I stopped caring about my step count, so I made a reason to care
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I stopped caring about my step count, so I made a reason to care

I’ve spent the last 10 months building Zelus, a walking app that turns your real-world distance into progress through virtual challenges. It’s now live on iOS and Android, and I’ve reached the point where I know it too well to test it objectively. I’m looking for people willing to try it and tell me what’s confusing, awkward or broken — including any crashes or, hopefully not, database wipes. Blunt feedback is welcome. Ratings are also appreciated if you genuinely like it. Video: https:...
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Finally crossed 2700 users today and 80+ premium users

Guys it was a long journey for me from beginning but it was worth it , i have built cvinsight.me 10 months ago and it kept spreading through whatsapp and word of mouth and now we are a family of 2700 users , among which 80+ are paid ones
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Now completely stuck on getting the first users. what actually worked for you?

dev background, so building the thing was the comfortable part. now I'm at the part everyone says is hard and yeah, they were right. quick context: it's an AI version of yourself people can talk to. you feed it your own stuff and it answers in your voice, so if your thing is your knowledge you're not stuck answering everyone one by one. aimed at coaches and solo experts first. product's ready. the problem is 100% distribution and it's humbling. I've been: trying to DM coaches directly (s...
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I kept saving recipe Reels and never cooking them, so I made this

I had a very specific backlog problem: I’d save a food Reel because it looked good, then never find the ingredients or steps again when it was time to cook. So I built Reelish, an Android app that lets you share or paste an Instagram Reel, TikTok, or YouTube Short and turns the usable details into a recipe card. From there, you pick only the recipes you want to make and it combines their ingredients into one grocery list. One thing I intentionally did not want: an app that acts certain when ...
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I never expected analytics to become my favorite tab

The last 24 hours have been something I’ll probably never forget. My first sale came completely out of nowhere. I got a notification, checked my dashboard, and realized someone had actually paid for my app. I couldn’t believe it. Then I shared the news on Reddit. A few hours later, someone commented, “Well, I just made you another one.” I honestly thought they were joking. Then I checked my dashboard again. They actually bought it. Not long after that, another Redditor became customer #3....
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I built 9 free AI text tools that run on open-source models — no signup, no limits

Got tired of every "free" AI tool hiding behind login walls and 3-uses-a-day limits, so I built my own set and made them actually free — no accounts, no paywalls. They run on open-source models (Nemotron, Gemma) via OpenRouter, with a Next.js frontend on a small VPS. The set: text summarizer (20k chars), AI-text humanizer, paraphraser, grammar fixer, hook generator, SEO meta generator, Instagram caption writer, YouTube summarizer, and a "which AI should I use?" quiz. Hub:...
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I made my first iOS app but I’m lost

I am my target user, but organic TikTok and Instagram videos aren’t doing the trick. How should I get my first 100 users? Just friends and family?
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Week 1 analytics of my newly launched micro-SaaS. Here is how it's going so far

Hey everyone! I’ve decided to build my project completely in public, so here is the very first screenshot of my analytics dashboard after 7 days of being live. To give you some context on these numbers: I recently launched a small micro-SaaS with two subscription tiers ($12/mo and $29/mo). It’s a tool designed to help freelancers streamline their client onboarding and brief creation, which is a problem I personally faced a lot. The Week 1 numbers: Uniques: 47 Sign-ups: 4 Paying us...
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I am getting traffic, but I still have no idea how to monetize it

The original idea for my side project was an AI creator for Notion widgets. You describe what you want, choose a style, and it generates and hosts the widget so you can embed it in Notion. That was the product from the beginning. I added a catalog of ready-made widgets later because the site felt a little empty without them. I thought the free catalog would make the platform more useful and eventually lead people toward the AI creator. The free part ended up becoming the main source of tra...
I got tired of AI generating flat, boring UI, so I built VibeCurb to fix it
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I got tired of AI generating flat, boring UI, so I built VibeCurb to fix it

Every single time I ask Claude or ChatGPT to build a UI, it spits out the exact same generic SaaS layout. Same rounded corners, same glassmorphism, same boring structure. So I built VibeCurb . It’s completely free and open-source. There's no app to install or wrapper to pay for, it’s just a collection of extremely strict skill.md files that you drop directly into your AI workspace. What it actually does: Kills the generic glassmorphism and rounded-corner spam Enforces viewport-s...
I spent most of my time reporting on my design work than actually designing, so I built a Figma plugin that writes my weekly recap for me
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I spent most of my time reporting on my design work than actually designing, so I built a Figma plugin that writes my weekly recap for me

I'm a staff product designer by trade and was working in big tech. I hated that most of my week became alignment and reporting, like standups, end-of-week updates, devs asking what changed in my file. I spoke with a bunch of other designers, and this was the biggest complaint they had also. So I built Design Recap, a Figma plugin that reads your file and writes up what you've recently worked on, plus a changelog. It covers the end-of-week update, when you're drawing a blank at standup, and t...
Apple's Photos widget wouldn't let me pick which photo to show on my desktop, so I built my own. Free and open source.
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Apple's Photos widget wouldn't let me pick which photo to show on my desktop, so I built my own. Free and open source.

