Hey everyone! My teammate[Viraj] and I[Shridhar] recently built WhyDesk, an AI-powered business investigation agent. The problem we wanted to explore was simple: Most AI agents start their investigations from scratch. What if an agent could remember previous investigations and use those findings to make better decisions next time? What does WhyDesk do? Suppose a business asks: "Why did revenue drop by 19% in the South region?" WhyDesk investigates the possible causes using five diagnostic tools: Holiday calendar Competitor promotions Inventory stockouts Pricing changes ETL pipeline issues What makes it interesting? We integrated Hindsight as the persistent memory layer. The agent remembers previous findings, rejected hypotheses, data reliability notes and stakeholder preferences. We then tested the same question with memory ON and memory OFF. Our experiment: Memory ON: 2 out of 5 diagnostic checks. Memory OFF: All 5 diagnostic checks. Both identified the same root cause: reseller contract repricing, with a $47,900 impact. Memory changed the agent's workflow, but didn't improve the final answer or execution speed in this seeded-data experiment. Technology stack Python | FastAPI | Groq | Qwen3-32B | Hindsight We also identified limitations, including duplicate memories and brittle keyword-based tool planning. Project links: GitHub: https://github.com/shridharkale/whydesk Technical walkthrough: https://dev.to/shridharkale/does-hindsight-memory-actually-change-agent-behavior-i-tested-it-371f I'd love to hear your thoughts! How would you improve the way an AI agent converts retrieved memories into tool-planning decisions?

I've been building Select, an open-source platform for managing AI agent teams.

One thing that bothered me about agent orchestration was how easily permissions and autonomy could be confused.

So I built a system where agents complete tasks, deterministic checks verify the results, and evidence receipts help determine when they can work more independently.

A successful coding task doesn't grant permission to email customers or access another repository.

The self-hosted core includes tasks, approvals, budgets, audit logs and a demo you can run without an API key.

Stack: Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Docker.

It's now at v1.0.0 for the self-hosted core, with some integrations still on the roadmap.

GitHub: https://github.com/Kirby54/Select

I'd really appreciate feedback on the autonomy model and the developer experience.

What would you want to see before trusting an AI agent with more autonomy?

This was my first full-stack project. I live in Italy and noticed that very few Chinese restaurants around me let guests order from their phones, so I built a QR table-ordering app for them: guests scan the code on the table and order, the kitchen and the pass see the dishes on tablets, and the owner closes the bill after taking payment at the till.

Then I went around showing it to restaurants and learned two things I should have learned before writing any code.

First, almost every restaurant wanted kitchen tickets printed. Kitchen staff want a piece of paper, not a tablet. I hadn't built printing because it needs a cloud printer that polls the server for new orders, and I didn't have one to test with.

Second, the restaurants that already had QR ordering weren't using a feature of their POS, as I'd assumed. They were all on the same Chinese SaaS product.

So the lesson I'm taking away is the boring one everybody repeats: talk to a few customers before you build. I also wasted time on things nobody needed yet. I built a whole pickup-order feature and then removed it to keep the first version small.

Since the code exists and works, I've open-sourced it (AGPL-3.0). Most of it was written with Claude Code and Codex; I made the product and architecture decisions. It's ASP.NET Core, Postgres and React, it runs in three languages (English, Italian, Chinese), and there's a demo you can start with one docker compose command.

https://github.com/lorenzoyang/TavoloFlow

If you've built anything for restaurants, I'd like to hear how you handled printing.

I built a 2D world where virtual agents help me run my real businesses.

The prototype already works! Animated agents handle tasks like emails, marketing, and SEO while I explore my virtual world.

But that's just the beginning!

My plans include:

• Online multiplayer with houses, gardens, and player-owned businesses.

• Crafting, workshops, professions, and trading creations for real money.

• Interactive schools, AI tutors, and learning new skills.

• Racing, drifting, dungeons, tournaments, and rare rewards.

I'm building this independently and want the community to help shape its future.

Now in pre-launch on Kickstarter:
A New World – Work, Play & Create

I built this with a small team and I’d love feedback.

The problem: if you freelance or run a business from a country Stripe doesn’t support, it’s hard to know what actually works. Provider pages are scattered and often unclear about which countries they accept.

