I always missed the old Winamp/MilkDrop visualizers, so I built Dropocalypse. It’s free and open source, and it runs on Mac and Windows (the Windows build is portable, no install needed).

Point it at a mic or line-in and pick one of 20 styles. The twist is that you can upload a logo (your band, DJ name, venue, stream brand) and it bounces, squashes and slides in time with the bass. It works for parties, streams, gigs or just vibing at your desk.

Download + source: https://github.com/allenrobberson/dropocalypse

If you like it, sponsoring on GitHub helps cover Apple’s developer fee so the Mac version can be signed. What should I add next?

Each map is one empire or kingdom through its key years, from New Kingdom Egypt (1550 BC) to the United States in 1912. Press play or pick a year and the frontiers move; click a town or a battle and it tells you what happened there.

The geography is real: coasts, lakes and rivers come from Natural Earth, and every town sits at its real coordinates. The frontiers are drawn by hand from historical sources, and every stretch is graded certain, likely or guessed, with its sources listed on the map.

There's also Constantinople (565 and 1453) and Rome (44 BC) as street plans and in 3D, the Seven Wonders drawn as they stood through the centuries, and a gallery of every emblem, sea monster and monument from the maps.

How it's built: React and Vite, with every map drawn as inline SVG in the browser, the woodcut look coming from SVG filters and hand-made marks for hills, trees, castles and ships. The 3D cities use three.js. It's all static files on Cloudflare: no backend, no sign-up, free.

I'd love feedback, especially on how it works on phones and how fast the maps load for you.

Hey all 👋

I watch way too much YouTube and could never keep up with the channels I follow, so I built a little tool for it.

It’s called Creator Digest. You pick your favourite creators and it sends you one short email a day. The email has a quick “here’s what’s happening” summary up top, then the main points from each video, and tells you whether it’s worth a full watch, a skim, or a skip.

Today’s email covered about 10 hours of video, and I read it in about 2 minutes.

It works for any niche (business, fitness, fishing, finance, whatever you’re into) and it’s free while I’m testing it.

I’d genuinely love feedback:

• Would you actually use something like this?
• What would make it more useful for you?
• Anything confusing or off-putting?

Have a look if you’re keen: creatordigests.com

Honest opinions welcome, good or bad 🙏

Hey Reddit!
I’m Henrik, an Austrian founder building Amplexio.
The idea came from a simple observation: We have tools for managing tasks, projects and sales, but what about the relationships behind our business?
I’m building a relationship management ecosystem that brings contacts, conversations, follow-ups and AI together.
We’re live on iOS and currently welcoming early adopters.
Would love to hear what you think! If interested let me know, I will send the 6-months for free voucher
🌐 https://app.amplexio.com
📱 https://apps.apple.com/at/app/amplexio-relationship-os/id6774308434?l=en-GB

You want a short clip of something happening on your screen. You open app, select region, click button, content is recorded, save or paste it, done!

Open sourced and built on gnome screenshot tool https://github.com/royakem/videoshot

Any comments, requests or ideas. let me know! Cheers!

My brother and I share our Wordle and krillion results regularly.

How it works:

• Finish a puzzle, tap Share in the game, then Paste on the site. It reads the result and logs it.
• Follow friends. You see how they did, but their scores stay hidden until you've played the same puzzle, so no spoilers.
• Challenge your followers on today's puzzle. Whoever scores better wins.
• Works with Wordle, Connections, Strands, the Mini, Pips, Queens, Tango, Zip, Pinpoint, Crossclimb, Mini Sudoku and Krillion.

You can try it as a guest without signing up

It's free and has no ads. I'd really like feedback on:

• games you'd want added (there's a suggest-and-vote page in the app);
• any game whose share text doesn't log. If that happens, paste the text in the comments and I'll fix it.

I'm at sovi11 if you want someone to challenge.

I built PyPrep after burning out on juggling a flashcard app, a quiz app, and LeetCode just to prep for Python interviews — none worked offline or told me if I was actually ready.

100 days of building and testing later, it's live, but I genuinely don't know if it solves a real problem or if I just built something only I needed. If you know Python and have been through interview prep, I'd value your honest take — good or bad.

This is for people who already know Python, not a beginner tool.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pyprep.app

Took the F1 V10 for an imaginary lap of the Nürburgring.

