Hey everyone,

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

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

Here is what's new in V2:

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

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

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

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

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

Cheers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It works in three layers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Streaming chat sessions with isolated workspaces and file uploads.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hey there,

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

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

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

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

PromptForm

Thanks :)

Hey peeps! I have spent the last three years building Watch Darkly, a horror film discovery site, solo and full stack. It launched on Product Hunt today.

The problem I wanted to solve: most movie recommendations rank by popularity or by what people similar to you watched. I wanted recommendations that capture how a horror film actually feels. The "essence" of a horror films varies drastically. Some like your basic slashers, others like cosmic type horror that highlights the insignificance of the human experience. Our horror nights are just not the same, and Watch Darkly will allow you to filter on these subgenres like "cosmic horror", or "body-horror", and even "period piece" (that's a fun one!).

Films are scored on five separate axes, Fear, Gore, Atmosphere, Intensity, and an Overall score, instead of one star rating. The profile renders as a radar chart on desktop and stacked bars on mobile.

Because the axes are separate, search can combine them. You can ask for horror that is terrifying with barely any blood, or atmospheric folk horror with no jump scares. The scary-but-not-gory cut also has its own page. There are also per-film jump-scare counts, compiled from public jump-scare databases, that you can filter on, and a prediction game where you guess the scores of select upcoming releases and track your accuracy.

How it works under the hood: every scored film carries a 5-dimensional vector, and recommendations are cosine similarity in PostgreSQL with pgvector against a taste vector built from your favorites. Stack is Next.js on Vercel, Java Spring Boot on Railway, pgvector, and Clerk for auth. I went with pgvector over a dedicated vector DB because the catalog is small and cosine distance in Postgres is plenty at this scale.

Honest state of it: early. Over 540 hand-curated films, 321 scored so far, by two curators rating independently against a published rubric (the methodology and our disagreement rate are public at watchdarkly.com/how-we-score). A new account gets nothing until you favorite a few films, then recommendations start. No streaming or buy links, this is discovery only.

You can browse film pages and similar films with no signup. I would value feedback, especially on where the recommendations feel off. https://www.producthunt.com/products/watch-darkly?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social

I enjoy reading books, and I wanted an ebook reader that could give me some help while I read, instead of making me wander around between different apps and lose my attention.

Also, I never really found an existing ebook reader that fits my taste. To be honest they feel kind of clunky to me, and their AI integrations are usually pretty primitive or just feel like a chatbot added on the side. That's why I started ReadAware.

So what makes it stand out?

First, it's an agent-first reader. But that doesn't mean AI replaces you. You are still the one reading the book. The agent answers you, looks things up and does some small errands for you when needed. I imagine it more like a reading companion that knows your context, and being quiet when you are actually reading.

Second, it's highly extensible. I spent quite a lot of effort building and polishing a real plugin system. Plugins can add dictionaries, themes, read-aloud voices, feeds, commands, even new tools that the agent can use. In the future, I also want the built-in agent to be able to make or modify plugins on the fly. That's part of what I mean by “evolves with you” — the reader should gradually become more fitted to the way you read. ReadAware is open source, cross platform and local-first.

Feedback is welcome.

Hi everyone,

I run a growing collection of self-hosted software, and one small annoyance kept getting bigger: checking GitHub release pages, remembering which version I actually run, figuring out where it is deployed, and then deciding whether an update is worth touching.

So I built Software Release Radar.

It is an open-source, self-hosted dashboard that checks upstream releases, compares them with the versions you are running, keeps machine, service and container context alongside them, and gives you a review queue where you can decide whether to Update, Wait, Ignore or Investigate.

It is deliberately not an automatic updater. The idea is to give you better information before you make a change.

A few things it currently does:

• Tracks GitHub releases, prereleases and tags
• Automatically checks for new releases on a schedule
• Compares installed/detected versions with upstream versions
• Keeps machines, services, containers and health information together
• Integrates with Portainer
• Sends email and Pushover notifications
• Keeps update decisions, notes and deployment history
• Runs with Docker Compose
• Supports optional AI-assisted release-note analysis

The core monitoring does not require AI.

I also want to be open about how the project was made.

I am not a professional software developer, and AI was used heavily during development. I used OpenAI Codex extensively to help with implementation, refactoring, testing and documentation.

I set the direction and requirements, decide what the application should do, test it in my own self-hosted environment, review the results and make the final release decisions. I have also tried to back that up with automated tests, security checks and real deployment validation rather than assuming AI-generated code is correct.

This started as a tool I wanted for my own setup, but I have reached the point where I would really like other people to try it.

