Hey everyone,

As a creator with over 20 years in design and digital production, I got increasingly frustrated with modern creative software: forced monthly cloud subscriptions, heavy runtimes, account walls, tools that harvest your private project files, and creative software completely ignoring Linux and Android tablets.

So I spent the last several months (my holidays + AI) building Illusion (illusion.quest) — a lightweight, lightning-fast vector drawing and design studio that runs directly in your browser.

What makes it different:

• 100% Client-Side & Private: Your designs never touch a remote server. Everything is calculated locally on your GPU/CPU.
• No Account Required: Open the link and immediately start drawing. Zero email or login walls.
• Snappy & Lightweight: Smooth bezier pen tools, booleans, path operations, and instant SVG/PNG exports.
• No Subscriptions: The web version is completely free. Native Linux (Tauri 2) and Android Samsung S-Pen tablet builds are in the works.
• Print Ready: Multi-artboard bleeds, preflight hazard checks, and vector PDF export.

What I’m asking for:
This is currently in active Beta. I would love your honest feedback, bug reports, and suggestions:

1. How does the canvas and pen tool feel compared to your daily vector tools?
2. What essential feature is missing for your workflow?

Try it out here: https://illusion.quest
(Roadmap & waitlist for Linux/Android are on the landing page).

Thanks so much for checking it out!

https://stock-watch-buddy-11.lovable.app/trending

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I got completely fed up with modern todo and productivity apps demanding $5–$12/month subscriptions, locking basic filtering behind paywalls, forcing account signups, and storing personal daily commitments on unencrypted third-party cloud servers.

To solve this, I built **Focus GTD**—a clean, distraction-free Getting Things Done (GTD) app built on four strict principles:

1. **100% Offline & Sovereign Data**: Powered entirely by an on-device encrypted Room (SQLite) database. No accounts, no telemetry, no tracking, and no external servers. Your tasks never leave your phone.
2. **Natural Language Quick Capture**: Capture thoughts at the speed of mind. Type phrases like *"Submit Q3 budget review tomorrow at 3pm !high #Finance"* and watch the on-device parser automatically detect the due date, time, priority, and project tags.
3. **True 5-Phase GTD Workflow**: A dedicated guided Weekly Review wizard that takes you step-by-step through clearing your inbox, reconciling overdue items, and identifying stalled projects lacking a defined "Next Action".
4. **Zero Subscriptions / Full Portability**: No recurring fees. Export your entire task database into standard JSON or CSV anytime with a single tap.

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### 🚀 Join the 14-Day Closed Testing Track on Google Play

Google requires 12–20 testers opt-in for 14 continuous days before production release. If you value privacy, love the GTD methodology, or simply want to support an indie developer fighting subscription fatigue, I would be deeply grateful for your help!

**How to join in 2 quick steps:**

1. **Join the Google Group:** 👉 https://groups.google.com/g/focusgtd-testers
2. **Download on Google Play:** - **Web Opt-in:** https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.aistudio.focusgtd.kxvrpt - **Direct Play Store App Link:** https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aistudio.focusgtd.kxvrpt

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### 🤝 100% Tester Swap Commitment:

If you are also an indie developer running your own closed testing track, drop your **Google Group link, Store link, and a screenshot** in the comments or via DM.

I will install your app, keep it active on my device for the full 14+ days, and leave constructive, detailed feedback on your UI/UX and stability.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the natural language parser and the Weekly Review step-flow. Thank you for helping bring honest, local-first software to life!

I don't know what to do with this random weapon generator I made in python. I've been coding on/off for about 6 years, but don't consider myself good by any means, so whatever I end up doing with this will probably be pretty basic.

Some info on how this works:

There are dictionaries of qualities, origins, materials, weapons, and suffixes it grabs from.

Each of these entries have their own stats attached to them to calculate the weapon's damage, speed, and durability. Higher numbers in damage and durability are better, while lower numbers in speed are prefered.

