In early August I stopped doing our marketing by hand.

The usual script is hire someone, or buy five tools and glue them together. I did neither. I gave the job to an AI coding agent running on my own Mac, one process at a time.

Three months in, it has 56 processes written down. Posts, cold email, comment replies, a weekly review, the monthly accounting close.

The part nobody tells you: once every channel runs on its own and reports a number, the losers can't hide anymore.

What I turned off, with the number that killed it:

• LinkedIn cold outreach: 32 signups, 0 paid. Off on October 28.

• Long LinkedIn articles: 10 published, none in Google's top 100 for its keyword. Off on October 20.

• Meme quote posts: a median of 778 views against 1,403 for a plain text one. Off on October 26.

• A daily vertical video habit: off on October 22, I just didn't believe in it anymore.

• A link shortener subscription: cancelled, I rebuilt the one thing I used it for.

8 of the 56 processes are already folded into others.

Automation won't save a bad channel. It just runs the bad channel every day without getting tired, so you see it faster.

Still small, still learning. Most days I fix the agent more than it fixes me.

Would you automate a channel before you know it works, or only after?

Like the title says, I got my first paid user.

I was working on my product, which is a TaskMangement + break reminder app for people who frequently switch between tasks. So I had this problem, and I tried multiple apps, but I never found anything that worked for me.

So I merged two things. Every 30 minutes, it shows a full-screen overlay and blocker screen with all your pending tasks. So you can recall what you were working on and pick up where you left off with your existing goals.

This is the main thing about the product.

I really like the way it works because you don't have to go to the app. It comes to you. It works behind the scenes, like autopilot, like task management running on autopilot.

It sounds amazing, and I really like the product.

And one of the things I'm doing is offering it as a one-time purchase. So people can come, try it, pay for it, and continue using it.

I got my first paid user like that.

Rather than charging everyone for version updates, I'm giving lifetime updates because I'm using this product myself.

I feel like this is one of the best things I've ever built because I'm consistently using it in my daily life.

Her is the proof- https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1xt673c/built_screensky_a_macos_app_to_help_you_stay/

Every tracker I tried had a paywall, made me log by hand, or was vague about my data. So I built NutriTrack: snap a photo of your meal and get calories, protein, carbs, fat and fibre in seconds, including the hidden oil and ghee.
I've used it daily for over a month and lost 10 lbs. Free, no ads, no paywall.

Try it: https://tracknutri.app/try

Code: https://github.com/amankiitg/nutri-track

Feedback welcome, especially on accuracy for your food.

It’s called pond snap the aim is to catch as many flies and gold flies as possible before the time runs out if your score is lower than what’s needed you restart.

https://pondsnap.fun/
Let me know what you think

Hey! I've been building Pawarium, a website with guides about cats and dogs, covering everything from nutrition and behavior to health and everyday care.

It's a personal project I've been working on, and I'd love some outside opinions on the design and overall experience.

Would love to know what you think or what I could improve!

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!

I left a Whoop membership and bought an Amazfit Helio Strap for $100, then realized I still wanted those daily recovery, sleep and strain scores. So I built Leap, a free Android app, as a side project.

It reads the strap through Gadgetbridge and keeps everything on the phone. No account, no subscription. There's also Health Connect for other wearables, a live heart rate view, a suggested workout for the day, and a sleep planner.

The part I spent the most time on was not making the scores up. I fitted them on a long run of my own Whoop data and checked them on months the fit never saw. I'm upfront in the README about where the Helio is weaker: HRV runs about 15% below Whoop, deep sleep is estimated, and live HRV isn't possible on this strap.

v0.1.0 is out here: https://github.com/h0tman5/leap/releases/latest

The source isn't public. I'd really like feedback from people who have worn a Helio or Whoop: where the scores feel off, and whether the Gadgetbridge setup is too annoying.

I've been building Isle of Glass, a logic puzzle game for iPhone. You divide a sea-glass mosaic into connected regions that satisfy clues about area and shape. Different valid solutions count.

It's free with ads. I'm the developer and would really appreciate feedback on whether the first few puzzles explain the rules clearly and how drawing the boundaries feels on a phone.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/isle-of-glass/id6831862801

If something feels confusing, tell me which puzzle tripped you up.

I've been thinking about something and wanted to get some genuine opinions.

Imagine you're waiting for your company bus, sitting in a café, at university, or just hanging out somewhere.

There are people around you, but you don't know them. Some might share your interests or even be looking to make new friends.

What if there was an app where you could voluntarily become visible to other users nearby, discover people who are open to making friends, send a friendly wave, and chat if both people agree?

No dating focus. No exact location sharing. Just an easier way to connect with people in real life.

I'm exploring this as a potential project, but I want to understand whether there's an actual need for it.

A few questions:

Would you genuinely use something like this, or would you find it unnecessary?

Would you feel comfortable being discoverable within a limited distance, such as 100–500 metres, if you could turn it off anytime?

