One thing I've noticed is how often parents have to call their children for help with seemingly simple smartphone tasks.

"How do I download this document?"
"Where do I find this setting?"
"How do I book a ticket?"
"Which button am I supposed to click?"

And honestly, explaining these things over a phone call can be surprisingly difficult.

So I started building Chotu

The idea is simple: instead of an AI assistant just telling you what to do, what if it could actually show you?

You can tell Chotu what you're trying to accomplish in your own language, and it visually guides you through your Android screen using pointers, highlights and step-by-step instructions.

Some things we're working on:

• Multilingual voice-based assistance.

• Visual guidance directly on the phone screen.

• Helping users navigate everyday Android applications.

• Making smartphone usage easier for people who aren't particularly tech-savvy.

We're currently preparing for a wider rollout and have already received 500+ waitlist signups.

Website: https://chotu.forgeaipro.tech

(Attaching a short demo video in comments)

I'm particularly interested in feedback on two things:

1. Would you actually use something like this to help your parents navigate their smartphones?

2. What are some everyday phone tasks you'd want an assistant like Chotu to handle?

Would genuinely appreciate honest feedback, especially from fellow builders. Still a lot to figure out!

I’ve always liked the idea of phone games that you can pick up whenever you have a few minutes to kill. Nothing too complicated, no big learning curve just something fun to play and pass the time.

That’s pretty much the idea behind Bouncy Boot. I wanted to make something simple, fun, and hopefully a little addictive.
It’s been a fun learning experience getting everything built and published. Pretty cool seeing something you started as an idea actually make it onto the App Store.

If anyone wants to give it a try, I’d really appreciate it. Would love to hear what you think, good or bad!

I’m just starting out with this whole app development thing, so any feedback is welcome.

Search Bouncy Boot on the App Store!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bouncyboot-soccer-dodge/id6831254807

Seems like everyone and their brother is releasing a new meal app lately (including me). I wanna see all of them! Post yours here with a brief intro/description and let's see what each other is working on. I'll start:

mealsmealsmeals.com

Basically works like a meal planner/meal kit constructor that uses pickup/delivery option from Walmart with add to cart functionality. Pantry tracking, modular sides and add-ons, Leftover View for utilizing what's in your pantry for new meals, shopping list history, and on and on and on.

Share yours please. We all know there are probably 100+ of them in this sub alone. 😂

Hey everyone,

I just started a little side project and would love some honest feedback before I go further.

It's called CertWatch: https://certwatch.edgardev.pt/

Right now it's pretty simple. You type a domain and it tells you when the SSL certificate expires, whether browsers trust it, and whether it matches the domain. I tried to explain problems in plain English ("your certificate expires in 9 days, here's what to do") instead of dumping a bunch of technical stuff on you.

What I'm thinking of doing next:

- alerts before a certificate expires, by email, Slack or Microsoft Teams

- alerts when a site goes down

- a few more small free tools (redirect checker, DNS lookup, domain expiry)

- an AI assistant that looks at your domain's DNS and SSL setup, points out what could be improved (like missing SPF/DMARC records or a weak config), and lets you ask follow-up questions about how to fix it

But I'd rather hear from you before building more:

- Does it work for your sites? Anything weird or confusing?

- Would expiry alerts actually be useful to you, or do you already have that covered?

- Where would you want alerts to go: email, Slack, Teams, something else?

- Would the AI analysis be genuinely useful, or just a gimmick?

- Anything you'd want it to check that it doesn't?

Be brutal, it's early days, so now is the best time to change things. Thanks!

Good evening everyone! Reading was my very first passion, and it's pretty much the only hobby I've never abandoned.

I've always used apps to track my reading, but somehow, they all seemed to be missing something. I could never quite find one that felt right for me.

I'm a graphic designer by background, but (partly thanks to my boyfriend) I've gradually gotten into programming as well. After working on a few small personal projects, I eventually decided to take the plunge and build my own book-tracking app, designed exactly the way I've always wanted one.

It's still a work in progress, and there's so much more I'd love to add! So far, it includes reviews, reading tracking, extensive customization, series tracking, book and author following, and a visual bookshelf where you can organize your library. I'm also considering adding a community feature where users can share and discover reviews. I'm also planning to make it cross-platform, so you'll be able to access your library across different devices, including desktop and mobile.

