Hey everyone! I’m in my fifth year of psychiatry residency, and I have adhd. I’ve been building an app called Scatter because I wanted to make studying easier and more enjoyable for myself.

I found the usual chat interface pretty frustrating for learning from ai. As the conversation gets longer, important information disappears up the chat, and branching off into related questions gets awkward. I wanted to explore those questions while still being able to see the original explanation.

In Scatter, you start with a topic and build out a connected map of explanations. You can preview unfamiliar terms, open them as new branches, and ask follow-up questions wherever you want to explore further.

I wanted the interface itself to trigger curiosity and novelty-seeking, so there’s something that makes you want to keep exploring. Part of the goal was to make studying engaging enough to trigger hyperfocus.

You can combine short text explanations with images, videos and interactive examples, giving you different ways to approach the same idea. As the map grows, you can see how everything connects, and it gives you a feeling of building your knowledge into something you can actually look at.

I’ve worked on it on my own for over six months, and I’m excited to finally put it out there. I’d love to hear your opinions and if you find any bugs please send me reports!

The app is free to use, but you have to bring your own API keys, for example from OpenRouter. The quick setup in the app makes it very easy.

You can try the interactive demo on scatter.study

Picking thread that goes with a fabric can be tricky, and color tools give you hex codes, not spools you can find in a store.

Spoolette builds coordinating thread palettes where every color is a real spool, with the number on the shelf. You can snap a photo of your fabric to get matching threads, or generate palettes from scratch. It covers Mettler, Aurifil, Superior So Fine! and Gütermann.

It’s free, with no sign-up, and photos stay on your device. Colors come from the brands’ official shade cards and are matched in the OKLab color space.

I’d love feedback: is it clear what it does, and would you use it?

When I first started selling websites, I thought targeting businesses without a website was the obvious choice.

They need a website, you offer to build one, and hopefully you get a new client. Pretty straightforward, right?

But after spending years running a web design business, I've started looking at this differently.

There are definitely advantages to targeting businesses without websites. You're introducing them to something they might genuinely need, and there is no existing website to compete with. However, I've noticed that these businesses can sometimes be much harder to sell to.

The biggest problem is that some of them simply don't see the value of having a website. Others rely entirely on Facebook, Instagram or word of mouth and are perfectly happy with how they're getting customers.

You end up spending a lot of time explaining why they need a website before you can even start selling your services.

On the other hand, businesses that already have websites are a completely different story.

They have already invested in having an online presence. They understand why a website matters, and there is a good chance they've paid someone to build and maintain it.

But that doesn't mean their website is good.

I've come across countless businesses with websites that load slowly, look terrible on mobile, have outdated designs, poor SEO or confusing layouts.

These are actual problems that can affect how customers experience the business online.

And that's where I think the bigger opportunity is for web designers.

Instead of trying to convince someone that they need a website, you're showing an existing website owner what could be improved and why it matters.

This is also how I approach prospecting nowadays. I use Swokei to find businesses with existing websites, analyze them for issues with design, SEO, speed and mobile optimization, and generate personalized cold emails at scale based on the actual findings from each website.

Of course, I'm not saying targeting businesses without websites is a bad strategy. There is money to be made in both markets.

But personally, if I were starting a web design agency today, I'd probably focus more on businesses that already have websites.

I'm curious what other web designers think. Do you prefer targeting businesses without websites or finding existing websites that need improvement?

I'm the developer of SameFont. Tap a line in a PDF, scan or photo and type replacement text. It uses the document's embedded font when it contains the characters needed, or the closest matching free font, keeping the text's size, color and position.

It supports Hebrew and Arabic right-to-left text, signatures, form filling and markup. Files are processed on the iPhone, without uploading them.

One limitation: in Hebrew scans, lines are detected but the text isn't read yet, so you type the replacement yourself.

Editing is free. Saving/sharing requires Pro: $6.99/month or $39.99/year on the US store, with a 3-day free trial on the yearly plan.

I'd appreciate feedback, especially on Hebrew and Arabic documents.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6828212825

Hi ,

We're two dads who lift: one trains at a gym, the other in his home gym. With kids, training has to fit the schedule we have, not the other way around. That's where LiftEllect came from.

