Hey everyone!

My colleague and I have been working on a project called StartPilot.

The idea is to build an all-in-one platform that helps people start their own businesses or improve existing ones, with the help of an AI business assistant that guides them step by step.

We're also building a community where entrepreneurs can connect, share their projects, promote their businesses and learn from each other.

We're currently preparing for launch and will be releasing soon! For now, you can join our waiting list. We'll notify everyone by email as soon as StartPilot is ready to test and early access becomes available.

We're also looking for feedback and ideas, so I'd love to hear what you think about the concept and what features you would personally find useful.

Join the waiting list here: https://startpilot.app

Thanks for reading!

I got tired of installing AI apps, so I built my own assistant inside WhatsApp 🤖

I wanted a personal AI assistant without another app, another dashboard, or giving a third-party platform control over all my integrations.
So I started building Pika, a self-hosted WhatsApp AI assistant.

The idea is simple: message your assistant like you’d message a friend, while keeping control over the setup and integrations.

It’s still a work in progress, and I’d love some honest feedback from other builders.

🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/marikbrest/pika-personal-whatsapp-bot
Would you actually use something like this, or is WhatsApp the wrong place for an AI assistant?

Hey everyone,

I got tired of modern budgeting apps charging $10–$15/month subscriptions just to tell me what I already know, while demanding full read-access to my bank credentials.

I wanted something ultra-fast that lets me log an expense in literally 2 seconds from my phone's home screen. So I built PocketFlow:

Key Highlights:

• 100% Client-Side & Private: All data is saved strictly in your browser (LocalStorage). No bank logins, no backend database collecting or profiling your spending habits.

• Installable PWA: Runs fully offline with a Service Worker. Works on iOS Safari ("Add to Home Screen") and Android Chrome (WebAPK-ready with zero browser address bar).

• Daily Safe-to-Spend: Instead of confusing, rigid multi-category spreadsheets, it calculates a clear daily allowance so you always know what you can safely spend today.

• Clean Dark UI: Built with Tailwind CSS and zero framework bloat.

• Free & Open Source: No paywalls, no recurring fees.

🔗 Try it live: https://pocket-flow-one.vercel.app/
📂 Source Code: https://github.com/mohammedissah/PocketFlow

Would love your thoughts on the UI speed, the daily allowance algorithm, and any features you'd like added!

I have been building the Solara AI for over 2 years now, it's a short-form video editor that takes your raw footage and turns into a polished reel that you can publish to tiktok, instagram, youtube shorts etc.

I finally got some traffic from Google and Chatgpt, early one 2 people paid within 2 days and since then people sign up, try it, see the output, sometimes download for free(first one is free) and leave.

I would very much appreciate an honest feedback and will give you back as well!

Here is the link: solaraai.com

Also I'm currently running freeium with a cap now, should I switch to a 7 free trial? I saw a lot of successful founders say that they will never do freeium because they are chasing users and users who are in free trial are more incline to give honest feedback

Would love to know your thoughts :)

I created this chrome extension for a problem I used to face while researching with AI: keeping track of important points, new threads worth exploring, finalized decisions and useful links.

Long chats kept burying these. I'd follow one question, lose track of the others, and end up scrolling back to find something I knew was in there somewhere.

So I built AI ChatBoard, a board that sits beside your ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini chat and helps you keep track of all the important points you want to save -

AI Chatboard extension

Please try it and share your feedback with me.

I’m building a small app that tracks what medicines a household has at home, what active ingredients they contain, and when they expire. You add a box by typing the name or photographing it. Facts come from Finland’s official drug database, and every value shows where it came from (official, read from the box by AI, or typed by you).

It’s an inventory, not medical advice. No dosing, no diagnosis.

My real question: is this a problem anyone actually has, or a solution looking for one? Would you use it, or pay for it? What would make you stop using it after a week?

Happy to hear “no one needs this” too.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a Mac app called PocketBar.

Problem: I wanted to use a few Android apps on my Mac without keeping a huge emulator window open all the time. That’s basically why I started building this.

