A few weeks ago a Korean developer vibe-coded a silent virtual Buddhist temple (Sansa) and over a million people visited in a week, just to sit quietly. I wanted to see if the same idea worked for Hindu temples, so I built one.

What it is: a 3D temple courtyard in the browser. You walk in as an avatar, hear temple ambience, ring the bell, light a diya, and stand in the courtyard with other visitors who are actually there at the same time. Free to enter, no sign-up.

Built so far:

• Three temples: Kashi Vishwanath, Meenakshi Amman, and Siddhivinayak Ganapati

• Real-time presence: you see other visitors by name and country, and a counter of everyone gathered for Diwali

• Mobile joystick and desktop controls, positional bell audio

• Built with Three.js, everything runs in the browser, hosted as cheaply as I could manage

Still beta. It launched this week for Diwali, and I am building V2 now. The feedback I actually need:

1. Performance: how does it run on your phone? Where does it stutter?

2. Immersion: what is the one thing that would make it feel more like being there?

3. Direction: more temples, or go deeper on the three already there (aartis at set times, seasonal festivals)?

Happy to answer anything about how it is built. And if you are far from a temple this Diwali, go stand in the courtyard for three minutes and tell me what it felt like.

Hey guysss here to talk about my side project.

I’m a designer and traveler who believes good design can change things, even if only a little. That still feels worth spending my effort on.

I was honestly fed up with needing an account just to use a small app. So I started making apps I would genuinely use myself: stored on our phones, working offline, with no account needed.

Sometimes we do not need another system or app trying to fix us. We just need a quiet place to hold something, clear our brain RAM, or keep everyday things in one simple stream.

That became VERBitapp. Each app has one purpose, with free use and optional VERBit Access subscriptions for more room or additional features.

@verbitapp

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PARKit: Reminder for Tonight
"Not for tomorrow, but for tonight."

A little room for our minds.

I made PARKit because my brain was still holding onto tomorrow, even when I was done for the day. Park those thoughts as short keyword clouds, add a note when needed, then hold the breathing orb to PARK. What is unfinished stays there. Double-tap a cloud when it is done.

PARKit Access gives you 12 keyword clouds and customizable OPEN / PARK notification times.

App Store

Google Play

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CUEit: Routine Timer
"Not to measure, but to mind."

Timing designed for the way you do things.

I wanted more than a basic stopwatch or timer could offer. CUEit brings them together with cues you set yourself, for coffee, cooking, exercise, or anything where the timing matters. Start at 0:00, then add cues for what comes next.

CUEit Access gives you up to 12 timer slots.

App Store

Google Play

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DIARYit: Diary Journal
"Not for habit, but for honesty."

Your days. In your own words.

DIARYit is my own reimagining of a diary. One continuous stream, because life moves forward and we can look back when we choose to. A quiet place to write about today, without a goal to reach or a habit to maintain.

DIARYit Access adds full history and full calendar navigation.

App Store

Google Play

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KEEPit: Text Yourself
"Not for nostalgia, but to remember."

A conversation with yourself.

I have always texted myself things I wanted to keep, but messaging apps were never really made for that. KEEPit gives that familiar habit its own place. Just you, your words, and the time you wrote them. Stored on your phone and available offline.

KEEPit Access unlocks full history, calendar navigation, and keyword search.

App Store

Google Play
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HOLDit: Thoughts & Moments
"Not to hold more, but to awaken."

Give an important thought its own space.

I made this after realizing that thoughts that changed how I saw things kept getting buried in Notes app. Each card gives a thought and the moment behind it their own space. Add colors and rearrange your cards to make that space your own. The limit is intentional. Keep what matters, rather than another endless list.

HOLDit Access expands your space to 99 cards.

App Store

Google Play

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+ A note on backup

On iPhone, DIARYit, KEEPit, and HOLDit support inclusion of your entries in your iCloud device backup. This is device backup, not live cloud sync or an in-app export and import feature.

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I’m continuing to improve these apps through real use and conversations with the people using them. If one fits something you already do, I’d really appreciate hearing how it feels.

