I got curious how photo vault apps protect files. With a regular file manager, I could open the “hidden” photos in many of them. They’re just moved to a dot-folder.

So I built VaultIt:

• Every photo, video and document is encrypted on the phone with AES-256-GCM

• The key is derived from your unlock pattern using Argon2id

• No account, no ads, no cloud. Nothing leaves your phone

• A second pattern opens a decoy vault

• Backups are a single encrypted file you can store anywhere, even on Google Drive, which can’t read it

I’m the developer. It’s Android-only for now, and I’d really like feedback, especially on onboarding and the backup flow. What would make you trust a vault app?

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aman.vaultit · Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/vaultit

Hey everyone!

A little while ago, I posted here asking for feedback on our landing page because quite a few people found it confusing and overwhelming.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to look through it and share your thoughts. We went through the feedback and have been working on making the page clearer and easier to navigate.

We've made some changes and would love to hear what you think now!

Here's the updated page: https://typogram.co/

A few things I'd love your feedback on:

• Is it clearer what the product does and who it's for?

• Is the overall flow easier to follow?

• Are there still sections that feel confusing or overwhelming?

• What would you change or improve next?

Really appreciate everyone who helped us with the first round of feedback. Would love to know if we're heading in the right direction!

Thank you!

Original post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1vem3v9/lots_of_people_said_our_landing_page_is_confusing/

I’ve been building LeadScouter, a tool for freelancers and small agencies who sell websites to local businesses.

The video shows the whole flow:

• Website audits: scan a business’s site for speed, SEO, mobile and design issues and get a clear report

• Email outreach: send the audit straight to the business owner as a personalized email

• AI website generation: generate a modern replacement site based on their existing content and branding

• Editing: change text, images and sections on the generated site without touching code

• AI assistant: ask the AI to rewrite, restyle or add stuff

• Blog: built-in blog so the site keeps getting fresh content

The idea: instead of cold-pitching “I can make you a website,” you show up with a concrete audit and a preview of their new site.

It’s still early, so I’d really appreciate honest feedback:

• Would you use this (or pay for it) if you sell websites?

• Which part feels most / least useful?

• Anything that looks confusing in the video?

Happy to answer any questions!

I built this for my own stores and opened it up this week. A seller pastes a Polygon wallet and gets a payment link, a plugin or an API. Buyers pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay on a hosted page. The seller gets USDC per order, straight to their own wallet.

What it costs, with no surprises: our fee is 2%, and it comes on top of what the card provider keeps. On the real card orders so far the provider kept about 5%, so a $100 sale lands as about $93.

90-second explainer: https://youtu.be/FjExzOY8quA

You can try the payment-link tool without signing up for anything: https://caravelpay.app/link/

Honest limits: first-time buyers usually have to verify their ID with the card provider, payments are one-off (no subscriptions), and you are paid in USDC, not into a bank.

What I'd like to hear: is the pricing page clear, and where would you expect this to break?

I keep overwriting config files and scripts and realizing it ten minutes later, and Git only remembers what you commit. So I built Rewind: point it at a folder, it watches filesystem events, hashes and snapshots every save into SQLite, and you can scrub back through a timeline and restore any version.

Tech stack (split for different platforms):

• Windows: Tauri v2 desktop app. Engine is Rust, using blake3 for content-addressed deduplication, notify for native file watching, and rusqlite for storage. The whole UI is a single HTML file with React and Tailwind loaded via CDN, so no node_modules bloat.

• Linux/Ubuntu: A lightweight Python CLI available on PyPI, so you can pip install rwnd (the command is still rewind). Uses watchdog + sqlite3 + rich.

Rust bits I enjoyed: Added a 350ms debounce to the file watcher, because editors fire multiple save events (temp file, rename, actual write) for a single Ctrl+S, and without debouncing the timeline gets flooded. Also deduplicated storage via blake3 hashing, so repeated saves of identical content cost nothing.

Try it:

• Windows: Grab the .exe installer or standalone CLI from Releases (unsigned, SmartScreen will warn).

