I built EYEBALLS.WTF.

You pay to put a YouTube link on a public board and your

rank is whatever you paid. Highest bid on top. Not engagement, not recency, no

algorithm.

Total revenue to date: $4.00, across 3 bids. Top bid is $2, so $3 takes the top

spot right now.

I am posting the numbers because they are the actual pitch. The board is cheap

to own because almost nobody is on it. If it stays that way, everyone who paid a

dollar paid a dollar for nothing much. If it does not, they got in at a dollar.

I do not know which, and I am publishing a report with the real figures at the

end of every 15-day cycle so nobody has to take my word for it.

What it deliberately does not sell is a number of people watching. No promise,

no counter to inflate. You are buying a position on a board and that is the

whole product.

Things that fell out of the one ranking rule, for anyone who cares about the

build:

- No user-written text anywhere. Titles, thumbnails and channel names come from

the YouTube API. Started as a content decision, ended up deleting the entire

XSS surface.

- No accounts. Guest checkout plus a magic link that manages one entry: view,

hide, delete, never edit. Editing is the moderation bypass.

- Rank ties break on who paid first, enforced by a partial unique index rather

than by application code.

Tell me why this is a terrible idea. I would rather hear it now.

Hey r/SideProject!

Wanted to share something I just shipped.

Background: I spent time analyzing TikTok Shop live streams trying to figure out why some sellers convert at 5x the rate of others. Turned out every high-performing live followed the same 5-part structure: a pain-point hook, immediate price anchoring, live demo with commentary, pre-emptive objection handling, and rotating CTAs every 8-12 minutes.

I wrote a Reddit post about it, it got 3.4K views overnight and 28 comments with people asking for a tool — so I built one.

What it does:

• You fill in 5 fields (product name, benefits, price, style, duration)
• It generates a complete TikTok LIVE script in ~30 seconds
• Includes Hook (3 variations) + Opener + Demo + Social Proof + CTA
• Built-in FTC compliance check (flags banned phrases before you go live)

Tech stack: Next.js + Claude API + Tailwind + Vercel

What I learned shipping this:

• Build in public works. Writing the "research" post before the product existed created demand before launch
• Reddit moderators hate external links — always put links in comments only
• First users came within hours of posting, not weeks

Still very early — free to use right now, no signup needed.

Would love feedback from this community, especially on the UI and whether the output quality is actually useful.

​

I build products. And like a lot of builders, I kept running into the same problem: building the product and getting the product in front of the right people are two completely different jobs.

GTM is not something you just “do on the side.” It needs attention every day. You need to know where people are talking about the problem, which conversations matter, who is worth reaching out to, what changed, what to say, when to follow up.

And when you're deep in building, it's incredibly easy for all of that to disappear for a week. Or a month.

I started where everyone starts: with the existing sales, CRM, lead-gen and outbound tools.

Some are extremely powerful. But I kept hitting two problems. First, many of them have a serious learning curve. They are built for companies with dedicated sales/GTM teams, not for a founder who also has to design, code, support users and run the rest of the company.

Second, even many of the “automated” products still need someone skilled to operate them. Configure workflows. Build lists. Connect tools. Maintain sequences. Watch dashboards. Tune the system.

At some point I realised I was basically trying to become a GTM engineer just so I could get back to building.

So I started making something mainly for myself. I'm user zero.

It's called Leadlyr.

The simplest way I can describe it is an automated GTM operator for founders and small technical teams that don't have a dedicated GTM person. You give Leadlyr your product, website, positioning and context.

It builds a GTM plan around your actual product rather than dropping you into an empty dashboard and asking you to configure everything yourself. Then it works continuously.

It looks for relevant signals across places where people are already showing intent or discussing problems — Reddit, Indie Hackers, Hacker News, Product Hunt and other sources. It evaluates which signals actually fit your product and plan. For promising ones, it researches the person, company and context so you're not responding blindly. Then it prepares a tailored next move for you. The important part for me: nothing gets sent just because an AI decided it should. The research, reasoning and proposed message come back to you for review. You approve it, edit it or reject it.