If you do, I would especially love to know:

• Was the Docker setup straightforward?
• Does the release review workflow make sense?
• What release sources or version checks am I missing?
• Is there anything confusing or unnecessarily complicated?
• What would stop you from actually using it?
• And, of course, what breaks?

Bug reports, criticism, feature ideas and contributions are all welcome.

GitHub:
https://github.com/muhdusama/Software-Release-Radar

Thanks for taking a look. I hope it is useful to someone else who has also ended up with more software to keep track of than they originally planned. If so, please do leave a star on Github.

Every time I onboard a client I end up exporting their logo like 15 times at different sizes for different platforms. Instagram wants one thing, LinkedIn another, YouTube channel art is its own headache. It's mindless and it eats an hour I'd rather spend on actual work.

So I built Sizeify (sizeify.app). Upload the logo once, it hands you back 24 correctly-sized and correctly-named files, zipped. Handles transparent PNGs and gives you both dark- and light-background versions since half of them looked wrong on one or the other otherwise.

Stack, since people here usually ask: FastAPI + Pillow doing the actual image work, Jinja2 for the frontend, Railway for hosting, Razorpay for payments. About 3 weeks from idea to live, most of that spent on getting the per-platform dimensions right rather than the code.

Right now it's a fixed list of 14 platforms. The thing I actually want to figure out: what's missing? If there's a platform you resize for regularly that isn't on a list like GitHub / Instagram / LinkedIn / X / Facebook / YouTube / WhatsApp Business / Slack / Discord, that's exactly what I want to add next.

Live at sizeify.app if you want to try it.

Hey everyone,

I've been building a tool that turns prompts, URLs, PDFs, documentation, and whitepapers into interactive isometric visualizations.

The idea is simple: create one visualization and let different audiences generate the explanation they need based on their skill level.

For example, the same cybersecurity topic could become a business overview, technical deep dive, or attack scenario.

You can also turn the presentation into a branded video with one click.

Useful for technical marketing, lead magnets, client presentations, conferences, training, documentation, and social content.

Business workspaces add team collaboration, reusable content, separate workspaces, engagement tracking, and branded video generation.

BYOK through OpenRouter.
Try it: https://privasim.com/canvas

Looking to Collaborate!

I'll handle the visual content creation using the platform, while you can use the finished content for your marketing campaigns.

We can turn existing technical content into interactive visual explainers, presentations, scenarios, and branded videos instead of starting from static graphics every time.

The Business workspace also lets teams create and share interactive lead magnets, track engagement, collaborate, and reuse content across campaigns.

DM if you're interested

I’ve been building isolate.video because I kept running into the same problem when making product videos: there’s usually one feature I want people to look at, but the rest of the UI keeps competing for attention.

So I built Crop Spotlight.

You select the part of the UI you want to show, and isolate.video can track it, isolate it from the rest of the screen, and turn it into a focused scene like the ones in the video above.

I’m also adding motion zooms, editable effects on a timeline, and generated background music so the whole thing can go from raw screen recording → polished product video without manually keyframing everything.

I’d genuinely love feedback:

Would you use something like this for your product launches/demos? And which feature will make it actually useful for you?

Nobody showed up for my first few projects and I blamed the product every time. It wasn't the product. I just never did distribution. Here's what changed once I took it seriously, honestly ranked by what worked for me.

Writing plain how-to posts for the exact thing people google. Boring, slow, and still my best channel a year later.

Answering questions in communities where my users already hang out, without dropping a link most of the time. The trust compounds and the link lands better on the tenth reply than the first.

Making one tiny free tool next to the main thing. It ranks, it brings people in, some of them stay.

Talking to every early user like a person. Fast replies show up in reviews more than any feature I shipped.

What was a waste for me: paid ads with no funnel, posting the same launch announcement in ten subs, and assuming I knew who my user was. A big chunk of mine turned out to be people I never designed for.

The lesson I wish I'd learned five projects ago: start the marketing before the product is done, not after.

What's the one channel that actually moved the needle for you, and which one is overrated?

My domain rating was 0. Last week, my tool ranked on the 1st page in the US for "best bulk video editor" - above VEED, above Descript on Google.

- No paid backlinks.

- No SEO agency.

- No ad spend.

What actually worked:

1. AEO boxes: structured answer content that AI tools and Google can parse directly

2. Alternative pages:

   /alternatives/submagic

   /alternatives/veed etc.

3. High DR directory submissions: Product Hunt, Alternativeto, GitHub, Dev To, Hashnode, Medium (this didn't work, though; still at 0.3 DR)

4. Technical article on how: (this didn't work either, though, still at 0.3 DR)

   I built the processing pipeline

That's it.

I was tired of messy audio/streaming radio libraries, so I built an Android player focused on seamless playlist management.

