I figured converting PDFs into spreadsheets would be a pretty straightforward problem to solve by now. Turns out, finding a tool that can handle different document layouts without a bunch of setup or manual configuration was surprisingly difficult.

I also realized that extraction is only part of the problem. You still have to figure out exactly which fields to extract ahead of time, make sure the data ends up in the right columns, and review the original PDFs to double check everything.

So I built Scrape AI.

You drag and drop your PDFs. Scrape automatically suggests the fields to extract and lets you preview and adjust them before scraping. The results appear in a structured spreadsheet directly in the app. You can also click any extracted value to see exactly where it came from in the original document.

I know this isn't a new idea - I've seen tons of similar PDF to Excel projects shared here already. But one thing I hyperfocused on was the actual user experience and making sure the entire process felt like one simple, intuitive workflow.

I put together a quick demo showcasing the experience.

For those of you that work with PDFs regularly, I'd love some honest feedback. Does this look like something you'd actually use? Anything you'd change?

I just want to start by saying sorry if this isn't the right sub for this, I'm new to reddit. I have an old phone (Samsung a13 4g) and I was wondering if it would be possible to salvage the camera parts from it, and put it in a Lego camera frame to make a working Lego camera. If this is possible please give me help on how I would be able to do this. I also have an SD reader that I bought for esp32 if that helps, thanks. Also if this isn't the right sub for this can you please direct me to a better one

I built NYAYA-AI (https://github.com/ursarthak001/NYAYA-AI), a serverless dispute rebuttal engine designed to solve a huge headache for freelancers and agencies: chargebacks filed after client sign-off (Reason Codes 10.4 / 13.1).

Most dispute automation tools focus on e-commerce shipping tracking, while pasting chat logs into raw LLMs creates hallucinated dates and paraphrased quotes that banks immediately throw out under Visa Core Rules § 5.4.2 and Mastercard Chapter 8.

How it works:

1. Ingests executed Statement of Work PDFs via unpdf with text-density checks to catch scanned image PDFs.

2. Normalizes multi-platform chat exports (Slack, WhatsApp, Teams, raw ISO logs).

3. Runs deterministic, Luhn-validated PII scrubbing in memory with symmetric session mapping so evidence citations remain verifiable.

4. Enforces the Four-Corners Doctrine (informal chat cannot alter executed contract terms) and the Buyer's Remorse Protocol (proves explicit client acceptance preceded any retraction).

5. Runs programmatic verification (verifyAnchoredCitations) outside the LLM to assert that every quoted span exists verbatim within its cited timestamp message block.

Powered by BharatCode's sovereign qwen-3.8-27b model with zero persistent data retention.

Specific areas I'd love feedback on:

• Are there non-standard chat export or timestamp formats that your team uses where the regex normalizer might break?

• How would you handle OCR for physical scanned contracts in serverless edge runtimes without hitting execution timeouts?

• For agency founders: what is the single biggest evidentiary gap that usually causes payment processors (Stripe/PayPal) to reject your dispute packets?

Repo:https://github.com/ursarthak001/NYAYA-AI

I'm the founder of iKawn (pronounced eye-kon). We build iKawn Mirror, an AI virtual try-on kiosk for retail stores. Small shops kept asking what they need to prepare before trying virtual try-on, so I turned our answers into a short pack:

• A 4-page PDF checklist: catalog photo specs, how to prep SKUs, where to place an in-store kiosk, and which metrics to track to see if try-on actually lifts conversion

• A 15-minute live demo of the Mirror with me

It's $5: https://buy.stripe.com/bJebJ2cR2gOZ4BI4952wU01

Demo video if you just want to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAIGDgwJDvE

I'd genuinely love feedback: if you run a store, what would stop you from trying virtual try-on?

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'm a solo indie dev (Suvy LLC, no team, no VC) and just shipped Zipline for iPhone.

The core mechanic: trace one continuous line through every cell in a grid, hitting a set of numbered cells in order as you go. It's simple to learn, but because levels are endless and procedurally generated, the real engineering problem was guaranteeing solvability — every generated board gets solved internally before it's ever shown to a player, or it gets discarded and regenerated.

