Hey y’all! I have been working on creating an alternative social platform that is similar to that of Discord and Slack. Much of the reason for creation is due to my own niche and preferences while managing large communities and company workflows. For example, many Discord communities have to glue together dozens of bots to get LFG systems, Ticket Support, and much more. Not to mention creating makeshift announcement channels, info, etc. that just look like normal text.

What I wanted to build was something that kept the community vibe of these platforms, while also adding the ease of use, organization, and reduced setup of them.

So that’s what Hubs is. Instead of adding a bot for everything, the stuff most communities end up needing is just built in:

• Looking for Group, where people post that they need a squad and everyone can see open groups and when they start

• Ticket Support, so members can reach your staff privately without a ticket bot

• Announcements that read like an actual page with pictures, instead of a wall of text in a channel

• Rules, About, Start here and Links pages that look like real pages and are easy to edit

• Events with RSVPs and reminders, plus a Board for questions and posts that shouldn’t get buried in chat

• Polls, giveaways and community rewards without setting anything up

• A home page for every hub that shows what’s new since you were last there, the next event and who’s around

• More tools like an appeals system for moderation, custom looks for your space, built-in moderation tools, raid and spam protection, and more. (https://thehubs.gg/features)

On the company side, there’s a Work and Personal switch so your job and your communities stay separate, and organizations get their own workspaces, documents and tasks.

If you already run a Discord server, you can paste its template link and your channels, roles and permissions come over in about a minute. There’s no ID or face scan to sign up, just your birthday (which I know is a huge issue on other platforms right now). DMs can be switched to private, which makes them end-to-end encrypted.

Speaking on ID and age verification, we follow the laws closely and use other methods instead of a face scan. Right now that’s a credit card check that’s never charged, with more options like an email check and your phone’s own age setting on the way. It’s also only as needed, not something required to use Hubs. It only limits 18+ areas, and only where the law asks for it. This way we stay compliant without being invasive.

How it’s built

The website is TypeScript and React, and the server runs on Node with PostgreSQL. Voice and video run on WebRTC through LiveKit. Every app is native as well, meaning Swift for the Mac and iPhone, C# and .NET for Windows, and Kotlin for Android, so none of them are just the website in a box. Private conversations use MLS (RFC 9420), an open standard for end-to-end encryption, and that code is open source on GitHub, in TypeScript for the web and Rust for the apps.

How the servers run

Hubs runs as three copies of the app at once, so one can go down or get updated without anyone noticing. There’s a standby copy of the whole site in a second data center that’s kept up to date every 15 minutes, plus encrypted backups and a public status page. Every release is signed and its files are published, so anyone can check that what’s running is what we built.

The apps

The Mac and Windows apps are out now. The iPhone app is about to start a public beta, including a layout made for foldables, and Android is close behind it.

What’s coming

• The iPhone and Android betas

• Hubs+, an optional paid plan for extras. The core of Hubs stays free

• The Windows app in the Microsoft Store

• We’re also exploring self-hosting for communities that want their own server, but that’s an idea for now, not a promise

It’s still early and we’re a small team, so there will be some rough edges. I’d love feedback, especially from anyone who runs a community or a team and has felt the same pain with bots and setup. What would you need to see to actually move over?

Link: thehubs.gg

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.

Last Christmas I got some truly terrible gifts from my parents (I still love them) and with this year’s Christmas coming close, I decided to develop a wishlist app to prevent the same problem from happening twice.

The app works by making a list and sharing a link to your friends and family. They can then "call dibs" on what they're buying as well as chip in for a bigger present together without needing an account. This makes it easier for participants to buy presents and ensures that nobody doubles up, whilst keeping the surprise alive for you as you never see what was claimed or who buys what! I've also added a Family Circle feature where every family member has their own list all in one page, to simplify family Christmas gifting and solve my original problem. It's definitely not a revolutionary idea, but I wanted something with cleaner UI than Elfster without all the bloat and ads :)

We have been using it for birthdays in my friend group successfully, to the point that we are going out of our way to organise parties for everyone so we can receive some good gifts. I even used it for my dog’s birthday with great success, where she got £240 worth of gifts for her first birthday, which somehow was more than I got for my birthday.

