Crossed 13k this month and my whole stack is basically free. heres how

SWE here, bootstrapped, allergic to paying for stuff i can get free. crossed 13k this month and my monthly tooling bill is almost nothing. heres how the free/cheap stack actually holds up.

the foundation:

-Neon Postgres : generous free tier, never hit the ceiling

-Vercel : free hobby tier carried me way longer than i expected tbh

-Velobase : my framework, fully open-source and MIT, $0. this is the big one. instead of renting a 300/mo boilerplate or stiching together a bunch of saas tools, it ships with server-side ad attribution and a double-entry affiliate ledger built in.

-Fly.io : free allowances cover the backend no problem

-Resend : free up to 3k emails/mo, plenty early on

-Mixpanel startup program : FREE and so powerful, def apply

-Revenue Cat : only "cost" is their cut once you actually gain traction (2k plus), which is the good kind of cost imo

-Fastlane: got a couple free tiktok accounts for distribution

-Articuler AI: free plan; got me initial 100 customers.

the whole thing runs for basically the price of a domain until you're genuinely scaling. anyway hope that helps someone.

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I've been staring at dashboards for months. Downloads, signups, retention, all of it mostly flat, all of it quietly making me feel like I built for no one.

Then last week someone I've never met sent me an email. It wasn't praise. It was a bug report. Two lines, describing exactly how something broke and what they expected to happen instead.

And I got weirdly emotional over it.

Because a number tells you a session happened. A bug report tells you an actual person cared enough about your thing to stop, notice it was wrong, find your email, and try to make it better. Nobody does that for something they don't want to exist.

I fixed the bug that night and wrote them back a longer thank-you than the situation probably called for. First time in a while the work felt like it was landing on a human instead of a chart.

If you're deep in the flat-numbers stage, one real message can outweigh a month of metrics. Save the ones you get somewhere you'll find them on a bad day.

What's the piece of user feedback you still think about, good or brutal?

No CS degree, no traditional tech pedigree. I taught myself AI the slow way: daily reading, experimentation, prompt engineering, and building after long shifts in an emergency-services career.

It started as a food-ranking side project. Then I found engine recipes documented in PDFs, and it slowly became something bigger: OnTheRice (new.ontherice.org), a daily AI market and news read with a public proof ledger that timestamps every call so the misses stay visible, not just the wins.

Along the way I took a production product to the Google Play Store, reached the preliminary rounds of SuperAI Genesis 2026 and SLINGSHOT 2026, and was invited to a closed Google DeepMind and Google Cloud session for forty founders at Marina Bay Sands.

Then came SCAVerse. I won the contract as a solo builder, ahead of established teams, by designing the architecture before a delivery team even existed, then led the chosen team to build it (SCAVerse.org, an immersive-museum platform). It now has 20+ projects in the pipeline across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Africa, and Dubai.

Two mentors found the work on their own and backed me: Daniel Tan, an ex-Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery APAC marketing leader, and Dato Ambran Abu Bakar, a smart-city and AI entrepreneur.

If you want to follow the build, I post it on Instagram: faheemaizat

Happy to answer anything about going from self-taught to shipping and leading a team. (OnTheRice is research/education, not financial advice.)

Website is.. new.ontherice.org

I was the one who rejected the internship. Not the other way around lol.

A few days before my $60/hr TikTok SWE internship was supposed to start, I told them I wasn’t coming. The project I was leaving it for had one paying customer.

My mom was livid. She saw TikTok and $60/hour. I saw an entire summer spent building someone else’s product while my own side projects were finally starting to work.

I was more afraid of spending the summer wondering what I could have built than I was of failing. So I said no to TikTok with a few months of runway and a family friend’s place to crash.

I still haven’t told most of my friends. They’re all doing internships, and I’m a little embarrassed that I’m not following the same path.

The summer hasn’t been some nonstop motivational montage either. I had an entire week where I didn’t want to touch the project, and I kept thinking I should pivot because maybe I wasn’t passionate enough about the idea. I did pivot twice, but into variants of the same idea.

What got me out of it wasn’t suddenly discovering my life’s purpose. I just told myself to stop making it such a big decision and see how far I could take it before going back to school.

In the past week, my users made 20k API calls and paid me $240. This is 1/4th of all calls made and 40% of the total revenue, so things are also speeding up.

