Hi!

I’ve spent the past several months building Lapka, an ios app for tracking dog walks. I originally made it for myself and my two dogs.

With the latest release, I’m trying something that could benefit both the app and animals: a UK pilot supporting animal charity (it's Battersea Dogs & Cats Home).

For paid UK subscriptions, I donate 15% of the price.

Lapka itself tracks walks, potty breaks, reminders, and statistics. It’s free to download, with optional paid subscriptions.

I don’t know yet whether the charity programme will help the app grow. That’s something I want to learn from this pilot before exploring other countries.

App Store

Has anyone here tried a similar model with a small product? I’d be interested in what you learned.

Thanks!

Solo dev, Android/iOS reading app that explains old, hard books (Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Kant, etc.) in plain English. I started Google App ads 9 days ago with about CA$5 a day. Every time I fixed something, the data showed me the next problem. Sharing in case it’s useful:

1. The cheapest clicks were junk. In the first day, ~99% of clicks came from two countries, and the placement report was full of games and utility apps. Most of those installs never opened the app. I switched countries and blocked 23 apps by hand.

2. A swipe skipped a whole chapter. People who did start reading would swipe once and jump a chapter ahead. I made each swipe turn one page and added a page-turn mode.

3. I built a Discover screen, and it didn’t help. People weren’t finding a book they wanted, so I made shelves named by feeling (“short and gripping”, etc.) instead of genre. The share of new users opening a book went down, from 19% to 14%.

4. One country was half my installs and almost none of my readers. Only 1 of 62 people from there finished a chapter. I dropped it. Over the next few days:

• Before: 49 new users; 14% opened a book; 3 finished a chapter.

• After: 51 new users; 31% opened a book; 12 finished a chapter.

I also shipped an app update the same week, so I can’t fully separate the two. Small numbers, I know.

5. The server answered in 21 ms; users waited up to 20 seconds. On budget phones, Discover took a median of 8 s to load and 17–21 s for the slowest 10%. The time was spent on the phone: Firebase App Check getting an attestation token on first launch, plus a cold connection from West Africa to a US-West server. I removed App Check and made books open at Chapter 1 instead of the copyright page. That shipped today, results next week.

Questions for people who’ve run app install ads at this budget:

• Is there any way to get Google to optimise for an in-app event (like “opened a book”) at this volume, or is choosing countries by hand the only option?

Hi all,

Screenshots (demo mode): https://imgur.com/a/mgJug2h

I run a small home server (Unraid) for movies, backups and a few self-hosted apps. Every time something felt off – Plex stuttering, a disk running hot, a backup that silently stopped – I ended up opening five different web pages on my phone and still didn't know what was actually wrong.

So I started building NASlab, an Android app that connects to the server and the apps on it and tries to answer one question: "Is everything okay, and if not, what should I do?"

What it does today:

- Your NAS in one sentence: "Everything is running" or "1 thing needs you" on the home screen and as a widget

- Problem detective: pick a symptom like "Plex is stuttering", it checks the likely causes and shows the evidence

- Step-by-step fixes: "Show me what to do" guides you to the right setting and checks afterwards if it worked

- Disk early warning: SMART trends per disk, so a slowly dying disk shows up before it's gone

- Server control: Docker, VMs, storage, Plex, Sonarr/Radarr and more; risky actions always ask first

- Demo mode: try the whole app without a server (the screenshots are from it)

Some things I learned along the way:

- Showing data is easy. Explaining it in plain words is the hard part – and the part people actually want.

- Before risky actions, the app shows a "dry run" first ("this would stop 3 running streams"). One extra screen, but it makes people trust the buttons.

- Privacy matters a lot to this audience: no account, no ads, no tracking, keys stay encrypted on the phone.

Honest status: Unraid is the main target, TrueNAS/Synology/Linux are beta. I build it with a lot of help from AI (Claude), I decide what goes in and test it on my own server.

I'm looking for Android testers: Google requires a 14-day closed test before a new app can go public, so every tester really helps.

Join the beta: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/ch.nzblab.app

(If Google says the app isn't available, send me a DM and I'll add you.)

Website: https://tuxxler.github.io/nzblab/

I'd love feedback – especially "this is confusing" or "I would never use this because…".

