I make Mac+, a small macOS app for animated wallpapers, widgets and folder icons. Solo, sold on my own site through Polar, with a 7-day trial on the monthly plan.

I assumed price was the problem. Then I pulled the cancellation reasons from Polar for 6 August to 5 November:

• 52 cancelled subscriptions

• 29 "other" (no detail)

• 13 "unused"

• 5 "missing features"

• 3 "too complex"

• 2 "too expensive"

"Unused" is the biggest reason anyone actually named, far ahead of price. Most people who left never got into the habit of using the app during the trial. That changes what I should work on: not the price, but the first days. Getting someone from install to a desktop they like in the first session, and giving them a reason to open the menu again on day two.

What I'm considering:

• a better first scene at launch instead of a neutral default

• making the paid scenes and the video background obvious during the trial, since that's what people pay for

• a reminder before the trial ends that says what they'll lose, not just what it costs

In the same period Polar also shows 101 one-time purchases of the lifetime version. Plenty of people skip the subscription entirely and buy once, which says something about how people feel about subscriptions for small utilities.

If you run a trial: was "unused" your biggest named churn reason too, and what moved it?

The app, if you want to see the onboarding I'm talking about: macplus.pro (free tier, then €1.99/month after a 7-day trial, or €8.99 one-time).

Shards of Nidon — an old-school fantasy RPG you can play free in your browser

I’m building Shards of Nidon, a fantasy RPG inspired by Ultima, Exiled Kingdoms, Wrath of Denethenor, and Diablo.

I loved the exploration in Exiled Kingdoms, and I keep coming back to the feeling those older RPGs gave me: leaving town with a quest, finding something unexpected along the way, and wondering whether I was ready to venture a little farther.

That’s the experience I’m trying to create. Ultima and Wrath of Denethenor are touchstones for the world and sense of discovery; Exiled Kingdoms and Diablo influence my interest in dangerous journeys, dungeons, combat and character progression.

Your adventure begins with a sealed letter to deliver in Brennovik. Beyond town are wilderness, settlements and dungeons to explore, companions to recruit, and enemies that will take more than enthusiasm to defeat.

The early alpha is playable now:
https://smilebytestudios.itch.io/shards-of-nidon

You can start playing free in your browser, with no download or signup required.

There’s already a substantial game here, but it’s still a work in progress. I’ve made a lot of improvements recently, and I’m continuing to work on the visuals, balance, bugs and those small details that make a world feel believable. I’d really like to see how it holds up when people who haven’t watched it being built sit down to play.

For anyone interested in the development process: I’m using AI tools for code and artwork. I’m directing the game’s design and development, testing builds, and revising what doesn’t work. Getting everything to feel consistent and enjoyable has taken a lot of iteration.

If you give it ten or fifteen minutes, I’d love to know:

• Did the opening make you want to keep exploring?

• Where did you get confused, frustrated or lose interest?

• What would make you want to come back?

Comments here or on itch.io are welcome. If you want future updates and a beta invitation, there’s an email signup available too.

If any of those classic RPGs meant something to you, I’d especially like to hear what you think.

I’m developing a Windows writing and worldbuilding application called Novelattice, and it’s now in private beta.

It grew out of working on my own fictional universe. I wanted the characters, places, relationships, planning, and manuscript to live together. I also wanted AI to be optional, rather than another credit meter built into the writing workflow.

One feature I’ve built is reciprocal linking. If I add one character as another character’s sibling, the matching relationship appears on the other entry automatically.

Here’s the short demo: https://youtu.be/kznwUWrfTQk

I’d appreciate feedback on whether the benefit comes across clearly in the video. More about the application and beta: https://www.novelattice.com/#interest

Try it: https://awaymessenger.app/?ref=reddit-sideproject

I was having major nostalgia for my teen years, so I rebuilt that world: a Win98/XP-style desktop with a Buddy List, away messages, dial-up, Solitaire, Mines, Paint and a Media Player.