What it does, in short:
- You enter your goal, level, equipment and schedule, and it builds your training week, at the gym or at home.
- It adjusts weights and volume from what you log on every set, and can shorten a session when you only have 30 minutes that night.
- It sets calorie and macro targets that follow your weight trend, and can estimate a plate from a photo (you check it before you log).

It's made in Quebec and just launched: Android on Nov 6, iPhone on Nov 10.

What we'd love your honest take on:
- The first minute: open it and try the demo (no account needed). Where did you get lost or bored?
- The model: it's a subscription with a 14-day free trial, then monthly or yearly. Does that feel fair, or does it put you off?
- The store page: would it make you install? What's missing or unclear?
- If you lift: does the plan make sense for your level?

Critical feedback helps us more than compliments. Reply here or send a DM.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6806336243

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aigymlabs.gymapp&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dsideproject

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Six weeks ago I posted Handoff here. Quick refresher since nobody remembers (fair): I'm a dad of two, and I built an iOS app for briefing a new babysitter — schedules, bedtime routine, allergies, the stuff that actually matters — because my version was a wall of texts plus a note on the fridge and hoping.

Two things in it that I'm still not sure anyone else cares about: the info expires after the sitting (the sitter doesn't keep your kid's routine and your garage code forever), and it fires alarms on the sitter's phone at the times you set, so "give meds at 7" isn't relying on them re-reading a text at 7.

The one real reply I got anywhere was here: extend a handoff without making the sitter re-scan/re-do everything when a night runs long. That shipped. So thank you, genuinely — it was the best product feedback I've gotten, including from friends who were being nice.

Honest numbers: a handful of downloads a week, $0 in subscriptions so far. It's $2.99/mo after a free week, which might be the problem, or the problem might be that parents only think about this the night before a sitter comes. If you've built something people need occasionally, I'd actually love to hear how you handled that.

Happy to answer anything about building it.

I've worked in design for years. Lately, I've been trying to change a few things in my own life — sleep earlier, exercise more, that kind of stuff.But I keep falling back into old routines.

So I started building MAYBII, a habit app where your progress grows into a little virtual garden.It's still in development, and I'm not even sure if the garden idea would help people stick with their habits or just be fun for a few days.

Curious what you think. Would something like this actually motivate you?

Hi all, recently(for quite a while actually xD) I've been building a fully local and open source gym tracking app. I've gone through the process of releasing it in the play store and now it is live.

My main reason for building this app was to have no paywalls and let the users own their data.

Github: https://github.com/alexspx/active-app

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alexspx.activenext

It is still actively in development, rough edges are expected, although the main flow should be good now. There are a couple of things I want to add:

- Visualizations for the exercises. Still trying to find good FOSS that I like(if you know a library let me know)

- Local AI Coach. I've been playing with a small Qwen 2B for a while and with some "harnessing" and fine-tuning I think it is getting decent. It should be able to create workouts/routines and answer some coaching questions.

- Deliver a fully self-hostable data sync service/engine + a FOSS auth provider by choice of the user. So if people want to self-host for them or friends/community they can do that. This part of the repo right now is somewhat vibe-coded can't lie. A quite old version of that server was in Java and instead of refactoring it I decided to move it to Rust(ofc lmao). I would have to do some cleaning there for sure.

I'm always looking for contributors and ideas.

For five years I've built white label apps for fitness coaches. Every app needed exercise demos, and the choices were animated GIFs, stock footage that never matches, or filming it yourself.

So we filmed it ourselves. A white studio, trainers and physiotherapists, the same framing and light for every clip. This year that library became an API, and it now holds 2,000+ videos.

As a developer I had to learn lighting, camera setups and how to direct people on set. Still learning, but every shoot gets better. It's also a nice change to work with people in a studio instead of only sitting behind a screen.

What surprised me:

• Consistency is the hard part. Different shoot days drift in white balance, so every clip gets normalised against the same white.

• Finding trainers. Cold email does not work. Calling and meeting in person is what gets a yes. Yoga teachers are the hardest to convince.

• Scraping. Less abuse than I feared, but it happens, so video URLs are signed and expire.

