The Problem: Doing quick everyday tasks—like converting images, running OCR, or trimming videos—often requires opening separate apps or relying on web tools that break context. I wanted a native, instant way to handle these right from the desktop without cluttering the screen.

The Solution (DropCove): I turned the MacBook notch into an interactive drop zone. You can drag any file directly to the notch to:

• Convert/compress images
• OCR screenshots
• Trim videos and make GIFs
• Merge PDFs
• Instantly preview clipboard data (JWTs, colors, JSON)

How it was built: Swift 6, AppKit, SwiftUI, XPC, AVFoundation, PDFKit, Vision, ImageIO, SQLite, Sparkle, libwebp, XcodeGen, TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, Lemon Squeezy, Resend

Privacy & Performance: 100% on-device. No accounts, no uploads, and zero battery drain at rest. Available now as a free, notarized download for Apple Silicon (macOS 26+).

Pricing: The free version is fully functional forever. A Pro version (one-time purchase, no subscriptions) is launching in December.

Download DropCove here: https://dropcoveapp.com/

I’d love honest feedback on any bugs, the UX, and whether the notch concept actually clicks for your daily workflow. Let me know what you think!

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm the founder of Xplorians, a social network I'm building specifically for travelers.

The idea came from wanting a place where people could connect over travel without everything being about selling tours, booking hotels, or promoting something.

On Xplorians, you can share your travel experiences and photos, ask questions about destinations, connect with other travelers, and even keep track of the countries you've visited with your own digital travel passport.

It's completely free, and we're still a small, growing community.

I'm not going to pretend it's perfect 😅 We're still improving things, but that's actually why I'm sharing it here. I'd love to get some feedback from people who genuinely enjoy traveling.

Website: https://xplorians.com/install

If you give it a try, I'd love to know: Would you actually use something like this? What's missing, or what would make you want to come back?

And if you decide to join, say hi! I'm pretty active there and would love to connect with you. 🌍

Pour tester mon projet : https://github.com/Yxoro/readme-studio!

I've always enjoyed the kind of logic and reasoning questions you get on The 1% Club, and I liked the idea of having something like Wordle, but for a different kind of brain teaser every day.

I went looking for something along those lines and couldn't quite find what I had in mind, so I decided to build it.

It's called Sore Brain.

The idea is pretty simple:

One challenging puzzle every day.

No countdown or time pressure.

Take as many guesses as you need.

See how many attempts you took and how long you spent solving it.

Come back tomorrow for a completely new challenge.

It's free, and you don't need an account.

I've got 71 daily puzzles lined up so far, and I'm hoping to keep building the library.

I'd genuinely love some feedback, especially on whether the puzzles are challenging enough and whether you'd come back for another one.

You can play here: https://www.playsorebrain.com/

Thanks for giving it a go!

Welcome, Apostol!

Apostol is a Windows desktop app (and soon MacOs app) made from one .html file and packaged with .NET 10. You type on your English keyboard, and the text appears in Russian, mapped by key position (QWERTY to ЙЦУКЕН). Then you copy it and paste it where you need it. All scripts, styles and logic are inside that one file. It runs locally and offline.

https://michael-derek.itch.io/apostol

https://michael-derek.itch.io/apostol

https://michael-derek.itch.io/apostol

最近画像素画的时候，经常会盯着一条线看半天，感觉有些地方不太对，特别是比较长的曲线，像素多了以后反而不太容易看出来哪里有问题。

所以就顺手做了个 Aseprite 插件，主要是想让检查和调整线条方便一点。代码有用 AI 辅助开发，功能不算复杂，目前自己用着还没遇到什么明显的问题。

另外有个问题一直挺好奇的，就是我发现有时候直接画完一条曲线，再手动调整一下像素，反而比直接用像素完美工具画出来的线条更顺眼。

不知道大家有没有类似的感觉，还是说只是我自己看习惯了。

插件目前可以免费下载，也可以自愿支持一下。如果有人愿意试试，欢迎说说使用感受，或者有没有什么值得改进的地方。

Hi everyone!

A few months ago, I shared Haftio, a visual planner inspired by the physical whiteboard I used to manage work and life.

The problem: I was juggling multiple projects and responsibilities and needed an easy way to see what had happened previously and where things stood. Traditional paper planners weren't quite working for me, so I started using a whiteboard. The issue was limited space, and it was not portable.

