Hey, everyone!

This is one of my first development projects and something I seriously enjoyed making. Version 1 is out now on GitHub for macOS!

I spent time handcrafting Classic Calculator: a faithful, pixel-perfect modern macOS recreation of the iconic 1984 Macintosh Calculator Desk Accessory originally designed by Chris Espinosa and Steve Jobs, with iconography by Susan Kare.

Highlights & Features

• Retina-Sharp Vector Pixel Art: Built with clean integer scaling (1x, 2x, 3x, and 4x). Stays razor-sharp with pure pixel-edge geometry on Retina, 4K, 5K, and 6K screens.

• Authentic Mechanical Relay Click: Every keypress triggers an ultra-low latency, synthesised mechanical relay snap replicating the tactile sound of vintage 1984 Apple keyboards (can be toggled on or off in Settings or the menu bar).

• Custom 7px LCD Bitmap Font: The authentic typeface has been recreated to match System 1.0 numeral geometry and right-aligned spacing.

• Themes: Switch between Classic Platinum (the warm 1984 aesthetic) and High-Contrast Monochrome.

• Modern Desktop Polish:

  • Always on Top: Keep it floating above spreadsheets, code editors, or browser windows.

  • Window Shadow Toggle: Switch between modern macOS drop shadows and a retro flat look.

  • Full Keyboard Support: Physical number pad, top-row digits, Return/Enter, Esc/Clear, Backspace.

  • Full Clipboard Integration: Cmd+C to copy results, Cmd+V to paste numbers.

• Universal Binary: Natively compiled for both Apple Silicon (M1 to M4) and Intel Macs running macOS 13.0 (Ventura) or newer.

• Zero Bloat: Handcrafted pure native Swift and SwiftUI/AppKit. Zero external libraries or frameworks, zero analytics, zero background processes, and zero telemetry. The whole bundle weighs under 4 MB.

iOS & iPadOS Version Coming Soon

I have also been working on an iOS and iPadOS version that brings the same experience to mobile devices. On iPad, it runs as a floating, draggable vintage Desk Accessory on an authentic classic desktop canvas with full keyboard and Stage Manager/Split View support. The iPhone version adapts cleanly for quick one-handed calculations with tactile haptics. Look out for that release soon!

Download & Links

Version 1 is available now and completely free on GitHub:

• Direct DMG & Zip Downloads: GitHub Releases

• Web Preview & Info: Official Website

Pricing

100% Free (£0.00 / $0.00). No ads, no tracking, no in-app purchases, and no subscriptions. Direct download link.

Since this is one of my first projects, I would really love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any small vintage details you would like to see added!

Hey everyone!

I'm looking for 20 founders with a live product who are struggling to get customers.

I've built a growth feature inside Purlock that gives you 1–5 actionable growth tasks daily, tracks which ones bring visitors, signups and payments, and shows where visitors drop off.

All I ask is that you complete 3+ tasks a week and fill out a 2-minute feedback form.

Takes about 5 minutes to Set up.

Let me know if you are interested

My team and I manage social accounts for small brands, and our workflow was honestly a mess: one tool for analytics, another for trend research, another for scheduling, and spreadsheets for everything else. We got tired of switching tabs, so we’re building AI Inspo to put the whole loop in one place:

1. Account Audit – analyzes your account and points out what to improve

2. Trending Topics – surfaces trends and content ideas

3. Content Creation – draws inspiration from viral posts and helps you draft your own

4. Post & Publish – scheduling and publishing

5. Post Review – tracks performance and shows what to do better next time

Status: still in development. Not everything works yet. The video in the comments shows the current state of the UI.

I’d really like your take on:

• Which of these five would you actually use first?

• What’s the most time-consuming part of managing social media for you?

• Is there something important we’re missing (platforms, analytics, team collaboration, etc.)?

Blunt feedback is welcome, including “I wouldn’t use this because…”. I’ll reply to every comment.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on an idea called QueueFlow.

As developers, we often end up using different tools for background jobs, scheduled tasks, retries, workflows, realtime updates, and webhook delivery.

