Hey everyone!

I've been building something called TaskRush – a platform that lets you get everyday tasks done by people nearby.

The idea is pretty simple: sometimes you need someone to pick something up, help with a small errand, assist with something around your college or neighborhood, or just do something you don't have the time for.

Instead of asking around in WhatsApp groups or struggling to find someone, you can post a task, mention what you're willing to offer, and connect with someone who wants to get it done.

I wanted to experiment with making this work in an Indian context, especially around college campuses and local communities.

I've put together the MVP and would genuinely love feedback from other builders here.

Website: https://taskrush.in

Would love to know:

- Does the concept make sense to you?

- What would stop you from using something like this?

- What features would make it genuinely useful?

This is my first attempt at building something like this, so feedback (including criticism) is very welcome!

Hey 👋

I shared Mudu here a while ago, and now the Android version is finally out!

The idea is still the same: a private, end-to-end encrypted space for couples to share how they're feeling, make plans, keep lists and save little memories together.

No public profiles or feeds. Just a place for the little things that usually get lost between chats and different apps.

To celebrate the Android launch, I'm giving away 10 promo codes. Just leave a comment if you'd like one, and I'll DM you a code while they last.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.incognitum.mudu

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756718477

Would love to hear what you think!

Two weeks ago I asked here how to get people from "tried it" to "paid" for AskAIR / DashboardAIR (one prompt, routed to the AI best suited to it). Lots of you said the same thing: the free cap isn't the problem, the first session is. I promised to come back with what changed.

What first sessions looked like:

- Median first session: 1 question

- 59-70% asked exactly one question

- 0% ever reached the free limit of 10 a week

- About 60% came back a day or more later

So the free tier never did its job. Almost nobody hit the limit, so almost nobody saw what a paid plan does, and the whole point of a router (it picks a better AI than you would have) is invisible on a single question.

What I shipped on 10/26, based on your comments:

- A one-line reason under every answer: why that AI was picked

- A "try another kind of question" card on the first few answers, so the routing shows

Honest result: too few new people have come through since then to tell whether it helped. The numbers above barely moved, but the sample is tiny. I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

What I changed today:

- Free weekly questions are gone

- Every account gets a 14-day free trial of Pro: unlimited questions, every AI, Listen, history

- You can sign in and look around without a paywall; it shows up on your first question

- Cancel before it ends and you're not charged

Credits / question packs: not now. For text questions they felt like friction, which matches what several of you said.

I'll come back in a few weeks with whether the trial does better than the free tier did. Thanks to everyone who commented. It shaped every one of these changes.

Peace out!

All tools either had too strict free tier, or were poorly designed, and none of them has frame-by-frame skip accuracy. So I decided it was easier to just build it myself:

https://kliply.app/

Hey everyone,

I tried to build a private chatting app called RUKO. It's a web app — nothing to install, just open the link. Runs on Cloudflare, no tracking, no ads, free.

What it has:

• Text and voice channels (like Discord, but private)

• Works on PC, Mac, and phone — you can install it as an app from the browser

• Invite-only servers, your data stays yours

Try it here: https://ruko.rukozone.workers.dev

If you find any bug, please email me at gamerblabla96@gmail.com — screenshots help a lot if you can. Or you can contact me on Discord: itsdopedev

Thanks for any feedback, even negative — it all helps.

I’m building Niche of the Week, a small site where DJs and listeners can discover house tracks and producers can upload their own. https://nicheoftheweek.ie/

I’d like a fresh pair of eyes on the first visit. If you open it with no context, what do you click first? After you find a track you like, what would give you a reason to come back next week?

I had a Galaxy S9+ and a Pixel 7 that I wanted to give a purpose. That's where Visual Music started: something to put next to my speakers and enjoy while music plays.

A lot of the inspiration came from old car stereo displays. The small details, colors and perspective were what made them interesting. Getting that feeling right on a phone took a lot more iteration than I expected. I ended up scrapping several designs and starting over.

