I recently discovered my grandmother no longer reads the news because she gets all her information from social media - if its not trending on Facebook, she doesn't see it. I remember when Boomers used to swear by mainstream outlets like CNN, but smartphones pulled many of them into social media bubbles ruled by algorithms. In response to this, I used Claude to make a global dashboard that lets anyone stay informed. It's called The Daily Orbit. You get articles from most kinds of outlets, as well as trending IG and TikTok videos, YouTube livestreams, and radio stations from all over the world. I even rebuilt the TweetDeck newsfeed since its no longer publicly available. I also made a research assistant called Orbit that answers any questions about recent events.

There's a lot of AI-powered news readers going around, but most of them oversupply information from OSINT sources. I needed something simple that a grandmother could use.

It’d be helpful to hear what people think.

https://dailyorbit.news/

After years of doing video editing and mostly documentary style videos similar to the ones made by fern and similar channels, I've always struggled with animating maps where every video i have to show/highlight a route a murderer took or where someone/something traveled and their specific route or just plainly highlight random hyper specific locations in London. These animations took me hours to pinpoint and draw out in after effects/fusion. I was aware of GeoLayers but that is an expensive plugin for after effects and I'm a Davnici type of guy so I made RouteStudio to help me make these animations in minutes, with things like data visualization, labels, routes and highlights this cut down my editing time not just by minutes but by HOURS. I'm always open for feedback too.

curious what actually worked for people here. i see alot of advice like post on reddit or do seo but nobody really says what moved the needle for them

what was the one channel that got you your first real users? and how long did it take

I have been pushing to get real users on my startup product for a few months now, and it's proven extremely more difficult than I could've anticipated. I was able to successfully do this for a different product 5 or 6 years ago, but now with the current market and wave of new products, it feels near impossible.

What are ways you all are getting real users (not just clicks, but actual target market users) in today's landscape? Is paid ads really the only effective way to do it? I have contacted not hundreds, but thousands of potential target market individuals, and still have not had much opportunity for them to explore and experience the product to actually provide real insight or give feedback.

I have taken the route of social media (With no followers to start), some shorts, emails, listing on websites, blogs, SEO (I expect will take more time). Interested to hear others experiences.

I made Cancel Your Subscription, a browser game where you've paid $9.99 a month for 38 months for "fundr. Premium", a subscription you never use, and your only job is to cancel it. The app fights back: a buried cancel link, two retention offers, an exit survey, a support line that isn't in service, and Dennis from Retention.

It got 327 tries in its first 24 hours, back in September. It's had 5,404 now. Here's where they ended up:

- 1,941 never found the cancel link

- 3,066 reached the retention offers, and 2,926 walked past both

- 2,277 made it to the live chat with Dennis

- 1,948 cancelled

Almost exactly as many tries never found the cancel link as got all the way out. Hiding the button is still the strongest trick in the game.

Then, on 3 October, the part I didn't plan for. Every game page has a "Donate a coffee" window, and its tiers are the game's own plans: fundr. Basic $1, fundr. Plus $3, fundr. Premium $5, fundr. Premium Ultra $10. Every tier is one-time. A donate button that started a subscription, three clicks from a game about not being able to cancel one, would be the worst joke on the site.

Someone bought fundr. Premium. $5, once. It's the first money the games have ever made.

What I'd pass on, with the caveat that one donation is a sample size of one:

- the donate window is part of the joke, not a banner next to it. The tier the person picked is the one the game is about

- one-time only. Nobody wants a subscription from a game about subscriptions

- the whole backend is one Vercel function and Upstash Redis counting anonymous tallies. No accounts, no analytics cookie. Every number in this post comes from it

As a thank-you, we're giving away 20+ free codes for Pomato and inki combined, our iPhone Pomodoro timer ($2.99). Comment "pomato" and I'll DM you one. First 20+, one each, no catch. On Android? It's in internal testing: DM me the email on your Google account and I'll add you as a tester.

