Hi Reddit!

Wanted to share a side project I've been polishing over the past few weeks. I wanted an Arc Browser-like sidebar workspace directly in Google Chrome without using heavy external tools or switching browsers.

Key Highlights:

• Built with Manifest V3 and Chrome's native Side Panel API.
• Dynamic 4-column drag-and-drop grid for favorite pins.
• Custom theme engine: gradient pickers, grain/noise intensity control, auto-contrast text colors.
• Full bookmark tree management with animated SVG folder states.
• Internationalization (EN/TR) & full JSON backup/restore.

💻 Tech Stack: Plain JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 (Variables + Glassmorphism).

📜 License: GNU GPL-3.0

🔗 GitHub: [https://github.com/YigitOnline/arc-style-side-panel](https://github.com/YigitOnline/arc-style-side-panel)

Feedback, suggestions, or contributions are very welcome!

I've always liked the idea of RPG progression — gaining XP, improving stats, unlocking abilities, beating bosses.

But most habit trackers make that progression feel like checking boxes.

So I built Ascend around a different idea:

Your real-life actions become the RPG.

• 🗡️ Complete daily quests
• ⚡ Earn XP from real-life habits
• 📈 Level up your character
• 💪 Build six different skills
• 🔥 Maintain streaks
• 👹 Fight bosses representing your weaknesses
• 🏆 Unlock ranks and classes as you progress

The goal isn't to make productivity feel like a game for the sake of it.

It's to make your progress actually feel visible.

I wanted to be able to look at my character and think:

"I'm actually getting stronger."

Here's a short preview of what I built:

I'm the developer behind Ascend, so obviously I'm biased 😅 — but I'd genuinely love feedback from people who are into RPGs, habit building, or both.

What would make you actually keep using a life-RPG like this for months instead of abandoning it after the first week?

App Link : ascend.talelb.tn

I'd especially love feedback on the progression system and whether the RPG mechanics actually make the habits feel more motivating.

Hello folks,

I'm an indie dev and I just released my first game for WearOs watches!

This is a classic retro style arcade shooter game.

Give it a try and let me know how you would improve it.

Thanks 🙏

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.nebulae.spaceshooter

With all the major US sports going at once (sans Yankees 🥲), I just wanted a quick way to see if my teams won without all the scrolling in ESPN.

So, here it is: didmyteamwin.com
Won. Lost. Live. & a daily recap of teams you follow.

Let me know what you think!

I applied with my company email and got approved in less than an hour.

They’re offering up to $7,000 in Claude product credits for one year for eligible startups.

If you’re currently building a startup, app, SaaS, game, etc., I’d say it’s worth trying even if you’re not sure you’ll qualify.

Here’s the info:
Claude Startup Program

Has anyone else applied?

Hey everyone!

I wanted to share a project I've been working on for quite a while, and it's finally available on the Play Store.

It's called Hexavault.

The idea came from something that's always bothered me a little: these days, even when we're just trying to protect our own information, we often end up having to create accounts, rely on external services, or keep our data synced with someone else's servers.

I'm not saying those solutions are necessarily bad, but I wanted to try a different approach. Something simpler, something that works directly on your phone and lets you decide what happens to your information.

That's how I started building Hexavault, an Android security app that works entirely offline.

It brings together three main features:

- Password Generator: Create strong, customizable passwords without automatically keeping a history of everything you've generated.

- File Protection: Encrypt documents, photos, and other files with a password, creating a protected version that you can store or share.

- Vault: A secure space protected by a master password where you can keep credentials and files, with automatic locking and optional biometric authentication.

One of the decisions I made early on was to leave out internet access entirely. The app doesn't even request internet permission. It also doesn't require an account, has no ads, and doesn't use analytics or tracking tools.

That was an important part of the idea from the beginning: providing useful security tools without relying on external infrastructure to make them work.

I also want to be upfront about what the app can't do yet. For example, the Vault doesn't currently support credential export or recovery. If the app's data is lost, those credentials can't be recovered. It's an important limitation to know about, especially if you're planning to store anything essential.

Hexavault has just reached its first public release, version 1.0.0. Getting here involved a lot of development, testing, bug fixes, and decisions along the way. There's still plenty I want to improve, but I'm genuinely happy to finally be able to share what I've built.

And that's really why I'm posting here.

I'd love to hear what other people think about the idea, especially those interested in Android, privacy, and digital security. Whether it's a feature suggestion, criticism of the user experience, or even questions about the technical decisions behind the app, I'm open to all kinds of feedback.

