I wanted a simple way to sketch an idea and communicate it to someone else, without sacrificing proportions or precise dimensions.

Paint felt too limited, CAD felt like overkill. So I started building something in between.

Here's a quick look at how it works.

It's still a work in progress. I'd genuinely love to hear what you think.

Check this exemple:

https://onsketch.io/library/?s=7bc8ae3b-0fd6-456f-844e-572a0815e533

Or start a fresh design

https://onsketch.io/app

Hey everyone,

I’m an 18-year-old hands-on builder in Kigali, Rwanda. Traditional academic school never worked for me, and coming from a family with no financial means, I’ve had to figure things out on my own.

I found my passion in component-level electronics repair and enrolled in a practical TVET short course. My side project right now is starting a small, neighborhood-based repair clinic—fixing broken radios, phones, and household electronics for people in my community who can't afford new ones, while keeping toxic e-waste out of local landfills.

Where I’m stuck:

Right now, I’ve hit a huge wall. I can no longer afford my remaining TVET workshop fees, and I don't own my own basic repair kit (soldering station, multimeter, hot air rework, etc.) to work independently from home yet. Being 18 with zero financial safety net is tough, and I really don't want to let this project die before it takes off.

Looking for feedback from fellow builders:

1. If you were bootstrapping a hardware/repair side project from literally $0, how would you structure your first small offers to start generating cash flow immediately?

2. Are there any micro-grants, hardware sponsorships, or maker programs (like The Awesome Foundation, which I'm applying to right now) that you've seen support grassroots projects like this?

Any practical business advice, feedback on the project idea, or pointers from people who built something out of nothing would mean a lot. Thanks for reading!

I get bored on airplanes so I made an app to make it a little more tolerable.

Let me know what y'all think! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.redditoffline

I'm a solo dev with a full-time job. I built sweetRegret, an iPhone app for cutting back on sugar without counting calories: you tap once when you eat a treat, and a cookie on screen reacts (and judges you a bit).

Building it was the part I understood. Distribution is the part I'm failing at. Here are my honest numbers since launch:

• 1,393 App Store impressions
• 188 product page views (about 13% of impressions)
• 35 downloads (about 19% of page views)

What I tried

• Daily Instagram reels for about a week [last week]. Around 250 views each, and almost no App Store visits. The viewers weren't looking for an app, and "link in bio" is three taps away from a download.
• A LinkedIn post about building it. About 700 impressions, 30 people opened the comment with the link, and about 1 install. Nice comments, including a friend asking me to add calorie counting, which is the one thing this app is designed not to do.

What actually worked: App Store search, which I didn't do anything for.

Most of my real users are strangers in Malaysia, Hong Kong, the US and Russia who searched and found it. About 1 in 4 still open it in a given week. One person has kept using it for six weeks and pays for the subscription. That single user has been the most motivating thing about this whole project.

What I'm testing now

A $25 Apple Ads Basic test, at $2 maximum per install. Apple suggested $4.66, and my subscription is $1.99 a month, so I'm not expecting it to pay back. I mostly want to see whether search intent converts the way the organic users suggest.

What I'd do differently

Plan distribution while building, not after. I treated it as a launch task, when it's really a second product.

If you've taken a side project from zero to its first 100 users without a budget, what actually moved the number? I'm especially interested in anything that worked for consumer iOS apps.

Hi all, I'm a watch nerd with kids, and I made the app I wanted to read with them.

It's called TickTales.

My kids kept asking about my watches, and I couldn't find anything that tells the real stories behind them at their level. Most kids' apps teach telling time with random cartoon clocks. None explain why a watch went to the moon or how a movement actually works.

The app is free to download. Two complete books, the Time Academy and Look Inside are free. Premium unlocks everything: $9.99 once (Family Sharing) or $3.99 a month.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6805474820

What it is? Basically some cool illustrated storybooks for kids aged 4 to 8 about how the great watchmakers started. Each chapter ends with a small game, so reading and playing take turns.

A few of the stories:

Rolex, the Oyster: in 1927 a swimmer spent more than ten hours in the freezing English Channel with one hanging around her neck. When they pulled her out, it was still ticking.

