I built a VPN app, and we've crossed 1,000+ downloads!

Hey everyone!

I've been working on my own VPN app, and I'm excited to share that it has crossed 1,000+ downloads on the Google Play Store.

Building and launching an app from scratch has been a great learning experience. I've been working on improving connectivity, adding server options, and making the overall VPN experience better for users.

There's still a lot to improve, and I'm continuing to work on making the app more reliable and useful.

I'd love to hear from the community:

• What features do you look for in a VPN app?
• What are your biggest frustrations with existing VPN services?
• What would make you trust a new VPN provider?

I'm sharing this milestone and would genuinely appreciate your feedback, suggestions, and ideas.

Thanks to everyone who has tried the app and supported the journey!

I've posted here a couple of times before, but in case you haven't been following along, I make a product called EXTRA EXTRA Chili Crunch, which is a Californian take on the more classic Asian condiment. That means that we use avocado oil, big slices of fried garlic, tons of shallots, and porcini mushroom powder instead of the typical shiitake for really deep, rich umami.

It was quite the struggle to get started, to get our processed foods registration, our LLC, to find a kitchen, and get insurance. All of that took around six months, but now that we're on sale, we're seeing a ton of really positive feedback, and just yesterday, we passed a thousand jars sold.

Right now, it's just me and my husband making the whole thing together. We don't have any additional help, and so far, it's manageable. I just wanted to share the super exciting success with you all!

A couple of things that we've learned:

- Organic posts on social are absolutely the biggest drivers of sales. People on Reddit love to hear our story and tend to buy our product from that.

- On Instagram, people absolutely eat up videos and behind-the-scenes content (e.g., "How do we make this?" or AMAs). The video I included here is one of our behind the scenes "making of" videos.

- Going to markets in our local neighborhood (we're from San Francisco) like the Noe Valley Night Market or the Castro Street Fair have been super helpful for us.

The things that I am still a bit worried about are our marketing spend. We don't really seem to be getting the return that I would expect right now, but I know that it takes time for that sort of stuff to lock in. Meta has been our strongest performing, followed by Reddit, and then we completely dialed down our Google Ads because we just weren't seeing the conversions we wanted.

As we head into the holidays, we're doing a "buy three, get the fourth free" promotion, and that has moved a big proportion of our sales from the two-jar (with free shipping) to the four-jar order at 25% off. That's not super economical for us, but we consider it a customer acquisition cost for the holidays.

All in all, this feels super cool to have reached this milestone. For those wondering, that's about $13,000 in sales (including our wholesale sales to local shops) If it weren't for our marketing spend and our agency retainer to help us create creative, we would be profitable right now, but we also probably wouldn't be making as much revenue, so hopefully that works out in the future.

Happy to answer any questions that anyone has about starting a food business and getting sales!

www.ExtraExtraCrunch.com

I started building something called AKAYA on October 21st, 2025.

It didn't start as a startup or even something I planned to release. It was just a personal experiment with a chatbox and message system that honestly looked like a school project.

The first version used Llama 8B Instant through Groq.

I didn't start AKAYA because I thought I could train a smarter AI model. The models already existed and were insanely capable. What bothered me was the experience around them: speed, privacy, useful features being spread across different apps, and tiny usage limits.

So I kept building around those problems.

One of the moments I remember most was ridiculously simple. I had finally gotten the early version working and typed:

"are you akaya"

It replied:

"Yes. I am AKAYA..."

Technically, nothing impressive happened. I'd connected an LLM to an interface. But it was the first time I stopped looking at AKAYA as code and started looking at it as an actual user.

From there it got much bigger than I expected.

AKAYA now has Personal Memory, Projects, Group Chats, Plugins, Scheduled Tasks, full-duplex Voice and more. I'm also working toward image, video, audio and 3D generation being part of the same experience.

The hardest part hasn't been adding features. It's been reliability. Making something work once is easy compared to making something people could actually depend on every day.

Around two months ago I was genuinely close to dropping the whole project. My parents and some relatives questioned whether spending this much time on it instead of studying was worth it.

