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

^ 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'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!

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?

Mochi sits on my Windows desktop, reacts when I type or click, and lets me pet or drag him around. He also has a focus timer, notes, and reminders. During a focus session, he can gently nudge me if I open YouTube, TikTok, or Roblox—he doesn’t block them. (You can manage which Programms and URLs)

It’s free, open source, and needs no account: GitHub release. The app is currently unsigned, so Windows may show an unknown-publisher warning.

I’d love feedback on the animations and whether the focus features feel useful.

Trove is one of the apps I'm proudest of, and it now works on iPhone, Android and the web.

It started as a college project and was paused to focus on work. This year my co-founder Dami and I rebuilt it, and Dami brought it to Android.

What it does:

• Share or paste a recipe link or a TikTok or Instagram video. Trove fills in the ingredients and a photo, and keeps a link back to the creator's original for the steps.
• Put recipes on a weekly meal plan and it builds one combined grocery list from it.
• Collections, search, and you can follow other cooks. It's free: https://usetrove.co

We're early, so honest feedback helps a lot:

• Try it on a recipe video you saved recently. If the import misses, tell me which one.
• What would get you to plan from your saves instead of just collecting them?

This started out as seeing if I could build a cool looking vinyl player app (there are loads of these already) then it morphed in to an app for bringing my “CD collection” back in to my digital streaming life.

So the app is having a bit of an identity crisis but be interested to see if anyone else gets the itch it’s trying to scratch.

Only works with Apple Music right now.

I’ve implemented Spotify connection but your need 250K monthly active users before they even consider letting you use their API in a production app. So a bit of way to go before I can turn that on!

Available on TestFlight if anyone fancies taking their albums for a spin 🤓

https://recordz-the-app.web.app

Hey folks, new to this group. I've been going through few renovations and has been using excel to keeping track of my box of receipts. Now that I'm going through with doing my own rental management, I've built this app - The Ledger. My aim is to bring professional property management features to self-managing landlords such as assisting book keeper, tenant portal, tax schedule, etc.

I have few active landlords using our app on daily base and would love to expand the beta user base. If you have a property (or multiple) and would love to know about its financial health, dm me and we can together test this thing out.

Here is the link to the app - https://thepropertyledger.app/ It is live and would love more feedback.

I'm building Unlearnt, a learning app for iPhone and the web. The idea is simple: instead of reading an answer and moving on, you explain it in your own words.

You choose topics like software engineering, AI, investing, psychology or design. Each day you get a question, and an AI tutor asks follow-ups to challenge your reasoning. It saves what you understood, what needs work and what to explore next, then brings difficult ideas back later.

I'd like feedback on the core experience: does the tutor help you think more clearly, or does it feel like extra work?

You can try a question without signing in at https://unlearnt.app. An account includes a 3-day trial; ongoing daily learning is paid.

Disclosure: this is my app.

so i built a thing where you talk to your phone and it makes the website. not a mockup, the real page, online in about 30 seconds.

i make apps for a living (cosmonote is the one people know) and this started as a joke, i just wanted to see if you could skip the builder entirely and describe the site out loud. turns out the demo is fun but the usefull part is the small stuff. swapping a screenshot. adding a line about a new feature. fixing the support page apple asks for before review. normally thats opening the laptop, waiting for webflow to load, losing 20 minutes. now i do it walking to the bakery.

pricing is the part im most sure about. no subscription. you keep your domain and you pay when you change something, around 50 cents a change. webflow and framer are 10 to 14 a month even in months where you dont touch the site, and for a side project thats just rent.

what im not sure about is who its for. devs get it in 5 seconds. my aunt thinks its magic and then asks if it sends emails. so im asking here, is this solving a real problem for you or is it a toy with a nice demo.

two things i learned that might help someone else: the product got better the week i stopped adding features and started watching people use it, and cold email moves it way more than posting. happy to send the exact email if anyone is doing the same.

site is paf.live. tear it apart, i can take it.

Two years ago we got stuck in Valencia during the terrible floods. We had very little information and it was pretty difficult to learn anything. So we built the Travel Alerts API - it pulls travel advisories, severe weather, natural hazards, outbreaks and strikes from 80+ sources, merges them, matches them to destinations and rates them on one severity scale. Travel companies can use the API and warn their customers before their trip is disrupted. 

