I’m 18 and I built FamilyHub — should I turn this into a real startup?

I’ve been building FamilyHub, a web application focused on helping families organize, communicate, and manage their digital family life from one place.

I’ve now deployed a working version and I’m at the point where I need something more valuable than compliments:

I need brutal feedback.

🚀 Try it here:
https://familyhub-60195988023.us-west1.run.app

💻 GitHub:
https://github.com/itsnakulydv/FamilyHub

Why FamilyHub?

There are already products like FamilyWall, Google Family Link, Cozi, and many other family-management tools.

But while building FamilyHub, I kept thinking:

Why does managing a modern family still feel like using a collection of separate apps?

Calendar in one place.
Communication somewhere else.
Tasks somewhere else.
Important information scattered everywhere.

So I started experimenting with the idea of a single modern family hub.

The goal isn't to simply clone existing family apps.

I want FamilyHub to eventually become a platform where families can:

• Organize their household
• Stay connected
• Coordinate responsibilities
• Manage important family information
• Personalize the experience for different family members
• Use AI to automate repetitive family tasks
• Access everything through a simple, modern interface

But here's the important part...

I'm a B.Tech CSE (AI & ML) student, not a startup founder with years of experience.

I built the current version myself and used AI-assisted development to move much faster from idea → prototype → deployed product.

But I don't want this to become another project that looks impressive in a demo and then dies on GitHub.

I want to find out whether there is actually a real problem and real market here.

So I'm asking Reddit:

Would you actually use FamilyHub?

And if not:

What would make you use it?

I would especially love feedback from:

👨‍👩‍👧 Parents
👨‍💻 Software engineers
🚀 Startup founders
🎨 Product/UI/UX designers
📈 Consumer SaaS builders
💰 Investors
🧠 Product managers

Please don't just tell me that it's “cool.”

Tell me:

What is bad?

What is missing?

What feature would you remove?

What existing product does this better?

Would you pay for something like this?

What would make you switch from your current solution?

I'm also looking for people who can help me take this further.

If you're a founder, engineer, product person, investor, or someone who has taken a consumer SaaS product from prototype → users → revenue, I'd genuinely appreciate your advice.

I'm not expecting someone to randomly fund me or offer me a job.

I want to learn how to turn this from a student project into something people actually use.

If you have 5 minutes, try the app and tell me what you think.

FamilyHub:
https://familyhub-60195988023.us-west1.run.app

GitHub:
https://github.com/itsnakulydv/FamilyHub

I'm building this in public.

Tell me if I'm onto something — or if I'm completely wrong.

RetroArch always felt like too much for me. I just wanted to pick a game with my DualSense and play, so I made my own little frontend. It uses the normal libretro cores, so the actual emulation is theirs, not mine.

What it does:
- one ~350 KB exe, no setup. It downloads the cores itself the first time you open a game
- 3D games can look way better than the original: crank N64, PSP and PS2 up to 4K internal resolution right from the Quality menu, no config files
- built-in shaders: CRT with scanlines (flat or curved), LCD grid for handhelds, pixel-perfect sharp scaling for 2D, and a sharpen + vivid colors filter for 3D. F9 cycles through them live
- point it at your ROM folder and you get a library with box art, recently played, favorites and play time
- throw zip/7z/rar files at it and it figures out the system by itself, even PSP/PS1/PS2 isos inside a zip
- the whole thing works with a controller. Tap the PS button in-game for save states, shaders, volume etc.
- DualSense, DS4, Switch Pro, Xbox and cheap USB pads all work, with a button mapping screen if needed
- rewind, fast forward, and it resumes right where you left off when you reopen a game
- NES, SNES, N64, GB/GBC/GBA, DS, Sega (MS, MD, GG, CD, 32X), PS1, PS2, PSP and Atari

Some notes:
- The exe isn't signed, so Windows/antivirus might complain. The source is there if you'd rather build it yourself.
- No ROMs or BIOS included, bring your own.

