How to Build a PostgreSQL-Backed Job Queue in Go
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How to Build a PostgreSQL-Backed Job Queue in Go

When you build a web application, not every task should happen inside a user's request. Some work is slow. Some work can fail. Some work should happen later. Sending emails, resizing images, processin
Web Scraping for Beginners 2026
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Web Scraping for Beginners 2026

If you have ever wanted to collect product data, monitor competitors, track SEO rankings, or build AI tools that pull information from the internet, you have likely run into the common frustrations of
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I made a tiny Mac app called O

My brain always gets restless during work meetings. I made a tiny Mac app called O for exactly this reason. It’s literally just a physics fidget ball that lives natively on your desktop. You can spin it, bounce it, cut the rope, or adjust gravity to taste. https://reddit.com/link/1u21ydl/video/qnt4jjt0hg6h1/player It won't help you get any actual work done, but it’s great for ADHD minds.
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I've spent the past year trying to build the perfect learning and research tool, a better version of my favorite app - NotebookLM.

I built SolomindLM, an AI research tool for self-learning using your own multi-modal documents. What it does: Upload PDFs, webpages, YouTube videos, academic papers, audio recordings, Google Drive files, etc. Chat with your sources and get answers grounded in your docs (RAG, not public internet). The responses include source citations, which reduces most AI hallucinations Generate flashcards with SM-2 spaced repetition (Anki-style scheduling) Create written questions (short or essa...
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Hello guys wanna free colloboration for open project

Hello guys I want to create my own ai jarvis assistant I need teammates because it so complex iwant to make it can uses any software can automate everything in my pc male it connected to everything have eyes with camera and have huge memory can think can Imagine andself improvement so if u wanna collaborate just dm me
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month four of a side project scares me more than month one

Everyone preps for the start. The idea, the stack, the launch post. But watching people who build next to a full time job, I run a career platform for exactly this crowd, so paying attention to where projects die is basically my job, the start is rarely where it goes wrong. Month four is. By month four the project isn’t new anymore. The week-three dopamine is gone. The day job gets heavy again. Every guide you bookmarked was written for week one and none of it covers this stretch. Nothing is te...
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Solo dev, 2nd app: BeeKid, a parental control app that blocks apps but refuses to spy. I do everything myself, design, code, ASO, social media, marketing. Need advice.

Hey r/SideProject , Solo dev here. I design, code, test, do the ASO, the screenshots, the social media and the marketing myself, including this post. Basically everything... BeeKid is my second app. My first app was a screen time app, Dopamine Swap. Building it meant months of fighting Apple's Screen Time API (if you know, you know). It almost broke me really. While working on it I kept looking at the parental control market and didn't like what I saw. Many of the big 'corporate' apps read ...
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Solo dev, 400 users, small server - my Steam achievement tracker needs help with visibility

I built TrophyCalc - a site that ranks your Steam achievements by rarity The idea is simple: the rarer the achievement, the more points it's worth. You login with Steam, it syncs your profile, and you get a score + global ranking against other players. 450 users, 3M achievements tracked, 20k games. Weekly leaderboard, profile comparison, shareable profile card, streak system. Built solo with Laravel 12, FrankenPHP, Redis on a €8/month Hetzner server. I recently added a premium tier but hon...
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I'm 19, built my first app with zero coding experience using AI tools — would love honest feedback.

Hey r/SideProject , I've always been frustrated standing in front of my fridge not knowing what to cook. So I built an app to solve it. You photograph your fridge → AI detects your ingredients → suggests meals you can make right now. It also tracks expiry dates so food doesn't go to waste, plans your meals for the week, and builds your shopping list automatically. No account needed. No ads. Free to try. Would genuinely love brutal honest feedback before I launch properly. L...
I got tired of losing my clips so I built a tool to search my video files
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I got tired of losing my clips so I built a tool to search my video files

I built Clipto.AI because I could never find the video and audio clips I wanted in my own folders. I knew the clip existed, but there were just too many clips and I never remembered which folder they were in. It was even more troublesome if I wanted to find all the clips of a specific person within video footage from multiple people. I had to open the videos one by one and scrubbing through them. 👉 clipto.com This app is especially useful for video content creators who need to manage their m...
I've been working solo on this for 2 years. The movie & TV tracker I always wished existed!
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I've been working solo on this for 2 years. The movie & TV tracker I always wished existed!

