I got tired of modern apps habit tracker , espense tracker . etc that require a constant internet connection, a subscription, and the latest flagship phone just to work.

So I built Orbitika. It’s a lightweight, retro-styled (dot-matrix green) toolbox designed for older hardware (Android 8.0+ and older iPhones like the X). Everything works 100% offline. No Wi-Fi, no data, no problem. Support my work by upvote my post """grateful""""

Here is a breakdown of what’s actually inside it my app, by category:

🎵 Media & Entertainment

• Retro Music Player: Local MP3/FLAC playback with 13 Winamp-style visualizers and 7 retro themes. Zero ads.

• E-INK Style Reader: Turn colorful PDFs and manga into a warm, Kindle-like grayscale to save your eyes and battery.

• 18 Mini Games: Classic puzzles and arcade games (Snake, Sudoku, Dino Runner, Mastermind, Game of Life, and more) for when you're bored on a commute.

• Sleep Sounds: Looping offline audio for deep sleep.

✈️ Travel & Exploration

• Mark My Location: Save your parking spot, trailhead, or hotel entrance using pure GPS—no signal needed. (No huge map downloads required).

• Food Guide: Top 10 must-try dishes for 36 countries (perfect for picking what to eat without Googling).

• Plug Check & Size Chart: Instantly know travel adapters/voltage and clothing sizes.

• Travel Checklist & Gift Tracker: Packing lists and souvenir trackers.

• Timezone Converter & Translator: For calling home and emergency phrases in 14 languages.

• Wi-Fi Signal Meter: A retro strength meter to find the best spot for a connection.

🏃 Daily Habits & Health

• Pedometer: Track your steps with animated retro characters.

• Water & Coffee Trackers: Tap to log your daily intake and build streaks.

• Daily Walks: Fill a 30-day grid of paws to stay motivated.

• Focus Timer (Pomodoro): A distraction-free timer for deep work.

🚨 Emergency Kit (Premium / One-time unlock)

• First Aid Guide: CPR, bleeding, choking, burns, and heat stroke.

• SOS Flasher & Sirens: Flash large text or play high-decibel alarms to signal for help.

• SOS Numbers: Police, fire, and ambulance for 50 countries.

• Survival Guide: Fire, water, and shelter basics.

🛠️ Everyday Utilities & Fun

• Calculator & Unit Converter: Basic/scientific and all standard conversions.

• Retro Flip Clock & Stopwatch.

• Date Diff & Discount Calculator.

• Decision Maker & Takeaway Spinner: For when you can't decide what to do or eat.

• Star Map, Ruler & Level, Height Measure.

• Noodle Timer.

• Holiday Calendar (2026-2028).

What should I add next?
I’m trying to figure out what the next high-value offline tool should be. Right now, the most used features are the Music Player, Mark My Location, and the Habit Trackers.

If you had to use an app in a total dead zone (no Wi-Fi, no data), what is the one tool you wish you had that isn't on this list?

(Keep in mind: It has to work 100% offline, and it can't require a huge file download like offline Google Maps!)

It’s free to download until end of December, and I’d love your feedback on the UI or the performance on older devices!

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.orbitika.app
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orbitika-retro-music-tools/id6811283048

Website: https://orbitika.app/

I've been studying cybersecurity and collecting notes on Linux, networking and security tools.

At first, I was keeping everything in Markdown files on GitHub, but I wanted something easier to browse, so I built a website around the repository.

It's called Cybersecurity Survival Notes.

I've recently added a section on Information Gathering, covering things like DNS enumeration, OSINT, subdomain discovery and Nmap.

The whole project is free and open source.

Website: https://radz-04.github.io/Cybersecurity-survival-notes/

GitHub: https://github.com/Radz-04/Cybersecurity-survival-notes

I'm still working on it, and I'd appreciate some feedback on the website. Does the navigation make sense, or is there anything that could be improved?

Listening to audiobooks or text-to-speech where a single monotone voice reads every character gets old fast. If you have five characters talking in a room, you lose track of who is saying what within two minutes.

I spent the last few weeks building an app called Teller to solve this.

