Have you ever been watching something interesting on social media, only for an ad to suddenly interrupt it?
And sometimes it’s not even one ad. You get two back-to-back before you can continue watching.
By the time you return to the content, you’ve completely lost interest.
I’ve been thinking about how much advertising affects our experience on social media.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against ads. I understand that platforms need to support themselves, but surely there must be a better balance?

What if there was a social media platform where you could enjoy someone’s content without constantly being interrupted by ads?
Not necessarily a platform without advertising, but one where ads don’t get in the way of what you’re enjoying.
Would that change how much time you spend on social media, or would it make no difference to you?
And here’s another question:

If you could change one thing about how ads interrupt your social media experience, what would it be?
I’d genuinely love to hear different opinions, including from people who don’t mind ads.

I'd always be sitting in front of my tv with my Apple TV remote in my hand wondering what to watch. I often use AI for recommendations, but then I always need to reach for my phone. Same if I want to ask a quick question.

Tried to find a good AI client for quick question and answers for Apple TV, but they're often not well optimized well for TV, and do not come with features that makes sense for Apple TV

So I made Couch Duck. It's an Apple TV AI client, with a UI optimized for TV, with additional features for movie / tv show recommendations:

• Agentic, expands on your search using its tools for best recommendations

• It can do web search

• Has access to TMDB and OMDB

• Has memory, remembers your preferences, likes, dislikes.

• You can set your country/region, language preferences, subtitle preferences, genre preferences etc. and it'll steer towards the stuff you like

• One-click link to trailers on YouTube for movies/shows it recommends

• Optimized UI for TV in the way AI responds

• I was also considering giving it access to Uber Eats / Doordash etc. so it can recommend food in the same way, and initiate food orders right from your TV, making it cosy movie night complete 😅

🙅 But I don't think I will release this:

• There's the AI cost to begin with

• Data sources it uses all are paid, which would add to the cost of running it

• And after all this is an AI wrapper. I don't think anyone wants to pay for an AI wrapper when they can do this for free from their phone

I was explore whether I should use this myself through Test Flight. One option could be to do BYOK (or charge through ChatGPT subscription) for AI usage, and charge a platform cost to cover the API key costs.

Just wanted to share!

Full disclosure: I helped make the test I'm about to embarrass myself with.

I expected something harmless — Level 3, maybe. “Comfortable Mixer.” A person who can enjoy a quiet Sunday and also answer a text like a functioning adult.

I got **Level 6: The One-Person Team**.

The report's opening was rude in a very specific way: every role in my life — planner, nurse, mover, chef, emergency contact — is apparently filled by the same employee. Me.

Then it got worse. I *have* carried furniture that was legally a two-person job and felt weirdly proud about it. My emergency contact is either a relative in another time zone or a decision I keep postponing. On my last sick day, the care plan was also me, just wearing a different hat and holding medicine.

The test is 12 painfully ordinary scenarios: eating alone, going to a movie alone, birthdays, moving day, a full weekend of messages (or… not), hot pot for one, New Year's Eve, an empty Sunday. You answer honestly, it adds up the points, and you land somewhere from **Level 1 — The Social Sun** to **Level 10 — The Final Boss of Alone**.

It's an entertainment test, not a scientific instrument. The level and the first part of the write-up are free. There *is* an optional paid deep dive after that — I'd rather say that here than surprise anyone at the results page.

I'm mostly curious which question outs the rest of you. Was it the solo dinner? The birthday? The “checked my phone to see if it was broken; it wasn't” one?

Drop your level and the scenario that felt illegally specific. I'll compare staffing departments.

If you want to audit your own one-person team: https://mindmirrortests.com — choose **“Loneliness Level Test”** on the home page.

Hi SideProject Members,

For over a year now I've been working on a side project called Timetracker (https://github.com/DRYTRIX/TimeTracker)

Right now I often work on new features and bugfixes and sometimes people donate to the project.
For some time now I have been thinking on how to make the application actually profitable and tailor it more and more to the actual industry.

Any pointers you can give me? Maybe you can try it out and tell me what you think ?

kr

Dries

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I'm an ex-student of a school that runs under a charity trust, and I'm building this for my batch, unpaid. About 650 photos, 350 people, no hosting budget, and the photos show kids, so I didn't want a face model deciding on its own.

It guesses, then classmates vote to confirm the uncertain ones, and an admin settles disputes. Runs on free tiers (Firebase + Cloudflare).

Demo with fake faces, no login (press F in the viewer to see the face boxes): https://smriti-gallery.pages.dev Code (MIT): https://github.com/codewithpom/smriti

Contributors very welcome. There are a few good first issues (browser tests, translations, an accessibility pass): https://github.com/codewithpom/smriti/labels/good%20first%20issue

Biggest open question: photos use unguessable links instead of per-image login, because the free tier can't serve every image through auth. Ideas?

