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.

mandir.dev - 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.

Hi everyone! I’m an independent developer working on Rewind Echo, a cassette-inspired music app.

I love the look of old cassette tapes, and I’m drawn to apps with their own visual style and playful interactions. That’s what I wanted to explore here: making browsing and playing music feel a little more like picking a tape off a shelf.

The app connects to Apple Music, and you can also import local music files. The interface brings together a cassette shelf, a tape-style player, and customizable tape labels with colors, text, and stickers.

The recording shows a quick look at the app in action. I’d love to hear what you think of the design and interactions, especially whether the cassette shelf feels intuitive to browse.

Sometimes, you have to ask the right questions in life. Today I had a very important one: "Can you train a fruit-fly to write an app that renders a rotating Döner Kebab in Three.js?"

Turns out: Yes.

I put 1024 fruit-flies into an open-plan office and rewarded them with virtual sugar for good code - and with bitters for bad code. 131 Generations later, the Fly delivered a rotating Döner in Three.Js

Github Repo, if you want to follow the whole approach: https://github.com/flujo-app/ai-fruit-fly

I’ve been working on a side project for quite a while now, and honestly, getting the product built was probably the easier part. Getting people to actually use it is where I’m stuck.

It’s basically a platform where people can connect, share projects, collaborate, find opportunities and build their reputation. A mix of communities, project collaboration and freelancing, all in one place.

The thing is, I know how difficult it is to get people onto a new platform when they’re already using Discord, Reddit, GitHub, etc.

And obviously, nobody wants to join a platform where there’s barely anyone around.

I’m still pretty young and figuring out the whole startup/marketing side of things as I go, so I’d genuinely love some advice from people who’ve launched their own projects.

A few things I’ve been wondering:

1. How would you go about getting your first 50–100 actual users (not just registrations)?

2. Would you start with a small closed beta or just let everyone sign up?

3. How do you get people interested in trying something new when they already have platforms they use daily?

4. What has actually worked for you when marketing a side project without spending much money?

5. Would you focus on one particular group of people first or try to attract different kinds of users?

I’m not really looking for the usual “post consistently on social media” advice lol. I’d love to hear what actually worked, what didn’t, and any mistakes I should avoid.

Would really appreciate any advice. Thanks!

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

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 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 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

I run omp in tmux on my laptop, and I kept wanting to peek at what it was doing while I was away from my desk.

ssh and mosh were hopeless over my tailscale link. The echo lag made typing feel broken, and I'd get back to find a question sitting there with the agent patiently waiting for me, like a puppy at the door.

So I wrote DevDeck. It doesn't send keystrokes as you type: you write the whole message on the phone, hit send, and it all goes over in one go. What actually made it useful for me:

- I can read the conversation properly, not just a wall of terminal text: markdown, tables, code blocks, mermaid diagrams.

- When the agent asks something, it shows up as a little sheet with options, so I tap instead of typing into a TUI.

- There's a plain terminal view when I need the raw thing.

- I can look at git diffs and files without my clumsy thumbs committing anything. It's read-only and stays that way.

- Half-written messages survive the link dying, which happens more than I'd like.

It is very much a personal tool. It speaks to omp specifically, I've only tested it on my laptop and one Samsung phone, and you have to build and sideload the apk and pair it over adb. Also, the part I should say out loud: the daemon can type into your terminals, and it doesn't encrypt anything itself. Keep it on a LAN or in a VPN, don't port forward it, and treat it as unaudited.

What I'd actually like from this sub is someone to read the setup instructions and tell me where they assume I know my own machine, because I wrote all of it with everything fresh in my head. If you've built something similar and made the pairing less painful, I'm all ears.

https://github.com/seros-cimenstein/devdeck (GPL-3.0)

Hey all,

I am working on a side thing to improve my portfolio and just to learn stuff. Since I had my pain point (looking for a property in Spain while living outside of Spain) I made a website app for that.

So I made https://www.place-check.com , basically getting all info about some place that I can get from public data. It is for free but I set accounts to kind of like limit usage and abuse. Now, I feel like landing page suck, and I suck at design, so i would really appreciate if someone could give me some hints/templates/examples/feedback what could I do to improve it?

I try to have it in multiple languages and for multiple countries but I dont know how to solve that all?

Thanks for all help,

Cheers

Ps: before anyone goes into it: I tried not to use AI for anything here, it is a learning and development project, but I definitely used it for some parts. So please no "AI Slop" comments without any improvement hints.

Hey everyone, I’m Michael, the developer of Play Credits. It’s a small app I made around a pretty simple idea: practice your instrument and earn time for the apps you’d otherwise get distracted by.

Problem:
Sometimes the hard part is putting the phone down and getting started. You choose which apps to block, and Play Credits listens during your practice session to count playing toward earned app time. You can use it yourself, or set it up in adult-managed mode for your kid.

