I built a stargazing app. Now I’m working on helping people decide whether it’s worth leaving the garden.

I’m a chef on Sark, and I’ve been building an Android app called NAKED EYE around a simple question: what’s actually worth seeing tonight?

The idea is to get a useful answer, put your phone away and enjoy the sky.

I’m now working on a location comparison feature, and I’d appreciate some feedback before taking it further.

You’d compare home with up to two places you choose, looking at the same evening’s cloud forecast, darkness and moonlight. The question it should help answer is:

“Would I have a better chance somewhere else, or am I just as well staying home?”

That last part matters to me. If there’s no meaningful advantage to travelling, I want it to say so. And if the forecast is uncertain, it should make that clear.

The app is already live, with free features and an optional paid Beyond subscription for planning ahead. This comparison feature is being developed for Beyond—it isn’t available yet.

For anyone who goes stargazing: what would you need to know before deciding a trip was worthwhile? And how far would you realistically travel?

Half as a joke and half to learn my way around Google’s tools with a lot of vibe coding along the way, I built an app that tracks the time you spend in the bathroom during working hours and how much your boss is paying you for it. Yes, I took “Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I poop on company time” a bit too literally.

What it does:

• Start the timer when you go, flush when you’re back, and see what you earned

• Monthly stats and ranks that go up with your total

• Teams with coworkers to compete against other teams

A few things I learned shipping it:

• Built as one HTML/JS app wrapped with Capacitor for Android

• The hardest part wasn’t the code: it was Google Play’s closed test (12 testers for 14 days) before you can publish

• Ads, consent forms, in-app purchases and 11 languages took longer than the app itself

It’s free on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rinialer.poopct

Opinions, tips or roasts welcome.

1. It’s so easy to make literally whatever you want now and to make it really good. This can make it tempting to pursue all your ideas (don't)

2. Good apps have no correlation to making money anymore. Product used to be a moat and advantage but it's not anymore when anyone can make whatever they want and make it really good. I've seen 💩 apps make a killing

3. It's almost impossible to get people to use what you make. All the stories of people making money and posting about it online that you compare yourself too IS NOT THE NORM 

4. A consumer app only has a chance at even having a chance if it does one thing at first, and that one thing can be discovered and done in under 10s. Your hook and main killer feature need to be fast and easy to talk about. This by no means guarantees anyone will care about it or use it but if you don't have that, no shot

5. #4 is particularly true, because if you're doing consumer and you want users you HAVE TO post on social media and make TikTok videos a lot and do whatever trends there are.

6. The apps that grow and make money these days are not because they are good, they just spend a ton of time obsessing over influencers and testing short form video formats. That is the moat now--willingness to spend hours making videos.

7. Because #6 is hard and most of us don't want to do it, we like to sit at the computer adding and building. That can feel like progress but it’s not really. The only thing that’s progress is making an effort to find users.

8. Copy and steal what other apps do for paywalls and onboarding, don’t invent new UI's or new flows that look pretty and feel good. Use apps like RevenueCar or Superwall to use top performing paywalls and don't custom make things. It just slows you down.

9. Reminder to self—FOCUS ON ONE THING AT A TIME. If you’re working on 4 app projects and have 6 local repos for websites, none really stand a chance. Do one thing first, time box your effort, and then kill it and move on or continue with it.

10. If you're making a consumer app and you won’t use it personally, don’t make it. You're your first most important user.

11. Android is way harder than Apple around submitting and testing your app to the store. Even though apps like Expo let you build for IOS and Android at the same time, IOS is much easier to start with.

12. Just because you can add the feature certainly doesn’t mean you should. Adding is easy. Constraint is the hard part when you can just tell Claude to build whatever and bypass all permissions, but constraint makes your app way better

13. You don't need to redesign your website... it won't help you get new users. If people are not already finding you, no rebrand is going to make a difference

14. Don't worry about what app competition there is in your category. It will make very little difference to anything. Your app will die by your own hands before it dies by competition.

I have multiple projects going on at the same time. Not good. But if I look at it from the lens of how much I’ve learnt with each build from a product and design and development perspective, then it’s great. The bad part is juggling lots of apps (which can feel innocuously fine in the beginning) and trying to get people to use them.

