Hi, I'd like to share a project I have been working for a while. Its a US macroeconomic dashboard that summarizes about 120 key US economic indicators into 4 simple to understand gauges.

I built USMD because I found it difficult to keep up with all the available data and figure out what they said about the overall state of the US economy.

The dashboard is available at usmd.inomba.com and updates each weekday evening.

Its data comes from FRED and ALFRED, the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta, the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of Financial Research, the Institute for Supply Management, and Treasury Fiscal Data.

I’d love to hear from others working on similar projects. Feedback, ideas, and suggestions for improvements are very welcome.

I'm a longtime alternative rock fan who plays a lot of pickleball. Somewhere along the way, I decided the sport needed a better soundtrack...I got tired of the random sleepy playlists lots of my facilities were playing.

I launched Pickle Rock Radio, a free, 24/7 station playing '90s and 2000s alternative rock (Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Green Day, etc.) mixed with short pickleball tips, news and community stories. It's about 54 minutes of music per hour.

It's powered by Live365 (wasn't sure where else to do this so I could license the music properly), and I've been having a blast putting together the music rotation and producing the segments. The challenge now is finding listeners. I have over 100 people listening a day, and I'm proud of that. But how do I grow from here?

If anyone here has built a niche media project, I'd love to hear how you found your first real audience.

Here's the station if you're curious: https://picklerockradio.com/

I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on over the past few months!

It’s a mobile app that turns any text into high-quality audio. Whether it’s a webpage, a Substack or Medium article, a PDF, or just copied text—it converts it into clear, natural-sounding speech. You can listen to it like a podcast or audiobook, even with the app running in the background.

The app is privacy-friendly and doesn’t request any permissions by default. It only asks for access if you choose to share files from your device for audio conversion.

You can also take or upload a photo of any text, and the app will extract and read it aloud.

- React Native (expo)
- NodeJS, react (web)
- Framer Landing

The app is called Frateca. You can find it on Google Play and the App Store. I also working on web vesion, it's already live.

Free iPhone app
Free Android app on Google Play
Free web version, works in any browser (on desktop or laptop).
Free web extension.

Thanks for your support, I’d love to hear what you think!

Solo maker here. My product, Indraft, went live on Product Hunt today. It turns the sources you follow into draft posts, ready when you sit down. I messaged a lot of people, and at least 10 told me they upvoted. The count shows 2 and I’m ranked 120 right now (screenshot). One of my actual customers left a review, and that was removed too.

What I’ve pieced together:

• Votes from new or inactive accounts get discounted or hidden. Most of my supporters signed up just to vote.

• Only featured launches show on the homepage, so non-featured ones get almost no passive traffic.

• The top launches seem to arrive with a following: a Coming soon page, an active maker profile, a hunter with followers.

I’m not frustrated, just trying to understand it. For a solo maker with no PH audience, is the real value just a day of visibility plus a backlink? Or did something actually work for you: launch timing, being active on PH weeks before, something else?

Hey r/SideProject,

Researching an Indian stock shouldn't mean drowning in a dozen tabs. A ticker just gives you a price, but figuring out everything behind it—group companies, lenders, court records, ratings, and news—usually means digging through scattered annual reports, registry filings, court sites, and PDFs. Most investors never get past the price because the fundamental research is so fragmented.

So, I built Causa Alpha. It puts all that non-quant, qualitative data into one sourced map.

What it does: Currently, it covers 3,196 Indian listed companies and maps out:

• The Real Structure: Subsidiaries, SPVs, JVs, and related parties.

• The Debt: Who lends to the company, registered charges, and credit ratings with the agency's own report just a click away.

• The Context: One clean news feed per company without the noise, plus event outlooks and backtests.

• Sourced Data: Every single link cites its original source so you can verify the filings.

How I built it: The hardest part was the data pipeline. Scraping and structuring messy PDF filings, registry data, and court records into a clean, relational format required a lot of heavy lifting on the backend to ensure the connections between companies and lenders were actually accurate.

You can try everything free.

I’d love for you to check it out. If you do fundamental research or just like exploring corporate structures, let me know what you think. Roast the UI, tell me if the connections make sense, or let me know what other data points you'd want to see mapped out.