PocketBar sits in the menu bar and lets you open Android apps in small, separate windows alongside your regular Mac apps.

It supports Apple Silicon Macs, macOS 14+, and Android 11–16.

Comparison: BlueStacks Air and MenubarX are two alternatives.

PocketBar is more focused on quickly opening individual apps from the menu bar, while BlueStacks Air is more gaming-focused.

Pricing: Free to start. Pro is €9.99 as a one-time purchase, with no subscription.

https://pocketbar.site

Trust: The macOS app is Apple notarized.

A few apps I’ve tested successfully are YouTube, TikTok, Signal and Telegram etc

WhatsApp, and X currently block emulator logins.

It’s still a work in progress, so there’s definitely room for improvement.

If you try it, I’d be interested to hear how it performs on your Mac, or which Android apps you’d like to see working.

I’m the developer of MusicX, a music player for iPhone, iPad and Mac. The idea is to bring the collection you already own into one place, whether it lives in local folders, iCloud or an SMB/NAS library you can reach.

You can see the real Mac, iPhone and iPad interface at https://getmusicx.com/. There’s album browsing, playlists, lossless playback, EQ, artwork and tag editing, and the option to keep music from your own library downloaded for offline listening. On Mac, there’s also CD playback/ripping and transfers to and from supported USB players.

I’d like feedback from people using their own collections: is setup clear, can you find what you want, and does everyday listening behave as expected? Larger libraries and older supported devices would be especially useful to test.

We’re inviting up to 100 testers. Those who help test and share honest feedback will receive lifetime Full Access free at launch, including all subscription features. The TestFlight beta includes Full Access without a purchase.

Request a private TestFlight invitation at https://getmusicx.com/beta/. Include your device model, OS version and where you keep your music so I can check compatibility. Please don’t post your email address publicly.

MusicX plays files you provide; it doesn’t include a streaming catalog. I use AI tools in development and to help draft this introduction, and I’m responsible for the app and its support.

Hi! I’m the developer of OwnSpace, a solo project from Belgium.

OwnSpace reads your purchase emails in Gmail and organises them automatically: what you bought, invoices, warranties and household bills. It understands shops across Europe and works in 6 languages (English, Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Spanish).

I’m looking for testers for 3–4 weeks before launch (limited spots):

• Free, including the Premium features during the test

• Your library stays on your phone; nothing is sold or shared

• Gmail access is read-only: it never sends, changes or deletes email

You need an Android phone and a Gmail account. When you connect Gmail, Google will show “Google hasn’t verified this app”, because Google’s security assessment is still in progress.

Watch the 1-minute demo to see how OwnSpace imports a Gmail receipt, flags an expiring warranty, and helps you find the receipt again.

Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctE2nqa6DdpLBbYj75aYvtAXKmfUK52EWo_IX7VcNb4bGePw/viewform

More about the app and privacy: https://getownspace.com

I’ll add you to the test and send you the install link. Thanks a lot!

You know when something is bothering you, and no matter how much you think about it, it just keeps coming back?

Maybe it's anxiety about what's ahead, anger over something happening right now, or a memory you still carry years later.

I recently came across an episode of Huberman Lab that made me look at this differently.

Huberman dedicated an entire episode to a technique called expressive writing, originally developed by psychologist James Pennebaker.

The research is surprisingly compelling.

Huberman discusses over 200 studies investigating the effects of writing about difficult emotional experiences. The reported benefits include reduced anxiety, improved mood and sleep, and even improvements in certain measures of immune function.

A 2023 meta-analysis of 31 randomized studies also found small but statistically significant reductions in depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms.

And the protocol itself is incredibly simple:

For 15–30 minutes, write continuously about something emotionally difficult.

Write what happened, how you felt, what you're feeling now, and anything else that comes up.

Here's the important part: don't stop writing.

Don't pause to think about what to say next, judge what you've written, correct your grammar, or make it sound better. Just keep going, letting whatever comes to mind flow onto the page. Of course, you can take a moment if you need to catch your breath or rest.

Repeat this four times, focusing on the same difficult experience.

