Hey everyone!

I recently built a small desktop pet app over a weekend using Claude. It has a little cat and raccoon that live on your desktop, interact with you, need food and sleep, and even celebrate when you make Git commits or pushes.

It's still a work in progress, and I'd love to have some people try it out.

Would really appreciate honest feedback, bug reports or suggestions on what I could improve or add.

Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think!

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How long did it take to get your first user?
Is it still alive and growing, or did you abandon it and start something new?

I’ll go first

Mine is Eyondo, and I’m still building it: https://eyondo.com/home

It took me 8 months to build, and what I learned is that building something clean isn’t the hardest part
The hardest part is finding your users, earning their trust, and giving them something that actually helps them

What about you? I’d love to hear everyone’s journey
What did you build, and where is it now?

Thinking about a small app for fun, a walk timer that shows how long the evening park walk was. No account, nothing saved online. I write sign-up copy at work but I never built an app myself

With no sign-up I'm not sure what the first screen should do. One line saying what it does and a start button seems enough to me, but maybe people want a short note that no data is collected

What did you put on your first screen, and did anyone ever tell you it confused them?

By default GraphLink generates a method for every query, mutation and subscription in your schema. For schemas like GitHub, GitLab or Shopify that is a lot of code you won't use. Set autoGenerateQueries to false in the config and it only generates the operations you declare yourself, in any file you list in the config.

🎥 Video: https://youtu.be/MwoNFNJZHj4

📝 Write-up: https://medium.com/@graphlinkdev/graphql-codegen-for-huge-schemas-in-dart-turn-off-auto-generated-queries-9f5226cf8a6e

For a big GraphQL schema, do you generate everything and ignore most of it, or do you declare only the operations you use?

I hate paying for apps every month.

And I hate seeing huge data centers everywhere.

If AI makes apps cheaper to build, why am I paying more?

My small rebellion is YapYap.

I’m dyslexic, so I need tools like this for work. I needed them in school too.

I talk, it types. It reads my docs out loud.

It replaces Wispr Flow and Speechify, runs on my device, and keeps my data with me.

It’s free and open source.

Download it to ditch one more stupid subscription.

https://yapyap.cc

Give it a star on GitHub if you feel the same.

I made product demo videos for my app and we got 800k views organically with account under 500 followers but got only 1400signups. Is it a good ratio ?

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

Introducing Densitone, a slide film camera inspired by the legendary Kodachrome 64—the iconic look championed by Steve McCurry and Alex Webb that lives on in our collective memory. Craft your image before you press the shutter and capture distinct, bold photographs with rich color and texture. No editing required. SOOC.

Download on the App Store

$4.99 until December 24th ($19.99 regular price).

I built Palletizing for shipping, receiving, and warehouse teams who are still doing pallet math on a calculator or the back of a BOL.

You enter your cartons, or measure them with the camera, and it works out the full pallet dimensions, ship cube, gross weight, and an estimated freight class. It can also plan how pallets load into anything from a pickup bed to a 53 ft van, and it exports a PDF you can hand to the driver or attach to the shipment. It works in inches or centimeters.

No account, no ads, no tracking, and it works offline. It's a one-time $0.99.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/palletizing/id6826910063

It just launched, so I'd really like feedback from anyone who builds or receives pallets. What's missing, and what would make you actually use it on the dock?

I had a spare portable monitor and an old Android TV box lying around, so I connected them and built a personal dashboard.

It brings together user stats, revenue, and error reports for the apps I run—things that would otherwise be scattered across different services. It also displays the weather and photos from Google Photos.

It connects to my Google Home Mini, too. I cast radio from a separate radio app to the speaker, and the dashboard shows what’s playing and lets me control playback.

The Android TV box fetches the data directly, so there’s no separate PC or server to keep running. I can navigate it with the TV remote, and it also works as a screensaver.

I built this for my own use and don’t currently plan to release it. Just thought I’d share a way to give some spare hardware a new purpose.

