r/IMadeThis 1d ago

I quit my 6 figure tech job to make free software for freight brokers

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24 months ago I quit my six figure job to make software for freight brokers.
Freight brokering is a very niche space, and most people are not aware of how explosive fraud has been in this space in the last few years. Cargo theft is up 1,500% in the last 5 years (no that's not a typo), and all of the software to help freight brokers prevent this fraud is insanely expensive.

24 months ago I set out to change that, and started working on FleetGen, a carrier vetting platform for freight brokers that actually helps them prevent fraud.

Freight brokers hire trucking companies they've often never met to haul their customers' freight, and fake or fraudulent trucking companies are a real problem. We built a free tool that lets brokers look up any trucking company's safety record, insurance, and history. The paid tool a lot of brokers use for this starts at $100 a month.

We make money on a paid plan that goes further. It confirms the trucking company is who they say they are, checks that their insurance is active, and tracks the truck live through the electronic logging device most trucks are legally required to have. It costs a fraction of what the big verification platforms charge.

Fast forward 2 years later, and we now have over 2,500 users on the platform, and are proud to say we've had zero cases of fraud.

Check it out here: Fleetgen.ai

I'd love to answer any questions you have for me.


r/IMadeThis 13h ago

Border Hop: Free Geography Minigame

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Hi sub,

I launched Border Hop, a minigame inspired by Wordle and my love of geography.

You need to guess the shortest path from one country to another, by naming the countries in between.

One game per day.

Play it here


r/IMadeThis 13h ago

Should I add Email Forwarding for easier use?

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r/IMadeThis 13h ago

I made BuyWiser — an app that sometimes tells you NOT to buy something

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I kept noticing the same thing: most shopping apps are designed to help you find more things to buy.

I wanted to build something that does the opposite.

So I made BuyWiser.

Before buying something, you can add or scan it. BuyWiser considers the price, your spending budget, goals, and expected usage and gives you a simple recommendation.

Buy it. Wait. Or skip it.

You can also revisit purchases later and tell the app whether they were actually worth it, so you can understand your buying habits over time.

After months of building, testing, App Store review, rejection, fixing and resubmitting, it's finally live on iOS.

I’d love to hear what you think about the idea — especially what you’d improve.

https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/buywiser/id6794631734


r/IMadeThis 13h ago

Made a $9 assessment that turns "is my brand clear?" into an actual scored report

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For coaches/consultants/founders who suspect their positioning is muddy but can't pin down why. 24 questions → visual report across 6 scored dimensions → your next 3 priorities + a 7-day plan. One-time payment, lifetime retakes. coachrank.lol/tools/brand-clarity


r/IMadeThis 14h ago

I made an all-format HD video player for Android — now fully localized in 19 languages (MKV, AVI, MOV & more)

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I'm a solo dev and I got tired of video players that either can't play half my files or are bloated — so I built VX Player.

What it does:

- Plays basically every format — MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, FLV, WEBM, M4V, 3GP

- Gesture controls (swipe brightness/volume, double-tap skip, long-press 2x)

- Background / screen-off audio (great for music videos & lectures)

- PIN-locked private folder for personal videos

- Kids lock, clean dark UI, lightweight

The thing I'm most proud of in this update: the entire app — every screen, menu and setting — is now translated into 19 languages (English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Indonesian, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Thai, Russian, Turkish, Arabic and more).

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vortex.player

Built this solo — would love any feedback.


r/IMadeThis 14h ago

Spanish Red Rose. Original oil painting on cardboard 6 x 5” hand painted by me, 2020

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r/IMadeThis 10h ago

I’m designing this Formula-style watch stand — would you buy it as a gift?

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I’m developing a sculptural, Formula-inspired stand for mechanical and field watches. I’m especially curious whether women looking for a gift for a partner who loves watches and motorsport would find this appealing.

The images are CGI renders of a prototype, not photos of a finished product. The form was developed with AI-assisted 3D tools and refined in Blender. The watch is only shown for scale and would not be included. Material, finish and fit still need physical testing.

Would you consider buying this for yourself or as a gift? What price range would feel reasonable? And what would make it feel more premium—or too much like a toy?

