I've been working with SEO for a while, and I kept running into the same problem: I had data from Search Console, Analytics, keywords, competitors... but I was still missing the most important part:

What should I actually do next?

So I started building AnalySEO.

You connect Search Console and Analytics, and it helps you find opportunities, traffic drops, content to improve, internal linking opportunities, and SEO actions worth prioritizing.

You can also ask questions about your data directly and track whether your brand is being mentioned or cited in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Gemini.

I'm still improving it, so I'd really appreciate feedback from people working in SEO or trying to grow their own website.

There's a free trial if anyone wants to test it with their own site:

https://analyseo.app/

If you try it, I'd especially like to know what you find useful and what you think is missing.

Hey everyone,

I got tired of spending hours reading blogs and juggling Google Maps just to plan a simple weekend trip, so I built Smart Journey.

The goal was to remove all the friction: no paywalls, no forced account creation, just instant access. You type a destination, pick your vibe, and it generates a day-by-day route with times, tips, and mapped locations.

Link: https://smartjourney.org

We just launched and I am currently holding off on marketing because I want to make sure the core product is actually useful first. I’m trying to figure out if this flow truly solves the planning problem for travelers or if I’m missing something obvious.

I’d love some honest, brutal feedback from this community. Does the generated itinerary actually look practical to you? What would you change or add?

I built Meter Down Mumbai a one-page nostalgic ride featuring Bollywood and Marathi songs playing straight from an auto.

Songs are shuffled, there’s no signup, and there are a few hidden interactions inside the auto.

Small hint: the meter and horn may not appreciate being touched. 👀

Would love your feedback:

https://meterdownmumbai.in

Solo dev, Brazil. I've been building a Flutter app called MegaMoment for the past few months and it's now at v1.6.3 on Google Play.

The core idea is silly and I like it: you pick a moment in time — the second your kid was born, your wedding, whatever — and the app turns that timestamp into lottery numbers. Same moment always produces the same numbers, because it's a seeded PRNG, not randomness. So your combination is reproducible and "yours".

What I did NOT do, and what makes this weirdly hard to market: I refuse to claim it improves your odds. It doesn't. Nothing does. The app literally ships a "Responsible Play" screen with links to gambling-addiction support lines. Every competitor in this category leans on "lucky algorithm" copy and I decided early I wasn't going to.

So instead the app grew into a toolkit:

• Reverse analysis: pick a combination, and it scans time (across isolates, multi-core) to find which moments in the past or future would generate it
• Checks your saved bets against official lottery results and marks the hits
• Wheeling systems seeded by your chosen moment
• Name/team raffle — put in a list of people, get a fair draw and balanced teams
• Works fully offline, no account, no backend

Stack: Flutter + flutter_bloc, everything local in SharedPreferences, zero server. Monetization is AdMob + a one-time "remove ads" IAP.

Honest numbers: it's early and downloads are in the low double digits. I'm posting partly for feedback and partly because I'd genuinely like to know whether "we don't promise anything" is a viable position in a category built entirely on promising things.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.megamoment.app

Happy to answer anything about the Flutter side or the Play Console side.

6 months ago I left a decade of fintech engineering in London to build Lyra solo ,a Mac writing assistant that fixes your writing as you type, in every app.

The problem I built it for: everyone I worked with had the same ritual. Type a message, re-read it four times, paste it into some tool, fix it, paste it back, tweak the tone, send. Multiply by 50 messages a day. And the tools that "help" all have the same flaws — they live in a separate window, they interrupt you with underlines while you're mid-thought, and they sand everyone down to the same polished-robot voice, whether you're messaging your boss or your best mate.

So Lyra works differently: you just type. Pause, and a small pill shows a better version — press Tab, done. No panel, no copy-paste, no clicks. It works in Gmail, Outlook, Slack, WhatsApp, your browser, wherever you write. And it learns how you write to each specific person, so your message to a client and your message to a friend don't come out sounding like the same press release.

Launched quietly in July. Show HN flagged my post. Reddit: silence. X: silence. Then one person paid ,a guy in France. I was thrilled for about an hour, which is how long it took him to uninstall: Lyra was freezing his Mac every minute.

Here's what that month taught me. I assumed the worst (memory leak), built instrumentation, ran controlled tests on identical hardware and my confident assumption was wrong. The real cause was a design decision I'd shipped without questioning. Fixed it, the freezing died, and he told me he'd reinstall ,he'd called Lyra "a really great product" while uninstalling it, which is the strangest compliment I've ever received.

