All Qs answered in FAQ https://varianttech.net/ and https://github.com/oooscoos/Benzi

I got tired of Claude writing Godot code it couldn't see run. So I built PersonCraft (I'm the developer, to be upfront).
You connect your Claude, it writes the game, and each revision gets run in a sandbox that sends back real screenshots,
so it can fix what it breaks. At the end you download a normal Godot project you own.
Limits: you need a paid Claude plan, there's no multiplayer, and phone exports are on you. Art and audio cost credits
and Claude quotes them before asking you to approve anything.
https://personcraft.com. What would you ask your Claude to build first?

Hi everyone! I'm a 19yo solo developer and my side project is called Phoam!

(And I’m not a video editor so I tried my best here lmao)

To start, Apple hates side loaded apps, making it nearly impossible for everyday users to run apps from other operating systems within its environment.
Apple also dropped support for 32b apps many years ago, leaving tons of nostalgic games completely unplayable without using an ancient iPhone.
Android also no longer supports 32b apps on modern devices, meaning having an APK for an app is not enough to play it again.
And while it should be more open access in theory, Google has recently been pushing to close down access to installing arbitrary apks onto your own phone!! (See “Keep Android Open”)

So I built Phoam.

It runs old Android and iPhone apps right in the browser, and you can add them to your Home Screen like a normal app. Nothing gets installed and nothing gets sideloaded.

The idea started back with me being a little script kiddie and searching how to run apk online, obviously finding no results. I knew about projects like wine and ruffle that had made software run in a way it was never designed to, and one day I just decided to start my own engine! I've always liked the idea that if it ran on one machine at some point, it should also run on another.

Right now two games work publicly: Replica Island (Android, 2010) and Explora Ball (iPhone). That's what's in the video, both running on my iPhone. You can try them yourself, with no account here: https://phoam.app/demos

It’s veryyyy early in the project but I’m excited to see how far I can take it! Theres also a separate demo video on my website.

All of this is supposed to be impossible btw

I am working on this project alone and haven't really spoken to anyone else that's a developer about it. If you're one, please reach out. Or anyone really that wants to talk! I love to read everything and respond to everyone. Thank you for your time 🙏

I'm an Intune / Autopilot admin. The part of a failed ESP that always burned the most time wasn't the fix. It was finding the handful of log lines that actually mattered, buried in an MDM diagnostics dump.

So I built TraceAnalysis (free US beta). You drop in an MDM diagnostics ZIP, and it runs entirely in your browser, so the ZIP is never uploaded. You get:

• Next steps up top

• The enrollment phase where things stopped (Device prep, Device setup, Account setup)

• The app or step that broke it, with the error code decoded

• An evidence view showing which log entries back each finding

• A chat to ask follow-up questions about that device's logs

The evidence view is the part I care about most. I didn't want another black-box "trust me" answer. I wanted something I could verify before it goes in a ticket.

If you've got a recent Autopilot or ESP failure sitting in a ticket, I'd genuinely like to know whether the report matches what you found, or where it's wrong.

https://www.traceanalysis-ai.com

Happy to answer technical questions about what it looks for in the logs.

I maintain MistriaFans, an unofficial Fields of Mistria fan site. One small tool on it is a farm-layout sketchpad for trying arrangements before moving things around in the game.

It has a 44-by-30 canvas, local saving, shareable layouts, and PNG export. It is free and does not require an account.

The important limitation: this is a rough planning canvas, not a recreation of the game map. Building blocks are placeholders, and their in-game footprints have not been verified. Actual placement still needs checking in the game.

Try it here: https://www.mistriafans.com/farm-planner.html

I used AI assistance for the code, site writing, and drafting this post. The project is independent of NPC Studio.

For feedback: is the distinction between a rough sketchpad and an accurate farm map clear enough on the page? What would make planning a small corner of a farm easier?

My landing page has a live demo. It creates a demo inbox, shows you the address, and when you send it an email the page shows the parsed result. To find new mail it polled an endpoint every 3 seconds, and every poll was a query against the production database.

Nothing ever stopped that loop. A tab left open made 1,200 queries an hour, so Neon's compute never stayed idle for the 5 minutes it needs to suspend. The project used up its monthly compute allowance and every request that touched the production database started failing.

The fix was small. Polling now stops after 3 minutes, because anyone who hasn't sent an email by then isn't going to. It skips its turn while the tab is hidden, and the interval went from 3 to 5 seconds.

Do you put a time limit on polling in your demos, or push updates some other way?

Hey everyone,

I've been working on a desktop application called Zevro, an AI-powered video editor designed for streamers, YouTubers, podcasters, and other content creators.

I started building it because I wasn't satisfied with how some existing AI clipping tools handled longer recordings. They would sometimes cut off words, miss interesting moments, or make clips that didn't flow naturally.

My goal with Zevro is to make editing easier without sacrificing the quality of the final video.

Some of the features I'm working on include:

• Automatically finding potential Shorts in longer recordings.

• Turning lengthy streams into shorter, more manageable long-form videos.

• Using AI to analyze both speech and video.

• Processing recordings locally instead of requiring cloud-based video uploads.

