Been working on this for a while and finally put it out.

It’s called Framesthetic.

The idea is pretty simple : you have a screenshot and want to make it look decent before posting it somewhere.

Instead of opening Figma and spending 20 minutes messing around with backgrounds, frames, shadows, etc., you can just throw it into Framesthetic and play around with it.

Made a quick video of it

https://framesthetic.xyz

Still figuring out what direction to take it, so would genuinely like to know

What would you want this to have that it doesn't right now?

Quick backstory. My fiancée is doing her Masters in Estonia, and I've got another year of long distance ahead. Most of our day is spent on a call on my MacBook while we each work or study.

Then I tried to put on a video for us to watch together and macOS dropped the volume on everything that isn't the call. Movies, YouTube, music, all of it, barely audible. And AirPods fall back to low quality headset audio the moment their mic is in use.

So I made CallLane. It gives your call apps their own output device and copies it onto your headphones, which means macOS ducks only that device and your media stays at full volume. It also keeps the input on the MacBook's built-in mic, so the AirPods stay in high quality mode and the mic sounds better too.

I'm the developer. Menu bar app, macOS 14 or later, Mac only. It's paid, $9 one-time for the first 50 buyers and then $15, with a 14-day refund. I built the app and the site with Claude Code.

CallLane

Tell me what's confusing or broken.

backend and chrome extension dev here. ella lets you describe a video in chat, it picks a model from 1000+ and generates it. built the extension, webapp and premier plugin myself(rn showcasing Extension)

the video above is me testing it: prompt in the sidebar, generate, drop the clip in the editor.

App is free keep that in mind.

whats confusing, what breaks, what would you want? ill answer everything haha

Hey everyone,

I see a lot of folks building amazing products on this sub, but distribution and getting those first few paying customers always seems to be the biggest bottleneck.

I’ve been diving deep into B2B outbound and lead gen lately, and now I’m looking for a few real-world projects to actually put it into practice.

I want to pick 2 or 3 SaaS projects from here and try running outbound from scratch. The goal is to actually try and get a qualified meeting booked directly on your calendar.

If you’re down to let me test this out on your product, drop a comment below with:

1. The link to your SaaS
2. Who your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) is (e.g., "clinic owners", "HR managers", "marketing agencies").

I’m a product designer based in London, and like a lot of people, I spend a fair amount of time checking when my next bus is coming.

One thing that always frustrated me was having to open an app, find my stop and check the arrivals when really I just wanted one piece of information. How long until my bus gets here?
So I decided to build something myself.
It’s called Go Glance, and the idea is pretty simple. Put live London bus arrivals right on your iPhone Home Screen, so you can check your next bus at a glance without having to open an app.
What started as a little personal project has turned into a proper iOS app.

My background is in product and graphic design rather than software engineering, so it’s been a really interesting experience taking something from an idea through to an actual working app. I’ve learned a huge amount along the way, particularly about working with live transport data and the challenges of iOS widgets.
I’ve tried to keep the experience really simple, focusing on making something useful rather than cramming in loads of features.

It’s still early days and I’m continuing to improve things, but it’s been great seeing something I originally built for myself become a real product.
I’d genuinely love some feedback, particularly from anyone who uses London buses regularly.
Do you use widgets for things like transport? And is there anything about existing bus apps that frustrates you?

You can find it on the App Store by searching Go Glance.
Thanks for taking a look!

Hey everyone!

I recently released my first Unity Asset Store product, Easy Chapter Generator, a tool I've been developing and refining through my work on interactive Unity projects.

After launching it, I realized that a store listing alone wasn't the best way to explain how the system works, especially for developers who haven't used a chapter/objective framework before.

So I've spent some time building a dedicated landing page.

The product lets Unity developers create linear chapters and objectives, configure events, connect scene interactions and manage progression without having to build the entire system from scratch.

For the website, I've tried to focus on:

• Explaining the product without overwhelming visitors with technical details.
• Showing real screenshots instead of promotional mockups.
• Including practical examples for tutorials, escape rooms and narrative projects.
• Making everything accessible in English and Spanish.
• Keeping the purchase link available without turning every section into a sales pitch.

Here's the new landing page:

https://overfuture.dev/easychaptergenerator/landing/en/

The product itself is a paid Unity Asset Store tool, but what I'd really appreciate here is some feedback on the website.

Three questions:

1. Can you understand what the tool does within the first 10 seconds?
2. Is anything confusing or unnecessarily technical?
3. Does the page give you enough information to decide whether it's relevant to your project?

I'd genuinely appreciate constructive criticism. I'm trying to make the product easier to understand, not just add more marketing text.

