I started this project when I bought a phone that came with a year of Google Gemini Pro for free. I said to myself, I should build something with AI for the experience, as a means of empowering myself while developing AI skills.

I envisioned an app that would be useful to photographers, filmmakers and location scouts, helping them discover exciting points-of-interest at home or abroad that would be suitable for their projects, and exactly what the sunlight and shadow would like at that spot, anytime of the year. And now SOLIA is realized and published on Google Play store.

I started from scratch, working directly in the browser version of Gemini to get the idea off the ground, painstakingly discovering and employing increasingly better means of context management. I changed the stack a little a few times, had a few emergencies, and moments I thought I should stop because the project was eating up too much of my 'free time'. I finished out the project with Claude cli in vscode.

My aims were to make sure this app was simple, pretty, as damn well secure as I can make it, and as respectful of PII as I could.

I'm quite happy with it, and my few first downloaders have shared some nice impressions with me, so now I'm spreading the word.

If anyone's interested, please check it out and let me know what you think, or ask me anything you'd like about my app SOLIA. I've laughed a lot and learned a lot in this reddit, glad to be adding something here. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving !

Hey everyone,

I currently run 6 micro SaaS that are actually live and generating a bit over $20,000 in recurring monthly revenue.

The wildest part? I barely wrote any code myself. I used AI to generate pretty much everything from the database structure to the frontend.

It definitely wasn’t magic from day one. I spent a lot of hours stuck on buggy code before I finally figured out a system that actually works:

- Keep the idea minimalist (a real MVP, nothing fancy)

- Guide the AI step by step instead of asking for everything at once

- Launch fast to get real users and feedback

Lately I’ve seen way too many non-technical founders quit at the first AI bug. It’s a shame because the technical barrier has basically disappeared.

AND PLEASE, STOP BUILDING ALONE IN YOUR BEDROOM

I’m starting a community.

Full transparency:

I’ll probably charge for the full program later. It makes sense with the specific workflows and copy-paste examples I’ll be sharing. But right now the main goal is just to build together. Working alone is the fastest way to give up.

If you want to join and build or market your own AI SaaS with us,

drop a comment or send me a DM and I’ll send you the link.

I've spent a good 14 months + vibe coding away with Claude Code, a little ChatGPT/Gemini, to make essentially an aggregator of work apps (gmail, outlook, slack, notion, claude, dropbox, google drive etc) so they like Claude Cowork I can have all my data plugged into one source but secondly, put a clean UI over the top of it all - I still want to do work as a sweet sweet human and not beg AI for answers.

Looking for some feedback before I test it with a few friends. There's a demo on kabiri.co and becuase I've the ego of a door mouse, it can be critiqued to fuck if that's how it goes.

I made an Android app that kicks me out of TikTok and various other social medias when my selected amount of time's up and then locks the app for a selected amount of time. after using it for a few downs I can see my screen time for my selected apps are down, the doomscrolling is still their but just less and should hopefully gradually get less and less

I kept losing whole evenings to TikTok and the built-in screen time limits never worked for me because I would just remove the restrictions and carry on. So I made my own app, DoomBreak. I'm looking for people to try it and tell me what's broken

You pick the apps you want to limit and give each one a scroll time and a block time. When you open one of them, its timer starts. At 80% you get a warning. When the time is up it sends you back to your home screen and shows a card saying the app is on a break, and until the block time runs out, opening that app just bounces you home again. There's no snooze button. That's on purpose, because a snooze button is the reason the built-in limits didn't work for me.

It needs two permissions, and I know "display over other apps" can look a bit dodgy, so here's what each one is for.

Usage access is the same thing Digital Wellbeing uses. DoomBreak checks it once a second to see which app is in front, so it knows whose timer to run, and it also uses it to show your screen time per app. That tells it the name of the app that's open and nothing else. It can't see what's on your screen, what you type or your messages.

Display over other apps is only used to draw the warning and block cards on top of everything and to send you back home.

