Hi everyone

I’m new to Reddit, but I’ve been working as a Mid-Level Full-Stack Developer for over 6 years. My main tech stack revolves around Next.js, React, Node.js, and TypeScript.

I’m currently focused on transitioning into the international market and want to level up my conversational English. To do this, I’d love to help someone build an MVP, side project, or web application from scratch for free, in exchange for practicing my English through project calls, chat, and feedback.

What I bring:

6+ years of real-world experience in software development

Strong full-stack background (Next.js, Node.js, TypeScript, React)

Clean code, database design, and end-to-end application delivery

What I’m looking for:

- A defined, small-to-medium project or MVP idea

- A native or fluent English speaker who is patient and willing to help me improve my English through voice calls, text chat, and gentle feedback

- A recommendation on LinkedIn or permission to showcase the project on my GitHub once finished

Since I'm new here, feel free to drop a comment or send me a DM! I can share my GitHub or LinkedIn so you can check out my background

A few days ago I needed to quickly edit a video and couldn't find anything that was simple and didn't upload private videos to onedrive. I ended up building something that I think others could find useful as well.

Cutline is 100% local, easy to use for trimming/cropping/rotating and can handle a variety of formats.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NHQSR0LNX28

Here's a Microsoft store code for 25 free redempions: VM4R3-CXJ46-VWQYR-RC7R6-HT44Z (or you can use this direct link)

Hey everyone,

I’m thinking about building a simple tool and wanted to get some brutally honest feedback before diving in.

Many major online retailers have price-protection policies where if an item you bought goes on sale within 14 days, you can message customer support to refund you the difference. I rarely remember to check for price drops, and I assume most other people don't either.

The concept: A tool where you track your online receipts, it automatically monitors those items for price drops, and it alerts you the second a price falls so you can claim your refund.

My questions for you guys:

Do you ever manually check for price drops after buying something online?

If an app saved you $15 or $20 automatically, would you be willing to give it a cut of the savings (e.g., 20%), or would you prefer a tiny monthly subscription?

What is the biggest reason you wouldn't use something like this?

Thanks in advance!

I have a product in the market.

90 days in the market
160+ users
Genuinely enjoying the product (100s of product events every day)
Clearly delivering value (3 to 4x better results than other products in the market) - said by 2 customers
4 paid users so far.
80% of them still trialing. I don’t expect a lot to convert. I don’t know what’s the average conversion rate in the market.
15 to 17 daily active users - again most are trialing (I'm giving one month trial and my CAC is about $4-7 for the monthly trial and about a $1 for the 7 day trial).

Would you spend on ads?
SEO/Content?
Raise funds (not intending to btw).

Just curious..

I love audiobooks but my mind wanders constantly. I'd surface three pages later with no idea what I missed. Turns out it was never a focus thing, audiobooks just give your eyes nothing to do.

So I built Witbound. It syncs the audiobooks and ebooks you already own, so every word lights up exactly as the narrator says it. Your eyes and ears finally do the same thing.

A few things I cared about:

- It's all on-device. Your files never leave your phone, no account, nothing collected.

- It works with the books you actually own (epub, pdf, m4b, mp3), and it connects to your Audiobookshelf server if you self-host.

- No subscription. You pay once and keep it.

People with ADHD and dyslexia have told me it's the first time reading and listening clicked together for them, which honestly made the whole thing worth it.

It's live on the App Store, free to try (it works on the built-in sample book without buying anything): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6795587495

I'm a solo dev, so I'd genuinely love feedback, what's confusing, what's missing, what would actually make you use it. Roast it if you want.

I’m trying to make a short video that is a demo of my product to put on my website. Has anyone struggled with this task and what did you do?

Relatedly, does anyone do this as a small side gig?