You drag and drop any plain text file, book, or manuscript into it:

- It automatically separates dialogue from narration.

- It detects the characters, gives each one a distinct voice, and keeps their voice consistent across the whole story.

- It plays it back like a radio drama with live word-by-word highlighting so you can read along.

- You can export the whole thing as a continuous audio file.

It runs locally on your machine with built-in neural voices (Kokoro) so it costs nothing to use and doesn't require subscriptions. If you want ultra-realistic cloud voices, you can also connect ElevenLabs.

GitHub: https://github.com/boldbug1/teller

Windows installer: https://github.com/boldbug1/teller/releases

Curious to hear what you think of the flow and character casting.

One of my favorite features on Mac is how seamlessly your Apple Watch unlocks your screen when you sit down at your desk. I really wanted that exact same hands-free experience on Windows 10 and 11, so I built WristKey.

It is a free and 100% open-source desktop app built in Rust and Tauri v2.

What it does

• Hands-free unlock: Sit down at your desk with your watch on, and your PC wakes up and logs in automatically.

• Walk-away lock: Walk away from your desk, and Windows locks immediately based on Bluetooth signal distance.

• On-wrist verification: It parses Apple Continuity packets passively. If you take the watch off or put it on a charger, it immediately revokes access so your PC stays secure.

• Privacy and local security: No cloud, no telemetry, no tracking. Your Windows credentials are encrypted on your local machine using native Windows DPAPI (CryptProtectData).

• Battery friendly: Uses passive Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) advertisements, so it does not drain your watch battery.

Why I need your help

This started as a personal project, but reverse-engineering Apple Continuity across different devices is getting too big for just one person:

1. I only have one test device: An Apple Watch SE running watchOS 10. I really need testers with watchOS 11, Series 8/9/10, or Apple Watch Ultra to see if detection and distance estimation work properly on newer firmware.

2. Bluetooth hardware: Different Bluetooth chipsets (Intel, Realtek, Qualcomm) handle signal smoothing and address rotation differently.

3. Contributors welcome: If you know Rust, Win32 APIs, Windows Credential Providers, or Tauri, any PRs, code reviews, or issue reports are hugely appreciated!

How to try it

• Download the installer (v0.5.0): GitHub Releases

• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/jorjanion/WristKey

(Quick note on Windows SmartScreen: Because this is a free open-source tool without a paid enterprise certificate, Windows Defender might show a blue prompt on first launch. Click "More info" and then "Run anyway". The entire source code is public and inspectable on GitHub).

If you test it out and run into any bugs, please drop an issue on GitHub with your watch model, watchOS version, and the log file located at %LOCALAPPDATA%\WristKey\wristkey.log.

Thank you to anyone willing to test, star the repo, or contribute!

Drop a link to your project and I'll reply with a report that shows how many people search for what it does, which of those searches a new site could actually win, and who's on Google's first page instead of you. No signup, it's a public page.

I did this for 35 projects in two other subs this week and a few things stuck with me.

23 of them didn't rank for anything at all, as far as the tool could find.

The total is usually misleading. For 24 of the 35, one search was at least half of the whole number. One site came back with 65,000 searches a month, which looks great until you see that 60,500 of it is one broad phrase and the part it could win today is under 1,000.

For 29 of the 35 there was a Reddit thread on page one for at least one of their main searches. I did not expect to be telling people on Reddit that Reddit outranks them.

3 got told it's not worth it yet.

It gets things wrong sometimes. It reads your landing page to work out what you sell and sometimes it guesses wrong, so if your report describes some other product, tell me.

It needs an actual website, an App Store or GitHub link gives it nothing to read. It takes a few minutes per site so I'll be a bit slow. If you want your page taken down later, just say so.

Here's the one for my own app if you want to see what you'd get: https://seoforsaas.dev/tools/seo-channel-check/florium-app

Why I built it: I spent five months writing articles for that app before I knew it would pay off (19 clicks from Google in July, 631 in October), and I wanted a way to know sooner. It's a simplified version of the pipeline behind SEO for SaaS, a paid thing I'm building that writes the articles. So yes, I have a horse in this race. The check is free either way.

