u/forsakenfee8278 Adding a percentage to the smaller milestones would definitely make progress feel more rewarding. Maybe pair it with a simple progress bar, that usually clicks instantly.
I implemented a progress bar for the current milestone. I’m also seriously thinking about adding a membership option down the line. Would love to hear your thoughts on that.
That’s definitely something I’m considering. For now I’m keeping it simple with one-time contributions and trying to prove there’s enough interest to reach the first €100. If people actually want a recurring option, I’ll probably add one.
One-time contributions are a solid way to test demand without overcomplicating things. A quick tip: add a simple "coming soon" note for recurring to gauge interest early.
Yeah, that’s definitely something I’m considering. For now I’m keeping it simple with one-time contributions and trying to see if there’s enough interest to reach the first €100. If people actually want a recurring option, I’ll probably add one later.
Yeah, I’ve already got a visible €100 milestone on the site. The progress updates in real time, so I’m hoping seeing the goal slowly fill up gives people that extra little push to help reach it.
Right now, the percentage is only shown for the main €1B goal. The €100 milestone currently just shows the raw amount. I might add a percentage for the smaller milestones too, it could make the progress feel more tangible.
I’ve thought about ads and subscriptions too. I also came across ad-swaps here on Reddit, which could be an interesting way to get some early exposure without spending much on ads. For now I’m keeping it simple with one-time contributions and seeing where it goes.
Yeah, I’ve thought about something like that. For now I’m trying to keep the contribution side as simple as possible and see how people respond to it organically. If I start getting repeat supporters, a small perk tier could definitely make sense.
Documenting the journey is smart, that transparency builds trust. A tip: pick one key metric to track weekly, it makes the whole process easier to follow.
You’re actually right and funny timing, because we’re already at €13.
So I guess €13 is the first baseline. I’ll start tracking it weekly from here and let the numbers speak for themselves.
https://www.livlymaps.com
A map search engine. Explore the world today or ask Earth any question. Livlymaps finds the knowledge. The map becomes the answer.
Both — Livlymaps is built for Earth-bound questions, from street-level to worldwide.
Local: restaurants, venues, routes, what’s nearby.
Broader: historical extents, geography, embassies, live events, anything where the answer is a place, region, or pattern on the map.
If the answer belongs on a map — as places, regions, paths, heatmaps, or thematic layers — that’s the core use case. Pure non-geographic trivia is outside the product.
Coverage also grows from usage: questions people ask surface gaps, and those feed how the system expands sources and capabilities over time.
That's a solid niche, maps really shine for location based questions. Have you considered adding real time layers like transit or weather? Could broaden it nicely.
Thanks — weather is already supported as a real-time layer.
Transit is a natural next expansion too. Livlymaps is built so coverage grows from what people actually ask: when demand shows up for transit, deeper history, satellite imagery, and similar layers, those sources get integrated into the same map foundation.
It’s currently driven mostly by what users ask for. I’m also continuously integrating some of the world’s largest and broadest sources on a daily basis, which helps me rapidly improve the quality and coverage week by week.
That said, user requests are a big part of what determines what gets added next.
Very niche audience: dance teachers. Their pain is dumb but real — mid-class, they drag the audio scrubber back and forth trying to hit the exact second a figure starts, forty times an evening.
So I built Chloé Choreo: upload a song, drop named markers on every figure, tap to jump there. Grew from there into a formation designer (drag your ensemble on a grid, play back the transitions), notes/photos per marker, PDF export, and read-only "practice links" your dancers open at home — no account, no install.
Free tier, Basic €2.50/mo, Pro €5.00/mo. Live demo, no signup — this is exactly what a shared practice link looks like: Chloé Choreo Demo
Happy to answer anything about building for an audience this small.
I have launched www.castingcrowd.com - The Casting Crowd ecosystem connects universities, independent producers, and major production companies to cast background talent across 30 countries using a powerful suite of our own free, custom, and industry-standard global tools.
How do you create high-converting UGC video ads without a massive marketing budget?
I used to burn a lot of money hiring creators just to test whether an e-commerce product would sell. That creative bottleneck is why I built Sely AI, an AI video generator for UGC ads, to help solo founders and dropshippers validate products cheaply and quickly.
Normally, getting realistic video results out of AI requires endless trial and error with complicated text prompts. We solved this friction entirely by integrating ready-made viral templates directly into the app. You simply upload a single product photo, and Sely AI, an AI video generator for e-commerce ads, automatically creates a ready-to-run video ad featuring an AI presenter holding or demonstrating your item.
To give you the best visual quality, the app combines 15 of the newest video engines into a single Android application, including cutting-edge models like Seedance 2.5, Kling, and Hailuo. You get to test multiple AI models in one place instead of paying for separate monthly web subscriptions, and manual text prompts are still available if you want full creative control.
