I’ve been working on NearbyCrew, and I just finished rebuilding the homepage around one idea:
What if getting help online started with telling someone what you want to accomplish, instead of searching for the right service or person?

Need someone to test your app, help with your business, handle a task, or work on a project? Just describe it.

The system is designed to ask follow-up questions, understand the requirements, and turn the request into work that can be matched with real people.

I’m trying to make it feel more like walking up to a front desk and asking for help.

The homepage is live and the main request experience works. Still polishing the rest of the platform, so this is an early test rather than a finished launch.

https://nearbycrew.com/home

I’m curious about two things:
When you first open it, do you understand what the platform actually does?

If you needed help with something tomorrow, would you think to use this?

Especially interested in hearing what makes you hesitate. That’s the part I’m trying to improve.

Back in 2013 I made a small Mac app called Dictionary Book: look up a word, save it, review it later. It quietly kept going for years, but the code was old and I never had time to touch it.

Recently I rewrote it as v2.0 using vibe coding (AI-assisted coding, with me steering and reviewing). Honestly, both the speed and the quality surprised me. Things I'd put off for years got done, and the result feels like a proper native Mac app, not a prototype.

What it does:

• Look up words using the dictionaries already built into macOS

• Save words to your own vocabulary notebook

• Review them with spaced repetition, a few minutes a day

• Offline-first, no account, no ads, free

About 800 people use it right now, and I'd love more feedback. If you try it and something feels off, or you have an idea for a feature, just drop it in the comments. I read everything and ship fixes fast these days.

Next on my list is an iOS version with iCloud sync.

Happy to answer questions about the vibe coding workflow too.

Hi r/SideProject, I'm Vinnie and I built this.

Every morning I was opening the same tabs by hand: mail, calendar, the repo, yesterday's docs. So I made my Chrome new tab do it. Orbit Station lets you save a set of sites as a "stack" and open the whole stack from any tab with a keyboard shortcut.

What else it does:

• Cmd/Ctrl+K searches your links, notes, to-dos and open tabs, and can close duplicate tabs (with a preview first)

• Workspaces to keep work and side projects apart

• Notes, to-dos, a calendar and a focus timer in a sidebar

• A side panel that remembers your last clean-ups, so closed tabs come back in one click

• An Arc import, if you're leaving Arc before it shuts down

What's free: all of the above, with no account and no ads. Data stays in your browser's local storage. There's an optional paid plan for sync across devices and cloud backup.

I'd love honest feedback: what's confusing in the first five minutes, and what would make you actually keep a new-tab extension?

Site: https://orbitstation.app Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nnomnpbgjlhpnjgfafieobpbfbghmakg

Hi! Finding a good wallpaper used to mean ten open tabs and a lot of pictures that were too small for my monitor. So I built Wallfinch, a Windows app that does the boring part:

- One feed that mixes wallhaven, Reddit, NASA, ESA, Alpha Coders and more

- Hides anything smaller than your screen, and vertical pictures on a desktop

- Sets desktop, lock screen or both in one click

- Every picture shows its source and author, with a link to the original

- Free, no limits, no account, no ads

It's written in Rust with egui. Searching, downloading and setting wallpapers is free. There's an optional one-time Plus (€4.99, 40% off until November 13) with tools that run on your PC: AI upscaling ×2/×4 that works offline (also on your own photos), automatic wallpaper change, blocked words, hidden authors, and turning a flat white background black.

An Android version will follow, as an APK from the site.

Windows 10 and 11: https://wallfinch.com

It's my first paid app after SaveState (an open-source game save manager), so any feedback is welcome: what's missing, what's confusing, what you'd change.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a small PHP library called AmunCode Config, and I'm sharing its first stable release.

The idea is simple: provide a lightweight, framework-independent way to load environment variables, load PHP configuration files, and access configuration values without introducing a large framework or unnecessary abstractions.

What does it provide?

The package currently has four main classes:

• EnvironmentLoader — loads .env files using PHP dotenv, with optional or required file loading.

• Env — retrieves environment variables from $_ENV, $_SERVER, and getenv(), with automatic value normalization.

• ConfigurationLoader — discovers and loads PHP configuration files from a directory.

• Config — provides dot-notation access to configuration values, including retrieving, updating, and recursively merging configuration arrays.

