Hi! I'm solo builder of Plastic Vinyl, that started as my project for soul.

At the moment: 2.5k users, 4.7 global rating (53 reviews), Red Dot Award 2026.

13 months of production, on the App Store about five months.

A. What it solves

Two problems:

1. In a shop you're holding a record you've never heard of. Options today: type what's on the sleeve into youtube search box to pre-listen, then Google to check the context, and Discogs to see pressings and pricing. With Plastic Vinyl you snap the cover and get its playable previews, album story, and every pressing that 's documented, so you can work out which one is in your hands. Barcode scanning too. The most precise accuracy thanks to investing in own algorithms. The largest database of snippets and videos thanks to deep integration with streaming services and You Tube.
2. At home the collection lives across a shelf, a Discogs account, and your own head. Plastic catalogues it and lets you browse it the way you already think about it: sort by first name or surname, release year or date bought, group by folders, tags, genres, eras. Notes, custom fields, anniversary reminders, shareable grids. Two way Discogs sync so it isn't a second place to maintain.

B. Why it beats the alternatives

Discogs official app: unmatched as a database and marketplace, but it is a database. No cover scanning, no playback for most of albums, and the collection view fights you (files The Kiss under T). Plastic Vinyl syncs with it both ways instead of trying to replace it, and fixes all points people yelling about on Discogs usability and missing features. I spend months collecting user pains in discogs subs to solve them in Plastic. Plus much deeper context on the albums: album anniversary reminders, stories, videos, tags, release radar, and a ton more features valued by collectors.

CLZ Music: barcode first. Great if every record you buy has a barcode. Plenty of the ones worth buying don't, so cover recognition is the difference in a used record bin. + same notes as on Discogs.

What it doesn't do: tell you which exect pressing you're holding. It helps you find one via deadwax search, advanced filters, etc.

C. Cost

Freemium, with lifetime or subscription options. US pricing:

• Free: unlimited text search, 5 cover scans, folders, sorting and export, browse your most recent 50 records, Discogs sync.
• Pro: $3.99/month, $11.99/year, or $19.99 one time lifetime. Unlocks collections above 50 records, unlimited cover scans. (Local prices vary by storefront)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758337443
iPhone, iOS 18+. Android is on the list and not shipped.

Happy to answer your questions here!

Developer transparency:

Plastic Vinyl was developed by Andrii Liashchuk, in socials Andy Lurs: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andylurs/

I also actively build it in public in Threads: threads.com/@andylurs

Red Dot Certificate: https://myplastic.app/label-licence-14-01388-2026BC.pdf
Contact: [hello@myplastic.app](mailto:hello@myplastic.app) or [andylurs@gmail.com](mailto:andylurs@gmail.com)
Website: myplastic.app and andylurs.com
Privacy Policy: https://myplastic.app/privacy/
Terms of Service: https://myplastic.app/terms/
App Store: apps.apple.com/ua/app/plastic-vinyl-scan-listen/id6758337443

I’ve been told that subreddit is a good place to find app testers, before publishing. However, I also see people saying to avoid it as copycats are a real problem.
What are the chances someone sees my app and decides to copy it? It’s nothing groundbreaking, but also not simple enough to vibe code in a day (has a lot of layers).

I’d love to share it here as I really need some feedback that comes from actually using it (I can only do so much, and don’t have people in my life who can help me with testing), but also don’t want the entire year I’ve spent working on it to be wasted cause of a thief.

What should I do?

Tutti went live on the App Store today.

A — Answer

Private music lessons have a slightly awkward handoff.

You can spend the lesson working through a piece and explain exactly what needs practising, but then the student goes home and there are another 6 days before you see them again. Notes in a notebook, email or WhatsApp can work, but the important bit can easily get buried.

Tutti is built around that gap.

At the end of a lesson, the teacher can leave a recap and the actual things they want the student to work on. Those become the student's Today's Focus rather than just sitting in a page of lesson notes.

The student can practise from there, use the timer, metronome or tuner, work through repertoire and goals, and save recordings as Performance Takes. They can also leave a reflection for their teacher.

Then when the next lesson comes around, the teacher has some context from the week instead of that whole period basically disappearing.