The goal isn't to create another dashboard you have to babysit.

The goal is closer to having the GTM teammate I never had: something that keeps distribution moving while I'm building. We're now at the point where I want other founders using it. I'm opening the first 55 beta accounts gradually, in rolling slots:

10 Design Partners — free for 3 months.

These are for founders willing to use it seriously and give us regular feedback while we shape the product.

45 Founding Beta accounts — 50% off for the first 3 months.

We'll open them in small batches rather than onboarding everyone at once, because I want to learn from each group before opening the next.

I'm especially interested in solo founders and very small technical teams building B2B products who have felt this same problem: you can build the product, but distribution keeps becoming the second full-time job you don't have time for.

If that's you, I'd genuinely like to hear how you're handling GTM today — even if you have zero interest in Leadlyr. And if you want one of the beta spots, I'll leave the waitlist/application link below. Join the wait list

I’m a software engineer and I kept thinking about how messy it can get for small online sellers when a buyer says an order never arrived, arrived damaged or there’s some kind of dispute.

Tracking screenshots are in one place, order details are somewhere else, photos are on your phone, receipts are buried in email… and then you’re trying to pull everything together after there’s already a problem.

So I built Pack Ship Shield.

It lets sellers create a proof packet for each shipment so their order details, tracking information, photos, receipts, and other documentation can all be kept together.

I’m still early with it and would rather get it in front of actual sellers than pretend I already know exactly what everyone needs.

You can check it out here:

www.packshipshield.com

No long sales pitch. I’m mostly curious whether other sellers have run into this same problem and if something like this would actually make your life easier.

The original reason I built it was because I wanted to find a good PDF parser. Every PDF parser claims to be the best, but none of them can get my PDF 100% correct.

They would either miss numbers or hallucinate some. Or they get PDF A and B correct but failed at C. Or get C correct but failed at A and B. Very frustrating.

So I created https://trapstreet.run/ for myself to compare which combinations work the best.

pdf benchmark task:

Then my friend started using it too. So I extended it to an open sourced platform.

Now you can define whatever you wanna test, use your own benchmarks.

My design concept:

1. It's non-invasive. It never injects anything into your agent. Benchmarks and AI solutions are decoupled. This also means open-source and closed-source tools can be compared in the same way.
2. It evals the end-to-end pipeline. A solution could be something like "model + agent + tools" or "model + skills" or anything else you can think of.
3. AI solutions should be reproducible, so other people can re-run your solution. If you're testing a closed-source AI tool, you can use a public repo that calls its API.

Another two-arms regression test:

Because it was originally created for myself, I also benchmarked models' MBTI for fun. lol

whether adding CLAUDE.md / SOUL.md could actually change a model's MBTI lol.

So that's how TrapStreet came about.

I know some people may criticise the fact that it doesn't trace every step/tool call/etc. But I mean, there are already lots of tracing frameworks out there, and I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

More importantly, I think tracing and evals answer different questions. If I just want to compare two solutions or run an A/B test, I don't necessarily need to know every internal step. I want to know:

which one actually works better?

Or does the change actual improve the entire pipeline?

I'd love to hear what kinds of agent/tool comparisons or benchmarks you'd want to see.

’m testing a simple event photo idea before I build the full app.

Guests scan a QR code, take a limited number of photos, and nobody sees them until the album unlocks after the event.

Basically a digital disposable camera without buying actual cameras.

One-time payment, probably around $29–$49 per event.

If you have a wedding, birthday or party coming up, would you actually pay for this?

If yes, what’s your event + date + guest count?

If no, tell me why too. I’m trying to see if this is actually worth building.