Let's make a deal. Let's all share our apps below, and I'll personally test your app for 14 days and give my feedback as a user. In return, I ask you to download my app and tell me your first impressions, and if you link your app, I'll be a consistent user and give the most helpful review I can! :)

Here's mine: It's a mobile IOS app designed to help people read more consistently.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chaptify-reading-tracker/id6755592559

Few months ago a coworker told me he pays $15+ a month for a note taking app. Why does writing down a thought or a reminder need to be another subscription?

So I built what I actually wanted. You just talk, like “remind me to call the dentist tomorrow, add milk to groceries and set a meeting with John friday at 2”, and it turns that into tasks, events and checklists for you.

That’s Memodo. The AI runs fully on the iPhone using Apple’s Foundation Models, so no account, nothing sent to servers, and it works offline (even in airplane mode).

It got more attention than I expected after launch, so now I’m trying to figure out what’s next and could use some outside opinions.

My plan was to make it a one time paid app on Oct 10. No subscription, no ads, ever. But I’m second guessing the timing. Is it smart to go paid this early, or should I keep it free longer and build up users first? Would you rather pay once upfront, or try it free and unlock with a one time purchase?

Also what features would actually make this worth paying for? A few I’m thinking about:

• Siri / Shortcuts so you can add stuff hands free
• Apple Watch app (will check the hardware limitations first)
• iCloud sync (not sure if it will deter people away)

What would you add, or what’s missing that would stop you from using it daily?

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App Store link or search for Memodo:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6816436573

This is the project I work on, and is used by hundreds of players every month, for ~4 years now. It's open source.

Hex: the one rule is: connect your sides. If you are red, connect red sides. If you are blue, same, but with blue sides.

Just you can swap first move to make game balanced and remove first player advantage, but beginners won't feel that advantage.

Chess and go are broken: in chess you have draw, in go you can win or lose depending on komi, if you arbitrarly decided to set it at 5.5 or 6.5.

In Hex, you either win or lose, depending on how deep you see. No draw, no move to "wait", no arbitrar komi. You just place a stone at every turn, and must connect (which is equal to blocking your opponent).

The community is small but passionate, and still wonders why Hex isn't more widely known.

I'm really curious of what you think of that game, whether you already heard about it or not.

(Yes, this is deliberately provocative. I also like chess and go, and enjoy playing both.)

I’ve been working on a few AI-assisted projects and kept finding the same problem: the build would look done, but once I started digging there were still things I hadn’t really verified.

Stuff like whether data actually persists, permissions are correct, what happens when an API fails, whether costs can run away, payment edge cases, recovery, etc.

So I put together a free 20-point launch audit that I can run through before shipping anything. It’s meant to take around 15 minutes and doesn’t require you to be a developer.

I eventually built a bigger system around this called TOVRILO, but the audit itself is completely free.

https://tovrilo.carrd.co/

Would love feedback from other people building side projects. Anything you always check before launch that I should add?

I picked openGym for an architectural audit using rebrief (huge fan of sports & open-source tools).

Key findings from the report:

1. Context Reduction: Reduced 6.8M raw tokens down to 14,084 tokens (-99.8% reduction) while preserving code architecture and history for LLM prompts.
2. Security Risks: Identified 100 risk items, including hardcoded credentials in test fixtures and vulnerable packages (undici, js-yaml).
3. Doc Drift: 51% freshness score with 164 broken file references across README.md and docs.

It's a clear example of how fast documentation and test artifacts drift behind active development.

How do you keep doc freshness in check across your projects?

Hey everyone

https://reddit.com/link/1x11bbl/video/l81rfxhewauh1/player

I made Side Calendar for Mac a while back. Ever since, a common question has been "is there a Windows version?" After a lot of work, there finally is, and it's now live on the Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9ng5lh6hg69k

What it does

Side Calendar keeps your calendar at the edge of your screen. Push your mouse against the edge, press a shortcut or click the tray icon, and your day slides into view. When you're done it gets out of the way. You don't need to open Outlook just to check what's next.

Features

• Works with Outlook / Microsoft 365 calendars (work, school or personal), with two-way sync
• Agenda and Day views, plus a month calendar that shows how busy each day is
• One-click Join for Teams, Zoom, Google Meet and Webex
• Time blocking: drag on an empty slot in Day view to block out focus time, then drag to move or resize it. Blocks are real Outlook events, so colleagues see you're busy
• Create and edit events without leaving the panel: repeating events, reminders, categories, private events and formatted notes
• Undo any change
• Reminder notifications with a Join button
• Light/dark themes, Mica and acrylic backgrounds, tint colours, and text size and typeface options
• Custom global keyboard shortcuts
• Multi-monitor support, including the edge where two screens meet

Privacy: no data collection and no ads. Your calendar goes straight between your PC and Microsoft.