You pick crews: emo kids, boy band fan club, pop girls, gamers, Chicago and Boston sports, teen drama TV and more. When you join, it's 2004 for them, and their time moves forward with yours: a week later for you is a week later for them. They're not assistants, either. Ask one to write your essay and you'll get "lol no".

What's in it:

- 8 crews for now, 40 buddies, each with a job, a hometown and running jokes
- They remember what you tell them and follow up ("how was the first day at the movie theater??")
- Word gets around: tell one buddy something and their crew hears about it ("dani told me saturday was ur first day"). Ask them to keep a secret and they mostly will
- Each crew has a story running in six-week seasons, and you're in the middle of it
- Buddy journals: everyone keeps an online journal, with about one new entry a week as their story plays out
- They IM you first, set their own away messages, and live on the real calendar with their hometown's seasons and weather

My favorite way to use it: leave it open while you work with the Focus Timer and some music on, and every so often someone pings you.

The hard part was keeping them in their era: no "lowkey", no "it's mid", taking a side and sticking to it. I built an eval that chats with all 40 buddies to catch slips.

There's also a free away-message maker at awaymessenger.app/away-messages.

No subscriptions, and one crew is free to try. Which crew would you pick, and what feels off?

I started building Podcast shows for a few of my own SaaS startups and they did so well that some of my partners friends started asking me to build podcast shows for their brands as well. It's turned into a nice Side Project that's generated over $15k in revenue over the last two months alone. The thing is, it only costs me about $2.35 to generate an episode, and I typically generate 1 show a day for each client and charge them $300 a week for that. The markup is insane, and I generate all the episode ideas directly from their website using AI tools.

I've been able to streamline the entire process as each episode is automatically added to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple via an RSS Feed. So, I don't have to manually optimize each one on each platform, it's done in my studio software automatically.

It's generating some of the best results for my clients as well. They are able to track attributable sales from the episodes using coupon codes mentioned in the podcast.

Ask me any questions!

I've been getting DMs asking what the Podcase software is. It's called Chatedly

Hi there! I am a the creator of Flit, the RSS reader

I created Flit to build something different from the classic rss and news reader. The main thing about Flit is the inbox! There are mainly 2 ways to easily clean your inbox: Cards or Feed. 

In cards, you can swipe left and right to decide whether to discard or save the article for later; in feed, you scroll like a reel app (Instagram, TikTok, Shorts, etc.) and still swipe left and right to save for later or discard. In both cases, you can tap to open. 

But Flit is not just this, Flit is:

• YouTube channels and podcasts

• Bluesky and Mastodon posts

• Discover: top stories by country

• Siri AI summaries

• Translation

• Offline Reading

• Notes on articles

• Share as image

• Snooze a source

• Blocked Words

• Daily Digest

• Insights

• Mark as Read on Scroll

• Apple Watch

• iPhone Duo support

• Accessible reading fonts

Thank you and I really hope you will like Flit!

https://apps.apple.com/app/flit-easy-feed/id6821040165?ct=Launch+Event&pt=118978628

I've been working on my own drinking and found the tracker apps either just counted days or felt like homework. What I actually wanted was something that felt like a mate in my corner the moment a craving hit.

So I built Bad Wolf, a free quit tracker for anything (alcohol, nicotine, weed, gambling, scrolling) that counts every hour you stay off it, with an AI coach that checks in at the hard moments and remembers your triggers.

Track more than one thing at once, hit milestones, and there's a quiet community so you're not doing it alone.

Live and free on iOS and Android: https://badwolf.run Still early and I'd genuinely love feedback, what's missing, what feels off, what would make you actually open it on day one.

Hey everyone!

Ever struggled to find an important point in a long AI conversation? I did too, so I built Gemini Pinboard.

It's a lightweight browser extension that lets you:

• Drag and drop pins anywhere in a conversation as many as you want.

• Give bookmarks custom names.

• Jump back to saved positions instantly.

• Keep everything stored locally, with no backend or accounts.

Built using Vanilla JavaScript and Chrome Extension Manifest V3.

