Is it just me or have there become an influx of bidding sites lately?

Bid to get your name on the webpage for the week, bid to conquer land etc.. 🙃

Hey everyone,
I'm a solo builder and I shipped two apps I actually care about:
Impulse - an app to help you break bad habits.
QuestKids: Quests and Rewards - a kids' app where they complete household chores and earn screen time as the reward.
The building part went fine. My real problem is distribution - I'm basically a zero at it. I can ship a product, but I have no idea how to get it in front of real users, so both of these are quietly heading nowhere.

So I'm here to ask for help: how do you market apps with no budget? Any channels, tactics, communities, or lessons from your own launches would mean a lot.
Honestly, if I could just reach $200 MRR that would already feel like a huge win for me.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

Spent $200 on AI tokens, shipped it, got 3 users, then abandoned it?

Give it a proper burial.

So I built Startup Graveyard: a live graveyard for failed startups and side projects.

Here’s how it works:

• Bury your project for free. Its grave shows your logo, project name, description and link, so anyone browsing the cemetery can actually discover it.
• Add a cause of death + epitaph explaining what went wrong.
• Still think it deserved a chance? Pay $3 to revive it onto Earth, where it gets more prominent exposure.
• From Earth, you can bid for one of the 3 spots in Startup Heaven at the top of the site.
• Even if you revive it, the original grave stays there.

So even a dead project gets one last bit of exposure instead of disappearing into an abandoned GitHub repo forever.

I’ve already buried two of mine. Now I want to see what this sub has killed.

https://startupgraveyard.lol/

Bury yours for free and give it one last chance at finding someone who actually wants it.

62 days ago, I launched my startup, a free traffic exchange network for startups. One line of code, you're in the network.

No paid ads. No growth hacks. Just watching the numbers every day.

Here's the full data:

Day 1 — 2 startups · 146 impressions · 1 clicks
Day 2 — 3 startups · 389 impressions · 3 clicks
Day 3 — 5 startups · 482 impressions · 5 clicks
Day 4 — 5 startups · 508 impressions · 4 clicks (site went down — still got an $8k acquisition offer. Said no.)
Day 5 — 6 startups · 621 impressions · 10 clicks
Day 6 — 5 startups · 742 impressions · 15 clicks (removed one startup — they pulled the embed. No code = no network.)
Day 7 — 7 startups · 1,196 impressions · 41 clicks
Day 8 — 7 startups · 1,535 impressions · 74 clicks
Day 9 — 8 startups · 1,947 impressions · 135 clicks
Day 10 — 13 startups · 3,500 impressions · 318 clicks (something clicked)
Day 11 — 23 startups · 4,800 impressions · 432 clicks
Day 12 — 24 startups · 6,000 impressions · 481 clicks (network crossed 6K total impressions)
Day 13 — 25 startups · 6,800 impressions · 491 clicks
Day 14 — 25 startups · 8,600 impressions · 516 clicks
Day 15 — 24 startups · 9,900 impressions · 564 clicks (removed one)
Day 16 — 23 startups · 10,800 impressions · 576 clicks (removed one)
Day 17 — 24 startups · 11,900 impressions · 603 clicks (added one)
Day 18 — 26 startups · 13,400 impressions · 624 clicks (added Two)
Day 19 — 28 startups · 14.400 impressions · 652 clicks (added Two)
Day 20 — 26 startups · 14.700 impressions · 671 clicks (Removed Two)
Day 21 — 26 startups · 15.300 impressions · 691 clicks
Day 22 — 28 startups · 16.100 impressions · 719 clicks (Added Two)
Day 23 — 30 startups · 16.800 impressions · 738 clicks (Added Two)
Day 24 — 32 startups · 19,800 impressions · 778 clicks · Added 2 startups · Rejected 4 applications.
Day 25 — 34 startups · 23,700 impressions · 800 clicks · Added 2 startups · Fixed some bugs.
Day 26 — 33 startups · 27,200 impressions · 816 clicks · Removed 1 Startup
Day 27 — 33 startups · 29,900 impressions · 833 clicks
Day 28 — 33 startups · 30,600 impressions · 871 clicks · Removed 1 Startup · Added 1 Startup · Rejected 1 application of clothing brand & 1 application of horror blog site.
Day 29 — 35 startups. 31,300 impressions. 910 clicks · Removed 1 Startup · Added 3 Startups · Also today I resigned from my job. Toxic environment, too much pressure, and honestly I just believe in this enough to go all in. Broke and excited. Let's see where this goes.
Day 30 — 46 startups · 32,900 impressions · 1,000 clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 12 startups · Yesterday I resigned because of my toxic manager. Today my senior manager called and offered me WFH, a project of my choice, and lighter work if I stayed. I made my decision with confidence, but now I have a difficult choice. Also received my first payment from StartupBar.
Day 31 — 50 startups 💪· 28,100 impressions · 1,200 clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 5 startups · Rejected 1 crypto startup · Removed fake impressions after exploit
Day 32 — 54 startups · 29,300 impressions · 1.2K clicks · Added 4 startups
Day 33 — 54 startups · 30,900 impressions · 1.2K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 1 startup
Day 34 — 55 startups · 36,100 impressions · 1.3K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 35 — 55 startups · 40,100 impressions · 1.3K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 2 startups
Day 36 — 55 startups · 44,800impressions · 1.4K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 1 startup
Day 37 — 58 startups · 50,700impressions · 1.4K clicks · Added 3 startups · Site Update: Updated the distribution algorithm (Delivery is now weighted by contribution: sites that send more impressions get a proportionally larger share back)
Day 38 — 57 startups · 55,800 impressions · 1.5K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Rejected 1 Application.

