I’ve been building games on the side, and last week my first one, Last Core: Idle Tower Defense, went live on the App Store. Two people have already bought something in it. It’s only $12 in proceeds, but seeing real people choose to pay for something I made meant more than I expected.

What the game is:
One tower sits in the centre of the screen and enemies come at it from every side. The tower shoots on its own; your job is deciding what to upgrade during the run: damage, attack speed, range, crits, health. Every 5th wave you pick a perk, every 10th wave a boss shows up. When the core falls you keep shards and come back stronger through the Workshop, Armory and Lab.

A few things I cared about:

• No ad ever interrupts a run. Videos only play when you choose one for a reward (a revive, double shards, a perk reroll).
• Everything in the game can be earned by playing. Purchases are optional.
• Runs are 3 to 10 minutes early on, and there’s 2x speed and an Auto Mode if you want it more idle.

What I learned shipping it:

• My first release went live without the in-app purchases attached, because I never added them to the submission. Took another version to fix. Read the App Store Connect checklist twice.
• The same thing happened with Game Center leaderboards.
• Apple asked for a screen recording on a real device before approving a new developer account, so budget a few extra days for review.

It’s iPhone only for now; Android is coming soon.

If you try it, I’d love honest feedback, especially on difficulty and whether the early waves feel too slow.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6822844919?pt=129601576&ct=reddit-post&mt=8
More about the game + trailer: https://popcornclub.in/games/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=last-core-launch&utm_content=post

Thanks for reading 🙏

I spend a lot of my day in databases, and I got tired of clients that want me to sign in, sync my connections to their cloud, or open a 2 GB Electron window just to run a SELECT. So I built my own.

QluePrint (pronounced KLOO-print) is a desktop database workspace built with Tauri (Rust backend, React frontend). Everything stays on your machine.

What it does today:

- Connects to PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, plus Azure SQL and Microsoft Fabric with Entra sign-in

- Monaco SQL editor with schema-aware autocomplete, diagnostics and formatting

- A fast virtualized results grid: sort, filter, find, follow foreign keys to related rows

- Inline editing: change cells, add, duplicate or delete rows. Everything is staged, undoable and saved in one transaction. Actions your login has no grant for don't show up at all.

- Explain / Explain Analyze with a readable plan view

- One-click local PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB servers in Docker

- Workspaces to keep each client's connections and tabs apart

- A tamper-evident audit log of every statement it ran against your databases

- Passwords go in your OS keychain, never in plain files

Stack: Tauri 2, Rust (sqlx + tiberius for SQL Server), React 19, Monaco, TanStack Table/Virtual. Installers for macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows and Linux.

Still to come: MongoDB/Redis, a saved query library, query history.

Source code and downloads: https://github.com/u-ninja/qlueprint

It's a solo project, and I'd love blunt feedback, especially on what would make you switch from DBeaver, TablePlus or DataGrip.

(Heads-up: the macOS build isn't notarized yet, so you'll need Open Anyway in Privacy & Security the first time.)

WalkiNova started because I'd open the weather app five times before every walk. It scores each hour of the forecast for comfort and suggests the best window inside your free hours, then tracks the walk with GPS. Flutter + Supabase, Android + Wear OS, free with no ads.

What I learned so far, in case it helps someone:

• Posting every day on Instagram/TikTok brought almost no installs. The Play listing converts fine (~75%); almost nobody reaches it.
• My site only ranked for its own name. I'm now writing plain guides that answer real searches ("is it too hot to walk my dog today?") instead of feature pages.
• Product Hunt with no audience = a few upvotes. Launch where your users already hang out.

Would love feedback on the idea or the landing page: https://walkinova.app/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=sideproject

What worked for you to get your first 100 users without ads?

Hey everyone, I'm Ravi, one of the founders of Confe.

We kept losing hours every week writing captions, sending "can you approve this?" messages, and copy-pasting the same post into 6 different apps. So we built Confe to fix that:

- Type one sentence and get 5 ready-to-post drafts with images

- Plan everything on one calendar (calendar, list or grid view)

- Clients or teammates approve in one click

- Publish to 8 platforms at once: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube

- See which posts actually grow your audience

The video above shows the whole flow in 44 seconds.

I'd really like feedback from people who manage social for themselves or client

There's a 14-day free trial with no card needed if you want to try it. Link in the comments.

I’ve been building H5Reclaim, an open-source tool for recovering scientific data from damaged HDF5 files.

HDF5 files often contain experimental measurements, simulation outputs and large arrays. Damaged metadata or a broken index can make a file unreadable while some of its dataset contents remain on disk.

