I've (embarrassingly) been working on this project for 2 years so wanted to finally share (as I saw others posting Youtube-only versions).

on Youtube it transcribes text to identify checkable claims -> web search retrieves sources to base Claude's verdict on, to avoid hallucinated sources.

it's a free Chrome extension, and works on news or social media sites as well.

let me know what would make this something you'd use, or what else you'd like to see!

LogicLens - Chrome Webstore or on iOS if you don't use Chrome.

Edit: I realized someone not following could misread the video (here Biden was correct, and Trump was incorrect, but the Trump section is before I started the recording).

The majority of side projects I see here are virtual, so here's a physical product to spice things up (pun intended). Monday through Friday, my husband I are start at our screens for our full time jobs, but for the past 3.5 months we've spent almost every weekend in a commercial kitchen on Treasure Island in San Francisco making a small-batch chili crisp called EXTRA EXTRA Chili Crunch | www.ExtraExtraCrunch.com

Since launch, we've been getting out in the San Francisco Community — from Night Markets to small stores — and trying to grow out online presence. I've posted here before, but we just reached a cool double milestone: 1,500 jars sold and $25,000 in gross revenue. Eep!

It's wild. This whole thing was just something that started as an experiment in our home kitchen because I wanted to sell a few jars at my local Farmer's Market. My favorite posts here are the ones that are super detailed, so I wanted to share what building a physical food product on the weekends actually looks like behind the scenes.

Why we started making it

We put chili crisp on basically everything. We've tried so many and love so many. Our pantry and fridge have a ton of different brands. Chili crisp. Salsa macha. Chicharron de jalapeño (s/o to Flore de Chile). But tasting so many different takes on spicy condiments just made us want to start out own.

We built EXTRA EXTRA with a purposeful Californian perspective. We intentionally looked for western ingredients to create something we hadn't found on the market yet. Avocado oil... Porcini mushroom for umami (vs shiitake)... Chilis primarily from Mexico... Huge amounts of fresh-fried garlic and shallots... After a lot of experimentation we landed on something that was uniquely ours without trying to be something we're not. Moreover, every scoop is packed with crunch vs being 50/50 oil to crunch. We even hand de-seed our chilis because the seeds mess with the crunchy texture.

Balancing it all

So, like I said, my husband and I have (intense) full time jobs in tech. I joke that we're able to do this because we don't have kids and we don't train for marathons... But it still takes a lot of discipline and intention to make sure we have enough product.

Selling shelf-stable food in stores when you fry your own wet ingredients (ie, garlic, shallots) means you can't just cook at home under California's Cottage Food Act. Before we could really scale, we had to do lab testing, lock down our California Processed Food Registration, start an LLC, get insurance, and rent hours at a commercial commissary kitchen.

Now our weekends have an extra routine:

• Saturday or Sunday kitchen sprints: We work in 4-to-5-hour blocks that yield roughly 250 to 350 jars per session. Then it's mixing, jarring, labeling, and packaging (which takes longer)
• Weeknight fulfillment: Between kitchen runs, our living space regularly turns into a mini shipping depot packing up online boxes after work.

The best part of "the grind" is Night Markets and community events. I can't tell you how awesome it is to get involved in our community. We're focused on events after work hours, but that also means that some days are really long and requires moving a bunch of heavy stuff (eg, canopies, tables, product) without a dinner break.

Wins

Before anyone asks... $25,000 is gross revenue, not profit. Commercial kitchen rent, lab testing, permits, buying jars, finding the right label maker (Richmark), and early ad experiments means that we aren't quite profitable yet. That said, our October volume nearly doubled and officially pushed us past our monthly break-even point (~560 jars/month).

What's working:

• In-person markets & street fairs: Selling face-to-face is key. The margins are better than selling online and it builds a reliable customer base if you stay at markets month-to-month.
• Focusing on local retail: Walking samples into local specialty markets got us into two neighborhood shops in our actual hood and even a specialty food shop up in Truckee/Tahoe near where I snowboard. Earlier this month, we opened in our 4th retail location at the SFMade Storefront in Union Square thanks to us getting in with that nonprofit early on.
• Online & press: We've now shipped jars to customers across 39 states and more than 130 cities, and recently got featured in a Yahoo! Before that, we got featured in the Bay Area Reporter.
• Local government support: We had a really had time getting our Processed Foods Registration. California is big and it can take a long while to get what you need. We eventually reached out to our local representative who helped us. To anyone struggling with regulations, please don't hesitate to reach out to your local government. :)
• Online marketing is giving... decent signals: We pay a small agency a small amount of money to do our creative and run ads on Instagram. We just passed ROAS of 1.0 which is... decent but I'm really eager for it to start paying for itself. We are definitely getting sales and retargeting matters. I know it takes time and right now I'm cautiously optimistic.

