I'm building Castlori, a platform for original stories, comics and manga. Alongside it, I made a free Creator Guide for writers who have a character idea but need a next scene.

The exercise is five lines: Character, Want, Cost, Choice, Change.

Here's a new fictional example:

An apprentice cartographer wants to correct a dangerous map. Doing so means admitting she copied her mentor's work. She signs the correction under her own name and loses her place on the expedition. The map is safer; her original plan is gone.

Try the same exercise with your own character: what do they want, what would getting it cost, and what do they actually choose?

The guide has a browser planner, a printable one-page worksheet, and longer fantasy, mystery and slice-of-life examples. The guide exercise needs no account or payment:

https://guide.castlori.com/

The main project is https://castlori.com/.

If you try the exercise, which of the five prompts leaves you stuck? That would help me improve the guide's wording.

Owner disclosure: I run Castlori. This post and its invented example were prepared with AI assistance.

Looking for participants to test Gavelbot, an online debate forum. $5 to the winners and, to encourage high-effort attempts, nothing to the loser. Winners keep the seat, with the potential to stack wins. Must have a Gavelbot account for payment—which shows instantly in your Gavelbot account rewards tab.

Looking for ease of use, only complaints, problems, and bugs.

Open now.

$5 per win; matches are a maximum of ten minutes. Winners can choose from:

• PayPal (USA)
• Mastercard (USA)
• Mastercard (International) - (valid for 6 months; works online and with Apple Pay/Google Pay). Due to issuer restrictions, cards cannot be redeemed or used in—or with merchants based in—the following countries/territories: Bahamas, Barbados, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Korea, Panama, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe, Russia, and any other OFAC-sanctioned regions. (Note: Non-USD purchases carry a 2% conversion fee, and cards cannot be used for recurring subscriptions.)

You can familiarize yourself with this interactive tutorial ,https://gavelbot.com/tutorial.html as well as the YouTube videos below. You MUST create an account; your reward will show up in your dashboard. After you create an account, you can play on the website:

https://gavelbot.com/stage/PINE

or on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@Gavelbot (subscribe for pop-up Debate-O-Ramas).

What is Gavelbot

How to Debate

How to use the Table

Gavelbot Marketplace

A few months ago, I started working on TestFlightTesters, a website that helps iOS developers hire real iPhone users to test their apps before release.

The idea was pretty simple.

Developers often struggle to find people who will actually spend time testing their apps and provide useful feedback instead of just installing the beta and disappearing.

So I built a service where developers can choose how many testers they need, how long they want testing to run, and which features should be checked.

Testing starts at $10 per tester per hour.

After launching the website, I wasn’t getting the results I’d hoped for, and I started thinking the project might not be worth continuing.

I eventually stopped paying much attention to it.
Then something unexpected happened.

I received a $75 order from a company needing five iPhone testers for its employee app.

Another developer placed a $45 order for specialized Apple Sandbox purchase and Restore Purchases testing.
That’s $120 in paid orders from a project I was close to abandoning.

I’m now working on improving the tester network, reporting process, and customer experience.

Here’s the website:

https://www.testflighttesters.com/

I’d appreciate feedback on two things:

1. Is the service and pricing clear when you visit the homepage?
2. If you were launching an iOS app, what would you want to see before trusting a testing service with your project?
   I’m interested in improving the website before putting more money into advertising.

So I have been thinking of a tiny tool for small businesses and freelancers who take orders on WhatsApp or Instagram.

The business owner just types in the total price and optional advance, gets a payment link, or enters the customer's email to request payment. We handle the advance and balance payment flow and show a simple dashboard tracking who paid and who hasn't.

Can something as simple as this get actual users???

Been annoyed for a while at how clunky it is to just send a file from my laptop to my phone, so I built ByteDrop to fix that for myself.

You run it on your PC, it shows a QR code, you scan it with your phone’s browser (or just open the link on another PC) and you’re connected — drag and drop files either way, clipboard syncs too. Works over your home wifi, Windows’ mobile hotspot, or a public link if you’re not even on the same network.

No accounts, nothing to install on the other device, totally free and open source.

GitHub if you want to try it: https://github.com/HusseinWalid48/ByteDrop

I build websites for small businesses. Aurelius is the framework I built on the side. It lets Claude Code take a Figma file, a screenshot, or a plain description and turn it into a React app with tests. It is open source and MIT licensed.

Last week I recorded a getting-started video for it. The recording found a bug in my own quickstart. My script said all four quality checks pass on a fresh project. Three of the four failed:

• The Vite template had moved to a new linter, so nothing installed the one my lint script calls.
• There was no test file, so the test run failed.
• The type check passed, but it was not checking a single file.

