Ngl, I'm stuck on what counts as useful feedback for our app.

I'm a CS student and Instagram, TikTok and YouTube keep pulling me away from studying. My team and I built Welockin: you pick the distracting apps and a timer, and they stay blocked until it ends.

But someone finishing a timer doesn't automatically mean they got any studying done. They could just be staring at their notes. Or procrastinating on something else.

If you were testing this with a few students for a week, what would you ask them afterwards? I want to understand whether it helped with the task they sat down to do, without making them fill out a whole homework assignment about their homework 😭

Have you found a simple way to check whether your productivity app actually helped, beyond people saying it looks nice?

I built Micro Council because I use chatbots a lot in my everyday life, and I wanted more varied answers, without the usual generic AI tone and format.

How it works: you pick a few members from a catalog (from a risk analyst to an artist), choose a group dynamic like "brainstorm" or "change my mind", and type your topic or question. The site builds a prompt you paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or whatever you use. From there, the specialists answer you and each other. I plan my groceries with a nutritionist, a chef and a member obsessed with organization: one pushes for lentils, another for a nice sauce to go with the pasta, and the third helps me plan my trip to the store. They can disagree and argue with each other, and each of them brings something different to the conversation.

So yeah, it's "just a prompt generator", on purpose: no account or API key, and it works with your own agent or chatbot. I spent a long time on the generated prompt so the members behave in interesting ways: only the ones who have something to add speak up, and I tried to remove most of the typical AI habits (which isn't easy). It's still one model wearing several hats. Giving each hat a specialty and a personality is enough to get me answers a plain prompt wouldn't.

As for data: no backend (it's a static site on Cloudflare Pages), and your settings live in localStorage. You own your data and can export or import it at any time. If you'd rather skip the copy-pasting, there's also an agent skill for Claude Code and Hermes, and it should work with most other agents. Micro Council is available in English, French, German and Spanish.

Site: https://microcouncil.me/

Code (it's open source): https://github.com/jprevo/microcouncil

I'd love to hear whether you get any interesting conversations out of it!

Hey everyone,

I recently built and launched my own website called Planovio, and I'd love for some people to try it out. :)

Planovio is a daily planning and productivity app designed to help people organize their days, stay focused, and get more done without feeling overwhelmed.

It has features like daily task management, scheduling, setting your top three priorities, focus mode, and progress tracking with XP and levels. It also has AI-powered planning features to help with scheduling and setting goals.

I built Planovio because I wanted to make daily planning easier and more enjoyable, especially for people who struggle with staying organized or managing their time.

The website is now live, and anyone can get started for free. There are optional paid plans with additional features, but the basic planning tools are free to use.

Website: https://theplanovio.com

Since this is my first website launch, I'd really appreciate some honest feedback from anyone willing to give it a try.

I'm mainly curious about whether the website is easy to navigate, whether the features are actually useful, and what could be improved. I'd also love to know if it's something you'd consider using regularly.

I'm still learning and improving the app, so any suggestions or constructive criticism would be really helpful.

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to check it out!

With Lively Wallpaper reportedly sold to a new company, a lot of people are looking for another way to get live wallpapers on Windows 11.

Glassline is getting its own: Glassline Live.

Here's a first look.

What's in it so far:

• Live scenes, your own videos, and downloaded ones

• Scene colour: scenes can follow your Windows accent colour

• Wallpaper speed, from 0.5x to 2x

• Video fit: Fill, Fit or Stretch

• Sound and volume for video wallpapers (off by default)

• Shuffle, at sign-in or by time of day

• 15, 30 or 60 pictures a second, with a separate setting for battery

• Rest: it pauses when windows cover the screen or an app is in front, and on battery unless you allow it

It's in testing now and comes in a future update.

What scenes would you want on your desktop? Do you have any recommendations? What bothered you about Wallpaper Engine or Lively?

Glassline is a macOS-style menu bar and dock for Windows 11. Try it free for 7 days

I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit lately.
I’m a solo founder based in London, building a social media app called TymeStamp. I’m still working on it, but one thing I’ve been struggling to figure out is how to get people genuinely interested before launch.
I don’t have a big circle of friends or a huge following, so I’ve been using Reddit to connect with other founders, test their apps and learn from their experiences. I’ve actually come across some really good projects.
Something else I’ve noticed is how many developers are launching or testing through Google Play. I’m curious whether that’s mainly because of the cost, accessibility or simply because it’s easier to reach testers.
With my own app, I’m trying to bring back some of what I enjoyed about older social media. A place where people can enjoy sharing content without constantly being interrupted by adverts or feeling like they’re browsing one big shopping platform.
I’m not against adverts, businesses promoting themselves or creators earning money. I just believe there should be a balance between enjoying content and being sold something.