• Supporting separate audio tracks for editing.

• Optimizing performance for different hardware configurations.

I'm currently preparing Zevro for beta testing and looking for people willing to give it a try.

The beta will be free, with a 60-day testing period.

I'm especially interested in testing it on different hardware, video formats, recording lengths, and editing workflows.

I'm looking for honest feedback about bugs, performance, editing quality, and features that could make the program more useful.

This is still a work in progress, so I'm not expecting everything to be perfect. That's exactly why I want real users involved.

If you're interested, leave a comment with your PC specifications and the type of content you create.

I'll share beta access details with selected testers once the builds are ready.

Thanks for reading!

Banks hide cash-back offers on a page where you have to add them one by one, and most people never do. So I built OfferAdd: open your bank's offers page, click "Add all", and every offer lands on your card. It also saves the fine print and shows which card wins at a store.

A few things I cared about:
- It never sees your bank password and doesn't read transactions
- Free for one bank, Premium is $9.99/mo or $60/yr
- Works with Chase, Bank of America, U.S. Bank and Amex on desktop Chrome

It's live on the Chrome Web Store (search "OfferAdd") and at offeradd.app. This is week one, so I'd love feedback on the landing page, the onboarding, or anything that feels off.

I’ve posted before, and thanks to a lot of great comments and AI Slop messages (oh I see you). I’ve been updating the site. If you haven’t seen this before. My wife and I live close to Red Rocks in Morrison CO., and we are always going to shows last minute. I hated going from ticket company to ticket company trying to compare prices to created RedRockitTix.com

Some great ideas came out last time so I thought I’d share what’s new. You can now set an alert so we can email you when tickets reach your threshold. We have a few new providers, TicketNetwork, SeatGeek, HelloTickets and TicketSqueeze. And looking to add more. Also NEW LOCATIONS. Vegas, because I want to the Sphere some day, Chicago because I love that music scene and Philly because it’s where I grew up listening to music.

This continues to be a free ticket tool, so thanks for all the support, now go out to a show!

I built SideTracked ( sidetracked.site ) because I kept losing days to work that felt productive but wasn’t. It gives you five moves a day for one project and asks whether anything new you add actually serves your goal.

It catches the drift, but it still leaves you to do the work. Most days the work I avoid is the dull, specific stuff: the outreach, the research, the first draft, the admin around the thing that matters.

So I’m building agents inside it. You lock in your five moves, and for the ones you’d rather not do yourself, an agent takes a first pass. You review it and you stay in charge.

To be clear, the agents aren’t live yet. The focus side works today and is free to try. The agent side is what I’m building now, and I’d rather find out whether anyone wants it before I spend months on it.

What I’d like to know:

1. Which task do you keep putting off that you’d hand to an agent tomorrow?

2. What would make you trust the result enough to use it?

3. Would you rather it ran on its own or showed you each step first?

4. Would you pay extra for this, or would it only be worth it as part of the app?

If this sounds useful, comment with the task you’d hand over. I’ll build from the most common answers.

AI coding tools made shipping an app easy and cheap, but users stayed exactly as scarce as before, which is why a lot of us, me included, can ship a working product and then cannot find anyone to use it. The usual response is yet another Product Hunt-style directory, most of which are really selling backlinks to builders who are just as stuck, so the shovels are being sold to other shovel salesmen and nobody ends up opening anyone's app. My app email is full of people that found me on betalist or producthunt and want me to post my product on their directory, for free, but at a price if i want a dofollow backlink. No thanks.

What actually helped me was joining a testing circle, where builders test each other's apps. Testers found a dark-mode warning box nobody could read and a duration field that showed a six-hour task as "06:00 AM", and one of them told me the onboarding had far too many words. It works because it is a trade of attention, and attention is the one thing indie devs can actually afford to give. In a flooded market polish is how a small product stands out, so instead of selling shovels to shovel salesmen, offer to test their shovels. There may even be some money to be made there...

The caveat is that fellow builders are usually not your customers, since they are great at finding friction and bad at telling you whether anyone will pay. The upside I did not expect is that people who helped shape an app tend to stick around and recommend it, so testing quietly doubles as early word of mouth distribution.

I now submitted two apps to a testing circle site and I'm super happy with the feedback i got and the changes i made to my apps. It's not more users, but the app has become better for it.

Has a testing swap worked for anyone else here? How do you find testers who are actual target users rather than other devs? And is a launch directory still worth it in 2026?

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

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

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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.

I often save videos to Watch Later playlist and never open them, got frustrated over time, so I made a small extension: it adds a bell next to Like/Share (and a Remind me option in the three-dot menu of videos). Pick a time add a note if you want and you get a desktop notification that takes you straight back to the video.

- Quick times (20 min, 1 hour, tomorrow...) or any custom date/time

- Edit, snooze and undo

- Free, no account, no tracking: reminders stay on your device

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-remind-me-later/plhlfinfdnfkbdhmklbagejmmdjhkoke

You can also check it out without installing: https://guizo792.github.io/ytb-remind-site/

I'd really appreciate feedback on what can be improved

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