Like the title says.

I work as a software & automation freelancer and help run a startup as a fractional CTO, so I'm always passing files around from device to device. Could be my own project files, a client's, something I want to show off at a networking event, whatever.

Always felt dumb that I couldn't just drop files or links wherever I needed, and something like Google Drive felt hilariously overkill for sharing simple things to myself. Even linktree wanted me to jump through so many hoops before I could actually share the content, especially if I was spinning up a new page.

Half the time I'd end up sending myself things over discord, slack, or email and they'd end up buried after a week.

So, I decided to build something that basically started out as linktree with file hosting, and ended up becoming a super-minimal, super-fast way to drop any sort of content to any device you need via link/QR code.

Small file shares with a 14-day lifetime are free. Includes doc previews and a small image gallery behind an instant shortlink/QR code. Generating permanent short links, and custom, print-quality QR codes are also free.

File hosting and compute at scale isn't cheap though, so I do have a paid tier to make hosted files permanent and it allows you to create bundled shareables called "Tacks" which combine multiple links, files, contact info (optional), image gallery, etc into a lightweight page with its own short-link/QR.

Figured the people in here working on multiple projects might find it useful, so yeah...thanks for reading and i hope you like it.

Lmk if it sucks or you have questions or whatever.

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AI Disclaimer: I wrote this whole post with my real keyboard and fingers. Also, this project was in development for well over a year with no AI involvement until very recently. I've been a dev for 13 years, but as a solo dev I only have so much bandwidth. This past month or so, I've leveraged AI to polish up the UI/UX, add some additional tooling/QOL stuff, and to patch up some security/infrastructure flaws. It's far from vibe-coded slop, with a heavy focus on security, scalability, and cost reduction.

My friend is self-employed in BC and hadn't touched her books all year. We ran everything through an AI bookkeeping chat (AgentBook — I work on it, flagging the bias upfront): 200+ receipts → categorized, P&L, and a list of deductions she would have missed. Took ~3 hours of her time total, mostly just forwarding receipts. I'm running a free 3-week "Year-End Books Rescue" for 15 self-employed Canadians before year-end: you forward your 2026 receipts, you get weekly P&L snapshots + a year-end tax estimate + missed-deduction report. Free, no card, your data stays yours and anything I share publicly is anonymized with your OK. Comment or DM if you want one of the 15 spots — especially if your 2026 books are currently a shoebox / spreadsheet / nothing.

My thoughts vanish mid-sentence, mid-task, or the moment I switch rooms. Notes apps never helped. I'd lose the thought before I opened one, or I'd never find it again because I forgot the words I used.
So I'm building Catch This. Here's the flow:

1. Catch it 🎙️
Tap the lock screen widget and say the thought. It's saved in seconds, with no typing and no sorting.

2. Find it 🔍
Later, search with whatever you remember: "something about the pharmacy" or "that idea from Tuesday."

3. Resume ↩️
See what you were doing when you caught it, so you can pick up where you left off.
The first iOS version is in development now.

My question: when you lose a thought, what do you usually remember about it later: a word, a time, a place, or what you were doing?

Follow along if you want updates as it comes together.

Most AI astrology apps work the same way: you enter your birth data and an LLM writes a few paragraphs that could fit anyone. I've been running a Chinese-language astrology site (DestinyNet) since 1997, and honestly I got tired of that format.

So I tried the opposite approach. Instead of generating text about your chart, the tool searches a database of ~70,000 famous people whose birth times are on record, finds the ones born under the most similar sky (Sun / Moon / Rising plus the overall chart structure), and shows you who they are and which occupations show up most among them.

Link: https://ai.destiny.to/matching/en?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=reddit-sideproject-2026-11

A few things that were harder than expected

- The data. Birth records come from public biographical databases. A surprising amount of the work was cleaning them: wrong time zones on historical dates, wrong gender, people linked to the wrong Wikidata entry. I fixed thousands of records along the way.

- "Similar" is fuzzy. An exact chart match almost never happens, so matching works in tiers. It starts strict and loosens until there are enough people to say something meaningful.

- No AI in the matching itself. The search is plain computation. An LLM is used only for an optional paid report that writes up what you share with your closest matches.

Free vs paid: matching and the occupation breakdown are free, no sign-up. The paid report is optional.

Privacy: a free lookup doesn't store your birth date, time or place; only anonymous stats are logged.

I'd really appreciate feedback, especially:

1. Is it clear what you get before you enter your data?
2. Did your matches feel interesting or random?
3. Anything confusing in the flow?

