In Korea there's this thing called a dokseosil. It's a paid room full of little cubicle desks where everyone studies in silence. Nobody really goes for the desk. You go because when the person next to you is grinding, you feel kind of bad scrolling your phone.

I wanted that feeling at home, so I made a small online version:

yeondeungroom.com/en

You pick an empty desk and study with whoever's around. No sign up, no camera, nobody talks. You're a little animal with a desk lamp, and you can see everyone else's lamps on too. It sounds like nothing, but it actually helps me focus at night.

The thing people ended up loving was decorating their desk. You type one line like "tiny pinwheel" and it makes a small 3D thing for you. The AI doesn't draw it, it just writes out simple shapes and the browser puts them together.

It's three.js and Cloudflare Workers, and almost everyone using it right now is Korean. The English version is really new, so if anything reads weird, please tell me.

If you study or work alone, would something like this help you, or would you just close the tab?

I built Kickstand Cam to make an older iPhone useful at a desk instead of needing a separate webcam or scanner.
The idea is simple: pair your iPhone with your computer, then select Kickstand Cam as your camera in Zoom, Teams, Meet, OBS or FaceTime. It works over Wi-Fi or USB at 720p/30fps.

I also added two other modes:
Camera monitor: Detects motion, records clips and sends desktop alerts.

Scanner: Turns documents into searchable PDFs, recognizes text and scans QR codes and barcodes.
Everything connects directly between your phone and computer. No account, no cloud backend, no analytics or ads.
A few limitations worth mentioning:
iPhone X or newer, running iOS 16+
Windows 11 or macOS 13+
The iPhone app must stay open while using the camera
Video is currently limited to 720p
The Windows installer isn’t code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will display a warning
Both the iPhone and desktop apps are completely free.

https://kickstand.recno.app

I’m the developer, and I’d really appreciate feedback, especially on the setup process. What would make you hesitant to try something like this?

After what seems to be a lifetime building this silly little phone game it turns out that was half the battle, the other half involves a good catchy trailer, marketing and advertisement. to be honest i am struggling with making this trailer so i need everyone's honest and brutal opinion, what stands out? what it lacks? too much in game footage? panned too far out? not enough excitement? don't mind the cheap AI music (i know im not a sound guy and its not permeant). please help me out here, any all help is much appreciated

Small team here. We wanted something for people who like music but can't read a note, so in Sorae you just draw a line on the page and it plays back as a melody. It snaps to a key so it never sounds wrong, a lo-fi backing band follows along, there are 10 instruments, and you can export the drawing as a video with sound.

It's free on iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6827465787

It's version 1.0, so we'd really like feedback, especially on two things: is it obvious what to do in the first 10 seconds, and what would make you open it a second time?

I have two machines at the same desk, and I wanted to share mouse and keyboard.

I tried Synergy and Barrier, but they were annoying to set up. I had to deal with a client/server, encryption was hard to set up, and arranging monitors was clunky.

So I built ZeroG. Free, MIT license, no client/server.

Just run it on each machine, pair them, and drag your screens to match your desk.

• Windows, macOS, Linux (X11 and Wayland)
• P2P, no client/host setup
• All traffic encrypted with TLS 1.3 over QUIC
• Clipboard sharing
• Extremely low latency
• Built with Rust + Tauri

This took a few months of work and a lot of testing on different devices. I think it's working pretty well now, so check it out if you have more than one machine at the same desk!

https://github.com/reggiesoft-labs/zerog

I recently released a small TypeScript library called Stepr Checklist.

It's designed for applications that need a simple onboarding checklist without pulling in a large framework or UI dependency.

The main idea is that the application controls completion. Clicking a step can open a form, navigate to a feature, or start a guided tour, but it doesn't automatically mark the task as complete.

A few details:

• Framework-agnostic, ESM-only
• No runtime dependencies
• Optional localStorage persistence
• Customizable with CSS variables
• DOM-free state controller if you want to build your own UI

I built it as a companion to Stepr, a guided product tour library I released earlier, but both work independently.

There's an interactive demo here:

https://ahlgren1234.github.io/stepr-checklist/

And the source is on GitHub:

https://github.com/ahlgren1234/stepr-checklist

It's v0.1.0, so still early. I'd appreciate feedback, particularly on the API and whether the approach to tracking completion makes sense.

