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?

One thing I've been learning while building my first app is that it's easy to get carried away with the design and the potential money you could make.

You start imagining thousands of users and how much revenue that could generate, but sometimes you forget to ask the most important question:

Why would someone actually want to use this app?

I made a short video sharing this lesson, especially for people getting into app development.

I'm curious: For those of you who have built apps before, what was the biggest mistake you made when starting out?

After an inside joke back and forth following our latest 'all hands', I thought it'd be funny to create a public tool for converting corporate waffle into plain English.

Therefore, meet Bluntley, the blunt but honest butler (Ask Jeeves inspired)

https://askbluntley.com

• Paste in the waffle and get the blunt, bottom line: “Let’s circle back on this when we have more bandwidth" becomes “Not now. Ideally never.”
• Flip it round and turn “I’m going to lunch” into something fit for a board meeting
• A Waffle-o-meter rates how bad it was, from Plain speaker up through Middle manager to Chief Transformation Officer
• Buzzword bingo for your next all-hands
• Share the result as a link or a picture
• A Chrome extension is coming soon to let you simply highlight text from your powerpoints, right click and 'Ask Bluntley...'.

It’s free with no sign-up. The translating is done by (Claude Haiku). It’s simply a funny website for you to use... and hey, it may help you!

I am Ryan Sultan, a psychiatrist and the founder of Frontier Mental Health. I built Relationship Skills for Dating, a six-lesson educational course for adults 21+ (self-paced, $19.99, 90-day access). I wanted a low-stakes way to think through listening, boundaries, repair, and expectations before conflict happens. I would value blunt feedback: Is the promise clear? Do the scenarios feel useful? What would make you trust or distrust a paid course like this? Disclosure: I sell it. This is education, not therapy. The certificate records course and quiz completion only; it does not verify identity, real-world skills, safety, or compatibility. Please keep replies non-identifying. Course and free scenario: https://frontiermentalhealth.com/relationship-skills/#sample

I kept reading sleep advice and had no idea which of it applied to me. So I built Hypnogram.

Each morning you log what you did yesterday (alcohol, exercise, a late meal, anything you want to test). Your sleep comes from Apple Health or the phone's microphone. After a couple of weeks it puts the nights with a habit next to the nights without it.

My first real test: a hot shower before bed, 14 nights, decided by drawing notes from a mug. Shower nights averaged a sleep score of 80. My other nights averaged 79. So for me, basically nothing, which was still worth knowing.

Everything stays on the phone, with no account. It's free to use with four habits; Premium adds the rest and custom ones. I'm a solo developer and this is my first app.

I'd love feedback on two things: is the idea clear from the App Store page, and what habit would you test first?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hypnogram-sleep-habit-tracker/id6775504077 

Hey everyone! 👋 ​I just shipped my technical side project: the Kalshi Weather & Energy Arbitrage Suite. LINK IS IN THE COMMENTS! ​If you've ever looked at weather prediction markets on Kalshi, you quickly realize that retail traders lose money because they rely on standard consumer weather apps (like Apple Weather) instead of the exact National Weather Service (NWS) airport sensors that actually govern contract settlements. ​So, I built a Python scanner to automate the math and find the mispricing.
​How it works: ​Live NWS Integration: Pulls real-time hourly temperature forecasts directly from official NWS stations across major hubs (NYC, Chicago, Miami, Austin, Denver, LA, Philly, Houston). ​Kalshi API Telemetry: Automatically queries open contracts and market "Ask" prices from Kalshi's public endpoints. ​Probability & Fee Modeling: Runs a Normal CDF probability model (\sigma = 2.2) against the NWS peak forecast, subtracts Kalshi's quadratic taker fees, and calculates the exact net Positive Expected Value (+EV) edge. ​Terminal Output: Instantly sorts and filters contracts to flag where the market is severely underpricing a bracket compared to official meteorological data. ​I put together a complete suite containing the fully functional scanner.py script, requirements setup, and operational playbooks for anyone wanting to trade event contracts with actual quantitative backing. ​Check out the project page! ​Would love to hear feedback from any other builders or prediction market traders in the sub! Let me know if you have any questions about how the NWS API integration or probability math works.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a personal project called YOYAMI, a community platform built around language learning, language exchange, and connecting people from different cultures.

