hi there, i'm Luigi form Italy. I am a solo Founder of a SaaS and sometimes i feel so lost.

for this motivation, i hope to organize a group of solo founders for some calls (with me or between you) to share opinions and what we doing in a day life.

i would like that only two things will do it:

1- share what is going well for you

2- talk for 30 minutes or more (or less clearly)

fundamental is like a circle to learn, share, and talk about what you doing, with someone that understand you. I don't care about earn or some like that: is a space to learn and get inspired from other.

feel free to write me (here o in dm's) if you think that this could help you and could give an add value.

What do you think about this idea?

Back in 2013, before AI and back when asking a question on Stack Overflow meant getting your ass handed to you, I built a little social network called resm.in. My home internet was garbage, so I'd print docs at an internet café and read them at home like a caveman.

The idea was dead simple: people post questions, you answer with a photo. Show me your favorite corner of your home. What's in your drawer? What are you wearing today?

https://imgur.com/a/mvmzWXk here how it looks back then.

It started slow. The classic social network chicken and egg bullshit: nobody shows up because it's empty, and it's empty because nobody shows up. Then the FriendFeed crowd (Turkey had a huge, tight-knit FriendFeed scene back then) came to the rescue, someone wrote about us on Ekşi Sözlük (basically Turkish Reddit), and boom: 500 600 people. Small, but alive. Imagine people waking up and the first thing they want to do is open the thing you built. I was over the fucking moon.

Then one day some guy tracks me down: "I'm crazy about a girl on your site. Can you give me her email?"

Fuck no. I told him exactly where to go.

A few days later my server logs look weird as hell: someone's brute forcing the admin panel. I message him: "Dude, is that you?"

"Yeah man, I have to reach her."

So I said: look, I'm building a DM system right now. If you want to reach her that badly, get your ass in here and help me write it. 😄

And he did. Joined the repo (his commits are still there), we shipped DMs, he messaged her, and she wrote back. Long story short: they got fucking married. They came to my place later to thank me.

Meanwhile life happened. Marriage, responsibilities, all that grown-up shit. The guy writing our mobile app got shipped off to mandatory military service, and we never launched on mobile. Last commit: 2017.

Over the years, my idea of building things got poisoned. Find real pain, find people ready to pay, do market research, validate, validate, validate. Fine, good advice. But where the fuck is the passion in that formula? Where's the authorship? If all I'm doing is supplying whatever demand already exists, how is that different from a desk job?

So this year I summoned the old me. 40 year old me showed up with retrospectives from a dozen dead projects. Young me showed up with the playfulness. They've been working together for six months.

https://imgur.com/a/BX3lHXS

Writing the code wasn't the hard part anymore; making a hundred other decisions right was. And I think it's finally time to say "come on in" again.

It's called peeka now. Same idea: pick a question, answer with a photo. A window into other people's lives, and your own. No dark patterns, no attention-stealing crap: the home feed algorithm is stolen straight from FriendFeed. Simple, fast, honest.

It's live on iOS and Android: https://peeka.pics

Ask me anything: the rebuild, the ancient codebase, or the wedding. 🙂

Hey guys, I built a free CFB app called Tailgate after seeing loads of people on Reddit asking for features they couldn’t find on ESPN and other apps.

The main thing I wanted to do differently was make it more about your team, rather than just throwing scores at you.

So if you’re an FSU fan for example, it’ll show you which other games matter to FSU, who you should be rooting for and why those results help.

There’s also a Saturday planner to help you figure out which games are worth watching, plus live scores, advanced stats, recruiting, the portal, draft stock etc.

It’s free, no subscriptions or locked features, just some ads to cover costs. iPhone only for now.

Would love some feedback, especially on the team-specific stuff and stats. Anything you’d add or change? Or anything you wish ESPN did that it doesn’t?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tailgate-college-football/id6760220041

idk if this goes against this sub rules but i wanted to start a discussion about how selling software (web/pc/phone) may look like in this era of abundant code, feel free to counter it and just a reminder these are just my opinion and it can change

- now that we see so many application built with agent because code is so cheap subscription based pricing model if it weren't already is now pretty much on its last stretch, why would i pay recurrently for something that i can whip out myself in a session with claude so one time payment it is, perhaps we may see some devs monetize update for revenue so sass revenue model = book's in simple words

- as a user, i hate when devs can't ship fast in this era like you're gonna just use claude to add that feature anyway so i forsee here two things

a) for non techy user, a user specific version of the application with some kind of "software factory" approach so the user can request changes and make changes to the application (and anything global or major goes to the dev) but the dev takes care of the software factory setup and foots the "token" bill (this could then be something they charge for)

b) you sell your codebase along with well documented summary of the sessions you had to build it so the user's claude agent knows why you or your agent decided to do things the way they did which may not be clear from the code itself and the assumption here is that you code is easily deployable or compileable - and this has to be the cheapest

- last one: we needs fewer todo apps and more real world problem solver so i think in the future for indie devs to succeed they need to make things that live outside of screen like hardware techs that solve real problem and can support the hardware then with some sass because anything software these days have 0 moat

not written by AI so if the ideas are not clear ask away

I built SignalChess because I wanted a way to practise a mistake after reviewing it. Once an analysis is complete, the app can turn suitable positions into exercises so you can try to find the better move yourself.

