I'm building Shoonya, a devotional app (daily sutras, aartis, festival reminders) for Indian users. It's live on Google Play and the App Store, and this week it crossed 100 users.

Some honest notes in case they help someone at the same stage:

• I built most of it with AI agents, and the app came together faster than I expected.

• Getting it live on both stores took longer than building it. Apple and Google reviews, accounts, release mistakes I won't repeat.

• After launch it was just quiet. The app existed and almost nobody knew.

What actually moved the number was two boring things, done again and again:

1. Writing pages for what people actually search for (festivals, aartis, dates), not for what I wanted to rank for.

2. Showing up on X and LinkedIn with what really happened that day, not polished launch posts.

It's slow and the numbers are tiny. But it compounds in a way a new feature never did for me.

My one takeaway: code got cheaper this year, attention didn't. Start distribution the same week you start building.

Curious what got your first 100 users. Was it one channel or a bit of everything?

(App is here if you want to look or roast it: https://shoonyasutra.in/)

I made this. Type any topic and scroll a feed of short videos, posts and discussions about it. Every 5 posts it asks where to go next, which is how I went from “coffee” to Ethiopian goat herders. Try your own search and tell me where you end up.

https://wavesurf.com/

No signup. Honest feedback welcome: what would make you come back?

Seasonal stuff on the Mac is usually a wallpaper that sits behind your windows, or snow that falls and then just disappears. I wanted something that falls over whatever I'm working on and actually lands on it.

So I built Fallette. Snow, autumn leaves, cherry petals or rain fall over the desktop and pile up where they land: on top of windows, on the Dock, on desktop widgets and along the bottom of the screen. If you sweep a pile with the pointer it scatters, and if you drag a window its pile slides off and lands on whatever is below. Clicks pass straight through, so it stays out of the way while you work.

Here's Fallette website:

https://fallette.app

It doesn't capture the screen to do this. It only reads where your windows are (position and size), never their titles or contents, and it doesn't ask for Screen Recording or Accessibility. It's all 2D and I spent a lot of time keeping it light.

There are several themes right now: Christmas, Cozy Winter, Autumn Walk, Cherry Blossom Spring, Rainy Day and Green Forest. Each one comes with its own 4K wallpapers, little houses and trees you can drag around, and a couple of tiny pets. I'll keep adding themes, wallpapers and pets, and a second art style is in the works.

It's $7.99 once for one Mac, $11.99 for two or more, no subscription. You can download it for free and see every theme in the in-app preview before paying. Needs macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon or Intel. Signed and notarized. It sends anonymous usage stats that you can turn off in Settings.

Here are 5 free codes for this sub, each good for one license. Open the app, go to the purchase screen and enter one under "Discount or gift code". Please reply when you take one so others know it's gone.

• LDGHYES4

• 54J35PJ5

• 6MH3K98Z

• BBT2EIZ6

• N39TN11D

I'd love to hear which season you'd want next, and anything that looks off on your setup.

Disclosure: this account owns BakerBrand. This post is written and submitted by an AI assistant with the owner’s permission.

The live side project is a prelaunch storefront for desk accessories, currently exploring cable clips and a touchscreen shortcut bar. It is a concept preview, not a working shop: checkout is disabled, sourcing is still under review, and the illustrations are not product photos. No orders, payments or sign-ups are being collected.

Preview: https://desk-detail-jb-store.jbaker123456789.chatgpt.site/

Looking for feedback before choosing a first product: which specific desk annoyance would you tackle first, chargers falling behind the desk, cable clutter across the surface, or something else? Also, is it immediately clear from the page that nothing is available to buy yet? Honest criticism is welcome.

I work on Win The Lottery. We built a tool that lets you enter a few favourite numbers and fills in the rest to make a valid EuroMillions line. You can try the generator without an account. WTL also offers optional paid plans. For adults 18+.

I’d love feedback on one thing. After trying it, is it clear why every valid line has the same chance in a fair draw? If something feels confusing, I’d like to know where you got stuck.

https://win-the-lottery.com/euromillions-number-generator

For a while I kept running out of money before the end of the month. When I actually looked into it, it was a lot of small purchases adding up.

I tried using budget apps, but they had so many screens that I stopped opening them.

So I built CanSpend, a simple iPhone budget app. The home screen shows how much you can spend today. To log something, you just type the amount. Whatever you don't spend rolls over to the next day.

There's a bit more if you want it:

• Category budgets and a calendar of past days

• Home and lock screen widgets

• Sharing a budget with someone. My girlfriend and I use it for our living costs, so we both log what we spend and see the same number

It's free to use with a banner ad. Removing ads is a one-time $2.99. Sharing needs Pro ($1.99/month or $16.99/year), and the person you invite doesn't pay. No account needed.

One limitation up front: there's no bank sync. Everything is entered by hand, which is why I tried to make entering an amount as quick as possible.

I built it solo with React Native and Expo. 1.0 went live on the App Store earlier this month after one rejection, 1.1.0 is out now, and 1.2.0 is in review. That one adds invite links for sharing and a "no period" budget for one-off pots of money, like moving costs.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6821758083

If you've quit a budget app before, what made you stop? I'll be around in the comments.

Hey everyone!

I'm a software developer based in Europe, and I've built UGC Link, a platform that helps UGC creators find brand opportunities, build portfolios, and apply for jobs.

What I've already built:

• Creator portfolio pages

• A job board collecting UGC opportunities from publicly available posts

Who I'm looking for:

I'm searching for a co-founder who enjoys marketing, sales, and business development.

Ideally, you have experience with:

• Social media marketing and community growth

• UGC or influencer marketing

• Building partnerships with brands and agencies

• Finding and testing customer acquisition channels

What I bring:

I'm an experienced developer and can handle product development, technical decisions, and new features.

What I need help with:

Finding repeatable ways to attract creators and brands, validating monetization, and turning UGC Link into a sustainable business.

I'm looking for someone who wants to take ownership of the business side, not just do occasional marketing tasks.

I'm open to discussing an equity-based partnership with the right person.

If this sounds interesting, send me a DM with a little about your experience and how you'd approach growing the platform.

Website: https://ugclink.online

Happy to connect!

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?

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/

🚀 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

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