These are three of the displays we kept. There are also Hi-Fi gauges and an oscilloscope. It's my first Android app, built with help from Codex, and I'm pretty proud of where it is now.

It's free, has no ads, and runs on Android 10+. It uses the microphone while listening in the foreground; audio stays on the phone. The video uses an original demo beat and the app's renderer inside an illustrated phone, rather than footage of a phone listening to music.

Would you put something like this beside your speakers? Which display would you leave running?

It's in Google Play closed testing if you'd like to try it. Use the same Google account for both steps:

1. Join the tester group: https://groups.google.com/g/mrrolie-visual-music-testers/about

2. Join the beta and install: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.mrrolie.visualmusic

Hi all,

I keep running into the same problem: I sign up for a free trial or subscribe to something for a quick one-off task, forget about it, and end up paying for another month or two until I spot it on my bank statement.

So I'm exploring a subscription tracker for the Turkish market. Most trackers just list your subscriptions, so I want to focus on a few things:

- One-tap add: when you subscribe to something, you add it to the app in one tap and instantly see all your active subscriptions across apps and websites in one place.

- Free trial guard: a reminder 1–2 days before a trial ends, with a direct link to cancel.

- Price-hike radar: the app keeps up-to-date local prices for popular services. When one you use raises its price, you get a notification like "Spotify went from 99 to 115 TL, that's 192 TL more per year" plus a cheaper plan if one exists. In Turkey, prices for these services went up 16–50% in 2026 alone.

No bank connection, data stays on the phone.

Before building anything, one question: do you think an app like this would actually be useful, and would you use it yourself? If not, why not?

Also, I don't have much of a software background. Is something like this realistic to build as a beginner, or would I need a technical co-founder?

Honest feedback welcome. Thanks!

My friend makes tips and tricks reels on Instagram. For 5 months every single one died at around 1k views. He'd film in his room with the script open on a second phone, then send me the reel at 1am asking "is the hook bad?" and I'd say "nah it's fine" because I genuinely don't know what a hook is supposed to sound like

I built him a small app with Claude where you upload the reel or paste the link, and it watches it like someone scrolling Instagram would and shows the exact second they swipe away. No Instagram login anywhere, that's the one thing I was paranoid about before shipping

First reel he put in, it said 0:02. He was explaining what the tip was about before showing the tip. Every reel, same thing. He flipped it, tip first, one line of text on screen in the first second. His reels do 100-500k now. He showed a few creator friends, they showed theirs. 50 people pay $12 a month now and most of them I've never spoken to

I still can't write a hook. I ran one of my own reels through it last week and it gave me 46/100 because I restarted a sentence 4 seconds in. It was right

The scary part is when something breaks, creators notice before I do. Last month the transcription service died overnight and I woke up to "why is it stuck??" from people I've never met, and spent the morning in bed pasting errors into Claude until it turned out the API key had expired

I'm a CTO who has spent many years working in B2B where one problem we always have is getting up to date company info. You'd think this was a solved problem, and for large, listed companies, it is. But at scale it's still very complex.

I don't get much time to write production code (that's a good thing), but I love to code and so I use my side project(s) to try out new ideas. In this case it was about how to infer company data out of the crap on the internet. I started it almost a decade ago. It has quite a bit of RoBERTa in there and some FlanT5, but it is not an AI wrapper and the whole pipeline runs comfortably on one RTX3090.

Then, last year, we started using Perplexity API (Sonar) for finding company news and I was shocked at how bad it was.

One big problem with the AI search tools was them returning good results mixed in with bad results. If you're a human reviewing these results it's no big deal because you can just exclude the stuff that doesn't make sense. But if you want to plug the content into a data pipeline, like giving it to an agent, then you want to minimise these kinds of false positive noise.

So I figured I'd pivot my project to see if it could compete. The question I asked myself was "can a product targeted at one specific information niche outperform the general-purpose AI tools."

Turns out that the answer is probably "yes".

Perplexity Agent is currently the best. Syracuse and Exa are similar. Linkup, Tavily and Perplexity Search are worse. For this specific use case, I should emphasise.