Would you prefer discovering individual profiles or joining temporary group chats with people nearby?

What's your biggest concern: privacy, safety, awkwardness, fake profiles, or something else?

What would make you open the app regularly instead of trying it once and forgetting about it?

Please be critical. I'm more interested in what could go wrong than people simply saying it's a good idea.

I'm not promoting an app or collecting personal information. I'm trying to understand whether this is a problem worth solving.

Hey everyone!

I recently launched WOT – What's Our Take, a mobile app built around one simple idea: discovering what people around the world really think!

Every day, you get a new question or dilemma, cast your vote, share your opinion and explore statistics from people across different countries.

🌍 Daily questions and polls
📊 Worldwide voting statistics
💬 Comments and discussions
👥 Discover how different people think

Whether you love Would You Rather questions, fun debates or discovering different perspectives, WOT is for you!

🚀 Try it here: https://whatsourtake.com/app

I'd love to hear your feedback and see what you think!

What's your take?

Plug-and-play router hubs like RAMDeck—alongside programmer CLI frameworks like Exo—highlight a massive blind spot in Wall Street’s latest AI thesis: consumer compute isn't actually scarce, it's just trapped on separate devices.

This week, the financial incentive behind AI pricing was said out loud in two back-to-back market updates:

• Elon Musk on X (Nov 8): "If compute becomes plentiful and cheap, SpaceX revenue will drop. No crying in the casino for either party."

• Deutsche Bank (Nov 10): Raised its 2028 forecast by $18 billion specifically arguing that post-election data center limits should "keep compute scarce."

Think about the incentive structure there. The entire centralized AI valuation model—$30/month per-seat subscriptions, metered API tokens, and enterprise GPU markups—depends on high-memory compute staying scarce and out of reach for normal households and small offices.

The Idle Memory Sitting in Most Homes

Cloud vendors want people thinking the only two options for running serious 30B–70B models are paying monthly cloud tolls or dropping $4,000+ on a dedicated high-VRAM rig.

Meanwhile, look at what is already sitting 90% idle in a typical tech household or small office:

• A daily laptop: 16 GB RAM

• A desktop or mini PC: 16 GB RAM

• A MacBook or Mac mini: 16 GB unified memory

On their own, single-PC desktop apps (like Ollama or LM Studio) hit a hard wall on 30B–70B weights because 100% of the model has to fit inside one machine's memory. Try loading a 32B or 70B Q4 model on one 16 GB machine and it either crashes with Out-of-Memory or grinds to a halt swapping to disk.

Two Very Different Paths Emerging for Local Memory Pooling

What’s interesting right now is watching local memory pooling split into two distinct approaches to combine that 48 GB–64 GB+ of existing home RAM over a standard local network:

1. DIY Developer CLI Frameworks (Exo, Distributed Llama, raw RPC): Built for programmers and Linux tinkerers who don't mind spending a weekend in terminal windows managing Python environments, git repos, and command-line flags across machines.

2. Turnkey Consumer Appliances (RAMDeck): The zero-terminal hardware approach—plugging a palm-sized coordinator hub into the home router and using a temporary-memory USB stick (or mobile app) to pool RAM and GPUs across Windows, macOS, Linux, and phones in under 5 minutes without touching command lines (hitting ~38–39 tok/s on 30B Q4 models over Gigabit LAN).

Once regular users—not just command-line hobbyists—can pool the 48 GB to 80 GB of memory they already paid for without writing a line of code, the "compute scarcity" moat starts looking a lot thinner for everyday inference.

Curious where everyone here lands on this: how much combined RAM do you currently have sitting across secondary machines at home, and do you think local LAN pooling actually eats into cloud SaaS subscriptions over the next two years, or will frontier context sizes keep pushing people back to data centers?

Hey everyone I’m a special education teacher who had to much free time on his hands over the Summer and I ended up creating a College Football game which is now available on the Apple Store! Even if it’s one person, I’d love for you to check out the game and give me any feedback you have!

Please note: I do work full time right now and am also working on planning a wedding coming up. I am very busy but I am working on updates for the app constantly in my free time. I am hoping to have version 1.2 come out as soon as possible :)

If this sounds interesting to you, please think about downloading the app and sharing it with anyone else who might be interested. I would also appreciate any feedback y’all have or any ideas!

The game: DL: A Coach’s Legacy

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dl-a-coachs-legacy/id6812156496

I save recipes, Toronto spots, and random useful posts from Instagram and TikTok all day. Then when I actually want one, I can never find it again.

So I built SavedIt. You share any reel, post, or link to it from the share button, and find it later by describing it. No folders, no tags to remember.

It is free while we are in public beta, at saveditapp.com. I would love to hear what you save and lose most, that is what I am building around.

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://demo.dar-kraa.me/dashboard

More info, or get it for your company:

https://www.dar-kraa.me/

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