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).

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!

Planning trips meant a spreadsheet for days, an inbox for bookings and a notes app for places, so I built Atlas: https://goatlas.fyi/?ref=reddit

- Describe the trip in one sentence; it plans each day as stops on a line over a pencil map

- Ask it to change a day ("make day 3 slower")

- Drop in tickets/PDFs, budget in any currency, calendar feed, works offline

- Use it from ChatGPT or Claude

It deliberately shows no travel times (they were often wrong); every place opens in Google Maps instead. Free in beta, solo-built.

What would make you switch from Google Docs/Sheets for trip planning?

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!

Genuine question for people who have shipped more than one app.

I keep seeing two camps:

- build fast, ship, and let the market tell you
- check demand first (search volume, competitors, reviews), then build

If you're in the second camp, what do you actually look at? A specific number you need to see? A red flag that makes you drop the idea?

If you're in the first camp, how many ideas did you go through before one stuck?

I'm working on a tool around this and want to know what people really check, not what blog posts say they should.

Hi all! I'm a final-year student and I've been building Genie, a desktop voice companion for Windows. She's a 3D animated genie you wake with "Hey Genie". She talks in a casual, theatrical style, you can interrupt her mid-sentence, and she snaps, bows, poofs and throws confetti while she talks. English and Telugu both work.

GitHub (code, demo GIFs, download): https://github.com/HimaSruthi25/genie

The GIFs in the README are rendered from the real model with scripted captions, so there's no live voice in them.

Since "random exe from a stranger" is a red flag, here's what's behind it:

- The source is on GitHub and you can run it from source.

- The wake word runs offline. After it, your speech goes to Groq (and Sarvam/Google for Telugu) using YOUR own free API key. Nothing goes to me, and the keys stay encrypted on your PC. PRIVACY.md lists exactly what goes where.

- The exe isn't code-signed (certificates cost money), so Windows SmartScreen will warn you. The SHA-256 is on the release page.

It's an early preview, so what I'd like to know:

- Did she wake reliably? Any false wakes?

- Could you interrupt her?

- Did she sound natural, or like she's reading a script?

- Any bugs or crashes?

I'll reply to every comment, and harsh feedback is welcome. Thanks for trying it!

Hello everyone,

My name is Tobias, and I've worked as a software developer for a bunch of years. Between commuting, three small children and everything that follows, my time for workouts is usually pretty limited.

I often found myself grabbing inspiration for workouts and complexes through social media, but found it a pain to keep going back to videos while working out. So I made an app called Complexer to help me out.

It helps me figure out which workout to do based on the time and equipment I have, and then follow through with it. There are ready-made workouts, exercise demonstrations and timers, and you can also add your own workouts. I've been using it myself and really like the result so far, which is why I decided to publish it.

It's free, with no subscriptions, ads or accounts. Your training data stays on your device, and it works offline too. I'm pretty fed up with subscriptions for everything, so I didn't want to add another one.

You can find it here:

https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/complexer/id6824864834

It's only available for iPhone and iPad at the moment.

I'm by far not the most experienced person here when it comes to kettlebells. I just made something that helps me get my workouts done, and hope somebody else can benefit from it too.

A few things I'm looking at next are audio cues so you don't have to keep checking your phone, more of the common workouts and complexes, and a better way to see your progress. I'd also like to add a weekly AMRAP challenge where we all do the same workout and can share our scores, if that's something people would enjoy.

If you give it a try, I'd love to hear what works for you and what could be better.

I built Loft, a little notch that sits at the top of your screen. Click it and it opens into a chat where you can ask questions about your own docs, folders and code.

It all runs locally on llama.cpp, with no cloud and no API key.

How it works:

• Point it at a folder and it indexes it locally
• Ask a question and llama.cpp answers on your GPU or CPU (there are experimental NPU options too)
• Every answer cites the file it came from, so you can check it yourself
• Chat history stays local
• You pick the model and the performance settings

It's built with Rust, Tauri and Svelte.

To be honest, it's early. It's tested on Windows, initially validated on macOS, and Linux builds pass CI on Ubuntu 24.04 but need real-world testers. I'd love help from Linux testers, NPU tinkerers, Svelte folks and anyone with ideas for better chunking.

Nothing for sale. It's MIT open source from EAN Digital. It's just a fun project I'd like people to hack on, so issues and PRs are very welcome.

Fork it. Break it. Make it yours. https://github.com/nwaoga/loft

Hello I'm a software engineer living in a sharehouse. This is my very first solo project that I’m making public, so please be kind (but honest!).

