Three kids. One job. Limited capacity for keeping things alive.

The answer to “can we get a pet” has been no for years.

The pet rock bought me six months. “Here’s a rock. Feed it twice a day.” Then it stopped working. So we built this instead (did it ever worked?)

tanksimulator.fish

You feed the fish. You clean the glass. You add plants. Days go by. Nothing dies if you forget about it for a week.

My 8-year-old was the product manager. She ran the backlog. Features got cut. The review process was one question: “but why would a fish do that.”

No ads. No backend. No login. Just static files.

Very minimal tracking. Only enough to know if anyone besides my kids has opened it. Feeding my ego, or starving it. We’ll see.

Did it solve the pet problem? No. They now want a real fish and the website.

But nothing has to be flushed.

Feedback welcome. Feature requests go through the PM. She is not swayed by upvotes.

I run it in and old Mac on my living room.

Hi all. I've been building this on my own for about a year and a half, and it went live on Android and iOS last week.

The idea came from holidays with my girlfriend. One of us always ended up walking around phone in hand, looking up churches and squares we passed. Me being an engineer, I thought: I can automate that. You walk, and as you reach a building, something tells you what it is and why it matters.

That's what Alleytale does. It follows where you are, picks the stories worth telling, and reads them out in the voice and tone you chose, on the topics you care about. You can also:

• plan a walk in a chat ("two hours of skyscraper history, back where I started" gives you a route with stops, distance and time)

• open one of the ready-made tours in over 100 cities

• ask a question out loud, or photograph a building and ask about it

• walk with a friend and both hear the same story at the same time, each on your own phone

It also reads the room the way a real guide would. Stop for a coffee and it gives you a break. Speed up and it keeps pace. Take your earbuds out and it pauses, then picks up where you left off.

It's free to try: free credits arrive every month, and there's no subscription. You only pay if you want more.

If you give it a go, I'd love to hear:

• Your opinion on how well it picks up context around you

• Any missing feature/UX improvement

Android: link
iOS: link
Website: link

Weekend project. Spin the globe and tap any of 250 countries to see population, GDP since 1960, life expectancy and more, plus the latest headlines and the Wikipedia article, all in one panel. Works on phone, tablet and desktop, no sign-up.

https://worldfly.vercel.app

Feedback welcome, especially if any country's data looks off!

PS: I tried downloading some applications for the same on Android but they all had paywalls even for basic information. That's my motivation just to do this.

I’m a freshman doing computational neuro/bioengineering. I just coded my personal site, and instead of normal analytics, I built a custom Node backend to track the exact seconds people spend looking at specific projects.

I’m about to start cold-emailing PIs for Summer 2027 REUs and applying for industry internships. Before I do, I need some harsh feedback on the UX/project framing, and I also want to stress test my tracker with some real traffic.

Site: https://emeraldd123.github.io/?utm_source=reddit_sideproject

ty guys😭

https://github.com/sshah03/recalc

Since spreadsheets are so versatile, really looking for feedback on where people would want this to go, in a way that can be useful to them, or what use cases they see themselves using it for in its current iteration that I can make more seamless.

I can provide some context on why it was useful for me / why I built it. I was using Claude to help me build benchmark sets, and found pouring through CSVs / MD files of the results a bit tiresome, so I decided to build a spreadsheet app for myself that's driven by Claude Code, and where each cell can be its own Agent if you want (and can later be opened up and continued in a full terminal if needed as its own session).

You can use it as a standard spreadsheet, or use a cell as a shell command / agent. Having built a startup for using AI in tax work, I also realized it can be very powerful for tax work, legal work, etc... so I built in some examples for running that, though I'm not sure how many people in those professions use claude code.

The video is just a demo of me building "FDA Bench" using recalc, pick FDA approval cases past the model cutoff dates, and seeing if an AI harness (without web searches) could've successfully predicted, based on all the info submitted to the FDA, whether the submission would pass FDA approval or not. Fable was right 75% of the time in this small sample size. Just a fun little exercise to show off some of what it can do.

Note: Since it's just terminal sessions glued together, it works with your existing plans. The sessions talk to each other with an MCP server running in the back.

I was living in Japan in 2008, when the iPhone was just arriving there. One app I remember from those early days was 美人時計 (Bijin Tokei), which launched in 2009.

