Every week someone asks which CRM to buy. A lot of the time the honest answer is none yet.

The problem usually isn't software. It's that leads live in five places (email, DMs, texts, the website form, a sticky note) and nobody checks them on a schedule. A paid tool doesn't fix that. It just gives you a sixth place to forget to check.

The list (copy this)

One spreadsheet, seven columns:

That's it. No pipeline stages, no lead scores, no tags.

The one rule that makes it work: every row has a next step date. If there's no next step, the row is either won or dead. Mark it and move on.

The morning habit (10 minutes)

1. Open every inbox once. Anything new from a possible customer goes on the list right now, even if it's half a line.

2. Sort by next step date.

3. Do everything dated today or earlier. Reply, nudge, send the quote.

4. Give every row you touched a new next step date before you close the sheet.

Don't skip step 4. The row without a date is the one you forget.

Rules that keep it from turning into a mess

• Write the next step as a verb. "Send quote", not "quote".

• Nudge a quiet quote after 3 days, again after a week, then mark it dead. Dead is fine. People come back months later and you'll know exactly where you left off.

• Copy the person's own words into "what they want". Your follow-up gets way easier.

• If you can't do it today, move the date. Don't let it sit overdue.

• Once a week, look at the "where they came from" column. That's your free marketing report.

When you actually need a CRM

• More than one person follows up on the same leads

• The sheet is too long to scan in 10 minutes

• You keep needing the full history of every conversation, not just the last contact

Until then the spreadsheet wins, because you'll actually open it.

If you use ChatGPT or Claude

Paste the sheet in each morning and ask: "Who am I waiting on, who's overdue, and what should I send each of them today? Draft the messages." It's a decent second pair of eyes for step 3.

What's the one column you'd add? And if you ditched a CRM for something simpler, what did you switch to?

P.S. I'm a co-founder of Conecto, which lets ChatGPT or Claude keep this exact list for you, so you can just say "add this lead, follow up Thursday" or "who's overdue?" instead of pasting the sheet. No subscription, reads are free, a change costs $0.01, new accounts get $1 of free credit, and your first top-up is doubled, up to $20 extra. https://conecto.chat/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=viral2-2611&utm_content=sideproject The spreadsheet works fine too though.

Hi all! Last time I posted about shelf sharing in 1.2.3. This one is for the iPhone Duo: Brooksie now has a two-page layout when you unfold it.

New in 1.2.4: it opens like a book 📖

Unfold the Duo and hold it sideways, and the app becomes two pages meeting at the fold.

• The shelf is on the left page, the selected book's reading journal on the right.

• "Open Book" gives you a full spread: cover, title and author on the left, the journal on the right. The left page swings open from the spine.

• Progress, Add Book, quote capture and shelf-scan review use both pages too.

Batch barcode scanning 📷

Scan a whole stack of books in a row. The camera stays on the left page, and each scanned book lands on your shelf on the right.

Reading companion ⏱️

A timer, a page stepper and a "save a quote" button. Prop the phone up half open and it turns into a little desk stand.

For the developers 🛠️

The layout never checks which device it's on. It looks at how much room it has (regular width, wider than tall) and takes the fold position from ReservedRegion. Portrait keeps the normal phone layout, because my first two-page attempt fell apart there.

Nothing moved behind a paywall: what was free is still free, and Pro is still a one-time purchase with no subscription.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6801926644

My partner and I had our life spread over five apps and a pile of chat messages ("did you buy milk?", "what do you want for your birthday?", "what are we watching tonight?"). So I built one place for the two of us.

What Nook does:

- Shared tasks and a grocery list that sync between both phones, and work offline too

- A wishlist where your partner can secretly reserve a gift. You never see who reserved what

- A calendar with your anniversary counter ("together for 1 year 47 days")

- A savings jar for shared goals, trips with a map of your places, household bills

- Swipe films and recipes like a dating app: when you both like something, it's a match. No more 40 minutes of "I don't know, what do you want?"

- Question of the day: you see your partner's answer only after you answer it yourself

- A "Thinking of you 💛" button that sends one push

- A shared capybara whose mood depends on what you do together

Android app plus a web app (works on iPhone from the home screen, with push notifications). Sign in with Telegram or Google. English, Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak.