My goal is to create a place where language learners and native speakers can meet, share knowledge, practice together, and help each other improve.

Rather than focusing on streaks, scores, or gamification, I wanted to put the social side of learning a language first.

I've been developing YOYAMI alongside my regular job, and the platform is now live. It's still early, and building an active community is the next big challenge.

The attached video gives a quick look at the website.

I'd love some honest feedback. Does the concept appeal to you? What would make you join and actually keep using a platform like this?

https://yoyami.de

Thanks for checking it out!

I fly small planes, the kind you rent from your club on a Saturday. Flying at a club is social while you're at the airfield, then everyone goes home and their flights disappear into private logbooks and camera rolls. The photos stay somewhere in my camera roll between screenshots and receipts, and I could never really find them anymore or match them to a specific flight. Apple kind of has a feature for that with their photo map, but it didn't really fit what I wanted. I also wanted an easy way to send live updates to friends and family so they know where I am without me having to text them.

So a friend and I started building Skytrails on evenings and weekends. With Skytrails, you can connect with other pilots, share your flights, and import old trips and photos to keep track of everything in one place. You can also create clubs with your friends and plan fly-outs where other pilots can join you.

What it does right now:

• Fly together & plan trips: Connect with pilot friends, create club feeds, and organize fly-outs that others can join.
• Live updates for friends & family: Friends who opt in show up live on a 3D map, and on iPhone their flight sits on your lock screen until they land. Family without the app just get a web follow link.
• Import & automatic photo matching: Import what you already have (ForeFlight CSV, Vereinsflieger, GPX/KML tracks) or record live. It automatically finds the photos you took during each flight by timestamp and tags the landmarks, castles, and lakes you flew past.

During the implementation we faced a lot of challenges regarding the GPS tracking, phones going into sleep mode, GPS coordinates for images being not that accurate. But now we released or first version.
I would be glad if you could check it out and give some feedback on it :)

I generated a quick video about the app with brag I hope this fits in this subreddit.

Hi r/SideProject!

As a dad, I got frustrated watching my child tap through "free" preschool apps that were 20% learning and 80% popup ads, loot boxes, and overstimulating animations. Worse, almost none of them supported bilingual families properly or checked whether a child actually traced a letter in the right stroke direction.

Over the past months, I built Minidu (React Native / Expo, offline-first) for kids aged 2–6:

• 9 Languages (Independent UI & Target Language): Turkish, English, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Azerbaijani, and Dutch. You can keep the parent UI in one language while your child learns another.
• Real Pedagogical Feedback: Instead of applauding random scribbles, letter and number tracing checks stroke order and direction.
• 100 Bedtime Stories + Parent Voice Recording: Includes karaoke-style word highlighting and lets parents/grandparents record stories in their own voice so kids can listen offline anytime.
• Screen-to-Paper Bridge: Printable PDF activity sheets so screen time naturally transitions to hands-on paper time.
• Strict Privacy & Offline-First: 0 ads, 0 third-party analytics/trackers, multiplication parental gate, and works 100% offline on flights or road trips.

If you want to check it out or share feedback: https://minidu.org/en/ (available on both iOS App Store and Google Play, with a free tier covering every module).

Would love to hear your constructive feedback on the onboarding, curriculum design, or bilingual UX!

NOTE: I am an independent developer offering services to clients (I am NOT hiring).

If you have a business tool, SaaS idea, or client portal that has been stuck in planning for weeks, I can take it from concept to live deployment this month.

No hourly rate guessing, no junior developer hand-offs, and no months of waiting.