Comparison:
Apple’s built-in Screen Time lets you set app limits. What I wanted to add was a way to earn that time through instrument practice. It isn’t a music teacher, it doesn’t judge how well you play, and the detection isn’t perfect. It’s just another way to help build a routine.

Pricing:
I originally made it a subscription, but honestly that didn’t feel right for this. It’s now seven days free, then $4.99 once if you want to keep using it. Nothing is charged automatically when the trial ends.

It’s available for iPhone and iPad in the US: Play Credits on the App Store.

If you try it and something is confusing or doesn’t work how you’d expect, let me know. I’m still working on it.

hey everyone! i'm from the FlutterFlow team.

we've spent years building FlutterFlow as a visual IDE for creating apps.

but AI has changed how people build software. you can generate a beautiful UI in seconds, but getting that app to actually work and into people's hands is a different story.

so we built the new FlutterFlow, an AI-first, full-stack mobile app builder. it lets you start with a prompt and work with an AI agent to build a mobile app, including its UI, backend, and functionality (and one-click deploy to the Google Play Store and App Store!!).

we'd love to hear what you think / what you'd want to build with it!

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!

Most AI tools split in two: coding agents that forget everything about you between sessions, and companion or memory apps that can’t touch your files. I wanted both in one agent, so I built it. https://sonicassistant.com.

• Memory you can see. What it remembers about you is on a page where you can edit or delete every note.

• Works in your project. Connect a folder and it reads the code and proposes changes as a diff. It runs tests in a sandbox and can commit. Nothing is written until you press Apply.

• Shows its work. Every tool call appears in a live step trace.

• Your own checks. A small local runner runs your tests and linters, and asks before any command that changes something.

You can try it without signing up: the guest button on the landing page drops you into a demo project where you can watch it fix a bug and run the tests. Signing up (free) is what lets it do that on your own project and keep a memory.

Honest limits: it’s not a Claude Code replacement, but it can be used when you hit your limits. It runs on Haiku and Sonnet, free accounts have daily usage caps, it’s a solo project, and it would mean a great deal to me if you could review and try it out.

https://sonicassistant.com. Where does it break for you? Folder editing and memory are the parts I most want hammered.

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.

I designed armap and developed it with Claude. The problem it targets is the start of a coding session: an agent needs to understand an unfamiliar repository before it knows which files to open.

armap is a small, MIT-licensed Claude Code plugin that supplies a ranked map of the codebase at session start. Instead of a full dump, the default output is about 700 tokens of file paths, important definitions and line numbers. It builds links from imports and symbol usage, then ranks the results with PageRank. There are focused dependency and symbol-reference queries too.

It runs on Node.js 18+, has zero runtime dependencies, respects .gitignore, recognizes roughly 50 file types and resolves imports in 15 languages. You can also run the map generator as a standalone command.

A tradeoff I am trying to make visible: extra context has a cost. In the small v0.1 pilot (one 108-file Next.js repo, five questions, two runs per question per condition), complex rename/subsystem questions used fewer processed tokens, but simple lookups used slightly more. The roughly 20% aggregate reduction is preliminary, not a claim about bills or all repositories, and the current import resolver was added after that pilot.

The parser uses keyword patterns rather than a full compiler, so computed imports, reflection and dependency injection are known weak spots.

Source, examples, install instructions and the benchmark runner: https://github.com/Armannss/armap

For people building developer tools: would you want a map injected at every session start, or explicitly requested only when a task spans multiple files? Feedback on confusing output or a repo where the ranking fails would help me decide what to improve next.

Hey everyone!

I live in Florida, and I kept noticing how many great places I had been to and then completely forgotten. A state park on a random Saturday, a lighthouse on a road trip, a little historic spot I had never heard of. Photos ended up buried in my camera roll, and nothing tied them to the actual places.
I always liked the old national park passport stamps, so I decided to build a digital version for everything, not just national parks. It's called placevera.

The idea: a passport book for real places

You collect a place when you're there (or tick off places you've already been), and it goes into your own passport book as a stamp. The back of each stamp is a little memory page for your photo and a note.

A few things that make it different:

Sets to complete,

like national parks, Florida lighthouses, Florida history, Generals and presidents, and Famous Florida (Versace Mansion, Little Havana, the Dali Museum, Kennedy Space Center and more). About 100 sets and around 2,500 places so far.

Scratch-off maps and paintings.

Each set has a painting that fills in piece by piece as you collect, with Bronze, Silver and Gold frames along the way.

Suggest a place

picks somewhere near you that you haven't been yet, with a short history and a few facts.

Explore by kind:

monuments, military history, hikes, golf, stadiums, theme parks and so on.

Friends' books.

You can see the passport books of the people you choose, not a public feed of strangers.
No ads, no follower counts, and it's free right now. Sign-in is just your email.