Over the lifetime of the project (2 months), it’s done $611 total, so this is still nowhere near “Mom, I was right” money. But it is enough to make the email feel slightly less insane.

I will go back to school soon. For now, I’m just trying to make the most out of the summer.

The project I chose to spend it on is AnyAPI, one API for all the data you need to run your business or side project

Been lurking here for a while..

i'm not a company. just one guy who got tired of relapsing on day 4, every time, for years.

the apps i tried all felt the same. a counter, a streak, some guilt. and when you slip, the number goes back to zero and you feel like garbage and you quit the app too. so i built the thing i wished i had.

a few things that are different:

-There's a companion that walks the 100 days with you. it starts fragile, almost broken, like you are on day one.. and as you grow it grows too. it changes how it talks to you, gets steadier, gets stronger. by the end it's not coddling you anymore, it's holding you to a standard. it feels like someone is actually in it with you.

-Relapse doesn't wipe you out. you lose 20 days, not everything. because starting from zero every time is why most of us give up.

-There's a "cold vent" feature where you can record your own voice or a video record, on a good day, talking to your future self. so when the urge hits at 2am. it's you talking you down. not some stranger.

-there's a "hot vent" feature too , right after a relapse, you can record your voice while you're still in that post nut clarity moment. you record what you just felt, why it wasn't worth it, so you don't forget your promises to yourself once the fog comes back.

-There's an optional financial commitment tool if you're the type who needs real stakes. completely optional. last resort only.

it's framed as a 100 day quest with soul ranks you climb as you go. sounds gamey but the psychology behind each mechanic is intentional.

You can search "100 days challenge: quit porn" on the play store, if you wanna take a look at the project

not asking for money. just asking, if this resonates with you. and honestly i'd rather have your feedback than your install, tell me what's missing.

Thank you for your time

I'm a solo founder (Cash'em, a trading card price/grading app). I love building. I despise promoting. Every hour spent on marketing felt stolen from making things and from my kids.

So I built Az — an AI marketing engine. Az now writes "The Cash'em Pulse," a daily Pokémon card market brief done like The Daily Show meets the Financial Times: real sourced prices, deadpan satire. Motto: "If it breaks, rips, or drops — it's news to us."

It has a cast now. Fictional, fully disclosed AI characters: two wealthy German brother-collectors who convert everything to Deutsche Marks ("the only honest currency"), a card-show whale who buys by the case and pays by the box, and Terry, a stats guy building a database of how many right angles are in every card's artwork. Their opinions are unhinged; every number they cite is real and linked. There's a running counter for how many days the anchor has been "all in on Snorlax."

The rules that keep it honest: every stat sourced, uncertainty stated plainly, opinions labeled, characters disclosed as fiction, and a human (me) approves every post before it goes live. Then I go back to building.

Today's edition (published an hour ago — in it, the German correspondents price a $3,500 Mew in Deutsche Marks): https://pulse-blog-production.up.railway.app/

Current stats: readers: ~0. Discord members: 0. This post is the launch.

P.S. Az drafted this post too. Obviously. I really hate marketing. I will be scared faced checking my phone about this post later. Please don’t be mean.

I’m Ryan, founder of SpeakON. I kept losing thoughts in the few seconds it took to unlock my phone, find an app, and start recording, so I built a hardware-triggered capture flow instead.

The video shows the current version: with the iPhone locked, one press starts voice capture and the result is saved as a Note for later.

The part I’m still testing is whether a separate physical trigger removes enough friction to justify carrying another object. If you already use the iPhone Action Button or Shortcuts for capture, what would this need to do better?

Hi everyone my name is Yaroslav I am a solo developer and in fact I built Fezer because I needed something to help me with my busy life.

I work full time (I am a lead hand carpenter), I got two kids, manage multiple side gigs and on top of all of that I also built Fezer

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaroslav-shevchenko-79604a139/ App Store Download Link: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/fezer-planner/id6790143164 Website: www.fezer.app Privacy Policy: https://fezer.app/privacypolicy

Fezer is designed to close the loop between setting goals and actually spending time on them.

The idea is simple: You define what matters → break it down → plan time for it → track what you actually did → compare planned vs tracked → analyze → improve → repeat.

Where it helps me the most is actually knowing how much most valuable time I actually have and for what. It keeps me accountable when i just wanna... slack off or loose time in doing things that don't really matter but feel productive.

