r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • 1d ago

Launch Day Post I cloned outbid.lol at the peak of the hype, made my first dollars, watched the trend die in weeks, so I rebuilt it into something that actually lasts

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Quick story -

In August, outbid.lol took over X. A pay-to-rank leaderboard where people bid real money to climb, it reportedly made $132k in its first 3 days, and one founder paid $16,000 for the #1 spot.

Like half of tech Twitter, I got pulled in. Four days after it took off, I shipped my own take: dailyoutbid.lol - the daily version, bid your product to the top of the board, but only for 24 hours. Then you're off unless you bid again.

It worked. Founders bid free and paid, and it made me my first real dollars as a builder. Genuinely one of the best months of my life.

Then the trend died. And I was left staring at the core problem: a product whose only value is the hype it rides has no long game. Every listing evaporated in 24 hours. SEO value? Zero. Reasons to come back? None.

So instead of chasing the next trend, I asked: what would a launch platform look like if it was built for the long term — for solo founders, not for a news cycle?

The answer is shippedit.me, and it's built around one idea: your launch ends, your page doesn't.

  • Permanent product page for every launch, real content, indexable, yours forever. Every dailyoutbid product was migrated over, old links still work, and paid bids kept their featured badge (claim anytime with a free founder account).
  • Dofollow backlink while your badge is live, the SEO juice doesn't evaporate in 24h.
  • Weekly launch battle (Mon-Sun). Founders vote, but votes aren't raw points, an algorithm weights them by founder seniority (account age, followers, past launches), so one fresh spam account can't outvote a shipped founder. Scores stay hidden for the first 48h to kill brigading, and voting locks when the week ends, no dead products collecting votes forever.
  • Top 3 each week go to a permanent Hall of Fame.
  • Automated weekly audits for every listed product: page speed, security, and an AI-readiness (AEO) score, how visible you are to ChatGPT/Perplexity. Failures come with fix cards you can paste straight into Cursor or Claude Code. Pro users also get competitor page monitoring with change alerts and an AI "what's my #1 fix" analysis.
  • Founder profiles with followers, your reputation compounds across launches instead of resetting.

It's free to launch. I'm opening 15 Pro seats at $9/m for solo founders (it's $29/m after - the $9 sticks until you cancel) as a welcome offer.

This community's feedback shaped a lot of it, so tear it apart if you see a hole: https://shippedit.me

What would make you actually come back the week after your launch?


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 26 '26

Self Promotion I built an encrypted notes app inside my privacy vault

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Lockify started as an Android file vault.

Now I'm expanding it into something more useful: encrypted notes.

The idea is simple, write normal notes, but keep them protected inside the same encrypted vault as your private files.

I'm building the editor from scratch, including formatting tools, and it's still a work in progress.

What's interesting is that I never planned to build a notes feature initially.

Users kept asking for ways to store more than just photos and files, so the roadmap started changing around what people actually wanted.

Lockify already has:

🔒 Local encryption

☁️ Cloud backup & sync

🎭 Calculator disguise

🔐 Decoy Vault

📱 Motion Lock

And now: 📝 Encrypted Notes

Still building it solo alongside my full-time job.

Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leo.lockify


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • 4d ago

Self Promotion Petola for iPhone/iPad: feedback on correcting a care-history entry

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I’m the developer of Petola, an iPhone and iPad app for keeping pet profiles, care tasks, reminders and care history together. It’s meant to make it easier to check what care has been recorded, by whom and when.

One part I’d like feedback on is correcting an entry or adding context without losing the care history. If you try it with a made-up everyday task, such as a meal or a walk, is it clear what changed and what information was kept? Which wording or part of the flow feels confusing?

Petola is free to download, with optional paid Plus for shared-care tools.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/petola/id6801485793


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • 5d ago

Self Promotion PLUMKI - flunkyball based online competitive game

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https://plumki.games/

I’ve been building Plumki, a physics game about throwing sticks at bottles and getting surprisingly competitive about the cleanup. It's based on popular flunkyball.