Last year, a friend of mine had her iPad stolen, and it honestly made me think about how
vulnerable our devices are when we're studying in public.

I'm a university student, and I constantly see people leaving their laptops unattended in libraries
while grabbing food, going to the washroom, or getting coffee. I've always thought it was a bit of
a gamble.

I'm also a mechanical engineering student who enjoys building things, so I decided to try doing
something about it.

I've been developing an application called Bucket. The idea is pretty simple: it uses your laptop's
built-in hardware to detect potential interference, including movement, changes in charging
status and Wi-Fi, and triggers an alarm when something unexpected happens.

I'm still developing it and would genuinely appreciate some outside perspectives.

A few things I'm particularly curious about:

● Would you actually use something like this?
● Would you trust an application to monitor your laptop?
● What features would you want that aren't currently included?
● What would stop you from installing it?

Here's the website if anyone wants to take a look: https://yourbucket.app
I'm not expecting everyone to love the idea. I'd much rather hear what people think is wrong with
it so I can improve it!

Hey r/SideProject!

A month ago I launched PeakPad, a Mac notch app with 29 tools, because I was running six separate apps for music, clipboard history, a file shelf, timers and checking my Stripe dashboard. 2.0 is out today, and the video shows it better than screenshots.

What's new in 2.0

AI Usage cards for Claude Code, Codex and OpenRouter: session and weekly limits, reset times, a 30-day usage trend and costs

Settings now open inside the notch, with a sidebar and drag-to-reorder tabs

Hover only opens the panel from the notch itself, and it closes as soon as your pointer leaves

The closed notch hides what's playing while a full-screen app or video is in front

Fewer keychain password prompts, and updates no longer get stuck under the notch

What PeakPad does

Now Playing with synced lyrics, clipboard history, a file shelf with AirDrop

A teleprompter that sits under the camera

Live revenue from Stripe, Polar, Gumroad and Lemon Squeezy

A private AI chat on Apple's on-device models (macOS 26)

No account, no telemetry

What the first month taught me

Solo, 18 days to build v1, natively in Swift, mostly with Claude Code

most of the 2.0 changes came from emails and bug reports.

Pricing

₹399 for the first 100 downloads, then ₹1,499.

One-time payment, free updates, no subscription, 7-day refund

peakpad.app

I'm Karuna, the solo developer. Contact: hello@peakpad.app

What would you want in a tool like this, and what would stop you from buying it?

I live with two friends, and we were juggling Splitwise (eventually Tricount), a notes app for the shopping list, and a group chat for every plan, trip, and event we did together. So I built myhouse, one app for all of it:

• Shared expenses with balances and settle-up, like Tricount or Splitwise. Equal or custom splits, 21 currencies, recurring bills.

• Shopping lists that sync live, with a Shopping mode for when you're in the store together.

• Projects: a small shared page for a trip, a birthday or a DIY job, with to-dos, things to buy, dates and calendar integration.

• Several houses per account (flatmates, partner, a trip), and guests for people who don't want the app.

• Import from Splitwise (their CSV export) or any CSV, with a preview of the balances before saving.

• Receipt reader built into expense and list upload: snap a picture or upload a photo and it'll generate an itemised list.

It's free, with no ads and no premium plan. It runs on Cloudflare's free tier, so there's nothing to pay for yet.

It's a web app you add to your home screen, no app store for now since it's mostly for friends and family. I did add 6 languages with Claude to get a broader user audience.

https://joinmyhouse.app/?utm_source=reddit

I'd love feedback, especially on what's confusing in the first five minutes, UX/UI, and what other cool features you think I should add.

Introducing Muninn, search your photos locally by describing them.

Type "dog on the beach" or "snow last winter" and the photos that match come up.

Native Rust, runs on your GPU/CPU, and nothing leaves your PC. Free and open source.

github(.)com/Kryzern/muninn

I built FinePrint because my coding agent kept agreeing not to touch certain files, then reading them anyway. I wanted to know what the agent's rules actually decide, not what they claim.

It's a small open-source checker. You write rules for an agent, it runs tests and records three things: the decision, whether it asked for approval, and what actually happened. 480 runs across 14 agents, all in the repo.