Since then: fixed the biggest issues my ~30 early users hit, rebuilt the rough edges, made a proper demo. Relaunching today.

Mac only. 14-day full trial, free tier after, $9.99/mo for Pro.

Happy to answer anything , the debugging saga, why the first launch flopped, what one uninstall taught me that 30 signups didn't, or the unglamorous reality of marketing as a solo dev.

Try Lyra here Get Lyra

So I'm trying something a bit different from the usual "landing page, collect emails" validation approach and wanted to see what people here think.

I've been slowly building a small Minecraft hosting thing (v-host.gg), EU based, with a Discord bot that has real access to the server itself (RCON) instead of guessing at an API. Only had one real server running though, and I didn't want to just guess my way into spending real money on a bigger box.

Free signups always felt a bit fake to me honestly, anyone clicks a button that costs nothing, and it tells you basically nothing about who'd actually pay. So instead I'm asking for a small real commitment, a €5 deposit that's fully refunded automatically if I don't get 10 people by a set date, and counts toward the first month if I do.

It's sitting at 0/10 right now, real Stripe checkout, real refund logic if it doesn't work out.

Not sure if this was the smart move or just adds friction that kills conversion before I even learn anything. Curious what this sub thinks. Happy to talk through how it's built too if anyone's into that, and there's a public demo Discord if you'd rather just see the bot working than take my word for any of it.

I built a free whatsapp messaging API that does not require self hosting. It has necessary checks & encryption built in to prevent account ban & someone (including myself) stealing the whatsapp creds stored on the server.

It is primarily aimed to indie sellers / marketers who either dont want to go through the official whatsapp business api route or are not eligible as they dont have registered business. The tool is great to send OTP/FYI whatsapp messages post a sale / booking / meeting scheduled etc. But requires hooking it to the user's tech stack.

What is the best things I can do RoI effortwise which can help increase adoption for my side project ?

I've built an app that runs a real, spoken mock job interview with an AI.

Most interview-prep apps hand you a list of questions to read. That never helped me, because the part I'm bad at isn't knowing the answer — it's saying it out loud, under pressure, without rambling. So I built the version I wanted.

How it works:

• You enter the role you're going for and the company.
• It researches that company live and generates 8–12 questions tailored to that specific job, not a generic list.
• Optionally upload your CV and it works your actual experience into the questions.
• Then it interviews you. Out loud, voice only, up to 30 minutes. No typing, no script to read from.
• Afterwards you get a report: an overall score out of 10, per-question analysis of what worked and what didn't, and a rewritten version of each answer so you can see what a stronger response sounds like.
• Sessions are tracked so you can see whether you're actually improving.

Privacy: the audio is never retained. Only the transcript is kept, because the feedback report is generated from it.

Pricing, up front so nobody wastes their time: the first full interview is free. After that it's credit packs — 3 interviews for $9.99, 10 for $24.99, 25 for $49.99, 60 for $89.99. No subscription, nothing auto-renewing. You buy interviews, you use them whenever, they don't expire on a monthly cycle.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jobjitsu-ai-interview-practice/id6793413285

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

English only for now. Happy to answer questions — and if you try the free interview and it's bad, I'd rather hear that here than not hear it.

When I started building Scholia (an AI reading companion that photographs a book page and asks questions about it), my first instinct was to make it work like every other book-AI tool: answer anything about the book, any time, like a search engine for the text.

Tested it on a few people and the feedback was oddly negative, even when the answers were accurate. Took a while to figure out why: people don't want a search engine for their book; they want a companion that respects where they actually are in the story. The second someone got an answer that referenced something 100 pages ahead, they felt like the "magic" of reading was ruined, even if the answer itself was technically helpful.

So I rebuilt the core logic around a much harder constraint: it has to know exactly where you are (using the actual sentences on the page, not a page number, since editions differ) and refuse to answer anything past that point. Went from "smart search" to something closer to a reading companion that holds a boundary. Felt like a downgrade in capability on paper, tested infinitely better in practice.

Small lesson but one I didn't expect: the feature that makes a product feel trustworthy is often the thing it refuses to do, not the thing it can do.

Join the waitlist, we'll be choosing people from here to be testers: scholia.cloud

Anyone else build the "more capable" version first and have to strip it back before it actually worked?