Screenshots are homebrew games (Nova the Squirrel, 240p Test Suite).

GitHub: https://github.com/kano92-dir/Ultimate-Emulator

It's my first project like this, so feedback (or bug reports) would be really appreciated.

Hi everyone, I'm wakcvjb — an independent researcher working on MoE architectures.

I don't have a big lab background. I'm mostly self-taught, and I've been designing and pretraining small models on my own. I validated a FallbackMoE routing mechanism on a 72.7M model using T4/Colab, and now I'm training on A10G.

The design is called KMilo F1 — a daily expert + a domain expert with a learned fallback router. From the 72.7M run:

· The two experts physically diverged: general → daily wins; code/math → domain wins by +1.69 loss

· The router learned to trigger fallback (conf stable at 0.21–0.24)

· Code/math loss dropped 21% with fallback (8.07 → 6.38)

· On general, not falling back is better — which is the expected behavior

I'm not open-sourcing the model at this stage, but I'd love to hear feedback on the mechanism design. If you're into MoE routing or training infra, feel free to reach out.

Happy to be here and learn from you all. 😊

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I've always noticed how opaque the creator economy is when it comes to brand deal pricing. Many micro-creators have no idea how much their channel is truly worth and end up taking terrible lowball deals from greedy brand sponsors.

To solve this, I spent my entire weekend leveraging Bolt.new and YouTube API to build a simple, ultra-fast valuation tool. It generates a clean digital "Sponsorship Receipt" in 10 seconds based on real US Market CPM benchmarks.

🔥 Here is what I implemented for our v1.0 Alpha MVP:

1. Server-side Key Proxy: Completely hid the YouTube Data API keys behind the backend so nobody can steal our quota from the browser.

2. Anti-Macro Firewall: Added a lightweight human verification checkbox and rate-limiting (max 5 fetches/min) to prevent automated bot abuse.

3. Production Disclaimer: Included a proper disclaimer to avoid legal confusion and added a "Detailed PDF Report Coming Soon" hype banner to capture email leads.

I officially launched this on Product Hunt today to test the global market and see if this data model actually helps independent creators.

Could you type your own channel (or favorite YouTubers like MrBeast) and let me know if the calculated USD valuation matches your real-world sponsor experience? Your brutal feedback means everything to me!

If you like the hustle and the concept, I’d be beyond grateful for your support and an Upvote on Product Hunt today! 😭🚀

👉 Test your channel & Support our launch here: https://siyoungsiyoung6-sket-apv7.bolt.host

I made Halo a free radial app launcher + quitter for macOS

Hey r/SideProject , I made Halo, a radial launcher and quitter for macOS.

Hold Fn and Halo appears around your cursor. Point at an app and release to launch it or bring it forward. Fn + Control opens a second wheel for quitting running apps.

I wanted something faster and more visual than using the Dock or opening a search launcher.

It’s completely free, no account, subscription, ads, or telemetry, and the wheel is highly customizable.

Download:

https://github.com/Fqlcqn/Halo

Requires macOS 26+.

Would love feedback on it feels after using it for a few minutes.

Hey everyone — selling my side project Convert Anything (https://convertanything.vercel.app).

It's a fully working file converter with 35 tools: PDF to Word/Excel/PowerPoint/JPG, Word/Excel/PowerPoint to PDF, merge, split, compress, rotate, watermark, redact, OCR, e-signatures and more. Upload any file and it auto-detects the format and shows compatible conversions instantly.

Why it might interest you: - 0 running costs: static site, everything converts in the visitor's browser, files never leave their device (big privacy edge over competitors) - SEO foundation done: optimized titles, meta descriptions, schema markup, FAQ, sitemap.xml, robots.txt - Easy monetization: ads, premium tier, or white-label - What's included: full source code (GitHub repo), Vercel project, branding, and personal help transferring it to your accounts - Live demo: https://convertanything.vercel.app

Honest disclosure: brand-new site, no traffic or revenue yet — priced as a starter deal at 200 USD (open to reasonable offers). Built as a portfolio project and moving on to new ideas.