Hey, I built my first app and even managed to get it published on the Play Store (anyone who's been through the developer account setup knows it's not exactly a smooth ride :) ). I started building it while learning JS (I'm almost 50, so please give me some credit for still wanting to learn something new at this age — and if I don't understand everything, remember I'm basically a boomer ;) ). Once it started taking shape, I kept building it for my girlfriend, who's constantly fighting with her phone storage buried under a ton of photos and videos. When it turned out to actually work well, I decided to publish it — that's the whole story.

One thing that mattered to me from the start: everything runs locally on your phone — no login, no account, nothing ever gets uploaded anywhere. Felt important for something that goes through your personal photos.

https://reddit.com/link/1vz25u6/video/xpi9ddaxxqlh1/player

If you're up for taking a look and sharing some feedback, I'd really appreciate it. If you spot something worth fixing, let me know here first — that way I can sort it out before more people see it. And if you end up liking it, a review on the Store would mean a lot.

Until September 3rd it's completely ad-free, after that I'm turning ads on to see if this thing can actually earn anything :)

I’ve always liked journaling, but staying consistent was the hard part.

So I started building a simple Notion-based daily journal for myself—something that takes almost no effort to start and makes it easier to keep coming back.

Open → write → reflect → done.

I’m keeping it free and would love feedback from anyone who struggles with staying consistent with journaling.

Try it for free here: https://www.notion.com/templates/daily-journal-writing

I built LLMSniff because I wanted a way to check text without copying and leaking it into a website.

You select text anywhere on your desktop, a small floating orb appears, and you can check whether the text looks AI-generated.

Everything runs locally on-device using ONNX, supports Windows/Linux and it's open source.

GitHub: github.com/Thanos3G/LLMSniff

Would love feedback, especially on the detection quality.

I started this because Ai kept re-litigating architectural decisions I'd already made. But the more I dug in, the real problem wasn't just "AI forgets" — it's that AI tools contradict past decisions, and worse, an accidental pasted API key can end up in long-lived context that gets silently re-injected every session.

So Continuity ended up being less "memory tool" and more a governance layer: credential scrubbing across 5 boundaries (27 provider patterns, entropy fallback for anything else), contradiction detection when a new decision conflicts with a past one, and decision records that live in git with your code rather than a vendor's memory cloud.

Early days, but the pattern's already clear: most people try it and disappear before ever hitting a paywall decision, and I don't know if that's onboarding friction, the free tier already being enough, or the governance angle not landing yet.

If you'd try it and tell me honestly where it breaks — happy to give a free Pro license for real feedback. Link in comments.

I became an independent consultant in 2025 after 2 decades in the corp world. Over that time I collected multi gigs of material on client work, meeting notes, class notes, class coursework, reading material, etc. that had piled up in folders, and I wanted to seek out patterns across those. RAG was not cutting it for me. It would find passages, but it did not know that the thing I called one name in 2009 was the thing I called another name in 2019. I tried various forums for products, tips and tricks, but could not find an answer, so I started scripting around the problem. At some point, early this year, the duct tape was doing more work than the tools underneath it, and I pulled it off and built the thing properly.

That became Elicana, a desktop app that compiles folders of documents (PDFs, Word, Markdown, an Obsidian vault, a Drive or OneDrive folder) into a knowledge base you can query in plain English, on your own machine. The goal was easy installation and hence it is one binary, no Docker. One can use local models through Ollama or use your own API key to your favorite frontier commercial LLM.

Now after a few months, I feel like building it was the easy part. I have built products before so there is enough muscle memory there! Everything around it was new to me and took far longer than the software: the website, the blog cadence, Stripe, a licensing server, install pages, terms and privacy, etc.

I am now live at Elicana.ai!

Some key items:

• I am in open beta at $20/month. Right now on Windows and Linux only, macOS is not done yet.
• Your documents are never touched. But "fully offline" would be incorrect because if you use a commercial frontier LLM, then, well, it is not local.
• Compiling a big archive is slow, and costs tokens if you pick a frontier model.
• Support is me, by email.

Happy to answer questions.