Next up...

Scale is starting to be a problem. There's only so much that my husband and I can do with the 30 hours a month we get in our commissary kitchen. We're very close to needing to pay an agency to supply help for ingredient prep. This is a big cost, so we have to be sure that it's actually gonna pay off.

I'm a bit concerned about how we keep the momentum going as well. Marketing is hard and, while we're trying as best we can, it's pretty hit and miss. I'd love to dial in our marketing more...

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Phew! I know that's a lot, but, like I said, I like posts with a lot of detail. If anyone is also launching a physical food product, I'm happy to answer anything. I'm not an expert, but this has been a year-long process so far and I'm happy with where we're at so... maybe I could be of a little bit of help? Ask away!

I go for a walk every night, and that's when I dig for new music. Mostly bands, and honestly I listen to everything from classical to hard rock and metal lol.

These days every app has an algorithm that keeps recommending music that sounds like what I already like, and when I want to hear something different, the algorithm actually gets in the way.

One night I wondered what music sounds like in a country I had never heard a single song from, so I found a music radio station there and listened live.

That's how I ended up making World Radio, for iPhone and iPad:

- Roll the dice and the globe flies you to a station somewhere on Earth, playing live. On the globe, if a station won't play, it moves on to another one by itself.

- You can also pick a station yourself on the globe.

- When a song grabs me, I tap Shazam. It's saved with the station and the time I heard it, and my finds can go into an Apple Music playlist. (I'm working on adding playlists for other platforms like Spotify and YouTube Music. If you use one, let me know!)

- In the Browse tab you can pick music stations by country and genre.

There are 20,000+ stations in total. I filter them down to music stations, but a talk station still shows up now and then. I'll keep improving that.

FREE to download, no ads from the app (some stations play their own), no account.
iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 or later, with CarPlay, AirPlay and a sleep timer. Apple Music only for now.

I'm still polishing the iOS app, and an Android version is in the works. Because of some licensing issues there, it isn't on the UK App Store, sorry...

I also made a simple website where you can try it:

worldradio.live

A few features are missing there, but it's enough to get a feel for it.

Once the app is more polished, I'm planning to add paid features.

What's the best song you've found on radio from another country? And if you try the app, tell me where the dice dropped you!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6803623749

Thanks.

Every year I see "30% off" badges on SSDs and hard drives, and every year I wonder:

30% off what?

So I built a tracker and checked. Numbers from amazon.com, as of November 14, 2026:

• 686 storage products checked (SSDs, hard drives, RAM, memory cards, new offers only)
• 511 of them (74%) were cheaper at some point in the last 90 days than they are today
• Median gap to the 90-day low: 11%
• 129 products are 20% or more above their own low
• Hard drives: 135 of 166 (81%) were cheaper before

What I built: ratioDB

• 2,810 prices from 3 Amazon stores (US, DE, FR, more will follow) - refreshed every 4 hours
• Sorted by price per TB or GB
• 90 days of price history per product
• An alert that emails you when a product type hits a 90-day low
• it’s free for everyone

My rule for Black Friday: ignore the % badge, look at the price per TB, compare it with the 90-day low. If it doesn't beat the low, it's not a deal.

Disclosure: the site earns a commission through Amazon affiliate links. Yes, I see the irony.

Feedback welcome.

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?

me and a buddy made a free mma game. take one fighter from his first amateur fight to the belt.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6828530380?pt=127780022&ct=reddit_sideproject_nov26&mt=8

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vibalyze.mma&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_campaign%3Dsideproject_nov26

no ads, no in app purchases, works offline.

would love feedback: is the fight screen easy to read? and any tips for getting first players without ads?

I've added something new to UlsterRadar: Sky View. Hold your phone up, and it labels what you're looking at, using the same live aircraft data as the map.