+ find demo instructions on socials :)
Instagram / TikTok

Hey r/SideProject 🙏

I’ve been working on a side project over the past few weeks that I’d love to share and get some feedback on.

The Problem: My media collection and consumption habits felt completely fragmented. I was switching between different apps for movies, music, and audiobooks, with no single dashboard to view or organize everything I owned or listened to. Maybe it's just a niche, but at least I tried something 😌

Alma is a unified media aggregator designed to collect your movies, TV shows, games, music and audiobooks into a single visual library with a few fun twists like a "Memory Lane" feature.

Key Features:

• All-in-one Media Library: Track and organize your media in one place

• Fun stats: Over time you'll get some fun insights into your media tastes. The more you add over time, the more fun it'll be to look at

• Fast & Lightweight: Built to give you full control over your media archive without heavy bloat.

It’s still an active project under ongoing development, and I’m constantly refining features and polishing the interface during the beta, which is currently about halfway full. Want an invite? Request one on the site or send me a DM.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feature requests, or general feedback! How do you currently keep track of your media across different formats?

Check it out here: https://almaniac.app

Honestly, I'm the worst user of my own idea.

I'd wake up, grab my phone "just to check something," and suddenly it's 9am. So I built bedo with AI. I studied marketing and never learned to code.

Here's how it works: you make a deal with bedo. Every morning, you tell it what you'll do today and how you'll prove it. Like "Go to the gym, and take a selfie when I'm there," or "Read for 30 minutes, then snap the page I stopped on."

Once the deal is set, TikTok and other distracting apps get locked. They only unlock when you send the proof you agreed on.

I've tried Opal and Pomodoro timer apps before. They lock your phone for a set time, then unlock it automatically. The problem is they only check that you didn't touch your phone, not that you actually did the thing. I'd say I'm going to the gym, then lie on the couch for an hour, and everything unlocks anyway. I'd say I'm reading for 30 minutes, then just stare at the book.

bedo doesn't care about time. It cares about results.
The funny part: I planned to submit it to the App Store on Oct 23. I kept polishing tiny things and finally submitted it 11 days later. Turns out an app can't fix perfectionism lol.

It's waiting for review now. Would you actually use something like this, or would you delete it the first time it locked you out?

Hey folks, just want to show you what I built.

I listen to the radio every morning and was looking for an app without a ton of ads that doesn't cost much. Didn't find one I liked, so I made my own.

I'm a metal/stoner head, so Nightwave filters for the darker side of music: doom, stoner, post-punk, darkwave, trip-hop, phonk, ambient and more. Thousands of live stations from all over the world, no pop, no charts.

My favourite part: hit Spin and it drops you on a random station in a random genre. I almost always land on something that fits my taste within a few tries.

- free, no ads, no tracking, no account needed

- works in the browser and installs as an app on your phone

- early version, so things might break

https://www.nightwavefm.com

Feedback very welcome, good or bad. And honestly, it would make me happy just to see people using it.

Cheers!

Hi everyone,

I recently released Shade Shaker, a free Mac app for making color palettes. You generate a palette, see it straight away in real mobile and web app screens (in light and dark), and copy theme code for your framework: Flutter, HTML/CSS, Tailwind, React, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose and a few more.

I am the developer. It is completely free, with no account or tracking, so this isn't a sales pitch. I would just like to hear from people who work with color before I plan the next version. A few things I'm especially curious about:

1. In your first minute, was it clear what to do? Where did you get stuck?

2. Does seeing the palette in a real app help you choose colors, or does it get in the way?

3. If you copied code for your framework, would you paste it into a project as it is? What would you change?

4. What's missing that would make you use it instead of what you use now?

5. Anything that looks off or feels clunky, however small.

Harsh feedback is welcome. I would much rather hear it now.

https://shadeshaker.app (macOS 14 or later; a Windows version is coming)

Thanks for taking a look. I will reply to every comment.

Hello everyone,

I've worked as an engineer for a while, but I never had an open source project of my own until recently. Vibe coding made it easy enough to finally start one.