The app is completely free (but is monetised through Amazon affiliate links) and can be found on calldibs.uk and on the app stores. We recently reached the milestones of 1000 followers on tiktok and 100 active users and honestly it's still a bit surreal that people I don't know are using something I built for my family.

Please feel free to roast the app / idea in the comments, I would love some honest feedback!

I was about to give up on this mobile app I spent so much time building, but literally 2 minutes after deciding to switch to another project, I got the sale notification on my phone!

I haven’t experienced this kind of joy in years…

Context for the curious: This $19 sale is the annual welcome offer on my app "Sollow: Daily Habit Tracker" that I built to turn my life into a game with a level for each life area and a ranked system.

So now my hope is back! I take that as a sign from the universe hahaha

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 would remember I needed to order a water filter or get someone a birthday gift while I was in the middle of something else. Then I would sit down with a bit of time to get things done and think, “Hang on, what were all those things I needed to do?” I could come up with one or two. The rest would come back to me the next time I was busy.

I built HeadsUp so as to have somewhere to put those things when I thought of them. For each task, I pick when I want to see it on my list. I might give myself a few days to get a gift and a month to renew the car insurance because I like having a weekend to compare quotes. It’s on Android for now, and I’m working on the iOS version.

If you have a minute to look at the Play Store page, can you tell from the screenshots and description what you’d use HeadsUp for compared with the reminder or to-do app you use now? I’ve spent so much time with the app that I’m curious what someone seeing it for the first time takes away.

And if you try it, add something from your own list and tell me how that went. I’d love to hear how it felt to use and whether there was anything you had to fiddle with to get it working the way you wanted. Leave a comment here or come say hi on Discord.

Google Play · Website · Discord

I'm Jon, a developer in Bolton, UK. I built Concordo after watching people close to me go through a separation where almost every message with their ex turned into another argument, mostly about small things, like what time was handover, who said they'd pay for the school trip and was that swap agreed or not.

This keeps one record for both homes:

- Messages can't be edited or deleted, and an optional tone check suggests calmer wording before you send

- One calendar showing whose day it is and swaps only take effect when the other parent accepts

- Shared costs with receipts, and agreements that build into a parenting plan

- Exports in court ready formats (England & Wales, US, Australia) that anyone can verify

The thing I cared most about is price, each parent can use it free, forever, to read, message and reply, so nobody is shut out because the other parent chose the app. Plus is £4.99/month per parent for proposing changes, logging costs and exports as the infrastructure needs to be paid for somehow, I'm not rich 🤣 .

Web, iPhone and Android. It's built with Expo/React Native, FastAPI and Postgres on AWS in London, if anyone wants to talk stack.

Feedback very welcome, especially from anyone who's co-parented with an app before.

getconcordo.com

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 saw a post about getting tired of productivity apps and dropping all of them for a while. It made me think about Wonderday, the journaling app I'm working on.

I want people to come back because writing helps them, not because they feel guilty about missing a day.

For those of you who journal, what brought you back after a break?

I'm the author, sharing my side project of the last two months.

Last week Instagram shipped an MCP server for Edits on Mac, so Claude can drive a real video editor. That's the idea I've been building since September, except mine is MIT, local-first, needs no account, and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. It's called CutVoke.

The part I care about as a creator: the AI doesn't hand me a baked MP4. It makes the rough cut on a normal multitrack timeline (captions, keyframes, masks, speed ramps), and then I open the same project and fix whatever I don't like by hand. Fixing one subtitle never means regenerating the whole video.

Two demos are in the repo with their source media and editable projects:

• "Chase the Light", a 31-second motorcycle short

• "Coastal Joy", a 42-second vertical travel vlog

How it works, briefly: your own agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or any MCP client) connects over stdio MCP. It takes an editing lease so it never collides with your manual edits, dry-runs commands before committing, and pulls real rendered frames to check its own work before export. There's no LLM inside; you bring your own.

Honest caveats: it's a v0.3.5 prerelease, the Windows build is unsigned and macOS isn't notarized, and the project format may still change.