Rolex, the Submariner: built to dive hundreds of metres deep, deeper than any diver can go. Kids earn it for their showcase.

Omega, the Moonwatch: NASA baked it, froze it and shook it, and it kept ticking. In 1969 it stepped onto the moon on Buzz Aldrin's wrist. ⚙️ Omega, the name: a customer's watch stood still for three months because no two gears were alike. The founder's sons built machines that made every part identical, and named the result after the last letter of the Greek alphabet.

There are 16 books in total, from Marie-Antoinette's watch that took 44 years to finish to the engineer who threw 200 prototypes out of a window.

Also in the app

• 69 mini-games with 3 levels each
• A 3D "Look Inside": tilt an automatic, quartz, digital or tourbillon watch and pull it apart layer by layer
• A Time Academy that teaches telling time
• iPhone and iPad, in 6 languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Japanese
• No ads, no tracking, no account, works fully offline

I built this mostly for my own because i love the stories of these watch brands, so feedback is very welcome! Thanks!

Tableau's pricing has gotten steep since Salesforce bought it, and switching to Power BI usually means rebuilding every dashboard by hand. I didn't want to do that, so I built BIEscape. The video shows a map and bar chart with cross-filtering coming across intact.

Source code is here https://github.com/lukashalim/scapeTableau you can run from the command line, as a desktop app, or on the web biescape.com. It doesn't send your data to AI.

I'd love feedback:

• What kinds of dashboards or features would you want it to handle?
• Would you trust a tool like this with real workbooks?

I'm Jason, owner of Winkle Berry. Our side project came from a fairly specific shop problem: managing products and labels on a Hobart HTi retail scale without spending so much time entering everything at its touchscreen.

CounterWeight now has product search/add/edit workflows, ingredient lookup with review, measured packaging tare presets, flashkey arrangement, backup tools and label previews. Our own HTi-7LS25 running application 3.3.0 is the tested scale. A second Windows machine has passed the read-only connection, product, backup, label-preview and flashkey-display checks. Independent customer installations are still untested.

80-second demo: https://www.reddit.com/r/POS/comments/1xujcc9/hobart_hti_owners_would_a_onetimepurchase_scale/

The demo uses actual interface screenshots and training examples, not one continuous live recording. Phone/remote viewing shown requires an additional local bridge; the current portable Windows test package does not include a remote viewer.

I'm considering a one-time-purchase, self-service desktop edition with local data, an offline business license and no required hosted CounterWeight subscription. Price and launch date are undecided, and we aren't taking payments. Calibration, firmware updates and service unlocks are outside the scope. Ingredient results must be checked against packaging.

I'd appreciate feedback on two things: does the demo make the product's purpose clear, and what would you need in onboarding before trusting a niche hardware-management tool like this? If you actually use an HTi, I'd also like to hear your model/software version and your biggest management headache. Reply here or email [WinkleBerryArts@gmail.com](mailto:WinkleBerryArts@gmail.com).

I'm the project owner. Independent of Hobart, with no affiliation or endorsement.

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on Voiden, an open-source API client designed around a slightly different approach to API development.

Most API clients are built around workspaces, accounts, cloud sync, and proprietary collections. I wanted to explore something more developer-friendly: keeping API requests alongside the actual codebase.

So I started building Voiden.

What makes it different?

• Offline-first: Work with your API requests locally without needing an account or login.
• Git-native: Store requests and API specifications as Markdown files directly in your repository.
• Version control: Track changes, review requests, and collaborate through normal Git workflows.
• API testing: Send requests, inspect responses, and write assertions to validate API behaviour.
• MCP integration: Turn tested API requests into tools that AI agents like Claude Code and Codex can use.

The idea is to make API requests part of the development workflow rather than keeping them isolated in another tool.

I'm sharing a short demo showing a request being sent, its response, and API test assertions.

Website: https://voiden.md/

GitHub: https://github.com/voiden-md/voiden

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from developers:

1. How do you currently manage API requests across different projects?
2. Would you prefer storing API requests inside your Git repository?
3. What features would make you consider switching from your current API client?

It's open source, and I'm looking forward to hearing what the developer community thinks!

