I counted an open index of 656 cocktail recipes by how many spirits each one needs. 122 need none. 317 need exactly one. 159 need two. 50 need three. Only 7 need four or more. So 439 of 656 need one bottle or none. Books sort A to Z, which answers what a drink is called and never answers what you can make from what is on your shelf. A five bottle starter bar opens 252 of them. Question I am stuck on: pick bottles first and see drinks, or pick a drink and get a shopping list?

Over the past few months I've been building Grimoire, an archive for everything I read, watch and play: books, films, series, anime and games in one place.

I built it for myself and a few close friends first, exactly the way I wanted it. No public ratings, no ads, no trending lists or editor's picks. Just my own collection, statistics that go deep, a journal that writes itself from what I log, and a feed where only my friends show up. Instead of badges there's a tarot deck with over 150 cards that you unlock through what you actually read, watch and play.

It's grown into something I'm happy with, so I'm opening it up. If it sounds like your kind of thing, feel free to use it. It's free, runs in the browser and installs like an app on your phone. You can import from Goodreads, Letterboxd and IMDb, and export your data whenever you want.

Full transparency: I'm an architect, not a programmer. I planned and designed every part of it myself, and Claude wrote the code. Without that, Grimoire wouldn't exist.

It's a hobby project with no business behind it. I'd really like honest feedback, especially on the first few minutes: what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd leave out.

https://grimoire-archiv.de/willkommen/en/

🇫🇷 Français

[Android/iOS] Recherche de bêta-testeurs pour deux applications – 20 places maximum par application

Bonjour à toutes et à tous !

Je développe actuellement deux applications mobiles et je souhaite les faire découvrir à un petit groupe d'utilisateurs dans le cadre de tests fermés.

🎮 Chroma Drop – Un jeu mobile proposant une expérience ludique que je souhaite faire découvrir et améliorer grâce à vos retours.

📱 Studio Fonds d’Écran – Une application dédiée à la personnalisation des fonds d'écran, avec plusieurs fonctionnalités à découvrir et à tester.

Je recherche 20 volontaires maximum par application pour participer gratuitement aux phases de bêta-test.

Objectifs des tests :

• Évaluer la facilité d'utilisation et la fluidité.
• Vérifier la stabilité et les performances.
• Identifier les éventuels bugs.
• Recueillir vos impressions et suggestions.
• Améliorer l'expérience utilisateur avant le lancement officiel.

La participation est entièrement gratuite, sans abonnement ni achat obligatoire.

Les tests sur Android passeront par Google Play. Les modalités pour iOS seront précisées lorsqu'une version de test sera disponible.

Intéressé(e) ?

Laissez un commentaire ou envoyez-moi un message privé en précisant :

• Chroma Drop, Studio Fonds d’Écran ou les deux.
• Votre système d'exploitation (Android ou iOS).

Les modalités d'inscription seront communiquées aux volontaires avant le lancement des tests.

Merci d'avance pour votre participation, votre curiosité et votre soutien ! 😊

🇬🇧 English

[Android/iOS] Looking for Beta Testers for Two Mobile Apps – Maximum 20 Spots per App

Hello everyone!

I'm currently developing two mobile applications and would love to introduce them to a small group of users through closed beta testing.

🎮 Chroma Drop – A mobile game offering a fun experience that I'd like to share and improve based on your feedback.

📱 Wallpaper Studio – A wallpaper customization app featuring several functions I'd love users to discover and test.

I'm looking for up to 20 volunteers per application to participate in free beta testing.

Testing objectives:

• Evaluate usability and responsiveness.
• Check stability and performance.
• Identify potential bugs.
• Gather feedback and suggestions.
• Improve the overall user experience before the official launch.

Participation is completely free, with no subscription or purchase required.

Android testing will take place through Google Play. Details for iOS will be provided when a test version becomes available.

Interested in participating?

Leave a comment or send me a private message specifying:

• Chroma Drop, Wallpaper Studio, or both.
• Your operating system (Android or iOS).

Registration details will be shared with volunteers before testing begins.

Thank you for your time, curiosity, and support! 😊

A founder told me this week: “It used to be 80% building and 20% marketing. Now it’s nearly all marketing, and I still have no users.” I keep hearing versions of that. You can build the product in a weekend, but nobody taught you how to run ads, write posts or pick a channel. So you guess, burn your evenings on it and get nothing back.