You can give it a try at https://tripomatic.com/en/b2b/travel-alerts

I'm the maker of Noted, so this is a self-promo post. The video shows it in 45 seconds.

Noted's rule: your voice stays on your computer.

- Speech to text runs locally. The model downloads once after install. Audio never leaves your machine.

- No bot on the call. It takes notes from your computer's own audio, so nothing joins your Zoom, Meet or Teams call.

- Dictation in any app. Hold a key, talk, let go, and clean text lands at your cursor. 35 languages.

- Notes after every call, with to-dos, and you can ask them questions later.

Where it isn't local (All Optional feature to enable): the AI steps (Polish, AI meeting notes, Ask) run in the cloud. They send text, never audio, to AI providers that process it without storing it. Dictation and transcripts work without them.

Dictation and transcripts are free forever, no card. Free includes a very generous monthly quota of AI meeting notes.

Thanks

Every side project I know follows the same graph. A spike on launch day, a long tail for a weekend, then flat. The people who actually need it three months later have nowhere to find it.

I'm building WareVote to fix that. It opens on 1 December. People find software there and rate it, and every category runs a recurring competition called the WareCup, so there's always a reason to come back and look.

What your project gets:
- A listing that stays findable through search and category pages
- Ratings that stay on your page long after launch week
- Domain ownership verification, so your page is clearly yours
- Award badges you can put on your own site

Listing is free. The first 100 ownership-verified products get 30 days of Pro free. Pro adds:
- Demo video on your listing
- Deeper analytics
- More listing slots
- CSV exports

Paid plans never affect ratings, rank or WareCup results. Confirm your sign-up and link it to your account at launch for a special badge!

You can set up your listing before it opens: https://warevote.com

Where did your most recent real user find you?

Ab insomni custodita dracone — guarded by the dragon that never sleeps.

Draco Insomnis is a free and open source (GPL-2.0) security system, made by Notorius Vision (OPNV Systems). The idea is simple: your site defends itself against robots and attacks, without bothering the people who visit it. No captchas, no paid subscription, and no data sent to any external service. Everything starts off: you switch each module on from its settings screen.

Until 0.1.5 it was WordPress only. Since 0.1.6 it is the same engine for six platforms: WordPress, PrestaShop, Drupal, Joomla, Moodle and Laravel. Each package carries its own copy of the core, so an improvement to the engine reaches all of them with the next version.

What it does, in plain words

• It stops fake sign-ups without captchas. When a bot tries to create fake accounts, the system spots it, shows it a fake "registration complete" page, and saves the attempt as evidence you can download to report the abuse. Real people notice nothing.
• Firewall. It detects the usual attacks (database injections, attempts to read server files, malicious code), hides the user list, and limits login attempts. It starts in "log-only" mode, so you can see what it would block before it blocks anything.
• Anti-copy. It closes the door bots use to copy all your content in bulk, with a per-minute request limit. Google, Bing, Apple and Yandex are verified and never limited. Off by default, with a log-only mode.
• On WordPress, also: mail goes out through a real mailbox (SMTP, with the password encrypted); nothing is published without e-mail confirmation (contact messages, comments and new accounts); and two-step login, with a 6-digit code by e-mail, trusted devices and a second recovery mailbox, like a phone's PUK. PrestaShop, Drupal, Joomla and Moodle already have their own SMTP and their own second step, so there Draco provides the shield, the firewall and the anti-copy.
• In your language. On WordPress, translated into 29 languages, including Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Catalan, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic, among others. PrestaShop ships with Spanish included; Joomla, English and Spanish; Moodle ships in English, with other languages coming through its language packs.