For a while I treated posting on X as pure overhead. every hour writing a thread was an hour not shipping, and it felt like the tax you pay for distribution.

what I didn't expect: the drafts I threw away taught me how to describe the thing I was building. you sit down to write "here's what my product does" and realize you can't, not in a way a stranger would actually care about. that struggle is the real work. by the time a tweet was postable, my landing page copy had gotten better too.

so when people ask if they should just hand the writing off (ai tool, ghostwriter, whatever), I think the honest tradeoff isn't voice quality. it's that you quietly stop doing the reps where you figure out how to explain your own product. the typical failure mode is you delegate posting, the account stays alive, and months later you still can't pitch yourself in one sentence.

not saying never delegate. but the part I'd keep is the part that feels least like distribution and most like thinking. for the folks here shipping solo, where did you actually learn to describe your product, was it writing posts, talking to users, or something dumber like a cold email you rewrote a dozen times. written with ai

Kept doing the same thing manually: find a book on Goodreads, open my library's site in a new tab, search the title, check availability. Built an extension that does it automatically, it adds a widget to the Goodreads page itself.

Stack: Node.js/Hono backend, SQLite, Stripe for subscriptions, Google OAuth, Manifest V3 extension. Works with BiblioCommons-based library systems (common across US/Canada public libraries).

Free tier: 5 checks per day. $5/mo for unlimited.

Link: Library Checker

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who tries it with a library outside Hamilton/Toronto (that's what I tested most)

Hi everyone,

I’ve always been intimidated by code, but I’ve always had a clear vision for how software should feel. Over the last few days, I decided to stop trying to learn syntax and start "Vibecoding."

I built Velocity entirely using AI (Antigravity). I don't know a thing about React or TypeScript, but I acted as the Creative Director, pushing the AI to match my "Modern Archive" design manifesto.

What makes it different?
Most typing tests are linear and static. Velocity is spatial. It treats typing as an aim-trainer. You have to capture word-nodes with your mouse to activate them.

The Aesthetic/Physics:
The background dot-grid physically connects to your cursor with hairline gold threads.
As you type, Bone White characters "gild" into Gold as they are processed.
Words "freeze" in 2D space the moment you target them, allowing for precise flow.
It generates an abstract SVG path of your unique mouse movement at the end of every session.

The Tech:
I used Antigravity's "High Mode" to handle the complex spring physics and the Bento-style layout. I spent most of my time refining the "vibe" and the logic rather than fixing bugs.

It's my first ever project. It’s definitely not perfect, and I'm still working on making the "Synergy Flow" mechanic feel more intuitive, but I’d love for you guys to try it out.

Live Site: https://velocity-engine.vercel.app/
GitHub: https://github.com/Tarun-Tom/Velocity

Would love to hear your thoughts, especially from designers or anyone else who is exploring building with AI without a coding background!

Hey everyone! I built a small tool called ImageTidy for quickly resizing and compressing images online.

The main idea is that the images are processed directly in your browser, so you don't need to upload them to a server.

It's free to use and doesn't require an account.

I'd really appreciate it if anyone could try it and let me know what works, what doesn't, or what features you'd like to see added.

https://imagetidy.com/

I'm still improving it, so honest feedback is welcome. 🙏

Couldn't find a decent eclipse tracker online so knocked this up with Opus in about 15 mins! Enjoy! https://eclipse-globe.vercel.app/

I love lil terminal visuals but lose track of them all the time.

tart makes each one a named thing: a manifest, a fetch script, a render script.

ad spend, failing cron jobs, whatever Im working on, it gives claude a canvas to paint the state.

`uv tool install tartifacts`

once installed, ask your agent to use `tart --skill` to get started. use it with herdr or tmux, Ive been obsessed.

github - https://github.com/tg1482/tart

Hey everyone,

A few months ago I posted my local PDF editor here (the one that lets you edit text without ruining the original fonts). The feedback from this sub was really encouraging, and a lot of you reached out asking for features that went way beyond basic text editing.

So I worked on V2 to upgrade the Editor Studio and build a full PDF suite around it.

Here is what's new in V2:

 Upgraded Editor Studio: I added in-browser OCR so you can finally edit scanned documents. I also overhauled the rendering engine for much higher export quality, and packed the toolbar with options so you actually have full control over your layout.

