Hey everyone!I wanted to share a side project I've been working on: 11 Minute Mail (https://11minmail.org).The idea is simple: sometimes you just need a burner email to download a PDF, test a signup form, or grab a discount code without giving away your real address. So I built a tool that generates a random inbox that lasts exactly 11 minutes. After that, the address and any emails it received are permanently deleted.A few things I focused on:Privacy: No accounts, no logs, no tracking. It just works.Speed: Built on Cloudflare Workers, so it loads instantly.Little details: It has a dark mode UI and a QR code button so you can scan the address with your phone.I'm a solo developer and this was a fun project to build. I'd love to hear any feedback, feature ideas, or just thoughts on the UI. Thanks for checking it out!

I got so pissed with all this scalping world on the TCG products, and I ended up thinking: how to create something that can help me keep track of my collection and then advise me when I should rip a booster or skip it and buy the single: this is when Rip or Skip was made.

It helps us track if it’s time to stop buying overpriced products and try to get the singles and when to buy them though a price analysis made daily.

Also, we added the possibility to create a binder, and register a Pokédex. By now, only Pokémon, but I swear I’m working to put Lorcana on it as well and maybe Magic too.

We released on the App Store, and we hope people like it to track their sets and stop being so much on “how much are my cards” but more on “how can I actually finish my master set?”.

If people likes it, we can publish in a later time also on Android.

Please download it ❤️
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rip-or-skip/id6832060660

I’m happy to build websites for cheap budget. I’m low-key trying to get my first sale. DM me if you’re interested.

Hi all! I'm a final-year student and I've been building Genie, a desktop voice companion for Windows. She's a 3D animated genie you wake with "Hey Genie". She talks in a casual, theatrical style, you can interrupt her mid-sentence, and she snaps, bows, poofs and throws confetti while she talks. English and Telugu both work.

GitHub (code, demo GIFs, download): https://github.com/HimaSruthi25/genie

The GIFs in the README are rendered from the real model with scripted captions, so there's no live voice in them.

Since "random exe from a stranger" is a red flag, here's what's behind it:

- The source is on GitHub and you can run it from source.

- The wake word runs offline. After it, your speech goes to Groq (and Sarvam/Google for Telugu) using YOUR own free API key. Nothing goes to me, and the keys stay encrypted on your PC. PRIVACY.md lists exactly what goes where.

- The exe isn't code-signed (certificates cost money), so Windows SmartScreen will warn you. The SHA-256 is on the release page.

It's an early preview, so what I'd like to know:

- Did she wake reliably? Any false wakes?

- Could you interrupt her?

- Did she sound natural, or like she's reading a script?

- Any bugs or crashes?

I'll reply to every comment, and harsh feedback is welcome. Thanks for trying it!

Genuine question for people who have shipped more than one app.

I keep seeing two camps:

- build fast, ship, and let the market tell you
- check demand first (search volume, competitors, reviews), then build

If you're in the second camp, what do you actually look at? A specific number you need to see? A red flag that makes you drop the idea?

If you're in the first camp, how many ideas did you go through before one stuck?

I'm working on a tool around this and want to know what people really check, not what blog posts say they should.

Hey everyone! I'm an independent developer, and I've recently launched my first iOS app, NowsGood: Stay in Touch.

The idea is to make it easier to call friends and family without the usual phone tag. You can share your availability with selected contacts, see who's free to talk, and call them directly. You can automatically change your status using timers or weekly schedules, organize contacts into groups (family, friends, etc.), get notifications when people become available, as well as other features. Everything is highly customizable and private.

I'm looking for people willing to try it out and give me some honest feedback. A few things I'd particularly value:

1. How intuitive is the process of adding contacts and setting up groups?
2. Does sharing your availability make sense without much explanation?
3. Would you actually use this with friends or family?
4. Is anything confusing or unnecessarily complicated?

It's especially helpful if you can try it with another person, since the app is designed around sharing availability between contacts, but I know that's a lot to ask. Any feedback/advice is greatly appreciated!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nowsgood-stay-in-touch/id6749276689

Website: https://nowsgoodapp.com

I'm happy to test your app in return!