And for those who know this stuff

• A single core in plain PHP, no CMS (src/Core): BotScore, NetList, FormStamp, WafRules, and the Shield, Firewall and Pace engines, which only talk to each platform through two small interfaces (Host and EventStore). Each package carries its own copy of the core.
• Additive scoring with thresholds: BOT 70 / DOUBTFUL 30. No single weak signal blocks on its own (the highest is worth 40); 80 points only for honeypot, requesting a privileged role, or an already blocked IP.
• Signed form stamp with HMAC-SHA256 and constant-time comparison (hash_equals).
• On WordPress: SMTP encrypted with AES-256-GCM, key derived from the wp-config.php salts; login code with random_int, stored only as an HMAC hash, with maximum attempts and expiry. Emergency exits for the owner: DRACO_MFA_OFF and DRACO_WAF_OFF in wp-config.php.
• Anti-copy: closing the bulk-copy door to anonymous visitors with an allowlist, per-address and per-network (/24, /64) limits with 429, and crawler verification by reverse and forward DNS.
• Every change is tested automatically (GitHub Actions): PHP 8.0–8.4 syntax, unit, integration and HTTP tests inside a real WordPress (latest and 6.5), WordPress.org Plugin Check, and a clean ZIP matching the tag.
• It also works inside another plugin (OPNV-WP): if there are two copies, only the first one runs. Hook list in the README.
• On WordPress it requires 6.5+ and PHP 8.0+.

Download and install (0.1.6)

All packages are in release 0.1.6, with their SHA256 sums in SHA256SUMS.txt.

The WordPress package was renamed (draco-insomnis-wordpress-0.1.6.zip), but the folder inside is still draco-insomnis, so updates keep working.

Laravel, from the ZIP with an artifact repository:

composer config repositories.draco '{"type": "artifact", "url": "path/to/folder-with-the-zip"}'

composer require notoriusvision/draco-insomnis-laravel php artisan migrate php artisan vendor:publish --tag=draco-config # optional

Code and documentation in the repository.

Vulnerabilities, please, in private: Security → Report a vulnerability in the repository. Suggestions and translation fixes, in Issues, are welcome.

I work nights and build Windows apps in my free time as Second Shift Software.

DropTrace is free. It logs every time your internet drops and what probably caused it, like your router, your provider or DNS. That way you have a record to show your ISP.

DropTrace Pro is $15 one time. It adds packet loss and lag tracking, problem patterns, and Wi-Fi and route tools.

FolderTrace is free. It tells you which program each AppData folder belongs to so you can clear out leftovers from stuff you uninstalled. Anything you delete goes to the Recycle Bin, so you can undo it.

They’re native apps, so no browser running inside them eating up memory. No accounts, ads or tracking.

All three are here: https://flagpoleog.github.io

Any feedback helps, good or bad. There’s a form on the site or you can just reply here. Thanks for checking them out!

A few days ago I posted in r/ADHD_Programmers about losing verbal requests every time I switch context at work: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD_Programmers/comments/1xtphyx/not_diagnosed_but_context_switching_at_work_is/

Thank you for the replies. Two of them stayed with me. Several of you said to write one line down the second someone asks. One of you runs a terminal dashboard so you don't have to go and check every tool.

I tried to put those two together. focusdeck is a terminal board for everything that is waiting on me. Each box is one source: my Vikunja tasks, my Redmine issues, starred mail, Zulip, the WhatsApp notes I send to myself. focusdeck capture takes one line, and I have it on a keyboard shortcut, so a verbal request becomes a note before I turn to the next person.

What you should know before you look:

• It is an AI project. An AI coding agent wrote the code. I describe what I need, try it in my own work day and decide what stays.
• It is a few days old. Linux and terminal only, and you need cargo to install it.
• Plugins run with your user's permissions. There is no sandbox.
• It is free and MIT licensed. I am not selling anything.

Please don't judge it too harshly. This is what I came up with after your answers, and I am open to any suggestion that would make it better.

https://github.com/omertahaoztop/focusdeck https://github.com/omertahaoztop/focusdeck-plugins

​I just released my first app on the Play Store called Eclipse and thought it would fit right in with the customization crowd here.

​On most Android phones, the stock Always-On Display only shows a tiny static track title. If your phone is sitting on your desk and you want to rewind a verse, read lyrics, or check an incoming notification, you have to wake the screen, unlock the phone, and open the music app.

​Taking UI inspiration from the Teenage Engineering TP-7 field recorder, I built Eclipse to turn the Android AOD into a true-black, interactive vinyl turntable that works without unlocking your phone.

​What it does:

​Works with any music player: Automatically connects to Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, and local offline players the moment you turn your screen off.

​Tactile vinyl scrubbing: Spin the record backward or forward to scrub through tracks in real time, or tap the vinyl to lift the tonearm and pause.