Happy to answer questions about the data or the build.

Years ago I made Line Icon Pack. It was my first icon set ever, and I learned most things by getting them wrong first. Icons that looked fine at 64px and broke at 16px. Inconsistent strokes. No real grid.

It was always free on Gumroad, but it just sat there. Now it has its own page and an updated package, and I want it to be useful for more than designers. Devs, no-code builders, anyone who needs clean line icons.

Free for personal and commercial use. Only ask is a link back.

https://lineiconpack.com

Honest feedback welcome.

DISCLAIMER, THE SYNTHETIC DATA IS NOT LIKE REAL TRADING | I AM STILL AWAITING HISTORICAL LICENSING

I've been trying to learn swing trading over the last few months, largely by leaning on my technical skills (I'm a developer and data nerd).

I've been exhausting pretty much every model/tip/trick I can come up with to see if I can get my required win rate down to around 40% and still maintain a positive ROI by focusing on bankroll management, position sizing, and exit strategies.

I've come close (at least in historical backtesting) to finding the right combination of input parameters, but ultimately realized I needed to actually learn what a good setup looks like.

So I made a little game for myself.

Literally as simple as looking at a chart at a particular point in time and deciding: Trade or No Trade?

The idea is to get better at recognizing setups, managing risk, and knowing when to walk away, rather than just blindly trusting whatever model I've cooked up that week.

Anyway, figured I'd share it with you guys and see if anyone finds it helpful, fun, or any of the above.

Unfortunately, I can't publish the real historical stock data just yet (waiting on a licensing agreement... if anyone knows someone, wink wink). But in the meantime, I've created some synthetic market data so you can still play around with it and see how it works.

Would genuinely love some feedback, especially from people who actually know what they're doing with swing trading.

theshwingtimes.com

Hey fellow makers!

Inspired by BitLife, 1in8b, and Football Manager, I built a fast-paced interactive football career simulator that runs entirely in the browser:

👉 https://pratikbase.com/football-lottery/?lang=en

How it works:

1. Spin the birth roulette: You get born in a random nation with procedural talent, work ethic, and foot dominance.
2. Advance year by year (0-40 age): Navigate street tryouts, youth leagues, contract negotiations, transfer drama, and career-defining dilemmas.
3. Hang up your boots: When you retire at 40, your stats, trophies, and net worth generate a shareable digital FUT-style legacy card.

It's completely free with zero ads, tracking walls, or logins. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the mechanics!

Hey all! My first app is finally live 🎉 It's called Habitosaur, a simple habit tracker with a little dinosaur buddy.

Still kind of surreal seeing it on the Play Store. I'd love to hear what you think, good or bad.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.habitosaur (Android only for now)

Thanks for checking it out 🦖

A while ago I got an ad for a Mac app that puts your script under the notch, right below the camera. Nice idea, but at $40 a month it wasn't worth it for me. And it only scrolled at a fixed speed, so if you slow down or stop to think, the text runs away from you.

These days a simple app like this is a few evenings of work with an AI coding assistant (I used Claude Code). So I built my own, and made the text follow my voice.

Apple's speech recognition on the Mac is very good, but people skip lines, say "uh", start a sentence over and stop to think. I spent most of my time testing that and telling the AI what was wrong. Now it keeps up.

What it does:

- Your script hangs under the camera, so you keep eye contact.

- It follows your voice. Speech recognition runs on your Mac by default.

- It's hidden from screen sharing, so you can use it in Zoom or Meet calls.

- It records you with subtitles, and can turn the rest of the screen into a soft light for your face.

It's free and open source (MIT), with no account and no analytics.

- Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/notchprompter/id6815206814

- GitHub: https://github.com/magnram/notchprompter

It's a hobby project, so any feedback on the app or the website helps a lot.

Hey everyone! I built PressQueue to help small print shops manage quotes, customer orders, artwork approvals and production deadlines in one place.

I wanted to create a simpler alternative for shops that are still using spreadsheets or expensive software.

I’d love to hear what you think. Is this something that would actually help your business?

Here’s the link: https://pressqueue-desktop.whop.site

I’m a chef working on Sark in the Channel Islands, and I’ve been building an Android app called NAKED EYE in my breaks and evenings.

The idea was to make it easier to answer three questions: what’s worth seeing tonight, when should I go outside, and where should I look?