Two years of nights and weekends. No funding, no team, no roadmap.. just one stubborn idea: build a movie & TV tracker that doesn't suck. Today WeTrakr opens its beta. Built by hand, line by line, long before the AI boom turned every side project into a weekend sprint. It imports your full history from the usual suspects, scrobbles natively from Kodi, Jellyfin and Stremio, also from streaming services like Netflix, HBO, Prime Video, Disney+.. and does a few things I haven't seen anywhere...
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talked myself out of a legit deal cause the seller had no reviews. built a thing to fix it

ok this has annoyed me for years. you grind out hundreds of clean sales on one app, then you start selling somewhere new and you're back to nothing. empty profile, zero history, and buyers act like you might rip them off. which is fair tbh a brand new account looks exactly like a scammers. and it goes the other way too. a while back someone had a pair of headphones up, brand new never used, half of retail.. but the account was new, no reviews, so i talked myself out of it. course it was legit...
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I built a slow network with no followers, no likes, and no real-time chat

I’ve been building a small side project called Ganjeolgot.ai. The idea is simple: What if a network was designed not for attention, but for rest? Most social products are built around speed — feeds, metrics, instant replies, notifications, dashboards. I wanted to try the opposite. Ganjeolgot is a slow network for quiet letters. Users can write how their day actually felt, keep it private, send it to their future self, or let it drift anonymously to someone unknown. Replies arrive s...
My partner and I kept dumping "we should do that" ideas into Apple Reminders. None of them happened. So I quit my job to fix it.
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My partner and I kept dumping "we should do that" ideas into Apple Reminders. None of them happened. So I quit my job to fix it.

For about three years my partner and I have had the same problem. One of us says "we should do that." A trip, or some weird little day thing. It goes straight into Apple Reminders, and that's where it dies. A flat checklist is a terrible home for the stuff you're excited about. You scroll past "hike the Dolomites" the same way you scroll past "buy laundry detergent." So we did almost none of them. I used to be an engineering manager. In December I quit to build ...
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I’m building an app for the family stories we usually ask for too late.

The idea came from something personal. In my own family, I realized there were so many things I never properly asked my grandparents about. What their childhood felt like. How certain family recipes were made. What my parents were like when they were younger. Which stories were told again and again, but never written down anywhere. And at some point, you realize those stories only live as long as someone is still there to tell them. So I started building >> FamilyStories << ...
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Hit 300 visitors 7 weeks, zero ad spend, here's exactly what drove every visitor

Hit 300 visitors on FitnessChief. Started at 53 visitors 7 weeks ago. No ads. No press. No ProductHunt launch. Felt like nothing was working for the first 3 weeks honestly. Then it started moving. Here's exactly where every visitor came from: → Google OAuth signups: 26 (21%) → LinkedIn: 25 (20%) → X / Twitter: 21 (17%) → Peerlist: 12 (10%) → Reddit: 10 (9%) → Google organic: 8 (6%) Total ad spend: ₹0 What actually moved the needle wasn't anything clever: Posting honestly ...
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Are MVPs not really MVPs anymore in the AI era?

I’m building Briques.app, a mini app builder for personal workflows, kind of like Notion, Airtable, or MondayDotCom, but with a mobile-first experience. I always felt these tools are powerful on desktop, but their mobile UI is not great for actually using small workflows daily. One thing I’ve noticed recently is that people now expect a lot more from an MVP. Because tools like Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc. exist, there’s this assumption that building features should take 1 to 2 days. And hones...
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I rebuilt my landing page 4 times based on Reddit feedback. Here's what changed.

started with a page that made sense to me. turns out it made sense to nobody else things people actually told me: "the join button is so distracting i cant read anything" "the bottom section makes it look like users lose money after joining" "over-explained for something this simple" "first 30 seconds almost lost me" every single one hurt. every single one was right. what i changed: removed the flashing animation cut two text sections tha...
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Suggestions Please!

Hey Guys, Actually, I have an idea, but I haven't done it because I would appreciate your suggestions. As we know, our AI chatbots always support with our chats, like "yes, you are saying right", what if it judges us on our decision! I think of this idea, but haven't executed it... This will work like I'll give the prompts to the user, and they will use them to the bots
I went through 20 SaaS launch videos scene by scene. they're all the same video.
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I went through 20 SaaS launch videos scene by scene. they're all the same video.