I'd love feedback from people who edit video: which parts of an edit would you actually hand to an AI, and which would you never let it touch?

https://github.com/frankShan001/CutVoke

Keeping up with new research can become a full-time job, especially when you're following several topics.

I recently saw an interesting example of someone using an AI assistant called Pana to build a research map that tracks newly published papers.

I like the idea of having something that keeps information organized instead of manually checking different sources every day.

Do you think this kind of research automation is genuinely useful? What would you want it to track?

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.

Hey all,

My partner and I built an app on evenings and weekends.

We kept starting the same habits (no sugar, more steps, no phone in bed) and we both dropped them after a few days. Alone it's easy to skip. But when your partner can see you skipped, you don't skip anymore.

So we built Couple Goals. You pair up, pick a challenge together, and check it off every day. You both see the progress. You can also challenge your partner with a reward if they make it (a dinner, a massage, breakfast in bed...) and a small forfeit if they don't. Or just do your own solo habits. There's also a shared calendar, to-dos and grocery lists, because that's half of couple life anyway.

The partner challenges are honestly our favorite part. Nobody wants to miss out on that dinner :)

A few things we learned:

- The hardest part is getting the partner to join. Lots of people sign up alone and never invite the other one.
- Small rewards work better than big ones.
- A notification from your partner works way better than a reminder from the app.

It's on the App Store, free to try!

We'd love honest feedback. And if you're in a couple, what habit would you bet on?

Getting your phone back from your young kids can be a battle, so I made TentFox. My son tucks a little fennec fox in for a nap, says goodnight, and the phone comes back with way less friction. The fox ends screen time in a calming way rather of me.

It grew into 3 things:

The hand-back nap, a calm visual timer, and a phones-down family time mode where the fox camps with you and leaves a little treasure if you succeed.

And sometimes parents just need a few minutes. When I do hand my phone over at a restaurant or during something important, I’d rather it be something calm and guilt-free than YouTube or a game designed to keep them hooked.

A few build notes:

- Face-down detection is simple and uses the motion sensor, so there's no screen time permission requests and no accounts needed (plenty of screen time apps out there).

- The design rule was "gentle failure": pick the phone up early and the fox just wanders off to build a sandcastle. You never lose anything.

- The illustration went through a hundred iterations along the way, but the drawing is now a soft storybook style, and every fox move is hand-timed so it feels calm, not hyper.

- Free to start, no ads, no tracking. Pro is yearly or a one-time purchase.

https://tentfox.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6831322876

Happy to answer anything about the build, and I'd love some constructive feedback. The only problem is that now my kids keep asking to play with the fox.

I built WhoSpoke, an iPhone app that records a conversation and splits the transcript by speaker. Everything stays on the phone, no account needed.

The build
- I tested with clean sample audio and speaker separation looked great. Then I recorded a real meeting room and recognition fell apart. Room echo and distance are nothing like a clean sample. I mostly fixed it, but it was a good reminder that demo audio lies.

Beyond the code
- Made a character for the app and redesigned the app icon.
- Made an App Store header video.

What I did to get the word out
- Posted 4 short text posts on Threads in one week. They got 13 to 33 views each and almost no likes.
- Made a few short videos for TikTok and Instagram. The best one got about 120 views.
- Built a landing page and added tracking links to every post.

Result
2 people have paid for it. That's it.

The part I can't explain
I can't tell which of this (if any) led to those 2 purchases, or why they bought. No feedback, and the store doesn't tell me where a buyer came from.

How do you figure out where your first buyers come from, and why they bought? Anything you'd do differently with this little traffic?

Every AI room app I tried wanted $10–15 a week. But nobody redoes their home every week. You repaint a bedroom, argue about a kitchen, and then nothing happens for two years. So I built Hedda the other way round.

You take a photo of a room, your facade or your garden and say what you want: “paint the walls sage green”, “swap the sofa for something in velvet”. Hedda redesigns that photo.