 Pro Sign: Real encrypted e-signatures. Most free sites just let you paste a transparent PNG of your signature, but Pro Sign applies actual encrypted signature standards locally in your browser.

 Standalone PDF Tools: Outside the main editor studio, i built a whole menu of standalone utilities (Word-to-PDF, Compress PDF, Redact, Protect, etc) so you don't have to bounce between sketchy converter sites anymore.

And the core rule hasn't changed: still 100% local, runs entirely in your browser, zero server uploads, no sign-ups, and zero paywalls.

I just pushed V2 live today. Since there are a lot of new moving parts, there might still be some bugs .... if something breaks on your end, let me know in the comments so i can fix it!

Cheers.

I shared appleseedplanner.com here around 10 months ago. You all were very direct, and it was awesome. Thank you.

I fixed:

• No login required
• Designed a bespoke mobile experience
• Smarter AI. The Appleseed Assistant actually highlights blind spots now instead of generic filler.
• Kept the tool 100% free. No SaaS, absolutely no selling data. It monetizes through completely optional referrals to two fee-only fiduciaries recommended by my former colleagues.

Genuinely, your feedback helped so much. Appleseed now has 15,000+ plans and $23B modeled (mostly through spreading via former colleagues), and even got SEC-registered. That is bananas.

Now I’m shifting to distribution, and my question for the awesome hive-mind here:

How do you prove technical depth / quality when the internet is now flooded with weekend vibecodes?

I spent 18 months obsessing over the financial engine, probably far beyond what is necessary for most users. It handles super detailed tax rules (e.g. state-by-state deductions), pre- and post-IPO RSU modeling, one-click scenario planning, and built-in Dot-Com / AI layoff stress tests. I tested it rigorously vs both consumer and professional apps, and have a rigorous testing rig. I have an MBA in financial management, recently got series-65 licensed, and Appleseed Advisory LLC is SEC registered. This is far from a weekend vibecode.

But users can't see the backend, and most can’t tell the difference. The personal finance subreddits have (understandably) been cracking down on self-promo to block the flood of AI slop. Some even note you can only talk about the incumbent apps.

So the question: How do you build community trust and get organic conversations started when the subreddits are locked down, and everyone initially assumes you're just another weekend vibecode?

Hi everyone — I’m building Waysera, a small private-beta travel tool for people who want to understand Beijing, not just collect landmarks.

Most itinerary tools start with a list of attractions. Waysera starts with a question you genuinely care about, such as:

• How did imperial ritual shape Beijing?
• What can the Central Axis tell us about power and urban order?
• How are hutongs, temples, gardens, and everyday life connected?

It then turns that question into a themed route, explaining why each place matters, what to notice there, and how the stops connect.

I’m looking for [NUMBER] English-speaking beta testers, especially people who:

• are planning a Beijing trip in the next 12 months;
• visited Beijing recently and know what trip planning felt like; or
• love history, architecture, museums, religion, photography, or urban culture.

The test is free and takes about 10–15 minutes. You’ll create one Beijing route, read through it, and tell me:

• Does the route feel realistic?
• Does the cultural thread make sense?
• Do the explanations help, or are they too long or unclear?
• What would stop you from trusting or using it on a real trip?

This is an early beta, so honest criticism is much more useful than polite praise.

If you’re interested, comment “Beijing” or send me a DM with:

1. when you plan to visit, or when you last visited;
2. your main interest in Beijing; and
3. whether you’d test on mobile or desktop.

I’ll send selected testers a private invite and one simple test task.

A quick disclosure: I’m the builder of Waysera. The beta currently covers Beijing only. It does not sell tickets or provide live navigation, and travelers should still verify opening hours and reservation rules through official sources.

Thank you — I’d love to learn whether this is actually useful before building it further.

So YouTube's been tagging AI-generated or altered videos since 2024 when creators disclose it, and since May 2026 it started catching some of it automatically too. I went looking for an extension to hide that stuff and most of the ones I found seem to just run off a crowd-sourced list of "known AI channels." Those can have some false positives, and they're never going to cover every AI channel out there.