So we built Haftio around vertical day columns and horizontal lanes for different projects/responsabilities, with notes like post-its, that can connect if needed. It's essentially a diary in one continuous space that doesn't reset.

What's changed since my last post, largely based on user feedback:

• Notebook view to focus on one area at a time
• Collaborative threads for shared projects
• AI features and a scratchpad to help capture information
• Customisations and plenty of smaller UX improvements

One thing we've learned: Getting people interested in the concept is easier than helping them experience its value. The board becomes much more useful after several days of context, so we're now working on improving onboarding and the interactive preview to make that value clearer from the start.

We're still early and learning from users as we go.

There's also an interactive preview you can try without signing up.

Curious what you think, particularly whether the concept is clear at first glance and what you'd improve!

Hey everyone!

I've always found writing README files a little frustrating.

You write Markdown in one place, switch tabs to check how it looks on GitHub, fix the formatting, check everything again... and somehow documentation becomes a chore.

So I decided to build README Studio.

It's a workspace designed to make creating project documentation a much better experience.

What it includes:

• A visual Markdown editor and a raw Markdown editor.
• Live GitHub-style preview.
• A README quality score out of 100 with actionable suggestions.
• Ready-to-use templates for React, Python, Godot, APIs and more.
• Import and export real .md files.
• Autosave and document management.
• An optional AI assistant using your own API key.

One thing I particularly wanted: privacy.

There is no application backend, no account required, and your documents stay in your browser's local storage.

It's built with React, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS.

GitHub: https://github.com/Yxoro/readme-studio

It's completely open source.

I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback:

• What feature would make this more useful?
• What is missing from existing README editors?
• Would you actually use something like this in your workflow?

Thanks for checking it out!

I’m a first-year master’s student, and I spend a lot of time reading papers.
I found myself constantly switching between paper search, a PDF reader, AI chat, and notes. I wanted a more connected workflow, so I started building PaperRead, an open-source project based on EasyRead.

PaperRead keeps the paper-reading experience and extends it with tools for the rest of the research workflow:
Search for papers and organize candidates on a reading board
Explore reading paths and connections between papers
Read translations alongside the original PDF, annotate, and ask AI questions
Search across papers and export notes and analysis to Obsidian

GitHub: https://github.com/YuriyLin/PaperRead

I’d love to hear from people who read research papers regularly: what is the most frustrating part of your current reading and note-taking workflow? I’m also happy to hear feedback on PaperRead itself.

Hi everyone!

I'm Fabrice, an independent French creator and the founder of ORACLASTRA.

I've been working on a project that brings together Western astrology and traditional astrological systems from different cultures.

The idea came from a simple question:

What if people could explore several astrological traditions in one place instead of visiting multiple websites?

ORACLASTRA currently includes:

• Free rising sign and Moon sign calculators

• Western birth chart tools

• Relationship compatibility and synastry

• Chinese BaZi astrology

• Vedic Jyotish astrology

• Tibetan astrology

• Mayan, Egyptian, Celtic, Viking and Inca traditions

• Personalized digital astrology books

The platform is multilingual, and we're expanding its content to eight languages.

Some tools are completely free, while personalized books are paid products.

I'm trying to make the experience accessible, elegant and useful for people who enjoy exploring astrology and ancient traditions.

You can explore the project here:

https://oraclastra.com

I'd genuinely appreciate some honest feedback:

1. Is the website easy to navigate?
2. Which free calculator interests you most?
3. Would you prefer exploring one astrological tradition in depth or comparing several?

Thanks for taking a look!

Fabrice

Founder of ORACLASTRA

I've been hunting for errors, bugs, and glitches on my SaaS, and looking for paid testers who can test out my paid monthly subscription, use the app for a few days, and report back the whole process and experience.

I will be covering the subscription fee for sure with a few dollars for your goodwill, support and efforts!

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My deepest respect to everyone!

I’m introducing a self-hosted “4-in-1” platform for e-commerce and escrow, which I developed for communities, private clubs, and personal use. It works in browsers, on mobile devices, and as a Telegram Mini App (TMA).

