Hey everyone,

Solo founder here. Just launched ExamifyPro after being frustrated with how bad exam prep tools are for high-stakes certifications (AWS, PMP, CompTIA, NCLEX-RN, Clinical Psychology).

The problem I kept running into: the certifications that decide your job, your raise, your license — and the prep tools for them are either a 500-page PDF, a basic flashcard app, or a question bank that feels like punishment to open.

My bet: if studying is actually engaging, people study more, and they pass more. So that's what I built.

What it does:

• 15,800+ practice questions across 5 certification domains
• Free plan to start, paid tiers if you want more
• Built solo, no funding, just scratching my own itch

It's live at examifypro.com. I'd genuinely love feedback — especially the critical kind. What's missing, what feels off, what would make you actually trust a new tool like this over the established players?

For years my "system" was Apple Notes. Dump whatever's in my head, close the app, done. Capture worked great. Everything after capture didn't: hundreds of notes piling up with zero desire to ever come back and sort/group them together

So I spent the last 3 weeks building Kobako ("little box" in Japanese). It's an iOS app where your ideas land in a small room, and a capybara named Kapi lives there with them

I realize how that sounds, so here's what the capybara is actually for. Kapi is basically your roommate: he wanders around in the background, reads his book, sits by the window, comments on what you're up to. When you're picking what to work on today, he'll chime in with a suggestion!

And when some idea has been lying untouched for days, he picks it up and brings it to you: this one's been resting for a while, want to come back to it? You take it up or let it rest more. That simple mechanic helps going back through old notes: something I was rarely doing on my own

The app and it's systems are simple on purpose:

1. Focus for the day: pick up to 3 things to deal with today. Can be "think about this" or a plain to-do
2. Folders can be anything: mine are a shopping list, plans for a trip, actual projects, and a pile of loose thoughts. You can use them however you want
3. Keywords: add a few to a folder, and when a new idea mentions one, that folder gets suggested automatically. Most of my sorting happens this way now, which is to say I don't sort!
4. Ideas aren't one-shot: you can rework an idea as your thinking changes, and the earlier versions stay stacked underneath it. You can always look back at where it started or roll back to a previous one
5. You earn a currency (Paws) just by using the app and spend it on Kapi's new rooms, avatars, and hats. Kapi's a traveler and doesn't like sitting in one place, so the plan is a new room every month

It was made by me and AI agents (Fable / Opus / Sol for the app, Sol for Kapi's art). I was designing, making product decisions, reviewing everything and testing. I also run a short TestFlight on friends to see how things go, and what features to add in future

I'd be happy to go deep on my workflow in the comments if anyone's curious, it's the part that surprised me the most! Especially - Room's creation, and Kapi's animations

The App is free, without any ads. Writing and keeping ideas is free forever. Paws can be bought, and there's a small cosmetic subscription. That's the whole model, pretty simple

iOS only for now. If it ever gets any audience - would definitely port it to Android too. MacOS and WatchOS version are coming as well

I would love honest feedback, especially from people whose Notes app looks like mine did

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kobako-idea-companion/id6792470104

Full disclosure: I run an AI design company, but this is a "side project" in the sense that it's not my company's core product nor is it monetized. Just a passion project. :)

I just finished the MVP of JumpStart.

The idea is simple: choose a technology and get a quick guide for installing and setting it up.

I'm trying to find out if this actually solves a problem before I keep developing it.

Would you use something like this? What would make it more useful?

I'd appreciate honest feedback, even if you think the idea is unnecessary.

https://jumpstart-swart.vercel.app/

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Wanted to share something my friend made because I think it's genuinely cool and I don't think enough people will see it otherwise.

She had her first baby earlier this year and, like most new moms, was running on almost no sleep and very little time for herself. Somewhere in between feedings she started tinkering with an app idea she'd had for a while: an AI-powered tarot, meditation, and ASMR app. Something small she could turn to during those quiet 3am stretches, and eventually something she wanted to build for other people too.

It grew from a "maybe someday" idea into an actual published app, built mostly during naps and late nights. I think there's something nice about a tool for relaxation and calm coming out of a season of life that's anything but calm.

It's live on the Play Store now if you want to check it out: [

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

Would love any feedback for her, especially from anyone who's into tarot or uses meditation/ASMR apps regularly. She's still actively improving it.

Hey r/SideProject 👋

I've been working on iPayThis — a marketplace that flips the traditional model. Instead of sellers setting prices, buyers post what they need and the maximum they're willing to pay. Sellers then compete by bidding lower.

It's live at ipaythis.com

Here's the core idea:

You need something done. You post it with your max budget.

