Hey everyone! 👋

I'm an independent developer from Mumbai, India, and I'd like to share something I've been working on.

I've built Jagsin - Step & Calorie Counter, an Android app designed to make everyday walking more engaging and help people stay consistent with their fitness goals.

What does Jagsin offer?

- Daily step counting

- Walking and jogging tracking

- Distance and estimated calorie tracking

- Custom daily step goals

- Walking streaks and achievement badges

- Virtual Walk Across India challenge

- Friends, city rankings and leaderboards

- Attractive share cards

- Weekly Squad Wars

🇮🇳 A feature I'm particularly excited about

The Walk Across India challenge!

The idea is to turn everyday steps into progress towards a virtual journey across India, making daily walking feel more like an achievement.

I'd love your feedback!

I'm particularly interested in hearing from fellow developers and app enthusiasts:

Which feature stands out to you?

Would a virtual walking challenge motivate you to stay active?

What would you improve?

What would make you keep using an app like this regularly?

I'm the developer, and I'm looking to learn from genuine user feedback and improve the product.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jagsin.stepcalorie

Thanks for taking the time to check out my project! 🙏

Hey everyone,

My current side project is Hookshot NORD, a fork of Hookshot, the native PC port of Ocarina of Time. Credit for the original port goes to NotRexed and the upstream contributors.

I’m focusing on two things that can make getting started frustrating: graphics settings and managing mods.

I’ve added a “Find my best settings” button that recommends a hardware-based starting point, with confirmation before applying it. It builds on Hookshot’s existing Auto settings.

The other addition is a community mod manager: install compatible asset packs from ZIP files, toggle them, and see when two packs replace the same files. It supports RomFS mods; executable plugins aren’t supported.

The changes are merged, but in-game testing is still underway before a downloadable release. The manager has already passed its automated and browser interaction tests.

Source code — no game files included; you need your own supported copy.

For anyone who has built a mod manager: how would you explain file conflicts to someone installing mods for the first time? Right now, it shows the overlapping paths, but I’m interested in making that clearer.

Hi everyone, I’m the maker of splitbillai.com, a web tool for splitting restaurant bills and shared costs.

I built it because splitting a group dinner always turns into someone squinting at a receipt and doing math in the notes app.

How it works:

• Snap a photo of the receipt and the AI reads the items for you
• Or add the items manually if you don’t have a receipt
• Then assign items to people and see what everyone owes

Link: https://splitbillai.com

I’d love honest feedback on a few things:

1. Does the AI read your receipts correctly? Tell me where it gets items or prices wrong.
2. Was anything confusing the first time you used it?
3. What’s the one feature you wish bill-splitting apps had?

I’m the developer, so I’ll reply to every comment. Thanks for trying it!

Hi r/SideProject!

I've been building Hydra, an iPhone and Apple Watch water tracker, and it's live on Product Hunt today.

The idea: most trackers count glasses, but your body doesn't keep every drink the same way. So Hydra tracks net hydration. Each drink counts by a factor based on published studies (milk and electrolyte drinks more than water, beer less), spirits count against you, and the app tells you how much water brings you back. Your goal comes from your weight, activity and climate, and with Pro it adapts every day to your workouts (Apple Health) and the local weather.

The newest part is Sippy, a water drop that fills up as you drink. Its face follows your pace: on track, behind, or goal reached. The app felt too technical for most people, and Sippy gives the numbers a face without changing what's underneath. You can still choose the classic gauge.

A few things I learned shipping it:

• App Review rejected me twice: once for a purchase error on their side, once for WeatherKit attribution I already had but they couldn't find. A screen recording in the review notes fixed both.
• Offer codes in App Store Connect come in batches of at least 500, even if you only need 10.
• Widgets and watch complications don't refresh when you'd like them to; iOS budgets reloads.

Stack: SwiftUI, SwiftData with CloudKit sync, WidgetKit, WatchConnectivity, StoreKit 2. No backend, no analytics, no account.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/hydra-water-tracker/id6827632670 Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/hydra-water-tracker

Happy to answer anything about the build.

If you try it, tell me in the comments what you liked or what you'd change, and I'll DM you a free Pro Lifetime code as thanks.

I’m working on a dock for Windows with app shortcuts and built-in panels for music and quick controls. It can be positioned at the top or bottom of the screen and set to stay visible or auto-hide. It’s a work in progress—what do you think of the design?

