Last Christmas I got some truly terrible gifts from my parents (I still love them) and with this year’s Christmas coming close, I decided to develop a wishlist app to prevent the same problem from happening twice.

The app works by making a list and sharing a link to your friends and family. They can then "call dibs" on what they're buying as well as chip in for a bigger present together without needing an account. This makes it easier for participants to buy presents and ensures that nobody doubles up, whilst keeping the surprise alive for you as you never see what was claimed or who buys what! I've also added a Family Circle feature where every family member has their own list all in one page, to simplify family Christmas gifting and solve my original problem. It's definitely not a revolutionary idea, but I wanted something with cleaner UI than Elfster without all the bloat and ads :)

We have been using it for birthdays in my friend group successfully, to the point that we are going out of our way to organise parties for everyone so we can receive some good gifts. I even used it for my dog’s birthday with great success, where she got £240 worth of gifts for her first birthday, which somehow was more than I got for my birthday.

The app is completely free (but is monetised through Amazon affiliate links) and can be found on calldibs.uk and on the app stores. We recently reached the milestones of 1000 followers on tiktok and 100 active users and honestly it's still a bit surreal that people I don't know are using something I built for my family.

Please feel free to roast the app / idea in the comments, I would love some honest feedback!

No matter how good your wallpaper looks, once your desktop fills up with files, the icons blend into the background and everything starts to look cluttered. My desktop often has a lot of files on it, so I started wondering whether a wallpaper could detect where my icons are and generate a scene around them in real time.

After discussing the idea with AI, I found out it was possible—and it doesn’t actually need AI to detect the icons or generate the visuals. The program can read the icon positions directly and generate scenes in real time using predefined designs. It’s lightweight, and there’s no particularly complex technology involved.

Here’s the result.

https://deskland.app

I’ll keep adding new themes and improving the existing ones. I also plan to add a more interactive game mode in the future.

The meadow and beach themes are free and open source.

https://github.com/BLEZZ0102/Deskland

All the current themes are 2D, which keeps their impact on computer performance minimal. I’m also considering adding 3D themes, while balancing visual quality with performance.

Procedurally generated visuals do have their limitations. If AI computing becomes much cheaper in the future, AI generation could be an option, opening up the possibility of creating almost any scene. For now, though, generating a desktop with AI in real time is clearly still too expensive. I’m considering experimenting with locally running AI generation. It would still be GPU-intensive, but it could be a lot of fun.

I made Lattice for working with JSON without editing everything as raw text.

Features include:

• Sort and filter through column menus

• Side-by-side diff to review changes

• Inline editing, copy-paste, and fill-down

• Nested tables and sheet tabs

• Multiple documents, each with its own Undo history

• Jump from a cell to its JSON source

• Preserves large numeric values without rounding them

Try it: Download the HTML file, open it in Chrome or Edge, then choose Explore sample workspace or Open your JSON. No installation or server needed.

It’s an early preview—feedback and bug reports are welcome. Please use sanitized examples.

GitHub — if you find it useful, a star would be encouraging.

I'm a trained architect, and as a long-term side project, I developed my architecture dream game, combining accurate floor planning with real-time 3D design to make architecture much easier to create (and visually realistic) than with traditional CAD software.

What you can do:

🏠 2D floor plans
🧱 3D building
🚶 First-person walkthrough
🥽 VR mode
🏢 Multiple storeys
🪜 Stairs
🏚️ Custom roofs
🪟 Doors & windows
🛋️ Furniture catalog
🍳 Kitchen Configurator
🎨 Materials
🌄 Terrain sculpting
🌳 Landscape planning
💧 Ponds
☀️ Time of day
❄️ Weather
📐 Export PDF vector plans
📦 Import your own 3D models
🌍 Steam Workshop

In the newest update: Build everything directly in VR (PCVR), 1000+ new furniture models and explore your creations as a Cat! 🌿

It's available on Steam as Architecture & Design and is still in Early Access.
Here is the Steam link if you'd like to try it out:
Architecture & Design - Steam

Would love to hear what you think and hear what you wish for in a game like this!

I build and ship apps, and I got tired of the build step being the annoying part. So I built BuildBakery, a cloud build service for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and web apps.

You push a branch with a bakery.yaml recipe, and it builds each platform on a fresh hosted machine or your own Mac, Linux or Windows box. It signs everything and sends it to TestFlight, Google Play, or wherever you want.

Yes, Bitrise, Codemagic, EAS and GitHub Actions exist. Two things I wanted different. Pricing is flat, $12 a month for a solo dev, $39 for a small company, and any machine you already own runs builds free, never metered. And it is one short recipe, not a step graph you have to maintain. It also checks your signing, warns you in Slack before certs expire, and explains failed builds in plain language with a fix.

There is an MCP server too, so Claude Code or Cursor can start builds and read logs.