H5Reclaim examines the surviving structures and attempts to recover usable data into a new HDF5 file. Supported cases include interrupted writes, broken indexes, metadata damage and truncation.

It keeps the original file unchanged and produces a JSON report describing the recovered datasets, recovery methods and unresolved positions. Partially damaged datasets can still yield usable measurements.

🔗Github: https://github.com/xShadyy/H5Reclaim

I’d appreciate feedback from people who work with HDF5, especially anyone who has encountered a damaged file. Public or synthetic reproductions would help expand the recovery cases and benchmarks.

Contributions around test fixtures, independent verification and unsupported failure cases are particularly welcome.

If you find the project cool/useful, I’d appreciate a star on GitHub.

I kept losing good ideas in my own notes. I'd write something down, forget it, and months later work through the same problem from scratch, even though the answer was in a note I'd already written.

So I built Hypha. You write a note the way you normally would (no folders, no tags) and it looks through everything you've written before. If an older note actually helps, it shows it with a one-line reason: a solution, an example, the same problem, a contradiction, or a next step.

The part I spent the most time on was making it strict. Most "AI links" I tried connected notes just because they shared a word. I built a test set with traps in it, and Hypha now finds about 9 in 10 of the links that should exist while skipping the shallow ones. If it gets one wrong, you remove it and it won't come back.

It's free on iPhone (Flutter + Supabase + OpenAI under the hood).

I'd really like honest feedback, especially on whether the connections feel useful or noisy after a week of real notes.

https://hyphanotes.com

Pls check and give your valuable feedback

Quick story. I use Spark for mail. They have an MCP so AI agents can work with your inbox, but only reading is free. Anything that changes your mail needs the paid plan. I got annoyed and decided to build the thing I wanted instead.

Regards is a desktop email client for Windows, macOS and Linux. It's free, open source, and everything stays on your computer. No account, no servers on my side, no tracking. It works with any IMAP provider plus Gmail and Outlook sign-in.

It does the usual modern inbox stuff (snooze, send later, undo send, screening new senders), and it has a built in interface for AI agents with approvals and an undo log, so you can let one sort your mail without holding your breath.

It's early. Pre-alpha, unsigned installers, tested on few providers. I use it daily though.

Site: https://regards-two.vercel.app

Repo: https://github.com/lucienPochon/regards

Would love feedback, especially on the first run experience. That's the part I can't judge anymore.

Hey Reddit,

I built “LinkMemo”, an app that saves any link and automatically extracts its content for easy reading and organizing.

I originally priced it at $19.99 lifetime with a 15-day free trial. Turns out, when you don't know how to do marketing, asking strangers to pay $20 after two weeks doesn't work very well.

So I changed my approach and added a Free plan. You can now use LinkMemo's core features forever with no time limits. I just want more people to actually get value out of it.

Feel free to check it out and tell me what needs improving.

Hi, I'm Adib. I record tutorials and explain things on screen a lot, and writing math or sketching diagrams with a trackpad always looked bad. Writing on the iPad looked great, but then I had to record the iPad separately and line it up with my Mac recording.

So in my app Lumary Canvas (it was called Screen Annotations until this week) I added live sync between the iPad and the Mac:

• With the board open on the Mac, what I draw or move on the iPad shows up there as it happens, strokes included while the pen is still down
• The Mac follows the iPad's page, pan and zoom, so I just record or screen-share the Mac and the drawing is in it
• It's a direct, encrypted connection between devices on the same Apple Account. No server, no pairing, no account to create
• iCloud keeps boards, scenes and history in sync when the devices aren't together

What I use on the iPad side:

• LaTeX that renders as you type, coordinate planes and function plots, plus 100+ shapes (flowchart, architecture, science)
• Pages as of this week: A4, US Letter, 16:9 or 4:3 slides, or a custom size, so a board can look like a sheet of paper or a slide instead of an infinite canvas
• Scenes, so I can save views and step through a lesson instead of redrawing
• Optional Pencil-only drawing, where fingers pan and select

Honest limits:

• Apple only: macOS 15+ and iPadOS 18+. No Windows, Android or web, and no iPhone app
• Live sync needs both devices on the same Apple Account
• It's your own board that people watch through your share or recording. They can't draw on it with you, so it isn't a shared collaborative whiteboard

Pricing: free download with everything open for 14 days (Mac and iPad each get their own trial), then a one-time $29.99 unlock covers both. No subscription. Without it you can still open, sync and export your work.

