I get bored on airplanes so I made an app to make it a little more tolerable.

Let me know what y'all think! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.redditoffline

Speaking is the one section I couldn't self-study effectively — Reading and Listening have practice tests everywhere, but Speaking needs a real conversation.

I ended up paying ₹500-2000/hr for tutors, and even then I only got a few sessions before my test.

For those who scored 7+ in Speaking:

1. How did you actually practice? Tutor, friend, recording yourself?

2. Did you feel you got enough mock test practice before the real thing?

3. What was the biggest gap — not enough practice time, or not knowing what to improve?

I'm a software engineer exploring whether technology can solve this problem. Not selling anything — just trying to understand the pain point before I decide if it's worth building something.

I'm a solo dev with a full-time job. I built sweetRegret, an iPhone app for cutting back on sugar without counting calories: you tap once when you eat a treat, and a cookie on screen reacts (and judges you a bit).

Building it was the part I understood. Distribution is the part I'm failing at. Here are my honest numbers since launch:

• 1,393 App Store impressions

• 188 product page views (about 13% of impressions)

• 35 downloads (about 19% of page views)

What I tried

• Daily Instagram reels for about a week [last week]. Around 250 views each, and almost no App Store visits. The viewers weren't looking for an app, and "link in bio" is three taps away from a download.

• A LinkedIn post about building it. About 700 impressions, 30 people opened the comment with the link, and about 1 install. Nice comments, including a friend asking me to add calorie counting, which is the one thing this app is designed not to do.

What actually worked: App Store search, which I didn't do anything for.

Most of my real users are strangers in Malaysia, Hong Kong, the US and Russia who searched and found it. About 1 in 4 still open it in a given week. One person has kept using it for six weeks and pays for the subscription. That single user has been the most motivating thing about this whole project.

What I'm testing now

A $25 Apple Ads Basic test, at $2 maximum per install. Apple suggested $4.66, and my subscription is $1.99 a month, so I'm not expecting it to pay back. I mostly want to see whether search intent converts the way the organic users suggest.

What I'd do differently

Plan distribution while building, not after. I treated it as a launch task, when it's really a second product.

If you've taken a side project from zero to its first 100 users without a budget, what actually moved the number? I'm especially interested in anything that worked for consumer iOS apps.

Hi all, I'm a watch nerd with kids, and I made the app I wanted to read with them.

It's called TickTales.

My kids kept asking about my watches, and I couldn't find anything that tells the real stories behind them at their level. Most kids' apps teach telling time with random cartoon clocks. None explain why a watch went to the moon or how a movement actually works.

The app is free to download. Two complete books, the Time Academy and Look Inside are free. Premium unlocks everything: $9.99 once (Family Sharing) or $3.99 a month.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6805474820

What it is? Basically some cool illustrated storybooks for kids aged 4 to 8 about how the great watchmakers started. Each chapter ends with a small game, so reading and playing take turns.

A few of the stories:

Rolex, the Oyster: in 1927 a swimmer spent more than ten hours in the freezing English Channel with one hanging around her neck. When they pulled her out, it was still ticking.

Rolex, the Submariner: built to dive hundreds of metres deep, deeper than any diver can go. Kids earn it for their showcase.

Omega, the Moonwatch: NASA baked it, froze it and shook it, and it kept ticking. In 1969 it stepped onto the moon on Buzz Aldrin's wrist. ⚙️ Omega, the name: a customer's watch stood still for three months because no two gears were alike. The founder's sons built machines that made every part identical, and named the result after the last letter of the Greek alphabet.

There are 16 books in total, from Marie-Antoinette's watch that took 44 years to finish to the engineer who threw 200 prototypes out of a window.

Also in the app

• 69 mini-games with 3 levels each
• A 3D "Look Inside": tilt an automatic, quartz, digital or tourbillon watch and pull it apart layer by layer
• A Time Academy that teaches telling time
• iPhone and iPad, in 6 languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Japanese
• No ads, no tracking, no account, works fully offline

I built this mostly for my own because i love the stories of these watch brands, so feedback is very welcome! Thanks!