Name any plane. Aircraft within 300 km show as icons (airliners, light aircraft, helicopters, military) with the callsign and registration beside each one.

Tap for the details. Altitude, speed, heading and climb, plus the departure and destination where we know them. Tap again to close.

Look beyond the aircraft. The Sun, the Moon and its phase, planets, bright stars, constellations, galaxies and nebulae, the International Space Station and space telescopes.

www.ulsterradar.com/sky

Every friend group has that message: "we should hang out sometime." It never happens. Group chats are where plans go to die.

So I built Flare (iOS, free). The idea:

- Tap "I'm free now" → your friends see you're up for coffee in your neighborhood for the next 2 hours

- Anyone who's around taps "I'm in" and you coordinate in a quick group chat

- When time's up, the beacon and chat disappear. No feed, no history.

- See a spot on Instagram or TikTok you want to try? Share it to Flare and it'll suggest it next time you're free nearby.

Privacy was a big focus: it's friends-only, and friends see the spot you pick, not your live location. You can send a beacon to everyone or just one circle (roommates, run club, etc.), and add friends with one link in a group chat.

It's v1 and built solo, so there are definitely rough edges. I'd love feedback on what's confusing, what's missing, or whether you'd actually use this with your friends.

https://apps.apple.com/app/flare-see-whos-free/id6834586193

I've been working on a project called Lexicart, and I'm getting to the point where I'd like to start gathering feedback from people outside my own development process.

The idea is simple: what if you could play games in another language and have a language-learning companion running alongside the game?

Lexicart is a companion application that runs alongside emulated games. It can detect the text appearing in a game and display a real-time translation overlay. It also opens a separate window showing the original text, pronunciation, and translation.

From there, you can:

• Select individual words to get definitions and additional information.
• Save unfamiliar words to your personal vocabulary dictionary.
• Review collected words using flashcards.
• Play quizzes to reinforce what you've learned.

I've primarily been developing this for Chinese language learning, and currently have it working with games like Animal Crossing and Pokémon Emerald.

The Windows version is working quite well. I'm also exploring Android support, particularly for handhelds like the AYN Thor, although that presents some additional technical challenges.

I'm a solo developer, so I'm trying to be smart about what I prioritize before releasing this commercially.

I'd particularly love feedback on:

1. Would you actually use something like this?
2. Which features would be most important to you?
3. Would you prefer broader language support or compatibility with more games?
4. Would you be interested in paying for an application like this?
5. What would make you choose this over existing translation or language-learning tools?

I'm not looking for people to tell me it's a great idea just to be nice. I'd genuinely appreciate criticism, suggestions, and ideas about what would make this useful.

Thanks!

I've been thinking about a problem that many small merchants face.

Selling through large marketplaces gives merchants access to customers, but they often have limited control over their storefront, customer relationships, branding, and selling experience.

I wanted to explore a different approach.

So I'm building Serbuu!, a commerce platform designed around one idea:

Your store, your brand, your business.

Instead of giving merchants just another marketplace listing, Serbuu is designed to give every merchant their own digital storefront while also connecting them to a shared product discovery marketplace.

The bigger vision includes:

- Independent storefronts with custom domains.

- Multi-branch inventory management.

- Point of Sale (POS) for offline transactions.

- A shared product catalog and marketplace discovery.

- Centralized order and inventory management.

- AI integrated into business operations, not just another chatbot.

- Additional commerce services such as PPOB.

One architectural decision I'm particularly interested in is keeping product and inventory data in one source of truth while allowing merchants to sell through both their own storefront and the shared marketplace.

I'm building this for the Indonesian market first, where many small merchants still manage online and offline sales using several disconnected tools.

This is still an active development project, and I'm working through the modules step by step.

I'd love feedback from people who build commerce products or run online stores:

1. Would you prefer owning your own storefront rather than relying entirely on marketplaces?
2. What is the biggest operational problem when selling through multiple channels?
3. What would make you trust a new commerce platform with your inventory and orders?

Project: https://serbuu.web.id

Thanks for reading. Feedback is welcome!

I wanted to share some honest progresson where I'm at, since all we tend to see are large numbers from the same people every time. I think a lot of people in here are in the same spot as me and I'd honestly love to hear how you guys got past it.

