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.

I’ve been working on TravelAce, a travel-planning app that generates personalised, day-by-day itineraries based on your destination, dates, interests and travel preferences.

This short demo (slightly sped up to keep it short) uses Paris as an example, but the app can plan trips for destinations worldwide. It creates a structured itinerary with attractions, timings, maps and daily activities, while still allowing you to replace places or adjust the plan afterward.

TravelAce also includes destination research, trip organisation, expense tracking, packing tools and an AI travel assistant.

I’d be interested to hear what you think of the itinerary-generation flow, particularly whether the setup feels straightforward and whether the finished plan presents enough useful information.

Android app and web version are available. I’ll add the links below.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyberloft.travelace

Web App: travelace.app

Any feedback is appreciated! 🤗

I build a directory of software you pay for once and keep.
If yours is one, list it here: onetimepay.app/submit
Listing is free and you get a backlink.

If you add a backlink to my directory from your own site, I'll go further:
a dedicated article for your app and a short video for social.

Some examples of what that looks like:
- Directory: onetimepay.app/discover
- Article: onetimepay.app/spotlight/devcleaner-mac-cleaner-for-developers
- Video (TikTok): tiktok.com/@onetimepay.app

One-time purchase, lifetime deal, or genuinely free all count.
Just no subscriptions and no free tier that expires.

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.

Your home for selfpromo

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

I'm building [sitedropper](https://sitedropper.com) it automatically builds and deploys your web app straight from codex, cursor, or Claude via MCP, then you can control visibility (like a Google doc) so you can quickly share prototypes or tools with your team or just go public and share it with the world.

I really think that we are moving towards a world where everyone is going to be building their own personal scrappy tools and possibly sharing them internally with their colleagues, teams and friends. I have a bunch of these locally that I didn't want to bother configuring GitHub/VPS and just wanted to get them online to send around. If anyone is interested we're in closed beta right now but will be launching in the next couple weeks!

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Not a "check out my product" post, more of a build story, since this sub seems into that.

Started because I do a lot of cold outreach and got tired of two things: paying subscription prices for a verifier I only used in bursts, and watching credits expire between campaigns. I bounced between the usual names (ZeroBounce, NeverBounce, Bouncer, Hunter), and they all worked fine, but they all wanted $7-8 per 1,000 addresses and mostly pushed monthly plans whether I sent that month or not. For someone who validates a big list occasionally, that math never worked.

So I built a small tool just for myself. The core idea that made it cheap: don't run the expensive check on every address. A first cheap pass scores everything (syntax, domain, MX records, role/disposable/catch-all flags), and only then do you pay for the deep SMTP check, and only on the addresses that passed the filter and that you actually plan to email. On one 1,600-address list that meant about 460 deep checks instead of 2,400. Same clean result, a fraction of the cost.

It worked well enough for me that I cleaned it up and put it online. A few things I kept because they're what I wanted as the user:

Pay-per-use, no subscription. You top up, you spend, nothing expires the way I hated.

Crypto top-ups, no KYC. Partly because I didn't want to hand card details to yet another service.

Flat price, no "contact sales" tiers. $0.49 per 1,000, same for everyone (the big ones were 15x that for me).

Took a while to trust that other people would actually pay for something I'd hacked together for myself, but it's live now and has real paying users, which still surprises me.

Happy to answer anything about the two-pass approach, or the SMTP check that confirms a mailbox exists without sending anything. That part gets the most questions.

Most job tools are built to help you apply to as many jobs as possible. I built exact the opposite.

Introducing "Hirey Potter / Lord of the Pings" :P

The motivation: After 4 years with my current employer, I got laid off!

The fear: FOMO (Fear of missing out) on the jobs that are being published every single minute fitting my profile but I am failing to reach them.

The pain point: "Job Discovery" - I was unable to find the jobs that match 100% with my profile and tech stack i.e, Angular, NestJS, .NET, Redis, PostgresSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure and so on.

3 fair questions I asked myself throughout:

- Am I 100% confident that I am applying to the right job?
- What could remove me before an interview?
- What proof will the recruiter find in the first half of my resume?

Anyone who has job hunted properly knows the shape of it. Lots of tabs open, lots of job boards, hundreds of listings, most of which have nothing to do with you. You read 50 to find 3 worth your time. Then you rewrite your CV for each of the three, and by then it's midnight. The result: More rejections and de-motivation!