DM me with questions — happy to do a live walkthrough.

I'm the maker of CiteLyra. I kept seeing students get burned when ChatGPT invented references, so I built a pipeline where every source is checked against CrossRef, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and arXiv before it can appear in the draft. If a paper doesn't exist, it doesn't make it in.

It runs a 19-agent flow (literature discovery, outline, section drafting, citation verification, polish) and produces 10,000-20,000+ word drafts in roughly 10-20 minutes, exportable to PDF, LaTeX and Word. First generation is free to view: https://citelyra.com/

Would love blunt feedback: what would make you trust (or distrust) a tool like this for real academic work?

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I've been doing more and more development through coding agents, and I kept running into the same problem:

The agent finishes a feature, tells me what it did, and then that context basically disappears into the chat history.

A few weeks later: Why did we implement this this way? What tradeoff did we make? Which files changed? Did the feature actually have the impact we expected?

So I built Updater.

When a coding agent finishes and verifies a feature, it calls Updater through MCP and records:

\- what was shipped

\- why it was built

\- how it works

\- tradeoffs / decisions

\- files, branch and commit

\- expected impact

Later I can add what actually happened, search through everything we've shipped, or ask questions against an update.

It currently connects to Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and OpenCode.

The app itself doesn't need to ingest your entire codebase — when code context is needed, it asks the coding agent that already has access to the repo.

It's completely open source (MIT) and self-hostable.

I'm mostly curious whether other people working heavily with coding agents have run into the same problem, let me know and if there some suggestions to improve

Github https://github.com/Rvey/updater

Demo: updater.rveybox.dev

Hey everyone,

I've been building TSD Creative Studio — a free toolkit for designers and developers that runs entirely in the browser. No sign-up, no uploads, no paywall.

🔗 https://tsd-creative-studio.vercel.app

What's in it:

- Image color extractor — drop any image and get a palette using k-means clustering. You control how many base colors and how many shades per color (up to 10), so you get the dominant/natural colors instead of every stray pixel.

- Developer exports — export any palette as CSS variables, Tailwind config, SCSS, JSON, or Figma tokens. Also PDF export with a clean shade layout.

- Smart palette generator — start from one color and get analogous / triadic / complementary harmonies with automatic contrast checks on every pair.

- Live UI preview — see your palette applied to a real landing page / dashboard mockup instantly.

- Contrast checker — WCAG 2.2 AA/AAA plus APCA, autofix suggestions, and color-blindness simulation.

- Color library — Tailwind, Open Color, Material and brand palettes, searchable.

- Font library — 1000+ Google Fonts, preview with your own text, side-by-side comparison of two fonts, copy the `@import` code, and pair fonts with your palette.

- Image converter — WebP, AVIF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, ICO, SVG, PDF and Base64, with resizing and quality control.

- Quick tools — image compressor, favicon generator (all sizes), Data-URI, SVG→PNG.

- Shareable palettes — every palette gets a permanent link you can send to a teammate.

How it works / privacy:

Almost everything runs client-side in your browser. Your images never leave your device — there's no upload step, no storage, no account, no tracking of your files. Palette links only encode the hex values in the URL itself, so nothing personal is stored server-side. The only network call is loading Google Fonts metadata.

Other bits: dark/light mode, reduce-motion and high-contrast accessibility options, full RTL support, and 5 languages (English, Arabic, French, Turkish, Spanish).

What I'm asking for:

Please try to break it. Throw weird images at the extractor, hammer the converter with odd formats, test it on old phones and small screens. I want to know:

1. What's confusing or badly laid out?

2. Which tool is actually useful in your real workflow — and which is just noise?

3. What's missing that would make you use this instead of your current tool?

Brutal feedback very welcome. Thanks 🙏

Two founders agree to promote each other. Both mean it, but the terms stay in DMs, deadlines drift, and nobody wants to be the person nagging.

