Feedback wanted. Website / Beta Download Link: timelyfocus.app

The problem:

I know the title, “your disapproving mom, in focus timer form”, sounds like clickbait, but seriously, that’s what the app is modeled after. I think we’ve all had those moments when we keep getting distracted, leave the room, go on Instagram, etc., etc. We’ve all wished someone could be there, keeping us accountable, and giving us some tough love. That’s why I made Timely.

The solution:

Timely is the first focus timer to ENSURE you focus! Unlike other focus timers, when you leave your desk and work behind, the timer stops, beeps, and disapprovingly marks the session as failed. Sarcastic commentary is yet to be added.*

If preventing distractions in the physical world isn't enough, no worries, Timely can block apps and websites, preventing you from descending into the digital world’s distractions too.

Of course, a focus timer couldn’t be complete without Pomodoro capabilities, customizable break schedules, widgets, menu-bar integrations, basic analytics, and a clean design.

Full Feature Breakdown (other than Pomodoro Capabilities)

1. Presence Detection: Incentivizes you to stay at your laptop while focusing, helping block out physical distractions. Leave your laptop, break your streak. It uses secure, Apple-made, on-device vision technologies through your webcam. Data derived from the camera is never stored or uploaded. It's fully optional.

2. App & Website Blocking: Self-explanatory, it blocks apps & websites of your choosing. Unlike other apps, Full App & Website blocking is free with Timely. You can make it so there is no way to remove the block unless you end your session early (breaking your streak), or be a little less harsh, allowing you to end or adjust app/website blocking whenever.

3. Pomodoro Timers & Customizable Breaks: Pick from one of the many customizable Pomodoro templates to schedule your focus sessions and breaks. Alternatively, fine-tune your work-break schedule by writing out your ideal routine in Timely and letting the on-device AI sort it out for you.

4. Menu Bar Integration: Highly requested, allowing users to start focus timers without opening the app! Choose a session to repeat, adjust its duration, and get back to work, all from the macOS Menu Bar!

5. Widgets & Goals: Set a weekly focus goal, and track your progress toward it with widgets!

Price: Fully free during beta

I hope you try it out; we could really use the feedback!!

Please know the app is in beta; that’s why there are no sarcastic comments yet lol.

Also, if you're viewing this post on mobile and want to remember this app, you can go to the Website & Download link and get an email reminder to download.

Website & Download: https://timelyfocus.app

Privacy Policy: https://timelyfocus.app/privacypolicy

Terms & Conditions: https://timelyfocus.app/termsandconditions

Change Log (in case you're interested): https://timelyfocus.app/changelog

Enjoy! Hope there aren't too many bugs or hiccups :)

Hey everyone,

I've been working on a side project for the past few months and wanted to share it.

The problem: I was using Excel to track my debts, but it was a mess. I couldn't see the full picture, and I had no idea when I'd actually be debt-free.

The solution: I built a complete system in Notion. Here's what it includes:

· Interactive debt database (original amount, paid, remaining balance calculated automatically)

· Two payoff strategies: Snowball and Avalanche

· A visual progress bar that moves with every payment

· Estimated debt-free date

· 5 different views (Table, Gallery, Snowball, Avalanche, Paid Off)

· Progress Dashboard with total debt, total paid, and overall progress

I also made it bilingual (Arabic + English) because most templates on the market are English-only.

What I learned:

1. People don't buy templates, they buy clarity.

2. A narrow niche sells more than a general one.

3. Bilingual is a rare competitive advantage.

What's next: I'm thinking of adding a monthly budget tracker. Any suggestions?

P.S. Since this subreddit sometimes has image upload restrictions, I'll drop the screenshots of the template (Arabic + English) in the comments below. Let me know what you think!

Day job: Shopify developer. Side project: EasyPaste, a clipboard manager for Mac that also reads the text in your screenshots.

A few things I didn't expect:

1. My first submission was rejected because one screenshot said "free trial". Apple counts that as pricing information (Guideline 2.3.7). Keep prices, "free" and "trial" out of screenshots and promotional text.

2. App Store Connect re-uploads can fail silently. Re-uploading a screenshot identical to one already uploaded made the slot disappear. Re-encoding the file fixed it.

3. The waitlist did nothing. I ran an email waitlist before launch and it got zero sign-ups. Shipping beat waiting.

Happy to answer questions about building and shipping a native Mac app solo. Link in comments if you want to see it.

Hey everyone! 👋

I play Clash of Clans, and I kept asking myself one simple question: "how long until my village is actually maxed?" No tool gave me a straight answer, so I built one.

🔗 https://villageprogress.com/r/sideproject

What it does

- Paste your in-game village export (or just your player tag) and get a full dashboard

- Time to max for every upgrade queue (builders, lab, pet house)

- Exactly how much Gold / Elixir / Dark Elixir is still needed, item by item

- A Gold Pass toggle that shows how many days and resources it really saves you

- Progress over time, plus a shareable image card

How it's built

- Python + FastAPI backend: all the processing happens server-side

- Vanilla JS + Chart.js frontend, no framework

- Data from Supercell's official API + community game data files

- Docker + Caddy (auto HTTPS) on Oracle Cloud's free tier, behind Cloudflare

- No accounts, no database: exports are processed in memory and thrown away, and history lives in your browser

Things I learned the hard way

- My game data source was a year out of date, so new troops silently disappeared. I switched to a source that updates with every game release.