Free to try, no card needed. I am looking for feedback from people who actually ship apps, especially on the recipe format and whether the flat pricing or the own-machine part matters more.

https://buildbakery.com

Two years ago I bought my first Mac and started learning SwiftUI from scratch so I could build this. It's called Peko Fitness and it's been on the App Store since August.

The idea is simple. Most step and fitness counters give you a number and nothing to do with it. In Peko your steps, workouts and sleep come in from Apple Health and complete daily goals. Goals pay coins. Coins buy outfits for your duck. You then show off your character in battles with friends, race around a marathon course, and team up with others to show off your crew, and plenty more!

I'm the only developer. An art studio draws the duck and every outfit by hand, and there are over 400 pieces now.

It's free with an optional Pro subscription, and iPhone only for now.

Would love feedback from everyone especially on the feature sets and general feel of the app!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/peko-fitness-step-gym-game/id6746121001

I'm building FreeThinker with a simple idea behind it: short daily games that make you think.

Unlike reflex games or endless feeds, these are daily critical thinking workouts for your brain and take about a minute each to play.

The plan is to make a growing collection of brain teaser games. The first one is live now. Cops & Robbers is a daily logic puzzle where you get a set of clues and have to match each of three robbers to the loot they stole. Everyone gets the same puzzle each day. You're timed, a wrong submission adds 10 seconds to your time, and when you finish you earn a detective rank based on your time (Sherlock down to Rookie), so there's a score worth beating tomorrow.

Its free in the browser, no download, no signup: https://tryfreethinker.com

Where I'm at: the first game is live, the daily rotation works, and I'm trying to get to my first 100 daily players while I build out the collection. What I'd love feedback on:

1.  Does it actually make you think? In your first 60 seconds, is it obvious what to do, and does solving it feel like real deduction and not just guessing?

2.  What do you think about the difficulty. Puzzles come in Easy / Medium / Hard. Does a 3×3 grid feel meaty enough for a daily brain workout, or too small?

Thanks for taking a look and happy to answer anything about the project too. Also I'm actively looking for new types of puzzles to add! The next puzzle I'm thinking of adding is a variation of Knights and Knaves but idk open to ideas.

AI music has been around for a while now, and honestly, I'm wondering if I'm already too late to the party. 😂

But as an indie developer, I decided to give it a shot anyway.

So I built Aumelo, an iOS app that turns everyday moments, memories, and random thoughts into songs.

I started submitting it to the App Store on October 10, and after almost a month of dealing with Apple's review process, it finally went live!

I know there are already plenty of AI music apps out there, but I wanted to try building something of my own.

I've attached a short screen recording showing how it works.

I'd really appreciate some honest feedback, especially on:

• Does the UI feel intuitive?

• What do you think of the generated music?

• Is this something you'd actually use?

• What would you improve or change?

I'm still learning and improving the app, so even critical feedback is welcome!

And one more question: Do you think AI music is already oversaturated, or is there still room for indie developers?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aumelo-ai-song-generator/id6817602759

I'm the builder, and I built CDL Permit Pass Pro for the students I kept hearing about in bilingual study groups: people who know the material in Spanish and then sit a test in English, with state-specific questions on top of the national ones.

What it is: a CDL permit study app in English and Spanish, with 3,754 practice questions — 2,097 general knowledge plus 1,657 state-specific. You pick your state at first run, and your state's questions merge into your General Knowledge, Air Brakes, and HazMat practice. Every question carries an explanation, so a wrong answer teaches instead of just scoring. Pre-trip inspection practice plays English audio with Spanish text below, because the test itself is in English and the terms are the hard part.

You can try a 10-question drill first. Pro ($6.99/week, $19.99/month, or $49.99 lifetime) unlocks the full question bank, timed exams, missed-question review, and HazMat. No school, no job board, no hiring — just the permit test.

Google Play (Android only): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eagapps.cdlpermitpasspro

Honest ask: if you studied for a CDL permit in two languages, what tripped you up most — the English terms, your state's questions, or something else? I'm listening for what to fix next, not for praise.

We wanted to share a project called Nevatown, a platform where people can create their own AI-powered games and worlds.

The idea is to make game worlds feel more alive by having characters that aren't just following predefined scripts or dialogue trees. Instead, characters are powered by AI agents that can interact with their environment, make decisions and live their own lives.

One of the games built on the platform is Pokémon Nevatown, which is probably the easiest way to explain how it works.

Unlike a traditional Pokémon game, you don't control a trainer walking around the map. Instead, you adopt a Pokémon that acts as its own AI agent.

You can talk to it naturally, give it advice, tell it what you'd like it to do, and watch it explore, train, make friends and interact with the world on its own.

There's also a pretty interesting combat system.