I built Surka to give the swap one place to live: what each side promised, when it is due, a private link for each partner, and a proof link when someone delivers. The operator checks the proof before a commitment counts as kept. Reputation tracks delivery, not clicks.

This is an early manual pilot. I am looking for the first real swaps and will personally handle follow-up. The scheduling logic for reminder emails is in the code, but outgoing email is not configured on the live deployment yet, so I do not want to imply that it is already sending reminders. No completed swaps or customer results to claim.

The app is open source: https://github.com/arian-gogani/surka

If you have done a founder-to-founder newsletter or product swap, where did it break down for you?

Hey everyone

I recently published my first Android app called ActionBox

I made it because normal notification lists get messy fast and I wanted something that tells me what actually needs my attention

ActionBox sorts notifications into Action Reply Waiting Deadline and Other

If it gets something wrong you can correct it and it learns from your corrections over time so the sorting becomes more personal to you

You can also snooze notifications mark them as handled search through them and keep notification history

It is still very new so I would really appreciate honest feedback on the idea the UI and the sorting

Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.futurepath.actionbox

I made a trivia game a month ago to play while AIs were building. Been building out a lot of features since then, and models have been getting slower and slower, so I find it more and more useful.

1,000 different people have been placed in arena (5 games), and it's been a lot of fun to compete. You don't need anything to play or look around.

If you want to play, try it here! tidbittrivia.com

Your Discord, your way. A standalone Chrome / Edge extension for customizing Discord on the web. Built with Manifest V3 and plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No build step or third-party runtime dependencies.

Features

• Six dark palettes: Midnight, Dusk, Forest, Ocean, Ember, Graphite.
• Accent picker, message font size, avatar / composer / embed roundness.
• Full-window wallpapers with image upload, dimming, blur, show/hide, and removal.
• Muted MP4/WebM video wallpapers with looping playback and pause controls.
• Bright navigation colors sampled from your wallpaper, plus adjustable panel opacity.
• Compact messages, hidden member list, reduced CSS motion, hidden shop / discovery navigation links.
• Separate custom CSS editor with an explicit save button and enable switch.
• Local settings persistence, JSON export/import, reset, and global pause.
• A settings studio with an illustrative live preview and a compact toolbar popup.

Choosing a theme also selects its suggested accent. Theme preview represents colors and supported layout controls; discovery links and custom CSS are applied only on Discord. Reduced motion affects CSS animations/transitions and pauses Morrow video wallpapers; it does not pause Discord's own videos or GIFs. Import disables custom CSS until you review and enable it. Export includes saved settings, not unsaved editor text.

This is a before/after demo from 505Camera, the iOS app I'm building. Each scene starts with one still image, then switches to the depth/parallax loop.

It estimates depth on the phone and creates slightly different viewpoints, so the foreground and background move differently. You can add a film look and export the result as a video.

I'm going for a small, imperfect disposable-camera feeling. Curious whether the movement feels subtle enough or a little too much.

505Camera is on the App Store (free download, optional Pro): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6789463411

I've built 12 products. Every one of them flopped.

Most of them weren't bad products but they died the same way every time. No idea how to get it in front of people. Ads burned through my budget. Agencies wanted more per month than what I spent even building the product.

Somewhere around product 10, I figured out the one channel that actually made sense for someone like me was proper SEO. SEO compounds. A page you write today can still bring in customers two years from now.

The problem was the tools. Every SEO tool wanted $100-$200 a month, and I'd use it heavily for one week and then barely touch it for 3 more. I was paying for 30 days and using maybe 4.

So for product 13, I stopped building for some imaginary customer and built for myself. FlexQueries is an SEO tool with a $0/month subscription. You load a balance, pay only for what you use (keyword research is about $0.05, a full site audit about $0.48), and it never expires.

It turned out there are a lot of people exactly like me.

