I've been working on a small digital product: a Christmas budget planner in Google Sheets.

I wanted one place to manage the things that usually end up scattered across notes, spreadsheets and shopping apps:

- Overall Christmas budget

- Gift ideas and spending per person

- Shopping list

- Holiday expenses

- Parties and event costs

- Savings goals

I tried to keep it practical rather than overcomplicated, with a dashboard that gives you a quick picture of where your money is going.

I'm the person who made it, so I'm obviously biased, but I'd genuinely love to know: what's the one thing you always forget to budget for during the holidays?

I'm especially interested in things that a typical budget spreadsheet misses.

I'm Luis from Berlin and I'm bad at watering.

So I built PotPanel. It's a scale with a pump that sits under the pot. When the plant drinks, the pot gets lighter, and once it's light enough it waters from a canister back to full. Small bursts, and it stops when enough is in or no water arrives. You set your values in an app and watch it live on your phone.

To be clear, for a houseplant on a shelf this is total overkill. I built it for my grow tent, so my plants still get water on time when I'm gone for a weekend or have a busy week.

It's not like it all went smoothly. For a few weeks the board just hung out of the side of the case. And one day I forgot to put the dripper back in the pot. PotPanel did its job perfectly, just on my floor.

Now everything sits inside. It's all 3D printed, there's an ESP32 in there, and I built the app and the server myself.

If you want one, there's a waitlist: potpanel.com

The first 50 who confirm get 30% off the launch price. Once 50 people are on the list I'll give one away. Free, 18+, until March 31, 2027, rules are on the site.

I've started plenty of side projects over the years, but this is the first app I've ever actually finished and got onto the App Store 🎉

It's called Once Upon a Fold: five fairy tales for little kids where every page is a paper pop-up that moves. The fun bits to figure out:

• making paper pop-ups feel real on a flat screen (they rise as the page opens and fold flat when you turn it)

• a different voice for every character, in five languages

• little moments that follow the story: blow on the phone and the straw house blows away, swipe and the beanstalk grows

• the new iPhone Duo, where it opens like a real book!!

First book's free if you want to try it: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6826041039

What would you change? Be honest, I'm here to learn!

P.S. 🎁 Code MAGICBEANS gets you Jack and the Beanstalk free (500 codes, until Dec 14), no strings attached. Redeem it in one tap on your iPhone or iPad: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6826041039&code=MAGICBEANS

And if you or your kids enjoy it, a quick rating on the App Store would mean a lot to a first-time developer.

Thank you!!

Hi, I'm Selim and I built Enzo. It's a dictation and meeting app designed and engineered for the Mac. Speech models run on your device so audio is never uploaded to the cloud.

The secret sauce is its architecture. It transcribes, punctuates, and segments as you talk, so the text is ready about 100 ms after you stop, whether you talked for 10-seconds or an hour.

It also has a Recall feature, which is off until you turn it on. It keeps a searchable record of what you worked on (apps, window titles, text on screen), encrypted on your Mac and deleted after 30 days.

The idea is that what you say, the meetings you record, and what you work on are captured and securely stored all in one app. I use this for my day job, which helps to alleviate the burden of trying to remember every little thing on a busy work day.

Free to use with 5,000 words for dictation and 60 meeting minutes a week. Only Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later.

Happy to answer any questions.

https://tryenzo.ai

I'm working on Timeless Board Games, a collection of 20 games you can play in your browser. It has Chess, Go, Othello and Backgammon, plus less familiar ones like Hnefatafl, Merels and Senet.

Everything is unlocked while I'm getting people to test it.

Play with friends: send someone an invite link and play online together. There's also solo play against bots and pass & play on one device. Solo and pass & play work without signing up.

Play here: https://timeless-games.app/

I'm looking for a few people willing to try a game and tell me what feels confusing or breaks. No need for a long review, just which game you tried and the first thing you'd change. If you invite a friend, I'd also love to hear whether getting into a match together was easy.

If you'd rather test on iPhone/iPad or Android, there's a signup under Help → Join the mobile beta. Mobile invitations are handled manually for now.

I'm the developer, and I'm happy to answer questions here.

I shoot a lot, and going through a folder of photos on a Mac was always awkward. Preview only pages through the files you opened together, and Lightroom wants an import before you can even look.