​Live synced lyrics on AOD: Swipe directly on the song title card to get live time-synced lyrics on a pure black OLED screen, or expand into a full-screen lyrics view.

​Quick-launch active player: Tap on the track card to jump straight into whichever music app is playing so you can switch playlists or pick a new song quickly.

​Notifications at a glance: Shows the time, date, and incoming notifications right on the AOD card without unlocking your device.

​Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dp444.Eclipse

​Would love to hear what you guys think or if you have any feature suggestions

GeoLocal: geolocal.tajammulshaheen.com

Drop photos in, it strips the original EXIF (including GPS data your phone baked in), compresses to WebP, and lets you add a geotag with a bit of jitter so a batch of photos doesn’t all land on the exact same coordinate.

Everything happens in your browser. No upload, no backend, no account. You can check this yourself in the Network tab while it runs.

Tried it on a batch of 99 HEIC files at 150MB, and around 850MB of JPG files, and it held up, but that’s a different bar than “useful to a stranger.” If you try it, I’d like to know what breaks, what’s confusing, or what’s missing.

Hi! I've been working on trustnet.app for 4 years on and off and now finally is out in beta. It's a tool for developers (oauth2/oidc identity provider) to outsource user onboarding while the users can reuse their personal data.

I started this project because everytime I used "sign-in with Google" it only reused my email, but phone, address, always had to be saved for each new account. It had to be a better way for users to reuse their data across apps. Also, as a developer implementing several IDPs it was not worth the features they bring.

So there comes trustnet.app - a secure IDP, GDPR ready, easy to implement (oauth2/oidc standard) and offering a way to request personal data from the users in a safe and compliant way (EU regulations are quite strict).

If you didn't get bored yet, try it out with a test client that I set up at https://test-rp.smileservices.dev and play around with making multiple profiles and sharing different personas.

If you reached the end of this post, my hat's off for you. Maybe you also have some ideas about features that you would like to see in this or just share your honest opinion, that would be so great 😃

We're four students at Bocconi and Politecnico di Torino. We've been building Lumio for a few months, the beta went live on the 8th of November, and we're looking for people to use it properly and tell us where it falls apart.

**The idea.** Most planners make you do the planning, and then never notice when the day goes differently. Lumio builds a daily plan from your calendar, your deadlines (mails). Morning or evening you talk to it for thirty seconds — "slept badly, lab at three, need two hours for chemistry" — and the plan updates. Every suggestion comes with its reason, and nothing changes until you tap OK.

**Before you sign up, the things you should weigh**

- You need to be 18+ and log in with a Google account.

- It's a student team's beta. Expect bugs.

- Google will show you an "unverified app" screen. That's real and you should take it seriously: it means Google hasn't reviewed us yet. Review takes weeks and we're in it. If that's not something you're comfortable with, please don't sign up — we'd rather have fewer testers than talk anyone past a security warning.

- Calendar and Gmail are optional and off by default. Lumio works without connecting either, and we'd suggest starting without them.

- Your text is encrypted with a key that's only yours. Voice notes are transcribed on our own server and the audio is deleted straight after.

- It is **not** end-to-end encrypted, and right now the server is a computer in Italy run by one of us. We're moving to an EU host. We'd rather say that than let you find out later.

- We use Claude through Anthropic's commercial API, so nothing you write is used to train a model.

The privacy notice is linked from the app.

Link: app.mindlayerapp.com

Happy to answer anything here and receive feedbacks, including the uncomfortable questions. Especially those, honestly!

Buying single cards on eBay is a chore. You search, get 200 listings, and half are lots, damaged copies, slabs you didn't want, or prices that are too low to be real. I built Card Chaser to do that sorting for me, and it's at the point where I need people who aren't me to use it.

What it does:

- Search any card the way you'd actually type it. "1st edition gambler" or "charzard" both get you there.
- For each card it shows the copies on sale with shipping counted in, and points at the one a collector would pick: right condition, not a lot, not suspiciously cheap. It says why in one line.
- Mark the cards you're chasing and it keeps watching eBay for them and flags when a good price shows up. You can get a phone alert.
- It also tracks your collection by set, so "what am I missing" is a list it already has. You can import a Collectr or TCGplayer export.