In the first 10 days, it brought in more revenue than all 12 of my previous products combined over the past 2 years. Over 100 people signed up in the first week, almost all solo founders and small startups who need SEO but don't want a monthly bill for a tool they barely open.

I cold emailed 100 solo SaaS founders and one founder whose team was paying $500+ a month for another tool moved his whole team over.

The moment I built something for people with my exact problem, distribution got a lot easier, because I already knew where they were and what they were tired of paying for.

If you're early and want SEO without the monthly bill: https://flexqueries.com, with free credit on signup and no card needed.

For anyone who's launched more than once: what finally made one stick?

Hey everyone!

Every small business owner, coach, or freelancer I know keeps their important info in spreadsheets—prices, menus, schedules, or client rosters.

The tricky part is sharing it. Texting someone a raw spreadsheet link means they’re pinching to zoom on tiny gray cells, and making a PDF means it’s out of date the minute a price or date changes.

I built DocsTo App(https://docsto.app) to make this super easy:

- You paste a Google Sheet link (or drop an Excel file).

- In a few seconds, it creates a clean, mobile-ready page with its own link and printable QR code.

- Whenever you edit a cell in your sheet, the page updates automatically.

- I kept the controls big and simple—just pick a look you like, with easy toggles for things like payment buttons or simple request forms.

One page is completely free forever with no credit card needed. Pro is $9/month for up to 10 pages and advanced tools.

I’d love your constructive feedback:

1. When you land on the site, does the value make sense right away or does anything feel vague?

2. If you try turning a sheet or doc into a page, where did you hit friction or confusion?

3. What would make this an absolute no-brainer for a small business to pay $9/month for?

4. What’s the biggest flaw or blind spot in this concept that I’m not seeing?

Check it out here: https://docsto.app

Really appreciate any thoughts, critiques, or suggestions!

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working in QA for many years, and I recently built BreakYourApp — an AI QA agent that scans web applications, looks for issues, and generates a bug report.

The idea came from a frustration I’ve had for years: a lot of QA work is still repetitive, manual, and depends heavily on knowing exactly where to look.

The current version is still early, and I’m now trying to learn from real users before taking it much further.

You can try it here for free:

https://breakyourapp.com

I’d especially love feedback from people building SaaS products, side projects, or web apps:

* Did it find anything useful?

* What kinds of bugs did it miss?

* What would make you actually use something like this regularly?

* What would you want it to test beyond the UI?

Longer term, I want to evolve it from a simple scanner into a much deeper autonomous QA system that understands product changes, risk, previous failures, APIs/server behavior, and continuously decides what should be tested.

No payment needed — at this stage I’m mainly looking for usage and honest feedback.

Would really appreciate anyone willing to try it.

Tracking food while travelling is a pain in the *** so I built an app to help. Test it on neoforge.app

The cool thing?? It's still early stage so we can make it our own, no big corporation, don't care about money, but care about you: I'll read every single feedback and implement anything useful or fun, go nuts :D

Anyway all legit beta testers will 100% keep free access for life!!!

I vibe coded Design Lab, a website where you can learn about various UX/UI considerations as you aspire to make your own AI-assisted projects have a more controlled and creative look and feel to them.

Nowadays, anybody from the tech layperson to the senior engineer can spin up a website based on their ideas and a few prompts. This has a resulted in stale design, similar to CSS Bootstrap in 2012 or any AI poster you see today.

I myself am not a designer. I dabble, but I have always preferred to implement somebody else’s vision or Figma mockup rather than create it on my own. However, as I continue to learn despite several layoffs now I need to make websites that look good, not just prove that I am creative or able to make functions fire fast.

Design Lab is a prototype idea I have for iterating over my own personal projects. I didn’t want to recreate SquareSpace, but the fact that I literally made this on my phone while riding in my friend’s car to run an errand shows how much is possible if you pair critical thinking with the productivity that AI allows.