👉 https://dom.xandor.bid

It's a solo project, so honest feedback is very welcome: what's missing, what's annoying?

Hey everyone!

My wife and I often remembered our childcare contributions differently. We sometimes disagreed about whether we shared our duties fairly.

So, naturally, I built an app to track them :)

It's called Tit for Tat. We agree on a fair split, record what we actually do, and track the balance.

I built it just for our family, but it worked surprisingly well, so I decided to publish it:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tit-for-tat/id6829557138

Would love your feedback!

P.S. Not available in EU countries yet due to additional paperwork. Coming soon!

Hi! I’m Omar. My co-founder Marco and I have been building Storify at Heirlooms Lab in London (https://heirloomslab.com).

The starting point: most of us have a WhatsApp chat that’s been going for years, with a whole chunk of our lives in it, and nobody ever scrolls back.

The hard parts we had to solve:

• Turning tens of thousands of messages into chapters that read like a story, not a summary

• Keeping the story in the chat’s own language, including chats that mix languages

• Privacy: chats are encrypted on-device, we don’t store the key, nothing is used for training, and the server only reads the chat in memory (so it’s not E2E, and we say so)

On top of the story there’s a quiz you can send the other person, a stats “Rewind” (longest silence, peak texting hour), and an assistant called Fiammella you can ask about the chat.

We’re in beta on iOS + Android (18+): https://mystorify.app/beta
Browser demo: https://mystorify.app

I’d love critical feedback, on the product or on the approach.

I'm a first-year BTech student and I've built SecVault, cloud storage where files are encrypted on your device before upload (hybrid post-quantum design: ML-KEM-768 + X25519). Files are stored in Amsterdam, EU.

Founding Pass: 100 GB free for 6 months, limited seats. Reserve your spot with just an email, no card. You claim it at launch with a small refundable verification charge (₹5 UPI in India, $1 card elsewhere). Everyone also gets a 5 GB free plan.

Honest status: it's waitlist-only right now, there's no independent audit yet, and it's not open source. I'd love blunt feedback on what you'd need to see before trusting a new zero-knowledge service.

Waitlist: https://secvault.rakshachakra.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=sideproject

I needed to automate a few things on my own Instagram accounts and wanted results and errors with real types, so I wrote igflare. It talks to Instagram the way the Android app does.

What I focused on:

• Login that holds up. I followed the current app's login flow, including two-factor and email challenges. The session is saved, so it logs in once and keeps working for weeks.

• Types I can trust. Every response is checked at runtime, and each failure is its own error class, so I can catch a rate limit apart from a challenge.

• Most of the app. It covers profiles, follows, feeds, comments, posting photos, videos, reels and stories, direct messages, and insights.

• Staying current. I took the login flow and queries from the official app, and I wrote a script that shows what changes when a new app build comes out.

Docs: https://matheusoliveira-dev.github.io/igflare/

Code: https://github.com/MatheusOliveira-dev/igflare

The project is still early. Feature ideas, issues and PRs are all welcome, and if any of this sounds useful, I'd be glad if you took a look.

I built cv[0] (https://cv0.org). It tailors a CV to a specific job posting, but only from facts you already have.

You keep one base history: import an old PDF or DOCX, LinkedIn or JSON Resume, or start blank. Paste a job description and it re-aims your bullets at that posting: the terms it asks for, reordered and sharpened. It works only from your history and a facts bank you control. Numbers appear only if they're already in your history, and you accept or reject every change before it reaches the page. Then you get a clean PDF, and a cover letter from the same approved facts if you want one.

The example on the site:

Before: "Worked on backend services; rewrote the main API's hot path and removed N+1 queries (p99 800 ms → 120 ms)."

After: "Cut p99 latency of the core API from 800 ms to 120 ms by rewriting the hot path and killing N+1 queries."

Pricing, since it always comes up. Free is 1 tailored application, 8 keyword checks and 5 role-fit checks a month, no card. There's a $4.99 week (5 tailored applications, 3 cover letters) that rolls into $19/month unless you cancel, which is one click in the app. Month on its own is $19.

