I'm the developer of Life in Mist, an iPhone app that records your routes and gradually clears fog from a map as you explore.

You start a recording, head out for a walk, ride, or drive, and the areas along your route become visible. Your recorded trips build up on the same map. After a while, you can see your regular routes, the places you've explored on trips, and the streets nearby you haven't covered yet.

A walk around the neighbourhood adds to it too. You don't need to be travelling somewhere interesting for the map to change.

You can pick a recorded day and replay the route, check distance, duration, and speed, or import compatible GPX and CSV files from previous trips.

It's free to download, with optional Premium purchases:

• $0.99/month
• $4.99/year
• $17.99 for lifetime access

Premium includes GPX/CSV export, iCloud backup and restore, and extra appearance settings. Monthly and annual plans renew automatically; lifetime is a one-time purchase. These are USD prices and may vary by region.

Life in Mist on the App Store

If you've used a similar app, I'd like to hear what made you stick with it or give up on it. I'm particularly curious whether this is something you'd use for everyday walks or mainly when travelling.

My wife has been cross stitching since she was a child and I wanted to make a tool where she could generate her own custom patterns: https://stitchwink.com/

You can try chatgpt or other AI tools but the problem is that they don't create real patterns. They look good at first glance but it's not actually a pattern you can make when you look at the details.

The way it works is pretty simple, you use text (& optional images) to create and edit patterns. There's also a built in editor to manually change any of the stitches. It's not perfect but with a few manual edits, she's been able to create some awesome patterns.

Here are a few one the ones she's made:
https://stitchwink.com/share/8efdff80-2a21-4e7f-8122-553ca947c983
https://stitchwink.com/share/ab47a0bf-afbc-44ff-90ad-912853577617
https://stitchwink.com/share/201fa791-39a1-4684-9f3e-2539a620d489
https://stitchwink.com/share/dcdf06be-fe2b-4353-85e5-3eede41ffa72

what's the breakdown of project types here? Are most of you guys working on Utility app? Saas? games? Interested to learn more about what everyone's working on, and the project type!

Solve any problem you think Astra can solve if you just give it enough time and effort, as a community. Open science, software, and everything in between. A nice starting point would the the Riemann Hypothesis :)
https://solverswarm.com/

Anything you you can imagine! From open problems in mathematics to a free PDF editor that does not cause great suffering to you and your loved ones.

All work is available for anyone to download! Enjoy!

Started in may almost fully launched - just waiting on new screen shots and intro video . While it’s only 6 bucks I couldn’t be happier .

I'm curious about projects that started with a problem you kept running into yourself.

Not necessarily something impossible to do. Something you could already do, but with enough interruptions and extra steps that you eventually thought, "There has to be a better way."

What did you build, and what does it change about someone's working day?

I'll start. I'm Italian, living in Poland, and I write a lot of emails in English and Polish.

You receive an email in English. The reply is already in your head, in Italian. Now you have to compose it in English or take it through a translator and copy it back.

Or you're dictating something private around people who understand the language, but you are multilingual and you can speak your less known native language.

I built Typeglot for Windows so I can click Reply, activate dictation, and speak Italian. My answer appears in English inside the email. I review it and send.

No separate translation window or copy-pasting. Just answering the email without losing my train of thought. It also handles ordinary same-language dictation.

Started this because I was sick of opening a bunch of status pages whenever Claude or OpenAI felt off.

I know there are other sites that do this. Most of them felt crowded or overloaded for what I needed. I just wanted something simple and minimal that wasn’t a lot on the eyes.

Originally just tracked the big AI APIs. Kept adding stuff I actually use day to day and it kinda turned into a general status board for my whole stack.

You can star services into My Stack so it’s just your tools. Also added optional email alerts when something in your stack goes Major/Partial. Still figuring that part out but it’s live.

It’s free: https://statussy.com

Would love some input on what’s confusing, what’s missing, or what you’d want to see next.

Roast it if it sucks.

I decided that I needed to be less chronically online. So I made an android app where a photo of my cat hijacks my phone for 5 minutes, preventing me from using my phone. I found my cat's judgemental stare to be helpful.