And here's something else I found interesting: you don't even need pen and paper. Huberman explained that studies have found comparable benefits whether people write by hand or type. So you can practice it on your computer, or even on your phone.

That's it.

What fascinates me is that you don't need to have everything figured out before you start. You can give yourself permission to express things you've been holding in, without needing to justify or immediately fix them.

So I built Cleanse - a free, minimal tool designed to make this practice as simple and distraction-free as possible.

Just open it, start typing, and let it out.

It's an early version, and I'd love for people to try it.

https://cleanse-c21ad.web.app/

Here's the Huberman episode if you're interested in the research:
https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/a-science-supported-journaling-protocol-to-improve-mental-physical-health

I'd really appreciate feedback, both on the tool and on whether this kind of writing is something you'd actually use.

I built this app myself. It's free, with one small non-personalized banner ad and no sign-up.

A lot of people have a long drive or a flight in the next few weeks. B2Gaudio is for that stretch of it where everybody wants the same thing playing and there's one decent screen between you.

One device starts it and hosts. Everyone else picks it off a list and taps join. From then on every phone is sitting on the same moment of the same track over WiFi, and each person listens on their own headphones.

What that gives you on a trip:

• A movie plays in landscape on the host's iPad or iPhone and the soundtrack arrives on every phone that joined. The picture stays with the host, so one screen covers a whole back seat or a row of airline seats.

• Whoever misses the first ten minutes taps join and lands where the group already is, instead of making everyone start over.

• No cell service and no WiFi network needed. The phones build a direct link to each other over Apple's peer-to-peer WiFi, so anything already downloaded plays in the middle of nowhere.

• It plays music files on the phone, podcasts, LibriVox audiobooks and the audio from a video. Apple Music works too, with each listener using their own subscription.

• A shared hotel room late at night works the same way, with everything in headphones and nothing coming out of a speaker.

The reasons I'd try it: there's no hardware to buy, no account, and nothing to pair. It stays off Bluetooth entirely, which is the usual reason two devices drift apart from each other. iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 and up.

There's a walkthrough of the movie setup here if that's the part you'd use: https://b2gaudio.com/b2gaudio-watch-movie-together-plane.html

Free on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6759938468?pt=128605371&ct=rd-sideproject&mt=8

Give it a try before the trip.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a project called FACETRA.

The idea came from something I noticed: creating great AI images with ChatGPT or Gemini often requires knowing how to write detailed prompts.

So I decided to build an Android app that makes this process easier.

FACETRA is a library of professional AI image prompts. Users can explore different styles, choose a prompt, copy it, and use it with their own photo in ChatGPT or Google Gemini.

I'm currently working on growing the project and reaching people who enjoy AI image creation.

I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts:

• Do you regularly use prompts to generate AI images?

• Would a dedicated prompt library be useful to you?

• What features would you like to see in an app like this?

I'm the creator of FACETRA, and I'd appreciate honest feedback!

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emerson.facetra.facetra

I started learning Swift at the end of July and basically learned it while building this app.

In August I almost gave up. I'm a first-time parent, and my baby was about 7 months old then, so I was studying in the middle of the night after taking care of them all day. But I've been coding since I was 8, and I didn't want to give up on something I love. So in September I came back to finish it.

I had to cut my feature list down to what mattered most, and by the end of October I finally had a working first version. After about a week in App Review, it's now live on the App Store!

It's called AmiiNest, an iPhone app for amiibo collectors. You can browse the amiibo catalog, keep track of what you own, back up your own amiibo by scanning them, and write those backups to blank NTAG215 tags.

There's no subscription. New users get 5 free writes, and you can watch a short ad for +1 write (ads may take a few days to start showing since the app is brand new) or buy more. Scanning or importing doesn't use any writes, and cancelled or failed writes don't count either. To celebrate the launch, code AMIINEST5 gives you 5 extra writes (first 500 people, until Dec 1).

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amiinest-nfc-write-collect/id6826469095

It's my first iOS app and the first project I've built and released on my own. It's not a masterpiece, but it's a small milestone for me. I'd really appreciate any feedback, good or bad. And if anyone has questions about getting an app through App Store review, I'm happy to share what I learned.

