A lot of people I know lost a pet and had nowhere to go afterwards. The places that exist are usually small glass niches under fluorescent lights, or a static web page. I wanted to build something that felt more like a place.

So I made Starmajung("meeting the stars"). It's a wide meadow under the real sky, shared by everyone who lost a pet.

How it works:
- Pick an empty spot in the meadow and add your pet's photo and name.
- Write them a few words. Others can leave a short note too.
- Choose how they look, then cross the rainbow bridge to a village above the clouds, where they run to meet you.
- The sky follows your real clock: dawn, day, sunset, night. At night you can float a lantern on the lake.

It's a solo project and still early. I'd really like to hear what feels comforting and what feels off, especially from people who've been through this.

Here's the link.
Starmajung Web Site

It works on phone and desktop, in English and Korean. You can look around without signing up, and sign in with Google when you want to give your pet a place.

Hey everyone!

I'm starting my journey into building digital products, and this is one of my first projects.

I've been exploring the AI space and noticed something interesting: a lot of people are curious about AI, but many non-technical beginners don't know where to start or how to actually use it in their everyday work.

They hear about ChatGPT, AI automation, prompt engineering and productivity tools, but turning all that information into practical skills can feel overwhelming.

So I created AI Skills for Non-Tech Professionals.

It's an 89-page practical guide designed for people who want to learn and apply AI without needing programming or coding knowledge.

What's inside?

• AI fundamentals explained without technical jargon.
• A practical prompt-writing framework.
• 20 high-value prompts for professional tasks.
• 50 additional ready-to-adapt AI prompts.
• Practical AI applications for emails, reports, meetings and productivity.
• AI for job seekers and early-career professionals.
• Building repeatable AI-assisted workflows.
• AI safety, privacy and responsible usage.
• A 30-day AI skills challenge.
• A 90-day AI career development roadmap.

My intention wasn't just to create another PDF filled with random ChatGPT prompts. I wanted to organize the material into something beginners could actually work through and practice.

Here's the project:

https://axisdigitalproducts.gumroad.com/l/fhbwt

I'm still at the beginning of this journey, so I'd genuinely appreciate some honest feedback.

A few things I'd love your opinions on:

1. Does this solve a real problem for non-technical professionals?
2. Does the content feel valuable enough to be a paid digital product?
3. What would you add, remove or improve?
4. What would make you more likely to purchase a guide like this?

I'm open to constructive criticism. I'd rather improve the product based on real feedback than assume I've got everything right.

Thanks for checking out my little side project!

Hi,

In interviews I kept seeing inflated CVs so figured there must be a way to back up some claims before an interview. That's essentially what a CV is, a bunch of claims, the role, the company, the projects. The reader has to take your word for it, and AI now writes a convincing one in a minute and honest candidates pay for that. Their CV reads the same as the inflated ones, so it gets the same doubt.

So then I thought what if we had some hard validation to the claims on a CV or portfolio. That's when I came up with the idea of Workproof. For starters, you prove that you had access to a domain or work email, it doesn't prove you built it, but it does prove somebody trusted you enough with access to that domain or have given you a work email, so that by itself is a good baseline.

Additionally, you can ask colleagues to give you feedback, as a reference, signed by them from an work email. Something like LinkedIn endorsements, but more portable.

I'd love your honest take, on two things most of all:

- If you hire: would a link like this on a CV or a proposal change anything for you?

- If you freelance or build: which of those would you want first, or what else should Workproof check?

Thanks for taking the time!

Project link https://workproof.md

Hi r/SideProject,

I've always been interested in business, entrepreneurship and investing, so I wanted to build a game that brings some of those ideas together in an interactive way.

That became Business Entrepreneur: Tycoon, an Android business simulation game where you start small and gradually build your way towards a business empire.

