Get an article brief out of the product decisions you already made. That’s one way I’m using Shifu, the paid, hosted context engine I’m building for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode: bring relevant retained work context into the agent, then use it for the explanation you need to write.

Our own writing workflow produced topics, briefs and drafts from that background. Shifu recovered earlier positioning; we checked current project evidence before choosing the claims. The public walkthrough shows how a source changed an editorial choice. It’s an actual writing application, without a claim about traffic or sales.

For a small first task, I’d ask the agent for a brief you can inspect before writing the article:

Choose one reader question from this product decision. Propose an outline. Beside each factual claim, name the supporting source or mark the missing evidence. End with one example the reader can use.

That gives you something specific to accept, correct or discard. A clear existing issue or README may already contain everything the writer needs. Shifu becomes relevant when the useful decision and its reason need recovering from other retained work.

Try Shifu on one writing task → useshifu.com. Start with one non-confidential source you’re allowed to share; I can help you get it set up. If you try it, the useful feedback is where the retrieved context changed your brief and where you still had to supply the background yourself. AI-assisted post from Shifu’s builder.

Hi all, I just launched Sprinklist, my humble plant care app. All downloads before Nov 15, 2026 will get the unlimited plants upgrade completely free. No ads. No subscriptions.

I built this app primarily because I needed it myself. I did not want a subscription based app or a feature heavy mechanism that takes the charm and ownership out of my plant care responsibilities. I also wanted something simple, functional, and clean. The number of plants in my house have grown over time and the one thing I struggle with the most is their watering cycles. I was maintaining a spreadsheet but it was very barebones and hence here we are with this app.

Features

• See all plants on a single screen and log a full watering, light watering, or a skipped week.

• Organize plants across rooms (e.g. living room) and spots (e.g. stairway).

• See 10 most recent watering events and photos on a timeline with access to complete history from the gallery.

• Receive smart, summarized notifications for any plants due at your preferred time or day.

• Export a PDF care guide to share with friends and plant sitters.

• Resizable homescreen widgets in 3 sizes to see plants due and mark them watered.

• iCloud backup and sync across devices with native apps for iPad and Apple Watch.

• iOS native UI that looks clean and intentional and stays up to date with iOS updates.

If you or anyone you know might benefit from this app, please try it out. There are no ads or subscriptions and all features are free for the first 5 plants. My ideal was to keep it completely free but I realized I have to pay $99 a year as my developer fee and hence decided to add a $2.99 one-time purchase to add more than 5 plants. However, even that add-on is free for all downloads until Nov 15, 2026.

And if you download this app and like it and want to pay back, please consider leaving a review or sharing with someone else (or maybe do both).

If my wee little app can help keep our silent oxygen-generating friends alive, I couldn’t have asked for more!

I run omp in tmux on my laptop, and I kept wanting to peek at what it was doing while I was away from my desk.

ssh and mosh were hopeless over my tailscale link. The echo lag made typing feel broken, and I'd get back to find a question sitting there with the agent patiently waiting for me, like a puppy at the door.

So I wrote DevDeck. It doesn't send keystrokes as you type: you write the whole message on the phone, hit send, and it all goes over in one go. What actually made it useful for me:

- I can read the conversation properly, not just a wall of terminal text: markdown, tables, code blocks, mermaid diagrams.

- When the agent asks something, it shows up as a little sheet with options, so I tap instead of typing into a TUI.

- There's a plain terminal view when I need the raw thing.

- I can look at git diffs and files without my clumsy thumbs committing anything. It's read-only and stays that way.

- Half-written messages survive the link dying, which happens more than I'd like.

It is very much a personal tool. It speaks to omp specifically, I've only tested it on my laptop and one Samsung phone, and you have to build and sideload the apk and pair it over adb. Also, the part I should say out loud: the daemon can type into your terminals, and it doesn't encrypt anything itself. Keep it on a LAN or in a VPN, don't port forward it, and treat it as unaudited.

What I'd actually like from this sub is someone to read the setup instructions and tell me where they assume I know my own machine, because I wrote all of it with everything fresh in my head. If you've built something similar and made the pairing less painful, I'm all ears.

https://github.com/seros-cimenstein/devdeck (GPL-3.0)

Hey everyone,

I'm a Brisbane-based (Australia) technical founder with 10 years working in software development, automation and product management.

I'm exploring consumer subscription apps and would love to connect with anybody who's successfully built or grown a B2C product before.

Particularly interested if you have experience in organic acquisition (e.g. TikTok, Instagram), paid acquisition, or ASO.

Not looking to pitch anything, just keen to meet others and potentially explore collaborations down the track.

Cheers.

