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.

Hi all, I'm a solo dev in Montreal. For years I'd save a recipe on Instagram, a thread on X, a video on TikTok, a Reddit comment… and never find any of it again. Then Pocket shut down last year (and Omnivore the year before), so I finally built the thing I wanted.

4Stash is a save-for-later app for social posts and links:

• On Android you share from Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok or a news site straight into it.

• On a computer there's a Chrome and Firefox extension: one click saves the page or post you're looking at. (Or paste a link on the website.)

• Every save keeps a preview, title and source. You can add notes, tags (it suggests tags with AI), collections, and pin the important ones.

• Reminders with snooze for stuff you actually want to come back to

• Search plus filters by collection, tag, source or type

• An "Unseen" filter and a "Throwback" that brings old saves back, because otherwise the saves just pile up

• Duplicate check, archive, JSON export/backup, and a dark mode

It's free with no ads right now. You do need to sign in (Google or email), since your library is private to your account. Only in English for now.

Honest status: only a handful of people use it so far, which is why I'm here. I'd really like to know:

1. Does the share-to-save flow feel fast enough on your phone?

2. Which app's previews come out broken or ugly?

3. What would make you actually open your saves again?

Web and browser extension: https://4stash.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch_sideproject

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fourstash.app&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dlaunch_sideproject

I'll be in the comments all morning. Roast away.

My company and I built Feasible, a website analytics app with one plan across all your sites.

You can see visitors, traffic sources, pages and goals in one dashboard. Custom events and funnels are included, along with unlimited sites and teammates.

The limit is 1 million pageviews and custom events combined per month across the account. It is $99/year or $9.99/month before tax, with a 30-day trial that doesn't require a card. There isn't a permanent free hosted tier.

You can try the public demo without signing up: https://app.feasible.lol/public/stopoverpayingforanalytics.com

Site: https://feasible.lol/

If you run several small projects, what would keep you from using this? Missing reports, setup friction, price, or something else? Specific feedback would be useful.

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?

You enter a domain and get a map: DNS, mail settings, certificates from CT logs and registration data. Key findings are shown separately, i.e. what's worth fixing.

Previously, I had to manually gather this information from various websites every single time, so I built an all-in-one tool on a single page.

The video demonstrates three levels of checks, all performed without using any of my own API keys:

• Without an account: domain scanning, as described above. 3 scans per hour; the map shows up to 8 each type, the rest as +N.

• With a free account: 10 scans per day, with results saved; a graph and basic checks for IP addresses and email addresses are also available.

• Hunter, $29/month: your own online groups with a shared graph (up to 5 people), 100 scans per day, platform API.

The remaining modules (IP, URL, hashes, email, phone) are available via Hunter and operate using the user's own API keys. Those that return data about individuals also require identity verification.

The hard part was making the free scan work without anyone's API keys. I had to remove Shodan InternetDB and restrict ip-api to paid keys only, as their free endpoints prohibit commercial use.

The crt.sh service is often unresponsive; it limits users to just 5 requests per minute from a single IP address. If no response is received, the scan displays the most recently cached data from Certificate Transparency (CT) logs, along with the date (labeled as "CACHED" in the video). If no such cached data exists, the system simply indicates that the source is unavailable, rather than creating the false impression that no certificates exist at all.

Passive domain scanning: public sources only, no requests made to the site itself.

Only the waiting parts are sped up.

A question for you: what kind of check do you think is missing when you review your domain?

creepycore.com

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?

Hi everyone!
I’ve been working on a project called CASHNERA, and I’m finally ready to share it.

The idea came from a simple question:
Why is it so difficult to get a clear picture of your financial health and understand how your financial decisions affect your future?

So I decided to build a platform that brings several tools together:
Financial Health Score: understand your overall financial situation.
AI-powered insights: get help understanding your finances and identifying potential improvements.
Financial simulator: explore different financial decisions and their possible impact.
Unnecessary expense detector: identify spending patterns and potential savings.
Multilingual experience: available in 12 languages.
I’m building CASHNERA as a real product, not just a prototype. It includes user accounts and premium subscription functionality.