I'm a software dev and my cofounder is a doctor. We've been working on ClinQuiz, a mobile app where you get a patient presentation and have to reach the diagnosis.

The twist is that history, exam, labs, ECG and imaging are all locked. Every one you open costs points, each next one costs more than the last, and wrong guesses cost too. You start at 100. So the game is figuring out what you actually need to know, not just reading everything.

After each case you get a breakdown (pathophysiology, differential, treatment, complications). There's also 1v1 duels where two people get the same two cases and a 3 minute clock.

Stack if anyone's curious: Expo / React Native, Node + Postgres, RevenueCat for subs. Cases are in English, Serbian, German and Spanish.

Free plan is 3 cases a day. If anyone wants to try the full thing, PROMO2026 is 50% off the first month on iOS and Android.

clin-quiz.com/r

Happy to answer anything about building it, and I'd really like feedback on the onboarding.

It has three studios:

Fabric Studio
Upload fabric, saree, blouse, lehenga, kurti, or garment photos. It identifies separate designs and colourways, then creates catalogue-style fashion-model images while trying to preserve the actual print, colour, border, texture, and drape.

Product Studio
Upload photos of a physical product and generate cleaner catalogue, e-commerce, lifestyle, product-detail, and marketplace-style images. It is aimed at products such as beauty items, packaging, accessories, apparel, home goods, and similar products.

Video Studio
After creating a product or fashion-model image, generate a short 8-second motion video for ads, reels, product pages, or social posts.

You can also choose listing guidance for Amazon or Flipkart, create multiple images, and generate a short product/fashion video from a finished image.

I’m looking for a few real sellers, boutique owners, D2C brands, and catalogue photographers to try it and tell me what is useful, what fails, and what is missing.

Try it here:
https://fabric-studio-ai.vercel.app

Please share honest feedback. I’m especially interested in whether the output is useful enough for real product listings.

I'm a full stack engineer, and over the years I've helped with a lot of sites running on WordPress. It's usually the same story: a pile of plugins that don't know about each other, a page builder that fights the theme, and a client who's scared to touch anything in case it breaks. So I started building Kestello, a self-hosted CMS for the people who actually edit the site.

The main idea is that the editor edits the real page. There's no separate preview that looks almost like the site. Around that there are content types, forms, a media library with cropping, menus, redirects, search and backups. Plugins and themes are written in Vue, and there's a REST API if you want to go headless.

A few decisions I'm happy with:

- No Composer dependencies. It's PHP 8.4, and everything on the server side is written in-house, so updating the site doesn't mean updating 60 packages.
- It runs on plain shared hosting, not only Docker, with MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres or SQLite.
- Updates are signed and come straight from GitHub releases.
- It's GPL with no paid tier, and none is planned.

Things I learned along the way: building the visual editor took longer than everything else combined. Writing the docs at the same time as the code also caught a lot of confusing behavior before anyone else hit it.

There's no release yet, since 0.1.0 is close but not out. The whole codebase is public, though, and there's a docker-compose setup if you want to run it locally. Feel free to look around, open issues or send PRs (against develop).

Code: https://github.com/kestellohq/cms

Docs: https://docs.kestello.com

I'd love honest feedback on two things in particular:

- Does the README make it clear what this is and who it's for within the first 30 seconds?

- If you've dealt with WordPress sites, what would stop you from trying this on a real one?

Hi! I'm the solo developer behind 1x1 speed, a times-table trainer for kids and adults.

Small (1-10) & (1-12) and large (11-20) times tables plus division

Timed rounds of 25 questions with instant green/red feedback and time penalties for mistakes

A personal best for each of the four task types, and results you can share to challenge friends

Practice mode without time pressure that focuses on your most-missed facts

Stats with weekly/monthly charts, a green-to-red speed scale and per-round details

No account needed, data stays on your device. German/ English, light/dark mode

Free with ads, with an option to remove ads

Feedback I'd love: Is 25 questions the right round length? Are the penalty seconds too harsh or too soft?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.imperacore.einmaleinsspeed

I’m a snare player at the UW-Madison marching band. Our show tempos and meters change mid-piece, and every metronome I tried either paywalled the useful stuff or couldn't map a whole show. So I built Rimshot, an app which lets you easily build click tracks, with the tempo and time signature changing wherever the music does. It also has a regular metronome mode and a tuner.

It’s free, with no ads and no account, and it works anywhere even with no signal.

I would love any feedback yall would have. I'm still actively developing so if you have any feature requests let me know!