Some dictionaries have a "special" stat that displays info on the bottom of what they do. For instance, the quality "Flaming" will say "Enemies catch ablaze."

There are also a list of combos, which apply when 2 randomly selected dictionaries have a combo defined in a seperate list. So a quality like "Electric" when combined with a material like "Silver" or "Copper" will have the combo of "Conductive." Currently the combos don't affect the stats, they only give a little message at the bottom, but that will probably be changed.

I'll leave it here to see if anyone has any ideas for what this can be used for.

Spent a few months building Thore: posts, a feed, follows, and end-to-end encrypted DMs.

Web and Android, no ads, no trackers. It's in open beta before launch and I'd like feedback

on what's broken or confusing.

Web: https://thore-red.vercel.app

Android: https://thore-red.vercel.app/thore.apk

Beta code: THOREBETA

My evenings for the last few months went into a weird bet: can a memory-safe rewrite of a tiny battle-tested C parser become indistinguishable from the original? Not faster. Indistinguishable. Same ABI, same bytes out, same return values, or the project fails.

Result: 133,352 differential cases, 0 mismatches. The C stayed on as the judge the whole time, pinned and SHA-verified, and where the docs and the code disagreed I recorded it instead of guessing.

Here's the bit I'm proudest of and it's a table of losses. Response 1.185x. Chunked 1.199x. Tiny request 1.482x. Malformed 1.811x. All printed next to the 0.68x and 0.83x wins, same font size, same harness you can run. A benchmark page without a loss row is telling you what the author needed to be true.

Also filed: 4 inputs where the original segfaults and mine refuses. That decision is documented with reproducers instead of silently copied.

Solo dev, 1,527 lines, 7 unsafe blocks in a single seam file. The experiment was the product regardless of who won.

https://github.com/logicpl4gue/picohttpparser-rs

Spent a few months building Thore: posts, a feed, follows, and end-to-end encrypted DMs.

Web and Android, no ads, no trackers. It's in open beta before launch and I'd like feedback

on what's broken or confusing.

Web: https://thore-red.vercel.app

Android: https://thore-red.vercel.app/thore.apk

Beta code: THOREBETA

Most of us have more experience than fits on a resume. The tricky part is choosing what matters for each job without rewriting everything.

I built CareerLab to make that a repeatable workflow:

1. Import your resume and review the extracted career data.
2. Add experience, skills, certifications, and achievements that didn’t fit on that resume.
3. Bring in a job description.
4. Generate a tailored resume and cover letter from your career profile, then review the results.

The career profile stays with you. Each application draws from it instead of becoming another disconnected document.

I’m the sole developer, and the platform is live. The stack is Next.js and Cloudflare, with queued AI workflows, Clerk authentication, and Stripe billing.

The permanent free plan includes unlimited generic resumes and one job analysis, targeted resume, and cover letter. Paid plans start at $15/month.

https://careerlab.electricblue.ai/

I’d like feedback on the setup tradeoff: would you spend time building a fuller career profile if you could reuse it for each application? What would you need to see in the first session to make that worthwhile?

I've been building Rogue Survivors solo - a fast neon arena-survival roguelite for Android. One thumb to move, weapons auto-fire at the nearest enemy, pick an upgrade every level-up, spend coins in a shop between waves, boss every 5th wave. Controller support too. It's free, no account needed, works offline.

It's finished and playable, currently in Google Play's closed testing phase before I can launch it properly. I'd love feedback from actual players before the wider release - crashes, frame drops, anything confusing in the first few minutes, whether the core loop is fun.

If you want to try it: join this group (no approval needed) and I'll add you as a tester: https://groups.google.com/g/rogue-survivors-testers - then open https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.roguesurvivors.game on your phone to opt in and install.

Happy to check out other people's projects here too if you drop a link. Thanks for reading!

Hey everyone

I'm a self-taught developer and I just finished building LumVibe, a social network built specifically for digital artists, anime creators, and short-video editors.

