simpledrinks.

A minimal, premium platform for rating and discovering beverages. Search, rate, comment on, and save your favourite drinks — all from your browser.

Simple Drinks is an online beverage rating platform designed with a clean, minimal aesthetic. It lets users discover, rate, and discuss drinks with friends or the broader community.

Features

  • Rate drinks on a 0–10 scale with detailed attributes — sweetness, strength, and aftertaste
  • Search & discover drinks by name, brand, type, or location with real-time filtering
  • Comment on drinks with inline, animated comment threads
  • Save favourites to build your own personal drink collection
  • Upload drinks with image cropping and full drink metadata
  • User profiles with unique usernames and personalised collections

Tech Stack

  • Next.js — React framework (App Router)
  • Firebase — Authentication, Firestore database, Cloud Storage, and Analytics
  • Tailwind CSS — Utility-first styling
  • React Easy Crop — Image cropping on upload

Install as a Web App on iPhone

Simple Drinks works as a Progressive Web App, so you can add it to your home screen for a native app-like experience:

  1. Open Safari on your iPhone and navigate to Simple Drinks
  2. Tap the Share button (the square with an arrow pointing up) at the bottom of the screen
  3. Scroll down and tap "Add to Home Screen"
  4. Give it a name (or keep "Simple Drinks") and tap Add
  5. The app icon will appear on your home screen — tap it to launch Simple Drinks in full-screen mode, just like a native app

Tip: On Android, open the site in Chrome, tap the three-dot menu, and select "Add to Home screen" for the same experience.