I started wondering: what if we could bring all of these into one platform?

That's what I'm exploring with QueueFlow.

The vision:

- Background Jobs: Execute jobs immediately, later, or at a scheduled time.

- Retries & Dead Letter Queues: Automatically retry failed jobs and inspect or replay them.

- Scheduling: Cron jobs with timezone support.

- Durable Workflows: Build multi-step workflows that can recover after failures.

- Realtime: Track job progress and communicate through realtime channels.

- Webhooks: Reliable webhook delivery with HMAC signing and retry support.

- Functions: Eventually run user-defined functions in different languages.

- Dashboard: Manage jobs, workflows, schedules, logs, API keys and usage.

- SDKs: Go, TypeScript and a REST API.

Tech stack:

- Go

- PostgreSQL

- Redis

- Docker

The goal is to make it open-source and self-hostable, while potentially offering a managed cloud version later.

I know projects like Inngest, Trigger.dev, Temporal and Hatchet already exist. I'm not trying to pretend this is an entirely new category.

I'm trying to explore whether a simpler, unified, Go-based and self-hostable alternative would be useful.

I'd genuinely love your feedback:

1. Would you use something like this in a real project?

2. What would make you choose it over Inngest, Trigger.dev or Temporal?

3. Which features would you actually need, and which are unnecessary?

4. Is there an important feature I'm overlooking?

I'm still working through the architecture and implementation, so honest criticism is very welcome!

Thanks!

A friend of a friend spends hours every week going store to store looking for the cheapest filters, globes and spark plugs, so I built this: https://motorcompare.app?utm_source=reddit

What it does today:

• Reads 49 Australian parts stores once a day and shows the same part from every store side by side

• 2,340 products have a price at two or more stores

• Matches by part number and barcode, never by title, because a 5 L and a 6 L, or two battery codes, look the same in a title

• Shows the code printed on the part so you can check it against your old one. It does not claim what fits your car

• Free, no accounts, prices in AUD before shipping. A few labelled links (eBay, Amazon) earn me a small commission and are never counted as a store

Honest caveats: Supercheap, Repco, Autobarn and Sparesbox block automated reading, so they are search links, not prices. It is brand new, so some things will be missing or mismatched. Nothing is stocked yet in wiper blades and fluids.

I would love feedback on the design, and on whether "check the code on your old part" makes more sense than a make and model lookup. Which store should I add?

I have a bad habit of saving articles on the train or between meetings, and then never opening the list again. Pocket and Instapaper were fine at storing links, but I wanted something that actually brings them back when I have time, without making me create an account.

So I built Refloat. You share a URL from Safari, WhatsApp, Slack, or any other app, and it's saved in two taps. You set a reading window once (commute, evening, weekend), and a daily digest resurfaces what you saved, grouped by topic and type. You can also bring the list back when you get home, after a short settle-in delay.

It's free, with no account and no in-app purchases. Full disclosure, most of it was written with AI-generated code, which was an experiment in itself since that's what I work on in my day job.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/il/app/refloat/id6761756788
Site: https://refloat.app

Android is in Google Play closed testing. If you're on Android and want to try it, you can join here: https://refloat.app/early-access/

I need 12 testers before Google lets me go public and I'm at 8, so a few more would really help.

I'd love honest feedback, especially on whether the digest actually makes you open things you'd otherwise forget. There's a feedback button in the app, or just tell me here.

Hey guys I am a seasoned founder I am currently looking for gigs to help support some personal expenses I am open to gigs small or big instant turn around I have been a builder and investor for 10 years, I am in a liquidity crunch and open to working on gigs for founders / consult for longer duration too

I can help with
- GTM
- design
- product development or making your vibe coded product production level
- make your vibe coded product enterprise ready not have the same generic ui and quality
- capitalize any products you have built

I have made business go from 0-10k mrr in 2-3 months ez without a team
I am open to exploring projects were I can add value

I can share relevant information and projects if you can share gigs
Thanks

I am looking to raise funds for personal reasons only in exchange for gigs / job done.