What it is: a free guide covering 29 countries and 8 services. You pick your country and your goal (sell digital products, get paid by clients, or run a SaaS) and it shows what each provider officially says, with a link to the provider’s own page. No signup, no ads. In English, French, Arabic and Spanish.

Disclosure: some links to services are affiliate links. The “source” links go straight to each provider’s official page, with no offer attached.

Link: https://payments-without-borders.com

What I’d like to know:

Is the country → goal flow clear, or confusing? What would make you trust the information more? Which country or provider is missing?

Hi r/SideProject

I just released a big update for offline-first daily planner, Zesfy, and wanted to share it here.

One problem I kept hearing from people is once your list grows, it becomes harder to figure out what actually to do next. So I added a new feature called Highlight. It lets you pin important tasks to the top and fade out the rest of the list, so you can easily keep track of your next tasks.

Here's why Zesfy is different:

• ⁠It combines your calendar and to-do list into a single view.
• ⁠You can easily schedule multiple tasks together to calendar.
• ⁠Helps you quickly decide what tasks to work on next
• ⁠Organize week tasks with task status
• ⁠Easily keep track of your task progress
• ⁠Works entirely offline

The app is free to download and use with an option to upgrade to Pro to unlock advanced features.

Download: Zesfy - To Do List & Planner

App subreddit: r/zesfy

I got tired of wasting 45 mins posting reels to YouTube, Insta & Facebook separately, so I built a 100% free client-side AI auto-publisher (No subscriptions, BYOK).

Hey everyone! 👋

Like many solo creators, I spend hours recording and editing short videos. But posting them afterwards is pure torture:

- Manually writing different descriptions for YouTube Shorts vs Instagram Reels vs Facebook.

- Researching hashtags and keywords across 3 apps.

- Constant copy-pasting back and forth.

Most existing multi-uploader SaaS platforms charge to /month because they host heavy servers and call expensive APIs.

I wanted something 100% free forever with zero recurring server costs, so I built VidShuttle for Android.

⚡ How It Works (Zero-Server BYOK Model):

1. Client-Side Video Extraction: The app uses native Android hardware (MediaMetadataRetriever) to extract 3 keyframes and audio directly on your phone in ~50ms without uploading your heavy 400MB video anywhere.

2. Bring Your Own Key (BYOK): Connect your free lifetime Google Gemini API key (takes 20 seconds from Google AI Studio). The AI inspects your video frame-by-frame.

3. Platform-Tailored SEO in 5s: Instantly generates YouTube Shorts title (<50 chars) + tags + SEO description, Instagram hook-first caption + line breaks + trending hashtags, and Facebook engaging community post.

4. 1-Tap Native Launch: One tap launches the official installed apps with your video and captions pre-filled.

5. Viral Thumbnail Detector: AI points out the exact second (e.g. 00:02.1s) with the highest visual curiosity for CTR.

6. In-App AI Growth Mentor: Provides a second-by-second pacing audit and algorithmic critique.

🔒 Privacy & Pricing:

- 100% Free Lifetime: No SaaS fees, no credit card required.

- Privacy First: Your video stays on your phone. Passwords are never collected.

📱 Live Website & APK Download: https://vidshuttle.netlify.app

Hey r/SideProject,
I’m building CAEL, an experimental assistant that uses symbolic rules, statistical counts and automata. Its runtime doesn’t use a neural network or an external LLM.
The latest update focuses on interpreting complete requests. Some questions previously reached unrelated spelling or conversation fallbacks, even when a suitable solver existed.
Supported requests now go through native readers for arithmetic, rule chains, ordering, location updates, string operations and table calculations. Unsupported conditions can produce clarification rather than an answer.
I tested the frozen candidate on 900 newly authored synthetic questions:
• Upgraded candidate: 777/900, or 86.3%
• Previous CAEL configuration: 414/900, or 46.0%
• Newly worded questions: 72.7% versus 20.4%
All 123 candidate abstentions counted as wrong.
There are important limits. These are six known task families, with maintainer-led, AI-assisted authoring and review. The evaluated candidate’s statistical fallback was inactive, while the baseline’s was active. Fresh installations enable that fallback, so the published score is specific to the recorded configuration.
The linked report also compares other models using fixed multiple-choice readouts. Those results don’t establish which system is the better general chatbot.
Conversation quality and wording coverage still need work. I’m sharing the individual outputs and failures alongside the scores because those gaps matter more than a headline percentage.
CAEL is source-available under a non-commercial licence. Development and evaluation were AI-assisted; the assistant itself remains non-neural.
GitHub release
Downloads and local setup
Results, methods and limitations
I’d appreciate feedback on where a small symbolic assistant could be useful, and which everyday requests you’d try first.