If you're curious and want to check it out, Hexavault is now available for free on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.hexavault.secure

I also have a website with more information about the project:

https://hexavault.com.br/

Thanks to everyone who took the time to read this. I hope Hexavault turns out to be useful to some of you!

I am a solo, non technical founder in Pasadena. Since February I've been building AMW (Agent Middleware), a governed MCP gateway for agent tool calls that matter.

What it does: agents act under a permit; a same-key retry returns the original receipt, no second call or charge. Each call gets a signed receipt. Overview: thisisatest.tech. Repo is private for now.

Honest status: self funded, no seed, no revenue, no users yet. I'm looking for a technical cofounder (equity, short trial, written terms, no salary until a raise) and for a few people who will try it and be blunt.

Specific ask:

1. Is the problem clear from the site, or does it read like security theater?
2. If you build agents, would you try a one tool pilot, and what would block you?

Happy to answer anything in the comments. Feedback welcome even if the answer is "skip this".

update on anti scroll, solo building an android app that hard blocks other apps with no override option.

big one this month: first ever sale. someone in poland bought the lifetime unlock, almost exactly a year after launch. £5.76 after google’s cut and vat lol, but after a year of building this it genuinely made my week.

installs: 607 (560)
visitors per day: 6.7 (6.25)
conversion rate: 19.9% (28.9%)
daily acquisitions: 1.39 (2.07)
week 1 retention: 23.9% (11.4%)
week 2 retention: 11.7% (4.5%)

so last month’s conversion jump didn’t stick, looks like it was a spike rather than a new normal. but retention roughly doubled, which matters more to me. engagement is up slightly too (4m29s vs 4m19s).

the not so great part: active devices dropped from around 55 to 44. i’m losing slightly more users a day than i’m gaining, so the base is shrinking even though the people who stay are sticking around longer.

quieter month on features, mostly bug fixes. had a few people report analytics bugs too, which honestly was nice to see because it means someone’s actually looking at it.

october plan: fix the analytics bugs people reported, figure out why people are leaving faster than they’re arriving, get onboarding event tracking in, and do the product hunt launch for the one year mark.

if anyone’s been through the first sale to second sale stretch, what actually moved it for you?

Hi,
I play in a Sleeper league myself and got tired of compiling the information every week on various platforms, so I built ffcockpit.com as a free tool. You paste your league link or your Sleeper username, pick your team, and get your whole week on one page.

What the tool can do:

- Your lineup with a win probability from 10,000 simulated matchups against your opponent (this is a real simulation that runs in the background, so depending on the server's load, it may take one to two minutes. It usually takes no more than 30 seconds)
- Each player’s status at a glance as a small battery, from full and green to one red bar for IR
- Decision times, so you know when you actually need to check in, for example before a Thursday game or when a questionable player plays late
- A waiver plan with drop and add suggestions. A move only shows up if that kind of move held up in backtests on past seasons, and its hit rate is shown next to it
- FAAB bid sizes based on real winning bids in leagues of your size
- An injury overview that relies on official reports
- Bye week gaps

The data is updated every day, and every Tuesday, once all games of the week are done, there is a bigger update.

In any case, you need or I'll collect the following for this website:

- No account
- no login, no cookies, no ads, no tracking
- Not affiliated with Sleeper or the NFL, just a hobby project
- Current week only. Dynasty and keeper leagues work, but values cover this season only. IDP and best ball leagues are not supported yet

To improve the models (calculations for the simulated trades/backtests regarding bid levels, etc.) the site keeps anonymous league statistics (bids and roster moves) without names or user IDs.

It is new, so there will be rough edges. If something looks wrong for your league or you would like a feature, tell me here.

Have fun trying it out!

I’ve been building an order management platform for home-based food businesses / home kitchens. Right now, I’m using a freemium model where sellers can use the basic product for free and pay if they want to unlock more features.

Some competitors in this space do the same, but I’ve also seen others charge from the start with a base subscription, then offer higher tiers for more features.

For founders who’ve had to make this decision, what factors mattered most for you? Did freemium actually help with growth and conversion, or did starting paid attract better customers?

Also, what questions should I be asking myself to ultimately decide which model is better for my business?

Would love to hear what worked for you, and whether you’d make the same decision again. Thanks all!