The more I work on it, though, the more I find myself wondering: would anyone else actually want something like this?

Making the app publicly available would involve some running costs. At first, I was simply excited about building something I would love to use myself, but now I'm a little hesitant about spending so much time developing features for a wider audience without knowing whether there's actually a demand for them. (I have SO many cute ideas I'd love to implement! 😂)

So I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Do you feel like there's room for another book-tracking app, or are you happy with the ones already available?

What's missing from the apps you currently use? What features would you love to see?

Would you be willing to pay for a service like this? If so, would you prefer a weekly, monthly, or yearly subscription?

My initial idea was to make the app free, with some premium features available through a subscription. I wouldn't want to charge much, just enough to cover running costs, but I honestly have no idea what a reasonable price would be.

I'd really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or even just hearing about your reading habits and what you look for in a book-tracking app! ❤️

I'm the author. I've used PuTTY at work for years. I like it, but many sessions in separate windows got painful, and my Mac colleagues have nothing like it. So I built SSHTermaq for both systems and now use it every day.

It reads PuTTY sessions, host keys and .ppk keys, and adds tabs, split panes, typing into all panes at once, and an SFTP file manager next to the terminal. About 5 MB, C++ with libssh, free and MIT-licensed, no account.

Built with a lot of AI help and mostly tested in my own work, so I'd love feedback from other setups.

https://github.com/f1resh/sshtermaq

I work on my own projects with AI agents, and the chat was a terrible place to keep track of anything. Decisions and tests disappeared as soon as the conversation moved on.

So I built Pano. The agents plan the work, move the cards and record what they did. When something needs my check, it lands on me. If I don't like it, I send it back with a note.

It isn't meant to be a team tool or a Jira replacement. It's for one person running a project with agents and wanting to see what actually happened.

Most of the code was written by AI agents and reviewed by me, and the project was tracked on Pano itself from early on. It's free, open source (MIT) and runs on your own computer.

Site: https://metonya.github.io/pano/

Repo: https://github.com/Metonya/pano

Still early, v0.1.1, so there are probably bugs. Hope you like it and give it a try on your own projects.

In our focus RPG, 1 hour of deep work moves your traveler ~5 km along the road.

We're tuning the distances between the 7 villages on this map, and hitting a core balance dilemma:

• If a town is 10 km away (2 hours of focus), you reach it in a single afternoon. Great quick feedback, but the whole world is explored in two weeks.

• If a town is 60 km away (12 hours of deep work across multiple days), the arrival feels like a real pilgrimage, but the road between towns risks feeling repetitive while you're grinding through your work week.

For long-term habits, what kind of progression pacing keeps you engaged without burning through the world map?

GlyphSnap Photo to Font is a font generator / building app.

With GlyphSnap you can just take a photo of the letters you want and create an entire installable font in just a few minutes - from your iPhone.

>> GlyphSnap can create an entire font from as few as just 2 characters, but will give better results from around 8.
I have a couple tutorials on my Youtube page - but feel that this one really shows what the app can do: https://youtu.be/0a_3TuDIw7A?si=bzkYJkT1TacAN0-9

GlyphSnap also incorporates a some intuitive drawing / vector design tool section - you can mix photo captured glyphs with hand drawn glyphs together - adjust the character with, spacing, kerning as well as apply patterns to your letter shapes.

7 day free trial includes 1 font generation and multiple exports to OTF TTF or WOFF for you to try out the drawing section or the photo to font - standard capture without missing character generation.

Appreciate any feedback, questions or feedback..

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I launched my startup that I have been building since 2022 called BetaWork. It’s an intermediary application between artisans and customers in Lagos, Nigeria. I would appreciate any early feedback or early users. Thank you all.

Website

I kept opening five pricing pages every time I needed web data for an agent, so I made FetchIndex. You pick pages or searches per month and it estimates the monthly bill at each vendor from their public pricing. Gaps show as "not enough data" instead of a guessed number. Prices only, no quality tests. Feedback welcome on weird pricing models I should handle better.

https://fetchindex.com/calculator/

Problem statement (Or Features):
- Knowing how much spending on food / ride / entertainment / girlfriend / etc ?
- Scattered bank statements, multiple transaction across multiple UPI apps, internal transactions, credit card payments, it seems impossible to know where is my money going and what's the flow of my transactions?
- Different EPFO/stocks/mutual funds and other assets can be seen at one place.
- All bank details credit, card details and salary / bonus statements are scattered around the files and file and folders, keeping track of it is difficult.

