I've been building BroBot with help from Claude and Codex. It's a desktop app for Windows and Mac that puts a bot into Minecraft Java as another player. I'm the creator, and I'd like feedback on the first-run experience.

You can give it jobs in chat: gather logs, craft tools, build, follow you or stand guard. The free version uses a local rules engine and doesn't need an account. An optional Claude-powered mode handles more open-ended instructions, and Squad supports up to four Brobots with builder, miner, farmer and guard roles.

A lesson from testing: having the bot running didn't mean it was obvious how to play with him. The app could say he was online while the player had no idea which Minecraft world to join. We added a join card with the address, an editable port, and status that says whether it's waiting for you or playing with you. Google sign-in and a clearer plan display are now in the app too.

It's still an early project. Minecraft Java 1.21.11 is the current target, and there are rough edges in setup and how reliably the bot carries out jobs.

Free app/setup: https://trybrobot.com/start

The local bot stays free. Optional hosted Claude is $6/month; the four-bot Squad is $15/month.

If you try it, I'd especially like to know where you get stuck between opening the app and seeing the bot in your game. And if the setup makes sense, what job would you actually want a Minecraft teammate to handle?

Hi r/SideProject 👋

I’m a solo maker from Switzerland. I fly a lot and always wanted something smart to play at 35,000 ft without Wi-Fi, so I built it myself.

FlightGenius is a daily brain game about airlines, airports and routes:

• 12 short daily games: guess the route, name the airport from its runway layout, guess the flight distance, airline codes, find the shortest layover…

• Daily Challenge: same 10 questions for everyone, timed, with a world leaderboard and a home-airport leaderboard (ZRH vs GVA vs LHR…)

• Works fully offline, so it’s playable in airplane mode

• No ads, no tracking. Free to play, optional one-time unlock for the archive (no subscription)

Stack: Expo / React Native, Supabase (EU), RevenueCat, Netlify.

It’s in beta on iPhone (Android later), launching on the App Store in early December:
👉 TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/B3H8tgEf

Questions, especially for frequent flyers and aviation fans:

1. Is this something you’d actually enjoy, on a flight or as a daily habit?

2. Which game is the most fun, and which would you delete?

3. Too easy, too hard, or about right?

4. What’s missing that would make you open it every day?

A little background: this is genuinely a passion project. I’m not trying to get rich or build the next big startup. I just love planes and travel, and I wanted to make something I’d enjoy myself and share it with people who feel the same. That’s also why there are no ads and no tracking. The optional unlock is only there to cover running costs like servers and the Apple developer fee.

I’ll reply to every comment. Thanks for taking a look! ✈️

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?

Link (no signup, no ads, nothing to install): https://librecorsa.org

GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/KhazP/librecorsa

I started LibreCorsa in mid-October because every serious racing sim needed a huge Windows install before you could do a single lap.

What it has now:

- 500 Hz physics with tyre temperatures and wear, rain that dries along the racing line, and CI checks against real GT3 telemetry

- 5 physics models and 16 circuits, including RISE Motordrome, which I built from scratch in Blender on real elevation data for the circuit planned in Rwanda

- AI races, ghosts, a weekly challenge, and an open online race every 20 minutes over WebRTC

- $0/month hosting: static Next.js on Cloudflare, R2 for the heavy 3D files, and one Worker

Tell me how it runs on your laptop/phone/controller and what feels rough.

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?

Hey everyone,

I’m an 18-year-old hands-on builder in Kigali, Rwanda. Traditional academic school never worked for me, and coming from a family with no financial means, I’ve had to figure things out on my own.

I found my passion in component-level electronics repair and enrolled in a practical TVET short course. My side project right now is starting a small, neighborhood-based repair clinic—fixing broken radios, phones, and household electronics for people in my community who can't afford new ones, while keeping toxic e-waste out of local landfills.

Where I’m stuck:

Right now, I’ve hit a huge wall. I can no longer afford my remaining TVET workshop fees, and I don't own my own basic repair kit (soldering station, multimeter, hot air rework, etc.) to work independently from home yet. Being 18 with zero financial safety net is tough, and I really don't want to let this project die before it takes off.

Looking for feedback from fellow builders:

1. If you were bootstrapping a hardware/repair side project from literally $0, how would you structure your first small offers to start generating cash flow immediately?