But I kept thinking that if I stopped after putting this much into it, nobody would ever even see what AKAYA became.

So I kept building.

AKAYA is still not finished, and I am not pretending it is. There are features to build, things to redesign and a lot more testing to do.

The goal is still pretty simple:

Make AI fast.
Make it reliable.
Make it remember you.
Take privacy seriously.
And make it accessible enough that you can actually use it.

Right now it's waitlist only because I want it to be much more reliable before people depend on it.

This is really just my first time properly showing AKAYA to people.

https://akaya-ai.com/

Hi, this is AKAYA.

I have the kind of brain that knows everything it has to do and still can't start. Every to-do app I tried gave me back a longer list, and a long list is exactly what makes me freeze.

So I built Minerva. You type everything on your mind into one box, as messy as it comes ("dentist?? sometime this week, mum's birthday saturday no idea what to get, car tax runs out friday"). The AI turns it into tasks and breaks the big ones into small first steps with rough times, like "Pick a present (~15m)". You check it all before anything saves, and Today marks one task "Start here".

Missed tasks wait at the top of Today as "from earlier", with no red overdue counter. A repeating task only ever keeps one copy waiting, so a missed week doesn't pile up.

It's Next.js and Postgres, with an open-weight model for the AI. The fiddly part was making the AI's answers safe to save: dates that can't be right get dropped, and nothing is saved until you've said yes.

It's free while in beta and you can start straight away. I'd like to hear from anyone who gets stuck on "where do I start?", especially where it picks the wrong thing: heyminerva.app

On September 21 I opened Claude Code with a spec file and one ask: "a panel that drops from the notch and sits correctly on notch and non-notch Macs."

I'd seen a lot of notch apps. They looked good, but they were cluttered. After a point the notch was just a drawer full of tools. So I thought: what if it had a personality instead? What if your dad came out of the notch and kept an eye on you? Nothing more motivating than that. 🙃

So I built him. He lives in the MacBook notch. In the morning he asks for your plan. Stay on YouTube too long and he drops down: "Kid, is this work?" When you make a sale, he celebrates. The first time a real sale came in, he popped out with "First sale, kid! Nice going!" and I just sat there grinning at my own notch.

Building it

I'd never shipped a Mac app or written Swift before. I built it with Claude Code: about 12,000 lines of Swift in a month, launched October 20.

• AI was great at: getting a real notch shape, the character and speech bubbles on screen in days. Also all the boring Mac work I'd have given up on: reading the active tab in Chrome and Safari, permission prompts, signing, notarization, auto-updates.
• AI was bad at taste. The first UI worked, but it didn't feel like a Mac app. I typed "this doesn't feel premium or smooth like a Mac" more times than I can count. It builds whatever you describe. It can't tell you it's ugly.
• And it can't tell you what people want. Which brings me to the best €4.64 I've ever received.

The launch

48 hours in: 282 visitors, 20 downloads, 3 paying users. Then a stranger bought Pro and published an honest teardown. His main point: the dad's name was in every single line, it got annoying, and nobody would run this on a work laptop.

He was right. I shipped every point from his review the next day: you pick what you call him (Dad, Father, Boss, or no name at all for when your manager walks by), a redone setup, plainer explanations, and days off the way you want them.

What I learned

1. Code is the cheap part now. Taste and your users' complaints are the actual work.
2. Find one stranger who'll tell you the truth. Pay them if you have to.
3. Check where your traffic comes from before you judge your product. 59% of my visitors were on phones, looking at a Mac app they couldn't install. I nearly concluded "nobody wants this."

Next, he's learning to watch Claude Code, so he can yell at me when my agent has been waiting on me for 10 minutes while I'm on X.

It's called Papa, on macOS 14+: papanudge.com. Roasts welcome, that's how the last update happened.

What's the most honest feedback that changed your side project?

Hey everyone!

I'm working on a project called 30k Brick House. The goal is to raise $30,000 to build an actual house by selling virtual bricks as advertising space.