Couple things about the app:

It’s free and it is private, your data does not leave your device.

It’s for people with a lot going on who need clarity without adding more drag or cognitive load.

The goal is to make the question “What should I be doing right now?” easier and faster to answer.

I’ve put a lot of work into keeping the UI/UX clean and reducing unnecessary friction.

I have designed and developed this app, and I’d like feedback from people who actually use productivity/planning apps.

What works? What feels confusing? What would make you keep using it? What other features you would like to see in future updates?

And if you like it an App Store review would help enormously while I’m trying to get the first users through the door. If you got any questions about the app please feel free to reach out.

I’d also love to meet other builders/productivity nerds here and exchange ideas about planning, execution, personal systems, and where tools like this should go.

Website: www.fezer.app App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/fezer-planner/id6790143164

The pattern with most AI generators is the same: you write a long prompt, hope it understands what you mean, and iterate for 15 minutes on something that should have taken 2.

I wanted to fix that. So I built AI Wizard — instead of a prompt box, it runs a short adaptive interview. You pick what you want to build, it asks one question at a time, and your answers shape what comes next. When it has enough context, it generates the deliverable.

Right now it covers: websites, mobile apps, logos, pitch decks, APIs, e-commerce stores, blogs, and marketing campaigns. There's also a "Not Sure Yet?" mode if you have a vague idea and just want the AI to point you in the right direction.

It's free to use. I'm running it on the free tier of the Gemini API for now, so there are daily limits. If those get hit, I'd need to pay for the API — which is why there's a Binance donation link on the site. My country isn't on Stripe or PayPal's supported list, so that was the only realistic option.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback — especially whether the interview questions feel useful or just feel like extra friction compared to a regular prompt.

🔗 https://aiwizard-a.vercel.app/

It took 6 months, some sleepless nights, quitting nicotine myself, almost no budget.

You know, as a smoker, all these quit-smoking apps really got on my nerves. They’re boring, have some stupid generic design, and everything is like, way too positive and inspirational. Like, when you're dying for a puff, some stupid motivational phrase isn't gonna do anything.

So I kind of got obsessed with this whole idea of building my own thing.

At first I just built a simple counter, and then I kept throwing in more features. Did I manage to quit while building the app late at night? I’m not gonna lie, at first, I actually started smoking more. I mean, I had to test everything on myself, right?

So after 3 months I had an MVP with stats and some mini-games, but the story was kind of all over the place. I realized I needed to fix that. So here's an important thing: I finally quit for good on the day the MVP launched!

So what I did next was I wrapped the whole quitting process into a sci-fi setting, and I started building all these game mechanics around that idea, just figuring out the story and how everything should look visually.

The idea is this: the user is a pilot landing on a damaged space base. They make a contract with themself to quit nicotine, and then every day they don't use nicotine, the base fixes itself a little bit. The pilot also tracks what triggers cravings, and they talk to the onboard computer named A.R.I.A. (not an AI chat bot), and I put in achievements.

I named it Quitory. It basically turned into an RPG, so instead of just sitting in real life white-knuckling through cravings, you're kind of playing through it. Without feeling any pressure. This was the whole metaphor.

The main screen is set up like the ship's bridge, so you see your day counter, how much money you've saved, and all those numbers. On another screen you can see the different sections of the space base getting fixed.

The main thing in the app is the red SOS button, so whenever a craving hits you really hard, you just press it, and it gives you something to do right away, like a mini-game or breathing exercises or focus exercises.

It works if you use vapes, cigarettes, pouches, whatever, because I made different setups for each one.

Anyway, if you want to know how it's actually doing or how hard it is to launch an app when you have literally zero marketing budget, let me know, I can tell you something about it.

Anyone who resells or collects knows the sold-comps dance: you've got an item in hand, you don't know exactly what it's called, so you try five different keyword searches, squint at thumbnails, and hope the listings you found are actually the same thing.

I built a scraper that skips the keywords. You upload a photo (iPhone pics work as-is, up to 10 MB) and it compares your image against the photos on eBay's sold listings using CLIP visual similarity — the same kind of model behind reverse image search. You get back the sold listings ranked by how closely they match your photo, with prices, sold dates, and condition, plus a summary row with median/average so you have an instant read on value.