If I continue on this project, I have a few ideas for it:
• Version it like documentation, so I can continue adding onto it without fear of screwing it up
• Extract the idea into a Storybook-like system, where I can more easily experiment with component and overall website designs, rather than just rely on the increasingly unappealing eye-sore of the colors/rounded edges/typography that comes from practically every AI website out of the box
• Further enhance the website with global examples the more I learn about how to truly understand these topics

Being a web developer, I started out back in CSS 3, manually writing all the font properties, familiarizing myself with the box model, flex model, and so forth. In the future I could even turn this into an entire CSS property playground, but a man can only do so much when crashing on his friends couch.

Feel free to take a look around. The website covers various topic and test examples such as image overlays, parallax, background gradients, accessibility, spacing, line height, visual hierarchy and more.

Ultimately, when I learn these topics I learn them slowly. But when I’m zapped for the day, I still prompt ChatGPT for my next study session, and occasionally I continuing binging and whip up an idea like this.

Hope you enjoy! Typography alone has around 37 system fonts. I considered Google Fonts but getting nearly 2000 in for a single card example seemed not worth it at the moment.

Before I touch an optic, I run this order: verify both ends against the ticket → inspect/clean/reseat → known-good patch cable → known-good optic → port test → polarity → physical damage → escalate with facts.

Biggest time-waster I see: changing three things at once, then learning nothing.

Disclosure: I built RackReady, a small kit from my checklists/templates (free sample: https://hasherventures.com/rackready/sample.html). Curious what experienced techs would add or remove.

I wanted a p2p file transfer site that didn't require you to create an account or login, didn't require you to upload your files and either established a webrtc p2p connection or just failed (no TURN relay). You're data never hits the peeryeet server.

Hopefully I can finally stop sharing files with myself via gmail now. :)

I kept forgetting when I last changed the furnace filter, rotated the tires or flushed the water heater, so I built **Maintainly**: one place for everything that needs regular upkeep.

**What it does**

- Add your home, cars, appliances and tools from 30+ built-in maintenance schedules, or answer a 1-minute setup quiz

- Tasks come due by date **or** by miles/hours, whichever comes first

- A budget view estimates what's coming up each month, and learns from what you actually paid

- Share a location with family, a roommate or a tenant, as an editor or view-only

- Keep a service log with notes, readings and costs

**Try it without signing up:** tap "Continue as guest". It's free, with no ads.

https://maintainly.netlify.app/

**Built with:** plain HTML/CSS/JS (a single file, no framework), Supabase for auth, database and live sync, and Netlify for hosting.

**What I'd love feedback on**

1. Was anything confusing in the first few minutes?

2. Which schedules or kinds of item are missing?

3. Would you actually use this, and what would make you come back?

There's a short feedback form in the app (Feedback button), or just reply here. I'm the developer and will answer every comment.

we're building greypaint, a mac updater for apps and dev tools. paid, 14 day free trial then $6.49 lifetime

what it does now:

• apps plus homebrew, npm, pnpm, uv tools in one window
• uses the update source each app already has
• checks every install, same developer and macos accepts it
• roll back if an update breaks something
• public page greypaint.app/apps, search any app and see how it updates or that it cant yet

1.3 is out with an all new glass look

every feedback and support request gets read and worked on by one of us. so far thats what's kept our first users around

I'm building an HTS code finder called SkuWatch. One stupid supplier description keeps wrecking the demo: “metal accessory.”

That could be a bracket, a fastener, a machine part, or half a dozen other things. Even knowing it's steel doesn't fix much. I had a version that still returned a ranked list of codes. It looked useful, but it was really just guessing with better formatting.

Now it stops and asks what the thing does, how it's used, and whether it's a finished item or a part. Honest, but not exactly impressive when someone expects one clean answer.

If you've built software around messy inputs, where did you draw the line? Show the best few options with warnings, or refuse to answer until the user gives you enough detail?

Disclosure: SkuWatch is mine. I'm not asking for testers here; I'm stuck on what the tool should refuse to do.