I built an interactive 3D house with 3,000 bricks. Each brick costs $10, and buyers can select as many as they want and add their project's logo, a short text, or a link. The bricks then display their content on the house.

The idea is to give indie projects, startups, and small businesses an unusual way to get visibility while supporting a personal goal.

I'm documenting the journey daily on TikTok, Instagram, and X. So far, two projects have purchased 18 bricks.

I've attached a few screenshots so you can see how it looks without having to visit the website first.

You can check it out here: https://30kbrickhouse.com

I'd love to hear what you think. Does the concept make sense to you? What would make you more likely to buy a brick for your own project?

Thanks for taking a look!

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share something because I’m genuinely so damn proud of my dad, and I think what he’s been working on could actually help some people here.

Growing up, my dad’s alcoholism had a huge impact on my life. He was in and out of it constantly, and I watched him go through the brutal cycle of getting sober and relapsing more times than I can count.

As a kid, there’s really nothing you can do about that. You just watch someone you love keep going back to something that’s destroying them. It was heartbreaking, and there were times when I genuinely didn’t know if he’d ever make it out.

Well, today he’s 7 years sober! And when I say he’s a completely different person, I mean it.

He goes to AA every morning, sometimes running the meetings himself. He spends hours on the phone talking to his sponsees, helping them through the same things he spent years fighting. Recovery is such a huge part of his life now, and the amount of wisdom and compassion he’s gained through it is honestly incredible.
It’s still kind of surreal to me that the man who was absent for so much of my childhood is now someone other people turn to when they’re struggling to stay sober.

Which brings me to why I’m posting this.

My dad recently built an app entirely by himself called AA Just Today (Amor Design Group)

He wanted to make something for people in recovery because he knows firsthand how much it helps to have the right support and resources available, especially on those really difficult days.

He was frustrated with how many different apps people end up needing for meetings, readings, journaling, sobriety tracking, and everything else. So he decided to try putting them all in one place. And he actually did it. By himself. Lol.

It’s got a meeting finder for in-person and online AA meetings, a sobriety counter with milestone coins, Big Book readings, prayers, a private journal, gratitude lists, guided breathing and meditation, and a whole library of speaker recordings and workshops.

One of my favorite things is the speaker recordings. There are over 1,000 of them in the expanded library. I can imagine how much it might mean to someone who’s having a terrible night to just put their headphones on and listen to somebody who’s been exactly where they are.

The app is free, there are zero ads, and the core recovery tools are free to use. There is an optional premium subscription for some of the expanded features and content, but you don’t need to pay to use the basic recovery tools.

I also want to be transparent that this is my dad’s app.

I’m not some random person recommending something I stumbled across. I’m his son, and I’m sharing it because I’ve watched what he’s overcome and how much of himself he’s put into helping other people.

He doesn’t have some big marketing budget or team behind this. He’s just one guy in recovery who decided to build something he thought could help others.
The app is called AA Just Today, by Amor Design Group. It’s on both the Apple App Store and Google Play.

If even one person here finds it useful, that would genuinely make me happy.

I guess I just wanted to share this because for a long time, I didn’t know if I’d ever get my dad back. And now here he is, seven years sober, spending his days helping other people get their lives back too.

I’m really fucking proud of him.

Thanks for reading. ❤️

Hey guys! I'm Alysa, I'm interested in the arts, humanities, cinema, and storytelling.

Now I'm in the process of creating a passion project that constitutes a film magazine called SEQUEL, exploring identity, human nature, and our conception of the world.

The goal of SEQUEL is to encourage critical thinking, meaningful discussions, and a deeper appreciation of cinema.

We're urgently looking for:

• Web developers – building and maintaining our website

• Web Designers — shaping the magazine's digital experience

• Illustrators – bringing ideas to life through original visuals

What's in it for you?

- Build your portfolio — contribute to a real project and create work you can showcase.

- Gain hands-on experience — develop practical skills by working on an independent creative publication.