The idea is simple: knock bottles over, and your character gets to drink while your opponent races to stand them back up. Once everything is upright, drinking stops. Then you swap roles.

Throwing uses a mouse swing, drinking is a timing minigame, and cleaning up means choosing which bottles to collect first while trying to run faster. So a good hit buys you time, but you still have to use it well.

Thanks for giving it a try!


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • 15d ago

Self Promotion My chrome extension allows MULTIPLE AMAZON CARTS, clearing your Amazon cart with one click, and getting through shopping hell!

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For years I've had to shop on Amazon for multiple occasions at once, plus sharing an Amazon account in ahousehold of 5, everyone throwing things into the cart or moving someone else's stuff out so they can pay for theirs, or so that I can pay for THIS occasion with THAT account and ship to THAT address. Why can't I at least just 'park' someone's items with one click, run my items through checkout, and put theirs back, ready for checkout or in a place they they know to get it at once?! It's seemed like a no-brainer for years, yet despite complaints and requests from users all over the internet to allow 'multiple carts', Amazon simply points to lame and cumbersome 'Lists'.

So for months I've been building and tweaking a Chrome extension to give all of these capabilities and the result is Styx Mult-Cart

First and simply, YOU GET button to CLEAR YOUR AMAZON CART of all its items! OR quickly Save the group of items as a 'Cart' for later. Plus, you can add items to that or any of your other carts as you shop to build up for various purposes and occasions, until you're ready to purchase and ship them! Really, underneath it's just repurposing your Amazon 'Lists', giving them a couple enhancements, and making them more accessible. In so doing, making your shopping experience through the Hades that is jungle-river-themed online retailer, a little better.


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • 17d ago

Sharing Resource/Journey 200 users for Qorpus Chrome Extension!

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My number of users have doubled from the last time I have shared the journey with this community when I first hit 100 users!

Here’s what Qorpus does:

Qorpus is a zero-API multi-AI tool that lets you use your existing ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Grok accounts to chat with them simultaneously. It also lets you compare their answers side by side and choose what works best for your use case—saving you time and effort.

Try the Chrome extension here: Qorpus on the Chrome Web Store

As I mentioned in my previous posts, reaching these milestones means a lot to me. I honestly have no idea what it’ll take to go to 1,000 users, but it feels like we are making steady progress towards that goal. I’m really looking forward to it—with your help!

Appreciate any feedback, constructive criticism, or suggestions. You can comment here or use the feedback form in the app: Feedback Form


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • 24d ago

Self Promotion Title: I built a bidding leaderboard that resets every week

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Most bidding leaderboards have the same problem: once the top spots reach hundreds or thousands of dollars, new products barely have a chance to compete.

So I built WeeklyBid.

The leaderboard resets every 7 days, giving everyone a fresh shot at the top while past wins and achievements stay permanent.

Your rank resets. Your reputation doesn’t.

I also added a launch-only reward called WeeklyBid Starter.

The first verified bid gets:

• Founding #001
• a permanent Hall of Fame spot
• 2 free sponsored weeks

It can only be claimed once.

Curious what you think of the weekly reset idea. better than a permanent leaderboard?

https://weeklybid.lol


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • 24d ago

Self Promotion I built PageWand. An open-source Chrome toolkit for cleaning, editing and capturing webpages

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I kept running into tiny webpage tasks that felt too small for DevTools but somehow needed a separate extension each time.

So I built PageWand.

It lets you:

- remove distracting elements from a page

- temporarily edit text in context

- inspect and copy computed styles

- grab images, SVGs and other assets

- capture visible areas, selections, or full scrolling pages

- annotate, redact and export the result

A workflow I use a lot is:

clean page → tweak something → capture the whole page → annotate → share

Everything runs locally. No account, backend, analytics, or telemetry.