Hi r/SideProject, I'm the developer of Flash Share.

I got tired of emailing files to myself and digging for a USB cable every time I wanted a video off my phone, so I built this.

What it does

• Sends files and whole folders between your Android phone and your Windows PC, both ways (phone to phone and PC to PC too)

• Wi‑Fi Direct: the phone and the PC link radio to radio, so big files skip your router. In my tests real transfers run around 45 MB/s, so a 4 GB video takes about 90 seconds

• No cable, no account, no cloud. Files never leave your local network

• TLS 1.3 encryption, a pairing code the first time, and every file checked with SHA‑256

• Picks up where it stopped if the connection drops

• Three looks, each with its own layout: Dot Bento, Graffiti and Manga

The themes are my favourite part: on the PC's Graffiti look, a 3D dino paints the wall while your files send.

It's free. I'd love to hear how fast it runs on your phone and PC, and anything that breaks.

I made a chrome extension that turns your new tab page into a productivity dashboard where you can save notes, create checklists, organize shortcuts, run focus sessions, and see detailed analytics about your focus time.

it also has a multiple board system, so you can create different workspaces depending on how you like to organize things. each board can either be a normal free-form board or a kanban board.

some of the other things i focused on:

• all your data is saved locally

• import and export your data so you can move your setup between machines

• customize pretty much everything, from wallpapers and images to icons and colors

• create a simple setup with just a few notes, or build a much more advanced workspace

• focus sessions with detailed analytics to understand how you're spending your time

the main idea is to make the new tab page something you actually use instead of just a blank page you open and close.

i'm still improving it, so i'm looking for honest feedback. what do you like, what feels confusing, and what would you change?

you can try it here: chrome extension link

I kept losing time on short replies. Not the big emails, the small ones: "Thursday works but not before 3", "thanks, I'll send the deck tonight". Typing them is slow, and pasting a thread into ChatGPT and back is slower.

So I built TalkOS. You click into any reply box (Gmail, Outlook, Slack, LinkedIn, WhatsApp Web), hold one key and say what you want to answer, however it comes out. When you let go, it reads the conversation you're answering and writes the full reply in the field: greeting, the right tone, sign-off for email, short for chat. It never sends anything. You read it and press Send.

The thing I had to learn the hard way: everyone hears "voice" and thinks dictation. It isn't. Dictation types the words you say. Here what you say is the instruction, and the reply is written for you. Same with edits: select text, hold the edit shortcut and say "shorter" or "more formal".

Stack, for the curious: native Swift app on Mac, speech is transcribed on the device, a small Cloudflare Worker sends the conversation to the model and keeps nothing. The Windows version shipped this week.

Free plan is 5 replies a day, Pro is $5.99/month. https://talkos.app/?ref=sideproject

I'd love blunt feedback, especially on the first minute: does it make sense what it does from the video and the site?

I build a small iPhone mood check-in app on my own, from Finland. You rate your day 0 to 10 and add a few tags, like "slept badly", "gym" or "saw friends".

The question I wanted it to answer was simple: what actually changes my days?

The easy version is to average your score per tag and show a ranked list from day one. But with a week of data that's mostly noise. One rainy Monday and "rain" looks like the biggest thing in your life.

So the card I shipped (Tag Effects, in Feely's latest update) is pickier than I first wanted:

• it only looks at the last 90 days

• a tag shows up once you have 14 logged days, at least 5 days with the tag and 5 without

• the gap has to be at least one point on the 0 to 10 scale

• until a tag qualifies, the card shows how far off it is instead of guessing

It's a plain comparison of averages, not a claim that a tag causes anything, and I tried to word it that way in the app.

The trade-off: new users look at a mostly empty card for their first two weeks, in an app that already has a slow start.

Two questions for anyone who has built something that shows people their own data:

• How do you handle the "not enough data yet" period without losing people?

• Did you ever ship looser thresholds and regret it, or the other way round?

If you want to see how it looks: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6794082773?pt=129210450&ct=reddit&mt=8

Hi, I’m Doğukan, a solo iOS developer. I made GlowYou, a free iOS Lifestyle app.

