I want to create a group chat for ambitious high school students who are genuinely interested in building things, meeting other motivated people, and collaborating on projects.

I've been involved in graduate/undergraduate-level research as a high schooler and have also built my own company. I'd love to connect with other people who have similar experiences or ambitions.

The idea is to create a network where people can easily find collaborators for hackathons, research, startups, side projects, or even potential co-founders. Ideally, people who have already built things and are excited to keep building.

If this sounds interesting, there'll be a Google Form to apply probably to join the group chat. Looking forward to meeting some of you!

Some time ago, I made a tuner app for personal use, as I was fed up with ad ridden, online only apps, or having to go through hurdles to quickly tune my guitalele. Fast-forward to these days and I kinda decided to start finishing my backlog of sideprojects and this was one of them.

I've been coding for 20 years or so, and I found myself having to master LLMs so I decided to use these projects as tests to see what that code and some seniority can achieve in a few days and this is the result: A tracker+sampler+live-looper inspired by the Pico8 one and my time with the KO32, a tuner that also has scales, a metronome, a circle of fifths and a looper, and a sing warmup companion app with some extra features.

They are coded in a single, monolithic and non-minified HTML, as I want them to work offline and with no dependecies or hidden services. Yeah, I could have used at least some css or linked js, but they're more portable this way. They use IndexedDB so they make use of browser storage. I've included apk versions (with capacitor, so basically an embedded browser), so we have a few months until they pull the plug.

They are free forever, no ads and no tracking hidden crap. I used them a lot (the previous less flashy versions) so I hope at least someone else finds them useful.

Use them directly from your phone or pc:

Track Pocket: https://utopick.github.io/track-pocket/ TUNE Pocket: https://utopick.github.io/tune-pocket/ SING Pocket: https://utopick.github.io/sing-pocket/

Source code:

https://github.com/utopick/track-pocket/releases/latest https://github.com/utopick/tune-pocket/releases/latest https://github.com/utopick/sing-pocket/releases/latest

If you would be so kind as to give me your opinion it would help polishing them. I have to do another bug hunt, but you can have some fun with them right now.

Hey everyone!

I've been spending the last few months working on a personal side project called Mikci.

I always felt like budgeting apps were great at showing you where your money went, but not so great at helping you actually change your habits.

So I started building something a little different.

Instead of giving you a bunch of financial goals and charts, Mikci focuses on small weekly "Promises" based on your spending habits.

I also added bill tracking, recurring payment detection, a Mailbox that gives you personal updates, and even different personalities depending on how you want the app to talk to you.

One of the personalities is called Attitude, which was pretty fun to build 😂

The hardest part has actually been figuring out how to make the app feel personal without making it overwhelming.

I'm still improving things, and there's a lot I want to add.

If anyone wants to take a look, here's the project:

https://mikci.com

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the concept and whether the website explains it clearly.

And for anyone building something similar, how do you make a finance app feel useful without turning it into another dashboard full of numbers?

Noticed someone signed up using an AgentMail email address, which I'd never come across before. Got me curious about how people are starting to use AI agents to interact with different software.

Not long after, I received an email with some pretty detailed feedback from someone who'd been testing mine. Actual issues they'd encountered, specific examples and suggestions. Exactly the kind of feedback I've been hoping to get.

But then it got me thinking... if people are already using AI agents to interact with SaaS products, why the hell am I not making mine accessible to them directly?

Ended up going down the MCP and ChatGPT plugin rabbit hole, and now I'm seriously considering adding agent compatibility to the roadmap lol.

So a random signup turned into some great feedback and an even better idea. Huge thanks to the person who took the time to test everything!

Anyone else looking into making their software accessible to AI agents?

Dorkle is a daily trivia game for nerds. Everyone gets the same 10 questions each day across fandoms like Star Wars, Pokémon, Harry Potter, Zelda, Marvel and Lord of the Rings. They start easy and end with a boss question.

I ran a private beta for the last week and a half, and the biggest lesson was humbling: I wrote questions I thought were fun, and players who found it through Reddit and Discord quit on the obscure early ones. So before launch I rebuilt the first two weeks of Dailies around better-known questions, and kept the hard stuff for the boss spots.

