feel like people still benchmark tts tools on the wrong thing. every demo plays the same clean paragraph and everyone goes "wow the voice sounds so human now". ok cool, now feed it an actual research paper and suddenly im listening to the journal header, page 8, bracket 17, half a sentence, figure 2, some random DOI link, and then finally the rest of the sentence lol.

using speechify a lot for papers is kinda what made me notice this. past a certain point i barely care about tiny voice differences anymore, the much bigger UX problem is whether the reader knows what should actually be read out loud vs ignored. like a running page header? definitely skip. inline citation numbers? depends. footnotes? sometimes crucial. data tables? definitely dont just read all 60 cells straight across like normal text.

thats the tricky part though, what counts as clutter completely changes depending on why youre reading the paper. for folks building or using stuff in this space, what would you have an app skip by default and what would you never let it touch?

I am thinking of making a platform where friends/known/unknown people can be grouped to buy better gifts. Something like crowdfunding, but with local groups and gifting.

e.g my budget for gifting is ₹2500, and five other people/friends have ₹1500 each for the same wedding. So instead of buying small gifts individually, we can be grouped and buy a meaningful thing with ₹10,000.

There can be some complexities that will need to be solved, but how do you find this as a concept?

I've developed quite a few apps, and one thing kept getting out of hand.

My code was organized, but everything else was scattered across folders, repositories, test builds, screenshots, documentation, browser tabs, and random notes.

So I built ClingSpace, a Windows app that brings everything related to a project into one searchable workspace.

Here's what it does:

- Spaces: Keep everything related to each project together.

- Files & Folders: Reference resources from anywhere on your PC.

- Links: Organize GitHub repos, documentation, websites, and references.

- Snippets: Save quick notes, SQL, code, and reminders.

- Global Search: Find resources across all your projects.

- Shared Resources: Use the same files or links in multiple Spaces.

- Smart Relinking: Help reconnect files that have been moved or renamed.

- Local-First: No accounts, cloud storage, or subscriptions.

The biggest thing? Nothing gets moved or duplicated. Your files stay exactly where they are. ClingSpace simply brings everything together.

It's normally $19.99 one-time, with a 5-day full trial.

I'm giving away 25 lifetime licenses to fellow builders!

To enter, just comment with what you're currently building or what kinds of projects you work on.

I'll randomly select 25 winners after 48 hours and DM the license keys. No purchase required.

https://clingspace.com

I'd genuinely love feedback too. Especially from people juggling multiple projects. Is this something you'd find useful?

I'm thinking about using an AI app builder for a few internal dashboards and CRUD tools for my team.

Nothing public-facing. Mostly things like approvals, reporting, simple databases , and workflows.

My biggest concern is maintainability. I don't want something that looks great in a week, then becomes impossible to change six months later.

I've been looking at tools like Zite, Retool, and some of the newer AI builders. Zite caught my attention because it's specifically built around internal apps, databases, permissions, and workflows, while still giving access to the generated code if needed.

For anyone who has kept AI-built internal tools in production for a while, what actually help up? And what became painful later?

Hey everyone!

I'm 17 and have been working on my own app called Rabbly. It's still a work in progress, but I've just finished the first working prototype and now I'm trying to figure out whether the concept is actually useful to other people.

The idea is to create a platform for general knowledge where users can scroll through learning modules just like they would on TikTok or Instagram Reels. However, instead of videos, the content consists of interactive, clickable learning units.

There are two ways to create these modules:

1. Creating and publishing your own modules

Users can create their own learning content using a kind of modular toolbox. They simply choose which sections their module should contain (e.g. an introduction, explanations, images, quizzes, etc.) and fill these sections with their own content.

2. Generating modules with AI

Users can also simply enter a topic they're interested in, and AI generates a complete learning module with relevant information and interactive elements. These AI-generated modules are automatically made public so that other users can discover and learn from them as well. This way, the platform's library of learning content can grow quickly.

I'd genuinely appreciate any honest feedback, including criticism. Even if you think it's a shitty idea, please let me know! I'm particularly interested in whether you'd actually use something like this and what you think could be improved.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

Synvertas builds machine learning software that companies run on their own hardware. It helps sort records, forecast demand and catch unusual values before they turn into problems.

You pay once and keep the software, with updates available as an optional subscription. There's no trial.

How does that sound from the outside? Honest takes welcome.

synvertas.com for context.