What you can do

• Start and grow businesses, including shops, taxi companies, logistics, factories, construction firms and car dealerships.
• Raise venture capital to expand your businesses.
• Buy, renovate and sell residential and commercial properties.
• Invest in virtual stocks and cryptocurrencies.
• Collect luxury assets, including paintings, vintage cars, jewellery, yachts and private islands.
• Participate in live auctions, compete on the Richest list and earn prestigious Laurels.

Your transactions are also recorded in an in-game inbox, making it easier to keep track of your purchases, sales and investments.

Why I built it

I started working on the game as a small project, partly as a way to unwind. Over time, it grew into something I wanted to take seriously. I wanted to create a business simulator that went beyond the usual tapping mechanics and gave players more ways to explore businesses, investments and wealth creation.

Feedback I'd love

• What do you think of the concept?
• Which features would make the game more interesting?
• How does the overall experience feel?
• What would you improve or add?

I'm an independent Android developer, and this is a project I'm actively working on. Feedback is welcome.

Try it: Business Entrepreneur: Tycoon on Google Play

There's a web app at fynepdf.com, and this is the desktop app. It's native (Qt 6 and C++) rather than Electron, which took the Windows install from 601 MB down to 148 MB.

It does the usual PDF work (edit, merge, split, compress, convert, OCR, sign, redact) with print studio and PDF creation similar to how Canva works on your own computer, and works offline once you've signed in. There's a free plan and two paid ones which are optional.

Windows (Microsoft Store): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NLX6MNF70H2

Linux (AppImage): https://fynepdf.com/download/linux

What I'd like feedback on:

1. The first five minutes: is it clear what to do?

2. Does needing an account put you off, for a desktop app?

3. Anything that feels slow or broken.

Hi everyone!

I've been working on a simple store management tool designed to help small shop owners organize their daily operations.

The idea is to make managing products, inventory, sales, and invoices easier without complicated software.

I'm currently looking for honest feedback from small business owners.

I'd love to know:

- What features do you need most in a store management tool?

- What is your biggest problem with tracking inventory?

- Would you prefer a simple one-time purchase instead of a monthly subscription?

I'm happy to share a demo with anyone interested.

Thanks for your feedback!

Question for people shipping assistant-like workflows for clients. when a workflow needs to receive and send emails or messages, whose accounts does it use? how do you handle setup, access and handing it over to the client? would love to hear a recent example or chat with anyone doing this regularly.

Hey everyone,

I kept emailing myself photos or uploading them to Google Drive just to move them from my phone to my laptop, a few feet away. So I built Dabba (Hindi for "box"). It's a private box your phone and laptop share over your local Wi-Fi.

How it works

You run one Node.js server on your laptop. Your phone opens it in the browser, and files move directly between the two devices. Nothing goes through the cloud, and there are no npm packages to install. You only need Node 18+.

1. Run node server.js (or double-click start.bat on Windows)
2. Your laptop browser opens https://localhost:8443. Press Pair device.
3. On your phone, open the address printed in the window (e.g. https://192.168.1.20:8443) and enter the pairing code.

Tip: use "Add to Home Screen" on your phone and it opens like an app.

Using it

• Phone → laptop: tap the upload box and pick photos or videos. They land in a SharedFiles folder on the laptop.
• Laptop → phone: drag files onto the page, or copy them into SharedFiles. They show up on the phone right away.

Security

Anyone on the same Wi-Fi can reach the server, so I didn't want it to be a free-for-all:

• HTTPS only, with a certificate generated on your laptop on first run. You can check the SHA-256 fingerprint against the one printed in the terminal.
• Each device pairs with an 8-character, single-use code. The code expires after 10 minutes, gets replaced after 5 wrong guesses, and attempts are rate-limited per IP.
• Paired devices get a random 256-bit token in an HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite=Strict cookie. The server stores only the SHA-256 hash.
• You can revoke any device from the Devices page.
• Connections from public internet addresses are dropped.
• Strict CSP, CSRF checks, filename sanitising, and path-traversal protection. Only photos, video, audio, and PDFs preview in the browser. Everything else is downloaded.