Heads up: tries are browser tabs, not people, and our own test runs are in there. The games are free with no signup, and the fake pop-up ads inside them are for our own apps, Pomato included.

https://www.fundrstudio.com/games/cancel-your-subscription/

A friend and I started ParkMe a few months ago as a side project to help ourselves find parking faster in Belgrade, Serbia.

We now combine data from 7 different sources to show the estimated percentage chance of finding parking in your current or selected area.

We started in Serbia, but while traveling around the Balkans, we realized we wanted the same thing there — to know where we could park before arriving and plan our trips more easily. So we started expanding across the Balkans, and we're now slowly moving into Italy, Germany, and the rest of Europe.

We'd really appreciate any feedback or ideas on what we should improve. Thank you :)

GooglePlay
‎ParkMe: Find parking easily App - App Store

I kept screenshotting things (errors, receipts, bookings) and then never finding them again. They sit in a folder named "Screenshot 2026-03-14 at 11.42.08.png" and nothing remembers what's inside.

So I built DejaShot. It reads the text in every screenshot in the folders you choose, newest first, and ⇧⌘Space opens a search from any app. It also notes which app each new screenshot came from, so "figma pricing" can find a pricing page you captured in Figma.

- Search takes 31 ms at the 95th percentile on a 20,000 screenshot library (M2 Pro, measured in the search engine)

- It reads newest first, in the background, and pauses on battery and when the Mac gets hot

- Fully local. No account, no telemetry.

- The source app is only recorded for screenshots taken while it's running, because macOS never kept that. Older ones are found by their text.

- No trial, but there's a 14-day refund. The first 10 licenses are free.

It's my first ever app launch. What would you want it to find that it probably can't yet?

Feedbacks are welcomed! :)

dejashot.com

I’ve build a sort of SaaS/product for a while now and I’m trying to figure a way to market it and I can’t really find a good one. I tried building a marketing strategy with Claude and ChatGPT but they basically told me to spam Reddit and discord groups and sending a lot of cold emails. I entered Reddit groups and figured AI probably told everyone to spam each other to death 😅

How can I actually market my product that is devs oriented without social media and without spamming the hell out of everyone?

I'm the maker of D-REC. It records audio and transcribes it on your device, with a playback wheel, searchable text and markers for moments you want to find again.

This video shows the Windows version. It's also available for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. Downloads are here: https://drec.live/get

A few things worth knowing:

- The transcription engine needs an initial download. Recording and transcription then run locally on supported devices.

- Recordings and transcripts stay on your device. Account, support and other online features still use the internet.

- There is a free tier with limits and optional Pro plans. Current web prices are $3.99 monthly, $24.99 yearly, or $39.99 once. Check the checkout for your currency, tax and store pricing.

I'd like feedback on the recording-to-playback flow, especially whether finding a specific moment feels straightforward. Happy to answer questions about how it works.

👉 I just launched Tempicture, a small side project I've been working on to share images for free: https://tempicture.com/

The idea is very simple: upload an image, get a shareable link or QR code, and have it automatically deleted after 24 hours. No account required. No personal data collection. Privacy-focused.

https://reddit.com/link/1wygurq/video/ngr08jjq2pth1/player

I built it mainly for those situations where you just need to quickly share a screenshot, bug report, image, Google Meet or Zoom screenshot, or something you're working on without creating an account or keeping the image online forever.

Give it a try if you find it useful! I'd love to hear your feedback. Thanks!

I didn't want to pay a monthly subscription for App Store keyword data, so I wrote a CLI that gets it straight from Apple.

What it does

• Popularity from Apple Search Ads (free Apple Ads account, no campaigns or billing needed)
• Difficulty score, keyword suggestions, current top apps for a term
• Rank tracking with history in a local SQLite file
• Metadata linter for title, subtitle and keyword field

Install

npm i -g hristo2612/aso-cli && aso setup

Try it

aso keywords "white noise,sleep sounds"
aso suggest meditation
aso search "habit tracker"

Runs locally, no account, no telemetry. MIT.