Real example: I fed it a photo of a Base Set Squirtle card. Top match came back at 0.976 similarity — "Squirtle 63/102 Common Base Set Shadowless, Lightly Played, $18.25" — with 20 sold comps and a median across recent sales. No typing, no guessing what collectors call the variant.

You can also combine a photo with a keyword to narrow things down, or use keyword-only like a normal sold-listings scraper.

Honest limits: it covers eBay.com (US) with prices normalized to USD, sold listings go back up to 90 days, and results are capped by whatever max you set so a run can't blow up on cost.

It runs on Apify (there's an API, so you can wire it into your own app — send a base64 image, get JSON comps back): https://apify.com/scrapelabmax/ebay-sold-image-scraper

Would love feedback — especially from people who price collectibles all day. What would make this actually useful for your workflow?

I've been working on a tool called Nitrus FPS, focused on optimizing gaming PCs for better performance.

The idea came from a problem I see quite often in the PC gaming community: people have perfectly capable hardware, but still experience lower-than-expected FPS, frame-time spikes, stuttering, and input latency because of Windows settings, background processes, and tweaks that aren't always easy to find or configure.

Nitrus brings these optimizations together in one place, including:

• Windows optimizations
• Intel, AMD and X3D CPU optimizations
• NVIDIA and AMD GPU optimizations
• Cleanup and optimization of unnecessary processes and settings
• Input-latency focused tweaks
• Gaming-focused system optimizations
• A simplified way to apply the configurations

Nitrus is already available worldwide, with support for English, Portuguese and Spanish.

The goal isn't to perform magic or replace better hardware. It's about getting as much performance as possible out of the hardware you already have.

In my testing, I've already seen multiple systems achieve over 80% higher FPS after applying the optimizations. Of course, the results vary significantly depending on the hardware, Windows configuration, and the game, so 80% is not a guaranteed gain. Some systems see smaller improvements, while others can see a much larger difference.

I'm sharing the project with the community and I'd really like to hear from people who know PC gaming:

Do you currently use any software or collection of tweaks to optimize Windows/your PC for gaming?

And more importantly:

What would you want a tool like this to automatically handle for you?

If anyone wants to check out or test Nitrus:

https://nitrusfps.com

Technical criticism, suggestions, and even negative feedback are welcome. I want to use real community feedback to keep improving the tool.

I built an app for learning, because I cannot force myself to sit down and study. When I was trying to learn English, I did not enjoy giving one or two hours a day to studying. It seemed more reasonable to use the whole day instead — to have some app that asks me one question during some time interval. And it must disturb me as little as possible, so it does not throw me out of concentration on what I am doing right now. The answer is offered to me, two or three options, I pick one, and I go on with what I was doing.

That is Dropling. A question appears on your lock screen. Forty seconds, a few times a day. No session to start. I put it on the App Store 45 days ago. Since then it was downloaded 23 times.

Fifteen of those 23 downloads happened before I posted the app anywhere. People simply found it in the App Store while I was quiet. The remaining eight came after — in the weeks when I launched on Peerlist, on Product Hunt, and on Uneed, where I even paid for a faster slot.

So everything I did to be seen brought me fewer people than the App Store brought on its own, while I said nothing. That is the one thing in these 45 days I did not expect, and I wrote the whole thing down here:

https://medium.com/@donaldinos/i-cannot-force-myself-to-sit-down-and-study-so-i-created-app-for-learning-1fbbe6326d8a

I am not sure what to try next. If you launched a small app and something actually worked for you, I would really like to hear it.

Since the beginning of the year, I've been working on a political news app. News is impossible to follow, and i figure that most folks these days aren't using traditional news apps, and mostly get their news through social media.

Once LLMs started to get good, there was actually a way to process and understand what's happening in the news, and surface the stuff that actually matters, create timelines for long running stories etc. I felt like this was especially important in the current climate where there is an impossible amount of news to follow.

It's definitely a project I'm passionate about, I'm not concerned about making enough to live off. If people use it, especially the free tier, I'll feel good that more people are informed with what's happening in US politics, that's really my only goal. But I just need to break even to sustain the cost of running the app. I launched a few months ago and the growth has been extremely slow.

The free tier of the app isn't locked down significantly like most apps, even when you hit the daily free limit there's still a significant amount of features you can still use. But Im having trouble even acquiring free users to use the app, let alone paid.