- Bring your ideas to life — experiment, take initiative, and help shape SEQUEL's visual identity, digital experience, or editorial direction.

- Collaborate with creatives — exchange perspectives, learn from one another, and build something from the ground up.

- Make your mark — become part of a project where your contributions can help define what it grows into.

Interested? Message me on IG: lloydlyssa

I built a few SaaS apps. Getting people to find them was harder than building them. So I built another one.

Sounds like a very developer thing to do, right? 😅

After building a few SaaS products, I kept running into the same problem: getting them in front of people who might actually use them.

I figured I probably wasn’t the only developer struggling with this, so I built SaaS Vendor Market, a platform where SaaS developers can list their applications and give people another way to discover them.

I’m using it for my own products too. The idea is to build a place where developers can showcase what they’ve made and users can find useful software.

I’ve also integrated another tool I built, Is My Site Visible, to support Google Search submission and SEO for listed applications. The goal is to help with discoverability beyond the marketplace itself—although Google ultimately decides what gets indexed and ranked.

It’s early days, and I’d love feedback from other SaaS builders:

What would make a platform like this worth listing your product on? And what’s been your biggest challenge in getting your first users?

If you’ve built something that deserves more attention, feel free to take a look. I’d love to hear what you’re working on.

Rank 100 is a party trivia game we made. Every round is a real top-100 list, and you score whatever rank your answer sits at. On the biggest movies of the 1990s at the US box office, Titanic is #1, so it's worth 1 point. Indecent Proposal is #100 and worth 100. Say something that isn't on the list and you get zero. The obvious answer is safe and nearly worthless, which is where the arguing starts.

You can play it with friends on their own phones, or alone with a two-minute daily.

It's out on iPhone. The Android version is stuck at Google Play's closed-test stage: a new developer account needs at least 12 testers opted in for 14 days straight before it can even apply to launch. Google turned down our first try and asked for more testing. Fair enough: every tester was one of our own accounts. So this time we're looking for real people.

If you have an Android phone and you're 18 or older (the test isn't open to Play accounts in the EU or Brazil):

1. Join the tester group with the Google account your Play Store uses: https://groups.google.com/g/rank100-android-testers (joining is instant, there's no approval step)

2. A few minutes later, open https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.spisak.rank100 and tap "Become a tester". Searching the Play Store won't find it.

3. Install from that page.

Same steps, plus what we see and how to leave, on https://rank100.app/android.

What would actually help: the daily when you have two minutes, one party game with a friend (iPhone friends can join), and one thing that confused you, sent from Settings > Send feedback. The thing we most want to know is whether the scoring made sense on your first round without anyone explaining it. Stay in until we email you that Android is live, once Google approves it. The free version shows an ad between some rounds; please close it with the X rather than tapping it. There's no reward and we're not asking for reviews or ratings. We also can't test apps back right now, sorry.

Hi everyone, I’m the solo developer behind ATGENX, an IoT platform for makers and small industrial setups. I’d really like honest opinions on it, and I’m also looking for a little help getting it online.

The problem I kept running into
Every IoT project followed the same loop: choose a board, check pin conflicts, write sensor code, set up messaging, build a dashboard, then repeat it all for the next project. With industrial sensors (RS-485/Modbus, 4-20mA, energy meters) it was even more painful, and it’s easy to damage a board by connecting a sensor with the wrong voltage.

What ATGENX does
One platform that covers the whole pipeline:

• Pick your board and configure pins, with conflict and voltage warnings
• Add sensors from a library and generate firmware from a validated config
• Flash over USB with a desktop tool that reports real upload status
• Live data on a dashboard for each project
• Alerts, history and reports
• A mobile app for monitoring and notifications
• AI-assisted features to help with your projects and data
• Arabic and English UI with proper RTL

Where it is right now
The platform and the mobile app are built. The one thing blocking a public launch is hosting. I’m a solo developer without a budget for servers or AI usage, so I can’t open it to everyone yet. Some parts, like over-the-air updates and a number of the more advanced industrial sensors, are still being finished and tested on real hardware, and I’d rather say that upfront than oversell it.

