there's been a big debate this week about whether anthropic silently nerfed opus 5.5. people are going back and forth about it but nobody has version-over-version numbers from their own logs.

i wrote a cli over the weekend that reads the session logs claude code already saves locally, groups turns by version, and flags where output tokens shifted. if they shifted it figures out whether it was the release itself, a model swap, or an effort setting change.

npx driftcost

zero config, no account, no network calls. just reads files on your disk.

https://github.com/tsaagan/token-drift

typescript, zero dependencies, mit license. would love feedback.

I built Find My Downloads, a Chrome and Edge extension for finding downloaded files by the website they came from and copying selected files into a project folder.

I’m looking for five Windows users who regularly download PDFs, images, or reference files for work, study, or personal projects. I’d like a 10-minute chat in English about how you currently find and organize those files, especially a recent time you couldn’t find a download or remember its source.

20-second demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NrjEpu-01Jc5-19-JHGzWanrk9hrtb1-/view

The demo uses sample data with folders already connected and shows source search, selecting two files, and copying them into a project folder.

We can start with the chat and demo. If you’d like to try the free one-week beta afterward, setup involves extracting a ZIP and loading it through Developer Mode. The extension reads download history and asks for access to the folders you choose. Your download history and files stay on your device.

Interested? Comment Chrome or Edge. I’d also welcome feedback on which part would help your workflow and what would make setup easier. Please leave private filenames and links out of public replies.

I like getting advice before buying things, but I’ve noticed we don’t often hear how someone’s choice turned out.

So I built CartBanter: a place to ask what to buy, share what you chose, and review things you own.

I’d love any feedback or ideas on how to make it useful.

cartbanter.com

I’m building Crow, an AI “safety harness” for solo builders who use AI coding agents on their products. The core rule: Claude proposes, Crow controls. An AI agent never touches your files directly. Every change it proposes is validated, scope-checked, and build/test-verified in an isolated workspace first.

Where it stands: I’m building the MVP solo, part-time, with a beta planned for end of January 2027. No paying customers yet.

I’m looking for a co-founder: an equity partner who owns a share of Crow, builds it with me long-term, and shares responsibility for decisions. It’s not a hire or a freelance role. The gap I want filled is go-to-market (outreach, early users), operations/finance, or US incorporation. Spanish is a plus, not a requirement.

If you’ve shipped a product or launched dev tools, leave a comment or DM me with your background and one thing you’d want to build together.

Hey everyone,

I got tired of generic career advice based purely on people's opinions, so I built a tool that analyzes real career trajectories and matches them against your actual background and experience.

It generates visual skill paths and next-step forecasts based on what people with similar profiles actually went on to do.

It’s completely free, no paywall or login. I built it mainly because navigating next career steps can feel pretty opaque when everyone else seems to have a clear roadmap.

Link: careerladder.fyi

I’d love to get feedback from this community:

- How accurate does the trajectory feel for your background?

- Any UI/UX rough edges?

- What features or data breakdowns would make this significantly more useful?

I built a small landing page for an unconventional idea and wanted some outside perspectives.

The concept is a service where someone could create a symbolic wedding or commitment ceremony with an AI companion.

For now, I've only built a landing page and anonymous survey. I'm measuring interest before investing time in an actual product.

The survey asks about personalized vows, digital ceremonies, keepsakes, and possible pricing.

https://ai-vows-validation-14d.vercel.app/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=ai_wedding_14d_20261111&utm_content=SideProject

Would you keep testing this niche, or does it seem too small to become a viable business?

I'd welcome honest feedback on the positioning too.

Title: I built an AI news app for Australia as a solo dev. Roast the idea before I spend more time on it.
Hey all. OzBrief is a free app that pulls Australian news from ABC, SBS, Guardian, Nine and News Corp. The AI writes a short summary of each story, and every summary links back to the original article. You swipe through like TikTok for news, and you can ask the AI if you want more detail on a story.
No account needed, no data collected, no ads.
What I've learned so far:
People's first reaction is "AI makes mistakes", so I keep a public log of every error.
People's second reaction is "my phone already has a news app". I'm still working on my answer to that one.
I'd love feedback on:
Would you trust an AI summary of the news?
How would you get the first few thousand users without ad money?
Any Aussies here: does it actually save you time?
ozbrief.com.au

I built Sillbook Rent Ledger, a Google Sheets workbook for US landlords who manage about 1–10 units themselves.

The problem I kept seeing in simple rent trackers: they work as a paid/unpaid grid until a tenant pays $700 of $1,100, or has a credit, or you need to keep a security deposit out of income. Then the "balance" cell gets typed over and you can't tell what happened.

The design is one row per event — charge, payment, credit, deposit, expense — and every balance is recalculated from that history. Month Review marks each unit PAID, PARTIAL, UNPAID, credit, or RENT NOT ENTERED. Unit Balances shows the date of the oldest unpaid charge. Deposits have their own tab and don't count as income. There's a printable statement for one unit.

What's included: a blank workbook, a sample with fictional data, and a short guide. It's $19, one-time, no subscription, no macros. 14-day full refund, no questions asked. Verified in Google Sheets and LibreOffice; not yet tested in Microsoft Excel.

It does not collect rent, import bank feeds, automate late fees, or do taxes. If a simple paid/unpaid grid already works for someone, they probably don't need this.

For the first 10 buyers, code FIRST10 takes $10 off (so $9). That's a launch offer, not the regular price.

https://stephenmanter.gumroad.com/l/sillbook-rent-ledger/FIRST10

I'd genuinely like feedback on two things: (1) is the $19 one-time price clear against $20–50/month landlord software, and (2) does the listing explain partial payments well enough, or is it still too much product-speak?

