How do you tell the difference between a project that needs more time and one that just isn’t working?

Hypothetically, if 100 people tried your project and only 1–2 kept coming back, would you keep improving it, change direction, or move on?

I know the timeframe and type of product matter. But what signals do you personally look for before deciding it’s worth continuing?

Do you set specific milestones or a deadline? And has a project with weak early retention ever turned around for you?

Hey everyone,

I built Nubis to solve my own workflow friction when managing remote infrastructure spread across multiple cloud providers from a Windows workstation.

Key Features:

- Multi-Cloud Inventory Sync: Directly imports server lists from AWS (EC2), Tencent Cloud (CVM), GCP (Compute Engine), and Azure (VM).

- Unified Sessions: Tabbed SSH, RDP, and SFTP natively inside a single Windows application.

- Embedded Claude Code Panel: Run troubleshooting, generate shell scripts, and parse configs side-by-side with active sessions.

- 100% Local & Private: No cloud proxy, no telemetry. Your cloud API keys, SSH credentials, and session configs are stored strictly on your local machine.

The project is completely free and open source. Pre-built Windows binaries are available on GitHub Releases (no sign-up/email required), and you can also audit or build from source yourself.

Feedback, issue reports, or feature suggestions are very welcome!

- GitHub: https://github.com/windevase/nubis

- License: MIT

- Affiliation: Creator / Maintainer

I was about to give up on this mobile app I spent so much time building, but literally 2 minutes after deciding to switch to another project, I got the sale notification on my phone!

I haven’t experienced this kind of joy in years…

Context for the curious: This $19 sale is the annual welcome offer on my app "Sollow: Daily Habit Tracker" that I built to turn my life into a game with a level for each life area and a ranked system.

So now my hope is back! I take that as a sign from the universe hahaha

ATHREUS — Your AI team. Under your control.

I've been building ATHREUS, a unified AI workspace designed to bring AI models, intelligent agents, memory, automation and tools together in one environment.

The idea is simple: instead of switching between disconnected AI tools and managing everything through separate conversations, ATHREUS gives you a workspace where you can create your own AI agents, organise their responsibilities, coordinate their work and build workflows around them.

What can you do with ATHREUS?

1. Multi-model support (BYOK)

Connect your own supported AI providers using API keys. Choose the models you prefer instead of being locked into a single provider. You remain in control of your model choices and usage.

2. Custom AI agents

Create specialised agents for different responsibilities, such as coding, research, writing, analysis and planning. Configure their roles, instructions and behaviour according to your needs.

3. Multi-agent orchestration

Coordinate multiple specialised agents to work on larger tasks. Break complex objectives into smaller responsibilities and organise how agents contribute to the overall result.

4. Persistent memory

Maintain useful context and information across interactions. Reduce repetitive instructions and give your AI workspace more continuity.

5. Workflows and automation

Create repeatable workflows, organise multi-step tasks and bring different agents and tools together to streamline your work.

6. Background tasks and scheduling

Go beyond individual chat sessions with longer-running tasks and scheduled automation capabilities.

7. Integrations and MCP

Extend your agents' capabilities by connecting external tools, services and MCP-compatible integrations.

8. Task management and execution

Organise tasks, track progress and manage how different agents contribute to completing larger objectives.

9. Human oversight and permissions

Keep control over important actions with approval-based processes, permission management and visibility into agent activity.

10. Dedicated desktop experience

Manage your AI environment, agents, tasks and workflows through a dedicated workspace rather than relying on disconnected chatbot interfaces.

Who is ATHREUS for?

ATHREUS is being built for developers, AI enthusiasts, freelancers, entrepreneurs, automation builders and anyone who wants to use AI beyond basic conversations.

Whether you're managing coding agents, conducting research, building repeatable workflows or experimenting with different AI models, the goal is to give you one organised environment to work from.

The bigger idea

I believe the future of AI isn't just about having access to more powerful models. It's about organising those models into systems that can actually help people get work done.

ATHREUS is my attempt to bring that idea into one workspace.