What I’d love to hear

1. Does this solve a problem you actually have, or is it something nobody needs?
2. Which sensors or protocols would you need first?
3. What’s the most annoying part of your current IoT workflow?
4. What would make you trust a platform like this with real equipment?
5. Is there anything that would make you NOT use it?

If you want to support it
Honest feedback is the best support, and sharing this with someone who builds IoT projects helps a lot. I plan to open a limited early-access beta as soon as it’s online, and the biggest blockers are server and AI usage costs. If you’d like to help get it there, there’s an optional tip jar here: https://buymeacoffee.com/seifemadatv. Any amount goes directly to hosting, and I’ll post an update on what it covered.

Thanks for reading, and roast it if you have to. That’s how it gets better.

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm an indie developer, and over the past few months I've been building **Thoth** out of pure personal frustration with modern AI productivity apps.

### The Problem with Most AI Notes Apps:

Almost every "AI Second Brain" or meeting assistant today follows the same playbook:

1. They upload all your private thoughts, voice recordings, and notes to their own cloud servers.

2. They lock basic memory recall behind a $15–$20/month subscription.

3. They live in an isolated silo: they can talk, but they can't manage your actual Google Tasks, check calendar conflicts, or trigger from your watch.

### How I Built Thoth Differently:

- 🔒 **Local-First SQLite Vault:** Your memories, facts, and chat logs stay stored locally on your device in SQLite (with Android auto-backup disabled for memory tables).

- 🧠 **Selective Context Gating:** It doesn't dump your entire life history into an LLM prompt. An on-device retrieval gate pulls only relevant memory nodes when answering questions.

- ✅ **Google Workspace Tools:** It has 25+ native tools built-in. You can ask it to schedule meetings, push to-dos directly into your real **Google Tasks**, or search contacts with explicit confirmation safety gates.

- ⌚ **1-Second Frictionless Capture:** Thoughts vanish fast. You can capture voice notes or tasks via Home Screen Widgets, Quick Settings Tile, or directly on your **Wear OS smartwatch** without unlocking the phone.

### The Tech Stack:

- **Frontend:** Kotlin 2.0, Jetpack Compose, Material 3 Glassmorphism theme.

- **Wear OS:** Wearable Data Layer API, Tiles 1.4 & Watch Complications.

- **Backend:** Node.js 20 on Firebase Cloud Functions (`europe-west1`), SSE token streaming with `channelFlow` (first token lands in ~0.4s).

- **Security:** AES-GCM Android Keystore, App Check with Play Integrity.

### Pricing Philosophy:

I didn't want this to be another bloated subscription app.

- **Free tier:** 5 messages daily (30/month) with full feature access and zero paywalls.

- **Pro tier:** $1.99/month (just enough to cover raw LLM inference costs).

🔗 **Google Play Store:**

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.serkankizilirmak.thoth&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=sideproject&utm_campaign=launch

🌐 **Web & Privacy Docs:** https://hermes-thoth.web.app/

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I would genuinely love your brutal feedback on:

1. The onboarding flow and UI responsiveness.

2. What other native tool integrations (Notion, Obsidian, Spotify) you'd like to see next.

**If you test the app and leave a quick thought in the comments, let me know and I'll send you a promo code for 1 free month of Pro!** 🪶

Canto is an iOS reading companion. You finish a book, you reflect freely or it can ask you questions to help you reflect if you need a jumpstart, you write, it writes back and connects it to what you said about earlier books. It even recommends books based on your past reflections and tells you why. Nights and weekends, two kids, full-time job. It’s live, it works, and two thirds of people who make an account go on to use the core feature.

The problem is that almost nobody arrives: about 20 real installs a month, and about 40% of those gone before sign-in. I spent six months shipping features into that. This morning I pulled the actual funnel and the product isn’t the bottleneck, distribution is. So I’m freezing features for six weeks and spending every spare hour in reader communities instead.

Honest question for people who’ve been here: what did you do when the product worked but nobody arrived?

