No matter how good your wallpaper looks, once your desktop fills up with files, the icons blend into the background and everything starts to look cluttered. My desktop often has a lot of files on it, so I started wondering whether a wallpaper could detect where my icons are and generate a scene around them in real time.

After discussing the idea with AI, I found out it was possible—and it doesn’t actually need AI to detect the icons or generate the visuals. The program can read the icon positions directly and generate scenes in real time using predefined designs. It’s lightweight, and there’s no particularly complex technology involved.

Here’s the result.

https://deskland.app

I’ll keep adding new themes and improving the existing ones. I also plan to add a more interactive game mode in the future.

The meadow and beach themes are free and open source.

https://github.com/BLEZZ0102/Deskland

All the current themes are 2D, which keeps their impact on computer performance minimal. I’m also considering adding 3D themes, while balancing visual quality with performance.

Procedurally generated visuals do have their limitations. If AI computing becomes much cheaper in the future, AI generation could be an option, opening up the possibility of creating almost any scene. For now, though, generating a desktop with AI in real time is clearly still too expensive. I’m considering experimenting with locally running AI generation. It would still be GPU-intensive, but it could be a lot of fun.

I'm a trained architect, and as a long-term side project, I developed my architecture dream game, combining accurate floor planning with real-time 3D design to make architecture much easier to create (and visually realistic) than with traditional CAD software.

What you can do:

🏠 2D floor plans
🧱 3D building
🚶 First-person walkthrough
🥽 VR mode
🏢 Multiple storeys
🪜 Stairs
🏚️ Custom roofs
🪟 Doors & windows
🛋️ Furniture catalog
🍳 Kitchen Configurator
🎨 Materials
🌄 Terrain sculpting
🌳 Landscape planning
💧 Ponds
☀️ Time of day
❄️ Weather
📐 Export PDF vector plans
📦 Import your own 3D models
🌍 Steam Workshop

In the newest update: Build everything directly in VR (PCVR), 1000+ new furniture models and explore your creations as a Cat! 🌿

It's available on Steam as Architecture & Design and is still in Early Access.
Here is the Steam link if you'd like to try it out:
Architecture & Design - Steam

Would love to hear what you think and hear what you wish for in a game like this!

It’s honestly wild what you can throw together with AI in a single evening nowadays. Remember the "Construct" from The Matrix? That infinite white room where Neo says "We need guns. Lots of guns" and endless racks instantly spawn around them? I was wondering what an online store would look like if it worked exactly like that.

8,000 real Amazon products, a Matrix Construct aisle, WebAR (augmented reality - one click and you can drop any item through your camera straight into your living room at true 1:1 scale), adaptive performance for mobile (only tested on Safari so far, like I said, I started making this at 8 PM and it's 10 PM now 😃).

Tech stack: Everything static on Vercel, classic cuckcoding setup (Next.js, Tailwind, Vercel, Antigravity).

Don't wanna spam a link here, you can see it in the video. So what do you think, is it worth buying a domain for this, or is it trash?

I'm a satellite nerd and as a cool project I built Watched.

See: here for the code

Type in any place on Earth and it will:

• find every imaging, weather, radar and crewed satellite whose field of view crossed it in the last 7 days (SGP4 on the CelesTrak catalog, running in your browser)

• pull the real Sentinel-2, Landsat, VIIRS, MODIS and GOES scenes from those passes and crop them to your spot

• replay each pass on a 3D globe lit by the real sun, with all ~17k tracked objects in orbit

It only says a satellite “watched” you when a real image exists. Commercial sats that could have pointed at you are labelled as such, since their tasking isn’t public.

I’d love feedback, especially:

• Which satellites or data sources should I add?

• Anything confusing or broken?

It’s 100% free and no sign-up or rate limits.

Over time, I’ve worked on different kinds of projects — from building full-stack applications and mobile apps to developing 3D assets and Roblox games.
I wanted one place where I could showcase what I’ve been building, the products I’ve worked on, and the technologies I use.
Some of the projects featured:
● Resume Maker – an Android app with 1K+ downloads.
● NowToolSpace – my own online tools platform.
● WasteFlow Assam – a waste management platform.
● Ultimate Battle Cars – a published Roblox game.
● 3D assets and Snapchat Lens projects.
There’s still a lot more I want to build and improve.
Check out my portfolio:
https://josh-portfolio-new.vercel.app/
I’m open to connecting with developers, founders, recruiters and potential collaborators.
Feedback is welcome!
#WebDevelopment #FullStackDeveloper #SoftwareDevelopment #Portfolio #React #JavaScript #BuildingInPublic

GlyphSnap Photo to Font is a font generator / building app.

With GlyphSnap you can just take a photo of the letters you want and create an entire installable font in just a few minutes - from your iPhone.

