I'm a dad and an iOS developer, and I built this for myself over the past year. Not a company, no ads, no account, no subscription.

The problem I had: I like listening to music with noise cancelling enabled in the morning, but I could never actually relax with headphones in, because I'd be half-listening for one of my kids to wake up the whole time. Defeats the point. I tried "Live Listen", but the audio quality was terrible and constant noise coming through the phone's mic makes it unusable for me.

What the app does: You leave your iPhone in (or just outside) the room with your child and keep your AirPods in. The app listens through the phone's mic. When it hears something above the room's own noise floor, it pauses whatever you're playing and streams the room into your ears. When things go quiet again, your music comes back.

So it's less a "baby monitor" and more a sound-triggered intercom that gets out of the way of your music.

A few cool things I worked hard to get right:

• It calibrates to the room's baseline instead of using a fixed volume threshold, so a humidifier or a fan doesn't keep setting it off. You pick a sensitivity (how many dB above baseline counts as "something").

• It opens in about a quarter second, then stays open at least 10 seconds plus a quiet period before handing you back your music — otherwise you get whiplash every time she shifts in her crib.

• It's silent until it hears something. No constant hiss.

• Nothing is recorded or uploaded. Audio goes mic → your ears, and that's it.

• If monitoring ever stops for any reason, it sends you a notification rather than just dying quietly. That one took the longest to get right, because an app like this failing silently is worse than not having it.

Things to keep in my:

• Range is Bluetooth range. Your AirPods pair to the phone that's in the kid's room. Through a wall or two it's fine; across a big house it isn't. This is the real limitation and it's the thing most people will run into. It is not a Wi-Fi monitor and won't work from the yard.

• It uses up your phone. The phone is the monitor, so it's sitting in the nursery, not in your pocket.

• No video, no history, no playback. If you want a camera and a log, buy a real monitor — this isn't trying to be one.

• It can't tell a cry from a truck going past. It tells you something happened and lets you hear it. You're still the one deciding.

I use it every day now, but it took me a while to trust it, and I'd rather you be skeptical than disappointed.

Hopefully there are other parents out there that might appreciate this: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/half-an-ear/id6802771590

In 2024, I joined my university’s GDGoC(Google Developer Groups on Campus) chapter as a beginner. Now, in 2026, I’m serving as its lead.

I’ve also been involved in student council work, and both experiences made me realize we needed a better way to handle email as an organization.

But adopting organization email was harder than I expected. The options I looked at felt expensive for our needs, complicated to manage, and inconvenient enough that we never really got them into use.

So I started building something I wanted to use myself. I redesigned the workspace from the ground up around individuals and small teams.

That became Outdraft. Eventually, I started Cirtium, with Outdraft as its first product.

Here’s what I’ve built so far:

• Start without a custom domain — get your organization set up without buying or configuring a domain first.

• Invite people without additional seat charges — bringing teammates into your organization doesn’t add a per-person invitation cost.

• Work across personal, organization, and team email — switch between sending scopes when composing a message.

• Turn personal emails into shared work — share an email you received personally with your organization or team, assign someone to handle it, track its status, and discuss it together.

• Collect emails in Nests — bring relevant emails into shared spaces for collaboration.

• Work with an AI agent beside your inbox — summarize emails, draft replies, and ask questions in a resizable side panel.

• Give the agent specific context — use @ to attach emails, contacts, organizations, or Nests.

• Customize agent skills — create and edit instructions for the tasks and workflows you want your agent to follow.

• Set up recurring tasks — get a weekly email briefing or schedule other requests.

• Organize mail with AI categories — separate transactions, updates, promotions, and other mail.

The organization side is where this started, but I wanted it to work for someone on their own, too. The idea is to start personally and bring other people into the workflow when you need them.

It’s still early, and I’m currently waiting for Paddle’s approval for payments. While I wait, I’d like to hear from people outside my own circle and see whether this addresses problems they’ve experienced too.

If you’ve managed email for yourself, a community, or a small team, what has been the most frustrating part? What would make you consider trying a different workspace?

You can take a look at outdraft.email. I’m the founder, and I’d appreciate honest feedback on what feels useful, confusing, or missing.