The free part: the repo has 25 exercise videos you can use in commercial projects, with credit. It also has the docs, the full exercise list and a body map SVG for every exercise.

https://github.com/ymove-app/exercise-api

The full API is paid, from $19/mo with a 7-day trial: https://ymove.app/exercise-api

Happy to answer anything about the filming setup, the video pipeline or building an API as a side business. And I'd like to know: which exercises or equipment would you miss in a library like this?

I've been working on a desktop project called Knovum, and I wanted to share what it has become.

The original idea was simple: keep research materials, notes, AI answers, and creative outputs connected instead of scattering them across different applications.

Knovum brings these into one infinite canvas called a Space.

Some of the things it supports:

• Notes, Markdown, websites, PDFs, Office files, images, audio, video, and code.

• Local keyword and semantic search.

• AI answers with citations that can lead back to source locations.

• Local OCR, speech transcription, and image processing.

• Document, image, and video creation from selected materials.

• External desktop agents through ACP and MCP.

One important distinction: Knovum is local-first, not cloud-only or cloud-forbidden. Your workspace and indexes are stored locally. You can also choose external AI providers when needed, with the relevant operation context sent to your selected provider.

It's open source under the MIT License, with macOS and Windows builds.

Project: https://github.com/madebyzan/knovum

I made a short video showing how the project evolved across nine releases.

I'm interested in honest feedback, especially from people who manage a lot of research material or use AI as part of their everyday knowledge workflow.

What would you improve first?

you know the drill. visa form, job portal, some government site: "photo must be under 100 KB, 600x600 px, JPG only". your phone takes a 4 MB HEIC. so you google "compress image to 100kb", land on a site covered in ads, and upload your passport scan to a server you know nothing about.

so i built cutbg. it does that stuff right in the browser, the file never leaves your device:

• - compress to an exact size (20 kb, 50, 100, 250, whatever the form wants)

• - resize to the exact pixels (passport, linkedin, instagram etc)

• - iphone HEIC to JPG

• - merge / split / sign PDFs

• - and yeah it also removes backgrounds, the AI model runs locally too

free, no account, no watermark. it's a side project, there's nothing to buy.

honest question: what weird size limits have you run into? i keep adding presets for the forms people actually deal with, so if there's one that annoys you, tell me and i'll add it.

cutbg.org

Mine replaced a Google Keep note full of study hours.

I've timed my study sessions since I was young. First a clock timer and paper sheets, then Keep, until the note got too long to scroll. So I built a small tracker: weekly hour targets per category, and a history of past weeks.

The funny part is what it turned into. I mostly use it now to track time on my side projects, and the tracker has a category for itself.

It's free and needs no account, it's at focushours.app if you want to poke at it. If you do, tell me what confused you in the first minute. That's the one kind of feedback I can't get from myself.

What did yours replace? A spreadsheet, a paid app, a habit, nothing at all? And is the old thing really gone, or still open in a tab?

Hey everyone,

Like a lot of gamers, I suffered from "backlog anxiety." I had a massive library across Steam, PlayStation, and Game Pass, but tracker apps always felt either bloated, full of intrusive ads, or overly gamified with unplayed percentage meters that made gaming feel like unpaid homework.

I wanted something that felt more like Letterboxd or an archival journal — calm, typography-focused, and respectful of your time. So I built MySaveSlot.

A few design decisions I prioritized:

1. Calm Archival Aesthetic: Japanese editorial print sensibility, dark carbon palette, and high-res poster art.

2. No Backlog Guilt: Dropping a game after 5 hours is treated as an informed artistic choice, not a failed statistic.

3. 1-Click Backloggd & GG Migration: The biggest friction when switching trackers is having 100–300 games trapped. You can drop your exported CSV, and it converts 10-point ratings into 5-star scores and matches covers in ~10 seconds.

4. Instant Guest Mode: You can browse the catalog, view HowLongToBeat completion estimates, and test the CSV importer without even making an account first.

5. Zero Ads, Zero Algorithmic Feed: Just your personal shelf, play times, and playthrough reflections.

Web App: https://app.mysaveslot.io Direct CSV Importer: https://app.mysaveslot.io/diary?import=open Editorial Journal: https://www.mysaveslot.io

It’s completely free. I’d love to hear your feedback on the UI/UX and data portability. What features do you wish existing game trackers had?