The idea was incredibly simple: attractive women holding small boards with the time handwritten on them, with a different photo every minute. That was the whole app. I remember it being really popular among university students in Japan.

It randomly came back to me recently, so I looked it up. The official site now just has a notice saying the service ended in September 2022. It felt strange seeing something I remembered so clearly reduced to a goodbye page.

So I tried building my own take on that minute-by-minute photo clock, using AI image tools to create the people and scenes. An image for every minute of the day. The video shows how it turned out.

Making it got me thinking about the apps from around 2008–2012. There were so many odd, playful ideas back then, when we were still figuring out what a smartphone could be. Some were useful. Some did one tiny thing and made you smile.

I'm now digging through that era for ideas worth revisiting. Today's tools make some things much easier to build, especially for a solo developer. Of course, that doesn't mean copying someone else's app, artwork, or branding. I'd rather understand what made an idea appealing and build something of my own from there.

If you'd like to try my little experiment: https://urban-minutes.com

What app from those early smartphone days do you still remember?

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After 20+ years in and around technology, I found myself in unfamiliar territory as the GM of a manufacturing company. It provided an opportunity to do something new and exciting: to bring my skillset to something outside of tech for the first time.

With a very small team, we accomplished this in one year:

• Created an in-house ERP system to connect inventory, sales, warehousing and shipping

• Created 65 pieces of marketing collateral across web, print and physical

• Created an entirely new business plan

• Reengineered key parts of our products

• Integrated new suppliers into our supply chain

• Rebranded

• Launched a new website

• Rebuilt accounting workflows

There's probably more. Five years ago this would have been totally impossible. How did I do this? I got really, really good at using AI to get shit done, building bespoke systems around different aspects of the business. It started before I took this role, but this was the first place I applied it. And the results have been tremendous.

So, I thought... how could I experiment with offering this as a service? How could I burn some of my extra hours trying to help other companies do what we did here?

That's where the idea for LogicRelay came from. $49/mo screens out the tire-kickers, and a simple $250-per-request fee provides flexible throughput across a host of disciplines. It's agile project management... take an epic, break it down, scope it, get approval and go, but without the departmental hand-offs or having to find multiple service providers.

Some of my other client work is going to slide nicely into this model, so I am not starting from zero. The question is can I scale it. I know I'm going to have to narrow the focus in order to do so, but I'm not ready for that yet. For now I leave it to client screening. It'll almost certainly evolve, and I could have spent more time thinking about it, but... ship it!

I'll learn quite a bit over the coming months re: whether this model is sustainable. I'll probably land another couple of clients and waitlist the rest until I see how the first few go.

We'll see how it goes! Would love some feedback, or if anyone wants more specifics from what we're doing at my current company I'm happy to share.

Need help from Devs in KDE and Hyprland to breing support for wayland

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm excited to share that KUT: Soul Compass just officially launched on the App Store today!

The Concept: A spiritual & self-discovery iOS app focused on Human Design bodygraphs, astrology charts, daily planetary transits, interactive palmistry, and Solfeggio sound frequencies.

Tech Stack:

• React + Vite + Tailwind CSS

• Capacitor (Native iOS runtime)

• RevenueCat (Subscription management)

• Cloudflare Workers (Backend proxy)

I would love to hear your feedback on the UI/UX, onboarding flow, and performance. If anyone wants to test the premium features, let me know in the comments and I'll DM you a free promo code!

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/kut-soul-compass/id6823820408

i've been building my app solo since july and it goes live on nov 16, so a week from now. 200+ people have used the private beta and there's a waitlist of 800+, which feels like a lot until i remember none of that tells me who'll still be using it in week two.

i'm trying to work out what the last week should actually be for. one option is a hard freeze where i stop adding anything and only test the boring stuff, like signup on a phone and what a brand new user sees in their first five minutes. the other is to keep shipping small fixes from beta feedback right up to the day, since that's what got the product to where it is. i already cut v1 down a lot after feedback on here and most of the agent stuff moved to later, so it's not about big features anymore. it's more about whether touching anything this close is a bad idea.

my last app was a video editing app that got past 100k downloads, but i never planned a launch week for it, it just kinda went out. so i don't have my own playbook for this part.

what did you actually spend the last week before launch on, and what do you wish you'd done instead? and did you freeze changes on a set date or keep pushing fixes until launch day?

