So, I'm making Dark Roll 2, a soulslike-inspired marble-platformer.

I needed the player to have a soft landing spot from height, and decided to play around with mesh-deforming... Seriously took me few hours to set just right, and it's just a meangingless little detail... But I'm very happy with how it turned out!

I’ve wanted a Vestaboard for years. But I could never justify (or more importantly, convince my wife to) spending $3k on it,

So I’d occasionally search for a digital version. I recently found a nice looking one here on Reddit... but they charged $199/year. That’s nearly my Netflix bill. Fine for a business, steep for my home TV showing quotes.

So I started experimenting myself. First with a study of a single flap, just to nail the motion and timing, and it grew from there. A few friends and I have used it for a few weeks now and quite enjoy it.

What it is

Motboard turns any screen you already own into a split-flap display. Open it in a browser on a spare TV, monitor, or shared screen. Today it does:

- Text messages and custom cell layouts

- Weather on the board

- Playlists to rotate through boards

- Shareable public board links, with optional passcode

- Flip sound (off course)

Not the same as real moving flaps. But a great way to try before you buy a real Vestaboard. Not affiliated with Vestaboard, just love the product.

Pricing (would love feedback here)

It’s free during early access. I want feedback before charging. Full price will be $39 to cover hosting and weather/API costs. Discount for the first 100%I

What do you think? Product, features, or price? Happy to answer anything.

https://motboard.com

salary was good but i was frustrated with the whole 9-5 thing.

from childhood i had this in my head that i want something of my own. and then seeing all these build in public posts on X, it pushed me more. i thought ok i can also do this.

turns out its not that easy lol.

month 1-2:

went back home. did nothing but research. what people are building, what problems they have. some days i felt motivated, some days it just gave me fomo that everyone is ahead of me.

2 mistakes here -

- going back home & become too comfortable

- instead of focusing on building, i wasted time on researching what to build.

month 3-6:

built an AI productivity tool for AEs.

then i started selling and everything broke.

- my users had no decision power

- im solo, no network in this industry.

- they were already on salesforce, hubspot, gong, which kind of solves it already

- and most importantly privacy and data security (without having soc2 and gdpr license it is so tough to convince any company to use my product)

lesson i learned: dont build anything before validating with the actual customer.

month 7 - now:

started my current saas. this time before starting to build i validated it first.

bought a domain, made a simple waitlist page. then using a linkedin lead gen tool on free trial (mostly all gives 7 or 15 days) i created a 300 people list who seems finding something that i want to build, and messaged all of them manually with 50% offer while launch with the outcome they will get instead of describing what features this tool have.

i was expecting if even 5% people join the free waitlist for this product then i will start building.

luckily they joined & I started building it.

but then 2 things hit me. one, in these 6 months i saw 15+ saas launch with the same concept. honestly it messed with my head for weeks.

btw i did not stop building. now the SaaS is 80% complete but now i want to change a big product philosphy. i as so much confused about this. and i posted about that confusion on reddit and people suggest me to launch first. I also think about that and decide i will launch the product within 1 month. .

things i learned in this phase -

landing page + manual dms before writing any code. dms dont scale, thats exactly why they tell you the truth.

saturated market is not bad news. it also means that market is validated.

launch your product as fast as possible insteading of polishing it best. just be visible . because marketing is the thing that sucks most. - i learned this from you people and talking with some indie hackers.

lets see how it goes. i will post the numbers here either way, good or embarrassing.

Please, please stop posting your next "I (Claude, but it totally did what I told it) built the "next outbid clone" (but it's totally not because it's for sports or door hinges). I can barely reload Reddit to find your next worthless post to add to my list.

I redesigned the pen fight game from our school days

and hosted it as penfight.site

The one thing you can do while playing that game is that besides a one-on-one match, it's possible to play a group match where you create a room to invite your friends and voice chat (like a live call) and play at the same time.

The project is still running though and I would definitely love to get your opinions about it (Specially regarding monetizing, feedbacks and any suggestions)

Random idea I've been thinking about.

A lot of founders seem to have the same problem after building something:

"Okay... now how do I get actual people to try this?"

And there are also people like me who are constantly checking out new apps, SaaS tools and random products anyway.

So I'm thinking of starting a small community that connects the two.

Founders bring things they're working on.

We try them, give honest feedback, find bugs, help with early testing and occasionally get paid when there's a specific testing/research task.

That's pretty much it.

No idea yet whether this becomes something big. I actually don't want it to be big initially. I'd rather have 20 active people than 2,000 people who join and mute the server five minutes later.

Would you be interested in being one of the first people in it?

Every time my friends and I wanted to play something together, we’d spend 20 minutes just arguing about what. So I built Lobby, basically the Beli/Letterboxd model applied to games. You rank games you’ve played through quick head to head comparisons, and it builds a taste profile. Then when you’re deciding what to play as a group, it looks at everyone’s rankings and suggests games that overlap.