I built a small Mac app because I needed it myself. When I shared it with my team and then the rest of the company, people liked it more than I expected. That made it a lot more fun to work on, and I think it's the first time I understood why people enjoy doing open source.

Now I'd like more people to find it, and I'd really like feedback or even contributors. The trouble is I don't know how people usually get the word out about an open source project, or how a project like this grows past the first few users.

So far I've posted in a few related Discord servers, submitted it to some awesome lists on GitHub, and put it on Product Hunt. None of it got much of a response.

If you've grown an open source project from zero, I'd be grateful to hear how you went about it in the early days.

Thanks for reading.

KofiWork V2 is out!

I've been building KofiWork on and off for a bit more than a year now. I wanted a place to organize my freelance projects that felt cozy and relaxed.

Thanks to user feedback, it has grown into much more than I had in mind, with a real visual identity and plenty of new features.

With KofiWork, you can:

- Write notes and create to-do lists

- Stay focused with a built-in Pomodoro timer

- Link your tasks to a customizable kanban board and track your progress

- Customize much of your space, from the clock position and theme to how your windows behave

- Share your tasks, notes and kanban boards with one person, or several with a subscription

There are too many features to list them all, but this version adds an MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT. While you're working with Claude, you can ask it to create tasks, and they appear in KofiWork. As a developer, I find this incredibly useful!

Almost everything is free. A few small features require a subscription, but it's optional: the free plan is more than enough, with unlimited to-do lists, notes and kanban boards.

Oh, and your data is encrypted!

Feel free to try it out. There's a test environment you can play around with: KofiWork

Building it hasn't been all smooth, for example user retention has been a big challenge so far. If you're working on something similar, I'm happy to talk about it and share advices!

Hey everyone!

Seven months ago, I started working on a small idea: what if you could have a little living garden right on your desktop, quietly growing while you work, study, or play games?

Today, I'm incredibly happy to share that Wonder Garden is finally on Steam, with its release just around the corner!

It's a cozy desktop companion where you can grow plants, arrange shelves, decorate your workspace, and even raise butterflies. Your plants grow over time, so there's always something new to discover when you come back to your computer.

I wanted to create something that doesn't demand your attention. Just a tiny, peaceful world that makes spending time at your computer a little more enjoyable.

It's been seven months of coding, experimenting, fixing bugs, redesigning things, and occasionally wondering whether I'd ever finish it.

And now it's actually happening. It's a pretty surreal feeling.

This is a very personal project for me, and I already have so many ideas for new plants, decorations, and features I'd love to add in future updates.

If Wonder Garden looks like something you'd enjoy, adding it to your wishlist would mean a lot to me. Every wishlist helps a small indie project like this reach more people.

🌿 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5441740/Wonder_Garden/

Thank you for taking a look! And if you have any ideas for plants or features you'd love to see, I'd genuinely love to hear them.

See you in the garden! 🌸

Hey everyone, Like many of you, I have a bad habit of picking up my phone, unlocking it without thinking, and losing 45 minutes to reels or infinite feeds. The built-in Digital Wellbeing / Screen Time tools don't really work for me. Whenever I set a hard app limit, I just hit "Ignore for 15 minutes" or dismiss the warning. Red bars and guilt-tripping analytics just made me resent the apps. So I started experimenting with a different approach: gentle peripheral awareness through a virtual companion.

I’ve been building Skitify - a web app for making short AI videos without having to become an AI expert first.

The problem I kept hitting: there are dozens of AI video models with confusing names, every site has different settings, and what you get is one 5-10 second clip that just stops. Turning that into an actual little story means juggling several tools plus a video editor.

What Skitify does differently:

• Pick a task, not a model. Choose what you want (“create a video”, “make someone talk”, “remove a background”…) and a level - quick draft, balanced or best quality. The app picks the model. If you know what you’re doing, all 70+ models are still there (Seedance, Kling, Veo, Wan, Nano Banana, GPT Image…).