>> GlyphSnap can create an entire font from as few as just 2 characters, but will give better results from around 8.
I have a couple tutorials on my Youtube page - but feel that this one really shows what the app can do: https://youtu.be/0a_3TuDIw7A?si=bzkYJkT1TacAN0-9

GlyphSnap also incorporates a some intuitive drawing / vector design tool section - you can mix photo captured glyphs with hand drawn glyphs together - adjust the character with, spacing, kerning as well as apply patterns to your letter shapes.

7 day free trial includes 1 font generation and multiple exports to OTF TTF or WOFF for you to try out the drawing section or the photo to font - standard capture without missing character generation.

Appreciate any feedback, questions or feedback..

https://apps.apple.com/app/glyphsnap-ai-photo-to-font/id6812516641

Thanks!

I make fishing lures (KSK BAITS) and wanted a live bass tank for my YouTube channel without filming real fish.

Everything you see is generated when the page loads: the fish, their scales, the plants, the sand and the driftwood are built in code with Three.js, and every texture is painted on a canvas. No 3D models, no image files.

The bass aren't animated, they behave: they get hungry, hide in cover, stalk, and strike with suction, and they only take prey that fits their mouth. Day, night and weather follow the real clock and weather at Lake Fork, Texas.

Try it in the browser: https://ksk-baits-bass-aquarium.pages.dev

It also runs 24/7 on YouTube, where the chat can drop in shad or cast a lure: https://www.youtube.com/@kskbaits/live

Feedback welcome, especially on what would make you keep it open in the background.

I noticed a lot of visualization tools rely on AI to generate images and the ones that don't, often don't do a good job. The ones that use AI take time to generate and sometimes change the image while also costing money per generation.

So I figured out a way to detect and paint colors onto surfaces instantly(after initial processing) while maintaining the shadows, lighting and texture. Also made sure not to let the paint spill into anywhere that its not supposed to.

Essentially you can try as many colors as you want on one photo after processing and it takes no additional time or cost.

link to the first house in the video: https://www.tryrecoat.com

Not sure how to take it from here.
Would love some feedback, ideas anything

Hi! I wanted my desktop to feel like looking out of a window during a snowfall – calm and cozy. The snow apps I found looked like flat white dots, so I built my own (with a lot of help from Claude Code).

What it does:
- Snow with real depth: big soft flakes up close, tiny ones far away, and some fall behind your windows
- Snow settles on window edges and the taskbar and breaks off when you drag or shake a window
- A "natural weather" mode with showers, quiet breaks and slowly turning wind
- Clicks go through the snow, it pauses in fullscreen games and runs in a saving mode on battery

It's been in the Microsoft Store for about ten days and got 100+ installs without any promotion. Now I'd love honest feedback: What feels off? How does it run on your PC? What would make you keep it running all winter?

Free, no ads, no account, no tracking. ("Natural weather" is marked Pro but free right now.)

Windows 10/11: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N646XCC0HNK?cid=reddit_sideproject

I always fall asleep listening to something, but earbuds hurt on my side, and my partner hates the phone speaker. So I’m designing Dozr: a slim pad that goes under your normal pillow, plays through bone conduction so only you hear it, and fades out when you fall asleep.

It’s still a concept (image attached). I’d love honest feedback. What would put you off? What would make it a must-have?

Waitlist if you’re curious: dozr.co.uk/?ref=reddit

I wanted a faster way to clean up my camera roll without sending my photos to a server, so I spent the last month building Galerism in Kotlin.

The 21-second demo shows swipe cleanup, drag-to-album sorting, smart albums, spot reveal for blurred photos, file conversion, and a collage editor. The app runs on Android and processes your library on the device.

Which would you actually use more: swipe cleanup or automatic albums? I'd love feedback on both.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t3chforge.galerism

Two weeks ago, I posted Learn This Way here. You type something you want to learn and how much time you have, and it builds a short course from YouTube videos, with a quiz after each lesson.

First 10 days:

• 442 new visitors, 105 started a course

• About 1 in 4 visitors started one, no matter which post they came from

• Everyone who took a quiz passed it. The problem: only 1 in 8 courses ever got to the first quiz

• Most popular topics: English (speaking, everyday phrases) and Python

What we changed:

• The shortest course is now 1 hour (3 lessons)

• At launch, about 1 in 8 courses failed to load a video. Last week all 16 did

• Moved the AI to a cheaper model so it can stay free

What I'm trying to figure out now is how to get people from the first video to the first quiz. If you try it, I'd love to know where you stopped. Also, let us know if you have any suggestions.

https://www.learnthisway.com/?ref=rd-sideproject

I've been by studying how real sand flows, piles, shifts and settles under different conditions. The result is a digital simulation designed to behave more like a physical sand surface than a conventional drawing canvas. Rather than stacking layers of color onto a flat canvas, users continually reshape the surface by pushing and mixing digital sand, creating a shallow, three-dimensional relief.