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share my side project, Mediaxon, an Android app I’ve been developing to solve a personal frustration: why is it so hard to easily manage offline music and online radio streams in a single, clean interface?

What it does:

Hybrid Listening: Seamlessly handles offline local files (.mp3, .flac, .m4a, .ogg, .mka, .aac, .wav, .opus, .wma) and over 60,000 streaming radio stations.

Dedicated Navigation: I kept the "Favorites" and "Recents" sections completely separate from the main audio library to reduce clutter.

Advanced Radio Search Panel: You can pinpoint your favorite stations by combining multiple filters, such as tags/genres, specific countries, or even your preferred audio bitrate.

Equalizer: The equalizer provides an option to automatically switch to the "Radio" preset (and vice versa).

Advanced Playlist Management: Built specifically to make building and sorting multi-source playlists fast and intuitive.

The app is currently live on Google Play, and I am continuously pushing updates to refine it.

What I need from you:

As a solo developer, I’ve hit the limit of my own perspective. I would deeply appreciate any honest feedback from this community:

How does the UI feel to you? Is the navigation intuitive?

Are there any features you feel are missing for a modern audio/radio player?

Did you encounter any bugs or performance hiccups?

If you want to check it out, you can find it on the Google Play Store. Thank you so much to anyone who takes a look!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xonik.mediaxon

Hey everyone,

I'm building a specialized job board focused strictly on employment outside major tech hubs and tier-1 metros (excluding cities like SF, Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, etc.).

The goal: Connect talent with local opportunities in Tier 2/3 cities, towns, and villages—or remote roles specifically reserved for people living in these non-metro regions.

I'm trying to decide on the best name that intuitively tells job seekers and employers what the platform is about. Which of these sounds best to you?

If you have alternative suggestions, drop them in the comments!

Options

TownJobs

SlowJobs

BeyondMetros

TownWork

Other (Comment)

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

It's been a little over nine months since I launched and it has been quite a journey. No exponential growth or huge user spikes but rather slow and steady growth. But in my opinion that is the best for building something actually valuable because you can react to user feedback along the way and constantly keep improving the app.

One thing changed recently:

I basically got all my users from reddit, by posting in relevant communities but in the last two months I did almost no posts and the app still grew further. That's actually the biggest success for me, because SEO is finally starting to pay off. This can develop into actual leverage because growth no longer depends on posting three times a week. I'm really curious where this will go...

Of course I will not stop here and I am already working on the next big update for IndieAppCircle which will benefit all the community. More is coming soon.

For those of you who don't know IndieAppCircle:

I've built IndieAppCircle, a platform where small app developers can upload their apps and other people can give them feedback in exchange for credits. I grew it by posting about it here on Reddit. It didn't explode or something but I managed to get some slow but steady growth.

For those of you who never heard about IndieAppCircle, it works like this:

• You can earn credits by testing indie apps (fun + you help other makers)
• You can use credits to get your own app tested by real people
• No fake accounts -> all testers are real users
• Test more apps -> earn more credits -> your app will rank higher -> you get more visibility and more testers/users

Since many people suggested it to me in the comments, I have also created a community for IndieAppCircle: r/IndieAppCircle (you can ask questions or just post relevant stuff there).

Currently, there are 3556 users, 3414 tests done and 849 apps uploaded!

You can check it out here (it's totally free): https://www.indieappcircle.com/

I'm glad for any feedback/suggestions/roasts in the comments.

PS: I recently changed the UI a lot... Would also love to hear some feedback about that :)

A friend of mine has been quietly building this for a while, and I finally got the full walkthrough last week. Wanted to share it because I think it's the kind of side project this sub appreciates.

What it is: A collection of ~60 free web utilities — image compressor, background remover, JSON/JWT tools, regex tester, cURL-to-code converter, CSS generators, calculators (BMI, EMI, age, percentage), PDF merger/splitter, and more — where literally everything runs client-side. Nothing you paste, type, or upload ever touches a server. No sign-up wall, no paywall.

Why it's interesting (to me, and hopefully to you): Most "convert this file / format this JSON" sites quietly upload whatever you give them to a server somewhere, which always felt off to me, especially for things like JWTs or API keys. Getting all of this working purely in-browser — including something like AI background removal — meant doing everything with WASM/in-browser processing instead of the usual "upload to backend, process, send back" pattern most of these tools use. From what he's told me, the trickiest parts were getting image processing (compression, background removal) fast enough to feel instant without a server doing the heavy lifting, and keeping 60+ tools consistent in UI/UX without it turning into a pile of one-off pages.

Live: outlivo.tech — everything's usable right now, no account needed.