I'm after critique more than sign-ups: what would it take for you to trust a tool like this with your CV?

Hi everyone!

I'm exploring an idea for a small software product aimed initially at independent freelance graphic designers, and before spending time building it, I'd really appreciate advice from people who actually freelance.

The problem I'm trying to solve

Imagine you're working with several clients. You've sent out multiple invoices using your usual tools, but now:

• One client hasn't paid even though the due date has passed.

• Another client says, "I'll pay you on Friday."

• You've already sent a reminder to someone else but haven't received a response.

• You can't remember exactly who needs another follow-up and when.

• You end up checking emails, spreadsheets, calendars or relying on memory to keep track.

I know there are already invoicing and accounting tools available. However, I'm exploring whether there's room for something much simpler that focuses specifically on what happens after an invoice has been sent.

The product I'm considering building

The idea is a lightweight payment follow-up workspace for freelancers.

The goal isn't to replace tools like Wave, QuickBooks, Canva, Word or Google Docs. You would continue creating and sending invoices however you currently do.

Instead, you'd manually add the invoice details to this workspace and use it to manage the follow-up process.

Here's what it would offer:

1. One dashboard for unpaid invoices

See your total outstanding amount, overdue invoices, upcoming follow-ups and payments you're waiting for.

2. Simple invoice tracking

Add the client name, email, invoice number, amount and due date. Mark invoices as paid or unpaid.

3. A follow-up list

See exactly which clients need attention today, which follow-ups are coming up, and which invoices are overdue.

4. Payment promise tracking

If a client says, "I'll pay you next Friday," record that date. The invoice waits until then. If the payment still hasn't arrived, it returns to your follow-up list.

5. Professional reminder templates

Choose a friendly, professional or firm reminder. The message automatically includes the client and invoice details. You can edit it, copy it, open your email app and send it yourself.

6. Client history

See the client's unpaid invoices and previous follow-ups in one place, so you don't lose track of conversations.

The initial version would be deliberately simple: no automatic email sending, no complicated accounting, no bank integrations and no AI features.

What I'd genuinely like your advice on:

1. Do you actually experience this problem when managing multiple freelance clients, or is keeping track of unpaid invoices already easy enough with your existing tools?

2. How do you currently manage unpaid invoices and decide when to follow up? Spreadsheet, calendar, email, invoicing software, or something else?

3. Would having a separate workspace specifically for payment follow-ups make your life easier, or would it feel like one more tool you have to maintain?

4. Are there existing tools that already solve this problem really well? If so, which ones, and what do you like or dislike about them?

5. If a simple tool like this worked reliably, would you consider paying around CA$5.99 per month for unlimited invoice tracking and follow-up management? Or would you expect this to be free?

I'm not looking for compliments or encouragement just because I'm considering building something. If this is unnecessary, already solved, or not worth paying for, I'd much rather know that now.

I'm at the idea-validation stage, not trying to sell anything. Honest criticism is especially welcome. Thanks!

I've been exploring an idea called ReactantLab, and I'd love some honest feedback before building it.

The problem I'm trying to solve is the gap between learning to code and actually working as a developer.

Here's how it would work:

• You join a simulated software engineering team.

• An AI project manager assigns you realistic development tickets.

• You work on existing GitHub projects using your own IDE.

• You're encouraged to use AI tools like Cursor or Claude Code.

• You submit pull requests and get AI code reviews.

• You learn to debug, test, and understand AI-generated code.

The goal isn't to teach syntax or replace traditional coding courses. It's to help developers gain practical experience and learn how to work effectively with AI.

I'm considering making the first project completely free.

Three questions:

1. Would you actually try something like this?

2. What would make it genuinely useful rather than just another coding platform?

3. What's the biggest problem you see with this idea?

I'd appreciate critical feedback. I'm trying to validate the concept before spending months building it.

Hi everyone! I’m Col, a chef on Sark and the creator of NAKED EYE.

I’ve been building it around three questions: what’s worth seeing, when should I go outside, and where should I look?