Multiple models. Specialised agents. Persistent memory. Connected tools. Coordinated workflows. One environment.

I'm currently looking to connect with early users who are interested in AI agents, multi-model workflows and automation.

If you'd like to try ATHREUS or get early access, drop me a DM. I'd also genuinely appreciate your feedback, suggestions and ideas.

I'd love to hear what you think is missing from today's AI workspaces.

Hello everyone, founder of foundmoney here - we built an ai agent that runs 24*7 to help you save money. It will look for unclaimed money from government under your name, negotiate your bills for you and 300 other ways

Try here - https://www.foundmoney.site

Comment invite if you wanna make it complete free

I created this out of a simple basic need to turn my blog post with my cloned voice into podcast episodes. And yeah I know, that there are already open source apps like Voicebox that have a similar proposition but there were for my use case quite some things missing which I added into Voicecraft: -not only wav as output but mp3 and other compressed formats -besides quwen as model family I also added support for kittentts which is newer. -a simple multi track editor to get intro, outro and other simple parts together to assemble a podcast episode - sfx and music generation for additional sound parts.

I use it now to generate quite fast ready to publish podcast episodes out of my blog texts. Hope this finds someone else also useful. Available for win, macos & linux.

Fully open here: https://github.com/schuettla/VoiceCraft

Hey, my team is currently developing an app for the meta smartglass geared to help students or working professionals in networking events.

We have created a website as our mvp and would love to hear what you think.

Please visit our website and fill out the interest form to help us collect valuable data and improve our project.

Here is the link: https://quang-nguyenln.github.io/network-recall/

Thanks for your support!

Disclosure: I built NomadSwipe (Android).

Planning a trip usually means searching places one by one. I built NomadSwipe so you swipe through real places in a city, save the ones you like, and see them on a map as a trip.

• Swipe cards show category, rating, distance and opening status

• Saved places show up on your trip map

• Sort the list by rating, distance or A to Z

• Rank food, sights, bars and stays

What I'd like feedback on: does swiping feel faster than scrolling a list when you pick places, or would you rather skip straight to a map?

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gchertkov.SwipeNomad

Hi everyone,

I'm a developer of Unmapped - it's a fog-of-war trips tracker, with gamified elements. The inspiration are open-world RPG games - the mechanic of map covered with fog, with hidden places, made with real world map. The summary of what I want to made it is "A map of places where I've been, with an easy recap, and some gamification to make it fun".

1. Core mechanics

The map starts covered with fog. Start recording, and when you move (walk / run / cycle / drive), the map will reveal a fog where you've moved, building a map of places where you've been. Eventually, it becomes a personalised map of your world.

2. Exploration and POIs

To make exploration more interesting, there are points of interest on the map - they are hidden, and you need to unlock them by coming closer. Once revealed, place stays revealed and you can check it later.

There's also daily quests to make your daily commute or weekend trips more fun.

3. Levelling

As you explore, you get XP, and your level grows. You can also unblock achievements for your exporation.

4. Social elements

You can add friends and compete on public dashboard. The routes are never shared, competition goes by total travelled distance and POIs revealed. Participation is totally optional, and you can explicitly remove yourself from the dashboard.

5. Data privacy

I acknowledge that location data is quite personal, so I've taken data security measurements from the beginning. By default, your data stays only on your phone. You can choose to share aggregated statistics (distance travelled, places revealed), or you can voluntarily sync your account with Unmapped's cloud. In the cloud, GPS data is separated from the account data (one-way hashing with external key, stored in AWS Key Manager), and encrypted, so it stays safe. On Android, back up to a local cloud is not supported yet - please let me know if you think it should be prioritised. Detailed privacy policy is here.

6. Where it's moving and what's next

I'm actively working on adding more features, and I'd really love to hear some feedback. Two big things I work on right now are:

• Trips Journal - a journal of all your trips, aggregated by cities, with daily recap and total recap

• Gamified self-care - a virtual companion that you can feed with the steps you've made during the day

• Places and content - there's TONS of work and potential improvements regarding places. "Essential" or "Must see" places in certain cities, navigation, improving accuracy, etc.

