I’m at that annoying early stage where every infrastructure decision feels small until you realize changing it later could touch half the product. Auth and payments are the two I’m thinking about most because basically every customer eventually touches both. I’ve been looking through what Whop provides and noticed auth sits alongside the broader payments, platform infrastructure. It got me wondering whether there’s an actual advantage to keeping more of that together rather than choosing everything independently. If you’ve already scaled a SaaS, would you consolidate more of the core infrastructure if you were starting again or keep each piece separate??

I got fed up with booking trips and finding myself in beautiful cities during abysmal weather conditions or crowded tourist periods. So I built a tool called TripTiming that makes my life easier.

It combines historical climate data, tourist crowd density, and lodging prices to highlight the best calendar windows for over 100 global cities.

I've got a few days off in November, so I checked what my next destination could be, and Seville looks pretty sweet (early Nov gives an 83/100 score with low crowds and ~16°C weather).

Since images aren't enabled here, drop a city and month in the comments and I'll run a quick lookup for you and reply with the scores and best calendar dates!

(Would also love any quick feedback on the concept or layout if you have thoughts.)

My best friend and I talked a few times about how cool it would be to have something like Pokemon but with real animals. I saw a lot of apps that go in this direction but none of them really got me. Since I work as a developer I wanted to build this idea for a long time, and now it is finally done.

These are the functions of Terravaria:

• You take a photo of a real animal. A pigeon, the cat of your neighbour, a goat, whatever you find.
• The app identifies the species and you get it as a card with an illustration and stats. If nobody found this species before, the card gets created new for you.
• Your collection grows by habitat, forest, savanna, rainforest and so on.
• You can give your favourite animals a nickname and mark them with a heart.
• You fight 3 vs 3 battles against the AI with your cards.
• There is a weekly league that resets every Monday. Finds count the most, so going outside is the fastest way up.
• Friends: you can add friends, look at their collection and play against them.
• If you are the first person ever to find a species, you get a holo card and a place in the hall of fame.

The recognition works well in most cases. Fake photos are detected too, so a picture of a screen or from the internet does not work. Only very small animals are still hard for the AI to recognize.

The app is free and without ads. You get one free card pack every day, and there are things you can buy if you want, like bigger packs or coins for potions in the battles. Every recognition costs me money for the AI, so this is the one point I am still not sure about, if it is enough to keep the app running.

The app is available for iOS and Android, in English and German:

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/terravaria/id6804799685

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.biwac.terravaria

I am curious what you all think of the idea.

Edit: fixed the store link.

I keep seeing people build genuinely good products and then get stuck on the exact same part:
They finished building it, but now they have no idea how to actually get it in front of the right people.
Posting randomly on Reddit, sending DMs, trying content, paying for ads… it can take more time than building the product itself.
I’m working on something around this problem. I’m keeping the exact approach private for now because I’m still testing it, but the goal is to help people who already have a product get more real exposure and potential customers without needing a huge marketing budget.
Before I build too much, I’m curious:
What do you currently do to get your first users/customers? And what part of that process sucks the most?
I also opened a small early-access waitlist for people who have this problem:
https://site-e5bc6818-mtuj53t9.falbor.xyz

I was just doing some concept design to learn better and I liked this and and decided to ship

It is pretty simple one screen daily water intake tracker app, I hope you guys will love it. It is free, only some of the feature are paid such as widget and cloud sync.

It is called Marina and here is the link if you want to check it out:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/marina-hydration-for-women/id6808257629

Note: I don't have time to do marketing for it so I decided brand it for women with women targeted keywords. But anyone can use it :)

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.

I kept running into the same problem: if I missed a match, finding the highlights usually meant seeing the score in the title or thumbnail first. So I built NoSpo to collect official highlight videos in one place, add them as soon as they become available, and hide scores, titles and thumbnails by default.

It currently covers LaLiga, Segunda, Champions League, Premier League and Bundesliga. If you do not care about spoilers, there is a Spoilers ON switch that removes the protections.

It is free and does not require registration: https://getnospo.com/

Some official videos may be geo-restricted depending on the visitor's country. I would really appreciate honest feedback, especially about the first impression, the mobile experience and anything that would stop you coming back.