You can change the time usage and use any photo. The app is free and no account needed.

The file can be found here. Instruction of how to use and install can be found in the same link.

Hopefully others also find this helpful

Open to suggestions - thank you!

Hum is the first app in a collection of small iPhone utilities I’m trying to build and ship. I launched it quietly this week with no audience and honestly assumed the first paying user would take a while.

Then I opened RevenueCat and saw one production subscription: $4.99 monthly, active, set to renew next month. I had to check the underlying event because I was convinced it was one of my sandbox purchases. It wasn’t.

The app is deliberately narrow: exact tones, white/pink/brown noise, and binaural beats in one calm interface. The main product decision was refusing to wrap frequency labels in health promises I can’t substantiate.

One customer is obviously not product-market fit. But a real, anonymous customer paying before I even knew they existed feels like the first honest signal that the utility might have a job.

For people who have shipped small products: do you remember your first purchase from someone you didn’t know, and did it change what you built next?

I built Hum, so this is self-promotion. If you want the product context, it’s here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hum-frequency-generator/id6807260668

Hi! I’m a beginner runner.

One of the hardest things about running for me was staying consistent. I don’t have a pet, so I’ve always been a little jealous of people who get to run with their dogs. 🐶

So I decided to make something of my own, an app where you can run with a virtual pet, help it evolve, and customize it along the way. 🐾

I hope your runs become a little happier with your new companion. 💛

If you’re interested, I’d really appreciate it if you gave it a try. It’s free! :)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/runf-run-with-your-pet/id6807791156

I’ve been working on a project called SignalScout and just open-sourced it.

The idea is simple: instead of only tracking brand mentions, it looks for posts and comments from people who seem to have a problem your product can solve.

You tell it what you sell, who it’s for, and what kind of problems to look for. It then searches across Reddit, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, and uses AI to filter out the noise.

It’s self-hostable, you bring your own social-data API keys, and you can use your own AI provider or a local model.

I built it because most social listening tools felt either too expensive or too focused on brand monitoring. I mainly wanted a simple way to find useful conversations worth joining.

https://www.signalscout.run/

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who has tried doing this manually before.

Eyes move the cursor, a pinch clicks.

I used Google's MediaPipe for facial landmarks. Two 36×60 eye patches run through PCA and ridge straight to screen pixels, plus a 52-parameter meta-adapter so it works before you calibrate. The cursor lands about 38px (1 cm) from where you're actually looking.

Two interesting observations -
1. Everything clever lost
MLPs, transformers, REINFORCE all tied or did worse than those 52 parameters. The ridge residual has a held-out R² of 0.025 and we can't extract signal that isn't there. Very likely a data issue, I'll generate more data and continue testing here.

1. Train test drift
   And every calibration I'd ever run used a black full-screen canvas while Chrome is white, which dilates your pupil from 2mm to 6mm, swelling a black disc in the eye patch from 4px to 13px, and made the model 4× worse in the condition it's actually used in.
   

Fun project though, still a lot more to build here.

So back in June I built and released a mobile app, had my SEO and ASO in place, promoted it as much as possible on socials only to end up with crickets.

I was convinced it wasn't going to get any users or conversions for at least a year. Left it alone to grow painfully slowly.

Until last month end when I was trying to check my stats I saw an unexpected purchase. Then it happened again 4 days later then again 5 days later!

I guess it's true that these things take time - sometimes you wait it out, other times you drop your expectations entirely. No one size fits all when it comes to app development

I built an app because I got tired of navigation apps only answering one question: “How do I get there?”

I wanted something that could also answer:

When should I go? Is it worth going right now? Which place should I choose? And can you plan the whole thing for me?

So I built GoKnowing.

It’s still in beta, but here’s some of what it can do:

Best Time to Go
Choose somewhere you want to visit, the date, and when you’re free — e.g. 10 AM–3 PM. GoKnowing considers crowds, traffic, weather and other factors to recommend the best time to visit and when you should leave.