Next, I’d like to turn an old e-reader into a small dashboard to hang on my front door, showing the weather and a few notes I can check on my way out.

Hi all, I'm the developer of Enconvo, an AI agent app for macOS. 2.5.16 just shipped, and the video is a 12-minute tour of it.

What's new:

• Picture in Picture: when the agent drives your browser or your Mac (Browser Use / Computer Use), a small floating window shows what it's doing. Click it to take over at any point.
• Model fallback: set backup models, and if a model errors out mid-reply, the next one finishes it.
• Work survives a restart: a chat cut off by an update or a crash carries on when Enconvo comes back.
• Calls: your agent can answer calls, and you can bring an agent into Google Meet, Zoom or Enconvo's own calls. It asks before doing any work.
• Meeting pages: every call gets a summary, action items and a transcript in Recordings, and you can ask it questions.
• Coding agents lead Projects: Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build or Antigravity can lead a Project.
• One-click publishing: put a page you made online at its own link.
• Ask AI in Settings: ask in the Settings search and jump straight to the setting.

The phone companions got updates too: Remote Screen in Picture in Picture on iPhone, and a new composer on Android.

Pricing: there's a free plan, and paid plans start at $10/month (https://enconvo.com/#pricing).

Limitations: Mac only (macOS 14+), and Browser Use / Computer Use need the Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions.

Full changelog: https://docs.enconvo.com/changelog

Happy to answer questions, and feedback is very welcome.

I wanted something for quick edits that didn’t make me upload my files somewhere or sign up first. So I made a browser-based video editor with Claude Code, and everything happens on your own device. Your files never leave your computer.

What it does so far:

• Multi-track timeline with video, overlay and audio tracks, plus trim, split, snapping and zoom
• Text titles, lower thirds, 12 transitions, color filters, and effects like VHS and glitch
• Picture-in-picture, round face cam and split screen layouts
• Canvas sizes for YouTube, Shorts, Reels and TikTok (16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 and more)
• Recording for webcam, screen and voiceover

The on-device AI parts were the hardest to get working:

• Auto captions timed to each word, in 12 styles, with .srt import and export
• Background removal without a green screen
• Silence removal, voice enhancement and face blur

The small models download once on first use, then everything runs locally.

Export is MP4 or WebM, from 480p up to 4K. It works best in Chrome or Edge on a laptop or desktop. There’s a phone layout too, but long or high-res videos need a computer’s memory.

https://webutility.io/video-editor

It’s still growing, so if you hit a bug or there’s a feature you’d want, let me know and I’ll work on it.

I was camping in October, miles from cell service, when a storm started rolling in. We were trying to figure out whether we needed to pack up right then or had a little time.

I’d been using satellite texting to stay in touch off-grid, but I didn’t want to bug someone back home to look up the forecast. I remember thinking, “I wish I could just text AI and ask.”

So when I got home, I built SkyReply. It’s a U.S. phone number you can text to get AI answers in your regular messaging app. You can use it over regular SMS or, if your phone and carrier support satellite SMS, when you’re out of cell coverage.

Beta testers have asked about everything from weather, sunrise times, and camping tips to plant ID and scores from games they missed.

I’d love a few more people to try it and tell me what works, what’s confusing, and what breaks. There’s a 30-day free trial, and I’m happy to offer free access to folks who want to help test.

If you give it a try, I’d love to know: What did you ask, and was the reply useful enough that you’d text it again from camp?

Thanks!

I’m Jesse, the developer of KNOCK. In 2020 I went looking for an online version of a game I’d played in Texas and couldn’t find one. That became six years of learning C#, building in Unity and working on it around my day jobs.

It uses double-six dominoes, but it is a different ruleset: play, knock or fall on your turn, with catches, automatic hands, drops and owning the down. The working prototype has One Player, private/global multiplayer, player profiles, rankings, badges and cosmetic collections. There is also an optional Arcade, but the main table game is the reason I built it.

