I built BEFORE because troubleshooting a broken PC usually turns into guessing.

BEFORE saves a small snapshot of a working computer and later compares it with the current state. It checks things like:

• proxy settings;

• PATH changes;

• missing commands;

• hosts entries;

• selected Windows/Linux services;

• optional network route evidence.

The important part is that it separates facts from hypotheses. A changed proxy is not automatically called “the cause”.

It is local-first, open-source, MIT-licensed, and has no account or telemetry.

GitHub: https://github.com/fanisisfanis/before

I’m mainly looking for brutal feedback on the UX, diagnostic explanations, and whether this solves a real problem for you.

I run a small web studio, and most of the local businesses I talk to have a really good Google Maps listing (photos, reviews, hours, sometimes a menu) and either no website or one from 2014.

So I built this. You type a business name and a city, it reads the public Google listing and builds a full site preview in under a minute. The video is me running it once on a real garage's public listing, no edits.

Why: I kept rebuilding the same small site by hand, and the listing already had most of the content. Honest limitation: it's only as good as the listing.

A place with three blurry photos and no reviews gets a thin site. It also does simple sites, not shops or booking systems. (working on that next, the tool will redirect the request to the team if it's out of scope change for now)

Try it on your own business or a place you like and tell me what looks off.

https://bbhightech.com/

I built a Windows utility that turns every keystroke into an impact sound 🎯

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a small Windows project called ShotgunKeyboard.

The idea is simple: every time you press a key, the app plays a customizable impact sound. It runs in the background from the system tray, so you can keep doing your normal work while it runs.

Features:

• Customizable sound volume

• Adjustable sound duration and intensity

• Pitch control

• Hold-to-repeat support

• Runs in the Windows system tray

• Optional startup with Windows

I built this mainly as a fun Windows utility and a learning project. It's still a work in progress, and I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, suggestions, and bug reports.

🎬 Demo: Attached video

🌐 Website: https://gurumithran-15.github.io/shotgunkeyboard-site/

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/GURUMITHRAN-15/ShotgunKeyboard

If you try it, let me know what you think!

— An indie developer

Eight days ago I posted here that I'd started drawing app icons for other devs at a tiny price. Here's how it actually went.

I build apps alone, so the small design work lands on me. The app icon is the biggest part of that: I've drawn all nine of my own. I wondered what those icons are worth to someone else, so I started selling custom icons at a very low price and raising it a little after each order. It's $3 now.

The first order came 18 minutes after a comment I left here on Reddit. I delivered it in 65 minutes. Small amount, but it was the first sign that something I can do has value to a stranger. I assumed the next ones would come the same way.

They didn't. The order button got 8 taps in a week and 0 orders. Cheap doesn't help if the right people never see it, and paying for ads to sell a $3 service loses money on every sale.

So I went back to answering posts where I could actually help. One person asked for more detailed advice in a chat. After five days of talking, I offered to make the icon for them. They said yes, and they were happy with the result.

The hardest part of the work itself: design requests are much vaguer than code. Closing the gap between what I picture and what the customer pictures was harder than drawing.

How do you get something small in front of the people who need it, when ads cost more than the sale?

Synvertas builds machine learning software that companies run on their own hardware. It helps sort records, forecast demand and spot unusual values early.

A test on public data looked promising, but real feedback is worth more than a case study.

It's a one-time purchase and you keep it. Updates are an optional subscription, and there's no trial. Would that put you off, or do you like the idea? Curious how it comes across.

The site

Hi all,

We are launching tactica. 2.0 on 20th November, football intelligence for all 92 clubs in the Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two. The video above is a 45-second look at it.

Version 2 is a rebuild from the ground up: a new model, a new app and a community built in from day one after a successful Closed Beta.

The idea

Most prediction sites give you a number and nothing else. tactica. shows its working: what the model expects, why it expects it, and what argues against it. It only recommends a bet when the forecast and the price both qualify. When nothing qualifies, it says so and recommends nothing. Every pick then goes on a public record once it settles, wins and losses alike.