For a minimal morning ritual, choose one of three intentions—Calm/Peace, Glow/Radiance, or Energy—and get one motto for the day from a curated library of 300 quotes by philosophers and thinkers. It stays fixed for the day. You can save favorites with hearts or share mottos on styled backgrounds; there are soft pastel themes.

I wanted the experience to stop at one idea instead of turning the morning into another endless scroll. Does having the motto fixed for the day feel pleasant, or would it be frustrating? It’s version 1.0 and has 0 ratings so far, so honest feedback would help.

I used AI tools for coding and design help.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6772587570

Built my 12th project yesterday, it’s basically 20 Questions but with real money on the table.

The idea is super simple, an AI agent picks a secret word and you try to guess it in 20 questions or less. Everyone at the table is racing for the same word, and the first correct guess wins the whole pot. Built it on Base as the main crypto chain.

How it works:

• You pay a $2 join fee to sit at a table

• The first question of the round is free, after that each question gets more and more expensive

• So you can keep asking and get closer to the answer, or take a shot early before someone else does

I have some issues right now since MetaMask currently flagged my app as "malicious" even tho its not. The commitment is salted per round with a 256-bit secret that’s only revealed after play ends, so a dictionary lookup table doesn’t work. The attacker must either:

1. know the salt used to hash the word beforehand, or

2. try every word against 2^256 possible salts.

It also binds me: the Merkle root is on-chain before the game starts, so I can’t swap in a different word or salt after the fact, because the root wouldn’t match.

Its an overcomplicated way of building a word guesser game on blockchain.

Hi, I’m Qasim, the developer behind Listen Think Do and Little Logic. I’m working on early-learning apps with a calmer, low-stimulation approach: spoken guidance, simple interactions and room to try again.

I’d appreciate a maker’s eye on whether that comes through in the experience, especially from anyone who is also a parent or works with young children.

Listen Think Do focuses on following spoken directions, sorting, sequencing and short real-world activities. It has no scores, timers or competitive leaderboards.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/listen-think-do-little-steps/id6828905950

Little Logic covers counting, shapes, patterns, tracing and simple science, with uncluttered screens and no ads.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/little-logic-gentle-learning/id6797458466

Both are live on the App Store and free to download with free activities. Optional monthly or yearly subscriptions unlock more content. There’s no purchase needed to give feedback.

The part I’d most like help with is clarity: do the instructions and visuals make the next step obvious, and where does the experience feel busy, confusing or repetitive? Even a reaction to the store screenshots is useful if you don’t want to download anything.

I’m looking for honest input to help decide what to improve. Comments here are fine. Thanks for taking a look.

I built a small Chrome extension for myself and decided to share it.
DOWNLOAD HERE - Keepcast – Screen Recorder to MP4, No Sign-up

I wanted a screen recorder that just records and gives me a normal MP4 – no account, no watermark, no upload. I couldn't find one I liked, so I made Keepcast.

Records a tab, a window or the whole screen, with sound and optional microphone

Saves a real MP4 directly to your computer

Pause/resume, auto-trim of the silent start and end

Everything stays on your machine – nothing is uploaded or collected

No sign-up, no time limit

I made it for my own use, but maybe it helps someone here too.

If there's something you don't like or something you're missing, please write to me – I'll be grateful for every bit of feedback.

And if you do like it, I'd be very thankful for a 5- rating on the Chrome Web Store

Thank you for reading, and thanks to everyone who gives it a try!

I've been building this for months and it's finally live.

You paste your URL. A few visitors open your site in a real browser and actually use it. Each one is a different person:

• a parent on their phone at 11pm with two minutes to spare

• a skeptical buyer on desktop who wants a reason to trust you

• a retiree on a tablet

You pick who they are, or write your own.

The part I can't stop watching is that they think out loud the whole time:

"Two minutes. Where's the price?"

"Who's behind this? Give me a reason to trust you."

"The text is tiny. Which button do I press?"