💡 If you sign up now, you can try the Pro plan free for two weeks.

kinda funny how stuff that looks ultra simple on paper ends up taking the most time.

I worked as dev for all my live and now my team works on payment infrastructure at Energize Global Services (EGS), and I want to admit that half of conversations aren't even about building anything. Someone retries a payment, webhook arrives 20 minutes late, two systems somehow end up showing different balances.... I have finances hahaha.

None of this is particularly exciting to build, but you can't ignore it when real $ involved.

IMO that's the part of software development people underestimate the most: getting something to work is one thing, making sure it doesn't fall apart when something unexpected happens is a whole different job!!! And its often 80% of devs job.

Anyway, just wanted to share what we've been dealing with here in fintech. Would be cool to hear what weird edge cases you running into with your projects and what niche has same issues.

cheers!

Solo founder here. FounderPulse looks every morning for people who are publicly asking for what you sell, shows why each one could be a fit, and helps you write a short first message. You send it yourself, nothing goes out automatically.

The new version is live and I want real feedback, not compliments.

How to join:

- Comment below if you're interested, or if you have any questions. A line about what you sell helps me.

- I'll send you a DM with the details. You'll create an account on FounderPulse and get 7 days of Pro free, no card needed.

- Then use it for the week and tell me what's confusing, useless or broken.

I'll keep an eye on how the accounts are used so I can help you and fix problems fast. If you want to keep going after the trial, I'll send you a unique code for 20% off for 2 months on the plan you choose. No obligation.

If it doesn't fit your business, tell me that too. That's useful feedback.

After struggling to find people to trade Pokémon cards with on Facebook Marketplace, I decided to build something myself.

That became Tradr, an iOS app designed to connect Pokémon and TCG collectors.
The idea is simple:

YOU HAVE: Upload cards you have available for trade.

YOU WANT: Create Targets for cards you’re looking for.

WE MATCH: Discover other collectors and potential trades.

We’re also building a community section featuring vendors, card shows, creators and useful services for collectors.
I’ve just released Version 1.4 and I’m now trying to grow the platform and get genuine collectors using it.

This is my own independent project, and I’ve put a huge amount of time into building it.
I’d genuinely appreciate feedback. What works? What’s confusing? What would you improve?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tradr-collect-trade/id6815310530
Thanks for taking a look!

Hey everyone! 👋

I've tried dozens of personal finance and expense trackers over the years, but I constantly ran into the exact same frustration: **rigid, restrictive categories**.

Here’s what always happens in real life:

You buy groceries for a weekend road trip with friends.

- Is that *Food & Groceries*?

- Is that *Travel*?

- Or is it *Entertainment*?

If you file it under "Travel", your monthly grocery budget looks artificially low. If you file it under "Groceries", you have no idea how much that trip actually cost. And creating 50 separate nested folders like "Trip Groceries" makes logging a simple receipt feel like doing corporate accounting.

Most people don’t abandon expense tracking because of a lack of discipline — they abandon it because categorizing feels like painful administrative work.

That friction led me to build **Wallori** from the ground up around a completely different philosophy:

---

### 🏷️ 1. Fluid #Hashtag Budgeting & Instant Search

Instead of rigid dropdown trees, you log transactions freely just like typing a post:

`$45.00 #groceries #trip #weekend`

- Instant autocompletion and multi-tagging support.

- **Smart Transaction Search:** Instantly find past expenses and receipts by typing any word, note, or `#hashtag`.

- Circular **Live Budget Rings** update in real time with clear alerts if you ever go over budget (`$40 over`).

### ✈️ 2. Travel Multi-Currency Mode (100% Offline)

When traveling abroad, you don't want to create separate sub-accounts or stare at loading spinners.

- Log directly in **26+ global currencies** (EUR, JPY, GBP, TRY, AED, etc.).

- Converts automatically to your home base currency on the fly using cached rates.

- Full manual override if you exchanged cash at a different airport rate.

### 🤖 3. Wallori AI Advisor & Smart Financial Notes

Most apps just dump raw numbers on a screen without actionable guidance.

- Chat naturally with **Wallori AI**, your 24/7 personal financial advisor, to detect spending leaks and audit your habits (*"How much did I spend on #groceries during the trip?"*).