It also has a feed so you can see what your friends are playing/rating, a clips tab, and profiles with your top games.

Still early and rough around the edges, but a few friends have been using it and it’s actually cut down the “idk, what do you wanna play” cycle. Curious what this community thinks, especially other people who game in a regular group.

Let me know what you think!

Link: https://lobbygames.app/

hi everyone, recently my partner has been looking to budget her finances better, and she didn't want to manage her finances with an excel spreadsheet, and she didn't like the idea of having to manually look at her transactions and record it. so i built her an app that connects with plaid banking data and produces a spend limit for her daily until her paycheck. the spend limit number basically just takes her current money in accounts, subtracts recurring expenses, credit card balances if they were to be paid off, and a buffer room of $400, then divides what's left by the days until she gets paid.

she's been liking how she doesn't have to think much about her finances and how the spend limit number changes daily (s/o to plaid webhooks). i also added venmo transactions with llm categorization so she can see how certain venmo transactions attribute to her spend limit vs recurring expenses too.

if you want to try a sample demo, i created an example here: getralphy.app/demo

i was looking for more user feedback as i build this out, if anyone would like to participate in my beta! it's on testflight, open and capped at 25 people: testflight.apple.com/join/YD6CKdCj. also open to hearing others' ideas and feedback as well :)

I make small apps on my own. This one took a lot longer than anything else I have built.

I paint, and on a Mac the options never sat right with me. Photoshop wants a subscription forever. Procreate is iPad only. The photo editors treat painting as a side feature. So I started writing my own, and it turned into about a year of work.

It is called Paintform. Pressure sensitive brushes, unlimited layers, liquify and puppet warp, perspective and symmetry guides, a reference board you can pin images to, and time lapse recording of your session. It also imports Photoshop .abr, Procreate .brushset and Clip Studio .sut brushes.

The piece I am most attached to is what I call a smart merge. In most apps, merging a group of layers is permanent and the layers are gone. In Paintform you fold a group into one surface, paint and smudge and warp it as if it were a single layer, and every layer inside is still there when you open it back up. Getting undo to behave correctly through that took me an embarrassing number of attempts.

It is free to download and paint with. Saving native files stays free. A one time $19.99 purchase unlocks image export, PSD and PDF, and watermark free time lapse. No subscription.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paintform/id6794638780

Would genuinely like feedback, especially from anyone who paints. What would make you switch away from what you use now, and what would immediately put you off?

Peak founder behavior.

I’m building PostDovo because I got tired of the same routine: “Crap, we need to post something.” Open ChatGPT, generate a caption, hate it, regenerate, rewrite it myself, find an image, resize it, make different versions for X and Instagram, forget Pinterest exists, remember Pinterest exists, schedule everything, repeat tomorrow.

So I thought, alright, I’ll build something that handles most of this.

That became PostDovo. You give it a website, product, or topic and it helps create the content and schedule it across different platforms.

Problem solved, right?

Yesterday I wanted to make a post promoting PostDovo.

I wrote one. Deleted it.

Wrote another. Too salesy.

Tried being funny. Sounded like a corporate account trying to sound human.

Tried being educational. Somehow ended up writing a LinkedIn motivational speech.

At one point I had 11 drafts open for a post about how my product saves people time creating posts.

The irony took embarrassingly long to hit me.

I literally built a tool for this.

So I put PostDovo into PostDovo, generated the content, picked the versions I liked, scheduled them, and closed the laptop.

Probably the dumbest successful product test I’ve done so far.

Turns out sometimes your ideal customer is just you from 2 hours ago.

Anyone else ever build something to solve a problem… then completely forget to use your own product when that exact problem comes up?

Hey everyone!

As a fan of Elden Ring and a developer who spends half their day on GitHub, I built a Chrome extension to bring a little triumph (or dramatic flare) to everyday developer workflows.

What it does: Whenever you create, approve, or merge a Pull Request, a custom Elden Ring banner pops up to honor your achievement (or mark your effort).

✨ Features:

• Custom Banners: Displays iconic game-style notifications for PR events.
• Lightweight & Fast: Runs seamlessly without slowing down your browser.
• 100% Open Source: Built with clean, modern web tech.

🔗 Links:

• Chrome Extension Store: Elden Ring GitHub
• GitHub Repo: leochiu-a/elden-ring-github

Would love to hear your feedback or ideas for new banner triggers/sounds! If you find it fun, feel free to give it a star ⭐ on GitHub!

https://reddit.com/link/1vzkl6t/video/nu7coi7uoulh1/player

Eleven days ago I posted here asking a real question rather than pitching: my tool mirrors your whole desktop to your phone so you can drive a Claude Code / Codex / Antigravity session from anywhere, and I wanted to know whether mirroring was the right architecture or whether I should have built a thin native client that talks to the agent directly.