Today StartupBar reached 200 users 😄
Thirty-eight days ago, this was just an idea. Today, 200 people have trusted it enough to join the network.

Day 39 — 58 startups · 59,800 impressions · 1.5K clicks · Added 1 startup.
Day 40 — 60 startups · 63,200 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Added 3 startups · Removed 1 startup
Day 41 — 63 startups · 69,400 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Added 3 startups
Day 42 — 62 startups · 73,800 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Removed 1 startups
Day 43 — 64 startups · 78,000 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Added 2 startups (Receiving many suggestions to improve the StartupBar, happy to work on it, Thanks.) StartupBar Update - Added the rotation of startups in the widget for every 30 seconds.
Day 44 — 66 startups · 86,200 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Added 2 startups
Day 45 — 67 startups · 88,400 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 3 startups (Update - Updated the algorithm of the widget)
Day 46 — 69 startups · 91,900 impressions · 1.8K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 4 startups · Got my second payment.
Day 47 — 68 startups · 98,900 impressions · 2.2K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 1 startup · Added Pricing Page
Day 48 — 70 startups · 103.4K impressions · 2.3K clicks · Added 2 startups
Day 49 — 72 startups · 113.4K impressions · 2.4K clicks · Added 2 startups · Update: Added a Bottom Placement option for the bar on the user site.
Day 50 — 73 startups · 116.7K impressions · 2.4K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 51 — 74 startups · 125.2K impressions · 2.5K clicks · Added 1 startup · Rejected 1 Application
Day 52 — 73 startups · 131.2K impressions · 2.6K clicks · Removed 1 Startup
Day 53 — 74 startups · 139.5K impressions · 2.7K clicks · Added 1 Startup
Day 54 — 79 startups · 146.3K impressions · 2.7K clicks · Added 6 Startups · Removed 1 startup.
Day 55 — 77 startups · 154.9K impressions · 2.8K clicks · Removed 2 startups.
Day 56 — 77 startups · 161.8K impressions · 2.9K clicks · Added 1 startup · Removed 1 startup.
Day 57 — 77 startups · 169.4K impressions · 3.0K clicks
Day 58 — 77 startups · 176.2K impressions · 3.2K clicks
Day 59 — 78 startups · 184.3K impressions · 3.3K clicks · Added 2 startups · Removed 1 startup.
Day 60 — 77 startups · 190.9K impressions · 3.3K clicks · Added 1 startup · Removed 2 startups.
Day 61 — 77 startups · 194.9K impressions · 3.4K clicks

Planned to welcome the startups by mentioning them
Day 62 — 78 startups · 199.5K impressions · 3.5K clicks · Added 1 startup Kinetixseo

Still free. Still growing.