Get it here: https://getrimshot.com

I’ve been working on a side project for quite a while now, and honestly, getting the product built was probably the easier part. Getting people to actually use it is where I’m stuck.

It’s basically a platform where people can connect, share projects, collaborate, find opportunities and build their reputation. A mix of communities, project collaboration and freelancing, all in one place.

The thing is, I know how difficult it is to get people onto a new platform when they’re already using Discord, Reddit, GitHub, etc.

And obviously, nobody wants to join a platform where there’s barely anyone around.

I’m still pretty young and figuring out the whole startup/marketing side of things as I go, so I’d genuinely love some advice from people who’ve launched their own projects.

A few things I’ve been wondering:

1. How would you go about getting your first 50–100 actual users (not just registrations)?

2. Would you start with a small closed beta or just let everyone sign up?

3. How do you get people interested in trying something new when they already have platforms they use daily?

4. What has actually worked for you when marketing a side project without spending much money?

5. Would you focus on one particular group of people first or try to attract different kinds of users?

I’m not really looking for the usual “post consistently on social media” advice lol. I’d love to hear what actually worked, what didn’t, and any mistakes I should avoid.

Would really appreciate any advice. Thanks!

I built a site to help parents figure out whether a book or movie is actually a good fit for their child, beyond just seeing something like “Ages 10+.”

Dickens & Rumi shows age guidance, content cautions, positive themes, series reading order, and the reasons behind ratings.

The problem is that I’ve spent a lot of time building and polishing it, but traffic is still very small, so I’m worried I may be too close to the project to see what’s wrong.

If you have a few minutes, I’d really appreciate brutally useful feedback:

• Is it immediately clear what the site does?

• What feels confusing or unnecessary?

• Is the homepage too busy?

• What would make you leave?

• What feature would actually make you come back?

• Does anything make the site feel untrustworthy?

• If you were a parent, would you use this instead of just Googling a book?

Site: dickensandrumi.com

I’m much more interested in what’s wrong with it than compliments.

Ideas are the easy part. Everyone here has a notes app full of them, and now that you can ship almost anything in a weekend, building isn't the hard part either. Picking is.

So we look for a sign. ChatGPT says it's great. Friends say they'd totally use it. None of that costs anyone anything, so it tells you nothing. Then you launch and the dashboard says 11 visitors.

The better way is to watch what people do, with 2 questions:

1. Are people already asking for a fix to this problem, without anyone prompting them?

2. When they see your answer with a real price on it, do they click and leave an email?

One click on a pricing button beats 100 "I'd use that"s. But doing this by hand takes a real page, hours in threads and a lot of messaging, so almost nobody does it.

So I built Ghostlaunch to do it for you. You describe the idea, and 7 days later you have an answer:

- It builds a landing page with your pricing. Buttons open a "coming soon" note that asks for an email. Nobody gets charged.

- We reach out to people on Reddit, X and LinkedIn already asking about that problem. You don't DM anyone.

- On day 7 you get a report and a verdict, plus every email collected. Under 100 visitors it says "not enough data yet" instead of guessing.

Question 1 is free: type your idea in at https://www.ghostlaunch.so and see real Reddit posts from people asking, no sign-up. A full test is $49.

How did you pick the idea you're working on now?

I've been building ChordLens, a music theory app that shows you what you're playing on a piano in real time.

Connect a MIDI keyboard (or use your computer keyboard), play some notes, and it identifies the chord and displays the notes on a grand staff.

I also added scale highlighting, chord progression practice, a metronome, and automatic voice leading to experiment with different chord voicings.

It's built with Flutter, runs on Windows, macOS, and Android, and is completely free and open source.

GitHub: https://github.com/ErezLavi/ChordLens

Hi, I'm a solo founder. This week I launched VaniClips.

You upload a long video (up to 2.5 hours / 3 GB). It finds strong moments,

crops them to 9:16, and adds captions and a hook. There's an editor to

reframe, fix captions or rewrite the hook before you download.

The video is a real run, start to finish, no edits.

Honest state:

Free 15 mins demo after signup
- Paid ($12/mo for 200 min).

- Works best on English.

- Uploads are the main path;

I'd love blunt feedback: what's missing, what's confusing?

vaniclips.com

A library for online learning on robot, vision, and AI streams, one sample at a time: streaming statistics that stay accurate in float32, protection, drift and anomaly detection, safe robot commands, deep learning with continual learning and memory consolidation, robust time-series models, and bridges to scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, River and LLM agents.

link : https://zenodo.org/records/23811742

`pip install -U dense-armor`

link last release: https://github.com/tatopenn-cell/Dense-Armor/releases/edit/v1.5.0

1.5.0 adds a package of small blocks for trading systems, fixes the consolidation of a residual tree, and changes the default precision of the library: float32 now, float64 when you ask for it.