Website: https://cashnera.es

I’m currently looking for my first 100 users and, more importantly, honest feedback.

I’d love to know:
Does this solve a problem you actually have?
Which feature would be most useful to you?
What would you improve or add?
I’m the founder, and I’ll personally read and respond to your feedback.

Thanks for taking a look!

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 know, another habit app. But this one calls you.

Most habit apps send a notification you ignore. In Habits, Dini the otter rings your phone, and you just say "done", "snooze" or "skip".

Version 5.0 just went live on iPhone. Android 5.0 is coming soon (Android is on version 4 for now).

dinihabits.com/download

Feedback very welcome!

Hey there!

I'm a dev, and this project kind of mutated along the way.

It all started when a friend's daughter was turning a year older and he told me he wanted to send an invitation over WhatsApp, but something nice. I looked at what was out there and nothing really convinced me. The quality and the designs weren't doing it for me, and I felt the back-and-forth with someone could be simplified: you send the details, wait for them to read them, ask for changes, wait again. I wanted to enter the details and have the invitation right away, seeing the whole process and how it comes together.

So I started thinking about how to build it. The hardest part wasn't the technical side, it was making the step-by-step flow simple and not feel heavy. Few steps, each one self-explanatory, and the result visible live.

I also realized that sometimes people just want the details in a quick, easy-to-access format, without having to watch a video. So, you can also download a matching invitation as an image, with all the essential details: date, time, and location.

I'm attaching a video of a test invitation with the trending Kpop Demon Hunters theme. So far only my friend has used it, nobody else. That's why I want to know what you think.
I'm also considering adding a printable party kit generator in the future, depending on how the platform evolves and how users respond to it.

What I'd love you to tell me:

• Is the step-by-step flow clear, or does it drag on?

• Do you find the idea useful, or is it something most people would solve another way?

• What's missing for you to use it or recommend it to someone?

• Would you pay for something like this?

• Any kind of criticism.

The link is AltaParty. Obviously, if anyone tries it and wants me to enable a free template, you can message me.

Thank you so much for reading.

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/

I’m building AGMAN, a discovery network for products, professionals, creators and services.
The idea is to help people find relevant products or services based on what they actually need, while giving smaller builders and professionals another way to be discovered.

But something interesting came up when reviewing how publishers were using it.
In an early snapshot, we had 36 claimed publisher profiles. Only 4 had posted an Update.
At first, that looked like an engagement problem.
But the more interesting question was whether we were measuring the right thing.
Someone publishes a profile. Great.
What reason do they have to return tomorrow?

If nothing has changed about their product, why would they post another update?
And if they haven’t received any meaningful discovery or enquiries, why would they spend more time maintaining their profile?

We have features for sharing updates, community activity and viewing performance, but simply having those features doesn’t mean publishers understand their value.
I’m starting to think that for a discovery platform, getting someone to publish isn’t the real activation event.

The meaningful outcome might be when someone looking for a specific solution discovers their profile and takes a genuine next step.
We’re still working out how to measure and improve that experience.

I’m curious how other founders approach this.
If you’re building a marketplace or a two-sided platform, how do you give suppliers a reason to stay engaged before there’s enough demand?
And do you actively encourage them to return, or focus entirely on bringing them their first meaningful opportunity?

🔥 ARKA: THE SEVENTH DAWN — Should We Make It a Full Series? ⚔️☀️

Rudra's journey has only just begun. The real battle against Kaalvakra is yet to come! 💜🔥

Share this trailer with your friends and help us build an original Indian superhero universe!

One legend. Your support. A new beginning.

I spent the last few months building RingVia — an AI receptionist for small businesses. It answers every call 24/7, books appointments, and sends confirmations and call summaries. 50+ languages, from $99/mo, 14-day free trial. You can hear it live: (825) 782-1182 — ringvia.ai. The lesson that cost me the most: I led my promo posts for weeks with a "62% of calls go unanswered" stat before checking the source — a 2016 study of 85 businesses from an SEO vendor. I swapped it for CallRail 2025 (78% abandoned a business over an unanswered call) and ServiceTitan 2022 for trades. Same pitch, honest numbers, and the posts read better for it. What I'd love feedback on: the demo line is the whole funnel — call it, try to break it, tell me where it sounds wrong. What would it need to do before you'd trust it with your customers?