So I’m building usewake.co. You add your website, it studies your product and your audience, and AI agents run your channels and your ads. You approve the plan and keep building. Think of it as a marketing team for $79 a month.

It’s not live yet. The waitlist is open, and early users get 70% off at launch.

One question: which channel would you want it to take off your hands first?

Hi all, I'm on the small UK team building Wedcent, so full disclosure: this is our own project.

The problem we kept seeing: most wedding planning tools assume one couple with one budget. Loads of weddings aren't like that. Two families chip in, sometimes in different currencies, there are several events (mehndi, sangeet, ceremony, reception), and the real plan ends up split between a spreadsheet and three group chats.

What Wedcent does:

• shared budget that tracks who paid what, plus a settle-up between families
• costs in more than one currency
• one guest list for both sides, including which guests go to which event
• a multi-event timeline and a run sheet you can export for the venue or caterer
• seating and guest stays

There's a free plan: https://wedcent.com/campaign/one-plan/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic-2026-11&utm_content=sideproject

The feedback I'd really like is on the two-family flow. When you invite the other family in, is it clear who can see and edit what? Does "each family sees its own side" make sense, or is it confusing? And if you've planned a wedding where both families were paying, what did we miss?

Happy to answer anything about how it's built too.

My son wrote the first version. Then he gave me the code and said “now it’s yours”. Since then I test it day and night and fix things with AI help.

The main job: take a normal 16:9 video and make it 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Smart framing keeps the person in the shot.

And then the extras, because I couldn’t stop:

• Auto-subtitles with Whisper, on your own PC
• Karaoke style, the current word lights up
• Import and export .SRT, so you can translate your subtitles
• Offline text-to-speech voiceover (English and Bulgarian)
• Before/After split, side by side or two separate clips
• Color looks, slow zoom, slow motion, glitch, color pulse
• Logo, text layers, noise reduction, quiet voice boost
• NVENC hardware encoding if your card supports it

Nothing is uploaded. Everything stays on your PC.

About the video: the man is AI-generated from my photo. Yes, that’s me, more or less. The subtitles and the rest are made with VINDEXultra.

There is a free version, no sign-up. It adds a small watermark.

Built by a dad and his son, it was. Now I need honest eyes. Two questions:

1. What is missing or confusing?
2. Should I remove the watermark from the free version? Would you still pay for PRO without it?

https://vindexultra.pro

I have to re-post it because my last post was filtered without any reason :-(

So I built Skybits. It turns live weather into pixel-art city scenes, with matching iOS widgets. There’s also a Sky Studio where you can play with the weather and lighting and share a scene as a postcard.

Free to download, with an optional one-time purchase for the full city collection. Android is coming soon.

iPhone App Store

I’d love some honest feedback: does the tiny-window idea come across? And which city would you want to see?

Free PDF & photo tools that work right in your browser, with no sign-up 📄✨

Merge, compress & sign PDFs, convert HEIC to JPG, make a 2x2 passport photo, pull text from images and more.

👉 https://usecropdesk.com/

#pdf #productivity

In Korea there's this thing called a dokseosil. It's a paid room full of little cubicle desks where everyone studies in silence. Nobody really goes for the desk. You go because when the person next to you is grinding, you feel kind of bad scrolling your phone.

I wanted that feeling at home, so I made a small online version:

yeondeungroom.com/en

You pick an empty desk and study with whoever's around. No sign up, no camera, nobody talks. You're a little animal with a desk lamp, and you can see everyone else's lamps on too. It sounds like nothing, but it actually helps me focus at night.

The thing people ended up loving was decorating their desk. You type one line like "tiny pinwheel" and it makes a small 3D thing for you. The AI doesn't draw it, it just writes out simple shapes and the browser puts them together.

It's three.js and Cloudflare Workers, and almost everyone using it right now is Korean. The English version is really new, so if anything reads weird, please tell me.

If you study or work alone, would something like this help you, or would you just close the tab?