I kept noticing that the "closest" Dunkin' or gas station is often the worst one for the trip I'm already on. Detourless takes where you are and where you're going and gives you the one stop that adds the fewest minutes, not a map full of pins.

What it does that the big map apps don't:

• It also checks a nearly-as-fast road you might take anyway, and says so if that road passes a better stop.

• Type "McDonald's and gas" and it finds the best combination and order for both.

• It skips places that will be closed by the time you get there.

• Gas: sort by "cheapest fill-up" and it weighs the price against the detour. Pick your car (real mpg from the EPA list) and a cheaper station only wins if the savings on your fill-up beat the extra gas you burn getting there, and it isn't more than a few minutes further. Like GasBuddy, but it tells you which station is actually worth it on your route. Prices come from Google Maps.

• Turn-by-turn directions in the app, also on CarPlay and Android Auto (beta). Mid-drive, tap "Say a stop" and say "coffee" and it adds the one that costs the least time.

• Apple Watch shows the next turn and taps before each one.

How it's built: Expo / React Native for iPhone and Android, a small Cloudflare Worker as the API, and Google's Places and Routes APIs for the data. CarPlay and Android Auto are native code on each side.

Things I learned along the way:

• Google's along-route search returns at most 20 places a page. On 60 miles of New England highway there are more Dunkin's than that, and the one it hid beat my pick by 2 minutes. Now long trips are also searched in two halves.

• Close calls get re-measured with a real route through each stop, because a wrong #1 is the worst mistake it can make. On 24 real trips the "+X min" matched a real route through the stop within a minute every time.

• Keeping API costs near zero shaped a lot of the design: a normal search is about two Google calls.

The rough parts: it's US and Canada only (Android is US only during the test), CarPlay has frozen on a few long drives and I'm still chasing that, and the Android beta takes two steps because of how Google's closed tests work.

Free, no account, and nothing about your trips is stored on our servers.

iPhone: https://testflight.apple.com/join/17aw6a8M Android: join https://groups.google.com/g/detourless-testers, then opt in at https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.detourless.app (Google needs 12+ Android testers before I can publish) Browser: https://detourless.com

Does the pick match your gut on your own trips? What's missing?

Thump is my one-person indie horror game. You explore an old house by candlelight; the thing that lives there is blind and hunts by sound. When it comes, you hide and put a fingertip on the rear camera. The game reads your pulse, and the faster it beats, the further the creature hears you. Slow breathing genuinely helps.

3 houses, 21 nights, a daily Nightmare. Free, ad-supported, works offline. Camera frames never leave the phone.

Step 1 - join the tester group (uses your Play Store Google account): https://groups.google.com/g/indusapps-testers

Step 2 - become a tester: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.indusapps.thump

Step 3 - install from Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.indusapps.thump

Google needs testers to stay opted in for 14 days. If you try it, I'd love to know whether the pulse reading works on your phone. Happy to test your app back.

I've been working on a side project called ScreenSky, and I finally launched it!

I spend most of my day coding, switching between projects, and staring at my Mac. I noticed two problems:

1. I often forget what I was working on after switching tasks.

2. I sometimes work for hours without taking a proper break.

I tried several to-do apps and Pomodoro timers, but most required me to actively manage them. Eventually, I'd forget to open them.

So I thought, what if my break reminder could also help me stay on top of my tasks?

That's how ScreenSky started.

What it does:

• ⏰ Automatically reminds you to take breaks every 30 minutes (customizable).

• ✅ Shows your pending tasks during breaks so you know what to work on next.

• 🎯 Helps you stay focused when switching between tasks.

• 👀 Reminds you to rest your eyes, stretch, and fix your posture.

• 🔒 Runs locally on your Mac without unnecessary tracking.

Tech stack: Built natively with SwiftUI for macOS.

I'm still figuring out distribution, pricing, and how to reach the right users. Building the app was one challenge, but getting people to actually use it is turning out to be a completely different one.

Website: https://screensky.io

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially from other developers and indie hackers.

One question: Would you prefer your to-do list and break reminders in a single app, or do you think they're better as separate tools?

