A YouTube Watch Later playlist with 140 videos (I have watched maybe 12)
• An Instagram saved posts collection that is essentially a visual graveyard
• Three Notion pages titled "Resources," "Resources v2," and "Resources ACTUAL"
• A screenshots folder on my desktop that I have not opened since March

I wasn't disorganized. I was aggressively organized about saving things I would never look at again.

Here's the number that broke me: 247 design tutorials saved. 8 watched. A 3.2% completion rate. I have done worse at learning than if I had saved nothing at all, because at least then I wouldn't have the guilt.

Why every bookmark manager for designers is solving the wrong problem

Every bookmark manager on the market optimizes for the wrong thing.

Raindrop? Beautiful. Lets you organize bookmarks into collections with gorgeous visual previews. I have a Raindrop account. My collections are immaculate. I never open them.

Pocket? Shut down in 2026. Rest in peace.

Notion? Incredible tool. My design resources page is a work of art. It is also completely useless because opening Notion to "study" requires twelve decisions before I've learned anything.

These tools optimize for saving and finding. But the real problem isn't that you can't find your tutorials. The real problem is that you never go back to them at all.

The intent was always real. You saved that Figma prototyping tutorial because you genuinely wanted to learn Figma prototyping. Then life happened, three weeks passed, and now it's just another ghost in a folder named "Learn Later."

The best bookmark manager for designers is not the one with the prettiest collections. It's the one that actually gets you to finish what you save.

So I built StackMark, an AI-powered bookmark manager for designers.

StackMark is a bookmark manager and design tutorial tracker built exclusively for designers who save resources they never come back to.

Here's how it works:

Save it once. You click the Chrome extension on any tutorial, video, course, or design resource. Done. AI auto-tags it instantly. No manual input, no folder decisions, no friction.

Get a daily nudge. Every morning, StackMark sends you a digest with 3 specific things to tackle today. Not 15. Not a full reading list. Three. Chosen based on what you've been avoiding the longest.

Track your progress. The dashboard shows your completion rate front and center. Not how many things you've saved, but how many you've actually finished. It's a subtle but brutal difference.

Feel the momentum. As you complete things, your stats go up. Your streak builds. The guilt slowly transforms into something that actually feels like learning.

Tagline: Stop stacking. Start finishing.

How StackMark compares to other bookmark managers

Here is how StackMark stacks up against the alternatives. Raindrop.io is beautiful for organization but has no completion focus, no AI tagging, and no daily digest. Readwise Reader does spaced repetition for text but ignores video entirely and costs $12 to $18 a month. Notion and Pocket have no completion features at all. StackMark is the only tool in this space built specifically around finishing, with AI tagging and a daily digest of 3 items baked in from day one.

Where things stand right now

I launched the waitlist at stackmark.io and started validating whether this problem is real enough for people to pay for a solution.

Spoiler: it is. Turns out I'm not the only designer drowning in a sea of unfinished tutorials. (Who knew.)

The tech stack is live: Next.js, Supabase, TailwindCSS, deployed on Vercel. I'm using Claude's API for AI tagging. The landing page has a waitlist form with actual validation questions because I'm not here to collect vanity metrics. I want to know if people will pay $7/month for this. Real answers only.

The build is happening in public. I'm documenting everything: the wins, the bugs, the moments where I question my life choices at 2am after a Supabase migration goes sideways.

Why I'm writing this

This blog is the home base for everything I'm building at thnx studio.

I'm a solo founder with a $100 budget, 30 hours a week, and a genuinely unhealthy obsession with solving my own problems through software. StackMark is the first thing I've shipped publicly. It won't be the last.

I'll be writing here about:

• The honest, unglamorous process of building a SaaS as a designer who didn't know how to code six months ago
• What's actually working in the validation and marketing (and what's not)
• The decisions, the pivots, the "why did I think that was a good idea" moments
• Other tools I'm building under the thnx studio umbrella

If you're a designer who has ever looked at your bookmarks folder and felt a deep, specific kind of shame, this is for you.

And if you want to be among the first people to try StackMark when it launches, the waitlist is open.

See you on the other side of 247 tutorials.

— Mert

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Thnx. Studio is where I build things. StackMark is the first one. Follow along.