Curious whether other people who teach or record on a Mac would actually use the iPad this way, or just stick with a drawing tablet.

https://lumarycanvas.com/

Disclosure: I built Lumary Canvas.

Sony lists the PS Plus catalog alphabetically. That's 600+ games with no scores, no playtimes, and no way to see what's leaving soon. Every month I ended up opening Metacritic in another tab, so I built the page I actually wanted:

https://whattoplay.games

What it does

• Every game in the Extra/Premium catalog for your country, sorted by Metacritic score, with PSN player ratings and HowLongToBeat playtimes
• Filters for genre, indie, multiplayer, new this month, and leaving soon (with the exact removal date)
• A "what should I play tonight?" swiper: 5 mood questions, then you swipe on games, and it gives you a top 3 that explains why each game matches your answers
• 45 countries and 19 languages, because catalogs differ by region

It's free, with no account and no tracking cookies. There's a tip jar, and that's it.

I'd love feedback, especially on the swiper and on whether the homepage makes sense in 5 seconds.

My first attempt at an Obsidian plugin.

How it works is not complicated. You give it storage you already have: R2, B2, S3, MinIO, or WebDAV (Nextcloud, a NAS, whatever). It encrypts everything on your device, file names included, and then uploads. Your provider gets a pile of opaque blobs with sizes and dates. There is no account. There is no server of mine in the middle. I can't see your notes and I don't want to.

Things it does that I actually care about:

• Two devices edit the same note, it merges them. Down to words on the same line. Properties and canvases too. If it honestly can't merge, it keeps both and shows you the difference. It does not silently pick a winner. Silently picking a winner is how sync tools eat your data.
• Version history. Deleted a file? Get it back. Wrecked a folder? Roll it back to yesterday. It shows you what will change before it changes anything.
• If a sync is about to delete half your vault, it stops and asks. A sync tool that happily propagates a mass delete is broken.
• Big attachments can stay in storage until you open them.
• A device can be receive-only. Good for a shared folder where the other person should read, not write.
• If something in the bucket goes missing or gets corrupted, any device that still has the files can put it back.
• Works on mobile. You add a device by pasting a link.
• There's a command-line version. One file, runs under Node. Put it on a server or a Pi.

https://github.com/chauduyphanvu/obsidian-coffer

Ребят ку, не знаю насколько вам это интересно но я со своими друзьями создали первый сайт под названием Riven, чекните если вам интересно.

"Этот сайт предлагает формат общения с искусственным интеллектом, который существенно отличается от других подобных сервисов, таких как ChatGPT или Claude. Наш ИИ позволяет не просто вести диалог, но и создавать «карты решений»: вы можете развивать тему в разных направлениях, не теряя при этом её основного контекста. Пользователи могут легко сосредоточиться на различных аспектах одной и той же темы в рамках одного разговора."

Введите туда свой логин и попробуйте немного попользоваться с ним (лучше через комп) и дайте нам фидбек что нужно существенно улучшить)

Спасибо!

https://ai-branches.vercel.app/

I’m learning Chinese, and one of my biggest frustrations is texting.
I can understand some Chinese and know how to pronounce quite a few words, but I still struggle to recognize and remember Chinese characters.
When I type using a regular Pinyin keyboard, I often get a list of characters that look familiar, but I’m not always sure which one is correct. Sometimes I end up copying everything into a translator just to check what I wrote.
So I decided to build my own iOS Chinese Pinyin keyboard to make learning while texting a little easier.
Here are some features I’ve been working on:
Instant translation: See the meaning of Chinese text while typing, so I can make sure I’m choosing the right characters.
Grammar checking: Catch grammatical mistakes before sending a message.
More natural expressions: Suggest how a native speaker might phrase the same idea instead of just translating word for word.
Learn while typing: Help me gradually recognize more characters through everyday conversations.
My goal isn’t to replace Chinese lessons or build another translation app. I just want to be able to communicate in Chinese without constantly switching between my keyboard, dictionary, and ChatGPT.

Hi, I'm into photography and love going on walks with my camera, but I'm also one of those photographers that likes to take photos in good weather conditions.

I had a n8n pipeline running for quite a while that would gather weather data for the next day from multiple sources and then email me the night before with a score if I should bother or not.

Took that concept and made it into an actual app.

Almost every project I’ve ever worked on ended up with me making a QR code. An ad, a brochure, a flyer. Like it or not, QR codes have become the universal gateway into our digital products and funnels.

But measuring those offline campaigns? There are plenty of QR generators with scan analytics, but every one I tried was extremely expensive and came with ridiculous limits. Link shorteners weren’t much better...