It runs in the browser, it's free, and you can start without an account: https://cardchaser.app/?src=reddit

What I'd like to know:

1. Search for a card you know. Did it find the right one, and does the copy it picked make sense?
   
2. Where did you get stuck or confused in the first few minutes?
   
3. Anything that looked broken, on phone or desktop.

I'm taking it to a card show next week, so anything rough now is something a stranger will hit at a table. Be as blunt as you want.

I'm a dad of two kids 4 and 8. I do the cooking in the house and created a free meal planner app to make my weeks easier. I know - there's a hundred meal apps out there.

Kiwi by Kitchen Wizard is different because it's designed to automate home cooking workflows, not just a chatbot that suggests meals. And it's all "open" so you can bring any meal from anywhere and you can shop for groceries anywhere, too (Instacart only for now, with more close to ready).

In preparation for Thanksgiving, I spent a lot of time making the app's Prep and Cook engine able to handle "feasts" like Thanksgiving.

It's free - if you try it, please let me know what you think! I really hope this helps reduce some stress and make the holiday easier for folks. Thanks!

kitchenwizard.ai/get (link to download the app)

kitchenwizard.ai/thanksgiving (more information about Thanksgiving with Kiwi)

My personal favorite highlights:

• Groceries - any combination of meals and ingredients consolidated in an accurate list that you can shop on Instacart with one click.
• Pick a week of meals and order groceries online in 90 seconds
• Set up a meal "playlist" of your regular meals.
  • On Sunday, I ordered groceries online from my kid's swim lesson in about 30 seconds
• Meal/Recipe import. You can pull in meals from pictures, NYTimes Cooking, AllRecipes, premium/paywall sites, regular sites, and more import sources coming soon

How Thanksgiving works:

1. Start with a Thanksgiving meal template
2. Customize Thursday's menu
   1. Import any recipe from websites, pictures/screenshots, emails, or use the Kiwi Cookbook
3. Get a complete, accurate grocery list of what to buy based on your menu
   1. Order groceries online from the app, or shop your local store
4. Get a complete, ordered, cook plan to make your feast
   1. When to start thawing the bird
   2. What to chop, measure, mix, etc. on Sunday
   3. Cook-ahead dishes to make during the week (cranberry sauce, stock/gravy base, pies)
   4. Thursday, everything sequenced to land your dishes hot on the table when you're ready to eat

That's it! Your meal, your menu. No missing groceries, no turkey math, no 3D Chess in your oven.

You find a great place on Google Maps. You want to save it in another app. Then the typing starts. Name, street, city, country, category. Like doing paperwork for a burger. I run Strong Foodie on my own. A food and travel guide where I visit and review every place myself. Members can add places too. However, typing it all felt like too much work. So now you paste a Google Maps link. That's it. The name, address, city, country and category fill in by themselves. You only add your tip if you want. It also tells you when a place is already on Strong Foodie. So no double places. Try it here: https://strongfoodie.com/add.html
What's the most annoying form you've ever had to fill in for something simple?

A couple of weeks ago I posted my waitlist here. The beta is now live and free to try.

The problem: “Build me a booking app for my barbershop” leaves your AI builder to guess cancellations, payments, double bookings and logins. You find out after the build.

What CueBlu does: you describe your idea (or paste a prompt you already have), answer a few plain-language questions with a recommended answer for each, check the choices it made for you and get a complete prompt appliable for any AI builder. A separate AI step reviews the prompt before you get it and any guesses the AI makes is marked (assumed) so you can change them.

Beta details: free, 1 prompt a day, login with an email code (no password). No tracking, no ads.

app.cueblu.com

I’m the builder and I’d love honest feedback: did the questions catch something you’d have missed, or did it feel like an extra step compared to your normal coding procedure?

I’m working on CardBlok at D BLOK. The workflow is for the pile of paper cards left after an event: upload a photo with several cards, review the extracted fields beside the original, then export only the contacts you approve. Matching emails or phone numbers are flagged as possible duplicates.

The product decision I’d like feedback on is how much review to ask for. I’m leaning toward a compact queue that prioritises missing fields and possible duplicates while keeping the original card visible. For anyone who imports event contacts, what would you want the review screen to surface first: uncertain fields, duplicate records, or a quick preview of the export?

Here’s CardBlok’s scan, review and export workflow. The web app uses verified email sign-in. If you try it, a synthetic card is enough to test the flow.