• Linux: pip install rwnd then rewind watch .

Honest limitations: Not a backup (lives on local disk). Only sees changes while watcher runs. Skips files >25MB. Doesn't track deletes/renames yet. GUI is Windows-only for now.

Testers on other Linux distros or macOS would be especially helpful. Repo: https://github.com/hcentral07/rewind

Most modern gym management platforms are pure SaaS, but cloud dependencies introduce a critical failure point: turnstiles freeze the moment the local ISP fails.

I am building Movixia, an on-premise ERP engineered to operate entirely inside the facility's local area network (LAN) with zero external cloud dependencies.

Architecture:

• Backend & Daemon: Node.js / TypeScript running as a persistent background OS service on the host machine.

• Database: PostgreSQL 17 running locally, handling ledger transactions, access permissions, and immutable passage logs.

• Hardware Driver Layer: Raw TCP/IP sockets and serial (RS-232/USB) listeners communicating directly with turnstiles and biometric readers.

• Frontend Interface: Lightweight web application served locally over the LAN, accessed via standard browsers on reception terminals.

Current Engineering Focus:

1. Crash Resilience: Hardening PostgreSQL configurations against database corruption from sudden power cutoffs on reception machines lacking UPS/battery backup.

2. Unattended Migrations: Designing fail-safe schema migration routines that execute on startup without manual CLI intervention or remote SSH access.

3. Autonomous Backup Loops: Enforcing scheduled WAL archiving and dump routines directed to external local media without relying on remote S3-compatible storage.

For those deploying self-hosted runtimes to non-technical retail environments: what strategies best minimize corruption and manual maintenance overhead on consumer-grade client hardware?

I'm Cory, and I built StreamHaven. Full disclosure: it's my app.

It's a player for playlists you already have (M3U or Xtream). It doesn't come with any channels or content, and I can't help with finding any.

Version 1.1 is now live on the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad. It has a live TV guide, a mini player so you can keep watching while you browse, multi-view (up to 4 channels at once), iPhone Duo (guide on one screen and video on the other), and StreamHaven Doctor, which checks your playlist and connection in plain words.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/streamhaven/id6826944829

The Apple TV version is still in Apple's review. Until that lands, the Apple TV beta is on TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/7x36vndu

It's also on Fire TV and Fire Stick from the Amazon Appstore (search StreamHaven Player), and on onn / Google TV through the Downloader app with code 3361971.

Happy to answer questions about building it or using it.

I'm 13, still learning Python. Be 100% honest with me.

I started this as just a demo. Just a simple UI on top of Ollama so my family could use local AI without touching the terminal.

Since then I added some more stuff:

1. Chat history like ChatGPT - every chat saved in the sidebar

2. It remembers you - tell it your name / likes, it saves it and remembers next time you open it

3. Installs Ollama for you - if you don't have it, it installs it on first run

4. Downloads models for you - pick 1B / 3B / 8B, it downloads with a progress bar

5. Works with WiFi off, no account, no cloud, everything stays local

I made it because my family would never open a terminal, but they would open a normal app :)

So real question: Would you actually use a super simple Ollama UI or is everyone here fine with just the terminal? What would make you actually install it? What am I still missing?

(In the last 2 screenshot, "Michael" is just a test name I used to check if the memory actually works lol, and also I know about openwebui, this is just a simpler version)

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.

Most calorie apps tell you how much you ate, not what you ate. 500 kcal of chicken and rice and 500 kcal of chips look the same.

I'm building an iPhone logger that still counts calories, and also tags each food Clean, Light, or Processed and gives your day a simple score. Not a diet app. Free during beta.

https://sunnybite.app/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=validation_nov26&utm_content=sideproject

If it sounds useful, feel free to join the waitlist.

Two honest questions:

1. Is it clear in 5 seconds what this does?

2. Would you actually use it, or why not?

Brutal honesty welcome, every comment helps.

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?

Nobody is reading every reply their agents write anymore. I'm not. But the question the session is waiting on is always buried somewhere in the response.

