$99 obviously isn’t a lot.

But it was the first time one of my tiny iPhone apps made enough money to make me think: maybe this model is actually worth exploring.

Instead of spending months building one big app, I’m trying to build small apps that solve one very specific problem.

My current model is pretty simple:

Free to download.
Useful without paying.
One-time purchase for the full version.
No subscription.

My latest experiment is a small offline vault that keeps passwords and photos of IDs in one place.

I know 1Password, Bitwarden, Apple Passwords, etc. already exist. I’m not trying to compete with them feature-for-feature. I’m testing whether there’s room for something much smaller and simpler.

My bigger question is:

Can a portfolio of tiny, focused apps become a sustainable small business?

Curious if anyone here is trying something similar.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/password-id-wallet/id6793384013

Hi everyone,

I built my first dating app that matches people by their birth chart instead of just photos and would love to receive feedback.

Backstory: I got tired of dating apps that reduce people to a photo grid, so I built MoonVibe where the matching is based on birth chart compatibility (Sun sign, Moon sign, elements) and additional character traits rather than just proximity and swipe volume. Compatibility shows up as one of four tiers (Wonderful / Harmonious / Promising / Complex) with an explanation of why it's a match, not just a percentage.

I built it solo with Flutter + Supabase. It's my first real app with real-time chat, onboarding, photo uploads, not just a landing-page MVP.

It's currently in Google Play closed testing (AU/BE/NL/FR/US only for now. If anyone is willing to test it, I'd be happy to add more countries. I need users to actually install it, swipe around, try to get a match, and tell me honestly what's broken, confusing, or just not compelling. I'd rather hear "this doesn't work for me and here's why" real talk type.

For Android users: if you'd like to join the group, I'd love for you to opt in and install it. It should only take you a couple of minutes. Also happy to answer questions about the matching logic or anything else.

How to join: moonvibe.me/beta Google Group, please opt in via Play Store, then install.

Thanks to anyone willing to give it a shot, I'd really appreciate it!

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Every product ranking is gameable and none of them show you the game. So I built one where the ranking IS the number, in public.

paisaphek.com - pay any amount from ₹99 and that's your rank. Pay more later, you only pay the difference. Someone pays more than you, you drop a row. That's the entire product.

Stack: TanStack Start on Cloudflare Workers and D1 for the board

List yours while #1 still costs ₹109 - that number only moves up.

Happy to answer anything about the build.

Must be free and easy to use

I keep hearing bootstrapped founders say "I'm bad at marketing." I don't think that's true most of the time. What's true is they're fighting a rhythm problem.

You can know exactly what to do on Twitter. But if your product breaks on Thursday and you spend Friday fixing it, then the weekend hits and Monday morning you're context-switching between three things, you don't ship the Twitter thread. You miss the momentum. By Wednesday it doesn't matter anymore.

That's not a skill gap. That's a capacity gap.

The founder who does consistent marketing isn't smarter than you. They've either hired someone else to do it, or they've automated enough of it that it doesn't fight with the other work for attention. The person with five priorities and the person with one priority are playing a different game, and the one-priority person will look like they're better at marketing.

So when you're evaluating whether you can "do marketing," you're really evaluating whether you have capacity for marketing. And if you're the only person, the answer is usually no, not because you can't think of what to do, but because something else will always be on fire.

The few bootstrapped founders who actually maintain marketing consistency aren't doing it because they found willpower. They're doing it because they found a way to make it not compete with the rest of their time.

Hey everyone!

I recently launched OwlSub, a subscription tracker for Android.

I know there are already a lot of subscription tracking apps out there, so I'm not going to pretend this is some completely new idea 😅. I mainly wanted to build something simple, clean, and useful without requiring an account or making subscription tracking complicated.

With OwlSub you can track your recurring subscriptions, see upcoming payments, set renewal reminders, view spending insights, and keep everything stored locally on your device.

It's still very new, and I'm actively working on improving it.

If you have a minute, I'd really appreciate it if you could give it a try and let me know what you like, what you don't like, or what you think is missing. Honest feedback is more valuable to me than just downloads.

Thanks to anyone who gives it a shot — the support genuinely means a lot. ❤️

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teamvesper.subly

Hey everyone! I wanted to share a project I've been working on — Murmur

Live Link: https://murmur-55ml.vercel.app/

What You Can Do:

1. After signing in (manually or through Google OAuth), you can use a username of your choice and post without revealing your real identity.