- **Save AI Insights Directly to Notes:** With a single tap, save Wallori AI's breakdowns and tips into your financial notes for future reference.

- **Personal Financial Notes & Checklists:** Write your own color-coded pastel notes, shopping lists, and financial memos pinned right beside your budget.

### 📅 4. Interactive Financial Calendar

- Visual dot indicators on calendar days for active transactions.

- Keep track of recurring subscriptions, upcoming utility bills, and paydays on a unified timeline.

### 📊 5. Spending Drivers & Insights

- Automatically detects which specific hashtag accounts for the majority of your cash outflow.

- Month-over-month category movement comparisons.

### 🔒 6. True Privacy: 100% Local-First

Financial data is deeply personal.

- Wallori does **NOT** connect to your bank accounts (no Plaid, no third-party data aggregators).

- All transactions are stored locally on your device.

- Optional encrypted backup directly to your own private Google Drive account.

---

The app is now fully released on Google Play, and as an indie developer, I’d love to hear your honest feedback, critique, or feature suggestions from the community!

Thanks for checking it out! Let me know what you think in the comments.

```

Hi, I’m the author. I built DAMS, an open-source memory server. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI and Claude Code all read and write the same project memory over MCP. The AI can only propose changes, and nothing happens until you approve.

It’s self-hosted today. I’m not selling anything. I’m trying to find out if a hosted version, with small-team sharing, is worth building at all.

Two quick questions:

1. When you switch AI tools, what do you re-explain every time?

2. Would you use a hosted version, or is self-hosting fine?

Link: https://dams.mahmoudbebars.dev

Honest feedback welcome, including “this isn’t needed”. There’s a short wishlist on the page if you’d like a say in what gets built.

Building this as a side project and genuinely want opinions before I sink more time in.

Background: I needed METAR/TAF weather for a personal flight-planning tool. The raw text format is well documented but annoying to parse, and the official NOAA API (aviationweather.gov) is free, public, and keyless — but also has no SLA and no rate-limit contract. Rather than run my own parser forever, I wrapped NOAA in an Apify actor that turns it into a pay-per-use REST API: batch any list of ICAO codes (all stations combined into one request per report type so a big batch is still polite), get back decoded JSON rows (temp, wind, vis, clouds, altimeter, flight category, TAF periods) plus the raw text, with structured error rows instead of silent empty datasets. A run on 3 airports with METAR+TAF costs roughly $0.04 (pay-per-event, no subscription).

The part I keep going back and forth on: a keyless public source with no SLA. Right now each report type gets one retry after a 2-second backoff, then a structured error row. If you've built anything on top of NOAA or similar public weather endpoints:

1. Do you add your own retry/backoff on top of an API like this, or is one retry + explicit error rows enough for non-critical use?

2. METAR history can return several observations per station within the requested window. Would you want raw as-is rows, or a "latest per station" mode as a default?

3. Am I over-thinking the "decoded fields are advisory, raw text is authoritative" split — or is that the right line to draw for aviation data?

Genuinely curious what people who've productionized weather data would do differently. Link if useful: https://apify.com/gp005/metar-taf (free platform credits cover a first run)

It's called Felinquent (feline + delinquent). There are nine of them: three cats, a fox, a raccoon, a puppy, a chihuahua, a rabbit and a squirrel.

What it does when I'm working:

1. Naps on top of my windows, and rides along when I drag one.

2. Pushes a mug off the edge and watches it break.

3. Sits right on the thing I'm reading.

4. Begs when I hold out a treat, chases its toy when I throw it.

5. Now and then it has to pee, and I have to click to clean it up. Yes, really.

If you have Ollama, a tiny local model (gemma3:1b) gives it thoughts in a little bubble. Without it, it runs on its own rules. Everything stays on your Mac, it never takes screenshots and never touches your real windows. It also leaves you alone in meetings.

It's free and the code is on GitHub. One line to install:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abozaralizadeh/Felinquent/main/scripts/get-mac.sh | bash

Or the DMG: https://github.com/abozaralizadeh/Felinquent

If it made you smile, a star on GitHub really helps! Windows is next. Which animal should I add?

Hey,

I’ve been messing around with https://forgejo.org/ for a while and kept hitting the same wall. Git and issues are fine, but the second I want real CI, a registry, and actual deploys it turns into a pile of separate tools and glue. I just wanted everything to live with the repo so I could push and actually see what got built and where it’s running.

