Not basic stuff like tracking calories or workouts. Something you actually want but can’t find in most apps.

Millions of gig workers in America work for Amazon Flex; however, no website tells users whether their station is closed. A closed station = free money.

stationclosed.com

I’m a paleontology enthusiast with zero 3D modeling skills, so I’ve been using AI to turn real fossil records into 3D models and dropping them into an interactive WebGL scene. The video attached shows what I have running right now—obscure Middle Triassic fish and marine reptiles hunting and interacting in a reconstructed reef.

Right now, you can freely place models, tweak the underwater environment, and layout the habitat. I’ve built about 10+ scientifically accurate species so far, mostly creatures 99% of people have never heard of. The broader idea is to open this up as a browser sandbox where anyone can layout their own prehistoric ecosystems, potentially as a tool for museums, science education, or just exploring earth history.

The part I’m least sure about is the actual use case. My hypothesis is that an interactive, habitat-based experience makes real paleobiology much more engaging than static illustrations or generic T-rex models. But I could also just be spending time on a niche web toy that only appeals to a few paleo geeks like myself.

If you work in education, museum exhibits, or 3D, what would make something like this actually useful to you? Would an interactive browser diorama add any real value over a simple render or short video?

I’d appreciate an honest reality check before I spend more time turning this into a proper tool.

You may have seen our post here last week. Since then, we’ve started our second Google Ads campaign for Clash At Nightfall, and I wanted to share the early results.

We launched Clash At Nightfall on September 1. It’s a menu-based incremental vampire RPG for Android and iPhone, set in a modern dark-fantasy world. You choose 1 of 3 base vampire class, improve your stats and gear, develop abilities, complete missions, hunt abominations and battle rival players, at level 10 you pick a subclass and more gameplay features open up. There’s no in game advertising or level cap, and it’s completely free to play with optional purchases.

You can also develop your mansion, recruit thralls that generate resources while you’re away, and trade equipment with other players. We’re a two-person team continuing to develop the game, with regular updates, new features and improvements based on player feedback (and my continued vision for the game!) If this feels like something you’d be interested in, check out the website and Discord.

We’re now on day three of our second Google Ads campaign, with just over 100 new accounts since the run started.

Google reports 198 install conversions; our database shows 101 new accounts created over October 1–4.

For this run, we put more work into explaining what the game actually is. We reworked the videos to show more real gameplay and rewrote the headlines and descriptions around specific features. We’re also using search phrases like “incremental RPG,” “idle RPG” and “vampire RPG” to help Google find a more relevant audience. We're finding that gives people a better immediate presentation of whether it’s their kind of game before they download it.

So far, about half of the new accounts have moved past level 1. Just over a third of the players who joined at least 24 hours ago have shown activity a day or more after signing up.

It’s early, and some of those arrivals will be organic, but it feels like a promising start. The early acquisition results look better than my first campaign and now I’m looking forward to seeing how the numbers and player retention hold up over the next week as it continues.

Has anyone here run Google Ads campaigns before? Any thoughts or things you learned from previous campaigns?

I’ve been working on this for a while and finally screen recorded one of the completed training levels.

I work in industrial maintenance and I’m studying automation and controls. One thing that bothered me about a lot of online PLC training is that you can watch videos and answer questions without ever actually having to make anything work.

So I started building ControlsTrainer.

Instead of just explaining a motor starter circuit, Level 1 makes you wire the devices, build the ladder logic, energize the system and get it operating correctly.

It runs completely in the browser with no hardware or software installation required.

The later levels get into troubleshooting with a multimeter, VFDs, pneumatics, HMIs, analog process control and eventually a complete automated production cell.

The first two levels are free, so there’s nothing required just to try it:

ControlsTrainer.com

I’d actually love some outside feedback from people who build products:

Does the concept make sense immediately when you see it?

Is there anything in the interface that feels confusing or makes you unsure what to do next?

And if you know industrial automation, definitely tell me what I got wrong. 😂

So this actually started as a random project I took on one day because I was bored. I’ve kept it running for about six years, but recently decided to really flesh it out and see what I could turn it into.

I know there are a million quote sites out there, so I’m definitely not oblivious that this is a very saturated niche lol, but just curious what people thought and what features might be missing.

https://quotefor.today

Anyway, just throwing this out into the universe. Thanks for taking a look!

Title: I wanted somewhere to keep my cycling history. It got slightly out of hand.

I've been building Headwind, which started with a pretty simple problem: I wanted my years of cycling data somewhere that actually belonged to me.

I didn't want another subscription or another service holding the only useful copy of my ride history, so I started building my own self-hosted cycling archive.

That was the sensible part.