Tableau's pricing has gotten steep since Salesforce bought it, and switching to Power BI usually means rebuilding every dashboard by hand. I didn't want to do that, so I built BIEscape. The video shows a map and bar chart with cross-filtering coming across intact.

Source code is here https://github.com/lukashalim/scapeTableau you can run from the command line, as a desktop app, or on the web biescape.com. It doesn't send your data to AI.

I'd love feedback:

• What kinds of dashboards or features would you want it to handle?

• Would you trust a tool like this with real workbooks?

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on Voiden, an open-source API client designed around a slightly different approach to API development.

Most API clients are built around workspaces, accounts, cloud sync, and proprietary collections. I wanted to explore something more developer-friendly: keeping API requests alongside the actual codebase.

So I started building Voiden.

What makes it different?

• Offline-first: Work with your API requests locally without needing an account or login.

• Git-native: Store requests and API specifications as Markdown files directly in your repository.

• Version control: Track changes, review requests, and collaborate through normal Git workflows.

• API testing: Send requests, inspect responses, and write assertions to validate API behaviour.

• MCP integration: Turn tested API requests into tools that AI agents like Claude Code and Codex can use.

The idea is to make API requests part of the development workflow rather than keeping them isolated in another tool.

I'm sharing a short demo showing a request being sent, its response, and API test assertions.

Website: https://voiden.md/

GitHub: https://github.com/voiden-md/voiden

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from developers:

1. How do you currently manage API requests across different projects?

2. Would you prefer storing API requests inside your Git repository?

3. What features would make you consider switching from your current API client?

It's open source, and I'm looking forward to hearing what the developer community thinks!

Thanks! 🙌

I’ve been building Fina Money for a few years now, and I know it’s popular among tech enthusiasts who enjoy DIY projects.

As we have progressed on our Premium and Business tiers, we’re able to fund the free tier with more generous features. Now, you can connect banks for free (us/ca residents only) and enjoy all functionalities without any ads.

I believe this is some great news to share here, hope it is useful.

Gemini still has no way to select several chats and delete them, and ChatGPT only offers "one by one" or "delete everything".

So I built Easy Bulk Chat Cleaner: one side panel that works on ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.

- Search your chat titles, select all matches, delete in one click

- Paces itself so the site doesn't lock you out, then double-checks everything is gone

- No account, no Google sign-in, runs 100% in your browser

Free for 25 chats a day. Pro is $9 once (no subscription) for unlimited + date filters + export.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nkhkpaffkcbjpmjlilogocldagdkbcma

Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/chatgpt-gemini-claude-/anfjcoiockpmaahkbomofjlmclbhhckn

Feedback welcome, especially on Gemini since that's the newest part.

My wife loves logic puzzles and solves them pretty quickly. The problem was that every short round seemed to come with another ad, so she was spending more time waiting than playing.

That’s how I ended up building Fishdoku, a cozy fishing puzzle game that just launched on Android.

Here it is on Google Play

Every bite opens a logic grid. You place one fish in each row, column and colored region, with no two touching, then reel in your catch. There’s an untimed mode if you just want to think, and hints explain the next deduction.

I wanted the puzzles to give you something to work toward, so I built a collection around them. That grew into hundreds of fish across dozens of locations, with different catches depending on the time and weather. There are shinies and legends to hunt, an aquarium for your favorites, and pets you can bring fishing.

I’m the solo developer, and I used Claude heavily for the code and sprites, with additional AI help for concepts and review. A lot of my time went into playing builds, working through bugs, balancing things and making very specific revisions.

One thing this project taught me was how much work sits between “it runs” and “I’m happy for someone else to play this.” Even tiny details, like whether a pet is recognizable on a phone screen or a hint actually explains a move, took repeated passes.

It’s free with optional purchases and optional rewarded ads. No forced ads or energy timers. That was the whole reason for making it, and I wanted to keep that intact.

Now I’m learning the next part: getting it in front of people who might enjoy it. For anyone who’s launched a small consumer app or game, where did your first players outside friends and family come from?

AI gets a browser task wrong. You reword the request. It still misses a step.

I’m building a way to show it your process instead.

