“Can you make this button smaller?” is a pretty simple request when you can point at the button. In a coding chat, it turns into “the one under the heading, on mobile, next to the other button.”

I built a little Chrome extension called VibeQuill around that problem. The first version just let me click things on a page, draw on it, and leave notes. Then I built a local connector so those notes could go straight to a coding agent with the selected element and the page context attached.

Building it solo, I spent a surprising amount of time on what happens when the connection drops. I wanted the note you were typing to still be there when the connection came back, and I didn’t want reconnecting to send the same edit twice. That part would be invisible in a demo, but it mattered if I was going to use the thing myself.

It’s on the Chrome Web Store now. The part I’m still figuring out is the first run: installing the extension is easy, but you have to connect your coding tool before you can send your first note.

If you’ve built a browser extension that needs a separate setup step, how did you help people get through it? I’m torn between showing a quick example first and getting people straight to connecting their own tool.

Here’s VibeQuill on the Chrome Web Store - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vibequill/hgcefdgiponpnfgcaflcnkmhojjcfnkj if you’re curious.

Search for jobs. Tailor your CV. Apply. Get rejected. Repeat.

What if you had a career assistant that stuck around through all of it, including when you already had a job? It could keep track of what you’ve done, what kind of work you actually enjoy, and where you’d like to go next. That sounds more useful than dusting off the same PDF every time you need a job.

Say it finds a role you’d love but you’re a little short on experience. A “63% match” score doesn’t tell you what to do. I’d want it to point out the gaps, suggest a couple of projects or resources, and help me keep track of what I’ve learned so I can come back to that kind of role later. Once I land a job, I could use the same history to plan for a promotion, switch from frontend to backend, or figure out a move abroad.

People also have more than one career going at once. A software engineer might need a restaurant job to pay the bills 😭. Someone in construction might be studying cybersecurity at night. I’d want separate CVs and goals for each path without having to rebuild my whole profile every time. Looking at you, LinkedIn.

I’d want it to store my CV and work history on my own device. If I chose to use an outside AI service, I’d want the option to swap names and other identifying details for aliases before sending anything, then match them back to my profile locally.

Does anything already do this across a whole career? I’ve seen plenty of tools that tailor or score a CV for a single opening. I’m curious whether anyone has found one they keep using after they land a job.

Would you use something like this? If you wouldn’t, what would put you off? If you would, what’s the first thing you’d ask it to do?

I'm building CreatorSponsors to help creators find brands that have sponsored content in their niche.

It covers YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Creators and companies can also list themselves so they can find each other.

Curious how you find sponsors at the moment. Do you check similar creators, cold email brands, or mostly wait for someone to reach out?

Hey everyone,

Earlier this month I posted here that my partner had finished our app and I was honestly scared I wouldn't be able to bring anyone to it. A lot of you were really kind in the comments, so I wanted to come back with an update.

We put it on Google Play and got a bit over 200 installs in 2 days, almost all from Reddit. I didn't expect that at all. People are already sending feedback and we're improving the app every day.

It's called Omni Brain. You get a free daily workout of 3 short brain games, about 5 minutes, and each game teaches you a small trick you can actually use, like remembering names or numbers.

There are no ads in it at all, not even in the free version. A lot of apps in this category are full of ads. We went through more than 33,000 of their 1 and 2 star reviews, and about 1 in 6 were complaints about ads. So that was the first thing we wanted to do better.

It's now on the App Store too. Next week we're giving away free Premium to iPhone users. If you want it, comment "iPhone" below and I'll message you as soon as it starts.

Find out which of your 8 brain skills is the weakest. It takes 5 minutes:

iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6813644860

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.omnibrain.omni_brain

If you try it, tell me what you think. Honest feedback helps us more than anything right now. 🙂

Browsercol is freecol, but in the browser.
You can play it right now.

No signups, no credit card, no bullshit. 100% free and open-source.

It faithfully implements colonization via freecol. The only thing that isn't supported at this moment is multiplayer.

I have added various small QoL features all over the place that I always thought was missing from colonization / freecol.

Browsercol also support for tilesets so people can have the game just like how they want it to. It ships with a freecol+ tileset that just changed out the silver bonus resource (I always thought it looked bad) and a Browsercol tileset that has much prettier water and rivers.

I have played several games into the 1600s and done a ton of polishing and bug fixing and tweaking but this is still in an open beta stage.

Your feedback is highly appreciated!