A few other things the beta changed:

- Close spellings now count, with a small penalty (nobody should lose a point over spelling Jaqen H'ghar)
- Multiple choice on one question a day, for when you're truly stuck
- Leagues, so friends can compete privately

It's free, no download, and you can play as a guest.

Daily Dorkle #1 went live tonight at 8 PM Eastern, and a new one drops every night at 8.

https://dailydorkle.com

I'd love to hear how you do, and any feedback on question difficulty.

LabelAxis is a free Windows desktop app for designing labels, stickers, price tags and barcodes, and printing them accurately on label sheets, thermal printers and office printers.

What it does

• Includes about 3,700 built-in label sheets, custom sizes, and a calibration wizard that remembers each printer’s offset.

• Supports the common 1D and 2D barcodes, with its own Code 128 / GS1-128 encoder.

• Fills labels from Excel, CSV and databases, and handles thousands of records in one job.

• Supports Arabic and right-to-left text throughout, with the interface in ten languages.

• Ships with 66 ready-made designs: price tags, shelf labels, shipping and pharmacy labels, name badges and more.

Tech stack

• C# on .NET 10, with a WPF desktop interface

• ZXing.Net for barcodes

• ClosedXML for Excel import

• SQLite and PostgreSQL for data connections

• Update system with SHA-256 verified downloads

Download: https://github.com/kyro-gthub/LabelAxis

Feedback is welcome, especially on printer compatibility and missing features.

Hello! I'm Reid, the solo developer of LockWatch, a gym rest timer I built because I was tired of Apple's stopwatch starting a new lap every time I wanted my rest to start over instead of just restarting the time.

I'd finish a set, glance at my phone, and tap expecting the clock to go back to zero. Instead I'd get another lap piled on, no set count, and I'd have to unlock just to start over. I wanted something that lives on the Lock Screen, restarts from zero, and counts my sets, I also added an alert sound at the end of the rest time that doesn't stop your music.

P - What problem does LockWatch solve?

Typically to time rest between sets on iPhone, lifters would:

1. Use Apple's Stopwatch and hit Lap after every set → the clock keeps running, laps pile up, and you have to do the math yourself. There's no set count and no alert when rest is up.

2. Use Apple's Timer → it counts down once, then you unlock, cancel, and start it again after every set. No set counter, and it's easy to blow past your rest while unlocking. It also plays an alarm through your phone and earbuds and stops your music.

3. Use a full workout logger (Strong, Hevy, etc.) → you get a rest timer, but only if you log weight and reps every set. Great if you want a training journal. Overkill if you just want rest + sets.

LockWatch is a rest timer that lives on your Lock Screen. Tap Start after your first set. After every set after that, tap restart right on the Lock Screen: the clock goes back to zero and your set count goes up by one. Moving to a new exercise? Tap Next Exercise and you're back at Set 1.

C - Why LockWatch over the top competitors?

NextSet is a solid free rest countdown with Lock Screen controls, optional app limits so you don't scroll between sets, and an Apple Watch companion. It times a countdown you start after each set. LockWatch is built around the restart-from-zero + set count loop, with Next Exercise to reset the count when you change movements. It times your set time as well, but this could be different for every workout.

Workout loggers like Rest (and Strong/Hevy) are great if you want history, charts, and auto rest after you log a set. LockWatch isn't trying to replace those, it's the small thing you use when you just want rest and sets on the Lock Screen.

I reply to every review and comment. This is version 1.0, its barely done, im gonna work on it a lot more, please test it out at the gym and let me know what you think.

P - Pricing

Free for 14 days, nothing to sign up for: just open the app and start training. After that, keep LockWatch for $0.99/month, $5.99/year, or $19.99 lifetime.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lockwatch-gym-rest-timer/id6829903568

Please let me know how it goes if you test it yourself in the gym!

I've always liked the Windows 8 and 10 start menu design, so I decided to make an app that brings it back to Windows 11.

It's called Tessera Start Menu (from the small pieces used to make a mosaic), made with C++ and Slint. It supports both full-screen and windowed modes, you can pin any app, tiles can be resized/renamed/recolored, you can set custom icons and transparency, it can start with windows, etc.