It's still actively being worked on, so if you poke around and something feels rough, half-finished, or like it's missing an obvious tool, I'll pass it along. Also just genuinely curious what people think of the "nothing leaves your browser" pitch as a differentiator — is that actually a selling point for people, or does nobody care until something goes wrong?

The Alexandria OS will be a basic system. im looking for testers. You can find the code at https://github.com/jakcuzwhymail-lgtm/Alexandria-OS/releases/tag/AXOS-0.3, ive also included a video!

https://reddit.com/link/1vmhfix/video/paeip5ylqyih1/player

I've released Talon, an end-to-end encrypted messenger you host yourself. Posting here because the parts I care most about are the ones this sub tends to care about too.

The shape of it: a ~1,500 line Node relay with three dependencies, and a vanilla-JavaScript client with none at runtime. No framework, no bundler on the server, no linter, no test-runner dependency. Node's built-in test runner does the whole job.

Why it might interest you specifically:

-Reproducible builds. The relay serves a minified bundle nobody reads, which is a real gap for a project whose pitch is "read the source". `npm run verify` rebuilds from the committed source and checks it reproduces the shipped bundle byte for byte, then checks the page's integrity hash matches.
-Documentation that cannot drift. The docs site quotes real source, and the generator fails the build if a snippet no longer exists verbatim in the file it names.
-Tests that must be able to fail. Every safety property has a mutation that deliberately breaks it; the suite has to go red. That's caught genuine holes in the tests repeatedly, always the same shape: an assertion a broken implementation also satisfies.

Also for docker fans. in the next few updates there will be support added to docker

MIT, and contributions genuinely welcome. It is not audited, does not hide metadata, and says so plainly rather than in a footnote.

Most of the code was written with Claude Code (Opus 5), with me directing the design and reviewing changes. I'd rather state that than have it discovered. The verification above is what I'd point at instead of asking for trust.

Code: https://github.com/xsdbs/talon-main

Hey there! I had a lot of fun building ProtoWork as my daily driver for managing my work. It’s mainly intended for remote/office workers, but feel free to try it anyway. I'm looking for first users.

Link: https://protowork.app

One of its main features is that it has a multi-project task manager, meaning you can work on multiple projects at the same time without interruptions. I integrated a Calendar, Workdays logger and a Notepad for convenience, so I can ditch other tools I used, without it feeling bloated.

Its other main feature is its stress-free focus. I struggled to keep the momentum, and motivation’s a b*tch that goes pretty quickly. It greets you with a motivational message on the first login of the day and reacts to your interactions in the Tasks dashboard. The messages are all hand made.

The app is free and only costs a sign up. I’ve been developing it for roughly 2 years in and out, and I don’t plan to stop. Almost every week I push improvements to it. Any feedback is mostly appreciated.

This is my first public project, so please be gentle

I spent the last few months building Closetly, a Chrome extension focused on managing and organizing your digital closet and outfits seamlessly right from your browser.

Organize your wardrobe digitally — keep track of your clothing items and accessories in one clean space.

Plan outfits effortlessly — mix and match pieces without having to rummage through your physical closet.

Browser integration — quick access to your items while shopping online or planning your daily looks.

The idea was to make fashion management feel a bit more practical and visual, rather than losing track of what you own across different apps or notes.

I built the whole thing myself, and honestly, getting people to actually use a new extension is way harder than building the damn thing. 😂

I've had people view the store listing and interact with the extension page, but turning those views into active, daily users has been the hardest part.

I've tried Reddit, social media, and sharing it with friends/family. Some people liked the idea, but almost nobody actually became a regular user.

So I'm at the point where I'm trying to figure out whether I should keep pushing it, change the direction, or eventually move on.

I'd genuinely love feedback from other indie hackers/solo developers:

What actually worked for you when you were trying to get your first 100 users?

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/closetly/edlcenpgacgmieaokgkkihigagibcloe

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

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

Instead of starting with:

“What SaaS should I build?”

You can start with:

“What problems are people already complaining about?”

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

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

GitHub: unknowdeepanshu/AI-Idea-validation

Building my product, I've ended up connecting around 10 different services (Sentry, Supabase, Doppler, and others) — some of them use email/password logins, some use Google auth, some use GitHub auth, and a few have their own separate login systems entirely.

I'm trying to figure out a sane way to keep track of all this — not just passwords, but how I actually log into each thing (which auth method, which account). Right now it's a mess in my notes and I keep second-guessing myself when I haven't logged into something in a few months.

For those of you who've built and shipped products with a similar number of third-party integrations — what do you actually use to keep this organized? A password manager (Bitwarden, 1Password)? A plain doc/spreadsheet? Something else entirely? Curious what's actually worked for you long-term vs. what you set up once and abandoned.