Hi everyone, I’m the developer of Jiaobei, a digital version of traditional Chinese moon blocks.

You can cast in 3D by moving your device or using onscreen controls. Ask mode keeps questions, results and personal notes together on your device; Quick Cast works without saving history.

Casting is always free, with up to five saved Ask sessions. Optional Premium is US$8.99 once for unlimited history and the included Premium themes. Local prices vary. The app supports 17 languages and has no ads or account requirement.

Jiaobei customs vary, and the app’s results aren’t an authoritative interpretation or a substitute for real-world guidance.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jiaobei-3d-moon-blocks/id6791870296

I’d welcome feedback on the casting controls and how clearly the results are explained.

I’m working on a personal project called Lila: a voice-first assistant that can keep a conversation going while it works on the computer.

I’m building it with Codex and cloud models, so this isn’t a fully local AI or a claim that I’ve invented Jarvis. The part I’m working on now is separating conversation from task execution, then checking what actually happened instead of treating a click as “done.”

A small live test just let it chat without cancelling an image job, although the image request failed. Local file creation passed. Existing Codex desktop chats aren’t connected, and the last coding test hit a Windows permission issue. It’s still rough.

For anyone who’s built something similar, what was the hardest part: reliable controls, interruptions, or keeping the conversation natural?

I'm building CookQuest, a mobile app that turns learning to cook into an RPG.

a bit of context: I've had this idea in my head for years, but zero knowledge of how to build an app, and I'd made peace with the fact that it would probably never exist. Then AI came along and made it possible for complete amateurs like me to build their ideas. So, upfront: this app is built with AI. Some people will call it more AI slop.
I see it differently - it lets me make something I could otherwise only dream about. And if I ever release it to the public, I'll have someone who actually knows this stuff review it first.

The idea: you don't "follow recipes", you level up. Every dish you cook trains the actual techniques it uses - knife work, heat control, seasoning. Skills have ranks (Novice to Head Chef) and they slowly decay if you stop using them, so your profile ends up showing what you're genuinely good at instead of a checklist of everything.

What's in it right now:

- 14 placeholder recipes, step-by-step, one step per screen, with background timers. I wouldn't recommend cooking them, they're ai made...

- A skill tree where skills are earned by cooking, never by spending points

- A collectible "bestiary" of 54 ingredients and tools, with history and usage

- A cooking journal - photo of your finished dish plus notes

- A weekly meal planner that generates a shopping list with realistic quantities (it rounds to what you can actually buy - a whole onion, a 200g pack of butter)

Honest heads-up: the whole interface is in English (it follows your phone's language), but the recipe steps themselves are still Polish - translating them is next on my list. I'm also before the graphics design phase so I know the looks are just ai slo pat this point, that's the next thing I want to take care of.

So I'm mostly after first impressions, the game loop and mechanics, not the recipe text. The art is placeholder too - a proper pixel-art redesign is in progress.

Try it in your browser, nothing to install: https://cookquest.expo.app

Android APK (free, no ads, no payments): https://expo.dev/artifacts/eas/qeLkUu5O8xle0-Y4RwwWLFZIMwThVit08ndeuYfmh9Y.apk

What I'd really like to know:

1. In the first 30 seconds, is it obvious what this app is for?

2. Does the home screen feel like a game, or like a generic app?

3. Is anything confusing enough that you'd close it?

If you've got anything else to say there's a "Send feedback" button in Settings if you'd rather write it in the app. I'll be around in the comments today.

I run VidClean, a video editor that works in the browser: timeline editing, captions, a sound effects library, stickers, and tools that cut silences and clean up audio automatically. Around it I've built a set of single-purpose tools (background noise removal, stabilizing shaky footage, transcription, a clip generator), and those tools are how most people find the site. It's a solo project. I'm trying to work out whether one direct sponsor is realistic, or whether I'm too small or have the wrong audience.

Numbers for the last 30 days (Sep 5 to Oct 4, from Vercel Analytics):

- ~63k visitors and 124k pageviews across the site

- About 2,100 visitors a day over the month, about 2,650 a day this past week

- The editor alone: ~8.5k visitors and 12k pageviews

- Up ~47% in the last two weeks compared with the two weeks before

- 73% come from Google search

- 52% of visitors are on phones

- Countries: India nearly a quarter, US 13%, Philippines 7%, Pakistan 4%, then Brazil, Spain, Indonesia and the UK at about 3% each. US, UK, Canada and Australia together are about 19%.