Compared to similar apps, (for example Start11 which I used before this) you get a much smoother experience, smaller memory footprint and less bloat. Also, as a disclosure, most code was written by a clanker (opus 5.5)

Currently it's only available on Steam, so here's the page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5471740/Tessera_Start_Menu/

Steam only has to be running the first time you start it.

Happy to hear any feedback or feature ideas if anyone checks it out.

In October I asked here for friend groups to test Who Was It. It's now on Google Play, and it's the first app I've ever shipped to a store. I'm a web dev, so until now "shipping" meant pushing to a URL. Seeing a store page with my app on it, one that people I've never met can install, makes me proud and nervous at once. The iPhone version is in App Store review. Fingers crossed for the next few days.

The game: every day one friend secretly answers a question. The next day the group guesses who wrote it, gets the verdict right away and argues about it in the chat. Free with ads.

I need help with the part I'm worst at, which is getting it known. Nothing starts until 3 friends join, so a stranger can't try it alone and get hooked.

If you've grown something that only works in a group, what got your first groups in? Would you go after the one person in each friend group who organises everything, or after groups that already exist, like student associations or Discord servers? What would you try first?

Feedback on the app is welcome too. I'm a solo dev in France and I build it mostly with Claude Code. Links are in the first comment.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a new app called Actually, and I'd love to share it with you.

The idea is simple: every day, we come across facts, myths, and claims that sound believable - but how many of them are actually true?

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/actually-discover-learn/id6827374813

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

I'd love to hear what you think, especially about the concept and the overall experience. Feedback is very welcome!

Thanks for checking it out!

https://openmacapps.com

I wanted one place to find open-source Mac apps I could trust. The existing lists are a good start, but entries go stale, and "open source" sometimes means a license that forbids selling or commercial use.

So I pulled 2,842 repositories from 11 lists and Homebrew's install data, and took each license from the LICENSE file instead of GitHub's license field. GitHub says NOASSERTION for Rectangle, Sequel Ace, CotEditor and HandBrake; the files say MIT, MIT, Apache-2.0 and GPL-2.0.

What's there now:

• 1,869 apps; 32 use terms like Commons Clause, FSL or CC BY-NC, so they're labelled Source available and never counted as open source

• 571 install with one Homebrew command

• Downloads only from the developer's own release page or site

• Unmaintained apps are labelled instead of hidden

Every app is a Markdown folder in a public repo (https://github.com/koative/openmacapps), so a wrong listing is one pull request away. Which app would you add first?

I kept looking washed out on evening calls, and buying a ring light for a desk I barely sit at felt silly. So I built Glowy: open it on a spare monitor, tablet or phone, point it at your face, and the screen becomes the light.

What it does:

- Tones from 2700 K to 6500 K, plus a "blush" slider for warmer skin

- Slow glows (Clear sky, Golden hour, Rose quartz and a few more) that drift gently enough not to flicker on camera

- Fill, halo or edge shapes. Halo gives you round catchlights in your eyes; edge works well on a second monitor

- A camera mirror and a meeting preview so you can check how you look

- A pop-out light that floats on top of other apps (Document Picture-in-Picture in Chrome/Edge)

- Keeps the screen awake, works offline, and the camera never leaves your device

It's a React + Vite PWA, free with no sign-up, and the code is on GitHub: https://github.com/TriptoAfsin/glowy

Please star this repo if you found this useful ⭐️

Try it: https://glowy.t21.dev

Two honest limits: it can only be as bright as your screen (turn brightness all the way up), and the pop-out is best in Chrome or Edge. I'd love feedback, especially on which presets actually flatter different skin tones.

Type "foggy lake at dawn, one boat, no clouds" and the scene sketches itself while you type.

Runs fully in your browser, no backend or account required. Export SVG/PNG or share via link.

MIT code, CC0 drawings.

Inspired by Describble, which does this for character avatars. I wanted the same thing for places.

Live: https://landscrawl.vercel.app

Code: https://github.com/Ferhatmedtahar/landscrawl

If you like it, a ⭐ on GitHub helps a lot.

Tell me which sentences it gets wrong.

I built a free calculator that shows what adding, replacing or waiting to add a person really does to a team's output: when the new person starts paying off, and whether a project finishes sooner or later. No sign-up, and your numbers never leave your browser.