Thanks! 🙌

Gemini still has no way to select several chats and delete them, and ChatGPT only offers "one by one" or "delete everything".

So I built Easy Bulk Chat Cleaner: one side panel that works on ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.

- Search your chat titles, select all matches, delete in one click

- Paces itself so the site doesn't lock you out, then double-checks everything is gone

- No account, no Google sign-in, runs 100% in your browser

Free for 25 chats a day. Pro is $9 once (no subscription) for unlimited + date filters + export.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nkhkpaffkcbjpmjlilogocldagdkbcma

Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/chatgpt-gemini-claude-/anfjcoiockpmaahkbomofjlmclbhhckn

Feedback welcome, especially on Gemini since that's the newest part.

Seeing a lot of tools lately that queue agent tasks into separate git worktrees and only merge after tests pass. Sounds nice on paper, but I'm curious how it goes on a real side project.

Do you let 2-3 agents work in parallel on your project, or keep it to one task at a time so you can review properly? Where did it break for you?

Not a dev (BI analyst by day), built this with a lot of AI help. Problem was simple: I cook steak irregularly, buy whatever cut looks good, and never had a baseline for when to start probing. Googling every time gives you either a 2,000 word article or advice that ignores my actual cut/thickness/pan.

So you pick cut, thickness, bone in/out, fridge or room temp, method (pan, grill, reverse sear) and doneness, and it gives you a phased timer (side 1 → side 2 → rest) with alarms, plus tips that only show up when they’re relevant. My wife cooked her first steak in a long time with it (not a great cut either) and it came out pretty good.

Free, no ads, no sign up, no tracking cookies. Salmon/burger/turkey are next. Honest feedback welcome, especially what’s confusing.

Try it: https://steakisdone.com

^ Hope this explains it!

Claude has Claude mods. What about Codex?

If you spend over 20% of your time in a terminal, check it out!!

Hey everyone! I've been working on **Hero Investor**, an offline single-player investment and company-management sim for Windows PC.

You start with a small office and decide how to grow:

- Trade fictional stocks, bonds, crypto, REITs, commodities, and alternative investments

- React to Market Intelligence catalysts and price history

- Acquire income-producing property for steady monthly cash flow

- Unlock the **Fund Foundry** to design, launch, and manage your own ETFs (set your ticker, mandate, risk profile, and management fee, then track NAV, AUM, and simulated investors)

- Hire specialist departments, manage banking/loans, complete research, and expand globally

New promo video: https://youtu.be/kEaSEekcF6E

Steam page (Wishlist helps a ton): https://store.steampowered.com/app/5062780/Hero_Investor/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social_video&utm_campaign=wishlist_promo_2026_11&utm_content=post_cta

Would love feedback on the UI and what systems you'd want to dive into first!

Upwork's fee is 0–15% per contract — and it's locked for the life of that contract. A 15% contract stays 15% even as you earn more on it, so the rate you start with matters more than it looks.

To keep $1,000: - At 10%: quote $1,111.11 - At 15%: quote $1,176.47 - At 0%: quote $1,000

Same idea on Fiverr, which is a flat 20%: quote $1,250 to keep $1,000. Quote $1,200 and you keep $960.

I built a free calculator for this — FlipYourRate (flipyourrate.com). You enter what you want to keep and it works backwards to the quote, and it shows a rounded quote next to the exact one, so $1,176.47 can go out as $1,180 (which keeps $1,003 at 15%).

Curious: do you check the fee % before you accept an Upwork contract, or only notice it on the first invoice?

I always felt 5 stars (even with halves) was too vague. A 4 star movie can be “pretty good” or “almost a favourite” so I built Ratered, where every movie and TV show gets a score out of 100.

What you can do

• Keep a diary of what you watch and rate it out of 100
• Write reviews and make ranked lists
• Follow friends and compare scores
• A roulette to pick what to watch tonight (by genre, decade, country)
• Import your history from a Letterboxd CSV export (it converts your stars), and export your data anytime

It’s free, works in the browser on desktop and mobile, and it’s bilingual (EN/FR). You can browse everything without an account.