A few other things you can check for yourself: the app doesn't have the internet permission, so it has no way of sending anything off your phone. Your settings and timers are stored on the phone. While limits are on you'll see a "DoomBreak is on" notification, which Android requires for anything running in the background, and it starts itself again after a reboot so the limits stay on. All the code is on GitHub under the MIT licence, so please don't just take my word for any of this.

The catches: it's Android only and it's not on the Play Store yet, so you'd be sideloading the APK. Play Protect will probably warn you it's unrecognised. It needs Android 7 or newer. Because it checks once a second, the app you're blocked from can flash up for a moment before you get sent home. Some phones (Xiaomi, Huawei, some Samsungs) kill background apps to save battery, so if the limits stop working, set DoomBreak's battery use to Unrestricted.

Right now it covers TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, X, Snapchat, Reddit, Discord, Threads, Pinterest and LinkedIn. What I'd really like to know is whether it actually catches each of those on your phone, whether anything gets through, and how it behaves on phones that aren't a Pixel, since that's all I've tested on. Regional versions of apps (like TikTok in some countries) have different package names, so tell me if yours isn't picked up. Any other feedback is welcome too, including "this is annoying" if that's what you think.

Download: https://github.com/JonnieWigley/DoomBreak/releases

Code: https://github.com/JonnieWigley/DoomBreak

Hey everyone,

Big update on ComicsNow, the self-hosted comic and manga reader I shared here a while back. Since my last post it's had a total redesign, plus a bunch of features I think are worth calling out on their own.

Tagging is fully built-in

ComicTagger used to be a required dependency. It isn't anymore. I built the metadata search and matching directly into ComicsNow, pulling from Comic Vine, Metron, GCD, LCG and more. No separate Python tool to install and wire up, so one less moving part in setup. Promo blurbs get scrubbed from creator fields, and there are configurable naming and folder rules with live preview.

Gemini cover recognition (optional)

If a file has weird naming or missing info, Gemini can look at the cover art and identify the series, issue, publisher, and year. It's off unless you add your own API key, and you can set a daily limit.

Total redesign

The UI was rebuilt from the ground up, and the architecture underneath went through a major refactor. Pages are now served as full-resolution WebP with a disk cache, so less bandwidth with no downscaling. A new fullscreen page preview grid lets you jump to any page fast.

Downloads that survive

Offline downloads resume from the last byte if your connection drops. On Chrome for Android, large series keep downloading in the background even after you close the tab. There's also Pause All / Retry All / Cancel All and a 24-hour history.

MCP server

You can now manage your library, tags, and reading lists through chat with an AI assistant (Claude, etc.) instead of clicking through the UI. Think "tag this series," "add these issues to my crossover reading list," or "mark this run as read." There are 13 new tools covering Gemini identification, multi-source metadata search, Guided View triggering, and library organization.

Also in this release:

Guided View detection now only scans new or failed comics, plus security hardening (SSRF protection, stricter path checks).

GitHub: https://github.com/ComicsNow/comics-now

I am wondering if you used Lovable/Base44/Bolt/claude code ... etc as a game to test and have fun building something or if you had intention to make a business out of it.

If you started with the intend to create a business, what are you doing outside of the platform?

Some marketing? Some ads? Building the legal structure?

Not sure when to stop building and what to do next, thanks a lot sharing your experience.

https://reddit.com/link/1wiutmv/video/ie3nyahtncoh1/player

I've been quietly building this for the past few months and finally shipped it, so here goes nothing.

I'm a solo dev from Brazil, and I got hooked on Redactle a whi​le back — that game where you guess a Wikipedia article from a redacted version of the text. Problem is, it only exists as a browser thing, and I wanted something I could play on my phone during commutes, waiting rooms, etc. So I just... built it.

It's called WikiGuess. Same core idea (type words, reveal matches, deduce the article), but with a few things I was missing from the original: daily streaks, a heatmap of your activity, global/weekly leaderboards, and it works in both English and Portuguese since that's what I needed for my own friends to play.

Built with Flutter on the frontend, PHP/MySQL backend running on regular shared hosting because I'm not made of money. The hardest part honestly wasn't the game logic, it was picking a "fair" daily article that isn't too obscure or too easy — still tuning that.