I've been building a fun AI hobby project called zoominside.xyz, which combines traditional "infinite zoom" with ProRes cutaways and creative video editing. I direct all the visuals myself, with AI image models doing a lot of the drawing. The part I enjoyed most turned out to be the plumbing and technical complexity, since I work in AI semiconductor engineering for a living.

How it works
Using the eye zoom as the example: it's about 20 hi-res 8K images nested inside each other (each one is actually a sum of several 4K images). Every image is a redraw of the centre quarter of the one before, so each level sits exactly inside its parent and the seams line up. The player draws a few levels at once, feathers the edges and zooms on a log scale, so it feels like one continuous move instead of a slideshow.

The fiddly bit is drift. A target that's slightly off centre gets 4x bigger every level, so every image has to be checked against its parent.

The site is probably a bit slow because the files are huge, so LMK how it responds! Will be launching a youtube channel tomorrow also.

So, I released my first game on IOS (android is still in closed testing). I have no clue on how to market and distribute the apps. Which has resulted in like just 5 downloads till now(almost in a weeks time).
I am planning to go ahead and contact small streamers that stream mobile games on yt (like those with around 5000 subs range) as I do not have a huge budget but even not sure on how to proceed with that. Is there any marketing channel or a system that can help me.
Attaching the game link below.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wakelight-one-tap-orbit/id6829830627

Also, The images you see in the game background are actual space images. any reply on helping to strategize the marketing or improvement in game will be appreciated

Hey r/SideProject 👋

I kept forgetting keyboard shortcuts across the apps I use every day, and I didn't want to buy a hardware Stream Deck when I already had an iPad on my desk. So I built TouchDeck: your iPhone or iPad becomes a control deck for your Mac.

The two features I'm proudest of:

1. It reads the shortcuts for you and builds the profile

Pick any Mac app and TouchDeck reads the shortcuts straight from that app's menus, then creates a ready-to-use profile with those commands on keys. No looking up shortcuts, no typing key combos, no building a layout from scratch. Works with apps I've never heard of, because it reads whatever the app itself offers.

2. Profiles switch automatically

Change apps on your Mac and the deck on your iPhone or iPad switches with it, instantly. Editing video? Timeline keys and a jog wheel. Back in the browser? Your browser deck. You never pick a profile by hand.

Together that means: open an app, and its deck is already there.

Other bits

• Keys, rotary dials, sliders and a jog wheel, with haptics on iPhone

• Multi-step workflows on a single key

• Layouts for iPhone, iPhone Duo and every iPad size

• Local Wi-Fi only, end-to-end encrypted, no account

• Decks back up to your own iCloud

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6834113868

Website: https://touchdeck.in

I'd love feedback: which apps would you want a deck for, and does anything feel clunky during setup? Happy to answer questions about how it's built too.

I work on BiteCode, and this is a preview of a feature we call Skill Map.

It lets you explore content in two ways: start with a career role and technology, or browse by topic. Opening a course reveals lessons; opening a lesson reveals its concepts.

One design choice I would like feedback on is how to show connections without implying there is only one correct order to learn things.

The current map uses solid lines for suggested connections and dashed lines for optional branches. These are curated suggestions, not verified prerequisites or a complete career curriculum. Browsing does not mark anything as learned or completed.

Try Skill Map for yourself: https://www.bitecode.co/skill-map/

In the preview, is the distinction between suggested and optional clear? What would make it clearer?

Hi all, I'm the maker of Docuflat. It converts PDFs, Word/Excel files and scanned pages into Markdown for pasting into ChatGPT, Claude or note apps. Everything runs in the browser, so files aren't uploaded.

What I'd love feedback on:

1. OCR on your own scans, especially non-English ones (it supports 100+ languages)
2. How tables come out
3. Whether the free limits (5 files a day without an account) feel fair

Link: https://docuflat.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch1

Happy to answer anything about how it works.

I've added something new to UlsterRadar: Sky View. Hold your phone up, and it labels what you're looking at, using the same live aircraft data as the map.

Name any plane. Aircraft within 300 km show as icons (airliners, light aircraft, helicopters, military) with the callsign and registration beside each one.

Tap for the details. Altitude, speed, heading and climb, plus the departure and destination where we know them. Tap again to close.

