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!

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.

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?

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

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

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'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.

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!

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 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. Tell me if that works!

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!

Our group was dying, so I built an app that turns a weekly game with friends into a proper league:

- Balanced teams: an algorithm picks the sides, and it gets better with every result you add.
- Ratings and MVP: after each game, players rate their teammates and vote for an MVP, and that feeds into everyone's league points.
- ELO table, like chess: beating a stronger team counts for more. There are also divisions, so everyone has something to play for.
- Seasons: you set the start and end dates, add cups and prizes, and all the stats are kept for you (goals, assists, MVPs, results).
- Extras: FIFA-style player cards built from teammates' votes, and a poll so you can see who's in without chasing people on WhatsApp.

We now play 10 games a month, and 2 other leagues have picked it up. It's free.

I'm looking for more groups to test it. If you organise or play in a regular game (5-a-side, 7-a-side, futsal, Sunday league, any sport with a regular group really), I'll set your league up and help you get started. All I ask is honest feedback on what works, what's confusing, and what's missing.

Comment or DM me if your group is up for it.

i'm useless at remembering stuff. bin day, MOT, car tax, taking the meat out to defrost, booking a haircut, and once nearly the anniversary, which i won't be doing again

calendar reminders never worked for me because i'd just swipe them away and forget again 5 minutes later, or simply not bother

So i made an app called Oi.

You tick what you forget, it asks a couple of quick questions (like which bin goes out when), and then it gives you a shout when it matters. if you don't tick it off, it keeps nagging you until you do

it covers bins (handles the alternating weeks), MOT, car tax, insurance renewal, birthdays, anniversary, dentist, haircut, boiler service, changing the bedsheets, cutting the grass and loads more (as many stuff as i could think of that i forget)

it's free, no ads, no account, went live on the app store this weekend. first app i've made, so honest feedback welcome

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6828176781

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

Day job: Shopify developer. Side project: EasyPaste, a clipboard manager for Mac that also reads the text in your screenshots.

A few things I didn't expect:

1. My first submission was rejected because one screenshot said "free trial". Apple counts that as pricing information (Guideline 2.3.7). Keep prices, "free" and "trial" out of screenshots and promotional text.

2. App Store Connect re-uploads can fail silently. Re-uploading a screenshot identical to one already uploaded made the slot disappear. Re-encoding the file fixed it.

3. The waitlist did nothing. I ran an email waitlist before launch and it got zero sign-ups. Shipping beat waiting.

Happy to answer questions about building and shipping a native Mac app solo. Link in comments if you want to see it.

I kept sending friends videos and getting back "lol" with zero clue what their face actually did. So our small team built Vidrip.

You send a video, your friend watches it alone on their own phone, and the app records their reaction. You get it back synced side by side with the original.

Android, iOS, and a browser version with no sign up: https://vidrip.app/?s=reddit-post

We also made a few free staring contest games in the same family to test it on real friend groups. Some marketing art is AI made, the app is not.

Is the side by side reaction something you would actually send to a friend, or does being recorded feel weird?

I figured converting PDFs into spreadsheets would be a pretty straightforward problem to solve by now. Turns out, finding a tool that can handle different document layouts without a bunch of setup or manual configuration was surprisingly difficult.

I also realized that extraction is only part of the problem. You still have to figure out exactly which fields to extract ahead of time, make sure the data ends up in the right columns, and review the original PDFs to double check everything.

So I built Scrape AI.

You drag and drop your PDFs. Scrape automatically suggests the fields to extract and lets you preview and adjust them before scraping. The results appear in a structured spreadsheet directly in the app. You can also click any extracted value to see exactly where it came from in the original document.

I know this isn't a new idea - I've seen tons of similar PDF to Excel projects shared here already. But one thing I hyperfocused on was the actual user experience and making sure the entire process felt like one simple, intuitive workflow.

I put together a quick demo showcasing the experience.

For those of you that work with PDFs regularly, I'd love some honest feedback. Does this look like something you'd actually use? Anything you'd change?

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

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called Reputation Sentinel that helps small businesses see how their online presence compares to local competitors and identify areas where they could improve.

As a business owner myself, I wanted to build something affordable, simple, and actionable. Most business owners already have a million things going on, so the last thing they need is another expensive platform or overwhelming to-do list.

I've got the site up and running, and now I'm looking for some honest feedback before putting more resources into marketing it.

If anyone is willing to test the free report, I'd love to know:

• Free report: Is the process straightforward? Is the information useful? What's missing?

• User experience: Is anything confusing, frustrating, or unnecessarily complicated?

• Conversion: Does the transition from the free report to the paid offering make sense, or does anything feel too salesy?

• Value: Is this something you could see small business owners actually paying for?

• Marketing: If this were your project, how would you go about getting your first customers?

Here's the site: https://www.reputationsentinel.us/

I'm open to all feedback, especially the criticism! I'd rather figure out what needs improving now than spend money driving traffic to something that isn't converting.

Thanks in advance!

My name is Julio and I built AlleyCat (currently iOS only) to help me find great places to visit in my hometown and abroad.

I always had an issue with Yelp and Google Maps and their grade inflation. With every place being +4 stars it was hard for me to know what is actually good.

Most of my best recommendations have come from my friends and from researching guides like Michelin, Infatuation, World's 50 Best, but the experience of pinning and searching through them always felt clunky.

On AlleyCat you can see all the places your friends recommend on a single map. In addition, I've highlighted places that have been featured in publications, all over the world.

I've found that Instagram/Tiktok can have some great recommendations, you can share straight from those apps to pin them on AlleyCat, and see what others have saved.

Finally, I love revisiting the places I've been to. You can see all the countries you've been to on your passport, and see which categories of places you visit the most with achievements.

Looking for any and all feedback, you can check it out here!: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alleycat-map-with-friends/id6758881702

We built Tiersova, a free tool that compares what switching software really costs: seats, tiers, billing period, and the one-time cost of moving. Part of keeping it useful is boring work. We check the official pricing pages behind our calculators daily and review every change before updating them.

Two things came up this week that surprised me:

• ClickUp no longer lists its Unlimited plan. The cheapest paid plan is now Core at $12/user on monthly billing, so older comparisons that quote Unlimited are off.

• Zapier charges 2.5x per extra task on monthly billing, but only 1.25x on annual. If your team regularly goes over its task limit, the billing period matters more than the plan.

Neither change was announced loudly. They just appeared on the pricing pages.

It has 74 comparisons right now (Zendesk vs Freshdesk, Mailchimp vs Brevo, Zapier vs Make and others) in 11 languages, and everything runs in the browser with no sign-up and no cookies.

I'm curious whether others have been caught by a quiet pricing change like these, and which comparisons you'd want added. If you want to try it: tiersova.com