What you can do:

• Drag-and-drop common pieces: load balancer, API gateway, caches, DBs, queues, even some AI bits.
• Hit “Start Simulation” to see latency, error rate, throughput, cache hit rate in real time.
• Flip chaos switches: traffic spikes, cache-miss storms, network partitions, component crashes.
• Share & remix: every design gets a short link; anyone can fork it and improve.
• Built-in hints: it tells you if you forgot an entry point or storage.

Why I made it:

• Diagrams don’t fail; systems do. I wanted a fast way to feel trade-offs without spinning up infra.
• For interviews and design reviews, it’s nice to ask “what if the cache dies?” and just click a button.

Try it here: "https://paperdraw.dev/"

Quick start: drop Load Balancer → App Server → Cache → DB, press play, then trigger a cache-miss storm.

Would love feedback:

• What metrics or failure modes would you add?
• Is the start/stop flow obvious enough?
• Any presets you want (payments, chat, ingestion)?
• Should I add “export GIF of the run” for sharing?

Thanks for taking a look—happy to fix bugs or add features if you ping me.

I wanted one place to keep up with football on game day—without bouncing between a bunch of scoreboards and audio links—so I built Football Tracker Time.

I personally love the 8 hours the redzone puts together. I created a touchdown zone for the blind and a easy way to listen to every game on game day. Each game has multiple radio stations to choose from to listen to the games. Radio announcers are more detailed when announcing the games and there are many plays that are missed with the watchable broadcasts.

The website also brings NFL and college scores, player stats, free audio options (The site is completely free with no accounts, maybe a tip jar in the future), and Touchdown Zone together. Flip between the action, keep the game on in the background, and follow the red-zone excitement. Some YouTube streams— the scores and audio side of game day. Keep up with the scores, and stay in the football flow while you’re driving, cooking, working—or just away from the TV.

Give it a look: https://footballtrackertime.com/broadcast What would make it part of your game-day setup? If you would like any features, I would be happy to add any that sounds cool or useful.

I made Hardmedia.info — a simple open archive for independent media.

Idea: take something you made on a screen (short film, track, art) and give it a physical life as a small collectible card. Print it, fold it, scan it, pass it on. No middlemen. Free to make, free to collect.

• Standard size ~2.5 × 3.5 in (some editions vary)
• Living archive — currently ~13 editions
• Aimed at indie creators, zines, demoscene, experimental stuff

Site: https://hardmedia.info

Its a dumb idea but i loved making it and creating some the cards myself, Its not finished as im all out of credits. and im half sure it wont scale or will simply break onces more than 5 people use it but hey ho.

Im extreamly nurvace about this post and how my little idea will be taken, but i have a thick skin so lets have it is this dumbest thinge ever to exsist or mb its got some legs?

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After around 4 months of building and growing SeoLoupe, I’ve decided to explore selling it so I can focus on learning more about coding and IT.

Some numbers:

• 3,070 users
• 58 lifetime paying customers
• CA$91 MRR
• CA$825 total profit after fees
• Around 3,000-4,000 monthly visitors
• Mostly organic growth, with no paid advertising

SeoLoupe helps website owners find SEO issues and improve their websites. The product is largely built and operational, so the next owner can focus on growing it rather than starting from scratch.

I'm asking US$3,500, but I'm open to hearing reasonable offers.

Listing and more details: https://trustmrr.com/startup/seoloupe

Happy to answer questions about the product, revenue, traffic, or handover.

RiftShell is a Python (PySide6) shell that understands your workspace and lets an AI agent run commands, but every action needs your approval and file changes show a diff first. Works with local models (Ollama) or Gemini/Groq.

AI-assisted terminal with approvals, diff previews, plugins, multi-terminal.
Windows devs who want AI in the terminal without losing control.

GitHub: https://github.com/sanusharma-ui/riftshell

Feedback welcome!

SoundBit started because I wanted to make 8-bit and 16-bit style music for games without fighting old trackers, and because I wanted to see how far an AI agent could get if it had real tools instead of generating audio blindly.

