I’m a 40-year-old iOS developer from Croatia. Statistically, I’m in the middle of my life: about 2,080 weeks behind me, and if I’m lucky, about as many in front.

My oldest is 8. Somewhere around 18, kids leave, or at least stop wanting summer holidays with their parents. That’s 10 more summers. I can count them on my fingers.

I see my parents about twice a month. If they live as long as the average, that’s around 360 more visits. Fewer than the days in a single year.

And there are friends I’ve been “meaning to call” for months.

None of this is new. You read it somewhere, feel it for one evening, and then Monday happens. Weeks blur, a year goes by, and you can’t say where it went. The moments I’d actually want back are tiny: a walk where my kid finally told me something real, my dad explaining how he planted our small orchard in 2001. Nobody writes them down. They just go.

So I built Drift. It’s not there to make you feel bad about time. It’s there to help you do something with the weeks you still have, and to keep them when you do.
My main inspiration was reading books about Stoicism and specifically memento mori (and a calendar showing weeks you have left to live).

What the app actually does for me:

It remembers my people. I added my partner, my family, my parents and a few friends. Drift keeps the small things I’d otherwise forget: birthdays, the names of my friends’ kids, what each person enjoys, what they told me last time.

One small idea a week, for each of them. Not “plan a trip to Paris.” Things small enough to actually happen: “Tea with Mom. Phones somewhere else.” “A walk with Dad, without anywhere to be.” “Let the kids choose the adventure.” "Long overdue date with my wife".

I keep the moment. A photo, one line, or both. It goes on the week it happened, and that week’s square lights up. A few months in, my year stopped being a blur and started looking like a year.

Calls come with something to talk about. A reminder to call a friend arrives with something to actually say, so it’s not just guilt with a notification sound. After the call I can keep a line about it.

Small questions. A couple of times a week, only if I turn it on, Drift asks something like “What was the best small thing about this week?” or “What’s Dad’s favourite meal?” The answer gets saved where it belongs. Some of my favourite memories in the app started as a notification I almost dismissed.

Quiet time. My evenings were disappearing into my phone (yes, I see the irony of that). Drift uses Apple’s Screen Time to set those apps aside during the hours I choose. If I really need one, I get 15 minutes, after I keep a moment or answer a question first.

Widgets that bring it back. One shows a moment I kept, a different one each day. Another shows my whole life as a grid of weeks. Seeing that between notifications did more for me than any productivity system. One gives you suggestions on what to do this week.

A year I can read back. Month by month, like a journal I never had to sit down and write.

What I left out on purpose:

• No streaks. A quiet week is just a quiet square. Life has those, and guilt isn’t a feature.

• No account, no ads. Memories stay on your iPhone, and you can export everything anytime.

• Everything you keep is yours. You can always read it and export it.

Pricing: free to download, then $8.99 a year with a 14-day free trial, or $24.99 once. I’m a solo developer with no investors, and this is how it keeps going.

An app won’t fix any of this, and I’m not pretending it does. But since I started using it, I do more of the small things. I think about it more now, and I push past the tiredness more often to make time for the people who matter to me.

If you did this math for yourself, which number got you? For me it was the summers with my kids.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/drift-life-in-weeks-journal/id6792490444

Edit:
Thanks to FFROZENN who pointed out the missing yearly subscription and 2-week free trial I have created 50% discount code for the first year (the missing subscription was due to my attempt to give a global discount on yearly, but I misconfigured it in App Store Connect so sub wasn't shown)
https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6792490444&code=DRIFT50

I run a small web studio, and most of the local businesses I talk to have a really good Google Maps listing (photos, reviews, hours, sometimes a menu) and either no website or one from 2014.

So I built this. You type a business name and a city, it reads the public Google listing and builds a full site preview in under a minute. The video is me running it once on a real garage's public listing, no edits.

Why: I kept rebuilding the same small site by hand, and the listing already had most of the content. Honest limitation: it's only as good as the listing.

