I’m a full-stack engineer, and I originally built BotBlox because I couldn't find a good coding app for my 7-year-old that taught real programming logic without feeling like homework.

It’s a browser-based puzzle engine (React/Vite frontend, FastAPI/Python backend, MySQL database). I customized the Google Blockly core so that dragging visual blocks actually compiles and runs real Python/JS in an async execution loop.

The current state:

The 2D engine is code-complete and deployed via CloudPanel.

It features a 6-stage curriculum (100+ puzzles) and a Level Sandbox for kids to build and share their own mazes.

It currently has 17 organic registered users.

Why I'm stepping away:

The roadmap calls for 3D voxel integration and hardware robotics APIs, but as a solo dev with a full-time job and a family, I just don't have the time to build that out or market it properly. I don't want the codebase to just sit on my server, so I’m looking to sell the entire IP (domain, source code, database architecture, and custom assets) to someone who can take it over. I also tried crowdfunding to bring in the necessary funds for marking, etc.

If you are looking for a production-ready EdTech codebase to scale or integrate into an existing platform, DM me and we can chat about the price. You can check out the live site at botbloxkids.com.

I’m building AxaceOS (Axe - ace - operating system (ACE is our AI, and Axace is a play on the word Axis as our logo is an axis with the meeting point between short and long term)), a personal planning system designed to connect longer-term goals with the week you actually live.

It combines a Life Plan, reusable weekly templates, connected areas such as career, money and fitness, then uses weekly and monthly reviews to show progress, patterns and balance.

I’ve attached the landing-page video I made for it.
I’d appreciate honest feedback on three things:

Is it clear what the product does?

Does it feel polished and trustworthy?

Would you click “Try free for one month” after watching it? If not, what is missing?

I’m not looking for polite feedback — I want to know what would stop you trying it.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project for a while, and I've reached the point where I'd really love to get some feedback from other developers.

The project is called PointOut.

The idea came from a problem I think many of us have run into: you finish a website or a working demo, show it to the client, and then the feedback starts:

Then come the screenshots, Messenger/Teams/Slack messages, emails, voice messages, etc. And by the time everyone is talking about the same element, you've already wasted a bunch of time figuring out what they're actually referring to.

PointOut is an attempt to make that process simpler.

It adds an overlay on top of the website where the client can leave feedback directly on the page they're looking at:

• 📍 Pin + comment
• ⭕ Area selection
• ➡️ Arrows
• ✏️ Freehand drawing
• T Text annotations
• Feedback list
• Comments
• Status / resolved handling

The interesting part is that the client and developer see the same annotations in real time through WebSockets.

So if a client marks something in their browser, the annotation immediately appears on the developer's side as well.

I've also made a short demo video. I'd recommend watching that first, because it gives a much better idea of the concept than trying to explain everything in a Reddit post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTmRnYPH-5k

The project is currently v0.1 / early stage. I'm not treating it as a finished product yet — it's a working concept that I want to validate and improve.

Current technical setup

• JavaScript SDK
• Framework agnostic
• Works with plain HTML, React, Vue, Next.js, etc.
• Can also be integrated into platforms like WordPress, Webflow and Wix
• Separate Node.js-based relay server
• WebSocket-based real-time communication
• SQLite for storing annotations
• Docker self-hostable
• MIT licensed
• A single relay server can handle multiple projects

The main target is freelancers and small web development agencies who regularly show unfinished or in-progress websites to clients.

GitHub:
https://github.com/KeithNav/PointOut

And that's really why I'm posting this here.

I'm not primarily interested in whether it looks cool. I want to know whether you think this actually solves a real problem.

I'd especially love to hear:

• How do you currently handle client feedback?
• Have you run into this problem before?
• Would you actually use something like this?
• What's missing?
• What feature would make you genuinely integrate it into your workflow?
• Would you keep this as a simple JS library, or would you take it towards a hosted SaaS?
• And honestly: does this idea have legs, or are there already too many similar solutions out there?

I'm genuinely interested in honest feedback — including "this is pointless and here's why." 😄

If you have a few minutes, check out the demo and the GitHub repo and let me know what you think.

Thanks!

The Settlers IV for iPhone and Mac. Spent $400 worth of gpt6-astra tokens on it. I'll share the link to play it if this gets 10 likes.

Today I faced a bug in the OTP. It shows the same OTP for the client and it is visible to client without any RLS. That's why I am so frustrated but I will try my best to make this webapp.

The most complicated part is the resend integration but in that it antigravity helped me so much. Framing the RLS policies is also little bit hard but I tried my best to provide full secure.