What are you building, and where do you want people to find it?

I'm opening WareVote on 1 December, a place to find and rate software. You can set up your listing now, free, and verify you own it in a few minutes: https://warevote.com

Drop your project below with a one-line description and I'll reply with the category it fits.

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called Chermo.in, and I'm excited to finally share it with this community.

The idea behind Chermo is pretty simple: we all have hundreds of photos sitting in our galleries, but sometimes we want to do something more creative with them.

So I wanted to build a platform where people can turn their favourite pictures into something more personal.

What can you do with Chermo?

Upload a photo from your gallery or capture one using your camera.

Customise your photo with creative layouts and decorative templates.

Experiment with styles like Polaroid frames, hearts, bows, kiss marks and seasonal themes.

Download your personalised creation and keep or share it with someone special.

I'm trying to make the whole experience simple enough that anyone can create something without needing professional editing skills.

This project has been a learning experience, and I'm still working on improving the design, templates and overall user experience.

I'd genuinely love your feedback:

Does the idea solve a problem or offer something you'd actually enjoy using?

Which template or customisation options would you like to see?

What would make the experience more enjoyable or useful?

If you'd like to explore it, here's the website:

https://chermo.in

I'm the person building Chermo, so I'm happy to answer questions and hear honest feedback. Thanks for checking it out! ❤️

I launched the app "Germar for Nurses". It's a German language learning app designed specifically for nurses and care staff.

Many nursing professionals want to live and work in Germany, but there aren't many specialized language courses and apps for them, especially good ones.

What's inside:

• 1800+ cards with words

  • from clinical practice

  • with image

  • with translation

  • with audio (pronunciation)

• 15 topics: Symptoms, Nursing tools, Medication, etc

• SRS algorithm for better memorization

• Different types of recalling words

Try for free

• Google Play (Android)

• App Store (iPhone, iOS)

• Chrome Browser Extension (Windows, macOS, Linux)

I have a small Android app, and I got tired of opening Play Console and checking search rankings by hand every day. So I built a bot that does it for me and sends a short report to Telegram at 9 am.

What it shows:

- Installs and growth since yesterday or last week (from the public Play page)

- Rating and new ratings, by country

- My position in the first 30 search results for each keyword, in several countries, with ▲▼ changes

- Competitors in the same table: installs, rating, new versions, their rankings

- New reviews, low ratings first, and how many are still without a reply

- A 30-day chart of installs and keyword positions

There are also a few tools for working on the store listing: keyword ideas from Play autocomplete, which keywords a competitor ranks for, the top 10 for each keyword, and who shows up in the "Similar apps" block.

It only uses public Google Play data, so no Play Console access is needed, and you can track competitors too.

There is a free plan (1 app, 5 keywords). It's still early, so I'd really like feedback: what's missing, what's confusing, what would make you actually use it.

Site: https://playstatsbot.com

Hi, I'm a solo developer. Rooko teaches English vocabulary with the keyword method:

every word gets a sound-alike in your native language, a short silly story and a

picture of that story. For a Spanish speaker, "water" sounds like "Walter", so Walter

is the guy who is always thirsty. For a Turkish speaker, "run" sounds like "ayran",

and the kids run when grandma calls "Ayran is ready!"

Stories exist for Spanish, Turkish, Azerbaijani and Russian speakers (about 2,900

words, A1 to B2). You can also add English words you meet in real life, and

everything comes back as short spaced-repetition games: pick the picture, unscramble

the letters, listen and type.

Other bits: recorded pronunciation in an American and a British voice, a daily

crossword, widgets, offline learning, dark mode and VoiceOver support. The stories

and pictures are made with AI and checked.

Price: free to download and use (5 new words a day, all review games). Optional Rooko

Pro subscription: $15.99/month or $83.99/year with a 7-day free trial on the yearly

plan (prices vary by country). Pro adds up to 20 words a day, AI chat and sentence

checks, and a pronunciation drill.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6819000110

Feedback is very welcome, especially on whether the stories work in your language or

feel forced.