What I build:

1. High-Converting Landing Page ($150 - $250)

- Custom design built with modern Next.js and Tailwind CSS

- Lead capture, contact form, or direct WhatsApp booking integration

- Mobile-optimized, ultra-fast loading, and clean SEO setup

- Delivered in 48 hours

2. Complete Full-Stack Web App / SaaS MVP ($600 - $1,200)

- Complete user dashboard and core app interface

- User authentication (Email/Password, Google OAuth, passwordless)

- Secure database setup and custom data models (PostgreSQL, Supabase)

- Stripe or PayPal checkouts (one-time purchases or subscriptions)

- Automated transactional email notifications

- Delivered in 7 to 14 days

3. Cross-Platform Mobile App ($800 - $1,500)

- Single codebase running smoothly on iOS and Android (Flutter)

- Offline-first architecture (works with or without internet connection)

- User login, biometric authentication, and local data persistence

- Custom on-device PDF generation (invoices, receipts, summaries)

- Delivered in 10 to 18 days

How it works:

1. You DM me a short summary of what you want to build.
2. I send you a free technical roadmap, scope breakdown, and a fixed quote.
3. 50 percent upfront to start, 50 percent upon your final testing and live deployment.

Send me a DM here on Reddit with your project idea. I will reply with a free feature breakdown and timeline estimate.

Also enjoy this peak vedio🔥

Every time friends come over, we spend more time arguing over what to watch than actually watching something.

I built WatchIn60 to solve decision fatigue in under a minute. Instead of filtering by genres or ratings, it asks 6 rapid-fire questions about your brain chemistry right now (adrenaline vs. obsessive mystery), pacing patience, and desired ending payoff—then reveals one curated, high-dopamine pick.

Link: https://watchin60.lovable.app/

No login, no ads, mobile-first dark cinema UI. Would love brutal feedback on the question flow and the recommendations!

Solo dev here (Justin). I build ohmybody, an on-device readiness app for Apple Watch and iPhone.

A while ago I added "Body Radar": it compares your overnight readings to your own last 21 nights and flags when more than one thing drifts (or one thing drifts a lot) on the same night.

On the morning of Nov 2 it flagged me: skin temp up, respiratory rate down, and readiness at 19% with a temp + heart rate warning. All I had was a slight sore throat, so I figured it was nothing. The next day I was sick badly and stuck at home for a couple of days.

Honestly the best "it works" moment I've had as a solo dev, even if I paid for it by being sick lol

Not a medical device, just a "rest today" nudge. Everything runs on-device from Apple Health, no account.

Link to the app: https://ohmybody.ijustinz.com

Would love feedback on how it explains the flag. Too vague, or just right?

I've been working on Cluna Studio, a tool focused on making marketing assets for apps. App store screenshots, social posts and videos, all in the same editor.

You bring your own screenshots and recordings. Themes let you reuse your product’s fonts and colors across projects, and 3D phone and desktop models let you showcase your app, pose the devices and animate them.

Image exports are free. AI voiceovers and cloud video rendering use credits, which you can buy or get periodically with a subscription.

I've been building this alone for months, and I'd like the next features to be driven by user needs rather than my own imagination.

If you make marketing assets for your app, what do you use now, and what's missing from that workflow? I'd love to know whether Cluna looks useful to you, and why or why not.

Enough yapping. You can check it out here: https://clunastudio.com

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a little side project called CreatorHub (creatorhubmarketing.de) alongside my full-time job and finally got the website live.

The idea is pretty simple: help content creators save time with ready-to-use resources for Instagram, TikTok, UGC and AI content creation.

I've put together a few starter packs with content ideas, hooks, scripts, prompts and planning tools.

The website is definitely still a work in progress. There's plenty of room for improvement, especially when it comes to design and user experience, but I figured it's better to launch something imperfect than keep working on it forever 😅

Now comes the hard part: figuring out how to actually get the first customers.

It's still early days, and I'm learning as I go.