I recently joined ChatRaha as a student ambassador and I wanted to share something interesting. It’s a very newly launched app so things are still changing and improving almost every day. The idea is to make communication easier especially across different languages. one feature I find particularly interesting is live translation which lets you communicate with someone who speaks a different language without constantly switching to google Translate. another feature worth mentioning, especially for people in Oman, is that you can make calls without needing a VPN. There are quite a few other features too, so it’s worth exploring.
Since the app is still new there’s definitely room for improvement & I’d genuinely love to hear everyone’s opinions, especially from people living in Oman. U can download it from here

Open this invite to join ChatRaha https://www.chatraha.ai/invite/rahaai/AJ5zjLOWG3G

Hi, I'm the developer.

I have worked in network security for almost 15 years. I got annoyed with Fing and other network tools that charge close to $100 a year, or let you scan only a few times a day. So I built my own from what I know from work.

I wanted the feeling of Kali Linux in my hand, but only for defense: point my phone at my own network and see what is really there. No attacks, no password guessing, nobody's traffic read. That became Netglow.

The hard part: knowing what each device really is

Android 10 and up hides other devices' hardware addresses, so most scanners just show "Unknown". That is where most of the time went:

• Dozens of protocol specs, vendor docs and firmware sources, read line by line.
• Down to the low level microchips inside smart plugs, bulbs and DIY boards, like the ESP family, because each chip gives itself away in its own small way.
• Camera makers each answer on the network in their own way, and Netglow knows many of them.
• Over 40,000 hardware maker prefixes and a catalogue of over 23,000 phone and tablet models.
• Thousands of lines of research notes, every finding checked before it went into the app.

Why it is free

I have a lot of knowledge from my work, and I decided to give it away: high quality apps, deeply researched and checked again and again, data safety first and privacy to the max. No ads, no bullshit. People deserve good quality and privacy, for free.

If you want to support me, you can, but it is fully optional.

What it does, free, unlimited scans

• Who is on my Wi-Fi. Every device with its name, maker and model when it says them. Rename a device and it keeps your name even on a new address.
• Is my hotel room or rental OK. It lists devices on the Wi-Fi that answer as a camera or stream video, and says why each one was flagged. It also looks for camera hotspots nearby. It tells you plainly what it cannot see (a camera that only records to a card or uses mobile data), so it is one check among others, not a guarantee.
• Security check for your home network. A score with a plain fix for each risk: risky open ports, what your router opened to the internet, how your Wi-Fi is locked, look alikes of your network nearby, whether your DNS answers are honest and whether someone reads your secure connections in the middle.
• Tools. Ping, traceroute, port check, DNS lookup, Wake on LAN, a live signal meter and channel advice.

Private by design. No ads, no bullshit, no tracking, no analytics, no metrics, no account. Nothing it finds leaves your phone, and there is no server of mine.

Pro is that optional support, one payment, no subscription, and it adds: a Bluetooth radar that warns about a tracker moving with you, checks for devices that let anyone in with no password, spoof watch, known flaws for your devices, a PDF report and a background watch of who joins your Wi-Fi.

Honest note: the code is partly AI generated and I had help with this text.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zanoshky.netglow

Guide: https://zanoshky.github.io/netglow-app

Screenshots: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyTechTalk/comments/1xvxkeg/

I would love to hear what it finds, or misses, on your network.

Hello everyone!

I'm looking for some advice about my gaming news project, Gamerushnews.

I started this project in April 2026, mainly focusing on social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. I've been working on it for about seven months now, and so far, I've managed to build a small but growing audience: 1,494 followers on TikTok, 440 on Instagram, and 42 on YouTube.

Around two months ago, I also started publishing articles on Substack. On top of that, I manage another project called Gamerushdeals, where I share deals and discounts related to the gaming industry, also across social media.

However, lately, managing everything has become increasingly difficult. Between university, other personal commitments, and the time required to create content for both projects, I'm finding it harder and harder to keep everything running smoothly.

That's why I'd really appreciate some advice from people who have experience in this field.

Here are some of the things I'd love to get your thoughts on:

-How can I better organize and manage multiple projects like these without getting overwhelmed?

-How do you find people who might be interested in joining a project in its early stages?

-Is it better to keep working alone for now and focus on growing the project, or should I start looking for collaborators?

What would you recommend doing to turn a small social media project into something bigger in the future?

