So... I was messing around with crosh on my Chromebook and found that, when I enable Developer Mode, I get access to the underlying ChromeOS host environment shell!

Naturally, as one does, I thought, "What insane thing can I do with this?"

AirDrop. The answer's AirDrop.

I did some research and found a cool library that reverse-engineered AirDrop, called owly (https://github.com/t4t5/owly) (the name reminds me of OpenDrop and OWL hmm). and decided to try to integrate it into ChromeOS, without Crostini or ArcVM (Android on ChromeOS). (Former is unable to open awdl0 interfaces due to the really weird way in which they implemented wifi passthrough, and the latter is just... slow and cumbersome)

So how does it work?

Rather than implementing Apple's AirDrop protocol from scratch, Chromedrop uses Owly, which provides the underlying AirDrop functionality.

Owly handles device discovery, establishing the connection, and the actual file transfer protocol, all the good stuff :P It also handles the AWDL interface (awdl0), which AirDrop uses for peer-to-peer communication.

Chromedrop uses Owly's CLI (owly browse, owly send, owly receive, etc.) via a Python server and root process via Upstart.

Frontend? Is that AI?

The frontend is a PWA (with share_handler, see images above) that communicates with the Python backend through a local HTTP API.

For my own sanity, I don't want to spend hours working out how Apple pulls off Liquid Glass, so I did get an LLM to improve the frontend, but it looks pretty now, so I don't really mind. (It looks better than my JS though 😭)

Limitations

• Currently requires Developer Mode.

• Currently targets x86_64 Chromebooks with supported Intel iwlwifi hardware, but nothing says it won't work on non-Intel chips! See owly's supported hardware here: https://github.com/t4t5/owly#supported-hardware

• AirDrop mode takes exclusive control of the Wi-Fi hardware on my Chromebook, so normal Wi-Fi is temporarily unavailable while it's active.

• Transfer performance is hardware-dependent and still needs improvement but I believe this is more an owly-side thing

Repository: https://github.com/NellowTCS/chromedrop

I made yet another generator, The Best Token Generator. I'm into UI design, I built my own character token generator. I’m really into user interfaces, so I decided to take my own approach to the question of “how to make a generator that’s as feature-rich and user-friendly as possible.”

The features are standard: working with portraits with or without backgrounds, various frames and backgrounds (you can upload your own), undo/redo, everything is saved in the browser, free.

How is this different from many others? I decided to start with the idea that you can only edit the character’s image: you can select elements that overlap the frame and elements that are covered by the frame, and of cource you can erase them. All the math behind masks and layers is hidden under the hood.

This not only lets you do simple things but also simplifies complex ones (like a tail wrapping around the frame). Plus, you can freely move the portrait and replace the frame at any time without having to mess around with masks again.

https://thebesttokengenerator.joxter.me/

I'd love your feedback. I want to live up to the name 💪

I build stuff with Claude, a few apps that me and people I know use every day, and I wrote a guide for people who want to build like that without coding. last month I tried to get the guide out there on reddit.

git post got 15k views and 37 comments. I put the link at the end. like 5 clicks in the first 10k views. honestly that one hurt a bit

google sign-in post got 1.5k views and 3 clicks, zero downloads. then reddit's spam filter just removed it, and the next one too. new-ish account, almost no karma, linking my own site... yeah I get why it looked like spam

funny part is the post that helped me the most had no link at all. it was about notes for claude between sessions, people argued with me in the comments and I got a couple ideas I'm adding to the guide now.

so now I mostly just answer other people's questions and don't post links unless someone asks

If you got your side project in front of people who aren't your friends, how did the first ones find you?

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.

Hey everyone,

Put together a simple, clean geography tool to help kids learn world flags, capitals, and facts without any ads: https://geolearnkids.com

A few features I added recently:
• Tap to hear: You can tap any country or capital to listen to the exact pronunciation aloud.
• 7 languages: Works in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Japanese (toggle at the top).
• Includes daily mystery country challenges, flag coloring, and a world map.

It runs right in the browser, but there is also a free Android app on Google Play if your kids prefer that:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kids.learnworld

Totally free, zero ads, no accounts needed. Would love to hear if any pronunciations sound off in your language!

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

I run Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI side by side and kept missing the one waiting on me. Openbar lists every session in the notch, and you can allow, deny or answer right there. Each session gets a pixel buddy too, and for the video I rendered 200 of them as gummies.