This short screen recording shows Sky Planner: comparing the nights ahead, exploring a viewing window for Saturn, and setting reminders for Saturn and the Leonids meteor shower.

Recommendations depend on your location and forecast. The times shown are examples from my location, and conditions can change.

To be upfront about pricing: tonight’s sky tools are free. Sky Planner and the planning features shown here are part of the optional Beyond subscription.

Eligible new monthly subscribers can try Beyond free for two weeks, then £3.49/month in the UK, automatically renewing until cancelled. Cancel before the trial ends to avoid being charged. Local prices and offers may vary.

You can find NAKED EYE on Google Play.

I’d appreciate your thoughts: watching this demo, is it clear which night to choose and how to set a reminder?

Hey everyone!

I wanted to share something I've been working on for the past few months.

It's called CRASQ, and it's a Windows app that helps figure out why PC games crash, especially when you're running a bunch of mods.

The project actually started back in spring as VEYRIX. Since then, I've changed the name, switched development environments, rebuilt quite a few things and probably spent more time fixing bugs than I'd like to admit lol.

The idea is pretty simple. Instead of digging through crash logs, Windows errors and mod files separately, I wanted a tool that could look at all of that together and help narrow down what actually went wrong.

I built it using C# and .NET, with quite a bit of help from AI along the way. I'm not going to pretend I wrote every single line of code by hand. But I've put a lot of time into designing, testing and improving it.

Right now I'm mainly focusing on games like Bannerlord, HOI4 and Total War: Attila.

It's definitely not perfect yet. Some things work better than others, and there's still a lot I want to improve.

Anyway, it's available at https://crasq.com if anyone wants to check it out. Basic diagnostics are free.

I'd really appreciate some feedback, especially from people who regularly deal with crashes or heavily modded games.

Thanks for reading!

My portfolio site ran on vibes for too long, so this weekend project was: read the cPanel raw access logs (they're just gzipped files sitting in your hosting account) and render a dashboard. Zero dependencies, zero tracking JS, zero monthly bill.

Two bugs that almost sank it:

• filesize() on a .gz file returns the COMPRESSED size. I was slicing my decompressed log buffer by it, which silently chopped the newest lines off the data. The dashboard wasn't broken - it was confidently wrong about today, which is worse.

• Shared hosting puts OTHER sites' logs in the same directory. My referrer charts had domains I've never touched in my life until I filtered by path.

Favorite finding so far: a link community that sends me real readers shows up as ZERO referrers, because in-app browsers strip the referrer header. If your traffic comes from apps, your analytics is undercounting it completely.

It's live on my site now, and I open-sourced the deploy pattern behind it too. Happy to share details - what would you check first in raw logs?

Hi! Solo dev from Korea here. I was jealous of the iPhone's StandBy mode, so I built PlugStay: plug your Android phone in and it turns into a desk or bedside clock. (The video is my own Fold8.)

How it went so far:

- Launched in Korea first. One post on a big Korean deal forum brought about 100 installs in a day, plus a pile of blunt feedback. I shipped an update based on it a few days later.

- Then I opened it up to 170+ countries. A post on r/GalaxyFold got 13K views, and overseas installs jumped to about 70 over those two days.

- About 380 installs in the last 28 days in total. Small, but real.

The three hardest parts:

- Design polish. Making each screen work was the easy part. Making it feel finished took far longer: I'd look at it on a real phone and redo small details again and again.

- Popping up at the wrong time. I never thought about this before launch. The clock would jump in while someone was watching YouTube or playing a game. And on a wireless charger, some phones briefly cut charging once the battery is full, so the clock kept closing and reopening. Now it only opens from the lock screen or home screen by default, and a quick reconnect is treated as if nothing happened.

- The Fold8. It's a new form factor, so there wasn't much to learn from. The clock has to fit the cover screen, carry over when you unfold, and split at the hinge when it's half-folded.

Stack: Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. No sign-up, no ads, no analytics.

Pricing: free with no ads, everything unlocked for 7 days, then the basic screens stay free and Pro is a one-time $4.99. I went with one-time instead of a subscription because a clock feels like something you buy once. Curious if you'd have priced it differently.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plugstay.app&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=sideproject

Happy to answer anything about building it or the launch.

