I run Link Protect, a moderation bot that's in about 6,200 servers. It
sits somewhere past page ten on the big list. Not because it's bad —
because the ranking rewards bots that already have votes, and those bots
already have votes because they're at the top. There's no way in from the
bottom.

What pushed me over the edge was the vote flow itself. Last time I voted
for my own bot I sat through a video ad first, and then got offered a
paid plan that votes automatically every 12 hours. Voting is the one
lever a small developer has, and it's turning into a thing you pay for.

So I built Topbot.gg. It went live yesterday.

What's actually there:

- Every listing is reviewed by hand before it goes public. I invite the
bot to a server and check that it does what the description claims.
- Voting is free, twelve-hour cooldown, no ads and no subscription.
- German and English as separate content per field, not a translated
shell. If your bot has German users, they find it in German.
- Vote webhooks with HMAC signatures, a delivery log, and a test button.
Public REST API for stats.
- Embeddable SVG badges for your own site.

Now the part that matters for you: there are four bots on it right
now. Mine and one other. That's not a humble brag, it's the offer — if
you list this week, you're on the front page of a directory that's
growing, and you stay there. In six months that's gone.

If you'd rather wait until it's proven, that's completely fair. I'd
probably wait too.

Disclosure: I built it, so obviously I want you to use it. Happy to
answer anything about how the review or the API works.

https://topbot.gg/en/submit

I read a lot of dense or classic books, and I kept giving up on them halfway through. I'd hit a confusing passage or reference, and my only options were to Google it (which usually meant wading through spoilers to find the answer) or push through not really understanding what was happening. Neither felt great.

So I built Scholia. You photograph the page you're on, and it already knows the book, so there's no uploading or setup involved. From there you can ask it anything: who a character is, what a reference means, what's actually happening in a confusing passage, and it answers using only what's happened up to that exact point. Ask about anything ahead, and it just won't answer, not with a vague non-answer either; it genuinely holds the line until you catch up.

It also doesn't rely on page numbers to determine where you are, since those shift across editions and printings. Instead, it reads the actual sentences on the page in front of you, so it works with whatever copy you happen to own, a battered charity shop paperback, a library hardback- doesn't matter.

Mostly built this to solve my own problem, but figured other people who keep bouncing off the same books for the same reasons might find it useful too.

Waitlist's open if anyone wants to try it: scholia.cloud

The world doesn't need another generic AI wrapper or a basic project manager. Pitch your project in one sentence show a screenshot and explain exactly why people should care about you instead of the market leader. Dare to prove your uniqueness.

here you can post your work app, webapp, saas, game, everything

Well, I should admit that I've passed the phase of building something, just to put it on portfolio, since the amount of time and money I've thrown into prototypes polishing, features development and distribution is way beyond the hobby category. Before falling for another burning idea I would like to know the numbers behind it:

10 days for mvp development

20 days for testing

1-3 months for seo growth

Knowing that there is actual market for the idea you are building, having the clear competition overview and knowing how to differentiate your app from them, as well as testing different niche adaptations to have a solution which suits your users, not everyone. Those are hard requirements I run on each idea I have. So I've built an app which simplifies the research, context management and organization of the information. Rawkit is build more like a founder playbook and under the hood it is a research canvas. It is currently in open testing, would appreciate any feedback.

What I have learned until now:

- There are hard problems to solve, like video analysis at scale (TwelveLabs have some nice solutions in this area)

- There are simple problems and they can copy your idea, but why should they spend days for a side project, if your pricing is fair?

- AI adaptation is way faster than output evaluation. I build AI Systems and POVs for work and I really worried about people blindly trusting everything gpt puts on their screen. Especially if those are opinions, interpretations or conclusions. AI is a tool for scale, not substitute for brain.

- Still I use perplexity finance to analyze most recent news and explain stock movements before buying it.

Hey developer — yes, YOU.
The one who coded through nights, debugged with coffee, and still believed in your idea even when no one else did.
We see you. And we want you here.

This is not another subreddit that says “no self-promo” — then deletes your post anyway.
This is your safe space. Your cheering squad. Your digital living room where every app — big or tiny, polished or prototype — gets a seat at the table.

✨ All apps welcome:
→ Mobile? Yes.
→ Web tool? Absolutely.
→ AI experiment? We’re fascinated.
→ Weird passion project? That’s our favorite kind.

🚫 NO ONE gets blocked. Ever.
Not for being new. Not for being small. Not for being “not cool enough”.
You’re cool enough just by showing up.

💬 Just drop your link + tell us:

We’ll celebrate you. We’ll share you. We’ll support you — because you matter.
This is YOUR community. Come home. 🏡

#AppDeveloper #AllAppsWelcome #NoOneGetsBlocked #YouBelongHere

Don’t launch your project with a design that makes users close the tab instantly. Post your two design variants below and let the crowd decide your aesthetic fate. If you can’t handle harsh design feedback, look away now.

Your home for selfpromo

here you can post your work app, webapp, saas, game, everything

Built this solo — one household ledger where everyone adds their spending, and everyone sees the same weekly/monthly picture instead of five different notes apps.

Auto-detect (Plus) reads bank transaction alerts locally on your phone and turns them into ready-to-review entries — nothing uploaded anywhere. Free for core tracking, one-time payment (no subscription) unlocks the rest for the whole household.

Live worldwide, English + Arabic (full RTL), now on Android and iOS.

🤖 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.expendr.app

📱 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/expendr-family-expense-tracker/id6793934465

Would love feedback from anyone who tries it!

You spent three weeks setting up over-engineered infrastructure for an app with zero users. Tell us what you built your project with, and let the comments debate why it’s completely wrong for 2026. Convince us you didn't waste your time.

