I've always liked the idea of decorating my laptop with stickers.

But every time I looked for a tool to actually design one — something that lets you see how it looks on the lid before printing — I came up short.

So I built StickPad.

What is StickPad?

StickPad is a browser-based sticker maker designed specifically for laptop lid stickers.

You create text or image stickers on an infinite canvas, then open them in a laptop simulator to see exactly how they'll sit on a MacBook Air lid — scale, rotate, reorder, and pick the laptop finish before you export.

No guessing. No "hope it fits" moments.

The Two Modes

Prototype Canvas (/)
Add text or image stickers, tune the outline, edge finish, shadow, texture, and material — then export as PNG, JPEG, or WebP.

Laptop Simulator (/simulator)
Pick a sticker from the gallery shelf, place it on a MacBook Air 13" lid, resize, rotate, reorder, change the laptop color — and export the final look.

There's also a legacy route (/old) that keeps the original Sticker Forge studio for reference.

Built on Top of Something Great

StickPad is a fork of CatsJuice/sticker-forge.

The core WebGL sticker engine — the part that handles rendering, materials, and all the heavy lifting — is inherited from upstream. I didn't reinvent that wheel.

What I built on top is the product layer:
the prototype canvas, the laptop-lid simulator, and the deploy pipeline.

Basically, I took a powerful engine and turned it into something I actually wanted to use.

Why It Matters

StickPad taught me something important:

You don't always need to build from scratch.
Sometimes the real skill is knowing what to keep, what to change, and what to ship.

It's not the biggest project I've made.
But it's the one that made me think like a product builder — not just a coder.

And honestly?
Seeing my stickers actually sit on a virtual MacBook lid before printing them?

That never gets old.