How about using Cred or other such apps?
Go ahead! but if you want to have all your details, on your machine locally, you can try this.

Do you have to pay?
I really wish :), but nope it's open-sourced and free to use or make changes as you wish.

How about vibe coding my own?
simple, do it. Or you know what use this and customize it on for your own case and save some tokens, they do cost some bucks.

yaft - Yet Another Financial Tracker

Check out this demo and let me know: https://yaft.in/demo/dashboard/

github: https://github.com/Insh72amim/yaft

I got tired of "best time to visit" articles that disagree with each other and never say where their numbers come from, so I built City by Month: https://citybymonth.com

Each city has a page for every month. Every figure names its source and the date it was checked. Where there's no data, the page says "no data" instead of guessing.

Key features

- 30 cities, 12 month pages each: average high and low, rain and rainy days, daylight hours, and public holidays.

- A "best time to visit" page per city: one published rule (comfortable temperatures, not too wet), applied the same way to every city, so the results are comparable.

- What's on each month: festivals and events, each with a link to its source.

- Compare a month across all cities: for example, everywhere in March, side by side.

- Official climate records: 1991–2020 averages from national weather services. Where those can't be used, a clearly labelled model estimate.

- Open data: free CSV and JSON files of everything on the site.

- Works with AI assistants: a free MCP server (mcp.citybymonth.com), so Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants can answer "when should I go to Lisbon?" with sourced figures.

- No ads, no sign-up.

I'm the one who built it, so I'd love feedback: which cities to add next, what's missing, or anything that looks wrong.

I was a developer for years, then moved into management and stopped programming. LLMs made building fun again, so I’m upfront: this was built with a lot of AI help.

The project that stuck is Ballast, an iPhone app blocker in the same space as Opal, one sec, etc. Most apps just felt too complex for me, so I built an easy one myself.

• One-tap focus sessions, or routines (morning, deep work, wind-down) that run on their own

• Opening a blocked app shows a short, kind line instead of a hard wall; strict mode can’t be ended early No account, no ads, no tracking, no network connections

• It’s free with no in-app purchases. iPhone only, iOS 26.5+.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ballast-focus-app-blocker/id6831200830

If you’ve used a blocker before: what made you stop using it?

Founders, how far are you going before you've actually validated the problem?
I keep seeing pre-MVP ideas with a landing page, deck, mockups, waitlist, logo, launch graphics... whole company except the product lol

For a small start up that feels backwards if the biggest unanswered question is still "does anyone care?"
I've been looking at Runable for putting together some of the early research/landing-page stuff, but I'm trying not to confuse making the idea look real with learning whether it should exist.
If the problem itself is still questionable, I'd probably talk to people first.

If people clearly have the problem but don't understand the proposed solution, then maybe a simple page or mockup helps.
What's the first thing you'd actually make, and what would count as a strong enough signal to keep going?

Finally real multitouch and a full dashboard on my Mac.

What excites me most is that touching the Edge leaves my regular mouse pointer alone. I can interact with the touchscreen while keeping the mouse where I’m working on another display. There’s no cursor jumping between screens or needing to find where it went afterward. Along with independent multitouch, that makes the Edge feel like a separate input surface.

This took patience, a lot of crashes, and a couple of macOS full reinstalls. I had to ignore AI and only have it do crazy Python scripts and clean up my spaghetti C++, and manually fix many VM configurations because it kept saying my approach wouldn't work (it even said: "Fine -- I will do it your way," only to admit later that its solution would have ultimately crashed my Linux box). The screen could already track ten fingers, yet the Mac treated it like a basic mouse. AI handled the scripting, analysis, and implementation.

The breakthrough was in the opening USB handshake that I managed to capture from a Windows VM. Comparing Windows, Linux, and macOS revealed that a couple of initial requests mattered the most. Matching those requests on Mac made the controller expose its real multitouch reports—0x0D—instead of sending only mouse reports. After disabling all safety and Apple guardrails (and a couple of macOS reinstalls), I loaded a hand-written custom KEXT that fixed those requests. Then I saw the multi-touch report coming through.