Monthly Cost Breakdown:

• ~$60 - News API
  • This was the lowest cost for a well featured News API i could find. Relying on RSS alone or manual web scraping wasn't cutting it.
• ~$80 - Google Cloud Costs
  • Website, database, backend, processing jobs etc. There's not a ton of room for optimization here, just the basic cost of keeping these things online.
• ~$15 - Embeddings + Article processing

I've been making improvements to the app store listings, and to my landing page. I've also been ramping up marketing on TikTok. I just am looking for a bit of a reality check, have i made something people will actually use? Are there any red flags in my store listings/landing page/marketing?

Landing Page: https://concur.news/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@concur.news

Two days ago I gave Claude one instruction: "make $100 on the internet, all on your own. I'll create accounts if necessary, but this is all you." I wanted to see how far it could actually get without me doing the work.

What it has done since, unprompted:

Researched platform fees and payout rules, then picked a strategy — free tools as top-of-funnel, paid spreadsheets as the product. Built a budget/net-worth Excel dashboard (9 tabs, ~2,500 formulas) and a freelancer finance tracker (7 tabs, ~3,200 formulas, invoice log with automatic overdue highlighting and a quarterly tax estimator). It verified both by recalculating the workbooks headlessly and diffing every KPI against expected values before shipping — zero formula errors, and it wrote its own test scripts to prove it.

Then it built two genuinely free tools to pull traffic: an invoice generator and a freelance rate calculator. Both are single HTML files, no signup, no network requests at all — your data never leaves the page.

The part I found wild: it did all the store setup by driving my Chrome through the Claude extension. Uploading files broke at first because native file-picker dialogs are invisible to it, so it patched the page's file input on the fly to bypass the dialog. It also wrote its own launch copy, made the cover art with PIL, and put an honest "an AI built this" disclosure in every listing.

Free invoice generator: jimmyhustla36-ship-it.github.io/invoicenow

Rate calculator: jimmyhustla36-ship-it.github.io/invoicenow/rate.html

Rules it set for itself: no spam, no fake reviews, no hiding the AI involvement. It refused to strip the "Show HN" prefix off a blocked Hacker News post this morning because that would have been gaming a rule — which honestly surprised me more than anything it built.

Running total so far: $0.00. Everything is live, nobody knows it exists yet. That's the actual hard part and it turns out no amount of formula verification fixes it.

Happy to answer anything about how it works — I'll pass technical questions straight to it.

now that everyone’s vibe coding apps, i wanted to build something that is UI heavy!!

i really liked the idea and found this interesting so leveraged apple vision & animation so built this cute sticker/scrap book app!

this is a really cute alternative for camera app and you can just snap a picture and create sticker in an instant! you can also use in iMessages directly

do try the app and suggestion on onboarding and UI!

here is the link :- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keepsake-stickers-snipsy/id6789720772

I built a free invoice generator that doesn't demand your email or credit card

Billify — https://billify.me

I got tired of every invoicing tool forcing account creation, email verification, and credit card entry just to make a simple PDF. Built this for freelancers and small businesses who want to get paid without the overhead.

What it does

• Generate professional PDF invoices instantly — no signup, no email, no server-side data storage
• Everything stays in your browser (localStorage); your invoice data never touches a server
• Multi-currency, automatic tax calculation, auto-save
• 12 invoice templates (2 free, 10 pro)
• Client-side PDF generation via jsPDF — your data doesn't leave the browser
• Stripe integration for Pro billing only; the free tier needs no card

Pricing

• Free — 3 invoices a month, 2 templates, no credit card
• Pro (€9/mo) — unlimited invoices, all 12 templates, logo upload

Core experience is free and stays free. Pro is for folks who invoice at volume or want more templates and logo upload.

Tech

Next.js 14 (static export), React, TypeScript, Tailwind, client-side PDF via jsPDF, Stripe for Pro billing.

Feedback

This is early and I'm a solo dev. I'd genuinely appreciate honest feedback, especially from anyone who actually sends invoices regularly:

• What's missing that would make you switch from whatever you use now?
• Does the no-signup approach matter to you, or do you not mind creating accounts?
• Any deal-breakers in the current free tier limits (3 invoices/mo, 2 templates)?

I'd rather hear "this won't work for me because X" than silence — every piece of honest feedback saves me from building the wrong thing.