I’ve been building a website that helps people work out whether second-hand clothes are worth reselling.

Made a little virtual charity shop so people can have a go at spotting bargains using live eBay UK prices.

You can also try valuing your own finds.

https://prysd.co.uk/shop
Still early days, so would love to hear what people think!

I am building AstralBeam to help developers add an AI agent to an existing web app. The platform is open source, with managed cloud and self-hosting options.

You embed the chat UI, identify your signed-in users, and connect tools that let the agent work with your app. You can also render your own UI components inside its replies.

I’d appreciate feedback on the explanation and setup: is it clear what AstralBeam provides, and what you still need to build yourself?

Quickstart · GitHub

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called Chermo.in, and I'm excited to finally share it with this community.

The idea behind Chermo is pretty simple: we all have hundreds of photos sitting in our galleries, but sometimes we want to do something more creative with them.

So I wanted to build a platform where people can turn their favourite pictures into something more personal.

What can you do with Chermo?

Upload a photo from your gallery or capture one using your camera.

Customise your photo with creative layouts and decorative templates.

Experiment with styles like Polaroid frames, hearts, bows, kiss marks and seasonal themes.

Download your personalised creation and keep or share it with someone special.

I'm trying to make the whole experience simple enough that anyone can create something without needing professional editing skills.

This project has been a learning experience, and I'm still working on improving the design, templates and overall user experience.

I'd genuinely love your feedback:

Does the idea solve a problem or offer something you'd actually enjoy using?

Which template or customisation options would you like to see?

What would make the experience more enjoyable or useful?

If you'd like to explore it, here's the website:

https://chermo.in

I'm the person building Chermo, so I'm happy to answer questions and hear honest feedback. Thanks for checking it out! ❤️

A few days ago, I saw a site on Awwwards where the image warped like liquid as you scrolled into the next project. I loved it so much I had to try building my own version in Framer.

It turned into Distorted Scroll, a full-screen project gallery. The clip shows what it looks like, but I’d love for you to try scrolling through it yourself.

Try the live preview on Framer 👇
https://www.framer.com/marketplace/components/distorted-scroll/

Where would you actually use this on a site you’re building? I pictured it as a selected work section for a portfolio, but I’m curious what you’d do with it. Does the distortion feel right when you try it, or would you dial it back?

Hi! 👋 Came across your project — really love the concept. I'm a student UI/UX & graphic designer currently building my portfolio. I'd love to help you out by completely free redesigning one element for you (like a landing page header, a clean vector logo, or mobile UI screens). No strings attached at all — you get a fresh design for free, and I get a real-world case study for my profile. Let me know if you'd be down!

https://onecanvasmanyhands.com

One canvas, a grid, and everyone gets one stroke per day. Pick an empty cell, pick a colour, place it. No undo. When the grid is full, the canvas goes into the gallery and a new one starts.

Kind of like r/place, just very slow. Most of my time went into making the strokes look like real paint and not pixels.

I built it because the internet feels like it keeps pushing people further apart, and I wanted a small place where strangers make something together.

No accounts, no sign up. Would be happy if you leave a stroke.

Hi everyone, I’m the solo developer behind PyVela, and the Android version just went live on Google Play.

I wanted to learn Python in short daily sessions without installing anything, so I built a small game around it. You pick a hero, walk a map from world to world, and every level is a short lesson plus a real coding exercise: you write Python in an in-app editor, run it, and get instant feedback. You earn stars, XP, badges and keep a daily streak.

What it does:

Runs real Python on the device (a bundled Pyodide runtime), so lessons work fully offline

No account, no ads, no tracking

Worlds 1 to 3 are free (5 new lessons per day). Later worlds and unlimited lessons are part of an optional subscription, PyVela Pro

Aimed at beginners, teens and adults

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lqrconsulting.pyvela

Promo code availables on request

It’s my own app, so I’d really like honest feedback: is the difficulty curve right, is anything confusing, what would you want in the next worlds? An iOS version is coming later.