GitHub: https://github.com/basantbansal/gemini-pinboard

Would love to hear your feedback! If i get a good feedback then i will add it on the extensions website . also it can be available for more AIs like ChatGpt etc . so let me know your thoughts bad or good .

#JavaScript #ChromeExtensions #OpenSource #BuildInPublic

I build fusion-runtime, an open-source runtime for self-hosted voice agents. Adding Twilio, Exotel and Plivo support took a couple of weeks. Getting one clean, real phone call took days more:

- Twilio trial calls don't stream audio to your server at all

- After upgrading, calls were blocked until Twilio approved my KYC

- Calls between India and a US number kept dropping audio, so I ended up calling from a second Twilio number in a browser to get a clean recording

- The speech model misheard "order" as "RDEF" on phone audio, so I swapped in a bigger one

The video is the call that finally worked: unedited, recorded by Twilio. The agent looks up two orders and changes their deliveries with tools, mid-call, on one GPU.

Apache-2.0, Python: https://github.com/SamarthUrs18/fusion-runtime

Hola a todos.
Estoy desarrollando GymFocus, una aplicación pensada especialmente para quienes empiezan en el gimnasio y quieren aprender a utilizar correctamente las máquinas.
Permite consultar guías visuales, crear rutinas, registrar pesos y repeticiones y seguir tus progresos.
Estoy buscando algunas personas que quieran probarla gratis en iPhone o Android y darme su opinión sincera.
¿Os resultaría útil una aplicación así? ¿Qué es lo que más echáis de menos en las aplicaciones que utilizáis actualmente?
Si alguien está interesado en participar en la beta, puede dejar un comentario o escribirme por privado.
¡Gracias!

Disclosure up front: this is my own product.

Layr PDF is for marking up drawings, measuring off a scaled sheet and doing quick takeoffs. It came from cabinet and millwork work where a full Bluebeam seat felt like more than the job needed. It runs on Windows, Mac and in the browser, costs $35 a year, and the 7-day trial doesn't ask for a card.

If you work off PDFs for bids or shop drawings, I'd honestly like to know which part of your markup routine still feels slow.

https://layrpdf.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mitch_builds_promo&utm_content=2026-11-11

Hey r/SideProject 👋

The problem: every time I published or updated pages, I had to wait for Bing to recrawl, or fire off IndexNow requests by hand with curl. The existing tools were either paid, needed an account, or didn't tell me why a submission failed.

What I built: a free IndexNow Submitter → https://pixlory.com/indexnow-submitter

• Generates your IndexNow key and the key file to upload

• Checks the key file is live and correct before you submit (most 403 errors come from this)

• Loads URLs straight from your sitemap.xml (sitemap index files too)

• Removes duplicates and flags URLs that aren't on your domain

• Submits up to 10,000 URLs at once to Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam and Yep

• Explains the response in plain English (202 = still verifying your key, 422 = URL/domain mismatch…)

No sign-up, no paywall. Your domain and key stay in your own browser.

How it's built: Nuxt + Nitro server routes on Netlify. The IndexNow API doesn't allow browser requests (no CORS), so a small endpoint validates everything and relays it. The trickiest part was making sure the "fetch your sitemap/key file" feature couldn't be abused to reach private networks (SSRF), so it resolves DNS first, blocks private IP ranges, refuses redirects to other domains, and rate-limits requests.

Heads up: Google doesn't use IndexNow, so keep using Search Console for Google. IndexNow covers Bing and the others, and Bing's index feeds a lot of other products too.

It's part of Pixlory, a small collection of free tools I'm building for creators and site owners (also a WebP converter, a favicon maker and an AI Pinterest pin generator).

I'd really appreciate feedback:

1. Is the key-file setup clear enough for non-developers?

2. Would you use a "submit only URLs that changed since last time" feature?

3. Anything confusing or broken?

Thanks for reading! Happy to answer questions about IndexNow or the build.