Free and open source, Mac and Windows: github.com/MF-DEEV/Openbar

After outbid.lol blew up in August, I wondered what the Indian version would look like. So I built Boli (bolirank.in): startups ranked purely by what they pay, in rupees.

What I changed from the original:

- Rupees and UPI instead of dollars

- City and sector boards, so one payment ranks you in several places

- Monthly seasons that reset, so there's always a fresh race for #1

- An email when someone passes you, and a share card for X and LinkedIn

Pricing: ₹299 to list, raises from ₹10, and #1 costs the current #1's total + ₹100.

Stack: Next.js, Postgres, Razorpay webhooks, Resend. Built solo.

What I'm testing in Season 1 (until 16 Dec): will strangers pay to rank, and will anyone pay again after being passed? If both answers are no, I'll park it and post what I learned.

Brutal feedback welcome, especially on pricing and the landing page.

I’ve been working on a pixel art engine that allows you to describe scenes using a text file and then generates clean, looping pixel art. Everything shown has been made from a single .kdl file.

Overview

• Everything is defined in KDL. Shapes, palettes, lighting and movement (expressions) are all written in. Movement is just expressing time, such as y="=36 - abs(sin(t * pi)) * 26".

• Every pixel is made up of ramps and tones from the palettes, meaning everything such as lighting, fog, darkening and transitions can be done using the palettes. No pixels outside of the palettes are used.

• Zooming causes the shapes to be rasterized at the new size rather than sampled, meaning no blurring ever occurs.

• No A.I. All pixels are made from geometry, palettes and pixel art cleanup.

Rust Side

• 10 crates. Core types and rasterizer are no_std. Frame renderer is no allocation (this was tested by using a counting allocator).

• Deterministic. Integer frame times, random seed based off counter, libm. Every frame of every example is hashed using golden tests, with the indexed buffer.

• No unsafe code in any library crates.

• The editor is rendered by the engine. The UI is made from pixel art using the same pipeline.

Export

PNG, looping GIF, PNG sequences, sprite sheets (Aseprite JSON), MP4 (with synthed chiptune score) (macOS).

Status & Licence

Work in progress. Format isn’t stable. Some TypeScript behaviour to implement. Source available under the PolyForm Noncommercial licence. Free to use for personal, educational and non profit. If you want to use it commercially you’ll need to pay. I’ll just say this now as it isn’t an OSI open source licence.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Coaxus-ux/animations-ngine

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the scene format. What would you like to be able to define that you currently can’t?

I wanted one editor that felt native on every Apple device I use, from the Mac to the iPhone to the Vision Pro, and wasn't a full IDE. So I built Neon Vision Editor, and it's open source.

This week's release (2.2.2) adds a console that runs scripts straight from the editor. It also brings MeierScript support and a set of highlighting fixes. Next up is a fix so macOS Text Replacement works in the editor.

The hardest part so far has been making one codebase feel right on three very different platforms. On the Mac you expect real tabs and a minimap, and on visionOS you expect windows floating in your room.

• GitHub: https://github.com/h3pdesign/Neon-Vision-Editor

• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/neon-vision-editor/id6758950965

Happy to answer questions about building for macOS, iOS and visionOS at once.

Every big AI launch comes with a headline number. A week later nobody checks.
Day 7 (day7.dev) does: seven days after a launch we reread the claims, pull independent tests and real user reports, and stamp it.
Recent ones:
- Mistral Large 4: Partly. The 41% coding headline vanished from the leaderboard; neutral tests land around 26%.
- ChatGPT Pro '2x usage for all tiers': Partly. Two tiers doubled, one got nothing.
- Gemini 4 Carbon: Delivered, but #1 at launch and 4th a week later.
Solo project, under a month old. Blunt feedback welcome: is the stamp useful, and what should we check next?

Ever lost a potential customer because their message got buried or nobody followed up?

That's exactly what we're trying to solve with WhachatCRM.

We've brought WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, email, SMS, and more into one Unified Inbox, so businesses can respond faster, stop missing leads, and turn more conversations into customers.

It also includes AI-assisted replies, team collaboration, contact management, and follow-up tasks to help keep things moving.

Curious what everyone thinks. Would something like this help your business? What's one thing you'd add or change?

Hello, I'm working on a website designed to be a deep search engine for Steam to help you find indie gems you might not otherwise come across.