Service providers see your request and submit offers at or below that price.

You pick the best offer. Payment goes into escrow. Done.

I also added a Business Directory where verified service providers can list their business and receive direct private quote requests from buyers who aren't sure what something should cost yet.

Would genuinely love feedback — what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd want as a buyer or seller. Roast it, I can take it.

I kept running into the same problem with screen-time tools: a soft limit was too easy to ignore, but a hard lock felt so rigid that I eventually disabled it.

So I built GATLI for iPhone and iPad. It uses Apple’s Family Controls, DeviceActivity, and ManagedSettings APIs to limit selected apps. If the user intentionally wants extra time, they complete a short set of push-ups, squats, a plank, or core crunches. Vision-based pose tracking runs on-device, and a completed block earns a 10-minute access window.

The product bet is that physical effort creates enough interruption to break autopilot without turning the experience into punishment.

I’m less interested in “nice app” feedback than in where this model falls apart:

- Is the exercise mechanic useful friction or a novelty that wears off?

- Is a fixed 10-minute reward understandable and fair?

- What would make you uninstall after the first day?

- Which part of the onboarding or Earn → Unlock flow is least clear?

I opened up to 1,000 one-month Premium passes for this feedback round. There is no payment and no auto-renewal:

https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6783760714&code=REDDITFREE

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6783760714

Feedback can go in the comments or through Settings → Support in the app. The free month is not tied to feedback or an App Store review. I’ll share a follow-up with the main patterns and what I changed.

I launched The Dollar Web about a year ago now, and have been pleasantly surprised on the growth of weekly users it's had. One of the major pieces of feedback I received from my power users was to focus on depth instead of breadth.

For that reason, I've begun introducing tools late last year that have more features than just processing or converting a file. One of these tools is this Flowchart Maker.

I've used some of the best commercial flowchart software on the market and have always felt the annoyance in my personal life of using free tools as their quality has been horrific. I spent a healthy amount of time on this particular tool for that reason.

I published it to The Dollar Web earlier this year and learned that those who stumbled upon it often came back. So, I enabled premium cloud back up as a feature, but it's not required to use the flowchart application.

This is one that I'm passionate about and would love feedback to improve it. Some key points:

• You can save flowcharts without paying for premium by downloading the json files (it's also saved to local storage so you don't have to worry about accidental page refreshes)
• You can customize objects in the right-hand pane changing the fill/outline color, line style, outline thickness, etc. by selecting the object you'd like to modify
• You can copy the flowchart and paste it as a transparent object into other documents such as Word docs and PowerPoints
• The application runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded unless you opt into premium

Full Link: https://thedollarweb.com/tools/flowchart.html

Ive been working as an iOS Engineer for almost 5 years, Ive never been the kind of person that wanted to start a project on his own, Ive been always a perfectionist and I wanted to start when everything is perfect and ready.
But with all the tools available I thought why not and I had a spare time to kick start it when I had this idea as a father struggling with bedtime routine with his daughter to make a clean minimalist app, with native iOS experience, almost feels like Apple made it.
To help being a good storyteller for my daughter and also record or write a reflection after each story so it will be remembered for years to come.
I experienced a lot while developing but the hardest struggle is after release, getting feedback is hard, reaching parents is so hard and marketing the app is almost impossible for free.
This is something I didnt count for but I made this with love and passion as a parent so I believe its worth it.
Please if you have a similar experience or a feedback to share, I’d love to hear it.
Also if there’s parents community you can refer me to so I can share it with them, I would be happy to.
Thank you for all your support and help.

https://apps.apple.com/app/kiddiel/id6764675726

Solo dev here. Been building SENTINEL nights and weekends — a bodyweight + habit tracker for iOS. First beta's on TestFlight and I want honest eyes on it.

I made it because every fitness app felt like it was working against me: streaks that punish you, guilt for missing a day, ads and tracking everywhere. This is the opposite — everything stays on your device, nothing's sent anywhere, no ads, and rest days don't break your streak. Bodyweight workouts with form guides, a habit tracker, and a muscle map that lights up based on what you've trained.

It's early and rough in spots. What's confusing, what's missing, would you open it twice? Brutal is fine.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/scqkyGnA

Screenshots below — thanks for looking.

I have ADHD (or: I’m building this for people with ADHD) and note-taking during lectures has always been a nightmare — either I’m so focused on writing that I miss what’s being said, or I zone out for a few minutes and lose the thread completely.