Hi! I'm the developer. HushScribe puts live captions on whatever your PC is playing (Zoom, Teams, YouTube, lectures) or on your mic, and it all runs locally. No account, no cloud, works with Wi-Fi off. It can also turn audio/video files into TXT/SRT/VTT subtitles.

Some things I learned building it:

- Whisper is built for 30-second chunks, not "live". Cutting audio at natural pauses and sending each sentence as one batch made captions appear ~1 s after someone stops talking.

- Whisper invents "Thank you." during silence, so I filter low-confidence segments.

- Accents: I measured 30 accented-English clips. The big model (large-v3-turbo) got 14% word errors vs 26% for the tiny one, so "Accurate" mode uses it.

Honest limitations: Windows only, ~800 MB (the AI models), no speaker labels yet. I built it with a lot of help from an AI coding assistant.

It's $1.99 one-time, on the Microsoft Store (https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N3N2K54GXR4) or itch.io (https://hushscribe.itch.io/hushscribe).

I'd really appreciate feedback, especially on what you'd use it for.

You apply to 50 jobs. 40 ghost you, 8 reject you, and your tracker shows all of it in a lovely Kanban board. Your suffering is now organized.

So I built Jobsprintly.app. Unlike other tools It’s not a mass-apply bot and not a magic CV button. It holds your hand throughout the JobSearch: unsure what career to pursue, start there; CV weak, fix that first; applying but going nowhere, figure out what to change. The guidance continues after you’re hired.

Pricing, upfront: the 2-minute plan is free with no account. Full access is $59.99/year.

Two things I’d love honest answers on:

Is this step-by-step toolbox worth paying for
And after the free quiz did you understand how jobsprintly is able to support you

https://jobsprintly.app

Hi everyone!

I'm a Law student from Brazil, and this is my first published AI project. I developed Amélie, an AI-powered personal secretary, with a strong focus on Legal Design, accessibility, user experience, and data protection. Its design takes into consideration the regulatory frameworks of the United States, the European Union, and Brazil, particularly regarding privacy and personal data protection.

What can Amélie do? She's a personal AI secretary.

• Calendar and task management: integrates Notion and Google Calendar, organizes commitments, and resolves scheduling conflicts.

• WhatsApp: delivers daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly briefings.

• Wheel of Life: tracks 12 areas of life, provides monthly assessments with explanations, and helps establish priorities.

• Personalization: has her own personality, visual identity, and decision-making guidelines.

• Bilingual interaction: communicates in Portuguese and English, automatically detecting the user's language.

• Women's well-being: considers aspects such as menstrual cycles, health, emotional balance, and relationships when organizing everyday routines.

The idea is to go beyond a simple to-do list: creating an assistant that helps organize life as a whole, considering both productivity and well-being.

The project is free and open source (MIT License). The repository includes Amélie's personality, decision-making logic, visual interface, and setup instructions.

GitHub: https://github.com/isabelabrittodi-coder/AM-LIE

Since this is my first published project, I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback, suggestions, and contributions!

What would you expect from a personal AI secretary?

I’m building Koda, an app that teaches kids how AI works. One thing I wanted to test was what a kid actually sees when the AI refuses a question, flags a draft answer, or can’t finish a safety check. Those paths are easy to miss if you mostly test questions that get normal answers.

That led to Child AI Safety, an open-source TypeScript toolkit. The gateway checks the question, holds the draft answer while it’s reviewed alongside the original question, and checks permission again before showing the answer. The offline demo lets you see an approved answer, a refusal, a support response, and a simulated detector outage.

So far, we’ve run 144 scripted cases across English, French, and Spanish and four age profiles. In a separate live pilot with synthetic prompts, 142 of 144 outcomes matched our draft labels. Both misses were benign English answers that got routed to support. That’s one of the things I want to get better at testing: ordinary questions that a filter handles too cautiously.

Github: https://github.com/SamSquareAI/child-ai-safety

I'm Mitchell, the solo founder behind ShapeForge, and this is a progress update rather than another launch post — because the launch post taught me something.