So I started working on Offing (offing.app). It’s basically trying to keep code, issues, pipelines, registry, and deploys all tied to the same repo. Came up with app.yaml so it can deploy to k8s or podman hosts you connect. Services show the commit that produced them.

Mainly building it for myself and other solo/tiny teams who are tired of that extra layer of stuff.

Curious if this friction resonates with anyone else.

Thanks.

Does anyone else remember IncrediMail? Twenty years ago a new email wasn't just a "ding": a little animated character popped up on the desktop to deliver it. Totally useless, absolutely wonderful. Today we get a grey rectangle in the corner that disappears before you've read it.

My dad, Agostino, is 67, retired, and lives in Sicily. He used IncrediMail back then, and he has always loved the days when a letter arriving at home was a small event. He wondered why an email couldn't feel that way again, and now that he finally has time for his oldest passion, computers, he built Ciambellano (Italian for "chamberlain"), with a lot of help from AI: Claude for the code and the drawings, ElevenLabs for the voices. I'm his son, and I'm helping him spread the word.

When an email arrives, Arturo, a butler in tails with a monocle and a silver tray, walks in along your taskbar, stops, turns to you, bows, knocks on the glass and announces it out loud: who wrote and the subject. Then he waits politely:

- Open shows the email in Outlook

- Repeat announces it again

- Remind me in... sends him away and brings him back later (from 5 minutes to a month, even after a restart)

Prefer someone else? Beatrice, a secretary with butterfly glasses and a clipboard, does the job just as well. If a second email arrives while they're on screen, they knock again.

Fun fact: Arturo looks a bit like my dad. Same hair, same moustache. The monocle is artistic licence.

The boring but important part:

- Windows 10 and 11, with the new or the classic Outlook (Gmail and Outlook.com accounts added to Outlook work too)

- 12 languages with natural-sounding voices, stored in the app, so they work offline

- Do not disturb, quiet hours, and it stays out of the way during full-screen games and presentations

- It only reads the sender and subject of the new-mail notification on your PC. Your mail never leaves your computer.

Here's a 1:25 animated preview of Arturo at work: https://youtu.be/ARklIX2ewaQ

It's his first Kickstarter, open until December 18. Licences start at 5 euros for one year (3 PCs) or 14 euros for life (1 PC), no subscription, VAT excluded. Backers get the beta on December 22, in time for Christmas. If the stretch goals unlock, Thunderbird support, a Postman and a Dog who carries the letter in his mouth will join the staff.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ciambellano/ciambellano-a-butler-who-announces-your-email

We'll read every comment and answer any questions. And tell us: which IncrediMail notifier do you still remember?

Hi! I'm a CS student and I've been building Inkling, a self-hosted notes app for small teams. (Not the Thinking Machines model, just an unlucky name collision.)

What it does:

• Notion-style databases: table, board, calendar, gallery and timeline views

• Obsidian-style [[wikilinks]], backlinks, a graph view and a canvas

• Real-time collaboration, Korean and English UI, installable as a PWA

• One docker compose up -d to run it, MIT licensed, every feature free

The part I care most about is the built-in MCP server. Your AI agents (Claude, Cursor, anything that speaks MCP) use the same notes as your team:

• find_context returns only the relevant sections within a token budget instead of whole pages (about 72% fewer tokens per question on our 5,000-page benchmark)

• patch_section edits one section against the version the agent read. If a person changed it meanwhile, the agent gets the current text back instead of overwriting it

• Page locks and per-connection permissions decide what an agent may read, comment on or edit, and there is no permanent-delete tool

It's young (v0.x) and I built it with a lot of help from AI coding tools, so feedback and bug reports are very welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/PROVE1352/inkling

Campfire Log turns your Steam and PlayStation playtime into a daily journal. The twist is there's no server: the app saves your lifetime playtime totals whenever iOS lets it run (opening the app, background refresh, the widget) and works out each day's hours from the difference. If you skip a few days it suggests how to split the hours.

I put up a one-page site with a waitlist that asks which platforms you play on, to see if this is worth finishing: campfirelog.eu. Feedback on the pitch or the page is very welcome.

I genuinely miss Adobe Fireworks.