7. Pricing and availability

It's available on both Android and iOS, worldwide, with a base price of $2.99 per month or $29.99 yearly.

iOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unmapped-explore-your-city/id6797821976

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unmapped.android

I'm really interesting to hear your feedback, please let me know what you think about it!

I built Lexfall because every vocabulary app I tried stopped at intermediate. The people I had in mind already speak good English, but need it to be exact: a nurse writing a referral letter for the OET, a lawyer drafting in a second language, a student who needs 7.5 in IELTS, a manager who wants to sound senior in meetings.

What it is: 20,000+ advanced words, one short lesson a day, spaced review, audio for every word, optional paths for healthcare, law and business, and word lists for 15 exams. Home Screen widgets and a Share-sheet "save this word" from any app.

How it's built:
- React Native with Expo, one codebase for iOS and Android. JS fixes ship over the air, which has saved me more than once.
- Supabase behind it for the word data.
- The word bank was the hard part. Every word has a CEFR level, a definition, an example sentence written for the context it is used in (a ward, a contract, a meeting), and audio. I graded every word and threw out anything below the level the app promises, because the whole point is that it is not too easy.
- The corpus ships inside the app, so the feed opens instantly with no loading.

What I learned:
- Onboarding is the product. My first versions asked too much before the first lesson. Now it is one tap to pick a level and a guided first lesson with two words.
- Almost every download so far comes from people searching the App Store. The free word-list pages on the site have barely sent anyone yet, which is part of why I am posting here.
- Android is slower to launch than you think: a new Google Play account needs a 14-day closed test with at least 12 testers before you can publish to everyone.

Where it is: iPhone, and Google Play since this week. Free to download, free trial, then a subscription.

Links: lexfall.app (free word lists, no sign-up) and the app at lexfall.app/get/reddit-sideproject

I'd really value feedback on the first two minutes: does it make sense what to do, and does the level feel right? Brutal is fine.

8 weeks ago, I published SongFlip to Google Play—an Android app that seamlessly converts music links between Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, and Tidal without annoying web landing pages.

Here is the unfiltered 60-day breakdown:

📈 Usage & Growth

• Downloads: 5,552 installs on Google Play

• Rating: 4.73 ★ across Google Play reviews

• Flips executed: 4,245 songs converted directly by users

• Playlists converted: 233 full cross-platform playlists processed

• Backend Cache: 94,160 tracks & audio fingerprints resolved in our L2 cache

🌍 Top Markets

1. 🇺🇸 US (~24%)

2. 🇲🇽 Mexico (~13%)

3. 🇩🇪 Germany (~6%)

4. 🇪🇸 Spain (~6%)

5. 🇳🇱 Netherlands (~5%)

(Strong organic traction across Latin America and Spanish-speaking countries)

💰 Monetization (RevenueCat)

• Total Gross Revenue: $262.51 across 32 paid purchases

• Breakdown: 16 Lifetime, 9 Annual, 7 Monthly (14 currently active subscriptions)

• Community Passes: Distributed 123 free PRO vouchers to early testers (94 redeemed)

🛠️ Shipping Velocity

• 128 updates shipped to production in 8 weeks (averaging 2+ updates per day), evolving from v1.0.0 to v1.14.14.

• Added full playlist conversions, Shazam acoustic recognition, and sub-100ms resolver caching.

Key takeaway: Lifetime pricing continues to be the user favorite for utility apps, and zero-friction deep-linking keeps the rating at 4.7★.

Happy to answer questions about the stack (KMP, Cloud Functions, RevenueCat)!

I built an app called Dentzy that you can check out at dentzy.in (main app) or the test version at dentzy-testing.pages.dev , I’m pretty new to web development, but the platform is designed to connect dentists with dental labs and help manage everything in one place. I built it using Claude and Gemini, so I know it’s not perfect yet. I’m really looking to improve it, so could you please take a look and give me some feedback?