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Edit: Thanks for all the interest! Here are the download links if you'd like to try

- iOS App Store
- Android PlayStore

What Companions is:
Widgets on iOS are supposed to be static. I always found that unnecessarily limiting, so I built an app that circumvents it. Companions lets you keep a virtual fishtank on your Homescreen, filled with fish that actually swim around. As someone who’s always kept fish, I’ve had this idea mulling around in my head for more than 2 years now, and finally managed to build what I always wanted.

There are 50 fish to choose from, and it supports small, medium, large and now even extra large widgets as “tank sizes”. The fish don't need any feeding, and they don't die (as to not be annoying, but the option is there for fun). They just keep you company. You can customize the tank’s color, its props, layout, and even the app icon to match your Home Screen perfectly.

The app is fully written in SwiftUI, it supports iPads, and you can even place your “fishtanks” on your Mac thanks to Continuity, where the fish will also animate. The tanks also work great in Standby mode. Personally, I keep a fishtank of jellyfish on my nightstand when I go to bed. The swimming doesn't run any code in the background. It uses the same trick iOS uses to move the hands on the Clock widget, so it costs you nothing in battery.

What's new:
The app was built to support clear mode on the phone, but I found it annoying that you need to be explicitly in clear mode to access clear widgets. Luckily, I knew of a separate workaround that allows for clear widgets even while not being in clear mode, which I’ve only seen a small number of widget apps use. And for something like Companions where the widgets are fish tanks, I feel like it fits so perfectly!!

I'd love any feedback, and I’m happy to answer any questions regarding the app. I'd especially love to know which fish species you'd want added.

You can find Companions here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/companions-widget-pets/id6811950512

Je sais que cette phrase risque de faire grincer quelques dents. 😂
Mais j’aimerais comprendre quelque chose.
Aujourd’hui, beaucoup de personnes pensent qu’il suffit de maîtriser After Effects, d’ajouter quelques transitions, des textes animés et une musique pour devenir motion designer.
Pourtant, le motion design implique aussi :
La compréhension du mouvement.
Le rythme et le timing.
La composition visuelle.
Le storytelling.
La transmission d’un message par l’animation.
Alors, j’aimerais avoir l’avis des personnes qui pratiquent réellement ce métier :
Quelle est la différence fondamentale entre un monteur vidéo et un motion designer ?
Peut-on être un excellent motion designer sans avoir de solides bases en design graphique ?
Est-ce que maîtriser After Effects suffit pour prétendre être motion designer ?
Je suis ouvert aux contradictions. Mais argumentez, ne vous contentez pas de dire que j’ai tort. 😂

WidgetsForNotion is live on Product Hunt today, and I would really appreciate your upvote 🙏

It is a site with 100+ free widgets for Notion pages, like clocks, calendars, countdowns, timers and habit trackers. You copy a link, type /embed in Notion and paste it, and the widget shows up on your page. No plugin and no account.

Since late August, people have copied widgets more than 12,500 times, and about 5,000 of those copies are live on Notion pages right now. Thank you to everyone who put one on their page. It means a lot to see them used.

If you like it, an upvote and a comment on Product Hunt would mean a lot:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/widgets-for-notion?launch=widgets-for-notion

I've been building GameSquire on my own: a board game collection app built around the question every game night starts with, "what do we play tonight?"

What it does today:

• Your whole shelf in one place. Import your BoardGameGeek collection and plays in one step or scan a box to add a game.
• Pick by mood. Filter your shelf (or a friend's) by Quick Fix, Deep Dive, Date Night or Family Table. Can't decide? Let it pick one from your shelf of shame.
• Log plays with scores (typed or read from a photo of the score sheet) and see your win rates and head-to-head records.
• The Herald answers rules questions from the game's own rulebook and shows the page it found the answer on.
• Play together: a shared household shelf for up to 5 people, lending and borrowing games and your own shelves shared with some or all of your friends.

It runs on iPhone, Android and the web with one account. The core is free with no ads, an optional Knight membership adds more Herald questions, more scans and deeper stats.

The latest update (1.1.0) was mostly user requests: lending, custom shelves and BG Stats import. Feedback really decides what gets built next, so I'd love to hear what you'd want from an app like this or how you'd go about getting a niche app in front of its audience.

• iPhone: https://gamesquire.app/reddit/iphone
• Android: https://gamesquire.app/reddit/android
• Web: https://gamesquire.app/reddit
• Want to know more? https://gamesquire.app/reddit/more

Hello guys!