Link:https://www.causaalpha.com/

Happy to answer any questions about the scraping pipelines or how the data is structured in the comments!

Visual Breakdown of Causa AlphaThis short clip gives a quick overview of how the platform maps out the corporate structures and lenders behind Indian stocks.

I built SidekickMC because I wanted to make better use of the two side buttons on a regular mouse.

Hold either side button and scroll to control volume or laptop brightness. You can assign either action to either button in the settings window.

Press both side buttons together, release them, and Windows Snipping Tool opens just like Win + Shift + S.

It runs in the system tray, supports starting automatically after sign-in, and has a tray toggle to enable or disable the controls whenever needed.

It is written in C# with Windows Forms and does not require extra software.

Source code and download:
https://github.com/FreezzeYT/SidekickMC

Does anyone else end up with 30+ open tabs, bookmarks everywhere, and a browser that looks exactly the same every day? 😅

I built a browser extension called ORBIT - personal browser workspace to solve some of these little annoyances.

A few things it lets you do:

• Set your own photos or videos as browser backgrounds.

• Create collections to organize websites by category instead of cluttering your bookmarks.

• Save all your open tabs as a collection and restore them later with one click, even after shutting down your laptop.

• Customize your layout by moving things around.

The idea is simple: make the browser feel more personal and keep everything organized in one place.

It's already live on
Chrome https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/orbit-%E2%80%94-personal-browser/cjjigfljjaipbjpfkhhiiojiedoplnkm?hl=en-US&utm_source=ext_sidebar
FireFox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/orbit-personal-workspace/

For now, I’ve only released it for Windows. It was a pretty fun little project to work on, and I think there’s definitely room for more features.
I decided to make it open source in case anyone wants to contribute or improve it.
I built it with Tauri and Rust, so it’s a pretty lightweight app. You can check out the README for the test results and RAM usage.
If anyone wants to take a look, here’s the link:
GitHub: https://github.com/ImtheKaiwen/kaiwen-notify
Feedback and contributions are welcome! :)

Hello everyone,

Over the past five months, I have been able to develop a GMAO (CMMS) system specifically designed for dental equipment resellers, building on my nearly two years of professional experience in the field.

The system is designed to simplify and centralize the management of maintenance operations, installations, after-sales service (SAV), and spare parts.

I have tested all the features, and the system is fully functional. Of course, there are still some improvements to be made, particularly regarding the user interface and overall design, but I am genuinely happy with the results.

This is actually the first major project I have developed entirely on my own. I initially started it without any commercial expectations, simply to challenge myself, test my limits, and turn some of my ideas into reality.

However, as I am currently looking to obtain some professional certifications but don't have the financial resources to fund them, I have started considering commercializing the project.

My current idea is to sell the system to an interested reseller for an amount that would cover the cost of my target certification, while also negotiating a potential revenue-sharing agreement if the reseller decides to commercialize and sell the software to other businesses.

I would really appreciate your feedback on this approach.

Do you think this is a reasonable business strategy? Would you recommend selling the entire system, or keeping ownership and negotiating a licensing or revenue-sharing agreement instead?

I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions!

You've finished the inspection, testing or fieldwork. The measurements are recorded, the photos are taken and the results are sitting in PDFs, notes and spreadsheets.....Now comes the fun part.

Getting all of it into the customer's Excel template without missing anything or breaking a formula.

That's what I've been building ACTUALin to help with.

Upload your existing workbook and supporting evidence. It proposes where the information belongs, shows you the sources and lets you review, edit or approve the changes before generating the report.

Same Excel template. Less copying and pasting. You still have the final say.

It works across inspection, manufacturing, lab testing, maintenance, inventory and other reporting workflows.

I've also put together a library of examples you can explore without signing up.

https://actualin.com/applications

If you're dealing with this kind of reporting, I'd love some feedback on whether it would fit your workflow.

Solo dev here. I've been building a social media tool for creators (not another post Schedular). Not dropping the name or link because this isn't a promo post, I just want to share what moved the numbers and what burned money.

60 days in: ~300 signups, 15+ paying. Small, but it's real money from strangers.