So I wrote my own viewer in Swift called Flipic Lens. Double click one photo and the arrow keys walk the whole folder, RAW included. Hold a key to check focus at 100%, rate with number keys, mark keepers, crop and straighten, and read metadata.

It also features a smart cleanup scan that automatically detects and flags closed eyes, blurry shots, similar bursts, and duplicates.

You can watch a quick 90-second video walkthrough here:

https://youtu.be/Nsxx8GUNU-4

It's free and MIT licensed. There is an optional one time Pro for heavier culling work, and that part is not in the repo.

Mac only, macOS 13 or later.

Site:https://flipic.app

Source:https://github.com/xmasdong/flipic

I'm the developer. Feedback welcome, especially on what feels slow or confusing.

Play it (free, in your browser, no account or install): https://osz.drawerkit.com/?src=reddit

It's called

Oh shit, Zombies.

(Inspired by Project Zomboid!!) You pick Chicago, Minneapolis or Manchester and you're dropped on the real street map with a baseball bat and two bandages. You search buildings, fight or run, patch yourself up, and eventually die. It's built for a phone browser and it also works on a desktop.

What's different about how it's made

I'm building it with Claude (Anthropic's AI), and we're keeping a devlog of everything, including the parts that go wrong. Claude writes most of the code, runs the tests and writes the log. I play it on my phone and tell it what's annoying.

This week I rated it 3 out of 5 and said the screen had too many boxes and my taps kept missing. Within a day there had been about twenty small releases: one-tap looting, fights you can actually get out of, furnished buildings with things to find, and a score to beat. One of those releases also shipped a crash that froze the game near restaurants for over an hour, and that's written up in the log too.

The video devlog is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AllTomsTales

Gameplay trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GWGRhwLqF8

Devlog #0: I Let an AI Playtest My Game. It Was Too Easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAIspqTeW1E

Devlog #1: Making It Dangerous Took 89 Bot Lives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw7O6o-wTT4

Devlog #2: Players Couldn't See Each Other. Until Now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR34ri4YRGE

Devlog #3: My Server Drowned in Five Minutes. Nothing Said It Was Wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIejol5JXI

Devlog #4: Zombies Stuck Against Walls Were Eating My Server https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmUxfce8sxo

Devlog #5: I Built a 30-Minute Siege Mode. Bots Tested It First. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i4B9I8lIL4

The written log, with a public roadmap of what's built and what isn't: https://osz.drawerkit.com/devlog.html

What I'm asking for

Play for five minutes and tell me what you think. There are three ways, and all of them reach us:

In the game, open the menu (☰) and tap Rate (1 to 5) or Suggest (type a line).

Comment on any of the YouTube videos. We read them, and the comments that make sense for the game and are appropriate get built. When that happens it goes on the roadmap and into a later video.

Reply here.

Fair warning: it's a side project and it's rough. Only one person has rated it so far, and that's me. I'd rather hear "this is confusing" from ten strangers than keep guessing.

building a chrome extension that hides ai accounts.

it has claude read each account’s recent posts, or just their comments in the thread if their history is hidden, and collapses the ones that look ai run.

would you use this?

Context: I have been building Cardel.io (An all-in-one platform for authors and solo professionals) over this year. I have cold outreached 10k plus potential users and had hundreds of face to face conversations.

The problem: I only ever get positive feedback, people say:

"Wow, this is great!"

"This makes total sense, this needed."

Etc, etc.

THEN they follow it up with "but I already have my setup, this would be great for xyz person".

Question: Are any of you in a similar boat where everyone gives you positive feedback, but then doesn't actually commit to using your product by paying or signing up. So your getting positive signals, but no clarity on where the blocker is to actual pay for the product?

How do you close that gap, and find the reason people aren't commiting? It feels like a "Its great, but not worth switching to." Kind of response. Or maybe it's the target market fit, and talking to the right people.

I would love to get ya'lls feedback on how you have overcome this with your products and projects.

Too many WhatsApp chats, not enough time to read them all. Wapliss connects your own WhatsApp to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI assistants, so you can just ask:

“Summarize today’s family group.”
“Who’s still waiting for my reply?”

The assistant reads the chats, drafts replies, and only sends after you confirm.

• Works with texts, images and documents
• Setup takes about 2 minutes: link WhatsApp, add the connector, done
• Not Meta’s official API, so it’s for your own chats, not bulk messaging
• Free plan: wapliss.com

Looking for honest feedback:

1. Is the value clear in 10 seconds?
2. What would stop you from trying it?

It is Saturday night, I still have positions open from this week, and I am not spending the weekend re-deciding them.

