Every emoji tool I could find did the same thing: let you pick from a fixed set of combos.

Emoji Kitchen has 50K+ monthly visitors exactly because people love emoji combinations. But it's just a lookup table — Google pre-rendered ~40,000 combinations and serves them as static images. There's no AI, no creativity, no support for combinations that don't exist in the dataset.

I wanted to build something different: type two emoji, get a brand-new AI-generated image that's never existed before, with a transparent background so you can actually use it anywhere.

Here's how Forgemoji works under the hood.

A quick note on scope: I'm a UI/UX designer by trade, so I handled the full product — interface design, interaction design, and the engineering.…