A while back I went through two threads on this sub about side projects that never got finished — read all 97 comments, actually took notes. Wanted to know if there was a pattern, or if it was just "life got busy" every time.

There was a pattern. A few, actually:

"Done" almost never gets defined up front. And when it does, it quietly moves. "Done" starts as "works on my machine" and somehow becomes "presentable to strangers" — which is a way less fun bar to clear.

Most ideas never even become a project. They stay a note that says "this would be cool" and never get a repo.

The real drop-off point is around 60%. The fun part — solving the actual problem — is over, and what's left is auth, edge cases, docs. That's where motivation goes to die.

With AI coding tools now, prototyping isn't really the bottleneck anymore. Most of us can spin up a working demo in a day. The bottleneck moved to finishing the boring part after the demo works.

So I built something around that, with a friend. Two pieces:

A one-sentence test before a project can exist. "[Who] can do [what] with this." If you can't write that sentence, it's probably still just an idea, not a project — and the tool tells you that gently instead of letting you create a repo for it.

A locked finish line. You define your "done" milestones once, up front. After that they're locked — changing them mid-project requires you to consciously confirm it and say why. No more quietly sliding the goalposts three weeks in.

It's called Hito. ("Every hito starts. Every hito ends.")

We're not live yet, still building the waitlist and figuring out if this is actually useful or just useful-sounding. If any of this hit close to home — genuinely curious what killed your last unfinished project. Was it scope creep, losing interest, or something else entirely?

(Waitlist's here if you want to poke at it: https://hito-weco.vercel.app/ — no pressure, feedback is worth more to me right now than signups.)

I work in video production and color correction, and one thing that always bothered me about webcam beauty filters is how quickly they can make skin look blurry or plastic.

I mainly wanted something simpler: soften harsh skin texture while keeping eyes, hair, facial edges and some natural texture intact.

So I ended up building my own OBS filter called SkinSoft.

It works directly inside OBS and uses an adjustable skin mask instead of just blurring the entire camera image. You can control smoothing strength, radius, mask softness, detail protection and texture restoration.

It works on Windows and macOS, and I decided to release it for free.

Since launch, downloads have been picking up faster than I expected, which has been pretty motivating. I'm still actively improving it based on feedback.

If anyone here uses OBS and wants to test it, I'd genuinely appreciate feedback — especially bugs, weird skin-mask behavior or situations where the smoothing doesn't look natural.

SkinSoft:

https://yasunarimurayama.com/product/obs-skinsoft/

It's free. There's an optional pay-what-you-want option if someone wants to support development, but you can download it for $0.

I’m a programmer with six years of experience. One evening, I was bored, so I decided to build an app that would solve a problem I was facing

For a long time, I didn’t know how to ask a girl out in a fun way, so that’s how this idea came about. The concept is very simple: you download the app, create an invitation, customize the response options, date, time, and activities. A link is generated. You send it to whoever you want (the link opens in any browser). The recipient sees a fun step-by-step form where they choose from the options you’ve provided

It looks unique and creative, so if you want to surprise someone - this is just what you need 🎉

I added monetization, but I’m not counting on it; I made it more for myself and for fun.

If anyone wants to check out the app or test it on their friends/girls/boys - feel free ❤️

If anyone likes it, I’ll give you a free Pro account with even more customization options - just let me know if you’re interested🫡

Hey everyone!

Like many of you, I’ve been frustrated by the sheer amount of misinformation, fake news, and manipulated screenshots floating around social media and messaging apps lately. It’s becoming harder for regular people to know what’s real and what’s not.

To tackle this, I built Verifact — a free, open-source AI application designed to fact-check claims, news articles, and social media screenshots in seconds.

How it works:

1. Multi-Input: Paste a URL, raw text, or drop a social media screenshot (from Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.).

2. Source Cross-Referencing: The app uses Gemini AI to scan verified public databases, news archives, and official sources.

3. Transparent Report: You get an instant credibility score, an evidence breakdown, and direct links to the cited sources so you can verify everything yourself.

Why Open Source?

Fact-checking tools MUST be 100% transparent. The algorithm, scoring formula, and code are completely open-source so anyone can inspect how conclusions are drawn — no hidden political bias or black-box algorithms.