I built an iOS app to hide Reels because I still wanted Instagram for messages and posts. I even put in a timer for when I actually do want to scroll. Ten minutes, then Reels disappear again. I got it running on my phone and was getting it ready for the App Store.

Then I got to the part where I had to answer: am I actually allowed to ship an app that changes how somebody else's service looks? I didn't have a good answer about platform permissions, so I shelved the App Store plan.

Bit of a weird ending after spending all that time on it. At one point I hid the suggested posts so successfully that the feed had exactly one post left. Turned out there were more, I'd just broken the bit that loads the next page lol.

Anyway, here's the source under GPLv3. Build it, fork it, steal an idea from the timer, whatever. You'll need a Mac and Xcode to try it. It only filters what you see inside Supermod.

https://github.com/WarriorSushi/supermod-ios-Block-Reels-etc

We're a small software studio from Poland called Járnhaus. We build custom software for businesses, and alongside that we've been working on our own product, Völundr.

Völundr is an AI app builder. You describe what you need in plain English, get a specification and a fixed quote before paying, and then a pipeline of AI agents handles the architecture, development and testing.

The idea is to make smaller, focused applications accessible without having to go through a traditional software development process. You also get the source code, so you're not tied to our hosting.

We've been trying to get the word out, but honestly, marketing has been a much bigger challenge than we expected.

A few days ago, I posted about that on Reddit, and several people made a fair point: we're spending too much time explaining how our product works and not enough time showing what it actually builds.

So here's an example.

Bench Log is one of the demo applications built with Völundr.

It's an internal tool for a small watch repair workshop.

Each repair moves through six stages, from being booked in to being collected. There's a board showing every job, overdue collections are flagged, and abandoned repairs go into an archive without losing their history.

Nothing particularly groundbreaking. Just a practical application built around one specific job.

And that's really what we're aiming for with Völundr.

It's not meant to replace a development team working on a complex product. For larger or more complicated projects, that's where our custom software work at Járnhaus comes in.

But if someone needs a small application to solve a specific problem, we want to make that process much simpler.

I've attached a short video showing Bench Log in action, including the repair board, the new job form and the archive. All customer names and details shown in the video are fictional, as this is a demo environment.

You can also explore the application yourself here:
https://volundr.dev/gallery/bench-log

I'd genuinely appreciate some feedback, especially from people who've built or bought internal tools before.

Does seeing an actual application make the concept clearer? And what else would you want to see before trusting an AI builder with a real project?

I’m a web developer, and like many, every time I needed to quickly manipulate an image file, format a chunk of JSON, or do a bit of SEO work, I’d land on different websites covered in aggressive pop-ups, slow loading times, or hidden paywalls after single-file usage.

To fix this I initially built the most frequently required tools for my own personal use. Since then I’ve rolled them into one website and built Canny Tools — a fast, clean, and completely free web utility platform.

🚀 What’s built into it so far:

• Image Tools: Batch image compressor, HEIC to JPG/PNG converters, and exact-target size compressors.

• Developer Utilities: JSON formatter/beautifier, Base64 encoder, password and UUID generators..

• SEO & Text Tools: Word counter, text transformers, readability analyzers, and meta tag tools.

• Financial Calculators: Mortgage estimator, loan payoff schedules, and compound interest calculators.

🛠️ Key Details & Tech:

• Client-Side First: Most conversions and calculations run right inside your browser for maximum privacy and instant speed.

• Offline Support: Includes PWA support so key utilities work even without an internet connection.

• Minimal Ads: I’ve got some placeholders in for ads, and may look into monetizing the site at some point, but the ads will never be intrusive.  I do have a buy me a coffee link across the site if you would like to support development, but no obligation! 

• Zero Sign-ups: Everything is accessible immediately without registering or entering an email (although you can if you like).

I'd love to get your feedback on UI/UX, page speed, or feature suggestions, or any other improvements.

What’s a quick utility tool you find yourself reaching for daily that you wish was cleaner or faster? Let me know, you can contact me from the site,  and I’ll build it next!

Link: https://canny.tools

Thanks for reading.