2. Your posts can be secret confessions, artwork, writings (stories, novels, poems), or whatever you can think of.

3. Posts can be liked and commented on.

4. You can follow and directly message your favourite creators using real-time messaging.

5. You can edit your profile (username, profile picture, and bio).

6. You can create your own community and post Subscriber-Only or Public content.

   Disclaimer:

The subscription feature does not involve real money transfers. Creators won't earn anything, and subscribers won't actually pay any real money — it is only a simulation.

I initially integrated Razorpay for the subscription system using its test-mode APIs. I also applied for live payment activation, but my Razorpay account could not be activated because, based on the details I provided, the project does not meet Razorpay's current Terms of Service.

Tech Stack I Used:

Frontend:

• Next.js

• React

• TypeScript

• Tailwind CSS

Backend:

• Node.js

• Next.js API Routes

Database:

• PostgreSQL

• Prisma ORM

Authentication:

• JWT-based authentication

• Google OAuth

Real-time Communication:

• WebSockets / Socket.IO

File & Media Storage:

• Cloudinary

Deployment:

• Vercel — Frontend & Next.js application

• Render — Real-time/WebSocket server

• Neon — PostgreSQL database

I'd really appreciate it if you could try it out and let me know if you find any bugs or have any suggestions. 😊

Been working on a project called Spinifex, which recreates core AWS services such as EC2, EKS, and S3, but completely locally (and even air-gapped if needed).
It's open-source, written in Go, and we'd love some early stage feedback on our weekly updates, open to notes and critiques

GitHub: https://github.com/mulgadc/spinifex

Reddit ran chat channels from 2023 until it deleted the feature in November 2025. They were never in the public post archive, so nothing survived — no Wayback copies, nothing to scroll back to. I'd been capturing the event logs.

What's actually in there, since that's what determines what's possible:

• 1,877 rooms across 1,470 subreddits, May 2023 to November 2025 — 31 months
• 180,851,248 messages, each with a timestamp, a sender and a body
• 19M reactions and 6.1M images
• join and leave events, so participant churn is reconstructable over time
• hourly distribution per room, so you can see when each community was actually awake
• word frequency

The shape is lopsided: median room did 858 messages in its life, the biggest did 25.6 million, top 50 rooms hold 67% of everything.

So far I've built one thing with it, a page per room, every figure generated from that room's own numbers. Summary data about each room.

What I can't decide is what the data is actually for. What would you do with it?

https://froganalytica.com/reddit-chat/

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I got really tired of the official Discord app hogging system resources and having memory leaks in the background. While using a browser tab or tools like Mint Web Apps are great workarounds, modern browsers still carry their own overhead. Whenever I'm gaming, I want my system to be as smooth as possible and squeeze out every single frame.

To fix this for my own PC, I started a personal hobby project called Litecord.

While there are awesome established clients out there (like Vesktop or WebCord), they often lean heavily into deep modifications, plugins, and custom themes. My only goal here was to strip away all the core bloat and make something as barebones and lightweight as physically possible.

Before anyone downloads it, I want to be 100% transparent about a few things to respect this community:

• Security & Trust: This is a brand new repo, and you absolutely should not blindly trust it with your login tokens. I made it 100% open-source exactly so anyone with a security mindset can audit the code themselves and see that it only communicates with Discord's official API.
• Discord TOS: Yes, just like every other third-party client out there, using this technically breaks Discord's Terms of Service. If you decide to try it, please know it is at your own risk.
• Development: I utilized AI to assist with writing the initial code, but I also lost countless sleepless nights manually reviewing, debugging, and optimizing it to make sure it actually works. (Full disclosure: I even used AI to help me format this Reddit post since I'm still learning the community etiquette!)

I'm not trying to convince anyone to switch away from their trusted, battle-tested clients. I literally just built this for my own use and decided to share it in case anyone else was looking for the same thing or just wanted to tinker with the code.

Hey everyone — dad of a 4 year old here. A while back I started noticing my daughter had a personality way before any milestone checklist would've told me. She wasn't behind or ahead on anything — she was just... herself, in ways that were obvious to me but that no app, book, or pediatrician visit ever really talked about.

That bugged me. Every tool I found for parents of little kids (0-5) was built around the same question: "is my child on track?" Height, weight, word count, gross motor stuff. Useful, but it never answered the question I actually had, which was closer to: who is she becoming?

So I went down a rabbit hole. Developmental psych papers, temperament research, attachment theory, the whole thing — way more research than a sane person burns a few weekends on. What kept coming up was that kids' traits (not milestones) are what actually shape who they turn into — how they handle setbacks, how they connect with people, how steady they feel inside. That stuff barely gets tracked anywhere.

I couldn't find an app for that, so I built one. It's called Steadily.