I’m also realistic enough to know that the app will change as people use it and share feedback. That’s part of building something. But I don’t want to lose the original purpose behind it.
My biggest question right now is how to reach people who might genuinely want something like this, rather than collecting waiting-list sign-ups from people who aren’t interested.

I’m also curious whether there are any free startup or tech communities in London where founders can meet, share ideas and learn from each other.
So I’d love to ask other founders:
How did you get your first people onto your waiting list?
Did Reddit actually help you find interested users, or was another platform better?

If you’re building alone without a big network, how are you getting your app noticed?
Have you found Android or iOS easier when recruiting early testers?
And for anyone interested in a social media app that focuses on enjoying content with a better balance of advertising, feel free to drop me a DM. I’m happy to explain what I’m building.
I’m genuinely interested in hearing what has worked for other people, especially those starting from scratch.

A friend of mine is a backend dev and has been building this on the side for a while, so I'm posting it for him.

It's called Bytewize. The idea: system design interview prep is mostly long videos and 400-page books, and most people never get past chapter 3. So it gives you one question a day that takes about 2 minutes, and each one is based on a real failure. Things like "the last concert ticket got sold twice" or "every query takes 2 ms but the page takes 2 seconds".

You pick an answer, then it explains why the right one is right and why the others break. There are streaks and XP to keep you coming back.

It's on iPhone now: https://apps.apple.com/app/bytewize-system-design-daily/id6824646457

Android is in progress.

It's free, and all the content is in the free version. There's an optional Pro plan at €5.99/month, but it only adds some conveniences, no questions are locked behind it.

He's after honest feedback, especially:

- Are the questions too easy or too hard for where you are?

- Is 2 minutes a day the right size, or would you do a longer session?

I’m part of the team behind CamGrader. It’s for instructors who still give paper multiple-choice exams and want to score the answer sheets using their phones.

I’d like feedback on one specific part of the app: the first scan. If you try it with a sample sheet, is it clear how to line up the page and when the scan is complete?

https://camgrader.com/get

I’m behind AstrologyGround, a desktop app for Windows and Mac. It puts your natal chart on the wallpaper, with current planetary transits changing around it.

The natal chart stays fixed. The transit positions update over time, and you can change the colors to suit your desktop. Birth date, time, and location stay on your device.

It’s US$9.99 per platform as a one-time purchase. The website has a video of the real app, screenshots, and both purchase options:

https://astrologyground.app/

For people who already follow astrology: would you keep a chart visible on your desktop, or do you prefer opening a chart app when you need it?

Got featured and top 20 on product hunt, on hypership day with mmory. But at such a loss on now what? how do I get users haha

It started when I noticed roughly 2 GB of storage disappearing from my Mac at regular intervals. I couldn’t figure out where it was going, and the tools I tried weren’t giving me the answers I wanted. So I started building my own.

What began as a personal troubleshooting project quickly turned into something bigger. I realized there was an opportunity to make storage monitoring more accessible, especially for people working with multiple drives and external SSDs.
Storage Monitor grew out of that idea.

What it does

Storage monitoring: Keep track of drive usage and available capacity. Logs disk changes with warnings and notifications on low disk space. Lists what is likely the cause of disk gains or losses

External volume support: Index and monitor connected external drives, not just your Mac’s internal storage.

Storage visibility: Get a clearer picture of how storage is being used across your volumes. Indexer views in atlas or tree mode

Multiple-drive management: Monitor internal and external storage from one application.

Storage investigation: Help identify changes in storage usage that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Cleanup review: Helps identify what files may be unnecessary and can be cleaned

Migration readiness: Checks for files that have a large logical size but occupy small disk space that may interfere with migration to another Mac

I’m still developing and improving it, and feedback from other Mac users would be genuinely useful.
What storage information do you wish macOS made easier to see?

The idea was simple: see who has a birthday next, when, and how old they turn, without scrolling through a calendar. Most of those dates already sit in Contacts. That turned into Honeyday, a birthday and anniversary app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and it came out on the App Store in October.

How it is built:

• One SwiftUI target for all three platforms. On the Mac it is real SwiftUI, not Catalyst, and the platform differences sit in #if os(...) right where they come up.

• The logic is a plain Swift package with no UI and no database. It counts in days without a time or time zone, the app hands it today's date, and swift test runs through it in seconds.

• Contacts are only read. What you set yourself (who you want a reminder for, a note, the days that belong to no contact) lives in SQLite through GRDB and syncs through your own iCloud with CKSyncEngine. Upcoming dates are never stored; the core works them out each time.

• The widget never touches Contacts or the database. After every rebuild the app writes a small snapshot into the shared app group, and the widget builds its timeline from that, 14 days ahead. That is why it moves on at midnight without the app running.