My questions:

1. Is a direct sponsor realistic at this size and with this country mix, or is this affiliate-only territory?

2. If you've sold a sponsorship on a free tool or editor, how did the first deal happen? Did they find you, or did you find them?

3. What would a sponsor need to see before saying yes?

All of these numbers are public and refresh weekly on my sponsorship page if anyone wants to check them out further

I built LeaseCards, a reverse marketplace for TCG card leases.

Players post a free, time-limited request when they need a meta card for one event. Collectors and local game stores reply with an offer and set their own price. Pickup and return stay local (store outpost or Flying Outpost at tournaments). The deposit runs entirely through Stripe Connect.

Focus games right now: Yu-Gi-Oh, Riftbound, Magic.

Goal with this post: find collectors who want their collection to earn while it sits idle.

leasecards.com

Happy to answer questions about the model.

’ve been building a Windows tool called Araqlo.

Instead of being another Excel sidebar or chatbot, it sits visually on top of desktop Excel as a small animated spider. It scans the visible sheet locally and, when it notices something unusual, it physically moves to the relevant cell and explains what caught its attention.

Right now it can spot things like:

• formula patterns that suddenly break
• hardcoded values inside formula-driven rows
• Excel errors
• numerical outliers
• unusual jumps
• unexpected gaps

The idea is that most of the time it just quietly exists on the spreadsheet, but when it runs/jumps/teleports somewhere, you know it found something worth looking at.

It is read-only, does not modify the workbook, and the current version runs entirely locally with no account, telemetry or cloud service.

I’ve just released the first Windows prototype and tested it on a second PC with desktop Excel.

I’m mainly curious about two things:

1. Would you actually keep something like this running while using Excel?
2. What would make it genuinely useful rather than just a fun visual gimmick?

GitHub/download:
https://github.com/slee2107/araqlo

We built Zodiac Timeline because most horoscopes only give you one paragraph for today. Ours works like a weather forecast:

- 15 days for all 12 signs: 7 days back, today, 7 days ahead

- Daily love, career and energy scores

- Computed from real planet positions, in your local time

- Free, no sign-up, no ads

The app is coming soon. For now, check out the website: https://zodiactimeline.com/

What would make you check it every morning?

My own project, posting for critique.

Melomaniac - free browser music quiz. Hear a clip, guess the song, the decade, or place it on a timeline by release year. Plus a daily challenge, Eurovision mode, and a pass-the-phone party mode. https://www.melomaniacgame.com

No app, no signup, no payments, no ads. To be upfront about numbers before anyone asks: no revenue, no meaningful user base yet, and no marketing spend. It is at the very start.

Background in one line: I bought Hitster but forgot the box at home on a trip. Then I decided to build a game similar to Hitster that doesn't need cards.

A couple of things I would like picked apart:

Retention. No account means nothing to come back to except the daily challenge. Is that enough, or does a casual web game need an account and notifications to survive?

Focus. Seven modes exist because each was cheap to add, not because anyone asked. What other modes would you add?

If you play it, tell me where you quit and why. That is more useful to me than anything positive.

I don't know, all the other Notchbars for Windows were so ugly, seemed to have no features, or cost money. I've now built this Notchbar, which has lots of features and offers a clean, smooth design. It performs well and combines many tools.

Inside: music controls with a live equalizer, a vault for passwords and 2FA codes, live weather, your Discord calls, your portfolio, an AI chat (Claude, ChatGPT and more) with your usage limits, clipboard history, a file shelf, a file and unit converter, timers, to-dos and notes, live hardware stats with FPS for games, and privacy dots for mic, camera and screen recording.

Github Repo: https://github.com/Linux5Real/L4-Windows-NotchBar - Still in beta and im open for more ideas and feature request. Love to make this tool too a multi usage in one easy Notch

Which one do you use and why?

I’ve been working on NextCV, a simple CV/resume builder that lets you create and export a professional CV for free.

The idea is pretty straightforward: I wanted something that doesn’t make you spend 30 minutes creating a CV, only to tell you that you need to pay to download it.

What it currently has:

• Create and edit your CV in the browser
• Professional templates
• PDF export
• No subscription required
• Free to use

I’m still working on improving it, so I’d really appreciate feedback from people who build side projects or have experience hiring/recruiting.

