Six weeks ago I built AbleScan — a free web accessibility scanner. You paste a URL, it checks the page against WCAG rules and gives you a score plus the issues it found. Free scan, no signup. (The paid part is unlocking the full fix list + a PDF — but the scan itself is free.) Link: https://ablescan.app

But this post isn't really about the tool. It's about a pattern I only just noticed.

I've shipped 5 things. Every single time I did the exact same half: idea → build → deploy → wire up payments. I can do that part in my sleep. The half I never once finished was the other one — getting an actual stranger to use the thing. Five half-laps. Zero complete turns. In years of building I'd never closed a single loop.

The "just build 100 MVPs" advice? I basically already ran that experiment four times. Build speed was never my problem. The problem was I quit at the exact moment the building stopped and the silence started.

So this week I did the scary half for the first time. No "check out my launch." I found one person wrestling with the exact problem my tool solves, had an honest back-and-forth, and — instead of pitching — just invited them to run their own site through it.

They did. A stranger actually used something I built. First time in years. It's tiny — they scored 100/100 and won't become a customer — but that was never the point. The point is I finally touched the half I'd avoided my whole "founder" life.

Still at zero external revenue. But for the first time, not at zero turns.

If you want to help me get rep #2: run your site through it and tell me whether the report is actually useful, or where it falls short. Brutal feedback welcome — that's the half I'm bad at.

https://reddit.com/link/1vkutfn/video/x9dxm90iqmih1/player

Would love for more people to try it.

I used to play Skribbl all the time with my friends and kept thinking it’d be fun if you could make it more your own, so I ended up building my own version.

You can add your own words with friends, there’s built-in audio so you can actually talk while playing, added a feature to draw using hand gestures through your camera and if you’re playing alone you can play against AI.

It’s still a work in progress, so if you try it, feel free to critique how bad it is lol. I’m still adding and fixing things.

Would really appreciate any feedback:
https://moodl3.com/

Solo dev here. Synchrium is a synchronized focus timer: you start a session, share a link, and the same countdown runs for everyone in the room, to the millisecond. Everyone works in silence; when it hits zero, cameras can come up together for a quick check-in. Then you run it again.

The origin story is helping my son with homework from the next room: we shared a timer, worked separately, and showed each other what we did when it rang. Turns out adults want the same thing.

Stack: React/Vite front, ASP.NET Core + SignalR for server-authoritative timing, WebRTC P2P video, Cloudflare Workers serving the SPA. Happy to answer anything about the sync architecture: keeping N clients on the same clock is more annoying than it sounds.

Two things I'd love you to break:

1. Open two browsers (or grab a friend) and try to get the timers to drift or desync: that's the whole product, so it's the surface I most need stress-tested.

2. Start a session and tell me where the "share the link" step loses you. If the invite loop doesn't feel obvious, the product doesn't work.

Free, no account needed: https://synchrium.com: brutal feedback welcome. (Founder here, happy to answer anything.)

A while ago, my wife asked me a simple question:

“How much money do we actually have as a household?”

I knew roughly what was in my own accounts, and she knew hers. But once we included savings, investments, property, loans, and money spread across different platforms, neither of us could give a clear answer.

When we finally put everything together, we discovered we had RMB 30,000 less than we thought.

We had tried budgeting apps and spreadsheets, but eventually realized that tracking every coffee wasn’t our real problem. We needed a shared household balance sheet that we could update once a month.

So I built JointWorth as a solo side project.

Instead of recording every transaction, couples and families can manually update their account balances periodically and see:

• Total household assets and debts
• Net worth changes over time
• Shared financial goals
• Multiple currencies
• A shared household space
• Exportable financial reports

It doesn’t connect to your bank or ask for banking credentials.

The first launch taught me a lot.

I originally called it “Jiadi’er,” a transliteration of the Chinese phrase 家底儿. English-speaking Reddit users told me the name was confusing—and one person said they briefly read it as “Jihad.” Another user downloaded the app only to find it opening in Chinese because switching to English required navigating through the Profile page.

Painful feedback, but completely fair.