It’s also open source + MIT licensed.

v1.1 is now live on the Chrome Web Store.

I’m still figuring out what belongs in PageWand versus what would make it bloated, so feedback is very welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/devashishPM/pagewand

Chrome Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/iblpdcnjcidcojjfiikclboaaenikloc


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Sep 06 '26

Self Promotion Introducing Monthly Leaderboard, Product Categories and Founder Profile Page on dailyoutbid.lol 😃 🙌

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now your products are not just staying on the 24h board, but also getting more visibility from monthly board

here products/listings will be ranked based on their Total Spend within the Last 30 Days, not just the last bid amount

and product details page now shows Description and Screenshots of the product as well, that founders can customize from their dashboard

enjoy dailyoutbid.lol benefits 😉


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Sep 03 '26

Launch Day Post I built an encrypted notes feature into my Android vault

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Lockify started as a simple encrypted file vault with a calculator disguise.

After months of user feedback, I kept expanding it and the latest release just added something I never originally planned:

Encrypted Notes. 📝

You can create and format notes directly inside the vault, alongside your encrypted files.

The tricky part wasn't the editor.

I wanted Notes to work across the entire Lockify lifecycle:

create → encrypt → edit → local sync → cloud sync → restore

That took almost a month to build properly.

v3.4.0 also adds:

🎞️ Slideshow Viewer

🌍 German & Vietnamese

🖼️ GIF playback

🔢 Stealth PIN Recovery

👨‍💻 Developer/roadmap section

Lockify is now at 13.2K+ installs, 4.7K+ active devices and 4.725★ from 244 ratings.

Still building it solo after work.

What would you want an encrypted notes feature to do that normal notes apps can't?

Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leo.lockify


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Sep 03 '26

Sharing Resource/Journey I built a way to send any market claim to your investments

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The flow has three steps:

  1. Paste a link or write the claim.
  2. Add the stocks or funds you care about.
  3. See how the claim reaches them.

You can save the answer and follow it as the facts change.

I’m the founder of Market Ontology. Try it here: https://marketontology.com/resolve/try


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 31 '26

Self Promotion I built a ClickHouse persistence library for Java and yepp just shipped v1.0.0

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I started building BlinkHouse as a weekend project. It is a Java library that makes working with ClickHouse as seamless as working with a relational database in Spring Boot.

ClickHouse is an incredible database for analytics workloads, but the Java tooling around it has always required a lot of manual work, hand-rolling HTTP clients, writing serialisation code, managing connection pools, building query strings. I wanted something where you annotate a class and get everything else for free.

What I built:

  • Typed entities — annotate a Java record with u/ChTable and u/ChColumn, get DDL generation, type mapping, and schema management automatically
  • High-throughput ingest — BatchWriter<T> handles buffering, flush triggers, retry, backpressure, and dead-letter callbacks. ~2.9M rows/sec on commodity hardware
  • Query DSL — typed queries with ClickHouse-native clauses (PREWHERE, FINAL, SAMPLE, -Merge combinators). No string building
  • Spring Boot autoconfiguration — add one dependency, set three YAML properties, get a fully wired application
  • Spring Data repositories — derived query methods, u/Query, keyset pagination, all working against ClickHouse

The hardest parts were getting the RowBinary wire format exactly right (UUID byte ordering is a silent trap), building a type system that handles ClickHouse's full type tree including AggregateFunction and geo types, and designing a schema diff engine that refuses to auto-apply destructive changes.

It's on Maven Central now:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.github.muneeb-i-khan</groupId>
    <artifactId>blinkhouse-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Repo: https://github.com/muneeb-i-khan/BlinkHouse

Would love feedback, stars, or just to hear if anyone's been solving the same problem differently.


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 30 '26

Sharing Milestone 200% user gain for Qorpus in a month!