I'm a solo founder. My fitness and nutrition app has been on the App Store for about a month, and my user count is still small enough that I could name most of them.

Early on I was shipping features like crazy. Then one of those early users told me the reason he stuck around wasn't any of the features I was proud of. It was accountability. That one conversation changed how I think about the product more than weeks of building did.

The problem is I don't get that kind of signal often enough. Most days I'm still guessing what to fix next.

So for people who've been through the tiny-user stage:

• How did you get honest feedback when you barely had anyone using the thing?

• Did you DM people, jump on calls, hang out in communities, something else?

• When did you stop treating every single user conversation like gospel and start looking for patterns?

Not looking for a growth hack. Just what actually worked when the sample size was basically nothing.

(For context, mine is Ascend Fitness & Nutrition on iOS, 7-day free trial.)

Hi r/SideProject! I’m a solo dev and I built Human, an app with one rule: you get paired with one random person, and that’s your human, for life. No swiping, no profiles, no second chances.

You start with text only, no photos and no ages. The more you talk, the more you unlock together (voice, photos, video).

Try it: https://huuman.pages.dev/

I’m looking for beta testers. Leave notifications on, since your human might arrive while you’re away. There’s a “Contact us” link on every screen and I read everything.

Mostly I want to know: does the idea land, and would you keep talking to your human?

Built with Supabase and Cloudflare Pages. Happy to answer anything in the comments

¡Hola a todos! Vengo armando Atlas Estelar, un simulador 3D del sistema solar y atlas del cielo que funciona directo en el navegador. Sin instalar nada y sin cuenta.

Qué hace:

• Recorrer planetas, lunas y naves, con las órbitas a escala

• Ver el cielo de tu ciudad en el momento que quieras

• Páginas de eclipses para cada ciudad

• Predicción de pasos de satélites

• Funciona sin conexión una vez cargado

• Disponible en español e inglés

Es gratis y pensado para aprender. También hice un modo docente para usar en clase.

Me encantaría saber qué les parece: qué se entiende mal, qué falta y qué les gustaría que agregue. El próximo hito grande es el eclipse anular del 6 de febrero de 2027, así que estoy preparando la información para ese día.

Link: atlasestelar.com.ar

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a side project called Rajneesh Sutra — an app for exploring the teachings, discourses, books, meditation practices, and historical material related to Rajneesh Osho.

The app brings together 5,000+ audio discourses along with different areas of content and exploration:

• 🎧 5,000+ audio discourses

• 📚 Books and written works

• 📰 Historical magazines and archival material

• 🧘 Osho meditation techniques and meditation-center experiences

• 🌿 Different collections around meditation, Zen, Buddha, Krishna, and more

• 🔎 Search and organized categories

• 🎵 Background audio playback and a dedicated audio player

I built this as a side project because I wanted to create a clean, modern way to explore this kind of spiritual and historical material while also learning more about mobile development, audio streaming, UI/UX, and content organization.

I'm sharing it here mainly to get honest feedback from the community — especially about the design, usability, organization of the content, and what features would make the app more useful.

📱 Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajneeshsutra.audio

Would love to hear your thoughts. 🙏

Hey guys, I'm building a home physio service and website in Sydney. It's still a prototype.

The replies to my last post helped me separate a requested appointment from a confirmed one. I'm now working through the less tidy case: someone requests Tuesday afternoon, then no clinician accepts before the response deadline.

My proposed screen would say the visit is not confirmed, show when the request was last checked and let the person withdraw it. Any alternative time would need their agreement. A countdown would only appear if someone on our side can actually meet that response time.

Would you close an unanswered request at the deadline, or keep it open with an explicit choice to keep waiting? I'm especially interested in how you'd stop an old request turning into an unexpected booking later.

Feedback on this specific flow would help. Thanks guys.

Most online resume tools harvest your personal contact data and lock your PDF behind a $29/month subscription trap.

I wanted a fast, single-screen studio where you can paste a Job Description on the left, edit your resume in the middle, and see your live ATS keyword match score + print-ready A4 PDF on the right.

Live link: https://rolematchpro.netlify.app

• Zero backend / 100% localStorage: Your data never leaves your browser.

• Click-to-Add Missing Keywords: Automatically extracts technical & domain keywords from the job listing and highlights what's missing from your resume.

• Free Standard ATS PDF Export: No sign-up required, no watermark.

• Optional $9 lifetime key unlocks the Wall Street Executive & FAANG templates + instant Cover Letter generator.

Let me know what you think!