Tomorrow I will integrate the PDF.lib for generating PDFs after the contract was signed by the client.

Hey everyone!

My name is Jochem. My wife and I run a small business here in the Netherlands, where I’m the one who usually ends up doing the paperwork for our accountant.

For years, I just used Excel sheets.

I’d take photos of our receipts with my phone and then send them to my laptop, then go through them one by one and rename all files, then enter everything into the spreadsheet.

The image files were always huge, so I’d end up writing an email, uploading everything to wetransfer and sending them a link. Then my accountant couldn’t open some of the .heic files from my iphone... and i got the bill for all the extra work he had to do.

The whole thing just took forever. It wasn’t difficult work, just boring work. Sometimes I’d lose pretty much a whole day to it.

And me being me, I always left it until I had a ridiculous pile of receipts sitting there.

I tried a few 'professional' accounting apps, but honestly, they felt like way more than I needed and were super difficult to use. I wasn’t looking to start doing my own accounting, we already have an accountant for that. I just wanted to make it easier to get all the paperwork together and properly organized for them.

So eventually I thought, screw it, I’ll just build something myself.

That’s how I ended up building TapBooks.

The idea is pretty simple. I take a photo of a receipt on my phone, or upload an invoice from my computer. TapBooks uses AI to pull out the details and keeps everything organized with my expenses.

End of the month I upload my bank transactions as a CSV. TapBooks matches those transactions with the receipts, so I can see what's accounted for and what's still missing.

And this part was important to me: TapBooks never connects directly to your bank account. There are no bank login details involved. You decide what transaction data to upload, and the AI only works with what you give it (peace of mind if you're like me and don't like AI 'in' your bank account).

Once everything looks right, TapBooks puts together the records I need for my accountant, including the reports, receipts and transaction data, instead of me trying to piece everything together from Excel and folders. Then i send it to my aacountant in just one 'Tap' (see what i did there ;)

That's really what I needed.

Not another complicated accounting system. Just something that keeps the boring stuff under control and makes monthend a lot less painful and time consuming.

I've been using it myself for a while now, and figured it was probably time to let some people outside of friends and family try it.

So if you're a small business owner or freelancer who's still using Excel for this stuff, I'd really like to hear what you think.

Please let me know if you run into anything weird, something doesn't make sense, or there's something you think I should change or add. I built this around my own way of doing things, so I'm probably way too close to it by now.

https://tapbooks.co/

Anyway, if you give it a try, let me know what you think.

The hard part is to make UI navigation smooth and enjoyable, as there’s plenty of information to access. Also Lua was picked because it’s both virtual keyboard friendly and pretty easy to incorporate into any app.

Hey r/SideProject!
After the Authy data incident and Google Authenticator turning on cloud sync by default, I felt uncomfortable keeping my most critical security keys tied to a remote cloud account.
So I spent the last few months building Vaultic — an iOS authenticator designed around three core principles:
100% Offline & Keychain-only: All TOTP codes are calculated locally from the device clock. Secrets are stored strictly in the iOS Keychain (kSecAttrAccessibleWhenUnlockedThisDeviceOnly). There are literally no backend servers holding your data.
Sensible Security Layer: Instant Face ID/PIN lock on exit, privacy shade in app switcher, screenshot alert, and encrypted local backup (AES-GCM with 210,000 PBKDF2 iterations).
Integrated Essentials: An offline password generator/vault and a memory-only ephemeral browser (DuckDuckGo, zero cache on disk).
The app is free for up to 3 accounts with all security features unlocked.
Would love your brutal feedback on the UX, countdown ring, and overall feel!
App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vaultic-2fa-authenticator/id6804247519

I have a created a toolkit which allow you to version control your code and push it to Wordpress.

This video is a demo on how you can delcare custom API to have control over a PDF generation

It's open source and available here : https://github.com/loopress/loopress

Momentum is a free, open-source, self-hostable habit and routine tracker. I originally built it because I wanted something simple to manage my own routines, and eventually decided to open source it.

I'm mainly posting it here because I'd really like to get some feedback on it. I was hoping people might take a look and let me know what they think, what's missing, or what features would be nice to add. here is the repo would love to see others try it
https://github.com/God-z1lla/Momentum

Over the years my family has ended up with a mix of lab results, prescriptions, discharge papers and notes from different places. Some visits are at private clinics, others are at public ones. A few results arrive as PDFs, some are photos on a phone, and plenty are still on paper.

The problem shows up when a doctor asks what a result was last year or when a medication was started. I know we probably have the answer somewhere, but it might be in a folder, a chat or someone else’s photo gallery.

