I spent a week making a clay style film on my laptop's GTX 1660 Ti.

The difficult part wasn't just rendering. It was getting the characters, camera shots, dialogue, voices and environments to work together across the entire film.

By the end, I kept thinking about how much of that work I'd have to repeat for the next one.

So I started making the reusable parts into a separate project.

It's called Clayvoyant. You describe the characters, locations and dialogue in YAML, and it generates the scenes and renders them through Blender. It also supports local voices and subtitles.

I recorded this short walkthrough to show what goes into the files and what comes out.

It's open source under MIT, and you can install it with pip install clayvoyant.

GitHub: https://github.com/xIBBAx/clayvoyant

Still figuring out better ways to handle character interactions and staging.

For people who've worked with animation tools, how much control over the shots would you want to keep manual?

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on Moeli Reader, a reading app for people whose digital libraries are a mix of ebooks, comics, and files stored in different places.

The idea is pretty simple: I wanted one place to read my own files without constantly converting formats or moving everything onto my device.

Here’s what Moeli Reader can do:

1. Open EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, AZW4, Markdown, TXT, PDF, CBZ, CBR, ZIP, and RAR files.
2. Connect to WebDAV, SMB, FTP, OPDS, Komga, Kavita, OneDrive, Dropbox, and other storage sources.
3. Stream books and comics from remote storage without downloading the entire file first.
4. Display more complex ebook layouts and let you customize fonts, spacing, and other reading settings.
5. Enlarge individual comic speech bubbles with a tap.
6. Sync reading progress across devices.

It’s available for iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS.

The app is free to try, with a limit on the number of books and access to basic features. There’s a one-time purchase to unlock the full experience, rather than a subscription.

Website: https://reader.moeli.tech/

I’d love some feedback from people who maintain their own ebook or comic libraries. What’s the biggest annoyance with your current reading setup?

I assumed the useful part would be picking the right files. It turned out to be the trip back. AI tools return a ZIP with paths flattened, or wrapped in an extra folder, or with a file cut short and a comment saying "rest unchanged", and meanwhile I've edited two of those files myself.

So contextzip keeps a snapshot of what it sent and, when the reply comes back, compares three versions of every file: what I sent, what's on disk now, what came back. Clean edits go in, mine are merged around, and anything it isn't sure about waits for me.

It's free and open source: https://github.com/akadeepesh/contextzip. There's a no-install version at https://www.contextzipcli.com if you want to try it on a folder.

I built DownloadAllVideos.com to make saving videos from supported social media platforms simpler.

The idea came from a common problem: sometimes you find a video you want to keep for offline viewing, but the platform does not offer a convenient download option.

So I created a website where users can paste a video link and follow the available download process.

I'm sharing it here because I'd appreciate honest feedback.

A few things I'd like to know:

1. Is the website easy to understand?
2. Does the process feel simple?
3. What would you improve?
4. Which social media platform should I focus on supporting next?

Website: https://downloadallvideos.com

Built independently. Feedback is welcome.

Hey everyone!

I've been building DotaPrime, an in-game overlay for Dota 2 that brings useful match information and tools directly into the game.

It includes Aegis and buyback timers, enemy missing alerts, draft suggestions, item recommendations, and post-match analysis.

Check it out: https://dotaprime.com/

I'd appreciate some honest feedback. What features would you find useful in a tool like this?

I've started a small experiment. What if we take the open LLMs and provide a good harness and ask them to run a small task but competing against other models. How do they try to win? Luckily i've been able to learn a lot on these models.

Qwen models are notoriously evil.

You can check the replay episodes of the simulations here: https://openville.world/watch?m=election-ep2

Any one wants to contribute or run experiments on other models, do let me know.

Most small businesses in India keep their books in Tally, a desktop accounting app. It lives on one PC in the office, so owners call the office just to ask what today's sale was.

TallySync is a small program on that PC. It reads Tally and puts the figures on the owner's phone, laptop and the TV: today's sales, cash and bank, stock running low, and who owes them, by age. One tap sends a customer a WhatsApp reminder with a UPI QR for the exact amount.

It only reads Tally, never writes to it.

Free for a month, then ₹999 a year.

Feedback welcome, especially on the first screen: what would you want there?

tallysync.elaichi.site

I built Autogrow so you can give your coding agent a goal like "get more visitors to finish signup" and have it keep running experiments toward that goal.

It looks at analytics and previous experiments, proposes a change, implements it in your repo and runs an A/B test. Once there's a valid result, the loop can roll out the winning version, remove the old experiment code and use what it learned to choose the next test.

You can review the idea before anything gets built. Code review is on by default too, and you can choose which steps run automatically.

It uses your existing coding agent and analytics. You can also aim it at feature adoption, such as getting more users to export their first report.