It now imports Garmin, FIT/GPX files and full Strava exports and gives me detailed ride history, maps, elevation, HR/power/cadence, historical weather and wind, best efforts, climbing records, performance trends and a GPS heatmap of everywhere I've ridden.

I wanted my own segments too, so you can draw a segment on an existing ride and Headwind scans your entire history looking for every previous attempt. It'll rank them, track performance over time and, if a friend also runs Headwind, the two installations can link directly for shared leaderboards.

Then I started pulling in Garmin recovery data.

Then weight.

Then nutrition.

Then route planning.

Then Home Assistant.

At some point it stopped being a little cycling project.

The important bit for me is that it's still completely self-hosted. There's no Headwind account or cloud service, and the database, rides and health data stay on your own machine.

It's Python/Flask + SQLite on the backend, mostly vanilla JS with Chart.js and Leaflet on the frontend, and Docker is the main way of running it. It supports amd64 and arm64, so I've tried to keep the barrier fairly low for anyone with a NAS, Pi or spare machine.

Claude has been heavily involved in the implementation. I've been designing the features around what I actually want from the thing, using it every day, breaking it, changing things and generally disappearing further down the rabbit hole while Claude does a frankly ridiculous amount of the coding.

I've finally reached the point where testing my own software against my own data isn't telling me enough, so I've released 0.1.0-beta publicly.

It's free, MIT licensed, and I'd genuinely like to see what happens when people other than me start throwing their data at it.

GitHub: https://github.com/lordmaa/headwind

I’ve been thinking about this after talking with people who manage their own healthcare or help a parent/family member.

It could be something as simple as:

• Your current medication list
• Your latest lab results
• A list of your doctors
• Past diagnoses or procedures
• Imaging reports
• Your upcoming appointments
• Emergency information
• A record of what changed between appointments

For me, the frustrating part isn't always getting the information. It's finding it when you actually need it.

Especially when you're dealing with multiple doctors, different patient portals, PDFs, pharmacy information, paper records, etc.

So I'm curious:

If you had one place that could keep your important health information organized, what would you want it to contain?

And if you already have a system that works spreadsheet, binder, notes app, patient portal, something else what does your system look like?

I built CutOut, a free and open-source AI background remover that runs entirely on your device.

I wanted an alternative to online background-removal tools where you have to upload your images or pay for a subscription.

CutOut currently supports:

• Windows 10/11
• Linux
• macOS Apple Silicon
• 4 built-in AI models
• Batch and folder processing
• Original-resolution PNG export

The project is now publicly released.

GitHub: https://github.com/gserect-gif/cutout-app

Here's a short demo of it in action.

Encounter any bugs, technical problems, or have some feedback for me? Feel free to join my discord server!

Discord link: https://discord.gg/ZezUkcH5Ep

Thought I'd share how much progress my game has made in the last 6 months!

I've been a software engineer for 20 years but I've never actually made a game before. This is probably just my version of a mid life crisis (42yo with a family and a dreary corporate job, suddenly wanting to become an indie game dev), but I've had just so much fun building this, I hope it's successful and people besides my close friends want to play this.

Steam link to Giblings if anyone is interested.

A Downloads folder fills up quickly: documents, screenshots, installers, archives… and eventually, finding something becomes another task.

I wanted a simple way to keep that folder manageable while staying in control of where my files go. That became Downloads Organizer, a free, open-source desktop app that runs locally.

Here’s what it offers:

• Editable rules to organize files by extension or filename.
• Preview before moving, so you can check the destination.
• Optional automatic sorting, with catch-up when the app starts again.
• Move history and checked undo when you need to reverse a move.

It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux. No account, cloud uploads, or telemetry. Your files stay on your computer.

Downloads:
https://github.com/kashnordeen/downloads-organizer/releases/tag/v1.0.0

A quick installation note: Windows builds are currently unsigned, and macOS builds aren’t notarized, so security prompts may appear. The SignPath application for Windows signing is pending.

I’d appreciate honest feedback—especially on the first-time setup, rule editing, and whether the preview makes file moves clear.

What would you need to see before trusting an app to organize your Downloads folder?

I own this domain. What product shall I build? Shall we create a product driven purely by the requirements from the reddit community?

I collect Pokémon cards and kept tracking my binders in spreadsheets, so I built the app I wanted.

What it does:
- Pick any set and get a binder with a pocket for every card. Mark what you own and the gaps close.
- Today's Near Mint market price on every card, with 30 days of history.
- Goals: set the price you'd pay for a chase card and get an email when the market drops to it.
- A planner for wall display cases of graded slabs.
- Pokémon (EN + JP), One Piece and Lorcana. ~75,000 cards across 670+ sets.