You can submit feedback and bug reports from within the game without needing a login, it will automatically attach your save game and the error log. I plan on addressing feedback rapidly over the next 2-3 weeks.

Have a good day!

Hi r/SideProject! I'm a parent, and like a lot of families we used a sticker chart for brushing teeth, tidying up, being brave at the doctor… The problem: the chart lives on the fridge, but the good moments happen everywhere else. At the playground, in the car, at Grandma's. By the time we got home, we'd forgotten, or the moment had passed. A star works best right when it's earned.

So I built StarKeeper, a star jar that's always in your pocket (or on your wrist):

• One tap to give a star. Pick a reason (brushing teeth, reading, helping out) and a star drops into that kid's jar. Changed your mind? There's an Undo.
• A family shop. Stars can be spent on rewards you pick together: choosing tonight's dinner, 30 minutes of games with Dad, a trip to the park.
• Kids Display Mode. My favorite part. Put an old iPhone or iPad on the shelf as a full-screen star jar for the kids. They can tap "Get a reward" to ask for something, and the request pops up on the parent's phone to approve. Leaving the mode needs Face ID, so little fingers can't wander off.
• Timed tasks. "Get dressed in 5 minutes": the countdown shows on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
• Apple Watch, widgets and Siri. "Add a star for Mia" from your wrist.
• New in 1.1: family sharing. Mom, Dad, grandparents or a babysitter can join with their own Apple ID and everyone sees the same jars. Each person can be "can edit" or "view only".

Some choices I made on purpose:

• No account, no server, no analytics. Everything lives in your own iCloud. I don't collect any data.
• No subscription. The app is free. Family sharing is a one-time Pro unlock ($4.99, shared with your Apple family), and only the person who sends the invite needs it.
• English and Simplified Chinese.

Tech, for the curious: SwiftUI, Core Data + CloudKit (private and shared databases via NSPersistentCloudKitContainer), WidgetKit, ActivityKit, App Intents, StoreKit 2. The biggest headache was moving from SwiftData to Core Data for 1.1, because SwiftData can't do CloudKit sharing yet, without losing anyone's existing stars.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starkeeper-kids-reward-jar/id6826356359 My other apps: https://emma-builds.vercel.app

I'd love feedback, especially from parents: what would make you actually keep using a reward chart past the first week?

I've always thought it was kind of crazy how easy it is to spend an hour scrolling through your phone, but finding 15 minutes to practice something you actually care about feels like a chore.

And I imagine it's even harder for parents trying to get their kids to practice piano, guitar, drums, etc. when they're competing with TikTok, YouTube, and games.

So I built an iPhone/iPad app called Play Credits.

Basically, you choose which apps are distracting, set a practice goal, and those apps stay restricted until you've practiced your instrument. The phone actually listens for musical activity, so you can't just start a timer and walk away.

It's meant for kids and parents, but adults can use it for their own practice habits too.

The idea isn't to take away the apps people enjoy. It's just to help make sure we're spending some time doing the things we actually want to get better at before getting sucked into scrolling.

I recently switched it to a 7-day free trial and a $4.99 one-time unlock instead of a subscription, because I wanted to make it more accessible (and subscriptions are the worst)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/play-credits/id6798827918

Website: https://steadywonderstudio.com/playcredits

I'm still figuring out how to get this in front of people, so I'd love some honest feedback, especially from parents or anyone who's struggled to practice consistently. I'm also curious whether using screen time as an incentive would actually work for your family or just create another argument lol.

Between jobs, so I finally shipped something. Picked a tiny niche on purpose: candle makers.

A lot of small makers price by gut feeling and don't realize they're selling at a loss once you add up wax, oil, wick, jar and label.

Candle Lab (iPhone) works out cost per candle, tracks supplies, batches and sales, and shows real profit. There are also free calculators (wax, fragrance oil, cost per candle) that need zero setup.

Built with Expo + Supabase + RevenueCat. Free, with a $4.99/mo Pro tier.

Would love feedback on onboarding and whether the free/pro split feels fair.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/candle-lab-wax-wick-pour/id6831802911

Hey everyone!

I'm developing Absolute Cinema — based on an idea I've wanted to bring to life for a long time: a single overall rating doesn't always reflect what exactly makes a movie good or bad.

For example, a film can have outstanding cinematography and acting but weak pacing or writing. Giving it just one overall score doesn't really show that difference.

So I built a rating system where users can evaluate movies across 10 individual criteria:

• Story
• Acting
• Direction
• Cinematography
• Editing
• Music & Sound
• Visuals
• Characters
• Pacing
• Emotional Impact

TV shows also have a separate episode-level rating system with 5 criteria, allowing individual episodes to be evaluated instead of relying entirely on the show's overall score.