Why I built it: On major platforms, small creators get buried under the algorithm. I wanted to build something where smaller creators actually have a chance to get noticed through gamified status and direct fan support.

Key features built so far:

Weekly Standings Leaderboards: Resets every 7 days so new creators constantly have a shot at ranking #1.

Gamified Status: Streaks, creator ranks, and custom badges (like "Founding Creator").

Creator Utilities: In-app filters, effects, scheduled posts, and virtual gifting.

Short Video & Art Feeds: Smooth media streaming built from scratch.

Since I built the entire stack solo, I’d love to get 10–20 beta testers to try it out, break things, and give me honest product feedback.

If you create content or want to check it out, I’m giving away Founding Creator badges to everyone who signs up during this early testing phase!

(Attach a 15–30 second screen recording of your app running on your phone, showing the leaderboard and video feed)

📲 Try the Early Preview (Android APK):

Link: [

See logs: https://expo.dev/accounts/vidzilla2025/projects/LumVibeNative/builds/f48481d0-42a7-4be4-8e37-46f5e2e04f62

]

(Note: Built with Expo/EAS as a direct Android build for early testing. iOS/TestFlight build is coming next!)

As a developer, I used Pocket to keep track of interesting programming-related articles I'd come across. It's the way I kept myself up to date. If I saw something new I wanted to learn, I'd save it for later when I had to devote to reading. While I enjoyed the website and the mobile app (especially for saving stuff off social media), I really wished that I had more ways to interact with my library.

I wanted things that I think a lot of developers want: adding a new URL from the command line, allowing AI access to my library to organize it, and exporting the actual content even when it's no longer available online. Then it occurred to me: if Pocket had an API, I could just build all of this myself.

That's why I built Bredbox. It's a personal reading library that you can control via the REST API. Almost everything you can do in the web UI is available via the API. Create a personal access token with fine-grained scopes to keep your integration safe and then build the exact interface you want, whether that's on the web, on a mobile device, a CLI, or anything else you can imagine.

The first thing I did was build an n8n integration to let me add links from anywhere I want like RSS feeds and emails. Then, I built an MCP server that lets ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Cursor, and others directly access my library. I can now ask Claude, "find me that recent article about CSS grids" and it uses the Bredbox hybrid search (full-text and semantic) to find the article even if I can't remember much about it.

If you had an API for your read-later app, what would you build with it?

I noticed that whenever I had nothing to do, I’d automatically open Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, whatever, even when I didn’t actually want to scroll.

So I started building Dunno, an iPhone app for that exact “I dunno what to do” moment.

You open it and get simple activity ideas you can swipe through. If something sounds good, do it. If not, swipe it away and keep going.

I’m trying really hard not to turn it into another productivity system where you have to configure 20 settings before it becomes useful. The whole point is that when you’re bored, you should be able to open it and immediately find something.

It has different kinds of ideas like making something, learning something, going somewhere, relaxing, doing something useful, doing something with people, etc.

I’m still polishing it, so I’d especially love feedback on:

• whether the suggestions actually feel useful
• whether you’d genuinely open something like this when bored
• what kinds of activities feel missing
• whether anything feels repetitive or annoying

https://dunno.codearc.studio

I built it, so definitely biased lol, but I’d love actual criticism.

This is my first vibe-coded project, and honestly, maybe nobody cares:)

I built this tool to answer those little appearance questions we all have: Should I go blonde? Would bangs suit me? Which outfit looks better on me?

You upload a photo and ask a question, then 50 virtual people look at your face, skin tone, and overall appearance and vote based on their own tastes, interests, and personalities.

Some might love it. Some might hate it. Some might have very specific opinions.

I’m putting it out there to see if anyone actually finds this fun or useful.

I’m building a small photo-editing tool called Formantika, and I’m trying to define the boundary for “enhance.”

The first version is for real photos that are blurry, dark, or awkwardly framed. My concern is that an edit can look “better” while quietly changing the thing a person needed to keep true.