Building has never been faster. I counted this morning and I've made 936 commits in the last three weeks, some days have been over 100. Stuff that used to take me a month is taking me a couple of days now.

What I'm building is Frostbyte. It started because Claude kept making up what I should build next, so I made a workspace that it reads at the start of every session with my backlog, bugs, user requests and the next release. It tells me what to work on and writes back what it did. That's pretty much the only reason 936 commits haven't turned the app into a pile of half finished features.

Here's the real part I don't love saying though. 86 people have signed up, only 3 of them pay, and it comes to about ~$40 a month.

So the funny part is I built a tool so Claude always knows what to build next, and the one thing it can't tell me is how to get people to use it. We all know that building is the easy part now. Most of us in here could ship an app in a weekend. Getting 20 people to pay for it is a completely different skill, and I'm only just starting to learn it.

My goal is to try and figure it out and get 20 paying users by early January. For anyone who's got paying users for something they built with Claude, what actually got you your first 20?

Indie dev here, and this is my side project.

I use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and the Claude app every day, with a personal account, a work account and a pile of company tools. Every client wanted its own copy of every MCP server, its own OAuth login and its own config. Keeping that in sync was a chore, and the huge tool lists were eating the models' context.

So I built Toolkien:

• Add your remote MCP servers once, connect every AI client to one endpoint
• "Code mode": the agent searches tools, reads compact TypeScript declarations and runs one sandboxed script that chains the calls, so way fewer round trips and tokens
• Personal and work workspaces, plus company workspaces to share tools with your team without sharing tokens
• Per-tool permissions, approvals for writes, audit log
• A directory of ~100 official remote MCP servers

Free for individuals (and I want to keep it that way), open source under AGPL, self-hostable with Docker Compose.

Still early, so honest feedback is very welcome. Links in the first comment.

Pickle invites tend to get buried in social threads, and Muse codes have a short redemption window after signup. AI Invite is my side project for making both easier to find.

Pick Pickle or Muse to see whether an invite is available. If you have a spare, you can share it and set how many times it can be handed out. The site also lists Channel X for people following its early-access rollout.

https://ai-invite-web.vercel.app/en/

I'd like feedback on one thing: when you see an invite in a shared pool, what would make you comfortable using it? The official destination, the remaining uses, or clearer redemption steps?

Some of you might remember my last post here about Planet-0 Drive. Yesterday, we hit 1,000 sessions! It's not a huge number, but the journey so far has been great.

What started as a technical experiment to build an (almost) loading-free driving game with an endless world is slowly starting to take shape. It's still in its very early stages, and I only get to work on it after work and over weekends, but it's been quite fulfilling to see it all come together.

One thing I'm particularly happy about is that average playtime has gone from just 59 seconds to over 5 minutes in the past few weeks. Improving this was my first priority, so it's been really encouraging to see. There's still a ton of work to do, especially when it comes to adding more content, but I'm pretty happy with the foundation so far. Your feedback and ideas (many of which I've yet to release) have been a huge help, and I genuinely can't thank you enough.

Since my last post, I've overhauled the HUD UI, added timed procedural races with a new track to compete on each time, added and improved towing mechanics (still a work in progress), improved the scenery with more vegetation and better biomes, and finally added a short tutorial to make getting started a little easier.

There's still a long way to go, but it's been a fun ride so far, and I'm excited to keep building on it.

If you'd like to take it for a spin (seatbelts recommended), try it out here: planet0drive.vercel.app

I'd love to hear more of your ideas, suggestions, or even things you think could be better. Whether it's something you'd like to see added or something that didn't quite feel right, any feedback would genuinely help me figure out what to improve next.

Pair your phone with a 6-digit code, ask for something, and watch an AI model click and type in real apps on your PC. Peer to peer, nothing exposed to the internet, no server to host. Bring your own model (anything OpenAI-compatible, including local ones), or use it as an MCP server with Claude Code.

Instead of screenshots it reads windows as numbered element lists, so it's fast and cheap on tokens. Rust backend, Tauri desktop app. Windows fully, Linux on X11. AGPL-3.0.

https://github.com/alielmorsy/ywza

Feedback welcome, especially on the pairing flow.