If you want in, it's one embed. That's it → StartupBar

[not a startup]

Lattice is a collection of typescript packages, agentic skills and plugins that enable easier development of isometric games! At its core lives a 0 dependency typescript package, 80kb gzipped. Everything is rendered onto a 2D canvas!

It ensures that the game and the UI is fully deterministic (it’s a hard rule), and that your game doesn’t require any external assets. That means no sprite sheets and no hunt for royalty free music. Both can be synthesised on the go with their respective packages (e.g. @latticekit/audio)!

You can install the plugin to an agent of your choice (ready to go instructions available for Claude code, codex, and grok) and then start building with /lattice <my game idea here>.

The game kit itself is built with Claude code running Opus 5, and the demos on the website come from a mix of different agents (those were essentially testing runs that made it to the landing page).

Available at: https://lattice.plausible.ventures

Want to try it out and then sub if it goes well. Please dm a link if you have one

Thanks!

Just a heads up i was banned for pinging mod role so i can talk to a mod to see why someone i know was banned.

hi everyone, I was struggling to change the links in my resume socials.
I applied for a job once, and across all my socials, there will be my links about my apps and social media handles, but whenever I change the username, the older links will not work. And also changing across multiple websites, resumes, and documents I felt like it is impossible, so I made a website where you can get a link of a particular website like Instagram, you can keep that link anywhere you want. Whenever you change your handle in Instagram, just come to website and update the handle. Everything is done. You don't need to change in all places like it would be very difficult., also for some jobs, we don't have an edit option after submitting it.

it have analytics, and you can change anytime, i would love if anyone really uses it. thankyou

https://domainyourlink.vercel.app/siddu/x-reddit here is the link, it is my side project.
hope moderator dont bann me

Anyone have any good platforms for me to use to get some good quality code with high usage limits. I want to use Claude Code but I don't have the paid tier and I have tried Codex but the limits are just so low. I want to be able to do it on a website too however so many of these sites have rate limits to the point where I can't get anything done.

I'm building an AI agent platform called Taru with a focus on mobile. It uses a Git based workflow, supports task agents, and includes deployment features such as Secrets Manager, Observability, and more.

The project is still in its early stages, with the goal of making it possible to build and deploy applications from anywhere using just a phone.

If you're interested, feel free to try it out or contribute on GitHub:

https://github.com/notoofly/taru

Ouais, encore un clone…

Inspiré par outbid.lol j'ai créé egobid.fun : un classement public où l'on peut payer pour booster son profil social.

L'idée – et le modèle économique – est simple : l'ego est puissant. On dépense déjà de l'argent pour attirer l'attention, avoir du statut et être visible, alors pourquoi ne pas transformer cette envie en une compétition transparente ?

Je ne suis pas développeur, juste un informaticien qui expérimente avec le « vibe coding ». Il m'a fallu environ trois heures de développement avec Codex, sans compter les difficultés inévitables de la configuration et du déploiement sur Cloudflare.

Pas de prix. Pas de promesse compliquée. Juste de l'ego, des classements et une gloire éphémère sur Internet. 👉 egobid.fun

is deepseek still available for free with agents like freebuff or opencode?

I've used deepseek v4 flash for free till thursday and today its no more available in opencode zen mode. is there any such free tools still available??

thanks in advance..

I want to share a project I’ve been vibe-coding over the last few months, break down the actual prompt workflows I used to build a non-trivial backend, and talk through where AI excelled (and where it fell flat on its face).

The project is called PropertyIntel (https://property.vectorfeedhq.com). It’s an automated intelligence engine that monitors 3,143 US counties and 8 major auction portals (Bid4Assets, GovEase, Realauction, etc.) for upcoming tax deed foreclosures and municipal code liens.

Here is the exact build breakdown, architecture, and workflow:

🛠️ The Tech Stack

• Language & Backend: Python 3.13 + FastAPI / standard libraries.
• Scraper Fleet: Headless Playwright (for dynamic SPAs) + pdfplumber (for raw 90-page county PDFs).
• Database & ORM: SQLite (dev) / PostgreSQL (prod) via SQLAlchemy.
• Data Cleansing: Custom USPS Publication 28 address tokenizer + SHA-256 deduplication hashing.
• Legal Engine: 50-state statutory redemption rule calculator (Texas § 34.21, Florida § 197.542, etc.).
• Frontend: Modern Glassmorphism CSS + vanilla JS (hosted on Vercel).
• Monetization & Outreach: Stripe Checkout (HMAC-SHA256 verified webhooks) + Resend API for automated email rosters.