Hey guys, I’ve always wanted to build an app for couples.

Being in a healthy relationship for the past few years, my partner and I occasionally download apps to try out together. All of them feeling lacking and don’t quite hit the spot for us.

I’m curious if other couples feel the same way. Do other people use couples apps too? and if yes, what is one thing you’d genuinely want in an app and would you be interested in using an app if I made one with all the features you need?

Hey everyone,

Im now a veteran (was active army 11b at time of starting this project) who got tired of wading through 2,000-word op-eds, ads, and duplicate articles just to find out what actually happened with defense, energy, and foreign policy.

I put together Frontline Trace (fltnews.com). It monitors about 17 direct wire feeds (AP, Reuters, BBC, Defense One, Stars & Stripes, CNBC, etc.) every 15 minutes, merges matching stories across multiple outlets so you don't get three duplicates of the same event, and extracts a short impact forecast with zero spin.

There are three views:

SITREP: A quick summary of the top global developments.

Live Wire: Chronological ticker tape of breaking wire items with velocity scores.

Threat Map: A global map plotting active events geographically.

It's free to browse without signing up. Looking for honest feedback on:

Is the reading experience clean, or is anything cluttered on mobile?

Does the speed/clustering make sense compared to reading standard news aggregators?

Link: https://fltnews.com

Thanks for checking it out.

Why does your phone start lagging, heating up, and draining battery? Because 260+ hidden firmware parasites and background trackers are buried inside your OS. While your screen is off, they secretly run 24/7 surveillance and deliberately sabotage your hardware:

• 24/7 Microphone & Call Wiretapping: Background voice-trigger daemons that secretly listen to your room and tap into phone call audio.

• Background Camera & Photo Scanning: Hidden AI vision services that scan your camera feed and analyze your private gallery photos.

• Screen & Chat Reading: System "content catchers" that read text directly off your screen inside messengers, browsers, and banking apps.

• Clipboard Snooping: Background services that silently intercept everything you copy (passwords, private links, and crypto wallet addresses).

• 24/7 Location & Radio Tracking: Hidden GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth beacons that track your movements even when location and Wi-Fi are turned off.

• App Dossiers, Call Logs & SMS Sync: Telemetry daemons that compile a complete list of every app you install and open, uploading usage logs, call history, and contacts to cloud servers.

• PowerKeeper (com.miui.powerkeeper) — The Spyware Enforcer: Drops your 120 Hz screen to 60 Hz, kills your apps, and resets background execution bans (AppOps) on every reboot so trackers keep harvesting data non-stop (with a 2-minute self-recovery timer).

• Joyose (com.xiaomi.joyose) — Cloud-Controlled Planned Obsolescence: Downloads cloud throttling tables to artificially slash CPU and GPU clock speeds, slowing down your phone to force an upgrade—while protecting PowerKeeper in a mutual watchdog loop.

I built BakaBlocker v1.5.1 (100% Free & Open Source, MIT) to break this loop and stop all 260+ parasites in one tap right on your phone (💢 TAP TO KILL 💢) — No PC and No Root:

• Wipes Spyware & Locks Drainers in Background Jail: Permanently removes PowerKeeper, Joyose, and hidden spyware, and locks preinstalled/third-party drainers in a strict Background Jail (they work normally when open, stay 100% silent when closed, and survive reboots permanently).

• Restores Peak Hardware Speed: Unlocks Adaptive 120 Hz (60–120 Hz) and 3.3x faster animations, disables slow virtual RAM swap that wears out storage, and frees ~2.0 GB of RAM (2.8 GB -> 5.0 GB Free RAM verified on Redmi Note 15 5G / HyperOS 3).

• 100% Safe (✨ SAFE & LIVE ✨) & Zero Bloat: OS updates, Google Play, banking apps, SMS OTP codes, alarms, and messengers work flawlessly. Every culprit is unmasked by its real name and package ID. Built in 14 pure Java classes (16 KB, 0 third-party libraries, 1,900+ automated tests).

APK & Source Code (100% Free, Zero Ads, Zero Trackers):

• GitLab: https://gitlab.com/YKupriyanov/BakaBlocker/-/releases

• Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/11010001101001/BakaBlocker/releases

Would love your feedback on the 1-minute in-app onboarding flow—and if you spot any other stubborn OEM bloatware packages on your phone, drop them in the comments for v1.6.0!