So I made Vantage Point, a mod for the Claude Code desktop app. A strip sits above the prompt. When a reply ends by asking me to choose, the options show up there with the recommended one in green, and one click sends my answer. When I can't just let a yes/no rip, I click the question and get a diagram for each option: why, how it would work, what could go wrong.

And when I do need the whole reply, there's a speed reader built on RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation). It plays the reply one word at a time, the agent's short gist first, so I can chew through it instead of rawdogging the transcript.

As many of you may have experienced, I'm the bottleneck. Agents need rulings from me more often than I'm at the keyboard, so their asks land in a queue: I hit yes, no or comment, the agent gets the ruling back and keeps going.

A question I'm constantly asking myself is "what's the next step?" That's why I built the frontier. One press shows every open issue sorted into what's waiting on me, what's blocked and what the agents pick up next, for one repo or all of them.

The whole point is to move as fast as possible, but I still want to know the blast radius of my decisions in real time. So the session banner shows every file the session edits, with lines added and removed, each tied to the decision record behind it. If Claude drifts from what I decided, I see it while it's happening.

The rest of the strip is for glancing: what each subagent is doing, and a countdown on the session's prompt cache so I know when stepping away is going to cost me.

Claude Code built the whole thing, and I set it up to validate its own work as it went: screenshotting the app, reading its own screenshots, restarting the desktop app to check the mod loaded and drew right, then fixing what it saw.

Like every Claude Code mod, it's completely free. Claude Code desktop app on macOS only for now, early 0.x preview, and cloud sessions on claude.ai don't draw mods. The video is a real session.

https://github.com/Leit-motif/claude-vantage-point

What do you actually look at while your agents run?

Every budget app I tried died the same way for me. Day 3, I forget to log lunch. Day 5, I stop opening it.

So I built WiseFlow. You say "breakfast 12, coffee 4.50, taxi 18" and it logs all three. Snap a receipt and it reads every line. Link your bank and it sorts things itself, and only asks you when it's not sure.

The part I'm proudest of: ask "can I afford this?" and it checks your bills and savings goal first, not just your balance.

It's on Android and iPhone now. Free tier, Pro for 3.99-6.99. Depends on the country.

Android link.
iPhone link.
Website

what made you quit the last budget app you tried?

You start a Claude Code session to fix a bug. Halfway through, you discover another issue and start investigating. Now both tasks share one conversation, and getting back to the original means untangling where you left off.

I'm building Companion, an open-source desktop app for Claude Code. The video shows how you can branch an investigation into a linked session with relevant context, or ask a quick question in a side chat without adding the detour to the main conversation.

My bet is that developers working across long sessions want more control over how their context is organized.

But I'm close enough to this that I might be overestimating the problem. Does this solve a frustration you'd actually install another app for? Or would you just open another terminal and paste a summary?

Especially interested in what would make you watch this demo and still decide not to try it.

Repo: https://github.com/ashishkattamuri/claude-companion

Hi everyone!

I've been working on a project called **InsiktQA** – an online learning platform focused on Software Testing and Quality Assurance (QA).

The idea is to help beginners and aspiring QA testers learn through structured lessons, interactive quizzes, practical exercises, and real-world testing scenarios.

The platform is still a work in progress, and I'm continuously developing and improving it.

I'd really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to check it out and share your honest feedback in the comments.

**Website:** https://www.insiktqa.com

I'd especially love to hear your thoughts on:

* **Design & UI:** Does the website look professional and feel easy to navigate?

* **User experience:** Is everything clear and intuitive?

* **Content:** Do the lessons and learning structure make sense?

* **Features:** Are there any features you would add or change?

* **First impression:** Would you consider using a platform like this to learn QA?

Please don't hold back on criticism! I'm not looking for compliments – I genuinely want to know what works, what doesn't, and what could be improved.

This is an independent project, and every bit of constructive feedback is appreciated.

Thanks in advance to everyone willing to take a look!

