I built a mini business in an afternoon

How connecting Lovable, Kit, Relay.app, and Nano Banana let a non-technical founder build an automated LinkedIn-to-fantasy-map tool in one afternoon.

By Mollie Amkraut Mueller · February 3, 2026 · 2 min read

Last Thursday afternoon I built this:

It's a tool that turns your LinkedIn profile into a fantasy career map. Every role becomes a realm. Every pivot becomes an adventure.

You paste in your LinkedIn URL and instantly get a personalized, illustrated map of your professional journey.

I've been tinkering with LinkedIn profile digests and visual ideas like this for a while, but this is the first time it's come together so easily.

Here's what's wild: I didn't write any code. I didn't make any of the art. I just connected four tools and let them do the work.

The stack:

Lovable built the website
Kit captures the form submissions
Relay.app orchestrates the automation
Nano Banana (Gemini's image generation) creates the maps

When someone submits their LinkedIn URL, Relay reads their profile, writes a prompt, sends it to Nano Banana, gets the image back, and emails it to them. Automatically. I do nothing.

None of these tools require technical skills. If you can write a prompt and click some buttons, you can use them.

Why this matters beyond a fun side project:

A year ago, this wasn't possible. The image generation wasn't good enough. The tools didn't talk to each other smoothly. You'd need a developer to stitch it together.

Now? Four tools crossed a threshold at the same time. And suddenly someone like me can build something like this in a weekend.

I think we're going to see a lot more of this, people turning passion projects into micro-businesses because the barrier to building just dropped dramatically.

I'm already imagining where this could go: anniversary maps that trace a couple's journey together, graduation maps for students, wedding maps showing how two paths converged. Maybe partnering with a print shop to turn these into framed gifts.

That's all future stuff. For now, I just wanted to share what's possible.

Want to see your career as a quest map?

Try it here: careerquestmaps.lovable.app

It's free while I'm experimenting. If you love yours, post it on LinkedIn and tag me. I'd love to see your journey.

And if you get your map and think "my team should do this together," send them the link. Comparing career maps might be the most fun team-building exercise I've accidentally invented.