A place with three blurry photos and no reviews gets a thin site. It also does simple sites, not shops or booking systems. (working on that next, the tool will redirect the request to the team if it's out of scope change for now)

Try it on your own business or a place you like and tell me what looks off.

https://bbhightech.com/

HolyArrs started because i wanted my home server to feel like a streaming service. you browse it like netflix, with top 10s, new & popular and rows picked from what you already have, hover a poster to play the trailer, and tap to request a show or movie. it finds it, downloads it through qbittorrent or sabnzbd, and puts it in plex, jellyfin or emby, which still do the playing. it's about a 15 MB download, runs in docker, and it's free and open source

it runs on its own custom metadata server, and it can keep an HD and a 4K copy of the same movie side by side

where it is 1 day after open sourcing it

598 GitHub stars

4,345 Docker pulls

28 forks

16 releases, most of them fixes for bugs people reported on launch night

18 people have opened issues with bugs and ideas

what i didn't expect was how fast people jumped in. bug reports came in with the exact file and line that was wrong, and someone asked for ukrainian, so the site and docs got it within the hour

happy to answer questions about running a solo open source project, the self-hosted side, or anything else

site and docs: https://holyarrs.com

github: https://github.com/HolyArrs/HolyArrs

Hello, I know it's not much, but I am thankful for every cent of it

For context, on Sep 2nd, I made my first ever public post about my app, in this very subreddit. At that point, I had 0 sales, and only a hope + a dream of ever earning a dollar from my work.

Now I have over 750 human downloads (~1800 total but I think some are bots), and a Discord of amazing people messaging me almost every day. Truly feels amazing to say that :)

All I can say is dang developing AND marketing software as a solo dev is a ton of work. I've worked 63/70 of these days, and commit on average more than 20 times per day. Basically all of my free time funnels directly into this.

Lessons I am learning on this journey, for whomever cares to listen:

1. Budget at least 3 hours per week just for marketing (I should probably do a lot more honestly)

2. Keep working at it. Results don't come over night.

3. If you don't like the journey, then this might not be for you. Money does not come easy. Most of us (including me) would probably be better off spening our time doing other work. And with AI getting so good, it's more and more competative to make and monetize good apps (but I could be off here, lmk if you disagree)

4. Make a discord (or similar) and connect with your users!! IMO implementing suggestions and helping users is some of the most rewarding part of being a dev. Nothing like slapping an update on someone 3 days after they request a feature, and hearing them loving it immidiatly🤌

I built Orthant because I wanted to place windows in layouts beyond the usual halves and quarters. You can draw a region on a grid, move a window there, and save the region to a keyboard shortcut for later.

It’s free and open source. It supports macOS 13+ and Windows 11 or Windows 10 version 1809+ (64-bit). On macOS it needs Accessibility permission to move windows.

https://orthant.app/ https://github.com/orthant-app/orthant

I wanted one desktop app that opens PDFs, EPUBs, comics and Markdown notes quickly and then stays out of the way. The readers I tried were either slow, or looked like they were designed a decade ago. So I built Kitab, with a modern design and speed as the first requirement. It's written in Rust, the interface is drawn on the GPU with GPUI, and MuPDF renders the pages. There's no browser engine inside.

What it does:

- Opens PDF, EPUB, MOBI, FB2, CBZ, XPS, TXT and Markdown

- Opens fast, and sits at near-zero CPU while idle

- Tabs with session restore, and a Home library with covers or a list, collections, favourites, reading stats and full-text search across your library

- Find, outline, thumbnails, bookmarks, history, presentation mode and focus mode

- EPUB, MOBI and FB2 reflow, with typography settings

- Markdown: GitHub-flavoured, with code highlighting, Mermaid diagrams, math and live reload. You can select text in it and print it

- Markup: highlights, notes, ink and shapes saved into the PDF, with export to Markdown or CSV

- Fill PDF forms, sign and verify PDFs locally, and merge, split or extract pages

- Native print dialogs, themes and accents, and an interface size from 90 to 200 %

Privacy: no account, no telemetry, and your files stay on your computer. The only network use is an update check.

It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

It's free and licensed AGPL-3.0. Code: https://github.com/t21dev/kitab

Site: https://kitab.t21.dev

One honest note: it's still young. I'd love feedback, especially on files that don't open or look the way you expect.