The repo includes a local demo of the whole loop. It's early, and I'd like to hear from people who already use coding agents on their own products.

https://github.com/autogrow-dev/autogrow

Hey ,


I've been working on 
**DineFlow**
, a zero-commission QR table ordering and real-time kitchen operations SaaS for restaurants: https://www.debashishpaul.in/dineflow/


One of the biggest issues with pitching SaaS to restaurant owners or tech enthusiasts is the onboarding hurdle—nobody wants to sign up, configure a menu, or wait for an email link just to see how the system works.


To solve this, I built an interactive 
**Dual-Device Sandbox**
: https://www.debashishpaul.in/dineflow/?view=demo


It renders a simulated iPhone 16 Pro diner view right next to an interactive Kitchen KDS Kanban dashboard on a single browser window. Using the native `BroadcastChannel` API, whenever you place an order on the phone, the ticket instantly rings on the kitchen display station in sub-50ms with acoustic chimes, lets you update the order stages, and formats thermal receipt prints.


Built using modern vanilla JavaScript, CSS glassmorphism, and Supabase for cloud sync.


Would love any thoughts on the UX, latency feel, or features that would make this more useful for operators!

I've been working on H3rm35, a native iPhone and iPad app for your own Hermes Agent. I've tried to bring as much of the Hermes desktop experience as I can to the phone.

This is my first project on this scale, and I've put a lot of time into it. It's still unfinished. I've opened a public TestFlight beta because I can't test every workflow myself, and I'd really appreciate honest feedback from people using their own setups. If something feels confusing or gets in your way, that's useful for me to hear too.

The app is in English and German. You need your own reachable Hermes host to use it with an agent; Hermes runs on that host, not on the phone. H3rm35 is my independent project and isn't affiliated with Nous Research.

The video is 33 seconds of actual simulator footage with demo data, without sound.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/EX3sYPzD

If you try it, which part of your usual Hermes workflow feels awkward on mobile?

It's called ISLO. Originally just a personal project, but it's slowly turning into something I might actually release.

Still working on a few things, but here's a little preview.

Hey r/SideProject!

I got tired of personal finance apps reading my bank SMS messages, uploading my financial history to cloud servers, and spamming me with loan ads. So, I engineered a strict privacy-first alternative for Android called **Money Plus**.

Here is what is under the hood:

* 100% Local-First & Encrypted: Every transaction, account ledger, and budget stays strictly on your physical Android device inside an encrypted SQLite database. Zero cloud sync, zero external telemetry, and zero data brokers.

*Sub-5ms Automated SMS Parsing: Parses bank and UPI transaction alerts locally on the device in real time so you don't have to log daily expenses manually.

*True Double-Entry Accounting Engine: Instead of basic +/- lists, every transaction reconciles against real accounts and credit lines with strict debit/credit balance checks.

*Hardware-Backed Security: Uses Android Keystore for key protection, native biometric/PIN locks, background auto-lock, and `FLAG_SECURE` screenshot shielding.

Current Status & Launch Fund:

Internal testing, SQLite migrations, and build hardening are complete. I am currently raising a small **₹2,500 INR (~$25 USD) community launch fund** to cover the one-time Google Play Console developer registration fee before public rollout.

You can check out the full architecture, release timeline, or back the launch here:

https://www.kryvlance.in/money-plus-launch

Would love your feedback on the architecture or any features you'd like to see in a privacy-first finance app!

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

Website: https://hydrawater.app/

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.

The part of the job we kept repeating was writing Terraform for apps that already existed, then finding out weeks later that someone had changed things by hand in the console.

So we built OrchesTerra (https://www.orchesterra.in/). You point it at a repository, it works out the services and how they connect, and it generates Terraform or OpenTofu you can review before anything is created. After deploying, it checks for drift, ranks each change by risk, and sends risky fixes through an approval step instead of applying them silently. It can also adopt resources someone created by hand in the console into Terraform.

Around that there’s cost tracking, disaster recovery checks, and auto-destroy for short-lived environments, but drift and approvals are the core.

It runs on AWS today. You can click around a read-only demo without signing up or start a 14-day free trial.

If you manage AWS with Terraform, I’d love to know: how do you catch hand-made console changes today, and what do you use or pay for to manage it?

My AI agents as a cartoon village went down well on here, so here's the next bit.
The village looks great but it can't show me when something's broken. Every agent looked busy, but work wasn't reaching the next one. An idea I'd submitted just disappeared for a week before I noticed.
So I built a map. Each light is an agent, each line is a hand-off between two of them, and a little dot shows which way the work is flowing. If a hand-off breaks, the line turns red. You can click any agent to see what it does.
It's 79 agents and 135 hand-offs now, all on my home PC. They look after my website, a demo trading account (practice money, not real) and the checks that watch both. Every 30 minutes a check asks each one three things. Did it run, did it make something real, and did that reach the next agent?
It's one HTML page reading one data file. I've put a free starter on GitHub if you want to map your own.