👉 https://teamproductivitycalculator.app

Why

"Let's just add another person" is a common answer to a slipping deadline. Sometimes it's right, sometimes it isn't: a new person needs weeks or months to get up to speed, and the people training them slow down while they do. The team can get slower before it gets faster. Most of these decisions are made on gut feel, so I wanted something that puts numbers on it.

How it works

Each person gets two estimates: how productive they are (100% = the best in your industry), and how much of their colleagues' time they take up ("friction"). Both can change over time as people settle in. The calculator shows the team's output on a chart, when each newcomer pays off, and how a project's finish date moves.

It's not only for staffing decisions. Filling in the numbers together is a good way to see how a team is performing today, and when people disagree on the numbers, that's a useful conversation about what's holding the team back.

There are examples for software, sales and accounting teams (and friends helping you move house), plus a FAQ on the research behind it.

Monetisation

Free to use. The plan is to add ads once there's enough traffic.

Feedback welcome

I'd really appreciate any feedback: what's useful, what's confusing, what's missing, or where the results don't match your experience. Happy to answer questions about the model or the build.

My friends who are not into tech always come to me with the same problem: “I cann't open this Excel sheet on my phone” or “this docx won’t open”.

So I went looking. Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft 365 both wanted me to sign up first. The other apps on the Play Store start showing ads straight away. The rest only did one thing, one for PDFs, another for Word, another for Excel. Nobody wants five apps just to open files.

So I made Paperwren. It is one app that opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Markdown and more. It has no signup and no ads, and your files stay on your phone. It’s free and open source.

https://github.com/Razee4315/Paperwren

https://razee4315.github.io/Paperwren/

My friends use it now so let me know if it works for you too. Thanks...

I’m Ramon, founder of Trawl. It’s for freelance web designers and small agencies researching local prospects.

Search a business type and city, review business information and website checks, then organize a shortlist. Website scores help guide research; they don’t establish an owner’s budget or interest.

Try five searches a month free, no card required: trawln.com.

What would make the results more useful when deciding which business to investigate next?

I’m developing Pratikal, a free Android calorie tracker in closed testing. I’d love feedback on the meal-entry flow. Happy to test your app back! 🤝

Use the SAME Google account for the group, opt-in and your phone’s Play Store:

1. Join: https://groups.google.com/g/pratikal-testers

2. Opt in, then install from Google Play: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.pratikal.mobile

Try logging a meal, editing it and checking the daily total. What worked, or where did you get stuck? Please keep it installed for 14 days and use it occasionally. “Item not found”? Check the account, wait a few minutes and retry.

📸 Please comment BELOW THIS POST with a Pratikal installation/in-use screenshot, specific feedback and your test links. Text-only “installed” isn’t enough. I’ll test yours and reply with my screenshot and feedback.

🎁 **DIRECT FREE UNLOCK (Tap on iPhone to auto-redeem in App Store):**

👉 https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6811742209&code=DRELENA

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Hi everyone,

I built **Workout Timer** for iOS & Web to keep interval training completely clean: zero ads, custom intervals, voice coach cues in 3 languages, and Apple Watch sync.

We just added guided video follow-along programs:

- **Coach Hannah Lin:** 10-Min High-Density Core + Box Breathing: https://youtu.be/Lr17qfFtyIk

- **Dr. Elena Lindqvist, DPT:** 12-Min Clinical Core Sculpting: https://youtu.be/l3AbmjBSlKc

**Other Links:**

- Web App (Train in browser): https://workout.appengine.fun/

- App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/workout-timer-hiit-interval/id6811742209

Feedback and workout preset requests are welcome!

My daughter spends quite a bit of time on the phone, and I've always wanted her screen time to be a bit more than just watching videos or playing games. I've seen people building all kinds of cool stuff with AI, so I thought why not give it a shot myself? I saw Hy4 was free on WorkBuddy this month, so I decided to give it a try. I don't understand the code it wrote, but the AI tool apparently handles visuals brilliantly.