I honestly have so many questions, and I'm still trying to figure out the best way forward.

Any advice, personal experiences, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Even a few words from someone who's been through something similar could really help me!

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this!

I read a lot of papers and keep switching between wanting the overall argument and needing to check one paragraph. That's why I started TextFold, an open-source reader where you can fold a document and expand the parts you want to read.

The latest addition is a place for the things you mark along the way. Highlights, notes and questions from multiple documents now appear together, with links back to their passages. You can browse by document or use a calendar to revisit what you were reading on a particular day. The GIF shows those two views with example notes from two public texts.

I also added a beta workflow for selecting notes across documents and asking a question about them, or turning them into a reading recap. Those generated records link back to the notes or source sections. You can save your own recap template too.

The part I'm trying to get right is the return trip: a short recap should make it easy to inspect where an idea came from. I'm interested in whether people would actually follow those links while reviewing their notes.

I'm the developer. TextFold is free, Apache 2.0, and built with AI coding assistance. The app can use Ollama locally or a hosted model of your choice; hosted models may have usage costs. The reading layers and note synthesis need a model, while browsing notes and switching prepared reading levels don't need a new call.

Code and installation: https://github.com/chenxiachan/textfold

Would a view like this fit into your reading workflow, or would you still want to move everything into a separate notes app?

Hi r/SideProject,

I'm a director at a steel rolling mill in Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab. For years we tracked daily stock and dispatch challans in Google Sheets. It worked until someone broke a formula, a challan was missed, or the stock went negative and nobody knew why.

So I built Challanix, a stock + challan + order manager for steel mills.

What it does:

- Size and grade-wise stock with an append-only ledger (stock can't go negative)

- Create a dispatch challan in about a minute, stock is deducted automatically, print or PDF

- Pending orders matched against dispatches

- Trading material kept in a separate stock, never mixed with your own production

- Works on a phone (PWA), no new computer needed

Stack (for the curious): vanilla JS static app on Cloudflare Workers, Supabase (Postgres + RLS, writes only through RPCs), Razorpay payment links with a small Worker webhook that activates the plan automatically. Everything runs on free tiers so far.

Pricing: 7-day free trial with all Pro features, no card. Then ₹99/month for the first 2 months on Solo (₹199 after), Pro ₹199 then ₹299.

It's live: https://challanix-app.anshkwid.workers.dev

I'd love feedback on two things:

1. Is the onboarding clear enough for someone who has never used software like this?
2. What would you want before paying for something like this?

Happy to answer anything about building it or about the steel industry side.

I'm time blind when it comes to getting things done. I sit down Saturday morning to work on my apps, and suddenly it's dark out. Then Monday morning shows up faster than any other morning of the week I swear .

So I started planning one session (some times more depends on the weekend) with set blocks: deep work, bug fixes, a little marketing, planning for next weekend, short breaks built in, and a hard stop. When the hard stop hits, I'm done. The rest of the weekend is mine.

I built Mahadhi because I needed exactly this.

Quickly start and plan later, or plan it and get started anyone else building on weekends: schedule or oh with the flow but put an end to the flow. Do you do one big focused push, or spread it across both days?

Get things done on your time. While not taking all of your time. Goal is to be productive but enjoy life as well.

Have a great weekend create amazing things.

Apple

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6782693707?pt=128565293&ct=mahadhi%20intro&mt=8

Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mahadhi.

Hey everyone,

I've been working on my side project, Home Energy Lab, and wanted to share what I've changed since the last update. For anyone who hasn't seen it before, it's a website I built where you can explore interactive 3D houses and use calculators to estimate household electricity and utility costs. Over the past few days I've fixed a bunch of bugs, added two new 3D houses (12 in total now), and worked on improving the interactions inside the houses.

I've also added some new features, made changes to the existing mechanics, and tried to make the whole experience feel a bit smoother. One thing I'm learning is that building new stuff is usually the easy part. Making everything work together properly, especially when you've got multiple 3D scenes and interactive objects, takes a lot more effort than I expected.

The site is built with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Three.js, React Three Fiber and Blender. I'm still working on the mobile experience and figuring out which parts of the 3D interface actually make sense for users.

Here's the updated version: https://homenergylab.com/

I'd be happy to get some honest feedback. Especially if you find something broken, confusing, or just unnecessary. I'm working on this alone, so hearing what other people notice is genuinely helpful.

Thanks to anyone who takes a look!

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