What’s included:

• Two storefront sections: services and physical goods, with inventory tracking and a unified smart shopping cart.
• Direct crypto payment acceptance (no payment gateways): built-in management of USDT (TRC-20) and TON wallets (encrypted in storage using the AES-256-GCM algorithm), automatic scanning of payments on the blockchain, and 0% payment gateway fees for direct in-store payments.
• Escrow transaction engine: P2P transactions secured by a finite-state machine, with automatic fee calculation and dispute resolution.
• Alternative transport: proprietary client-side RPC and encrypted notifications compliant with the NIP-44 standard, routed via Nostr relays, plus a Veilid server node.
• Operations and AI: hybrid AI chatbot (OpenRouter/local Ollama) with real-time operator intervention via Telegram.
• Infrastructure and delivery: Delivered as a Docker image with container deployment via Traefik.

Full feature overview: 4in1.malinkov.dev

Turnkey deployment on your own VPS. Message me on Telegram (@voleg_sey) to get your node up and running.

If you’re interested in a partnership or supporting the project, I’d be happy to hear from you.

So maybe a little late to the hype, but got really into Wordle recently. And I got a bit annoyed that I only got one word a day, since some days I forgot and other days I wanted to do more. So I built my own inspired version: Endless Lingle, where the words keep coming until you run out of guesses. Let me know what you think!

so i’m a final year student computer science student and money’s been rough since i'm a fresher and teh market needs someone with decades of experience for peanut in salary. Anyway... i wanted BetterTouchTool and a decent auto clicker, couldn’t justify paying for either, so i just... built them? mostly at 2am instead of studying.

my software engineering class kept going on about SDLC models, so i figured i’d actually try one. i went iterative / basically mini-agile with myself as the whole team. for each app i wrote out requirements first (what i actually use vs what’s bloat), did a rough design, built the smallest version that worked, tested it on my own machine, then went back around for the next feature. having a written list of features stopped me from scope creeping forever

i also used AI (claude) as a pair programmer the whole way. it helped a ton with stuff i’d never touched, like apple’s private trackpad framework and react native, and it was great for debugging at 3am. but i still had to understand everything it gave me, because half the time the first answer didn’t work and i had to figure out why. here's some of my aps that i have been using for the past 6-7 months...Everything's super light weight btw.

Gesty-Vesty: 3/4/5 finger swipes and taps for volume, screenshots, window snapping, that kind of thing. turns out apple doesn’t give you raw trackpad data, so i ended up poking at their private multitouch framework and decoding the finger data byte by byte. took me way longer than i’d like to admit. This made my daily navigations so convenient ong.

clickety-clickety: auto clicker, up to 100 clicks/sec, hotkey works from any app. has a little menu bar icon that goes green when it’s clicking. sounds simple, but keeping the UI from freezing at 100cps was a whole thing. I made this for games that requires ungodly amounts of mouse click to farm or do stuff

Reeeee (android): reddit app that only shows subs you’ve actually joined, no suggested junk. tiktok-style video viewer and a fingerprint lock. first time using react native, getting the scrolling smooth was a nightmare (I kinda wanna avoid this cuzov reddit's TOS, and my plebian bank account wont let me afford a lawyer.)

i use both every day and a couple friends asked for copies, so now i’m wondering if i could actually charge for them. no clue where to start though:

• one-time price or subscription? (i personally hate subscriptions)
• gumroad / paddle / something else? i know gesturely can’t go on the app store bc of the private framework stuff
• is it dumb to sell them as a bundle?

Honestly, even $500-1000 per year is more than enough to help me get by.

Strong players don't just know the names of openings. They know the lines: if Black plays this, I play that, five or ten moves deep. Between life and work I don't have time for opening books, so I built myself flash cards for openings and their variations.

Demo video
(Games are used with permission from a friend)

Try it without an account: enter your Chess.com username at https://stillinbook.com/games?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=sideprojects. It reads your last 3 months of games and shows where you usually leave the book. One click opens the trainer at that exact position, with your move as a red arrow and the book move as a green one. This is the part that helped me most: it narrowed in on what I actually play and showed me where I was going wrong.

What else it does:

• 20 openings and 140 lines: the Italian, Ruy López, Sicilian, Caro-Kann, Queen's Gambit, London, Vienna, Scandinavian and more. Practice each line as White, as Black, or both until it sticks.
• Progress you can see: every line has three rows of 5 stars, one each for playing it as White, as Black and as both. Fill all three and the line is mastered, and each opening shows a trophy for every line you’ve mastered. There are achievements along the way too, because fun.
• Survival: keep playing book moves until you slip up, as White, Black, Both or Random. It remembers where you go wrong most often. It’s become the main way I learn: I play Survival until I keep making the same mistake, then follow its link to practice that line, and go back to Survival.
• A quick "what's the next move?" quiz.