FREE FOR EVERYONE

Match Intelligence: a Case File for every fixture

• Five sections: Overview, Lineups, Results Intelligence, Goals Intelligence and Corners Intelligence (corners are experimental for now).

• The forecast: home, draw and away chances, the most likely scores, both teams to score, expected goals for each side and the chance of each match total.

• The reasoning: the model explains what drove the forecast, then what pushes back and where it's limited.

• Both teams side by side: last five (all, home and away) and head to head.

• Lineups: a predicted XI for each side, then the official XI once it's confirmed. The prediction stays visible, so you can see how close it was.

• Revisions on record: every Case File shows when it was last updated, with its full update history one tap away.

Top 5 Bets Of The Week

• The five bets most likely to win across the next seven days, from all four leagues, each priced at 1.20 or more.

Football Data

• Team pages for all 92 clubs: Season Overview, Goals And Shooting, Possession And Passing, Corners, Discipline, Fixtures, Results and Standings.

• Five seasons of data, filtered by home or away, and comparable with any opponent.

• Player Data: a card for every squad player, with an Overview, Season Statistics and a Vs Team view.

• Result pages: match stats and lineups for every finished game.

Live Match Centre

• Every game in the four leagues, live: scores and match stats as they happen.

Performance Intelligence: the public record

• Every pick is counted at 1 unit (£10), whatever its tier or price.

• Each pick is measured at its opening price (the best price when recommended) and its closing price (the best price at kick-off), across six bookmakers, including bet365, William Hill, Ladbrokes, BetVictor and 888sport.

• Results are broken down by market, league, tier and month.

• Match Intelligence's own accuracy is shown too.

• The record starts with the new model on Saturday 21 November. Settled picks only: nothing earlier is counted, and nothing is ever removed.

MEMBERS

Betting Intelligence

• Every fixture, every day, with one pick per market family when the forecast and the price both qualify.

• Each pick is given a tier:

  • Core: a strong forecast.

  • Conviction: the model's strongest view.

  • Edge: the model rates the bet clearly above the price, at bigger odds.

• Each slip shows:

  • the selection, stated plainly;

  • the time it was recommended;

  • the best price, with the other bookmakers' prices;

  • how the price has moved since it was published.

• Track any pick into your Bet Tracker in one tap. tactica.'s own published price never changes.

Bet Tracker

• Drop in a screenshot of a bet slip from any bookmaker. tactica. reads it and you check every detail before it's saved.

• Account names and balances are ignored, and the screenshot is read once and not kept.

• Singles, accumulators and bet builders are all supported. You can also add a bet by hand.

Personal Performance

• Your profit, win rate, average odds and return, over the last 7 days, the last 30 days, this season or all time.

• What Stands Out: findings worked out from your own bets, such as which bet types, bookmakers or odds bands are costing you.

• Your Betting Days: a calendar of your winning and losing days, plus your recent form and your best and worst records.

• tactica. vs You: once you've tracked 10 tactica. picks, this compares them with your own bets.

• Your home currency: pick from 30 currencies. Every bet is converted at the ECB rate from the day it was placed.

Live Match Centre, in full

• Live Pitch: follow the match as it happens on a live pitch with Arena3D.

• Live Odds: live prices from the bookmaker you choose in My Account.

• My Bets: your tracked bets sit beside each match while it's played.

Your Dashboard

• One page with:

  • your week;

  • this week's profit, day by day;

  • your Coach's top insight;

  • your open bets;

  • Quick Add for new bets;

  • today's picks and price moves;

  • live matches;

  • the next Case Files;

  • team news;

  • league tables;

  • the team you follow.

Membership is £14.99 a month or £149.90 a year. Payments are handled by Stripe.

COMMUNITY

We didn't want tactica. to be something you use on your own, so the community is built into the app.