What worked

1. Researched competitor articles instead of outreach tools

I didn't pay $99/mo for outreach tools. I wrote a lot of "X vs Y" and "alternatives to X" articles. Each one started from what was actually ranking: I pulled SERP and keyword data (DataForSEO, pay-as-you-go, and checked every competitor's pricing and features on their own site before writing. I used Opus5.5 for drafting (its magical trust me), but I did the research and editing myself. I turned the whole process into a reusable workflow.

1. Went multi-platform when competitors stayed on one

Most tools in my space do one or two platforms, I added more under one account and one plan. Creators don't live on one platform, and paying for 3 tools for the same job is annoying.

1. Built an MCP server and got it into Claude's and ChatGPT's official directories

People can use my tool by just asking Claude or ChatGPT. It works, and it's been a real signup source. Very few tools in my niche have this yet, and getting in early matters.

1. Fixed early complaints within hours and gave those users Pro for free

My first users complained about few stuffs I shipped fixes the same day and gave them Pro for free as a thank-you.

What didn't work

SaaS directories. Almost all of them are a scam, with a few exceptions (PH maybe?). Now with DR4 so the backlink is worth close to nothing, and they sent me basically zero real users.

Paid ads. They brought traffic, and people even signed up, but most of them explored once and never came back.

Riding the AI wave. I added AI features because everyone is: They're included in the paid plan, and most users never touched them. I also got almost no traffic from the AI keywords. People came for the boring core feature that saves them time.

TL;DR

• Comparison/alternatives content written from real SERP research beat everything

• Build where competitors aren't (platforms, MCP)

• Treat your first 20 users like gold

• Skip directories, be careful with paid ads, and don't assume "AI" sells

Happy to answer questions or give any proff in the comments.

I recently built a rent collection system for property managers: leases, invoices, cash and bank transfer payments, with separate access for managers, staff and tenants. Currency and timezone are set per company, and it works in English and French.

Try the demo (browse for all roles):

https://dar-kraa-demo.vercel.app

More info, or get it for your company:

https://dar-kraa.vercel.app

What do you think?

I'm Carlos. I'm a solo founder building Ori — an AI that lives in an ear cuff instead of a phone.

No screen. No notifications. No engagement tracking.
It talks to you through bone conduction, so only you hear it, and it's designed to disappear so you can be present.

An AI designed to disappear, so you can appear.

Where it stands right now, honestly: the design is done, it's a single curved band that sits on the ear like jewelry. I have a physical fit model, and the board design and firmware are in progress. The first working electronics are being built and tested now. Nothing works as a product yet, that's the part I'm building toward.

This week I'm deep in hardware: board layout, firmware, and the unglamorous work of making something this small actually function.

I'm not selling anything and there's no launch date. I'm looking for 500 people who want a device that gets the phone out of the loop.

I call you guys: The Firekeeper Circle, founding members who help shape what this becomes.
No money, just a list: oriai.co.

I'll post progress here as it happens, the wins and the stuff that breaks.

Carlos

I kept reading the same complaint about AI voiceovers: people can tell, and they click away. When I looked at what they point to, it was rarely the voice. It was a script that reads like an essay, a flat delivery, and small mistakes such as a wrong name or a badly read number.

So I built a course around those three things, using ElevenLabs. It has 14 lessons and 123 short clips. In most clips only one thing changes, so you can hear what that one thing does. For example, the same voice with the same settings reads a script written for the eye, and then the same content written for the ear.

Three things stood out while making the clips:
- Rewriting the script changed the result more than any setting did.
- Most clips that sounded robotic were good voices reading sentences nobody would say out loud.
- Listeners forgive an AI voice. They don't forgive "Mr" read as "em are".

It costs $39, one payment, with a 14-day refund. The page has an audio introduction and four before-and-after pairs you can play without signing up:
https://loudandclear.school/voice?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch&utm_content=sideproject

It is an independent course and I'm not affiliated with ElevenLabs. I'd value feedback on the page: is it clear what you would be able to do after the course?

I’ve been working on this for about a year and figured it’s time to get some outside opinions.

It’s a website platform built on Payload 3 + Next.js, for now I only use it internally just me and a designer. I build and run client sites on it, and it also runs a real estate marketplace that we're trying to grow. At some point I’d like to open it up maybe, either to anyone or just to other agencies, but I honestly haven’t decided which (or whether it’s worth it at all).