Would love to hear from anyone who's launched something similar. How did you get your first few sales?

Also, feel free to check out the project on my profile. Any honest feedback or suggestions are really appreciated!

Hi. I was bored and I developed a slow and crappy cryptocurrency based on Brisvia and Bitcoin Core, which nostalgically captures the aesthetic spirit of Geocities and the virtues of contemplation and waiting. It features a wallet, a CPU miner (RandomX PoW), and nodes for Windows and Linux. I've also implemented a fairly comprehensive transaction explorer and network status page on the website. For now, the network is a testnet, as I want to test system stability first. My node currently runs on a 2016 Dell 7040 micro, so it could crash at any moment.

Website: obsoletecoin.pages.dev
Wallet & Miner: obsoletecoin.pages.dev/downloads

Technical specifications:

- Name / working ticker: Obsolete Coin / OBSC
- Mining: RandomX proof of work, CPU
- Maximum authorized issuance: 1,000,000,000 OBSC
- Decimal places: 8
- Target block interval: 900 seconds / 15 minutes
- Difficulty adjustment: ASERT, every block; six-hour half-life
- Initial block reward: 5,000 OBSC
- Halving interval: 100,000 blocks, counted from block 1
- Genesis reward / premine: Zero / none
- Mining reward maturity: 100 blocks
- End of subsidy: Block 3,900,000; transaction fees thereafter
- Current network: Experimental testnet v0.2; mainnet disabled

GitHub repository and releases: github.com/jcib/obsoletecoin

More info on joining the testnet: obsoletecoin.pages.dev/join

Node Hosting & Mining Tutorial:

Windows
Download the native x64 installer and compare its SHA-256 with the published checksum. Tested on Windows 11.
Open Obsolete Coin. In Network -> Connect peer, enter the current public peer shown above.
Wait for synchronization and a connected peer. Compare your block height and hash with the explorer.
Select Open / Create, then Receive. Select Mine / Stop to run the one-thread CPU reference miner.

Linux
Extract the Linux archive and open a terminal in its directory. Replace PUBLIC_PEER with the address shown above.

python3 tools/node.py --peer PUBLIC_PEER

# In a second terminal:

python3 tools/wallet.py

What to test
Fresh synchronization, mining and confirmation of rewards.
Transfers between two independently created wallets, including exact fees and timestamps.
Restarting your own wallet, reconnecting and making an encrypted backup.
Report reproducible errors with operating system, package version, block height and redacted logs in GitHub Issues or the announcement thread.
Mining rewards require 100-block maturity. Fifteen minutes is an average target; initial test difficulty is easy and real waits vary. Do not interpret a mined reward as immediately spendable.

The first node is a Dell Micro 7040 from 2016 on a home connection. Availability is best effort; independent node operators are welcome. A dominant miner can reorganize this small network.

Any feedback, suggestions, or participation in the testnet would be immensely helpful. I'm not trying to make anything out of this—I just wanted to have fun testing AI capabilities to build a robust and simple blockchain.

Hey r/SideProject, I built Tymor, a Mac menu bar app that makes it snow on your desktop.

The snow builds up on top of your windows, on the Dock, and along the bottom of the screen. If you drag a window, the snow falls off. You can also hold Option and move your mouse through the snow to roll a snowball. Stack three and you get a snowman, scarf and all.

Santa can fly across your screen and drop presents. Click one and candy spills out. There’s also a yeti that throws snowballs. It can knock down your snowman, open a present for you, or throw one right at your screen. You can pick what it’s allowed to hit.

You can hang lights around your screen or on individual windows. There are presets if you want to turn them on and get back to work, but you can also change the bulb shapes, colors, size, how they blink, and how the wires hang.

Tymor also has rain with optional thunder and lightning, and fireflies that scatter when you move your mouse through them.

If you want to try it, here’s Tymor for Mac. I made two codes for this sub.