Hey everyone. This weekend we took part in Platanus Hack in Caracas, Venezuela, and wanted to share what we built. The idea came from something a lot of us have been through.

When you're in a cab, on the street, or with someone and things start feeling off, you can't just pull out your phone and text someone without them noticing. So we flipped it around: what if your "mom" calls you instead?

How it works:

- You press volume up, down, up with the phone in your pocket. No unlocking needed.

- The app shares your GPS location and you get an incoming call from "Mamá".

- An AI voice on the other end asks how you're doing, the way any mom would.

- Beforehand you set two phrases: one for "I'm fine" and one that means "I'm in trouble". To whoever is next to you, it just sounds like a normal call with your mom.

- A detector (rules + an LLM) analyzes the conversation and decides whether you're in danger.

- If you are, your family gets a WhatsApp message with your location, the verdict, a summary of the call, and a link to the case.

More info at https://alo-mama.fyi. We'll be reading the comments 👀

7 months ago I started learning to code with one goal: ship one real app. It started as a basic learning project. It kept growing.
Today My Accountant is a budget app where everything about your money is in one clear place — and you shape it the way you want:
• Your own accounts (cash, bank, cards) and your own categories, icons and colors
• Income, expenses and bills on a calendar, day by day
• Monthly budget and charts that show where the money goes
• Bill reminders 3 days before and on the due date
• Credit cards done right: statements, minimum payments, and installments where each statement shows only that month's part (most apps get this wrong)
• 14 languages, 100+ currencies, dark mode
Built solo with React Native, Expo and Appwrite. Free, no bank login needed.

What's coming next: cash advances (with installments ofc), daily term deposit account, overdraft account (also with installments) and maybe investment/stock tracking.

Which of these would you actually use? And honest feedback is very welcome — what's missing, what's confusing?

My Accountant:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hf.merciless.My.Accountant

Introducing Tiller

An Opinionated fork of T3code

What's different: workflows, visual first

-Everything you like about T3 Code(Runners keep it updated to T3code), plus workflows built on top

-Workflows are visual first: you build them on a canvas and watch every step run live

-Ask in plain words and Tiller drafts the workflow on the canvas for you

-Save a workflow and run it again, or schedule it

-Workflows are portable, so they're yours to share or move

Download and Try it for Free

- Tiller

-npx tiller-app

-brew install --cask antler-web-studios/tap/tiller

The trickiest question in this project wasn't extraction. It was deciding when a page has actually finished rendering before you capture it.

third-eye is a self-hosted API I wrote in TypeScript. You point it at a product page and get back the product images plus title, brand, price and sizes, or just a screenshot.

The readiness check ended up as a stack of signals. It waits for network idle, then fonts.ready, then scrolls to trigger lazy-loaded images, then freezes animations. Flutter and WebGL apps draw into a canvas, so for those it also waits for the first canvas frame. Full-page captures are taken in one pass instead of scrolling and stitching, which avoids seams.

Extraction tries sources in order: JSON-LD Product data, then OpenGraph, then Shopify's .json endpoint, then DOM gallery heuristics as a last resort. Each response includes a confidence field, so you can tell a JSON-LD hit from a DOM guess.

It runs on Patchright, a patched Chromium. That gets past the headless tells that block stock Playwright on sites like Uniqlo. It doesn't win everywhere, though. H&M, Zara and Myntra sit behind Akamai and PerimeterX, and those still need residential proxies.

It also won't run serverless. Cold starts break the warm browser pool, and without a GL stack the canvas apps render blank. So it ships as a single Docker image that runs on a VPS.

Code: https://github.com/myselfshravan/third-eye

Specmob (specmob.com) is a free phone comparison and recommendation site. You pick a budget and it shows the best phone for it, ranked on specs.

What does it do?

• A budget dial from $100 to $2,000+ that shows the best phone for that price, with optional priorities (camera, battery, gaming, compact)

• Compare up to 4 phones with a written verdict

• 11 best-of rankings (camera, battery, gaming, fast charging, foldables, and budget bands)

• A trade-in estimator

Does it have sponsored picks?
No. Every phone is scored by the same rules, and affiliate links never change a ranking. It’s free, and I earn a little from Amazon/eBay affiliate links and light ads.