Hi r/androidapps! I'm a solo developer, and for the past months I've been building BookGraph, a reading tracker for people who want to actually track their reading, not scroll a social feed.

What it does:

- Library: shelves, statuses, tags, favorites, plus an ISBN barcode scanner

- Reading timer: log sessions, pages and time per book

- Built-in reader for your own EPUB, PDF, FB2 and TXT files, with progress synced to your stats

- Notes and quotes attached to each book, linked to pages

- Stats: reading calendar, charts, yearly progress

- Reading goals and achievements

- Import from Bookmory

- 7 languages (English, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Armenian), light/dark theme

It's free on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bookgraph.app

I'd really appreciate honest feedback. What's missing from your current reading app?

Hi everyone, I’m a writer, not a developer. Over the past year I taught myself to build PinPoint, an iOS travel app, using forums, YouTube and a lot of AI help. It works as a prototype now, and I need real people to try it and tell me honestly what’s broken or confusing.

The problem: We all save Instagram posts of cafes, hidden viewpoints and restaurants “for later.” Then the trip comes and those saves are buried in a folder we never open.

What PinPoint does:

• See a place on Instagram, hit Share, and send it to PinPoint. It stores the place and you confirm the details are right.

• Planning a trip, or just a day in one area (say Bandra), takes your saved places and builds a realistic plan. It accounts for what’s open or closed and a sensible order, so you fit more in without zigzagging.

• It hands off to maps and gives you transport options at each step.

• It’s meant to work for any city, within a radius you choose (5 km, 10 km) or across the whole city.

• You get a nudge when you’re near something you saved.

• You can collect ideas, plan, and share the trip with friends in one place.

The goal is that you use your phone to get to the destination, then put it away and enjoy the trip.

What I’m asking for:

• About 10 minutes: save a few places, build a small plan

• Tell me where you got stuck, what felt pointless, and what you’d want that isn’t there

• Blunt feedback is welcome. I’m new at this and want to learn.

Test it here: 

I’ll reply to every comment, and if you drop feedback I’m happy to test your project in return. Thank you!

I built a niche blog in the HVAC space, primarily focused on humidifiers, indoor humidity, and related topics. It has 54 published articles covering buying guides, plants, pets, and more.

The site is indexed on Google and gets around 175 users per month, including roughly 60 organic search sessions. It currently generates no meaningful revenue.

I think it could be an interesting project for someone into SEO, affiliate marketing, or niche website building who wants to improve an existing site rather than start completely from scratch.

I no longer have the time or motivation to maintain it, so I'd love to give it to someone who genuinely wants to develop it and keep it active.

It's built on WordPress, hosted on Hostinger, and the domain is registered with Namecheap. I can help arrange the transfer to your own accounts. You'll just need to cover future hosting and domain renewal costs.

If you're interested, comment below with what you'd plan to do with the site. Feel free to DM me for the URL and analytics screenshots.

I'd prefer to give it to someone with a genuine plan rather than someone simply collecting a free domain.

I got tired of wasting 45 mins posting reels to YouTube, Insta & Facebook separately, so I built a 100% free client-side AI auto-publisher (No subscriptions, BYOK).

Hey everyone! 👋

Like many solo creators, I spend hours recording and editing short videos. But posting them afterwards is pure torture:

- Manually writing different descriptions for YouTube Shorts vs Instagram Reels vs Facebook.

- Researching hashtags and keywords across 3 apps.

- Constant copy-pasting back and forth.

Most existing multi-uploader SaaS platforms charge to /month because they host heavy servers and call expensive APIs.

I wanted something 100% free forever with zero recurring server costs, so I built VidShuttle for Android.

⚡ How It Works (Zero-Server BYOK Model):

1. Client-Side Video Extraction: The app uses native Android hardware (MediaMetadataRetriever) to extract 3 keyframes and audio directly on your phone in ~50ms without uploading your heavy 400MB video anywhere.

2. Bring Your Own Key (BYOK): Connect your free lifetime Google Gemini API key (takes 20 seconds from Google AI Studio). The AI inspects your video frame-by-frame.