Problem: macOS has desktop widgets, but Apple's Photos widget only shows "Featured Photos" it picks for you. You can't say "show this photo of my dog." Apps that fix this are paid. Solution: PhotoWidget — real macOS native widgets (WidgetKit). Not an overlay app pretending to be a widget: macOS renders these itself, so nothing runs in the background. Open the app only when you want to add or organize photos. How to use: Drag photos into the app (crop box appears ...
I built a tool that turns Podcast URLs into transcripts and summaries
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I built a tool that turns Podcast URLs into transcripts and summaries

Hi everyone, I am a software developer by profession, and over the past few months I've been working on a side project called PodTyper. You can access it at https://www.podtyper.com Instead of downloading audio files or uploading episodes manually, you just paste a podcast URL (Spotify, YouTube or Apple Podcasts) and it generates a transcript along with AI-powered summaries. I originally built it because I found myself constantly wanting to search through podcast episodes instead of list...
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I built a tool that reads your rental lease and flags clauses that break your state's law

Launched LeaseSnipe this week. You upload a lease PDF and get a plain-English report in about 60 seconds: risky or unusual clauses flagged, real move-in costs broken down, and each flag checked against the landlord-tenant law of your state (all 50 + DC). The idea came from watching someone I know sign a lease with a security deposit at 2x the legal cap in her state. She found out afterward. The asymmetry bugged me. The landlord has a lawyer, the tenant has a PDF and 24 hours. Stack: TypeScri...
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I tried 4 side hustle and this is what i learned

It really depends on the side hustle you are really working on like for example if you are trying to do freelancing the market is just really crowded with people for that you may start posting on tiktok or youtube about your video editing skills which will makeyou look more trust worthy among others and you are trying out saas its IMPORTANT that the product have a genuine interest in the customer market orelse you will not succeed with it probably if you are in here you should just start network...
I made an S&P 500-style index for the 500 most valuable Pokémon cards. According to it, the market actually peaked back in April.
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I made an S&P 500-style index for the 500 most valuable Pokémon cards. According to it, the market actually peaked back in April.

I kept seeing claims about how crazy the card market is right now and realized nobody could actually answer “is the market up or down?” So I built an index the same way the S&P 500 works, price-weighted, divisor adjustments, membership updates daily, using TCGplayer market prices, with history back to Feb 2024. I’m hosting it for free as a passion project at https://poke500.com/ if anyone wants to take a look. The newsletter automatically sends out a weekly update as well every Friday if t...
I built a plant discovery app that turns every find into a personal map
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I built a plant discovery app that turns every find into a personal map

Hi everyone! I recently launched Folivy, an iOS app I built to make plant identification feel like an ongoing discovery experience rather than a one-time scan. You can take a photo to identify a plant, save it to your personal herbarium, view your discoveries on a map, and explore nearby observations shared by other users. My goal is to help people gradually build their own plant collection and personal nature journal. I’d really appreciate honest feedback on the idea, user experience, and w...
Moonlighting as a gamedev to fullfill my dream.
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Moonlighting as a gamedev to fullfill my dream.

After working as a 3D artist in the film and advertising industry for the last 17 years, I decided to give gamedev a go. I joined a random facebook group and I met an amazing programmer and together we started working after hours to produce videogames. It's been months and months of hard work after our actual jobs that are also hard work 😂 This is our 3rd attempt at it. It is a game called Skinator. It's a game where you can steal your enemy's body parts and install them into your own body. We...
I built a ring that switches control between 5 devices
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I built a ring that switches control between 5 devices

I’ve been working on Prolo Ring, a wearable input device designed to control different types of devices without carrying a separate controller for each one. In this demo, I’m using the same ring across: Laptop Phone Tablet AI glasses VR headset A Tap + Hold switches control from one device to the next. Once connected, the ring can handle things like pointing and clicking, scrolling, media controls, page turning, teleprompter navigation, and VR interface control. The bigger ...
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Scraping GitHub trends daily gave me some serious side-project inspiration this week. Here are 4 cool repos I found.

Hey everyone, I spend way too much time hunting for new tools, APIs, or data sources for my own projects. Here are 4 of the most interesting open-source repos that surfaced over the last few days that are actually great for solo builders: hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset (HTML | ⭐ 13.7K): A massive dataset of 1,324 fitness exercises, including animation GIFs, muscle-group data, and instructions. If anyone here is sketching out a health, habit, or longevity tracking app, this is an absolute ...
Understanding Dijkstra's Algorithm
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Understanding Dijkstra's Algorithm

In 1956, a young programmer was taking his girlfriend shopping in Amsterdam. Feeling tired, they sat down at a cafe terrace for a cup of coffee. In the 20 minutes it took to finish their drinks, he co
Master Full-Stack Mobile Development with React Native
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Master Full-Stack Mobile Development with React Native

Do you want to get into mobile development and build cross-platform applications? We just published a comprehensive new course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will teach you how to build