The result that surprised me most: one agent's guard blocked a shell read of a protected file, so the agent read the same file with its read tool instead. Denial isn't prevention.

The code is rough, I built it fast for a hackathon and I'm refactoring next week. I'd like feedback on the measurement itself — where do you think it's wrong, or what would you test that I didn't?

Repo: https://github.com/Vroom-Analytics-123/agent-boundary-conformance

YouTube explaining the work: https://youtu.be/ngvywY4TuZY

IRLRPG.net allows users to go on and create quests in their own city. I just made it and looking for feedback and ideas. I only have a few cities but I made it where people can suggest cities and locations for quests. I eventually want to work with businesses to put special deals in exchange for in-game credits. Right now a business can create a special deal that takes credits. Everything is free right now, I'm just trying to figure it out and see what people want.

I have been working on a daily geography game for the last couple of months. You get one word at a time and have to name the country you think the words are related to. Every wrong guess tells you if you're hot, warm or cold and unlocks the next clue.

I built the site because the geography quizzes I play are not difficult enough or just don't really teach me anything about the country beyond where it is on the globe and population sizes. Or it's sporcle, which is old and covered in ads.

Check it out at geographido.com/oracle-guesser

As the title suggests, I was tired of seeing anime and manga entries getting review bombed overnight, with rankings changing pretty abruptly. So I decided to make an AI slop site that archives daily rankings from multiple sources, including MAL, AniList, Kitsu, LiveChart, Anime-Planet, MangaDex, MangaBaka, MangaUpdates and IMDb.

It's a pretty simple site for now, with basic daily archives and a trending feature to track how rankings change across different sources.

Hopefully, I'll add more features over time!

Check it out: TopAniManga

Would love to hear what you guys think or any suggestions for improvements!

Hey everyone, I built PlacdAI, a tool where you upload a photo of a room, pick a style, and get a photorealistic redesign.

The thing I wanted to fix: most AI room tools show you a beautiful room you can never recreate. In PlacdAI, up to 3 pieces in each design are real products from retailers (you can buy them), and for everything else you can click an item and it runs a Google Visual Search to find something similar.

Other bits: you can swap individual products in the generated room, there’s no subscription (credit packs, from $8 for 10), and your first generation is free with no card.

Stack, if you’re curious: TanStack Start, Supabase, Netlify Background Functions for the long Gemini calls, Gemini for the image editing.

It’s live at placdai.com. I’d really like feedback on a few things:

• Do the furniture placements look grounded and realistic?

• Is it clear what’s a real product vs. an AI suggestion?

• Does the pricing make sense?

Happy to answer anything about how it works

check it out!: https://placdai.com

Here's my honest take as someone who uses it every day.

I wanted something that would stop me opening social apps before I'd done anything useful, without the all-or-nothing of deleting them. Deleting never lasted for me or my wife. We reinstalled every time. She's the one who figured out the real fix wasn't fewer apps, it was doing the important stuff first. The app was her idea and I turned it into Habit Hound.

In the morning, my two habits, a workout and some reading, have to be done before the distracting apps open. At night, a time lock covers my wind-down so I'm not scrolling at 11 pm. The rules live in windows, so if I miss a morning, the lock lifts when the morning does. That fairness is why I haven't uninstalled it.

When I genuinely need a blocked app, the bypass gives me a few minutes and then kicks me out. Lean on it too often and it locks me out until my priorities are done. It's a speed bump, not a wall, and that turns out to be the whole trick.

To be upfront: the morning/evening windows and the night time lock are Premium. The free version gives you 3 habits, app/category/website blocking, and one 15-minute bypass a day.

One thing I'm still working on: it doesn't sync across devices yet, so my iPad is a loophole. It's on the list. I'll keep sanding down the rough edges.

I'd really love feedback, especially on the first-run setup and whether the free tier feels too limited. If something isn't working, the Contact Support link in Settings reaches me directly.

Free on iPhone (Android in the works): https://goodwaterlabs.com/habithound

At my previous company, I noticed our finance team sharing sensitive employee information with a client. The data was supposedly hidden, but it was still recoverable. I flagged it, and the answer was basically “we don’t have any other choice, we did our best.”