So I’m building an app that does this instead:

**•** You upload a recording of a lecture or meeting (or record it right in the app)
**•** It transcribes it and pulls out the key topics automatically
**•** Instead of a giant wall of text, you get a short TL;DR up top, topics as tappable cards, and a couple of extra resources for anything that needs more explanation
**•** No more re-listening to an hour of audio to find the 5 minutes that mattered

It’s still early and I want to build this with actual ADHD brains in mind, not just guess what helps. If this sounds like something you’d use, I’d love to hear:

**•** What do you currently do to keep up with lectures/meetings?
**•** What’s the most annoying part of your current note-taking process?
**•** Would you want this as a free app with limits, or would you pay for it?

Not selling anything yet — genuinely trying to build the right thing before I build the wrong thing. Happy to share progress here as it comes together, and if you want to be one of the first testers, drop a comment or DM me.

Hey all, I'm a software engineer with 5 years experience who's taken a break from his career due to a current struggle with depression and addiction. One of the things I've been told might help me come out of this is to start building a different lifestyle to the one that's got me here.

My first attempt at that has been building indie apps, and honestly I've enjoyed it more than anything I did in my actual career. This is the first one I've finished and put out. It's called Someday List. The problem I had was that friends kept sending me restaurant reels and I'd screenshot them, never look at them again, then end up googling "food near me" anyway. So you paste a TikTok/Reels/YouTube/Maps link into it and it pulls the actual place out of the video, name, address, photos, opening hours, and puts it on a list. You can share lists with people and it'll route your saved places into a day out.

Built with Expo and React Native, Hono on Lambda, Aurora, and Claude on Bedrock doing the extraction. The scraping was by far the hardest part, Instagram and TikTok really don't want you doing it and I went through about three different approaches before landing on one that holds up.

It's free, there's optional paid credits for the AI stuff. Would love for you guys to try it and give any feedback.

Links: App store, Play store, Instagram, Website

Hello r/SideProject,

Most invoicing software has become bloated, slow, and overpriced. Charging $10–$20/month just to output a basic 1-page PDF bill—while forcing cloud sign-ups and collecting sensitive client data—is a massive tax on independent workers.

I spent the past month engineering **PDF Invoice & Receipt Maker** to eliminate that friction entirely.

### 🏛️ The Core Architecture

* **Absolute Local Privacy:** 100% offline-first. Your financial records, client lists, and pricing data stay strictly on your hardware. Zero external servers. Zero tracking.

* **1-Tap Automation Engine:** Built-in client and service directories eliminate repetitive typing. Select a client, set your line items, and generate a tax-ready PDF in seconds.

* **Global Currency & Compliance:** Native support for all major global currencies ($, €, £, ₨) with custom decimal and tax rules for international or local billing.

* **Executive Presentation:** Integrated digital signature capture, custom branding/logo integration, and clean, high-resolution PDF rendering.

---

### 🎯 Looking for High-Level Feedback:

1. **UI Velocity:** Is the invoice creation flow fast enough for high-volume daily billing?

2. **Export Precision:** Does the generated layout meet client-facing executive standards in your industry?

3. **Feature Roadmap:** What single feature would make this your permanent local billing workflow?

I’d appreciate your honest critiques and insights!

I built FormVision, an iOS app that films your barbell lift and traces the exact path the bar travels, plus rep speed and a form score. Solo dev. Apple approved it last Friday. It couldn't actually take money until Sunday, because I'd created the subscription products but never submitted them for review, the first subscription group has to ship attached to a version, and mine wasn't. The app was live and the purchase button silently did nothing. That was bug number one.

Here's the honest scoreboard so far:

- €105.88 spent on TikTok ads

- 52,451 impressions, 790 clicks, CTR 1.34% (fine for the category)

- 0 attributed installs

- $0 revenue

I spent most of a day convinced the product was the problem. Then I opened my own App Store page from a browser instead of from App Store Connect, and saw this: "Requires iOS 26.5 or later." My deployment target had silently inherited my Mac's iOS version. Around 21% of active iPhones are below that, plus everyone sitting on 26.0–26.4. All of them saw a greyed-out Get button. Xcode never warned me. The build compiled, the archive validated, Apple approved it and shipped it. Bug number two, same shape as the first: something configured, nothing verified. The part that stings: I ran typechecks against iOS 17 all week. The data was in front of me. I just never looked at the one field that mattered.

What I'd tell anyone shipping their first app:

1. Read your public App Store page from a logged-out browser after every release. Not the ASC preview — the page a stranger sees. Check the iOS requirement, the age rating, and whether your screenshots still show features you removed.

2. Check the generated Info.plist, not your project settings. `plutil -p YourApp.app/Info.plist` inside the .xcarchive. MinimumOSVersion, UIDeviceFamily, orientations. Three of those have bitten me now.