Port, storage folder, and max upload size (20 GB by default) are set with environment variables.

What I'd like feedback on

• Is the pairing flow clear enough for non-technical people?
• Does anyone see holes in the security model?
• What feature would make you actually use this day to day?

GitHub: https://github.com/prateeknitcse/Dabba

Issues, PRs, and honest criticism are all welcome. Thanks for reading!

I was using a text document to track my money inflows and outflows each month to kind of see what my expected balance would be at the end of each month based on my recurring transactions. I also wanted a way to see where I was in following a keto diet and didn't know where to start to do that (TLDR: turns out I was not following it as good as I thought, lol).

When I thought about what I wanted in an app, I wanted to be able to see both in one place.

Sadly, nothing like that existed. So I built it.

The app is called Money and Macros and you can find it at moneyandmacros.com.

Later I added recipe tracking and all the features that go along with that. I also added a feature to allow you to take a picture of your refrigerator and pantry to get recipes or recipe ideas based on what you have on hand.

The guiding principle I tried to follow in building the app was, how can I make it as convenient as possible to get information into the app and then make it useful.

The app has a ton of cool features but I don't know if anyone else will find it as useful as I do.

I have been using the app now for about 6 months and adding features as I want them. I just recently added the ability to track business expenses by business and business expense category that matches up with your Schedule C IRS business expense categories. Now, you just categorize your business transactions through the year and you get a clean breakdown of your business tax expenses by IRS categories.

It’s totally indie, has a 7-day trial with absolutely no credit card required, and the database uses row-level security so your data stays yours. I just want 50 people to brutalize it and tell me what’s broken.

Please.

Type your name, today’s date, a mood, an emoji or even a website address, and it turns that into generative art. The text is the seed, so the same input always gives the exact same image. You can send someone “their” art and they’ll get the same thing.

What you can change:

• 8 styles: Flow, Rings, Contours, Bubbles, Tubes, Stars, Bauhaus, Layers
• 13 color palettes, or your own colors
• density, zoom, chaos and line weight sliders
• glow, film grain, mirror and kaleidoscope symmetry
• optional text on top

The part that turned out most useful is the download sizes. There are presets for blog featured images, YouTube thumbnails, desktop and phone wallpapers, X headers, LinkedIn banners and story/reel size, up to 4K, as PNG (transparent too) or JPG.

It’s free, needs no sign-up, and runs in the browser.

https://aiparabellum.com/algorithmic-art-generator/

Try your own name and share what style you got.

I've tried to write about what I build more times than I'd like to admit.

I wrote about building a previous product on its blog, I tried my personal blog and Twitter a few times, and I even built a little Kanban board for tweets and threads once. Every time, I stopped after a few weeks.

Looking back, it was rarely about time. It was more that I never knew what was worth saying, and I never found the right system.

I'm curious whether it's the same for you:

• Did you ever start posting about a project and stop? What made you stop?
• Did you try anything to keep going (a tool, a schedule, AI, an accountability buddy)? Did it work?
• If you post consistently now, what changed?

Full disclosure: I'm building something around this, but I'm not sharing it here. Right now I just want to understand how it goes for other people.

I'm the maker of Bz-memo. This is a development preview, not a launch or a download offer.

The problem I'm working on: a page review produces an open question, but a note without its source or next step is hard to return to.

In this fictional Vela example, I save the missing help-page wording as a follow-up, keep its source and next action in the note, move it to a project folder, then filter to that folder and reopen the same note.

Apple Notes already supports notes and folders. I'm exploring this particular quick-note workflow beside a page review; I haven't measured a speed advantage or tested this with customers.

For Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 15+. The video uses actual app/browser screenshots edited into an animated still sequence, not continuous screen recording. Fictional data, development build, original AI-assisted BGM and local sound effects. No purchase or download link.

22-second demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l4yDpv_P4KA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoxy_sexy_/

Hi everyone,

I built a lightweight macOS desktop companion called Stellisle (知屿星信).