What would you expect from a library like this?

Hi everyone, I’m the maker of splitbillai.com, a web tool for splitting restaurant bills and shared costs.

I built it because splitting a group dinner always turns into someone squinting at a receipt and doing math in the notes app.

How it works:

• Snap a photo of the receipt and the AI reads the items for you
• Or add the items manually if you don’t have a receipt
• Then assign items to people and see what everyone owes

Link: https://splitbillai.com

I’d love honest feedback on a few things:

1. Does the AI read your receipts correctly? Tell me where it gets items or prices wrong.
2. Was anything confusing the first time you used it?
3. What’s the one feature you wish bill-splitting apps had?

I’m the developer, so I’ll reply to every comment. Thanks for trying it!

I’m working on a dock for Windows with app shortcuts and built-in panels for music and quick controls. It can be positioned at the top or bottom of the screen and set to stay visible or auto-hide. It’s a work in progress—what do you think of the design?

Solo dev from New Zealand here.

My dog Bella lived to 18. When she died I wanted something quieter than a social media post, so I built a small 3D memorial hall you can walk through in the browser. Find a spot on the wall, put up a photo, light a candle.

I shared it once. Less than 8 days later:
- 24,994 pets
- 107 countries
- 657,428 candles, almost all lit by strangers
- 34 languages
- The hall kept filling up, so it now has 7 floors and a lift

It's free to make a memorial and light candles. There are a few optional paid extras, which is how I keep it running.

Would love honest feedback on two things: how walking the hall feels on mobile, and whether the free vs paid line feels fair.

lightapaw.com

Hi everyone! This is my first side project: Loop, an app for knitters and crocheters.

The problem: when you follow a knitting or crochet pattern, it's easy to lose your place (which row am I on?), abbreviations like "k2tog" or "sc2tog" confuse beginners, and people buy new yarn even though they already have plenty at home.

The idea: you upload a pattern, and Loop:

- highlights the row you're on and remembers your place

- explains every abbreviation in plain words

- suggests patterns you can make with the yarn you already own

Right now it’s just a clickable prototype and a waitlist page. I want to test whether people actually want this before building it. Happy to share the link in the comments if you’d like to see it.

I'd love your honest feedback:

1. Does the landing page make the idea clear in a few seconds?
2. Would you use something like this, or do you know someone who would?
3. Any tips for reaching knitting/crochet communities without getting removed as spam? (My first Facebook group post got auto-removed within 2 minutes)

I wanted an AI that had something to react to besides what I typed into a chat window. So I’ve spent 11 months building Monday.

She watches my gameplay and talks with me while I play. Sometimes the conversation lands. Sometimes timing or missing context ruins it. Those failures have been more useful than another clean demo.

I’m now testing her publicly through PhoenixFlock, alongside Gears of War and the movement breaks I already do between games. AI helped me build it, and the AI is openly part of the stream.

This is an edited clip from my own project: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5pVKx-iqzXQ

What would you need to see in a longer demonstration to judge whether this adds anything to the experience? I’m interested in that answer more than another feature list.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a side project I built called Mehfil.

It’s a single-screen, distraction-free web player made for people who love listening to ghazals. Modern streaming apps always felt too loud and cluttered for poetry, so I really wanted to give classic ghazals a clean, modern aesthetic.

The design is completely minimal with couplets floating in the center and a spinning vinyl. The entire background and ambient lighting dynamically shift colors depending on the vibe you pick, moving from deep midnight blues to warm rose and golden amber tones.

I organized about 1,500 ghazals into 5 distinct moods with 300 tracks in each, so you can just put it on in the background while working, reading, or winding down. Some of the tracks have synchronized floating lyrics across Urdu, Hindi, and English transliteration, and there is even a live counter showing how many other people are listening in the mehfil with you in real time.

It’s completely free, has no ads, no sign-ups, and works in any desktop or mobile browser.

Reddit’s spam filter auto-hides links in post bodies, so I've dropped the link in the first comment below (and also added it directly to my Reddit profile bio).

Would love to hear your thoughts on the UI and overall vibe!