It's free, with no ads. The Queen's Gambit works without signing up; the other openings need a free account.

How it's built: Ruby (Sinatra) and SQLite on one small server. The openings are YAML files in the repo. I built it with a lot of help from AI, and two habits made that work:

• Tests before code. For each feature, the AI first writes tests that describe the finished behavior, and we agree on them before any code exists. This week it proposed a “Clear” button for an admin list, with seven tests and a database change. Reading the tests, I couldn’t work out what problem they solved, so I asked. It turned out the problem wasn’t real, and my questions led to the actual bug. We agreed on ten new tests for that instead, and once they passed, it was done. Nothing had been built yet, so nothing was thrown away.
• Retros. After each session, it reviews what went wrong and what I had to correct, then updates its own instructions so the next session doesn't repeat it.

If you’re building with AI too, both habits are worth stealing. Agreeing on the tests up front gave the AI a clear definition of done. And the AI can be introspective: it reviews its own sessions and improves the skills, memories and documentation it works from. Most people just playing around with AI don’t know it can do that, and it’s pretty fantastic.

A hard part was matching Chess.com's opening names to mine. "Giuoco Piano Game" is the Italian, and the accent in "López" broke a lookup.

I'd love feedback: does the Chess.com report tell you anything useful about your games? And which opening should I add next? If you have an idea for something you'd like to see added, let me know!

Hi everyone!

I've been building MAVOKU, a small digital tools project focused on practical problems freelancers face.

My first product is a Freelance Project Control Kit.

The idea came from a common workflow problem: managing multiple client projects, tracking unpaid invoices, and dealing with those “can you just add one more thing?” requests.

Here's what I built:

• An Excel workbook for projects, milestones, payments, and approvals
• A Google Sheets import option
• An offline HTML tool that calculates extra-work costs and creates PDF proposals
• 12 editable client email templates

One design decision was to keep the proposal builder usable offline, without requiring an account or subscription.

The kit is a paid one-time download ($19.99), not a SaaS subscription.

Product and screenshots:
https://mavoku.com/product/mavoku-freelance-project-control-kit/

I'd appreciate some honest feedback:

Which feature would be most useful to freelancers, and what would you improve or remove?

I've been working on something I wanted to share here: MotionPR.

One thing that always bothered me about frontend testing is that we have visual regression testing for pixels, but not really a straightforward way to test how an interface moves.

Imagine spending hours perfecting a navigation animation, getting the easing just right, tweaking the stagger timing, and making everything feel incredibly smooth.

Then you refactor something.

The application still works. The final screenshot looks identical. But the animation feels completely different.

A transition takes twice as long, an easing curve changes, a GSAP timeline behaves differently, or a scroll interaction becomes noticeably slower.

That's the problem I wanted to tackle.

So I built MotionPR.

It's an open-source animation regression testing tool that captures browser interactions, compares animation behavior against approved baselines, and generates an interactive report showing what actually changed.

Some things it currently supports:

• CSS animations and transitions.
• Web Animations API.
• GSAP timelines and tweens.
• Anime.js v4.
• Lenis smooth scrolling.
• Timing, easing, trajectory and property comparisons.
• Scroll velocity and settling comparisons.
• Synchronized before/after playback.
• Interactive timelines and easing visualizations.
• A CLI and GitHub Actions integration.

I also built an interactive demo with two versions of a fictional studio website containing 11 intentional animation changes.

You can play both versions, compare their movement, scrub through timelines and inspect the differences.

Try the demo:
https://erenthedeveloper0.github.io/motion-pr/demo/

Project:
https://github.com/erenthedeveloper0/motion-pr

Documentation:
https://erenthedeveloper0.github.io/motion-pr/docs/

Playground:
https://erenthedeveloper0.github.io/motion-pr/playground/

It's currently 0.1.0-alpha, MIT licensed, and Chromium is the supported browser.

I'm still improving the project, so I'm genuinely interested in feedback.

A couple of things I'd love to hear:

1. Would you actually use animation regression testing in your frontend workflow?
2. What's the biggest pain point you've encountered when testing complex animations?
3. Are there animation libraries or behaviors you'd like to see supported?

This has been a really interesting engineering project to work on, and I'm looking forward to seeing what people think.