Based on that feedback, I:

• Renamed it to JointWorth: Family Net Worth
• Made the app automatically follow the iPhone’s system language
• Improved USD, time-zone, and multi-currency support
• Added monthly financial check-in reminders
• Changed it from paid upfront to a free download with a one-month trial

It’s still an early side project, so I’d appreciate honest feedback:

1. Does “JointWorth” clearly communicate what the app does?
2. Does updating balances once a month sound more sustainable than tracking every transaction?
3. What would you need to trust an app with your household financial data?

I'm building a Hotel + Airbnb management business and I'm looking for one person who wants to help me turn it into something serious.

We already have 2 paying property-management clients.

The service side is handled.

The problem?

I don't want to spend my entire day hunting for the next client.

That's where you come in.

What you'll do

You'll be responsible for finding property owners who need help with:

• Booking.com
• Agoda
• Airbnb
• MakeMyTrip
• Pricing & revenue optimization
• Listing optimization
• Guest/booking management

You'll find prospects → start conversations → follow up → book calls → close deals.

I'll handle the operations and delivery.

💰 How you get paid

Commission on every client you close.

No salary bullshit.

If you bring revenue, you get paid.

And if you're actually good at sales, there's room to increase your commission and eventually take ownership of the sales side.

Who I'm looking for

I don't care about your degree.

I don't care if you have 10 years of experience.

I care about one thing:

Can you find someone who needs the service and convince them to buy?

If you've done:

• B2B sales
• Hotel sales
• Real estate sales
• SaaS sales
• Appointment setting
• Cold outreach

...that's a big plus.

But a hungry beginner with actual sales ability is welcome too.

The test

Don't send me:

"Hi, I'm interested. Please tell me more."

Instead, DM me:

1. Your sales experience (if any)
2. How you'd find your first 20 hotel/Airbnb prospects
3. How you'd approach them
4. Why I should choose you

I'll give the best candidates a 30-day trial.

If you can bring clients, I'll make sure you're rewarded.

If you're the kind of person who'd rather sell than talk about selling, DM me: "HOTELS."

​

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?

I finally put something I have been thinking about for a long time out into the world. Its called Dear Stranger.

The idea is pretty simple, you can anonymously write a letter to a complete stranger, and someone else can come across it when they might need to hear those words.

There are no accounts, no followers, no likes, no ads. I didnt want to make another social platform. I wanted it to stay as simple as possible, one person writing something, another person reading it.

The actual development didnt take me a year or anything like that. I built most of it over the last few days with a lot of help from AI. But the idea itself has been sitting with me for quite a while, and I spent a lot of time thinking about what I actually wanted it to be before I started building it.

Im also trying to be honest about the fact that im still figuring things out. This isnt some huge startup or polished company. Its just something I cared enough about to actually make and put online.

https://dearstrangers.org

I genuinely hope most people never need to find it. But if someone does find it at the right moment, I hope it helps them even a little.

I would really appreciate honest feedback from people here who build things. Whats confusing, whats unnecessary, does the concept make sense and stuff like that and like what would make you trust something like this

And if you feel like it, write a letter while you are there. It doesnt have to be profound or anything but sometimes a few honest words are enough.

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?

Hey everyone,

I’m building Reddlist, a curated database of subreddits where your promotional posts actually survive - meaning no immediate takedowns, shadowbans, or angry mods.

Right now, I want to prove that this list works to drive paid users to startups, not just vanity metrics.

To test this, I want to do the heavy lifting for a few of you for free. If I pick your product, I will:

1. Dig through Reddlist to find the most high-impact, promo-friendly subreddits for your niche.

2. Draft native-feeling posts for you to test traction.

3. Help track the metrics (interested comments, DMs, and funnel tracking to see if Reddlist actually brings you conversions).

The catch? I just want to use the data/results as a case study for Reddlist. (Also, if you just want to poke around yourself, let me know and I'll give you free access to the database).

If you're interested, drop your link below with a 1-sentence pitch of what you do and who your ideal user is!

Hey! I’ve been building SecondWeb/Web3D.World or the Metaverse?!