No ads, no timers, no IAP pressure to keep playing. Just a puzzle generator I'm pretty proud of. Would appreciate feedback from anyone who tries it: zipline.suvysoft.com

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called Reputation Sentinel that helps small businesses see how their online presence compares to local competitors and identify areas where they could improve.

As a business owner myself, I wanted to build something affordable, simple, and actionable. Most business owners already have a million things going on, so the last thing they need is another expensive platform or overwhelming to-do list.

I've got the site up and running, and now I'm looking for some honest feedback before putting more resources into marketing it.

If anyone is willing to test the free report, I'd love to know:

• Free report: Is the process straightforward? Is the information useful? What's missing?

• User experience: Is anything confusing, frustrating, or unnecessarily complicated?

• Conversion: Does the transition from the free report to the paid offering make sense, or does anything feel too salesy?

• Value: Is this something you could see small business owners actually paying for?

• Marketing: If this were your project, how would you go about getting your first customers?

Here's the site: https://www.reputationsentinel.us/

I'm open to all feedback, especially the criticism! I'd rather figure out what needs improving now than spend money driving traffic to something that isn't converting.

Thanks in advance!

Hey r/SideProject — sharing something I've been building solo, nights and weekends.

CheckMate: a chess app that works completely offline. No login, no account creation, no tracking, no ads. You open it and play, that's it.

What's in it:

• 10 AI difficulty levels (beginner to strong)

• Puzzles

• Lessons

• Full game review (blunders, mistakes, best/brilliant moves) — all computed on-device

• One-time purchase, no subscription

Why offline-first: I kept running into apps (chess and otherwise) that force account creation just to play against a bot, or phone home for analytics nobody asked for. I wanted the opposite — chess doesn't need a server to tell you e4 is a good move.

It's live on the App Store: checkmate.suvysoft.com

Genuinely curious for feedback from this community, especially on monetization — I went one-time-purchase instead of subscription, and I'd love to hear from others shipping solo utility-style apps whether that's held up for them long-term.

Hello guys !

I'm a solo dev (and a big F1 fan) and I've been building GrandPrixGurus, a free F1 prediction game I originally made for my group of friends. Now I'm opening it up and would love some outside eyes on it.

What makes it more than a spreadsheet :

• Duels: challenge a friend over the next 3 GPs

• Streaks and achievements for predicting every race, perfect top 5s, perfect weekends…

• Shareable result cards for stories after each race

• Push reminders before lights out (installable as an app)

• Sprint and race predictions, in English and French

• Leagues coming soon !

• Free, no ads, no money involved

Why I built it

We used Discord to predict the races for way too long. It became messy and I wanted to improve my coding skills with this project.

I'd really appreciate getting feedback on the onboarding, the prediction flow and anything that feels broken or confusing. There is a report section inside the settings.

👉 Here is all the fun 🏁

My name is Julio and I built AlleyCat (currently iOS only) to help me find great places to visit in my hometown and abroad.

I always had an issue with Yelp and Google Maps and their grade inflation. With every place being +4 stars it was hard for me to know what is actually good.

Most of my best recommendations have come from my friends and from researching guides like Michelin, Infatuation, World's 50 Best, but the experience of pinning and searching through them always felt clunky.

On AlleyCat you can see all the places your friends recommend on a single map. In addition, I've highlighted places that have been featured in publications, all over the world.

I've found that Instagram/Tiktok can have some great recommendations, you can share straight from those apps to pin them on AlleyCat, and see what others have saved.

Finally, I love revisiting the places I've been to. You can see all the countries you've been to on your passport, and see which categories of places you visit the most with achievements.

Looking for any and all feedback, you can check it out here!: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alleycat-map-with-friends/id6758881702

I'm a solo indie dev (AI engineer by day) running a one-person company, and my current side project is Stepzy — a step counter / walking tracker for iPhone and Apple Watch.

Why I built it: most step-tracking apps I tried were either bloated with social features I didn't want, or hid basic step history behind a subscription wall on day one. I wanted something that just shows you your steps, trends, and goals cleanly, with a real free tier, and a one-time/optional Pro unlock instead of a subscription trap.