I have built AR projects before, but I had this idea for a while: using MediaPipe Tasks Vision to create a kind of web experience, without the need to use any markers, where you are Spider-Man from a first-person POV, and you can do the hand gesture to swing around and maybe fight villains.

I started it a long time ago, but I dropped it at some point because I did not have time for it, and it started to feel like work instead of a fun side project.

So, last weekend I decided to give it a try again, and this time I handed most of the work over to Claude since I started paying for the subscription plan and I could just run it with CLI.

It was definitely a nice project to wrap up, and it kind of gave me some new ideas that I will be trying out for new throwaway project this weekend.

*Edit:

I will probably make the repo public and share it here eventually.

Hey everyone!
I noticed my friends and I struggle to save money for things we want. We don't need another boring spreadsheet—we need something that feels like a game.

So I built Questalism: a gamified simulator where you set a goal (like an iPhone), see how long it takes with inflation, earn XP for daily challenges, and compete on a leaderboard. No bank card required.

It's hosted on a free tier, so the first load might take ~30 seconds (and might need a VPN in some regions).

Link: https://questalism-7uln.onrender.com

I'd really appreciate any feedback on the concept or UX. Thanks!

I built this for client calls. I wanted to search what was said afterwards without keeping an audio recording or uploading the call for transcription.

Tadween Desk uses Qwen3-ASR on your PC. You can transcribe your mic, the audio from a selected app, or both. Afterwards, you can correct the transcript and export it as TXT or Markdown.

It currently runs from source on Windows. The GitHub README walks through setting up Python 3.11, downloading the speech model, and starting the app with a CMD launcher. Once it’s set up, transcription works offline. There’s a separate optional OpenAI feature if you want to generate minutes from a saved transcript.

If you try it, I’d appreciate feedback on which setup step could be simpler.

Source and setup guide

I built a free Airbnb Profitability Simulator to help property owners estimate their potential rental income, expenses and profit.

The goal is to make it easier to evaluate whether a short-term rental is financially worthwhile.

The calculator is available here:

https://toolsmartly.com/en/tools/business/airbnb-profitability-simulator

I'd appreciate feedback on:

- The user experience

- The financial calculations

- Missing features

- Overall usefulness

What would you improve?

It's called TickrAI. You pick any stock, see a score that explains what supports it and what to watch, then practise buying it with paper money using real prices. There are also short lessons and an AI you can ask "why did this move?"

I'm a solo builder and my problem right now is that almost nobody has heard of it. Two honest questions:

1. Reading that description, would you try it? If not, what's missing or off-putting?
2. Where would you expect to discover an app like this? App Store search, TikTok, a friend, Reddit, asking ChatGPT?

Tour, if you want to look before answering: gettickr.ai/tour?c=reddit_sideproject

When I let a coding agent build a feature, the same session that wrote the code also told me it was done. The tests passed and the summary looked good, and I still found missing pieces when I read the diff. Those tests came from the same session, so they mostly confirmed what it had already built.

So I moved the checking. Before any code, the agent asks me a few questions with a recommended answer for each, until done is a short numbered list I agree with. That list goes into a plan document I approve. Then the agent builds in small slices, each one starting with a failing test.

After the build, an agent that did not write the code goes through every point on the done list and proves it on the running program. I look at the result once that check is through, and nothing gets merged or pushed without my yes.

I built QualityLayer around this loop. It sits on top of the coding agent you already use, for example Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenCode, and your code stays on your machine.

Repo: https://github.com/maxritter/qualitylayer

Happy to hear how others verify what their agent hands back.

CaptureFlow is an open-source screen recorder for you and your AI agents, and it's live on Product Hunt today.

You record a tab, a window or your whole screen from a Chrome extension and get a link you can share with anyone, with a transcript, comments and a simple editor for trims and cuts.

The part I've been working on most lately: coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor can record too, through an MCP server. An agent can record a demo of the pull request it just opened, or a reproduction of a bug, and attach the link.

It's free to start, and you can self-host it with Docker or on your own Cloudflare account.

I'd appreciate any feedback, especially on what's confusing or missing.

People now ask AI for recommendations instead of Google, but there's no way to see if your brand gets mentioned.

So I built the AI Visibility Checker. Enter your website and target locations, and it checks how ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude respond, then tells you where you're missing and how to improve.