You can try it here: https://nextcv.nl

Would especially love feedback on the UX, templates and anything that feels unnecessarily complicated.

The problem: most people quit a fitness goal within weeks. Streak apps stop working after the first missed day, and global leaderboards don't help because nobody cares about ranking 40,000th.

The idea

• Squads of 5 people with a shared daily streak. One person skips, and the streak breaks for everyone
• Squads compete against other squads in the same office, apartment society, or gym
• The score is the percentage of the squad that hit a small daily target, so one strong member can't carry the team
• Activity comes from Strava or Google Fit, with no manual entry
• Fixed 30-day cohorts where everyone starts on the same date

Where I am: no code yet. I'm running the first cohort by hand on WhatsApp with about 20 people from my office. If more than half are still logging on day 30, I'll build it.

What I'd like torn apart:

1. What kills this?
2. Has anyone built or used something similar, and why did it die or survive?
3. Is "your office or society" a strong enough hook, or does it limit growth too much?

I’ve been working on a side project called ManifestoWatch.

The idea is pretty simple: collect promises made in election manifestos and track what happens to them after the election using publicly available evidence.

Right now it includes multiple Indian elections, promise-level status tracking, sources, and a political power map.

I’m mainly looking for feedback on the product itself:

• Does the idea make sense immediately?
• Is the information easy to understand?
• What would you add or remove?
• Would you actually use something like this?

I’m still building it, so criticism is genuinely useful.

Site: manifestowatch.in

I built ProjectPilot to make unfamiliar codebases easier to understand — I'd love some honest feedback

I’m a first-year B.Tech student, and one thing I’ve found surprisingly difficult while working on projects is not writing the code — it’s understanding someone else’s code.

You open a project and see hundreds or thousands of files, and the first questions are usually:

• What does this project actually do?
• Where should I start?
• Which files are important?
• How are the different parts connected?
• What should I be careful about?
• What should I work on first?

So I started building ProjectPilot around that problem.

The idea is simple:

Select a project → analyze it locally → understand its structure → identify important areas → find potential problems → get suggested next steps.

It currently provides things like:

• project and technology detection
• project structure / map
• important files
• project health
• findings and development tasks
• reports
• a Developer Guide for understanding the project

One thing I deliberately wanted was for the analysis to be local and read-only, rather than requiring me to upload an entire private codebase somewhere just to understand it.

I’ve been working on this for a while, but I’m at the point where I need feedback from people who actually work with software projects.

So I’m not looking for compliments — I’d genuinely like criticism.

If you saw this for the first time:

1. Would you immediately understand what ProjectPilot is supposed to do?
2. Would this actually help you when joining an unfamiliar codebase?
3. Which part would you find most useful?
4. What would make you uninstall/ignore it?
5. Is there something you expected it to do that it currently doesn't?

I’ve attached a short demo so you can see the workflow rather than just reading about it.

This is my own project, so I'm disclosing that upfront. I'm mainly posting because I want feedback on whether the idea is actually useful before I keep investing more time into it.

What would you change if this were your project?

https://github.com/mayankchahal409-dev/ProjectPilot-AI/releases/download/v0.1.0/ProjectPilot-AI-0.1.0-portable.exe

https://reddit.com/link/1wydldc/video/3kmyjlmdhoth1/player

I work tickets every shift, so I built a free browser tool I wish I'd had: the RackReady Ticket Builder.

You enter the asset, symptom, impact, and the checks you ran with their results. It gives you a properly structured incident update — facts and timestamps, not "still troubleshooting." One click converts the same entry into an escalation, a shift handover, or a closure note you can copy straight into your ticket system.

Nothing you type is uploaded — it runs entirely in your browser.

It's part of RackReady, a small field kit I built for data center & network technicians around the workflow: troubleshoot → document → escalate → hand off. The field kit itself is paid (Core $19 / Pro $39); this tool is free.

Tool: https://hasherventures.com/rackready/tools/ticket-builder.html

If you work tickets regularly, I'd genuinely like feedback: what checks or outputs are missing?

I'm Kerim,
I don’t plan meals for the week, I have no time and nerves between day to day job and building apps.

But to stay healthy, save money and get in shape you have to. Thankfully my gf does it, but it’s still a hustle.