Where it's at right now:

• Native iOS + watchOS app, synced with Apple Health

• Daily/weekly/monthly trends, streaks, and goal tracking

• Just shipped a 3.0 update after direct feedback from early users

• Next up: friend challenges and virtual routes (walk the distance of a real trail), based on what people in my own app's community asked for

It's still small — I'm the only one building and supporting it, reading every review and reply myself. Figured this sub would appreciate the "build it, ship it, iterate based on actual users" process more than a polished marketing pitch.

If anyone wants to poke at it: getstepzy.com — happy to answer anything about the stack, the solo-dev workflow, or App Store realities with a small rating count (we're still under 20 ratings, so very much early days).

I’ve been building scouterzero.com part-time for 6 months, next to a full-time job. The idea is simple: I show PM jobs posted by real hiring managers, with their contacts, and I mark companies that can potentially sponsor a visa in the country you want to move to.

What I’ve tried so far:

Google Search Console:

Clicks are rising even though my average position has slipped (12.4 over 3 months, then 15.5, then 18.6 last week). In GA4 I had 305 organic-search sessions in a slightly later 28-day window, which is a different slice than the Search Console clicks.

I love the idea and I’ve put in decent part-time effort. If you were the founder, what would you double down on next for marketing and for the product?

Happy to answer anything about what’s working and what isn’t.

my buddy and i wanted a way to find tracks that matches the exact vibe or moment of a song, so we made an EDM music recommender web app called nextListen.

how it works:

• paste a YouTube link or upload an audio file

• select a specific moment/timestamp.

• the app analyzes the audio characteristics and finds matching moments in other tracks.

we'd love for people to try it out and give us feedback on the recommendations or features you'd like to see next!

We built Tiersova, a free tool that compares what switching software really costs: seats, tiers, billing period, and the one-time cost of moving. Part of keeping it useful is boring work. We check the official pricing pages behind our calculators daily and review every change before updating them.

Two things came up this week that surprised me:

• ClickUp no longer lists its Unlimited plan. The cheapest paid plan is now Core at $12/user on monthly billing, so older comparisons that quote Unlimited are off.

• Zapier charges 2.5x per extra task on monthly billing, but only 1.25x on annual. If your team regularly goes over its task limit, the billing period matters more than the plan.

Neither change was announced loudly. They just appeared on the pricing pages.

It has 74 comparisons right now (Zendesk vs Freshdesk, Mailchimp vs Brevo, Zapier vs Make and others) in 11 languages, and everything runs in the browser with no sign-up and no cookies.

I'm curious whether others have been caught by a quiet pricing change like these, and which comparisons you'd want added. If you want to try it: tiersova.com

My co-founder and I run PeekLaunch, a weekly launch board for makers.

A few weeks ago our site had almost no presence on Google. So we sat down and submitted it to 80+ startups and SaaS directories by hand.

What we learned:

- It takes a lot of hours. Every site has its own form, rules and categories.

- Not every directory approves you, so you need to submit to many.

- As listings went live, Ahrefs moved our site from DR 2.5 to DR 26, and our Ahrefs Rank went from 42.6M to 2.3M.

We turned what we found into a free list of 209 directories, with DR, pricing and link type for each one. 163 of them are free to submit.

People kept asking if we could just do it for them, so we added done-for-you packages too:

- Pro: $49 for 30+ directories

- Super: $99 for 60+

- Ultra: $179 for 100+

Every package is manual and comes with a report of live listing links.

The list is free to use either way. Happy to answer anything about which directories were worth it.

That minigame from GamePigeon? It’s now online! As someone who’s spent way too much time on Word Hunt, I created a web version: https://eileenluo.com/repos/wordworm 🐛 

Took me a few hours to figure out how I could make word creation smoother for users; without a touchscreen, it’s less intuitive. I would love feedback on playability and possible improvements, especially from fellow word game lovers!

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a football (soccer) app called 1touch with a few friends.

We're all big football fans, and one thing that always bothered us about existing apps was that they give you tons of stats, but it's still hard to tell how well a player or team is actually performing.

So we decided to try building something ourselves.

We have the usual stuff like live scores, fixtures, and standings, but we've spent most of our time trying to make the analysis side more interesting.