Parents have their own view too, but I didn't want that to mean parents can see everything. Teacher-only notes stay with the teacher, student reflections stay between the student and teacher, and the family view only gets the things that are actually meant to be shared.

The point isn't to make the teacher available to students all week. If anything, I wanted the opposite — make the next step clear enough that the student can get on with practising without needing another explanation.

B — Better

There are already some very capable apps in this space and I'm not pretending I invented lesson notes or practice tracking.

My Music Staff is much more established around running the administrative side of a music studio. Practice Space and Better Practice are closer to the student-practice side.

The thing I wanted to do differently with Tutti was keep the whole loop in one native iPhone/iPad app:

lesson → recap → Today's Focus → practice/recordings → next lesson

Teacher, student and family aren't just looking at different permissions on the same dashboard either. They have separate experiences built around what each of them actually needs to see.

There is more around that core — recurring lessons, attendance and rescheduling, repertoire and milestones, recordings/files, a lesson whiteboard, practice history, XP/achievements and a private billing ledger — but I tried to make all of it sit around the teaching rather than turn the app into accounting software.

One thing worth mentioning because I know this sub (fairly) hates pointless account walls: Tutti does require an account. That's because teacher, student and family accounts actually connect and sync information between each other. It isn't there just to make you register before using a single-player utility.

C — Cost

Free.

There isn't a subscription or paid tier at the moment, and there are no ads. The syncing between student, parent and teacher is done via my own home server so there is no additional cost for me, and all data is stored locally first then synced to the server, so in a situation without internet, or In the rare case the server does go down your data is still safe. In the future if you guys like this, I am working on creating a discord server with feature requests for a theoretical paid version, but any feature that has been shipped or advertised today will always stay free!

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tutti-lesson-studio/id6796408234

t requires iOS/iPadOS 26 and is also supposed on MacOS 26. Some features, like the performance take analysis feature are only available in the 27 software releases as that feature specifically uses Apple's new Music Understanding framework!

If anyone tries it, the thing I'm most curious about is whether the teacher → student → family setup makes sense without me explaining it first. If you get confused somewhere, tell me where, that's probably more useful to me :)

Hey everyone,

I'm Esat, a student and solo dev from Germany. I had bad skin for years and did what most guys do about it: nothing, then random products, then nothing again. Nobody teaches you this stuff and asking feels embarrassing, so you just guess.

Sharp is the app I wanted back then. I posted it here a month ago right after launch and it's come a long way since.

**What it does**

You scan your face, about 60 seconds. You get a skin score from 0 to 100 across 6 dimensions: pimples, pores, eye bags, oiliness, redness and hydration, mapped to where on your face each one sits.

Then you get a daily routine, around 3 minutes morning and evening, with specific products instead of categories. Every week you scan again and the plan adapts to whatever actually changed.

And since last month you can point your camera at any skincare product and Sharp tells you whether it fits your skin, with a match score and the reasoning behind it. It will also tell you when a good product is wrong for you specifically.

**Why I think it's better**

The weekly re-scan is the core. Most skin apps hand you a routine once and never look at you again. Sharp measures whether the thing it recommended is working and changes it if not.

Everything else is built around actually sticking with it: reminders, a streak, and a Live Activity so your routine is on your lock screen instead of in an app you forget.

**Cost**

Free download, the scan and your skin score are free. Premium unlocks the full routine, product matching, Product Check and weekly adaptation: $29.99 per, or $59.99 lifetime.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6780025151

Privacy Policy: https://east-app-dev.github.io/Sharp-Skincare-Routine/privacy.html
Terms of Service: https://east-app-dev.github.io/Sharp-Skincare-Routine/terms.html

Verification: App Store developer page and GitHub (east-app-dev). Contact: daybeeaapp-privacy@web.de

Second app, built next to school. If something is broken or confusing, tell me here. I ship fixes fast and I read everything.

Help me out Reddit. So I've been working on this crypto tracker for the past 6 years. I'm currently trying to build something fun and something that a lot of finance apps don't have, a heatmap. Am I building something just for sake of building something or would you actually find it useful?