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​ This has probably been one of the hardest parts of building apps for me. Coming up with an idea is easy but deciding if that idea deserves weeks, months or years of development is much harder which makes pain in the a** if no one wants it. I've been working on a small Android app around this problem. It searches for potential app ideas, helps validate your own ideas against audience/source signals, scores them and lets you keep a shortlist of the ones worth exploring. The goal i...

Four years ago I moved from Android to iOS, and typing in my language (Estonian) instantly got worse. The stock keyboard had no swipe typing and no real suggestions, and its long-press accents were stuffed with letters Estonian never uses while missing the symbols I actually typed daily. SwiftKey existed on iOS, but as a shadow of its Android version, and every few months an update would leave it crashing on launch. There was a second itch: keyboards see everything you type, and researchers ha...

LINK: https://github.com/datnamedoo/GameOfLifeJava So I've been learning Java here recently, and I figured a Game of Life clone would be a good idea considering I have previously made it in Python as well. Well I kinda got carried away lol. Ended up making a lot more stuff than I intended, but optimizing it was pretty fun. The grid uses 64 bit longs to represent sections of a row, and delegates a certain number of rows to a given thread pool to update the entire grid. Honestly there are defi...

My Apple Voice Memos list was four hundred recordings called "New Recording 312". I'd record an idea while walking, feel productive, and never open it again. The recording wasn't the problem — the filing was. Echo records, transcribes on the phone, then writes the note up, titles it, summarizes it and drops it into a category. Nothing to name, nothing to tag. If it files something wrong you move it and it files closer to your judgement next time. The design constraint I set myself ...

Crossed 280 users recently and a few things are becoming pretty clear. What worked: Reddit has been my best acquisition channel. Talking to users beats guessing. Doing things manually first helped me understand what was worth automating. What didn’t: More traffic doesn’t automatically mean more customers. More features don’t automatically mean more value. Repeating the same Reddit post eventually stops working. My biggest lesson so far: Getting attention is only one p...

Been sitting on an idea and want outside opinions before I sink more time into it. The problem: I keep running into situations where I need something for a short window a specific tool, a piece of equipment, someone who knows how to fix a thing, a quick favor and buying it outright doesn't make sense, but there's no easy way to find someone nearby who already has it and would lend/help for a bit of cash or a trade. Craigslist/OLX-style listings feel too slow and impersonal for this. Nextdoor...

A calendar where every day gets an emoji and a short description why. Built it mostly to have an excuse to dig into weird historical trivia. Still adding entries. You can upvote entries you like, and save your favorites to your own calendar. Check it out and let me know what you think. emojical.org

I've been building Ash because I wanted something completely different from a normal, cloud-hosted AI chatbot. Instead of asking an AI what I should do and then copying/pasting everything myself, Ash is a fully local workspace. She uses local tools to actually work with files, email, browser tasks, calendars, and ongoing goals. The biggest difference? Zero cloud data leakage. You download and extract Ash as a local folder. Everything—your context, your files, your history—stays 100% on you...

It has been 2 weeks since I launched my app, NarrationOS. Unlike other reddit posts of launch success, I know my 11 app sales isn't impressive as you can see in the screenshot, BUT I am super proud of selling even a copy. Cuz initially I only built it for myself. So if you are one of the 11 buyers, I can't thank you enough. I still use this app, so you can keep expecting updates. NarrationOS is an OFFLINE app, that turns any book or any text into a performed audiobook, generated entirely on yo...

I’m excited to finally share FrogPop, the first game I’ve made. You play as a frog popping bouncing bubbles with your tongue. It started simple, but I kept adding ideas until it turned into a roguelite with upgrades and bosses. The free demo has ten waves and two bosses, and you can play it in your browser or download it for Windows: https://blion247.itch.io/frogpop-demo I’d love some feedback, especially on the controls and difficulty. If you want to follow the game: https://stor...

Window Assassin is a small utility I made for apps that freeze and ignore the normal close button. Press Ctrl+Alt+End while the target window is focused and it force-terminates that process. It also has an NSIS installer, optional autostart, and a portable build. It’s deliberately simple, but destructive by design: unsaved work in the target app will be lost. Free / pay what you want: https://b2kdaman.itch.io/window-assassin I’d appreciate feedback on the hotkey, installer flow, and wh...

Hi everyone! I've spent the last months building BonCadre — a mobile app that analyzes your photos and coaches you to shoot better, solo (with plenty of help from AI coding tools, which made this possible as a one-person project). What it does: you upload a photo, and it scores it on composition, lighting, color harmony, depth, and subject separation. For each aspect you get what works, what doesn't, and concrete things to try on your next shot — the focus is improving at the moment of shoot...

hi everyone! half a year ago my friend and I started a pretty simple movie community called Return by 9 just to discuss film/things we watched/share memes/discover new stuff. I happened to be in the middle of learning python at the time so I put together a discord bot to keep us organized and it's grown massively in scope. What it is now: a website that works as a 2-part tool to help discover and watch movies. One part works to incetivize watching movies through commitment and digital rewards...

the video is for 49agents, an open source agent ide. 36 seconds, no sound, first frame is the same as the last so it loops forever. the harness is not a prompt. claude code writes the beats and builds the motion as dom and svg on one timeline. drop your url in the comments and i will try to make you one for free . i read what your product does, build the film, send you the mp4 at 1920x1080. yours, use it wherever you want. no card, no quote after. the harness is new. i want to know if it ...

I have been building FormsReach in leftover hours. It is a form API / contact form backend. Point your website form at it. Instantly live. No style changes, no extra backend. Submissions can leave through email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Google Sheets, or a webhook. Midway through, Zeno Rocha (CEO of Resend) posted that if he started again he would pick a boring infra problem, because lazy giants have leftover SDKs and confusing docs, and that is the whole product in an agent's eyes. ...

If you’re recording a tutorial, demo, or stream, it’s often useful for viewers to see exactly what you’re pressing without breaking their focus. That’s why I built Keyty - free, open-source native macOS app that displays your keyboard and mouse input directly on screen. A few things it supports now: - keyboard overlays with different themes and layouts - mouse button and click visualization - customizable size, position, and appearance It’s built in Swift, runs locally, and is completel...

The site: https://strategicallyempty.com I kept seeing headlines about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and couldn't find a straight answer to "how much oil is actually left." So I built the answer: live countdown, official EIA weekly data, every chart explained, deliberately naive math with the formula published. Launch story so far, for anyone who likes the numbers: - Posted to r/dataisbeautiful . Top of Rising in 40 minutes, 3k upvotes, 96.2% upvote ratio, 400 shares - The...

The thing I built is for a fairly niche audience. It is ready enough to be useful to someone, however I struggle to get anyone to actually test it. So far everyone that creates an account has just finished the instruction panels at best. Where do you go to get the first few beta users on your app?

I just finished building this today. It's a website that shows you real sunrises 24/7 from a variety of cameras around the world. All live. No looping or recordings. This is a 100% passion project. Not a business. So it's just for the vibes. https://www.livesunrise.io/ FYI, this is a sister site to a similar one for sunsets that I posted here a few months ago if anyone remembers. Somehow sunrises are a bit nicer

So this one took a weird path. I started it as an anniversary gift. Pulled together years of photos of me and my wife — us, the kids, holidays, even the dog — and turned them into one big mosaic image. Posted it to my WhatsApp status and a bunch of people were like "wait I want one of these." Cool, I thought, there's a product here. Built it out properly. Subscriptions, everything rendering in the browser canvas so it was fast. Launched it. Crickets. Not one signup. Made it fre...

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...

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