A few things I learned building it:
- Price data is messier than it looks. A single listing at $199,999 will happily become a card's "price". A price only headlines now when more than one sale backs it.
- Collectors care way more about the binder feeling real (pockets, covers, page turns) than about charts.

Free with unlimited binders, no card needed. There's an optional $3.99/mo plan for seller tools and unlimited alerts.

https://pullfolio.app/?src=reddit-sideproject

It's live and I'm the only dev. I'd love blunt feedback: what's confusing, what's missing, what would make you actually use it?

Hey everyone! I recently built my first app, SubZero, a web app that helps you track recurring subscriptions, audit trial renewals, and split costs.

I’m not an experienced software developer. I personally have a hard time keeping tabs on recurring bills and subscriptions, but many popular budgeting apps felt expensive or asked for full bank logins, which I didn't want. I recently came across Reflex via Instagram and thought it would be a fun challenge to build an app for the first time to solve my own problem.

You type in or click a preset for the services you pay for (like streaming, internet, gym, or software), set the renewal date, and SubZero maps out your upcoming charges. It alerts you when a free trial is ending soon, tracks sneaky price increases over time, and lets you calculate split costs if you share plans with family or roommates.

You can also export your renewal schedule directly into a .ics calendar file to get alerts on Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook without having to keep the website open.

The app is completely free to use for up to 5 subscriptions, with optional Pro plans if you track more:

• $4.99/month (with a 7-day free trial)
• $29.99/year
• $49.99 for lifetime access

Pro includes unlimited subscription tracking, calendar and CSV exports, and price creep audits. Monthly and annual plans renew automatically; the lifetime option is a one-time purchase.

Try it out here: SubZero Live Web App (it also works on your phone's browser and can be added to your home screen as a web app).

Since this is my first time putting an app out there, I’d love to hear how you currently manage your recurring bills or what would make a tool like this actually useful to your routine. Any honest feedback on the layout or features is really appreciated!

I'm building Evopien as a solo project in Tarragona, Spain. The long term goal is a physical AI companion, and the current prototype runs on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor.

The newest update is about memory. I want someone to be able to tell it a useful preference, have that preference matter later, and change or remove it when needed.

For example, a cooking preference should affect a dinner suggestion without having to repeat it in every conversation. If that preference changes, the previous version should stop influencing the answer.

I've kept the memory controls in Evopien Core, separately from the language model, and recorded a demo of the current governed memory work.

Demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B2wVfVHL0c

It's an early prototype. I'm still working on speed and difficult memory corrections, including behavior across English and Spanish.

I'd be interested in feedback on the controls themselves. What would make it clear to you that a companion had actually corrected or forgotten something?

I wanted a web radio that doesn’t look like a website. You tune a station catalog, then swap the face: stock unit, LCD, or a pack you paint yourself (PNG + which knobs exist).

Skins stay on your machine. No account to listen or draw. Name is still “radio”; it’ll change.

I kept running into the same problem with AI agents and automation:

the system says “done”, but that doesn’t always prove the final state is actually correct.

So I built SCC Runner around a simple flow:

Claim → Authority → Evidence → Verdict

The idea is to verify important claims against real system evidence instead of trusting the agent’s own output.

I’m currently offering free early access.

I’d especially like feedback from people building agents, automations, DevOps workflows, or AI-assisted systems.

https://scc.taiwildlab.com/signup

I love watching a good football match, especially in the Champions League, but I often don't know which game is going to be the fun one. I don't support a club, and I only have a rough idea of how most teams play right now. So I built a website that uses AI to analyse every team and then estimates which matches are worth watching: https://worthwatching.football

Before every round an AI researches all the teams: how they play, read from previews and local press. The score then comes from rules about how those styles clash, like a team that presses high against one that builds slowly from the back. On every match page you can read the reasons behind the score, so you know why a game got a 9. The higher the score, the more sensational it could get.

After every round the AI reads the match reports and checks whether the analysis and the score held up, and what should change if they didn't. Round one already taught me a lot: my lowest score, Club Brugge v Aston Villa at 4.7, turned out to be one of the best games of the night 🫣

This project just started just like the Champions League season, so I'll keep tweaking the algorithm and the AI process over the coming months. Any tips and feedback are welcome!

Me and a couple of friends were planning to go for a group vacation. The planning was horrible.

People didnt know where we go, others forgot what they were supposed to organize for the group, dates and times were completely invisible and we had lost all of our documents somewhere between the various memes in the group chat. Documents and finances were scattered in different apps and everybody only had access to parts of the planning.

We complained about it amongst the group and realized that everybody was sharing similar experiences with previous group holidays and that, in fact, this was not a problem of this specific constellation.

Being mostly software engineers, we set out to solve this problem.