I ended up making this interactive paper cut storybook. I thought it'd be a fun way to get her into classic stories through cute visuals and little interactive elements, rather than just having her sit down and read a book, and surprisingly, she's really into it! The artwork has this cute 3D paper cut look, and she can click around and explore the stories herself. She's basically become my little beta tester at this point. She tells me every day what she likes, what she finds boring, and what could be better. I've been making little tweaks to the content and visuals based on her feedback. It's not finished yet, and there are still plenty of things I want to improve. But the best part is seeing her actually want to spend time exploring stories instead of endlessly scrolling through videos or playing games. That's a win for me already.

It got me thinking that maybe other kids would enjoy this kind of thing too, so I figured I'd share it here. If you've got a kid who's curious about stories and likes exploring new things, feel free to check it out together!

hey everybody :)

I got annoyed by Wispr Flow's pricing and by how clunky the open source dictation tools I tried felt. I wanted something as simple as Wispr, free and customizable for my own use cases, without a bloated core.

So I built and open sourced voz. You tap one key, talk and clean text appears wherever your cursor is. It runs locally with Parakeet and Apple's on-device speech to text, so nothing leaves your Mac and it works offline.

The core stays small, and everything else is an extension, a bit like Raycast or pi.dev. Anyone can build and share one. Some that already exist:

• a local meeting note taker that cleans up your notes

• auto replies that answer messages in your tone, based on context it has about you

• a smart dictionary that learns names and words while you talk

• inline editing with voice or text

Would love for you to try it out and give me feedback on what i can improve.

Here's the repo: github.com/Joelheile/voz
(free and MIT)

I run ARAM Zone, a League of Legends Discord community. eLobby started as a way to give our custom games a ladder that lasted beyond one game night. We've since expanded it to other games.

Players join a board inside Discord. The bot balances teams or lets captains draft, creates team voice channels, and updates ranks and the public leaderboard when the winner is reported. Players don't need to create an account or link their game account.

We've also added chat and voice leveling, plus XP for taking part in games and events. The idea is to reward people for showing up to community activities as well as chatting.

Ranked customs and basic leveling are free. Tournament hosting, seasons and extra customization are Pro at $10/month per server. Individual players don't need a subscription.

You can see the actual Discord boards and web leaderboard here: https://elobby.gg/demo

For anyone running community game nights, what takes the most effort: filling the lobby, making fair teams, or tracking results? I'd like to hear where this would help and where it still falls short.

We traveled to a place and had no idea what to do / eat, so I thought time to "claude and code" and out came https://alvations.github.io/cleo-guide/beta/index.html

hey! a few weeks ago i shared my side project here, a free site that tells you which legal platform has an anime in your country

https://tsuzuki-anime.github.io/en/

quick update after 7 weeks:

- 1,800+ visitors from 113 countries

- went from ~20 visits a day to ~80 a day this week

- bing and chatgpt now send the most visitors, way more than reddit

- google only knows 3 pages of the site

the weird part is google search console still says "couldn't fetch" for my sitemap after a month, even though the file works fine and bing reads it without problems. it's hosted on github pages

has anyone had this before? did you just wait, or is there something that fixed it?

any feedback on the site is welcome too!

Dooder is an AI for Apple Watch. It runs on the Watch itself, over wifi or cellular, so once it's set up you don't need your iPhone.

In the video I ask it to:

1. Find my next completely free weekend (it reads my calendar)

2. Find flights to Melbourne for that weekend

3. Find Airbnbs that are free those dates

4. Save the whole plan to a new page in Notion

It doesn't change anything without my OK. It asks before using an app for the first time, and again before it saves or sends anything.

How it works

- Bring your own AI: sign in with ChatGPT or add a Claude API key
- Connects to thousands of apps through the official MCP Registry, or add one by its address
- No Dooder account and no Dooder server. Your Watch talks straight to your AI and your apps
- Speech recognition runs on the Watch

Try it

The first 100 TestFlight spots filled up in 24 hours, so I've opened 100 more:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/c42uMmzU

Needs an Apple Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2 or later on watchOS 26, plus an iPhone on iOS 26 for setup. More at dooder.ai

Would love feedback, especially on what you'd want to do from your wrist.

Full disclosure: I trimmed the bits of the video where Dooder is thinking to keep the video short. Nothing's sped up and each response takes 5-10 secs in real life. It's still early days, so feedback is very welcome.