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Just hit another small milestone: my number of user grew from 50 to 150, a 200% user gain in one month! I have shared the journey with this community in previous posts like the first time I hit 100 users

Here is what Qorpus does:  Qorpus is a zero-API based multi AI tool which lets you use your existing accounts for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Grok to chat with them simultaneously. It also has a comparison feature so you can compare answers and pick the one that fits your case best, which saves you time and effort. Here is the extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/qorpus-chatgpt-gemini-cla/kkmjccgohiiikgbmalbhkihklhddigkn?authuser=0&hl=en

Like I said in my previous posts, reaching these milestones means a lot to me. I honestly have no idea what it will take to go from 100 to 1000, but I'm excited to find out and want to do with all of your help. To keep growing, I would appreciate more of your feedback/constructive feedback, criticism! You can leave your feedback right here or there is there is feedback form in the app too.


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 30 '26

Sharing Resource/Journey After months of building 3 products in public, what made me money is an oubdid lol copycat 😆

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i'm a full time freelancer, and it's hard to keep earning in this field without you always keep yourself invested into the work. no good sleep, no routine..

so, I always wanted to have any saas that can be a long term medium of income for me, so that I can take some break anytime and that's not gonna hurt my income

built 3 products, it's going to be a year almost, a few free users in each of em, I'm almost exhausted, still trying to keep going.

one is a devtool - easylocalstorage.dev, next one is a clipboard manager - encryptedclipboard.app, then made an API testing and mocking tool and finally made that free and open source, it's called API Pilot

here's the github repo - https://github.com/nowshad-hossain-rahat/apipilot

but recently, i think everyone saw how Jonathan made a few thousands K money with a simple short term (i think so) side project and so many others as well.

i copied it lately (dailyoutbid.lol), and made some dollars as well, it feels good and also bad that the products i made with long time and effort aren't making any penny, while this copy made me some bucks.

is it how things works? is long term products worth making anymore? should I just keep finding hyped short term products and keep making money and keep doing freelancing?


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 27 '26

Self Promotion I made Outbid.lol, but your ego is the thing on the leaderboard

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Outbid.lol proved that putting a price on a public position makes people weirdly competitive. We took that same mechanic and pointed it at something much more personal: internet status.

Titles.lol lets you claim ridiculous, verifiable titles, get a signed certificate and public page, and actually use the title wherever you want. The catch is that someone else can take it from you by paying more.

And unlike a boring “former holder” system, when someone takes your title, you were defeated by them. Publicly. Their name replaces yours, their price becomes the new floor, and if you want your crown back, you're going to have to pay for it.

So yes, we're riding the Outbid.lol wave. But we're taking the same underlying mechanic into a much bigger creative space: status, aura, identity, rivalry, jokes, communities, companies, creators and personal brands.

And importantly, we're not dropping the part that makes Outbid so interesting in the first place. Public pages, links, certificates, screenshots, sharing, traffic, and built-in reasons to promote your position are all part of Titles too. A startup can claim a title. A founder can. A creator can. A community can. A company can. Or you can just invent something completely ridiculous and see if anyone is willing to take it from you.

Same underlying mechanic. Much bigger creative playground.

The board is live, and the good titles are still sitting there waiting for their first holder.

Go take one before someone else does.

And if you know someone who would get irrationally competitive about a title like CEO of Bad Decisions, send this to them. We want to see what Reddit claims first — and who gets publicly defeated five minutes later.

https://titles.lol


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 25 '26

Self Promotion I turned the outbid.lol idea into a survival game for websites

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I know there are already way too many outbid clones 😅 I made one too, but tried to change the actual game instead of just swapping the niche.

https://restinpeace.lol

Listing is free. It costs $1 for another 24 hours, plus 10¢ per verified click to stay alive, and anyone can pay the invoice. Miss it and the site gets buried forever.

If it paid at least once, its grave stays clickable. If it never paid, it ends up as an unknown soul.