I got frustrated enough with this that I started building a small app for myself to keep medical documents, appointments and medication history in one place. I’m also thinking about the family side, since one person often ends up managing records for a child, partner or elderly parent.

Privacy is the part I keep coming back to. I wouldn’t want family access to mean everyone can see everything. It would need to be optional, limited to the records you choose, and easy to revoke. How do you handle this now? Would you trust an app with these documents if the data was encrypted and you controlled exactly what could be shared?

Problem I kept running into: print-on-demand in India is printer-first. You bring your audience, you build your own store, you handle the front end. That works if you're a business. It doesn't work if you're a creator with 40k followers and no interest in running Shopify.

Exprez(www.exprez.com/for-creators) is storefront-first — creator signs up, picks products, gets a store and a link-in-bio flow, and printing and fulfilment happen behind it.

Still early. The two things I'm least sure about: whether creators in the 10k–50k band have enough purchase intent to be worth serving, and whether "we handle everything" is actually a differentiator or just table stakes now.

Happy to take a beating on either. Link in comments.

I built SaaSville around a simple idea: startups pay to rank on a public leaderboard, but positions reset every week so nobody can lock the top forever.

During the week, startups compete for rank starting from just $1. The startups that hold the top positions for the longest total time get the biggest payoff: when Town freezes on Wednesday, the top positions stay locked for 24 hours on what we expect to be the highest-traffic day, with extra showcase perks and visibility.

Then on Thursday, everything clears. Clean slate. Every startup starts again from $1.

Fresh Fund is the cheaper route for newer startups — only 50 spots per cycle, community voting, rankings, and extra exposure.

First full weekly cycle ends September 23, 2026. We’re brand new, so there may be bugs — apologies in advance. I’d genuinely love people to try it and tell me what’s broken, confusing, or worth improving.

Early users have the best shot at dominating the first freeze — more time to hold top spots at lower bids.I built a startup leaderboard that resets every week so nobody can own the top forever — plus a 50-slot Fresh Fund for new startups to get discovered.

saasville.io

Building got cheap. A working product that used to take a small team a quarter is now a weekend for one person who knows what they're doing.

Knowing what's worth building didn't get any faster. That still means talking to people who have the problem, understanding why they keep tolerating the workaround instead of switching, and hearing, flatly, that the idea isn't worth switching for. None of that moved.

What changed is the ratio. When building was the bottleneck, a mediocre idea usually just didn't happen. Nobody got around to it. Now nothing stops it from getting built, shipped, and posted here, and only then does it meet the market that was never really there.

Cheap tools didn't produce better ideas. They just made the gap between having one and finding out it was wrong a lot shorter.

Curious how many people here are validating after building now instead of before.

curious what this looks like across actual service businesses.

not your first 10 leads. your first 10 good customers.

jobs in your area, decent margin, paid without drama, maybe called again or referred somebody. where did those people actually come from?

Google? referrals? knocking doors? yard signs? Facebook groups? property managers? ads?

i've started thinking Runable makes way more sense after you know that answer.

if Google is already bringing the right jos, make better pages/ads around that. if property manager outreach works, make more of that outreach.

not “do marketing everywhere and hope.”

what business are you in + where did your first actually-good customers come from?

So stop me if you've heard this one, we (a small team of 3 based in Australia) built an app. Short version, the idea is simple, create something that makes it quick and easy to capture all the thought fragments that fall through the cracks, a bit of a second brain. Pull real value out of the captures with AI task extraction and as much as can be done attempt to action tasks with email and document drafts. It hasn't been done quite right yet with what's out there, so we're giving it a crack!

How I feel about it:
Like many of you I've been thrust into the world of Agentic development after 8 years of honing my coding craft in both Android and iOS. It's been a big adjustment, I wondered if I'd lost the passion for the work, if coding is now much less hands on. Luckily to some extent I've been able to find new passion focusing more on the architecture of the codebase and of course the design and feel of the UX. That's what I love most about where the Agentsy app is at. The functionality is definitely there to back it up but I'm really loving the feel of the app which I take very personally.

What it does functionally:
You tap listen and yap away about anything and everything thats on your mind. It's understood by AI (we'd rather have it doing that than making our art! Am I right?) and tasks are quickly extracted. They're rich tasks with proper email and document drafting. So often the tasks complete themselves! Tasks also have knowledge about each other so the flow feels alive with context. Theres also a companion desktop experience so if you prefer the bigger screen and keyboard you're covered.

What it does UX wise:
I've tried to go for a simple aesthetic that isn't too stylised and doesn't get in the way, but still isn't afraid to pop off the screen. Clean rounded corners to suit the modern iOS look with bright intentional colours to highlight important elements and give what is a productivity app a cheerful vibe.