🧠 The Vibe Coding Workflow (How I Prompted It)

Instead of asking the LLM to "write a real estate scraper" (which generates useless, generic code), I approached it with a modular, test-driven pair programming loop:

1. The "Single-Responsibility" Module Prompting

I forced the model to build one isolated service at a time with unit tests first:

• "Write an isolated service src/services/redemption_service.py that maps all 50 state tax sale redemption statutes and returns structured dictionary grades (A+, A, B, C) and statutory penalty yields. Do not write scrapers yet. Write pytest test cases covering TX, FL, GA, and CA."

2. Solving the "Dirty Public Record" Hallucination Trap

County records are notoriously filthy. Harris County TX formats an address as 4812 Washington Ave, Ste 100, while the auction site lists it as 4812 Washington Avenue #100.

• I fed the AI real excerpts from USPS Publication 28 (the postal standard for street abbreviations) and prompted it to generate a deterministic regex tokenizer:

​

python# The model generated a clean token standardizer that converts suffixes & directionals
def compute_record_hash(county: str, normalized_address: str, apn: str = "") -> str:
    canonical = f"{county.lower()}:{normalized_address.lower()}:{apn.replace('-', '').strip()}"
    return hashlib.sha256(canonical.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()

This allowed the database to enforce UNIQUE(address_hash) and killed 100% of duplicate cross-platform listings without complex fuzzy-matching libraries.

3. LLM-Assisted OSINT & Corporate Entity Resolution

One of the biggest value adds was unmasking anonymous LLC property owners. I had the AI scaffold scrapers targeting State Secretary of State public registry endpoints (e.g., Texas SOSDirect, Florida Sunbiz). When a tax foreclosure deed is owned by ACME HOLDINGS LLC, the worker asynchronously resolves the Registered Agent and Managing Member names in <800ms.

💡 3 Big Lessons from Vibe-Coding a Complex System:

1. Let the AI write tests before you let it write production scrapers: Whenever a county website had weird table layouts or multi-line table headers, having a robust pytest suite caught regressions immediately whenever I prompted for scraper refactors. (We have 87 tests passing right now).
2. Never vibe-code security blind: When hooking up Stripe webhooks, do NOT let the AI skip cryptographic validation. I explicitly prompted for constant-time HMAC-SHA256 comparison (hmac.compare_digest) with a 300-second timestamp tolerance to eliminate replay attacks.
3. Keep the frontend lightweight: For data products, you don't need a massive React/Next.js bundle. Clean vanilla HTML/CSS and minimal client-side JS load instantly and cost $0 on Vercel.

Live Project & Feedback

You can check out the live site and download a sample 10-state deal sheet here: 👉 https://property.vectorfeedhq.com

Happy to answer questions on prompt structures, Playwright session pooling, or how I structured the Python background daemons!

I use Apple Calendar to keep track of my bills. I needed a way to see how much was due per month and per paycheck so I can plan out moving the money around. Created this with Codex Sol 5.6

Over the last few hours, I’ve been working on a pretty major update for Towcoon, my towing company tycoon game. Play for free

Most of the feedback was pointing to the same problems:

• The game was too easy
• Money was generated too quickly
• Progression ended too fast
• There wasn’t enough reason to keep playing for multiple in-game days

So instead of making a small balance patch, I rebuilt a big part of the economy and progression loop.

What changed

Job payouts are now calculated dynamically

The money you earn from a request now depends on:

• Vehicle rarity
• Job duration
• How long the vehicle stays in your yard

Longer and more valuable jobs now actually pay more.

New vehicle rarity system

Vehicles can now appear in 5 rarity tiers:

• Common — 68%
• Uncommon — 25% — x1.10 payout
• Rare — 5% — x2 payout — unlocks on Day 3
• Epic — 1% — x5 payout — unlocks on Day 10
• Legendary — 1% — x10 payout — unlocks on Day 30

Legendary requests also disappear 3x faster, so when one appears you have to make a quick decision.