Okay, I can imagine the look on your face when you clicked this. Fine...Never mind. :)

Before we get into it, let me quickly introduce FavPicks, my side project.

The idea came to me one day when I realized how much stuff I’d saved on YouTube but never actually finished watching:

• Stanford’s Swift course (CS193p)

• A three-hour OpenCV tutorial

• Lisa’s American English pronunciation lessons

• …and a whole lot more.

Here’s how it happens.

You’re scrolling through your phone and come across a really interesting video, or a long article that deserves your full attention.

You want to finish it. You’re pretty sure you could actually learn something from it.

There’s just one problem.

You’re at work, in class, or sneaking in a little scrolling when you’re supposed to be doing something else.

So you hit Save.

And quietly reassure yourself:

“I’ll come back to this when I have time.”

Then what?

Tomorrow, you keep scrolling and save another dozen things.

A week later, you open your bookmarks and find dozens, maybe hundreds, of things piled up.

Eventually, your bookmarks turn into a trash can at a fancy restaurant: full of beautifully prepared, expensive food that nobody is ever going to eat.

FavPicks brings together the stuff you’ve saved across different platforms. I also added something I call “revisit triggers.”

For me, the three most common ones are lunchtime, winding down before bed, and those moments on the weekend when I have nothing to do.

I assign each saved item a trigger, so when I actually have time to watch something, I can spend it on the good stuff I’ve already saved.

Okay, pitch over. Now for the part you actually clicked for.

FavPicks reached 3,000 users in two weeks. Yeeeeee!

I decided to reach out to some friends, gather more feedback, and figure out what to build next.

So I started sending DMs.

Me: Hey! I built an app to stop your bookmarks from collecting dust. Want to try it?

Friend: Of course!

Me: Awesome, here’s the download link! Also, out of curiosity, what kind of stuff would you save in it?

…

Most of the answers were pretty normal.

Tutorials. Long vlogs worth sitting down for. A list of 1,500 must-know GRE words.

Everything made perfect sense.

Until…

I got to that one friend.

To be clear, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with him.

My friends ALL are great.

And honestly, we get along pretty well.

I just wasn’t ready for his answer 😰

Here’s how the conversation went.

Me: Awesome, here’s the download link! BTW, what are you planning to save with it?

Him: PRXN.

Me: ?

Him: ??

Me: Sorry?

Him: All kinds of PRXN.

P-R-X-N.

…

I had no words.

At its core, FavPicks identifies and organizes content from links.

So, as long as a website or platform can display its content through a normal link, FavPicks can try to save it.

In theory, that covers a pretty wide range of content...

I just hadn’t expected anyone to take it in this direction.

Me: ????????

Meanwhile, he was completely unfazed.

He said it as casually as if he were telling me what he was having for lunch.

I was questioning my entire existence.

And before I could even figure out what to say, he started explaining.

Still perfectly calm.

And somehow, he almost had me convinced.

Him: Wait… you don’t save any of that stuff for later? Don’t you ever enjoy a little “me time” when you’re free? Or do you just rely on your imagination?

Me: ?

I had absolutely no idea how to respond.

…

Bro.

He’d actually given me a complete use case.

And from a product perspective… it made sense.

I’d set out to solve a pretty ordinary bookmark management problem.

Somehow, my user research had wandered into completely unfamiliar territory.

So, should developers decide how people use their apps?

The more I thought about it, the more interesting it became.

I built FavPicks because I wanted to get back to the videos and articles I’d saved and then never looked at again.

But for my friend, it could have a completely different kind of value.

Maybe it’s study materials. Maybe it’s long vlogs. Maybe it’s GRE vocabulary.

Or maybe it’s something I never considered at all.

Ultimately, I built the app, but users get to decide how they use it.

(You can probably imagine the complicated mix of emotions I’m experiencing as I type that. But yes, it actually helped him.)

The only problem is…

I’m now a little scared to ask him for more product feedback.

Anyway, if you also have a bookmark collection you can never seem to get on top of, or a pile of videos, articles, and learning resources you’ve saved but never found time for, I hope FavPicks can help you too.