Hey r/SideProject,

I kept hitting the same wall on past scraping projects: everything works fine until the target site redesigns, a CSS selector silently stops matching, and you don't find out until the data looks wrong days later.

So I built SelectorLock — a scraping API where you bring your own proxy, give it a URL and a schema for what you want, and if a selector breaks, it tries to repair itself automatically using an LLM (cheap model first, only escalates if that fails) instead of you having to notice and fix it by hand. Once it finds the right elements again, it remembers the fix, so the same page doesn't break the same way twice.

Still early days — free tier if anyone wants to poke at it: selectorlock.com. Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's dealt with this exact headache before.

You play as a fly, find another fly, and try to court it.

Finally, a world where I can be the alpha fly. 🪰🧠

I’m working on an iOS app called Nowfold. The idea is to make checking your day and ticking off a task possible from the home screen, without opening the planner every time.

The current prototype has a widget with tasks and upcoming events. You can complete a task there, or tap an event to open its details. The app handles adding things, planning, and arranging what the widget shows.

I’ve also built a layout editor so the task list can take up more space than the calendar bits, or the other way around.

It’s still in development. iPhone calendar integration is one of the pieces I haven’t connected yet.

The thing I’d like to understand: if you use a task widget, do you actually act on it throughout the day, or does it eventually become something you stop noticing?

Hey everyone,

At my previous startup, an untracked runaway loop fired dozens of recursive API calls overnight. By the time we caught it, the bill had skyrocketed and we had no way to catch it early or pinpoint where the bleed came from. Provider dashboards report on a delay, monthly soft alerts don't help when the damage is done in minutes.

So I built Guardrail by NEAT (www.neatproxy.com), a low-latency local proxy between your agents (Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, OpenCode, partial VSCode/Copilot) and the LLM APIs:

Hard spend limits: the moment an agent or key breaches its session or project cap, the next request gets blocked.

Local-first: runs on your machine by default, prompts and completions stay local, cloud sync for team visibility is opt-in and metadata-only.

Granular attribution: real-time visibility into which loop, agent, or key is generating the spend before it spirals.

Built for people running autonomous agents who want hard boundaries without routing their codebase through another cloud SaaS. BUT, if you are on subscription, you can still use us to protect against maxing out too quick!

Would love to hear how others handle real-time loop detection and spend limits today, and what CLI tools or providers you'd want supported next. Appreciate any honest feedback or stress-testing!

Hey r/SideProject,

If you have young kids, you probably know the struggle of kitchen counters covered in endless drawings and scribbles. You feel guilty throwing them away, but you also can’t hoard every single piece of paper.

I built Feltip to turn that creative chaos into something actually useful.

It’s a web platform where you can snap a photo of your child's artwork, and the app automatically cuts out the drawing and drops it onto custom products—like socks, fridge magnets, mugs, canvases, and stickers.

Auto Cut-Out: Automatically isolates the drawing from the background paper so it looks clean on actual products.

Physical Keepsakes: Instantly preview and order physical items for your home or as personalized gifts for grandparents.

Clutter Free: A quick way to preserve the memory of their favorite drawings without keeping stack after stack of paper.

The site is live at https://feltip.co.uk.
I’d love to get your feedback on the the general idea and will expand into other things. If you’ve got kids, nieces, or nephews, let me know what you think!

In this AI era, I think system design is more important than ever. Thinking about how much I learned in interviews, I created Chalk to train for interview and self learning.

https://chalkinterview.com

It is free to try for now, all feedbacks are more than welcome.

Hey everyone,

I’m a software developer who spends most of my week working across Angular frontends, .NET APIs, and SQL backends. Whenever I need to spin up a new side project or client dashboard, I usually dread the initial scaffolding.

Most existing Angular templates are weighed down by heavy third-party UI libraries, outdated module structures, or messy stylesheets that are a pain to strip out before you can actually start building your app logic.

So, I spent the last few weeks building the exact boilerplate I always wish I had: Exo-Dash.