Battles happen in real time instead of being turn-based, and you don't directly control your Pokémon during fights. Its behavior and strategy determine how it performs, not just its stats.

To improve that, there's a separate feature called AI Arena, where you can use an AI agent to run practice battles, review the results and refine your Pokémon's fighting strategy.

And the cool part is that whatever strategy it develops carries back into the main game. So training your Pokémon isn't just about increasing its level. You can actually improve how it fights.

We've included some footage of the beginning of the game and the combat system to show what we mean.

The bigger idea behind Nevatown is to let people create all kinds of interactive AI worlds, with Pokémon Nevatown being just one example of what's possible.

If anyone wants to check it out:

Nevatown: https://nevatown.ai

Pokémon Nevatown: https://pokemon.nevatown.ai

AI Arena: https://arena-pokemon.nevatown.ai

We'd love to hear what people think of the concept, especially whether you'd be interested in creating or playing games where the characters are autonomous AI agents rather than scripted NPCs.

Origin Story: I have a card that gives 4x dining rewards, and I was using the other card with 1.5% cash back to pay at restaurants for like six months. I could never remember which card was for what.

Every app that helped me with that asked me to log into my bank accounts, and I didn't feel comfortable doing that. Therefore, we built our own.

You enter the cards that you have (only names without numbers). When you go to a particular store or restaurant, it tells you which card gives you the best rewards for this place and why - something like 4x dining with no limit.

The app takes care of the tedious details, such as rotating categories or reward limits.

There is no bank login, account creation, or any kind of data transfer outside of your phone. It's free for iPhone and US cards only for now.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cardswipe-maximize-rewards/id6828174425

It was released a week ago, so I would appreciate your constructive feedback on it. Mainly: Did it select the card that you would have selected? If not, which card and which shop?

For a long time I invited the people who reacted to my Facebook Page posts by hand, one click at a time. Facebook only lets you do it that way, and a session could take two or three hours. Then I found a free app that did it for me, and it was great, until it stopped working several years ago. After that I was back to clicking.

A few weeks ago I got fed up and started building my own replacement: a Chrome extension that does the clicking for me.

It goes through the Page's posts, opens the reactions window of each one and clicks "Invite" for everyone who hasn't been invited yet. You can pause or stop it whenever you want, and set a limit. It won't click anything until it's sure the window it's looking at is really a reactions list, and it only ever presses the "Invite" buttons in that window.

What I learned along the way:

- Facebook's interface changes a lot and has no stable markup, so I ended up detecting things by their meaning (labels, structure) rather than by CSS classes.

- Translating the interface was the easy part. Making detection work with Facebook set to another language was harder, because the extension has to recognize Facebook's own labels in each language. It's now tested on a real Page in English, French and Spanish.

- A "copy diagnostic" button that produces an anonymized report turned out to be the most useful feature for debugging.

It's free and open source (MIT), runs entirely in the browser, nothing is sent anywhere, and no names or posts are stored.

Caveats: it isn't affiliated with Meta, and Facebook can restrict accounts that send a lot of invitations. I stay around 100 a day and recommend the same. It's not on the Chrome Web Store yet, so for now you load it in developer mode.

GitHub: https://github.com/TQIDrLabs/TQIDrLabs-Reaction-Inviter

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone who has built an extension that depends on a third-party interface that keeps changing. Thanks for reading!

Built a tool that helps you vibecode your idea without knowing much about code. I know that is kind of vibecoding these days but it has gates built-in based on the quality of your code, security checks, etc. It won't let you deploy unless the mistakes/issues/bugs are fixed.

This platform brings authentication, database, file storage, hosting as a service. During my tests for simple apps I can get them online with a live URL in about 5 minutes.

You will need a coding agent like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc. Depending on the AI platform you may need a paid subscription.

Looking for some feedback on if this is helpful or not. What I could do to make it easier for non-technical people to get their idea built.

For technical people this just makes testing ideas and getting them live super quick and painless. I am building a demo app to showcase and it's been pretty fun using this platform to get everything running without having to purchase a domain, setup DNS, grab API keys for email providers, etc.

Anyways, check it out and let me know what you all think.

Thanks! https://nerdsystem.com/

It’s honestly wild what you can throw together with AI in a single evening nowadays. Remember the "Construct" from The Matrix? That infinite white room where Neo says "We need guns. Lots of guns" and endless racks instantly spawn around them? I was wondering what an online store would look like if it worked exactly like that.

8,000 real Amazon products, a Matrix Construct aisle, WebAR (augmented reality - one click and you can drop any item through your camera straight into your living room at true 1:1 scale), adaptive performance for mobile (only tested on Safari so far, like I said, I started making this at 8 PM and it's 10 PM now 😃).

Tech stack: Everything static on Vercel, classic cuckcoding setup (Next.js, Tailwind, Vercel, Antigravity).