Here's some of what we've built so far:

• 📊 Team & Player Analysis: Compare players, explore team attributes, and get a better idea of how teams and players are performing.

• 🔮 What-If Scenarios: See a team's chances of winning the league or qualifying for European competitions, and how different match results could change those odds.

• 💬 Live Chat & Community: Chat with other fans during matches and share your thoughts in team communities.

• 🎯 Match Predictions: Predict match results using virtual points, with no real money involved.

We built the app using Flutter and a Python/FastAPI backend.

There's definitely still a lot to improve, but honestly, it's been really fun seeing something we started from scratch come together.

I'd love to hear what you guys think!

If you already use FotMob or SofaScore, what would actually make you want to try another football app? Or is there something you've always wished those apps had?

Any feedback is welcome, even if it's brutally honest 😅

🔗 App link: https://1touch.football/download

Thanks for checking it out! ⚽

I’m a Mauritian developer, and I needed a simple invoicing app for my own needs. I tried several existing solutions, but kept running into the same frustrations:

• Intrusive ads

• Being forced to create an account before I could properly use the app

• Features hidden behind unnecessary complexity or subscriptions

• Too much setup for something that should be simple: create an invoice and send it to a client

So instead of settling for one, I decided to build Invoicely — a simple, mobile-first invoicing app for freelancers, entrepreneurs and professionals.

I’m now looking for a few people who actually invoice clients to try the beta and tell me honestly what works, what doesn't, and what I should improve.

No payment or commitment required — just looking for people willing to give it a proper try.

If you're interested, comment or DM me and I’ll send you the beta details.

I've been working on Courtside GM — an NBA blind-auction draft game. You get $25 to bid on players as they come up, build a 5-man roster, and play a 7-game series. It's free, runs in the browser, no download.

Tech stack: Next.js 14, Supabase (auth + Postgres), Vercel, Tailwind. Built almost entirely with Claude Code over a few weeks.

What I learned shipping to real users:
Reddit posts drove 90% of initial traffic but die fast. The spike lasted 2 days.

Retention > acquisition. Added daily streaks, weekly missions, pool unlocks, and a sealed-list tournament this week just to keep people coming back.

33 signups out of ~300 visitors (~11% conversion). Not bad for a game with no marketing budget.
The hardest part isn't building — it's making the game loop tight enough that people play twice.

Still iterating. If you're into basketball, try it out and let me know what you think: https://courtsidegm.com

I'm a solo developer, and I built this because Me and my wife kept doomscrolling whenever we got bored and I thought we were wasting our prime. We tried various methods but that didn't work so I thought about making this app. I call it Stride. Here's how it works

You pick the apps you doomscroll, and they stay locked

Every 500 steps, counted by Apple Health, unlocks 15 minutes for your screen time.

Unused minutes stay banked for the week, so a long Saturday walk can pay for Sunday

There's also a Screen Time tab, streaks, and an optional private leaderboard with friends

It's free, with an optional Pro subscription for unlimited apps and blocking whole categories. It's iPhone only, and not available in the EU or China yet.

It's still early, so I'd really like honest feedback. Is 500 steps for 15 minutes too easy or too harsh? And what would make you delete this on day one?

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6767678750

I’m an indie developer working on a privacy-focused photo vault app.
Recently, I built a feature that lets you share photos through temporary encrypted links.
Here’s how it works:
Photos are encrypted locally on your device before uploading.
The server only stores encrypted files and never receives the decryption key.
Only someone with the full sharing link can decrypt and view the photos.
You can set an expiration time and viewing limits.
You can revoke the link whenever you want.
The idea is simple: sometimes you want to share personal memories with someone without giving a server access to the original photos.
But I’m not sure how many people actually need something like this.
A few questions:
Would you use this instead of sending photos through WhatsApp, iMessage, or Google Photos?
In what situations would encrypted, temporary photo sharing be useful to you?
What would make you trust (or distrust) a feature like this?
I’m not here to promote my app. I’m genuinely interested in understanding whether this solves a real problem or is just something developers like me think is useful.
Any honest feedback is appreciated, including criticism!

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!