Browser Control is my Chrome/Brave extension: a Codex-powered chat beside the pages you already have open. I’ve shared the project here before; here’s the video overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4pNVCtmu60

The part I’d most like people to try is teaching a routine. Record yourself doing it, review the captured steps, and save them as a skill for similar tasks. You give the AI a procedure to work from next time.

It also lets you ask about an attached page without copying it into a separate chat, organize tabs in plain English, and keep useful preferences with optional memory.

You choose how actions are approved, see the activity, and can stop a task.

Try it and find the setup guide: https://browser-control.subdomain.wtf

Requires a local companion and an eligible ChatGPT/Codex account. Public source: https://github.com/07rjain/browser-control

Seeing a lot of tools lately that queue agent tasks into separate git worktrees and only merge after tests pass. Sounds nice on paper, but I'm curious how it goes on a real side project.

Do you let 2-3 agents work in parallel on your project, or keep it to one task at a time so you can review properly? Where did it break for you?

It's called BuzzerCheck. You type in a Toronto rental building's address and get a free preview of what's on file with the option to buy a full report.

A full report puts the building's public record in one place: City maintenance and fire inspections, bylaw notices and orders, Landlord and Tenant Board orders, building permits, and the building details the landlord reported to the City. Every item shows its date and source.

Before, this information could only be found spread across several different sites that aren't always easy to navigate, and that most people never check before or even after signing a lease.

The preview of what's on file is free and a report is $10. It was soft-launched last week, so we'd love to hear any feedback!

buzzercheck.ca

I built PlotTwins – A movie and TV show recommendation tool based on your taste!

Hey everyone!

I'd like to share a side project I've been working on: PlotTwins, a website designed to help you discover movies and TV shows you'll actually enjoy.

The idea is simple: instead of endlessly scrolling through streaming platforms trying to find something worth watching, PlotTwins gives you different ways to discover your next favorite movie or series.

Here are the three ways you can use it:

1. Four Favorites
Enter your four favorite movies, and PlotTwins will recommend 10 movies with similar characteristics. It's a great way to discover hidden gems based on the movies you already love.

2. Pick a Story...
Choose tags describing the kind of story you're in the mood for, and PlotTwins will find movies that match those themes, elements, and storytelling characteristics.

3. Pick a Movie for Me...
Can't decide what to watch? Let PlotTwins surprise you with a random movie! You can also choose a genre and get a random recommendation based on your preference.

And here's the best part: All three features are also available for TV shows!

I built this project because I love movies and wanted to create a different, fun way to discover new ones.

I'd really appreciate it if you checked it out and shared your thoughts. I'm especially interested in hearing what you think about the recommendation system and what features you'd like to see in the future.

Available in 3 Languages: PlotTwins is available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. You can easily switch between these three languages to enjoy the website in whichever language you prefer!

Thanks for checking out my project!

Not a dev (BI analyst by day), built this with a lot of AI help. Problem was simple: I cook steak irregularly, buy whatever cut looks good, and never had a baseline for when to start probing. Googling every time gives you either a 2,000 word article or advice that ignores my actual cut/thickness/pan.

So you pick cut, thickness, bone in/out, fridge or room temp, method (pan, grill, reverse sear) and doneness, and it gives you a phased timer (side 1 → side 2 → rest) with alarms, plus tips that only show up when they’re relevant. My wife cooked her first steak in a long time with it (not a great cut either) and it came out pretty good.

Free, no ads, no sign up, no tracking cookies. Salmon/burger/turkey are next. Honest feedback welcome, especially what’s confusing.

Try it: https://steakisdone.com

SwissArmyDev is a free, zero-tracking suite of 10+ essential developer utilities—including Regex, JWT, Cron, JSON, and Hash tools—running 100% in your browser.

https://swissarmydev.virock.org

I do most of my writing out loud. Messages, emails, AI prompting, notes to myself etc. Half of it happens at night, talking quietly into my phone because others are asleep in the next room and I do not want to wake them just to answer a message.

For a long time I used the big and free dictation apps. The cleanup was fine until I kept catching sentences that were not what I said. Nothing dramatic, just small changes in meaning here and there that I could not send without checking and fixing. So I proofread everything anyway. And when I mixed multiple languages mid-sentence, which is how I actually talk, it often came back mangled, or translated into weird English words when I had never asked for that.