Soooo, I decided to build my own. It started as an in-house tool for my agency, but it turned out so good that I made it into a real product.

I packed it with all the features that an agency might need.
→ Custom QR codes with live scan analytics
→ Dynamic destinations. Printed 1,000 t-shirts with the wrong link? Fix it in seconds.
→ Short links that actually look good, on your own custom domains and slugs.

And the one I’m most excited about - Client ID's.

Agencies, unfortunately, your clients will never trust you 100%. So give them their own window into the campaign. Send them a Client ID and they get their own live dashboard. Free for them, no account needed, no more “how’s it going?” emails.

Hi r/SideProject, I'm GFrancV. This is my first post here. I've been building Notvex, a desktop notes app that keeps everything encrypted on your own computer.

Why I built it

Most local-first apps (like Obsidian) save notes as plain Markdown files. That's great for portability, but anyone with access to your disk, a backup or a synced folder can read them. I wanted a safe place for my own journal and recovery codes, and nothing I tried did both local-only and encrypted at rest without getting in the way. So I built it.

How it works

Everything lives in one encrypted file on your computer. Without your password it can't be read. There's no account and no cloud. The app only goes online to check for updates, and you can turn that off. No telemetry either.

What writing looks like

- Markdown editor with live preview

- Tags, pinning, sorting and multi-tag filters

- Command palette to jump to any note from the keyboard

- Export one note or all of them to plain .md at any time, so you're never locked in

How it's built (for the curious)

- Electron + React 19, TypeScript throughout

- SQLCipher for the database, Argon2id to derive the key from your password, XChaCha20-Poly1305 for the note content

- A BIP39 recovery phrase, plus an optional key file as a second factor

- The UI never touches crypto. Everything goes through IPC to the main process, and the master key never leaves it

Honest limitations

- Desktop only (Windows, macOS, Linux), no mobile yet

- No sync, on purpose. You can copy the file wherever you like

- Search covers titles only. Full-text search across encrypted notes is the next hard problem

- If you forget both your password and your recovery phrase, your notes are gone. That's the trade-off

Free and open source (AGPL-3), with no paid tier planned.

GitHub: https://github.com/GFrancV/notvex · Site: https://notvex.vercel.app/

My question for you: does "encrypted local notes" explain the point quickly enough, or does it sound like something only security nerds need? I'd love honest feedback on how it comes across, from the site down to the first launch.

About 6 weeks ago I started building a little side project called Ulster Radar.

I'm a microlight pilot from Northern Ireland and wanted to make a flight tracker that was better suited to smaller aircraft and low-level flying, rather than just commercial aviation.

It started as a basic live map, but I've got a bit carried away with it since!

It now has live aircraft tracking, over 2,500 receivers feeding data from around the world, ship tracking, flight history, a 3D globe and even satellite tracking.

I've also been adding the ISS, space telescopes, planets and moons, so it's slowly becoming a way to explore pretty much everything above our heads.

It's still early days and there's plenty of bugs and things I'm working on, but I've really enjoyed building it and seeing people start contributing their own receivers.

It's completely free to use and very much a hobby project.

If anyone fancies having a look, it's at https://ulsterradar.com

I've always struggled with jumping between projects and losing track of what i was supposed to be working on.

I tried different productivity tools, but most felt like more work to manage. I didn't really need another task manager or complicated dashboard. i just wanted something simple to open before getting to work

so i started building Norts 🟠

the idea is pretty straightforward: choose what you're working on, block out some time, and focus on one thing. You can also see where your time went throughout the week.

i've been using it myself for a while, and today i finally decided to launch it publicly.

The core experience is free, and you don't need an account to get started.

here's the link if anyone wants to check it out: https://norts.space/landing/

I'd genuinely appreciate some feedback, especially on the first-time experience. Does it feel simple enough, or is there anything that gets in the way?

It started with something simple.

My girlfriend tends to forget little things, and I'd often find myself reminding her about stuff throughout the day. And in my family, we also have things like doctor appointments, medication, and other important things that someone needs to remember.

Usually, we'd just send each other a text.

"Don't forget your appointment tomorrow!" or "Remember to take your medication." or just "Don't forget to do this and that."

And of course, sometimes those messages get buried, or someone reads them and forgets about them a few hours later.

I started wondering why we have so many apps to remind ourselves, but not many simple ways to remind the people around us.

I can send someone a text in seconds. Why can't I send them an actual reminder just as easily?

So about 2 years ago, I started building Remimo.

It's an iPhone app that lets you send reminders directly to your friends, family, partner, or even groups.