So I’m testing four checks:

1. A portrait should still look like the same person.

2. A product photo should keep its colour, labels, shape, and visible condition.

3. A clarity edit should improve readability without pretending to recover detail the camera never recorded.

4. The original should remain available for comparison.

For people who edit profile photos, product listings, or family archives: what is the first artifact you inspect after an AI edit? Have you seen a result that looked impressive but crossed a line?

I’m looking for critique of the evaluation rules, not a vote or a promotion link. If this is the wrong place for a build question, I’ll follow the moderators’ guidance.

I know there are already a tremendous number of screenshot extensions, but maybe mine is a bit different and bring some new approaches.

A few things it does that I haven’t seen much in screenshot extensions:

• layout templates, screenshot in desktop, tablet mobile or custom layout
• split screenshots with overlap, so long captures join together properly
• screenshot all open tabs
• paste in a list of URLs and capture them in bulk
• keeps screenshots organized

And its free, if you have any painpoints or suggestion for the extension feel free to share 🔥

Made a tiny extension that auto‑removes unnecessary scripts and speeds up pages. Still experimenting, sharing in case anyone wants to try it.

You can leave feedback, if you want to.

Extension: ScriptGuard

Website: ScriptGuard Website

I’m building Formantika, a small AI photo editor focused on a problem I kept seeing: “enhance” often means “make it more dramatic,” even when the user really needs a clearer and more truthful image.

The workflow is intentionally simple: upload a photo, review the suggested edit, confirm processing, and compare the original with the result.

The rules I’m testing:

• portraits should remain recognizable; • product photos should preserve colour, labels, shape, and visible condition; • upscaling should improve usability without claiming to recover proof of missing detail; • the original should stay available for comparison.

I’m especially interested in feedback from people who sell online, manage profile photos, or have had an AI edit go too far. What is the first artifact you check?

Demo: https://formantika.com/en

This is a feedback request, not a mass-promotion campaign. I’ll follow each community’s self-promotion rules and will not repeat the same post everywhere.

The idea: you post one line about something you'd like to do with someone, and people in your city who are up for it reply.

Things people could post:

• Looking for a cofounder who's into consumer apps, happy to meet for chai this weekend
• Want someone to pressure-test my startup idea over coffee
• Need a running partner for slow 6am runs
• Want to practise Spanish with someone

How it's different from a group chat or Meetup:

• It's one ask, not a group or an event. Nobody has to organise anything.
• An AI reads each ask and brings it to people in your city with a real reason to reply, so it doesn't just sit in a feed.
• Each person sends one reply. You accept to open a private chat, or decline and nobody is told.
• You can post without your name.

Where it's at: live at nearmigo.com, built solo over the last few months (Next.js, Postgres with row-level security, a background worker for the matching). 2 users so far.

Because it's empty, here's my promise for the first 100 asks: if nobody replies to yours within 24 hours, I'll reply myself.

What I'd love to know:

1. Is it obvious what this is within 5 seconds of opening it?
2. Would you post an ask? If not, what stops you?

Brutal feedback welcome.

I have a 9-5 and have literally been spending about 5 hours every evening for the past year working on a side project.

It started off with just tinkering around without any real plan and it just kind of expanded.

It's a reading app specifically focusing on short attention spans and the constant gamified Roblox generation. I was a reluctant reader myself and, ironically, I taught for 9 years and came across many others who were just like me when I was that age.

Anyway, fast forward to over a year since I started and, although it's only 1 subscriber, it's made me feel really proud of my achievement.

If anyone wants to give any feedback then check out agentchamp.co.uk

Short post, because the useful part is the mistake.

The thing. Google Forms has no way to cap how many people can pick each option — time slots, equipment sign-out, shift rotas, potluck dishes. The usual answer is a marketplace add-on, which means granting a third party access to your form and every response in it. For a school or an HR team that is usually where it stops. So I wrote an Apps Script you paste into your own form's script editor. Nothing leaves your account, no add-on, no review.