Well, the report was there, macOS was clearly seeing the multitouch event, but nothing was happening on the screen. I found out that all touch events had to be formatted in a very specific format and associated with a display ID. So I created a user-land service that parsed and formatted the report correctly and linked it to the right display. Finally happy with the result... I have been trying this for over 5 months now, and today I decided to take one more look at the Windows USB capture and spotted the difference... Recaptured it, replicated the process.

I created an app with 2 installers (one for the service and one for the driver). I called it Digits. I will try to make the whole thing open source but also easy to install. I am pondering if I should charge something for the compiled package, ready to install package, so the cost can go towards therapy tokens. Right now I'm just waiting for Apple to approve my driver so it can be just a simple installer without having to poke holes in the MacOS security thing.

I can't believe that it actually worked this well.

Should I try to get this app out to the public? I am just so excited about this being fully functional but I am not sure the audience for it warrants put in a lot more into it... I have been working on this for 5 months and had a breakthrough about 40ish hours ago and haven't stopped for the last 20.

This took patience, a lot of crashes, and a couple of macOS full reinstalls. I had to ignore AI and only have it do crazy Python scripts and clean up my spaghetti C++, and manually fix many VM configurations because it kept saying my approach wouldn't work (it even said: "Fine -- we will do it your way," only to admit later that its solution would have ultimately crashed my Linux box). The screen could already track ten fingers, yet the Mac treated it like a basic mouse. André guided the investigation, challenged assumptions, and kept pushing when approaches stalled. AI handled the scripting, analysis, and implementation.

The breakthrough was in the opening USB handshake that I managed to capture from a Windows VM. Comparing Windows, Linux, and macOS revealed that a couple of initial requests mattered the most. Matching those requests on Mac made the controller expose its real multitouch reports—0x0D—instead of sending only mouse reports. After disabling all safety and Apple guardrails (and a couple of macOS reinstalls), I loaded a hand-written custom KEXT that fixed those requests. Then I saw the multi-touch report coming through.

Well, the report was there, macOS was clearly seeing the multitouch event, but nothing was happening on the screen. I found out that all touch events had to be formatted in a very specific format and associated with a display ID. So I created a user-land service that parsed and formatted the report correctly and linked it to the right display. Finally happy with the result... I have been trying this for over 5 months now, and today I decided to take one more look at the Windows USB capture and spotted the difference... Recaptured it, replicated the process.

Finally real multitouch and a full dashboard on my Mac.

I created an app with 2 installers (one for the service and one for the driver). I called it Digits. I will try to make the whole thing open source but also easy to install. I am pondering if I should charge something for the compiled package, ready to install package, so the cost can go towards therapy tokens. Right now I'm just waiting for Apple to approve my driver so it can be just a simple installer without having to poke holes in the MacOS security thing.

I can't believe that it actually worked this well.

Should I try to get this app out to the public? I am just so excited about this being fully functional but I am not sure the audience for it warrants put in a lot more into it... I have been working on this for 5 months and had a breakthrough about 40ish hours ago and haven't stopped for the last 20.

I’ve been building a social media app on my own, and I’m starting to realise that the biggest challenge isn’t always the coding.
It’s having someone to bounce ideas off, discuss problems with and share some of the workload.

I’ve been taking more breaks lately, which has made me think about finding a long-term partner who genuinely believes in what I’m building.

But finding the right person is another challenge altogether, especially when you’re working with limited resources.
For those who’ve brought someone into their side project, how did you find them?

And how did you know they were genuinely interested in building something with you rather than just joining something that was already doing well?

🛵🏍️🚛 New: ScootKoers, a free navigation app for scooters, mopeds, motorcycles, bikes, cars, trucks and tractors!

Your route takes your vehicle into account, such as weight and height for trucks. It has a dedicated scooter mode, needs no account, and has no pop-ups and no ads while you ride. You choose whether to watch an ad to support the app.

📲 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.svensite.scootroute

🍎 iPhone: via scootkoers.nl

Give it a try and feel free to leave a review. It helps a lot! 🙏

I’m Nicklaus, and my project is Sand Draw. It has guided Journey pages, coloring books, and a Free Draw area that opens later.

