I built bloub, an open-source editor for animated SVG avatars
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I built bloub, an open-source editor for animated SVG avatars

I liked the Grok bot avatar when it came out and wanted to see if I could rebuild it in SVG. It ended up as a small morphing editor. There are 14 animation states and they morph into each other. You customise the avatar by picking a shape, a colour and an expression, then chain the states on a timeline to build your own animation and export it as SVG, PNG, GIF or MP4. It’s in English, French and Chinese. My goal is to turn it into a library you can drop into your own project, so the avatar r...
Why Your Wearable Needs Weeks of Data Before It Becomes Useful
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Why Your Wearable Needs Weeks of Data Before It Becomes Useful

I can recall the time when I first put on the Oura Ring and checked my readiness score the next morning as if I were checking an exam score. I saw something like 62 and I really started to panic. Was
How to Build Production-Grade Agents with Pydantic AI
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How to Build Production-Grade Agents with Pydantic AI

Building AI agents with raw LLM SDKs works fine for prototypes until you need structured outputs, testable code, and production reliability. The gap shows up in a predictable way. Your notebook code w
Python for Mechanical Engineering
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Python for Mechanical Engineering

Whether you're designing robotics, analyzing fluid dynamics (CFD), or working through complex engineering data, learning to code is one of the most effective ways to boost your workflow and technical
How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Filter Studio with JavaScript
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How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Filter Studio with JavaScript

PDF editing isn't limited to adding signatures or merging documents. Sometimes you simply want to improve the appearance of a PDF by increasing brightness, boosting contrast, adding blur, converting i
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KrakenKeys API - Free Steam game price API (20+ stores, free)

Hi all, I'm the owner of KrakenKeys , a free Steam game price comparison platform. It compares prices from over 20 stores, to help gamers find the best deals. I didn't want to gatekeep the data, so I decided to open a free public API. Documentation / spec: https://krakenkeys.com/api-docs Postman collection: https://www.postman.com/krakenkeys-4130662/krakenkeys-api/overview With the API you can: - Search for games - See the current (best) prices for games, including historica...
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What’s one startup decision you spent way too much time on?

Looking back, what’s one decision you overthought that ended up not mattering much? Or the opposite, something you barely thought about that turned out to be really important. Curious where founders actually end up wasting the most time.
I built a local “photo album” for the histories Claude Code, Codex and Cursor already keep
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I built a local “photo album” for the histories Claude Code, Codex and Cursor already keep

Creator disclosure: I built Codepend. It’s free, MIT-licensed, and has no paid tier. Claude Code, Codex and Cursor leave session histories on your machine. `npx codepend` turns them into one self-contained HTML story: first prompts, late-night sessions, repeated phrases, abandoned projects, timelines, and a Wrapped-style archetype. Codepend reads those files locally, writes nothing back, and has no backend or telemetry. The attached 40-second video was generated by Codepend from invented dem...
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I spent 6 months building an app for wedding guests (solo, nights and weekends). it's live, and I'd love brutal feedback

(Yes, Reddit auto-assigned me the username "Desperate-Ad" and no, I couldn't make that up if I tried.) Nine years ago I went to a wedding where the only people I knew were getting married. My date and I spent the whole weekend wishing we could see who else was there, when people were arriving, what anyone was doing between events. That app didn't exist. I never stopped thinking it should. I'm a video editor/VFX artist by trade — 12+ years, zero coding background. Six months ago I f...
I set out to build the most transparent, customizable, and privacy-focused news aggregation app. Now it’s live and free on the App Store!
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I set out to build the most transparent, customizable, and privacy-focused news aggregation app. Now it’s live and free on the App Store!

Hey everyone! Last week, I reached a huge milestone by launching my app, Mosaic News, on the iOS App Store! Mosaic News is a free iPhone app that aggregates news reporting from more than 850 publishers across the political spectrum, groups coverage of the same event, and connects individual events into larger narratives to help readers “see the whole picture.” I started building it because I was frustrated by how difficult following the news had become. Misinformation, media bias, conflict...
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I built a countdown app in my spare time, and it's on iOS, Android and web now.

I do marketing for a living. I can read code and I've done web work for years, but I never got round to learning Swift or Kotlin properly. Never had enough time to dive into it. So my list of apps I wanted to make just sat there getting longer. This year I took one off the list and actually finished it, which still surprises me a bit. Byna : it's a countdown app. Before anyone says it: yes, there are hundreds. I picked this one because it was the smallest idea on the list, and because the t...
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20.07 - Bluetooth mesh app for coordinating with your group, send SOS and sharing incident photos — when networks are unavailable or jammed. (Open source for collaboration)

Built for a specific, recurring problem: a group that needs to stay together, and a network that can't help them do it. Solution- find your group on a compass-rotated radar, send an SOS others can navigate to, and flood-relay evidence photos across the mesh so they're not stuck on one device. The tool- Inspired with Permissionless-Bitchat, No accounts (groups are just a random key in a QR code), rotating BLE identifiers so you can't be fingerprinted, everything self-destructs on a built-in e...
Movie Streamer - Stream movies from torrent (macOS app)
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Movie Streamer - Stream movies from torrent (macOS app)

I have been building this app for over a month, refining and improving it. Looking for feedback, feature suggestions, and monetization strategy suggestions. Will anyone be willing to pay for this app outside of apple app store? If anyone is willing to buy please DM, will try to sell in fair price personally. Movie Streamer lets you stream files as they download — just search, pick a quality, and hit play. Seamless unified experience What it does: - Stream-as-you-download with smart ...
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Launched my reading app after 3 months of solo building — 4 things I wish I knew earlier

Solo founder here (mom of two, self-taught engineer). I spent 3 months building a reading app that adapts books to different reading levels and languages, and launched this month. Four lessons that cost me the most time: Copyright is country-specific. "Public domain" in one country isn't public domain in another — some go by the author's death year, some by publication year. I had to check my starting catalog title by title. Don't compete on catalog size. Big platforms will al...
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I taught myself AI after work, took a product to Google Play, and won a contract as a solo builder against established teams. Here's the story.

No CS degree, no traditional tech pedigree. I taught myself AI the slow way: daily reading, experimentation, prompt engineering, and building after long shifts in an emergency-services career. It started as a food-ranking side project. Then I found engine recipes documented in PDFs, and it slowly became something bigger: OnTheRice (new.ontherice.org), a daily AI market and news read with a public proof ledger that timestamps every call so the misses stay visible, not just the wins. Along the...
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A stranger emailed me a two-line bug report and I've read it more times than any analytics screen

​ I've been staring at dashboards for months. Downloads, signups, retention, all of it mostly flat, all of it quietly making me feel like I built for no one. Then last week someone I've never met sent me an email. It wasn't praise. It was a bug report. Two lines, describing exactly how something broke and what they expected to happen instead. And I got weirdly emotional over it. Because a number tells you a session happened. A bug report tells you an actual person cared enough abo...
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Looking for ideas

Am a student developer learning to develop applications, and I am seeking to develop a small application that will be useful to people. The only problem is, I have no idea what to pursue. Why don't you guys tell me? What do you think would be a great wish for a software tool or application for fixing a certain problem in your day to day life?