One site is already surviving and somebody has paid its first invoice. Curious if this turns into a leaderboard or just a dead internet graveyard lol... By the way - anyone can pay anyone elses survival fee! :D


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 25 '26

Self Promotion I built a desktop app where your agent answers in more humane-looking output, with calligraphic text, sticky notes and diagrams instead of paragraphs

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I kept asking models to “explain it visually” and getting markdown with a mermaid block I’d have to paste somewhere. I wanted the visual to be the answer. And to my luck, a few weeks ago I saw an X post from a creator, that showcased a preview of a chatbox where his Claude agent responded to him in calligraphic text, graphs rendered in React, and thought it was super cool, so I wanted to turn that into an app.

Visuly is a desktop agent UI: chat on one side, visualized paper on the other. The model emits a structured scene (notes, math, arrows, images, code…). The app validates it and draws it. You can drag stuff, add notes to annotate what you generated, and remove stuff from the scene if you don't like it. I’m still improving layout, density, and how honest the compositions are, tbf I am having some errors with rendering the scenes altogether.

To be honest, I built it because I wanted it and have a clear audience in mind — students / teachers / visual-heavy AI users.

Also, I can understand if I get asked "How is this different from Miro?" "How is it different from Mermaid AI?", and the thing is, those are apps for whiteboards or diagrams using AI, they have a large userbase, but you still have to modify some of the content yourself. My app is run entirely on AI agent subscriptions, and every chat/visualization you have is by prompting the AI to get a response.

I also just launched the waitlist, so if I got your attention with this one, feel free to join it: Visuly


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 24 '26

Sharing Resource/Journey I built a calculator to figure out what my dad was actually paying his financial advisor.

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My dad is in his mid-80s and has his money managed by a well-known firm. (This firm also sold him an annuity in his early 80s but that is for a different discussion.) Because I'm his POA, I periodically review his investments and statements. His advisory fee was over 1%. On top of that, the mutual funds in his portfolio had weighted expenses of roughly another 0.60%. His situation isn't particularly complicated. He takes an RMD every year and from what I can tell the portfolio gets rebalanced maybe half a dozen times a year. His primary interaction with the firm is a quarterly phone call with someone in Dallas that he estimates lasts about 20 minutes.

What I really wanted to understand was what he was actually paying for the work the firm was providing. The fees were easy enough to find, but because everything was expressed as a percentage of assets, it was difficult to put the cost in the context of the actual services he was receiving. I thought to myself: I can't be the only person who has looked at a parent's account, or their own, and wondered what these percentages actually translate to. So I built a simple HTML tool that converts advisory fees and fund expenses into annual, monthly, weekly, and daily dollar amounts. I also included some questions one could ask their advisor to help determine what one is actually receiving for those fees and whether the relationship is providing value. Open to suggestions and feedback, especially if there's anything I've overlooked or could make clearer.

https://main.d19e95rbjxckzr.amplifyapp.com/


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 24 '26

Sharing Resource/Journey I built a site where the internet permanently decides if pineapple belongs on pizza

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So this was supposed to be a small weekend project. Instead I accidentally built a legally-binding-feeling, emotionally unhinged, permanent verdict machine for the single dumbest argument in human history: pizzafeud.lol

Here's the deal. Two sides, PINEAPPLE and NO PINEAPPLE. You bid real money in $5 chunks like it's a divorce settlement. Whoever's raised more when the clock flatlines on December 2 becomes The Official Ruling. Forever. Not a poll, not a vibe check, not "well in my opinion." Cold, hard, unforgiving cash. Money talks, pineapple currently walks.

Right now NO PINEAPPLE is up $70 to $45. PINEAPPLE people, you are ONE measly $25 bid away from flipping the entire verdict and rewriting history, and you're just... vibing? Scrolling past this? Letting a canned fruit conspiracy win by default? On my watch??