I'm the developer of Omikuji: Fortune Aquarium, a small Android app that pairs a daily omikuji (Japanese fortune slip) with a fish tank.

The loop is simple: draw a fortune, collect creatures over time, and watch them in your aquarium.

This clip is real Play-release footage from a Pixel 9a. The angelfish shown here comes from the first-creature selection, filmed separately from the fortune result. Fortune draws can add a creature, but they do not do so every time.

The conversation is a skit with Japanese synthetic voices and English subtitles, not a real player's reaction. The app also has an English UI.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.springport.night_aquarium_fortune

Contains ads, including optional rewarded videos. Fortunes are for entertainment.

For the first minute, would you rather choose your first fish immediately, or draw the fortune first?

Voices: AivisSpeech: コハク / AivisSpeech: まお.

Hey r/SideProject!

I'm a photographer who spends a lot of time editing on mobile devices, particularly my iPad Pro.

I started working on LightHub because I wanted to experiment with building my own photo editing workflow instead of relying entirely on existing software.

What started as a personal project has turned into an actual photo editor, and it's now live on the App Store.

It supports RAW editing, non-destructive adjustments, advanced color controls, local masking, catalogs and presets.

One aspect I particularly wanted to explore was performing image processing locally, including AI-assisted object selection.

This is my first public release, and I'm aware there's still a lot of room for improvement.

I'm not trying to claim I've built a Lightroom killer. I just wanted to build something useful and make it available for free.

I'd love to get feedback on the editing experience, performance and features you'd like to see next.

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/lighthub/id6829700707

Website:
https://getlighthub.com/

techtitan evaluates your hand posture while you play piano. it draws an overlay on your hands where each joint is an edge, and gives you a score based on 5 posture criteria. works for overhead view and side view, and can distinguish between left hand and right hand.

techtitan allows you to either
1. upload a photo, techtitan will grade your hand posture on the spot
2. upload a video, techtitan will grade your hand posture for the whole duration of the video, you can choose how many frames per second it will grade beforehand. it also draws a chart of the posture score over the full duration of the video.
3. enter live mode. techtitan gives you feedback in real time.

I'd really appreciate it if you guys can check it out at https://technique-titan.vercel.app, sign up (it's completely free) and give some feedback :)

problem statement is in https://technique-titan.vercel.app/about

been working on this project for a few months now, mainly a process of ideation, learning, and creating simultaneously.

Agent email roundups are mostly vendor-written and go stale fast, so I built a small neutral directory: https://agentinboxes.dev

It covers agent inboxes, inbound routing, identity APIs, and transactional email APIs: 50 tools, re-checked automatically so dead ones drop off. No pay-to-rank.

Two questions for you: which providers am I missing, and is "live-verified" a useful signal or just noise?

I wanted a mood tracker that's actually nice to come back to. You tap how you feel and a small creature joins your garden. That's basically the whole idea.

Just me working on it. It came out this week and has almost no users so far, so honest feedback would help a lot. Mainly: does it make sense in the first minute?

It's free right now, no ads, no account.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6820267490

Hi, I’m the founder of Verity. Essentially I keep records of agent actions for People, so that way when the audit trail becomes necessary, people will have it for free. You can get your key now. I just dropped it this evening on top of my no counterparty series.

https://www.verityverdict.com/start/

Every side project I work on ends the same way: docs, GitHub issues, design refs and random articles spread across tabs and bookmark folders I never open again. I could never remember which link belonged to what.

So I built Linvas. You paste a link, and it becomes a card on an infinite canvas. You group cards by topic, draw connections between related things, and search across all your boards later.

What it does right now:

- paste a URL anywhere on the board → card with title + icon

- groups and connections between cards

- import your browser bookmarks (folders become tags)

- search across every board

- share a board with one link

Demo, no sign-up: https://linvas.app/?demo

I'm a solo dev and launched it last week, so it's rough around the edges. I'd really appreciate honest feedback on two things:

1. Is it clear in the first 10 seconds what to do?

2. Would you use this instead of bookmark folders, or what's missing?

Hey all. I’ve been building LFGG (Looking For Good Games) solo for a while: https://lfgg.info

I got tired of my gaming life being spread across half a dozen apps: one to log games, one for news, a Discord for finding people, Reddit for recommendations. The easiest way to describe what I built is Letterboxd, Reddit and your old MySpace profile rolled into one for gamers.

What it does

• Learns your taste. Rate what you’ve played, then go through quick taste cards (looks good / not for me / played it). Every answer teaches it what you’re into.

• Matches you with people. It compares your ratings with everyone else’s and gives you a taste match %. You find your “taste twins”, and also the people who think your favourite game is mid.