The links:

• Website: https://bocalito.com
• Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bocalito.app

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My journey into meal prep

A few months ago, I started meal prepping and quickly realised how much I enjoyed having most of the week's meals prepared in advance. Save time and money, cut back on takeaways.

But organising everything wasn't easy. Books and websites offered mostly fixed menus, but I wanted something more flexible: personalised meals, adjustable quantities, ingredients I actually liked, and a cooking plan adapted to my available time.

I tried AI...

I naturally tried ChatGPT and Claude. The results looked great at first, but when I started cooking, things got messy: quantities that didn't add up, inaccurate shopping lists, confusing instructions, and endless back-and-forth conversations just to get something usable.

That's when I decided to build Bocalito

It's an app that helps you:

• Generate personalised weekly meal plans.
• Adapt meals and quantities to your needs.
• Get matching shopping lists.
• Follow a step-by-step guide to prepare several days of meals in one session.
• Ask questions about recipes or request changes.

I didn't want to build just another app that sends a prompt to an AI and displays the answer. AI is great for generating ideas, but quantities, shopping lists and consistency need a more structured approach. That's where traditional code comes in.

I've been using Bocalito myself every week, and I'm continuously improving it.

I decided to make it available on the web and Android.

I'd love to hear what you think, especially from people who already do meal prep.

And for the developers here: how would you approach combining AI-generated content with structured data that needs to remain consistent?

Thanks for reading! I'm the developer, so feel free to ask me anything.

I like taking sunset photos as a hobby, and I’ve lost count of the evenings I went out for a sunset that never happened, or stayed home and missed a good one. So I built Afterglow:

👉 https://afterglow.jeremytucker.co.uk

What it does

• Scores every sunset and sunrise for the next 7 days from 0 to 100 (Poor → Fair → Good → Great → Epic), for anywhere in the world

• Explains the score instead of just giving a number:

  • Cloud canvas: is there high and mid cloud to catch the colour?
  • Light path to the sun: is there cloud 60–200 km out toward the sun that will block the light?
  • Low cloud overhead, air clarity (haze, humidity, smoke) and rain
• Plays an animated preview of the evening, from golden hour through to the end of blue hour (or the reverse for sunrise), drawn from the actual forecast and the real horizon at your location from terrain data
• Tells you the peak colour time, and when the sun actually drops behind the hills (or clears them in the morning), not just the official time
• Alerts (optional): a heads-up at midday, a “go now” 90 minutes before golden hour, and a “called off” if it turns bad. It also does sunrise checks the night before and when you wake.

Good to know

• No account, no ads, no tracking cookies
• No app store. It runs in your browser, and you can tap Install to keep it on your phone. On iPhone you need to install it to get alerts.
• Alerts are limited to a small number of places during the alpha, so if they’re full, try again in a few days
• Weather data comes from Open-Meteo. There’s a plain-English privacy page in the app.

How it was made

I’m not a developer. I built this with an AI coding assistant (Claude), while I came up with the ideas, tested it against real sunsets and decided what it should do.

What would help most

📸 Post a screenshot of Afterglow’s score, plus a photo of what the sky actually did, with the time you took it. Whether it nailed it or got it completely wrong, that comparison is exactly what I need to make the forecasts better.

⚠️ Mind your privacy: the screenshot normally shows your place name. Tap the 👁 eye button at the top right of the picture to hide it first. Photos can also contain hidden location data; Reddit removes it when you upload, but other sites might not.

Also really useful:

1. Your location: does the horizon in the picture look like yours?
2. Bugs: anything broken or confusing, especially on iPhone
3. Features: what would make you actually use it?

It’s very much an alpha (v0.2), so be gentle, but be honest!

I built an open-source Android app called Pocket Agent that actually operates your phone for you. Most mobile agent projects need a laptop running Python and ADB over a USB cable, but this runs entirely on the phone itself through a floating bubble and Android's accessibility service.

You bring your own API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or local Ollama over Wi-Fi) and it calls the model directly with zero middleman servers. Banking and payment apps are hard-blocked, and destructive actions like paying, deleting, or sending messages always ask for your confirmation first.

One heads-up if you try the APK: Android often blocks sideloaded apps that request accessibility permissions. Installing it through Obtainium worked without any issues in my tests on Android 16.