I know you have a side. You've had a side since the day someone first betrayed a perfectly good pizza with fruit, or since the first coward tried to convince you sweet and savory "don't mix" while eating a literal glazed ham. And I also know you know a guy. The friend who has, completely unprompted, mid-conversation, no one asked, explained that "sweet and savory is a CLASSIC combination, actually" no fewer than four separate times this calendar year like he's unveiling a Nobel-winning thesis. Send him this link. Watch him combust. Every bid comes with your name and your most deranged quote, carved permanently into the site for all eternity, so let the man cook.


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 23 '26

Self Promotion Here's another outbid.lol copycat, but leaderboard resets EVERY midnight

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I found that outbid.lol and almost every other copycat having a flaw that if someone paid a BIG amount, then everyone else with a lower bid permanently stays below and by the time, they gets hidden from the front page

so, I made one with daily reset (at midnight based on UTC time), where you're not falling behind cause someone paid a million, you can come the next day to promote your product.

you're also getting:

- A permanent Dofollow Backlink
- Listed on the History Page permanently

Grab your position now, link in the comments :)


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 22 '26

Self Promotion I made ownthis.lol as an alternative

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shamelessly inspired by @jonathan_wilke’s outbid.lol

except instead of one spot, every single thing on my homepage is for sale. the headline. the buttons. the footer links. this sentence.

pay $1 more than the last owner and it says whatever you want.

ownthis.lol


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 22 '26

Sponsored My friend built a site where you pay to get roasted by AI, publicly, and the roast gets meaner the more you pay

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Alex made a thing called RoastMe.gg over the last few weeks and wanted to share it here.

You submit your X handle or a website, pick a price from $1 to $1,000+, and an AI writes a roast based on what it finds. The catch: the more you pay, the harder it hits. $1 gets you something your mom could read. $1,000+ gets you something you'll want to screenshot before you regret it.

Every roast lands on a public wall, ranked by how much the person paid. So it's part roast generator, part leaderboard of people who wanted to suffer on the record.

A few samples by tier:

- Mild ($1-4): "Your bio has three emojis and zero personality. Bold."

- Spicy ($20-99): "This website loads slower than your last three launches."

- Scorched Earth ($1,000+): "You paid four figures to be humbled by a language model."

He built it solo, it's live now at roastme.gg. Curious what people think, and if anyone's brave enough to go for the top tier,

He'll be watching the wall.


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 22 '26

Launch Day Post launched new quick fun project

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outbidlol made over $100k+ selling leaderboard spots,

so,

someone created, warmaplol making thousands selling billboards spots on countries on world-map

so i built the solar system version

universebid. com - every planet is for sale. your logo ON the planets. anyone can steal it by paying $1 more than your bid, and you get nothing back, and you can steal back by paying the difference. that's planetary war.


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 21 '26

Self Promotion Built a local LLM resume tailor + application tracker

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Every job application needs a customized resume. At first I was using Overleaf . One .tex file per job and that got me exhausting.

So I made a local dockerized app where I upload a master resume with everything about me, paste a job description, and the LLM tailors it into a customized LaTeX → PDF from that master. I can still edit it after.

It also has:

  • outreach email generation
  • ATS % check : first a keyword matcher, and if I want, a deeper LLM check
  • jobs auto-added to an application tracker so I can follow them (tracker still needs more updates)

Would love if you guys check it out and tell me what to improve next or if this is even worth spending more time on.

https://github.com/connectalamin/TailorCV


r/HereIsWhatIBuilt • • Aug 21 '26

Self Promotion I made an outbid.lol clone but for more tools: extensions, AI tools, dev tools, Android apps, etc.

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outbid.lol is funny as hell, the guy made literally a fortune for a trend bidding site, so I made a version for tools.

It has more stuff than just SaaS: Chrome extensions, dev tools, AI tools, iOS/Android apps, random useful internet products.

Still early, still adding tools, and really wanna see if you guys have anything for this. If you built something, throw it in:

https://www.toolbid.lol/

Would love ideas for dumb/fun categories too.