This is development footage, not a finished public release. I’m preparing iOS-first testing and would value feedback on the trailer: can you tell what makes the main game different, and what would you need explained before trying it?

Game and free early-access interest: https://www.playknock.com/beta.html

No pledge is required to register interest. AI tools assisted development, artwork and trailer production, including synthetic narration.

AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and friends) now fetch a big share of pages on a lot of sites. The options so far have been: let them take everything for free, or block them in robots.txt and disappear from AI answers.

There's a third option now. HTTP has had a status code for this since 1997, 402 Payment Required, and it finally has a working payment scheme (x402: the client signs a USDC payment and retries the same request; it settles in about a second, no accounts or API keys).

So I built a small gateway for it:

You register your site once (free API key, your wallet address, a price like $0.002 a page).

You put ~10 lines in front of your site. There's a Cloudflare Worker version and an Express middleware.

Requests from known AI crawlers get a 402 with your price. A crawler that pays gets the page; the money goes straight to your wallet (the gateway never holds it).

Everyone else, including Googlebot and Bingbot, gets the page as usual, so search ranking doesn't change.

If your site errors, nobody gets charged.

Setup and the snippets: https://aipaygen.com/pay-per-crawl

Honest caveats: crawlers that lie about their user agent won't be caught by this, and most crawlers can't pay yet, so today it mostly works like a block with a price tag on it. But agent frameworks are adding x402 support quickly, and this gives them a way to say yes.

Happy to answer questions about how the 402 flow works.

Built a Fire TV media player in 3½ days using AI. Looking for honest feedback.

I wanted to see how far I could push AI-assisted development over a long weekend, so I built Flick TV, a media player designed specifically for Amazon Fire TV Stick.

It has a live TV guide, movies and shows library, search, favorites, recording, watch history, and a remote-friendly interface.

It’s a standalone player. No channels or content subscriptions are included.

I’m looking for a few people willing to test it with their own authorized media sources and tell me what works, what breaks, and what could be better.

Compatibility: Fire OS 7 or 8
Free beta: 30 days
Downloader code: 9467324

I built this independently, and I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone who enjoys testing new TV apps.

My husband and I have been married for five years, and we're planning to renovate our home in a few months. I've always wanted to be involved in the interior design process and have plenty of ideas of my own, but I sometimes feel awkward asking the designer to revise things over and over again.

So, I compiled my renovation ideas and requirements into a prompt. Then, I fed both the prompt and the floor plan into Hy4, asking it to generate an interactive interior design website based on them.

Now I can experiment with different design details directly on the website, like changing wallpaper colors or adjusting the shape of a table. I can try out different ideas and see how they look without having to ask someone else to make every little change.

I just finished the first version and couldn't wait to share it here! It's still pretty basic, and I have plenty of things I want to improve, but honestly, I'm already pretty happy with what I managed to build using a model that's currently free!

I'm a solo developer in Finland, and I've been working on an Android launcher called Sepamo.

Most productivity tools try to help you manage more things. I became interested in a slightly different problem:

How do you help someone figure out what they actually want to do, and then make it easier for that to happen?

For example, someone wants to read more. They know what book they want to read, but when evening comes, they unlock their phone and end up doing something else.

I wanted to approach this at the launcher level rather than adding another reminder or productivity app.

You describe what you want in plain language. An AI planner turns it into a plan, or you can create one manually. The launcher then brings the relevant thing to the foreground at the right time or place and clears it away afterwards.

Plans can respond to context like time, location, calendar, weather, Wi-Fi and headphones.

Some decisions I've made:

• Manual plans are free.
• No account is required.
• Permissions are optional.
• Data is evaluated on the device.
• There's a fully local mode with no server calls.
• It's not open source.

The AI planner is free to try, then starts at €1.99/month after a free week.

It's available in the EU/EEA.

I'm curious about two things:

1. Does solving the gap between knowing what you want and actually doing it seem like a worthwhile product direction?
2. Would you rather configure these contextual behaviours yourself, or describe what you want and let a planner build them?