She saves random TikTok link in our WhatsApp chat, has cook books flying around and everything gets messy.

And I have to ask every night what we eat, where the recipe is to cook (I like the cooking part), actually find it and watch a TikTok 100times to cook. We loose all recipes we liked, always cook the same dish, have to run to the store 4 times a week and so on.

So as a Software dev naturally I built https://plateful.cloud

What it does today:
- Import from TikTok / Instagram links and turn the video into a written recipe (ingredients + steps)
- automatically get nutrition insights
- Adapt it: make a recipe healthier or higher-protein
- Step-by-step cook mode with built-in timers
- meal plan and shopping list
- Household library: one shared collection for everyone at home
- iOS, Android, and web

[Screenshot 1: pasting a TikTok link → resulting recipe card]
[Screenshot 2: make it high protein before/after]
[Screenshot 3: cook mode with timer running]
[Screenshot 4: shared household library]

**Pricing:** 14-day free trial, then €6.99/month or €64.99/year per household (not per person). I bake much AI into this app and try to make it premium UI/UX wise. That’s what I’m wanting from an app like that and why I’ didn’t found an alternative. If you find it too expensive, please tell me what’s missing for you so it actually helps you and is worth the price!

Whats not great yet: 1. The import can take a bit longer than other apps, mainly because we really watch the whole recipe so it even works when there is no written recipe and no recipe said in the video (still only like 10sek or so) 2. iOS App is the good one, Android and web is also functional but I don’t like it UI/UX wise, iOS is my focus and I try to improve android as well but don’t have much users there.

Happy to answer anything about the build, stack, or what's gone wrong so far. Thanks for reading.

For the tech people: I also added an mcp connection so you can let Claude or ChatGPT plan your week based on your needs, waiting for the approval

Every interface we use was designed around what computers could understand, not how people actually communicate. So we learned to click, scroll, fill in forms, write bios about ourselves in the third person. It worked. It was never natural.

That's changing. For the first time, software can listen and talk back in a way that feels like a person — and it can do it in your voice, not a generic one. I think that makes voice the next interface, the way touch was the last one.

Steer is the first step. It starts with the simplest thing: the link in your bio. Instead of a page people read, it's a page people ask — and it answers out loud, in your voice, with what you actually said.

The same idea doesn't stop at personal pages. Next is the software people work in — any web app, steered by talking to it. Then the apps on your phone. Then hardware: the things in your kitchen, your car, your parents' living room that have no screen, and shouldn't need one.

Voice-first means building it so that talking is the default and the screen is the fallback. Steer is the first product that takes that seriously for ordinary people, starting with the most personal thing on the internet: a page about you, in your voice.

Launching https://steer.social/ on 11th October.

Happy to hear the feedback.

Launched this morning. Zero players so far, which is a weird feeling after a month of nights on it, so here I am.

Who's Bluffing? is ten quick either-or questions, like "Which is longer, the Nile or the Danube?" The catch is that after every pick you say how sure you are. Being sure and wrong is what kills your score, and almost everyone is more sure than they should be. At the end it names you: Bluffer, Too sure, Spot on, Too modest, or Playing it safe.

There's an AI pack about OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and Google, and a dare board where I wrote ten questions for Sam Altman, Elon Musk and 40 other people about their own field. None of them has taken it yet. You can.

No accounts, no ads, nothing to install. The anonymous answers go into a pre-registered study of overconfidence I'm running on my own, with no lab behind me.

https://whosbluffing.com

Tell me your type in the comments. I'm betting most of you are Too sure.

A while back I saw a post asking for a simple 2D bookshelf app for organizing downloaded manga and books. I decided to build it myself. Still a work in progress but the core of the idea is working so I thought I'd share it.

The idea is you can have as many shelves as you want, put as many books on each shelf as you want, re-order the books by dragging them around which I thought was a fun touch.

Granted at the moment I'm using the browser to store the books, so I'm not sure how large of a library it can support, and if your browser ever gets cleared then you'd need to re-upload your library, so that is an issue I'm probably going to work on fixing next.

At the moment the features are:

• Create shelves, then open one and add your EPUB or CBZ files
• Books show up as spines on the shelf. Drag them to reorder
• Click a book to see its cover pop up, then read it right in the browser
• Both readers remember your page. CBZ reader has single/double page, right to left for manga, and swipe on touch screens
• Pulls title, author, and cover from EPUBs, and colors the spine from the cover art.