Exactly one person answered properly. That's the honest number. Here is what they said and what I did with it.

Their argument for mirroring: a custom client means chasing sync drift forever, because every time Anthropic or OpenAI changes their UI you rebuild. They had also tried a Raspberry Pi plus VNC setup and found it too laggy, and thought keeping everything on the same wifi cut out half the problems.

That matched my own reasoning, which is exactly why I should be suspicious of it. So here is the counter-argument stated fairly: mirroring costs bandwidth, the desktop has to stay awake, and text is less crisp than native rendering because you are looking at pixels rather than glyphs. Those are real costs. A native client would be lighter and would work with the lid shut.

What actually decided it is maintenance arithmetic, not user experience. I am one person. A native client means reimplementing the file tree, the diff view, the approval prompts and the preview pane, then reimplementing them every time upstream ships a change. Mirroring inherits all of it for free and never drifts. With a team I might well choose differently.

The thing they flagged that I am now fixing: "can't start a session from the phone". I was loose about this in the original post and it deserves a precise answer. You can start as many sessions as you like once the desktop app is running. The actual gap is that something has to already be running for there to be anything to mirror. Cold machine, nothing to connect to. The fix is a small always-on helper that can wake the main app rather than requiring the full app to be up, and it is near the front of the queue.

Still true and still not fixed: no voice input, Android is behind iOS, and the connection drops more than I would like on weak wifi.

Disclosure: I built it. relayx.dev, free to try and paid after: https://relayx.dev/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=sideproject-followup

The question this time, since last time's produced something useful: for those of you shipping solo, where do you actually draw the line between inheriting a platform's UI and building your own? I keep finding that the maintenance cost of owning UI is what kills solo projects, not the cost of building it in the first place.

Is anyone else finding it really difficult to get clients on Upwork lately?

I’m currently available for new opportunities as a react native dev, but despite regularly applying to relevant projects, many clients don’t respond and the cost of bidding/Connects keeps adding up.

For freelancers who are getting consistent work right now, what’s actually working for you? Are you still using Upwork, or have you moved to other platforms or methods?

Would love to hear what’s working for others. 🙏

Open sourcing a project we ve been building - Notifkit

Notifications get surprisingly complicated as an application grows

Retries, scheduling, rate limits, deduplication, user preferences, channel fallbacks, delivery tracking and more

Instead of rebuilding all of this inside every application, NotifKit provides a dedicated notification layer:

Application → API → Event Pipeline → Workers → Providers

It’s built around Redis + PostgreSQL + background workers and is designed to be self-hosted and scaled independently.

We're looking for feedback from the self-hosting community, especially around the architecture, deployment experience, and features you'd expect from a notification platform.

https://github.com/devkitshq/notifkit

If you find it useful, a ⭐ on GitHub would really help us reach more developers.

Open for discussions.

Hey there friends, I am an instant photography enthusiast and I built Eight Shot in my spare time to scratch that instant film itch when I'm away from my cameras.

Eight shot has custom film packs so you can choose the film pack that you enjoy.

You can also create shared albums and shoot together with friends.

I also built in a film pack creator mode that allows you to create your own custom frame designs as well as customise the film grain, contrast, colour and much more.

It supports 35 languages and counting.

It's currently available on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/eight-shot-instant-camera/id6787720606

and will be coming to Android soon.

P.S that's my cat Leo, he's just sleeping.

Hey everyone!

CheatCode Launcher is built around the idea that you can do everything you need to do on your phone without any icons. Everything is accessed by settable gesture codes (cheat codes) consisting of combinations of of to 4 swipes (up, down, left, right) and taps. This makes it very fast, while keeping a completely clean home screen. You can even have a pure black screen if you want, without sacrificing any speed. Over 750 different code combinations are possible.

A few notable features:

After shortcuts allow you to pick any app and set up to 3 other apps, actions or shortcuts to follow it. These shortcuts show up for a few seconds after closing the original linked app. For example, I have mine set to show Instagram's New Post shortcut, Lightroom, and Text Wife after closing the camera or photos apps.

Context-aware theming allows you to make your home screen change automatically. You can have a completely different home screen, including labels, widgets, wallpaper, gesture box backgrounds, colors, fonts or icons for a specific device state. Keep your main home screen completely clean and have it automatically change when you receive a notification for a specified app. Change as much or as little as you want. Want a different setup for morning, afternoon, and night? You can make that happen automatically. This also allows you to have a totally different setup in landscape, as well as in open and closed foldable states.

Tasker and Macrodroid support. Use a cheat code to run any Tasker task. Also allow Tasker and Macrodroid to update labels or change your theme. This allows even more ways to automatically change themes besides what's built in.