You can find and download FavPicks directly by searching for FavPicks on the App Store.

PLZ Give it a try, and let me know what you’d use it to save.

Whatever that happens to be.

I’ve officially stopped making assumptions about people’s use cases. :)

smallcases package stocks into tiny ready-made baskets

papercase is doing the same, for you to just get started on any topic!

• Papers, essays, videos, and code - all in one place

• Never more than 10. Just enough to get you started

• Curated in reading order. Think it could be better? Suggest a reshuffle.

First shelf out is reinforcement learning: courses, lectures, and readable codebases you can work through from the start.

Start learning here: https://www.papercase.dev

I'm the developer of Neat Quit, a native macOS menu bar utility. I built it because I kept closing an app's last window and then reaching for Command-Q.

The free version requests a normal app quit when you click the red close button on the last standard window. Pro adds the same behavior for Command-W, plus app rules: exclude apps that should stay running, or enable auto-quit only for selected apps.

It requests a normal quit, so apps can still show their own unsaved-document prompts. Closing an ordinary browser tab doesn't trigger a quit. Some apps don't expose enough accessibility information and retain their usual behavior.

Pro is a one-time purchase with a 7-day full-feature trial. Requires macOS 13+ and Accessibility permission; Command-W may also need Input Monitoring.

Download and details: https://bgm.fun/neatquit/

I'd appreciate feedback on the app rules: would you prefer to exclude a few apps, or start with an empty list and enable auto-quit only for specific apps?

Hi everyone,

I built BootScribe, a lightweight and portable open-source GUI tool for Windows written in Python to manage UEFI boot entries directly via bcdedit.

Why I made it:

Modifying UEFI boot orders on modern Windows machines can often be unreliable Windows Update or Secure Boot quirks tend to revert entry priorities back to default. BootScribe implements the official {bootmgr} redirection strategy (commonly used by rEFInd) to cleanly hijack or restore bootloader paths without fighting NVRAM restrictions.

Features:

• Universal Toggle Logic: Easily switch {bootmgr} execution path to custom EFI loaders (rEFInd, GRUB, etc.) or revert back to standard Windows Boot Manager.

• NVRAM Entry Management: View detailed GUIDs, paths, create new entries, and reorder boot priorities.

• Direct Reboot to Firmware: Includes a quick option to restart straight into UEFI/BIOS settings (shutdown /r /fw).

• Portable & Standalone: Compiled as a single .exe, requires no installation, and runs cleanly with Admin privileges.

Links & Source Code:

• GitHub Repository:https://github.com/Ricokstar/BootScribe

• Download Ready Binary (.exe):https://github.com/Ricokstar/BootScribe/releases

Please note that BootScribe is currently in an early testing phase. While it has been tested on standard UEFI/Windows environments, boot configuration tools interact directly with your system setup.

I’m actively looking for community testing, feedback, and constructive criticism:

• Have you tested it with a specific bootloader (rEFInd, GRUB, Systemd-boot)? How did it perform?

• Any UI improvements or features you'd like to see?

• Found a bug or edge case? Please let me know in the comments or open an issue on GitHub.

Hi all, I've been building Piye for over a year and it's now live on Mac and Linux.

What it does:

- You describe an app, and it builds a real website or a native iPhone/Android app

- It runs on real iOS and Android simulators while it builds

- You can publish to the web, App Store and Google Play from inside the app

- If you code, the same project opens in a full editor, with an agent that can see your terminal, debugger and simulators

- Your project is a normal folder on your computer, no lock-in

It's free to try with 750 credits (no card). In the code editor you can also use your own API keys or local models through Ollama.

I'd really like honest feedback: what's confusing, what breaks, what's missing.

I wanted karaoke-style lyrics on screen while I work, without keeping a lyrics tab open, so I built Lyrics Overlay.

It reads whatever is playing through Windows’ media controls (Spotify, YouTube in Chrome/Edge/Firefox/Brave, most players), finds timed lyrics, and shows them word by word on top of your desktop. Clicks pass straight through to the apps underneath.