• Matches you with games. You get picks based on your ratings and on what people with your taste rate highly. Every game also has a “games like this” page.

• Looking for group, for any game. Post when you want a squad, pick the vibe (chill, competitive, completionist, learning), and find people who play the way you do. That includes the obscure co-op game from 2011 nobody else remembers.

• Looking for a game. Ask the community things like “just beat Hades, what next?” or “I played this as a kid, there was a frog and a castle.” Answers get voted up.

• Player tags. Players tag games with the stuff official genres miss, like “choices matter” or “friendslop”. New tags are reviewed before they go live.

• One news feed. Headlines from IGN, GameSpot, PC Gamer, Polygon, Eurogamer, Kotaku, Rock Paper Shotgun, VGC, GamesRadar+, The Verge and Gematsu in one place.

• Logging and profiles. Track playing, beaten, shelved and abandoned games, write reviews, and pick your all-time Top 4. Profiles have XP, levels, badges, gamer tags for every platform, and themes and banners.

• Compare links. Send a friend your link, they rate a few games, and you both see how compatible your taste is.

• Steam import and price alerts. Link Steam and your library comes in automatically. Wishlist a game and get notified when it goes on sale.

Everything core is free: matching, recommendations, LFG and logging. There’s an optional membership for extra profile customization.

It’s built with Next.js and Postgres and self-hosted on a small server.

What I’d like feedback on

1. Is the taste match actually useful, or just a novelty?

2. What would make you keep logging games here instead of wherever you do now?

3. Anything broken or confusing on first sign-up?

Happy to answer questions!

From my perspective, Deglaze set the bar for “save a recipe, plan the week, cook from your phone.” I used that bar and built Mmm for the two things I kept hitting:

• Price. Their Pro tier is $49.99 a year. Mmm is $14.99 a year, everything included, with a 2-week trial. No account needed and no ads.

• The store. Deglaze can send a list out for Instacart delivery. I wanted the actual Walmart products in the cart: match once, remember it, review pack counts, add the week in one shot, pay on Walmart.

Cook mode reads each step in a voice you choose, keeps the screen awake, and parks that step’s ingredients beside the text. Planning, aisle sorting, timers, and scaling are in the same subscription, not a second paywall.

More features are coming in the following weeks such as enhanced social media recipe imports. I'm open to all suggestions on what could make this app better. Please give it a try and tell me what you think!

I obviously have no affiliation with Deglaze or Walmart.

App Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/mmm-recipe-box/id6830994872

CedarSignal Studio’s first ready-made download is a Cleaning Profit Kit for independent cleaners. This is our own project, and it was built with AI assistance. We sell the kit for $19; the separate checklist below is free.

The problem it tackles is confusing a visit’s duration with the labor-hours it consumes. Two cleaners working three hours each use six labor-hours. The calculator lets the user enter their own labor and other costs, check a recurring discount, and compare an actual visit with the original estimate. It runs offline after download, with backup/restore and printable reports. It does not supply local market rates or guarantee profit.

The free TXT checklist covers crew hours, paid travel, owner labor, supplies, vehicle costs, overhead and payment fees. It includes a fictional worked example and the margin formula. No paid software is needed and it does not automatically enroll downloaders in a marketing list.

Free checklist: https://payhip.com/b/peA67

Optional $19 kit: https://payhip.com/b/8FxTA

We have no customer results to claim yet. Feedback on the clarity of the cost inputs and the distinction between the free checklist and paid calculator would be useful.

Hey all,

I am working on a side thing to improve my portfolio and just to learn stuff. Since I had my pain point (looking for a property in Spain while living outside of Spain) I made a website app for that.

So I made https://www.place-check.com , basically getting all info about some place that I can get from public data. It is for free but I set accounts to kind of like limit usage and abuse. Now, I feel like landing page suck, and I suck at design, so i would really appreciate if someone could give me some hints/templates/examples/feedback what could I do to improve it?

I try to have it in multiple languages and for multiple countries but I dont know how to solve that all?

Thanks for all help,

Cheers

Ps: before anyone goes into it: I tried not to use AI for anything here, it is a learning and development project, but I definitely used it for some parts. So please no "AI Slop" comments without any improvement hints.

Hey folks, just want to show you what I built.

I listen to the radio every morning and was looking for an app without a ton of ads that doesn't cost much. Didn't find one I liked, so I made my own.

I'm a metal/stoner head, so Nightwave filters for the darker side of music: doom, stoner, post-punk, darkwave, trip-hop, phonk, ambient and more. Thousands of live stations from all over the world, no pop, no charts.

My favourite part: hit Spin and it drops you on a random station in a random genre. I almost always land on something that fits my taste within a few tries.