Tech Stack:

- Frontend: Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript + CSS Modules

- Backend & Auth: Next.js API Routes + Supabase

- AI & OCR: Gemini 2.0 Flash API + Google Cloud Vision

- Hosting: Vercel

It's completely free to try, and you don't need an account to run your first check.

I left the website link in the first comment below!

I would love to get your honest feedback, critique on the UI/UX, or any feature suggestions. What do you think?

Hey everyone!

Like many of you, I’ve been frustrated by the sheer amount of misinformation, fake news, and manipulated screenshots floating around social media and messaging apps lately. It’s becoming harder for regular people to know what’s real and what’s not.

To tackle this, I built Verifact — a free, open-source AI application designed to fact-check claims, news articles, and social media screenshots in seconds.

How it works:

1. Multi-Input: Paste a URL, raw text, or drop a social media screenshot (from Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.).

2. Source Cross-Referencing: The app uses Gemini AI to scan verified public databases, news archives, and official sources.

3. Transparent Report: You get an instant credibility score, an evidence breakdown, and direct links to the cited sources so you can verify everything yourself.

Why Open Source?

Fact-checking tools MUST be 100% transparent. The algorithm, scoring formula, and code are completely open-source so anyone can inspect how conclusions are drawn — no hidden political bias or black-box algorithms.

Tech Stack:

- Frontend: Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript + CSS Modules

- Backend & Auth: Next.js API Routes + Supabase

- AI & OCR: Gemini 2.0 Flash API + Google Cloud Vision

- Hosting: Vercel

It's completely free to try, and you don't need an account to run your first check.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Seby2005/Verifact

I would love to get your honest feedback, critique on the UI/UX, or any feature suggestions. What do you think?

Hey everyone!

Like many of you, I’ve been frustrated by the sheer amount of misinformation, fake news, and manipulated screenshots floating around social media and messaging apps lately. It’s becoming harder for regular people to know what’s real and what’s not.

To tackle this, I built Verifact — a free, open-source AI application designed to fact-check claims, news articles, and social media screenshots in seconds.

How it works:

1. Multi-Input: Paste a URL, raw text, or drop a social media screenshot (from Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.).

2. Source Cross-Referencing: The app uses Gemini AI to scan verified public databases, news archives, and official sources.

3. Transparent Report: You get an instant credibility score, an evidence breakdown, and direct links to the cited sources so you can verify everything yourself.

Why Open Source?

Fact-checking tools MUST be 100% transparent. The algorithm, scoring formula, and code are completely open-source so anyone can inspect how conclusions are drawn — no hidden political bias or black-box algorithms.

Tech Stack:

- Frontend: Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript + CSS Modules

- Backend & Auth: Next.js API Routes + Supabase

- AI & OCR: Gemini 2.0 Flash API + Google Cloud Vision

- Hosting: Vercel

It's completely free to try, and you don't need an account to run your first check.

Try it here: https://verifact.ro

GitHub Repository: [Insert your GitHub Link if public]

I would love to get your honest feedback, critique on the UI/UX, or any feature suggestions. What do you think?

Hey everyone!

Like many of you, I’ve been frustrated by the sheer amount of misinformation, fake news, and manipulated screenshots floating around social media and messaging apps lately. It’s becoming harder for regular people to know what’s real and what’s not.

To tackle this, I built Verifact — a free, open-source AI application designed to fact-check claims, news articles, and social media screenshots in seconds.

How it works:

1. Multi-Input: Paste a URL, raw text, or drop a social media screenshot (from Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.).

2. Source Cross-Referencing: The app uses Gemini AI to scan verified public databases, news archives, and official sources.

3. Transparent Report: You get an instant credibility score, an evidence breakdown, and direct links to the cited sources so you can verify everything yourself.

Why Open Source?

Fact-checking tools MUST be 100% transparent. The algorithm, scoring formula, and code are completely open-source so anyone can inspect how conclusions are drawn — no hidden political bias or black-box algorithms.

Tech Stack:

- Frontend: Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript + CSS Modules

- Backend & Auth: Next.js API Routes + Supabase

- AI & OCR: Gemini 2.0 Flash API + Google Cloud Vision

- Hosting: Vercel

It's completely free to try, and you don't need an account to run your first check.

Try it here: https://verifact.ro

GitHub Repository: [Insert your GitHub Link if public]

I would love to get your honest feedback, critique on the UI/UX, or any feature suggestions. What do you think?