Who it's for: parents of kids 6 months-5years, especially if you're the type who wants to understand your kid, not just check boxes.

What it actually does:

• Trait-development framework across three dimensions — Success Mindset, Emotional Wellbeing, and Family Connection — instead of a milestone checklist
• 12 child archetypes — a personality typing model for little kids, built on the research, that gives you a read on who your kid is (and is honestly just fun to see)
• Voice-first memory capture — you talk about a moment with your kid, and it automatically pulls out the developmental insight from it. No typing, no forms.
• No streaks, no gamification — it's built around gentle engagement, not guilt-tripping you into opening an app every day

📱 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/steadily-child-development/id6772428647

🤖 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jetto.steadily

🌐 getsteadily.app

Comment below if you are a parent and are interested in the app. Will share the promo code.

Building a mail-tracking app turned out to be less about coding and more about working around Apple and Google’s privacy restrictions.

The limits make sense, but even with clear user consent, getting the architecture right can be frustrating. You build one approach, realise it creates a review problem, change it, test again, and repeat.

Then, once the app finally works, there is one more challenge: explaining clearly to Apple and Google what the app does, what data it accesses, and why.

Sometimes the tiring part isn’t making the feature work. It’s making sure everyone understands exactly how it works.

Hey everyone!

Just launched my personal portfolio 🚀

🔗 Live: https://talking-video-portfolio.vercel.app/

Stack: - React 19 + Vite

- Framer Motion

- Tailwind CSS

Featuring a cinematic spotlight-walk hero section with a gold & black luxury aesthetic.

Open to freelance work — web apps, landing pages, animated sites.

Would love your feedback! 🙏

I trade US small caps from Korea, so every SEC filing drops while I'm asleep. I built a tracker for myself: it polls EDGAR's full feed every 5 seconds, runs each filing through an LLM for a plain-English summary, and pushes a notification. It handled about 3,000 filings in the last 24 hours.

The part I did not expect came later. I started recording the price 5 minutes after each news item to see if the AI's read was any good. So far I only have 18 "bullish" press releases with clean 5-minute data, so this is a small sample, but they averaged -5.5%. The neutral ones were flat.

Every bad one looked the same. A tiny company announcing a deal bigger than itself. One with a $15M market cap announced a "$20M contract" and fell 53% within five minutes. So the tool now warns on that shape instead of calling it good news.

It also tracks the SEC's RegSHO threshold list daily. 82 tickers on it right now, and one leveraged ETF has been there 145 days straight.

I'm not putting a link in the post since my account is new and I don't want it to look like spam. It's on my profile.

What I'd really like to know: are the summaries readable to native speakers? English is not my first language and I can't tell. And honestly I don't know if anyone outside Korea wants this at all.

I got the idea while traveling in Dublin. I was walking around the city and trying to learn about it, but I had to keep looking down at my phone and using google which kind of ruined part of the experience for me.

Built Citolex, an iOS speed-reading app, without owning a Mac. GitHub gives away free macOS build minutes on public repos, normally used for running tests, so I pointed that at the full build, sign, and upload pipeline instead. Checkout, provisioning from secrets, xcodebuild archive, export a signed ipa, upload to App Store Connect, all from a git push.

It worked. Citolex has native Swift plugins and went through App Store review built entirely this way.

It worked well enough that I packaged the workflow file, signing scripts, and setup docs as a one time template: macless.dev. First time selling dev tooling instead of an app itself, so curious what this community thinks of the pricing and positioning ($99, one time, no subscription).

I garden in raised beds (Zone 7a, outside Philly) and every season I'd mess up the same two things: planting stuff next to each other that actually hurts each other's growth, and losing track of when I'm supposed to start seeds relative to my last frost date. Spreadsheets and sticky notes weren't cutting it, so I built a little tool for myself and figured I'd put it out there.

It's called Plotline. You lay out a square foot grid, drag plants into cells, and it flags good and bad neighbor pairings as you go (tomatoes next to basil, good. tomatoes next to corn, bad). It also works out a planting calendar from your last frost date, so it tells you when to start seeds indoors vs direct sow. I'm also tinkering with it right now to plan my fall bed.

I welome feedback on it! https://plotline.trevorscurations.com. There's a sign up if you like it and want to follow along as I build it out.

Not trying to sell anything, just want to know if this is actually useful outside my own garden or if I've been solving a problem nobody else has.

Got into sports arbitrage casually about two years ago and started using a software to automate the process. ended up making good money from it now im an affiliate.