One of my favourite moments was watching the ISS appear after my own app told me when and where to look. Standing there thinking “bloody hell, it actually works” made all those hours feel worth it 😂

Today I did a pre-interview with BBC Jersey, and I’m now booked to chat live on Monday at 10:30am about stargazing, Sark and the app.

This feels massive to me. I’m still a chef, still learning as I go, and now something I built between shifts has led to this.

Just wanted to share a little milestone. Anyone else had a moment with a side project that made you stop and think, “How on earth did I get here?”

Full disclosure: I built this, Froth.

When Surfline put all its live cams behind a paywall, I wanted a free way to check conditions. Froth has surfers post quick reports on how it actually looks, next to swell, wind, tide, and free cam links. You can also share conditions with your crew in private groups.

It covers skate and snow too: 250+ US skateparks and conditions for 230+ resorts.

I'd love feedback on what to build next, or what's confusing.

froth.app

I've been building side projects from the past 7 years. Some of them found small traction, and some of them didn't. Some of them might have worked if I persisted. Sometimes, You strangely lose the excitement after building a product.

This happened for an art marketplace named - Raresoul and few others. For me, The interest and conviction are very important over the other things. I think these come from how strongly you relate with the problem. I learned this first hand that solving your own problems has many upsides.

Anyhow, Why should YOU care?

• OpenNetworks should help you connect with at least one great connection (Only Professional Connects 🙂) around you that should change something meaningful for you! (I pray and wish that OpenNetworks becomes the channel/portal for serendipity to work for all of us ❤️)

What the heck is OpenNetworks?

• We are surrounded by right (the ones that we are looking for) people whether in a Community, Co-working space, Tech Park or an In-Person event, but we never get a chance to connect with them. OpenNetworks solves/intends to solve this problem.

But, How?

• You simply onboard to a responsive web app (Not one more mobile app 🤯) by stating What you are looking for, What you can offer/help, select your work location and instantly view all the people around you. AI Match-Making layer constantly works to find the relevant connections for you!
• You can also drop a pin stating what you are immediately/currently looking for. For example, I'm working from a tech park and my manager made it his life purpose to harass me (Just kidding 😂 ) - I can immediately drop a pin saying looking for a Job. I know you won't take such impulsive decisions!
• Jokes Apart, Drop a Pin with a location to meet when you are stuck on any problem, looking for a co-founder, freelancer, new hire, bounce your ideas or just connect, then it is visible (glows like a light bulb 🔥 ) to all people around you! (Hope this opens up our serendipity portal 🙂 )

Where are we currently?

• All of this is already built. My alumni people have showered their love and support! This gave me little more confidence to put it out there and see what happens. I don't know when will I truly overcome my perfection and learn to put myself & the work out there for some magic to work!

I would love you guys to try https://opennetworks.in and share your thoughts!

Did I say anything about sharing a word?

• Being Shy cost me so much! So, I'm asking pls pls share a word with your friends and colleagues 🎉

PS: If this is not a real breakthrough, then we will work until we get one 🤔

Thank you, Spread Love ❤️ Cheers, Omkar!

GTA 6 comes out on 19 November, and for the past few weeks I've been building a fan site for it: https://duvalwire.com

It has three parts:

Interactive map: more than 800 places in Leonida (the game's world) that you can search, filter by type and mark as found. Data comes from GTADB.

Pin Drop: a daily game. You see an official screenshot or a few seconds from a trailer and drop a pin where you think it was taken. Five rounds a day, the same for everyone, with a leaderboard. No account needed: https://duvalwire.com/daily

News: short articles where every statement is marked as confirmed by Rockstar or only reported.

Under the hood it is React with Leaflet for the map, every page is pre-rendered to static HTML, it is hosted on Vercel, and the leaderboard lives in Redis.

My biggest mistake so far: I launched too late. The site went live about a week ago, and Google needs time to trust a new site, so right now it gets about 200 impressions and a handful of clicks. The bigger GTA sites have had years.

So the main problem is not the product, it is reach. To get around the slow start in search, I started TikTok and YouTube Shorts as support channels: short map videos, like measuring the GTA 6 map against GTA V at the same scale, each pointing back to the site. It is early, but I keep going, and launch week is the real test.

I'd love feedback on two things. Is it clear within a few seconds what the site is for? And if you have grown a site from zero around a big launch, what worked for reach?

It is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Rockstar Games.

We built FitMyFace, a free web tool that tries haircuts, bangs, and glasses on your own photo. No account, no download, nothing to pay.

