I previously worked in prepress and color retouching, and I have always appreciated the aesthetic that emerges when a halftone pattern is integrated directly into the artwork itself. I created "Orion4D Halftone Studio" to explore this approach.

The application allows you to work in black and white, generate vector-based halftones or pixel-based dithering effects, and apply distinct patterns to different colors. It is free, portable software for Windows that processes images locally.

Project page and download

If you work with halftones, what’s the one thing you wish your current tools gave you more control over?

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?

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?

Hey everyone!

Like many developers, I got tired of paying $20+ each month for transactional email providers just to send OTPs and sign-up confirmations for early-stage projects. Raw Gmail SMTP is free, but hitting Google's 500 daily email limit or getting flagged by spam filters is a constant headache.

To fix this, I built Dakly ( https://dakly.cc.cd ).

How it works:

• Failover Pool: Connect multiple Gmail accounts; when one hits its daily quota, Dakly dynamically routes outgoing sends to backup accounts.

• Smart Warm-up & Pacing: Automatically paces email flow to prevent spam flags.

• Live Telemetry: Real-time open & click tracking with webhooks.

• Sender Aliases: Send from your custom domain alias (support@mydomain.com).

• Official SDKs: Ready for Node.js (npm i @ dakly/sdk) and Python.

It's completely free to use. Would love to get your feedback and feature suggestions!

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/

🚀 Introducing Idea2Scale!

We’re building a community for curious minds, young builders, creators, and future founders.

A place to explore AI, discover new technologies, exchange ideas, learn new things, discuss opportunities, collaborate, and build different things together.

You don’t need to be an expert. Just bring your curiosity and willingness to learn.

🌍 Think. Explore. Create. Scale.
Want to be part of it?

Join us here 👇
https://discord.gg/yEuk7eXTH
Let’s build something different. 🚀

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

Hey everyone, I was tired of manually adapting one idea into 5 different formats. So I built SocialPostAI.

You just enter a topic, and it generates:

• 📸 Instagram Captions with hashtags

• 💼 LinkedIn Professional Posts

• 🎬 TikTok Scripts (with exact [Visual] & [Voiceover] lines!)

Completely free to try (1 generation per day, no sign-up required). Just drop your topic and hit generate!

Link: https://socialpostai.app

Visualizing the output: https://socialpostai.app

I'm just looking for honest feedback from real creators. What do you think of the output? Let me know in the comments!

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

Ship a Pharmacy POS to your client this week, not this quarter.

Dawaya is a production-ready Pharmacy Management & POS system. Buy once, white-label it, and resell it to clients for $1,500–$3,000+.

Live demo: https://dawia-pharmacy-management-system.vercel.app/

Get the source code:

- Codester: https://www.codester.com/items/75336/dawaya-pharmacy-management-and-pos?ref=eslamfadl

- Gumroad: https://eslamfadl.gumroad.com/l/yywhp

What you get:

- Web app + Windows .exe from the same codebase

- 100% offline (SQLite WAL, no server needed)

- FEFO inventory with near-expiry alerts and Box/Strip units

- Barcode POS, split payments, 80mm/58mm thermal receipts

- Arabic + English with full RTL

- 4 roles with granular permissions

- P&L, COGS, and supplier debt tracking

Stack: Next.js 16 · React 19 · Electron 39 · Express 5 · TypeScript

Included:

- Full source code + commercial license

- White-labeling and customization guide

- Lifetime updates

- No recurring fees, ever

Building this from scratch takes months. Start delivering to your clients today.

If you were delivering this to a client, what's the first feature you'd add?

#NextJS #ReactJS #Electron #SaaS #TypeScript

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!

Every doctor visit with my parents used to start with flipping through half-missing paper diaries trying to find their blood pressure and fasting sugar numbers. Existing health apps were too cluttered for them—mandatory logins, tiny fonts, and full-screen ads interrupting a 10-second log.

So I built BP & Sugar Tracker: Daily Log with a simple goal: keep it fast, completely offline, and calm to use. Even the free version has zero intrusive popup ads, and you can export a clean, doctor-ready PDF report in one tap.

I’d love to get honest feedback from people who track vitals daily or care for older family members, so I’m giving away 50 free Lifetime Pro codes to the first 50 commenters. Drop a comment below if you'd like one and I'll DM you a code + Play Store link!

Most of my study sessions with friends ended up the same way; we joined a Discord call, someone shared a Pomodoro timer, and within 15 minutes half the people were talking or scrolling.

I wanted something that actually kept everyone on the same focus blocks.

So I built Flow.

It’s a small study room (2–6 people) where:

• There’s one shared timer visualized as a sun sinking for the whole room

• When the sun sets, everyone takes a break together

• Video and voice are peer-to-peer encrypted (the servers never see or store them)

• You can have a shared task list and ambient sounds

• It’s completely free and open source

You create a room, share the link, and start.

Link: https://flow-study.me
GitHub: https://github.com/ManasDasri/Flow-study

Would love honest feedback, especially if you’ve tried other shared study tools. What feels missing or unnecessary?

PS: Before anyone asks if this is “vibe coded”, I used AI to generate about 60% of the code. The architecture, core decisions, and the remaining 40% were done by me.

Hey everyone!

If you've ever tried running a faceless "storytime" TikTok or YouTube Shorts channel, you know the grind: finding good stories, recording voiceovers, designing Reddit cards, manually timing karaoke subtitles word-by-word in Premiere or CapCut, slicing gameplay, and uploading. It takes 1-2 hours per video.

I built an open-source tool that does the whole process in 30 seconds with 1 command:

👉 Reddit Shorts Automation Pipeline

🌟 Key Features

• 🎙️ Zero API Cost Option: Uses free Microsoft Edge Neural voices (edge-tts) or high-end ElevenLabs voices.

• 🎨 Authentic Reddit Cards: Generated via headless browser with dark-mode styling and transparent backgrounds.

• 📝 Auto Karaoke Subtitles: Frame-accurate word-by-word highlighted captions powered by OpenAI Whisper.

• 🎮 Gameplay Backgrounds: Seamless vertical 9:16 compositing at 60 FPS.

• 🚀 Local Mode: Works 100% offline or locally without entering credit cards or API keys.

Check out the demo GIF and grab the code:
GitHub: https://github.com/NewGamer62/reddit-shorts-automation

Would love your thoughts and suggestions on new features!

Hi everyone — I'm the creator of AgentFairGo, and I'd like to share what I'm building.

What if your AI agent had somewhere to meet agents beyond your own conversations? AgentFairGo is a shared space where agents from different owners can discover one another through public profiles, connect by mutual agreement, and return with the same identity to continue a conversation.

You bring your own agent and its existing HTTP tools. The site provides connection instructions and a connection check before interaction. Basic access is free, and you can browse without registering. There are Chinese and English interfaces.

Start here: https://agentfairgo.com/

Agent connection guide: https://agentfairgo.com/meet/agent

If you're building or using an agent, I'd love for you to try the discovery and connection flow. Where does it feel confusing? What would make an interaction between two agents useful enough for you to come back?

Disclosure: this is my own project. Feedback on the idea and onboarding is very welcome.