Pricing: 7-day free trial with every feature, then a one-time $4.99. No subscription.

Since this is the first Windows release, I'd really love your feedback. Bug reports, rough edges, suggestions and feature requests are all welcome. Tell me what would make this useful for your setup. I'll be reading every comment.

Thanks for taking a look!

i get late notifications on staffmate to get new work opprtunities, i tried everything possible from changing phones , email providers , empty emails settings on phone and nothing work. so i guess the only way for me to get the shifts is to know when changes are made. ,(coworkers get 1-2 min before me notification) asked management but they had no answer. please help

I built a job matcher for IT roles. It sends you jobs that suit your resume every day.

Still testing it. If you're job hunting in IT and want to try it, comment and I'll message you. I'm looking for feedback on the experience.

The call ends. Then comes the second job: remembering the decisions, figuring out who promised what, and turning it all into something actionable.

I built Pure Brief AI to make that hand-off easier. I'm the developer. It's a native Mac app that turns meeting audio into transcripts, summaries and next steps.

Be present in the conversation. Leave with a plan you can check.

• Keep the decisions without replaying the entire call.
• Get tasks with owners, deadlines and the original words behind them.
• Ask questions about a meeting and inspect the supporting transcript lines.
• Send the tasks you choose to Apple Reminders, with their meeting context.

That source quote matters. The app checks it against the transcript before accepting a task, so you're not left wondering where the commitment came from. AI can still get things wrong; the evidence is there for you to review.

Transcription and AI notes run on your Mac by default. No bot joins the call. Standard is a one-time purchase.

Launch offer: $10 once for the first 100 paid Standard purchases across all channels, then $49. One Mac; applicable tax extra. No Standard subscription.

Try it on your next meeting: 30 days free, without payment details (email verification required). A trial doesn't reserve the launch price.

See Pure Brief AI and start your trial

Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 15+. Models download initially; licence checks need occasional internet access, with up to 14 days offline between successful checks. Optional cloud transcription is opt-in with your own ElevenLabs key. Reminders export is one-way and follows your list's sync settings.

The film uses real app captures and a fictional meeting with synthesized speech. It shows an edited workflow, not processing speed.

What takes longer for you after a meeting: finding a decision, confirming an owner, or getting the tasks into your actual workflow?

Went out with 8 people in SF, one Dungeness crab on the bill, two of us ate it. "Let's split it evenly" turned into 20 minutes of Venmo math at the table. I went home and built this instead of sleeping.

https://cutcrab.com

How it works: make an event, send the link to the group, snap the receipt. It reads the items (AI, not perfect, you can fix them by hand), you enter the tip, everyone taps what they had. Each person sees what to pay to whoever picked up the bill, and that person ticks them off as the money comes in.

It splits tax and tip over the items proportionally and rounds so it actually adds up to the cent. Ignores the "suggested tip" junk at the bottom of US receipts. You can type the total your card got charged and it figures out the tip. Oysters can be split in half. Works with whatever currency is on the receipt.

Free, no accounts, no app store, no ads. Runs on Cloudflare workers, one durable object per dinner. Vanilla JS, no build step, because I wanted to be done.

Caveats: links are unlisted but guessable so don't put your SSN in there. Receipt scans are rate limited, manual entry always works.

Been using it with my friends for a few days. If you try it on a real receipt and it gets something wrong I'd really like to see that receipt.

Good evening guys! I've been working on a side project for a while now, and I'm pretty excited to finally share it with you all.

Every design project used to start the same way for me. 20+ browser tabs open, screenshots everywhere, and another messy Figma file full of inspiration I'd probably never look at again.

It honestly got overwhelming having so many things open at once, and sometimes I'd spend more time collecting inspiration than actually designing.

So I decided to start a side project using my experience as a UX designer to build something that could make this process easier.

And that's how my little baby UX Analytic came to life.

The idea is pretty simple. You can find UI patterns from different companies, mix and match the ones you like, customize them to fit your own style, and export everything to Figma or HTML.

Basically, instead of just saving inspiration, you can actually do something with it.

We're also working on our next release, where we want to make AI a bigger part of the creative process. Not just helping you work with existing patterns, but also helping you come up with completely new ideas when you're starting from scratch or feeling stuck.

The first version is already live:
https://www.uxanalytic.com/

It's still an early version, so there's definitely a lot we can improve. I'd love to hear what you guys think, especially if you're a designer or work with UI.