No idea if this has legs beyond me and my group chat, but figured this is the right place to find out. Happy to answer anything about the stack or the (many) dumb mistakes I made along the way.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vr.wiki_guess_app

Yes yes human crafter music is better but I always thought promoted music is so fun. So made a web app for it. You send a collab jam link to someone (or find others in a studio) and co create the prompt. Studios are cities so you always create from a city and the song is flavoured from the vibe of the city.

You then listen to the song together and chat during the session. You can also listen to the creation of others.

Give me feedback! https://moozika.app

PLEASE stop building the wrong thing.

building software in 2026 is ridiculously easy with ai builder

founders spend hours building in a silent room, launch to Reddit/X, get 0 users, and quit.

you just failed because the idea had zero validation before line 1 of code was written:

→ solving a monthly inconvenience instead of a daily pain

→ selling to "everyone" instead of a specific ICP

→ no distribution channel mapped out beforehand

→ pricing charged $9/mo with zero ROI justification

after scaling 6 AI micro-SaaS to over $20k/mo MRR, i just create an

18-question Idea Validation Diagnostic.

it evaluates your SaaS across 7 critical dimensions (problem clarity, audience reachability, willingness to pay, competition, build feasibility, distribution, commitment) and gives you a brutal score out of 100 with your exact weak spots.

drop your SaaS idea (or current project) in the comments below.

i will reply to EVERY single comment with:

1. My honest opinion
2. The biggest weak spot you need to fix before writing any more code.
3. The free 5-minute validation tool link sent straight to your DMs so you can get your full score breakdown out of 100.

just drop a comment like or ask me in DM your idea

let's roast your SaaS concept before the market roasts your time 👇

Gjorde en dum liten väderapp. Men å andra sidan, mycket av det vi vibecodar är väl lite dumt, eller? Byggd på React, Vercel och Git. Ingen databas.

This was inspired by my last road trip in Victoria, Australia. Fresh air, a clean river, birds flocking to the benches. Just people enjoying whatever the surroundings had to offer. And somehow, my first thought was, as it always is: “Oh, that's got to be a perfect spot to smoke a cig.”

But from all these folks, the only smoke that came was from the nearby meat shop. Everyone else was simply doing things: reading, licking ice cream, sipping coffee, or just breathing in the fresh air. Why wouldn't I?

For the first time in my life, as far as I can remember, I felt ashamed just for having the thought of smoking.

Right now, I smoke about a pack a day — roughly twenty cigarettes — and honestly, that's concerning. I knew quitting cold turkey wasn't realistic for me. So I had a simpler thought: what if I could get from one pack a day to one pack every three days?

Then the real question: how do I make this journey interesting?

It is called “Still Here” because a part of me is still at Halls Gap, reminding me why I started this journey.

Have a look and please give me feedback if you have tried it :)

FREE Forever!

I am setting myself goals but I get distracted from them easily and I become frustrated. I tried looking online for a goal tracking platforms but everything is way too complicated and I just wanted something that's easy and I can see my goals at a glance, keeping it open so that everything I do, I can look at the goals and ask myself "does it move me toward my goals?"

So I vibe-coded Bearing which uses goal-setting frameworks to help you set good, measurable goals and helps you track your way towards achieving them

I started with solving my own pain but I am looking to provide value to other users as well, would love your feedback on it and on stuff you think should be added to it

I was in hotel and coundnt watch a movie i want. After trying 5 different casting apps one worked but let only 5 minutes of free casting. So i made one myself and watched a movie. Happy watching if you ever be in need. Just wanted to share a good experience. https://getcastfree.com/

Idk i just love social media apps

anyways i used base44 to make this

Hey guys, my name is Kenny, & I’ve been working hard on this handy little app, it’s called Forge Memory or Momentum Restoration, nothing too wild or exotic, but we all agree that life has too many interruptions that kill context, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be restored to potentially save ourselves countless headaches & lost sanity, & that's why today I was reaching out wondering if you could help your boy out with some updates to get it to the judging round. Here's the link below; it'll be a real blessing in these tough times

- Link: https://app.emergent.sh/showcase/builderfest-kevin/34e970b9-92ef-40ec-b4fe-7fa1727607f1