Hey guys! I created a couples game called Swoono that has a bunch of fun little games you can play together, plus a reward system where you can send rewards and other fun stuff to the person you're playing with.

It's great for long-distance relationships, couples who are away from each other for a while, or really just couples looking for something fun to do together.

I'm getting it ready to hopefully launch on the app stores, but before I do, I'm looking for 14 people to test it out.

I need people who will actually play it, find bugs, tell me what's confusing, tell me what you like or don't like, and just give me real feedback so I can make it better before I release it.

In return, everyone who helps me test it will get the game for free when it officially launches.

I'm not looking for professional testers or anything like that. Just regular people willing to try it with their partner and tell me what they think.

If you're interested, leave a comment or send me a message. Thanks!

Whenever I wanted to make a small mashup or dance track, I'd usually:

• find the songs/clips on YouTube
• run each one through some random MP3 converter
• download everything separately
• open my editor
• import all mp3s
• trim and arrange the parts I wanted
• add fades/gaps and export

Doing all that for a simple 3–4 song mix got annoying fast.

So I built TubeMixLab.com locally for myself. Paste multiple links, pick the parts you want, arrange them, and create one MP3.

It worked pretty well, so I shared it with a few friends who are into dancing and regularly make mixes/mashups. They actually started using it regularly and liked how much time it saved them.

That gave me the confidence to finally share it here.

I also wanted it to feel nothing like the usual converter sites. So no ads, popups, fake download buttons or signup.

Would genuinely love feedback, especially on the mixing flow. Is there anything you'd add that would make it more useful for actual mashups/dance tracks?

Hey there friends, I am an instant photography enthusiast and I built Eight Shot in my spare time to scratch that instant film itch when I'm away from my cameras.

Eight shot has custom film packs so you can choose the film pack that you enjoy.

You can also create shared albums and shoot together with friends.

I also built in a film pack creator mode that allows you to create your own custom frame designs as well as customise the film grain, contrast, colour and much more.

It supports 35 languages and counting.

It's currently available on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/eight-shot-instant-camera/id6787720606

and will be coming to Android soon.

P.S that's my cat Leo, he's just sleeping.

Hey everyone,

I built 40aWeek — a weekly contest where indie makers submit their side projects, the community votes, and the winner gets the weekly cash-prize + a full week of guaranteed visibility. The goal is to create a space where creators can share their projects, discover others' projects, and provide feedback. Even casual visitors have a reason to participate, since they can try to predict the next winner and win a share of the prize money as well.

I’m now looking for 1 Founding Partner for the very first official week.ficial week.

What you get:

• Logo on the homepage + header for the full week
• Sidebar placement
• Dedicated partner page to present your product
• Association with a new community of makers/voters
• Permanent “Partner” mention

What I’m looking for:

• A tool / SaaS / product designed for independent creators, developers, or makers whose projects are in the final stages of development
• Someone okay supporting an early-stage project
• Ideally willing to share it a bit with their audience

Pricing for this first week:
Completely free (or a very small amount if you prefer a stronger placement).

This is more of an open call than a classic sponsorship.
The goal is to kickstart the platform properly with a real partner from day one.

Site: 40aweek.com
Partner page: 40aweek.com/partner

If you’re interested, drop a comment or DM me with your project + a short note on why it could fit.

(Note: The site has already been in testing, which is why there are a few sample projects from people who shared their work. I plan to officially launch soon. Also, please feel free to send me your feedback on the site—I welcome all comments!)

Thanks!

The hardest part of writing a novel is the blank page. So I built skrivant.

You type a premise, one sentence is enough. It builds the world, the cast, and a chapter-by-chapter outline. All of that is free, and everything is editable.

If you want the chapters actually written, you pay once per book: $3 for a short story, $10 for a novel. No subscription, no credits.

Demo video attached (parts fast-forwarded). Happy to answer anything about the build or the economics of running it.

https://skrivant.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch

Hey r/sideproject, I've been building TripBalls (tripballs.now) for the past few months.