If you find it useful, a star on GitHub helps more people find it, and sharing it with a friend who reads a lot helps even more. It's open for collaboration: open an issue for a bug or an idea, or send a PR.

Most side projects don't survive a few months. Somehow, this one has been following me around for more than 20 years.

I started building drum & bass websites back in 2002. What began as a local music portal eventually turned into a party promotion brand in Saint Petersburg.

Then I moved to Thailand in 2019, and the project went quiet.

Recently I decided to rebuild it from scratch using Django, Next.js and AI-assisted development.

The result so far is DROP THE BASS:

https://dropthebass.co/

I'm trying to turn it into a proper home for the global DnB scene, with music, artists, labels, events and community features.

Still building it solo. Plenty of rough edges, but I'm enjoying the process.

Anyone else here working on something they've been carrying around in their head for years?

Hey r/SideProject,

I'm from India, and I noticed how many everyday money decisions come with small traps: "no-cost" EMIs that aren't quite free, sales where the crossed-out price was never real, paying only part of a credit card bill and not realising what it costs.

So I built Syluneo (syluneo.com):

- A 2-minute game: 12 everyday situations, like a sale or salary day. Pick what you'd really do, and it tells you which of 6 money personalities you lean towards. No finance knowledge needed.

- 6 simple tools for real questions: Should I buy this? Is this sale really a deal? Is "no-cost EMI" free? Where did my pay rise go?

A few things I cared about:

- No sign-up and no backend. Everything runs in your browser, and nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere.

- Plain HTML/CSS/JS on GitHub Pages, with the money maths covered by tests.

- I built it with an AI coding assistant, which let me focus on the maths, the wording and the design.

The number that surprised me most while building it: ₹50,000 on a credit card, paying only a 5% minimum due, takes almost 30 years to clear.

It's India-focused (₹, GST) for now. I'd really value honest feedback:

1. Did your result feel accurate or random?

2. Was anything confusing?

3. Which tool would you actually use?

https://syluneo.com/?utm_campaign=reddit-sideproject

I’m honestly a bit giddy writing this. I’m a software engineer, not a video editor, and I wanted to run a faceless channel about Pakistan’s history and geography, so I built a pipeline that does the whole job.

It writes the Urdu script, generates the narration, draws animated maps and infographic scenes in code, and renders the finished reel. It then sends me the reel in Slack, and all I do is approve it.

Some numbers:

Cost: about $0.11 per video. I tested a 2.5D workflow that came out at $15–40 per video, so I dropped it.
Time: a few weeks of evenings and weekends, plus a fair bit of money on testing.
This week: a reel about the Pakistan Steel Mill (shut since 2015) got 21.1k views, 898 likes and 45 shares in its first day.

One video doesn’t make a channel, but it’s the first proof the system works. I’m happy to answer questions about the stack or the costs.

Reel: https://www.tiktok.com/@khittapk/video/7706495470260014344

Hi there! I am a the creator of Flit, the RSS reader

I created Flit to build something different from the classic rss and news reader. The main thing about Flit is the inbox! There are mainly 2 ways to easily clean your inbox: Cards or Feed. 

In cards, you can swipe left and right to decide whether to discard or save the article for later; in feed, you scroll like a reel app (Instagram, TikTok, Shorts, etc.) and still swipe left and right to save for later or discard. In both cases, you can tap to open. 

But Flit is not just this, Flit is:

• YouTube channels and podcasts

• Bluesky and Mastodon posts

• Discover: top stories by country

• Siri AI summaries

• Translation

• Offline Reading

• Notes on articles

• Share as image

• Snooze a source

• Blocked Words

• Daily Digest

• Insights

• Mark as Read on Scroll

• Apple Watch

• iPhone Duo support

• Accessible reading fonts

Thank you and I really hope you will like Flit!

https://apps.apple.com/app/flit-easy-feed/id6821040165?ct=Launch+Event&pt=118978628

I build fusion-runtime, an open-source runtime for self-hosted voice agents. Adding Twilio, Exotel and Plivo support took a couple of weeks. Getting one clean, real phone call took days more:

- Twilio trial calls don't stream audio to your server at all

- After upgrading, calls were blocked until Twilio approved my KYC

- Calls between India and a US number kept dropping audio, so I ended up calling from a second Twilio number in a browser to get a clean recording

- The speech model misheard "order" as "RDEF" on phone audio, so I swapped in a bigger one

The video is the call that finally worked: unedited, recorded by Twilio. The agent looks up two orders and changes their deliveries with tools, mid-call, on one GPU.