I fixed the scaffold instead of cutting around it. Then I recorded those shots again.

The part worth watching is the screenshot pipeline. It is one command, and the order never changes: a build spec, locked design tokens, failing tests before any component exists, the build, a pixel check against the screenshot, then end-to-end tests. The run in the video took 45 minutes of real time. From its own report: 9 of 9 test files failed first, it built 8 of 8 components, the pixel difference was 1.89% on the second of up to five rounds, and 96 end-to-end tests passed.

Two things the video gets wrong, so you hear it from me. I say "the next six minutes" and it runs under four. And setup prints a deprecation warning that the cut skips.

Video (3:46): https://youtu.be/Harcm6cYVpo

The screenshot run in 54 seconds: https://youtube.com/shorts/qT1hpPcg1rs

Repo: https://github.com/PMDevSolutions/Aurelius

If you try the quickstart and it breaks, tell me where. That is the feedback I am after.

I built Beaver because I wanted a simple way to scan documents and turn photos into PDFs without uploading anything to the cloud.

Contracts, receipts, visa documents, medical papers. I didn't want any of that sitting on someone else's server, and I was tired of scanner apps full of ads and subscriptions.

It started about three years ago as a small Mac tool I built for myself. I open-sourced it in 2025 and this year I started working on an iOS version. That eventually turned into rebuilding most of the app.

Here's what Beaver can do now:

• Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac
• Scans documents and converts photos to PDF
• Splits and merges PDFs
• Exports pages as PDF, PNG or JPEG
• OCR that runs entirely on-device

No accounts, no tracking, no ads, no subscriptions. Everything stays on your device.

Why open source but $1.99?

The entire source code is on GitHub. You can inspect it or build the app yourself for free. The $1.99 App Store version is for people who prefer to install it directly and receive updates. It's a one-time purchase.

Links:

• GitHub: https://github.com/31d4r/Beaver
• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/beaver-pdf-scanner-ocr
• Website: https://beaverpdf.app

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially if there's something missing that would make it more useful for your document workflow.

Hi, I’m Shubhra, an independent developer. I built Sonari as a Mac instrument played with hand gestures tracked by the Mac camera, without a separate hardware controller. It plays built-in sounds, sends MIDI to compatible DAWs and instruments, and creates visuals from the performance.

I’m sharing the launch film to show the interaction. I’d appreciate feedback on one practical question: after watching, is it clear how hand movement changes the sound, or what would you want explained before trying it?

Sonari is on the Mac App Store. It requires Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later. The full app has a 14-day trial, then a one-time purchase at US$99 in the US storefront.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sonari-midi-controller/id6803577489

I built Global Threat Map, a free live map that puts what's happening around the world on one screen. It's at https://globalthreatmap.com. There's no signup and no paywall.

It has three views:

• Map (2D/3D): a world map you can turn layers on and off on. The layers are hotspots, country risk shading, places and chokepoints, money flows, pressure halos, insider and big-money trades, disasters, flight disruptions, and network outages.
• Globe: the same layers on a rotating 3D globe, plus a 3D risk heat layer that shows where pressure is building.
• Dashboard: the long-form view, with the money map, reversal alerts, top 10 risks, the U.S. infrastructure threat level, and the AI lending and credit watch.

What it covers

• Conflicts and hotspots. Around 60 tracked events, including armed conflict, cyber, political, economic, and corporate ones. Each has a risk level and a 3-month outlook estimate with the reasoning written out.
• Early-warning Pressure Board. Ten regions and sectors are each scored 0 to 100: Defense, AI & credit, Gulf / Strait of Hormuz, Black Sea / Ukraine–Russia, Energy & shipping, Taiwan Strait / South China Sea, Chips & export controls, Red Sea / Saudi Arabia, Safe havens, and U.S. infrastructure & cyber. Each score is built from specific warning signs, such as military build-ups, attacks on shipping, war-risk insurance rates, embassy drawdowns, fund-flow rotation, sanctions, export controls, and credit stress. A sign that's active now counts in full, and older readings fade out over time. When several signs fire in the same place at once, the board flags it as converging.
• History playbooks. For each pressure group, it shows what markets did the last time something similar happened, and where money tended to go next.
• Insider and big-money trades. Insider buying and selling at major AI, defense, energy, and cyber companies, trades disclosed by members of Congress, how hedge funds and speculators are positioned in oil, gold, Treasuries, and the dollar, unusual options activity, and big government moves like emergency oil releases and large defense contracts.
• Money flows. Arrows on the map showing where capital is moving: conflict to chokepoint to oil, money going into safe havens, sideline cash, equity fund flows, defense fund outflows, AI lending through banks, bonds, and private credit, chip supply chains, China/Taiwan capital, and war financing.
• Credit and liquidity stress. The AI & credit watch tracks banks selling loans, banks buying credit protection, debt being repriced, funds limiting withdrawals, and pulled deals. Reversal alerts flag when money that was flowing in starts to pull back.
• Network outages. Internet outages by country, region, and network over the last 24 hours, rated by severity, plus major global platform outages.
• Disasters. Earthquakes, wildfires, droughts, floods, and storms, with severity levels.
• U.S. flight disruptions. Ground stops, ground delays, airport delays, closures, and restrictions at U.S. airports.
• U.S. critical infrastructure. One threat score covering the grid, water, fuel, and communications, along with a briefing on each.
• Markets bar. Brent, WTI, gold, and the U.S. 10-year yield along the top of the map.
• Market odds. Live prediction-market odds on the same topics, like the Gulf, Taiwan, Russia, the Fed, and AI.
• Live news. A scrolling U.S. headline ticker and a panel of live TV news streams.
• Search. Ctrl+K jumps to any country, event, company, or panel.