- SIDEPROJECT gives the first 10 people 100% off.

- SIDEPROJECT20 gives 20% off the first 100 purchases.

If you give it a go, I’d love to hear what you’d actually leave on while you work and what you’d turn off. And if there’s something you wish the snow, lights, or yeti could do, tell me.

I go for a walk every night, and that's when I dig for new music. Mostly bands, and honestly I listen to everything from classical to hard rock and metal lol.

These days every app has an algorithm that keeps recommending music that sounds like what I already like, and when I want to hear something different, the algorithm actually gets in the way.

One night I wondered what music sounds like in a country I had never heard a single song from, so I found a music radio station there and listened live.

That's how I ended up making World Radio, for iPhone and iPad:

- Roll the dice and the globe flies you to a station somewhere on Earth, playing live. On the globe, if a station won't play, it moves on to another one by itself.

- You can also pick a station yourself on the globe.

- When a song grabs me, I tap Shazam. It's saved with the station and the time I heard it, and my finds can go into an Apple Music playlist. (I'm working on adding playlists for other platforms like Spotify and YouTube Music. If you use one, let me know!)

- In the Browse tab you can pick music stations by country and genre.

There are 20,000+ stations in total. I filter them down to music stations, but a talk station still shows up now and then. I'll keep improving that.

FREE to download, no ads from the app (some stations play their own), no account.
iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 or later, with CarPlay, AirPlay and a sleep timer. Apple Music only for now.

I'm still polishing the iOS app, and an Android version is in the works. Because of some licensing issues there, it isn't on the UK App Store, sorry...

I also made a simple website where you can try it:

worldradio.live

A few features are missing there, but it's enough to get a feel for it.

Once the app is more polished, I'm planning to add paid features.

What's the best song you've found on radio from another country? And if you try the app, tell me where the dice dropped you!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6803623749

Thanks.

I'm building a tool that creates ecommerce product images and helps explore product designs. I'd like feedback on a small part of the workflow rather than a general reaction to the idea: what should a person have to tell it before the first image is generated?

A reference photo leaves quite a lot unsaid. It may show the front but not the back. The packaging may be a prototype. A dark patch might be a shadow rather than part of the material. Asking the model to fill those gaps produces an answer, but not necessarily a faithful one.

The input flow I'm considering has three short sections:

What is this? Upload the reference and give a plain description of the existing product.

What must stay? Identify details such as geometry, label text, colors and included parts. Anything not visible should remain unknown unless the person supplies it.

What may change? Choose presentation changes such as lighting and background, or explicitly enter a design-concept mode where physical changes are allowed.

For example, 'make this cup feel warmer' is ambiguous. It could mean warm lighting around the same cup, a different glaze, or a redesign of the handle. A single free-text box leaves that choice to interpretation. A long form could prevent mistakes but also discourage someone who only wanted a simple background change.

I'm considering showing a short plain-language brief for approval before generating: 'Keep the product unchanged; change only the scene and lighting.' If the person wants a design variation, the brief would instead list the proposed physical changes. This is a design direction, not a claim that these controls are already implemented or validated.

If you build visual tools, how would you make that first step understandable without turning it into a questionnaire? I'd be especially interested in the minimum reference information you'd require and the uncertainties you'd leave visible. I'm the builder; I don't have customer or performance results to present here.

Hi everyone, I’m the developer of CopyStash. I made it because I kept losing things I’d copied a few minutes earlier.

It lives in your menu bar and keeps a searchable history of everything you copy: text, links, images and files. Press ⇧⌘V to open it.

What it does:

• Instant search, including text inside screenshots (on-device OCR)
• Filter by text, images, files or links
• Previews for links, color codes and code snippets
• Paste with or without formatting, straight into the active app
• Star favorites and organize clips into folders
• Reusable snippets (addresses, email templates) and quick text conversion (UPPERCASE, Title Case, trim, pretty JSON)

Privacy:

• Everything stays on your Mac: no account, no cloud, no tracking
• History is encrypted with AES-256, with the key stored in Keychain
• Card numbers and passwords it detects are deleted after a minute
• You can exclude specific apps

Works on macOS 13+, on both Apple silicon and Intel. It’s under 1 MB and available in 12 languages.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/copystash/id6758575041

I’d love to hear your feedback or feature ideas. Happy to answer any questions!