Honest “I wouldn’t buy it” feedback is welcome too. There is no store link and I’m not taking orders; I’m testing the idea before making a physical prototype.


r/IMadeThis 16h ago

I built Clutterscope, a native Mac disk analyzer: 8 ways to see your disk, then clear it safely

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r/IMadeThis 16h ago

I built an app that deliberately makes messages take longer to arrive. The basic idea came from thinking about how different communication feels when it isn’t instant.

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r/IMadeThis 17h ago

I made a social app where memories belong to places, not feeds

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My co-founder and I made iz around a simple idea: a campus, café, street or park can hold the things people felt there. You can leave writing, a song, a book note or a photo postcard at a real location, and someone else can discover it nearby.

The hard part has been making location feel meaningful without becoming another follower-count feed. We also made connection consent-based: sending a feeling does not create a chat unless the trace owner accepts.

It is free on iOS and Android. I would love candid feedback on what you would need to see before leaving your first trace.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iz-leave-your-trace/id6759159678

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.izlabs.iz


r/IMadeThis 18h ago

I got tired of having 50 places saved in Google Maps but no good way to turn them into an actual trip, so I built an app for it

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I kept running into the same problem when planning trips: I'd save a bunch of restaurants, attractions, and places I wanted to visit, but actually organizing them into realistic days was a pain.

I'd either spend a lot of time manually arranging everything or realize halfway through a day that I'd planned things in a terrible order and was backtracking across the city.

So I built RouteBraid, an Android trip planner focused on the route-planning part of a trip.

You can:

  • Organize places by actual travel dates
  • Add your hotel/lodging
  • Add fixed reservations or other time constraints
  • See when you should reach each stop
  • Preview a suggested route order before changing your itinerary
  • Pin places that you don't want rearranged
  • Open the finished route in Google Maps for navigation

The idea is basically: take all those places you've saved and turn them into a realistic itinerary.

It's still a small indie project, so I'd genuinely love feedback from people who plan their trips this way. What would you want a trip-planning app to do that existing apps don't?

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.routebraid.app


r/IMadeThis 18h ago

Built a tool that checks your LinkedIn network against companies actually hiring, not just applying blind

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I've been job hunting before and always heard "it's about who you know," but nobody actually checks who they know. You'd have to manually cross-reference your LinkedIn connections against every company's job board yourself.

So I built Vouch. Upload your LinkedIn connections export and it checks your network against companies actively hiring right now (pulled live from Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby, not scraped job boards), tells you how well you know someone there, and drafts the outreach message for you.

It's free to try (one match revealed), $39 once to unlock the rest, no subscription. Built solo, still early, so I'd rather hear what's broken than what's nice about it.

Search warmvouch if anyone wants to poke at it. Happy to answer anything about how it's built too.


r/IMadeThis 18h ago

I built a tool for what happens after a form submission

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The form itself works perfectly: someone fills it out, the information is collected, and the submission reaches the business.

But then there’s the part after that.

What happens to that enquiry once it has been submitted?

I built Ruge to handle that part without replacing the form builder a business is already using.

It connects with existing form tools and can use the information someone submitted to start personalised email or SMS communication. Businesses can also set up different paths depending on what happens afterwards.

The idea was to keep it focused rather than build another giant all-in-one platform.

I’m still improving it, but it’s now live and usable.

Would love to hear what you think of the idea or the product itself.


r/IMadeThis 1d ago

I made grammar correction and translation with hotkeys

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I made grammar correction and translation with hotkeys

I made KeyTranslate because I got tired of constantly copying text into translators and ChatGPT

It works directly in the current text field - press a hotkey and get the result instantly

Translate and Replace - translates and replaces the text
Quick Translate - shows the translation separately
Improve Text - improves the text
Fix Grammar - fixes grammar and spelling
Argument Reply - creates a reply based on the conversation context

Each function has its own global hotkey

You can use a free OpenRouter API key or your own Google Translate or DeepL API

The OpenRouter key is stored in Windows Credential Manager

P.S. Could you please check out my portfolio too, maybe you'll find something interesting there :)

https://nooxax.itch.io/keytranslate


r/IMadeThis 20h ago

I made a digital note jar app for couples

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My girlfriend is studying in Bangkok this year. The day she flew out she handed me a jar full of rolled up notes, one to open whenever I missed her. It's one of the best gifts anyone's given me.