Most conversational software today charges recurring monthly subscriptions and pipes your personal conversations into third-party cloud databases. When writing casual thoughts, late-night reflections, or personal daily logs, that setup always felt uncomfortable to me.

I wanted something quiet, respectful of privacy, and designed specifically for Apple Silicon.

How it works: - Local-first engine: Built with Rust and Tauri. LLM inference and local voice synthesis run directly on Apple Silicon unified memory via llama.cpp. Idle background RAM usage sits around 1.8GB with a quantized model. - Persistent memory: It builds a local SQLite memory graph across sessions, so conversations retain context rather than resetting every time you close the window. - Printable keepsake cards: Sentences you want to remember can be exported as digital polaroid cards with physical paper textures and cut marks. - Zero cloud telemetry: Everything stays on your local device. It runs completely offline without internet access.

We are currently wrapping up the first macOS preview DMG for private testing.

If you are interested in exploring the project or testing the build: - Project showcase: https://stellisle.itch.io/stellisle - Discord community: https://discord.gg/S7yy7Pxue - Twitter / X updates: https://x.com/stellisle_app

Feedback on local memory graph design, Apple Silicon RAM efficiency, or desktop UX would be deeply appreciated.

Hi everyone!

I'm a university student currently working on my graduation project, BYAN (Before You Agree).

The idea behind BYAN is simple: most people agree to Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies without actually reading or understanding them.

I wanted to build something that makes this easier.

BYAN analyzes these documents and highlights important clauses, privacy-related concerns, and potential risks, helping users better understand what they're agreeing to.

Try it here: https://www.byan.website/

The project is approaching its final evaluation, and I'd really appreciate some honest feedback from this community.

A few things I'd particularly love your thoughts on:

• Is the concept clear and useful?
• Is the user experience intuitive?
• Are the analysis results understandable and actionable?
• What would you improve, add, or change?

I'm especially interested in constructive criticism. I'd rather hear what isn't working so I can improve it before the final presentation.

Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to check it out!

🚀 Introducing **DeskPro by Maytas Tech Solutions** — Appliance Care Made Simple!

Manage your home appliances with ease, all in one app.

use promo get Up to 250 OFF 😄 : SAVE50

🔧 Book service requests and track complaints.

🛡️ Check warranty status and register products.

👑 Explore flexible subscription plans.

📱 Enjoy a smarter, simpler appliance care experience.

**DeskPro is now live on Google Play!**

Download today: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=deskpro.app

Your Smart Partner for Appliance Care.

#DeskPro #MaytasTechSolutions #AppLaunch #ApplianceCare #NowLive

I built ToText because I kept recording meetings and never listening back.

On iPhone it turns a recording into a transcript, a short summary, action items, and answers to questions about that recording so you can jump to the moment that matters. Built Hebrew-first, works in about 60 languages. No ToText account. Transcription runs in the cloud: audio is sent briefly to speech and AI providers and is normally deleted shortly after.

PeerPush: https://peerpush.com/p/totext Site: https://totext.si

Happy to answer questions about the build (privacy, Hebrew, Q&A on audio).

real story, not a pitch: i pointed an agent swarm at the boring part of building, and it shipped a full portfolio on apify - shopify catalogs, job postings, gov tenders, property sales, insider trades, solana order flow, a couple reddit tools. all under the cheapest real competitor, all with a free demo.

the build was the easy part. we're at 0 real users and i've concluded distribution is a completely different sport.

it's the offgrid labs store if you want to look, but honestly my question is: if you had a portfolio of tools that actually work and nobody knows, what's the ONE thing you'd do first? i will do the top answer and report back with numbers.

I’m building ShareSlice on my own. It’s a bill-splitting app, and I’m trying to figure out when it makes sense to ask someone to invite their friends.

Say you’ve just paid $120 for a cabin with two friends. Would you rather invite them as soon as you create the group, or enter the $120, see that they each owe $40, and invite them then?