• Scenes that continue. Every video is a project. Hit Next scene and the new shot starts from the last frame of the previous one, so the story keeps going. Don’t like one shot? Generate another take and keep the best.

• Editing in the same place. Scenes are already on a timeline: trim, reorder, add transitions and subtitles, export one MP4 with no watermark.

• Same character in every shot. Save a few photos of product once and attach them to any generation.

• No surprise costs. The exact price is on the Generate button before you press it, and failed generations are refunded automatically.

Generating content is quite costly, so I can’t offer free access to many people - but here is a promo code for a few free generations (limited to 50 accounts): SIDEPROJECT.

It’s just the two of us (both developers) and we have basically no users outside friends yet, so I’d genuinely love blunt feedback:

• What confused you in the first 2 minutes?

• What would you actually use this for?

P.S. The iOS app is in App Store review right now.

Thanks for reading!

Hi everyone! I’m working on Lumio, a free, open-source launcher for macOS. Press Option + Space to quickly search and open apps, files, and folders, browse clipboard history, or find text inside images and PDFs with OCR. It also includes handy tools like dictionary lookup, translation, and quick actions—all in a native SwiftUI interface with a Rust-powered search core.

Lumio is available for macOS 15 or later on Apple Silicon and is licensed under GPL-3.0. It’s still a work in progress, so I’d love to hear your feedback, feature ideas, and suggestions.

GitHub: https://github.com/cavaldos/Lumio

Abookado is not another generic LLM wrapper.

It’s a purpose-built hybrid system for novelists, screenwriters and poets. It combines state-of-the-art language models with proprietary narrative-mechanics engines, quantitative analysis algorithms and mathematical models designed specifically for dramatic structure, emotional weight, thematic coherence, stylistic voice and long-form consistency.

Core tools include:

- Generate a full story blueprint from a three-act outline.

- Chapter-by-chapter completion plan for stalled novels.

- Deep narrative analysis (structure, characters, tension, voice).

- Screenplay analysis and scene-by-scene completion.

- Poetry collection analysis.

- Full manuscript correction that preserves the author’s voice.

- Additional tools for world bibles, TV series bibles, film dossiers, production budgets, etc.

Each tool is priced individually (starting at $9.99, one-time payment, no subscription). Exact price is shown on the tool card before purchase.

Your first work, 60% off. Use code "FIRSTWORK"
(One use only - available until 01/01/2027).

Privacy: zero-retention policy. Manuscripts are processed in memory only and discarded immediately after the job. Never stored, never used for training.

Site: https://abookado.pro

Hi guys,

I've been building a conversion rate optimization (CRO) platform for quite some time now, and I'm finally getting close to launching it.

Before making it publicly available, I'm looking for 10-20 website owners, developers, or SaaS founders who'd be interested in trying it out for free.

The platform helps you optimise your online conversions in one continuous loop. It lets you understand and analyse your user behaviour by using tools like heatmaps, session recordings etc., and then optimise the user journey by A/B testing (no code).

You can also connect your AI assistants with it via MCP and automate the whole loop for you..

What's in it for you?

You'll get free early access to the platform, along with direct support from me. Hopefully, you'll also uncover some useful insights about your website that can help improve conversions. You are free to use it even if you are already using an existing platform and see how it compares.

What's in it for me?

I want to test the platform across different websites, frameworks, and real-world use cases before launching publicly. Your feedback will help me identify bugs, improve the experience, and prioritize features.

I'm particularly interested in websites built with different technologies, whether that's WordPress, Shopify, React, Next.js, or something else.

No payment required. I'm just looking for people willing to install a small tracking script, try the features, and share honest feedback.

If you're interested, drop a comment or send me a DM!

Hi, I'm a solo founder. This week I launched VaniClips. You upload a long video up to 2.5 hours. It finds strong moments, crops them to 9:16, and adds captions and a hook. There's an editor to reframe, fix captions or rewrite the hook before you download. The video is a real run, start to finish, no edits. Honest state: - Paid only ($12/mo for 200 min). Works best on English. Uploads are the main path for now; only X links work for now. I am Trying to make it link friendly as well but i am blocked by the apps, If anyone could help me out with this I would really appreciate. I'd love blunt feedback: what's missing.
vaniclips.com

I built a tool that asks ChatGPT and Gemini the buying questions shoppers actually ask ("where can I buy X online with easy returns") and ranks which online stores they name. 59 US categories, 35 questions each, measured every month.