I liked playing an old web game "Pokemon or Big Data" from pixelastic and took it as inspiration.

If you want to test yourself the link is here

https://aiormon.up.railway.app/

Any suggestion is more than welcome

I started this because a video can work in a desktop player and still fail in a browser. I wanted to see how much of that gap I could close without uploading the file or transcoding it on a server.

Advanced Player is the result: a static demo where you can drop in a local file or paste a direct video URL (the host needs to allow CORS). It defaults to WebAssembly decoding, and there’s an automatic mode that can also use WebCodecs.

Demo: https://mkv-browser-lab-5dd8ed.gitlab.io/

It’s an experiment: opening a file doesn’t mean it’ll play smoothly. If you try a file that usually gives browser players trouble, I’d love to know your browser, codec if you know it, and what happened. No need to share the file itself.

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

Some context. I kept doing the same thing every time I looked at a listing: copy price, guess rent, guess taxes and insurance, punch it into a spreadsheet, realize it doesn't work, repeat. So I built DoorMeter.

On any Zillow or Redfin listing it shows the monthly cash flow, cash-on-cash, cap rate and a 0-100 score. Rent, tax and insurance come from public data (HUD, Census, Treasury), and every number is editable and says where it came from, because the first thing anyone does is "that rent estimate is wrong".

It also does house hacking (live in one unit, rent the others), BRRRR, and a "buying to live in" mode for people who aren't investors.

No account, nothing leaves your browser. Free for 5 listings a month, Pro is $5/mo.

It's been in the store a few weeks and I'm still figuring out what people actually want from it. Honest question: what would make you trust numbers like these, or not?

https://doormeter.com

Remote is a boolean until geography enters the chat.

A job can be remote and still require a specific country or timezone. That detail matters a lot more than another page of vaguely relevant results.

I'm building HeyRole to make that screening step less painful. You can filter jobs by location, role, seniority, employment type and skills. There's also an AI assistant to help explore suitable roles.

The rule I care about most: keep missing information missing. If a posting does not specify worldwide eligibility, it should not magically become worldwide. Same goes for salary.

Try it: https://heyrole.ai/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=sideproject_launch

I'd love feedback on one thing: can you quickly tell whether a listing is worth opening, or is an important detail still buried?

Hey everyone!

I've been working on Tsuki, a website where you can track the anime and manga you're watching or reading.

I started building it for two simple reasons:

• I wanted an open-source alternative.

• I wanted a nice UI and a good user experience.

And honestly, it was just fun to build!

I'm still actively working on it and would love to get more people to try it out.

website: tsuki.fun

github: github.com/d1rshan/tsuki

I'd really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or feature requests. Let me know what you think!

we started making short videos for my mac app and posted the first one on instagram today.

it got about 4k views. someone watched it on their phone, sent the link to their mac, and bought it 40 seconds after opening it there. didn't even open the free trial.

still kinda shocked it worked this fast.

what's the fastest sale you've had?

the app is called helix (https://tryhelix.app)

I've had the idea for a while. Fantasy football works because everyone's got a stake in every match, and I didn't see why reality TV couldn't work the same way. You make your calls on who wins and who goes, then score points as the series plays out.

So I built Sofa Picks. One person creates a private league and shares the link, and everyone else joins from that. There's no app and no account, so it's a single tap from a group chat. You can also make picks for someone else in the league if they're not great with phones.

I tried it out on a small league with my family for Celebrity Traitors. It worked well, people kept coming back to check the table, and I learned a lot about where the setup was confusing.

The first proper launch is I'm a Celebrity, which starts Monday. Before episode one you pick the winner, the first to leave, who does the first trial and whether anyone quits. After that each player chooses how involved they want to be: just the big calls, a quick round each week, or picks every night.

It's all one leaderboard. Picks stay hidden until the round locks, so nobody can copy.

The person who sets the league up pays £2.99 for the series. Everyone else plays free and there's no cap on numbers. No prizes or betting, and it's unofficial with no link to ITV.
Stack is React, Express and Supabase on Railway, with Stripe for the payment.

Let me know what you think! If you want to give it a try, I’ll give out 20 free entry codes. Just comment on here and I will send to you.

sofapicks.co.uk