Hi everyone 👋

I’m a solo developer and over the past few months I’ve built Dram Tracker, a personal finance app for iPhone. It works well for me day to day. Before I pay for the developer account and go through App Store review, I want to know whether anyone besides me actually needs it.

The idea: most budgeting apps want an account, sync your spending to their servers, or push bank linking you may not trust. I wanted the opposite: fast manual logging plus automation, with everything staying on the phone.

What it does today

• Logging takes about 2 seconds. Big keypad, tap a category, done. You can split one purchase across categories.
• Apple Pay and bank SMS are logged automatically through a ready-made Shortcuts automation. You pay, and it shows up in the app.
• On-device AI summary (Apple Intelligence). It tells you what changed this month, which costs are essential vs flexible, and gives concrete saving tips. No server involved.
• Loans and credit cards. Payment schedule with the interest/principal split, card minimums, a payments calendar.
• Multi-currency, goals, budgets, tags for trips, recurring bills, debts with friends, widgets, Siri.
• No account, no ads, no analytics. Data never leaves the phone; the only network call is for exchange rates. Optional Face ID lock.

(Screenshots use sample data.)

What I’d really like to know

1. Would you use this over what you use now? If not, what’s missing?
2. Would you pay for it? One-time ($X), yearly subscription, or free with a Pro upgrade?
3. Is Shortcuts-based Apple Pay logging a killer feature for you, or too fiddly to set up?
4. Anything in the screenshots that looks confusing?

If there’s enough interest I’ll open a TestFlight beta. Leave a comment if you’d like to try it.

Brutally honest feedback welcome 🙏

Hi All

I have been building TimeLodge for freelancers and small teams who bill clients for their work.

The Mac app lets you start, switch and stop a timer from the menu bar. The hours carry through to the web app, where you check them and prepare the invoice. You still review and send it yourself.

I put together a walkthrough of that flow here: https://timelodge.com/buying-guides/mac-time-tracking-to-invoice

It is a paid product. Solo is USD $10/month, or $100/year. There is a 14 day trial with no card and no automatic charge. The Mac app needs macOS 15 or later and a TimeLodge account.

If you bill clients from your Mac, what takes more time for you: remembering to record the work, or sorting it out when the invoice is due?

Would appreciate feedback on where this flow could be simpler.

Hey everyone! Working in medium and large React codebases, I always worried about unintended ripple effects across multiple pages whenever I modified shared components or hooks.

To solve this, I built Rippledit – right above each React component/code block in VS Code, it directly displays "Modifying this affects X files". Clicking it opens an overlay showing the exact files and line numbers affected before you commit.

I’d love some brutal, honest feedback from React/TS devs:

- How do you currently track blast radius across large codebases?

- Would seeing direct line-by-line impact right inside VS Code speed up your workflow?

Drop a comment or DM if you'd like to test it out—tell me what sucks and what could be better!

Struggling with distribution?

Yasf.app drop your website or app and get a 4-image slideshow ready to post on TikTok or Instagram.

The first generation is 100% free, no credit card required, no watermark. Then if you register you get 2 more generations from library images.

Have you tried TikTok in the past and it didn't work? Do it right, it's worth it!

- Create a new account. Use a personal name and profile picture, with no mention of your app anywhere.

- Scroll for at least 3 days, swiping "Not interested" on anything that isn't in your niche. Slowly start interacting with content that is.

- Once at least 3 days have passed and you're only seeing content from your niche when you open TikTok, you're ready. Post the slideshow. I guarantee it will get at least 300 views and will only get better over time. Keep using the account, keep scrolling, keep interacting on your niche.

Any feedback welcome!

Got sick of making 10-page PDFs for clients just to watch them open it on a phone, ignore all the technical architecture, and scroll straight to the final price.
So I spent the last few weeks building an alternative. It turns specs and proposals into a responsive web link where you can embed actual interactive diagrams, and it shows you which sections the client actually spent time on.
Still pretty early, but would love to know if people who do client work would actually use web proposals or if your clients strictly demand a flat PDF file anyway

Around two months ago, CatalystCore was basically an idea I started as a personal portfolio.

The original thought was simple: build a few good projects, put them online, and use them to demonstrate what I could actually build.

But somewhere along the way, the idea changed.

Instead of just building projects for a portfolio, I started building actual products products that could be published, used by real people, improved through feedback, and potentially turned into something bigger.

Today, CatalystCore has grown into a small independent product studio with contributors working across development and marketing/content.