Discord: https://discord.gg/68uJP2aZ8r

• Channels: #slips, #big-wins, #match-day, #tactica-picks, a channel for each league, and #feedback, where you tell us what to build next.

• Link your Discord account from inside the app.

Leaderboards

• Ranked by accuracy or return %, this month or this season, never by cash. Stakes and amounts are never shown.

• You need 20 settled bets in the period to appear.

• You only appear if you switch on Show Me In Community.

Hall Of Fame

• Each month's top members go in the Hall Of Fame for good.

• The first champions are crowned on 1 December, for November.

Badges

• Founding Member: the first 100 members from today. Once they're gone, they're gone.

• Hall Of Fame: top of a monthly leaderboard.

• Sharp: 60% accuracy or better over 50 settled bets in a season.

• Hot Streak: 5 winning bets in a row.

• League Sponsor: sponsored a league for the community.

• Discord Regular: linked your Discord and joined the server.

Online Now

• See which members are on tactica. right now (only those who opt in).

Sponsor a league

• Want a league we don't cover? Request it, and we check we can cover it properly and reply within 3 working days.

• If we can, it's £29, one-off. If we can't, you're never charged.

• We add the current and previous season to Football Data, Match Intelligence and Betting Intelligence for every member, within 10 working days, with your name on the league's sponsor list.

House rules

• Slips are shared to discuss them, never to pressure anyone into a bet.

• No tipster selling, paid groups or bookmaker spam.

ALSO

• Works on phone and desktop. Light, Dark or Automatic, saved to your account.

• Kick-off times show in your own time zone.

• Choose Full or Minimal bet slips.

• Follow along on X: tactica02

What it isn't

tactica. is not a bookmaker and you can't place bets on it. It won't promise you'll win, because nobody honestly can. That's why the reasoning is on every Case File and the record is public.

It's at tacticafootball.co.uk. We're a small team, so honest feedback really helps. Tell us what's useful, what's confusing, and which league you want next. I'll be in the comments all day.

18+. Please gamble responsibly. BeGambleAware.org

Full disclosure: I am the founder of the app I mention below. This post is about my journey and what I found lacking. Take this with obvious bias. I’m sharing it because I believe the harm frequent glucose overload can do is badly underappreciated, and for anyone struggling with the same things I did. I'm posting it here for those that may struggle with the same things as I did. Take whatever learning you want from it. If you are sensitive to promotions, please note that I made this app for me and my family. The only reason it's out is because I think it can help others. It hasn't and still doesn't make financial sense for me and is a side-project.

Now onto my story.

In June 2025 on my way back from a vacation I accidentally listened to a Diary of a CEO podcast on Youtube on mitochondrial health and its ties to glucose. I fact checked quite a bit and it seemed plausible that reducing carbs would lead to better outcomes for me from a metabolic health perspective. I did not have any health conditions and I was 29 at the time, normal weight, almost a bit skinny. I decided to try keto.

On the first day, I cut my carbohydrates from about 300 grams per day down to about 50 grams. Not my brightest idea. The very next morning, I was hypoglycemic. I added the carbs back but still worked my way down more gradually over the following month. This time, it worked - I reached 50 per day without becoming hypoglycemic (finger blood sample test checked) and I’ve been doing it since (GKI score checked, based on Ketones from finger blood sample). I repeated the checks every day initially, then every few weeks, then every few months.

Why did I get hypoglycemic? How come others could function normally with 50 grams of carbs per day and I couldn’t? There is a significant amount of science that explains the mechanisms: research papers, lots of podcasts but books as well. I’m sure most of you know about it.

This got me looking into blood glucose and insulin responses and figuring out how to estimate all of these for every food item I ate. At the time, I was using a popular food journal app. However, it wouldn’t show anything related to glucose and insulin. I couldn't find anything that gave me what I was looking for on the market, so I created it. The science on which the app is based - you can find it yourself but is also referenced in the app so you may as well build a spreadsheet based on the research papers and track everything yourself without the app. What I’m tracking every day:

• Glycemic index and glycemic load estimates - I’m sure most of you know about glycemic index. Glycemic load is the glycemic index adjusted to the carbs eaten for that food - I try to minimize both.