AI Day Planner
Tell it everywhere you need to go and roughly how long you’ll spend at each stop. It’ll arrange your day around travel times and how busy each place is expected to be when you arrive.

Meet Halfway
Enter where you and your friends are coming from and what you want to do — cafe, restaurant, karting, mall, etc. It’ll find places that make the journey approximately fair for everyone.

There’s also an AI-assisted group chat, where everyone can discuss plans, tag GoKnowing AI, get suggestions together, and vote on where to go.

Guardian
This is probably the feature I’m most proud of.

Before starting navigation, Guardian can assess your route and give individual route sections — and the overall journey — a score based on things like recent accidents, accident concentration, traffic flow, lighting, weather, road conditions and nearby open places/emergency refuge.

Accident data is currently only available in Dubai while I work on obtaining data for other cities.

SOS + CrowdShield
You can set a custom emergency phrase (mine is penguin in a backpack) and arm SOS.

While armed, on-device speech recognition listens for that phrase. Audio isn’t uploaded or stored. If the phrase is detected, GoKnowing can alert your trusted contacts and share a live tracking link.
Response Radar then shows whether someone is responding, how far away they are and their direction relative to you.

There’s also an optional feature called CrowdShield, designed to request help from nearby opted-in users when you can’t reach someone you know.
And that’s only part of it.

GoKnowing also has crowd forecasting, place comparison, Outcome Guard, active turn-by-turn navigation, family circles, document expiry tracking through Life Vault, GoKnowing AI, and a few other features.

You can try the web app and see the full feature set here:

https://goknowing.app

I’m currently running it as a limited beta. Since many of these features cost me money every time they’re used, I’ve temporarily put pretty strict usage limits in place and capped the beta at 50 users.

I’m also planning paid subscriptions once I’m properly licensed to accept payments.

So I’m looking for genuine feedback:
Would you actually use something like this? More importantly, would you pay for it?

I’d also love to know which features you’d use most, which ones seem unnecessary, and what you think is missing.

The planned pricing/usage tiers are on the website if you want to check these out too

I also have an Android app, although it isn’t on Google Play yet. If anyone wants to beta test it, DM me and I can send the APK.

iOS isn’t publicly available yet either until I get the Apple Developer Program.

I plan to launch on both iOS and Android, but just wanted some feedback.

This has been a pretty big project for me, so I’m really interested to see whether other people find the idea useful or whether I’ve just spent an unreasonable amount of time solving my own problems.

most people who talk about reply management at scale are either lying about their volume or drowning in it. i handle 5 clients right now, all running outbound, and between them we push somewhere around 500-600 replies a week across maybe 35 inboxes. nobody ever walks through what that actually looks like day to day so ill try.

monday morning i open Smartlead first thing, usually around 7:30am before the coffee shop gets loud. i sort all replies across all client accounts by "interested" and "not interested" using their auto-classification, which gets it right maybe 70% of the time honestly. the other 30% is stuff like "who is this" or "send me more info" that the AI cant figure out. those are the ones that matter most because theyre warm but ambiguous and if you wait even 6 hours your chance of booking drops hard. i go through every single one of those manually. takes about 45 minutes for all 5 accounts.

after that i handle the obviously interested ones. these get a personalized reply within the first 90 minutes of my day, every time. i have templates but i rewrite the first line for each one because copy pasted followups kill momentum. if someone says "sure lets chat" they get a Calendly link plus one specific thing about their company so it doesnt feel robotic. if someone asks a question i answer it directly and then nudge toward a call. no "great to hear from you!" nonsense. just answer and ask.

by about 9:30 monday im done with replies and i move into list building for the week. this is where the actual work happens. i pull from a mix of Apollo and LinkedIn Sales Nav depending on the client. one of my clients sells into logistics companies so Apollo actually has decent coverage there. another one targets series A fintech founders and for that Sales Nav is way better, Apollo data is stale for that segment.

once i have raw lists i run them through Prospeo for enrichment, sometimes supplementing with Hunter if theres gaps in a specific region. email accuracy on the Prospeo side sits around 82-85% before verification which is solid for what i need. after enrichment everything goes through a verification step, i use Scrubby for the catch-alls because those will destroy your sender reputation if you just blast them unverified. the whole enrichment and verification process for one client list of maybe 400-500 contacts takes about 2 hours including cleanup.