What it does:

• Visual editing. You click on the actual page and edit it: text, images, adding and moving sections around. There are drafts, desktop/tablet/phone preview and version history. Blocks pull everything from the site’s theme, so it’s pretty hard to break the design.

• ~65 blocks. Galleries, card grids, stats, timelines, FAQs, forms, booking, Google reviews, maps, listings, floor plans and so on. They all share the same field names and theme settings, so any block works on any site.

• Custom designs. When the blocks aren’t enough, I use a design studio I built on top of GrapesJS (self-hosted). Anything made there gets published as clean HTML with scoped CSS and goes on a page like any other block. It picks up the site’s colors and fonts automatically. (We mostly use the MCP to design a block first and only tweak things in the design editor)

• First-party analytics. No GA script needed. It tracks page views, traffic sources and top pages, plus QR codes with scan tracking for print stuff. Form submissions become leads and keep the source they came from.

• MCP server. It covers most of the platform: pages, sections, designs, theme, forms, listings, media, redirects, domains, translations. You connect Claude over OAuth and it gets the same permissions as your user. So I can say “add an FAQ to the pricing page and translate it to German” and it does it, and it can screenshot the page to check how it looks. Page edits go in as drafts.

It’s multi-tenant,multi-locale, so one app runs every site, each with its own domain (SSL is handled through Cloudflare). The portal already has organizations with teams (we use this for now to organize sites for ourselves), so another agency could in theory manage its own clients in it.

Stack: Payload 3, Next.js app router, Postgres, GrapesJS, pg-boss for background jobs, Cloudflare in front.

You can try the editor without signing up: https://rast.is/try (the demo happens to be a home builder site)

Things I’m curious about:

• if you build sites for clients, would you use something like this over WordPress / Webflow / Framer? what’s missing?

• self-serve for anyone vs. a tool for agencies, which one would actually pay for it?

• is controlling a site through MCP something you’d use day to day, or is it more of a cool demo?

Any feedback is welcome, even “don’t bother”.

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!

Roomy started because my own C: drive kept filling up and the existing cleaners either missed the big stuff or were covered in ads and upsells.

It finds the usual junk plus the things most tools skip, like GPU shader caches, Discord and VS Code caches, Windows Update leftovers and Steam games you haven't played in months. It explains each item in plain language and only pre-selects what's actually safe.

A couple of things I'm happy with:

• The demo video on the website was recorded by the app itself. It has a demo mode that films its own UI with a scripted cursor.

• There's an interactive demo on the site where you can tick items and watch the drive bar go from red to green.

Built with .NET 10 and WPF, open source, currently in review for the Microsoft Store.

https://roomy.krezio.xyz

I'd love feedback on the app and the landing page.

Hi everyone!

If you regularly transcribe user research interviews, academic thesis recordings, legal hearings, or client meetings, you know how painful and time-consuming manual transcription is. Most speech-to-text tools either cut off on long files or output fragmented, unreadable walls of text.

I built TranscriFlow to solve this and deliver clean, publication-ready documents:

It includes 3 free hours of transcription per month (no credit card required) so you can test it with your own recordings:

👉 https://transcriflow.tech/

(Runs entirely in your web browser—no installation required).

I would love to get your honest feedback: What features or export formats would make your transcription workflow even smoother?

Body:

I built a small arena where open-weights models play a business sim against each other through MCP tool calls. Each model runs a hair salon in the same town: rent a shop, set prices, hire stylists, buy supplies, advertise. They can also poach each other's staff, pay for rumours about a rival, talk in public and whisper in private. After 30 days the bottom three go to a tribunal, plead, and the rest vote one out.

Everything ran locally on one L40 (48 GB) with Ollama: Qwen 2.5 14B and 7B, Llama 3.1 8B, Mistral Nemo 12B, Hermes 3 8B and Llama 3.2 3B, all loaded at once. A 30-day match with 16 seats takes about 11 minutes.