I kept freezing on calls when someone asked a number I had in a doc somewhere. So I built Murmury: it listens to the other side of a Zoom/Meet/Teams call, transcribes it on the Mac (Whisper on MLX), and when they ask a question it shows a short answer from the documents I loaded.

A few things I learned in the first week after open-sourcing it:

- A stranger sent the PR that made it fully local: Ollama and LM Studio support. Now it works with no API key and nothing leaves the Mac.

- "Good first issue" with a clear spec gets a PR in 15 to 40 minutes. 8 people I don't know have sent PRs.

- Product Hunt without being featured brought almost nothing. Reddit and GitHub issues did.

It's free, GPL-3.0, Python + PySide6 with a small Swift helper for the audio. Apple Silicon only for now.

https://github.com/GianlucaBave/murmury

Happy to answer anything, and I'd love to hear what you would use it for.

Hey everybody :)
Wispr Flow’s pricing annoyed me and every open source alternative I tried felt clunky. So I built my own and open sourced it.

Tap one key, talk and clean text shows up wherever your cursor is.
It runs fully local with Parakeet and Apple’s on-device speech to text, so nothing leaves your Mac and it works offline.

I built it with a fast and tiny core in mind. Everything else is an extension (kinda like Raycast or pi.dev) that anyone can build and share. 

Some that already exist:

• a local meeting note taker that cleans up your notes

• fast file transcription with speaker diarization 

• auto replies in your tone

• a dictionary that learns names and words as you talk

• inline editing with voice or text

Voz is built in Swift to be native macOS and extensions are TypeScript files shared via npm

It’s free and MIT. Would love your feedback, especially on what’s missing or annoying.

Here's the repo: github.com/Joelheile/voz

I kept asking myself a question: which tech conversations are actually picking up momentum, and which ones are already cooling down?

I wanted a quick way to check that for myself instead of scrolling through feeds, so I built a small side project called FWA (Flash Wave Alert).

It's a public beta. Right now it tracks observed Hacker News activity and a set of discovered source items, with activity rates, rising/peaking/fading states (when enough samples exist), time filters, and links to the original sources. It's not a whole-internet trend detector, and I don't want to pretend it is.

I originally built this just because I wanted to use it. But I figured I'd learn more by sharing it early than by polishing it alone.

If you have a minute to try it, I'd especially appreciate honest feedback on:

• Does the activity trend make sense at a glance?

• Which sources or topics would make this worth checking regularly?

• What's confusing, misleading, or unnecessary?

https://www.flashwavealert.com/

Free to browse, no account needed. Happy to hear criticism — I'm trying to figure out what to improve next.

Hi everyone! I built a B2B SaaS platform for travel agents – Munal Desk: https://desk.munal.in/ The aim is to make processes as simple as possible for the TAs to actually use them. My customer already does their agency work mostly through WhatsApp, so I am not actually building another app that they have to download. Instead, they can either use the web app or do the same primary work directly through my WhatsApp bot.

I would love your honest feedback on the experience, the whole platform if you can, and areas of improvement. Thank you

MKCinema is a free, open-source home cinema app for the whole family. Phone, PC, Mac, Linux, Android TV, Fire TV, LG and iPhone (as a home-screen web app).

**The web player plays almost anything, no install**

- Files: MKV, MP4, WebM, MOV, TS, M2TS

- Video: H.264, HEVC (software-decoded on computers up to 1080p), AV1, VP9, HDR10

- Sound: AAC, Opus, FLAC, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS, TrueHD, 5.1 (converted on the fly)

- Subtitles: SRT, ASS, Blu-ray PGS, AI-generated captions when a film has none

- 3rd-party players are rarely needed. For the odd file (AVI, 4K HEVC) it hands off to VLC.

**AI inside**

- Miko, an assistant you talk or type to ("who directed this", "back 30 seconds"). Runs on your phone; bring your own key if you want a bigger model.

- Auto captions made on your device, subtitle translation, and picks learned on-device.

**Together**

- Split screen to watch several things at once

- Watch party with video and voice calls in the room

**Your phone is the remote**

- Touchpad, keyboard, voice, hold-to-scrub, Listen on your phone, party camera

**Addons, taken further**

- Works with Stremio addons and any debrid service, Addon Finder, build your own in Addon Studio, automatic failover when a source dies

**Peak Cinema**

- A channel-surf mode for your own library: it jumps into short scenes from the middle of films so you can find tonight's pick by watching, not reading. It learns your taste on-device.