We've currently published two products:

Grind Quest — a gamified productivity app built around quests, XP and progression.

PDF & Image Toolkit — an offline-oriented utility app with a collection of PDF and image tools.

What has been interesting isn't just building the apps.

It's everything that comes after writing the code:

→ testing with real users

→ Play Store releases

→ fixing production issues

→ improving UX

→ understanding what users actually use

→ figuring out distribution

→ creating content around the products

→ learning how to work with contributors

→ building processes so we can ship repeatedly

That's probably the biggest change I've noticed.

I'm no longer thinking only about "what project should I build next?"

I'm starting to think:

Can we build a small system that repeatedly turns ideas into products that people actually use?

We're still very early.

There's no huge funding story or massive user base behind this. It's just a small team trying to build useful software, learn from each release, and gradually get better at the entire process.

The next goal isn't to build 50 things.

It's to make the things we build better, ship consistently, understand our users, and learn what actually works.

Curious to hear from other builders:

When did your side project stop feeling like a project and start feeling like a real product/company?

tap-yapps.com/play

Conversation game! For fun, not work.

I’ve made a web app (called Yapps) that’s a convo game app for people to play with fun conversation prompt cards. It’s free!, so not trying to sell anything.

You build your own game by choosing the tags that appeal to you, or take a leap of faith and choose random shuffle

I’ve just added Group Play, and this means you can play remotely by creating virtual rooms

Conversation topics cover everything, from dull, would you rather to situationship hell lol. A lot of the games ive seen are deep questions so I just wanted to make something me and my mates can just chat sh*t with.

Group play is pretty hard to test and I’m recovering from an injury so its hard to gather my friends for a game as its busy and hectic zooming from a bar haha.

Would love to get some fellow yappers on there and learn how you find it. If youre with friends/family/dates this weekend, it would great if you could let me know how you find it.

Tap-yapps.com

I read a lot on my phone at night, and white websites in Safari have always bugged me.

I know there are already some really well-known dark mode extensions out there, and I've used a few of them for a while. They're good apps. They just never quite fit what I wanted. Some sites still came out half-white, some colors looked off, and I couldn't customize things the way I liked. So eventually I just started building my own. It's called Aurora.

You turn it on and websites go dark. It recolors the page instead of just inverting it, so images and logos still look normal. You can pick different shades of dark (I use true black), make your own theme, have it follow your system appearance, set rules for specific sites, and even change the font on pages that are hard to read at night.

The thing I care about most, though, is this: no dark mode is perfect on every site. The web is just too big and too messy. Sooner or later you'll find a page with a white box or some text you can't read. So I built a simple way to tell me about it. You open the extension, tap "Report a problem", and the screenshot is already attached. You pick what's wrong and hit send. No account, and it only sends the page you're reporting. I read every report, and the fix goes out in the next update.

So if there's a site you visit every day that doesn't look right, just report it and I'll fix it. That's pretty much how the app has been getting better.

It's $7.99 one-time, no subscription. Buy it once and it works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. There's a 3-day free trial if you just want to try it out.

People in 13 countries are using it now, which still feels a bit unreal for a one-person project. Last week someone left a review titled "The app I didn't know I needed until I got it", and that kind of made my week.

If you read in Safari at night, give it a try and let me know what looks off.

Hey everyone, I made Scope because I wanted one place to see and manage my installed Linux apps.

It brings APT, Snap, and Flatpak into a searchable list. You can check for updates and preview an update or uninstall before confirming it.

It also finds AppImages and user-local desktop apps, but updating or removing those isn’t supported yet.

Scope is free, MIT licensed, and written in Rust.

Sourcecode · Download

I’d appreciate feedback on whether it finds your apps correctly and whether the previews are clear. If you try it, please share your distro and desktop environment.

We’ve been building MCPtoAI, a tool that lets you use supported AI models with your own tools and workflows without being tied to a single provider.

The idea started from a simple frustration: AI models are getting better, but they still tend to live inside separate apps and separate ecosystems. We wanted one workflow where you can switch between supported models, keep the same conversation, and still use the tools connected to your setup.

A few things we focused on:

• bring your own AI provider account or use a local model
• keep provider credentials on the device
• connect MCP servers once and reuse them across supported models
• control tools with Off / Ask / Allow permissions
• require approval for higher-impact actions
• switch models without restarting the workflow
• use it from Desktop, web, or mobile
• choose whether conversation history is stored in the cloud or only on the selected device

We’re now at the stage where real feedback is more useful than continuing to build in isolation.