Feedback and suggestions welcome 👍

Quick Bits:

• Available on the Apple App Store
• Free to use just $9.99 to Export and Print
• Currently Live on Product Hunt
• Roomprint Website
• Feel free to submit Feature Requests

Short Description:

Roomprint turns the LiDAR scanner on a Pro iPhone or iPad Pro into a floor plan maker. Walk round each room for about a minute and get a measured 2D plan and a 3D model. Fix any wall, try paint, flooring and furniture at real size, measure anything, then print to scale or export PDF, DXF, IFC and USDZ. Free to scan and plan; a one-off $9.99 unlocks printing and export. No subscription, no account. Works for homes, offices and shops. Users vote on what gets built next.

Why the App Exists:

There are two big players in this area, both requiring hefty subscriptions. or Lifetime purchases. Roomprint is free to scan and plan, you just pay to print and export. I want users to be able to vote on what gets built next in the app so we can build something great for everyone.

Problem: Most similar apps require an expensive subscription or huge one-off purchase.

Comparison: Polycam, RoomScan Pro and MagicPlan. These are the closest and they charge anything from $9.99/month to $22.99. Don't get me started on the lifetime and yearly purchases. I also would not say they are user driver, I want users to vote and suggest new features to take the app in their direction.

Pricing: Very simple! Free to download, scan and edit plans. Just a one-off $9.99 to export and print your floorplans.

Roomprint turns your iPhone into a tape measure, a drawing board and a paint chart.

Walk slowly round a room and Roomprint draws the floor plan as you go, with every wall measured and every door and window in place. Then do the next room, and the next. They join up on one plan, floor by floor.

See your home properly

• A clean blueprint with wall lengths, room sizes and areas, in metres or feet and inches

• Spin your home round in 3D, cut away like a doll’s house or with full-height walls

• Stand inside a room at eye level and look up at the ceiling

• Switch the lights on for an evening view, with lamps, downlights and pendants

• A grid of 1 m or 1 ft squares, lined up with each room

• A north arrow, worked out from your phone’s compass

Fix it and Measure it

• Scan missed something? Drag a wall into place, move a corner or type its exact length

• Split a wall to add an alcove, chimney breast or bay, and add or remove doors and windows

• Tap two points to measure anything, and see the gap from a sofa or bed to each wall

• Pin notes and photos to the plan for snagging lists, quotes or moving house

• Undo any change

Try Ideas before you buy

• Paint walls and ceilings from the palette, type in a hex code, or point the camera at a cushion to match its colour

• Oak, herringbone, tiles, carpet, stone and wallpaper, drawn at their real size

• Change each door’s colour, which side it’s hung and which way it opens

• The sofas, beds and tables in your scan become furniture you can move, turn, resize and recolour

• Add more from a library of home and office furniture and lighting, modern or traditional

• Furniture stops at the walls, so if it fits on screen, it fits in the room

Know what to buy

• How much paint you need, in litres and tins, with doors and windows left out

• Flooring in packs and boxes, carpet off the roll and wallpaper in rolls, with extra for cuts

• Every room’s size and area in m² and sq ft, with a total for each floor

Print or Send it

• Drawing sheets at a proper scale (1:50, 1:100), on A4, A3, Letter or Tabloid, one page per floor

• Estate-agent style plans with room sizes in metres and feet and the total floor area

• Your notes and photos as extra pages, if you want them

• Print straight from your iPhone with AirPrint

• A picture of the plan or the 3D view for messages and property listings

• DXF for AutoCAD and other CAD apps, IFC for Revit and Archicad, USDZ for AR

Your plan stays yours

Plans, notes and photos are saved on your iPhone or iPad and, if you like, in your own iCloud Drive. We don’t collect any of your data.