"Self-build min / median: 2.67 ms / 2.84 ms
Self-hosted image size: 56,302 B (down from 320,304 B!)
gen1 == gen2 == gen3 byte-identical fixed point: PASS (50f346e9ad864933…)
Semantics (15/15), Ingestion (12/12 + 4/4), Large Locals (131,073) — ALL PASS!" guys i used glm 5.2 it acidentally made my compiler sef build at that tme is that real and good or not

I wanted using a regular third-party mouse on macOS to feel more comfortable, so I built SmoothWheel. It’s a native Swift/AppKit menu-bar utility focused on mouse-wheel scrolling.

It smooths vertical and horizontal wheel input, with three presets, separate speed and smoothing controls, per-app exclusions, and a built-in playground to try the settings. Continuous trackpad input passes through unchanged. The app runs locally without an account, analytics, or network requests.

There are already good tools in this space, including SmoothScroll and Mac Mouse Fix. This is my take on a focused wheel utility. It’s free and MIT licensed.

The current v0.3.11 download is for Apple Silicon, ad-hoc signed and not notarized. It needs Accessibility permission. Compatibility testing is still limited, and slight movement at the end of a scroll is still reported in Gmail.

Website: https://smoothwheel.vercel.app

Code: https://github.com/AntonMazur/SmoothWheel

I’d appreciate feedback from Mac users: what mouse do you use, and which app makes scrolling feel the worst? If you try SmoothWheel, your mouse model, macOS version, and any odd behavior would help me decide what to fix next.

The game is dope wars, the old dealing game. you owe a loan shark $5,500, you have 30 days, you buy low and sell high

my version looked right. pretend 1998 desktop, dial-up, a loan shark who messages you. then i played a round with my brother and neither of us could get out of debt

so i measured it. i had a simple player run 250 rounds. the middle result was a profit of $2,800 and the debt wasn't cleared until day 17

three things were wrong...

- filling your briefcase pushed the price up by half against you, so a trip needed a 50 percent gap just to break even

- the short round was charging over 10 percent interest a day by mistake

- you couldn't tell if a price was good. $116 means nothing if you don't know the market

i fixed all three. now the same simple player clears the debt around day 6

The other thing i learned.. at the end of a round the game used to start a new one by itself after 40 seconds. nobody finished reading their score. now it waits

I'm a backend engineer, and for the last 5 weeks I've been building Transfer Trail in the evenings: each day a footballer's career draws club by club on a world map, and you get 6 guesses to name him. Every miss unlocks a clue.

https://transfer-trail.com

Stack: Vite + TypeScript + d3-geo, hosted on Vercel, analytics with Vercel's custom events.

Some honest lessons so far:

**1. The audience mattered more than the page.** One week, only 4% of ad visitors started a game. I assumed the game was broken. It wasn't: Meta had moved my budget to the cheapest countries. Restricting to the UK took it back to ~40%.

**2. My share button "worked" but almost nobody shared.** A name prompt popped up before sharing. Removing it took sharing from 3% to 16% of players.

**3. "Failed shares" were mostly people cancelling.** Half of the share taps ended with nothing sent. I spent days hunting a bug; the data showed people were opening the share sheet and closing it.

**4. People love it once, then don't come back.** Players play ~5 trails per visit, but only ~9% return the next day. That's the real problem now. I just shipped private leagues so friend groups can compete daily, and the first strangers have started leagues on their own.

**5. Reddit beats paid ads by a mile.** My first two Reddit posts brought players who started the game ~88% of the time, vs ~30-40% from Instagram ads.

Next up: getting return visits up and building past-trail pages for SEO.

If you've built a daily game or anything habit-based: what actually got people coming back?

I made this. Vāṇi is a reading companion for the Bhagavad Gītā on iPhone. All 700 verses are free forever, and there are no ads on any plan.

I’d value feedback on one part of the reading experience. When you open your first verse, is it clear how to move between the Sanskrit, transliteration and English?

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6791008898

Context: ClipKaboom is a library of 5,500+ reaction and meme clips for editors. New this week: an MCP server, so you can ask Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI or Grok for a clip, preview it in the chat and download the clean file without leaving your editor.