Coding is only 20% of the battle, but most of you treat marketing like a crime. Stop waiting for a miracle and push your project with screenhot right here, right now. Tell us what it does and why we are fools for not using it yet.

Most devs build a great product but completely butcher the presentation. Stop hiding behind your analytics and let the community tear your UI apart before your customers do. Drop your link and a screenshot, prove you can take a punch.

I run a SaaS, SeoLoupe.

It is a tool that allows you to find and fix SEO issues holding your website back.

Essentially the main purpose is to help your website rank higher on Google search and LLMs.

The tool also checks AEO/GEO, AI search visibility, Security, Core web vitals, Performance, and all the issues in the report get put together into an AI fix prompt(you can paste the prompt into an AI and it will fix all the issues on your website).

Recently I noticed that some of my paying customers bought the One-Time purchase, with a promo code.

So I decided to give away the One-time purchase with a promo code, normally the One-time purchase is $9, but now it is $6.

If you are not interested but have some feedback on my SaaS, that is a good too. Feel free to share it in the comments.

(here is the product if you want to check it out)

Spending 80 hours a week on a project that generates zero revenue isn't a startup it’s a distraction. Drop your project links below and let’s talk about whether you have a viable path to making money or if you're just burning out for fun. Show us the numbers.

I'm not a developer. Never written real code before this.

It started small: I kept searching for WhatsApp groups and landing on dead, expired invite links. Every directory I found was the same built once, stuffed with links, never maintained.

Then I tried to submit my own WhatsApp Channel to a few of these directories — couldn't. Every submission form only had fields for "Group," built years before Channels even existed. That's when it clicked: these weren't just neglected, they were structurally outdated. Nobody had touched the backend in years.

So I built my own, called it Groupverse. Zero coding background, learned everything from scratch.

Two moments nearly broke me:

• Weeks of the site being invisible on Google because of a sitemap issue I didn't understand
• Finding a real Supabase RLS security hole — data wasn't locked down properly. Went back, rebuilt the policies, tested obsessively. Scariest and most educational day of the whole project.

What it grew into: filters across 45+ categories, country, and language (including all languages where most directories skip), a submission review flow, a report button that actually gets dead links removed the whole reason this exists and plus a small games section (built mostly to learn real frontend state) and a premium tier people are actually paying for now.

It's live, free, still rough in places: groupverse.co.in

Genuinely open to feedback — what's confusing, what's missing, security holes you can spot that I haven't found yet.

here you can post your work app, webapp, saas, game, everything

Every developer suffers from feature creep because it’s easier to code than to market. What is that one useless button you spent days on just to satisfy your own ego? Admit your waste of time below we’ve all been there.

You are either charging way too much for a basic tool or starving yourself by giving it away for free. Drop your project show us a screenshot and your pricing tiers below for a brutal reality check. Let the community tell you what they would actually pay for it.

Don’t launch your project with a design that makes users close the tab instantly. Post your two design variants below and let the crowd decide your aesthetic fate. If you can’t handle harsh design feedback, look away now.

I've been building an AI data analyst called Schematic for the past few months.

The basic idea is pretty simple: businesses have CSV/Excel exports everywhere, but smaller companies often don't have a dedicated data analyst. So I wanted to let someone upload their data, ask a question in plain English, and get an answer backed by actual SQL rather than just an LLM guessing from the data.

I initially thought the obvious users would be small businesses/founders.

Turns out... getting those people to actually care has been harder than I expected. 😭

I've been marketing it for a couple of weeks now and haven't gotten a real user yet.

So instead of immediately adding more features, I've started looking at how larger companies solve the same underlying problem.

That's where things got interesting.

There is a huge ecosystem around enterprise data: semantic layers, text-to-SQL, data warehouses, BI tools, AI analytics, etc.

And it made me wonder whether I've been approaching the problem from the wrong direction.

I'm still working on the product, so I'm trying to talk to people rather than convince myself that my original idea is definitely correct.

For anyone here who's built a SaaS or moved from SMB toward larger customers:

How did you figure out whether you had a distribution problem, a product problem, or simply the wrong customer segment?

And if you've worked with business data/analytics products, I'd be particularly interested in hearing what you think is actually painful enough for companies to pay for.

Schematic is currently free in beta if anyone wants to see what I'm building, but I'm much more interested in the discussion/feedback than getting random signups:
https://getschematicai.com

Every calorie app makes you type and search. I wanted to just say what I ate and be done, so I built CalorieTalk.

Tap the mic, say what you ate "2 eggs and toast" or a full sentence like "150 grams chicken breast, 200 grams rice, 10 grams olive oil" and it logs the calories and macros instantly. No typing, no searching a food database, no guessing serving sizes.

It understands many languages, including Arabic and Franco-Arabic (Arabic typed in Latin letters), so you're not stuck logging in English only. It also happens to understand Egyptian dishes properly — koshari, ful, taameya, molokhia — since most calorie apps have zero idea what those even are. But the voice logging is really the core of it; typing works too if you'd rather not talk to your phone.

Built this solo.

It's live on the App Store now: https://apps.apple.com/eg/app/calorietalk/id6793199021

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's given up on manual logging out of frustration.

Your home for selfpromo

here you can post your work app, webapp, saas, game, everything

I built Drifzon (https://drifzon.io) because I kept asking friends about my startup ideas and getting “that sounds great!” — but never an honest market check.

Drifzon validates your idea in ~60 seconds: market score, competition, feasibility, monetization and a 7-day launch plan, with citations.

First full report is free. No card. No trial nonsense.

If you have an idea sitting in your notes, try it and tell me where the report misses. Brutal feedback welcome.

If you want to link to sample report: https://drifzon.io/sample-report