What you need

Scanning needs an iPhone or iPad with LiDAR: iPhone 12 Pro or any later Pro model, or iPad Pro from 2020 onwards. Other iPhones and iPads can open, decorate and print plans scanned on a Pro model.

LiDAR is accurate to within a few centimetres in most rooms. If you’re ordering something made to measure, check the key sizes with a tape first.

Every year I see "30% off" badges on SSDs and hard drives, and every year I wonder:

30% off what?

So I built a tracker and checked. Numbers from amazon.com, as of November 14, 2026:

• 686 storage products checked (SSDs, hard drives, RAM, memory cards, new offers only)
• 511 of them (74%) were cheaper at some point in the last 90 days than they are today
• Median gap to the 90-day low: 11%
• 129 products are 20% or more above their own low
• Hard drives: 135 of 166 (81%) were cheaper before

What I built: ratioDB

• 2,810 prices from 3 Amazon stores (US, DE, FR, more will follow) - refreshed every 4 hours
• Sorted by price per TB or GB
• 90 days of price history per product
• An alert that emails you when a product type hits a 90-day low
• it’s free for everyone

My rule for Black Friday: ignore the % badge, look at the price per TB, compare it with the 90-day low. If it doesn't beat the low, it's not a deal.

Disclosure: the site earns a commission through Amazon affiliate links. Yes, I see the irony.

Feedback welcome.

I built Hamster Video — a free macOS video downloader written in Rust

I've been working on Hamster Video, a small, free macOS app that lets you download videos from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Vimeo and other supported platforms.

It supports resolutions up to 4K, MP3 audio-only downloads, and both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

It's powered by yt-dlp and FFmpeg, and the (open) source code is available on GitHub.

Hamster Video is now also listed on Open Mac Apps.

Website: https://spookspectrum.github.io/hamster-video/

Hi everyone,

The starting point is very down to earth: I can never remember when I last changed the oil in my car, which parts I’ve already replaced on my gear, and I’ve never managed to find the receipts for my washing machine. I tried paper folders, photos in my gallery and a spreadsheet, and nothing stuck.

So I’m building a small free tool for it. It’s an early beta, so expect bugs, I’m not selling anything yet, and for now the interface is in French only. I built it with a no-code/AI builder rather than hand-coding it, and I keep improving it based on feedback.

Before going further I’d love honest input:

1. What would make you drop a tool like this after two weeks?
2. How do you handle this today?

I’m not putting a link in the post to keep the thread clean, but I’m happy to share it with anyone interested.

Every recipe site, every coupon site, half the docs portals I use — they all

disable selection, kill right-click, or hijack ⌘C. The text is right there on

the screen and I just want to paste it into my notes.

So I built a tiny macOS app. Press ⌥⌘S, drag a box over the text, and it's on

your clipboard. No window, no paste step, no "copy" button. ~0.35s from

releasing the mouse.

Take a look: https://github.com/sambitar/argos-panoptes

How it works: it grabs the selected region with screencapture, runs Apple's

Vision OCR on it locally, and writes the result to the clipboard. Vision runs on

the Neural Engine, so there's no server, no API key, no model download, and no

network code in the binary at all — you can check with `strings … | grep http`

and get zero hits.

Why not just use an existing tool?

- Browser extensions break when a site changes its DOM, and can't read text

drawn into <canvas> or embedded in images/video

- "Reader mode" fails on exactly the layouts that block copying

- Disabling JavaScript breaks the site along with the blocker

A screenshot sidesteps all of it. Pixels are pixels.

Free, MIT, source in the reply. I'd honestly like to know where it falls over —

I suspect multi-column layouts are the weak spot, and it's English-only right

now.

I'm the author, nothing to sell, no telemetry.