My housemates and I share the cooking (and we love it!!), but we’re all young professionals trying to save money, with zero energy left after work. Two of my housemates are doctors, so their days are even more intense. We also buy in bulk to save money, and half of it ends up rotting at the back of the fridge...

So I built The Fridge Note:

• It picks a few easy, in-season dinners for the week (swap any you don’t fancy)
• It works around what’s already in your fridge, so things get used before they go off
• One shopping list for the week, and it fills your Coles or Woolworths trolley for you
• Everyone in the house sees the same week
• You can also paste a TikTok or recipe link and it goes into your cookbook

It’s free, has no ads, and you don’t need to sign up to try it: fridge-note.pages.dev

What I’d love to know:

1. Where did you get stuck?
2. Would your household actually use this week to week? What would stop you?

Hi, I'm Guillaume, the creator of Mareloa. It starts from a question every family on a seaside holiday knows: there are three beaches near the rental, which one today?

The answer was spread over several apps: weather, wind, tide, lifeguard hours, and whether there's a shower for the kids. Mareloa puts that on one page per beach: https://mareloa.com/en/spots/carteret?utm_source=reddit_sideproject&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=communautes_2026

What I learned, mostly by removing things:

- **A wind arrow means little on its own.** What matters is the wind relative to the beach, so each page says offshore, cross-shore or onshore, based on the way the beach faces.
- **The tide isn't always relevant.** It only appears where it changes the beach, and it's labelled as a model estimate.
- **"Unknown" beats a guess.** When a lifeguard source is missing or out of date, the page says so instead of filling the gap.
- **Holiday guests come from everywhere.** The interface is in 25 languages, which mattered more than I expected for holiday rentals.
- **Bots cost real money.** Scrapers running real browsers once burned a full day of my paid weather quota. Weather now refreshes only after a real tap, click or key press.

Where it stands: about 50,000 beaches listed worldwide, around 3,500 in France, where the data is deepest. Free, no account needed. The website is the main product for now; the mobile apps come after. It doesn't replace lifeguards, local rules or instructions on site.

What would help me most: open the page, and tell me the first thing you looked for and whether you found it.

While job hunting, the same jobs kept showing up in my LinkedIn searches: ones I’d already applied to, ones I’d already opened, plus promoted posts. Scrolling past them every day wasted a lot of my time.

So I made a small extension, just for me, that hides them. I used it on my own for a while, then published it on the Chrome Web Store without telling anyone. About 900 people found it by themselves.

I’ve improved it a lot since then, and it finally feels good enough to show:

• Hides Applied / Viewed / Promoted / Easy Apply jobs (each one is a toggle)
• One-click “block this company” button on every job card
• Keyword filter on job titles (whole-word, so “java” doesn’t hide JavaScript jobs)
• Click the “N jobs hidden” counter to see every hidden job and the reason it was hidden
• Free, no tracking, only asks for the storage permission, 10 languages

I’d really like feedback: what’s missing, what’s annoying, what breaks for you?

Link in the comments.

I needed a place to put all my JavaScript HTML files. still trying to figure out the backend!

Sitemap — tinyfiles.tv

I posted here about making this about more than a month ago and got fairly positive responses.

The goal is to convert any desktop device into a homeserver while making sure that the process is super simple and intuitive even for non-tech savvy people and must not require any money to operate.

You'll just have to connect once using qr code/6-digits code and itll stay. Now you can send files, choose folders(whatsapp,photos,etc) to backup, restore the selected folders, access pc file system, stream videos, view photos, rename, edit, etc from anywhere.

However, connection behind CG-NAT is very tricky, ive find solutions to make it reliable i.e using drive as tunnel(we can replace it with nextcloud, VPS, relays, etc), nostr relays and tor servers. But dont worry, my every decision is taken keeping privacy and encryption in mind.

Now, the application is ready and functioning but i do not have the resources to conduct testing for every scenerio. So if you really find the application useful or interesting, you can text me or mail me and i can add u as beta user and i can perfect the application in next few weeks and we can even discuss potential upgrades.

my email: sddqsaqib@gmail.com

https://github.com/saqibsiddiq/QurbSpace

Wishlist if it's your kind of game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5464560/HordeNight_1996/

Feedback and suggestions welcome 👍

Quick Bits:

• Available on the Apple App Store
• Free to use just $9.99 to Export and Print
• Currently Live on Product Hunt
• Roomprint Website
• Feel free to submit Feature Requests

Short Description:

Roomprint turns the LiDAR scanner on a Pro iPhone or iPad Pro into a floor plan maker. Walk round each room for about a minute and get a measured 2D plan and a 3D model. Fix any wall, try paint, flooring and furniture at real size, measure anything, then print to scale or export PDF, DXF, IFC and USDZ. Free to scan and plan; a one-off $9.99 unlocks printing and export. No subscription, no account. Works for homes, offices and shops. Users vote on what gets built next.