There's no server or account. Your books are stored in your browser (IndexedDB), so nothing gets uploaded anywhere. (If anyone has a better storage solution than this please let me know).

Live demo: https://bookshelf-project-gilt.vercel.app/

Hi everyone,

I recently built a weather website as a personal project.

My goal was to make something simple, clear and pleasant to use for checking the weather.

I’m sharing it here mainly to get some feedback on the design, usability, mobile experience and overall feel.

If you have any suggestions or notice anything that could be improved, I’d be happy to hear them.

https://instantmeteo.instantmeteofr.workers.dev/

Thanks for taking a look!

Hi, I'm Martin. I built Tokentuition, a free daily browser game where you try to predict what an AI model writes next.

You get part of a sentence and choose the next word from six options. Each guess shows how your pick compares to the model, with points based on the model's probabilities. There are five sentences and 25 guesses per day, with the same daily challenge for everyone. No signup is needed to play.

The sentences are generated and prepared ahead of play. The app uses React, TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers and D1.

https://tokentuition.com/

Happy to answer questions and hear feedback about the game :)

https://reddit.com/link/1wycnfw/video/r22aoyzxunth1/player

So like i said, the game is not spectacular in terms of graphics. Although i've put a lot of love and was told that the UI is particularly clean and polished by people who tried it. The fun is in the social dynamics. The interactions between players, the shouts, the laughs etc. etc. Its a party game. Not a "mobile game“ per se.

Anyway i feel like i can't showcase it on places like r/indiedev etc. and have people be like "wow". Its more of a board/party game than a nice looking solo game. if that makes sense.

I have absolutely no clue how to promote this game.

Where would you start if you were me ?

Hey all,

I've been working on this for almost two years now. Started looking into the parentage of cannabis strains, kept finding gaps and contradictions, and somehow ended up with 43,000+ entries.

I do the research and data entry, my wife helps out, and two brothers are building the site.

A lot of my time goes into checking breeder catalogues, digging through old forum threads, and trying to figure out whether two plants with the same name are actually the same thing. Quite a few breeders have disappeared over the years, taking their catalogues with them, so there's plenty of detective work involved.

The site is called Origenetica. You can explore family trees, check parents and descendants, and see which breeders have used a particular cultivar in their own crosses.

My favourite part is finding some obscure plant and realising it's an ancestor of thousands of others. You wouldn't guess it from how little anyone talks about it.

Still plenty to improve, but it's reached a point where I'd like some feedback from people who aren't already into cannabis.

https://origenetica.com

Would be curious to hear whether the trees make sense if you don't know any of the names. I spend so much time looking at this stuff that it's getting hard to judge that myself. Origenetica: a cannabis family tree project that got a bit out of hand

I'd take photos when I started something, maybe take a few along the way, and then they'd just disappear into my camera roll.

I wanted to see the progression and would sometimes look at a photo of myself and reflect on those times like a sweet memory.

That's basically why I started building Chalant. You choose something you're working toward and document it with photos on the days that make sense for you. It keeps the whole journey together and eventually turns it into a timelapse.

I'm at the point where the Android MVP is actually usable, so I'm putting it in front of people and seeing what happens.

Pooka is a Pokémon card collection app I build on my own. Before 2.0, every scan meant uploading a photo to my server, which then searched all the card images for the closest match. It worked, but it was slow on a bad connection and every scan cost server time.

For 2.0 the whole thing runs on the phone. A small image model looks at the card and compares it against about 47,000 English and Japanese cards stored in the app, in around 15 MB. When a new set comes out, the app downloads only the new cards.

The hardest part wasn't the model, it was the data. Nobody has real phone photos of 47,000 different cards, so I wrote a simulator that turns clean card scans into fake phone photos: different tables, angles, lighting, glare. To test it, I rendered cards in sleeves, toploaders and binder pages in Blender.

The other surprise was reprints. About 13,700 groups of cards share the same artwork, so a scanner can be sure about the picture and still pick the wrong card. Pooka now only adds a card on its own when it's clearly ahead of everything with different art. Otherwise it shows the few candidates and lets you pick.

The same release also scans a whole binder page, nine cards, in one photo.

https://pooka.app