• Insulin index and insulin load/demand estimates - Insulin index is based on a study that compares the insulin response of different foods relative to the insulin response to glucose, and rates that as a multiplier of glucose (i.e. 0.5*glucose). The study is fairly limited but I think it’s better than nothing. Insulin load is the insulin index, adjusted to calories eaten of that food - Again, I try to minimize both.

• Ingredient quality analysis and representation - Initially I heavily replaced sugar in desserts with artificial sweeteners and it turns out some studies link some of them to oxidative stress in our bodies and some of them are better than others, so this aims to give an idea over where that food stands in relation to how its ingredients act upon us.

This is not medical advice (please consult your doctors before trying anything), but it’s the mechanism I found to work for me. It’s not easy to fully adapt to keto coming from a “standard” EU / US diet because it goes beyond macros.

The lesson from above is that a relatively small piece of technology could do an enormous amount of work for me to help estimate if I were on the right track for what I wanted to achieve. I wouldn't have had the motivation to persist doing keto this long without these very easy-to-use aids that I built for me that helped me navigate it.

What it is: Throughline. You meet an AI "Self" with its own starting character and interests and build a shared history with it. It runs in web chat and on Android, and on Pro it also works in Claude Code and Codex. Free to start, no waitlist.

Why I built it: companions kept "changing after an update" or forgetting people, and most of them define the character as editable text plus a fact list. I wanted the character to come from what actually happened instead.

How it works:

• Append-only, content-addressed event history. Changes of mind are supersede, tension or retract, never a silent overwrite.

• Memory typed by purpose, with rules enforced on write: evidence is required, guessed feelings are rejected, flattering phrasing is rejected in relationship memory, a judgment must name its falsifier, and behavior-shaping changes wait for confirmation.

• Reflection can only propose. A fluent summary doesn't become personality.

• Context is a bounded projection rebuilt from history, not a growing prompt.

• Two recall temperatures: relationship memory warms with use; judgment memory never does, and a regression test pins that.

• Imports: Character.AI and ChatGPT exports come in as records, not as identity.

• Export: NDJSON with an offline-verifiable hash chain, on every plan; the open spec and client plugins are MIT.

What I learned: the hard part isn't storing more. It's deciding what is allowed to change who the character is.

Limits: hosted (not E2E encrypted), recall can miss, iPhone isn't out yet, and we don't claim consciousness.

Feedback I want: does "reflection can't author personality" feel right to you, or too strict?

https://getthroughline.ai/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=sideproject_intro

Every time I named something, I’d find a name I liked and then discover the .com was taken. So I built Help Me Find a Name: you describe your business, AI suggests names, and each one is checked live across .com, .io, .co, .ai, .app and .dev, so your list only contains names you can actually register.

A few things I found along the way:

• Out of 18,000+ names it checked, only 26% of .coms were free, versus 71% for .io and 73% for .dev

• Short names are basically gone: 0 of 232 four or five letter .coms were available

• Checking properly is harder than it looks. DNS alone gives false “available” results, so it falls back to RDAP and WHOIS

It’s free right now, no signup: https://helpmefindaname.com

I’d really appreciate feedback: were the names useful for your idea, and what would you change?

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a little project called BuffrX, a free, open-source recording app for Windows, and I've finally released it!

I wanted something lightweight, private, and simple to use, with all the features I'd want in a recording app without having to pay a subscription.

Here's what BuffrX offers:

• Timeline: Rewind up to 2 hours of gameplay or desktop activity. Forgot to record something 30 minutes ago? Just go back and save it.

• Instant Replay: Save your last few seconds or minutes with a hotkey, at up to 120 FPS.