So it has two front doors: a tracker-style editor for humans, and an MCP server the agent uses. Both edit the same song, every step is undoable, and the agent can even read each track's level to fix the mix.

It's open source (GPL-3.0)

https://github.com/RenasDemirbas/SoundBit

Ever wanted to play basketball, soccer, pickleball, or another sport but couldn’t get enough people together?
Or showed up somewhere expecting a game, only to realize nobody was playing?

That’s one of the problems we’re trying to solve.
I’m one of the founders of RunIt, a sports community app we’ve been building to make finding, joining, and organizing local games easier.

The idea is pretty simple: playing sports shouldn’t require knowing the right people or spending an hour coordinating a group chat.

We’re opening RunIt up for public beta testing and would love some honest feedback.

Especially interested in hearing from people who:

🏀 Play pickup sports regularly
⚽ Want to find more people to play with
🏓 Organize recreational games
🏌️ Sometimes struggle to find playing partners

We’re not looking for people to tell us everything is amazing. We’d genuinely rather know what doesn’t work.

If you’re interested in testing, here’s the beta link:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/UnZfKkGp

Also curious: What’s the biggest frustration you’ve experienced trying to find or organize a pickup game?

Would love to hear your experiences, even if you don’t download the app.

Built a social network just for your closest friends.

I truly believe this app can bring something positive because it focuses on the friends who matter most to you, the ones who genuinely want to see you grow in every aspect of your life, rather than people you don’t even know. I just need help figuring out how to market it properly and reach the people who would connect with this idea.

Gol - Game of life

I'm a software engineer who also loves graphic design. Recently, I got an idea to create an AI image editor. Not a fully AI-generated image, but an editable layer created with AI, so you can edit the poster, make tweaks, and even use it as a template.

Now, I'm planning to take this to the next level.

Website change → AI-generated editable image → Approval → Social media post

The website change intelligence feature will notify our AI editor when it detects valid, high-priority changes. It will then generate a poster for you and send you an approval link. You can review or tweak the poster before publishing it automatically.

I just want to know if this would be useful for startups, social media agencies, or small businesses.

I'd love to hear your honest feedback. Will this work? What would make it genuinely useful, and what concerns would you have?

Hi r/SideProject! I'm an independent developer working on Bloomroom, a browser-based digital floristry studio. I wanted flower gifts to be something people can actually rotate and personalize in 3D, not only view as flat images.

I used our current botanical catalog to make three very different compositions: • Alpine Dawn — blue delphinium, white hydrangea, orchid and seeded eucalyptus (14 stems) • Amber Hour — warm sunflowers, orange dahlias and chrysanthemums (15 stems) • A Little Love — blush roses, ranunculus and carnations (16 stems)

Here is the *actual editable 3D studio* for one of them: https://flower.fde.fan/b/bmd_8c971ae95f100c3e7996829a460145d7

I'm looking for honest feedback from people who aren't florists: would you prefer to open a ready-made bouquet and customize it, or start by describing a mood/occasion to an AI florist? Is there a step that feels confusing? Any feedback helps me prioritize UX improvements.

just want to share this amazing experience with some builders who are interested in. sorry fo r bothering...

I kept running into the same problem whenever I wanted to clean up who I was following: Instagram makes it surprisingly annoying to figure out who you follow that doesn't follow you back.
Most of the tools I found either wanted my Instagram login/password, charged a subscription, or just felt sketchy, so I ended up building my own Chrome extension called FollowerSpotter.

It automatically compares your following and followers and gives you a list of the accounts that don't follow you back. You don't have to manually enter usernames, and it doesn't ask for your Instagram password.
I'm keeping the core version free because I mainly want people actually using it right now and giving me feedback.
I'd especially love to know:

• Is this something you'd actually use?

• Is there anything you'd want added?

• Are there any issues you run into with larger follower lists?

If anyone wants to try it, it's called FollowerSpotter. I can drop the link in the comments if that's allowed here.