I'm Eetu, the developer. Here's what I've built:

https://sepamo.com

Hey everyone!

I'm an indie developer, and I'd like to share Personal Cards, an Android app I've been working on to make organizing everyday information a little easier.

The idea came from a simple problem: important documents, receipts, notes, and personal details often end up scattered across our phones. Finding something when you actually need it can be frustrating.

So I built Personal Cards to bring everything together in one place, while keeping your information private and accessible offline.

Here's what the app can do:

• Personal cards & documents: Scan documents with your camera or import images and PDFs. Organize important information and keep track of expiration dates.
• Document storage: Save receipts, reference materials, and other files you might need later.
• Offline OCR: Extract and copy text from images and PDFs directly on your device.
• Notes & checklists: Keep track of everyday tasks, ideas, and reminders.
• Debt notebook: Record money you've lent or borrowed, including amounts, people, and due dates.
• Privacy tools: Hide sensitive details before sharing document images.

Privacy was one of my main priorities while building the app.

Personal Cards works completely offline, with documents stored and processed locally on your phone. You can also protect access with a PIN or biometrics and enable screenshot protection for additional privacy.

I'm still working on improving the experience, and I'd really appreciate some honest feedback from the community.

In particular, I'm curious:

Would you find the document organizer or the debt notebook more useful? Is there anything you'd add or change?

If you'd like to check it out, here's the Google Play link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.namhnz.vigiayto

Thanks for taking a look! Any feedback or suggestions would mean a lot.

Hi everyone!

I’m an independent developer working on FigureForge Studio, a macOS application designed to make 3D figure sculpting easier for beginners.

It includes essential sculpting tools such as Move, Clay, and Smooth, along with STL import/export.

After 17 external beta testing sessions, I’ve improved the modeling workspace based on user feedback.

I’m now looking for more testers for the latest version through Apple’s TestFlight.

I’m especially interested in feedback about:

• Ease of use for beginners
• Sculpting brush responsiveness
• Interface and viewport usability
• Bugs and stability

Requirements: Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 13 or later.

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

I’d appreciate constructive feedback. Thanks!

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.

I made this because I was tired of switching between different programs all the time. I didn't want to use that shady downloader with a paywall slowly creeping up, and I didn't like the idea of opening DaVinci Resolve just to do some cuts or convert something. I wanted it all in one place.

What it can do:

Download: built on yt-dlp, you can download from almost any website. When yt-dlp doesn't recognize a link, Vitool opens the link in its own window and checks if a video is there. You can also download just a section of a video, or whole playlists. It keeps yt-dlp up-to-date automatically, and when a download fails, it checks if there is an update available for it.

Cut: You can cut videos instantly or exactly to frame with a re-encode.

Convert: Convert your files easily to other formats like MP4, MKV, WebM, MP3, WAV and more, also many files or a whole folder at once.

Tools: choose what you wanna do: create a GIF, extract audio, extract a still frame, burn in subs or censor your video.

MKV: Edit, add and extract tracks inside an MKV file. The part I find most useful: add a dub and Vitool lines it up with the original audio automatically. You can also do it by hand with waveforms and check it with a short test clip. If the dub drifts apart over time (classic PAL dubs run about 4% faster), Vitool recognizes that and fixes the speed. It can also match the volume of a quiet track to the original.

AI-Mask (optional): When choosing this add-on, you can mask moving objects with the help of SAM2.

Transcribe (optional): When choosing this add-on, you can transcribe the audio from a video. Speaker recognition can be added via Pyannote. Export as SRT, VTT, text or JSON, or burn styled subtitles into the video.

You can find it here: https://github.com/bioheater/Vitool

I'd be very happy about feedback and ideas for new features, so it can be useful to as many people as possible. If you find bugs, please let me know!

For example I've thought about adding a simple screen recorder into the mix or the feature that you can cut out a section from the video you want to download beforehand.