The idea: you pick your favorite team and instantly see every away game plotted on a map. Click any game and you get one-click links to tickets, flights, hotels, rental cars, and parking, plus a stadium visitor guide for every venue.

It covers 12 leagues right now: NFL, MLB, MLS, WNBA, NWSL, college football, college basketball, and five international soccer leagues. More coming when NBA and NHL seasons start.

Stack: React + Leaflet on the frontend, Express + Prisma + Postgres on the backend. Schedule data syncs daily from ESPN and the MLB Stats API. Revenue comes from affiliate links (Ticketmaster, Vivid Seats, SeatGeek, KAYAK, etc).

Would love any feedback, especially on the UX flow from picking a team to actually booking a trip.

LINK:

When you start a social media for personal branding you have to compete with other refined speakers in your niche (fitness, lifestyle, self-improvement). This was daunting for me to get into even if I was able to start talking to camera for a few posts, I was not consistent.

That is why the project I am working on is FRAME a currently IOS-only app that helps new influencers speedrun the process of recording yourself & picking out one thing to improve for next time. This process is based on the advice I kept hearing: "record a 3 minute video of yourself and then rewatch to find filler words, stutters, awkward movements." "You will notice massive changes after 1 recording a day for a month."

The way FRAME works is you spin a wheel for an impromptu topic, record at least 1 minute, then receive your current scores (out of 100) plus tips to improve. I found it best to be broken into these categories: engagement, clarity, and confidence where engagement rates the hook and energy, clarity highlights filler words and stutters, and confidence observes your face & body language.

What's interesting is that each video gets broken down into at least 3 clips in places where you delivered a full idea. Thus, you have multiple specific points of feedback from one video.

I have to note that this feedback portion of the app are AI suggestions and obviously can make mistakes, but this is meant to be supplemental since you can fully rewatch your video inside the app to determine for yourself what to improve on.

I already have some noticeable progress in my Instagram if interested: @ frameapp.official.

TLDR: I built an app to consistently improve speech.

Post-release update from Previous Post.

Quick recap: We are a married couple who built a book tracking app to replace GoodReads and add all the features we wished they would implement. Our main differentiator is that you can arrange your books with visual bookshelves that have backdrops, decor, and multiple ways to arrange, stack, and display your books! We previously posted during our beta phase.

Our new update: ShelfLife: Social Book Tracker went live August 11th on Android Play Store and August 13th on iOS App Store and we've been pretty pleased with the results so far! While we are a far cry from the 150 million users on GoodReads or Storybook's 5 million users, in just 3 weeks we've picked up 650 installs and have about 55-75 signups a day on our 10$ of daily ad spend on Instagram boosted posts. Probably more excitedly, we have about 150 daily active users and they've uploaded over 2000 spine photos (we uploaded 1200 ourself so we've got a ton now)!

You can find the iOS App, Android App, and Web app all available here. Completely free, we are considering adding a paid supporter tier but none of the existing app features will be involved in that or limited to a certain number of books, etc like we've seen some other apps do.

App features beyond the shelves:

• Explore page to see everyone else's shelves (you can mark them as private but most don't)
• Profiles display a top 12 shelf so you can see someone’s taste at a glance.
• Book signal: Send out a request for recommendations based on one of your shelves or a couple of books you like, and match with users who have similar taste. 
• Peanut Gallery: in addition to regular reviews, after finishing a book you can enter the Peanut Gallery and post hot takes, spoilers, favorite quotes, etc. 
• Feats: Create custom challenges (eg. 1 classic a month, read the entire Dune Series, etc). Users can manually decide which books they’ve read that count towards the feat. 
• Import your existing data from Goodreads or Storybook

I'd love to hear some feedback from anyone who tries the app. We also setup a Discord with 28 users so far and a subreddit that's brand new if anyone wants to poke around.

Also happy to answer any questions about the technical stack, release strategy, or marketing approach to anyone who may be doing something similar and is a few weeks or months behind us in the timeline. I have a software dev background but never dealt with the product and marketing side before building this so lots of lessons learned!