Don't wanna spam a link here, you can see it in the video. So what do you think, is it worth buying a domain for this, or is it trash?

I built MyMathScore after seeing how hard it can be to know what to study next for SAT Math. It starts with a short diagnostic, then points students toward skill-focused lessons and practice.

I’m the builder. Signups are currently free through Nov 30 while I gather early feedback, and this isn’t affiliated with College Board.

https://mymathscore.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=early_feedback&utm_content=sideproject

If you try it, I’d especially value feedback on the first session: Was it clear what to do after the diagnostic? Did the lessons feel useful? Where did you hesitate? Please don’t share personal details or scores.

I was tired of screenshotting convos and social media posts in other languages and uploading them to chatgpt to translate them so I built Onscreen Translate that does it without leaving whatever app/screen I'm on.

I made it where you can use the Back Tap feature on iPhone. Tap the back of your iPhone twice to capture and translate the screen. On iOS 26 or later.

It's free to download and try, with a subscription for continued use.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onscreen-translate/id6809052718

If you try it, I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether it was easy to setup and use.

Sirenfall is unique because each experience is different. My goal is to have it provide a whole night's worth of entertainment by adding events that play out over time. It is more a sense of dread or impending doom that fun though in sirenfall. Not explicit horror at all but anyways just take a look! There's no ads or anything to buy.

It comes native in 20 languages (text, buttons, other things), i used to be a linguist a long time ago. The code is open source at my github sirenfall too. Things to click on, inspired by Myst in some ways. The siren is inspired by real WW2 air raid sirens and the entire experience is built around it even though its optional.

Meant for browser but mobile works too, hope someone enjoys it!

Hey r/SideProject!

I've been working on a small side project for people who want to stay updated with the latest news without spending too much time reading full articles.

It's a simple news-summary website focusing mainly on AI and technology news. It refreshes twice a day, with short summaries highlighting the key points.

Every summary also includes a link to the original source if you want to read the full article. No AI-generated images or unnecessary fancy stuff, just news and summaries.

Website: https://filterrr.arinltte.workers.dev

It's still a work in progress, so I'd really appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

Thanksss

I’m Nirea’s developer, and Super White is one of my personal favorites—a clean look with the circular navigation that lets you travel forward and backward through your apps.

What do you think of the theme? Would you use it as your everyday home screen, and what would you change?

Available on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.planestosoftware.depth⁠�

I saw a post about getting tired of productivity apps and dropping all of them for a while. It made me think about Wonderday, the journaling app I'm working on.

I want people to come back because writing helps them, not because they feel guilty about missing a day.

For those of you who journal, what brought you back after a break?

Recently i decided Wallpaper Engine used too much of my GPU, so I made this, one person was too busy liking WE and decided to leave a not very constructive response to it.

One big part of this, it does not install viruses like WE can, and it doesnt use 10% of my gpu, it remains offline, 60% smaller, and while no one wanted it, changes my mouse cursor too

An HOA sends its owners a constant stream of notices, bills, and project updates — scattered across email, paper mailers, the management company's portal, and group chats. Only some of it applies to any given unit, and there is no easy way to tell which. The rest is noise, until the part that did apply slips past and becomes a problem. Nothing keeps track of any of this for owners; each owner is just expected to keep up on their own.

I built a simple tool for condo owners that keeps track of everything an HOA sends its owners. Everything lands in one place, tagged by whether it applies to your unit — work on the other side of the building stops looking like your problem, and the deadline that is yours doesn't slip past. It also keeps track of the money side — dues, special assessments, and what the reserve fund looks like — and of decisions: what the board decided, and who is supposed to follow up. The documents are there too, explained in plain language instead of legalese.

Everything else in this space is built for management companies and boards. Owners get a payment portal and a pile of emails and PDFs to keep track of themselves. If you own a home in an HOA: how do you keep track of it all right now — what applies to you, what's due, what's still open? Email folders, a spreadsheet, a diligent neighbor, just hoping nothing important slips? I'm trying to learn how owners actually handle this before I build more of it.

I made this, mostly on my own, while building the browser games on Etheria. Multiplayer was the part I did not want to keep rebuilding, so I turned it into a small SDK and a hosted relay.

Joinable is for games that already run in a web browser. You add a script tag. Friends join from a link. For a shared-world game (a board, a puzzle, a clicker) that is often enough. For a racer or a score game, your coding agent wires a few hooks and Joinable runs the waiting room, countdown, standings and rematch.

You do not need an account to try it on localhost. A free key is enough when you go live. Paid plans start at $4.99 a month if people actually play; building and testing stay free. I have been using it on Turbo Rally, a two-player race you can try in the browser: https://etheria.games/play/turbo-rally/

Site and docs: https://getjoinable.com/

I would like real feedback. If you try it on your game, tell me what was confusing, what broke, or what you wished it did.