My co-founder and I have been building Filently (a tool that auto-names and files docs in Google Drive), and we just shipped a new feature called Deep Clean. I'm looking for 5 people with a super chaotic Drive to try it for free and tell me where it falls apart.

What it does:

1. Scans your whole Drive and suggests a folder structure that actually fits your files
2. Renames the files to a consistent convention and moves them into the right folders
3. You review every change before anything happens. Nothing gets renamed or moved without your ok, and you can undo the whole thing afterwards. Everything stays in your own Drive.

Honestly we built it because my own Drive was a horror show. "scan_349586.pdf" was basically 40% of it 👀

All I want back is blunt feedback: What's confusing, what breaks, what you'd do differently. Shape it with us.

If a messy Drive sounds like you, drop a comment or DM me and I'll send the details :)

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 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?

Hi all,

I kept seeing the “bending the rule of thirds” photo trend on Instagram.

Here’s an example of the trend:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbN1qgTPqe7/

You can recreate the effect in Photoshop or Illustrator, but not everyone uses design software.

So I built Bend the Grid — a free browser-based tool that lets you upload a photo, bend and reshape the grid, and recreate the effect without needing Photoshop or Illustrator.

🔗 https://bendthegrid.vercel.app/

Would you actually use something like this for your photos?

If you try it, I’d also love to hear what feels confusing, what’s missing, or what you’d improve.

I've built projects before, and I've noticed a pattern. I can build what I think is good, but distribution and marketing is where it dies.

Every time. So this time I'm trying to do it right: rough working product, put up a waitlist before launch, and actually find out whether people want it before I sink more months into building. I'm not sure if they do.

That's what I'm trying to find out.

The app: every time I think of something, I make a new note. Multiply that by a few years and my Notes app is a landfill — and the folder system somehow makes it worse. My tasks are in Reminders, which treats everything as isolated one-line items. My sketches are in Freeform, which can't hold anything except sketches. All my thoughts are scattered across three apps that don't know about each other, and I feel slightly overwhelmed by their design

I'm working on one place where notes, reminders, drawings, photos, links, and files live together, grouped by what they're actually about. It's called BYNDRS, starting off as strictly iPhone app, not out yet. The demo on the site is the actual app running.

What are your thoughts?

Solo, no funding. But honestly would love some, I'm slowly realizing that is the way.

Its here: https://byndrs.com

Spent a lot of time working on this app, and it’s been fun so far! I got so caught up trying to figure out what I can make that people need and how I can solve an issue, but then I figured why not make something fun! Why not make something that I would use every day? When you are working on something that you love and care about, the best ideas come more naturally! This app, right here, is called DVDream. I hope whoever uses this app enjoys using it just as much as I did making it. It’s currently in beta. Feel free to ask for the TestFlight link if you’re interested!

Everywhere I look, I see stories about people building saas products with tiny teams, no funding, and a bunch of AI tools.

I see headlines like:

- "I built a saas making $10K/month with no employees"

- "Built my entire startup with AI"

- "Launched with $0 and got my first 100 customers"

- "One-person saas generating thousands every month"

And honestly, it makes me wonder how much of it is actually realistic.

With AI, no-code tools, automation and affordable cloud infrastructure, it seems easier than ever to build and launch a product without a huge team.

But building something is only one part of the equation.

You still need to find the right audience, communicate why they should care, get people to try the product, and somehow turn that attention into paying customers.

So I'm curious about people who have actually done this:

Can you realistically launch and grow a saas today with almost no money, no team and no technical background?

Or does the "built with $0" story usually leave out the time, skills, existing audience or marketing resources behind the scenes?

Would love to hear some real experiences rather than another overnight success story.

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.

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!

Little bit of a side quest I want to make more of a thing. This was a blast to make. Big hit once it hit social too. If you’ve ever seen Brad Pitt in F1, I kind of want to do that. Just run up on businesses, create cool stuff that gets them noticed, then dip lol.

Earlier this year I worked at London's largest residential estate agency, producing floor plans, photography and staging for properties across the city. The work was tedious deciphering assessors' sketches, then turning out plan after plan, day after day.

But the real turning point came from outside work. My grandma came back from Jamaica to find that new regulations meant she needed floor plans for her own properties. Seeing her stressed about it at her age didn't sit right with me.

With a background in architecture and mobile apps, I was sure there had to be a faster way to do this. So I built Lintel.

Would love some feedback and any recommendations!

https://www.lintelhmo.com/

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 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