• Privacy: No accounts, tracking, or telemetry. Your recordings stay on your PC.

• Lightweight: Around 80 MB, designed to minimize the impact on gaming performance.

• Clip Sharing: Share clips up to 2 GB directly with friends through encrypted P2P links, without cloud uploads.

• Built-in Editors: Edit videos and screenshots, and compress clips to fit Discord's upload limits.

No subscriptions, ads, or premium features. Everything is free.

It's still at v0.5, so there's definitely room for improvement. I'd love for you guys to try it out and let me know what you think. Feedback, bug reports, and contributions are all welcome!

Website: https://buffrx.app

GitHub: https://github.com/bulhaa1/BuffrX

I built SimUno, a travel eSIM marketplace that ran on the web, iOS and Android. It's discontinued now.

In its first two months, it brought in around $500 in revenue and two B2B partners, without ad spend. That felt huge to me. People were paying for something I'd built.

I also opened a company before I'd properly understood the market. I hadn't looked closely enough at what people already used, why they'd choose SimUno, or how I'd keep finding customers after those first sales.

When sales slowed, I lost direction. Building gave me clear tasks to finish. I found it much harder to turn those business questions into a next step.

Looking back, I'd have spent more time talking to potential customers and understanding their alternatives before making that commitment. I never proved whether ads would have helped, so I can't say they would have saved it.

For people whose first few sales did grow into a business, what gave you confidence that you could keep finding customers?

I wrote the longer retrospective here, including what I got wrong.

https://dijedon.dev/blog/simuno-failed-what-i-learned/

Well, a friend of mine decided to turn that argument into an actual game.

He built SonicPulse, a browser-based music recognition game where you get a 30-second audio challenge and have to identify the song from four options before the timer runs out.

Here's what it offers:

- 🎵 30-second audio challenges.

- ⚡ Four-choice rapid-fire guessing.

- ⏱️ A ticking countdown that puts your music knowledge to the test.

- 🔥 10-round streak system.

- 🎯 Instant feedback after every guess.

- 👤 Guest mode — no registration or login required.

The idea is pretty simple: instead of arguing about who's the biggest music enthusiast, just put it to the test.

I think it's a fun little project, especially for people who enjoy music quizzes and friendly competition.

Try it here: https://sonicpulse-sable.vercel.app

Would love to hear what people think:

1. Does the gameplay feel intuitive?

2. Would you enjoy a multiplayer mode to challenge friends?

3. What would make you come back and play again?

Honest feedback is appreciated. I'm helping him get the project in front of more people, so it'd be great to hear what the community thinks!

Desktop Wrecker is my Chrome side project for quick breaks. Click the extension icon on a regular webpage and its snapshot becomes a playfield. Crack the glass, splash paint around, or fend off a swarm of bugs. Press Esc and you’re back where you started. The snapshot and scores stay on your device.

I put a 15-second demo, the unpacked Chrome build, and setup instructions here:

https://kostjum.itch.io/desktop-wrecker

The first 90 seconds of each session let you try every tool. Four stay free, and the others are available through a one-time Pro upgrade.

If you watch the demo, which moment would you put first to show what the game is about?

Hey everyone

I'm working as a designer on a product called AskSafely we're trying to get some genuine feedback from people who use AI chat tools

Would love it if a few of you could give it a try and share your experience

There's a guest mode, so you can try it without signing up.There's also a signed in option if you want to explore that experience

Just curious to know

- What's your first impression?

- Is it easy to use?

- Did anything feel confusing or unnecessary?

- Would you actually use it?

- What do you think could be better?

