A tool for painters who follow tutorials.

tipofmybrush turns any painting tutorial into a personalized shopping list, and remembers the recipe forever.

The problem

Tabletop miniature painters constantly find painting tutorials online — YouTube videos, blog posts, Reddit comments, Goonhammer guides. These tutorials almost never include a clean, structured paint list. Even when they do, you still have to cross-reference each paint against what you already own, figure out what you need to buy, and remember the recipe for next time.

Existing tools — spreadsheets, notes apps, hand-curated lists — don't close the loop between finding a recipe and knowing what to buy.

The loop

• Discover a tutorial somewhere online.
• Paste the text into tipofmybrush; the parser extracts the paints.
• The parser cross-references against your tracked collection.
• You see a clean list of owned vs need to buy.
• Save the recipe to your personal library, with tags and notes.
• Walk into the hobby store knowing exactly what to grab.
• Months later, pull the recipe back up to paint more minis.

Who it's for

Mid-to-deep hobbyists who actively follow online tutorials from multiple sources, care about correct paint matches (not just close-enough), and are building toward larger projects.

What it isn't

• Not a community/social product.
• Not a commerce product — no buy-now links, no affiliate revenue.
• Not a project/army manager.
• Not a paint conversion tool (Vallejo ↔ Citadel cross-references are hard and contested).
• Not a tutorial host — we keep the parsed recipe, not the original video or article.

Status

Solo build, for the author and a small launch group of community friends. Recipes and inventory are stored locally in your browser until cloud sync ships. Multi-brand support (Vallejo, Army Painter) is on the schema but the parser is Citadel-only at MVP.