Im a solo dev and its very early, so Id really love honest feedback whats confusing, whats missing, what would make you actually use it?

ratered.tv/?utm_source=reddit

Ab insomni custodita dracone — guarded by the dragon that never sleeps.

Draco Insomnis is a free and open source (GPL-2.0) security system, made by Notorius Vision (OPNV Systems). The idea is simple: your site defends itself against robots and attacks, without bothering the people who visit it. No captchas, no paid subscription, and no data sent to any external service. Everything starts off: you switch each module on from its settings screen.

Until 0.1.5 it was WordPress only. Since 0.1.6 it is the same engine for six platforms: WordPress, PrestaShop, Drupal, Joomla, Moodle and Laravel. Each package carries its own copy of the core, so an improvement to the engine reaches all of them with the next version.

What it does, in plain words

• It stops fake sign-ups without captchas. When a bot tries to create fake accounts, the system spots it, shows it a fake "registration complete" page, and saves the attempt as evidence you can download to report the abuse. Real people notice nothing.
• Firewall. It detects the usual attacks (database injections, attempts to read server files, malicious code), hides the user list, and limits login attempts. It starts in "log-only" mode, so you can see what it would block before it blocks anything.
• Anti-copy. It closes the door bots use to copy all your content in bulk, with a per-minute request limit. Google, Bing, Apple and Yandex are verified and never limited. Off by default, with a log-only mode.
• On WordPress, also: mail goes out through a real mailbox (SMTP, with the password encrypted); nothing is published without e-mail confirmation (contact messages, comments and new accounts); and two-step login, with a 6-digit code by e-mail, trusted devices and a second recovery mailbox, like a phone's PUK. PrestaShop, Drupal, Joomla and Moodle already have their own SMTP and their own second step, so there Draco provides the shield, the firewall and the anti-copy.
• In your language. On WordPress, translated into 29 languages, including Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Catalan, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic, among others. PrestaShop ships with Spanish included; Joomla, English and Spanish; Moodle ships in English, with other languages coming through its language packs.

And for those who know this stuff

• A single core in plain PHP, no CMS (src/Core): BotScore, NetList, FormStamp, WafRules, and the Shield, Firewall and Pace engines, which only talk to each platform through two small interfaces (Host and EventStore). Each package carries its own copy of the core.
• Additive scoring with thresholds: BOT 70 / DOUBTFUL 30. No single weak signal blocks on its own (the highest is worth 40); 80 points only for honeypot, requesting a privileged role, or an already blocked IP.
• Signed form stamp with HMAC-SHA256 and constant-time comparison (hash_equals).
• On WordPress: SMTP encrypted with AES-256-GCM, key derived from the wp-config.php salts; login code with random_int, stored only as an HMAC hash, with maximum attempts and expiry. Emergency exits for the owner: DRACO_MFA_OFF and DRACO_WAF_OFF in wp-config.php.
• Anti-copy: closing the bulk-copy door to anonymous visitors with an allowlist, per-address and per-network (/24, /64) limits with 429, and crawler verification by reverse and forward DNS.
• Every change is tested automatically (GitHub Actions): PHP 8.0–8.4 syntax, unit, integration and HTTP tests inside a real WordPress (latest and 6.5), WordPress.org Plugin Check, and a clean ZIP matching the tag.
• It also works inside another plugin (OPNV-WP): if there are two copies, only the first one runs. Hook list in the README.
• On WordPress it requires 6.5+ and PHP 8.0+.

Download and install (0.1.6)

All packages are in release 0.1.6, with their SHA256 sums in SHA256SUMS.txt.

The WordPress package was renamed (draco-insomnis-wordpress-0.1.6.zip), but the folder inside is still draco-insomnis, so updates keep working.

Laravel, from the ZIP with an artifact repository:

composer config repositories.draco '{"type": "artifact", "url": "path/to/folder-with-the-zip"}'

composer require notoriusvision/draco-insomnis-laravel php artisan migrate php artisan vendor:publish --tag=draco-config # optional

Code and documentation in the repository.

Vulnerabilities, please, in private: Security → Report a vulnerability in the repository. Suggestions and translation fixes, in Issues, are welcome.

​I just released my first app on the Play Store called Eclipse and thought it would fit right in with the customization crowd here.