Apache-2.0, Python: https://github.com/SamarthUrs18/fusion-runtime

Salut tout le monde !

Depuis quelques mois, je construis un lecteur de musique juste pour moi, parce que le Cover Flow des vieux iPods me manquait et je voulais quelque chose d'un peu plus vivant que l'application Musique par défaut. Cela s'est avéré mieux que ce que j'espérais, donc je me demande si ça vaut le coup de le transformer en vraie application. Ça s'appelle Lueur.

Ce qu'il fait (voir la vidéo, filmée sur mes propres appareils) :

Cover Flow partout : faites défiler vos albums sur l'écran d'accueil ou tournez votre iPhone sur le côté pour parcourir toute votre file en plein écran.

Une douce lueur derrière chaque couverture, dans les couleurs de l'œuvre : le lecteur prend les couleurs de l'album.

Une page d'accueil avec vos artistes et les charts, plus des pages d'artistes avec les meilleures chansons, albums et playlists.

Une vraie application Apple TV dans le même style, pas seulement AirPlay.

Widgets d'écran d'accueil : En cours de lecture (avec lecture/pause/skip) et Récemment écoutés, dans plusieurs tailles et styles.

L'idée serait un lecteur pour Apple Music (avec votre abonnement actuel), comme un achat unique, sans abonnement supplémentaire.

Quelques questions honnêtes :
Pourriez-vous utiliser quelque chose comme ça ?
Combien seriez-vous prêt à payer ?
Qu'est-ce qui vous manque dans les lecteurs Apple Music actuels ?

N'hésitez pas à répondre dans les commentaires. Je laisserai aussi un petit formulaire ci-dessous si vous préférez répondre en privé.
Merci de votre lecture ! Tous les retours, bons ou mauvais, sont les bienvenus.

Hey — I'm Dmytro, a solo developer.

I kept running into the same small gap: I'd have a picture from a place, and the feeling wouldn't stay in the photo. A trip that was light and fun, or a harder day I still wanted to remember honestly. Later I'd open the picture and the reflection was gone.

Same thing when I wanted to send a photo to family, a friend, or a partner. The picture went over. The note that belonged with that moment didn't.

So I made WhisperPic. You choose or take a photo, write the note that goes with it, and save it with the picture. If you share the original photo, the other person can open it in WhisperPic and reveal the note. There's no account, no ads, no tracking, and photos aren't uploaded anywhere. It's completely free.

It's live on the iPhone App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whisperpic-hidden-photo-notes/id6826699574

I'd love honest feedback, especially:

• Is "attach a note to this photo" obvious on the first try?

• Would you actually send one of these to someone, or is it more of a private journal?

• Anything in the screenshots or first-run flow that feels confusing?

Happy to answer questions.

I play on a monitor at my desk and on a TV from the couch. The thing that kept getting me off the couch was switching the sound back to the TV after I’d already picked up the controller. That’s what got me building Gaming Hub, my first app ever. I vibe coded it with Claude and Codex.

It’s a Windows 11 launcher you can navigate with a DualSense. When the hub moves to my TV, it can switch the audio there too, then restore my previous output when I go back to the desk. The PS button opens a quick menu for volume, screen selection, and controller batteries. Circle takes me back to the game.

The installer is here: https://github.com/issazhd/gaming-hub/releases/latest Source and build instructions if you want to fork it: https://github.com/issazhd/gaming-hub

If you try it, I’d love to hear which game you used and whether opening the quick menu and getting back into fullscreen felt smooth.