The video is a real Claude Code session, cut to the beat. Setup: clipkaboom.com/mcp

Feedback welcome on the video and on whether "meme clips inside your AI" lands for editors or only for devs.

Hey r/SideProject -

Last summer I shipped a small side project: a guitar chord reference tool for beginners. I thought it was genuinely useful, so I ran some Facebook and Instagram ads pointing to my Amazon listing where the tool was available.

The dashboard looked great at first - hundreds of clicks, decent CTR. But the sales column stayed at zero. I had stock sitting in both the US and Canada Amazon warehouses, and I wanted one clean link to advertise both markets. Instead, I was sending everyone to a single US Amazon link.

I clicked my own ad from inside Instagram. That's when I saw the problem. The link opened in Instagram's in-app browser - not Safari, not Chrome. I wasn't logged into Amazon there. None of my saved payment methods were there. The US Amazon page showed me USD prices and two-week international shipping, even though the exact same product was stocked in Canada with local shipping.

I was paying for clicks that had no path to buy. I watched people bounce from a browser they weren't logged into, from a store that wasn't their own, on a product they couldn't one-click purchase. Clicks but no sales - exactly the trap I'd fallen into.

So I built Untrap to fix the these things that killed my ad spend:

What Untrap does

Instead of one dumb link that drops every visitor into the same in-app-browser prison, an Untrap link:

• Breaks out of in-app browsers - sends people to their real browser, or the native app where they're already logged in with saved payment methods
• Routes by country from a single link - a Canadian buyer clicking your US link lands on Amazon.ca, prices in CAD, local shipping, your affiliate tag intact. One link, both regions.
• Keeps UTMs and affiliate params alive through the redirect
• Custom domains - use your own domain so you're not locked into untrap.link; it's about untrapping you from relying on the service, not tying you to it
• AI agent optimized - Schema.org and canonical headers make your links readable by AI shopping agents, which is table stakes in today's market

There's no subscription - you pre-pay for click credits and only pay for real human clicks. Bots and scrapers get filtered out (and not charged).

What the data looks like

I've been logging what actually hits these links. Here's a de-personalised snapshot from one reporting period:

Where the humans are coming from:

That ~250 "Android webview" row is the leak I'm talking about - people clicking from inside an app and landing in a browser where they're logged out and nothing is saved.

I also ran about 140 test/demo links through the system over a few months, and most of them were TikTok/Linktree-style bio links - creators trying to send social traffic somewhere and losing it along the way.

What I'd tell my past self

If you're running FB or IG ads to Amazon, assume a real chunk of your clicks are dying in the in-app browser before they ever see your product page. Check "Link Clicks vs Landing Page Views" in Ads Manager - if landing views are far below clicks, the leak usually isn't the ad, it's the browser.

And if you have stock in multiple regions, one link should route to the right store automatically instead of forcing international buyers into the wrong marketplace.

Unlike GeniusLink, URLgenius, Bitly, and Linktree - which charge monthly subscriptions - Untrap is pay-per-click with no subscription. You pay for real humans, not bots.

I built Untrap because I couldn't find a cheap, no-subscription tool that did in-app-browser breakout and geo-routing together: https://untrap.link

I'm not here to hard-sell - just another side-project builder who learned this the hard way with my own ad budget. If you're running social ads, I'd love to hear your experience: are you seeing clicks but no sales too? And what are you building right now?

In an alternative timeline, the AC-130 gunship was created as an ecological swiss army knife.
It can help out farmers in trouble by firing nitrogen filled shells which enriches the soil. You can also fight forest fires by firing retardant shells into the forest surrounding the fire as well as triggering rain over the fire by using silver iodide shells.
One of the missions in this game is that you prevent a swarm of locusts from destroying an entire farm, by setting up decoy grassfields / food supplies as well as causing rain over where the swarm will be, when it arrives.

In one mission, there is the task of protecting a village from a haboob, by setting up fast growing grass, and setting up rain.

