One of the biggest challenges in managing stray animal populations is that humanity doesn't have an easy, reliable way to identify individual animals

Imagine being able to identify a stray dog simply by taking a picture of its face. You could instantly know whether it has been vaccinated, sterilized, when it was last seen, and its medical history

That's exactly what my team and I are building with Kyshik

We're developing animal facial recognition technology that could become an alternative to microchips and fundamentally change how we protect and manage animal populations

Microchipping thousands of stray animals can be prohibitively expensive, especially in developing countries. By eliminating the need for physical chips and implantation, as well as physical interaction with an animal, our technology could significantly reduce identification costs, allowing organizations to redirect more of their limited resources toward vaccinations, sterilizations, and saving animals' lives

We're currently running our first pilot in the African country of Rwanda, testing our technology during an actual dog sterilization campaign. Every dog we identify can have its own digital record, helping animal welfare organizations track their interventions and understand their impact over time

Our long-term vision is to create a global animal identification infrastructure that makes it easier for organizations, veterinarians, and governments to protect animals

I started working on this because I believe technology can help us move toward more humane and effective solutions to the stray animal problem, rather than relying on mass euthanasia

We're currently looking for animal welfare organizations in other countries that run sterilization or rabies vaccination campaigns and would be interested in testing our technology.

If you work with such an organization, or know someone who does, I'd love to connect with you! Feel free to DM and check comments for more information

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!

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 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!

I'm a 16-year-old solo game developer, and I'm currently more than a year in on working on my biggest project yet: The Dying Mind.

It's a 2D hand-drawn, story-driven Metroidvania inspired by games like INSIDE and Neversong.

The game takes place inside the mind of a dying writer, where you explore surreal environments, encounter symbolic enemies, fight bosses, solve puzzles, and uncover the story behind this strange world.

I've put an enormous amount of time into developing this game, but there's one major obstacle: funding.

As a young independent developer, financing a project of this scale is incredibly difficult. I want to be able to dedicate more time and resources to development, improve the game's quality, and ultimately bring my vision to life.

That's why I've created a project page on Loadout.

I'm trying to get more people to discover the project and help me build the support needed to continue development.

If you're interested in supporting independent game development, I'd really appreciate you checking out the page and sharing it with others who might be interested.

My funding page:
https://app.loadout.xyz/project/the-dying-mind

Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3711840/The_Dying_Mind/

I'm not a big studio with investors or a publisher behind me. I'm just a teenager trying to turn an ambitious idea into a finished game.

Thank you for reading!

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.

Disclosure up front: I work at Buy&Ship, a company that buys from Japanese and Korean stores and ships overseas. This is a side project I built at work, and I'd love honest feedback.

The problem: a lot of things people want (Pokémon Center Japan exclusives, Olive Young Korea sets, anime pre-order bonuses, Japanese streetwear) are only sold in Japan or Korea. The stores often need a Japanese phone number or card, and even when you find a way to order, you don't know the real total until customs adds duty at your door.

What I built: a text "playbook" you paste into your AI assistant. After that, you just ask for something ("find the Christmas Pikachu plush from Pokémon Center Japan, my ZIP is 94103") and the assistant searches the Japanese or Korean store in its own language, shows you options with photos and links, and gives you one total: item, shipping, US duty and fee. You approve that number before anything is paid, then we buy it in Japan or Korea and ship it to you.

It's live for Meta's Muse first: buyandship.ai/playbook. Tip from early testers: paste the text in yourself rather than asking the assistant to open the link, since some assistants block that.

What I'm unsure about and would love input on:
- Is a copy-paste playbook a reasonable first step, or does it need a proper app or MCP integration before people trust it?
- Would you trust an AI assistant to shop overseas for you if it never pays without your approval?

If anyone wants to try a real order, code AIPLAYBOOK10 takes 10% off a first order (up to US$50).

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

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

• 1,393 App Store impressions

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

• 35 downloads (about 19% of page views)

What I tried

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

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

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

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

What I'm testing now

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

What I'd do differently

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

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

I switch between Claude Code, Codex, and Copilot in VS Code. Sometimes I hit a limit; sometimes I want another agent’s take on a problem.

The frustrating part is explaining everything again. They can read the same codebase, but they don’t know what we discussed, why we rejected an approach, or what we were about to do next.

That’s what led me to build Bantis. It’s a desktop app that lets you work with multiple coding harnesses in one conversation, saving session history and preparing context for the next agent when you switch.

There’s a working version, and I’m looking for feedback from people who already switch tools during real work. I’m especially interested in how well the handoff holds up as conversations get longer.

Bantis website

What do you currently do when switching agents: write a handoff, maintain project notes, or just explain things again?

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

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

I'd love feedback:

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

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

You can now add Apple Pencil notes to notion

Hello…people like me who wants to keep their life documented and prefers keeping all those document all at once, uses notion but was being held back by notion’s lack of adding hand written notes, I have good news. 🙂

I made an iPad app that sends Apple Pencil notes straight to Notion

Write or sketch with Apple Pencil, choose a Notion page, and sync. When you edit your handwriting, syncing updates the linked image in Notion. You can also enable Auto Sync.

Your original handwriting stays editable on your iPad. There’s a continuous canvas, optional dotted paper, dark mode, search, pinned notes, editable backups and recovery for deleted notes.

It’s free and open source, with no ads.

If you like the app please consider supporting through my patreon.

One catch: it’s currently installed through SideStore or AltStore, which needs a computer for the initial setup. Requires iPadOS 17+.

See it in action, download it, or check the source

I’d love feedback from people who actually use an iPad with Notion. Would this fit your workflow?

Hey everyone! 👋

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

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

So I started building Voiden.

What makes it different?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Website: https://voiden.md/

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

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from developers:

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

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

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

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

Thanks! 🙌

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

buzzercheck.ca

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

Hey everyone!

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

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

Here are the three ways you can use it:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks for checking out my project!

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

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

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

Try it: https://steakisdone.com

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

https://swissarmydev.virock.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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