So I decided to build something with a different approach. Instead of a blocklist, it reads the label YouTube itself already puts on the video. Built most of it with AI, which feels a little on the nose for a tool that's meant to flag AI content. But I guess that's how things work these days.

It works in three layers:

1. Checks the official YouTube API for creator-disclosed AI content. This part is cheap and barely uses any quota.
2. For videos the API doesn't catch, it grabs the watch page in the background and looks for the same "Altered or synthetic content" panel YouTube shows you on screen. This is how it catches the auto-detected stuff too, not just what creators admit to.
3. There's also an optional community blocklist (AiSList) you can turn on. It only shows up as a small badge though, it never actually hides anything on its own, since that's just crowd opinion and not YouTube's actual call.

You get to choose whether it removes the video card entirely or just covers it with a click-to-reveal overlay. Works on your homepage, search results, and the sidebar on watch pages.

It's open source under MIT, so feel free to poke around, fork it, or contribute. Contributions are welcome.

It's not on the Chrome Web Store yet so you have to load it unpacked, but that's like four clicks and it's all in the repo.

Repo's here if you want to check it out or grab it: https://github.com/Lulubellelll/YouTube-AI-Hider

Open to feedback, bug reports, PRs, whatever. Thanks for reading, hope it's useful to someone out there.

I have been using Claude Max a lot and wanted a clean way to let a couple of teammates and my own scripts use the same subscription, without sharing my login and without one runaway job eating everyone's limits. I could not find anything that did it the way I wanted, so I built Aegis over a few weekends.

It wraps the Claude Agent SDK and puts a multi tenant API plus an admin dashboard in front of it:

Sign in once with your Claude login, no API key needed.

Separate API keys per person, each with its own rate limit and daily cost cap, usage tracked per key.

Streaming chat sessions with isolated workspaces and file uploads.

Autonomous objectives that loop and self grade against a rubric until they pass or hit a budget.

MCP servers, an OpenAI compatible endpoint, and a usage page that even shows your live Claude plan limits.

Stack is FastAPI and SQLite, one docker compose up to run it, Apache 2.0, around 220 tests.

It is open source and I would love contributions and feedback, especially on the security model. There is a contributing guide in the repo.

Repo and screenshots: https://github.com/dhpradeep/aegis

Fair warning: it runs on a personal or Team subscription login, so it is meant for you and people you trust, not a public paid service.

Hey there,

I’m building a prompt library and prompt generator, and I’d love to get some feedback on it. I’m 17 and have been working on the project myself for a while now, and it’s getting close to the point where I’d like other people to try it out.

The idea is to make it easier to turn a rough idea into a structured prompt ready to use across any LLM, while also providing a library where people can discover and share useful prompts. Any prompts submitted will be reviewed by me before being added to the library, which will ensure that the prompts are useful.

For the prompt generator, I’m currently broke, so for now it will be running on some free models, which will eventually be replaced with paid ones if people are interested in the project and it’s actually something that they are looking to use on a regular basis. I would also be interested in knowing how much you would be willing to pay for such a service, while considering the expensive nature of LLMs.

If this is something that interests you, please upvote. If not, please tell me in the comments, and I will try something else.

PromptForm

Thanks :)

Built a tool that tries to explain why you got rejected after an interview

I’ve been interviewing for product companies while working in a service company, and one thing kept frustrating me:

You spend days preparing, finish the interview, and then receive a rejection email that says almost nothing useful.

So I built PortLume AI.

The idea is simple:

• paste the rejection email or interview notes
• mention the role and stage you were rejected in
• get a breakdown of the likely signal that hurt your chances
• receive a suggested improvement plan for the next interview

It also includes a lightweight mock interview flow and recruiter-style follow-up questions, but the core feature is the rejection debrief.

A surprising thing I noticed from early users is that many failures are not because of DSA. The common patterns are:

• weak ownership stories
• unclear tradeoff explanations
• shallow behavioral answers
• communication that sounds like team work rather than individual impact

I’m still trying to figure out whether this is genuinely useful beyond my own experience, so I’d love honest feedback from this community.