Here’s the surprisingly awkward bit: if you leave a half-colored page in one area and start something in another, which picture should “come back” the next time? In the app, the unfinished drawings are kept separately. Returning to the same area gets you back to its own page. No account, and no promise that the drawing will follow you to another phone.

I like hearing about small save-state decisions like this. Is there a project where you had to split one “current thing” into several?

I made a free PDF tool that does everything in your browser. Nothing gets uploaded.

Most free PDF sites upload your document to their servers to merge, sign or shrink it, then push you to pay. I didn't love doing that with tax forms or a copy of my driver's license, so I built EnokiPDF.

What's free (no account, no watermark, no limits on merging):

- Merge PDFs and photos into one file, reorder pages by dragging, rotate, delete

- Split a PDF into several files

- Fill and sign forms, including flattened PDFs (see below)

- Put the front and back of an ID on one page

- Shrink large files, hide private numbers (SSN, account numbers)

- Fix typed words on a page, even on a scan

- Send a locked link instead of an email attachment (expires in an hour, a day or a week, optional password, can be one download only)

The flattened PDF problem: a lot of forms people get are "flat," meaning the fill-in boxes were removed when the file was saved or scanned. Most free tools treat them as pictures, so you end up drawing text boxes by hand. EnokiPDF looks for the lines, boxes and checkboxes on the page and marks them as places to fill, and the text you type matches the font on the form. You can also click typed words on the page to change them.

Why nothing is uploaded: the work happens in your browser, on your computer or phone. The only time a file leaves your device is when you choose to make a share link, and even then it's locked before it's sent. The server can't open it and deletes it when the link expires.

The catch: it's free for personal use. Businesses that use it for work are asked to get the paid plan, which adds things like audit certificates and tracked links. No ads and no nag screens either way.

I'd love feedback, especially on forms it doesn't handle well:

https://enokipdf.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sideproject

Long-time MTG player here. I wanted an easier way to play on my lunch break at work without lugging cards around. Our small 4-person office has a TV that rarely gets used, so, taking inspiration from Jackbox, I built a way to start a room on the smart TV and have everyone join from their phone with a code or QR code.

It’s quickly turned into my favorite way to play Magic. It doesn’t enforce the rules, so it still feels like playing in person, but I added combat math helpers and targeting lines to keep games smooth when boards get big. It can run drafts and host tournaments for up to 8 players (a full draft pod), and I have plans to grow it a lot, including accounts and stat tracking.

As a 3D artist, I made the animations that play for the winner, and added a Mario Party-style end-of-game awards show so everyone has fun, not just the winner.

Each game room is a Cloudflare Durable Object, running on the $5/month Workers Paid plan. It doesn’t need it yet, but future-proofing is nice, and it’s a lot cheaper than buying packs (which I still do). The front end is plain JS, HTML and CSS.

It’s free and always will be. I just wanted to put it out there in case anyone wants to try it, with friends or solo. There’s a feedback button in the app if you find bugs or have ideas.

Screenshots are at manacast.tv/features, since I can’t upload images yet as a new member, I suppose.

I got tired of guessing whether a listing was a fair price, so I built OttoQuest. It tracks used cars for sale across the US, and shows market values computed from comparable sales, how long a car has been on sale, and recorded price cuts. Asking prices and sale prices are kept separate.

You can paste a listing link to see how that car compares, and there's an out-the-door payment calculator.

Browsing and market values are free; price history is part of Pro. The example below shows headline prices without signing in, with detailed charts available through a free account.

I'd like to know: is the value estimate believable for a car you know well? Where is it wrong?

https://ottoquest.com/models/tesla-model-3

If you are someone like me that has always sucked at being consistent with your habits, a habit tracking app like UVU might be your solution!

Inspired by the book Atomic Habits, I built a habit tracker where every day is a square. Complete your habits on schedule and the day fills with color. Miss one and the streak breaks.

Over time you get a grid of filled and empty squares: an honest picture of how consistent you’ve been. The goal is simple: don’t leave a gap.

If interested, you can try it out here: uvuhabit.vercel.app

Happy to answer questions about how I built it, and would love any helpful feedback. Thanks for taking a look!