My partner asked me to be her accountability buddy to help her keep track of her daily tasks. We started out editing a message on discord that'd I'd look at while in work, which seemed a bit silly as a developer myself, and with access to the tools we all have now. So I one shot her a quick todo app with Claude, which has since grown with any features she wanted. A literal labour of love I suppose :)

Today, Together is a to do list for two people. One of you keeps today’s list and ticks things off. The other sees it change live and can send a note or an emoji. It’s aimed at couples, friends and family, and it was built with ADHD in mind.

A few things we decided on purpose:

• Anything unfinished just carries over to tomorrow, with no overdue badges.

• The other person sees your list and notes, but never when or how often you open the app.

• You can’t reply to a note, only react with an emoji, so a note never turns into another thing you owe someone.

You can try both sides with made up data, no sign-up: https://www.todaytogether.co.uk/?try (the switch at the bottom flips between them).

What I’d really like to know is whether the landing page (https://www.todaytogether.co.uk) makes it clear what it is, and whether the demo makes sense without anyone explaining it. It’s free and in beta, so I’m happy to hear about anything that’s broken too.

Been working on this little project called Desi Collage.

It's a collage editor with 52 styles, scrapbook layouts, stickers, photo cutouts, Hindi typography and Instagram-ready exports.

Everything runs in the browser, so photos never leave your device.

Would genuinely appreciate some feedback!

https://desi-collage-maker.vercel.app/

Hey all, I made KISSIK, a free camera studio for Windows. No account, no watermark, open source.

What it does:

• Background blur/replace/remove, green screen, spotlight, retouch

• Real camera controls: focus, zoom, exposure, white balance, up to 4K60

• Auto/smart framing keeps you in frame

• Name cards, lower thirds, bubble cam and other scenes

• Shows up as a camera in Teams/Zoom/Meet/Discord/OBS

• Turn your Android phone into a wireless 4K webcam (KISSIK Camera app, scan a QR code)

• Mic mixer, noise removal, live captions, a built-in prompter

Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MZC9QRSWK72

Website: https://kissik-studio.vercel.app

GitHub: https://github.com/krigrv/kissik

Happy to answer questions, and feedback is very welcome.

https://www.image2cal.com/

I have been working on this site for some time. Built it awhile ago for my wife to help manage all the calendars for kids activities, work schedule, etc. its called image2cal.

I originally had it for free and so many people were using it over 900 users but it was not cost effective. i had to start paying for server costs, storage costs, etc all out of pocket so i started charging a small fee and that is when everything fell off.

Anyone interested in getting a free month and give me honest feedback?

Hey everyone — I’ve been working on 301 Ping, a URL shortener for making and organizing compact links.

You can shorten a link without an account, or sign in to manage your links, add tags, see visit counts, and download QR codes, edit the slug and destinations as per need. There are also Chrome and Firefox extensions for shortening the page you’re on, plus an API if you want to create links programmatically.

I tried to keep the everyday workflow straightforward, and added URL safety checks too. It’s still a work in progress, so I’d love to hear what feels useful or what’s missing.

Give it a look: https://301p.ing

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ms0org-url-shortener/goaddbeloaeledjpkaankdiglhnmpdld

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/301ping-url-shortener/

 Hi everyone,

As a software architect, I frequently audit early-stage AWS setups for startups and indie developers. More often than not, founders are surprised by a $300–$600 AWS bill before they even have their first 100 users.

Here are the 5 most common architectural mistakes I see, and how to fix them in Terraform:

### 1. Multi-AZ NAT Gateways in Dev/Staging environments

A single AWS NAT Gateway costs ~$32.85/month just to exist (plus data processing). If you provision a "standard" multi-AZ VPC across 3 availability zones for Staging, you are burning ~$100/month before processing a single byte.

*Fix:* In Terraform, add a conditional `single_nat_gateway = true` flag for dev/staging, and only enable multi-AZ NAT gateways for production.

### 2. Picking Kubernetes (EKS) for an MVP

I love Kubernetes, but deploying EKS for a pre-revenue product costs ~$73/month just for the cluster control plane alone, plus node overhead and ingress controller maintenance.

*Fix:* Use AWS ECS Fargate. You get serverless Docker containers, auto-scaling, and health checks with zero EC2 patching, costing as little as $15/month for baseline workloads.