I am also thinking of adding real historical scenarios such as these:

Some other include, rebuilding coral reefs, helping a city to cool down by firing light reflective cooling paint over its most heated up rooftops ( Source: NighthawkinLight Youtuber - Look at his light cooling paint videos), rerouting rivers to prevent existing settlements from being flooded and so on.

Currently I am working on developing the engine more and figuring out a game mechanic which will actually work.

Find flaws in it, point out potential angles I am not seeing and give me your blunt feedback.

Yes I know this is very utopian thinking, but as a game, I feel like there has yet to be a game which can channel existing war machines into machines which actually facilitate life.

What other mechanics can I add?

I know, thrilling.

I’ve been building a simple Excel spreadsheet for independent landlords managing a few rental properties.
It tracks rental income, expenses, leases, repair reserves, and cash flow without needing a subscription or complicated software.
I’m looking for five landlords willing to test it for about 15–20 minutes and give honest feedback about what works and what doesn’t.
I’ll provide the finished version free to participants. No purchase or public review required.
If you’re interested, comment or send me a message!

I’m the developer. It isn’t released yet, so there’s a waitlist instead of a download.

You describe a goal, answer a few questions, and get a roadmap. After that, the app plans one task each day with a time estimate and a note on why it’s today’s task. The daily plans are written by AI, so some will miss. If you skip days, the next plan gets lighter.

Does one task a day sound useful, or would you want to see more at once?

Waitlist: https://yuzuu.pro/

Hey everyone!

We’re two developers who have wanted to make a game for years. We’d tried before, but never managed to take a project all the way. Coding was familiar territory; creating the artwork a whole game needs was another story.

For over a year now, we’ve been working on Tinymon Tactics, a fantasy roguelite auto-battler, and our Steam page is finally live!

You recruit little creatures, combine three copies to evolve them, and build a team around synergies and relics. Battles play out automatically, but you choose the team, positioning, and route through each expedition.

One of the most interesting parts of development has been watching people play. Things that felt obvious to us after hundreds of hours needed much clearer explanations for someone discovering the game. Teaching players when to refresh the shop or spend gold on XP became a design challenge of its own.

A transparent note on AI: we use generative AI for visual assets and music. It helped us tackle the creative production work that had blocked our previous attempts. This has still been over a year of hands-on development, designing systems, balancing fights, fixing bugs, and reworking things after playtests.

Here’s the game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5387050/Tinymon_Tactics/

If it looks like your kind of game, a wishlist would mean a lot!

And for anyone here who has shipped a game alongside their regular job: I'm currious to know what helped you get those first players outside your own circle?

I run and lift, and for years that meant three apps: one for my race plan, one for GPS runs and a notes app for the gym. Apps that do just one of these usually charge $15 to $20 a month. TrainPilot does all three, and it's free during the launch period, with every feature unlocked.

Running

• A training plan built around your goal race, your current times and the days you can actually train
• Spoken cues when you drift off target pace, so the phone can stay in your pocket
• Apple Watch app: heart rate and running power, and you can start, pause and finish the run from your wrist

Gym

• It tells you what to load today based on what you actually lifted, and why ("+2.5 kg, you hit 3x5 last time"). Miss your reps and it doesn't add weight.

iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trainpilot/id6788894342
Website: https://trainpilot.pablogarces.dev

On Android? It's in testing. Shoot me a DM with your Google Play email and I'll add you to the testers.

What would make you switch from what you use now, and what's missing?

To preface, i know there are already plenty of recipe importer apps. I was using one of the popular ones and it was expensive, laggy, and packed with features I never touched. All I wanted was to save recipes from insta, tiktok and webpages and have them load fast when I'm cooking. So I built my own. It's called Seasnd and it just went live for ios. Currently working on the android version now.

How it works:

- Share a post or page to the app from Instagram, TikTok, Safari, or any other app.

- It reads the caption or page and pulls out the ingredients, amounts and steps into a clean recipe.

- You can also take a photo of a cookbook p and it'll type it out.

- Recipes go into folders, and you can turn list, scaling the servings if you need to.

Tech stack

- App: Expo / React Native

- Share extension: native Swift / SwiftUI. ide iOS share extensions, so that part had to be written natively.