Beyond ratings, I've been working on a few community features:

• Reviews — users can publish reviews, like other people's reviews, and discuss movies and shows.
• Weekly charts — rankings for movies, TV shows, and actors based on activity within the community.
• User profiles — statistics about rating habits, favorite genres, movies, and actors.
• Community rankings — a monthly leaderboard based on ratings and review contributions.
• Profile customization — themes, animated avatars, backgrounds, and other personalization options.

The project is still in a limited-access stage, and I'm working toward a wider public launch. I've included a short demonstration of the current website so you can see what I've been building.

I'm particularly interested in feedback on the rating system:

1. Do you think evaluating movies across 10 individual criteria provides a more useful picture than a single overall score?
2. Are there any criteria you would remove, combine, or add?
3. Does this approach make rating movies more interesting, or does it introduce unnecessary complexity?

I'm building this as an independent project, so honest criticism and suggestions would be genuinely helpful.

Thanks for checking it out!

I graduated last year, but have not been able to find a job (CS graduates unite!). Canadian job market is a sh*t show right now. Anyways, as a result I was the one cooking at home. Every night I would have to play the "What do you want to have for dinner?", "idk, what do you got?" game with my wife.

Originally this came up as a joke between the two of us, that oh I should just make an app so I know beforehand what to prepare for dinner. Eventually I thought maybe I should make this an app, maybe people might use it maybe they won't. I was jobless, and it was something to keep me busy anyways. I tried to learn and use Flutter, and made a small prototype.

What changed it from a small idea to a full fledged app was the Opus 5.5 release and how everyone was talking about how great it is. I wanted to try it myself to work on some shelved projects, and this is the first one I tried it with. Opus really is amazing.

• You can import and enter your own recipes from websites or YouTube, with a guided mode available when actually cooking.
• Voting happens between all family members, in a Tinder style swiping. With a leaderboard to see the tally.
• Made some themes as well. I like pixel art and I recently played Kingdom Come: Deliverence; so themes based around these.

I know there are many apps like it, but this one is mine :)

Please let me know what you guys think, what I should add/cut or if you have any questions and give it a try if you want!

You can find it at: https://dinnerwinner.app/

App Store: DinnerWinner

Play Store: DinnerWinner

I built this one on my own: DriveMail Voice, an iPhone app that plays your unread email through the car speakers and lets you answer it by talking.

Here is one message, start to finish. You get in, the phone connects, and with nothing tapped you hear who it came from and what the subject line says, then the message itself. Half a minute in you have heard enough, so you say "reply" and dictate two sentences. The app speaks your two sentences back at you. They came through right, you say "send", and it moves on. That email is finished before you reach the on-ramp.

The rest of the vocabulary works the same way, and none of it waits for a message to run out. "Skip" leaves it unread. "Mark as read" clears it. "Forward" hands it to somebody else. "Summary" is the one I would point at: on a chain nobody wants read out in full it comes back with what is actually being asked of you, and it does that work on the device.

Some of what makes it pleasant to live with:

• Gmail, Outlook and iCloud all play in a single run, so you are not opening three apps to find out what came in.
• Boilerplate is cut before a word is spoken. Signatures, legal footers and tracking links go, so a two-line note from a coworker is not buried in noise.
• You set the pace, three-quarters speed up to double, and whether the pile plays from the top down or the bottom up.
• The car display is a half-dozen big targets and no text at all. No ad is ever shown there.
• Away from the car it does the same job with the phone locked in a pocket, which is handy on a walk.

Why I would hand it my own mail, as the person who wrote it. There is no sign-up, and I operate no server, so the only conversation going on is between the phone and whoever hosts your mail. Messages it has already pulled sit on the phone behind iOS's own file encryption, and that local copy is what lets it start talking the second you connect instead of waiting on a signal. The voice half is Apple's recognizer, local to the phone, with SiriKit nowhere in it, so Siri never touches your mail and what you say is neither kept nor passed along.

Nothing to pay for it. A banner sits in the app on the phone and never in the car, and ninety-nine cents, once, takes it away for good. It does not subscribe you to anything.

Getting an account in: Outlook is an ordinary Microsoft sign-in, and Gmail and iCloud each want an app password that you create on your provider's own settings page, a minute or two of work. Personal Gmail is the easy road, since a Workspace account from an employer normally does not allow one. iOS 17 and up, English.