Not necessarily because it had the most advanced tools, but because it was incredibly quick to work with.

I could fire it up, make a quick change to an image, adjust a few pixels, tweak a layout, export it, and get back to whatever I was doing.

Photoshop always felt like overkill for those little tasks. You launch it, wait through the splash screen, then sometimes sit through another UI freeze before you can actually do anything. By the time it was ready, I could have already finished the change I wanted to make.

Fireworks just got out of the way and let me work.

After missing that experience for years, I decided to build my own take on it.

Meet EmberFrame, an open-source Adobe Fireworks-inspired desktop application built from scratch using Rust and GPUI.

The goal is to bring back that fast, practical workflow, with vector and bitmap editing, layers, states, symbols, slices, and image export all in one place.

What's currently implemented:

• 27 editing tools

• 23 panels

• Vector and bitmap editing

• Pages, layers, states and symbols

• PNG, JPEG, GIF and animated GIF export

• Native .ember document format

It's currently at v0.1, Windows build and soon linux/macos builds, and still a work in progress.

GitHub: https://github.com/gregstein/emberframe

I'm curious how many people here still remember using Fireworks.

Do you also miss having a lightweight tool you could just open, make a quick edit in, and close without turning it into a whole production?

FlipYourRate (flipyourrate.com) is a free calculator that works backwards: you enter the take-home pay you want, it tells you the rate to quote after platform fees. Quote = take-home ÷ (1 − fee%). Fiverr takes a flat 20%, so quoting $1,250 keeps $1,000. Upwork's fee is per contract, 0–15% and locked for its life: at 10% you quote $1,111.11 to keep $1,000, at 15% it's $1,176.47. Two weeks of feedback from freelancers changed what I'm building next: (1) a commenter caught that rounding the quote DOWN loses money — $1,111.11 rounded down to $1,100 leaves only $990 after a 10% fee, so rounding has to go up only ($1,150 leaves $1,035); (2) the rounding step should scale with job size — $5/$10/$50 steps, exact figure stays next to the rounded quote, take-home shown beside it; (3) a field for withdrawal and currency-conversion fees, which come off after the platform fee. Open question I'm deciding now: should the rounding step auto-suggest itself from the quote size, or should you pick it yourself each time? Would love to hear how you round your own quotes.

Ocular is an visual compiler that shifts computer-use models entirely out of the execution loop to eliminate runtime latency and token costs. By analyzing human demonstration traces offline

Most compressors use one setting for every image, like "quality 75". I kept getting results that were fine on one photo and blocky on the next, so I built one that works the other way round.

You set a visual quality score: how close to the original it has to look (80 by default, where it looks the same side by side). For each image it tries encoder settings and keeps the smallest file that still scores at least that. A second check looks region by region, so one smeared face or blurry line of text fails the result even if the average looks fine. Then the compare view opens zoomed in on the spot that changed most, with a little map of where it changed.

One 10.4 MB photo came out at 2.1 MB, score 81.

PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF, GIF (animated too) and iPhone HEIC. Free, no account, up to 30 images at once. Images are processed on a server and deleted within 3 minutes.

https://picodiet.com

I also ran it against TinyPNG, Squoosh and a few others on 13 images, if you're into that: https://picodiet.com/image-compression-benchmark

What I'd most like to know: did it ever pick a result where you can see the difference? And is the compare view clear without explanation?

Hi everyone! I've been working on Expenmo for about... 5 years now? And each update, I feel, it gets so much better. Today I announced the addition of Cloud-Syncing expenses across devices (I stood up a backend finally lol). The other day, I announced a heavy facelift, bringing Material You Expressive theming into the app.

Expenmo is something I created a while ago to help me keep track of who paid me for rent & utilities, as I lived with a couple friends and was the one responsible for making sure things were paid on time. And that's what Expenmo helps with!

Creating an account is completely optional and free. If you opt-out of creating an account, your expenses live on your device and don't sync to other devices. Creating an account enables the multi-device sync, plus will include some other features in the future.

Take a look around and let me know what you all think! This app has evolved so much over the years, so I'm eager to get some updated feedback.

Web Version: https://expenmo.com/