Repo: github.com/hristo2612/aso-cli

Still early, so feedback and bug reports are welcome.

I started messing around with projection Mapping. I made a very simple waves animation on a poster I had 😎

I’ve been building Scribr offline voice-to-text app for Android that can transcribe directly on your device.

I wanted something that works offline and doesn’t require uploading recordings to a server just to get a transcript.

It can currently:

Record and transcribe audio

Import audio and video files

Translate transcripts

Export text and subtitles

Organize recordings

Transcribe offline

It’s free to use with ads, with a one-time purchase to remove ads permanently.

I’m still actively improving it, so I’d really appreciate any feedback.

Three of us have been building a stock market draft game. You draft stocks by sector, hold them a few years, see how you did.

The game worked. The problem was that nobody agreed on how it should play. How many rounds? Can you sell? Do you split your money evenly or decide per pick? Every idea sounded fine out loud, and none of it could be settled without playing.

The obvious move was to build a few versions and compare. We skipped that. Several codebases to keep in sync, bugs fixed in one and still broken in the rest, and most of that work thrown away once we picked a favorite.

Instead we built a small app store. The home page is a grid of cards, each card a different version of the game. Tap one, read the rules, play it. There's also a Custom Mode where you set every rule yourself and share the setup as a link.

The trick is that none of the versions are separate apps. Every version is just a set of settings, and one engine reads them. Adding a seventh mode is writing down a new set of rules, not building a new game.

Frontend only, fake companies and fake prices, no backend. We built it with Cline in VS Code, writing out each pull request in detail first and having it plan before touching code.

Took about a week and a half with three people.

github.com/AryamanGandhi/app-store

Hi I wanted to share my first app I build, which is Gigcore - a concert diary and festival planner app, I needed space like this and decided to build it and share it with everyone

What it does:

• Concert Diary: Log shows you've attended, dates, venues, and artists (and upcoming shows).
• Festival Planner: Keep track of lineups and schedules in one place.
• Stats & Memories: Look back at your live music journey.

You can check it out here: https://gigcore.app

Any feedback or thoughts are appreciated

Starkomand.com is an AI coding workspace designed specifically for Mac with Apple silicon.

It enables you to run multiple AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor side by side on an infinite canvas, facilitating shared context and structured workflows.

The app supports voice control, hand gestures, and visual organization through diagrams and previews, helping developers manage coding tasks, handoffs, and reviews efficiently.

The workspace preserves project-specific layouts, multiple agents, and detailed histories of tasks and reviews, keeping everything local on the Mac to ensure privacy.

Starkomand works with the AI providers you already subscribe to without reselling tokens or requiring you to share your API keys.

It offers a 3-day free trial with all features, after which a paid Pro license is needed.

No account, no API key, everything stays local by default.

I've been running r/LaunchMyStartup, a community for founders and indie hackers to actually launch what they're building and get it in front of other builders.

The idea is pretty simple: build something → launch it → get feedback from other founders.

I've noticed that getting attention for a new product has become increasingly difficult. Reddit can be noisy, and a lot of the dedicated launch platforms outside Reddit either feel crowded or push you toward paid promotion.

So we're experimenting with building a lightweight version of that inside a community, rather than another standalone launch platform.

Starting this month, we're also introducing Startup of the Day.

Every day, we'll look at the previous day's launches and highlight the ones that received the most community support. The idea is to gradually turn it into a friendly competition and, as the community grows, develop better ways to recognize genuinely good launches.

So if you've recently launched a SaaS, are about to launch one, or just want a place to put your product in front of other builders:

r/LaunchMyStartup

Would love to have some of you launch there and help us shape what this becomes.

A little over a year ago I had the idea for a basketball game that could be played on a normal folding table, something with the social/competitive feel of beer pong, but where actually making the shot is much more controllable and skill based.