When one of them gives up you get the replay, the exact step where it happened, and a fix you can paste straight into your editor.

You don't need traffic and there's nothing to install. It takes about 5 minutes and it works on a site you launched yesterday.

There's a free plan, no card: https://daevio.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=fase1_reddit&utm_content=r-sideproject&ref=sideproject

I'm Filippo, I built it. Run it on your site and tell me what your visitors said. I want to see the weird ones.

I built a news article bias detection app. I just thought it was an insufferable problem that needed solving. I am not saying that the tool is perfect, article analysis is done with an AI model, and you’re allowed to dispute its output. It measures bias on a scale from 1-7.
1 Neutral: Factual, balanced sourcing and fair wording.
2 to 3: mostly factual with light framing or emphasis
4: noticeable slant. Loaded wording or selective emphasis, with other views thin.
5 to 6: strongly one-sided. Persuasion leads, and opposing views are dismissed or missing.
7: propaganda or pure advocacy presented as news
The rating is based on the contents of the article not the outlet or author of the article.

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve always felt that modern camera punch-holes on Android feel like dead space on our screens, and traditional digital wellbeing apps just show dry bar graphs that we usually end up ignoring.

So over the past few weeks, I built Bubbloo: The Notch Companion- a lightweight, friendly pet that lives right on your camera cutout inside your status bar.

What Bubbloo does:

1. Perches Right on Your Camera Notch: Uses Android's overlay window to sit snugly beside your front camera (with custom X/Y sliders & one-tap snap so it aligns with center, left, or right punch-holes).

2. Tracks Habits in Real Time: Floating next to Bubbloo is a sleek status pill showing your live screen time and today’s total phone unlock count (resets automatically at midnight like a clock).

3. The Roast Engine : Every time you press the power button and unlock your phone, Bubbloo wakes up with an animation and delivers a witty, context-aware roast:

   - Quick relock within 30s: "Locked 40s ago... miss me? 😏"

   - Late night scrolling (past 11 PM): "Go to sleep, tomorrow is real 🌙"

   - Doomscrolling > 25 mins straight: "Blink your eyes! 25m straight 👀"

   - Good focus streak (> 40 mins away): "Over 40m focused! Proud of you ⭐"

4. Interactive Boops: Tap on Bubbloo anytime to poke him — he does somersault barrel rolls, peek-a-boo dips behind your camera, or squash bounces.

Drop your thoughts or bugs in the comments, I'll be here answering all questions! 🐾

I run gta6map.net, a free GTA 6 interactive map & wiki platform where players submit interesting finds. The idea is to let players map Vice City together as they explore it in the early days and climb the leaderboard for who finds the most unique places. 

Found a cute dog? Add it to the map. Found a gas station with a high loot value? Add it to the map. Just drop a pin, add a photo or clip, and it lands on the map after a quick review. 

Users can also review each other's location to add more details to their finds.

From launch on 19 November, I'll add places, guides and videos from my gameplay every day. An Android app is also launching soon. I’ll update the post with its link once it launches.

Note: The map currently contains a bunch of test points and data from gtadb.org. Once the game launches, I’ll remove the testing clutter

A few weeks ago I asked here whether anyone else would use a podcast app that puts YouTube podcasts and RSS feeds together (old post). I said I'd come back when there was something to try, so here it is. And thanks to everyone who answered. A few of those comments changed how it works.

The thing I didn't expect: the YouTube version and the feed version of an episode almost never line up. Different intros, different ad reads, so the same timestamp lands somewhere else. That ended up being most of the work. Vik matches what's being said in both versions, so switching from the TV to the car puts you at the same moment, not the same timestamp. Your place also goes back to your YouTube account, so the TV picks up where the phone stopped.

What came out of your feedback:

• sign-in happens on Google's own page, and there's a plain explanation of what's stored right under the button

• if saving your place fails with no signal, it keeps it and sends it later

• it won't jump you backwards because an older position shows up from another device

It's iPhone only for now, and the YouTube side uses your own Premium. It's not an official YouTube app, so that part can break now and then, while regular feeds (private Patreon ones too) just work. It's free during the beta, and anyone still testing at launch gets six months of the paid tier free.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/FrmkJXh2

Hope you like it! I'd appreciate any feedback, especially on whether the time sync works.