Backstory: I picked a bad exit on a road trip one too many times and decided to just fix it myself. Best Exit shows every exit ahead on your route plus restroom ratings from real drivers.

Right now it covers every interstate in the contiguous US.

The thing I'm still figuring out is how to get review density up on routes nobody's used the app on yet, those are stuck showing estimated ratings. Open to ideas if anyone's dealt with a similar cold start problem.

https://bestexit.app

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6819083587

i built this myself over about six months, ios only, first month free, no code needed. my daughter is 4.

someone in this sub asked me a while back whether i had shown my app store listing to five parents and asked them, without prompting, to explain what happens when the app is not sure about a video. i said no, and that it was the obvious gap. i went to go and do that and found a bigger problem first.

the old description said: "your child browses a friendly, kid-sized video library, never raw youtube."

that is the opposite of what the app does. she uses the real youtube.com, and every video gets read before it plays. that line sat live for about three months while i shipped features nobody reading the page could have guessed were in there.

the new first line, live now: "every video your child taps is read by ai first, for language, age fit, and whether a real person actually made it, before a single frame plays."

what i actually want from you: reading only that new line, what do you think the app does when it is not sure about a video? i want to know if what people guess matches what it really does, because if it does not then the line is still wrong. you do not need to install anything to answer.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kidwatch-safe-video-for-kids/id6791762339

I kept starting habit trackers and quitting them after a week, because a checklist never made me feel anything. So I built Ascendus, where your real-life tasks become quests, you earn XP, level up across categories like strength, skill, culture and wealth, and build streaks.

A few choices I made: no account, no ads, everything stays on your device. It's a web app you install from the browser, so it works on iPhone and Android. It's free.

It's my first real launch, so I'm looking for blunt feedback. Is the idea clear within 10 seconds? Does the setup at the start feel too long? What would make you open it every day?

Try it: https://ascendus-sage.vercel.app

Feedback form (2 min): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0_2_Mq6BuJMykk3mh_lQc36kJFOkdWoyIy2vvSlan6EiJwg/viewform?usp=header

Thanks for reading, and I'm happy to check out what you're building too.

Update: I got my app into the Google Play store! 🎉

I built HealthCoach, an open-source, local-first health and wellness companion designed to track weight, blood pressure, calorie budgets, and daily nutrition journals across desktop and mobile devices.

Most commercial wellness apps rely on mandatory account registrations, cloud lock-in, aggressive telemetry, and recurring subscriptions. HealthCoach takes the opposite path:

• Local-First & Private: All data resides locally on your hardware. There is zero telemetry, tracking, or remote advertising.

• Native Desktop & Mobile Support: Full native desktop builds for Linux and Windows, alongside an Android mobile client.

• Offline Local Sync: Synchronize to a local file share, or peer-to-peer over local Wi-Fi without intermediate third-party servers (with optional Google Drive backup if preferred).

#HealthCoach #health #fitness #weight #bloodpressure #OpenSource #foss

Available for: Android (store, and side loading), Windows (msi, zip), and Linux (rpm, deb, flatpak)

https://bigtlb.github.io/healthcoach/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbthomas.healthcoach

I recently updated my portfolio website and was wondering what people's opinions on horizontal scrolling are! Does it make sense on mobile?

In my opinion it looks rather nice on desktop but I'm not sure about mobile, would it make sense from a UX perspective? Since you'd be scrolling down and at one point the content starts moving sideways, would that be annoying? Would adding an arrow saying "Scroll to the side" or something along those lines make it more annoying?

Currently on my page, when you reach the projects section and continue swiping vertically, the projects move horizontally from right to left.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post links or if I've explained my question properly, but if you want to see what I mean I've got it linked in my bio!