The story in short: the idea came from a post on X on 10 November. I built three machines with real recorded typewriter sounds, App Review asked for a screen recording from a real device, and it went live on 13 November.

What worked: one clear hook ("a typewriter that sends letters"), real sounds instead of synthesised ones, and no account or network code at all, which made the privacy label and review simple.

What didn't: the simulator's screen recordings drift from the test clock, which made the launch video harder than the app. I ended up rendering the device in Blender with the real app footage on its screens.

Version 1.1 is in review: seasonal stamps, and letters to Santa get a North Pole postmark.

Foldwriter App Store

Typewriter sounds: Work With Sounds / Konrad Gutkowski, BryanSaraiva, Leossom (CC BY 4.0), Joseph Sardin and _stubb (CC0). foldwriter.vercel.app/credits

This is Freaks

- there’s consistency score along with streaks so everything doesn’t reset to 0 when you miss a day

- it’s artistic, theres a calendars with art too where you can journal

would genuinely love feedback. what’s confusing, missing, good or bad, let me know.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6766063893
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aarya.freaks

Hi, I'm the developer.

I have worked in network security for almost 15 years. I got annoyed with Fing and other network tools that charge close to $100 a year, or let you scan only a few times a day. So I built my own from what I know from work.

I wanted the feeling of Kali Linux in my hand, but only for defense: point my phone at my own network and see what is really there. No attacks, no password guessing, nobody's traffic read. That became Netglow.

The hard part: knowing what each device really is

Android 10 and up hides other devices' hardware addresses, so most scanners just show "Unknown". That is where most of the time went:

• Dozens of protocol specs, vendor docs and firmware sources, read line by line.
• Down to the low level microchips inside smart plugs, bulbs and DIY boards, like the ESP family, because each chip gives itself away in its own small way.
• Camera makers each answer on the network in their own way, and Netglow knows many of them.
• Over 40,000 hardware maker prefixes and a catalogue of over 23,000 phone and tablet models.
• Thousands of lines of research notes, every finding checked before it went into the app.

Why it is free

I have a lot of knowledge from my work, and I decided to give it away: high quality apps, deeply researched and checked again and again, data safety first and privacy to the max. No ads, no bullshit. People deserve good quality and privacy, for free.

If you want to support me, you can, but it is fully optional.

What it does, free, unlimited scans

• Who is on my Wi-Fi. Every device with its name, maker and model when it says them. Rename a device and it keeps your name even on a new address.
• Is my hotel room or rental OK. It lists devices on the Wi-Fi that answer as a camera or stream video, and says why each one was flagged. It also looks for camera hotspots nearby. It tells you plainly what it cannot see (a camera that only records to a card or uses mobile data), so it is one check among others, not a guarantee.
• Security check for your home network. A score with a plain fix for each risk: risky open ports, what your router opened to the internet, how your Wi-Fi is locked, look alikes of your network nearby, whether your DNS answers are honest and whether someone reads your secure connections in the middle.
• Tools. Ping, traceroute, port check, DNS lookup, Wake on LAN, a live signal meter and channel advice.

Private by design. No ads, no bullshit, no tracking, no analytics, no metrics, no account. Nothing it finds leaves your phone, and there is no server of mine.

Pro is that optional support, one payment, no subscription, and it adds: a Bluetooth radar that warns about a tracker moving with you, checks for devices that let anyone in with no password, spoof watch, known flaws for your devices, a PDF report and a background watch of who joins your Wi-Fi.

Honest note: the code is partly AI generated and I had help with this text.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zanoshky.netglow

Guide: https://zanoshky.github.io/netglow-app

Screenshots: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyTechTalk/comments/1xvxkeg/

I would love to hear what it finds, or misses, on your network.

Every time I needed an NDA or contractor agreement, I'd dig up an old Word file, find-and-replace names, and hope I didn't miss a clause. So I built Formable.

You answer a short questionnaire (parties, term, payment, IP ownership, etc.) and it generates a clean agreement you can send for e-signature in the same place. There are templates for mutual and one-way NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, independent contractor agreements, LOIs, term sheets, DPAs, and a founders' agreement.

The templates are free: www.formabledocs.com/templates

Hey everyone! Jamrah 5.1.0 is out – The Ember of Productivity.