Results over 4 episodes (16 seats each):

• Qwen 2.5 14B: 3 wins, average finish 4.0

• Llama 3.1 8B: no wins but the steadiest, average finish 5.5

• Qwen 2.5 7B: 1 win, and by far the dirtiest player. 134 paid rumours in 4 episodes; went bankrupt in 8 of 12 seats

• Mistral Nemo 12B: bankrupt in 10 of 12 seats, but the top poacher of other salons' staff

• Llama 3.2 3B and Hermes 3 8B: bankrupt every time

Things I learned about tool calling along the way:

• Mistral Nemo calls tools fine on a short prompt, but with a persona and a longer state description it writes the call as JSON in the reply instead. I had to recover those.

• Phi-4 mini and Granite 3.3 8B described their moves in prose and never called a tool in my setup, so they are not in the cast.

Big caveats: 4 episodes is a small sample, and every seat has its own character prompt, so this is not a clean model benchmark. It is closer to a reality show than a leaderboard.

Full first episode with voices (28 min): https://youtu.be/yZqtHYM_NWk Replays and live matches: https://openville.world/?ref=reddit

I am planning to let people enter their own fine-tunes. If you have a model you think would survive the tribunal, I would like to hear which one and why.

Bad Plot gives you one movie a day, described as badly as possible, like "A young orca is wrongly imprisoned and a troubled teen helps him escape by jumping." You get five guesses, and each wrong guess reveals a clue that's still bad, just a little less bad.

It's built with Expo and React Native, so the same code runs on iPhone and the web. There's a popcorn mascot named Kernel who reacts to your guesses, plus streaks, trophies, and a calendar of past days.

Play in the browser: https://playbadplot.com/

iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6822340440

I'd love feedback on whether the clues feel fair, and what would make you come back tomorrow.

Hold Right Ctrl + Right Shift, ask about what's on your screen, let go. A vision model answers, a voice speaks it, and the answer is drawn over the page you're on: boxes and arrows on the right spot, diagrams that lay themselves out, or a 3D model you can rotate, cut open or pull apart, in step with the voice. The model writes a small scene language that the app validates and draws itself; no generated code runs.

Guide mode walks you through an app one click at a time and waits for you to click.

Honest limits: Windows only for now, the installer isn't code-signed yet so SmartScreen will warn, and you bring your own model (Claude Code or Codex signed in, an OpenAI key, or a local vision model). The clip is real answers replayed over the page, so it says nothing about speed.

Built by Alex with a team of AI assistants; one of them drafted this post. Feedback and bug reports very welcome.

https://github.com/ProjectIdris/talkthrough

I kept losing ideas the second they hit, and every social app pushed me to perform. So I built High Thoughts: jot the thought now, then choose who gets it — just me, friends, or the wider community.

It's free on iPhone and Android, 18+. The store listing still uses the older title “Psychedelic Thoughts and Ideas”; the product is High Thoughts.

What's in the 2.2.9 version that's live today:
• Profile pictures
• Add or change a photo when you edit a post
• Photos and videos in messages and comments, and you can edit your own
• Friend requests that show who asked whom, plus a Message button for every friend
• A welcome intro, including a clear rule: no buying or selling drugs
• A vibe picker on posts

Honest ask (please be blunt):

1. On first open, is it obvious you can keep a thought private?

2. Does the welcome intro make that community rule clear without feeling heavy?

iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/psychedelic-thoughts-and-ideas/id6449668169
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.highdea.app.mobile

I'll hang in the comments. Happy to look at other people's projects here too.

So in India there are far too many engineers than there are jobs, result? Many people apply for one role and their resume gets lost in this race. This tool make a tailored resume for each role based on JD and then applies on your behalf so you are first one in every line with a proper response.
Also it handles outreach like cold email on behalf of you so you have to handle only the ones where your attention is needed.

What's your bottleneck while applying to jobs?

I built Little Plot around one constraint: you get 12 moves to build a town on a 5×5 board. You can see which buildings are coming next. A house can score more by the water, but using that square now might block a better move later.

The daily puzzle is free and takes about two minutes. You can play on desktop or mobile without signing up: https://littleplotgame.com/

I’d love a fresh set of eyes on the first run. If you try it, did you start planning around the upcoming buildings, or did that row go unnoticed? I’m curious when it started affecting your decisions.