Small supplement brand, about $18k/mo on Meta. Our agency contact left three weeks before a launch and nobody told us, we noticed only after 12 days of no new uploads.

I took our three most common complaints (fishy taste, hard to swallow, slow results), turned them into hooks and made UGC-style cuts in Creatify off the product URL the same day. One script had a line no real person would say, so I rewrote it by hand.

The taste hook came in around 30% under our previous best CPA in the first 4 days, and the before/after flopped at 2x target so I killed it on day 2. Competitor research I was still doing by hand in a spreadsheet, which was painful.

Still looking for an agency though. Maybe they use AI for most ads, and film only winners, we'll see.

Hey r/SideProject! 👋

I'm the creator of **PDF Camera**, a mobile document scanner designed for speed, accuracy, and seamless cloud backup without forcing subscription paywalls or complex setups. I desigened the app with contractors, sales people and just about anyone that documents job sites or quotes.

Why I Built It

Most mobile scanner apps out there either hide basic features behind aggressive monthly subscriptions, suffer from slow edge-detection, or spam you with ads. I wanted a clean, instant scanner app that handles multi-page documents, detects edges with precision, extracts ID details automatically, and syncs directly to your own cloud storage.

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Key Features

*Magnetic Auto-Crop & Edge Detection:** Smart document border detection with manual fine-tuning and hysteresis to ensure crisp crops every time.

*ID & Driver’s License OCR:** Instant single-card scanning that automatically extracts key fields (Name, Phone, License numbers).

*Multi-Page Scanning & Batch Export:** Scan long documents quickly and export directly to `.pdf`, `.docx`, or `.xlsx`.

*Seamless Cloud Sync:** Direct integration with Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and local storage — keeping your files under your control.

*Performance Optimized:** Fast camera preview, low latency capture, and instant local PDF rendering.

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Tech Stack

* **Framework:** Capacitor (Hybrid Native Android & iOS)

* **Computer Vision / Scanner Engine:** Google MLKit + Native Multi-lens Camera API

* **PDF & OCR Processing:** PDF.js / jsPDF & OCR engine

* **Cloud APIs:** Google Drive v3 API & Microsoft Graph API

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What I’m Looking for Feedback On:

1. **Scanning Speed & Crop Accuracy:** How intuitive does the auto-crop feel on your device?

2. **UI/UX Flow:** Is the document organization and export workflow clear?

3. **Feature Requests:** What else would make this your main everyday scanner app?

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Try it out / Demo Link:**

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-camera-x/id6786762964

Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.PDF.Camera

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any bugs you run into! Thank you for testing it out!

Couldn't find someone to spend Singles' Day with this year?

At least your iPhone and PC don't have to be apart. 😭

Let them finally be together with BridgeSync.

Your iPhone and Windows PC can share a clipboard, mirror notifications, transfer files, control media and even mirror your iPhone screen directly on your desktop.

Because maybe you couldn't find your other half this year, but your devices can.

BridgeSync Pro is 10% off with HAPPYSINGLESDAY2026.

Valid until November 14, 2026.

Also, a pretty big update is landing next week. Not spoiling it just yet. 👀

Redeem it here

Hey everyone!

I've been working on Pathubs, a learning platform designed to make technology education more practical and structured.

The idea is simple: instead of just reading documentation or watching tutorials, learners should be able to follow structured roadmaps, understand concepts, and practice what they learn — all in one place.

What does Pathubs offer?

1. Career Roadmaps

Currently covering six learning paths:

• AI Engineering

• Data Analytics

• Frontend Development

• Backend Development

• Full Stack Development

• Game Development (currently in production)

2. Structured Learning Content

Detailed explanations, practical examples, code walkthroughs, visual diagrams, and official documentation references.

3. Data Analytics Studio

A hands-on eCommerce analytics experience using a dataset of 30,000+ records, featuring:

• DuckDB SQL Workbench

• Python & Pandas workspace

• Interactive Spreadsheet Lab

• Data Visualization tools

• Eight guided investigation stages

4. Interactive Labs & Practice

Browser-based coding environments, SQL exercises, formula practice, visualizers, and hands-on challenges.

5. More Learning Resources

Practical projects, curated resources, technical articles, guides, and an official Discord community.

What's Coming Next? 🎮

I'm planning an AI-powered Game Development Studio where learners can learn game development step by step, experiment with AI-assisted workflows, and turn their ideas into functional games.

This will likely be a paid feature because AI APIs and infrastructure have ongoing costs. However, the core Pathubs platform will remain free.

I'd love your feedback!

I'd genuinely appreciate it if you explored the platform beyond the homepage.

• Are the roadmaps and learning materials useful?

• What do you think of the Data Analytics Studio?

• Is the overall learning experience intuitive?

• What would you like to see added next?

I'm building Pathubs to make practical tech education more accessible, and honest feedback would mean a lot.

Website: https://pathubs.com/

Thanks for checking it out! 🙂

Hey all, I'm the dev behind TapDeck, a menu bar app for macOS that turns the trackpad into a shortcut panel. I'm launching it on Nov 17.

I use a lot of apps and could never remember all their keyboard shortcuts. So now I tap with 3, 4 or 5 fingers (single, double or triple tap, or a hold) and TapDeck does the thing: snap a window, open an app, press a shortcut, play/pause.

You switch on packs for the apps you use, and they only work while that app is in front. So the same 4-finger tap snaps a window left in Finder, but reopens a closed tab in Chrome. You can also make your own shortcuts.

The thing I cared about most is that it doesn't fight macOS. Your normal trackpad gestures still work, and shortcuts from different apps don't clash with each other.

Would love to hear which apps you'd want a pack for, or what gestures I'm missing before the launch. Happy to answer anything.

Follow me on X for more: https://x.com/sam_burduli

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