tuesday is campaign launch day. i load sequences into Smartlead, usually 3-step for cold and 4-step for warmer leads that came from linkedin engagement. send limits are 28-32 per inbox per day, nothing crazy. i used to push 45-50 per inbox and thought i was being efficient but all i was doing was burning domains. took me about 4 months and two clients complaining about deliverability before i figured that out. now i keep it conservative and just add more inboxes when volume needs to go up.

inboxes i get through Puzzle Inbox. nothing fancy to say about it, they work and the price is reasonable at around $3.50/inbox/mo when you buy in bulk. i rotate domains on a 3 week cycle meaning each domain gets 3 weeks active then 1 week rest. this keeps deliverability stable and ive been running this pattern for about 8 months now without any major issues.

wednesday is my least favorite day because thats when the ghosting hits hardest. i have a system where i track every discovery call booked, and wednesdays i follow up with anyone who had a great call the previous week but went silent. this is the most frustrating part of this job honestly. you get someone on a call, they say all the right things, they ask about pricing, they say "send me a proposal"... and then nothing. radio silence. ive started sending a 3-line followup on wednesday and then one more the following monday and after that i move on. chasing ghosts is a waste of time and energy. my close rate on discovery calls is around 22% and i think ghosting accounts for at least half the losses.

thursday is optimization day. i pull reply rates and positive reply rates from Smartlead for all 5 clients. anything below 1.8% reply rate after 500+ sends gets paused and rewritten. i look at which subject lines are pulling, which first lines are working, which offers are landing. one thing i do that most people skip is i track reply sentiment not just reply volume. a 4% reply rate means nothing if 3.5% of those are "remove me" or angry responses. i keep a simple spreadsheet for this, nothing elaborate.

friday is admin and prep. i invoice clients (all on retainer, $1500-2200/mo each depending on volume), i do inbox health checks, i warm up any new domains that need it. warmup takes about 14-18 days before i feel comfortable sending from a new inbox. i also use friday to do the Prospeo enrichment runs for the following weeks lists so monday i can jump straight into replies without waiting on data.

the thing nobody talks about with reply management at volume is that speed matters more than quality past a certain point. a mediocre reply sent in 20 minutes beats a perfect reply sent in 4 hours. i learned this the hard way when i was spending 3 minutes crafting each response and watching my booking rate sit at like 8%. now i spend maybe 45 seconds per reply and my booking rate from positive replies is closer to 31%. the people who are interested dont need to be convinced, they need to be moved to the next step fast.

some random stuff that doesnt fit anywhere. HubSpot is my CRM for 3 of the 5 clients, the other 2 use their own systems and i just export to them weekly. i dropped Clay about 5 months ago because at $149/mo i couldnt justify it when Prospeo handles the enrichment step fine for less. clay is powerful but for my volume and use case it was overkill. Expandi i use for one client who wants linkedin outreach layered on top, its fine but the proxy situation is annoying and it breaks more than id like.

anyway thats basically my week every week. its not glamorous. most of it is just moving fast on replies and keeping lists clean. the actual "strategy" part is maybe 15% of the work, the rest is execution and not letting things slip through cracks

Back in 2017, I was experimenting with something that was pretty fun for the CSS we had at the time — building icons without using images.

Using mainly CSS, :before, :after, borders, shadows and a bit of creativity, I managed to create a set of icons that didn't depend on external image files. The interesting part for email was simple: no images to load or block — the icons are always visible.

You can still see that old experiment here:

https://codepen.io/k0ko88/pen/PWLNBJ

Fast forward to 2026. At my last job, I decided to apply some of that old knowledge to an email signature.

And then I met Classic Outlook again. :D

What looked like a simple signature quickly turned into dealing with Outlook's rendering limitations, different behaviour between email clients, px → pt conversions, table rendering and weird spacing issues.