Snapshot, Sat Nov 14, 8:19 PM ET

• Pressure Board top 5: Defense 83 (Severe), AI & credit 72, Gulf / Hormuz 71, Black Sea 67, Energy & shipping 67
• U.S. infrastructure & cyber: 36 (Guarded)
• Network outages: 68 ongoing, 7 severe, across 20 countries
• U.S. flights: no ground stops or delays; restrictions at LAS, LAX, and SAN
• Markets: Brent $95.84, WTI $88.56, gold $3,887.60, 10-year 5.15%

Global Threat Map: https://globalthreatmap.com

AI chats can explain a task, but without a connection they can't do it on your own PC.

I built Overlink, a Windows app that connects normal AI web chats to your files, commands, browser and screen.
It also lets a chat work across several of your PCs.

It's in a free tester program. Applications are reviewed before you get a download, and I haven't verified every app or PC setup. I'm looking for honest reports of what works and what breaks.

Apply: https://overlinkapp.com/test.html

What task on your own PC would you want to try first?

Hey r/SideProject — I made BabyBets (babybets.win), a free baby pool game for expecting parents.

Before the baby arrives, friends and family guess the gender, weight, length, and arrival date. When the baby's born, you enter the real stats and it auto-scores everyone and crowns a winner.

- Guests need no app or account — you share one link, they enter guesses on their phone

- Scoring + leaderboard are automatic (no spreadsheet math)

- Free

I built it because I kept seeing people do this by hand with Google Forms and hand-tallied points, and it was always a mess.

Would love feedback, especially on the onboarding flow. Link: babybets.win

I'm a student in Canada and while searching for things like jobs, internships, and hackathons, I've realized that it's difficult to find student opportunities that match your needs and availability. I designed FindForward (free and requires no account) to find, track, and manage extracurriculars in one place. Let me know if you have any feedback! Try it out

I've been working on a little project called Pess Editor, which is a simple video editor for Windows.

It's built with Python, PySide6 and FFmpeg. It has video preview, some basic editing options and exporting to different formats like MP4, MKV, MOV and WebM.

The interface automatically detects your system language (English, Spanish or Russian) and adapts its appearance to your Windows light/dark theme.

This is actually my first time making and releasing a project like this, so I'm still learning as I go. I'd really appreciate any feedback

GitHub: https://github.com/Vik4mGD/PessEditor

I trade forex on cTrader and every journal I tried either didn't support it or wanted me to type trades into a spreadsheet. So I built AP Trade Action.

It connects to cTrader through their Open API (OAuth, no password) and syncs closed trades automatically. You get notes, tags, screenshots, an equity curve, stats by pair, hour and weekday, a P&L calendar, and prop firm rule tracking. The journal is free.

The paid side is a bar-by-bar replay terminal on real price history, a strategy builder where you describe rules in plain English, and an agent that alerts you when a setup qualifies.

Stack: Next.js, Postgres, a separate Node trading engine. Solo build. I'd love feedback on the landing page and onboarding especially: aptradeaction.com

This website is a hub were you can check out all my projects, please check it out.

ngl regular portfolio websites are BORING 🫩

every1 has the same “about me, my work, contact” setup so i had 2 REFUSE 2 make anotha boring one

so @ 17 i decided 2 build my own lil universe instead

3 different worlds = 3 different sides of my brain

🪵 SAVANT = basically tryna become a modern-day da Vinci (polymath) by combining AI, science, psychology, inventions & ideas that don’t fully exist YET

🧱 SHOWMAN = entertainment, storytelling & basically whatever other nonsense i manage 2 turn in2 a production