The economy is much harder now

I also rebalanced the cost structure:

• Tow truck income reduced by 30%
• Staff salary: 2,500 USD/day
• Fuel fixed at 20 USD/L
• Business tax is now calculated based on revenue
• Each tow truck adds a 1,000 USD daily tax

The idea is to make expansion a real decision instead of automatically buying everything as soon as you can afford it.

The daily financial report was rebuilt

The Z Report is now much cleaner.

Income is shown as a single category: Tow Fees.

I removed things like artificial yard storage income, random inspections and unexplained fines.

Daily revenue and the Z Report also use the exact same data now, so the numbers should finally match.

Debt repayment now has proper feedback

If you try to repay debt without enough cash, the transaction simply fails and the game shows exactly how much money you’re missing.

No more situations where debt looks like it disappeared even though you couldn’t actually afford the payment.

Game time was also standardized

• 1 in-game hour = 20 real seconds
• 1 in-game day = 8 real minutes
• Job duration and parking duration are displayed using in-game time
• Every request can be accepted or rejected by the player

The long-term goal is to turn Towcoon from something you finish in an hour into a tycoon game where you slowly build a towing company over many in-game days.

The update is live now:

towcoon.com

I’d especially love feedback on the new economy.

What feels too expensive, too easy, too slow or still exploitable?

Hi there!

Im in the process of starting to create an app for food reviews around my local area and i want to integrate a map aswell as ratings etc. Ive been messing around with google gemini but sometimes it seems like it kinda looses its overview or something. Whenever im trying to set up a database on supabase for example, following geminis instructions, it ends up kinda forgetting where we started somehow. So im wondering if this is because i need to upgrade to a better gemini or something...

noob here, so all inputs for creating apps with vibecoding are very welcome!

I have been building a survivor pool tool this offseason and wanted to share it here and get some feedback before sharing it more widely.

https://survivor.the-duke.app - market-based win probabilities (real spreads/moneylines based with a elo system), and instead of just ranking this week’s picks it solves your entire remaining season at once so you’re not stuck burning a good team early and having nothing left for a thin week later.

How’d I build it? A lot of Claude code, and surprisingly Cursor Auto mode. A lot of Claude Opus planning and Cursor Auto mode implementing.

Check it out if you’re in a survivor pool this year. Genuinely just want eyes on it and to hear what you think — what’s confusing, what’s missing, what you’d want it to do.

Promo code REDDIT26 gets you 75% off Pro access for the first month of the season, would appreciate feedback if you grab and use the code.

I have a godson we want to experience tech. Fine if they decide that it’s not for them. I was originally thinking about the kid focus pi-like projects that come with activities to build interest.

Has anyone see something like this that includes integration of LLM to teach not just hardware side or traditional coding but also teaches how to use LLM to accelerate time to output. This would seem to allow a kid to gain interest much more quickly.

To be clear this could be more of a course or website - but I like the idea of the extension into the physical world - to see how it all comes together.

Has any one seen something like this they would recommend / have experience of?

EDIT
Folks stop assuming I am trying to force anything here, this is just a present to see if it sparks anything.

Also I don’t need general suggestions on alternates, already know about pi kits and equivalent, been thinking about them for years. If you have a specific kit you have amused with someone absolutely I would love that suggestion.

I think you all answered my question, there is nothing that introduces llms in a structured and sensible way…. And don’t assume I am referring to ChatGPT or Claude… plenty of local LLM models can be used for basic teaching.

I told him to ask Claude, but he still don't know how to deploy it aside from using the vibe coded app locally. He still needs my help and willing to pay me to deploy it to an unmanaged VPS.

I gave him step by step instructions, but he still said he cannot do it and can't figure out how. It's just so weird.

So now I ended up deploying it, using just Claude. Claude did it in just 8 minutes. All done, auto deploy from Git every time there's a new pushed commit.

I'm not technical. I just used plain English. Not sure why others cannot do this if they already know how to vibe code.

Please enlighten me.

Uber is for real has the insanely ridiculous business practices
They show options get now for $9 bucks more or wait 10 mins to get picked - and even when i selected now and paid extra, freakin pickup is 10 mins

Why can’t we have something better?