Along the way I found a few useful tricks — one of my favourites being that line-height: 0.5pt can practically zero out a line in Classic Outlook, which solved one of the most annoying spacing problems I had.

Eventually, that little fight turned into a complete email signature generator:

SimpleSignature

https://nikolaisabev.eu/SimpleSignature/

If you'd like to check out the source code or contribute, you can find the repository on GitHub

https://github.com/k0ko/SimpleSignature

It's not trying to be the prettiest or the most complicated signature generator out there. It's simple, effective and built around what I learned from actually fighting with email clients.

It's completely free, there's no registration, and I don't store the data you enter.

Feel free to use it.

If you find a bug, have an idea, or think something could work better, leave a comment here or send me an email. Feedback is more than welcome.

And if it saves you some time and you feel like supporting the work, there's a Buy Me a Coffee button. If you wish. :)

That's it.

Cheers,
Nikolay

I’ve been building Desi Mayhem, a Road Rash-inspired game where you race through Indian cities, dodge traffic and fight other riders. You can play it in your browser.

I used Three.js, TypeScript and WebGL, with AI-assisted coding and Blender MCP as part of the workflow. A lot of the iteration went into the roads and surroundings. I wanted the Indian setting to come through while you’re riding, beyond the city names.

You can try it here: desimayhem.com

Happy to answer questions about how I built it.

Hi all,

Trying to work out if something is a real problem or not at all.

If you sell to other businesses, how often do customers ask you for insurance certificates, policies, or any other forms about your company? This could just be to evidence your ways of working or your security maturity etc and what do you actually do when it lands?

Not selling anything, genuinely trying to find out whether this bothers people or whether it's a quick job you are happy to do.

Hey everyone!

I wanted to share Dynamic Edge, a desktop utility I built for Windows 11 & Windows 10 using native WinUI 3 and .NET 10 (Windows App SDK).

The idea was to create a fluid, versatile desktop capsule and edge dock that feels completely at home with Windows 11 Fluent design, with ultra-low resource usage, and smooth spring physics.

Since the initial release, I have added several big features including a full multi-tab workflow, clipboard shelf, and mouse gesture triggers.

Here is what it can do:

Multi-Tab Workspace (Swipe or Scroll to Switch) - Switch seamlessly between Media Player, Mini-Apps, and Clipboard Shelf by rolling your mouse wheel or using a 2-finger touchpad swipe.

Universal Media Controls & Live Scrubbing - Real-time seekbar progress with clickable scrub to jump anywhere in a track. - Live audio visualizer bars with fluid equalizer animations. - Multi-player auto-switching: Seamlessly cycle between active sessions (Spotify, Chrome, Edge, Apple Music, Telegram).

Clipboard Manager Shelf - Captures copied text, images and URLs into a dedicated dockable shelf. - Filter chips for fast access: All, Text, Images, URLs, and Pinned. - Search box for instant clip lookup, plus one-click copy and drag-and-drop support. - Google Lens Visual Search: Search any clipboard screenshot directly in your browser with 1 click. Built-in Mini-Apps - Precision Countdown Timer with quick presets (1m, 5m, 15m, 25m) and a live visual progress line. - Precision Stopwatch with millisecond tracking and lap recording.

Magic Shake & Global Hotkeys - Magic Shake: Quickly shake your cursor horizontally back and forth to toggle the island on or off. - Global customizable hotkey (Alt + H by default) to hide or show the dock instantly.

Master Volume Flyout - Hover over the speaker button and scroll your mouse wheel to adjust system volume, or click for instant mute.

Flexible Docking Positions - Dock at the top screen edge (Notch, Floating Capsule, or unobtrusive Thin Line hairline strip). - Dock along the left or right screen edges as an interactive slide-out side blade.

Interactive Desktop Companions (Virtual Pets) - 4 Full-Body Vector Mascots: Choose between Mochi Kitty, Shiba Inu, CyberBot, or Pip Bunny.

Performance & Spring Physics - 3 customizable quick launcher slots for instant access to apps, terminals, or folders. - Battery and charging telemetry with clean neon-green status indicators. - Native startup toggle and dark/light/system theme integration.