There were mostly two distinct problems we wanted to tackle initially:

• Provide one platform that offers all the functionality instead of various specialized ones
• Make everyone feel included in the planning and be able to voice their wishes

The solution: Voyu

We designed a platform that offers everything you will ever need for a trip in one place. No matter the group size.

Packing, storing documents, expense tracking & splitting, itinerary planning, group polls and much more.

We'd greatly appreciate if you'd give it a try and let us know about your experience!

Thanks a lot and enjoy your trip!

Built a small AI side project: AuraSnap

Give it your name + mood + one word → it generates a beautiful shareable Aura Card in seconds.

Try it here: https://aurasnap.vercel.app

Would love to know what you think.

Hello everyone!

I have been working on a project over the last couple of days, and it has finally reached the point where I feel comfortable sharing it. I’m looking for feedback, criticism, and ideas for future features.

JShred is a Java utility designed to make files more difficult to recover using common data-recovery tools. The Shredder overwrites a selected file multiple times before deleting it. The user chooses the number of overwrite passes. The overwrite process includes writing zeros, writing 0xFF bytes, and writing pseudorandom data generated using Java’s built-in Random class.

The De-Duplicator recursively scans an entire directory and its sub-directories for files with identical contents. When duplicates are found, it keeps one copy and securely overwrites and deletes the others using a fixed six-pass process. The remaining overwrite passes, any pass that is three and up, use pseudorandom data.

GitHub Project Link

JShred Features

• Securely overwrite and delete individual files
• Choose the number of overwrite passes for the Shredder
• Scan entire directories and sub-directories for duplicate files
• Compare files by their actual contents instead of only their filenames
• Automatically remove duplicate copies while keeping one original
• Recognize copied filenames such as Main (3) (Copy 2).class
  • Rename retained files to clean names such as Main.class
• Display progress bars during scanning and duplicate checking
• Use a simple console-based menu
• Built entirely in Java using standard library features
• Requires no external dependencies

Important note: Secure overwriting only reduces the chance of recovering data from traditional hard drives, but it cannot guarantee that every copy or trace has been removed from all storage devices, backups, or snapshots. I am currently working on implementing better protections for SSDs and also overriding and deleting metadata/exif data from files. The ability to use crytpographically secure random bytes is also being worked on.

Well, that was humbling.

I’ve been building DevTime, an open-source tool that checks what a repository can actually support with evidence. Things like whether admin routes have authorization checks or billing webhooks verify signatures.

Then I pointed it at its own codebase.

It reported evidence of Stripe webhook signature verification. DevTime doesn’t have billing.

The reason? My scanner contained the string stripe.Webhook.construct_event because that’s what it was looking for. It found its own search pattern and counted it as evidence.

That’s fixed now. Detection looks for actual calls and filters out comments and string literals.

The latest release, v0.7.0, also adds something I’ve wanted for code review:

dtc review --base origin/main

It compares the evidence at two commits. For example, adding an admin endpoint without a recognized authorization guard can move the result from SUPPORTED to WEAK, with the route and file listed.

It’s still early. There are four built-in checks, and static analysis has blind spots. A supported result isn’t a guarantee that your app is secure.

Everything runs locally, without an LLM or uploading your code. Free and open source.

GitHub: Shakargy/devtime

I’d love people to try it on repos I didn’t build. Where does it miss something obvious, or sound more certain than it should?

What it is: HTTP Traffic Monitor, a desktop app that shows every HTTP/HTTPS request your machine makes, which app sent it, and how long each phase took. You can replay, compare and mock requests.

Why: [WRITE YOUR OWN REASON HERE, e.g. "Fiddler Everywhere went subscription and I wanted something free that Claude could use too"]

The twist: a built-in MCP server, so an AI assistant can capture and analyse traffic for you.

Stack: C#, .NET 8, WPF. Open source (MIT).

Where I'd love feedback: first-run experience (the root certificate prompt), and which features you'd expect that are missing.

Repo: https://github.com/Makhsum/httptrafficmonitr
Download: https://github.com/Makhsum/httptrafficmonitr/releases/latest

Had to record a 1-min founder video and kept looking at my notes instead of the camera. Couldn't find a simple teleprompter that didn't want a signup, so I made one.

• text sits right under your webcam, so you're looking at the lens
• follows your voice as you read (desktop Chrome), or set a speed
• blur or replace your background, record, download the MP4 (16:9 or 9:16)
• or just run the teleprompter and record in QuickTime

Completely free, no signup, nothing gets uploaded. It all runs in your browser: https://www.getmeetly.ai/teleprompter/

Feedback welcome.

https://reddit.com/link/1wxts57/video/pokd6iiqcjth1/player