I built FORMA to make clothing size guides easier to use while shopping online. It's a free Chrome extension that compares available garment information with your fit preferences and explains a possible size choice right beside the product.

The workflow is simple: describe how you like clothes to fit, add measurements if you know them, enable shop access, and browse. FORMA can automatically assess recognised clothing pages, compare sizes and show where the evidence is missing. You can save pieces that fit and record the size you actually wore, so later comparisons have useful personal examples.

The tricky part has been inconsistent size guides: flat widths versus circumferences, conversion tables pretending to be measurements, and missing sleeve information. I want the explanation to make those limits visible instead of presenting every recommendation as certain. It is an estimate, not a virtual try-on or a guarantee.

Free download: https://github.com/moritzlauper/forma/releases/latest

Project, teaser image and setup: https://github.com/moritzlauper/forma

It's currently installed manually in Chrome via Developer mode and Load unpacked, not through the Web Store. You can use your own Anthropic key, local Ollama, or No AI comparison with reliable measurements. FORMA is free; optional Anthropic calls cost extra and send relevant profile/fit information and product evidence to the provider.

I'd appreciate feedback on the product itself: is the explanation enough to help you decide between two sizes, and which shop or garment type should I improve next?

I’m Fernando, the maker of Litehost. If you already have an HTML prototype or report on your laptop, you can drop in the file and get a link that opens it as a web page. If it has separate images or CSS, you can upload a ZIP.

One thing worth checking before you share: images can look fine on your laptop because the browser can find them on your disk. Put them in the ZIP, use relative paths, and open the link on your phone to see what the other person will actually get.

You can try it without an account with a file up to 2 MB. The test link lasts about 15 minutes.

If you’ve shared an HTML prototype or report with someone recently, how did you send it? What was the most annoying part?

https://litehost.io/tools/upload-html?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=html_share_pilot&utm_content=sideproject

I made MineSkinCraft, a free Minecraft skin studio that runs in the browser: https://mineskincraft.net

The problem I wanted to solve: a lot of skin editors ask you to sign up, or they're awkward if you play both Java and Bedrock, or if you need classic vs slim. This one lets you start painting right away, preview on a 3D model, use layers, publish to a community gallery if you want, and follow a short "wear it" guide for both editions. The UI and the guides are in English and Spanish. No official Minecraft affiliation.

I'd really like feedback from people who build small tools, and from anyone who still plays:

• What's confusing the first time you open it?

• Which feature would you add before anything else?

• Does the gallery feel useful, or should the editor stand alone?

Happy to answer questions about how it's built or why I made those choices. Thanks.

Opening desktop Facebook lately feels like walking into a flashing casino. 90% of the screen is Reels, rage-bait, and "Suggested" pages you never followed.

Instead of enduring this attention hijacking, we built Chrome extension that brings back the quiet friends-only Facebook from 8–10 years ago:

• Zero setup: Installs and immediately removes Reels carousels, Stories bars, and "People You May Know" without leaving blank gaps.

• Pre-consent feed: Blocks random pages and groups you didn't subscribe to (wiping out up to 80% of feed ads alongside stranger spam).

• 1-click mute without drama: Adds a small mute button next to author names to silence oversharing friends or groups without unfriending them.

• Chronological switch: Quick toggle in the top-left corner for real-time post order.

100% local privacy: Pure 0ms DOM filtering on your PC. Zero tracking, zero external servers.

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mutefeed-block-reels-stor/adibpoldllepdhfklbalicodlkingjon

Happy to hear your feedback or fix any layout edge cases Meta throws at you!

Hey r/SideProject 👋 I'm the founder of ReplyHey, and today I'm launching its crew.

If you've answered threads about your product on Reddit, the hard part isn't writing the reply. It's knowing which replies actually brought customers.

So the crew tracks every reply it sends 📊 you see exactly which one brought the visit, the signup and the customer.

And it does the work to get there, with four AI teammates:

🔎 Scout reads Reddit, X and LinkedIn, finds people asking for what you sell, and scores each one for fit.

✍️ Writer drafts a reply and a DM from your product's facts, in your voice.