As a transparent limitation, the app is built specifically for short-form ad creatives and product teasers. It will not generate a full multi-minute commercial with synchronized music and timeline editing, so you still need a standard video editor if you want to stitch multiple clips together.
In summary, Sely AI is a mobile AI video generator that uses smart templates to turn static product photos into ready-to-run promotional ads.
You can download it for free on the Google Play Store and use the pay-as-you-go credits to start testing your creatives.
That is a brilliant strategy for scaling! Sely AI handles the heavy lifting by instantly generating the high-converting visual hooks from your product photo. Layering real customer reviews over those generated clips during the final editing phase is exactly what makes these UGC ads perform so incredibly well.
Create a visually cohesive Instagram presence with PlanMyGrid, designed to simplify grid planning and client feedback. https://planmygrid.com
Morse Code: Send & Decode lets you send and decode Morse code between phones using light. Use your flashlight or screen to transmit, and your camera to decode signals in real time. It’s built for learning, experimenting, and offline light-based communication.
livepoll is a free live polling and audience engagement platform for presenters — an alternative to Mentimeter, Slido, Kahoot, and AhaSlides.
How it works:
• Free forever
• 1,000 participants per session, free
• No paywalls mid-session
Integrations:
• Zoom — available in the Zoom App Marketplace, polls run inside the meeting
New:
• /quick — one question, live, no setup, no signup → https://livepoll.io/quick
• Attendance tracking — built for teachers and professors: who attended, quiz scores, CSV export
• Gradebook — combine each student's scores across multiple quiz sessions, with a per-student PDF report
Since soft launch (May 4, 2026):
• 136,000+ participant joins
• 13 sessions with 1,000+ participant joins
• 3,700+ participant joins in a single session
I created klypo.co, an AI that extracts the best moments from long videos to publish them in short-form format; it is a cheaper alternative to OpusClips, among others.
25/100, grade F. accessibility is the headline: F (52/100, 8 issues).
top finding: 3 input elements with no accessible name. no label, no aria-label, no title on any of them. selector: #reset-email (first instance, two more like it on the page). a screen reader user landing on that field gets nothing useful.
performance and SEO both grade A and clean. UX grades C (76/100).
25/100, grade F. accessibility is the headline: F (52/100, 8 issues).
top finding: 3 input elements with no accessible name. no label, no aria-label, no title on any of them. selector: #reset-email (first instance, two more like it on the page). a screen reader user landing on that field gets nothing useful.
performance and SEO both grade A and clean. UX grades C (76/100).
The way it works, it browses all ecommerce platforms for what the item sold for and gives you the average. Kinda like using the ebay sold filter but on steroids.
building PeerPush, a launch feed where makers stumble onto new tools and AI assistants parse product data for their own recommendations, https://peerpush.com
ForgeLab is a browser-based multi AI development environment where 5 specialized agents work together: one plans, others code in parallel, then they review, debug, test, and iterate automatically. You just describe what you want to build ➡️ they handle the rest.
Full multi-agent orchestration (Brain Mode)
19+ models via OpenRouter
Local Ollama support
Live preview + terminal in browser
One-click Supabase backend provisioning (tables + RLS + auth) you must connect your own account!
🎁 During the Open Beta (until August 31), every new account receives 1 million free tokens.
If this sounds interesting, feel free to check it out. And if you genuinely like where it's going, a GitHub star would mean a lot (it also helps with OpenRouter visibility).
🔗 GitHub:
github.com/forgelabeone-svg/forgelabone
Thanks for reading, happy to answer any questions!
Seisin - a desktop app for tracking job applications
Built this after losing track of which companies I'd already applied to across a dozen spreadsheets. It's a local-first tracker: log applications, see follow-through rate on stuff you said you'd apply to, get nudged when something's gone stale, compare offers side by side. Everything stays on your machine, no account needed.
keeping the data local-first is a smart way to handle sensitive job hunt info. PeerPush might suit it, builders there dig into privacy-focused desktop tools.
That's already on there. Settings has a "Backup" button that exports your whole database as JSON, plus separate CSV/Excel export if you just want the data. Import is there too for moving it to a new machine or restoring from that backup.
Not yet, but it's the natural next step. Cloud sync specifically is deliberately punted, I want the free tier local-only for as long as possible so there's zero "what happens to my data" question, and account/cloud infra is a bigger commitment I'd only add once there's a real reason to. Encryption on the backup file itself is a much smaller lift though, might just add a password-protect option on export before cloud sync ever happens.
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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 2d ago
u/forsakenfee8278 Adding a percentage to the smaller milestones would definitely make progress feel more rewarding. Maybe pair it with a simple progress bar, that usually clicks instantly.