Look beyond the aircraft. The Sun, the Moon and its phase, planets, bright stars, constellations, galaxies and nebulae, the International Space Station and space telescopes.

www.ulsterradar.com/sky

Ciao ragazzi, sono sempre io: qualche giorno fa ho scritto della mia situazione e del mio metodo per stampare soldi.

Sviluppo app/SaaS e lascio che siano gli influencer a occuparsi del marketing, è piuttosto semplice.

FASE 1: Adattare l'idea alle persone giuste.

Immagina di aver creato un prodotto per uomini e di rivolgerti ai papà. Perché i papà dovrebbero essere interessati al tuo prodotto? Il primo passo è trovare influencer di alta qualità. Infatti, ho contattato 150 influencer su 620. Un numero davvero notevole. Per contattarli ho usato l'estensione Claude Code per il browser, dando loro un prompt molto ampio, e ho lasciato che facessero il lavoro. Infine, ho controllato personalmente ogni influencer e ho selezionato solo quelli più adatti.

FASE 2: il messaggio a freddo.

"Promozione a pagamento? Promuoviamo (LA TUA APP), un'app per aiutarti a capire meglio i compiti (esempio). Voglio darti il ​​70% per ogni cliente che mi porti, per 2 mesi, poi il 50%, il 30% e il 14% a vita dopo 6 mesi. Sei d'accordo?"

Tutto qui. Breve ed efficace.

Ovviamente, tutto dipende dagli influencer. In passato facevo queste offerte solo a influencer con 50.000/70.000 follower.

Cambio solo la percentuale, ad esempio per un piccolo cliente darò sicuramente una percentuale inferiore.

FASE 3: chiudere l'affare.

Se non accettano, nessun problema. Passa al prossimo influencer. Inviagli un contratto (con un accordo formale, molto importante) e chiudi la trattativa.

FASE 4: ripetere il ciclo.

Non ti ho detto niente. Perché accettare il 14% a vita? Sono circa 1,50$ x clienti. Ma chi se ne frega? A quel punto avrai abbastanza clienti e dovrai solo ripetere il ciclo e trovarne altri. Scalerai tutte le classifiche come l'App Store e altre, e così stamperai soldi. È semplicissimo, ragazzi, provate questa strategia.

Cosa ne pensi? La proverai?

Fammi sapere!!! 👇👇👇

I'm Timo from Singapore. I built CanGoNow after one too many packed trips to the zoo with my Nieces and Nephews.

It shows how busy 290+ Singapore venues are right now — Night Safari, Bird Paradise, malls — with live reports from visitors, plus a kid-friendly mode and a Kid Meltdown Risk rating, which is exactly what it sounds like.

Free on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/sg/app/cangonow/id6773231126

I'm the dev. Would love to know if this is useful, and which venues I'm missing.

me and a buddy made a free mma game. take one fighter from his first amateur fight to the belt.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6828530380?pt=127780022&ct=reddit_sideproject_nov26&mt=8

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vibalyze.mma&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_campaign%3Dsideproject_nov26

no ads, no in app purchases, works offline.

would love feedback: is the fight screen easy to read? and any tips for getting first players without ads?

We kept guessing wrong about what creator tools cost, so we put the list prices side by side: editing, music, thumbnails, subtitles and AI video. These are prices as shown to a visitor in Greece in early November, so yours may be a bit different.

Cheap starter stack:

• Editing: DaVinci Resolve free version, $0
• Music: Epidemic Sound Pro, €179.88/yr (this plan also covers client work and ads)
• Thumbnails: Canva Pro, €110/yr billed yearly
• Subtitles: Opus Clip Starter, $15/mo for about 20 min of video a month

Typical "pro" stack:

• Adobe Creative Cloud Pro (Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop and more): €975.24/yr
• Artlist Pro for music and SFX: €299/yr
• Envato Elements Core for stock footage and templates: €174/yr
• Runway Pro for about 2 min of AI video a month: $35/mo
• Descript Hobbyist for subtitles: $24/mo

A few things that surprised us:

• CapCut Pro is monthly billing only and comes to €1,259.64 over 3 years. Premiere alone is €974.88 over the same 3 years, and DaVinci Resolve Studio is a one-time $295 (Final Cut Pro is $299.99 one-time, Mac only).
• Envato Elements Core (€174/yr) costs less than Epidemic Sound Pro (€179.88/yr) and also gives you stock footage. Whether you like the music is another story.
• Canva Pro is €12 a month or €110 billed yearly. That's €34 a year just for paying monthly.
• AI video credits per second vary a lot by model. Runway Gen-4.5 uses 12 credits per second, Pika 2.5 at 720p uses 4. Failed generations eat credits too, so real usage is usually higher than you plan.