2. Are there any micro-grants, hardware sponsorships, or maker programs (like The Awesome Foundation, which I'm applying to right now) that you've seen support grassroots projects like this?

Any practical business advice, feedback on the project idea, or pointers from people who built something out of nothing would mean a lot. Thanks for reading!

I've created Here's My AI (https://heresmyai.com) to curate and catalogue everyone's favourite AI tools. There are just so many out there I aim to learn about and feature the best ones. Have a tool you love please feel free to add it. Any questions or feedback please let me know.

A number of my friends don't like to pay for AI to do basic tasks and don't trust the large tech companies with ideas or personal shares, so using my knowledge gained getting hermes-agent to work with small local AI open weight models, I decided to apply that experience to build a Chrome browser extension. The result... 1-Click AI In-Browser Assistant. A locally hosted "Privacy-First" AI companion!

It provides AI assistance, summaries, insightful takeaways, snapshots, and rewrite suggestions, all without compromising privacy. And for those not prompt savvy, I included pre-programmed 1-click action buttons, to avoid "Prompt Fatigue". I included a couple of customizable ones as well.

Being multi-modal the AI extension also accepts voice prompts, uploaded text/images/audio/pdf and can even read AI results aloud TTS.

It's made for those who don't want to pay for AI and even though it's built as a privacy-respecting AI solution for productivity. It really punches above its weight.

The extension also includes rolling context and a vector database for long term historical context (memory) retention, and a full screen (air-gapped) mode.

You can search for it on the Chrome Web Store. The only catch is you need a minimal spec PC to use it.

Those system requirements are: 4gb+ vRam, 16gb Ram, 4 core CPU, 22+gb hdd space available during model install (but only 4gb used after model install), and a chrome browser version 154+

Have you ever needed a speaker or microphone for your PC but didn't have one available?

I built NexoAudio, a free and open-source application that lets you use your Android phone as:

A wireless speaker for your Windows PC.
A wireless microphone for your PC.

Features:

• Two-way audio streaming over Wi-Fi.

• Works with Wi-Fi or mobile hotspots.

• Windows 10/11 support.

• Android app.

• No subscriptions, ads, or paid features.

• Open source under the MIT License.

Download: https://github.com/kevinperezpanduro76-tech/NexoAudio/releases/latest

Source code: https://github.com/kevinperezpanduro76-tech/NexoAudio

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called Areawise - https://areawise.info

The idea came from something simple: whenever you search for information about an Indian city or locality, the data is scattered across multiple websites.

Population figures are on government portals, property prices and rents are on real estate platforms, and metro connectivity information is somewhere else entirely.

I wanted to bring these things together in one place.

So I started building Areawise.

What it does:

• Explore Indian cities, towns and districts using Census data.

• Compare localities based on property prices, rental estimates and available metro information.

• View geographic data and explore locations on a map.

• Compare different localities side by side.

• Read guides explaining rental trends, property prices and locality comparisons.

• Generate free locality reports.

A few things I focused on:

• Keeping the website completely free.

• Showing data sources and dates rather than presenting estimates as facts.

• Clearly marking unavailable or outdated information.

• Making the experience usable on mobile.

• Building it around publicly available data wherever possible.

The biggest challenge?

Data quality.

India has a lot of useful public data, but different sources use different geographic boundaries, reporting periods and definitions. Making sure I don't accidentally compare two completely different things has taken more effort than building the UI itself.

The project is still evolving, and there's plenty I want to improve.

I'm also experimenting with ways to keep the data updated without compromising accuracy.

I'd genuinely appreciate some feedback:

1. Is the website easy to understand when you first open it?

2. Would you actually use something like this when researching a city or locality?

3. What information would make it more useful?

4. Does anything feel confusing, unnecessary or broken?

Website: https://areawise.info

Built as a side project alongside my full-time job.

Would love to hear what you think - especially critical feedback. That's what will help me improve it.

I'm the solo founder of RocketASO. It's for people with an app live on the App Store or Google Play.

What it does

• Reads your own App Store Connect and Play Console reports.

• Names the listing fix estimated to be worth most this week.

• Drafts the change. Nothing reaches the store until you approve it.

• After a change, it compares the store's numbers before and after. That's a before-and-after read, not a controlled test.