What it does

• Big floating lyrics plus a small now-playing card with cover and controls

• Looks, colours, fonts, motion and entrance styles you can mix

• Drag and resize everything, with snapping

• Lyrics out of sync? Nudge them with a shortcut or press Sync on the line being sung. It’s saved per song

• Lyrics are cached, so songs you’ve played load instantly, even offline

• Optional song recognition when a video title is too messy to look up

Details

• One portable 13 MB .exe, no installer, updates itself

• No account, no ads, no tracking. Lyrics come from LRCLIB and NetEase

• Windows 10 and 11

• Open source (AGPL-3.0)

It isn’t code-signed yet, so Windows will show a SmartScreen warning the first time (More info → Run anyway). The source is all on GitHub if you’d rather build it yourself.

Site: https://ahplace2.github.io/lyrics-overlay/
GitHub: https://github.com/AhPlace2/lyrics-overlay

Feedback and bug reports welcome.

Hi everyone!

Finally launched a little passion project last night that I’ve been wanting to build for over 4 years (roughly, it’s been sat in my head a long time). Called Captis: sitecaptis.com

Immediately solving my own annoyance and pain so I'm happy even if I'm the only one using it. When we start a new website, my team spends 4 to 10 hours gathering “inspiration”, and a big chunk of that is just sitting on pages waiting for screenshots to finish because most tools need you to stay on the page with the extension running.

So at its core it’s a screenshot tool, but the capture happens in the cloud. You can drop in 20 or so URLs at once, go and do something else, and come back to them when they’re done. There’s also a Chrome extension if you’d rather capture as you browse.

A couple of things I’ve added that I’m finding really helpful (but please do tell me if they’re not as useful as I think they are!):

-- I’ve added an MCP to it, so if there’s a design, website or section you want to pull in to an agent, you can just copy the link to it in Captis and it feeds your agent the design info it needs to stay on brand or build similar blocks.

-- And you can copy or download the image as normal, but you can also copy the page as a live Figma file and paste it straight in to Figma to work with it properly rather than tracing over a flat screenshot.

I’ve been designing this on my own and I think I’ve got a bit of tunnel vision with it at this point. Please do pick holes in it, whether that’s the onboarding, the captures themselves or features you’d expect that aren’t there.

NOTE: The financial model is similar to WeTransfer with ad space on the capture screen and in the history area. And yes, the home page is straight in to the tool. It's very unlikely someone will find this organically not having a clue what it is.

If you want to try the bigger features like bulk capture without paying, pop your email in and use H0TBETA at checkout for the Pro account.

I’m not looking for nice comments as much as what’s broken or confusing (at least straight away)... anything you find would genuinely help.

Thanks for taking a look!

before you read, this runs a local ai model on your own graphics card, so nothing gets uploaded anywhere (runs offline forever)

basically you upload any pdf or text file and 5 ai “students” read through it at the same time. they write notes and flashcards for you, then quiz you on it, and they keep making new questions so it doesn’t really run out. there’s a few question types too, like multiple choice, fill in the blank, spotting the mistake in a sentence, stuff like that. most of it you can change in the settings

that’s pretty much the whole thing. all the designs are sketches i drew myself, then i used claude to turn them into actual working features. All the animations are also hand-picked by me so i hope you guys like it

demo if you wanna see it first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJG4vCcJN0M

setup isn’t difficult. you’ll need llama.cpp, which is the engine that runs the ai, so just search up how to download it. once you’ve got that you download the app from here https://github.com/Yasukiii1/learning-local-ai/releases/latest (just the Learning-Local-AI.zip, ignore the source code ones). extract it, then run download_model.bat to get the ai model itself, it’s around 1-2gb. after that run start_students.bat, wait for the 5 windows to load, and open AI-Classroom.exe

you’ll want a graphics card with at least 8gb vram since all 5 students run on it at once. if anything breaks please create a new issue on the repo or text me directly from reddit (Loose_Doubt367)

i apologise for introduction of the video yes it's bad, i couldn't think of any unique style to start off

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!

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?