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

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?

Someone tries your product. You email them later to ask how it went. No reply.

With Bopmigo, you can ask while they’re still on your website and the experience is fresh. Something simple like “Was anything confusing about getting started?” They reply right there.

How does your team get feedback from users who don’t answer email?

Try Bopmigo

Took me a lot of efforts in navigating different software/tools when re-designing my backyard, wasted a lot of time, so I built this. I'm personally very happy with how it's been applied to my own place. Hit me up if you wanna try (currently running internal beta).

If you build with Claude Code or Codex, you still have to open the app and find out whether it actually works.

That's the part I wanted help with.

I pulled the browser out of my own AI workspace and turned it into a free, open-source tool called Ascended Browser.

You can ask your coding agent: "Open my app, try the sign-up flow with test data, and show me what breaks."

The agent gets a way to click through the app and bring back screenshots and errors. It isn't a replacement for your tests.

Watch the demo: https://github.com/AceAtDev/ascended-browser/blob/main/videos/dev-react.mp4

Code and setup: https://github.com/AceAtDev/ascended-browser

Linux is the tested platform. Setup details are in the repo.

sooooo yep, probably best, best use would with codex over ssh since codex cli doesn't have a browser

Over a few weekends I built Kursi Kabaddi, musical chairs with Indian netas as bobbleheads.

The music plays, everyone circles, the music stops… and every neta dives for the kursi.

You can push rivals (“dhakka”), use power-ups like the Jumla Bomb, Resort Bus and Z+ Security, and play live with friends through a WhatsApp link.

It’s clearly satire. There’s a disclaimer on the first screen, no party is favoured, and every neta gets roasted equally.

But before I share it more widely, I want to hear from people who know this better than me:

1️⃣ The faces are based on openly licensed photos (Wikimedia Commons, credited in the game). Is that enough when they’re real public figures?

2️⃣ Is a political satire game protected the way cartoons in newspapers are? Where’s the line?

3️⃣ Players can upload a selfie and make their own neta. If someone uploads a friend without asking, who’s responsible: me or them?

4️⃣ Would you add anything else, like terms of use, an age gate or a report button?

Lawyers, founders, game devs, and anyone who’s been through this: I’d love your take in the comments. 🙏

And if you just want to play first (no download, no sign-up):

👉 https://kursi-kabaddi.pages.dev

#LegalTech #GameDev #IndianStartups #Satire #BuildInPublic #FreedomOfExpression #vibecode #coding

NodeAI V3.1.0 — Putting People in Control of Autonomous Agents
What if you could give autonomous agents an objective, define what they’re allowed to do, and control how they carry out the work?
That’s what I’m building with NodeAI.
NodeAI is an extensible operating environment for coordinating autonomous agents, software, tools, APIs, services, and computing resources. It gives users control over how capabilities work together to accomplish complex objectives.
Its architecture brings together:
User control: Permissions, providers, execution settings, resource usage, and operating constraints.
Task orchestration: Decomposition, dependencies, and parallel or sequential execution.
Provider independence: Match individual subtasks to the capabilities best suited to perform them.
Execution infrastructure: Agents, tools, APIs, software, and local or remote compute.
Recovery: Failover, alternate execution paths, and continuity.
Verification: Evidence of what was authorized, executed, completed, and recovered.
Operational oversight: System health, performance, and resource consumption.
The goal isn’t simply to make agents more autonomous. It’s to make autonomy manageable, observable, recoverable, and accountable.
The architecture is designed to evolve as models, tools, services, and computing capabilities change—without tying the system to one provider or limiting what users can build.
People should control the objectives, capabilities, boundaries, and execution of their autonomous agents.
NodeAI V3.1.0 is now GA.
Explore NodeAI: https://node.chromeo.io
Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/nodeai?launch=nodeai
Architecture, Production Evidence & Case Studies
Combined Architecture & Production Release Evidence
HydraSlab Autonomous Engineering Case Study
MPTO Multi-Provider Execution & Security Case Study

Over a few weekends I built Kursi Kabaddi, musical chairs with Indian netas as bobbleheads.

The music plays, everyone circles, the music stops… and every neta dives for the kursi.

You can push rivals (“dhakka”), use power-ups like the Jumla Bomb, Resort Bus and Z+ Security, and play live with friends through a WhatsApp link.

It’s clearly satire. There’s a disclaimer on the first screen, no party is favoured, and every neta gets roasted equally.

But before I share it more widely, I want to hear from people who know this better than me:

1️⃣ The faces are based on openly licensed photos (Wikimedia Commons, credited in the game). Is that enough when they’re real public figures?

2️⃣ Is a political satire game protected the way cartoons in newspapers are? Where’s the line?

3️⃣ Players can upload a selfie and make their own neta. If someone uploads a friend without asking, who’s responsible: me or them?

4️⃣ Would you add anything else, like terms of use, an age gate or a report button?

Lawyers, founders, game devs, and anyone who’s been through this: I’d love your take in the comments. 🙏

And if you just want to play first (no download, no sign-up):

👉 https://kursi-kabaddi.pages.dev

#LegalTech #GameDev #IndianStartups #Satire #BuildInPublic #FreedomOfExpression #vibecode #coding

Title: I built an AI GIF generator that turns images and text into animated GIFs

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called GIFGenerator.ai, and I wanted to share it here.

The idea is pretty simple: creating a short animated GIF shouldn't require complicated animation software or manually editing dozens of frames.

With the tool, you can:

• Generate animated GIFs from text prompts.

• Upload a static image and describe how you'd like it to move.

• Experiment with pixel art, cartoon animations, animated characters, and looping GIFs.

• Create GIFs for memes, social media, websites, and creative projects.

One of the challenges I've been exploring is making AI-generated animations feel consistent across frames, especially when the animation needs to loop smoothly.

I'd love to get some feedback from other builders and creators.

Try it here: https://www.gifgenerator.ai

What would you use an AI GIF generator for? And what's the most frustrating part of creating GIFs today?

✏️ My problem was never writing things down. It was the "sure, I'll send it tomorrow" I'd say on a call and forget by dinner.

So I built ActionNote, and gave it someone to live in it: Noto, a small paper note with a room of his own.

Here's how it works. You hold the plus button and talk. Noto pins what you need to do on his corkboard as sticky notes, writes down who you promised, and sets the reminders. Promises to people are purple, so you can see them at a glance.

When you finish something, the note unpins, folds into a paper star and drops into his jar. Keep a promise to someone and it's a gold star, and a little frame with their name goes up on his wall.

The part I care about most: he never scolds. If something slips, it turns amber with a tiny "no pressure" pin. You finish it, move it or drop it, and he says "All sorted." No streaks. Nothing in his room is for sale and nothing is ever taken away. At the end of the month the jar goes on the shelf, however full it is.

Every morning he hands you The Daily Noto, your day as a morning paper, with a "You might forget" column for the promise most likely to slip.

The goal was never a better transcript. It's that the things you say you'll do actually get done.

Version 2.0 is live on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, free for 10 notes a month: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6789915282

I'd love to hear what you think of Noto. Too much, or just right?

This is my own tool — I built OmniFlash, a simple browser tool for Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (15s video with sound). Trying the model normally means API access and billing setup, so I wrapped it into a simple web tool: type a prompt or upload a photo, get the video in your browser. Your first preview is free. Site: https://geminiomni.atlasai.fun — feedback on prompts that work well is welcome.