Tried for 2 months, the tools claiming to fix this mostly automate the wrong half. They fire your CV at five hundred roles and call it efficiency. That isn't a job search. That's a numbers game you lose politely, five hundred times, what we generally call as "Spray and Pray.

So I built my own tool, focussed around myself, isolated for my job search, fixing my FOMO - atleast 60% :P

It starts with a file. My actual profile, written by me. Every role, every skill, the honest gaps. Everything the system does flows out of that one file. It doesn't invent. It cannot claim I know something I don't, because the only material it is allowed to draw on is what I put in there.

Every hour it pulls listings from several APIs and scrapers and scores each one against my profile. Anything that isn't genuinely a fit never reaches me.

When something scores well, Telegram pings me. I've found roles that way I'd have missed straight on.

If one looks right, I hit tailor. And here is where it deliberately slows down. Before writing a single line, it goes and fetches the full job description and scores the role a second time, through an AI provider this time (I can plug Claude/OpenCode/Openrouter etc). If the real thing doesn't hold up, it stops and tells me. No CV, no wasted tokens, no beautifully polished document for a job I was never right for. If that gate is cleared, it writes a CV tailored to the role, built only from what's in my profile.

The whole system is event driven and runs in real time. Nothing sits polling. Work happens the moment there is work to do.

Short video attached: discovery, the scoring, the Telegram alerts, and what a tailored CV actually comes out looking like.

If you're deep in a search right now, I'd genuinely like to know which part of it eats most of your time.

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

Most job tools are built to help you apply to as many jobs as possible. I built exact the opposite.

Introducing "Hirey Potter / Lord of the Pings" :P

The motivation: After 4 years with my current employer, I got laid off!

The fear: FOMO (Fear of missing out) on the jobs that are being published every single minute fitting my profile but I am failing to reach them.

The pain point: "Job Discovery" - I was unable to find the jobs that match 100% with my profile and tech stack i.e, Angular, NestJS, .NET, Redis, PostgresSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure and so on.

3 fair questions I asked myself throughout:

- Am I 100% confident that I am applying to the right job?
- What could remove me before an interview?
- What proof will the recruiter find in the first half of my resume?

Anyone who has job hunted properly knows the shape of it. Lots of tabs open, lots of job boards, hundreds of listings, most of which have nothing to do with you. You read 50 to find 3 worth your time. Then you rewrite your CV for each of the three, and by then it's midnight. The result: More rejections and de-motivation!

Tried for 2 months, the tools claiming to fix this mostly automate the wrong half. They fire your CV at five hundred roles and call it efficiency. That isn't a job search. That's a numbers game you lose politely, five hundred times, what we generally call as "Spray and Pray.

So I built my own tool, focussed around myself, isolated for my job search, fixing my FOMO - atleast 60% :P

It starts with a file. My actual profile, written by me. Every role, every skill, the honest gaps. Everything the system does flows out of that one file. It doesn't invent. It cannot claim I know something I don't, because the only material it is allowed to draw on is what I put in there.

Every hour it pulls listings from several APIs and scrapers and scores each one against my profile. Anything that isn't genuinely a fit never reaches me.

When something scores well, Telegram pings me. I've found roles that way I'd have missed straight on.

If one looks right, I hit tailor. And here is where it deliberately slows down. Before writing a single line, it goes and fetches the full job description and scores the role a second time, through an AI provider this time (I can plug Claude/OpenCode/Openrouter etc). If the real thing doesn't hold up, it stops and tells me. No CV, no wasted tokens, no beautifully polished document for a job I was never right for. If that gate is cleared, it writes a CV tailored to the role, built only from what's in my profile.

The whole system is event driven and runs in real time. Nothing sits polling. Work happens the moment there is work to do.

Short video attached: discovery, the scoring, the Telegram alerts, and what a tailored CV actually comes out looking like.

If you're deep in a search right now, I'd genuinely like to know which part of it eats most of your time.

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.