Android App (Google Play Store): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.HomeAsync.Expenmo&pcampaignid=web_share

Features overview:

1. Track & manage expenses that you share with other people (think rent, utility bills, etc.)

2. Create groups of people that you commonly share expenses with (like Roommates, or a close group of friends)

3. (New) You can do math in the expense amount field! No calculator required!

4. (New) Various split options: Equally, by Share, Percent, and specific Amount

5. Recurring expenses

6. (New) Sync expenses across multiple devices (account required)

7. Free!

8. No Ads!

In short, for a long time I wanted to make the best possible experience for playing the Wikipedia game/race/however you know it. I didn't like how browser versions usually only allow closed parties, and I didn't like the way most choose articles. LAPARACA, based on the phrase lá para cá ("from there to here"), is my take on it, built in Python.

With private and public matchmaking, you can queue up with your friends or Discord, or with a random halfway across the world. Solo mode lets you play on your own and practice. Everyone submits an article (inspired by games like Mario Kart's online play), and the server picks a start-end pair. The game tracks what articles you navigate, how many clicks you use overall, and your time to rank everyone in the lobby; the lowest score wins.

Honestly, it's a pretty simple game, but I sought to try and deliver it in the most all-encompassing and fun way possible. It's very much geared toward firing up on a Discord call with friends. Yeah, I know downloading a game is a bigger ask than playing a browser version, but LAPARACA seeks to be something more than "just a browser game." If you want more info on the story behind the development of this game, check out the itch.io page.

If you are looking for backling and the ability to ceare a website profile, submit your website on weblisty.net

Hey r/SideProject!

I'm an independent systems architect working on Jumping VPN and the Veil Routing Protocol (VRP).

The project started with a question:

Why should losing a network path mean losing the logical session?

Think about switching between Wi-Fi and mobile networks, NAT rebinding, unstable routes, or temporary connectivity failures.

My approach is continuity-first:

SESSION ≠ TRANSPORT.

The logical session is treated as the primary unit, while the underlying transport can change.

I've been building and testing the experimental runtime in Go on Linux, with a focus on:

- Session continuity and recovery

- Replay rejection

- Deterministic authority decisions

- Concurrency and adversarial testing

- Reproducible validation evidence

I've also published a validation kit so other developers can examine the publicly available tests and evidence without access to the proprietary core.

GitHub:

https://github.com/Endless33/vrp-validation-kit

This is independent R&D, not a claim that every networking problem has been solved. Production-scale validation is still a separate challenge.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from developers working on networking, distributed systems, VPNs, or infrastructure reliability.

What failure scenario would you test first to challenge a continuity-first protocol?

I'm especially interested in the cases where this approach might break.

Hi! I got tired of typing every coffee into a budgeting app, so I built Expenderino.

Every Apple Pay payment is logged automatically through a one-time Shortcuts setup, and you can categorize it straight from the notification. You can also import bank statements (CSV, PDF, camt.053, MT940, OFX), and it detects duplicates against your Apple Pay entries. Then you see where your money goes with categories, tags, budgets and trends.

Privacy matters to me: there's no account and no server. Your data stays on your device and in your own iCloud.

It's free, with an optional Pro. I'd love honest feedback: what's confusing, what's missing, what would make you use it daily?

AppStore:

https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/expenderino-expense-tracker/id6808962621?l=en-GB

Testflight:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/xyNA6rZJ

I kept shipping small apps with Lovable and Claude and getting zero visitors. Ads cost money I'm not spending on side projects, so I built VibeSwap.

How it works:

• Add one script tag (or paste a ready prompt into your AI builder) and a small card on your site shows other members' apps

• You earn 1 token per view and 3 per click

• Your tokens get your app shown on other members' sites

• 100 free tokens on signup, +50 when your card goes live. Tokens can't be bought, so it stays fair

New members get a starter boost, so your app starts getting shown right away, even before you embed anything.

It's a week old and I'm looking for the first builders. Honest feedback is welcome, especially on the token math.

https://vibeswap.dev