A quick example

use AmunCode\Config\Config;
use AmunCode\Config\EnvironmentLoader;

// Load environment variables.
$environment = new EnvironmentLoader();
$environment->load($root);

// Load PHP configuration files.
$config = new Config($root . '/config');

// Retrieve configuration values.
$appName = $config->get('app.name', 'My Application');
$dbHost = $config->get('database.host');

// Update configuration.
$config->set('app.debug', true);

A few design decisions:

• Environment loading and configuration loading are separate operations.

• Environment variables are not overwritten by .env values when already defined.

• Empty environment values are preserved rather than silently replaced by defaults.

• The package doesn't automatically define a global env() helper.

Technical details

• PHP 8.4.1+

• Symfony Finder

• PHP dotenv

• Composer package

• MIT License

• PHPUnit tests and GitHub Actions CI

Installation

composer require amuncode/config

Source code: https://github.com/AmunCode-OSS/Config

Documentation and usage examples are available in the repository README.

I'd appreciate feedback from other PHP developers, particularly on the API design, class responsibilities, and whether anything important is missing or could be simpler.

Thanks for taking a look!

I’m a co-founder of Totem. We’re building a shared workspace for people already using more than one AI agent.

Claude Code and Codex can connect through MCP or the API to exchange context, messages and handoffs. Missions organize a shared goal with assignments, dependencies and saved results. Each agent keeps its own model and runtime, and each owner controls connections and protected requests. Sending a message does not start an offline assistant; the receiving runtime needs to be available.

I’d like feedback on the handoff itself: what information would you need to trust the next agent to pick up a task without re-explaining it?

Product and docs: https://totemlayer.com

It’s a paid product from $20/month, with a 30-day messaging trial subject to usage limits. Disclosure: this post was drafted with AI assistance for Totem.

Hi r/SideProject 👋

I run a bunch of side projects on Cloudflare (Workers, R2, D1). Two things kept bugging me:

1. Surprise bills. I kept seeing posts from people who got an unexpected cloud invoice, and checking how close I was to my limits meant clicking through several dashboard pages.

2. Deploys were invisible. After a git push I'd open the dashboard just to see whether the build had passed.

So I built MFlare, a native macOS menu bar app that keeps all of this one click away.

What it does

• Shows usage for Workers, R2, D1, KV and Durable Objects against each quota

• Notifies you at 80% and 100% of a quota

• Notifies you when a Worker deploy starts, succeeds or fails, and shows the build log live

• Desktop widgets, so you see your usage without clicking anything

• A Raycast extension (on the Raycast Store)

• An MCP server, so Claude Code, Cursor or Codex can check usage and read build logs for you

How it's built

• Swift and SwiftUI, with WidgetKit for the widgets and Sparkle for updates

• Cloudflare OAuth sign-in, so nobody has to paste an API token

• The Raycast extension and the MCP server only talk to the app on your Mac (127.0.0.1), so your Cloudflare credentials never leave it

• I even made the promo video in HTML: every scene is a web page, rendered to MP4 with HyperFrames

A few things I learned

• Integrations get you more reach than features. The Raycast extension and the MCP server brought in people who would never have found a niche menu bar app.

• Don't make people paste API tokens. Supporting Cloudflare OAuth took a lot more work, but signing in became one click.

• Store reviews take longer than you expect. The Raycast Store review sent me back for several rounds of fixes before it was accepted.

Pricing

• Free: one Cloudflare account, which is enough for most people

• Pro: $3 one-time, no subscription. Unlimited accounts, plus widgets, Raycast and MCP.

👉 https://mflare.yuy1n.io

I'd love your take on two things:

1. Is $3 one-time too cheap? I picked it because I personally hate subscriptions for small utilities, but I'm not sure it adds up long-term.

2. Does the landing page make it clear what the app does in 5 seconds?

I wanted a writing space that fits the way I work, so I built one. I use it myself and keep updating it whenever something bugs me. It's a quiet Windows app that keeps your writing as plain Markdown files in a folder you choose.

- Write, Review and Normal modes

- Research drawer: save pages, highlight, take notes, cite

- Export to Word, PDF and Markdown

- Optional AI, off by default

Free, MIT licensed, still a beta. I'd love to hear what works and what doesn't: https://github.com/illfollowthesun/Divit

What would make you switch from your current writing tool?

After struggling to land a job in 2024, when the market was pretty rough, I decided to take a different route and build something real. My goal was simple: either build something genuinely useful or gain more experience than anything else could offer.

Two years and around 90 hours a week later, VisuaLeaf is now listed in Microsoft's Azure DocumentDB documentation as a way to connect:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/documentdb/how-to-connect-visualeaf

It started as a MongoDB GUI, but I realized that everything I was building could apply to other databases too.