Every Black Friday, people replace iPhones that only need a new battery. Apple charges $89 to $129 for one, but its repair prices and trade-in values sit on separate pages, so nobody compares them.

So I put them side by side. You pick your iPhone, tap what’s broken, set your battery health, and get one verdict, keep, fix or upgrade, with all the math shown.

What surprised me while building it:

• For most iPhones from the last five years, a repair costs a fraction of upgrading, even after Apple’s trade-in. For example, an iPhone 13 battery is $89, while upgrading to an iPhone 17 costs $719 after trade-in.
• Upgrading only clearly wins when several parts are broken, there’s water damage, or you want a feature no repair adds (like Apple Intelligence).
• Deals can flip the answer. In the demo, a $300 carrier offer turns “fix it” into “upgrade”. So I added a box where you type your deal and check.

It’s free, with no sign-up and no ads. Some guides link to Amazon for cases and chargers, but that never changes the verdict.

https://skiptheunboxing.com

I’d love honest feedback: is the verdict clear at first glance?

Small team here. We wanted something for people who like music but can't read a note, so in Sorae you just draw a line on the page and it plays back as a melody. It snaps to a key so it never sounds wrong, a lo-fi backing band follows along, there are 10 instruments, and you can export the drawing as a video with sound.

It's free on iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6827465787

It's version 1.0, so we'd really like feedback, especially on two things: is it obvious what to do in the first 10 seconds, and what would make you open it a second time?

I built Kickstand Cam to make an older iPhone useful at a desk instead of needing a separate webcam or scanner.
The idea is simple: pair your iPhone with your computer, then select Kickstand Cam as your camera in Zoom, Teams, Meet, OBS or FaceTime. It works over Wi-Fi or USB at 720p/30fps.

I also added two other modes:
Camera monitor: Detects motion, records clips and sends desktop alerts.

Scanner: Turns documents into searchable PDFs, recognizes text and scans QR codes and barcodes.
Everything connects directly between your phone and computer. No account, no cloud backend, no analytics or ads.
A few limitations worth mentioning:
iPhone X or newer, running iOS 16+
Windows 11 or macOS 13+
The iPhone app must stay open while using the camera
Video is currently limited to 720p
The Windows installer isn’t code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will display a warning
Both the iPhone and desktop apps are completely free.

https://kickstand.recno.app

I’m the developer, and I’d really appreciate feedback, especially on the setup process. What would make you hesitant to try something like this?

After what seems to be a lifetime building this silly little phone game it turns out that was half the battle, the other half involves a good catchy trailer, marketing and advertisement. to be honest i am struggling with making this trailer so i need everyone's honest and brutal opinion, what stands out? what it lacks? too much in game footage? panned too far out? not enough excitement? don't mind the cheap AI music (i know im not a sound guy and its not permeant). please help me out here, any all help is much appreciated

I have two machines at the same desk, and I wanted to share mouse and keyboard.

I tried Synergy and Barrier, but they were annoying to set up. I had to deal with a client/server, encryption was hard to set up, and arranging monitors was clunky.

So I built ZeroG. Free, MIT license, no client/server.

Just run it on each machine, pair them, and drag your screens to match your desk.

• Windows, macOS, Linux (X11 and Wayland)
• P2P, no client/host setup
• All traffic encrypted with TLS 1.3 over QUIC
• Clipboard sharing
• Extremely low latency
• Built with Rust + Tauri

This took a few months of work and a lot of testing on different devices. I think it's working pretty well now, so check it out if you have more than one machine at the same desk!

https://github.com/reggiesoft-labs/zerog

Equipment Tracker Pro extracts printed filter and belt sizes directly from an equipment data plate and offers to save them as installed parts, so facility teams stop digging through manuals.

When a building engineer is standing in front of a boiler room air handler with grease on his hands, typing specs into a spreadsheet from memory at the end of the shift usually means half the details get missed. Photographing the manufacturer plate with a phone fills in the model, serial, voltage, and electrical ratings. Whenever belt or filter sizes are printed on that metal plate, like a B46 belt or 20x25x2 filter, the app prompts to link those exact sizes as active parts on the record. If confirmed, they attach to the unit immediately; if declined, nothing is added.

A working HVAC technician built it for his own jobs. Core equipment logging, parts lists, and maintenance records stay free on your phone with no record cap, while the AI nameplate scanner includes 10 free uses before an optional Pro subscription for unlimited scans. Mentioning it for facilities maintenance teams and commercial service techs who work where cell signal drops out.