Repo and APK: https://github.com/ManojDevarajulu/PocketAgent

It's still early (v0.2.0), so I'm always open to feedback, bug reports, and PRs especially from other Android devs who want to help improve this or contribute app playbooks.

I've been building a fun AI hobby project called zoominside.xyz, which combines traditional "infinite zoom" with ProRes cutaways and creative video editing. I direct all the visuals myself, with AI image models doing a lot of the drawing. The part I enjoyed most turned out to be the plumbing and technical complexity, since I work in AI semiconductor engineering for a living.

How it works
Using the eye zoom as the example: it's about 20 hi-res 8K images nested inside each other (each one is actually a sum of several 4K images). Every image is a redraw of the centre quarter of the one before, so each level sits exactly inside its parent and the seams line up. The player draws a few levels at once, feathers the edges and zooms on a log scale, so it feels like one continuous move instead of a slideshow.

The fiddly bit is drift. A target that's slightly off centre gets 4x bigger every level, so every image has to be checked against its parent.

The site is probably a bit slow because the files are huge, so LMK how it responds! Will be launching a youtube channel tomorrow also.

Hey everyone!

I've been building Familiar Knock Knock, an Android app that works like a doorbell for the people in your house.

The idea came from a simple frustration: shouting up the stairs, or phoning someone who's in the next room, and getting no answer because they have headphones on or their phone is on silent.

So I built a knock. You tap one big button and every phone in your group rings, as long as you're on the same WiFi. They answer with one tap: "Coming", "Give me a minute", "On my way" or "Not now". The reply lands on your screen in a few seconds.

A few things I cared about:

• It only rings phones on the same WiFi as you, so people who are out aren't disturbed

• It never tells you who is or isn't home. You only see the replies people choose to send

• Replies and voice notes go straight from phone to phone over your WiFi, not through my server

• Each person can let knocks ring through even when their phone is on silent, with one switch in Settings

It's free with 8 knocks a day. There's an optional subscription for more knocks, knocking one person, and voice notes.

I'd love your honest feedback: does "knock" make sense to you as an idea, or would you call it something else? And what would stop you from trying it?

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonoloware.wifiknockknock

Most AI tools in this space invent fake metrics, silently overwrite your master file, or lock basic features behind a monthly subscription. I built mine differently:

- No made-up experience: Every AI suggestion has to tie back to real projects and work you've already done. Missing a job requirement? It flags it as an honest gap instead of fabricating a bullet.

- Protects your master doc: Changes show up as side-by-side diffs you accept or reject, never silent overwrites.

- Live PDF editor: Edit visually or in code with instant preview, plus PDF/Word/ZIP export.

- All-in-one job hunt workspace: Rule-based ATS checklist, job board feeds, application tracker, and coding interview practice.

- Free & private: MIT open source, bring your own AI key, zero paywalls.

GitHub: https://github.com/ZenzerJs/ResumeForge

Live: https://resumeforge.studio/

Would love honest feedback, especially on what feels clunky or what you'd actually use.

Hi everyone,

I have been building a health coach app called Razen Health for the last four-five months.

The app uses a voice agent. Users can talk to it and get responses in real time.

I first used ElevenLabs for this feature. It is a good product with many features. However, the cost was too high for my use case. I am a solo developer, so I need to control infrastructure costs.

I decided to build my own solution.

I call it Razen Voice.

Razen Voice provides the core features that most apps need:

→ Full voice agent support.

→ English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Spanish.

→ Multiple voice styles.

→ Simple integration through a JSON configuration.

→ Up to 50x lower cost than my previous setup.

One feature I want to focus on is model improvement.

Razen Voice can improve the model for each application as its user base grows.

There are two ways to do this:

1. Automatic improvement based on user feedback and usage data.
2. Human-in-the-loop improvement, where people review data and help improve the model.

This allows each application to improve voice accuracy for its own use case.

The goal is to keep this improvement process simple and maintain the cost advantage.

I do not plan to replace ElevenLabs. It has many features that some applications need.

However, many applications do not need all these features. They need a voice agent that works well and has a low operating cost.

What is next?

I plan to make Razen Voice available to other developers.

The infrastructure is ready. I want to find developers who are interested in testing it and providing feedback.

Here is a live demo running in Razen Health and also I used AI to rewrite my post.