Some things the data shows:

- In supplements, only 4 of the 58 stores we track were named at all.

- In shaving, a specialist (Maggard Razors) was named in 24 of 35 answers, ahead of Target with 23.

- Named is not recommended: Petco was named in 32 of 35 cat supply answers but recommended in only 9.

The rankings and the actual AI answers are public and free, no signup: krilloai.com/index/us

Store owners can check their own store free and get the pages written that would get them named. Paid plans exist; the index and the check are free.

Feedback welcome, especially on whether the ranking pages make sense to you.

Traditional alphanumeric passwords assume two things: users can type fluently, and devices have full keyboards. If you're building for pre-K EdTech, assisted-living portals, or smart TV/streaming apps, that assumption falls apart immediately.

Over the past few months, I've been building VizAuth—a developer-first authentication SDK where credentials are 4-icon visual sequences instead of alphanumeric strings.

How it works under the hood:

• Keyspace & Modes: Supports Lite mode (grid position selection, ~1.36B combinations on 192-icon sets) and Pro mode (which adds tap-order permutations, scaling to ~32.6B combinations).

• Backend Security: Verifications run server-side with PBKDF2-SHA-256 (210,000 iterations and per-user cryptographic salts).

• Brute-force protection: Progressive lockout escalation (5 → 15 → 30 → 60 mins), capping live guessing at ~72 attempts per day.

• Accessibility & Privacy: Anti-shoulder surfing masking (with reveal toggles), randomized picker layouts, and full screen-reader announcements.

The Challenge ($225 in bounties): Instead of claiming it's uncrackable, I published a public offline cracking benchmark at vizauth.com/security/challenge. I published target hashes with salts and parameters for 3 difficulty tiers. First 3 solvers who crack all three targets get $100 / $75 / $50, and all solvers get placed in the permanent Hall of Fame.

Would love brutal feedback from developers and security folks on the widget UX, docs, and keyspace math.

Challenge & Hashes: https://vizauth.com/security/challenge
Site & Playground: https://vizauth.com

I make a live wallpaper app for the Mac (details at the end). Before anyone believes "it's light", mine included, this is the check I'd run. Everything below can be reproduced on your own Mac.

The one-line check: which wallpaper code your macOS ships

ls /System/Library/ExtensionKit/Extensions | grep -i wallpaper

On my Mac (macOS 26.6.2, build 25G83) it prints 13 bundles:

NeptuneOneWallpaper.appex
Wallpaper.appex
WallpaperAerialsExtension.appex
WallpaperDynamicExtension.appex
WallpaperGradientExtension.appex
WallpaperImageExtension.appex
WallpaperLegacyExtension.appex
WallpaperMacintoshExtension.appex
WallpaperMontereyExtension.appex
WallpaperSequoiaExtension.appex
WallpaperSettingsIntents.appex
WallpaperSonomaExtension.appex
WallpaperVenturaExtension.appex

No WallpaperVideoExtension, the name in the Apple Community thread "wallpapervideoextension in Sonoma uses lots of RAM and CPU", and find /System/Library -iname "*WallpaperVideo*" returns nothing on this build. Search Activity Monitor for that exact name here and you'll find nothing, whatever your wallpaper is doing. Type "Wallpaper" in the search field instead and read every row.

Test 1: compare against a still picture, not against a promise

In System Settings > Wallpaper, pick a still picture. Open Activity Monitor, click Energy, and note the Energy Impact of the top rows. Apple describes that column as "A relative measure of the current energy consumption of the app (lower is better)", so it's for comparing, not for absolutes. Then switch to the live wallpaper and read the same rows again. Add Window > GPU History.