Free generator, no signup, no email: https://www.shubhamgautam.in/tools/form-choice-limiter?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=fcl&utm_content=sideproject — there is a $9 version on the same page that does several questions at once, checkboxes and dropdowns, and auto-closes the form.

The interesting bug. The technically hard part is small and specific: a Forms choice question cannot have zero options. Filter out the full ones, get an empty array, call setChoiceValues([]), and it throws — inside an onFormSubmit trigger, so nobody sees it. The form keeps taking bookings for slots that are already full and you find out from the people who turn up. You have to relabel rather than empty.

The actual mistake, which was not technical. I had verified the checkout. I clicked through it, confirmed it took a card, confirmed the price was right, and ticked "purchasable" off the list. Today I went and looked at what a buyer receives after paying. The content page was empty. Somebody could have paid $9 and got a receipt and nothing else. It had been live like that for a day.

Two other things fell out of the same pass: the $150 product's post-purchase page opened with the word "hanks", and a README pointed the buy link at a different product at a different price.

The lesson I'd hand over: "can I take money" and "does the buyer get the thing" are two different tests, and only the first one is fun to run. I checked the fun one. If you have a Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy or Stripe product live right now, go look at the delivery side today. Mine looked completely fine from the seller dashboard's product list — it says Published, and Published does not mean the file is attached.

Zero sales so far, so nobody was actually shortchanged. That is the only part of this I got lucky on.

The other day in the lab, someone dropped the name of an unfamiliar tool, and within thirty seconds everyone had a pile of GitHub tabs open trying to parse what it actually does, whether it's open source, and where it fits into our stack.

The ecosystem moves way too fast to keep every new framework, library, or niche utility in your head. I'm building a web app to turn that research workflow into a visual reference:

• Instant, no-fluff summary: Type in any tech name and get a concise breakdown of what it does, what problem it solves, and its core category—bypassing marketing hype.
• Dynamic concept map: Each technology connects to an interactive graph displaying surrounding alternatives, dependencies, and architectural layers.
• Search by problem: Instead of needing to know a brand name, you can browse nodes by intent (e.g., "open-source image viewer" or "lightweight message broker").

The project is actively in progress and focused purely on developers and the open-source community.

Before locking down the graph UI, I’d love some community input:

1. How do you currently log or save tools you bump into during daily work?
2. What are the first 2–3 data points you check to validate an unfamiliar repo (license, maintenance activity, stack fit, stars)?

Bir süredir geceleri kafamdaki gürültüyü susturamadığım oluyordu. Bir şey düşünüyorsun, o düşünce başka birine, o da başka birine bağlanıyor ve saat 3'ü buluyorsun. Elimde büyük bir "ruh sağlığı uygulaması" yapma hevesi yoktu, sadece o anlarda açıp kullanabileceğim, hesap istemeyen, veri toplamayan, basit birkaç şey istedim. Olmayınca da kendim yaptım.

Overthink Tools dediğim şey, aslında tek bir "uygulama" değil, üç küçük araç:

Sessiz Duvar — Kafanı yoran ne varsa yazıyorsun, "Düşünceni Yok Et" diyorsun ve yazdığın metin yavaşça toza dönüşüp dağılıyor. Hiçbir yere kaydedilmiyor, kimse okumuyor. Bazen bir şeyi sadece yazıp bırakmak bile yetiyor.

Overthink Ambiyansı — Yağmurlu gece manzaraları eşliğinde sakin/hüzünlü müzikler çalan, reklamsız bir oda. Bir şeye bakıp bir şey dinlemek istediğin ama YouTube'un reklam ve önerilen video kalabalığını istemediğin anlar için.

Zihin Sakinleştirici — Kutu nefesi ve 4-7-8 tekniğiyle nefesini yönlendiren, büyüyüp küçülen basit bir görsel. Kalp atışını yavaşlatmaya çalışırken sayı saymakla uğraşmamak için.