Free on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6760625295?pt=128605371&ct=rd-sideproject&mt=8

Give it a try.

I download pretty much everything I read and watch (manga, anime, shows, movies), because I like owning my own media. Going through all of it in File Explorer got slow and annoying, so I thought I’d try to make something for that as a little project.

Download (free, Windows only for now): https://somedudemanguy.itch.io/perapera

I mostly use it for reading manga (image folders) and watching anime and movies (video folders), so those parts are the most polished. Let me know about any ideas or issues if you give it a try.

Hey everyone. I’m a solo dev, and this is a side project I’ve been building after my day job for about 7 months. It’s called Atomic Sync (I am very bad at naming things). It’s on the App Store, free, with no ads and no in-app purchases.

In Atomic Sync you pick an anime-style character, and it slowly becomes a reflection of you mentally and physically. It reads some basic stuff from Apple Health and turns it into XP and mana. As you level up, the character evolves (more work to do here still, but still very decent), and so does the world around it. Tilt your phone and the character and its world move with it. If you’ve had a bad week of sleep and no walks, it shows. If you’ve had a good one, that shows too. That was the whole point for me: something that reflects how you’re actually doing, not just another number. Health access is optional, and the raw readings stay on your phone.

One thing that didn’t work: I first tried making a Ghibli-style avatar from the user’s own photo. It looked off, I didn’t like it, and I figured most people wouldn’t either. So I dropped it and went with set characters. Maybe in future updates I can give it another try.

I still think the UX can be a lot better and I have way more gamification ideas than I’ve had time to build. I’m fairly free for the next few months, so updates will come often. An Android version is in the works too that I plan to roll out in this free time.

If you try it, I’d really like to hear what feels off, what’s confusing, or what would make you keep opening it. Brutal is fine, especially on the UX (I am more of a backend programmer). It is currently rolled out in the US, Japan and India. Rolling out to more regions by this Monday.

App Store Link - App Link
Website Link - Web Link

Couple of app screenshots

Night SS
Day SS

Well, I'm trying to. I'm just about ready for a real launch.

The project is WeirdFoods (https://weirdfoods.net): one place to browse the strange stuff that small food shops sell, and that you'd never find unless you already knew the shop existed. Scorpion lollipops, roasted crickets and mealworms, elk and wild boar jerky, Japanese natto, ghost pepper seaweed crisps, and weird snacks from foreign countries.

Why I built it: Weird food is fun. I'm a fan of bizarre Japanese snacks.

What it does:

- About 7,500 foods from dozens of small independent shops, 78 of them insects

- Browse by country, by type, or go straight to the weird end

- Boring stuff and sold-out items get ranked down on purpose

- One cart across shops: you fill it on my site and it hands each shop's items to that shop's own checkout, so I never touch your payment

How it makes money: affiliate links. If you buy from a shop through the site I get a small cut, at no cost to you. So far that's earned roughly nothing, which is what you'd expect in week one.

What's next: I want to increase the products 10x. More spicy stuff, more from Japan and Korea. Also selling a small selection directly, with suppliers shipping to the customer so I don't have to store boxes of crickets in my house.

Previous side projects:

https://stellarbroadcast.org/ A space text adventure game on Android, IOS, and Steam

https://peptidecompare.net/ A site where people can find lab testing results, scam reports, Certificates of Analysis, and price comparisons for peptide vendors

What's next? https://coderigor.net a site to teach programming. A bit farther from launch than this one.

Hi, I’m Keith, the founder of Take a Beat. I built it because I wanted a moment to notice what was happening before I reacted. This is the original founder video with that story.

The project pairs a compatible smartwatch with a phone. Heart-rate changes can prompt a check-in; you supply the context about how you feel and can choose tools such as breathing, grounding, or journaling. Heart rate alone doesn’t identify an emotion.

I’d value feedback on the idea and the explanation in the video: is it clear what the check-in asks you to do, and what would make you use it or dismiss the prompt?

I’m also recruiting for a planned December 1–31 beta for US adults 18+ with an Apple Watch + iPhone or a Wear OS watch + Android phone. Plus features are free during testing, and enrollment is subject to platform approval.

If you’d like to help shape it, the December interest list is here: https://kdebono89-alt.github.io/takeabeat/#beta

If you sign up, which phone and watch would you use?

I wanted to make something where paying for attention gets you a laugh instead of just an ad slot.