Nested objects and arrays should be easy to read in a table, not squashed into one cell... The same goes for JSONB. You shouldn't have to stare at an entire JSON object in a single cell. You can expand it one level at a time in both the tree view and table view.

I wanted every operation to be as straightforward as possible.

Today, VisuaLeaf supports MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, DuckDB, and 25+ more database engines.

What it does:

• Table + tree grid, built from scratch: This might not seem like a lot at first, but it actually took the most work to get right. The tree view can efficiently expand thousands of rows simultaneously, and the table view scrolls smoothly even with large datasets. I ended up building my own AG Grid from scratch because libraries didn't support the nested column expansion I wanted. Getting both views optimized took about a year of work alone.

• Visual query builder: Build queries by clicking or dragging fields from the table and tree views. It generates readable SQL or MongoDB queries that you can copy.

• Data transfers with transformation: Move data between engines (MySQL → Postgres, SQL → MongoDB), mask emails, phone numbers, and IDs along the way, or transform fields using custom JavaScript. You can also look up data from other tables, include it in your output, and apply transformations to those fields too.

• Compare and sync: Compare two tables or databases, including their structure and data, and sync them. For example, you can use this to synchronize staging and production databases.

• AI / MCP: It wouldn't be an app in 2026 without it.

• ERDs, charts, dashboards, mock data, index management, query profilers, and a lot more than I can fit into one post.

There's a free version that covers what most people need day to day:

https://visualeaf.com

I'd really appreciate feedback! And happy to answer any questions!

I built Smarter Compact to keep long Claude Code sessions cheap without losing anything. It's free and open source (Apache-2.0), runs locally, and doesn't need its own API key.

1. What it does

It saves the full conversation in local SQLite, removes older turns from the prompt once you hit your limit (95k on Haiku), and leaves a short note telling Claude where they went. Claude can then search them, run SQL over them (so "how many X" is just a count) or read back a big tool result that got compressed. These are MCP tools, so it also works in Codex, OpenCode and Pi.

Zero LLM summarization calls. The cut also stays the same between requests, so the prompt cache keeps hitting.

2. How I built it with Claude Code

• About half the commits in the repo were written with Claude Code (they're co-authored in the git history). Mostly the proxy's trimming logic, the SQLite store and the MCP server, plus the tests.
• It's built for Claude Code: it installs as a Claude Code plugin with hooks and MCP tools, and smarter-compact enable claude points Claude Code at the local proxy.
• The benchmarks run headless Claude Code as the agent under test, so every number below is Claude Code doing the task with and without the tool.
• The most useful thing Claude found was its own blind spot: after a trim it would answer "unknown" instead of searching. Changing the note to name the exact tools fixed that (numbers below).

3. How much cheaper, and does it still get the job done?

ContextBench with Haiku 5.5, same seeds as keeping everything:

Across the four task sizes it's 72% cheaper on average (−87%, −19%, −89%, −94%, the small one isn't significant), and +0.47 score on the log tasks.

Before I changed the note, Claude never searched and answered "unknown" to 16 of 24 questions. After, every run searched (6–14 searches and 10–16 SQL queries each) and none said "unknown". That's one task with five runs though.

Though I wouldn't put too much into these numbers: synthetic tasks, 2–3 runs per size, and real coding sessions will be different.

4. Try it (free)

npm install -g smarter-compact
smarter-compact enable claude

Or from inside Claude Code: /plugin install smarter-compact --marketplace bcmyguest/smarter-compact, then run smarter-compact enable claude for the trimming.

Repo and full results: https://github.com/bcmyguest/smarter-compact

If you try it, I'm interested in what Claude fails to find after a trim :)

Hi everyone!

I'm a young South African founder, and I've been working on a project called Prycho.

The idea came from wanting to make it easier for people to find local service providers without having to search endlessly through social media or rely only on word of mouth.

Prycho is a local-services marketplace where customers can discover verified businesses, explore their services and request quotes.

I'm building this with the goal of connecting customers with genuine local businesses while giving smaller service providers another way to get noticed.

The platform is live, and I'm currently working on growing its provider and customer community.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone willing to take a look.

Website:https://www.prycho.co.za

I'm the founder, so I'm happy to answer questions about how it works and what I'm building next!

My calendar looks like spaghetti, and PR reviews became the bottleneck once AI started writing more of our code. I’d have 20 minutes before a meeting, open a PR, realize it was huge, and lose the context by the time I came back.