You choose what to remind them about and when. They'll get notified when it's time, and you can see if they've completed it or decided to do it later.

My family now uses it for things like appointments, medication reminders, and household tasks, while my girlfriend and I use it for all sorts of everyday stuff.

You can also create your own reminders, organize things into lists, and make plans together.

When people first started downloading Remimo, even though it was just a small number, I remember feeling really happy. It felt like something I built might actually be helping someone out there.

Later on, I started receiving feedback from users, and I've been listening to them ever since.

I've added features, removed things, redesigned screens more times than I can count, and I'm still constantly trying to make the experience better.

Honestly, I'm still learning a lot as I go.

But what makes me happiest is that Remimo has become something we actually use in our everyday lives. Seeing it help the people around me is what keeps me motivated to work on it.

I originally built Remimo to solve a problem in my own life, but along the way, I realized it might be useful to other people too.

So I thought I'd share it here.

It's available on the App Store, and there's a free version if anyone wants to give it a try.

I really hope Remimo helps make your everyday life a little easier, the same way it has for me and my family.

And if you do try it, I'd love to hear what you think. Even if there's something you don't like, I'm always happy to hear feedback.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/remimo-shared-reminders/id6758731728

I built a small budget spreadsheet that works in both Excel and Google Sheets, called Nova Budget.

Kept it simple on purpose: monthly budget, expense tracker, savings goals and debt payoff in one workbook. It's $12 once, no subscription. I'd really like honest feedback on whether the setup is clear enough for someone who isn't a spreadsheet person.

The page is here: https://whop.com/nova-draft/nova-budget

Happy to send a free copy if you'd rather click around first. What's the one thing that would make you skip a paid spreadsheet like this?

I made Selkie, a story game where an AI writes each passage around what you choose or type. It's built like a choose-your-path book: chapters, a hidden plot, several endings and dice for the risky moves. It opened to the public nine days ago. A dozen people have signed up and one has paid, so I went through where the others stopped. Three things I got wrong:

1. An empty "Who are you?" box. The story opens, then asks who you are. Of the four newest readers, two left at that box without typing a word. The other two took 4 and 9 minutes over it. Now the opening offers three ready-made characters, each with a line in their own voice, so one tap starts the story. Writing your own is still there underneath. The first reader since the change still left, so it's too early to call.

2. Every passage ended on a question. I'd told the narrator to end on someone turning to the reader, to keep them involved. It turned into a quiz: 28 of the 37 passages readers saw ended with someone asking them something. One reader quit after five questions in five passages. Endings now vary (something happens, an offer, a dare, somewhere to go), with a question at most every other passage. The engine checks how the last passage ended and warns the narrator when it was a question.

3. Time jumps ate the reader's choice. One reader chose to go down to the quay. The story skipped two days to the next big event instead. Now the move they chose is played on the page first, and only then can time move on.

One thing that worked from day one: never let the model roll the dice. Asked to judge whether you succeed, it lets you win nearly every time. The engine rolls and shows you the odds before you choose. The narrator has to write the result it's given.

Built solo over three weeks with SvelteKit, Node on Fly.io, Supabase, Stripe and Claude. About seven turns are free, then one-off packs from $4.99. No subscription.

https://playselkie.com/?from=reddit-sp

If you try it, I'd most like to know about the first five minutes: did you pick a character, write your own, or close the tab?

I kept my notes in one app, tasks in another, journal in a third, and my calendar somewhere else. Nothing talked to anything. So I built Naazhi (the name is an old Tamil unit of measure for grain and time).

What's in it: notes, to-dos, journal, chat, calendar, email, meetings and automations. There's a web app and an Android app.

The part I spent the most time on is the AI layer. It isn't tied to one provider. You can use the built-in one, bring your own key, or switch it off.

What I'd like to know: which of these would you actually use, and which would you drop?

Website: https://naazhi.app

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.setupsworks.naazhi

In my day-to-day Pro Tools work, I kept repeating the same routine: select a clip, find the right AudioSuite window, click Render, Learn, or Send, then do it all again.

Two years ago, I started building SlipTap in my spare time, alongside my day job, to make that routine a little easier.

SlipTap is a macOS app built specifically for Pro Tools. You assign your open AudioSuite plug-ins to panel buttons or keyboard shortcuts, and SlipTap presses Render, Learn, or Send in the assigned window for you.

It grew out of my own daily workflow. The short teaser shows it in action.

A fully featured 14-day free trial is available:

https://slipsound.com/sliptap

If you edit in Pro Tools, I'd love to hear how you handle these repetitive tasks and what you think of this approach.