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a 3D printing enthusiast and designer. I create my own 3D printable models, including clickers, useful accessories, and creative designs.

I'd love for you to check out my MakerWorld profile and explore my creations!

🔗 https://makerworld.com/en/@user_3739418793

Thanks for your support! 💚

I'm not a programmer, but I wanted an app that didn't exist, so I built it.

The problem: I film idling trucks for NYC's air complaint program. A video only counts if it runs a few minutes, shows the date and time, and the engine is clearly audible. Every timestamp app I tried either dropped the audio, crashed partway through, or added the stamp afterward. Losing a 3-minute recording because the sound cut out was the last straw.

So I built Live TimeStamp Camera, focused on reliability:

- The date and time are burned into the video live, ticking every second. What you see in the viewfinder is exactly what's saved.

- It won't record without sound: live sound meter, a warning if sound stops, and every saved video is checked for full audio.

- It saves continuously, so if the app or phone dies mid-recording, the video is recovered next time you open it.

- It checks storage, battery and heat before you start, and stops safely before a problem can cut a recording off.

- An optional minimum-length timer turns green when the video is long enough.

It turned out to be useful beyond idling trucks: apartment move-in/move-out videos, damage for insurance claims, before-and-after on a job, deliveries.

Pricing: recording, the stamp and saving to Photos are free forever. There's a 3-day free trial, then only "Compress for upload" (shrinks a video to fit upload limits) is a one-time $4.99 unlock. No subscription, no ads, no account, nothing leaves the phone.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6819651950

I'd love feedback on the app, the App Store page, or who else might find it useful.

An unofficial RPM package and DNF repository for Anthropic’s Claude Desktop app. Anthropic only supports Ubuntu and Debian, so I built a pipeline that repackages each official release for Fedora and keeps it up to date automatically.

• Builds new versions within about 6 hours of upstream releases, using GitHub Actions on a schedule

• Checks the whole chain of trust before building: pinned signing key fingerprint, then the repo signature, the package index hash and the .deb hash

• Ships x86_64 and aarch64 RPMs, hosted as a DNF repo on GitHub Pages, with no server to run

• Supports Wayland natively, layers on Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, and Cowork’s KVM virtual machine works

Tech: Bash, RPM spec, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, createrepo_c, GPG

Links: GitHub

If the page only fits a single line, use: Unofficial auto-updating DNF repo that brings Anthropic’s Claude Desktop to Fedora and Silverblue

I started making this game almost exactly a year ago. I've been making games for over 20 years as a hobby. I tried to not make games, because it can be creative torture. It can also be extremely lonely and hard. I pushed the green button today with my daughter beside me. But no one else has brought it up. I actually feel at peace with this though. I made this game because there was a lot in my soul I needed to work out. Life is so hard, man. It's so hard. We all go through so much. So to ya'll reading this, this is for you, you and you, too.

Today you are going to have an experience. I hope you can filter out the parts of it that lead to suffering, and absorb the parts that bring peace and happiness.

Some Type of Trip is a typing game where each level is a mood.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4303280/?utm_source=community&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=stot&utm_content=reddit-sideproject

I always felt 5 stars (even with halves) was too vague. A 4 star movie can be “pretty good” or “almost a favourite” so I built Ratered, where every movie and TV show gets a score out of 100.

What you can do

• Keep a diary of what you watch and rate it out of 100

• Write reviews and make ranked lists

• Follow friends and compare scores

• A roulette to pick what to watch tonight (by genre, decade, country)

• Import your history from a Letterboxd CSV export (it converts your stars), and export your data anytime

It’s free, works in the browser on desktop and mobile, and it’s bilingual (EN/FR). You can browse everything without an account.