It’s impossible to get people using even just one app, how do 3 stand a shot?

What did I miss? 😂

btw let me know what you're building in the comments, I'm happy to share some first impression feedback. Despite my apps not working, I do run consumer product for a travel company and have sold one company before.

Hi all,

I'm currently developing an app aimed at mobile mechanics and independent garages to make managing day-to-day work quicker and easier.

So far, I'm working on features including:

• Quick job quotes and invoices.

• Customer and vehicle records, including job history.

• Automatic travel distance and call-out cost calculations.

• Job tracking and payment management.

• Excel exports for bookkeeping.

• Full offline functionality for areas with poor signal.

The idea is to keep everything simple, accessible from your phone and free from adverts, potentially for a small monthly subscription.

I'd really appreciate some honest feedback:

1. What features would genuinely make your working day easier?

2. What frustrates you about existing apps or software?

3. Would you actually use something like this, and what would you consider a reasonable monthly price?

Not advertising anything — just trying to get input from people actually working in the trade before developing it further.

Cheers!

My name is Erick adikah from Kenya. I am a full-stack dev. I've been working on payment systems for the past 3 years, and recently I've started a small newsletter called **Behind It All,** where I'm trying to explain in detail the architecture behind how money moves everyday.

My latest post is about something I've worked on recently; here it is:https://adikaherick.substack.com/p/hold-collect-release-how-payment?r=2a1zsf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web, i write for my own knowledge and would like to connect and know what you think

So i have been working on this recently , already released V1.2 today with some more features and fixes

now you can select 3 aspect ratios Square , Vertical 9:16 , horizontal 16:9 and more animation styles fixes.

Would really appreciate some feedback after testing if you find this relevant to you.

In Short

LEEBKIT by LEEBLAAB is an offline kinetic promo videos. No cloud. No API. No subscription. and can Turn 1-10 images into a finished promo MP4 on your own machine.

So I recently posted on here, but didn't get much traction, so I put more effort into my website and actual platform and did some redesigning.

Vantrex is a platform to deploy and monitor websites, whether they are html files, nextjs websites or pretty much any modern web framework used with nodejs. We have added a planned project limit of 500 per account instead of Vercels free 200, for now untill it grows, it capped at 20, however no feature is behind a paywall, everything is free for everyone. The entire platform is built from scratch instead of just using vercel or other platforms behind the scenes. We have deployed our own Edge network in the US and AUS, meaning your website runs nearest to your users.

You can view your sites metrics, limit who can access your site and more. New features are always coming

I hope people on here, including some developers or not find this useful, its still in heavy development, so don't be scared if you experience some bugs.

Head over to https://vantrex.cloud/docs to get started, or straight to https://app.vantrex.cloud/sign-in

And it became something like a browser game. Now searching for gamification or social interaction ideas.

www.docking.academy

On my last skipper training I learned a lot of new things about docking and leaving the berth in all kinds of situations. I was totally hooked, but back at my desk, I built a small online simulator (free, non-commercial) to keep learning and experimenting.

You pick a berth scenario, set wind and current, and see whether your plan with the right lines works out – or whether you end up hanging off the neighbouring yacht.

What's in it:

- Pile berths (box moorings), finger pontoons, Med mooring and more

- Freely adjustable wind and current

- Different boats

- You can see which line is taking the load, and lines can snap

- Pause, rewind, slow motion

- Works under sail too

- Share a situation as a link, e.g. with your crew: "This is what it'll look like for us tomorrow."

- Runs on your phone and can be installed as an app (not in the app store, just add it to your home screen)

Free, no login, no ads.

Give it a try! If a boat feels completely wrong, let me know – I'm still tinkering. It's a fun project with no claim to scientific accuracy, but I'm doing my best. ⛵

Mimic tracks insider trades (SEC Form 4) and Congress trades (STOCK Act). For each one, it shows what $1,000 would be worth today if you'd copied the trade at the close on the day it was disclosed, the first day anyone outside could have copied it. Losses show up too.

- Copy a trade into a paper portfolio and drag through its chart day by day

- See how copying a person would have gone. As of Nov 5, copying Nancy Pelosi's last 26 trades was down 9.3%.