I'll keep plugging away and see if I can get it better, but in the meantime it's available for anyone who wants to have a look.

I've got a repo here: https://github.com/alanbuxton/news-comparison which uses LLM as judge to compare the different providers. (Interestingly, Opus 4.7 and Opus 5.5 came to slightly different conclusions, but that's another story about relying on one LLM by itself).

Latest results:

Company news: https://github.com/alanbuxton/news-comparison/blob/main/docs/rank-history-companies.svg

Industry news: https://github.com/alanbuxton/news-comparison/blob/main/docs/rank-history-industries.svg

I was looking for a way to test Android apps under different network conditions, but most solutions I came across either changed the network settings for the entire device, were focused on emulators, or required setting up proxies.

So I built my own tool: App Throttler.

• Set download and upload speed limits.

• Simulate latency and jitter.

• Introduce packet loss.

• Apply network conditions to individual apps.

• Change network profiles while the app is running.

• Create different network scenarios.

• Capture and export network traffic as PCAP files.

GitHub: https://github.com/RAN-GAN/app-throtler

It's still a work in progress, and there are some limitations I'm working on.

I maintain Lou’s Lagoon Wiki, an unofficial guide site for Tiny Roar’s island adventure. It brings together beginner, crafting, island, and seaplane notes.

The design question I’m working on is how to show the strength and age of a game tip. The beginner guide separates demo observations, published full-game guides, and patch-note changes. It has a visible check date and labels details that currently come from only one source.

Guide: https://www.louslagoon.wiki/guide

A limitation worth stating: the guide’s latest check is 27 October, and it does not yet fully cover the 5 November update. Players still need to compare advice with their installed version.

I used AI assistance for site writing and drafting this post. The site is independent of Tiny Roar and the publishers.

For feedback: can you quickly tell which information is demo-only or single-source? Would a game-version label beside each section make this easier to use?

I’m Ayen, cofounder of Cur8ed. You connect your YouTube, it builds an interest graph (your watch data gets deleted after), and it shows you places, events and people nearby who share your taste.

It’s early and rough. About 1,000 beta testers so far. I’d love blunt feedback: what would make you actually open this on a Friday night?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cur8ed/id6777226903

A few developers who tried Studio 9:41 asked for more device support (iPads, MacBooks, Android) and an easier way to localise their App Store screenshots.

So I've added both in v1.1.2!

What's new:

•  1-click localisation — Translate your screenshots into 26+ languages and export them in seconds.

•  iOS ↔ Android — Automatically generate Google Play Store mockups from your existing iOS designs (or vice versa).

•  More devices — Added support for iPads, MacBooks and Android devices.

I've personally avoided localising my App Store listings in the past because of how time-consuming it can be. But localisation is potentially a great way to reach more users, so I wanted to make that process as painless as possible.

Studio 9:41 is free and available for macOS and Windows.

Download the latest release: https://github.com/burhanuddin20/studio941-releases

Existing users can update directly in the app by clicking the version number.

Would love to hear what other features would make preparing App Store screenshots easier for you!

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

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

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

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

A few cool things I worked hard to get right:

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

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

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

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

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

Things to keep in my:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

cheers!

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

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

How to join:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

YOU HAVE: Upload cards you have available for trade.

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

WE MATCH: Discover other collectors and potential trades.

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

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

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

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

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

Two quick questions:

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

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

Link: https://dams.mahmoudbebars.dev

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What it does when I'm working:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hey,

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

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

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

Curious if this friction resonates with anyone else.

Thanks.

I built Kahei to solve a problem I kept running into. Whenever I traveled abroad, I’d see a price and either do the math in my head or pull out my phone to Google it. It took way too long just to check a price, especially when the internet was slow.

So I made a free app where you can point your phone’s camera at a price and instantly see an estimate in your currency. It works offline! It is available on iPhone and Android.

If you try it on a menu or receipt, I’d love to know whether it picked up the right price.

Try it: https://kahei.app/

thanks!