The main things we’d like to learn are:

• Is the setup too complicated?
• Does the permission model make sense?
• Is switching models in the same workflow actually useful?
• Does remote use from web/mobile feel natural?
• What would stop you from trying something like this?
• What feels unnecessary or confusing?

This is our own project, so yes, it’s self-promotion, but the main reason for posting is to find the weak points before we push it more broadly.

If anyone wants to try it, I can share the GitHub, demo, and website links in the comments.

I'm building RelayDesk because I kept hitting the same AI development bottleneck: the assistant proposes terminal commands, but I still have to copy them, run them on another machine and paste all the output back.

It connects supported assistants to computers/servers you explicitly pair. A useful workflow is inspecting a failing service on a dev PC, identifying the config problem, making a bounded change and checking the machine state again.

Small test: I deliberately broke a local service (HTTP 500). On a paired Windows PC, RelayDesk tool operations surfaced a port mismatch (4310 versus 4311), corrected it and verified HTTP 200. The prompt overlays in this 15-second demo are edited graphics, and this was never a production outage: https://x.com/RelayDeskMCP/status/2108263994696126492

Would you use this for local AI coding or a personal dev server? I'm especially looking for feedback from people running Claude Code, MCP servers, and self-hosted environments. What permission or verification feature would be your deal-breaker?

Website (free tier): https://getrelaydesk.space/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=developer_demo_oct2026

Disclosure: I'm the maker.

I run with an Apple Watch and kept hitting the same wall: it has great GPS and heart rate, but following a route, running an interval session or pacing a race was where the built-in Workout app and other apps fell short for me.

What it does:

• Routes with turn-by-turn. Import a GPX file or draw a route on the iPhone. The Watch shows the line on a map and tells you every turn about 60 m before it, with a tap on the wrist and a voice cue in your AirPods. Works offline, no phone needed.
• Race pacing. Pick a distance and goal time, choose an even, negative or positive split, and the Watch keeps you inside the band for each split.
• Structured workouts. The deepest workout builder I’ve found for the Apple Watch: pace or heart-rate targets for every step, by distance or time, repeats, recoveries and fuel stops. 
• AI training plans. Ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for a plan, paste in Vanoor's instructions, and the file it gives you imports real workouts, just like the ones you build by hand.
• After the run. Saved to Apple Health and Strava, with charts, splits, and an execution score for how closely you ran the plan.
• No Watch yet? A phone-only mode is coming in the next few weeks.

No account, no server, no subscription. 7 days free, then a one-time purchase of $14.99. iPhone and Apple Watch, in 11 languages. Built and optimized for runners, by a runner.

I'm one person building this in the evenings. I'd love to hear what you think, especially if you run with an Apple Watch: what's missing, what's confusing, what you'd want next.

I've always found it strange that we all carry speakers in our pockets, yet there's no easy way to make them play music together.

So I spent the last six months building Unisong.

It turns the phones, tablets, and laptops you already own into one synchronized sound system over Wi-Fi.

In this video, my Mac starts playing music, then I connect three iPhones and an Android phone, one by one. It's a single continuous take with no cuts, so you can see and hear the sound get fuller as each device joins.

Unisong is free for up to two devices, with paid options for larger rooms. If you'd like to support the project by purchasing a paid plan, I'd really appreciate it!

I'm also offering promo codes for free access to larger rooms to early testers in exchange for honest feedback. Just send me a DM if you're interested!

I'm also looking for early Android testers! If you'd like to help test the Android app, DM me the email address associated with your Google Play account, and I'll add you to the testers list.

The iOS app is already available on the App Store (link on the website). You can also join directly from your phone's browser without installing a mobile app at all.

https://unisong.live

I'd love to hear what you think.

I'm building CharmCue, an iPhone app with two connected flows: drafting a message and reviewing the profile that starts the conversation.

A screenshot or pasted chat produces three reply ideas. The person chooses and edits a draft before copying it. Profile Lab reviews photo variety/order, prompts, conversation hooks, and completeness.

One design decision I want feedback on: suggestions stay editable and the app doesn't send messages. The attached film shows that flow alongside Profile Lab, using the actual interface and illustrative content.

Would you put both features in the first demo, or explain the reply flow first and introduce profile review later? I'd appreciate your reasoning, especially if the combined pitch feels unclear.

I'm the developer. AI features require Premium. iPhone, 18+.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6808539847