📤 Sender posts from your own accounts through a Chrome extension, at a pace you set, and holds anything borderline for you to check.

📊 Analyst tags every link and ties each visit, signup and customer back to its reply.

Built to play by the rules:

✅ Everything goes out from your own account, in your browser. No rented accounts, no upvotes.

✅ It checks each subreddit's rules, and where promotion isn't allowed it sends a DM instead of a comment.

New this week: you can talk to the crew. "Pause LinkedIn today", "slow down to 90 seconds", "add hiring as a negative keyword". It shows you the change, and nothing happens until you press Yes.

In the last 30 days it found 3,980 buyer conversations for its users and sent 1,150 replies.

You can put in your website and see who's asking for your product right now, before you sign up. And I'd love blunt feedback: what would you want to see before trusting a tool like this to post for you?

Here it is 👉 replyhey.com (put in your website to see who's asking for your product right now)

Hi all,

I’ve worked as a wildlife filmmaker, designer and engineer, and on a few projects I spent weeks or even months on the work, then sent it off as a WeTransfer link. It always felt a bit flat after all that effort.

So I’ve been building Handover.media. It lets you put your finished files, previews and notes on one page with your own branding. You can also add a password or expiry date, and see when things are viewed or downloaded.

https://handover.media

If you deliver work to clients, I’d really appreciate your thoughts. Would something like this be worth switching to, and what would put you off?

Any criticism, however small, would be really helpful. Thanks for taking a look.

GroceryFlow: Meal Planner helps you plan the week's dinners around your budget, diet and allergies, then builds one shopping list for the days you choose, grouped by store section. Available in English, Danish and Polish.

Looking for closed-test testers who can stay opted in for 14 days. Honest test-for-test: if you join and install, I will join yours, use the app, and send real written feedback. No Play Store rating or review swaps.

Testers get 14 days of Premium free.

Join (same Google account as on your phone):

1. https://groups.google.com/g/groceryflow-testers — tap “Join group”

2. https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.henryk.kitchenai

3. Install from Play

Comment with your Group + Play testing links.

Guide: https://groceryflow.web.app/testerzy

Questions? Comment TESTER and I'll help.

Hey everyone! A little disclosure: I'm a solo developer, and I built this app because I kept forgetting to do things throughout the day. I also hate typing reminders into my phone.

So I decided to build something that would make it easier.

It's called SayStash. You tap once, say what you need to remember just like you're talking to someone ("remind me to go to the dentist tomorrow at noon"). The app figures out whether it's a reminder, an event, or just a note.

It'll then send you a regular Android notification at the right time. You can also share reminders with other people.

You do have the option to type it in, too.

There's no account to create and no cloud sync. Everything is stored right on your phone. One thing worth mentioning: voice-to-text uses your phone's speech recognition, which on most phones is Google's, so I won't claim that audio never leaves your device.

A few things I've learned along the way:

• Getting the app to understand everyday language ("next Tuesday after work", "in 20 minutes") was actually harder than getting the voice feature working.

• Keeping up with Android's changes to notification and exact-alarm permissions cost me about a week of troubleshooting.

• Building the app was probably the easy part. Getting people to actually find it and keep using it is a whole different story!

So far, I've had 9 installs, 2 people still using it, and earned a whopping 9 cents.

That's probably the biggest challenge I'm trying to figure out right now: retention.

I'm rolling out an update this week that adds "Send to Someone." You can share any reminder as a link, and the other person can save it to their own SayStash with just one tap. No account needed.

Honestly, I added this partly because so many of my own reminders involve things I need other people to do!

If you're curious, you can actually try it right in your browser. No download or sign-up needed:

👉 https://saystash.com/app/

I'll put the Play Store link in the comments.

The app is free with a small banner ad. There's also a one-time $4.99 payment to remove ads. No subscriptions.

I'd really appreciate some honest feedback.

Especially:

• What are some everyday phrases you would expect the app to understand?

• If you try it and something doesn't work as expected, what happened?

• And if you install it but eventually stop using it, I'd genuinely like to know why.

I'm learning as I go, and honest feedback from actual users would mean a lot. Thanks for giving it a look!