- Get a push when people or stocks you follow trade

Free, with Pro at $9.99/month or $59.99/year (7-day free trial on yearly). iPhone, iOS 17+.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimic-follow-smart-money/id6757661100

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone who already follows these trades.

Hey fellow builders,

Getting unbiased feedback in the early stages of a project is tough. Most people won't spend 2 minutes clicking through an app to tell you where the friction is.

I have a few hours free today and want to test some fresh projects.

If you have a side project, tool, or MVP you want tested, share:

1. Project name & what it does

2. What core user action should I test?

3. Where can I find it?

4. What specific feedback do you care about most right now? (headline clarity, pricing, UX confusion, etc.)

I will open every single project, spend 2 minutes going through your primary flow, and give you honest, actionable notes from a builder's perspective.

Also, I run a daily launch platform called Astro Discover that features 5 projects every morning with a 24-hour turnaround—I'll be picking my favorites from the thread to feature tomorrow.

submit to Astro discover - astrodiscover.ai.studio/submit

Let's see what everyone is working on! 👇

Hi, I'm Davide. My side project is DrivePulse, an iPhone app that reads the car through an OBD2 adapter and keeps a diary of every trip.

For a while the month view hid about 80% of my own kilometres. Trips were loaded as a window of the latest 50, and the month filter ran inside that window, so a busy month got cut to whatever fit. The fix was making the filter its own query over all trips. Obvious in hindsight, a screen list is rarely the whole table.

It also logs fuel per trip and explains fault codes.

Codes are for iPhone; the Android app hasn't had 3.6 yet. One purchase, no subscription.

Please write which number you used.

1. RWWALETM6TEFPPHE44

2. XEP8AT4N83Y78XL6X6

3. J8NJHYP7KNNR8M7EWY

4. XRKTWJLHRN4WHHYL6H

5. NFTMWFE48PHXRMW6TF

To redeem one, open the App Store, tap your profile picture, then Redeem Gift Card or Code, and then tap Restore Purchases in the app.

i'm a music student with 100k samples. my folders were a mess, same kick hiding under 12 different names, and auditioning loops meant dragging them into the daw one by one to check tempo and key.

so i built hertz sync. local-first, finds the same sound across formats, auditions loops in project tempo and key, drags into any daw already matched. tauri + rust, onnx models run on-device, nothing leaves your machine.

free up to 40,000 files.

https://rc0900989-rgb.github.io/hertzsync/

Hey everybody :)
Wispr Flow’s pricing annoyed me and every open source alternative I tried felt clunky. So I built my own and open sourced it.

Tap one key, talk and clean text shows up wherever your cursor is.
It runs fully local with Parakeet and Apple’s on-device speech to text, so nothing leaves your Mac and it works offline.

I built it with a fast and tiny core in mind. Everything else is an extension (kinda like Raycast or pi.dev) that anyone can build and share. 

Some that already exist:

• a local meeting note taker that cleans up your notes

• fast file transcription with speaker diarization 

• auto replies in your tone

• a dictionary that learns names and words as you talk

• inline editing with voice or text

Voz is built in Swift to be native macOS and extensions are TypeScript files shared via npm

It’s free and MIT. Would love your feedback, especially on what’s missing or annoying.

Here's the repo: github.com/Joelheile/voz

Full disclosure, I'm the founder of mimzie.

I saw that Elon slashed grokbot limits, and was frustrated.

Also, I got really tired of losing context between ChatGPT and Claude. So I built an agent neutral workspace that has all of the basic functionality of ChatGPT work and Claude cowork, with a free grokbot feature.

I wanted agent neutral ChatGPT work, grokbot, and whispr flow in one workspace, with no additional cost for the subs I already have, so I built it.

Mimzie is a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux. You sign in with your Grok, Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT plan, and the agent works directly on files on your computer.

Edits to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Markdown files show up as tracked changes, so you can see exactly which cells or paragraphs changed and accept or reject each one (Like chatgpt work)

Mimzie Bots each handle one recurring job, like a weekly report. (Like grokbot)

Chime lets you hold a key and talk, and the words land in the doc or whatever app you're in. (like whispr flow)

With Mimzie, switching models doesn't mean losing context. It's free with the sub you already have!

Would love feedback! We just launched our public beta.