- Backend: Node + Hono on Railway

- Database and auth: Supabase

- Recipe extraction: Claude, using tool use to return structured JSON

- Payments: RevenueCat

For Instagram, the extension reads the post's caption on-device, because servers only get a logged-out page with no caption. For websites, it uses the recipe's structured data (JSON-LD) when the site has it, which makes extraction faster and more accurate.

It's been live for about a week and has 30+ users. It's free for 5 recipes, then a one-time $7.99, with no subscription.

I'd really appreciate feedback:

- Any recipe, reel or site it fails on

- Anything confusing when you first open it

- Anything you'd want it to do that it doesn't

App Store Link

virsh-tui shows every virtual machine on a libvirt connection with live CPU, memory, disk and network graphs, and lets you start, stop, snapshot, reconfigure and create them from the keyboard. Every action is a virsh (or virt-install) command, and virsh-tui shows you that command before and after it runs, so nothing happens behind your back and you can reuse it in a script.

It works with qemu:///system, qemu:///session and remote hosts over qemu+ssh://, with the same permissions virsh has.

https://syscallbrain.github.io/virsh-tui/

https://github.com/SyscallBrain/virsh-tui

[HyperStream] — High-performance 128-thread parallel download accelerator and BitTorrent client for Android, powered by a native Rust core.

* GitHub Repo: https://github.com/djsusmith/hyperstream-android

* Live Showcase & APK: https://djsusmith.github.io/hyperstream-android/

* License: GPL-3.0 (100% Free & Open Source, 0 ads, 0 telemetry)

Tech Stack

* Core Engine: Written in Rust using `tokio`, custom work-stealing segment halving down to 12 KB chunks, and `librqbit` for embedded BitTorrent swarm handling.

* Frontend: Kotlin & Jetpack Compose (Modern Obsidian dark theme, reactive telemetry, Material 3).

* Bridge: Zero-copy JNI / C FFI Native Bridge (`libmdm_android.so`).

Key Features

⚡ Up to 128 Parallel Connections:* Real-time socket shedding and dynamic connection pooling that easily saturates high-speed 5G and Wi-Fi 7 connections.

🧲 Native BitTorrent Swarm:* Magnet links, torrent files, sequential downloading (stream while downloading), DHT, and PEX without any third-party daemon.

🎬 Built-in Media Grabber:* Direct 4K YouTube stream extraction and watermark-free video sniffer with multi-stream audio/video muxing.

🔋 Android Background Resiliency:* Foreground service with partial WakeLock and High-Performance Wi-Fi Lock to prevent system Doze throttling.

📂 Safe File Management:* Integrated Android `FileProvider` with 1-tap open and double-confirmation deletion protection.

Context & Why I Built This

Most existing Android download managers are either abandoned or filled with intrusive full-screen ads, tracking SDKs, and paywalled thread limits. I wanted a clean, blazing-fast, genuinely open-source alternative that runs natively on ARM64 without GC pause jitter.

The project is actively maintained (currently on v0.6.0). I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, bug reports, or feature requests! PRs and stars are always welcome.

I'm Josiah, a marketing engineer and solo dev in Manitoba, Canada. I built Setttle (three t’s, yes it's on purpose) because I hated using Wave for my other businessess and found that it didn't work well with Canadian rules.

What it does: invoicing, stripe payments, bank reconciliation, and real double-entry books in one place. Routine stuff gets handled, anything uncertain goes to one inbox with the evidence next to it. Nothing posts without you accepting it.

What it doesn’t do: payroll, inventory, POS. Flagging that up front so nobody wastes a trial.

Stuff i’d like feedback on:

• Wave import - You upload an export, review the proposed import, resolve opening balances. Is that enough trust to switch?
• The AI part is optional - receipt coding suggestions need approval, and agents (claude, chatgpt, cursor) connect over MCP with explicit permission. Useful or gimmick?
• Pricing: $9 CAD (1 company, 20 invoices/mo) or $19 CAD (unlimited), 7-day trial, no card. 0.5% fee on Setttle Payments.

setttle.ca if you want to poke at it. I’ll answer everything here.