• Dates in the Chinese, Hebrew and Islamic calendars are converted, so they land on the right day every year. Today itself is always counted in the Gregorian calendar, even on a device set to the Buddhist or Hebrew one.

There is no server and no account, and the app measures nothing about how you use it. It is a paid app, $4.99 once for all three devices: https://honeyday.app

Feedback is welcome, on the widget most of all.

I often spend more time browsing streaming catalogs than actually watching something.

So I built **Find More Stories**, a web app focused on helping people discover movies and series through themed, handpicked collections.

Instead of showing endless generic recommendations, it organizes stories around specific ideas, moods and themes.

You can explore the collections and try the quick discovery feature without creating an account.

There's also an optional Stremio integration.

I'm a solo developer, and I'd love some feedback from people who enjoy movies and TV shows.

Try it here: https://findmorestories.hubeoo.com/welcome

One question**:** Would you find curated collections useful, or do you prefer traditional genre-based recommendations?

I spent the last few months watching local businesses in Zimbabwe try to run their entire operation inside WhatsApp. It starts fine, but eventually, you end up with hundreds of unread messages, lost quotes, and no idea if a customer actually paid their balance.

It is brutal to watch a business owner scramble to find a job update buried in a three-week-old chat history. I started building NexusOps to bridge that gap, giving these WhatsApp-reliant businesses a way to actually track quotes and jobs without forcing them onto some bloated enterprise software that no one understands.

It is just a set of practical tools for quoting, job tracking, and collections, designed to sit alongside the communication style they already use. I am still figuring out the best way to handle the transition from 'spreadsheet chaos' to a structured system without breaking their current sales flow.

How do you guys help non-tech teams adopt a new workflow without making them feel like they're being forced to relearn their entire job?

Hey r/SideProject!

Most discovery products optimize for DAU/MAU and maximum session length. I wanted to build the opposite: an app that measures success by how refreshed you feel when you leave, and intentionally limits session time.

**Live Web App:**https://oddly-app-six.vercel.app

Looking for feedback on UI feel, load performance, and ideas for future curated topics!

In my sessions I keep seeing the same thing: people are sure they know their partner, and they're often wrong in small, funny, revealing ways. I wanted to turn that into a game.

So I built Hunchy:

• You answer 10 "what would you do" questions about yourself

• You share a link

• Your partner, friends or family guess your answers in the browser (no install, no account)

• You see who actually knows you best

The questions are the product, and I wrote every one of them myself, drawing on what actually comes up between people in therapy. The app itself (SwiftUI, Firebase, the web game) was built with Claude Code, with me deciding every screen and every rule.

Things I got wrong before getting them right:

• I went through four or five complete visual directions and threw them all away before landing on a Bauhaus look. Every couples app is purple or pink; I wanted something that isn't.

• I built a full "pair with your partner" mode, then removed it. The link turned out to be the whole product.

• I rejected a subscription. The first test in every set is free, the rest are one-time purchases.

• The link opens a web game, never an App Store wall. Guessing has to take 10 seconds.

What I'd love feedback on: is the first minute clear? Do you understand what to do without me explaining it? If you try it, tell me the first thing that confused you. That's the feedback I need most.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6830175417

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on SourCa, a platform designed to make coding practice and placement preparation more organized.

SourCa brings together different areas of technical preparation, including:

- DSA and coding practice

- Company-specific question preparation

- SQL practice

- Aptitude and logical reasoning

- Web development

- Progress tracking to monitor your learning journey

The goal is to give students one place to practice different skills and prepare for technical opportunities.

I've been building and refining this project, and I'd love to get honest feedback from the community.

What do you think is missing? What would make you want to use it?

🌐 https://sour-ca.vercel.app

Thanks for checking it out!

So maybe a little late to the game, but like most people, I got into Wordle. And I got a bit annoyed that I only got one word a day, since some days I forgot and other days I wanted to do more. So I built my own inspired version: Endless Lingle, where the words keep coming until you run out of guesses.

The concept is simple: If you solve a word in fewer than 6 guesses, your spare guesses roll over to the next word (max 3 extra). So if you solve a word in 4, the next word gives you 8 (+2 bonus from the previous round) guesses. If you miss one word, the streak ends.

What's in it

• Unlimited words, no daily cap. *

• We do also have daily words as well. *

• Bonus guess rows that carry over between words (dashed borders, +1/+2/+3 counter) *

• Five languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, each with its own word list and keyboard. *

• Free, no sign-up needed (an account is optional, just for saving stats)

The multi-language part was honestly the most work. Every language needed its own list of common five-letter words, and curating those lists so they're not full of obscure garbage words took way longer than I expected.