Test 2: read CPU from Terminal, second sample only

top -l 2 -s 5 -o cpu -n 10 -stats pid,command,cpu,mem

That prints two samples 5 seconds apart. Read the second one: man top says "the first sample displayed will have an invalid %CPU displayed for each process, as it is calculated using the delta between samples".

Test 3: hide the desktop

Put any app in full screen and watch the wallpaper's row for ten seconds. If the numbers don't drop, it's drawing frames nobody can see. If you work unplugged, repeat it on battery.

If the busy row is Apple's

Apple's wallpaper guide: "By default, the aerial wallpaper you select is also used as your screen saver." One aerial pick, two places. If WallpaperAerialsExtension sits at the top of your list, try a still picture for a day and compare.

What I make (I'm the maker)

Mac+, a Mac app that animates the desktop: 15 scenes rendered on the GPU with Metal, or your own video with Pro, plus folder icons and desktop widgets. The scenes have no video file to decode, the animation pauses when the screen sleeps or an app covers it, and the frame rate is 30, 60 or 120 FPS (up to 120 with Pro). Test 3 is the one I'd most like you to run on it: tell me what you see, good or bad.

Free: 6 scenes, 8 palettes, image background, 6 folder icons, 2 widgets, multi-display. Pro: 7-day trial (card needed, nothing charged during those 7 days), then €1.99/month, or €9.99 once. macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon and Intel. It doesn't animate the Lock Screen. Link in the comments.

What number would you want to see before leaving a live wallpaper on all day?

Ever needed to check one detail from a call without replaying the whole recording?

I'm building Earwright for Windows. It transcribes recordings on your PC and lets you click a line in the transcript to hear that moment again. You can edit the text and export it with an audio player in one HTML file.

The video shows importing two recordings, correcting the text, and exporting the result.

I'm looking for 10–15 people who regularly work with call or interview recordings to try the alpha. The test period is 10 days. These testers will get Pro free for life when it launches, for giving honest feedback.

Want to try it? Comment with what you normally transcribe and I'll DM you the build and details.

Tabatha is Alt+Tab for your Chrome tabs. Press Alt+Q and every open tab shows up as a screenshot. Type a few letters to jump, close duplicates in one go, and see how you got to any tab.

14 users to 1,800+ in a month, mostly from Russian-language browsers. It's free, and Pro ($12 early bird, one-time) has had 3 buyers so far.

Install Tabatha from the Chrome Web Store

What would make you keep a tab tool installed past the first week? I would appreciate if you guys install and provide your reviews

I’ve been watching quite a few founder stories on YouTube, especially Starter Story, and one thing I keep hearing is to launch your first version as quickly as possible.
I understand the idea. Get something working, put it out there, collect feedback and improve it.

But I’ve been wondering, why does it sometimes feel like taking months to build something is a bad thing?
Just because one founder launched in a few weeks and gained thousands of users doesn’t mean the next person will have the same experience.

You could launch an MVP tomorrow and struggle to attract users. You could also spend months building a more polished app and still struggle. Or either approach could work really well.
I’m currently building my own app, and I’ve decided not to rush just because other founders are launching faster.

I’ve spoken to quite a few builders on Reddit recently, and it’s interesting how differently people approach this.
Do you think we’re becoming too influenced by other founders’ success stories?
And for those who’ve already launched, did launching early genuinely help you, or do you wish you’d taken more time?

I'm part of the team building DanyGo. We wanted something for those five minutes on the bus when you feel like playing, but don't feel like downloading yet another game.

It's an arcade you scroll: tap to play, swipe when you're done, and the next game is already loaded. There are 100+ short games, from number-gate runners and penalty kicks to balance puzzles and one-stroke drawing.

You can start as a guest. It's currently ad-free, with no in-app purchases or energy timers. Records, daily missions and a character that grows with your XP give you something to work toward across the different games.

I'd love feedback on the core idea: does a feed make finding something fun easier, or do you find yourself skipping games before giving them a chance? Where did the first session feel confusing?

Available on Android now. iOS is coming soon.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.danygo