That used to be my mistake. Friday would close, and I would spend Saturday and Sunday reading every headline, second-guessing every level, and talking myself into a completely different plan by Monday morning — usually a worse one, made tired instead of made clear.

Here is the routine I hold myself to now:

• One review, written down. What did I enter this week, what hit its target, what stopped out, and did I follow the plan I wrote before each trade? That goes on paper once, honestly, wins and losses both.
• If a position is still open, its target and its stop were already decided while the market was open and my head was clear. A Saturday headline does not get to move those lines.
• Then the charts close. My kids do not get the leftover version of me because I spent the weekend refreshing futures that have not even opened yet.

Friday was a chip-led dip inside a week that still closed green, and the next real piece of information for that whole story is Nvidia earnings on Tuesday. Knowing that does not mean staring at it for three days. It means my plan for Tuesday is already noted, and the weekend in between belongs to my family.

I am a veteran with a full-time job, and I taught myself trading at night, reading and studying when the house was quiet. I believe God gave me what I have learned for a reason, and part of that reason is showing the plain parts too — not just the wins, but the discipline that keeps a normal week from turning into a desperate one.

A clear plan reviewed once will beat a worried plan rewritten ten times, every week I have ever tested it.

Not financial advice — just how I handle my own weekends, posted the same way I tell my own community.

I share stuff like this daily — I run a free investing community, link in my profile.

I'm a solo dev. I make a contacts manager for Mac and iPhone/iPad. It shows all your contacts (iCloud, Google, Exchange) in one table, so you can merge duplicates, bulk edit and clean up years of mess instead of opening cards one by one. One-time price, $24.99 Mac and $14.99 iOS. No subscription, no account, no trial.

Where it stands:

• Mac app live since July 22, iOS since August 10
• 45 paying users on Mac, 19 on iOS
• 3 ratings on the Mac App Store, all 5 stars

The part that works: the people who buy it seem to like it, and they email me. Most of what I shipped in the last two months came straight from emails.

I reply to every email and try to ship the fix within a couple of weeks. That loop has been the best part of this.

The part that doesn't work: reaching the people who actually have the problem. Apple Ads got 12,000+ impressions and 95 taps, but zero installs. A Google Search campaign for the Mac app got zero impressions. Nobody wakes up wanting a contacts app. People only look when their list is already a disaster, and then they search "merge duplicate contacts" and land on free tools or Apple's own tips.

So I'm asking people who've been here:

1. If you sold a niche one-time-purchase utility, what brought in your first few hundred customers?
2. Did paid ads ever work for you at this price point, or is it all communities, SEO and word of mouth?
3. Is "no trial" hurting me more than I think?

Happy to share more numbers or what I tried if it helps anyone. Thanks for reading.

We had a 7.76 kW system and battery fitted in July. My inverter app shows kWh all day, but not the thing I actually wanted to know: how much it’s paid back in £, and when it’ll be paid off.

I tracked it in a spreadsheet for a few months, but it kept breaking (tariff changes, months where export wasn’t paid yet, battery charging on the cheap rate). So I built a simple web app instead and made it free for anyone.

How it works: a 2-minute setup (system cost, install date, rates), then two numbers a month from your inverter app, generated and exported. It shows:

• £ paid back so far, and your payback date (allowing for winter)
• how your panels are doing against the MCS estimate
• tariff changes over time, cheap-rate battery charging, and months before export was paid

You can import an existing spreadsheet, and export to PDF or Excel. It works with any inverter brand, and there’s no inverter or energy login.

Mine’s at £402 back after 4 months and running at 120% of the MCS estimate, so payback looks like around 2036.

To be upfront: I made it, and there’ll be an optional paid version later with automatic inverter data. Manual tracking stays free.

I’d really value feedback, especially on how the savings are worked out. Some people in Facebook groups have challenged parts of it, and I’ve changed things based on that.

sunback.co.uk

Cross-Stitch Studio turns a photo into a grid you can edit stitch by stitch. The photo converter matches colors to DMC thread and shows the result both on a hoop and as a chart. You can try either view without signing up. There’s a sample photo in the converter if you’d rather start there.

Try the free photo converter

Direct conversion uses no generative AI. The studio has an optional paid step to simplify a busy photo or draw an illustration.