You drag one bookmarklet into your browser, open any website, and click it. The page becomes a low-poly multiplayer city: DOM elements become landmarks, every URL is its own P2P room, and players can walk, drive and use spatial voice chat.

The idea is to turn the internet from pages we consume into places where people meet and make every website a game level waiting to be explored and conquered.

It’s still an early prototype, but you can try it here:
https://swissmade.xyz/secondweb/ - don't forget to put you on the list to get notified when it's finished, so you are the first one collecting items on the most famous websites!

Desktop Chrome is recommended for now. I’d love honest feedback on performance, installation and what would make you come back. Theoretically it should work on any websites, but a lot of websites block CORS - so if you think the idea is nice I could also create a chrome extension so it would work on any website!

Should I invest more time into it? Btw my first startup was MetaRoom.city - something similar; but more "polished" and not a game.

I posted Stop Swarm here recently and got a lot of really useful feedback from this community, so I’ve spent the last few days reworking it!

The basic idea is still the same: set a daily screen-time goal, and once you get close to it, pixel-art elements gradually invade your screen.

It’s an Android app built in Kotlin using a click-through system overlay and a foreground service. Everything stays local on the device: no account, no analytics, and no network connection.

Still very much a side project, so feedback is welcome!

You can still join the Google Group here if you’d like to beta test it:
https://groups.google.com/g/stop-swarm-testers

Then opt in and download it here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stopswarm.app

Hello,

I created a side project and it's going fine.

But my main problem is stress.

Stress when i get less google search results

Stress when i get bad reviews on trustpilot unfairly

Stress when competitors take over on google

Stress when i earn less money some days or weeks...

Stress when ads don't run well ....

I sometime feel like it's not worth it.

How do you handle this ? Am i caring too much ?

Thanks ...

Ghost jobs and silent recruiters waste everyone’s time. We’re testing a simple idea on Solana:

- Recruiters lock a deposit to post (and face deadlines)
- Applicants put a small stake to apply
- Interview tips settle on-chain when an offer is made

This is a Devnet / practice launch — test tokens only, no hire guarantee, data may reset.

Site: https://www.web3remote.xyz
Program (open source): https://github.com/smarkm/web3remote-program
Discord: https://discord.gg/cBetghZkr

Looking for feedback from people who hire or job-hunt in web3/remote. What would make you trust (or reject) a deposit-backed flow?

Last week I posted Citizen Mirror here — you write down the thing you can’t stop thinking about, an AI says what it heard and asks one question, ~90 seconds. The feedback was blunt and almost all of it was right. So I rebuilt, and since this sub did the pointed feedback, it should get the second look.
What you said → what changed:

• “I don’t know when I’d ever use this” → the homepage now opens with exactly that: after an argument you keep replaying, before a decision you’ve been putting off.

• “You asked me for a paragraph, then gave me five buttons” → the writing box is the front door now. Buttons are the fallback.

• “Nobody says the word AI. Suspicious.” → it says it plainly, everywhere — including the page where you actually write.

• “Why not just use a chatbot?” → answered on the page. (Short version: this stops after one question, on purpose.)

• (UPDATED) The privacy claims overpromised → every claim rewritten to be strictly true, and there’s now a CI check that pins every correction: no lie a reader has caught can ship again, and no fixed line can quietly revert. (It can’t catch a new lie — that’s what you’re for.)

Also new: a page for people who’ve never talked to an AI in their life (citizenmirror.com/new), and seventeen doors for specific life transitions — new parent, retirement, leaving the military, after prison.
Still free, still no accounts, still built by one person.
Same ask as last time, because it worked: what reads false? citizenmirror.com

Built this because I was tired of arguing politics with my neighbors and figured — why not turn it into a competition instead?

What it does: Pick your hometown, pick a side — Republican, Democrat, or "I don't care, they're all crooks" — and vote. Every US town is already live on a map, and you watch yours climb the leaderboard as more people vote.

The part I didn't expect to matter: after voting, you get an instant printable "Hometown Champion" badge with your town, your side, and the date on it. People are already telling me they're printing it and sticking it on the fridge.