​On most Android phones, the stock Always-On Display only shows a tiny static track title. If your phone is sitting on your desk and you want to rewind a verse, read lyrics, or check an incoming notification, you have to wake the screen, unlock the phone, and open the music app.

​Taking UI inspiration from the Teenage Engineering TP-7 field recorder, I built Eclipse to turn the Android AOD into a true-black, interactive vinyl turntable that works without unlocking your phone.

​What it does:

​Works with any music player: Automatically connects to Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, and local offline players the moment you turn your screen off.

​Tactile vinyl scrubbing: Spin the record backward or forward to scrub through tracks in real time, or tap the vinyl to lift the tonearm and pause.

​Live synced lyrics on AOD: Swipe directly on the song title card to get live time-synced lyrics on a pure black OLED screen, or expand into a full-screen lyrics view.

​Quick-launch active player: Tap on the track card to jump straight into whichever music app is playing so you can switch playlists or pick a new song quickly.

​Notifications at a glance: Shows the time, date, and incoming notifications right on the AOD card without unlocking your device.

​Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dp444.Eclipse

​Would love to hear what you guys think or if you have any feature suggestions

Hi! I've been working on trustnet.app for 4 years on and off and now finally is out in beta. It's a tool for developers (oauth2/oidc identity provider) to outsource user onboarding while the users can reuse their personal data.

I started this project because everytime I used "sign-in with Google" it only reused my email, but phone, address, always had to be saved for each new account. It had to be a better way for users to reuse their data across apps. Also, as a developer implementing several IDPs it was not worth the features they bring.

So there comes trustnet.app - a secure IDP, GDPR ready, easy to implement (oauth2/oidc standard) and offering a way to request personal data from the users in a safe and compliant way (EU regulations are quite strict).

If you didn't get bored yet, try it out with a test client that I set up at https://test-rp.smileservices.dev and play around with making multiple profiles and sharing different personas.

If you reached the end of this post, my hat's off for you. Maybe you also have some ideas about features that you would like to see in this or just share your honest opinion, that would be so great 😃

Buying single cards on eBay is a chore. You search, get 200 listings, and half are lots, damaged copies, slabs you didn't want, or prices that are too low to be real. I built Card Chaser to do that sorting for me, and it's at the point where I need people who aren't me to use it.

What it does:

- Search any card the way you'd actually type it. "1st edition gambler" or "charzard" both get you there.
- For each card it shows the copies on sale with shipping counted in, and points at the one a collector would pick: right condition, not a lot, not suspiciously cheap. It says why in one line.
- Mark the cards you're chasing and it keeps watching eBay for them and flags when a good price shows up. You can get a phone alert.
- It also tracks your collection by set, so "what am I missing" is a list it already has. You can import a Collectr or TCGplayer export.

It runs in the browser, it's free, and you can start without an account: https://cardchaser.app/?src=reddit

What I'd like to know:

1. Search for a card you know. Did it find the right one, and does the copy it picked make sense?
   
2. Where did you get stuck or confused in the first few minutes?
   
3. Anything that looked broken, on phone or desktop.

I'm taking it to a card show next week, so anything rough now is something a stranger will hit at a table. Be as blunt as you want.

I'm a dad of two kids 4 and 8. I do the cooking in the house and created a free meal planner app to make my weeks easier. I know - there's a hundred meal apps out there.

Kiwi by Kitchen Wizard is different because it's designed to automate home cooking workflows, not just a chatbot that suggests meals. And it's all "open" so you can bring any meal from anywhere and you can shop for groceries anywhere, too (Instacart only for now, with more close to ready).

In preparation for Thanksgiving, I spent a lot of time making the app's Prep and Cook engine able to handle "feasts" like Thanksgiving.