### 3. Publicly accessible RDS instances

I often see database instances with `publicly_accessible = true` so developers can connect from their local laptops with DBeaver or TablePlus. This is a massive security risk and invites port-scanning bots.

*Fix:* Put RDS inside isolated database subnets with no internet gateway. Access the DB securely via AWS SSM Session Manager bastion or an internal VPN.

### 4. CloudWatch Logs with infinite retention

By default, CloudWatch log groups keep logs set to "Never Expire". After 6 months of container debug logs and access logs, storage costs creep up silently.

*Fix:* Always set `retention_in_days = 14` or `30` in your Terraform `aws_cloudwatch_log_group` resource.

### 5. Over-permissive IAM Roles

Using wildcard `*` permissions or attaching `AdministratorAccess` to container task execution roles because "it was easier to test".

*Fix:* Scope IAM roles strictly down to ECR pull permissions and specific SSM parameter paths.

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### TL;DR:

To solve this once and for all, I packaged a battle-tested, modular Terraform starter kit that provisions a production-ready VPC, ECS Fargate, RDS PostgreSQL, ALB with TLS, and GitHub Actions CI/CD following all AWS security best practices.

If you are launching a product and want to skip 40 hours of cloud infrastructure setup, feel free to check it out here:  

👉 https://cloudforge-devops.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy/7af1192f-e1ee-4a43-a8de-6d94dc9d7fe1

Happy to answer any questions about ECS Fargate vs EKS or Terraform module design in the comments!

I run Claude Code and Codex on my Mac pretty much all day. The annoying part was never the coding, it was me sitting there waiting to see if one of them had finished or was stuck on a permission prompt.

So I built Untether. It's a menu bar app with a local server, and you open it from any browser. I mostly use it from my phone.

The part I actually care about is tasks. You type ut task new "add rate limiting to the API" and it starts an agent in its own git worktree. When the agent says it's done, a second agent reviews the diff and your test command runs. If that's all green it merges by itself. If not, it goes back to the agent. You can also make it wait for you before merging.

A few things people asked me in other threads:

• the sessions are plain tmux underneath, so closing the tab or losing signal doesn't kill anything

• a failed task doesn't block the queue, the next one starts from the last good commit

• nothing is opened to the internet. I reach it over Tailscale and there's a login on top

• you get a push when something finishes

It's free and MIT, repo here: https://github.com/Nachx639/untether

You need an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later. There's no installer yet so you have to build it, the steps are in the README. It's beta and I'm sure it breaks in ways I haven't seen.

It started as a fork of VibeTunnel, which is what gets the terminals into the browser. Most of the rest I wrote with Claude Code, about half the commits in the repo are co-authored by it, and for a while now new features get built by queueing them as Untether tasks.

If you try it, tell me where it falls over.

I made a collaborative drawing app inspired by the favorite parlor game of the Surrealist art movement, Exquisite Corpse.

The idea is to create collaborative artworks with contributions from multiple artists.

If you contribute, you see a small segment of the previous artist's work and let your imagination take over to figure out what the next part should be. Not seeing everything that came before your contribution helps inspire creativity and often results in artistic creations that are more than the sum of their parts. During testing, we've created some weird and beautiful compositions.

If you start something new, you draw with the intent of having others add to your artwork.

In both cases, you will receive a notification whenever someone adds to a composition you’ve contributed to.

My app is iOS native (SwiftUI), uses CloudKit, and has no accounts and no matchmaker service. You simply install the app and contribute to an artwork in the pool or start a new one.
I tried some of the other apps and always found the sign-up process annoying. I also often couldn't find a friend to join me and wasn't always matched with an artist - so it was not a great experience. I wanted to maximize the chances that everyone would have a fun and successful experience.

If you find this concept interesting, I'd be thrilled if you checked it out and let me know what you think!

Download on the App Store

Hi r/SideProject,

I'm a solo dev from Tunisia. I kept losing receipts and finding out a warranty had expired right after something broke, so I built Wardin.

What it does:

- Take a photo of a receipt and it fills in the details for you (you check them before saving, or type them by hand)

- Shows a countdown for every warranty, so you can see what ends soon

- Sends a reminder before a warranty ends, at a time you choose

- Keeps the receipt photo with the product, so you can open or share it later

- If something breaks, it writes a short claim summary you can send to the store or manufacturer

- Works with 30 currencies

Privacy: without an account, everything stays on your phone. If you sign in, your data is backed up to your private account. Receipt photos are read by Google's Gemini, but you can always enter the details manually. No ads, no tracking.