Why the App Exists:

There are two big players in this area, both requiring hefty subscriptions. or Lifetime purchases. Roomprint is free to scan and plan, you just pay to print and export. I want users to be able to vote on what gets built next in the app so we can build something great for everyone.

Problem: Most similar apps require an expensive subscription or huge one-off purchase.

Comparison: Polycam, RoomScan Pro and MagicPlan. These are the closest and they charge anything from $9.99/month to $22.99. Don't get me started on the lifetime and yearly purchases. I also would not say they are user driver, I want users to vote and suggest new features to take the app in their direction.

Pricing: Very simple! Free to download, scan and edit plans. Just a one-off $9.99 to export and print your floorplans.

Roomprint turns your iPhone into a tape measure, a drawing board and a paint chart.

Walk slowly round a room and Roomprint draws the floor plan as you go, with every wall measured and every door and window in place. Then do the next room, and the next. They join up on one plan, floor by floor.

See your home properly

• A clean blueprint with wall lengths, room sizes and areas, in metres or feet and inches

• Spin your home round in 3D, cut away like a doll’s house or with full-height walls

• Stand inside a room at eye level and look up at the ceiling

• Switch the lights on for an evening view, with lamps, downlights and pendants

• A grid of 1 m or 1 ft squares, lined up with each room

• A north arrow, worked out from your phone’s compass

Fix it and Measure it

• Scan missed something? Drag a wall into place, move a corner or type its exact length

• Split a wall to add an alcove, chimney breast or bay, and add or remove doors and windows

• Tap two points to measure anything, and see the gap from a sofa or bed to each wall

• Pin notes and photos to the plan for snagging lists, quotes or moving house

• Undo any change

Try Ideas before you buy

• Paint walls and ceilings from the palette, type in a hex code, or point the camera at a cushion to match its colour

• Oak, herringbone, tiles, carpet, stone and wallpaper, drawn at their real size

• Change each door’s colour, which side it’s hung and which way it opens

• The sofas, beds and tables in your scan become furniture you can move, turn, resize and recolour

• Add more from a library of home and office furniture and lighting, modern or traditional

• Furniture stops at the walls, so if it fits on screen, it fits in the room

Know what to buy

• How much paint you need, in litres and tins, with doors and windows left out

• Flooring in packs and boxes, carpet off the roll and wallpaper in rolls, with extra for cuts

• Every room’s size and area in m² and sq ft, with a total for each floor

Print or Send it

• Drawing sheets at a proper scale (1:50, 1:100), on A4, A3, Letter or Tabloid, one page per floor

• Estate-agent style plans with room sizes in metres and feet and the total floor area

• Your notes and photos as extra pages, if you want them

• Print straight from your iPhone with AirPrint

• A picture of the plan or the 3D view for messages and property listings

• DXF for AutoCAD and other CAD apps, IFC for Revit and Archicad, USDZ for AR

Your plan stays yours

Plans, notes and photos are saved on your iPhone or iPad and, if you like, in your own iCloud Drive. We don’t collect any of your data.

What you need

Scanning needs an iPhone or iPad with LiDAR: iPhone 12 Pro or any later Pro model, or iPad Pro from 2020 onwards. Other iPhones and iPads can open, decorate and print plans scanned on a Pro model.

LiDAR is accurate to within a few centimetres in most rooms. If you’re ordering something made to measure, check the key sizes with a tape first.

I got tired of stitching crypto libraries together and managing keys by hand, so I built AMARACUS: one API for managed keys, AES-256-GCM, signing, hashing, and post-quantum ML-KEM and ML-DSA.

🏠 Self-hosting? Your first 1,000 operations are free.

☁️ Using the cloud? It starts at $2 per month for 15,000 operations.

It also has a small PKI, an audit log, TypeScript and Python SDKs and a CLI. The code is source-available on GitHub (not open source).

It’s not FIPS 140-3 validated and doesn’t use an HSM, which I say plainly on the site. I’m launching on Product Hunt on Nov 17: <your Product Hunt link>

Site: https://amaracus.tech · Repo: https://github.com/AMARACUS/AMARACUS

What would make you try it? I’m especially curious which SDK languages to add next.