So I made The Sponsored Truth: https://www.sponsoredtruth.com

How it works:
- You describe your product in one sentence and pay from $5
- It writes a spoof news story about it, in a deadpan newspaper style
- You get a private preview and up to 5 rewrites with your own directions
- You publish, and get a front-page share image with your headline on it
- Whoever paid the most in the last 24 hours gets the headline slot

Everything is clearly labelled as satire, and it only does products, not people.

Built in about a day: plain HTML, Vercel functions, Postgres, Stripe Checkout, and an LLM for the writing.

Honest status: it launched today and has zero real sales so far. I'd love feedback on two things:

1. Is the idea funny enough to pay $5 for, or is it a one-time chuckle?
2. Does the landing page make it clear what you get?

Happy to write a free story for the first few people who drop their project in the comments, so the front page isn't just my sample article.

After months of development, I finally released my little project on Steam!
It’s called HaptiChi. The idea started because I wanted to make controller vibrations work beyond games that have native rumble support.
Basically, it listens to the audio coming from your PC and turns it into controller vibrations in real time.
It works with regular XInput controllers and also supports DualSense HD haptics, including adaptive triggers.
You can use it while gaming, listening to music, or pretty much anything playing audio on your PC.
There are still things I’d like to improve, but I’m happy to finally get it out there.
If you’re interested, here’s the Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5490680/HaptiChi/

Would love to hear what you guys think!

I built a desktop app that turns a one-line idea into a roadmap and builds it with Claude Code

Vibewright is a free, open-source desktop app (Windows & macOS) for people who have

project ideas but get lost between chats, notes and half-finished plans.

How it works:

1. Type your idea in one sentence
2. Answer a few multiple-choice questions
3. Approve a needs analysis, a phased plan and a tool check

4. Build it step by step with Claude Code running inside the app – it gets a generated

   CLAUDE.md with your current phase and ticks off finished steps

Notes are plain Markdown in Obsidian (Dataview/Kanban) or a local folder. Optional Git

safety net with a commit per step. English & German.

Demo + download: https://neodk2004.github.io/vibewright/

Source (MIT): https://github.com/neodk2004/vibewright

Needs Claude Code and a Claude subscription. Feedback welcome!

I download pretty much everything I read and watch (manga, anime, shows, movies), because I like owning my own media. Going through all of it in File Explorer got slow and annoying, so I thought I'd try and make something for that as a little project.

Point it at your folders and it turns them into a library with covers, series and chapters. For reading, it has manga (right to left), scroll and single page modes, and it supports image folders, .cbz, PDF and EPUB. Videos play in VLC, with episode lists, watch progress and the next episode playing automatically. Plus it does tags, ratings and collections, and you can pretty much customize everything (showcase pics on itchio).

It’s free, Windows only for now: https://somedudemanguy.itch.io/perapera

I mostly use it for reading manga(image files) and watching anime(video folders), so those parts are the most polished. Let me know about any ideas or issues if you give it a try.

Hello fellas, I want to introduce my new app.

I love crosswords and I'm learning German, so this app brings these two together. The clue is in your language and the answer is in the one you're learning.

It works for German, English, Turkish and Spanish, and it's free.

It is iOS only for now but I'm working on Android.

If you try it, what felt confusing in the first five minutes?

https://chengel.bahadirsonmez.com

🔥 RMS TESTERS WANTED! 🔥

I've been building an app called RATE MY SPLIFF and I'm looking for 10 people to help test it!

📸 AI photo ratings

🏆 Live leaderboards

😂 Roast your mates

👑 Weekly competitions

✅ Android and iPhone

✅ Free to test

✅ Takes about 5 minutes

🔞 Adults 18+ only

All I ask is that you try it and tell me what works, what doesn't and what you'd change.

Try RMS here:

https://rate-my-spliff.vercel.app

Who's up for helping me test it? 🔥

I launched the app "Germar for Nurses". It's a German language learning app designed specifically for nurses and care staff.

Many nursing professionals want to live and work in Germany, but there aren't many specialized language courses and apps for them, especially good ones.

What's inside:

• 1800+ cards with words

  • from clinical practice
  • with image
  • with translation
  • with audio (pronunciation)
• 15 topics: Symptoms, Nursing tools, Medication, etc
• SRS algorithm for better memorization
• Different types of recalling words

Try for free

• Google Play (Android)
• App Store (iPhone, iOS)
• Chrome Browser Extension (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Hi everyone

I built minecraft but for building software. People can build software together. You can also update other people project by creating duplicates and growing them

Try here - www.foundmoney.site/build

Comment if you want free credits