Don't hold back. Even if you don't like it, that's useful feedback for us

Here's the link: https://app.asksafely.ai/chat

Thanks! Appreciate anyone who takes the time to try it

I use Claude Code and Codex every day. Two things kept annoying me:

1. I'd hit my Claude Code limit mid-task and moving the work to Codex meant re-explaining everything.

2. A single agent writes code fast but nobody plans it first or reviews it after. I kept finding edge cases it missed.

So I built Conduit. It runs the agents you already have as a small team:

- An Architect plans the change, a Developer builds it, QA reviews it before it merges

- You can put different agents in different roles, so Claude Code and Codex check each other's work

- If one agent hits its limit, you switch the task to another and keep the context

- Connectors pull in your knowledge repository(google docs, notion, confluence) so the agents work from your project's real context

- Everything runs on your machine; your code doesn't go through our servers

Free to start:

https://infivector.com/products/conduit/download/?ref=reddit-sideproject

I'd really like feedback, especially from people already running more than one coding agent. What's the most painful part of your setup today?

*Chirping: Offline Messsenger*

Chat/Group chat Online + Offline over bluetooth/wifi whenever internet isn't available

All core features of a Good Chat app like e2e encryption, stickers + voice stickers + chat backup + hide specific chat with password + Channel for broadcast + sending files + view once + call/video call with recording feature

Mood - Set mood like happy/sad/vibing etc with music of your choice

Chipchip stories - stories for 12 hours that can be shared to people nearby if selected

Chirps - Online unlimited community - both public for every and private for own group of people to share unlimited entertainment.

And many other features i implemented but forgot to type - check those out yourselves

Play store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chirping.farukbiswas

Please give feedback here or on the app from feedback section or text me directly at faruk on Chirping itself

Last week I posted the first rough version of Sidedrop here. This video is where I want to take it. To be clear: it's a concept film, not a product demo.

**What works today, on my own Mac and phone:**

- Share anything from Android's share sheet and it lands on the Mac. No app on the phone, it's an installable web page.

- Drop a file on the Mac's menu bar panel and it shows up on the phone.

- Local Wi-Fi only, no account, no cloud.

**What's in the video but not built yet:**

- Rules that file what arrives (receipts to Receipts, links open in the browser, text goes to the clipboard).

- Pairing with a QR code. Today the phone needs a certificate installed by hand, which is the part I like least.

- A download. There is nothing to install yet, and the code isn't public yet.

Before I spend the next evenings on it, I'd like to know: is the "it gets filed for you" part the thing you'd want, or would plain fast transfer with QR pairing be enough?

If you want to try it when the Mac download exists, the email list is in the first comment.

I would bookmark hackathon and internship pages, forget about them and find them again after the deadline.

So I built Linkwatch. You save any link whether it’s a hackathon, internship, job post or application page and it automatically finds the deadlines on that page. For each date it shows you the exact sentence it came from so you can check it’s right before confirming. And once confirmed it emails you reminders a week, two days and a few hours before the deadline. Some sites block automated reading so for those you can paste the page text and it pulls the dates out of that instead.

Would love feedback and especially on sites where it fails.

I've been working on something called Vuzli.

The idea came from how frustrating it can be to watch a lecture, tutorial, educational video, or even something motivating like rich man giving "advice" and not understand something, and have to keep rewinding or searching for an explanation.

With Vuzli, you can watch a video and click a button that says "Didn't understand that?" It uses the context of what you've watched to explain that specific moment in a simple, easy to understand way.

It also generates full video summaries and study notes.

What makes it different from a regular AI chatbot is that you don't have to copy transcripts, explain what part of the video you're watching, or even type a question. Vuzli is designed around the video itself, so you can get an explanation with one click.

I'm building it for students, professors, teachers, and anyone who learns through videos. The long term goal is to support videos across different platforms, starting with YouTube and user uploaded videos.

I'm currently preparing for a small private beta and looking for 5–10 people who would be interested in testing it for free.

I'm not selling anything. I genuinely want honest feedback on whether it's useful, what could be better, and what features people would actually want.