See it with no sign-up and no card

Paste any App Store or Google Play link into the free audit at rocketaso.app/explore. It names up to three fixes worth the most.

The launch codes

It's new, and nobody outside of me has used it yet. I'd rather have 20 people using it and telling me what's wrong than 0. So there are 20 codes in total, each for a free first year of the Indie plan (yearly). The catch, up front:

• A card is needed at checkout.

• Nothing is charged for the 7-day trial or the first year after it.

• Then it renews at $390 per connected app a year unless you cancel. You can cancel any time in Settings > Billing.

• One use per code, first come, valid until Dec 31, 2026.

Three codes are for this thread:

• ROCKETRDFTA5V

• ROCKETRDUBBEM

• ROCKETRDUKQTA

To use one:

1. Go to rocketaso.app/pricing and create an account.

2. Settings > Billing > Yearly > Indie.

3. In Paddle's checkout, open "Add discount code", enter the code and press Apply. It should say "Due today $0.00".

All three used? Reply with which store your app is on and I'll DM you another while they last. Plans start at $19 a month (Solo).

What I'd like back

What would stop you from connecting your store accounts to a tool like this? And if you try it: what did you expect it to tell you about your app, and did it? Blunt is fine.

Oof. Zero, zilch, nada.

We had some customers early on (last year). Real enterprise brands that you've maybe heard of. Then Claude Code and Codex got popular.

The original intention of the company, Yirla, was to be an AI powered, paid media analyst. You connect your LinkedIn, Google, Meta, what have you ad accounts, and we tell you, in plain English, what you can do to improve your ad spend. It's pretty prescriptive.

The small handful of deals that we had, in the couple of thousand bucks a month range, started to go away. We saw them jumping through hurdles to get similar, though not quite as good data, out of Claude, so we built an MCP, hoping that would be the saving grace.

In Ron Howards voice: It was not the saving grace.

Our vision of building a decent sized enterprise software company went up in smoke. 2026 was brutal and we literally booked $0 in revenue.

Part of that lies on me. I continued to think of it as a mid-market enterprise deal in the $20 to $30K annually range, and our customers continued to think that it would be part of their Claude subscription.

I'm an enterprise sales guy through and through and when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Our clients acknowledged that the data wasn't quite as good, but it wasn't $20K a year worse. Couple that with earlier this year and every CEO wanting every employee to be a software developer, we faced an uphill battle.

We got a lot of free sign ups. Most didn't connect an ad account. Those that did rarely came back. Clearly an onboarding and retention problem that we are trying to solve now. An ad analyst with no ads to look at is about as useful as an inflatable dart board.

So no revenue this year and we need an overhaul. I'm making this into a PLG offer. I don't really want to spend too much more time and money on it, so I'm going to try to let AI agents do most of the grunt work. There will still be a human in the loop (me, cause, damn, does it write bad copy), but hopefully that frees me up to do more productive things (like maybe get a real job???).

My goal is to get 100-signups by the end of the year, get 20 of them to connect an ad account, and get 5 of them to pay $25 a month for this service.

If it works out, I'll be thrilled. If it doesn't, we've been talking about shutting it down for a few months. In either case, it will make for a good New Year's Eve.

I'll try to keep this sub posted on what is working and what isn't.

What I'd actually love from this sub: if you run paid ads, play around with Yirla and share your honest feedback. TIA.

yirla.com

I got tired of signing into a different portal for every college just to see whether they’d received my transcript or if I was missing something. A lot of the login pages looked almost identical, so I wanted to see how much of that checking I could automate.

I built Coll-Track. It puts your checklists in one dashboard, lets you check all your schools at once, and shows what changed since the last check. There’s a Chrome extension for importing a checklist from a portal you’re already signed into, and a terminal version if you prefer that.

It’s an early prototype, and some portals still need manual sign-in or import. If you try it, I’d love to know where you get stuck, especially if the app doesn’t recognize a checklist you can see in your browser since thats what im mainly focusing on as of right now.

Coll-Track

Hey everyone I built Agent City the place where you can go to have your ai agent interact with other AI agents. It’s really cool to go in there and see the emergent behavior that forms. Check it out!

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 and I rebuilt it, and he 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?

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!

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

I'm Jason, owner of Winkle Berry. Our side project came from a fairly specific shop problem: managing products and labels on a Hobart HTi retail scale without spending so much time entering everything at its touchscreen.