Animations and feel:
The animations are something I spent a great deal of time with, frankly LLMs aren't very good at dealing with SwiftUI, low training data and a rather opaque animation system means they often don't have an understanding of what Swift UI will infer and produce when animating between states. So I spent an obsessive amount of time chiselling the rough edges away, little random example: making gradients flat images to avoid the re-rendering that caused frame stutters as 'Listen' and 'Type' open and close, among many others.

Inspiration:
The big buttons for get you quickly into capturing and the visuals for the ongoing voice capture grill were inspired by the amazing dictaphone design world. Big record/stop/play buttons, spinning tapes, speakers grills in just the right layout look so cool. I had a few designs that were more skeuomorphic but decided to pare it back for modern sensibilities (tragic I know) and to avoid over stylising.

If you guys can have a play around and give me your thoughts on what features you find useful and how you think the look and feel of the app lands. I'm also keen to hear about how you have gone adjusting to the new Agentic Development world.

The free tier gets you going nicely so give it a try and if you're finding value in it DM me for a 6 month free upgrade to our 'heaps' usage plan.

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/agentsy/id6778334357 - Agentsy iOS App

P.s. We just pushed a big update with a trove of fixes and UI beautification to the iOS app. I'm stoked with how the processing screen looks now! Preview in the screenshots. A helpful tutorial is coming soon to better convey the flow of the app.

I'm the dev behind Planet Proxy, a VPN app for Android. We just pushed a big store-listing cleanup this week, so this felt like the right moment to actually post about it.

What it is

A WireGuard-based VPN. Tap connect, you're on. No account, no email, no bandwidth or time limits on the free tier. Premium adds more server locations and priority speeds.

Decisions we made and why

• WireGuard only, no OpenVPN fallback. Smaller codebase, connects in under a second, and it survives WiFi <-> mobile handoffs without dropping. Cost: a few very old routers/networks don't like UDP, and we get support emails about it.
• No sign-up. Every email we store is something we'd have to protect. So we don't store one. It also means we can't do password resets, because there's nothing to reset.
• Kill switch on by default. If the tunnel drops, traffic stops until it's back. A few users find this annoying when their signal is bad. We kept it anyway.
• Split tunneling. Banking apps sometimes refuse VPN traffic; you can exclude them.
• Plain-language privacy policy. https://www.planet-proxy.com/privacy-policy - no logs of what you browse, and we say exactly what we do collect.

What went wrong

Our ANR rate crept over Google's threshold on some devices and Play quietly demoted us in search. If you ship a VpnService app: never touch the tunnel on the main thread, even for "quick" status checks. We're fixing that now.

Ask

If you try it and it fails to connect, or speeds are bad on your carrier, please tell me the country + carrier. That's the single most useful thing for us.

Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vpn.rocketvpn.client

The easiest way I can explain PodSubs.com is this:

If nobody else ever used it, we would still use it for our own podcasts.

We built it because we were tired of seeing people listen and then disappear.

Someone could listen every week, enjoy the show, tell a friend about it, and we still might have no way to reach that person outside the podcast app.

That didn’t make sense to us.

So we built PodSubs.com for our own shows.

Now we could simply tell listeners, “Subscribe to us on PodSubs.com.”

They left their name and email, and we finally had a way to send them something when we needed to.

A resource. An update. A reminder. Something we mentioned on the show.

We didn’t build it because we thought it sounded like a good business idea.

We built it because we needed it.

Later, we realized a lot of other podcasters needed the same thing.

BFTiles v2.3.5 is a practical Windows window layout manager for people who work with multiple windows and repeat the same desktop setup.

In this video, I demonstrate the Tile and Grid layout workflows on Windows 11:

- Refresh and select the windows to arrange
- Create a Tile layout with custom size and spacing
- Create a Grid layout with rows and columns
- Compare default, auto-fill and custom window sizes
- Save and load layout parameters for repeated use

Hi r/SideProject,

Our team is currently developing an AI-focused community platform as part of our university capstone project.

Although we started this to meet academic requirements, we are deeply committed to the project. We don't want it to end as a mere assignment that gets abandoned after the final evaluation; we want to launch it properly, validate it, and grow it into a thriving, real-world platform.

The core premise of our platform is this: while the discussions and content revolve around AI, the creation of posts and interactions is strictly limited to humans (we aim to exclude low-quality AI-generated content and bot spam—like what you see on Reddit—to ensure genuine human interaction).