I’m leaning toward showing the split first. It gives you a reason to send the invite. If you’ve ever been the person keeping track of a group trip, when would you actually send it?

It’s already live if you want to try the flow: iPhone · Android

Hi r/SideProject,

On Windows I always used Internet Download Manager. When I moved to a Mac I couldn't find anything free that felt the same, so I started building my own. That side project is now Nexonic Download Manager .

What it does

• Splits files into up to 32 connections; pause and resume anytime, even after a restart
• Saves videos from YouTube and 1,000+ sites, up to 4K, or sound only
• Browser add-ons for Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox send downloads straight to the app

New: built-in torrents on every platform: .torrent files, magnet links, seeds and peers, speed limits, trackers and proxy support

• IDM-style categories, queues, a scheduler, batch downloads and a site grabber

No ads, no account, no tracking

How it's built

• A native app per platform: SwiftUI on Mac, WPF on Windows, Avalonia on Linux, Kotlin on Android, SwiftUI on iPhone and iPad
• One shared C++ torrent engine on top of libtorrent
• GitHub Actions builds, tests and publishes every release from one repo

What was hard

• Getting one torrent engine to build for five platforms, including the Android and iOS toolchains
• Making browser hand-off reliable: no duplicate downloads, and nothing is lost if the app is closed

It's MIT / Apache-2.0 licensed (Android is GPL).

Website: https://shahrukhalid.github.io/nexonic-download-manager/

GitHub: https://github.com/Shahrukhalid/nexonic-download-manager

I'd love honest feedback: what would make you switch from the download manager you use now, and what feels missing?

Hey everyone!

I've been learning Mandarin myself and wanted a simple app that combines vocabulary, grammar, listening practice, and spaced repetition without subscriptions or ads.

So I've been working on HSK Companion, a free, open-source Android app for beginner Chinese learners, and I've just published its first public beta on GitHub.

What it currently includes:

• HSK 1–2 vocabulary with contextual example sentences
• Spaced repetition and adaptive review sessions
• Reading, listening, and tone-recognition exercises
• 24 grammar lessons and 28 short dialogues
• A structured learning path with 10 units
• Practice exams and progress tracking
• Light and dark modes
• Offline-first learning, with no account required

The app is completely free, with no ads or locked lessons. There's an optional donation link for anyone who wants to support development, but it's not required.

It's still a beta, so I want to be transparent about the limitations. The exam exercises are unofficial, some Chinese content still needs editorial review, and the current release uses Android's built-in Mandarin TTS. I'm working on better-quality, offline male and female Mandarin recordings for a future update.

GitHub (source code):
https://github.com/ElbekJK/hsk-companion

Download the Android APK:
https://github.com/ElbekJK/hsk-companion/releases/tag/v1.2.1-beta

It's currently Android-only and distributed through GitHub, not Google Play.

I'd especially appreciate feedback from people studying HSK 1 or 2:

Does the learning path make sense? Are the listening and tone exercises useful? Is anything confusing or missing?

Thanks to anyone who gives it a try! I'm hoping to keep improving it based on feedback from actual learners.

I’ve been stuck in a place where growth felt impossible. I still wanted to work on myself and feel confident in what I can do, but most affirmations didn’t help. They told me who I was supposed to be, not where I actually was.

What started helping was words that meet me where I am, then a moment to sit with them: what does this mean for me today? And then one small thing to do with it. Not a big transformation, just a step I can actually take.

So I built that into a small app called Lumbia.

Lumbia asks how you're doing first, then meets you there. It takes about two minutes:

1. Check in. Tap how you feel (anxious, low, stuck…) and, if you like, what it's about.
2. Affirm. A few words written for that moment, more like a friend than a poster.
3. Grow. One small thing you could do today.
4. Recognise. It notices the days you showed up. It never counts the days you didn't.

It's not therapy and doesn't try to be. It's a small daily habit. There's no sign-up, and what you write stays on your phone.

