From NASA Exoplanet Query to ExoVault: Building a Better Data Exploration Experience

Other project idea I recently decided to build in public was inspired by the NASA Exoplanet Query prompt from the App Ideas repository. That project eventually became ExoVault : https://github.com/johnnylemonny/ExoVault What started as a structured data query idea turned into something much more interesting for me: a more polished, cinematic interface for exploring NASA exoplanet archive data. The original prompt The NASA Exoplanet Query idea is already a really good challenge. It’s built around: working with NASA archive data, loading CSV efficiently, minimizing delays at startup, and building a query interface that lets users filter exoplanet data by fields like discovery year, method, host name, and facility. That made it appealing right away. It wasn’t just about rendering data. It was about thinking carefully about: ingestion, structure, search, and presentation. What pulled me into this idea What interested me most wasn’t only the dataset. It was the possibility of taking somethi