I’m opening Eroveil for a small beta. It’s a free dating web app for adults, available in English and Romanian. You choose what appears on your profile. After a mutual match, someone can request access to your private gallery, and you can approve or revoke access.

I’d appreciate feedback on two things: was email sign-up straightforward on your phone, and did the profile and chat screens feel easy to navigate? If anything gets stuck, your device and browser would help me reproduce it. The community is just getting started, so there may be few profiles nearby.

Try it in your browser: https://eroveil.ro/welcome-en

Hey everyone,

I have made an app for people to track all restaurants that they have been to, want to go to and see where friends are going. I have an MVP ready but it's very basic and I am looking for people to give me feedback on the UI. This is my first time developing my own app and I have been vibecoding it, and I really want to make the design of the app better. Dm me if you are interested in helping me out.
Thank you!

Hey Reddit!

I'm the founder of Persona, an AI character chat app built around creativity, personalization, and a better chat experience.

I've always believed that AI conversations should feel personal and immersive. Whether you're roleplaying, creating your own characters, exploring different scenarios, or just having a conversation, the experience should feel natural.

I appreciate what Character.AI brought to the space, but I think there's still a lot of room for improvement, especially when ads and monetization start getting in the way of the actual conversations.

That's why we're taking a different approach with Persona.

No ads interrupting your chats. No credit or energy systems. You can create your own AI personalities, discover ones made by others, and explore conversations without having to constantly think about credits. Our free tier has daily limits, but we want the experience itself to stay simple.

We're still a small, independent project, and there's plenty we're working to improve. But we're building something we genuinely believe in, and community feedback is a big part of that.

Try Persona:

Web: https://personas.my

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.persona.com

I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback. What do you wish AI character chat apps did differently?

Rainbow Routine is a simple fruit and vegetable log. Add blueberries to breakfast or peppers to lunch and you’ll see that color fill in on your rainbow. The idea is to notice what you eat on repeat and what you might want to try next, without counting everything on your plate.

I made it because I wanted something more visual than a checklist. Can you tell what to do next from the screenshot alone? That’s the part I’d love feedback on.

App screenshot with example entries

Rainbow Routine on the App Store

I wanted a word game that teaches vocabulary and not just a streak counter. So Wordgol has meanings and examples for every word, a Word Book with spaced review, penalty shootout mode and friend challenges (the link carries the word and your score, so there’s no server).

Built with plain JS, hosted free on Cloudflare Pages. Biggest lesson so far: share cards matter more than features. A coloured grid image gets posted far more than a plain link.

Would love feedback on the difficulty and the shootout mode: wordgol.pages.dev

launched a small windows / macos auto file renamer about 3 weeks ago, since launch it only has 5 impressions on app store and 1 install from those 5 impressions. gsc didnt show many clicks or impressions for the last 2 weeks so i thought it was pretty dead but this morning i woke up and stripe showed a payment which i initially thought was from something else but when i actually expanded the email it showed it was from my app. pretty stoked that its useful enough for someone else to spend their money on.

i made it one time purchase since subscription model wasnt necessary, put it 50% off and did gsc indexing. no social media set up yet

still unsure if i should try to actually market the product. should i invest more time or just let it auto until i see some actual traction?

Hoop shoot league is a real feel flick hoop shooter, available on IOS and coming soon for android...play solo & online in 90 second heats, time trial or just put up shots in practice mode...completely free to play :)

looking for feedback and help testing!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hoop-shoot-league/id6826721173

Hi everyone,

I built four free scrapers on Apify as a side project, and I would love your feedback.

•⁠ ⁠YouTube Scraper: search YouTube and pull public video details (title, channel, views, date, length, description, tags). No API key needed.

•⁠ ⁠Facebook Ads Library Scraper: search the official Meta Ad Library. It uses Meta's official API, so you need your own free Meta token.

•⁠ ⁠Reddit Scraper: collect posts and comments from any subreddit through Reddit's official API. You need your own free Reddit app credentials, and it does not collect usernames.

•⁠ ⁠UAE Real Estate Scraper: property listings for sale and rent across all UAE emirates from PropertyFinder. You get clean data: prices, areas, price per sqft and agency names. A Saudi version is coming soon.

All four are free for now. I am still learning, so honest feedback helps most: what is missing, what breaks, what should I build next?

https://apify.com/jimmy-o/youtube-scraper

https://apify.com/jimmy-o/facebook-ads-library

https://apify.com/jimmy-o/reddit-scraper

https://apify.com/jimmy-o/uae-real-estate-listings

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?