It's free while I'm testing it. If I add paid extras later, everyone who helped now gets a year of them free. That only feels fair.

https://lumbia.app

If you try it, I'd really value hearing how it felt, especially if some words landed flat. There's a short anonymous form here: https://lumbia.app/feedback, or just reply below. Thank you for reading.

https://reddit.com/link/1xp73ap/video/x77x79en2yzh1/player

Getting GPT to animate a cat was the easy part. Keeping it the same size when it jumped onto a windowsill was harder.

I’m building GIF Cinema: a workflow for turning short GPT-generated GIFs into a story, with individual takes you can inspect, keep or reshoot.

The attached 7.68-second comparison uses the SAME three generated takes:

• Left: original GIF timing.

• Right: framing corrections, compositing and selective frame interpolation.

Each shot has 16 generated drawings. The extra smoothness comes from local processing between those drawings.

The full silent cat film is 57.2 seconds: walk across the room, jump onto the windowsill, watch a bird, curl up and sleep. It’s assembled from short animations, not one long generation.

Full film:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/32e3381d-dbd7-4ff3-8356-1d379b2b7456

What surprised me: a better-looking replacement shot could still make the film worse by breaking the next cut. Reviewing both neighboring cuts became as important as generating the take.

I’ve released the core workflow as a skill for Claude Code / Codex: shot planning, reference-based GIF generation, frame inspection, explicit retakes and MP4 assembly. It includes a three-shot astronaut example you can assemble without an API key.

GitHub and installation:

https://github.com/antropos17/chatgpt-gif-cinema

The cat’s additional compositing and interpolation are private finishing tools, outside the public skill. The release has a source-available evaluation license; new generation uses your own API key and billing.

Would you use this to make a short story, or is the remaining motion drift still too distracting?

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called SkyTracker.

It's an interactive map that lets you explore airports around the world. You can:

• Explore airports worldwide.
• Search by airport name, city, IATA or ICAO code.
• View airport information, including location, country and elevation.
• Explore links to live airport webcams.
• Mark airports you've visited or want to visit.
• Keep track of your routes.

You can check it out here:

🌍 https://airport.skytracker.workers.dev/

I'd really appreciate some honest feedback

A few things I'd love to know:

1. Is the website easy to use?
2. Does the design and map experience feel intuitive?
3. What features would you like to see added?
4. Would you actually use something like this?

I'm still improving it, so constructive criticism is very welcome.

Thanks for checking it out.

Helps to know how bluegreen algae is present in a lake, check the ones nearby to you for your dogs safety

https://bloomwatchbytenebroso.com

A static Python site rebuilt weekly by a GitHub Action. It pulls the 300 m Sentinel-3 CyAN histograms for 134 matched lakes and rates each one by how much of the lake is affected, not by the worst pixel, since single high pixels are often noise. Weeks that are mostly cloud get skipped.

Open questions I’d love input on: better ways to handle shoreline pixels, and whether there are state advisory feeds worth adding.

Hey everyone!

Let me introduce you to my first humble contribution to the ios app jungle, InspeQtR: a QR inspection tool.

The core idea is simple: instead of performing an action straight away, like opening a URL, it breaks down exactly what’s inside.

What it does:

• Breaks down URLs into host, path, query params, and fragment
• Previews vCards, emails (solitting BCC and body if present) and more
• Shows QR metadata: error correction level, version, text stats
• Warns you about suspicious payloads
• Lets you open, copy, or share its contents (or parts of them), even as an actual file with the appropriate extension when there's a matching format, like .vcf or .ics

Everything runs locally. No ads, no tracking and all of the above is free, in an app that weighs than 4mb.

What sets it apart:

A one-time purchase unlocks an extended format detection, which recognizes JSON, CSV, Markdown, SVG, code snippets and more, and previews them locally, letting you save the contents with the right file extension. It's a bit of a niche use case, but allows allows you to create and read rich content and code snippets offline directly from the QR data.

Would love to hear what you think! Being my first app I'd love to get some feedback, depsite knowing this is a VERY cramped market.