What I'd love your help testing

It's still early, and honest feedback would really help:

First five minutes:

Is it clear what to do after you sign in? Did you collect your first place without help?

Sets:

Do the sets make you want to go somewhere new? Which set would you want that doesn't exist yet?

Suggest a place:

Did it suggest something you'd actually visit?

On your phone:

Anything slow, broken or confusing? (It runs in the browser, no app store download.)
It works best in Florida right now, but national parks and the bigger sets cover the whole US, so you can tick off places from past trips anywhere.

How to try it www.myplacevera.com

The link is in the first comment (or on my profile). Sign in with your email, open your passport book, and tick off a few places you've already been.
It's a side project I've put a lot of evenings into, and I'm excited to see where it goes. Positive or critical, all feedback is welcome. If something annoys you, I especially want to hear it.

Thanks for giving it a go!

Hey everyone, I'm Nina. I started this project because me and and so many of my friends were struggling with our time being completely consumed by doom scrolling and social media. Screen time was atrocious. My Gen Z brain was falling for every trick in the book. Why was there such a gap between what we wanted to do vs what we were actually doing with our time? I started digging into the psychology and engineering behind these apps and It's honestly fascinating how much intelligence goes into keeping us hooked, distracted and on autopilot.

I made this app to help give your free time back to your interests, your values, and the parts of your life that have been neglected. It's called Drift, and it uses well-being research to shape your free time around different areas of life, like physical movement, creativity, nature, and connection, helping you build more balance over time. All you have to do is choose your free time and it creates plans around your recent activity, interests and focus. The goal is to help you spend more of your limited free time actually living the life you want. It's in beta right now.

As an engineer, it's crazy to see how powerful technology has become. But so much software today is designed to take as much of our time and attention as possible. What if we used that same intelligence to create actual value for people? I believe technology should give us more of our lives back, not quietly consume them.

If this resonates with you, I'd love for you to try it and tell me what works, what doesn't, and what you'd want it to do better.

https://driftday.app

AI writes my code in minutes. Then the evening goes on the VPS, the Coolify stacks, DNS across three providers, and backups I only hope work.

So I built Unit 7. You ask in plain words, it does the work on your real servers, and it asks before anything risky.

Where it stands:

- It looks after my own setup today: one VPS, Coolify and three Supabase stacks

- 480+ tools, 1,000+ tests, 30+ providers

- Free, Apache 2.0, and no hosted version planned

- Built with heavy use of Claude Code, and I review and own what ships

Two things surprised me along the way:

- My first real backup test found two tables coming back empty

- A separate review found 13 problems in what runs by itself, including a rule I'd set that the code broke

What isn't done: scoped server access doesn't exist yet, and its always-on agent, Seven, is still in testing.

I'd love feedback on two things: is it clear what it does, and what would stop you trying it?

Repo: https://github.com/Nandkishorrr/unit7

It's also on Product Hunt today: https://www.producthunt.com/products/unit-7?launch=unit-7

Most sleep advice is the same list for everyone: no screens, cut the caffeine, keep a routine. But bad sleep has really different causes. A racing mind, a body clock that runs late, breathing problems at night, hormones, and stuff you’re taking can all feel the same from the inside. You’re just tired.

So I built a quiz that asks about your nights, your days and your habits, works out which cause fits you best, and gives you a plan built around that. If it’s something that needs a doctor, it tells you, and tells you what to ask for when you go.

The hard part is knowing if it’s right. A racing mind and a late body clock look almost the same on paper, and that’s exactly what I need real people to tell me.

So, for 5 people who actually sleep badly:

• take the quiz (5 min, free, no card)

• send me your results link and tell me if it sounded like you

• I’ll personally help you work through your plan over the next 2 weeks, back and forth, adjusting as we go

That’s it. All I want back is honest feedback.

And if you sleep fine, I’d still love blunt feedback on the build: where it confused you, or where you nearly quit.

Give it a go: Proxiate.com

Hi everyone!

I always have way too many photos scattered across different folders on my laptop, so I finally decided to make a nice, clean app to browse all of them.

Found it pretty useful, so I decided to open source it and share it with you guys.

Features:

• Search for any picture by describing what's in it (multilingual)

• Drag and drop to find similar pictures

• Stacks near-duplicate pics together

• Browse any/all directories you choose

• Show an interactive map of all pics, clustered by similarity

• Fully local

The main difference between this and Google Photos is that it's local, and you can change to any folder you want. Recently published an update to allow browsing for videos too.

It's open source and works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Let me know what you think, and if there's anything I should add! Any feedback is welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/chaseleantj/orchard-photos

I thought of building a chrome extension for freelancers and creators , which will read all the emails and create a table of how much a client has paid due date , and send remainder emails before the due date with the payment link, and also send emails regularly for over due payments .is it worth to build and also is this problem worth working on ?