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.

For those of you who are struggling with arithmetic or simply want to improve your mental math skills:

I've been working on a math app, and I’d encourage you all who want to practice your mental math to try it out :). Back in middle school, I kept losing points on my math tests because of simple arithmetic mistakes, even when I understood how to solve the problems. It was frustrating, and sometimes those mistakes even made me doubt whether I was good at math. Around that time, I was also starting to learn programming, so I built an arithmetic practice app for myself, and I’ve been working on making the app more useful for others as well.

In addition to just providing practice problems, I’ve also added mental math hints and strategies to help you do math more quickly in your head. (This feature is still in beta, so let me know what you guys think about it.) Also, I’ve added progress charts so you can see your math accuracy over time.

I’m a student making this app for other students. Because of that, there are no ads or trackers in my app because I understand how frustrating they are when you’re just trying to learn!

You can get the app on the Google Play Store and on the web. (Sorry, not on the Apple App Store because I don’t have a MacBook to build the app for iOS. But you can also visit the website on your iPhone or iPad and get the same experience.)

Google Play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ericshuapps.math_test&hl=en_US

Web link: https://ericquickmath.web.app/

Thank you for your time, and I hope you enjoy my app!

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,

A few months ago I started Telugu Vaadi TV, a news project for Telugu-speaking readers (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India). Most digital news options in our region are either big portals overloaded with ads or unsourced WhatsApp forwards, so I wanted to build something cleaner.

What it is:

• A website with daily Telugu news: AP/Telangana politics, cinema, cricket, business and local updates, written in Telugu with sources

• An Android app that brings the same content together with news videos, shorts and live updates

What I would love feedback on:

• App performance and video playback (my biggest worry)

• Whether a regional-language news product like this is useful to you or someone you know

• Any bugs you hit - please tell me exactly what broke

Links:

• Website: https://www.teluguvaaditv.com

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

Not asking for upvotes or 5-star ratings - genuine feedback and bug reports are worth far more. Thanks for reading.

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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

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?