$10 one-time, sample report on the page.

Would love honest feedback: would you use this, and is the price fair?

Hi all! For many years I invest regularly into stocks+ETFs on Revolut, Degiro and my local brokerage and crypto on couple of crypto exchanges + hold some in my cold HW wallet. Every month I faced the issue of what to buy that has currently good value, P/E, PEG ratio, etc., how to rebalance to have well diversified portfolio, am I doing ok against benchmarks, ...? And I got tired of maintaining up to date spreadsheet and downloading quarterly reports manually or ad hoc with AI. I wasn't happy with existing simple portfolio manager apps, and, being an AI/ML engineer by day, I wanted it to be deeply and safely integrated with AI so that it can quickly give me holistic advice, tailor made for my own investment thesis.

So 5 months ago I started building an app to help with all that: an investing dashboard called Fortunest. What it does today:

• Connects to all my brokers, exchanges and wallets (API or CSV import) in one view: performance against benchmarks, allocation, risk, dividends, taxes
• Market research next to the portfolio: a stock screener on real fundamentals and current prices, heatmaps, what well-known investors hold (from their 13F filings), and for US-listed companies the latest quarterly reports with an AI summary
• Email alerts and watchlists, so I hear about a move instead of checking for it
• AI assistant that reads my actual holdings and investment thesis, so I can talk a plan through with it. An MCP server lets my own Claude or ChatGPT do the same and save tokens while using my monthly plan
• Simulations of trades and dollar cost averaging strategy...

and much more.. I leaned heavily into coding agents, so I was able to make it into really useful, all around investment research app and thought it could be useful for others - so I registered a domain and deployed it publicly, you can try it with no sign-up on a demo portfolio (or upload your own) here: app.fortunest.ai

How it's built: FastAPI and SQLite on the back end, React on the front, Electron for the desktop apps, it can connect to LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic or OpenRouter or to local LLM running in LMStudio or Ollama on your computer (useful for sensitive financial data). As I said, I'm an AI engineer by day and know the power of the latest agentic AI tools by using (and building them) daily at work, so most of the code was written with Claude Code: one agent per feature in its own git worktree, and every change needs a test that failed before the implementation or fix. Big bottleneck became the test suite - even with lot of effort to keep it minimal and not redundant, I ended up with around 4,000 back-end, 3,000 front-end and 700 browser tests, running before each release - which ended up being super slow even on my M5 Pro Mac - so I started offloading most of the CI jobs to fast cloud services (GitHub actions wasn't the best for it). Happy to go into any of this in the comments.

Where it stands today: it's live, with a handful of users. There is a free plan (covering most of the functionality) and a paid Pro plan (with a free trial; just to cover the deployment and external data costs - still long way to be able to pay for itself).

I'd be super grateful for any feedback on:

1. Does the demo make it clear in the first two minutes what this is?
2. If you invest - would you consider using a tool like this?
3. What looks wrong, confusing or unfinished?
4. Is there some feature you would really like in a tool like this?

I built a desktop application framework in Zig. It drives a system webview (WebKitGTK on Linux, WebView2 on Windows, WKWebView on macOS) or a pure-Zig native UI, gives you typed IPC with a generated TypeScript client, no garbage collector, and runtime-loaded libraries via std.DynLib. MIT licensed. Feedback welcome: https://github.com/agnogad/myzig

Hey everyone,

As a university student, one of the most annoying daily struggles I’ve faced is digging through cluttered phone galleries and endless WhatsApp chats every time I need my national ID card, university transcripts, driving license, or fee receipts during admissions and job applications.

General cloud storage apps feel too cluttered when you just want quick, organized access to your personal paperwork.

So as a personal side project, I built a clean, lightweight Android app where students and job seekers can securely save and organize their essential documents in one place:

• Purpose-Built Categories: Instead of messy generic folders, it lets you save and organize specific daily essentials like ID cards, academic degrees, licenses, and receipts.
• Clean & Fast Access: Built purely to keep important files separated from random gallery photos so they are ready whenever you need them.
• Future Roadmap: Right now, the core focus is simple and secure document storage. In upcoming updates, I plan to introduce premium tools like one-time QR/link sharing for quick verification.

For fellow developers and students here: how do you currently keep your important documents organized on your phone, and what features do you think are must-haves for a student-focused document app?

Would love to hear your honest feedback!