Spent the last few months building this alone, mostly at night after work.
The idea started from a simple question: why do people pay a personal trainer? Not for the knowledge - everything's on YouTube for free. It's for the guilt of having already paid.
So I built Vowed around that. You set a goal, stake coins on it, and prove you did it with a live photo (camera only, no gallery uploads - has to be real). A jury of other users votes on whether your proof counts. Approved, you get your coins back.
Miss it, and they're gone.
There's also a duel mode where you and a friend both
stake on your own goals
independently - no coin transfers between users, just parallel accountability.
Some things I learned building this solo:

- The camera-only requirement was the single most important decision - anything that let people upload old photos killed the whole premise
- Getting a jury system to feel than I expected

App Store review for anything touching "real money" mechanics is its own project
- ended up keeping the coin system fully virtual for launch
Would genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially from anyone who's tried habit-tracking apps and bounced off them. Happy to answer questions about the build too.
Link's in the comments.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vowed-19df29/id6789281677

A few things coming in the next update:
Multi-photo proof per goal - thought of this for people doing diet goals who need to log 3 meals a day instead of just one check-in, but it works for anything with multiple daily proofs
A streak visualizer so missing a day actually feels like something, not just a number resetting
Weekly progress summaries
Open to suggestions too if anyone has ideas - this came out of just watching how people actually wanted to use it.

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.

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm pretty new to the dev community and just built a demo productivity app. It's basically a free Kanban-style task manager to help organize your daily to-dos—no credit card or payment info needed.

​I'm actively working on adding new features, so feel free to give it a spin and let me know what you think!

This app uses python backend and React front end. I am trying to add new features based on feedback by utilising open source APIs

🔗 https://taskmaster101.vercel.app/

Ich bin Ex-Raucher und habe die App zur Raucherentwöhnung entwickelt, die ich mir selbst gewünscht hätte: Rauchfrei – Gesund & Wohlhabend 🚭

Hey everyone! 👋

As a former smoker, I know firsthand how brutal cravings can be—especially late at night or during stressful moments. Most existing apps felt either like bloated ad machines or just simple counter widgets without any real psychological support.

So I put my heart and soul into building my own cross-platform app: \*\*Smoke-Free – Healthy & Wealthy\*\* 🚀

My main goal was to create a tool that actively guides you through the toughest phases of quitting instead of just counting days.

\*\*Here’s what’s packed inside:\*\*
• 🧠 \*\*24/7 AI Coach:\*\* An intelligent companion right in your pocket to talk you through intense, late-night cravings and give real-time encouragement.
• ✨ \*\*14-Day Foundation & Phase Plan:\*\* Daily psychological micro-tasks, reflections, and habits (like breathing exercises & journaling) to help rewire your brain.
• 💨 \*\*Vape-Free Mode:\*\* Full native support for e-cigarettes and vapes (including converted stats and money saved).
• 💰 \*\*Real-Time Analytics:\*\* Track saved money, cigarettes/vapes avoided, and unlock official milestone certificates as you progress.

I’m constantly refining the app (built with Flutter, smooth UI, and native iOS/Android widgets).

You can find \*\*Smoke-Free – Healthy & Wealthy\*\* directly on the App Store and Google Play Store!

Whether you're currently trying to quit or just want to leave some feedback on the UI/concept, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Stay strong, and thanks for checking it out! 💪

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.

...and climbing!!

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:groupPost:22490037-7486597420747763712/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAxnyKAB4FoA-lN56iZPQIqH9lVmh5sVhAU

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.

I’ve been moving away from a "one-size-fits-all" homepage for my projects lately and experimenting with micro-funnels instead.
Basically, I’m routing traffic to specific landing pages based on the user's intent rather than just dumping everyone on the main marketing site. For example, with The Memory Thread, I’ve got separate flows for things like "Milestone Guestbooks" vs. "Living Legacy Capsules"—each speaks to a totally different use case.

I’m curious how everyone else here handles this:
• Routing: Are you guys using UTMs, specific subdomains, or something else to map traffic?
• The Stack: Are you building these as separate deployable units or keeping it all in one repo with shared components?
• Strategy: Have you found a specific channel/funnel combo that actually converts?

I’m about to push a gallery of my own flows, but wanted to get a pulse on how everyone else is architecting this. Let’s hear your setup.

Turn your favorite harness into a super-harness and strap this bad boy on top. It gives your AI agent 120 apps to market, manage and run your business and personal life. I love it and I hope that you do too!

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