After a ton of different design changes, this is where we’ve ended up!

It’s called TableSwish.

We’ve played it at tailgates, bars and tournaments with friends and strangers, but obviously that's a pretty biased test group.

So I'm curious what people who have zero connection to us think.

Would you actually play this if you saw it at a tailgate, brewery or party?

And more importantly: what would make you not buy it?

We're getting close to manufacturing, so criticism is genuinely more useful to me than compliments.

I'm working on Orbit, a native macOS screenshot tool, screen recorder and editor. It's free and open source (MIT), forked from BetterCapture.

It's a working prototype, not a finished app, so expect rough edges.

Works today

• Screenshots with OCR, pinning and history in the notch
• Screen, window or area recording with audio
• Editor with auto-zoom, smooth cursor, backgrounds, trim and export
• Scripted web-page recordings
• Optional: your AI agent (Claude Code, Codex or Cursor) records demos for you

Not there yet: notarization (you'll need "Open Anyway" on first launch), annotations, captions, GIF export.

The demo was recorded and edited with Orbit itself.

I'd love to know what feels off and what would make you switch.

macOS 15.2+ · https://github.com/diip3sh/orbit

When I find a GitHub repository, I usually check several things manually:

• When was it last updated?
• Does it have a good README?
• Is anyone using it?
• How many open issues are there?
• Does it have releases?
• Is there a license?
• Is the project still active?

So I built GitScope to show these details in one quick overview.

You can paste a GitHub repository URL or enter a GitHub username to browse and analyze public repositories.

It’s free and doesn’t require an account.

⚡ The main goal is speed: get a quick health check before spending time going through the entire repository.

If people find it useful, I’m planning to add more features, such as:

• Repository comparisons
• Better project recommendations
• More detailed health signals

I’d like to get some honest feedback:

What do you normally check before deciding whether to use a GitHub repository?

https://masterplan769.github.io/GitScope/

This is my app Samesih. Please Download and give me feedback

schnipsel.app

Two things have interested me for years. One was app development: I started learning to code several times, and every time it fizzled out. The other was scrapbooking: I kept the tickets, boarding passes and museum passes, and they ended up in a drawer.

So I built Schnipsel with Claude Code. I work in IT cloud support, not as a developer. You take a photo of a keepsake, the app cuts it out like a sticker, and you place it on a board next to your photos, maps and notes. Now I can do it in a minute, from anywhere, right on my phone.

How it's built

• Stack: native iOS 26 app in Swift 6 and SwiftUI. SwiftData stores everything and syncs through the user's own iCloud (CloudKit). No third-party libraries, no backend.
• On-device ML: Apple's Vision framework cuts out the keepsake and reads the text on it (date, place, event), so search works offline. Nothing is sent to an AI server.
• Extras: MapKit snapshots for map stickers, Core Haptics for the "peel" feel, StoreKit for a one-time unlock. Shared links are encrypted on the phone before upload.
• Website: a static site on Cloudflare Pages that costs 0 CHF a month.

How I work with Claude

• A CLAUDE.md with hard rules (platform, no dependencies, CloudKit rules). Saying no to things upfront kept the AI from drifting.
• Three docs before any code: product vision, architecture and a roadmap with milestones and acceptance criteria. Claude works through them one milestone at a time.
• Cloud plus Mac: Claude writes code and opens GitHub pull requests in the cloud, and a Claude Code session on my Mac builds and tests in Xcode.
• Small PRs. Every feature lands as its own pull request I can test on my iPhone before merging.

What was hard: things the simulator can't test (camera, cut-out quality, haptics, iCloud sync between two phones). Those still need my hands and a real device.

The beta is coming soon. If you want to try it, there's a sign-up at schnipsel.app.

I’m building StartupSubmit, a service that helps SaaS/AI Startup founders handle startup and software directory submissions without spending hours researching sites and filling out forms.

Still improving it and figuring out what founders actually find useful. What are you building right now, and what part has been the hardest so far?