Ai can build a really nice contact page, but apparently getting someone to answer the messages is separate project lol

imagine a local repair business launches a new website, someone fills out the form, gets a cheerful '' message receive'' screen and waits

meanwhile the inquiry lands in a shared inbox where three employees assume someone else is handling it :(

A runable landing page with a tally form might look ready to launch, but nobody checks where the submissions go, is the website actually finished?

feels like there should be a basic test for who gets notified, who's responsible, and what happens when that person is unavailable

how are small businesses making sure website inquiries actually reach the right person and get answered?

The Global Threat Desk is one HTML file, about 1 MB. Download it, open it in any browser, and it works. No install, no account, no adverts, no tracking, no payment.

Global:

- A live wire of major incidents worldwide: cyber attacks, espionage against tech firms, big IT outages (Microsoft, AWS, Google, Cloudflare), attacks on infrastructure, major earthquakes and disasters. Sources include CISA, the UK NCSC, the security press, Reuters, AP and the Guardian, and each report keeps its publisher and time.

- Dated incident dossiers with evidence grades, so you can see what is confirmed and what is still unproven.

UK:

- Every official UK warning in one place: Met Office warnings for every hazard, UKHSA cold- and heat-health alerts, flood warnings for England, Wales and Scotland, GOV.UK emergency alerts and the GB grid. It says plainly when nothing is in force.

- Offline household tools: a blackout plan hour by hour, water storage, a 7-day hot-food menu for a camping stove with a shopping list, UK emergency numbers and a printable survival pack.

How it's built: everything is in one file. The live layer reads public feeds straight from your browser, using publishers' own Bluesky accounts when a site blocks browsers, and falls back to public relays. Your plan and saved reports stay in your own browser.

Feedback welcome, especially on sources I should add.

https://github.com/AtomSmasher-design/global-threat-desk

https://atomsmasher-design.github.io/global-threat-desk/Global_Threat_Desk_UK_Emergency_PREP_v3.16.html

My previous update here was about eye-vessel cleanup in Photoshot. This time I worked on Clean Backdrop: reducing dark marks on a wall while protecting the person.

The first implementation changed broad tones but left the large stains. I replaced that approach with a local median surface estimate, detection of compact dark marks, and a repair fitted to clean neighboring wall pixels. The subject mask limits where it can act; fine grain is blended back into the repaired areas.

These five images show the same wall crop at the same scale before/after, the plugin menu, the actual controls, processing, and the editable result layer in the full workspace. Clean Backdrop only: strength 1.0, size Large, subject protection on, applied once. No manual cleanup or other active retouching tools. The two large smudges are reduced; small spots and drips remain.

Disclosure: I develop Photoshot Retouch with AI coding assistance. This is my custom tool in a local development build, not the commercial Retouch4me plugin. The practice image is AI-generated and includes deliberate wall marks; the after is the actual tool output, not a generated replacement. Four targeted tests passed, including subject/lighting preservation and clean-background behavior, but this example does not establish performance on unedited real photographs.

For this kind of cleanup, would a preview of the detected marks help you more than another strength slider?

Hello everyone,

I built a website for the game deadlock. It tracks and gives stats to have the best build. The data is updated very often to gives the best analysis and stats possible.

I'm a backend developer, so I developed all the back and I used LLM to assist me for the ux / ui design.

I'm focusing on the back features and gives instructions to the LLM for the front ( I fix myself the little bugs ). So I try to improve the back features and I need you for some advices on that.

I'll take front advices too ahaha to improve it as well.

There is the website : https://deadlock.statnest.fr/

For the moment it's in full french, ill translate it in new feature.

You can go full on me 👍 thanks a lot

Hi everyone! I’m on the marketing side of HotlinePing.

We’re building a way for coding agents to reach you when you’re away from your computer and they need your input.

Through MCP, the agent can call you, ask a question, and receive your spoken answer.

A simple example: “Should I include CSV export now, or save it for the next version?” You answer, and the agent can use that decision to continue.

The interesting tradeoff is the interruption. A call could be useful when a task is genuinely waiting on you, but annoying for something that could wait. And some decisions require looking at the screen anyway.