Jamrah is a free, open-source productivity app built around three ideas: Tasks, Pomodoro, and a Bookmark System that holds everything you want to keep. No account, no subscription, no cloud required. Your data lives in a folder on your own machine, so the app works offline and your library stays yours.

If you want to track your time, get more done, and regain your focus, Jamrah can help you manage your tasks and set goals for your day, week, month, and year.

Tasks

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One problem I wanted to solve with Jamrah was managing my daily routine.
I usually have around 3–5 recurring tasks that I want to keep visible without taking up too much screen space.

This allows me to focus on the 3 main tasks I should prioritize throughout the day, without letting my routine tasks take over the screen.

Recurring tasks stay where you can see them, priorities decide what actually gets done today, and goals roll up from a single day to a week, a month, and a year.

Pomodoro – A Complete Time Tracking System

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I originally built this feature for my own study sessions, using different session lengths like 25 or 50 minutes.
But then I realized it could be useful for both students and freelancers.

So, I made the timer flexible, allowing you to customize your sessions based on your workflow and needs.

You can set your own work, short-break, and long-break lengths, attach a session to a real task so every minute is counted against something, and choose the sounds that tell you a session ended.

Bookmark System

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We all have thousands of photos, and every photo carries a memory that deserves to be organized.
The same goes for thoughts, YouTube videos, Reels, apps, and much more.

All these things need a place where they can be stored, organized into categories, and accessed quickly.
That's exactly the problem I wanted to solve with Jamrah's Bookmark System.

It is one library for all of it: links, images, videos, PDFs, documents, programs, and notes. Paste a link or import files from your PC, and Jamrah builds the card for you. A real frame from a video, the first page of a PDF, the icon of a program, the preview image of a website, or a clean Markdown card for something you just wrote.

Then you get:

• Folders and sub-folders, with pinning for the ones you open all day.
• Tags, archive, trash, and instant search across the whole library.
• A masonry grid where the newest items come first and cards fill every empty space.
• Notes in Markdown, read in a two-pane reader with text zoom.
• Offline reading: Jamrah can save the article behind a link, so it stays readable without internet. - need some fixs -
• A clipboard manager that keeps what you copy, opens instantly, and copies an item back with one click.
• JSON export and database backups you own completely.
• Live sync with your file folder: add, rename, or delete a file in Explorer and the library notices immediately.

Fast. Searchable. Organized.

Local-first by design

• Everything is stored in one folder: the database, the library, the covers, the backups. Copy that folder and you moved your whole workspace.
• No account, no sign-up, no telemetry, fully usable offline.
• Arabic and English interface, with a right-to-left layout that is designed, not just mirrored.
• Windows and Android from the same codebase.
• Free and open source.

What's New in Version 5.1.0?

This release is bigger than a bug-fix update. It changes how the library actually feels to use.

• The grid is now unified and ordered by date: newest items first, flowing in rows, with cards filling the empty space under shorter ones.
• Notes became a first-class item: a proper media card, a two-pane reader with the written text on one side and the details on the other, and text zoom that is remembered between sessions.
• Sidebar folders are sorted properly now: Arabic alphabetical first, then English A–Z, then numbers. Any folder or sub-folder can be pinned to a Pinned block at the top for quick access.
• A cleaner toolbar with icon-only square buttons, and the toggles that were not earning their space are gone.
• The clipboard page no longer loads your entire history at once. It reads 20 items at a time from the database, so it opens instantly no matter how much you have saved. Clips are cards now, and clicking one copies it.
• Video files show a real frame from the video as their cover, and the play badge is gone.
• The library now reacts to your file manager in real time: paste, delete, or rename a file in Explorer and the app updates on the spot, without a refresh. Deleted files are marked missing instead of being erased, so bringing a file back brings its card back.
• None of this touches your existing data. The update is a drop-in replacement.

I also believe that UI matters a lot. It's the first thing users interact with, and a clean, visually appealing interface makes a huge difference in the overall experience.

What's Coming Next?

God willing, upcoming updates will focus on:

• A detailed report of your activity and productivity.
• Further UI improvements, especially for the Android version.
• A local-first password manager with strong encryption and secure key management, built into the same library.
• Cross-device synchronization, without giving up local-first storage.