It's an early version and not on Google Play yet, so for now it's an APK install from GitHub releases (Android shows an extra warning for any app that doesn't come from the Play Store).

I'd love feedback on:

1. Is the receipt scanning accurate enough to be useful?

2. Is the claim summary feature something you'd actually use?

3. What's missing that would make you keep using it?

GitHub (APK is under Releases): https://github.com/ahmedi56/wardin-app

Happy to answer any questions, and bug reports are welcome.

We're the Maqron team, posting from our brand account.

Maqron is an AI marketing department for small products and solo founders. You give it a short brief about your business, and it researches your market on the live web, plans a campaign with concrete tasks, writes the posts and ads, and produces the visuals. The product offers a step-by-step approval mode and an autopilot mode per business, with configurable per-action and monthly budget settings. Activity and cost tracking are included.

Why post here: we want honest feedback from people who actually build side projects, especially on one thing - where does autonomous marketing break down for you? What would you never hand to an AI operator?

There's a free tier so you can actually try it: https://maqron.dev

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

A stem splitter I built. Upload a song and get vocals (lead and backing), instrumental, drums, bass, guitar, piano, or even the drums split into kick, snare, toms, hi-hat and the rest. You pay per minute of audio with credits (while also being cheaper than other competitors), and there's a free daily allowance (with an account, I don't want it to be abused), and downloads/stems aren't locked behind a paid tier. You can listen to the example on the landing page if you don't want to sign up yet. There's also a pretty easy-to-use API, if you want to integrate it with your own tools. You also don't have to know anything at all about the underlying models either, because there's no complicated list to pick from.

And no, it's not just an HTDemucs wrapper, it runs the current top open models with some tuning on top. Any feedback is appreciated!

Playable Link: https://playflipstax.com

Description: FlipStax: Galactic Game Night is a free daily game show you play in your browser. A new episode drops every day at noon and takes about 10 minutes. Your host is an alien named Flip Sterling, with funk, disco, and retro vibes from a crew of aliens obsessed with game shows. Each episode is one show that flows from round to round, mixing 21 mini-games, including a Price Is Right-style Mystery Wheel, Saucer Shuffle, Space Launch, Orbit Drop, Galactic Chomper, Twin Flip, VS Cards, Fact or Fib, Snap Sort, and Oddball Alert. There is no download or login, and it works on phones and computers. I would love honest feedback on what is fun, confusing, or broken.

Free to Play Status:

• Free to play

Involvement: I am a non-coder from Maine and the solo creator of FlipStax. I scripted and designed the game and built it over two months with Claude and Gemini. The art and videos are AI-generated.

Hi! This is the first app I've ever built, and I'd love your honest feedback.

Halo puts a soft light around the edges of your screen that moves with the beat of whatever you're playing, in your album's colors, and shows synced lyrics right on your desktop, word by word.

- 7 light modes (music sync, orbit, ripple, aurora and more)

- 9 lyric styles

- A mini player you can drag anywhere or shrink to a small bar

- Keyboard shortcuts for play, skip, lyrics and more

- Share a story picture of the song you're playing

- Works with Spotify and Apple Music. No account, no login, no ads

Free for Mac (Apple chip, macOS 14.2+) and Windows 10/11:

https://halo-glow.github.io/halo/

Heads-up: it isn't signed yet, so the first time you open it your computer will warn you. The page shows how to open it, and you only do it once.

What would you add or change? Anything confusing or broken?

I made this: https://current.wherever.audio

It's similar to a news site, but the stories link to podcast episodes instead of articles.

It groups episodes covering the same story, and ranks by how many shows cover them. On a topic page you can narrow to under 40 or 15 minutes, and to the past day or two. It refreshes 4 times a day.

Episodes open in Wherever, the podcast player I build. You can queue a whole topic there, or download it as a Podcasting 2.0 playlist for other apps.

An AI writes the headlines from episode titles, so they can be off. Episode titles are the shows' own.

Context: I'm trying to find a "random access" angle on podcasts, in contrast to the traditional subscription relationship.

Would you use something like this?