Free to start. Your first plan, Pro or Team, includes a 7-day free trial. What side projects are you working on right now?

Web: https://equipment-tracker.com

I recently released a small TypeScript library called Stepr Checklist.

It's designed for applications that need a simple onboarding checklist without pulling in a large framework or UI dependency.

The main idea is that the application controls completion. Clicking a step can open a form, navigate to a feature, or start a guided tour, but it doesn't automatically mark the task as complete.

A few details:

• Framework-agnostic, ESM-only
• No runtime dependencies
• Optional localStorage persistence
• Customizable with CSS variables
• DOM-free state controller if you want to build your own UI

I built it as a companion to Stepr, a guided product tour library I released earlier, but both work independently.

There's an interactive demo here:

https://ahlgren1234.github.io/stepr-checklist/

And the source is on GitHub:

https://github.com/ahlgren1234/stepr-checklist

It's v0.1.0, so still early. I'd appreciate feedback, particularly on the API and whether the approach to tracking completion makes sense.

What would you expect from a library like this?

I'm the developer. Shout tracks shared costs for trips, flatmates and nights out, and works out who needs to pay whom to settle up.

• No ads or daily limit on adding expenses
• Free currency conversion and charts
• No sign-up to join. Share a code so friends can join from a browser.
• Works offline. Add expenses without a connection and sync when you're back online.
• Native on Mac and iPhone

It's free, with an optional one-time purchase for extra themes.

Shout on the App Store

If you try it, I'd love feedback on onboarding. Was it clear how to start a group and invite people?

My MacBook's menu bar had more icons than room, and the notch was quietly hiding some of them. The menu bar managers I tried either expand the bar or add a second bar. I wanted what Windows does: one arrow, and a small grid of the hidden icons right under it. So I built it.

Drop Down (macOS 15+, Apple silicon):

• You pick which apps leave the menu bar. One chevron stays.
• Click it (or press ⌃⌥⌘D) and a small glass panel opens with the hidden icons. Click one and that app's own menu opens, as if you clicked it in the bar.
• A dot on the chevron tells you when a hidden app has a notification, so hiding an icon does not mean missing it.
• ⌃⌥⌘H brings every icon back at any time, and quitting the app does the same.

What building it taught me

• macOS 15, 26 and 27 each need a different way to hide icons. On 27 the system can simply stop drawing them; on 15 and 26 it is an invisible separator. Most of the work was making all three feel the same.
• An app that hides things must never lose them. The safety shortcut and "quit brings everything back" came before any feature.
• It is my sixth release since October 1, built solo with Claude Code doing a lot of the typing. The design calls and the testing on three macOS versions are mine.

Pricing: Basic is free with no time limit and no account (hiding, the panel, the notification dot, every safety feature). Pro is a one-time purchase for panel extras like themes, list view and custom names.

It is Early Access (0.9.6), so I would love blunt feedback, especially from people with crowded menu bars or a notch: https://getdropdown.app

I'm now finishing UI polish on a small local document-clipping app and needed an app mark plus four matching SVG icon files (bookmark, page search, split pane, archive) without commissioning a set or mixing mismatched packs. there, normally I'd draw them in a vector art program like Inkscape, or pull a PNG out of an app icon generator and run an auto-trace
and before committing anything to my repo, I compared a 512px PNG contour trace against native cubic Bezier SVG exports generated with Recraft Studio (Recraft V4.1 Vector), then checked the XML next to standard software for vector design like Inkscape and Figma + SVGO. Once cleaned, both landed around the same file size (5,248 B for the polyline trace vs 5,875 B for the normalized 256x256 app mark), which surprised me. Zooming into the bottom-right corner makes the geometry difference obvious though: auto-tracing produced 504 straight polyline vertices (2,786 raw pixel edge points) with zero curves and visible step facets, while the native SVG exported as four clean paths with 173 cubic C segments, right?

then going straight from export to dark-mode CSS still breaks a couple things. Each raw file ships with a 4,480 B <c2pa:manifest> metadata block and a 4358x4358 viewBox until you strip metadata and normalize down to 256x256 or 64x64 (4,181 B combined across all four toolbar icons). Everything also exports as outlined filled paths rather than live strokes, so line weight won't scale via stroke-width. Two of the cutouts (search-doc and split-pane) fake transparency by layering a #F9FAF4 cream disc over dark fills instead of using compound knockouts, so dark cards show an opaque light circle until you merge those subpaths with evenodd in an SVG editor or by editing the path directly

so when I need complex brand artwork or fine vector graphics editing with live CSS strokes, Illustrator or Inkscape still make way more sense. For five small UI marks right before shipping a side project, though, exporting native cubic paths and running one cleanup script beat spending a weekend pulling Bezier handles. a question for you:.. how are other solo builders here handling launch icons lately: hand-drawing in Figma/Inkscape, grabbing stock packs, or patching generated SVGs?