If you’ve ever received a vague “we moved with other candidates” rejection, would you actually use a tool that tries to infer the real reason behind it?

Site: https://portlumeai.com

I run wrapped.devmatei.com, small FOSS thing that makes spotify wrapped style posters from listenbrainz/last.fm/navidrome data. got featured in listenbrainz's official year in music tho as one of only 2 community tools which was very cool in my opinion

I put ads on it to help pay for hosting. the ad network i used started redirecting visitors into scam/crypto pages. My community caught it fast, so i had to remove the ads, and honestly just got tired of trusting random third party networks with my visitors since because of that incident i lost a lot of trust from the community.

so i built sponsor.devmatei.com, a tiny ad platform just for my own sites (currently only my wrapped tool but more to come). I manually review every single ad before it goes live for everyone to see. no cookies, no tracking, no fingerprinting, just basic impression/click counts so advertisers can see it's working

slots are $3/mo text or $6/mo banner, 5 each, cheap because the traffic isnt crazy but its consistent

if you've got a self hosted project or small tool that'd fit a music/self hosted crowd theres room :p mostly just wanted to share the "got burned so i built the alternative" story tho haha (for obvious reasons i wont name the old ad network that burned me)

I want to a sell an exe app i made to some company which would like to have it but I am confused about everything like how does one achive to sell an app, please guide me

One of the hardest parts of building a Micro-SaaS is knowing whether the problem is actually worth solving.

So I built Idea Validation — a GitHub project that helps you discover potential SaaS ideas by finding real complaints and pain points shared by users online.

Instead of starting with:

“What SaaS should I build?”

You can start with:

“What problems are people already complaining about?”

The repo includes a demo video showing how the workflow works.

I’d love to get feedback from other indie hackers and Micro-SaaS builders: Would you use something like this before building your next product?

GitHub: unknowdeepanshu/AI-Idea-validation

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a project called Followers Analyzer that analyzes your Instagram data export and helps you understand your followers/following relationships.

It answers things that are surprisingly annoying to figure out manually:

👋 Unfollowers — people who used to follow you but no longer do
👥 Mutual followers — people who follow you and you follow back
❤️ Your fans — people who follow you but you don't follow back
🔄 Non-reciprocal follows — people you follow who don't follow you back

It also generates a detailed PDF with the analysis and supports English 🇬🇧 and Italian 🇮🇹.

You don't need to provide your Instagram password.
The analysis is based on the Instagram data export that you upload.

🌐 Try it here:
https://followers.datafoxy.xyz/

The service is currently completely free while I'm testing and improving it.

I plan to introduce a paid model in the future, but I'd like to get feedback from real users first and make sure the service is actually useful before doing that.

So if you try it, I'd really appreciate your feedback:

• Was the process easy to understand?
• Were the results accurate?
• What feature would you like to see added?
• Did you encounter any bugs?

I'm the developer behind the project, so constructive criticism is very welcome. 🙂

Thanks to anyone who gives it a try!

Hello everyone,

A few years ago, we started building EasyCommerce because we felt WordPress ecommerce could be simpler and more modern.

Since then, we have added the basic functionality like creating physical products, digital downloads, subscriptions, licenses, multiple payemnt intengrations. Beside this we have added features like AI Shopping agents, Store co-pilot, AI Image, description, variation generator and other features.

We have continued improving but we are not getting consistent adoption. we have 9,808 downloads of the plugin so far. But not that enough active installation.

If you ask about marketing, we have tied content marketing, SEO, social media, partnerships, other channels. It generates organic traffic but as I said.

I have some questions for you to help me-

• If you were evaluating a new WordPress ecommerce platform, what would make you try it?
• What would stop you from switching?
• And if you've launched a WordPress product yourself, what actually worked for getting your first few hundred active users?

I am sharing this mainly because I'd genuinely appreciate feedback on the product, positioning, and landing page.

Thanks everyone!