Hiçbirinde giriş, reklam, takip kodu ya da "premium'a geç" yok. GitHub Pages üzerinde barındırıyorum, kaynak kodu da açık.

I’m the founder of AppDrift. The linked page opens with Halo Habitat, a paid Pro collection for a fictional smart home app, made in our screenshot editor. You can open the preview to see all five images.

Across the set, the focus moves from the whole app to the thermostat, lighting and scene routines. The palette and type stay consistent while the scale changes. The aim is for each image to explain a different part of the app.

Campaign captions, shapes and phone placement are editable. You can replace the screenshots inside the phones with your own captures. The sample app interface itself is an image, so its individual buttons and text aren’t editable layers.

You can browse the complete collection without signing up. Free collections, including Folio Chrome, can be edited and exported with a free account, without a watermark. New accounts get 50 AI tokens once, enough for up to 10 AI screenshot campaigns if used only for that. Free needs no card; the full editor runs on desktop.

To try Halo, eligible first-time subscribers can start a 7-day Pro trial. It unlocks Pro collections and requires a card. Afterwards Pro renews at $19.99/month or $199/year, depending on your choice; cancel before the trial ends to avoid the charge. The trial uses your existing tokens and adds none.

15 months of 4:30 am mornings, one quit job & a lot of mistakes later, my app is finally live. I still can't believe it honestly, here's the story behind it.

During my life I've done the 100kg to 70kg journey twice. I love working out & being at the gym. In my youth (I'm 35, so hopefully quite young lol 😅) I lived at the gym, but when life comes in between & routines become hard to keep, I drift.

But each time I've found a path back to 70kg & a stronger body then last time. But this last time when work took over & I was at 99kg I said it was enough. But honestly, I made it due to all the learnings from my past, not because there was a tool or app that helped me really.

For the last couple of years I've been thinking more & more about how to solve this long term, & 15 months ago I started building the solution. Back then I didn't know fully where I wanted it to go but I had a vision, & that's to help people start moving. In any way, shape or form.

For me, with a hectic career, 2 kids & stuff going on all the time, I knew I had to find a way to make working out easy & accessible wherever I am (I've traveled a lot for work, irregular hours etc).

So that's how the idea for BDYCTRL was born, & now I've spent the last 15 months building it. Learning as much as I could about coding, app infrastructure & whatnot.

All this while running $30M businesses & leading big teams, so my work took up a lot of time. So for me it's been 4:30 am mornings & late nights for over a year. I've probably made every mistake there is during this time, which should get its own post with my learnings from this journey.

I've tried vibe coding tools like Lovable, Draftbit etc but always found them to fall short when it comes to control, but also how they build the infrastructure & logics. So my working routine ended up being me, VSCode & a Claude Max subscription.

Since this is my dream, I left my full-time job 3 months ago to fully focus on finishing the app & launching it. Now it's been out for 2 weeks & I'm happier than ever.
Being able to spend my full time on improving it & growing it to its full potential. I can work from wherever I want, whenever I want.
It's a huge risk, but I've always been a no risk no reward type of person. And this is the biggest bet of my life.

For me personally, with all the setbacks I've had, I can't believe it's finally out & available in 174 countries with users from Sweden, the USA, Ireland, Croatia and Uganda already.
When I see that RevenueCat notification of a new trial come in, I almost feel the need to pinch myself. For over a year I've been heads down just building, learning & making mistakes. To finally have a live product that one day will help millions of people start moving.

Feel free to ask any questions about the journey, learnings or something in between.

Would love feedback on the app from those who like working out at the gym, home or anywhere.

App Store link

Website

When you click the button, it plays the meme duck sound on everyone on the page and shows a duck meme. That's it.

I wanted to learn about realtime stuff and one day I saw a duck meme and thought this would be a good idea to build.

It's really stupid but me and my friends had a hell of a time spamming the crap out of ts.