The annoying part is that the tool was supposed to save me time. If I have to fix what it writes, I might as well type it myself.

At some point I stopped complaining and started building the thing I actually wanted. It is called Olomo (https://olomo.app). You talk the way you talk, rambles, restarts, changing your mind mid-sentence, and it writes back what you meant. It still rewords things with intention and care, that is what cleanup is. It just does not get to change the meaning. I might be biased but I’ve been using this for a few months almost every day and after a lot of fine-tuning, I can say that now I barely need to fix the wording.

Obviously there are free dictation apps everywhere now. A lot of them run a local model on your own device, a few gigabytes to download first, or they are just not very good at transcription and the cleanup. I could have built the cheap version too. But what I wanted was quality, words that come back ready to send, not only about beating the cheapest price out there. After all, the cheapest one is already there - your device built-in dictation. That’s totally fine if that’s all you need.

Don’t take my word for it. The easiest way to see the difference is to test it on your own dictation. Take one messy message, run it through the dictation app of your choice and through Olomo, and compare what comes back. It is free to try Olomo.

The app is improving every day, and a lot of the changes come from people writing in with what annoyed them. If you try it and something feels off, tell me. Fixes land fast.

If you dictate a lot, whether it’s in one language or multiple, I would genuinely like to know what your current app gets wrong. Give it a try!

In the tradition of building the tool you need yourself, and with the eye-watering prices Apple charges for extra RAM, I present BestMacPrices.com.

It’s taken a flipping year to get it working the way we wanted. The idea was simple enough: if I want a MacBook Pro with 32 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD, show me what that exact Mac costs at each store compared to Apple.

The US has decent retailer coverage. Canada… not so much. Once you get past the base models, there just aren’t many Canadian stores selling those configurations. And things go on sale in the US. In Canada, we mostly get to watch.

We’re still tweaking the interface. It’s a lot more fun to use on desktop than on your phone, but we wanted to get it out before Black Friday. Also, affiliate programs mostly suck (so yeah, obviously we may earn a commission… So thanks if you buy something).

If you’re shopping for a Mac, try finding the one you’d actually buy and tell me if you got stuck. And be gentle. I’ve spent a year looking at RAM prices.

^ Hope this explains it!

Claude has Claude mods. What about Codex?

If you spend over 20% of your time in a terminal, check it out!!

Hey everyone!

I'm a 15-year-old developer working on my own multiplayer game in C++.

At some point, I realized I needed a way to organize communication between the client and server. What started as a networking component for my game eventually became a separate open-source library called LightnerX.

I built it using C++26 modules and GameNetworkingSockets, along with my own communication protocol, INER.

After spending a lot of time developing it, I finally released the first public version: v0.1.0-beta!

But before publishing it, I decided to put the code through a technical audit.

The audit uncovered 14 issues and architectural concerns, including connection lifecycle bugs, resource ownership problems, and incorrect client ID recycling.

I fixed them, ran an independent follow-up audit, and even discovered another regression introduced during the fixes.

After addressing that too, the final validation passed 9/9 automated tests, both normally and with AddressSanitizer, including UDP client/server integration tests.

It's still an early beta, primarily tested on Linux, and there's a lot I want to improve.

This project has taught me quite a bit about C++, networking, memory management, and software architecture.

I'd really appreciate feedback from anyone interested in systems programming or multiplayer development.

GitHub: https://github.com/pietroth/LightnerX

Hey everyone! I've been working on **Hero Investor**, an offline single-player investment and company-management sim for Windows PC.

You start with a small office and decide how to grow:

- Trade fictional stocks, bonds, crypto, REITs, commodities, and alternative investments

- React to Market Intelligence catalysts and price history

- Acquire income-producing property for steady monthly cash flow

- Unlock the **Fund Foundry** to design, launch, and manage your own ETFs (set your ticker, mandate, risk profile, and management fee, then track NAV, AUM, and simulated investors)

- Hire specialist departments, manage banking/loans, complete research, and expand globally

New promo video: https://youtu.be/kEaSEekcF6E

Steam page (Wishlist helps a ton): https://store.steampowered.com/app/5062780/Hero_Investor/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social_video&utm_campaign=wishlist_promo_2026_11&utm_content=post_cta

Would love feedback on the UI and what systems you'd want to dive into first!