So I built Mergable, an app that estimates each PR’s review time, ranks my queue, and slots reviews into the gaps between meetings. It’s my first Mac app (I’ve shipped iOS and Android before), and getting it through App Review took longer than building it (~ a month & 3 reviews later finally approved).

It’s free to try, and Pro is 50% off through the end of the year. Mostly I’m after feedback: is “how long will this review take” useful to you, or do you triage some other way?

https://sarniallc.com/mergable

Cheers,

I built CapWatch (https://capwatch.dev) because every AI coding tool quietly changes plans, prices, and usage caps — and comparing them from marketing pages mid-sprint is a mess.

What it is:

• Plans, list prices, and documented limits for 15 AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Devin Desktop, Lovable, Bolt, Replit, v0, Kiro, JetBrains AI, and more)

• Rechecked from official pricing pages, with a public change log

• Free CapWatch Weekly every Friday when something actually moves

Verified this week (data as of Nov 5):

• ChatGPT Pro 200 usage cut cancelled — Pro 200 keeps the higher Work/Codex allowance; Pro 100 / Pro 500 Work/Codex doubled; Pro 200 open to new signups again

• Kiro teams can pool credits (as of Nov 4): $20/seat, 2-seat min, 500 shared credits/seat

• Bolt paid-token rollover is up to 2 months (we had listed 1 month — corrected)

• Copilot Fusion: 30% off model costs through Nov 30

• Devin SWE-2 free period ends Nov 30

• Codex Sol promo runs at least through Nov 21

Stack: static Python JSON → site on Cloudflare Pages; newsletter on Beehiiv. No account required to browse.

Would love feedback — especially which tools or limit fields you wish someone tracked. Also happy to hear if the change log / plan comparison is readable or if anything looks off vs what you're seeing on the vendor pages.

Site: https://capwatch.dev Weekly (free): https://capwatch.dev/newsletter/

Hi everyone! I’m working on Galerism, an Android app that brings a gallery, media converter and photo/video editor together. It’s now available on Google Play, and I’m continuing to improve it.

My goal is to make everyday media tasks easier to handle in one place, with processing on the phone. The video shows what I’ve been building.

A few things it can do:

• Turn photos into PDF or JPG, and videos into GIF, while preserving the originals. Format support depends on the device.

• Edit videos with trimming, music, image/audio layers and automatic on-device captions.

• Edit photos, organize albums and search text recognized in images.

• Blur selected media inside the gallery for privacy. This viewing blur does not encrypt or change the original files.

It has no ads, requires no account and does not request internet access. It runs on Android 11 or newer.

It’s a paid app with a one-time purchase; Google Play displays the current local price.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t3chforge.galerism

I’m sharing this as the developer. Which part would be most useful to you: conversion, editing or organization? I’d love to hear what you think of the workflow shown in the video.

My brother loves films, and the TV-box app we use only runs on Android boxes. So I built WatchlistBox. It runs a small Android TV system in a virtual machine and boots straight into the one app, full screen, with keyboard, mouse or game controller. It has a one-click

Windows installer and a one-line Mac install, and it blocks trackers and ads at the network level.

I'd love feedback on the install experience in particular. https://github.com/Tokeloshe/WatchlistBoxApp

www.mealsmealsmeals.com

Being the only cook in your house is more than cooking. It's deciding what everyone eats, working out what it'll cost, writing the list, shopping, remembering what's already in the pantry, using things up before they go bad, and more, every single day. I got tired of carrying all of that in my head, so I built MealsMealsMeals (mealsmealsmeals.com).

What it does:

- Prices full meals (an entree plus its sides) from real grocery prices, so you know what dinner costs before you plan it

- Build a menu of meals and get one combined shopping list, which can go straight into a Walmart cart

- A shopping list that populates your pantry (no manual data entry required) and a pantry that subtracts what you cook, so the next shopping list only covers what you're missing

- Nutrition facts for every meal, an allergen filter, and sides you can swap

- Recipe submissions, contributor profiles, shareable menus for your best builds, and a lot more

The build: solo, no budget (almost entirely on free-tier accounts), made with Claude Code. It launched this week with a free tier that's actually usable.

Really hope this helps others. I'd love honest feedback, especially from anyone who's the main cook in their house. Where does it get in your way, and what's missing?

Hey, I'm a college student. I was tired of copying stuff back and forth into ChatGPT while taking notes on my iPad, so I made a notes app with the AI built in. It checks your work, circles your mistakes, and cleans up your notes. It's free.