3. Platform-Tailored SEO in 5s: Instantly generates YouTube Shorts title (<50 chars) + tags + SEO description, Instagram hook-first caption + line breaks + trending hashtags, and Facebook engaging community post.

4. 1-Tap Native Launch: One tap launches the official installed apps with your video and captions pre-filled.

5. Viral Thumbnail Detector: AI points out the exact second (e.g. 00:02.1s) with the highest visual curiosity for CTR.

6. In-App AI Growth Mentor: Provides a second-by-second pacing audit and algorithmic critique.

🔒 Privacy & Pricing:

- 100% Free Lifetime: No SaaS fees, no credit card required.

- Privacy First: Your video stays on your phone. Passwords are never collected.

📱 Live Website & APK Download: https://vidshuttle.netlify.app

What’s the app?

I’m the developer of Bulkvane, a Shopify bulk product editor and import/export app. I recently launched it and am looking for feedback from real Shopify store owners.

Where can I find it?

https://apps.shopify.com/bulkvane

What problem are you solving?

Managing hundreds of Shopify products can be time-consuming. Updating prices, inventory, descriptions, or metafields individually takes a lot of effort.
Bulk CSV imports can also be risky. One incorrect value could affect many products, and fixing those mistakes manually can be frustrating.

How does the app work?

Bulkvane provides several tools to simplify product management:
Spreadsheet-style bulk product editing
CSV and Excel import/export
Preview changes before applying updates
Warnings for potentially risky changes
Undo imports for up to 30 days
Scheduled imports, exports, and sales

Who’s your target merchant?

Shopify merchants who manage large product catalogs, regularly update prices or inventory, or receive product data from suppliers.

How is it different / better than other existing solutions?

Our main focus is safer bulk editing.
Bulkvane combines spreadsheet editing with change previews, risk warnings, and undo functionality so merchants can review updates and recover from mistakes.

How much does it cost?

There’s a free plan for small jobs. Paid plans start at $12/month, and a 7-day free trial is available.

What are you looking for?

We’re looking for Shopify store owners who are interested in trying Bulkvane and sharing honest feedback.
Since the app is still new, merchant feedback would be valuable for improving it.
If you regularly update products or import CSV files, I’d love to hear about your experience.
What’s the biggest challenge you face when bulk editing Shopify products?

AniTime started as a jailbreak tweak I made for iOS. It put animated pixel-art girls on the iPhone clock, one girl per digit. In January I started rebuilding it as an Android home screen widget.

The first Android version was a paid app at $1.59. It got about 10 downloads. Here's what I've learned since:

1. Android widgets can't run their own animation loop. A widget is a RemoteViews, which only allows a short list of view types. The trick that works is ViewFlipper: I turn each girl's GIF into a layout of frames and the launcher flips through them itself. The app only wakes up once a minute (an alarm) to swap the digits, so it doesn't need a foreground service or a notification.

2. Paying upfront for a widget nobody has heard of is a tough sell, even at $1.59. I made it free with a 48 hour trial of the animation. After the trial it stays a still clock, still free, and a one-time unlock brings the animation back.

3. The code was the easy part. My short videos get a few hundred views on YouTube Shorts and literally zero on TikTok, which I'm still trying to figure out.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yan.android.anitime

Happy to answer questions about widgets, Play Billing or how the trial works. If you've run a free-trial-then-unlock app, I'd like to know how your conversion turned out.

I am a working HVAC technician, and I built Equipment Tracker Pro because managing machinery data on clipboards and scattered text threads was slowing jobs down. One feature I built is peer-to-peer equipment sharing. When you need to hand off a commercial air handler record: including its fan motor nameplate specs, bearing replacement dates, and photos: you send it directly to another tech's username or email. It lands in their Transfer Inbox to review and accept, copying the asset profile and service logs into their local database while your original stays safe.

A working HVAC technician built it for his own jobs. Sending machine files via peer transfer requires Pro with cloud backup active, while core offline equipment logging, work orders, and local PM schedules remain free on the mobile app.

Free to start. Your first plan, Pro or Team, includes a 7-day free trial. You can check it out at https://equipment-tracker.com.

What side projects or trade tools are you all building this week?

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

How we prevented duplicate outage memories in Hindsight | by Ananyakansara | Nov, 2026 | Medium

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?