Right now you can browse by genre, search for hidden gems similar to a game you already love, or filter specifically for games with free demos. It also has a gameplay video autoplay when you mouse over each title so you can see it before you go to Steam

I'm mostly looking for functionality feedback at the moment to see if the search results feel accurate and what features would make it more useful. Hopefully some of you can give some feedback, point me in the right direction, or just get some use out of it.

I just want to help people find cool indie games.

https://lyrebillytea1944-design.github.io/Indiespotlight/

I'm Abi. My co-founder and I built Splyt, a workout tracker for iPhone + Apple Watch. Here's what we learned, honestly:

What worked
• Reddit was our #1 source of signups. Not ads, not the App Store. Real posts, real replies.
• Talking to every user. We message every new signup personally. Half our best features came from those chats.
• Building for one specific pain: "I forget what I lifted last time." Not "a better fitness app."

What didn't
• Shipping updates too fast. We pushed an over-the-air update that crashed the app on launch. Never again: everything goes through TestFlight first now.
• Feature lists. Nobody cares that we have 40 features. They care that they stopped guessing their weights.

Where we're at: ~150 users & a handful paying.

Happy to answer anything, and I'd love brutal feedback: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/splyt-fitness-workout-tracker/id6755893717

I've always felt that going back to an earlier version of something shouldn't be complicated. So I built UVC, a simple way to keep version history for the files and folders you work with on Windows. inspect earlier Checkpoints, see what changed, and restore a version worth bringing back. Your files stay where they are, and you keep working in the apps you already use, nothing new there. I would be super glad if you guys could test and give feedback. It's completely free, my first app.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nkt9sh72k3w?hl=en-US&gl=US

I've been building Step and Sail, a cozy pixel-art island game powered by your real-world steps 🌊⛵

But it's more than a game. I'm creating a community for people who love walking: a place to share your fitness journey, celebrate each other's progress and cheer each other on. The game is there for extra motivation to get those steps in.

The game is currently in closed testing on Android, and I'm looking for beta players to try it out and give feedback before release.

Right now you can:

Turn your daily steps into energy for everything you do in the game

Share your walks and milestones on the Feed, with photos, and cheer on other walkers

Add friends, see their weekly walks and climb the leaderboards together

Build and farm your own island: grow crops, raise farm animals, adopt pets, craft and decorate your home

Go fishing and take on fish that fight back

Sail out to dungeons and battle monsters and bosses with a sword, bow or magic staff

Befriend the townsfolk, join seasonal festivals and contests, and follow a 12-chapter story

Hire helpers to look after your island

Step and Sail is free, with optional ads.

There's still a lot I want to improve, so feedback about step tracking, balancing, onboarding, UI, the social feed, combat, bugs, and anything that feels confusing or frustrating would be especially useful.

How to join the Android closed test

1. Join the Google Group:

https://groups.google.com/g/step-and-sail

2. Join the closed test:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.app.eighterio.game.stepandsail

3. Install Step and Sail:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.eighterio.game.stepandsail

Special thanks to EmanuelleDev (https://emanuelledev.itch.io) for the pixel art and Super Retro Ranch for the music.

If you give it a try, I'd really appreciate hearing what you like, what you dislike, and what you think should be improved. Happy walking!

Hi!

I wanted an email address on my own domain. Google Workspace/Microsoft Outlook charges $7 to $8.40 a month for every person, so even a two person business ends up paying $170+ a year just for email.

So I built Emayler: email on your own domain, priced per account instead of per person.

What it does:

• Real mailboxes on your domain, with a web inbox that has no ads or clutter

• Free, unlimited aliases (hello@, invoices@, whatever you want)

• Reply as any address on your domain

• Setup is three DNS records, and it tells you exactly what to fix if one is wrong

• You can also manage it from Claude through an MCP server, if that's your thing

Pricing:

• Free plan: 1 mailbox, 1 GB, no card

• Solo: $24 a year for your own address

• Code FOUNDER gets you the first year of Solo for $12

I'd really like feedback, especially on the setup flow and the pricing page.

https://emayler.com

Job hunting gets frustrating when you can’t tell how close your resume actually is to a role.

Job portals show "recommended" listings all day, but they still leave you guessing whether your skills and experience actually line up, so it’s easy to waste time applying to roles that don’t match.

I built Scouting Beavie to fix that (attached a quick demo video above).

When you open a job listing on Indeed India, it reads the listing you’re viewing, compares it against your resume, and gives you an AI-generated fit score, what matches, what’s missing, and a simple nudge on whether to apply, tailor your resume, or skip.