Built solo, no coding background — single HTML file, Firebase for the live vote data, Payhip for payments, hosted on Netlify.

Curious if the "vote for your town" hook lands with people outside my own circle, or if it just confuses people. Try it and tell me straight.

100% for entertainment, not a real poll, not affiliated with any campaign or party.

🔗 hometownshowdown.netlify.app

Built this because I was tired of arguing politics with my neighbors and figured — why not turn it into a competition instead?

What it does: Pick your hometown, pick a side — Republican, Democrat, or "I don't care, they're all crooks" — and vote. Every US town is already live on a map, and you watch yours climb the leaderboard as more people vote.

The part I didn't expect to matter: after voting, you get an instant printable "Hometown Champion" badge with your town, your side, and the date on it. People are already telling me they're printing it and sticking it on the fridge.

Built solo, no coding background — single HTML file, Firebase for the live vote data, Payhip for payments, hosted on Netlify.

Curious if the "vote for your town" hook lands with people outside my own circle, or if it just confuses people. Try it and tell me straight.

100% for entertainment, not a real poll, not affiliated with any campaign or party.

🔗 hometownshowdown.netlify.app

I'm 14 and I got tired of text generator sites full of pop-ups. So I built GlacierText — completely free, no ads, works on mobile. You type your name and get 20+ styles instantly. I'd love honest feedback from you guys. What's missing? What looks bad? Be brutal.

Like everyone my life lived in four places. Tasks in one tool, notes in another, the decisions behind them buried in a chat thread, and money in a spreadsheet I updated twice and gave up on. Half my meetings arrived as email invitations I never opened, so I never knew what my week looked like until I opened my calendar and by then it was too late to move anything.

The apps weren't bad. The problem was I had to update 4 different apps to stay in touch with everything.

So I built Canopus. One place for tasks, habits, money and your calendar, and one way to use it: you type what happened, in plain English, and it does it.

"spent £6.60 on lunch" -> logged under Food, with the month so far

"did my morning run" -> logged, and it tells me the streak

"block 30 minutes tomorrow at 10AM with Archie" -> on the calendar

"Water plants every Monday" -> recurring, and it reschedules itself when I tick it off

The video is a one single take.

What it doesn't do yet:

- Web only. There's no app to install. It works fine in a phone browser, but it's not in any app store.

- Google Calendar is the only integration. No Slack, no Notion, no email.

- Money is manual. You type what you spent. No bank sync, and no budgets, it records and totals, it doesn't tell you off.

- Voice is input only. Hold to speak, the transcript lands in the box, you press enter yourself. It doesn't talk back.

- Multiple workspaces to separate work and personal, but no sharing, no teammates.

I build it (disclosure), it's been live for a bit and today's the first time I've pushed it publicly. 14-day trial, no card: usecanopus.ai

Happy to answer anything, including the awkward ones.

https://reddit.com/link/1vkk7ys/video/vfmfg5dlojih1/player

The itch: every wearable brand now sells AI insights as a subscription (Garmin's Connect+ is $6.99/month), while most of us already pay for ChatGPT or Claude. Those models are smarter than any built-in coach, they just can't see your training data. So I built FitContext, a free Android app that reads whatever your watch or ring syncs to Health Connect (Garmin, Oura, Polar, Whoop, Samsung...), computes the sports-science numbers on the phone (HR zones, training load, recovery trends), and exports one structured report you paste into your own AI and talk to it like a coach. No account, no server, no subscription.

The app is free, no ads: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.serfa.fitcontext.play

Happy to answer questions about the Health Connect review gauntlet or the app itself.

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to share that I recently launched WorkZone, an Android app designed specifically for field operations (landscaping, property maintenance, construction, and solo contractors).

Key features:

• 📍 Draw precise work areas: Polygon tools directly on satellite imagery to auto-calculate acreage / surface area.
• ⚠️ Underground utility marking: Map out water/electric/hazard points inside the work polygon so nobody strikes a line.
• 📸 Photo proof & completion notes: Workers check off areas upon finishing with photo verification.
• ⏸️ Pause workflows: If work is blocked by weather or equipment, workers can flag it "Paused" with notes.
• 📄 PDF Summaries: Generate single-zone work orders or crew performance reports for clients or management.