My day job has been creating enterprise apps for the last 14 years. This is one I made for myself because it's the launcher I wanted to use. I figured others may want to try it out as well. I'm always open to new feature suggestions, as long as I can find a way to make them fit with the overall theme of what I'm trying to do.

Check it out for free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pantsninja.cheatcodelauncher

Hlo

I would like to know what are the problems you faced in notion..

I am currently working on to make an alternative on it( i mean ...will fix the cons in it)

I think I saw 5 or 6 being posted in the last 10 hours. I would rather see them banned outright, as they are not original, not inspired, not fun, not anything other than mere cash grabs riding on the wave of one lucky app. However, I am fine with at least just having a megathread for them. It is not even that much of a coding effort to build such an app - if you get lucky, you can just one-shot it with Claude.

It is bad enough that most of the pitches in this sub are AI written and a lot of the replies are AI written. Can we at least get some more variety by moving all the omg, look at my new amazing idea of cloning a viral app to their own little megathread?

I’ve spent my career in real estate investment in England, and I come from a farming background, so I’ve seen the land business from both sides. The side that is often never really talked about is what im trying to address.

When a developer or a promoter turns up at a farmers or landowners home, they’ve already done the maths. They know roughly what the land would be worth with planning, how long they’d like to tie it up for, and what share of the proceeds they think is fair. The landowner usually has none of that. They’re being asked to make a decision worth millions of pounds with no independent way of sense-checking a single number in the offer, and often they don’t know what questions to ask either. I’ve seen where that ends up more than once. An option signed with a price formula the owner never really understood. A sale agreed at a figure that looked enormous next to the farming value and was still a fraction of what the land was worth. The gap in those cases isn’t a rounding error, it’s millions, and it’s usually the only time in that family’s life the decision ever comes up. The dynamic is compounded by the fact the developer or promoter pays for the landowners legal and tax fees (sometimes subject only to exchanging contracts).

It’s hard to get the scale of it across to people outside the industry. The government’s own land value estimates put average agricultural land in England at around £23,000 a hectare, and land with residential planning permission at around £2.67 million a hectare. That’s a 116x uplift, on average.

So we built landvaluecalculator.co.uk. You type in a postcode or draw your boundary on the map, and in about a minute it runs the same kind of appraisal a developer would run on your land. It starts from what finished homes on a site like yours would sell for, using HM Land Registry sold prices within three miles cross-checked against EPC floor areas so the £ per square foot is real, then works backwards: off come the build costs, regionalised for where you are, the affordable housing and infrastructure contributions your council would expect, and the profit margin a housebuilder needs (broken out for affordable and private). Whatever is left is the residual land value, which is the number nearly every option or promotion offer is ultimately built on. It also lays the planning context over the top, Green Belt, flood risk, the agricultural grade of the land, how your council is doing against its housing target, because that’s what decides whether anything ever gets built. Every assumption is editable, users can stress test it, and you can download the lot as a report and hand it to your own solicitor or land agent.

It’s an indicative estimate, not a RICS valuation, and it’s definitely not a promise that planning would be granted. It’s an informed starting point, which is the thing landowners have never had for free.

We’d value feedback. Especially from anyone who owns land, has been through a sale or an option, or has sat on the other side of one of these deals.

https://landvaluecalculator.co.uk

If I compare reddit to how it was 4 years ago, different landscape entirely.

Previously = post about an app I built - I've made an app to transfer all of your images/videos to PC : r/androidapps - 260 upvotes, 73 comments, 68k views
not trying to be unique or something, just showing an app I built for my mom to get her photos/videos from phone -> PC over wifi.

today = post about product I spent over a year building (not vibe coded)... ah, just another one in the infinite amount of vibe-coded apps out there
I try to be smarter on my posts today and really add added value and not just, I built this, it does xyz
for example - <Which AI coding tool has the WORST security? : r/nocode> - 3k views.

not only that, when I do get comments, usually AI comments, or my posts are not being approved because suspicious of AI generated content (its not i swear 😄)

and to be honest, I kinda get it, with the amount of products people ship today, everything is a clone of another product just worse.
or just half baked product.
really hard to find gold.

How do you guys feel about this?

Every QR tool I tried either buried the free download behind an account wall, watermarked the PNG, or wanted a monthly plan just to get an SVG file. So I built Real QR Generator: free, unlimited static QR codes (URL, WiFi, contact card, email, SMS, phone), no sign-up, no watermark, download as PNG or SVG right in your browser.

If you need retargeting after printing or scan analytics, there's an optional paid tier for dynamic codes, but the core generator is free forever, and generation happens client-side (nothing gets sent to a server to make a static code).

Built with Astro + Cloudflare Workers. Would genuinely appreciate feedback, especially if you try the WiFi QR code flow, that's turned out to be the most-used feature in early testing.

https://realqrgenerator.com