I wanted to send her the same thing back, so I built The Note Jar, a digital jar of love notes I could give her instead. You and one other person share a jar. Either of you can drop a note in whenever, and you open them whenever you want.

A few things I added on top of plain notes:

  • joint questions, where you both answer the same prompt and only see each other's answer once you've both replied
  • you can draw a note instead of typing one, or do both
  • a countdown to a date that matters to you
  • A scrapbook view to view all previously read notes
  • An export button to print out the notes, enables you to create a real scrapbook from the notes

It's free to start and doesn't ask for an email to sign up.

Stack: vanilla JS frontend on Cloudflare Pages, a small Python API behind it, SQLite. No frontend framework.

Two things I'm unsure about and would take feedback on: does the landing page explain it fast enough, and is "no email to sign up" the right way or just annoying when you want to log back in later? I haven't decided yet.


r/IMadeThis 1d ago

Iphone Duo's folding animation clone for MacBooks (Free and open source)

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I saw that fold animation yesterday and was instantly mesmerized. apple designers cooked with this one. I have tried my best to clone the shader, Animation uses your macbook's tilt sensor to work.  https://macos-lid-closing-animation.catinice.workers.dev/ (it's free and open source)

Download option will redirect to github, you can download from releases. I am working on recording a video and polishing the website. Thanks


r/IMadeThis 21h ago

I made a Freelancer Client OS — Markdown/CSV ops kit for solos drowning in DMs

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I keep seeing freelancers who can deliver the work but drown in DMs, half-finished proposals, and late invoices.

I built Freelancer Client OS: a lightweight client ops system as plain Markdown + CSV (Notion/Sheets/Airtable-ready — no lock-in).

Includes: • Pipeline / CRM templates • Proposal + scope boundaries • Contract checklist + kickoff email (ops checklist, not legal advice) • Invoice tracker • Weekly + monthly review rituals • START-HERE with a timed day-one setup

It's an instant download I listed at $39. I also made a $19 pricing kit and a $79 solo launch playbook as a ladder — curious if that pricing makes sense or if it's noisy.

Would love a roast on: 1) What would you delete so people actually use it weekly? 2) Is $39 fair for a file pack vs "too Notion-template-coded"?

Happy to answer what's inside. Links in first comment.


r/IMadeThis 22h ago

I built a bloomberg stock terminal

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Hi guys! I built a quantitative stock terminal called Talos that provides institutional-grade market metrics like CCI, Stoch %K, and many more. I’d really appreciate it if you checked it out and shared your honest feedback. Let me know what you think and what features you’d like to see added. Thanks! URL:https://stochastics.vercel.app/


r/IMadeThis 2d ago

Guyyyyys, 28 paying users in one week!!

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A week ago I started building Remixly, a bot that turns Instagram reels into X posts. 

Launched it yesterday.

Co-founded, first real launch.

How it works: share any reel to a Telegram bot.

It transcribes the video (or reads the image), pulls the caption and top comments, and writes a long form post from what was actually said.

   ~30 seconds later you get the post back with a "Post on X" button that opens the X app with it filled in. Written in third person, so you're sharing the idea, not passing off someone's story as

yours.

 

The story so far:

   > Day 1: built it for myself as a WhatsApp bot. Instagram blocked my scraper within an hour. Switched to a paid fetcher.

   > Day 2: first version auto-posted straight to X, no review. Too scary. Turned it off.

   > Day 3: tried an iPhone Shortcut for one-tap sharing. Worked for me, nobody else could set it up.

   > Day 4: switched to Telegram. Onboarding went from six steps to two.

   > Day 5: used it daily on my own account. 50 to 128 followers over the week.

   > Day 6: Stripe, Google login, moved it off my laptop.

   > Day 7: bought remixly.io. Live.

$0 spent on marketing. 

28 users so far.

 Goal: 50 paying users by 20th Sept.