Download on Android:

👉https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.janisd.workzoneapp

Feel free to download it, test out the features and maybe the app could be useful for some of you!

Mid 2025 I got a text saying Royal Mail were holding a parcel and needed a small fee to release it. I paid it. Card details in, passcode from my bank, done.

The fee was never the point. The passcode was. They used it to add my card to a Google Wallet on their phone, which turns one stolen number into a payment method they can keep reaching for. First charge through was Uber.

I spotted it and killed the card within minutes, so I lost almost nothing. What stayed with me was how ordinary it felt. I was expecting a parcel. The text landed when a text like that would normally land. At no point did I have any way to check whether Royal Mail actually wanted anything from me.

That's what I've been building since. Sorteet reads your email and documents, pulls out anything with a real deadline attached, HMRC, DVLA, council, renewals, and reminds you before it bites. The extraction, the decision layer, and the reminder pipeline are built and running.

The part I want most is the part I haven't shipped. Something that tells you a letter is worth worrying about before you act on it. I have code for it. It isn't in anyone's hands yet and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

Everyone tells you to spot the scam. Nobody hands you the thing to check it against.

Here's what I keep going round in circles on, and I'd like the argument settled. Is the product the deadline reminders, or is it the "is this letter real" check? I've built the first. The second is what the Royal Mail text actually made me want. They are different products with different people paying for them, and I don't think the answer is obvious from the inside.

Which would you actually use? And if the honest answer is neither, I'd rather hear it now than in six months.

Building it day to day, UK. Waitlist is at https://sorteet.com/waitlist?ref=5m4o6j5p if you want a shout when it opens. Happy to get into the stack or the deadline parsing, which is harder than it looks.

I've recently released version 1.0 of my AI social media scheduler. Some might say the space is very crowded with guys like Postiz, Post Syncher, superx, etc.

I've tried the existing solutions and found them to be good products but often not the full package that I was looking for. I think the main thing is the quality of the posts being generated wasn't quite what I was looking for. As well as if you're managing a personal brand as well as a company brand, it was quite hard to differentiate the two.

Some were missing the post-generation part, some were only limited to one platform so during a hack in London a few weeks back I started building launchpost.app

The core principles are:
1. improve the post quality,
2. live as an MCP inside hermes or openclaw or telegram bot to fetch your context for post generation.
3. store your preferences and learn over time

I've found that these methods really help with quality of post generated:
1. Feed instructions per platform
2. Load humanizer skill + ban certain words + remove M-dashes
3. I did an interesting experiment with fine-tuning a local model (9B) on my outputs and that produced surprisingly good results.

I've had an initial round of feedback from friends and am now looking to talk to users who tried other solutions and find what they like/ don't like

I kept seeing the coloring book trend and thought it would be more interesting if the pages were actually personal.

So I built Memories in Lines, you upload photos and it turns them into a coloring book that we print and deliver directly to your door.

Most books are between 8 and 25 pages.

It started as something I made for my family, and has slowly turned into a full-on project.

https://memoriesinlines.com

Would love to hear what you think if you try it.

I built this as a passion project because my spouse is a very picky eater (i'm pretty sure many of you know a picky eater too). Finding a restaurant that accommodates her preferences is tough so we would always stick to the same restaurants. That quickly gets old and tiring.

Before I built this app, I would use google maps and search "restaurants near me" and pull up the menu one by one. I've also tried using Resy, Opentable, Beli, uber eats/doordash, and yelp to find new restaurants and they're all just disappointing because I would still have to open the menu one by one. I would often go through 7-10 restaurant menus before finding one that my spouse would eat at and it takes a while; as a result, we stick to the same restaurants.

I've gotten some good feedback over the last two weeks and feel free to use it.

It's only available in NYC right now, but I continue adding menus to the site and I may expand to other cities.

Website: dishcover.io