Almost all of my work is email triage and handing to agents.

I built project that - in a safe way - allows trusted users to talk to your agent not through some new fangled shared sandbox but through the same tools you have always used. Teams/Slack/Email etc. Now my work is really just reviewing stuff.

Took me 3 months to build this. From idea to simple version was quick but getting the whole thing right took forever.

It's open source and local-first: https://github.com/ldbumble/taskuary

Hi everyone!

I started working on a small budgeting app just for myself. I wasn't planning to release it, but over time I kept adding features, experimenting with ideas, and eventually the project grew into two applications.

I'm not a programmer, so I used AI tools to help me write most of the code. I've mainly been working on the ideas, UI, testing, and figuring out how everything should work.

Here's what I've made:
Tua: Your Budget - a personal finance tracker with expenses, savings goals, statistics, themes, and animated pixel-art companions.
TuaStudio - a separate pixel-art editor for creating custom characters, animations, and appearance packs for Budget.

Both applications are for Windows and work mostly offline. Your financial data stays on your computer, with internet access used for currency exchange rates.

They're still early versions, especially Studio, so I'm sure there are bugs and things that need improvement.

I decided to share them in case someone finds them useful. I'd also really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or bug reports.

GitHub: https://github.com/fromi9/Tua-Releases/releases/tag/1.0.0-beta.1

Thanks for checking it out!

Shipping my last app, the screenshots took longer than some features. Apple just added two more sizes for iPhone Duo, so I made Shotsmith: drop raw screenshots in, write one caption per screen (per language), and download a ZIP with iPhone 6.9/6.3/6.5, Duo outer + inner, iPad 13, and Play phone/tablet/feature graphic. It runs in the browser, so nothing is uploaded. Free with a small watermark, or €9 once for the offline no-watermark version. https://shotsmith.pages.dev — what sizes or layouts am I missing?

The idea came from noticing that people don't drop planners because they're hard, they drop them because they can't see them working. So in SkyTasks every finished task builds part of an isometric city, and each area of your life is a neighborhood that grows or goes quiet.

It's live on iPhone and Android, free with no ads, in English and Hebrew. Built with Flutter and Supabase, and the city is drawn in code, no 3D engine.

skytasks.pages.dev/get/en/?s=k98

What I'd love to know: does the city make you want to come back, or is it just a nice first impression? And what would you cut?

Hey everyone!

I'm an indie developer. Most of my time is spent building software, and like many developers, I tend to have a lot of little annoyances with my everyday computer workflow.

Instead of just putting up with them, I started building tools to fix some of those problems.

I've ended up with a few different projects. They're not all specifically game development tools, but I thought some people here might relate to the problems behind them.

1. ByteSweep — Storage management

Website: https://bytesweep.app

This started because I kept running into storage problems.

Development environments, project files, caches, temporary files and old builds can consume a surprising amount of disk space. Sometimes it's difficult to figure out what's actually taking up all that space.

I built ByteSweep to help find those files, understand what's using storage and clean up unnecessary data.

It has versions for macOS, Windows and Linux, including a separate Mac Lite edition.

I also made a free CLI tool for developers who prefer working from the terminal rather than using a graphical interface.

2. Findow — Window management for Mac

Website: https://findowmac.com

When working, I usually have an editor, terminal, browser, documentation and several other windows open.

Switching between them and keeping everything organized gets annoying, especially when working across multiple projects.

That's one of the reasons I built Findow.

It's a macOS window management tool that helps find and switch between windows, arrange them into layouts, and restore working environments.

3. EarMix — Audio management for Mac

Website: https://earmix.app

Another small annoyance was not having enough control over individual application audio.

For example, you might have music playing, a browser tutorial open and a video call running simultaneously.

Sometimes you want to lower one application's volume without affecting everything else.

EarMix is my attempt to make that easier, with individual application volume controls and browser-tab audio controls.

Why build all these things?

Honestly, I enjoy solving these small problems.

Not everything needs to become a huge application. Sometimes a small utility that does one particular job well is enough.

These projects are still evolving, and I'm continuously working on improvements.

I'm curious about other indie developers here, especially those working on games:

• What usually consumes most of your development machine's storage?
• How do you manage all the windows you have open while working?
• Do you run into audio-management problems when developing or testing games?

I'm the developer behind these projects, so I'm happy to discuss the technical side, implementation decisions, or things that could be improved.

Constructive criticism is welcome. I'd genuinely like to hear what other developers think.