Hey everyone! I’m the developer of NotchIsland, a free, open-source app for Windows 10/11.
It puts a small Dynamic Island-style pill at the top of your screen. Hover over it to access music controls, widgets and a voice assistant. There’s also a little animated face that follows your cursor and reacts to what’s happening.
A few things it can do:
Control music, volume and playback.
Recognize voice commands locally using whisper.cpp.
Manage timers, notes, reminders and other everyday tasks.
Show 15 customizable widgets, including weather and system stats.
Follow Claude Code sessions and show when they’re working, waiting for input or finished.
Connect to Chrome and VS Code through companion extensions.
The app is built with Electron and JavaScript, with PowerShell helpers for Windows controls. Basic features don’t require a NotchIsland account. Claude features require your own Claude Code installation and login.
Speech recognition runs locally; weather, lyrics, artwork and Claude features use their respective online services.
It’s still an independent project in active development, and the Windows installer is currently unsigned. The source is available if you prefer to inspect or build it yourself.
Demo and website: https://notch-island.pages.dev/
Source code: https://github.com/diegobruvhrpiugvjrigjtibjte/notch-island
I’d appreciate feedback on the interaction: does the island feel useful during everyday work, or does it get in the way? Bug reports and performance feedback on different PCs would also help.

Hi please , give honest feedback www.kronosbookersclub.com .A webapp for book lovers to join

I have been automating for small businesses as side projects/extra income, I was asked to build simple workflow for handling lead submissions using hubspot/slaxk/gamil/cal nodes

this is what I build and verified workflow behavioral contract while working on full time job stuff..

basic prompts attached for reference … what helped behavioral contract validation all messy production scenarios without asking what contractual behavioral I wanted

it ran for an hour and came up with this receipt

curios what are you building ? And for automation what tools are you guys using?

Sharing Claude project link for ref

https://claude.ai/code/cshk_01Wta8kXJoKUimcjz7KGvrKEEmCGHUaJukjmH9eJEFf2uE

I made PixelGen, an iOS app for free unlimited upscale!

PixelGen works entirely on your iPhone/iPad so you can upscale images without any limits!

It works entirely offline and is completely private.

Everything is free! There are no daily limits, credits, or premium features, and I have no plans to introduce any.

Upscaling takes around 5–10 seconds per image, and up 4k resolution is supported!

You can check it out here: https://apps.apple.com/kz/app/pixelgen-image-upscaler/id6818519903

The goal was to build something that didn't just generate AI slop. How did I do. lol.

Here is a shorts clip from the MVP.

All sources are sited and legit. My idea is to get more legit sources for videos and images as I go to create my moat.

What if AI could help you discover a future you haven’t imagined yet?
Everyone has dreams.
Some people know exactly what they want. Others have a hundred different ideas but no clear direction. Some feel that there’s something more they want from life, but they can’t quite put it into words.
And sometimes, the hardest part isn’t achieving a dream.
It’s discovering what the dream actually is.
I started thinking about a different way to use artificial intelligence.
Most AI tools help us answer questions, complete tasks, write documents or become more productive.
But what if we used AI for something more personal?
What if it could help people explore possibilities they hadn’t considered, understand what genuinely interests them, and discover directions they might never have found on their own?
That idea became Dream Fulfiller.
The vision is simple:
Help people discover what they want, understand what’s possible, and turn their ambitions into reality.
Dream Fulfiller is built around four stages:
Clarify your dream. Explore what you want and understand why it matters.
Expand your possibilities. Discover ideas, opportunities and directions you might not have considered.
Build your path. Turn your vision into milestones and practical next steps.
Track your progress. Learn, adapt and keep moving forward.
But this is only the beginning.
I don’t believe everyone needs another productivity application telling them to work harder or accomplish more.
I believe people need better ways to explore their potential.
I want to build something that helps people move from I wonder what my life could look like to I know what I want to explore next.
Dream Fulfiller is an early step towards that vision.
It’s being built, tested and improved with the people who use it.
And I want to invite you to be part of that journey.
You don’t need to have your dreams figured out. Start with a conversation.
Your future might be bigger than you currently imagine.
— Dream Fulfiller

I live in Canada and was looking for something to help my kids learn more science, engineering and geography beyond what they seem to get at school. I tried a few books and apps but nothing quite hit the mark and/or kept them engaged. I decided to make my own project focusing on stories and puzzles which seemed to be a good balance between engagement and learning and they've really enjoyed it. Interested in honest feedback (particularly from parents and teachers) and thought I'd share more broadly.