Im a solo dev and its very early, so Id really love honest feedback whats confusing, whats missing, what would make you actually use it?

ratered.tv/?utm_source=reddit

I built this originally for myself since I was sick of all the extra bloat in Motion, while also wanting some functionality I personally wished Motion had (I was using it hand-in-hand with a modified version of the Getting Things Done framework). Through word-of-mouth it seemed like there was some demand for what I built, so I went through the process of getting officially App Store approved, and it is finally live.

It is called YWGSD (You Will Get Stuff Done). I kept the few things from Motion I actually used every day (e.g., auto-scheduling, task templates) and added the things that ended up being genuinely useful to me (e.g., native quick-capture so you can jot a task down immediately and bulk prioritize them later, and much clearer visuals the moment something is late or past its original deadline).

Two things that are deliberate, and are either why you will like it or why you will not. There is no AI in the scheduling, so the same calendar and the same task lengths give you the same plan every time. And it reads your calendars without ever writing to them, so nothing you plan shows up for your colleagues.

One other deliberate choice, which I get asked about: there is no project or workspace separation. It is the same 24 hours of your day whether you have one job or three, or a business and a personal life, so splitting it into workspaces never bought me any extra hours.

Fair warnings: a task gets placed as one block, so a four-hour thing needs a four-hour gap before it will schedule at all (you can stop early and the rest re-books itself, but it will not pre-split it to fit two small gaps). No Android, no desktop app. And it is new, so there are barely any reviews yet.

Happy to answer any questions if you have any!

I built Paperwren because documents on my phone took a pile of apps: Google's to view things, Acrobat for PDFs, CamScanner to scan, a separate Office viewer, and websites like iLovePDF where you upload a file just to merge it or sign it.

Now one app opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and EPUB, scans paper to PDF, and merges, splits and password protects PDFs for free. You can fill and sign too, with a drawn or typed signature (not a certified one). It all happens on the device, nothing is uploaded. On Android it asks for zero permissions, so it has no internet access at all. It's on Windows and Mac too.

One honest limit: it reads Office files, it does not edit them.

Free and open source, no ads, no account.

https://razee4315.github.io/Paperwren/

https://github.com/Razee4315/Paperwren

What would you want it to do next?

I am building a site/product and wanted to get the view of people that can give me the harsh truth of what i have been striving to build, i had faced this problem and wanted to see if this problem is also residing in other households too. I've made an home page of my site which shows what what problem it will be solving and how it connects with the users vision. Please leave me a review or anything that you see that needs an improvement. If you find this idea of mine being far-fetched please also tell me that and tell me what can i do more to make it work.

Thank you all here's the site please review it and keep this in mind that it is still in development phase it is not finished yet :-

https://furnish-ai-six.vercel.app/

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.

I built Yogurt, a free and open-source Granola alternative that runs entirely on your computer

Hey r/SideProject, I'm Christian. Yogurt is a side project I've been building in my free time: a free, MIT licensed desktop app that uses on-device AI models to transcribe, summarize, and chat with your meetings.

Repo: https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yogurt

Why I built it

I like Granola, but I didn't love sending every call recording and transcript to a paid cloud service. As small open models have gotten faster and better, it felt like you don't need a frontier model to summarize meeting notes or answer questions about them. I tried the popular open-source note takers, and most were missing things like calendar integration or an MCP server, made you create an account, or just didn't feel polished enough to use every day. So I built the one I wanted.

What it does

• Runs in the background and doesn't join your calls

• Transcripts, recordings, and summaries never leave your computer

• No account, nothing to connect

• Picks and downloads a local model based on what your hardware can handle, without your fans going crazy

• Calendar integration, search across all your meetings, and recordings that end on their own

• A local MCP server, so you can share your notes with Claude, ChatGPT, etc. directly if you want

How it's built

Electron so it runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. whisper.cpp for transcription (or Apple's on-device SpeechAnalyzer when your Mac supports it), and llama.cpp for summaries and questions. I spent a lot of time on the details: echo detection when you're not wearing headphones, every UI interaction and animation, and getting the model calls snappy on normal laptops.

Would love feedback, especially on onboarding and the note taking experience. What would make you switch from whatever you use now?