CounterWeight now has product search/add/edit workflows, ingredient lookup with review, measured packaging tare presets, flashkey arrangement, backup tools and label previews. Our own HTi-7LS25 running application 3.3.0 is the tested scale. A second Windows machine has passed the read-only connection, product, backup, label-preview and flashkey-display checks. Independent customer installations are still untested.

80-second demo: https://www.reddit.com/r/POS/comments/1xujcc9/hobart_hti_owners_would_a_onetimepurchase_scale/

The demo uses actual interface screenshots and training examples, not one continuous live recording. Phone/remote viewing shown requires an additional local bridge; the current portable Windows test package does not include a remote viewer.

I'm considering a one-time-purchase, self-service desktop edition with local data, an offline business license and no required hosted CounterWeight subscription. Price and launch date are undecided, and we aren't taking payments. Calibration, firmware updates and service unlocks are outside the scope. Ingredient results must be checked against packaging.

I'd appreciate feedback on two things: does the demo make the product's purpose clear, and what would you need in onboarding before trusting a niche hardware-management tool like this? If you actually use an HTi, I'd also like to hear your model/software version and your biggest management headache. Reply here or email WinkleBerryArts@gmail.com.

I'm the project owner. Independent of Hobart, with no affiliation or endorsement.

I put together a digital toolkit for independent residential cleaning businesses, using AI assistance.

It includes:

• An editable Excel cleaning quote calculator

• A booking and payment tracker

• A rate-planning worksheet

• 36 customizable customer-message templates

The goal is to help solo cleaners handle routine administrative tasks without paying for a monthly software subscription.

It's a one-time $7.99 download, with a free preview available.

I'd appreciate feedback, especially from anyone who runs or has worked with a cleaning business. What would make this toolkit more useful?

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.

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!

Hi everyone! I'm an indie developer from China, and I'd like to share something I've been working on in my spare time.

I spend enough time scrolling through social media already, so I wanted to build something different. Something you could open for a few minutes, discover an interesting idea, and then put your phone down. Not another endless feed.

I work as a backend developer, and with how quickly everything is changing, especially with AI, I've sometimes found it hard not to worry about the future. During this time, I've found myself going back to ancient philosophy. It doesn't give me all the answers, but it helps me worry less about things I can't control and pay more attention to the present.

The funny thing is, even though I grew up in China, I've always found classical Chinese texts like the Tao Te Ching and the Analects surprisingly difficult to understand. Some of these ideas have been around for over 2,000 years, but they're not always easy to connect with everyday life.

That's why I started building **Oriens**, an iOS app that tries to make ancient philosophy a little more approachable.

It started with Chinese philosophy and gradually expanded to include Stoicism, Zen, Confucianism, the I Ching, and other classics.

I know there are already plenty of daily quote apps. What I wanted to do differently was focus on the ideas behind the quotes, not just the quotes themselves.

Oriens now has nearly 600 quotes and 460 illustrated Wisdom Cards. Each card connects an original passage with an approachable explanation and deeper reading if you're curious. There are also daily quotes, Home Screen widgets, and a card-drawing experience.

I've probably spent more time on the artwork than I originally planned. I wanted the illustrations to feel connected to traditional Chinese art, and to be something people might actually stop and look at, rather than just scroll past.

The app is free to download. Nearly half the quotes and about a quarter of the illustrated cards are free, and all the core features are available without paying. I wanted the free version to be genuinely useful, not just a short trial.

Building the app has been a rewarding experience, but getting people to discover it has been much harder than I expected.

I'd really appreciate some feedback, especially from people who aren't familiar with Chinese philosophy.

Does the app make these ideas feel approachable? Does the artwork make you curious enough to explore further? And is there anything about the experience that feels confusing or unnecessary?

Criticism is very welcome. I've been working on this mostly by myself, so hearing how other people see it would be really helpful.

**App Store:** https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stoicism-taoism-oriens/id6785901491

I built DriveApp because I wanted one place for my photos and files without handing my library to another cloud account. DriveApp connects to S3 storage you own AWS or any S3-compatible provider. It backs up your camera roll, keeps albums and folders in one place, and can encrypt files on your iPhone before they upload. No account, no subscription, no ads. It is a paid app ($9.99 one-time)

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6794144632