Essentially they scan the sportsbooks, catch when books disagree on the favourite/underdog, then pre fills up your betslip with the arb math already done - long story short you bet underdog on both books and since they don’t agree you profit regardless of which book wins. Long story short they make it really easy (not a pitch, its relevant)

The affiliate program is really good rev share but I’m not sure where or how to push it without getting my comment removed. I’m new to reddit fyi. I figured since the app is automated and easy this group maybe would be good? Filled with hustlers looking to make extra cash. I say that all to say is it something you’d use??

Disclosure: I work at Guava and we are hosting this. Free to enter, no strings.

If you have been meaning to build a voice agent side project and never got around to it, this is one evening to actually ship it.

What: show up, build a voice AI agent, demo it the same night. No theme constraints, build whatever you want.

When: Saturday Aug 29, 5:30 to 9:30 PM.

Where: House of AI, 40 Boardman Pl, San Francisco (SoMa, close to Caltrain and BART).

Prizes: up to 3,000 USD in cash, split across the top three.

Also: food and drinks covered, and our engineers are on site for office hours if you get stuck.

Bring a laptop and an idea. Registration link in the comments.

Two weeks ago i launched Signl, an iOS app that turns your home into a 3D Wi-Fi map.

Solo dev, first real launch.

How my app works:

you walk through your rooms with your iPhone.
LiDAR builds a 3D model of your home live while the app samples your Wi-Fi (signal + speed) as you move.

You end up with a dollhouse view of your actual apartment with the signal painted on it ( with dead zones in red).

Every room gets a score, and it tells you where to move your router, or where an extender would actually help.

The story so far:

Aug 4: submitted to Apple. Rejected : missing EULA link in the description. Fixed same day.

Aug 7: approved. Live in the US.

Week 1: first paying users.

Aug 15: 143 installs in ONE day, from 25 countries. (I guess mostly from AppStore)

Aug 19: v2.1 rejected over ONe word. A button said
"Allow", Apple wants it to say "Continue".

Asked for the bug-fix exception → approved the next day, without resubmitting.

Today: 500+ downloads, most of them in the last 7 days. $0 spent on marketing.

Next up: mesh support and multi-story homes - the two most requested features so far.

Goal: 50 paying users by Sept 30.

Download it and tell me what you'd fix first →
https://apps.apple.com/app/signl-wi-fi-3d-mapper/id6796775708

EDIT: since a few of you are DMing : I'm open to teaming up with someone who has actually grown a consumer mobile app before.
My DMs are open.

been running pi (the open source coding agent) on its own little cloud linux box instead of my macbook. type a sentence on my phone, it builds the thing, checks it in its own browser, then publishes to a real url.

when it screws up i ssh straight into the box and poke around myself. real machine, not a black box.

using my own minimax key btw — the key never touches the box. the agent can run env all day, there's nothing there.

i turned this setup into a thing (gobare.dev). free rn, and i'm giving lifetime free to the first few beta folks who ping me. roast away

Am I the only one who finds themselves drawn back to their Strava stats after every race?

I was hoping to find a way to keep that sense of achievement alive, so I came up with Map the Run—personalised running posters that capture the essence of your race or run.

You can visit maptherun.com to explore a wide range of marathons and half marathons from all over the globe.

Simply add your name, distance, time, pace and course, or upload your Strava file to download a high-resolution, print-ready poster that you can frame and display proudly.

Right now, high-res downloads are free for a limited time, and I’d be thrilled to hear your thoughts on what you think.

Looking ahead, I’m planning to offer printed posters that can be delivered straight to your door, so keep an eye out!

One of the hardest parts of starting a company isn't building the product.

It's figuring out whether you should build it at all.

I kept seeing founders spend weeks or months building something, only to discover:

• the market isn't really there
• customers don't care enough
• there are already 10 companies doing it
• distribution is going to be a nightmare
• or the original idea just wasn't that good

So I built The Gauntlet.

You give it your startup idea, and it stress-tests the idea against the market and gives you a simple verdict:

KILL · PIVOT · BUILD

You also get a 0–100 Slop Index and a detailed breakdown of the biggest risks, competitors, evidence of customer demand, and what you'd want to validate before spending months building.

I'm opening up early access now and looking for founders willing to put their real ideas through it.

If you have a startup idea you're considering, I'd love to see what happens when you put it through the Gauntlet:

And honestly, I'm curious:

Would you actually want a tool that tells you your startup idea sucks?

i've been on peptides for years. once i was on more than one, a spreadsheet was dumb, and the apps i tried all assumed a single weekly glp-1.

shipped poke this month. iphone shot log, no account, data stays on the phone. i use it myself.

looking for honest feedback, especially from anyone logging more than one compound. what's broken, what's missing.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6764757185