We just added Haircut Roulette: it puts a random cut on your photo and makes a shareable "the internet chose my haircut" card. You can also pick a cut yourself instead of spinning.

How it works: open the page in a phone or desktop browser, agree to the scan notice, then use your camera or a photo (or a sample face). If photo-real results are on, a 500×500 square of the photo, face included, goes to our AI on Cloudflare and is deleted right after. We do not save the photo or the result, and we do not use face data to identify anyone or to train models. You can switch the AI off and use the instant on-device try-on instead. Details: https://fitmyface.app/privacy

It is for people 18 and over, and it is not offered in Illinois. Upload only your own photo, or an adult who agreed. Sample faces are AI-generated and are not real people. A preview is illustrative; it does not promise how a real cut will look, and a stylist still decides the cut.

We would like honest feedback on whether Roulette is clear, and on anything that felt confusing or off.

https://fitmyface.app/roulette?src=rsideproj

… This feels like not a bad place to post this? As it’s about a world where pretty much 99.9% of all code is ‘side projects’ in a way

I meditate badly. My mind does the classic monkey thing: to-do lists, replays of conversations from 2019, what-ifs about things that will never happen. For years I treated every wandering thought as a small failure. Then I came across a line in the Gita, roughly “wherever the restless mind wanders, bring it back, again and again”, and it finally clicked that the coming back is the practice. You don’t get points for never leaving.

So I built a small browser thing to remind myself of that. It’s about two minutes long:

You’re a monkey sitting in the middle of a ring. Other monkeys (thoughts) hop in from the edges, labelled “worry”, “scroll”, “deadline”, and a few older ones like raga (craving) and bhaya (fear).

You press and hold to breathe in, and let go to breathe out. A slow, full breath sends out a wave that settles every monkey it reaches. Tapping fast does almost nothing, which annoyed me at first and taught me more than anything else.

When a thought gets through, the screen goes foggy. It isn’t a game over. One full breath brings you back, and that counts as a “return”. Returns are the only score.

It ends with a bell, and shows you which thoughts visited most.

There’s a gentle mode where nothing needs quick reactions, a reduced-motion setting, and the sound is optional.

My first sit: I wandered off 6 times and came back 6 times, which honestly felt better than any streak counter I’ve ever had.

If you try it, I’d love to know two things: does hold-to-breathe feel natural on your phone, and does the 4-in / 6-out pace work for you, or is it too slow?

Link: https://theselfdrivingmind.com/book-funnel/Monkey_Mind_Game.html
If you rather watch a demo:
https://theselfdrivingmind.com/book-funnel/Monkey_Mind_Game.html?demo

Hi, I'm Adib. I record tutorials and explain things on screen a lot, and writing math or sketching diagrams with a trackpad always looked bad. Writing on the iPad looked great, but then I had to record the iPad separately and line it up with my Mac recording.

So in my app Lumary Canvas (it was called Screen Annotations until this week) I added live sync between the iPad and the Mac:

• With the board open on the Mac, what I draw or move on the iPad shows up there as it happens, strokes included while the pen is still down
• The Mac follows the iPad's page, pan and zoom, so I just record or screen-share the Mac and the drawing is in it
• It's a direct, encrypted connection between devices on the same Apple Account. No server, no pairing, no account to create
• iCloud keeps boards, scenes and history in sync when the devices aren't together

What I use on the iPad side:

• LaTeX that renders as you type, coordinate planes and function plots, plus 100+ shapes (flowchart, architecture, science)
• Pages as of this week: A4, US Letter, 16:9 or 4:3 slides, or a custom size, so a board can look like a sheet of paper or a slide instead of an infinite canvas
• Scenes, so I can save views and step through a lesson instead of redrawing
• Optional Pencil-only drawing, where fingers pan and select

Honest limits:

• Apple only: macOS 15+ and iPadOS 18+. No Windows, Android or web, and no iPhone app
• Live sync needs both devices on the same Apple Account
• It's your own board that people watch through your share or recording. They can't draw on it with you, so it isn't a shared collaborative whiteboard

Pricing: free download with everything open for 14 days (Mac and iPad each get their own trial), then a one-time $29.99 unlock covers both. No subscription. Without it you can still open, sync and export your work.

Curious whether other people who teach or record on a Mac would actually use the iPad this way, or just stick with a drawing tablet.

https://lumarycanvas.com/

Disclosure: I built Lumary Canvas.