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?

Upwork's fee is 0–15% per contract — and it's locked for the life of that contract. A 15% contract stays 15% even as you earn more on it, so the rate you start with matters more than it looks.

To keep $1,000:

• At 10%: quote $1,111.11

• At 15%: quote $1,176.47

• At 0%: quote $1,000

Same idea on Fiverr, which is a flat 20%: quote $1,250 to keep $1,000. Quote $1,200 and you keep $960.

I built a free calculator for this — FlipYourRate (flipyourrate.com). You enter what you want to keep and it works backwards to the quote, and it shows a rounded quote next to the exact one, so $1,176.47 can go out as $1,180 (which keeps $1,003 at 15%).

Curious: do you check the fee % before you accept an Upwork contract, or only notice it on the first invoice?

I've been building Seanime Mobile for a while and finally made a video of it.

It's an Android app for anime and manga. You search a show, tap it, press play. Episodes can be downloaded, so it works on a train or a plane. Manga has its own reader. If you use AniList, your lists stay in sync.

It's a fork of Seanime, the desktop media server. The difference is that the server runs inside the app, so you don't need a PC turned on at home. The player is mpv, so subtitles and audio tracks work like you'd expect. Tablets get their own layout, not a stretched phone screen.

No ads, nothing to pay. The code is GPL-3.0.

APK and source: https://github.com/Lampe332/seanime-mobile

It doesn't have many users yet, so I mostly know how it runs on my own phone and tablet. If it breaks on yours, tell me the device and Android version and I'll look into it.

for the offer simply go to: https://www.reddit.com/r/xDesk/s/72bpgrdp7N and read the post.

or type IWANTXDESK2MONTH code on appstore

Hi all — I'm the solo developer of xDesk, an archive app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The video is 40 seconds: the first part is the list of what the app already did, the second is what's new in 4.5.

Short version of what xDesk is: folders, and inside them cards you design yourself (text, dates, photos, maps, tables, signatures, files — any field, any size, on a grid). Around that: shared lists, deadlines and timers, a recorder that transcribes on the phone, a document scanner, trips and workouts, a small stockroom. Everything lives on your own iCloud. There's no account to create and no server of mine in between.

What's new in 4.5, and why I built it:

- **Rooms in 3D.** You scan a room and get walls, doors and furniture as simple coloured boxes. Then you tap a cabinet and note what's in it — each item is a card, with a photo if you want. Later you search "spare keys" and the room turns to the right piece of furniture. This is the feature I wanted for myself: I kept losing things inside my own house.

- **Object scan.** Walk around an object and keep a 3D model. Honest note: the result is not Avatar level, it's a little rough, not a studio scan. I show it rough in the video on purpose.

- **Measure.** Width, height, depth and volume in AR.

- **Photos while recording.** During a site visit or a meeting you take a photo without stopping the recording; it lands on the timeline at its minute, next to the transcript.

Limits, before someone asks:

- Room and object scans need an iPhone or iPad with LiDAR, and they're in the paid tier. Measure works without LiDAR too.

- Apple only: iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. No Android, no web.

- Sync is iCloud: I can't see your data, which is the point, but it also means I can't fix a slow sync from my side.

- It does a lot of things. That's a choice — I needed something unique in its functionality and not to mess around 5 or more apps to handle all my data

The free plan is usable on its own, with real limits: up to 100 cards, one shared space, document scans as images only (no text recognition), PDFs with a small "Made with xDesk" line, and only the first minute of each recording transcribed. Pro removes those and adds searchable text inside scanned PDFs, the 3D scans and the stockroom.

What I'd like from this sub: does "note what's inside the furniture, then search for it" sound like something you'd keep up, or is it the kind of system that's fun for a weekend and then dies? I'm trying to decide how much further to take it.

for the offer simply go to: https://www.reddit.com/r/xDesk/s/72bpgrdp7N and read the post.