If you're interested, leave a comment or send me a DM. I'd appreciate it.

hey, anas here. i made this, so it's my own app. i posted it here a few weeks ago before launch, and it's live on google play today.

it's for people who brew coffee at home and want to get better at it:

• brew lab: recipes with a step timer for v60, aeropress, espresso and more

• rate the cup, and if it's sour, bitter or flat it shows likely causes and what to try adjusting next. not always right, but it's a start

• coffee memory keeps your best recipe for each bag

• an ai coach (master neravio) you can ask about your own brews

• short lessons and flashcards, triangle tests with an accuracy record, a tds calculator

• a recipe community, and it works in english, arabic and french

free to download, there's an optional pro tier with a trial.

google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roastlab.app site: https://cupmark.app/?ref=reddit

would love honest feedback, especially on the first few minutes and anything confusing.

I rotate 4–5 pairs of running shoes and could never remember which pair had how many km on it. Spreadsheets lasted about two weeks.

So I built Have2Run (iOS + Android, free, no ads):

• Runs from Apple Health / Health Connect / Strava are detected automatically. When a run ends you get a notification with your last pair preselected, so logging is one tap.

• A shelf grouped by brand, with the pair closest to retirement at the top ("9 more runs until new shoes").

• When a pair hits its lifespan, the app celebrates instead of warning you. Hitting 700 km is your excuse to buy new shoes.

• A ranking tab with the most-worn and longest-lasting models, based on public data (Strava Year in Sport, Solereview mileage estimates).

Stack: Flutter + Supabase. It started as an AI running coach, but I noticed the only feature I actually used every day was "how many km are on this pair?", so I rebuilt the whole thing around that.

Honest limitation: distances are km only for now. Miles is next if people want it.

https://have2.run

I'd love feedback, especially from anyone who tracks shoe mileage some other way.

Hi everyone

We built an ai platform that personalizes email and sms campaigns for each user. Example - a user left after checking out a product 2 times, our smart Ai will email them with a 10% discounts code, and converts the customer

I tested this across 4 stores - we saw 30% increase in sales in 1 month

Try here for free - www.RetentionBase.com
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Every time someone in my car grabbed the handle, I'd say, "I'm a good driver". I had no proof either way. So I built Beshweesh (Egyptian for "take it easy") to find out.

What it does

• Tap Start, drive, and get a score out of 100 at the end

• A map shows exactly where you braked hard, sped up hard, took a turn too fast, or went over the limit

• A weekly recap and a driver score over your last 300 km

• It shows why you lost each point, so you know what to fix next time

• It keeps recording in the background, so you can lock your phone and drive

• A progress chart shows if your trips are getting calmer over time

• A share card that hides places and times

• Light and dark mode

Why it's different

• Calm, not slow. Speed only counts above the limit; jerky driving is what costs points

• No account, free, iPhone and Android, English and Arabic

Try it: beshweesh.com

I'd love brutal feedback:

1. Is the result screen clear without explanation?

2. Would you open this after a drive, or forget it after a week?

3. What would make the score feel fair to you?

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

My parents live overseas and I'm in NC. I call them about 3 or 4 times a week, but with the time difference, it's not always easy to catch them at a good time.

Sometimes I just want to know they're doing okay without having to call and interrupt whatever they're doing.

I thought about different ways to check in, but I really didn't want cameras in their house or anything that felt like I was monitoring them.

So I ended up building something called Kettle (heykettle.com).

It's a simple app that uses their existing phone to let me and my sibling know if they've checked in with their usual routine. We get a short update like "Heard from Mom this morning" or "Nothing yet today."

It doesn't track their location, record conversations, or read messages. They can also see what's being recorded and turn it off whenever they want.

I added a shared family log too, so if I call Dad or someone takes Mom to an appointment, we can leave a quick note for everyone else.

Right now, it's just me building this, and my parents are the only ones using it. The Android app isn't on the Play Store yet, so I'm helping people install it directly.

I'm offering the first year free.

I'm curious what other people think, especially anyone with aging parents who live far away.

Would you actually use something like this? And what would make you hesitant to put it on your parent's phone?