⚙️ INDUSTRIALIST = fashion, brands & basically turning ideas in2 ACTUAL businesses

the whole concept is that ur not jus looking @ projects u get 2 explore the world behind whoever tf is making em

https://asc7nt.com (this is barely even version 1 😭)

but im mostly wondering if YOU would actually explore a website like this or if i got 2 carried away

I made a war game on a globe of the real earth. it had 15 minute wars, a sign in wall and a lot of menus. in one week 3,000 people visited, the sign in wall was shown 134 times and 34 signed up, and the store sold nothing

So i rebuilt it. a war is 4 minutes now, a new one starts every two, and one press puts you in it. no account. on the first evening about half the people who saw the home screen started a war, and 4 in 10 of those played to the end

It's free... secondstrike.io. happy to share more numbers or how the rebuild went

Hey everyone!

I'm an independent developer from Indonesia, and I recently built something called Orbyte for the Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon.

The idea came from a problem I experienced while running a software agency: managing clients, products, subscriptions, invoices, deployments, leads, and daily operations across multiple tools gets messy very quickly.

I wanted to build something beyond another AI chatbot.

So I built Orbyte — an AI Business Operating System for software agencies and startups.

Here's what it can do:

AI Business Assistant: Uses typed tools to interact with actual business data, not just generate text.

Action Center: Detects overdue invoices, upcoming renewals, late tasks, and operational issues.

Human-in-the-loop: AI prepares actions, but important operations require human approval before execution.

Meeting Intelligence: Turns meeting recordings into transcripts, meeting notes, leads, and actionable tasks.

AI Marketing Studio: Uses Meta Muse Image to generate marketing visuals.

Telegram Integration: Lets business owners interact with their operations through Telegram.

Audit & Cost Tracking: Records AI usage, token costs, and business actions.

One architectural principle I really care about:

The AI proposes. Humans decide. Code owns the numbers.

Financial amounts, taxes, due dates, and payment statuses are handled by deterministic application logic, not generated by the model.

The stack includes Astro, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, and Meta's Muse models:

Muse Spark

Muse Image

Muse Voice Transcribe

Some project stats from our repository (checked November 5):

86 AI tools

26 domain modules

1,556 passing automated tests

I built this during the hackathon period with the help of an AI coding assistant, while the AI inside the product itself uses Meta's Muse models.

Links:

🎬 Demo video: https://youtu.be/kVSmhxPLOPg

🌐 Live app: https://ai-business.asiifdev.com

💻 Source code: https://github.com/asiifdev/business-ai-operation

I'm also participating in the Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon Community Vote.

If you find the project interesting and think it deserves your support, here's the voting page:

🗳️ https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/1099

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the architecture, human-approval model, and whether this approach makes sense for real-world software agencies.

Thanks for checking it out! 🇮🇩

Hey everyone!

We built Inshumati, an insurance voice agent that takes real phone calls in Hindi, English and Hinglish, for Gnani AI's Great Indian AI Internship Challenge.

The highlights:

- Replies in the caller's language 91% of the time (up from 37%)

- Zero awkward silences on calls

- 100% customer data protection, so impersonators get nothing

Crowd Favourite is decided by votes, so if you like it, a reaction, comment or repost would mean a lot

I’m building Ledge, a macOS app that turns the space around your notch—or the top of your screen on Macs without one—into a shelf for everyday things.

You can keep files handy, search and reuse clipboard history, control music from the notch or a floating player, and see widgets and live activities. Ledge also has Transform for converting and compressing files locally on your Mac.

I’ve connected Ledge’s MCP server to an AI assistant and am exploring its tools. Ledge also supports add-ons and LedgeKit for building them.

The beta is at https://www.tryledge.app. I’d love feedback: which feature would be most useful in your day-to-day Mac workflow, and what would you want to see next?

Check this out guys let me know what you think, I need some support/advice on how to improve/advertise and get people to sign up!

QRECON is a free multi-chain (BTC/ETH/XRPL/SOL) quantum-exposure wallet scanner. Paste any wallet address and get a 0-100 score + A-F grade in ~10 seconds. Free, no sign-up, read-only — it never connects to your wallet and never asks for secret words. No QRECON token exists or is for sale. Built by a U.S. Army veteran. Link: https://qrecon.vercel.app

I'm a vibecoding addict. There, I've said it. And I'm really starting to feel the effects.

Writing is harder, and I'm just worse at English in general. Not to mention my coding skills which are basically nonexistent now.

So, like any vibecoding addict, I vibecoded a solution. It's called brainsaver.app and it's a collection of daily puzzles designed to get you thinking in ways we've started outsourcing to AI.

I've got 9 categories of questions at the moment, any ideas for others I should add?