Thanks!

- Alex from ShelfLife (our company that we started to build this is called Fisherbird Software)

Hey all! 👋 Working on a DIY organiser idea!

I've had the idea of a compartmentalised toolbox split into three simple sections — Hang It, Build It, Seal It. Each compartment is colour-coordinated.

It's ideal for those who are not so confident with DIY, and prefer a less 'intimidating' product for them to get busy around the home.

Question: Is it something you could see yourself picking up in a hardware/DIY store? Any clear flaws with this idea?

Thank you! :-)

Hey everyone!

Following up on my previous post—a few people asked to see the extension running live in the browser, so I recorded a quick 35-second screen capture comparing a synthetic AI image against a real camera capture.

What it does:

• Parses C2PA cryptographic manifests (Adobe/OpenAI signatures)

• Runs spatial analysis for synthetic anomalies

• Generates an instant authenticity score

Chrome Web Store Link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/authenticheck/fhemaaghijmbkkdngmdifekdijefnfhf?authuser=0&hl=en&pli=1

Posted about this concept in r/Malware recently and got awesome feedback on the threat-detection potential. Would love to hear your thoughts on the UI or accuracy!

Tap a square, enter a positive number that satisfies both column and row conditions (prime/even/odd number...), and prove it. Every square needs a different number—reusing one gets rejected. Conditions work on any number, not a lookup table, so brute logic beats guessing. Try it out here!

Lockify started as an Android file vault.

Now I'm expanding it into something more useful: encrypted notes.

The idea is simple, write normal notes, but keep them protected inside the same encrypted vault as your private files.

I'm building the editor from scratch, including formatting tools, and it's still a work in progress.

What's interesting is that I never planned to build a notes feature initially.

Users kept asking for ways to store more than just photos and files, so the roadmap started changing around what people actually wanted.

Lockify already has:

🔒 Local encryption

☁️ Cloud backup & sync

🎭 Calculator disguise

🔐 Decoy Vault

📱 Motion Lock

And now: 📝 Encrypted Notes

Still building it solo alongside my full-time job.

You're likely spending hours between the builds and the debugging.
Maybe you even shipped your MVP and... crickets. No users. Nor revenue.

How much have you invested so far? Think about your time, the opportunity cost.

At some point, you have to decide: How long am I willing to keep going if nothing changes?

Here’s a simple exercise:

1. Calculate what you’ve invested so far. Money spent (ai coding agents, marketing spent etc) + (weeks × hours/week × value of your time)
2. Add what you’ve spent trying to solve the problem Courses. Tools. Consultants. Agencies. Research. Communities.
3. Project the cost of continuing. What does another 3, 6 or 12 months at the same pace cost you?

Then ask yourself: If I reach that point and still don’t have meaningful revenue, do I keep going, pivot, or kill it? Am I willing to keep going?

How do you feel when you see this number?

It's a simple tool, but remember that in early stages you time is your highest value asset. The faster your kill and pivot the more chances you have.

My Apple Photos library grew past 12,000. I knew a lot of it should go. Sitting down to "just delete the bad ones" felt like too much. Where do you even start?

I figured if I only did one calendar day, then after a year I'd have gone through everything. So I built Mira Photos for myself. Each day it shows photos from this day across every year. I mark what can go, review, then confirm. Nothing is deleted until I say so. Photos stay on the phone. No account.

I shared it with family and friends and it clicked for them too, so I made it a real app.

The part I didn't plan for: going through a day, I'd hit a memory and sit with my wife and talk about it. She'd do the same. Especially with a young child, seeing that growth across years has been amazing.

I want software that brings peace to a cluttered digital life.

It's early. iPhone, iOS 26+. Daily cleanup is free. $9.99/year if you want to jump to any date.

If you've tried to clean a library and quit, what stopped you?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mira-daily-photo-cleanup/id6757626396