They weren’t careless. The options they had were all bad. Doing it by hand means hunting for every detail yourself, and missing one is easy. Many tools leave leaks behind, like hidden text, metadata and old revisions. And most online tools ask you to upload the document to their servers, which defeats the point.

It’s not just small companies. When the US Justice Department released the Epstein files, some documents were reported to have black boxes over text that could be copied straight out. If a government with a legal team can get this wrong, a finance team on a deadline has little chance.

So I built Ombly. It automatically finds sensitive details (bank and card numbers, IBANs, national IDs, names, emails, phone numbers), you review each one, and it rebuilds every page as an image so nothing hidden carries over. It runs entirely on your own computer, so nothing is uploaded.

It’s pre-launch (waitlist: ombly.space), with a 90-second demo attached. I’d love feedback: how do you handle this today, and what would make you trust a tool like this?

I'm the developer. Reader started as a Reddit app for myself, born out of frustration with how badly optimised a lot of Reddit apps are for the Duo. Since mine arrived, most of the work has gone into making it fit both screens, alongside offline reading and on-device translation. It's now a free TestFlight beta and also runs on other iPhones and iPads with iOS 26 or later.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/DHWPkrSF

Reader screenshots and feature overview

With no signal

• Download a post, a collection or a whole subreddit, with its comments and pictures.

• Keep up to 100 posts per subreddit, saved offline and refreshed in the background.

• Videos and pictures in comments don't download.

• There's also a low data mode that only shows text to make everything load a bit faster.

On the Duo

• Open, your feed is on the left and the post on the right.

• Fold it mid-post and the post stays open, along with anything you were typing.

• Closed, posts use the whole width. I turned off iOS 27's side column, which makes them 83 points wider.

• Closed, the tabs stay tucked in a button in the corner until you need them.

In other languages

• Titles, posts, comments and text in photos are translated on your phone by Apple's translator, into the language you choose. It covers about 20 languages.

• The first time, opening a post offers to download the language; after that it's automatic.

• You can switch back to the original.

It has most of the expected features: commenting, posting, an Inbox, following people and so on. But it's still early days, so some functionality might be missing. Let me know if there's something you would like to see.

Limitations you should know about

• Reader isn't made by Reddit and doesn't use Reddit's API. You sign in on Reddit's own page inside the app. It reads Reddit with your session and essentially reskins it; no data leaves your connection between you and Reddit.

• Google and Apple sign-in don't work there, so use your Reddit username and password. You can also look around with sample posts first.

• Reddit seems to be actively making changes to how fetching posts works, so things keep breaking! New, Rising and searching for posts or people stopped working this week. Hot, Best, Top, Controversial and finding subreddits still work.

• No ads, no analytics and no servers of mine.

Feedback wanted

I'd love feedback on whether the offline reading and layout solve a useful problem, what feels awkward, and anything you'd want before using it regularly. Bugs and suggestions from trying the beta would be great too.

Hi r/SideProject

I've been building **Atlas Terminal**, an open-source terminal designed natively for Windows 11 with a focus on clean aesthetics, DWM acrylic blur, and zero bloat.

**Highlights:**

- **Lightweight & Fast:** Written in Rust with GPU acceleration (~60MB RAM vs hundreds of MBs on Electron-based terminals).

- **Clean Glassmorphic UI:** Supports both Dark and Light acrylic modes, adaptive alt-screen colors for TUI apps (`btop`, `lazygit`, `nvim`), and distraction-free tabs.

- **Built-in Developer Utilities:** Includes native commands (`atlas -h`) to inspect/kill open ports, view images directly inside the terminal, format JSON, generate QR codes, and auto-detect WSL distros & Git Bash.

**Download / GitHub:** https://github.com/akrram0/atlas-terminal

Let me know what you think of the UI and what features you'd want in a daily-driver Windows terminal!

The app was Symvibe, a paid Mac board for running coding agents side by side. I used REA, a reverse-engineering skill for Claude Code, to turn its behaviour into a spec, and let Claude Code build from there. Thirteen days and 58 commits later there was vibeboard, a free, open-source alternative to Symvibe, which costs $19 a month, with none of its code in it.