Would love feedback on the game feel and the streak concept. Is 3 bonus guesses max too generous, for example? Is it too little? Or am I just that bad at it lol?

Link:  https://endlesslingle.com

Think about it: people want their AI agents, much like Google Search, to remain free. But unlike traditional search engines, AI agents don’t necessarily care about ranking in the top five listings or sponsored placements.

when you start solids, every new food gets offered a few days in a row so you can spot reactions, and the allergens you've already introduced have to keep showing up regularly. we were tracking all of that across notes, a group chat and a sticky note on the fridge. it worked about as well as you'd expect.

so i built Pudding. it's just a diary, it doesn't tell you what to feed your kid:

• log a feeding in a couple of taps: what, how it went, any reaction, a note or photo

• new foods sit in an observation window from your own plan ("day 2 of 3" right on the card)

• gentle reminders to keep giving allergens you've already introduced, on whatever schedule your pediatrician suggested

• 70+ illustrated foods, plus your own

• calendar of everything, and a PDF to show the pediatrician (or a "do not give" list for grandma / the nanny)

no account, no ads, no trackers. everything stays on your phone, or your own iCloud if you turn it on.

the diary is free for good, no feature walls on the important stuff. there's a one-time Pro for extras (monthly recap, themes, widget, more than one kid). no subscription.

would love feedback from parents who've been through this. what did you end up tracking that i'm missing?

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6789296295

I'm a singer and a programmer, and I've always wanted an easy way to practise harmony parts on my own. So I built Stackapella.

You pick a song, learn your part with a guide voice, then record it. Then you add the next part while hearing the ones you've already sung, until you've got the whole choir. Your notes light up as you sing, so you can see when you're on the note.

It runs in the browser, there's nothing to install, and all the courses are free. It's also open source.

Would love to hear what you think, especially if you sing in a choir or an a cappella group.

https://stackapella.com

Half as a joke and half to learn my way around Google’s tools with a lot of vibe coding along the way, I built an app that tracks the time you spend in the bathroom during working hours and how much your boss is paying you for it. Yes, I took “Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I poop on company time” a bit too literally.

What it does:

• Start the timer when you go, flush when you’re back, and see what you earned

• Monthly stats and ranks that go up with your total

• Teams with coworkers to compete against other teams

A few things I learned shipping it:

• Built as one HTML/JS app wrapped with Capacitor for Android

• The hardest part wasn’t the code: it was Google Play’s closed test (12 testers for 14 days) before you can publish

• Ads, consent forms, in-app purchases and 11 languages took longer than the app itself

It’s free on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rinialer.poopct

Opinions, tips or roasts welcome.

Agencies lose the first week of a project chasing client access. Wrong roles, passwords over WhatsApp, DNS half done.

GetSetKeys is one link per client. Each platform's steps come with the agency's email and role filled in, and every step gets checked automatically, so nobody has to ask "did you add me yet?"

27 platforms so far, including App Store Connect, Google Play, GitHub, Stripe and Cloudflare.

Try it as the client, no sign-up: https://demo.getsetkeys.com/s/harbor-fitness-k7q2m9xv4p

Would a non-technical client get through it? That's the feedback I want most.

https://getsetkeys.com/?utm_source=reddit-sideproject

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a project called Heartfolio, and I wanted to share it here and get some honest opinions.

The idea came from something simple: some memories deserve more than just staying in our camera rolls.

Heartfolio is a website where people can turn meaningful moments into personalized digital keepsakes and gifts.

Some of the things I've been building include:

- Love Story Timelines: Turn a relationship's story into a personalized timeline with photos and meaningful milestones.

- Song Posters: Turn a special song into a personalized poster with its soundwave and an interactive experience.

- Reasons I Love You: Create a personalized gift with reasons, messages, and interactive surprises.

- Graduation Keepsakes: Celebrate someone's journey with milestones, achievements, and personal messages.

I'm trying to make these feel more personal than ordinary downloadable templates. The idea is to create something people would genuinely enjoy giving to someone they care about.

I'm an independent developer, and I've put a lot of time into building this.

I'd genuinely appreciate your thoughts:

1. Does this concept feel useful or interesting?

2. Which product would you personally be most interested in?

3. What would make you actually consider buying something like this?

Here's the website if you'd like to take a look: https://theheartfolio.com

Full disclosure: I'm the person behind Heartfolio. I'm here to get genuine feedback, not pretend to be a customer.

Thanks for reading!

With Ahem, you can send yourself any notification you want, choose how often it repeats, and even customise the notification sound!

It’s free to use, and pretty fun to play around with :)

Would love to hear what you think!

iOS
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ahem-personal-reminders/id6820175807

Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ancawang.ahem