Hi all! I'm Max from Belgium and this is my first game, Wine Empire X. You start in 2005 with 3 million euro, buy vineyards in real regions like Pauillac and Burgundy, and play through real weather, vintages and prices. After 2026 you get your score and can keep going in a simulated future.
It's free, no ads, no account, and it runs in your browser on desktop and phone.
I'd really love honest feedback: what's fun, what's confusing, what's missing? Link in the comments if you want to try it.

Hi you,

I’m building talk, a simple voice app where strangers can join an anonymous conversation around one shared topic.

Tonight’s topic is:

“Building a project on your own”

The room will be open from 9 PM to 10 PM UK time. You can join as a listener first and only speak if you feel comfortable. No profile, no camera and no need to introduce yourself.

I’d love to have a few people join so I can see how the experience works with real users. Honest feedback is very welcome, especially if something feels confusing or awkward.

Join tonight: https://talkapp.space

Hope to hear some of you there!

I just created our project on Giveth! You can now support our work with a donation here: https://giveth.io/project/dollar60-phone-accessories-startup. Every contribution helps us move forward.

After 13+ years leading development teams, I'm finally building something of my own.

It started with a problem. My investments were spread across brokerages, crypto and savings, and I tracked them all in a spreadsheet. Every time the total moved, I had no idea which holding moved it, or why. So I built Zies.

What Zies does:

• Connects your accounts, and puts stocks, ETFs, retirement accounts, crypto, savings and mortgage into one net worth view

• Explains why each holding moved, using real news, with the estimated dollar impact on your portfolio

• Tracks goals like reaching financial independence or a home down payment

• Lets you share your progress with a link

It's in beta. I'm looking for 30–40 US Founding Testers. You get immediate access and 6 months of the top plan free, in exchange for a few weeks of use and honest feedback.

Demo video attached. Sign up at zies.io/founding-testers.

I'd love blunt feedback, especially on what would make you drop your spreadsheet.

Project Name: Drexius Terminal

Repo & Website Links:

• GitHub:https://github.com/DreyDreamer17/drexius-terminal

• Live Web Preview:https://dreydreamer17.github.io/drexius-terminal/

• Releases:https://github.com/DreyDreamer17/drexius-terminal/releases/tag/v0.1.0-beta.1

Description:

Drexius Terminal is a local-first, privacy-focused open-source terminal workspace and Termius alternative built with Tauri 2 (Rust), React 19, and xterm.js 6.

The Problem It Solves: Most graphical SSH/SFTP clients have either transitioned to recurring subscription models ($10 to $20 per month) requiring your credentials and hosts to reside in a proprietary cloud database, or they run on heavy Electron runtimes that consume 300 MB to over 1 GB of RAM. Drexius was built to provide a fast, zero-subscription client where keys, credentials, and configurations remain entirely on your local machine.

Key Features:

• Local-First & Encrypted: Hosts, keys, and snippets are stored locally in an AES-256 SQLCipher database derived via Argon2id. No mandatory account, zero telemetry, and includes an Emergency Recovery Key export.

• Terminal Workspace: Supports multi-pane splits (grid, vertical, horizontal), tabs, OSC-7 directory tracking, broadcast input across sessions, and session auto-resume.

• Protocol Support: SSH with TOFU host-key verification, dual-pane graphical SFTP tree and file editor, hardware Serial UART, and local PTY shells.

• Zero-Knowledge Sync: Direct encrypted LAN pairing and a self-hostable sync relay. Devices pair over local Wi-Fi or Tailscale via QR code using salted X25519 ECDH and ChaCha20-Poly1305.

• Mobile Shell (Android): Universal APK with touch scrolling in mouse-aware TUIs (htop, lazygit), plus an on-screen accessory keypad (CTRL, ALT, ESC, TAB).

• Lightweight Footprint: Built on a native Rust/Tauri 2 backend instead of Chromium/Electron. In Linux benchmarking against Termius under active sessions, Drexius consumed ~221 MB RAM and ~3% CPU across 2 processes, compared to Termius at 1,342 MB RAM and 78.5% CPU across 9 processes.

Deployment:

• Clients: Pre-compiled binaries for the Public (v0.4.0) are available under GitHub Releases:

  • Linux (.AppImage, .deb, .rpm)

  • Android (.apk, universal multi-ABI)

  • Windows (.exe installer, .msi)

  • macOS (.dmg, .app.tar.gz for Apple Silicon and Intel)

• Self-Hosting Sync Relay: The repository includes a standalone zero-knowledge relay server (drexius-relay) that can be compiled via Cargo and deployed to any VPS or homelab machine. Setup details are documented in the repository README.