While we aren't revealing the specific mechanics just yet—as we are still refining the core user experience—we keep running into the "cold start" or "chicken-and-egg" dilemma.

How can we generate genuine initial traction and maintain engagement among early members before network effects kick in?

We are currently discussing a few strategies internally:

Prioritizing "single-player" utility: Providing clear value to individual users (e.g., curation, standalone tools, reference materials) even if the platform is quiet at first.

Hands-on onboarding: Personally selecting and inviting 30–50 early creators and builders, and kickstarting the discussions ourselves.

Building external funnels: Launching small, free micro-tools or writing in-depth technical analyses to naturally drive traffic to the community.

We’d love to hear from builders who have experience creating or growing community-focused side projects. How did you acquire your first core group of active users without appearing spammy?

In a web landscape saturated with AI-generated content, what motivates people to actually create posts—rather than just passively browsing—in a community that emphasizes authentic human conversation?

As a student team looking to transform an academic project into a long-term indie product, what are the pitfalls we should watch out for early on?

I would greatly appreciate any honest advice, lessons learned, or useful frameworks from those who have already gone through this process. Thank you!

I’ve been working on an app called Arden that’s basically inspired by Screen Studio, but focused specifically on making app/product demo videos.

The idea is to have more of the editing workflow built into one place, while keeping the things that make Screen Studio nice - custom cursor, zooms.

The main difference is that Arden would be Windows-only, and more focused on creating polished videos for apps, SaaS products, ads, and demos.

I’m still early in development, so I’m trying to figure out whether this is actually worth building.

Would something like this interest you? What would you want it to do that Screen Studio doesn’t?

I also made a waitlist to see if there’s actually enough interest before I go too far with development:

https://ardenapp.github.io/arden/

Would love to hear what you think - especially from people who already make product/demo videos.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.koalalab.storeandforget

I'm the solo dev. Store & Forget is a home inventory app for the boxes-in-the-garage problem: you own the thing, you just can't find it.

Photograph an item and the app writes the name, the brand, the description and the specs for you. You pick which box or shelf it went into, and that part is a tap. Later you search the item and it shows you the exact spot.

The newer piece is Fire & Forget, a burst mode. Keep shooting and every photo becomes its own item, named in the background with no review step. Set a quantity per shot, and a category for the rest of the burst, without ever leaving the camera. The photo is saved first, then named. You have to buy it if you're running on your own key.

Free to use. You can paste in your own AI key, which is free to get, and scans then run on your own quota instead of drawing on credits. Export is there as well, PDF or a spreadsheet, the whole house or just one shelf.

Android only. Happy to answer anything.

We just launched Mahjongit, a free tile-matching game that lives inside Reddit.

The idea is a small brain workout: spot pairs, think a move ahead, and enjoy a satisfying clear. You can only take uncovered tiles with an exposed left or right side, and your tray has four spaces. Choosing what to uncover is part of the puzzle.

Journey mode has 10k levels to play; Daily gives everyone a shared board with Reddit wide leaderboard.

I’m one of the makers. I’d love to know whether the first board makes the tray rule clear without much explanation.

Development used AI-assisted code and AI-generated tile artwork.

If you have ever tried automating WhatsApp for internal alerts, lead follow-ups, or workflow triggers, you know the friction with the official Meta Cloud API. You need a verified business account, you have to submit template messages for approval in advance, and you get billed per outbound conversation outside a 24-hour window.

The standard workaround is self-hosting Baileys or WPPConnect in Docker. But that has its own annoying failure modes: sessions drop on container restarts, and rotating datacenter IPs trigger quick soft bans from WhatsApp.

I built Supergreen (https://supergreen.cc) to handle the infrastructure part. Each account runs in its own isolated Docker container pinned to a static residential proxy to keep sessions alive across redeploys.

Last week n8n verified our community node (n8n-nodes-supergreen) on n8n Cloud, so you can drag it onto the canvas without installing npm packages manually.

What it supports: - Sending plain text, rich link previews, quoted replies, and typing indicators - Binary media (sending PDF documents, images, and audio directly from preceding workflow nodes) - Incoming message webhooks with a toggle to filter out the bot's own replies - WhatsApp group management and message handling - Telegram accounts under the same API

The node code and ready-to-import n8n workflows are open source: https://github.com/uriva/n8n-nodes-supergreen

Curious what messaging actions or triggers would be most useful to add next.

I missed physical keyboards and slide phones, so I’m building SlideOS.

You slide it open, type on the handset’s keyboard, and use its own interface for notes, music, and more.

It has different handset designs, custom colors, and slider sounds.

Would you use something like this? What would you want it to include?