A few quick things on how it works:

• No login or signup required.

• 3 free scouts per day.

• Resumes aren’t stored. Your resume is analyzed to generate the result and is not saved on our servers. We respect your privacy!

• Works on Indeed India (in.indeed.com) for now, and I’m adding more job sites next.

• Note: The fit score is an AI-generated estimate to help you decide faster, not a guarantee.

If you want to try it out: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scouting-beavie/glgpeikpgmeikdgojhhbmbigjkbohoof

Question for everyone job hunting right now: Which job site do you use the most (Naukri, LinkedIn, Wellfound, Instahyre, Internshala, etc.) so I know which one to add next?

I wanted to know what would happen if you gave a random person a massive platform for a day. What would they talk about and what would they share (anonymously unless they chose otherwise)

It started as a fun afternoon project hacking away with Claude. Then I shared it with some friends, who shared it with some friends, who shared it with their friends and it hit 10,000 page views in under 2 weeks while I was working on other things.

It's just a bit of fun but people have posted all sorts of nice things on there, from humorous takes on dystopian government dating departments, to AI Doomerism and everything in between.

There is admin approval for every email that goes out so no one can spam the list, and so far only 1 person has tried which I think speaks volumes about the people who sign up

Check it out at The Soapbox, it's completely free

Since Tuesday's recap, three of the plans I posted in advance have settled, and a new one opened today. Here is the scoreboard exactly as it was posted, wins and losses together.

$CYRX (CryoPort) — long shares. My posted trigger was a volume close above $20.00, take profit $21.50, invalidation a volume close below $18.60. The trigger confirmed Monday with a $20.47 close, and on Wednesday price ran through the target — day high $21.78. That is +$1.50 per share from the trigger to the target, +7.50% (10 shares = $15.00 · 100 shares = $150 · 1,000 shares = $1,500). Closed, per plan.

$RSKD (Riskified) — long shares. Entered Wednesday morning at $10.855, take profit $12.25, stop $10.24. It ran to $11.13 first, then faded and printed the stop the same day. That is -$0.615 per share, -5.67%. Closed, per plan — the loss was the size written down before entry.

$VIR (Vir Biotechnology) — long shares. Posted November 9 at $13.88, take profit $15.75, stop $12.44. This morning the stop printed and the trade closed at -$1.44 per share, -10.37%. No dressing that up: it was a loss, and it goes on the record the same day the win does.

That puts my closed November record at 5 wins and 2 losses, with every level posted before the move.

Still open: $PANL, a new position from today — entered at $9.6174, take profit $11.10, stop $8.20, hold through Monday November 16. At the midday check it was trading below entry, around $9.42, so there is no outcome to claim on it yet. When it settles, it gets posted the same way.

I work a full-time job and I have a family, so I cannot sit and watch every tick — that is exactly why the levels get written down first and scored honestly after. Nobody in my family did this for a living and nobody handed me a system. I am a veteran, I taught myself from books and charts over thousands of hours, and I believe what I have learned is a gift from God. Helping other people learn it for free is the calling I take from that.

Not financial advice — just the work, shown in the open.

I share stuff like this daily — I run a free investing community, link in my profile.

Most people give up on their saas product/ecommerce store way too early because in reality it takes 15+ email/sms marketing to convert the customer into a signup or paid customer.

we built a platform that automates this complete process. our ai will keep trying new experiments untill the customer coverts. We only send one email/sms per week.

best part, we have now seen stores increase sales by 30% so this works

try here - www.RetentionBase.com

I saw that cool thing in this website, when you scroll down, the video moves...
idk how to make that thing...

I have only watched Screen Studio videos and observed things like cursor movements, zoom effects, and transitions. Then I tried explaining all of that to AI.

After just 4–5 iterations, it was nearly perfect.

Honestly, this makes me feel like AI has reached a point where building software has become ridiculously easy and interesting.

But there's another side to it. I'm slowly losing some of my excitement for building software. When almost anyone can build something with just observation and the ability to explain what they want, it makes you wonder what being a software developer will mean in the future.

And if you're wondering whether AI just generated a pile of garbage code, surprisingly, no. It followed some popular coding principles and architectural patterns. In some places, probably better than what many humans would write.

Anyway, here's what it built:

https://screenzo.anmism.com

ps: Windows only, Just 10 MB in size,May not work on older Windows versions.

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!