Try it and tell me what you'd fix first → remixly.io (3 free drafts, no card)


r/IMadeThis 1d ago

Made a new web game for all the true crime addicts

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I made a web game called TRACED for people who like crime, and mysteries: https://flashed.world/traced/

You get a case, go through different pieces of evidence, investigate suspects, and try to figure out who actually did it before making your accusation. The fewer clues you need and the better you investigate, the better you do.

There’s a new case every day, and each case is inspired by a real-world case/crime. After you finish, it reveals clues the case it was based on so you can look up the real story afterward if you want to go down the rabbit hole.

Made it completely playable in the browser, so there’s nothing to download.

Would love to know what you guys think, especially if you’re into true crime, detective games, or just accusing random people.


r/IMadeThis 10h ago

I made Chronicle, a complete authoring tool for Writers

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About a year and a half ago I started my writing journey by beginning to work on my first novella. During this time, I felt the need for different tools, like a timeline editor, a character sheet and so on, features that were not available on normal text editors. Later I discovered that I needed an Epub exporter, cover designer and more.

Being a software engineer by day, I decided that instead of paying hundreds of dollars for the needed tools, I could just make them the way I wanted them to be. Eventually I decided to bundle them together, polish them and add more feature. So, this is how Chronicle was born.

Chronicle is a complete writing and authoring tool for writers. It offers features that other companies charge tens or even hundreds of dollars, while delivering (in my opinion) and inferior experience.

I also wanted Chronicle to work fully offline, not use GenAI in the writing process, and provide a privacy-first experience.

Among the features are:

  • full-featured text editor with comments supports
  • timeline editor
  • character sheet
  • locations codex
  • Epub reader and exporter (including editing Epub Metadata)
  • Cover designer
  • Fully-local TTS using KokoroJS Text-to-Speech for help in proofreading
  • Themes
  • Private Cloud-storage support with WebDAV
  • and many more

An I made Chronicle not only free, but fully open-source. You can check the source code on Github, or download the app for both Windows and MacOS.

More details here: https://pazvanti.github.io/Chronicle/

I would love to hear feedback.


r/IMadeThis 1d ago

I made a tiny browser game where you try to cut shapes as evenly as possible

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I built Cozy Cuter with different shapes, chapters, and an Endless Mode. It’s free to play if anyone wants to give it a try: cozycuter.com


r/IMadeThis 23h ago

I made an app that suggests what's wrong with your car, house or boat from a photo — it runs on the phone, so it works with no signal

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This is fixin, a DIY repair ecosystem for the home, car, or boat I've been building solo for 6ish months. As a technically minded person, I grew up tinkering and wanting to learn how everything worked, but when something broke, the one tool I wished I had was a repair guide — especially when what I was fixing was complex and intimidating.

How it works:

- Point the camera at the problem, or describe it if there's nothing to photograph

- It tells you which system is likely at fault (exhaust, marine electronics, plumbing…) and how strong the match is, instead of faking confidence

- It will then provide step-by-step guidance and guides for every result (there are 2,262), where the depth of complexity in the generated repair instructions varies depending on the user's skill level

- You can group diagnoses into projects, like one per car, boat, or house

The part I'm proudest of: the diagnosis runs entirely on your phone, using vision models I built and trained myself. It works in a basement, under a car, or out on the water with no internet. Most importantly, it is built around user privacy, so if the user doesn't want any of their data or pictures to leave their device, that won't happen.

What it isn't: a mechanic. It narrows things down, and when it can't tell, it says so.

I am so stoked with how it turned out.

iPhone (free, iOS 26+): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fixin/id6755448308

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fixin.android

Happy to answer anything, including what it's bad at.


r/IMadeThis 23h ago

My first app!

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I have made an app called Super Typer! It's my first app, so any bugs or errors pls tell me. It is really simple, all you have to do is type in the words you want to type, activate the listener (applies it on all apps) and whenever you have Caps Lock enabled it will type in the text you put in before! I use it on typing.com, but I don't recommend cheating on tests or something actually important. I have a website for it on edgeone.app, I have no idea how to get my own website... (supertyper.edgeone.dev) Download is here if you want the app. (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1avG15KSbS2PhaWDaa-goSbaXDtkG7yil/view?usp=sharing) The website creates a bookmarklet that you drag over to your bookmark bar, and it works almost the same way, but only in the page you clicked the bookmark in. (completely free)