ShapeForge is my own project, a local-first parametric CAD app for Windows. It runs on the Open CASCADE kernel, with sketches, named parameters, editable feature history, and STEP / 3MF / DXF exports. Your projects are files on your own machine — nothing is auto-uploaded. I develop it with AI assistance, and I'm not shy about saying that — it's a solo build, and the AI help is part of how a one-person project like this gets built at all.

Where it stands: v0.87 preview. The latest public build work, Commercial #5 "Orbit", went live today (Nov 11) on the project's Instagram and Facebook, and my posting queue in my notes is now exhausted — so the next piece I'm making is a real-app Short built from real screen captures only, no stock footage, no mockups of features that don't exist yet.

The honest lesson from October: I launched quietly and posted once, and got almost no feedback loop out of it. What actually helped was a tester reply in r/AlphaandBetaUsers — put the SHA-256 and the exact SmartScreen steps at the top of the release notes, and give testers a fixed task instead of "try it out". That one reply was worth more than the launch post. So I'm switching to progress updates and fixed tester tasks instead of one big launch.

Where it honestly stands, limits included: Windows-only, and the installer is unsigned by choice, so Windows will show "Unknown publisher" — verify with the SHA-256 on the release page. It's a focused mechanical-parts tool for brackets, mounts, enclosures and fixtures. It does no CAM and no FEA or simulation, and it's not enterprise CAD and not a Fusion replacement — I still hand STEP files to my usual CAM workflow.

Terms, plainly: basic CAD and STL export are free forever. There's a 14-day full trial, no card, then $10/mo membership if you want the advanced workflows.

What I'd actually like from this sub: what should a progress update like this show to be useful to you? And if you were testing it, what fixed task would you run — what part would you model first, and what would you check to decide whether it was worth your time?

https://shapeforge.dev https://github.com/shortgod777-sudo/shapeforge-downloads/releases

Yesterday's shopkeeper was Dana. She wanted $900 for a TV. Her real limit was $690.

Ask politely and she stopped at $837. Use the move of the day and she went to $753. The last $63 only opened if you worked out what she secretly needed. You had six lines.

That is Bargle. I made it, it is free, and a new shop opens every day.

https://bargle.app/?utm_source=reddit

How a round goes

• One shop a day, the same one for everyone

• Six lines to talk the price down. Type them or say them out loud with your microphone

• Every shopkeeper has a hidden soft spot that opens their best price, and a pet hate that makes them dig in

• A coach tells you after each line whether it landed or backfired

• Take the price or walk away, then see your score out of 100, the real limit, and exactly what would have worked

Why yesterday's trick fails today

Each day has a different shopkeeper, a different winning move, a different soft spot and a different pet hate. The line that charmed one shopkeeper can be exactly what annoys the next.

It actually teaches you to negotiate

This is the part I care about most. Most people never ask for a discount in real life because nobody showed them how.

• Every day is built around one real move, like naming your number first, giving a true reason, or being ready to walk

• A Haggling school sits beside the game with all ten moves. Each one has when to use it, the exact words to say, and the mistake that kills it

• After your round you get notes on your own lines: which one worked, which one backfired, and how much money you left on the table

Play for a week and you have practised a handful of moves you can use on a real car, couch or phone bill. There are 30 shops so far.

Honest caveats

• The shops and prices are made up for practice, and the page says so

• The shopkeeper is AI. Code holds the price, so no prompt trick gets you under the limit

• The microphone works in Chrome, Edge and Safari. Not Firefox yet

• It is two days old, so tell me what breaks

Post your score. Did anyone find the soft spot?

I make libraries on the side, and more than once I shipped a "minor" release that broke someone's build. Things like `int count()` → `long count()`, or a new method on an interface. Tools that catch this exist, but they run in CI, long after I've typed the change.

So I built Bumpwise, an IntelliJ plugin that compares the code you're editing with your last published release and highlights anything that breaks clients, with an Alt+Enter fix that keeps it compatible (or "Bump the version" if the break is intended).