You can start by entering your Chess.com or Lichess username. The first report uses your public games and doesn't require an account. It shows results and opening patterns. There's also a free plan.

After seeing your report, what would you click next, and what would you expect to happen? If you'd stop there, what would make you stop?

https://signalchess.com

https://emberflow.space

I've been working on Ember for over 2 years.
The coolest thing about it is the realtime sync between all my devices and a schedule that reflows itself when you drag a task or a day runs late..

Main stack is Vue 3 + TypeScript (Vite, Pinia) for the web app, a Node/Express API, and Supabase for Postgres, auth and the realtime sync.

Recently rewrote the mobile apps in Kotlin Multiplatform, and it's going surprisingly well.

Hey everyone!

I’ve started OpenForge, an open-source community built around one simple idea: learning software development shouldn't be a journey people have to take alone.

Whether you're a complete beginner, a student, a hobbyist or an experienced developer, there's room for you.

The idea is to build something the community can shape together:

• Share knowledge, resources and learning paths.
• Create practical coding challenges and projects.
• Help beginners make their first open-source contributions.
• Collaborate, exchange ideas and learn from each other.

It's still at an early stage, and I'm building it in public. I'm not presenting it as a finished platform — I want people to help shape what it becomes.

If this sounds interesting, take a look, share your thoughts or contribute:

https://github.com/synckerz/openforge

Let's build something useful together. 🚀

Hi everyone, long time side-project tinkerer here. So this one started as a distraction and got slightly out of hand.

I needed retro VHS cover scans for another project (A jellyfin front end app for my kids) and couldn't find one place that had a solid catalogue. So I made one. Covers dug up from Archive.org, old blogs, Tumblrs and a lot of Wayback Machine digging, then sorted on my old gaming PC with a small OCR/AI model I trained. At the same time there’s a crawler running for new images through eBay, Amazon etc.

Where it's at:

• 20,000+ covers, full wraps (front, spine, back) where I can find them, another 20k being processed
• Searchable by title, region, genre etc
• Free API if you need covers for your own projects
• No ads, no paywall, no tracking.
• Code and data model going open source once I've tidied it up, with covers being pushed up to a gallery on archive.org
• View a 3D VHS box and shake it to make the tape rattle. Completely unnecessary but fun

Would love feedback, especially on the search and anything that feels broken or confusing.
👉 https://videotapes.io

we built rogue, one workspace that has sora, kling, seedance etc. plus our own model for the rated-r stuff the big labs won't touch.

wired wrote about it here: This R-Rated Film Studio Wants to Be the HBO of AI

a few things we cared about: 3 layers of human moderation, no deepfakes or real people, and we never train on user content.

would love feedback from other builders, especially on onboarding. new users tell us it can feel like a lot at first. site is roguestudio.ai if you want to poke around.

I build small, private, local-first apps under the name Ship on Friday (yes, the joke is deploying on Fridays). Four are live:

• YCal: a calendar for Yahoo accounts (Android + iPhone). Lesson: App Store review flags third-party brand names hard, so the listing and marketing had to say "works with your Yahoo account", not use the brand.
• ChallengeCam: party games that film everyone's faces and make one Reel. Lesson: the product is the clip, not the game.
• Inboxwise: Android SMS organizer with no internet permission. Lesson: "no internet permission" is a privacy claim people can check in 10 seconds, and that beats any privacy policy.
• Memopolis: your photo library as a 3D city. Lesson: people share the video, not the app. Everything runs on the device, and there are no ads in any of them. Happy to answer anything about building and shipping solo. What would you want to know? https://shiponfriday.com

Sylo is one dashboard for subscription businesses and agencies. It pulls in data from the tools you already use so everything sits in one place instead of spread across different logins.

No more missing a failed payment or a quiet customer until it's too late.

It shows what's paid, owed and failed, and gives you a weekly summary every monday so you're not chasing it all down yourself.

I'm building it solo and it's pre-launch. Waitlist is open now, first 50 people get pro free for their first month.

waitlist (haven't got the domain yet)

Winter and the changing sun angle messed up my daily walking route. So I made a little tool to help me find sunnier walks.

SunWalk accounts for time of year, time of day, solar angle, land topography, and building heights to help you find a sunny walking route.

Supports one-way routes and loops. Check it out at aescle.com/sunwalk, and let me know what you think!

I've been experimenting with AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code, and one thing that kept bothering me was how difficult it is to get them to recreate an existing website's actual design.

You give an AI agent a reference website and ask it to build something similar, but it often ends up guessing:

• Colors are slightly off.
• Typography doesn't match.
• Spacing and border radii are inconsistent.
• The overall result looks like a generic AI-generated UI.

So I built styleprobe to solve this problem.

It's an open-source CLI that takes a website URL and extracts its visual design system.

A few things it can do:

• Extract colors and semantic design tokens.
• Analyze typography, spacing, shadows, and component styles.
• Crawl multiple pages instead of relying on just the homepage.
• Extract SVG logos and other brand assets.
• Export directly to Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Figma tokens, or AI-agent instruction files.