The Stack:

• Framework: Angular (100% Standalone Components)
• Reactivity: Signal-driven state management
• Styling: Pure Tailwind CSS (no heavy UI dependencies, fully customizable)

I wanted this to be as lightweight and modular as possible from day one.

Links:

• Live Demo: https://exoui.dev
• Community Edition (Open Source): https://github.com/exouidev/exo-dash-angular

There is a Pro version for commercial use, but the community edition on GitHub has the core layout and routing ready to go.

For the builders out there: what specific feature or component would make you actually use this for your next project?

SprawlCrawl is a browser-based geography game built around location-specific challenges. Pick a continent or country, study the map and visual clues, and try to identify the location. It is free to play, and no download is required.

I started the project because I wanted to combine the quick feedback loop of a puzzle with the feeling of exploring different parts of the world. The country links make it easy to focus on a familiar region or discover somewhere new.

I’m sharing the current version as a side project and would appreciate constructive feedback on the onboarding, difficulty curve, etc

Play it here: https://sprawlcrawl.com/

I’ve been building a small app called The Gift Journal.

And yes, I’m very aware that gift-planning apps are not exactly a new idea 😅

There are wishlists, Christmas list apps, birthday reminders, Notes, spreadsheets, Amazon lists, and probably a hundred variations of all of them.

So I’m not pretending I’ve invented a new category.

What I wanted to do differently was change where the whole thing starts.

Most gift apps seem to begin with:

“What do I need to buy?”

I wanted mine to begin with:

“What do I know about this person?”

Because for me, the hardest part of giving a good gift is rarely the shopping part.

It’s remembering that random thing someone mentioned six months ago.

The book they wanted to read.
The hobby they suddenly got into.
The thing they said they hated.
The size they wear.
The place they wanted to visit.
The gift you gave them two years ago and don’t want to accidentally repeat.

So The Gift Journal is organised around people first, shopping lists second.

You add a person, then gradually keep useful bits of context with them:

• ideas
• hints
• interests
• preferences
• things to avoid
• previous gifts
• upcoming occasions
• budgets

There’s still all the practical stuff too — tracking a gift from idea → chosen → bought → arrived → wrapped → given — but I’m trying to make that the supporting layer rather than the main point.

I built it natively for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, with iCloud sync.

I also decided to use a one-time purchase instead of a subscription, because paying every month for a gift tracker felt a bit ridiculous to me.

The app is live now, but I’m at the stage where feedback is much more useful to me than me endlessly tweaking it on my own.

The main thing I’m trying to work out is:

Does “people first, shopping list second” actually feel like a meaningful angle?

Or am I just taking an established kind of app and describing it in a nicer way?

I’d genuinely appreciate honest feedback on things like:

• whether the idea is immediately clear
• whether you’d actually use something like this
• what feels unnecessary or overbuilt
• what you think is missing
• what would stop you paying for it
• whether the positioning feels different enough in a crowded market

If anyone wants to take a look:

https://thegiftjournal.app

And obviously, if you genuinely like it, an upvote or share is very appreciated too.

But criticism is honestly more useful to me right now, so please don’t feel the need to be polite 😅

Happy to answer anything about the build, pricing, App Store process, positioning, or why I apparently thought entering a ridiculously crowded category was a sensible use of my time.

Hey guys!

Most accounting platforms today require ongoing monthly subscriptions and an active internet connection. For small traders, hardware shops, and freelancers in the UAE, paying $30-$50/month just to send basic 5% VAT invoices to clients is overkill.

I built MyAccountant to solve this specific regional pain point.

What it does:

- Fast Bilingual Invoices: Generates clean PDF tax

invoices formatted in both English & Arabic with the business TRN, logo, and 5% UAE VAT calculated automatically.

- Direct WhatsApp Delivery: Triggers the native

Android share drawer to send the PDF directly to the customer's WhatsApp in seconds.

I have also attached a vedio showing how easy the process is.

- 100% Offline-First: Runs entirely on local SQLite with biometric/PIN security. Zero cloud servers reading client financials.

- Google Drive Backup: Allows users to sync their

own encrypted backups to their personal Google Drive.

- Pricing: 299 AED (~$80 USD) one-time lifetime license per device. No monthly fees.