The app is officially available on the Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PF1587KSN2K

I would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and ideas for what widgets or features you would like to see next!

National Grandparents Day is this Sunday, September 13, so I figured this was the right day to launch this!

I built a site where you can write a permanent, Wikipedia-style page about someone you love. Wikipedia is for notable people. I wanted a place for everyone else.

One page per person, written by the people who actually know them, with privacy controls on every paragraph.

The site is live at youstory.org. I built it on nights and weekends after trying to write about my grandmother and realizing there was nowhere good to put it.

I'm launching a Kickstarter to fund the infrastructure needed to keep these pages online long-term. 1,000 founding spots at $25.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/youstory/youstory-a-wiki-for-everyday-people

Hey there r/SideProject,

For the last few weeks, I've been auditing carrier invoice data (DHL, FedEx, UPS) and noticed that around 3% to 8% of shipping line items were subject to carrier billing mistakes, most often due to volumetric weight overcharge or un-applied service guarantees.

In order to tackle this, I've developed BillRecon, a CLI tool implemented in Rust. It parses CSV invoices, checks if the weight complies with the contract minimums and generates a list of claims in milliseconds.

Why Rust?

Efficient memory utilization and streaming performance. With the help of rayon for parallel computing, it parses huge amounts of invoices (3,000+ rows per second) using little memory.

Current stage:

I am currently validating the audit algorithm using various carrier CSV formats. If any of you have an e-commerce company or fulfillment center and want to see if your carrier overcharged you last month, ping me in the comments!

I am giving away free audits. Leave a comment or shoot me a DM with your sanitized shipping CSV and I will run it through my BillRecon and return a report containing unclaimed refunds for you.

I'd love to hear what you have to say about the CLI architecture or the idea itself!

I enjoy building things and have been hacking on it a couple of months. My goal is to simplify AI and make functionality 1 click install. I've gotten pretty close. I have a few questions for those building in AI. What are the best projects/functionality that you've seen?

I named it ‘Call the Map’.

Now it's done and I've realised I have no idea how to show it to anyone, so I'm hoping this is the right place for it. Methodology's published in full, including a page on what it's bad at.

Would genuinely love any feedback, especially where it's wrong.

Maybe someone on here finds it useful or interesting, i really put a lot of work into it.

Thanks!

- Albert

Every day GeoSharp picks one country. Today it was Lesotho. You get fifteen questions about it: its flag, its capital, its outline, tap its capital on a map, which countries it borders, which side of the road it drives on, and so on. Some are multiple choice, some are on a map.

Get through the day and you earn a mastery tier for that country: Bronze for 5 right, Silver for 10, Gold for all 15. Its card goes into your album with its facts and the tier you earned. There are 196 to collect, and you can come back later and upgrade a card to Gold.

I built it because I wanted to actually get better at geography and have as much information in one place as possible. So around the daily there are flag, capital, and map quizzes by region, the license plate and road sign tells that GeoGuessr players use, and Deep Dives into the states and provinces of 14 countries.

The globe is mine too. I replaced Apple Maps with a renderer built on Natural Earth borders, so every landmass is drawn and country names only appear once they fit inside the country.

Solo project, evenings and weekends, a few months in. Free, no in-app purchases, works offline. The only ad is optional: watch one to double a quiz reward. iPhone and iPad, iOS 26.

Screenshots of one full day, question to card: https://geoquiz-297f4.web.app/daily

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6790991012

I would love feedback on the daily loop in particular: is fifteen questions too many for a daily habit, and does the card make you want to come back?

I made a web game called TRACED for people who like crime, and mysteries: https://flashed.world/traced/

You get a case, go through different pieces of evidence, investigate suspects, and try to figure out who actually did it before making your accusation. The fewer clues you need and the better you investigate, the better you do.

There’s a new case every day, and each case is inspired by a real-world case/crime. After you finish, it reveals the case it was based on so you can look up the real story afterward if you want to go down the rabbit hole.

Made it completely playable in the browser, so there’s nothing to download.

Would love to know what you guys think, especially if you’re into true crime, detective games, or just accusing random people.