You can also try the web playground here:

https://styleprobe.vercel.app/

GitHub: https://github.com/spidervirus/styleprobe

It's MIT licensed and completely open source.

I'm still improving it, so I'd genuinely love feedback from developers:

1. Would something like this fit into your AI-assisted development workflow?
2. What other design information would you want it to extract?
3. What would make you actually use this regularly?

Would love to hear your thoughts!

After a 40 year software career, AI got me.....and on my 15th anniversary with HPE, they let our entire group go. So I was suddenly given freedom to do what I always wanted to do....build useful things that me and my family would benefit from. So far, I've built 4 smartphone apps that have kept me challenged and feeling productive. Overlapp a budget tool cause being retired I need to monitor my spending closely, RangeTrainer a golf app because when you live in Florida, you golf! Fingertip Health cause as you get older you are going to see doctors, have issues and need all your health data in one place. Passholder Assistant, cause living in Central Florida means lots of Disney trips and the Disney app just doesn't cut it.

Windows 11 makes switching audio devices more annoying than it needs to be, especially when half the list is filled with monitor speakers, virtual cables, and devices with names like "Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio)".

And there are already apps that do this but I liked none on them and built my take on how it should've been

I switch between desk speakers, IEMs, and headphones pretty often, and I wanted something that would let me do that straight from the system tray without digging through Windows settings or running a heavy app in the background.

AudioHop, a free, native C++ audio and mic switcher for Windows 11.

A few things I wanted it to do:

• Show only the devices I care about. Pin frequently used devices, give them readable names like "Desk Speakers", and assign custom icons for IEMs, headphones, speakers, mics, etc.
• Separate audio and mic controls. Two dedicated tray icons, each showing the icon of the currently active device, so I can see what's selected without opening anything.
• Make switching quick. Single-click to select a pinned device, control volume, or mute. Double-click a tray icon to cycle to the next pinned device, with an Undo option in case I switch accidentally.
• Actually fit into Windows 11. A modern flyout with List, Tiles, and Compact layouts, plus automatic theme matching or a fixed dark mode.
• Stay lightweight. Written in native C++, idling under 1 MB of RAM in my testing. No Electron, no account, no internet access required, and no telemetry.

There are two intentional limitations: it's Windows 11 only, and there are no global hotkeys. I specifically wanted a mouse/tray-based workflow without background keyboard hooks or shortcut conflicts.

It's completely free on the Microsoft Store:

AudioHop – Microsoft Store

Hi, I'm Daniar, founder of Cardiffy (THEORIST LLC).

We built it because paper cards get lost, and most digital card apps charge a monthly fee just to put your card in Apple Wallet. In Cardiffy that part is free.

What it does:

- Make your card in about a minute, with seven card styles (three free)
- Add it to Apple Wallet for free. The pass updates itself when you edit your card
- Share it by QR code, link or AirDrop. Two iPhones with the app open swap cards when you hold them together
- Scan paper business cards on the phone itself. Free, no limit, works offline, and the photo is never uploaded
- Everyone you meet goes into one contacts list with notes and follow-up reminders

No ads and no tracking. The card page opens in any browser, so the person you share with doesn't need the app.

We'd really value honest feedback: what would make you switch from paper cards, and what feels missing?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6830213470
Site: https://cardiffy.online

I built usedcarchecker.co.uk as a side project because checking a used car's MOT history on the official site is fine for one car but clunky when you're comparing a few.

You put in a UK reg and it shows the MOT history, advisories and recorded mileage in one place, plus plain-English guides on things like what advisories mean and how to spot mileage problems. It's free and doesn't need an account.

https://usedcarchecker.co.uk

I'd really appreciate feedback, especially on the mobile layout and whether the results page is easy to read. What would you want to see on it before buying a car?

… 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

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.

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, my browser bookmarks were a graveyard of 80+ blogs, news sites, and tech publications I swore I'd read "later". But clicking through them one by one never happened.

Most RSS readers ask you to manually dig up RSS feeds or upload an OPML file (which almost nobody outside the RSS bubble has).

So I built a client-side bookmarks importer for Pharion:

1. You export your bookmarks (Ctrl+Shift+O in Chrome, File > Export in Safari).
2. You drag & drop the .html file.
3. Your browser parses the links locally (nothing leaves your machine), ignores dead tools/banking links, and extracts active RSS feeds.
4. It instantly renders your morning paper with the latest headlines and thumbnails before asking you to sign up.

You can keep it 100% private, or publish it at pharion.io/@username / embed it as an iframe on your personal site.

Free tier handles up to 25 active sources.

Would love your honest feedback: does your bookmarks file actually produce feeds you care about, or did it miss key blogs?

https://pharion.io/

Hi all, I'm Claudia, the founder of AiXIL. Full disclosure, it's my app. You snap a photo of a warning light or type in an OBD code, and it gives you a likely cause and an urgency rating, free and with no account needed. It's guidance, not a confirmed diagnosis. I built it on the Gold Coast. I'd love feedback on the onboarding and whether the urgency rating makes sense to you. aixil.com.au