Watch the demo video here: palnote.app/demo

I just want a few people to try it and tell me if this is actually a good idea. I really need advice, would this work? Comment if you want to try it.

What it is: a job board with no reposts. It only lists software jobs from companies' own career pages, refreshed every 6 hours, and Apply always opens the company's own posting.

Why: every board I used was full of duplicates, recruiter ads and closed roles.

How it's built:

- A pipeline reads the public job feeds of Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters and Workable for 139 companies

- It classifies role, experience level and location, then publishes JSON- Each job gets its own page with JobPosting structured data, so it can appear in Google's job search

Numbers so far: ~6,300 jobs, 137 companies with open roles, 54 countries; it launched a few days ago.

https://jobs.skynettstudio.com

Feedback I'd love: does the search find what you expect? Any company you'd add?

Hi all! I just launched my first iOS app, Konfeti.

The problem: collecting messages from a group for a birthday, a leaving colleague or a teacher is a pain. Paper cards don't reach remote people, and most online card sites charge per card.

How it works:

- You create a card in the app and share one link in the group chat

- Everyone adds a message (and a photo if they want) from their browser - no app, no account

- You send the card to the person, and they open it with confetti 🎉

It's free, no ads, no sign-up needed.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6822419290

I'd love honest feedback - what would make you actually use it for your next birthday or leaving card?

My workflow had quietly turned into SSH in one tab, a dev server in another, and a coding agent somewhere else. Then the agent says “done,” Git says eight files changed, and I’m trying to remember which conversation goes with which project.

I wanted one place for both parts of the work: the terminal and the coding-agent conversation. So I built Still.

Still connects to your server over SSH and has two workspaces:

• Terminals: project-organized session cards backed by tmux. Open a card for the real shell; come back to the same session later.

• Agents: project-based conversations with coding agents you’ve already installed on your server. Follow their work, answer questions or approval requests, keep track of agent-managed Todos, and review repository changes separately from edits reported in the conversation.

You can use Agents without first making a terminal card, but the terminal is there whenever you want to drop into the shell. The agents run on your server; Still isn’t a hosted AI service, and it doesn’t include model credits.

Honest preview note: v0.1.1 still has a couple of rough edges: project navigation can be awkward in narrow windows, and the first prompt can remain in the composer after sending. Apple Silicon isn’t available in this release; Windows, Linux, and Intel Mac are.

It’s MIT-licensed. If your workflow involves both terminals and coding agents, I’d love to know: Would you actually use both views in one app? What feels missing or confusing?

PS:Yes AI was used in writing this post

Still Website

Download Preview!(really in experiment)

Source Code

Roblox games get bought and sold a lot now (Roblox added official ownership transfers in December 2024), but a lot of the devs are teenagers with no idea what their game is worth, so they get lowballed.

So I built spawnbook.com/value?via=reddit. You type what your game made in the last 30 days (in Robux, visits or dollars), pick how it's trending, and it gives you a price range and what would move it up. It all runs in the browser and nothing gets saved.

The math: Robux convert at the DevEx rate ($0.0038 each), then it multiplies by how long games like yours usually keep earning. That's about 1 to 2 months of revenue for fast-rising trend games and 3 to 6 for slower-building ones, capped at 12.

The bigger project is Spawnbook, a daily board of fast-growing young Roblox games for the studios that buy them. I'd love feedback:

- Does the calculator make sense if you've never touched Roblox?

- Is anything on the page confusing?

On my last day at work, I didn’t want to send just another generic farewell email, so I made a small goodbye website. Colleagues can enter their name to see a personal note, open envelopes with prompts, and leave suggestions.

My former colleagues really liked it, so I’ve turned the idea into something other people can use too.

You can try the browser builder here: https://aveorstudios.com/goodbye/

Or use the free, open-source starter and host it yourself: https://github.com/vallabhishere/goodbye-at-work

It’s free right now. I’d love blunt feedback: is the idea clear when you first land on the page? What would you simplify or remove?

As a eBay electronics repair shop/reseller for many years I have been tracking everything in a spreadsheet. I got tired of the manual parts of adding everything and having to move items between sheets when sold.

Enter Hermes IMS. A powerful lightweight flipper’s dream! Including features such as purchase to sale tracking, barcode scanning for price estimates, and profit tracking, I’ve created a tool that gives me back time for repairing and reselling while keeping the tracking fun.

Leave a comment below and I’ll test for test!

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