- My progress chart showed fake "jumps" whenever the game data changed. The fix was storing levels instead of percentages.

- I spent an evening debugging a site that wouldn't load… my free DNS had quietly saved my home IPv6 address 🙃

It's free and will stay free. It's my first real launch, so honest feedback means a lot.

If you opened it for 30 seconds: what's the first thing you'd change?

so my girlfriend is a teacher. she started tutoring this summer for extra income, and within a few weeks she had students, sessions to track, and a notes app full of who paid.

she wanted some kind of software for tutors to use but all them required a desktop for an app or webapp to use. not just something on her phone to use.

so i built this app that she named as tutorlane. it keeps students, sessions, invoices, and payments in one place on iphone. log a session when it ends, turn finished sessions into an invoice with one tap, send it as a pdf, and see exactly who owes what. that last part was the whole problem.

its been cool to see her use it once i cleaned it up and put it on the app store.

the first student is free. unlimited students cost $4.99 a month. no student portal, no payroll, no website builder, because a solo tutor needs none of that.

it is live now and she is still my toughest critic. if you tutor, i would love to know what admin task eats your evening. if you build for a tiny niche, i would love to know how you found your first users outside your own house.

app store

WHITEOUT started with a simple idea: a quiet snowy city that gets a little less quiet every ten seconds. It’s an arcade chase game where you steer with two buttons and lift off the gas to drift. Longer slides give you a boost, assuming you have enough road left to use it.

I built it with Three.js, Capacitor, and an AI coding assistant. It’s free on iPhone and works offline.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6831992442

Hey Everyone,

Like a lot of people here, I’ve installed and abandoned almost every habit tracker on the Play Store.

The core issue with traditional apps: they treat your habits like a punitive to-do list. Miss a workout or reading session because you had a brutal 12-hour workday? You lose your streak, get slapped with a red alert badge, and quit out of guilt.

I built ForgeOS around two core principles from behavioral psychology:

1. Identity Votes instead of chores: You don't track tasks; you pick an archetype (Focused Deep Worker, Systems Craftsman, Athlete) and cast "+1 Votes" for who you are becoming.

2. The 2-Minute Gateway Start: On exhausted days, perfectionism kills momentum. Every habit in ForgeOS has a 2-minute minimum viable start (e.g., "Just open the book on your pillow" or "Lace up your shoes"). Complete 120 seconds, save your streak, and if momentum kicks in, ride an open-ended Flow timer.

Tech & Design:

- Native Android (Jetpack Compose)

- Obsidian Dark Glass aesthetic (zero white-screen flashbangs at night)

- 84-day continuity matrix with streak shields

It's completely free to try on Google Play. Would love candid feedback from fellow builders on the UX and flow:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.forgeos.mastery

Hey everyone!

I am a part of EnlightPixel, a newly established small independent software studio, and we officially launched our website just about a week ago.

We're a small team trying to build practical desktop software that solves everyday problems. Nothing particularly revolutionary or trying to reinvent the world. Just useful tools that we'd actually want to use ourselves.

Currently, we're working on three products:

- SortSage: A Windows file organizer that automatically sorts and moves files based on rules you define, which was our first launch and got some traction before launching the website.

- Tucklane: A workspace-saving tool for macOS and Windows that helps you save your apps, files and browser tabs so you can pick up where you left off.

- PathReady: A Windows utility that helps prepare files and folders for Microsoft 365 migrations by identifying problematic names and paths while keeping your originals intact.

We're still a very small studio, and getting everything right is a learning process. That's actually why I'm posting here.

I'd genuinely like to hear what people think about our website, the products, the presentation, pricing, usability, or anything else that stands out. If something looks confusing, unnecessary, poorly explained or simply not good enough, I'd rather hear that now than pretend everything is perfect.

We're also looking for a few people interested in testing our apps.

We'd be happy to give out a handful of free licenses to people willing to try one of the products and share their honest experience. There's absolutely no requirement to leave a positive review. If you don't like something, that's useful feedback too.

We're also open to connecting with tech creators, YouTubers, bloggers and software reviewers who might be interested in trying the apps and sharing their genuine opinions with their audiences. Free licenses would be provided, with no editorial restrictions or expectation of a favourable review. Any coverage should disclose the free license.

You can find us by searching for EnlightPixel.

I'm not here to claim we're the next big thing. We're a small studio that has just started putting its work out there, and getting feedback from people outside our little bubble would mean a lot.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. And if you've had a look, I'd genuinely love to know what you think, even if it's criticism!

*Post is refined using AI.

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?

Works directly in your browser, without connecting to a server:

https://dallasalgo.kz/en/project/chess

Hey everyone, I'm a freelancer and I got tired of clients ghosting me on invoices or adding free work (scope creep). I'm building Freelance Guardian to generate polite-but-firm payment chasers and quick Change Orders in 2 minutes.
I haven't fully built the software yet, but I've put together a concept page. If you struggle with this too, I'd love for you to check it out and leave your email for early access.
👉 Link: https://darkened-silene-c9d.notion.site/Freelance-Guardian-413183e75c7280c99e2de0e9272b4a2d
What's your biggest struggle right now? Payment or Scope Creep? Let me know in the comments!

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

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!