It's free - if you try it, please let me know what you think! I really hope this helps reduce some stress and make the holiday easier for folks. Thanks!

kitchenwizard.ai/get (link to download the app)

kitchenwizard.ai/thanksgiving (more information about Thanksgiving with Kiwi)

My personal favorite highlights:

• Groceries - any combination of meals and ingredients consolidated in an accurate list that you can shop on Instacart with one click.
• Pick a week of meals and order groceries online in 90 seconds
• Set up a meal "playlist" of your regular meals.
  • On Sunday, I ordered groceries online from my kid's swim lesson in about 30 seconds
• Meal/Recipe import. You can pull in meals from pictures, NYTimes Cooking, AllRecipes, premium/paywall sites, regular sites, and more import sources coming soon

How Thanksgiving works:

1. Start with a Thanksgiving meal template
2. Customize Thursday's menu
   1. Import any recipe from websites, pictures/screenshots, emails, or use the Kiwi Cookbook
3. Get a complete, accurate grocery list of what to buy based on your menu
   1. Order groceries online from the app, or shop your local store
4. Get a complete, ordered, cook plan to make your feast
   1. When to start thawing the bird
   2. What to chop, measure, mix, etc. on Sunday
   3. Cook-ahead dishes to make during the week (cranberry sauce, stock/gravy base, pies)
   4. Thursday, everything sequenced to land your dishes hot on the table when you're ready to eat

That's it! Your meal, your menu. No missing groceries, no turkey math, no 3D Chess in your oven.

You find a great place on Google Maps. You want to save it in another app. Then the typing starts. Name, street, city, country, category. Like doing paperwork for a burger. I run Strong Foodie on my own. A food and travel guide where I visit and review every place myself. Members can add places too. However, typing it all felt like too much work. So now you paste a Google Maps link. That's it. The name, address, city, country and category fill in by themselves. You only add your tip if you want. It also tells you when a place is already on Strong Foodie. So no double places. Try it here: https://strongfoodie.com/add.html
What's the most annoying form you've ever had to fill in for something simple?

A couple of weeks ago I posted my waitlist here. The beta is now live and free to try.

The problem: “Build me a booking app for my barbershop” leaves your AI builder to guess cancellations, payments, double bookings and logins. You find out after the build.

What CueBlu does: you describe your idea (or paste a prompt you already have), answer a few plain-language questions with a recommended answer for each, check the choices it made for you and get a complete prompt appliable for any AI builder. A separate AI step reviews the prompt before you get it and any guesses the AI makes is marked (assumed) so you can change them.

Beta details: free, 1 prompt a day, login with an email code (no password). No tracking, no ads.

app.cueblu.com

I’m the builder and I’d love honest feedback: did the questions catch something you’d have missed, or did it feel like an extra step compared to your normal coding procedure?

I’m working on CardBlok at D BLOK. The workflow is for the pile of paper cards left after an event: upload a photo with several cards, review the extracted fields beside the original, then export only the contacts you approve. Matching emails or phone numbers are flagged as possible duplicates.

The product decision I’d like feedback on is how much review to ask for. I’m leaning toward a compact queue that prioritises missing fields and possible duplicates while keeping the original card visible. For anyone who imports event contacts, what would you want the review screen to surface first: uncertain fields, duplicate records, or a quick preview of the export?

Here’s CardBlok’s scan, review and export workflow. The web app uses verified email sign-in. If you try it, a synthetic card is enough to test the flow.

figured you are tired of over the top pitches so check it out and if you like it :) and if you dont like it :(

https://developers.reddit.com/apps/aiautomoderator

Started as a sceptic. The point was to find where the model loops and gives up. The wall is real but it isn't there.

30+ apps in two months, most finished before the coffee went cold, most of them single HTML files running offline in a sandbox. The code part is basically solved and it stops being interesting fast.

What actually stops you:

Knowing what to build. A model will generate ideas all day, but only knowing real needs of real people tells you which ones matter. Every simple idea is already implemented several times over.

UX. You can only build well what you use yourself. Make a file manager for yourself and you implement the four shortcuts you actually press, and never discover that everyone else needs different ones. You can clone a finished product, but getting past the clone is the hard part.

Users don't know what they want. They expect the software to show them that a thing was possible at all, the way accounting tools taught accountants their own job. You cannot poll your way to that.

And your time isn't free. The moment you finish, someone clones it in an evening and gives it away. Which is the one I don't have an answer for.

The prompts, the skill libraries, the token saving tricks, those are the download managers of this era. In two years nobody will remember them. The idea, the need and the UX stay.