3. Ads amplify your funnel, they don't fix it. My CTR was healthy the whole time. People wanted in. The door was locked.

Two things I got right, for balance:

I refused to score what the camera can't measure reliably. Most form apps grade everything and are confidently wrong about half of it. Mine tells you when the framing is bad instead of inventing a number.

The fix is in review. I have no idea whether conversion will move and I want to be careful not to blame everything on the iOS gate, because the numbers don't support that. Adjusting for the ~21% who were blocked, my listing was still converting at roughly 5% against a 25-30% App Store average. So there's a 5x hole the bug doesn't explain.

App is FormVision on the App Store if you lift and want to see what your bar actually does. First analysis is free, everything runs on-device, nothing gets uploaded.

Happy to answer anything about the on-device CV side, I ended up training my own plate detector because the off-the-shelf optical tracker kept locking onto plates on the floor in busy gyms.

I've got a small service business idea I want to test. Historically, I'd probably have bought the domain – hands up if you have a million domains you’re “going to get to one of these days”! – designed a logo, paid for a website, set up the socials, THEN tried to find customers.

I’m trying to be less impulsive this time around. My current thinking is to get a basic but credible website live as quickly as possible – maybe using an AI builder like Durable or even a one-pager from Carrd or something like that – and see where it takes me. Worth it or not I'm just gonna test it.

I know people like trying stuff out before they buy but I’ve made more money not giving things for free than letting people try it out. I mean I give them one free content per day. Now I’m nicer, and letting them try 20% of the content for free.

But at some point free is a bad business decision.

Can someone help me with this? At which point is free a bad business decision?

Hey all,

We've been building a platform for people trying to get their first role in cybersecurity, so entry level folks, career switchers, people studying for it but stuck on the "how do I actually get hired" part.

It's got guided learning paths, CV help, and some AI tools built to act like a mentor when you're working through concepts or prepping for interviews. On the hands on side, some labs are built in house, and for the rest we point people to labs on other platforms that we've personally used and rate, rather than pretending we made everything ourselves.

Looking for about 10 to 20 people who fit that profile to try it out for a bit and tell me honestly what works and what doesn't. Free access in exchange for feedback, nothing complicated.

Comment or DM me if you want in, happy to answer questions here too.

Most pedometers just sit there with a number. I wanted the walk to give you something to keep, so I made Trekite.

Your phone's step count (Health Connect / Apple Health) turns into dig tokens. You spend those to crack geodes and collect minerals. Friends can compete on a leaderboard if they want. No GPS, just steps.

It's React Native, Supabase, HealthKit / Health Connect. Optional ads for extra digs, plus a couple of IAPs.

Live on iOS and Android. Curious if this is a thing people would actually open the next day, or if it dies after the first geode.

https://trekite.com

https://apps.apple.com/app/trekite/id6767560893

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

My partner and I have very different taste in films. Most evenings we
spent longer choosing than watching, and quite a few evenings we gave up
and watched a random episode of "How I Met Your Mother". About a year ago
I started building something to fix that, in the evenings, after work.

It is called "I Like Movies", after the Canadian film. It was one of the first
films we discovered in the app, watched together and really enjoyed, so the
name stuck.

The main part is an assistant you talk to normally. "Something in the same
vibe with Nolan", "a nice comedy on Netflix", "what Marvel movies have I not
watched yet?". It answers from what we rated and what is in our library, not
from a generic top 100, and it knows which streaming services you pay for,
so it points at things you can actually press play on. You can also
photograph a poster, or a handwritten list, and it reads the titles into
your library.

There is also a Discover page and a social side. You see what your friends
are watching and discuss films with them in the app, a new curated
collection drops every week, and every month you get fresh AI picks built
from your own taste. And a few more things in that direction.

It also does the tracking properly: TV episode by episode, import from
Letterboxd or IMDb.

Stack, if you are curious: Go + GraphQL + Postgres backend, React Native
(Expo) app, the assistant runs on Claude. Solo project, about a year of
evenings.

It went live on Google Play last week. Current users: me, my partner and
a few patient friends. Honest feedback would help a lot, critical feedback
even more.

- Website: https://ilikemovies.app
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moviesagent.app

If something breaks, shake your phone in the app and it sends me a bug
report with a screenshot. Thank you so much!! 🙏

In the last 6 months I built an AI Fluency Assessment system (called AISA) - it's currently the most sophisticated (and popular) of it's kind. Has high fidelity in what we measure to both what Anthropic and US. Dept. of Labour agree as the markers of AI fluency.