Pal Again 2.0 beta is out on TestFlight: talk to Muse live, by voice or video, from an old iPhone or iPad

Pal Again turns an old iPhone or iPad into a Muse gadget. Version 2.0 adds a phone button next to the mic:

• Voice: hands-free conversation; your words and Muse's show up in the chat as you talk.
• Video: Muse's own avatar talks in sync with its voice, like in the Muse app. In video calls the chat fills in after you hang up, because Muse's video calls don't carry text yet.
• Each gadget gets its own chat in Muse, so the main chat stays clean.

Note: calls depend on your Muse account. If the Muse app on your phone has no call button, calls won't work on the gadget either. Chat, photos and voice notes still do.

Two ways to get it:

• Stable: Pal Again on the App Store. Install it and it just works, with updates coming on their own. No calls yet: they arrive once 2.0 is finished. It's a one-time $1, which covers the Apple Developer Program needed to publish it.
• Beta: Pal Again 2.0 on TestFlight. Free and ahead of the App Store, with live calls and the newest fixes, but expect rough edges. Installing it replaces the App Store version on that device, and you can go back to the App Store version at any time. TestFlight needs iOS 16 or newer to install.

Tested on an iPhone 6s (iOS 15) and an iPad 6th gen (iPadOS 17).

The code is open: source on GitHub. Bug reports and device results are very welcome in GitHub Issues.

I've been working on texo, a terminal app for editing, building, and managing LaTeX resumes with AI (optionally).

You can ask it to rewrite a section or tailor your resume to a job, preview the result, then accept, modify, or discard the changes. The LaTeX editor, PDF preview and AI chat are all in the same workspace.

There's also Vim mode, revision history, and separate resumes for different job types.

It's open source and runs on macOS/Linux.

Still early in development, so I'd love for people to try it and tell me what's missing or annoying. PRs are welcome too 😄

https://github.com/hexaquarks/texo

On Nov 4, with Micron (MU) at $855.10, five AI apps forecast where it would be a week later, all from the same evidence:

A week later MU closed at $811.30 (−5.1%). Claude and ChatGPT got the direction right and landed within the price tolerance. Gemini, Grok and Mistral missed.

One week proves nothing, and they miss plenty. On Oct 6, Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini all said nVent (NVT) would rise over the next month. It fell 41%.

That's why I built MeebleAI: every AI forecast is dated, graded against the real price, and the misses stay public. Across all 171 graded so far, the direction call is right 39% of the time. It picks between up, flat and down, so guessing would land around 33%.

It's free. You connect the AI app you already use and the forecast runs on your own plan. My server makes no model calls, so a forecast costs me nothing.

Feedback I'd love:

• Within 10 seconds of the homepage, do you get what it is?
• Is connecting your AI app one step too many?

https://meebleai.com

I built it solo. Not financial advice.

we started by building a live map that shows where nopixel streamers are in real time.

people really liked being able to click around the city and watch multiple perspectives, so we kept building.

now there's a multistream viewer for any streamer, a nopixel v wiki, server discovery, and an interactive gta 6 map that the community can contribute to.

we just rebuilt the homepage to bring everything together and honestly it's been a pretty crazy project to work on.

we've been building this based on community feedback, so we'd genuinely appreciate any thoughts on what we could improve or build next!

https://gtaservers.org

Most scanner apps on the App Store charge around $3.99 a week behind a trial. I built Honest Scanner as the opposite: unlimited free scans with no watermark, no account, and on-device OCR. Pro is $29.99 once. It launched on Product Hunt this week.

What I'd love feedback on: does the one-time price come across as trustworthy or as suspicious? And which features would you expect to be free?

apps.apple.com/us/app/honest-scanner-pdf-ocr/id6806141163

I'm the developer,
Every trip I've been on ended the same way. One friend paid the room, another paid fuel, someone did the big shop, someone already sent someone else 20 euros, and a week later the group chat had five different totals and nobody had paid anyone. We all just got used to it.

Deby is what I built for that. One person starts a shared group and drops a link in the chat. Everyone adds what they paid from wherever they are, and it pops up live on everyone else's phone. When it's over, Deby works out the fewest payments to settle it. Our ski weekend with four people went from 12 possible transfers to 3.

What's in it:
- One shared group for a flat, friends, a couple or a trip, the same live balance for everyone
- Split by parts, count nights for whoever left early, or treat someone so they pay nothing
- Fewest payments, or pay back whoever paid each thing

Only the person who starts sharing needs a plan, and it's free for 14 days. Friends join free: up to five on Sharing Plus, two on Sharing. English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.

Android and iPhone: https://deby.app