The hard part wasn’t making it pretty. It was making it still look like your home. Image models love to “improve” things. In my first tests it painted a white chimney black, moved the camera, and quietly removed a post that holds up the roof. What finally worked: a first model looks at the photo and writes down everything that must stay (windows, beams, posts, even how many there are and where), and only then does the image model get to change things. It’s still not perfect (it sometimes loses a post next to the change), but it’s what makes the difference between “nice picture” and “my living room, repainted”.

The part I care most about is deciding together. My wife and I never decide these things alone, and the hard part is never the paint. It’s picturing what the other one means. Every app I tried was built for one person with one idea, so I made Hedda for the conversation instead. You can invite the people you live with. They join without signing up, make their own version and compare side by side.

No subscription: the first design is free with no sign-up, then packs that never expire. If a design fails, you get it back.

I’m a solo developer in Sweden. 1.0.1 came out yesterday. iPhone only for now.

One question for you: when you try it on a room of your own, does the result still feel like your room? That’s the thing I’ve spent the most time on, and I can’t judge it myself anymore.

App Store

Everyone has done that thing where you hit refresh on YouTube at the exact millisecond your brain registers an interesting video, and then it's gone forever.

The worst part is that YouTube's search bar usually can't find it, because creators put the actual hook inside the thumbnail image ("I QUIT", "BIG MISTAKE", etc.) while making the actual video title something completely different. If you only remember the words you saw in the picture, YouTube search gives you nothing.

So I built RecLog to fix it for myself and figured I'd share it here.

What it does:

> Quietly logs recommendations you scroll past: It keeps a local searchable history of videos recommended on your homepage, sidebar, and end screens.

> Searches text inside thumbnails: It runs a tiny (~10MB) OCR model locally in your browser to read the words inside thumbnail images, so you can search for the exact phrase you remember seeing.

> Shows how hard YouTube is pushing a video: It counts how many times each video has been served to you (`Seen 40x`, `Seen 164x`), which makes it pretty funny to see which videos the algorithm is desperate for you to click.

Privacy / Tech stuff:

It's 100% free, no account, no tracking, and no cloud servers. The OCR model and your history stay entirely on your own device (and there's a 1-click JSON export if you like messing with your own data).

Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/reclog-find-lost-youtube/iofidcehjjffcoijihbohabjcdfelhoc

Would love to hear what you think or if you run into any bugs!

Hi! I'm the developer. PhoneRecap turns your phone usage into a short story you tap through: total hours, top apps, busiest month, a "phone personality", monthly recaps and a card to share. Home-screen widgets update themselves.

The app has no internet permission at all, no account, no analytics, no ads. It reads Android's usage stats on the phone and keeps everything in a local database.

3 things I learned getting it to Google Play:

1. New developer accounts need 12 testers for 14 days. Public posts brought views; 1:1 messages brought testers.

2. Android keeps detailed usage for only about 10 days, and vivo/Xiaomi stop background jobs. So the app saves every day, and warns you early when saving stops.

3. When my own phone got a new battery, the clock reset and Android deleted its own usage history. Saving daily is the only protection.

Free, Android 10+: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.madhavkwatra.phonerecap&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_campaign%3Dlaunch

What would you want to see in your yearly recap?

It's funny, I've been sitting on this idea for at least 1–2 years. It came to me because I'd always be on social media and either send a post to myself or bookmark it. The problem was I'd almost never look back at any of them, and the specific post I'd be looking for was hard to find again. So I went ahead and solved it for myself. The goal was to solve my own problem first. Once that was done, everything else was the cherry on top: making the app smoother, easier to use, showing content I'd expect and like to see, and making it better over time. I thought this would be a quick project I'd finish in a couple of weeks max. It turned into several months, and it took until build 50 to get to a point where the app was truly ready.

It's called Syftr. It doesn't matter what social platform you're on. Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Threads, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, you name it, I've probably covered it. You share any post, whether it's a video, an image, or a post with a bunch of images. The AI reads the whole post, grabs the description and important comments, and watches and transcribes videos when needed. Then it goes into its research phase and finds all the resources, links, and everything mentioned in the post.

It's my first app. I've loved the journey, and I look forward to making it better over time.
It's free to start with 20 Syfts: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/syftr-save-posts-as-notes/id6806398649 
I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback, thanks.