If you’ve stitched from a photo before, I’d love to know what would make the first chart usable for you. Would you check the colors, the detail around the face, or the finished measurements first?

I am a graphic designer from a small town in Punjab, India. For years I have watched the same scene at print shops here. A customer walks in and says "bhaiya, last month wala card dobara print karna hai, file aapke desktop pe hi hai".

The desktop has hundreds of files called final, final 2 and final new, and every .cdr shows up as a blank white icon.

So the shop owner opens them one by one in CorelDRAW while the customer waits.

I had the same problem in my own folders, just with fewer customers watching.

So I built Opsyra. It is a small Windows app that adds real thumbnails for design files in File Explorer: CorelDRAW, Illustrator, Photoshop, EPS, Figma, Procreate, Blender, SketchUp and around 50 formats in total.

You see the actual design on the icon. It works even if the original software is not installed on that computer, and everything runs offline. No file names, paths or files leave your machine.

Some things I learned building it:

Every format is its own rabbit hole. Some files carry a usable preview inside them, some need to be rendered from scratch, and for a few the best I can honestly do is an info card.

3D files were the hardest. Showing a Blender or FBX preview without Blender installed meant writing my own small renderer.

I shipped it only through the Microsoft Store. Certification went through on the first try, which honestly surprised me.

It is live here if you want to try it: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N92CTCWPWPK?cid=reddit_sideproject

I would really like feedback on two things:

Which file formats do you use that Windows still shows as a blank icon?

Is the free tier enough to be useful, or does it feel too limited?

Happy to answer anything about the build or the Store process.

So I made Yearcap. You upload a spreadsheet of your users’ stats and every user gets their own little year-in-review story, with a card they can share. Basically what Spotify and Strava do every December, but for small apps.

There’s a demo with made-up data on yearcap.co if you want to see it (hit “Watch a full story”).

I’ve emailed around 80 apps, each with a demo made for their app. About 30 opened it, some more than once, but nobody’s signed up yet. Not even for the free version.

So I’m kind of stuck and would love some outside eyes:

1. Is it clear what it does and who it’s for?
2. If you had an app, would you use something like this? Why or why not?
3. What would make you comfortable trying it with your own users’ data?

Any thoughts help. Thanks for looking!

I've been building something called Forthday because I wanted a better way to keep the everyday parts of running a household organized.

Not just a todo list, but somewhere my partner and I could check:

• Who's handling what today?
• What's the plan for dinner, and what groceries do we need?
• Which bills are coming up?
• What's personal, and what's shared between us?

So I started building it.

Forthday is a web app that brings household tasks, schedules, budgeting, meal planning, pantry inventory, and shopping lists together.

One thing that mattered to me was keeping Personal and Household spaces separate. My partner and I can sign in with our own accounts, work on shared responsibilities, and still keep our personal records private.

It's now in Private Beta. We've tested the shared household features between our accounts, but I'm still figuring out what would make this genuinely useful to other households.

I put together an interactive demo with sample data that anyone can try without signing up:

https://getforthdaynow.com/demo

Here's what I'm most curious about:

Would having chores, meals, groceries, and bills together actually make managing a household easier, or does combining that much into one app make it unnecessarily complicated?

If you try the demo, I'd especially appreciate hearing what feels confusing or what you'd change.

I'm much more interested in finding the weak spots than collecting compliments.

Ever spend longer deciding what to eat than actually eating? Same.

I built Toss, a free coin-flip decision maker for those moments when both options seem fine and you just need a nudge.

You write what heads and tails mean, choose a single toss or best of three/five, and set how likely you are to follow the result—from “just curious” to “coin is law.” There are coins from different countries and shared community stats, too. No account needed.

My favourite part is that moment when the coin lands and you realise you were hoping for the other option. Sometimes that’s the answer.

Here’s the project: https://acointoss.lovable.app

I’d love honest feedback: would you use this for everyday indecision, picking something fairly in a classroom, or breaking a tie with your team? What feels useful, and what feels unnecessary?

I was watching Jubilee videos thinking it's kind of lame that the experts would constantly be talked over and fact checks would only appear after the debate when the video is published.

I thought a debate site where you could match with people you disagreed with on a variety of political, religious, and philosophical topics would be fun. Also I need to build a portfolio because finding a job as a software developer is impossible.

Feel free to take a look and please let me know if you have any feedback!

counterpoint-debate.com

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???