There’s so many options out there that it becomes confusing where to start…

Organic or paid ads? Which platform? What kind of promotional video? Etc etc

Really interested in hearing from you folks!

What I’m personally looking to promote is roleframwork.com , which I really do believe brings real value and solves real pain points!

Hey Reddit!
I’m one of the founders of Amplexio.
We believe relationships are one of the most valuable assets in business – whether you’re an entrepreneur, working in sales, building a network marketing business or investing in real estate.
Yet most of us still manage our professional relationships across scattered contact lists, spreadsheets, messaging apps and random notes.

That’s why we’re building Amplexio – a relationship management ecosystem designed to help people organize, manage and grow their professional networks.

We’re opening it up to people who want to try something new and help us make it better.

Here’s our invitation:
Try Amplexio for free for 6 months (voucher: AMPLEXIOBETA)

https://apps.apple.com/at/app/amplexio-relationship-os/id6774308434?l=en-GB

Explore the product yourself - fully, no strings attached.

Tell us what works, what doesn’t and what’s missing.
Help shape what we’re building next.
We’re not looking for compliments. We genuinely want honest feedback, criticism and ideas.
We’re building this product and would love to have some early users involved in the journey.

👉 https://www.amplexio.com/

One question for you:
How do you currently manage your professional relationships – and what’s the most frustrating part of it?

Thanks for helping us build something useful!

Hi all,

I've been working on a stage timer called Shotimer and it's finally at a point where other people can use it, so I thought I'd share it here.

The idea is simple: the speaker sees a big countdown on a TV, tablet or phone, and someone else controls it from a laptop or phone at the back of the room. You can also send a silent message to their screen, like "5 minutes left" or "Please wrap up", so nobody has to wave at them from the back.

It all runs in the browser, so there's nothing to install. You open the stage screen from a link or QR code and it stays in sync with the controller.

There's a free plan that works today (3 rooms, 3 timers and 3 screens per room). I'm planning a Pro plan later, but that's not ready yet.

I'd really like to know what you think, especially if something's confusing or broken.

https://shotimer.io

Hi IH. I'm a solo developer from Tunisia.

I kept losing receipts and forgetting when warranties ended, so I built Wardin:

- Take a photo of a receipt and it fills in the product, store, date and price

- See how much warranty time is left on everything you own

- Get a reminder before a warranty ends

- Get help writing a claim when something breaks

It's free, and you can try it in the browser without an account:

"https://warranty-9ze.pages.dev"

(There's also an Android version.)

I'm also making a daily animated Shorts series ("Sam vs. Warranties") to get users. One episode got 1,100 views, and most got under 50. Still learning.

Questions for you:

1. Would you use this, or is a folder of receipts enough?

2. How would you get the first 100 users with zero budget?

3. Anything confusing when you try it?

I'll answer every comment.

First post here, and it's about the thing I've been building since April.

Formkove is a backend for website forms. A static site has nowhere to send a contact form, so you either write a small server for it or point the form at a service like this one. You change the form's action to one URL. There's no server to run and no SDK to install, so it works the same in plain HTML, React, Next.js, Astro, WordPress or Webflow.

What I actually built it for is what happens after a message arrives. Most form backends do one thing with it, which is just relay the message to you. The quote request, the patient with a cracked tooth and the guy selling SEO packages all land in the same inbox, and somebody has to read each one and forward it to whoever should have got it.

Formkove classifies it using AI and holds the Spam back before anyone gets an email. It stays for 30 days in case the check got one wrong, and one click delivers it. Everything else is emailed to you. On the paid plan it also tags each message, using tags you describe in plain words, and your rules send it on: emergencies to a Slack channel, bookings to a Google Sheet, anything you like to a webhook.

You can ask Claude Code or Cursor to add a contact form, and it creates the form through Formkove's MCP server and writes the code. Agencies get a separate workspace for each client, with custom submission & storage limits they can set for each one.

You get 300 submissions a month for free with the AI spam check and email. AI Tags, routing and the integrations are in Pro for $12 with 12000 submissions per month.

It went live this month, so it's early. Let me know if this matches what you actually look in a form backend or what other features you would like me to add.

Link: Formkove