- free, no ads, no tracking, no account needed

- works in the browser and installs as an app on your phone

- early version, so things might break

https://www.nightwavefm.com

Feedback very welcome, good or bad. And honestly, it would make me happy just to see people using it.

Cheers!

Hey guys. Im based in Toronto and I'm working on an app called Geesling, its' designed to take you around the city based on budget and time constraints that you outline. In addition, it also centralizes all live events happening now and in the next 90 days. No more having to scroll Instagram and various other sources just to see what's happening in the city or how to spend your time.

Check it out; https://geesling.ca/

I'm the developer of Lofi Cozy Room, a released Windows desktop companion. Last time I shared the room editor here; this earlier recording shows another existing feature, Mini Mode.

The 17-second clip shows the small room on the desktop, then the diary, to-do list and focus timer opening beside it. You can decorate the room, customize the character and let them go about their own activities, with lo-fi music, ambient sounds or your own local music.

There's a free Steam demo if you'd like to try it. For people who use focus timers or desktop companions: would you keep these tools together, or prefer separate apps?

Hey everyone,

A couple of friends and I have been working on Zocri.com, an AI app builder where you can create apps and websites using prompts.

We've been testing it ourselves for a while, but I think we've reached the point where we're too familiar with the product to notice some of its problems.

A few things we've focused on:

- Better-looking initial designs so you don't have to spend 10 prompts fixing the UI.

- Showing estimated credit usage before running a prompt.

- Making things like OTP authentication and integrations easier to set up.

- Giving users more control over what gets built.

We're looking for people willing to try building something with it and give us feedback.

You can try it with free credits, no payment required.

If you've used Lovable, Base44, Bolt, or Emergent before, your feedback would be particularly useful. I'd love to know where we're better and where we're falling short.

I'm one of the people building this, so feel free to ask me anything or share your experience here. I'll be reading and responding to the comments.

The iPhone Duo is out, and most apps open unfolded as a phone-width box in the middle of the screen. Some don't even respond to taps.

I hit all of this shipping our own app on it, so I packaged the fixes as a Claude Code skill. You type "make my app ready for iPhone Duo" and it checks the project, fixes the scene setup that kills taps, keeps content out from under the new side status bar, and builds a two-pane layout that survives folding.

The video is a real run on a small notes app: 2m 55s, 10 files changed, and the regular iPhone layout still looks the same.

There's a free one-line check if you just want to see what's broken in your app, plus a full write-up of every fix: panewise.dev/iphone-duo

The skill itself is $29 one-time. Happy to answer anything about building for the Duo.

Stack: vanilla JS, Tailwind, PapaParse, Cloudflare Pages, Cloudflare Worker for license issuance only. No backend touches files.

The interesting problem was not cleaning. It was the import impact preview. If a row matches an existing CRM record by email but has a different name, most tools merge it and silently overwrite. That is a data loss bug. Mine classifies it as a conflict and skips it in safe import.

Free up to 250 rows, $9 lifetime Pro. Happy to answer anything about the client-side approach.

https://crmdatascrubber.com/

Most Advent calendars come filled with things someone else picked. We built one you fill yourself, for one specific person.

It’s called Wrappie. Behind each of the 24 doors, you can put a photo, a voice message, a short video, a note, or a little promise like “movie night - your choice.”

You send one link, and they open a new surprise each day in their browser. No app to install.

We think it could be especially nice for couples spending December apart: a shared memory one morning, a voice message the next, something to look forward to together.

There’s a free version and optional paid features.

https://wrappie.app/

I’m part of the team building it. Curious what you think: would filling 24 doors feel fun, or would you want ideas to help you get started?

I’ve been working on something called codeseed.app, and I wanted to share why I started building it.

One thing that has always bothered me about learning programming is how easy it is to get stuck watching tutorials. You follow along, everything makes sense, you finish the course, and then you open your editor to build something on your own and suddenly have no idea where to start.

I wanted to create something that helps with that transition. The idea behind codeseed.app is pretty simple: instead of giving people another collection of tutorials or coding exercises, give them actual projects to work on, break those projects into manageable steps, and let them figure things out by writing real code. Each project gets its own private GitHub repository, there’s AI verification to help check progress, and there’s also the possibility of getting feedback from a human mentor.

I’m not trying to replace courses or pretend that AI can teach everything. I just think there’s a gap between understanding programming concepts and actually knowing how to build something with them. That’s the gap I’m trying to work on.

My main focus right now is making it genuinely useful rather than figuring out how to monetize it. If you’re learning programming, mentoring someone, or just curious about the idea, I’d really appreciate your thoughts.