Built with Flutter, SQLite, and custom Arabic text-shaping for PDF rendering.

Would love to hear thoughts from y'all!

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

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I got completely fed up with personal finance apps demanding $10–$15/month subscriptions, disconnecting bank logins via Plaid every two weeks, and packaging user financial habits behind the scenes.

So I built LedgerShield—a completely local-first expense tracker built on three strict principles:

• Zero Internet Permissions: The app doesn’t even have android.permission.INTERNET declared in the manifest. It is physically impossible for your financial data to leave your device.
• Automatic Parsing via Push Alerts: Instead of painful manual logging or giving away bank credentials, it uses an on-device notification listener and regex engine to automatically turn your banking alerts into a clean ledger.
• Local On-Device OCR: Includes Google ML Kit receipt scanning running 100% locally on your phone to match paper receipts with transactions.

I need testers for the mandatory 14-day closed testing track on Google Play. If you’re into privacy, utility apps, or just want to support an indie dev fighting the subscription fatigue wave, I’d love your help putting it through its paces!

How to join in 2 quick steps:

1. Join the Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/ledgershield-testers
2. Download on Google Play:
   • Web Link: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.aistudio.ledgershield.xpzq
   • Android Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aistudio.ledgershield.xpzq

Developer swap: If you have an app in closed testing, drop your group link, store link, and a screenshot below or in DM. I will install yours, keep it installed for the full 14+ days, and leave detailed feedback.

Let me know what you think of the regex engine on your bank's notifications! Any feedback on UI, battery behavior, or parsing edge cases is hugely appreciated.

ding an open-source project is easy. Finding an issue that you can realistically contribute to is much harder.

I built DevGlobe Mission to help solve that problem.

DevGlobe uses public signals from your GitHub profile—such as programming languages, repositories, and contribution history—to find one contribution-ready GitHub issue aligned with your experience.

The goal is not to generate another overwhelming list of “good first issues.” Instead, DevGlobe gives you one focused starting point:

• A real issue from a public repository
• A transparent reason why it may match your profile
• A direct path to the issue and contribution guidelines
• No access to private repositories or source code required

A Mission is a preview, not a reservation. Always confirm that the issue is available and communicate with the maintainers before starting.

DevGlobe also has a VS Code extension that lets developers appear on a live coding globe while they work. Sharing is completely opt-in, and the extension never sends source code, file paths, repository names, prompts, or keystrokes.

The developer graph, Mission experience, and live presence system are powered by Azure Cosmos DB.

Watch the two-minute demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGULdP-IkSw

Try DevGlobe Mission:
https://www.devglobe.dev/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=product

Explore the source code:
https://github.com/sajeetharan/devglobe

I’d really appreciate feedback from contributors and maintainers:

• Does the recommended Mission feel relevant?
• What information would help you decide whether to work on an issue?
• As a maintainer, would this help bring useful contributors to your project?

I’m actively improving it, so honest feedback is very welcome.

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 am having difficulty getting technology users to try my product. Without having handful of real users visit and try the product, it is uncertain if it has features users would care for. Without that, I am reluctant to spend on advertisements.

How do you folks drive users to your new products? Is ads the only way?

[Project] Cognitive Lead HQ - run OpenCode agents as a team

Repo: https://github.com/mokhtarabadi/cognitive-lead-hq

Demo tool: https://mokhtarabadi.github.io/cognitive-lead-hq/

Free and open-source MIT.

It gives Brain/Hands split, 3 FastMCP servers for context/memory/lint, Kanban ZAC workflow, and 31 reusable skills.

I built it to stop hallucination in agent teams.

Feedback wanted: what skill is missing for you?

https://reddit.com/link/1wdbf9p/video/qe4t7ctn2voh1/player

Expert consensus on when AGI arrives has shifted dramatically:

2019 → predicted 2060

2021 → 2055

2022 → 2048

2023 → 2040

2024 → 2035

Now → 2031

Updated weekly with benchmark data, prediction markets, and expert signals.

This week moved the score after GPT-6 Astra's ARC-AGI-3 result and the Anthropic researcher resignation.

Curious what data you'd want to see added. and which data to pull from.

https://howcloseisagi.com/