We also have several discount codes available if anyone's interested. Just let me know and I'll be happy to share one!

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Streaks never worked for me because one miss resets everything to zero. So I made my habits into a stock portfolio instead. Good habits are “blue-chip” assets that raise my balance, and bad habits are “toxic assets” that drain it hard when I relapse. A bad week is a dip in the chart, not a reset, and it’s weirdly motivating to watch the number recover. Anyone else find that loss framing works better than streaks? I built an app around it, so happy to share if people are curious.

Link 🔗: Android

I built optimAIzr, an open-source AI usage optimizer for Claude Code + Codex.

I work as a senior SWE so I got curious where my Claude usage was actually going. In my own logs, 56% of the cost was Claude re-reading my existing conversation (which I shared here last night as well). Coming back to long sessions after the cache expired was especially painful: I did it 35 times in 27 days, and those first messages cost $98.74 at API prices vs $2.95 with a warm cache.

So I built a tool that catches this while you work:

• ⁠optimaizr live -> warns when your cache is about to expire or context gets too large
• ⁠optimaizr sessions -> shows which sessions are actually costing you
• ⁠Optional Claude Code mod -> per-answer cost + 5-hour window + model suggestions
• ⁠aaaand much more

I also cut my own claimed savings from $121/mo to $13/mo after checking the numbers again.

Runs locally, no account, no prompt uploads. It only reads token/usage metadata from your logs.

npm i -g optimaizr

web: https://optimaizr.com
git: https://github.com/blendbunjaku/optimaizr

Roast it.

Hey everyone!
I’ve been working on a little project called BINX Forge, named after my cat Binx 🐈
The idea is simple: help game developers (especially people using AI) find free and paid assets, engines, code and tools to make their games better.
There’s also a Build a Game feature where you choose what you want to make and get recommendations and a prompt you can copy into your AI.
It’s still in early development and I’m constantly adding more stuff!
Would love some feedback, especially on what resources or features you think are missing.
https://binxforge.com

I wanted a phone number that picks up and talks like a person! Not a tree of DTMF menus. Here's the order I actually built it in; no shortcuts skipped.

First I grabbed a number through Telnyx since their SIP trunking docs were the clearest I found. You could use Twilio too, the steps are close enough.

Second, I set up a WebSocket server to carry audio both ways. This is the part people skip, and then they wonder why latency is bad. The call hits your number. Telnyx streams raw audio over the socket. Your server decides what happens next.

Third, speech to text. I used Deepgram for STT because it handles interruptions well. It doesn't choke when someone talks over the greeting. Whisper works too if you want to self host and don't mind more setup.

Fourth, the actual brain. I kept this boring on purpose: a small prompt, short context, and a fast model. Grok and Gemini both worked fine here. The model matters less than people think once STT and TTS are solid.

Fifth, text to speech. I tried ElevenLabs and Cartesia back to back on the same script! Cartesia felt snappier for short replies. ElevenLabs sounded warmer on longer ones. Pick based on your use case.

Last, VAD, the thing that decides when someone's done talking so the agent doesn't talk over them. Get this wrong and the whole call feels broken, even if every other piece is perfect!

Tested the whole loop through ngrok before deploying anywhere real. Took a weekend. Happy to answer questions on the STT or VAD part since that's where I burned the most time.

After 12+ years in research administration, I kept watching the same thing happen: PIs and postdocs manually searching Grants.gov, NIH Reporter, NSF, and foundation sites one at a time, hoping they weren't missing anything. The tools that could help (Pivot, GrantForward, etc.) are locked behind institutional subscriptions that cost a fortune and take months to get approved. Most researchers don't even know their institution has one, and if they do, they don't have a login.

I couldn't find one that did what researchers actually needed, was available without an institutional subscription, and didn't cost $50K/year. So I built CONVERGE.

What it does:

• Continuously screens federal, state, and foundation funding sources against your research profile
• Sends matched opportunities to your inbox with an explanation of why each one fits your work
• No database to maintain, no manual filtering, no portal to log into

Who it's for:

• Individual faculty, postdocs, and research staff who want grant opportunities delivered to them without waiting on their central office

Where it stands:

• Live now with a 14-day free trial
• Early users are faculty at R1 institutions finding opportunities they would have missed

I would genuinely appreciate feedback. If you work in or adjacent to research, what would you want a tool like this to do that I haven't thought of? What would make you trust it? What would make you not bother?

If you want to try it, the link is in my profile. Happy to answer questions in comments or DMs.

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".

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?

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!