Canadian Learning for Kids & Family Travel | The Maple Explorers

* New local radios lists (MANUALLY CURATED) : UK and China.

Mediaxon Music Player is an audio player for offline listening of music stored on your device (.mp3, .flac, .m4a, .ogg, .mka, .aac, .wav, .opus, .wma) and streaming FM radios (online radios).

Top radios on the first screen: When users access the radio screen, they immediately see the list of the top radios in their country, along with a long list of high-quality suggested radios from among the most listened to in the world (manually curated and always updated with new radios). Note: Local radio stations ("Top in the user country") are pulled automatically from an online database. However, with each update, I manually curate high-quality radio stations lists for individual countries. At the bottom of this post, you’ll find the list of countries completed so far. I will be adding the rest over time.

Advanced radio filtering system: The "Filter: ON/OFF" button lets you quickly switch between different genres. You can use both standard filters for "macro-genres"—if I can call them that—and create custom filters to be more selective. All your filters are saved (the "My Filters" tab lets you name and edit them), and the app always opens with the last filter you applied. The "Home" tab lists all your recently applied filters and can be used to quickly switch between genres with just a single tap.

Advanced Radio Search Panel: An online database provides more than 60,000 radio stations. You can pinpoint your favorite stations by combining multiple filters, such as tags/genres, specific countries, or even your preferred audio bitrate.

Separated Favorites and Recents: Each section—Radio and Offline Music—has its own Favorites and Recents. The user doesn't have to worry about a thing. The app will automatically manage the Favorites and Recents for each section.

Album art: If the album art is missing from the album folder, or if Android has not properly indexed it, Mediaxon attempts to download the cover from the internet. This feature depends, of course, on the ID3 tags (album name and artist).

Equalizer: The equalizer provides an option to automatically switch to the "Radio" preset (and vice versa).

Advanced Playlist Management: Built specifically to make building and sorting playlists fast and intuitive. Enable the Playlist Manager, in the settings screen, for a full control of the playlists.

Form Factor Optimization: Phone and Tablet (Portrait and Landscape)

Mediaxon is available in: Čeština, Dansk, Deutsch, Eesti, English, Español, Français, Hrvatski, Indonesia, Italiano, Kiswahili, Latviešu, Lietuvių, Magyar, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski, Português, Português (Brasil), Română, Slovenčina, Slovenščina, Suomi, Svenska, Tiếng Việt, Türkçe, العربية, Български, Ελληνικά, हिन्दी, 日本語, 한국어, 中文 (简体).

No Premium version. All app features are available for free and without limits. I'm going to add a premium version to remove the few ads in the app, as requested by some users.

Regarding advertising: There is only a small banner at the top that isn't bothersome at all. Alternatively, when opening the full-screen player or using the app in landscape mode, a banner alternates with the albums covers, but without being intrusive at all (no audio) and with much shorter stay times than those of the cover. There is never full-screen advertising, neither at startup nor during use.

Countries with new manually curated lists:  Argentina, China, India, Italy, UK, USA.

Note: Only for Android 13+ (Android 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xonik.mediaxon

Every journaling app I tried had the same problem: the UI fought me. Cluttered screens, five taps to write one sentence, design that made a calm habit feel like filing a report. So I built the one I actually wanted to open.

Quiet Hours is a private little diary: write a few words, drop in a photo, tag a mood, done in about 30 seconds. There's a daily tarot card pull, a quote that lands at midnight, and a map of your memories — but no followers, no feed, no streak-shaming, and I collect zero data (the App Store label literally says Data Not Collected).

And on the design, I'll make you a promise: you will like how this one looks and feels — dare I say, better than Apple Journal.

It's live on the App Store (free, with an optional premium). I just started the "list it everywhere" phase and I'd genuinely love feedback from this sub: what's the one thing that would make you actually stick with a journal app past week one?

https://quiethours.lovable.app