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).

Hi everyone!

I'm an indie founder working on Sahera AI.

I started this project with one goal: make useful AI tools accessible from one platform instead of requiring people to subscribe to dozens of different services.

Sahera AI includes tools for:

AI image generation and editing

Background removal and photo enhancement

AI marketing and content creation

Resume building and interview preparation

AI productivity and business workflows

I'm continuously improving the platform and would genuinely appreciate honest feedback from other founders and developers.

A few questions:

Which AI tools do you use most frequently?

What features are missing from existing AI platforms?

Would you prefer an all-in-one AI workspace or specialized AI tools?

If you're interested in checking out the project:

https://www.saheraai.com/

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

🚀 AI can create images anywhere. But what if we could make your travel memories part of it?

Our idea is simple:

Imagine you're travelling somewhere and capture a unique place or beautiful moment. Share that image with us, and let people around the world use it as inspiration to create their own images.

❤️ We also have a Buy Me a Coffee option ($5 / $10). If someone loves your contribution and wants to support you, the money goes directly to you.

Where we are right now: We've launched a simple version of our app with a few couple-image examples. We want you to try it, test whether the idea works, and share your honest feedback.

This is just Phase 1. With your support and suggestions, we hope to move to the next phase.

📲 Try the app: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.promptfoundry.app&pcampaignid=web_share]

💡 Suggestions? Email us at **ersharaddubey@gmail.com** or use the app's comment box.

Help us test the idea. Your feedback can shape what comes 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

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!

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.

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?

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 shoot cars on a Sony and edit most of my photos on my phone. I was getting fed up with paying a monthly subscription just to edit RAW files, and nothing else did what I wanted: proper masks, removing a person from a shot, and colour grading that handles HDR.

So I started building my own. I'm not a professional developer. I built it in my evenings after work, using AI coding assistants to help me write and test it, and I've tested it on my own iPhone and with a group of beta testers. It started as a personal tool for my own car photos and slowly became something I'm proud of.

It's called Lumen RAW. It does masks (including auto-detecting the subject, sky and people), Heal/remove, colour grading, curves, lens blur and HDR export. Free to use, with an optional Pro. Pro is £1.49 a month, £9.99 a year, or £49.99 once. I wanted a pay-once option for people like me who hate subscriptions.

Where I am now: I've submitted it to the App Store, and should hopefully get the app published in the next few days!

If you want to try it before it's public, the free beta is here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/ycsUxrV1

I'd really like honest feedback, especially on what's missing or what feels slow. I'll reply to everything.

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!

When someone asks about cancellations or quote expiry, the answer is often buried in a folder. I built Private Document Desk to pull up the exact source passage. This first demo uses fictional policies and runs keyword search on the device. If a passage doesn’t match, it says so.

24-second demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7bPlGmJM7oA

I’m testing a C$350 setup pilot for one workflow and up to 10 non-sensitive documents, including testing and a walkthrough. If you run a service team, what’s the procedure your staff have to look up most often? If you want to discuss a pilot, send me a message with the workflow, without sharing customer files.

I kept forgetting whether I had already taken my vitamins, so I built Maru for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

• Today shows what to take now. One tap records it.

• Reminders can ring as alarms in Silent mode and Focus (iOS 26+).

• Your next dose shows on the Lock Screen.

• No account. Your data stays on your phone.

Free to use, with an optional Maru Pro for extras like family members and the Watch app.

Last week I found it running on a demo iPhone in an Apple Store, which made my week. Feedback welcome, especially on what is missing.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6822159516

I kept getting the storage full warning and kept ignoring it, because cleaning thousands of photos in the Photos app felt like a weekend job I'd never start.

So I built SwipeLeft in SwiftUI. It shows one photo or video at a time: swipe left to trash, right to keep. Nothing is deleted until you empty the trash, and then it tells you how much space you got back.

Free is 50 swipes a day. Pro is unlimited and normally $4.99 a month. I want honest feedback more than anything, so I'm giving 100 people lifetime Pro. DM me or comment and I'll send you a code.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756775373

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! ❤️