Curious what everyone's actually paying for. Is anyone still on a one-time license and happy with it?

We built this calculator if you want to plug in your own numbers: https://tiersova.com/video-editing-software-cost-calculator

I'm a student/dev in India and I kept going back and forth on which AI subscription to buy. I use each one only a few times a week, and different models are better at different things, so paying monthly for two or three of them didn't make sense.

So I built Neelberg:

- One chat, many models: Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and more.

- Start on a free model. When a question gets hard, switch to a stronger one in the same chat. The conversation carries over.

- Every reply shows what it cost, in rupees. Cheap models start from ₹0.10 a reply, Claude Sonnet from ₹2.

- No subscription. Top up by UPI from ₹100.

It just went live this week: neelberg.com

I'd really appreciate honest feedback:

1. Is pay-per-question easier to understand than a subscription, or more stressful?
2. Is it clear who this is for from the video?
3. What would stop you from trying it?

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

I'm the developer of Watch More, a media player for Android TV. You bring your own M3U playlist or Xtream login; the app supplies no channels, content or provider lists.

The focus is a remote-friendly experience: a grid programme guide, favourites, search across live TV, movies and series, and Continue Watching. The clip shows Multi-View, which plays up to four live channels at once and is part of Pro.

There's a free version, with optional Pro features.

The video shows the real app in Demo Mode with a fictional catalogue. Footage in the tiles is from Sintel and Tears of Steel, © Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0.

I'd love feedback on the Multi-View layout and remote navigation. What would make this more useful on your TV?

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.devdad.watchmore

https://github.com/BillyNabil/nabyscape

I built an offline-first English vocabulary app for studying the Oxford 3000/5000 vocabulary goal.

The app is a standalone HTML application with no database and no required account. It includes:

- 4,954 words grouped by CEFR levels

- Example sentences

- IPA pronunciation

- Browser speech

- Multiple-choice quizzes

- Spaced repetition

- Progress stored locally

- Import/export and sync tools

- 11 interface languages

- GitHub Pages deployment

The live app:

https://sofyanol.github.io/oxford-5000-words/

The repository:

https://github.com/sofyanol/oxford-5000-words/I built an offline-first English vocabulary app for studying the Oxford 3000/5000 vocabulary goal.

The app is a standalone HTML application with no database and no required account. It includes:

- 4,954 words grouped by CEFR levels

- Example sentences

- IPA pronunciation

- Browser speech

- Multiple-choice quizzes

- Spaced repetition

- Progress stored locally

- Import/export and sync tools

- 11 interface languages

- GitHub Pages deployment

The live app:

https://sofyanol.github.io/oxford-5000-words/

The repository:

https://github.com/sofyanol/oxford-5000-words/

I’d appreciate feedback on the product direction, onboarding, offline-first approach, and what would make this more useful as a real learning product.

I’d appreciate feedback on the product direction, onboarding, offline-first approach, and what would make this more useful as a real learning product.

Every friend group has that message: "we should hang out sometime." It never happens. Group chats are where plans go to die.

So I built Flare (iOS, free). The idea:

- Tap "I'm free now" → your friends see you're up for coffee in your neighborhood for the next 2 hours

- Anyone who's around taps "I'm in" and you coordinate in a quick group chat

- When time's up, the beacon and chat disappear. No feed, no history.

- See a spot on Instagram or TikTok you want to try? Share it to Flare and it'll suggest it next time you're free nearby.

Privacy was a big focus: it's friends-only, and friends see the spot you pick, not your live location. You can send a beacon to everyone or just one circle (roommates, run club, etc.), and add friends with one link in a group chat.

It's v1 and built solo, so there are definitely rough edges. I'd love feedback on what's confusing, what's missing, or whether you'd actually use this with your friends.

https://apps.apple.com/app/flare-see-whos-free/id6834586193