A summarizer that wanted to be a brain
Recapio summarises YouTube videos and lets you chat with them and save what matters. Andrej Šimunaj took it over with real traffic and a bigger idea: an AI brain for everything you come across. In his words, "I want to start remembering. And I want to be able to recap all of it." The brand he had was plain, and most of the effort was to go into the website.
Making the case for a brand
Andrej asked a fair question for a lean product: does looking polished even help? We argued it does, because trust and memory are what make people come back to a tool like this, and he was sold. From four directions he chose an angular brain built from circuits and neurons, a mark that avoids the stock brain icon. Around it, a light identity: calm whites, a blue primary because blue reads as trust, and supporting colours used sparingly, each tied to a type of content.
Two weeks to a homepage
The brand and the homepage came together in about two weeks. The homepage got shorter as it got clearer, almost half its first length, and Andrej called it "90 plus percent" there on the first review. Then the rest of the site: pricing, a "Who is it for" page, use cases, templates for content pages and the blog, and share images for every video and expert page.
Designed for a product that kept moving
Early usage showed that chat wasn't quite the right shape for a second brain. As Recapio moved towards one-click cards you can edit and save, and a workspace for everything you keep, we sketched the product UI alongside, so the brand and the app would feel like one thing.