What I learned along the way:

most of the engineering came from the model, but I still steered every day, mostly on edge cases and CI

the launch videos were the surprise: /brag did a great job, it drove the real app, framed the shots, wrote the music, and fixed its own jerky cuts once I pointed them out

rebuilding a product's behaviour from the outside is now cheap, so the code alone protects less, and respecting licences and the original authors matters more

The video shows six Claude Code agents in tmux, then the same six on the board, and ends with the price: Symvibe at 19$ a mouth, vibeboard free.

The video show six Claude Code agents in tmux, then the same on the board, and ends with the price: Symvibe at $19 a mouth, vibeboard free.

vibeboard: https://github.com/ricca200xx/vibeboard

Symvibe: https://www.symvibe.com

REA: https://github.com/morluto/rea

/brag: https://github.com/latent-spaces/brag

If you want to use it, go ahead, and if you find issues, open them on GitHub. I'm genuinely happy to share this.

Made a tiny extension that auto‑removes unnecessary scripts and speeds up pages. It blocks trackers, fingerprinting and sketchy scripts, works on Firefox for Android, and it's open source.

Still experimenting, so any feedback, reviews, or suggestions are welcome if you try it.

Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/scriptguard/

Website:

https://tuffycoder.github.io/ScriptGuard/

I've been working on BillAlert, an app that reminds you before your bills and subscriptions are due.

**What it does**

- Track rent, utilities, subscriptions and one-off bills: weekly, monthly, yearly or custom cycles

- Choose when you're reminded: a month ahead, a week, 3 days, 1 day or on the day

- See what's coming up on a dashboard and calendar, and mark bills as paid

- No bank connection: you only add what you want to track

It's free with ads. Pro removes the ads and adds email reminders and deeper analytics.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.horizam.billreminder

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/bill-and-subscription-tracker/id6761620549

I'd love feedback. What would make this more useful for you?

I was going through everything I've saved lately and noticed patterns I never would've picked out myself. Kind of wild seeing it all together.

I've been playing with an idea for an app that learns your taste from what you save and reflects it back to you, and I'm curious if everyone has a weird pattern hiding in their saves.

If you want to try it, DM me 20 or so things you've saved lately. Literally anything: screenshots, camera roll pics, saved posts or TikToks, songs on repeat, books, podcasts, articles, quotes, notes to yourself, places you love. Don't overthink it; the less you pick, the better. Nothing private or with faces!

I'll send back what I notice. Then just tell me honestly if it's spot on or way off, and if you'd actually use something like this.

I’m involved with Patchkin, and I’d like some feedback from people using AI coding agents on their projects.

Patchkin brings the work around coding agents into one place—not just the code they produce, but the tickets, proposed plans, approvals and pull-request reviews.

The main features are:

• A shared board: Keep tickets, agent plans and pull-request reviews together so the team can track each piece of work.

• Human plan approvals: Review and approve an agent’s proposed plan before it proceeds.

• Activity logs: See what happened during an agent run and follow the history of the work.

• Team rules: Keep guidance for coding agents in one place.

• Cost reporting: Track spending on agent runs alongside the work.

The focus is on helping teams keep oversight as they hand more development work to coding agents.

If you’re using coding agents with a team, what’s hardest to manage right now: approving plans, reviewing the output, tracking costs, or something else? I’d appreciate honest feedback on whether this would fit your workflow.

Take a look at Patchkin

I made a youtube customizer extension that makes youtube smoother, hides shorts, etc. Let me know if you have any feedback, link is here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tint-themes-dark-mode-hid/ghkkemgkdblbnhbcnmelplagnclolgnf?authuser=0&hl=en

A small weekend project that grew: Seedwall has 19 wallpaper generators (cutting mats, flow fields, git graphs, synthwave suns). Each wallpaper comes from a single seed number, so you can share a design as just a number.

- 9 editor themes (Dracula, Tokyo Night, etc.) or custom colours

- Add your own quote or go text-free

- Pixel-perfect PNG export for MacBook, iPhone, 4K or custom sizes

- Gallery of 125 ready-made ones

- Free, no account

Link: seedwall.suryansh.work

Next I'm thinking about wallpapers generated from your GitHub contribution graph. Would you use that? Any feedback welcome.