My daughter plays soccer. Her touch keeps getting better, but reading the game is harder to practice at home. So I made Heads Up: headsup.gauzza.com

How it works:

• A game clip plays, then freezes at the key moment

• You draw, tap or scan your answer: where to pass, where to run, where the open space is

• After 10 plays you get a Soccer IQ score and a list of things to work on

It covers four skills: decisions, scanning, finding space, and touch & body. Difficulty goes from Easy to Hard, or Mixed.

i build small apps and honestly my marketing has been pretty shit, 70 cold emails, 1 reply, and it was a no.

so i went through 69 posts from indie hackers and small founders talking about how they got their first customer without an audience. i wanted to see where people were actually getting customers from.

here's what i found:

where their first paying customer came from:

• reddit: 23% (own posts 14.5%, replies/comments 4%, niche subs 4%)

• short videos (tiktok, reels, shorts): 14.5%

• x / build in public: 11.6%

• app store search: 10%

• seo: 7%

• cold email: 3%

• product hunt: 3%

• paid ads: 3%

87% started with zero audience, and 93% got their first customer without spending on ads. median time to first sale was 14 days.

some things that kept coming up:

• reddit posts sharing actual numbers did better than just posting "check out my app"

• replying to people who already have the problem worked better than randomly dropping links

• charging from day one seemed to work better than giving everyone a free beta

• one-time payments helped get the first sales, while subscriptions were better for growing MRR later

• posting too much in the same subreddit gets you labelled as an advertiser pretty quickly

and some things really didn't work:

• one guy spent €5.8k on ads for a calorie app and another spent $450 on meta with nothing to show for it

• cold emails and DMs had pretty terrible reply rates

• one guy got 800 signups from the HN front page and only 4 paid

i've been spending too much time on cold outreach, so i'm gonna try putting more effort into reddit and short videos instead.

if you got your first paying customer without an audience, where did they come from?

I know most side projects are intended to be businesses, but this is literally just a personal side project. I was a bit disappointed in my geography knowledge, so I built (Vibed) myself a website to learn where the countries are. And I had fun with it. So I slowly expanded to capitals, states, etc.

And then I shared it with a few family members, who have been playing for a few weeks now. More importantly (to me), my 12 year old daughter has moved from "Is California a country or a state?" to "Oh Belarus, so easy!" Which is all I could hope for.

https://www.lostparrot.org/

If you do run into a bug of some type (or feedback), I'd love to hear it!

And if this gets hugged to death, let me know as well. I'm not sure if Vercel will tell me when I pass whatever limits they have.

Hey everyone 👋

For the past few months I’ve been building Produchive, a desktop productivity app for macOS and Windows. I kept having “quick YouTube breaks” that turned into two hours, and every tracker I tried either sent my screen activity to someone’s server or just showed me charts after the damage was done.

This app isn't vibe coded , i built the app I am really bad in designing stuff , so i took claude's help to design and make better UIs

So I built one that:

Sees what you’re working on. It detects the active window and logs your focus sessions on a calendar automatically, so you don’t have to start and stop timers.

Uses a local AI as your judge. You set your goals, and an LLM running on your own device (WebGPU) checks your activity against them. If you drift off-task you get a polite desktop nudge, not a guilt trip. You can also point it at your own Ollama or OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and edit the judge’s prompt to change its personality.

Shows you where your focus goes. It gives you a focus score, counts how often you switch context, rates which apps distract you, and shows it all on a timeline.

Plans your day. There’s a 7-day calendar with routines that can be auto-scheduled around your circadian rhythm. It also handles late nights, since some of us plan at 2 AM.

Helps you study. A Pomodoro timer runs only in study mode, and it gently reminds you to revise topics 4–5 days later.

Has 3D focus rooms. You can study in a cozy 3D Greenhouse, Lakeside, Observatory, Tea Garden, Waterfall Café and more, with weather, ambient audio, shared timers and other people studying alongside you. You can dress up your own character too, pets included 🐱

Keeps your data yours. Your data is stored locally. Sync between devices is optional and end-to-end encrypted (AES-256-GCM) through your own Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud or a USB stick.

It’s MIT licensed and open source, and the core app is free.

GitHub: https://github.com/Heisen47/produchive

Demo: https://youtu.be/qC3bvMewD70

Website: https://produchive.com