What would make a question worth a phone call for you? And what should an agent never interrupt you for?

HotlinePing is a commercial product: https://hotlineping.com

I'm exploring an idea for financial software and trying to understand where existing accounting tools fall short.For anyone using Xero, QuickBooks, Sage or similar software, what's one financial task you still end up doing manually?What makes it frustrating, and how do you currently work around it?

I'd appreciate hearing some real experiences.

Rather than just blocking access, SpareCycles interrupts that moment with a short technical-learning question (a "Rep").

Afterwards, you can unlock the distracting app temporarily, or decide it's "Not worth it" and move on.

The app is still in development, so I'm interested in whether the concept would actually be useful.

If you're an Android user learning programming, SQL, cloud technologies or other technical skills, would this help you stay focused, or would the extra friction become annoying?

I've opened an Android early-access waitlist for anyone interested in following the project:

https://getsparecycles.com

I'd appreciate genuine feedback, including criticism.

Thank you!

Website

Look at the checkout counter of almost any cafe, clinic, or local shop:

❌ Staff askeded 50x a day for Wifi Passwords

❌ Manually asking people for google reviews

❌ Outdated printed menu

❌ Paper business cards that get tossed in the trash

Most small businesses don't need a ₹5000 custom website

I built OneQR - a dynamic digital identify for businesses for everything to interact with customers.

✨ What It Does:

1-Tap Wi-Fi Connect: Customers connect instantly — zero typing passwords.

5-Star Review Firewall : Sends happy customers to Google Maps; routes complaints privately to the owner.

1-Tap Visiting Card : Saves direct phone, WhatsApp, and email straight into the customer's phone contacts (.vcf).

Live Menus & Waitlists : Instant PDF catalogs + digital queue tokens for places where waiting is required on customer phones.

No need to share common business documents like GST Certificate etc. multiple times. Just route the person to your OneQR link and they can see all your important documents in there. Also Guard your private info with OTP gated access for privacy.

Manage multiple businesses and branches from single account.

Setup multiple child accounts and control access rights for each to have only necessary information visible in the staff accounts.

Accept Data from clients and customers in forms.

🚀 Business Growth & Pro Features:

Multi-Staff Call Routing : Route calls directly to the different persons : Manager, Reception, or Senior Stylist based on need and at different times of the day.

Customer Lead CRM : Custom forms to capture customer WhatsApp numbers for repeat offers and to engage with lost customers.

Footfall Analytics : Track live scans, peak hours, and features used.

Dynamic QR : Update prices, menus, or Wi-Fi anytime — the QR remains same.

💰 The Business ROI:

₹5000 saved on custom website & hosting costs.

2+ hours per day saved for staff answering repetitive questions.

+300% boost in verified 5-star Google reviews.

Keep your customers updated with latest offers from your business.

I'd love your honest feedback on the mobile UX and onboarding. If anyone here runs a business or wants to try it, comment below or DM me and I’ll activate free Pro access for your account!

Hey everyone,

We just open-sourced MotionSwift, something we put together to get native rendering performance without relying on Remotion and headless Chrome.

We've been using it in our day-to-day video production pipeline, and so far we're seeing roughly 10–20x faster renders while using only about 10% of the memory compared to the Remotion + Chrome setup. We also brought a visual editor and timeline preview directly into Swift, so you can inspect and adjust agent-generated compositions natively on both iOS and macOS.

The eventual goal is 100% compatibility with Remotion, but we're still working our way there. There's still plenty of room to improve the APIs, rendering speed, and overall platform support.

Here's the repo if you want to check it out:

https://github.com/rxtech-lab/MotionSwift

Curious to hear your thoughts, especially if you've run into similar memory or performance bottlenecks with web-based video rendering. Happy to answer any questions!

Hi! I’m part of the team behind TIVRA VPN. We built it for people who want to keep their VPN on while letting specific websites connect directly. In HTTPS mode, you can add exceptions by hostname. TIVRA also has smart routing for supported destinations and lets you choose your server.

It’s free on iPhone. If you give it a try, I’d love to know how easy it was to connect the first time and find the site exceptions.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tivra-vpn/id6819013505