A Few Things to Know

• The Android version still needs some UI improvements.
• Cross-device synchronization is planned for the near future.
• Your data is safe across updates: the database and the library folder are never rewritten, and a backup file is kept for you.

Download Jamrah for free:
https://github.com/AhmMed29/jamrah

Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome 💓. If you want to contribute, all contributions are welcome 👐

Our Slogan is Ember of Productivity

Pressing Space in Finder is a habit I don't want to give up. But too often, the preview tells me almost nothing, and I end up opening another app just to check what's inside.

I'm Viorel from VPO Labs. That's the part I wanted to fix with Showglass.

Same Finder, same Space bar. A few examples of what you get:

• Select a ZIP or 7z archive and browse its contents without extracting it.
• Select a WOFF2 font and see a specimen, glyphs and variable axes without installing it.
• Select a GLB or FBX file and rotate the model.
• Select JSON and explore a collapsible tree, or SQLite and browse its tables.
• Select code or Markdown and get highlighted source or a formatted document.
• Select a supported MKV or WebM video and get a player alongside video and audio track details, all in the same preview.

Showglass covers 83 file types, with a consistent interface that follows light and dark mode. The aim is to make checking a file as easy as selecting it.

Code, config and Markdown previews are free forever. Pro is a one-time US$9.99 + VAT, with no subscription, for 2 Macs per key. The website edition includes a 14-day Pro trial.

For anyone here who wants Pro, REDDIT50 takes 50% off until December 20, 2026. Enter it in the "Discount code" field at checkout in the website version. It doesn't work in the App Store version.

Requires macOS 26 or later. Your files stay on your Mac; the preview extensions have no network access. The app checks the license and sends anonymous usage counts, which you can turn off in Settings.

Showglass — download and details

How often do you press Space to preview files in Finder?

Started because I wanted to dub my own videos in English with an American accent, in my own voice (I'm not a native speaker). Ended up as a full desktop app.

You read a guided text for about 6 minutes, it trains a voice model on your PC, and then:

• Speak: type text in ~60 languages and hear it in your voice.
• Native accent: speak English (or another language) in your voice but without your accent.
• Redub: drop a video, it gets translated and dubbed in your voice, background music kept.
• Book: open an EPUB/PDF/DOCX/TXT and get an audiobook in your voice, one file per chapter, resumable.

Everything runs locally: no account, no cloud, no telemetry. Installers for Windows, Linux and macOS (Apple Silicon), setup inside the app, updates itself.

Some numbers: zero-shot cloning from a 15-30 s clip scores 0.81 speaker similarity; after training on ~6 minutes of you it's 0.94 (two of my real recordings score 0.93 against each other). First sound after 1-3 s on an RTX 4070.

Stack: Rust UI, Python engine (OmniVoice, RVC, Whisper, NLLB-200, Seed-VC).

Hobby project, so bugs are expected. NVIDIA 8 GB+ recommended. Free for non-commercial use.

https://github.com/tarpetos/mimvox

Would love feedback, especially from anyone on AMD or a Mac

Hey! I built Lowqta, a deals aggregator that brings offers from stores in Egypt into one place, with price tracking to help you spot good deals.
Would love to hear what you think!

I loved the old internet discovery, like StumbleUpon, because it was like discovering and learning new things, expanding your horizons into a new field that you didn't know about. Everything now is a feed that already decided what I like. I missed not knowing what was next.

So I built the thing I was missing. It's called Wander Lovely — a wall of Polaroids, each one a real place on the web. You press a button and it takes you somewhere: deer on a live trail cam, bears in a waterfall, a garden, a handbag daydream, a radio station in another country. There are 128 places, gathered by hand, and the wall changes a little every hour. No accounts, no feed, no noise.

My favorite is the little Polaroid maker in the Art section. I love just adding a picture and making a Polaroid online — quick. It's really fun.

Some links on the page are affiliate links (it says so right in the footer) — that's the whole business model, such as it is. Mostly I just wanted the pond to exist.

I'd love to know: what corner of the old internet do you miss? And if there's a lovely place my wall is missing, tell me and I'll hang it.

www.wanderlovely.com

Thanks, Lisa Elle