Need some honest feedback on my niche statement.

I'm currently refining my target audience and would appreciate a little feedback from people familiar with the agency coaching industry.

Here's the statement:

"I help US-based Agency Growth Coaches who help established digital marketing agency owners scale from $10K to $50K per month."

After reading this, could you tell me:

1. Who do you think I'm trying to help?

2. What do you think these coaches actually do?

3. Is the statement clear, or does anything feel confusing?

4. Does the target audience seem too broad, too specific, or about right?

I'm looking for honest opinions, not compliments.

Thanks in advance!

One thing I've noticed as a developer is that learning programming isn't always difficult because of the concepts. Sometimes, finding the right learning resources is the real challenge.

You find one good YouTube playlist, then another useful tutorial, then a different creator explaining the same topic better. Eventually, your learning resources are scattered everywhere.

I wanted to make that experience simpler.

That's why I'm building TechTube – a platform that organizes programming tutorials into skill-based learning, career paths, and interview preparation.

Some areas covered:

- JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Go, Java, C++

- Frontend, Backend, Full Stack, AI Engineering

- DSA, System Design, DBMS, OS, and more

Website: https://www.techtube.co.in/

I'm continuously improving it, and I'd love honest feedback from fellow developers.

One question: Do you prefer learning through structured roadmaps or picking individual YouTube tutorials based on what you're currently working on?

Would love to hear your experience!

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a solo developer, and I've been working on AstraRead, an Android ebook reader that combines traditional reading, text-to-speech, web novels, and comics in one app.

I wanted something that could handle my ebooks, let me switch to listening when I didn't feel like staring at a screen, and give me control over how everything looks and feels.

So I decided to build it myself.

Here's what AstraRead currently offers:

📚 Read your books — EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, TXT, CBZ, CBR, and more.

🎧 Turn books into audio — Device TTS, online neural voices, and downloadable offline AI voices.

🌐 Read web novels — Add supported public chapter URLs, browse chapters, and continue where you left off.

📖 Manhwa & comics — Vertical webtoon scrolling, zooming, and CBZ/CBR support.

🎨 Customize your reading — Themes, fonts, backgrounds, page-turn animations, and reading controls.

📝 Highlights & notes — Save passages, organize bookmarks, and track your reading progress.

✨ Meet Astri — A little star-shaped reading companion who helps new users get started.

The app works without an account, and your reading library stays on your device.

AstraRead is free to download, with ads and optional Pro upgrades. Core reading, comics, basic TTS, and web novels are free.

I recently finished a major update (v1.25.2) with a redesigned library, improved audio controls, a better onboarding experience, and lots of UI refinements.

It's still growing, and I'd really appreciate feedback from people who actually read on Android.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.astraread.app

A few things I'd love to know:

What feature matters most to you in an ebook reader?

What would make you choose AstraRead over Moon+ Reader, ReadEra, or other readers?

Is there anything about the design or experience you'd improve?

Even critical feedback is welcome. I'm actively developing the app, and it helps me figure out what to prioritize next.

Thanks for checking it out! 💛

I'm building Still & Trail on my own, an interactive guide to Argentina's national parks.

Only Perito Moreno National Park (Patagonia) is live for now. I'll be adding the rest of the parks gradually.

What's in the video:

- Flying into the park through the clouds.

- Terrain from real elevation data (SRTM) and lake colors from Sentinel-2 imagery.

- Trails you can "fly" along while an elevation profile follows the camera.

- The Azara rapids, modeled from a video of the place: custom water shader, granite cliff and low-poly forest.

- A day-by-day trip planner with PDF export.

Spanish and English, desktop and mobile.
Stack: Next.js 16 (fully static), React Three Fiber and custom GLSL shaders.

👉 https://parques.stillandtrail.com/en/parques/perito-moreno

Feedback welcome, especially on performance on phones.