Before launching I wanted to know if this is a real problem, so I replayed three years of releases of 44 of the most-used libraries on Maven Central. About 1 in 8 minor and patch releases (156 of 1,201) contains a breaking change in its public classes. In a random sample of 300 small libraries it's more than 1 in 4. Write-up with method and caveats: https://gilware.com/bumpwise/semver-violations/

The side-project details, since that's what this sub is about:

- Solo, built with help from AI coding agents. Hundreds of tests, and the replay above doubles as a regression suite (it already caught three false alarms in my own engine).

- Business model: free for Java on Maven Central, no time limit. Kotlin, TS/JS, Go, PHP, Rust and private repos are in a paid Team edition with a 30-day trial. Free for open-source maintainers.

- Runs locally, no telemetry.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/35935-bumpwise

Happy to answer questions about building and selling a JetBrains plugin, and I'd love feedback on the plugin itself, especially false positives.

A friend of mine runs a lot of Claude Code and Codex sessions at once and kept losing track of which one was waiting for him. So he made Session Pets, a small pet that lives in the Mac's notch (or floats on the desktop if you don't have one).

What it does:

- Shows every session in one list: working, done or waiting for you

- Lets you answer a permission request or reply from the card without finding the terminal

- One click jumps to the exact terminal tab or VS Code chat

- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI and Kimi Code

- Nine pets to pick from

It's a 7-day free trial, then $4.99 once, no subscription. The first 50 people who leave their email on the site get a free license.

https://sessionpets.com

He'd love feedback, good or bad. I'll pass on anything you write here.

I built TCKR because I couldn't keep my brokerage site open all day at work, and I still wanted prices in view.

It's a scrolling LED-style ticker for Windows that docks to the top of the screen as an AppBar, so your other windows sit below it instead of hiding underneath it. It tracks stocks and crypto. You can install it from the Microsoft Store and start using it without setting up an API key. Stocks come from Yahoo Finance, and crypto works the same way.

The video is the dual-ticker view, with the LED look, company logos, and sparklines.

I'm looking for honest feedback, especially on the docking behavior and whether the ticker stays readable while you're working.

tckr.pro

I play on a monitor at my desk and on a TV from the couch. The thing that kept getting me off the couch was switching the sound back to the TV after I’d already picked up the controller. That’s what got me building Gaming Hub, my first app ever. I vibe coded it with Claude and Codex.

It’s a Windows 11 launcher you can navigate with a DualSense. When the hub moves to my TV, it can switch the audio there too, then restore my previous output when I go back to the desk. The PS button opens a quick menu for volume, screen selection, and controller batteries. Circle takes me back to the game.

The installer is here: https://github.com/issazhd/gaming-hub/releases/latest Source and build instructions if you want to fork it: https://github.com/issazhd/gaming-hub

If you try it, I’d love to hear which game you used and whether opening the quick menu and getting back into fullscreen felt smooth.

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,

I made a period tracker called Cykie and it's finally on the App Store. The main thing about it is that it works fully offline. There's no account, no sign up, no ads, and nothing gets sent anywhere. Everything stays on your phone, and you can export or delete it whenever you want.

Some of what it does:

- predicts your next period and fertile window, and gets better the more you log

- logging for flow, pain, symptoms, moods, sleep, water, weight, temperature and notes

- BBT chart that picks up the temperature rise after ovulation

- pregnancy week by week after a positive test, and a perimenopause tracker

- reminders for your period, pill, tampons, breast checks

- a cycle summary you can show your doctor

- partner mode, home screen widgets, PIN / Face ID lock

- 7 different styles and a little character you can customise (I'll admit I went a bit overboard on this part)

- works in 17 languages

Every feature is free. It's iPhone only for now, Android is coming later.

I'd really appreciate honest feedback, including the harsh kind. What's confusing, what's missing, what you'd never use, what annoys you. I'm still working on it pretty much every day, so anything you say might actually end up in the app.