I watched every launch video from the products founders look up to (Linear, Arc, Stripe, Raycast, Framer, Clerk). timed the scenes, wrote down motion patterns and mapped the structure. they're all basically the same video, using the same 10-scene arc, ~30-45 second runtime, same 3 motion rules recycled nearly exactly. here's the breakdown: scene 1 — logo cold open (1.5s) brand name appears center. clean background, subtle animation. scene 2 — headline hook (3s) the core value prop. large...
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I built a free AI tool that tells you how many camels you're worth from a photo

Full disclosure: I made this, free and no signup. In Germany there's an old joke site, the "Kamelrechner", that tells you how many camels you're worth. I rebuilt it with AI vision: upload a photo, the AI rates your looks, style and clothing and detects your smile, then a short quiz adds personality (cooking, humour, fitness, tidiness, even snoring). It blends both into one verdict with an animated breakdown of every camel, plus playful tips. It's a PWA so it installs and works offline....
Y'all have been way too productive in this subreddit, you should try Slaplinks
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Y'all have been way too productive in this subreddit, you should try Slaplinks

Hi there! 🚀 I’m on a mission to build random stuff every 2 months this year. After having to shelve my top ideas while waiting for my 3D printer to arrive, I got inspired by SlapMac to build a Chrome extension where you slap links instead of clicking them. If you like funny and beautifully dumb ideas, I think you'll enjoy this. My absolute favorite part is the screen shake effects. It's a pure nostalgia trip, reminding me of my 8 y.o self aggressively sending nudges to all of my friends th...
I made a tool to map out when it make financial sense for me to sell my current house and buy a new one
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I made a tool to map out when it make financial sense for me to sell my current house and buy a new one

I built something solely for myself and now I'd like to know if it's useful to others facing the same decisions. About a month ago I got tired of trying to use Excel to help me plan out when it makes financial sense for me to sell my current home and buy a new one (answer: not anytime soon). I had originally put together a tool in Excel to help me answer this question but honestly it just wasn't very good and my wife thought it was ugly (it was). So I put together a calculator to help map this...
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how do you get past the tiny-founder-audience stage?

I’m building a keyword monitoring tool for X and Reddit with another technical founder. We launched around the end of April, so it’s been a little over 2 months now. Total subscription revenue is a bit over 5,000 HKD, and each user pays $39/month. Not huge numbers obviously, but enough that I don’t feel like we’re just imagining the problem. Right now we’re doing build-in-public content on Twitter/X, Xiaohongshu, YouTube, and TikTok, both video and text. Most users still come from Twitter/X, X...
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Adding "AI" to our product raised the support burden instead of lowering it

we shipped an AI feature last quarter expecting it to deflect support tickets. it did the opposite for the first six weeks. turns out when something is deterministic, users blame themselves when it breaks ("i must've clicked wrong"). when it's AI, they blame the product and they tell you about it. every weird output became a ticket, because now there was something to report. the fix wasn't a better model. it was setting expectations in the UI before the output, and giving people an...
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I built a fully offline travel app as a solo dev. Then WWDC validated everything I believed in.

About a year ago I came home from a trip to Southeast Asia with thousands of photos scattered across my camera roll and zero idea which ones were from which city. I spent an entire weekend trying to organize them and swore there had to be a better way. Most photo apps these days want your data in the cloud. Upload everything, pay a subscription, trust someone else with your memories. That approach never sat right with me. So I did something about it. I built Wimemo. It is a travel memory app tha...
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I built a site for all the tiny internet tasks that somehow became SaaS products

A lot of small digital tasks have become weirdly overcomplicated. Need a quick thumbnail? Full design app. Need a website audit checklist? Lead magnet. Need a content calendar? Template funnel. Need to clean up your tool stack? Another dashboard I built Pulse Bureau as a free toolkit for those smaller recurring tasks: content planning, website audits, social thumbnails, file organization, AI tool selection, workflow cleanup and practical templates No signup. No trial. No “book a demo.” ...
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A few weeks ago I asked if you'd use a work journal that remembers. It's live now.

Some of you might remember a post I made here a while back — asking whether a "daily work journal that remembers" was something people would actually use, or just an idea I was in love with. The feedback was mixed and honest, which is exactly what I needed. I kept building. It's live on the App Store today. It's called Mikoyi. The idea: work stress doesn't end when work does — the 1:1 you're rehearsing, the Slack you keep re-reading, the thing your manager said you're still replayi...