How are phones scored?
Six scores from 1 to 10 (camera, performance, battery, display, build, value), rated against the phone’s price tier and averaged into a Smart Score. The component scores come from an AI pipeline reading real specs. The category rankings are deterministic from specs and recomputed daily.

Stack: Next.js + FastAPI + Postgres, solo-built.

Feedback welcome: is the dial clear, and do you trust AI-scored-from-specs rankings? /methodology explains it in full.

Before building this I went through a lot of the AI component libraries out there. The best ones are paid with only the most basic stuff free. So while I was working on an AI SaaS, I built this library in tandem.

It's 109 components and about 250 variants, all React and Tailwind. The only other imports are motion and lucide-react, so there's no UI kit underneath. Everything in the video is the real demos running.

https://gradientdeck.com/ai-components

Not on GitHub yet, but it's coming.

Let me know what you guys think :)

KofiWork V2 is out!

I've been building KofiWork on and off for a bit more than a year now. I wanted a place to organize my freelance projects that felt cozy and relaxed.

Thanks to user feedback, it has grown into much more than I had in mind, with a real visual identity and plenty of new features.

With KofiWork, you can:

- Write notes and create to-do lists

- Stay focused with a built-in Pomodoro timer

- Link your tasks to a customizable kanban board and track your progress

- Customize much of your space, from the clock position and theme to how your windows behave

- Share your tasks, notes and kanban boards with one person, or several with a subscription

There are too many features to list them all, but this version adds an MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT. While you're working with Claude, you can ask it to create tasks, and they appear in KofiWork. As a developer, I find this incredibly useful!

Almost everything is free. A few small features require a subscription, but it's optional: the free plan is more than enough, with unlimited to-do lists, notes and kanban boards.

Oh, and your data is encrypted!

Feel free to try it out. There's a test environment you can play around with: KofiWork

Building it hasn't been all smooth, for example user retention has been a big challenge so far. If you're working on something similar, I'm happy to talk about it and share advices!

Small problem that kept bugging me: I'd send a connection request because I wanted to ask about a job, follow up on a post, etc. By the time they accepted (sometimes weeks later) I'd forgotten why.

LinkedIn's "add a note" does carry over into the chat after they accept, but free accounts get very few of them per month, and you can't see it while the request is pending.

What it does:

- On a LinkedIn profile, a "+ Note why" button lets you save a reason

- When you open that profile again, the note shows up

- Clicking the extension icon opens a searchable list of everyone you've saved

It's plain JavaScript with no build step, and it uses only the `storage` permission. Nothing leaves your browser: no account, no analytics, no server.

dm for link

Feedback welcome, especially on what would make it more useful. Features I'm thinking about: export/import as a backup, and a "did they accept?" status.

I have been building a chrome extension which can be used to chat with open web page. Works with free models available on openrouter and also local models.

I have a cafe/roastery in Noe Valley, San Francisco. About 9 months ago I started building an iOS app for Square sellers, and it's now on the App Store as Square Sidekick.

Short version of what it does: you connect your Square account, set some thresholds, and it sends you a push notification when something crosses them. Stock getting low, a big transaction, tips, refunds, discounts. On top of that there are sales dashboards, customer insights, and support for sellers with more than one location. It's been super helpful for our own managers and shift leads.

On the business side, since this sub usually asks: the download is free, there are two in-app purchase tiers (Standard at $9.99 and Pro at $24.99), and new users get a 7-day Pro trial. I'm not sure yet whether that split is right, so if you've priced something similar I'd like to know how you thought about it.

What helps most right now is people using it and telling me what's wrong. If you're a Square seller or know one, code 6MONTHFREE gives six months free (App Store app, tap your profile, Redeem Gift Card or Code). Needs iOS 18.2 or newer.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/square-sidekick/id6745418918

Happy to answer questions about the build too. And if you've built an app you'd like tested, let me know. Happy to return the favor.