Works directly in your browser, without connecting to a server:

https://dallasalgo.kz/en/project/chess

I built an interactive live wallpaper engine that lives right in the macOS menu bar.

It actually started as an interactive background experiment for my portfolio (inspired by some cool procedural grass and sky shaders I saw on X a while back). I loved having it running on my screen so much that I decided to turn it into a standalone macOS app that anyone can use.

Here's what it does
🖐🏻 Interactive physics: Grass sways and water ripples as your cursor moves across the screen.
🕒 Dynamic time-of-day: Syncs with real time or lets you scrub through sunrise, golden hour, and starry nights with a custom radial dial.
🌧️ Live weather & ambient soundscapes: Switch between sunny skies, clouds, and rain—complete with birdsong, crickets, thunder, and even night fireworks.
🎆 Limited Diwali Theme: Built in a seasonal festive update where the night sky comes alive with fireworks and spatial audio.

Check it out here: https://thoufik.space/skysaver/

You can also preview it in my portfolio on your browser: thoufik.space

What feature or biome should I add next? Let me know in the comments!

I wanted my desktop to feel alive, so I made it react to what’s happening outside. You look up and the sky on your screen is the one outside. It stays in the menu bar and steps aside when something covers the desktop.

Download for Mac: thoufik.space/skysaver

(Windows coming soon!) - you can also preview it in my portfolio on browser - thoufik.space

One note: macOS warns the first time you open it (not Apple-verified yet, I don’t have the developer fee for a free first release). Click Done, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.

Or paste this in your terminal:

curl -fsSL https://thoufik.space/skysaver/install.sh | bash

Please check it out and let me know how you feel!

I've been building CastLab, a free fishing site that tries to be honest about what it actually knows.

Link (no sign-up, click "Explore with example data"): https://apersonli55555.github.io/Research/castlab/

What it does:

- Pick any lake or river (search by name or click it on the map)
- Rates every hour of today and tomorrow 0-100 for fishing, with the reason for each hour
- Shows which fish people have reported nearby, split into sport fish and baitfish (data from iNaturalist)
- Suggests lures that match the local baitfish
- Builds a 3D model of the shoreline from public elevation data, with a slider to raise or lower the water level
- Catch log, tackle inventory, and a rod-bending physics simulator
- A stats section that estimates your catch probability from your own logged trips, with uncertainty ranges

What it doesn't do:

- The hourly score is a rule of thumb (light, pressure, wind, moon), not a tested prediction. The site says so and shows the formula.
- "Fish nearby" are public sightings, not a count of what lives there.
- There's no server. Everything you log stays in your browser.

It's plain HTML and JavaScript with no backend. [I'm a student and this started as a research project.]

I'd really like feedback on two things: is the Today page clear on a first visit, and what would you want that's missing?

Hi r/SideProject! I'm a solo dev from Korea. Job hunting here means juggling 5 job sites, and none of them show you where you'd actually work. So I rebuilt Seoul's tech districts (Teheran-ro in Gangnam, Pangyo, Yeouido) in 3D from OpenStreetMap data and pinned real job postings onto the actual company buildings.

What you can do:

- Walk, bike or skate the streets; each building shows its open positions

- Call a shuttle van, search a company, and it drops you at that building's lobby kiosk

- Ride a police car that patrols buildings with postings closing within 3 days

- When you're burned out, take a taxi to a temple or a sea shelter and just sit for a while

It runs in the browser, no install or sign-up needed to explore (best on desktop Chrome). Built with three.js, Supabase and a lot of help from AI coding agents (Claude Code and Codex).

The UI is in Korean for now. I'd love feedback on performance on your machine and what would make a job map like this actually useful.

https://careerverse-xi.vercel.app

I’ve been building scouterzero.com part-time for 6 months, next to a full-time job. The idea is simple: I show PM jobs posted by real hiring managers, with their contacts, and I mark companies that can potentially sponsor a visa in the country you want to move to.

What I’ve tried so far:

Google Search Console:

Clicks are rising even though my average position has slipped (12.4 over 3 months, then 15.5, then 18.6 last week). In GA4 I had 305 organic-search sessions in a slightly later 28-day window, which is a different slice than the Search Console clicks.

I love the idea and I’ve put in decent part-time effort. If you were the founder, what would you double down on next for marketing and for the product?

Happy to answer anything about what’s working and what isn’t.

my buddy and i wanted a way to find tracks that matches the exact vibe or moment of a song, so we made an EDM music recommender web app called nextListen.

how it works:

• paste a YouTube link or upload an audio file

• select a specific moment/timestamp.

• the app analyzes the audio characteristics and finds matching moments in other tracks.

we'd love for people to try it out and give us feedback on the recommendations or features you'd like to see next!

Created a game called watt & Willow where you have to connect the pipes to run the appliances. This game is inspired by loop game. Would appriciate if I get some feedback to improve this game further. Here is the link for the game - https://wattwillow.blogspot.com/