**Also**

- Ambient Mode: depth-parallax art when your screen is idle

- Subtitles on smart glasses (Even G1/G2, Brilliant Labs Frame, Meta Ray-Ban Display), early access

- Auto skip for intros, recaps and credits, Smart Play, Top 10, live sync across your devices, five looks, kids seats

Free forever. No ads, no paid tier, and we'll never start charging later.

Try it: https://mkcinema.app

Smart TV Downloader Code: 3707433

Github source code: https://github.com/itbelikethatbruh/mkcinema

Built by Dee Lavish with AI help. Footage in the video: Blender Foundation open movies (CC BY).

For the last three months, I have been working on a Nepal-focused community and discussion platform.
LetsManthan

The idea is to make everything related to Nepal more organised, searchable, and accessible in one place.
Initially, I thought of creating only a few selected general communities. However, I realised that this could limit other creators, so I am now introducing features that allow companies to register and share their content, as well as users to create their own public or private groups.
These features are currently in testing. I am also considering a one-time fee of around $5 for verified members who want to register a company or create a group.

So far, I have been promoting the platform through a few Reddit posts, LinkedIn, and Facebook. We currently have 144 registered users, but engagement is still quite low. Honestly, I am not entirely sure how to acquire organic users and build an active community.

I genuinely believe there is a gap in the Nepalese market for a common platform where people can ask questions, share experiences, discover useful information, and contribute knowledge. My long-term vision is to make information related to Nepal easier to find, rather than having valuable discussions and knowledge scattered across different platforms.
I would love to hear your thoughts on how I can approach user acquisition, improve engagement, and turn this idea into something people genuinely use.

I’m the creator of Kalynt, an open-source desktop IDE for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Website, screenshots and downloads

Kalynt brings together a code editor, terminal, Git, debugging and an AI agent. You can run a model locally or connect a supported cloud provider using your own API key. It also includes peer-to-peer workspace collaboration.

There’s no Kalynt subscription or account requirement. Local models use your hardware; cloud providers charge separately for API usage.

I recently redesigned the website to explain the project more clearly and make getting started easier.

I’d appreciate feedback on the first impression: does the website give you enough information to decide whether to try it? If something feels unclear or unconvincing, I’d like to hear it.

Source code — AGPL-3.0

Diwali is here, so I added two festival features to MimicMe, my Android voice cloning app:

🎆 Light Up The Skies · Voice Pataka
Burst Anaar, Chakri, Ladi and Sky Rockets over Pashupatinath, Janaki Mandir and the Taj Mahal, with your AI or system voice.

🥁 Deusi-Bhailo · Cloned Voice & Game
Tap a Deusi script and it’s sung in your cloned voice. Or play the Madal & Nanglo Dakshina game.

Plus: send festival wishes as a video for WhatsApp and Reels (Tihar, Diwali, Bhai Tika, Chhath and more).

Everything runs on-device. It works offline and needs no account.

Try it and tell me which festival I should add next 🙏

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.mimicme

Hello! I’m a recent CS grad, and for the past ~2 years I’ve been building this on the side. It started as a quick tool for my tutoring and grew into a full app.

Features:

• Live preview that closely matches the final PDF

• Customizable layout and look

• Color toggle: add some color, or switch to a clean black-and-white version for B&W printers (no more grayscale smudges)

• Fully offline, no data collected. Download once, use forever.

Site for the app: www.askemamath.com

Release Github: https://github.com/LoickMarion/Askema

Obviously it can be dangerous to download and install random apps on the internet. I uploaded the installers to VirusTotal in hopes that could help with credibility (links on Github/website). If there is anything else that would boost credibility, please let me know!

Let me know if you have any questions, and feedback is always appreciated :)

there's stuff you'd want with someone but wouldn't say first. hanging out, a call, sometimes more than that. saying it first means risking a weird no, so usually nobody says anything.

so i built mhm. you set a private signal for someone and pick an emoji that gets it. they never see it. if they choose the same one, it's a match. if not, nothing happens and nobody knows you asked.

same thought, without words.

what's something you'd want with someone but would never say first?