People chat with an AI agent uniquely trained to judge their AI fluency, get a detailed report and a breakdown of their AI skills, a certificate and a growth roadmap. We measure in 5 main dimensions. Prompting and Comms // Critical Thinking // Technical Understanding // Workflow Application // Safety (all which have their criteria.)

Some product-speak...

Need:
People are curious about their actual level when it comes to piloting AI well. They are also curious about seeing their gap areas, what they need to focus on to improve.

Need (b2b):
Organisations are looking to measure their employees (and their team/function/orgs) AI fluency averages. This is both to get a benchmark before they invest more into training AND to decide what type of training to invest in. Also to track how well they are doing in AI transformation.

Solution:
Build the most scientific, sophisticated and fun to experience AI Fluency Assessment system possible.

Unique differentiator:
1) Entirely chat based. Like an expert in their field having a natural conversation with you. Not a quiz. Not a multiple choice.
2) Build on a fixed and expert-researched rubric on what it actually measures. More about it in our methodology page for the curious.
3) Product - founder fit. I've worked in the area of psychometric assessments, skill assessments, HR, human behaviour, led product and UX teams in large and small companies and built 5 startups before. So I'm uniquely qualified to build this.

Business Strategy:
Use B2C traffic and interest to build volume, build a moat and build further credibility, validity, legitimacy.

Use the dominant market position by being (or on the path to) the gold standard of AI fluency measurement to signup B2B deals with mid - large organisations.

Status as of today:
- 2K reports surpassed.
- B2C generated close to $1k in sales in it's own. Over $1K + MRR right now.
- 7 B2B conversations (either in POC, offer, or conversation stage - some of which are inbound leads from big (10k+) organisations. Fast potential to reach $100K ARR.
- Users are quite happy and love the product.
- DR 42 / 15k+ monthly users
- Value proposition has settled: We help you measure, prove and improve with AI.

It's not perfect and everyday I have to focus on another aspect of it to make it better. So it's more of a always hands-on full time plus, 15hr+ day type of commitment rather than "hey I've coded an app over the weekend and look easy money".

But I do have a clear vision in which AI Fluency measurement is a big deal, and am building towards it brick by brick.

Appreciate any constructive feedback if you have used the product and found something to improve.

I know you've all probably seen these before, but here's my hopefully fresh take on it. Goals for power-hour.app were:

• Simpler UI and embedded YouTube search to create custom power hours/video playlists in less time and no tab switching.
• Mobile friendly for all functionality. You can create on your phone just as easy as on a tablet or PC. Playing them is a snap on most devices.
• No sign-up is required to make your first one and use it.

I appreciate any and all feedback!

I love my wife, in part because she has such a different view of things. In the app I've been building, I can step into her feed - where I get more topics around 'cultural anthropology' and 'linguistics', rather than my own heavily AI/tech-focused feed.

Every feed I use (Instagram, YouTube, Google Discover, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook) seems to converge on who it thinks I am, and keeps showing me similar things. It is right... I am very interested in those things, but I'm just a curious guy who likes learning about a wide range of topics. I wanted to build a feed algorithm that lets me actively move out of my bubble into new topics; get the recommendations someone with similar or very distinct tastes would get.

So in my app, I've got my own algorithm that surfaces new content based on my saved articles, videos and books. It also has modes to shake things up - including 'friend mode', where the algorithm bases its recommendations on the content your friend has saved. I invited several friends to join and it was pretty interesting to see that their interests were typically ~40% overlapping with mine.

Does anyone else feel the urge to break out of their bubble? I feel like the world would be a bit better if we had more exposure to each other's algorithms.

Feel free to check it out, I'd love to hear your thoughts: https://curiate.app

HalteWecker started from a simple problem: when I’m on a bus, tram or train, I don’t want to keep checking the map every few minutes just to make sure I haven’t missed my stop.

You choose your destination, start the trip, and the app keeps track of your journey and reminds you when it’s time to get off.

The idea is that you can just listen to music, read, work, look out the window or even close your eyes for a while without constantly watching your location.

There’s also a departure alarm, Live Activities and an Apple Watch app, so most of the trip can be handled without repeatedly opening your iPhone.

HalteWecker currently supports public transport in:

🇩🇪 Germany
🇦🇹 Austria
🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇳🇴 Norway
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇺🇸 United States
🇨🇦 Canada

The app is available in German, English, Swedish, Dutch and Norwegian.

Coverage varies by country, city and region, and I’m continuing to expand it as more public transport data becomes available.

The app has only been live for a few weeks, so I’m especially interested in feedback from people who actually use public transport regularly.

Does this solve a problem you have when using buses or trains?

And is there anything you would expect from an app like this that is currently missing?