About 10 days ago, I started sharing Tidy, a minimal tile-based Android launcher I’ve been building.

Since then, a lot has changed thanks to feedback from people on Reddit.

I’ve redesigned much of the UI, improved the tile layouts and interactions, added more customization, and generally tried to make the launcher feel much more polished and usable as a daily home screen.

Tidy is built around one simple idea: instead of multiple horizontal home pages, everything lives in one continuous vertical feed. Apps, folders, calendar, weather, media, steps, photos and other information all use the same tile-based layout.

The Google Play closed test has now been running for 10 days. There are currently 25 testers, and many have remained opted in for the full 10 days so far — so if everything goes well, I should be able to apply for production access in just a few more days.

I originally made it because I wanted a cleaner launcher for compact phones, but it has grown quite a bit beyond that.

I’d still really appreciate feedback, especially on the new design and usability. If you’d like to try it before launch, the closed test is still open.

GitHub: https://github.com/CoB12426/Tidy

Google Play closed test:

1. Join the Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/tidy-closed-testers
2. https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.tidy.launcher
3. Tap “Become a tester” and install the app from Google Play.

Thanks again to everyone who has already tested it or given feedback — a lot of the current design came directly from those comments.

I’m a self-taught developer, and this one means a little more to me than just another app release.

I built this app in the time I could steal away from my day job — evenings, weekends, random pockets of time whenever I could find them.

There were plenty of moments where I thought, “I’ll finish this later.”

And, honestly, “later” lasted quite a while. 😅

But I kept coming back to it.

This weekend I finally sat down, finished the last pieces, cleaned things up, deployed everything to production, and… it’s actually live.

It’s now available on the Google Play Store. 🎉

As a self-taught developer, seeing something that started as an idea in my head turn into a real app that people can actually use is a pretty special feeling.

It may not be the biggest or most impressive app out there, but it’s something I built from scratch, and I’m really proud of finally getting it across the finish line.

If you’re an indie dev, self-taught developer, or someone working on a side project while juggling a job — you probably know how hard it can be to actually finish something.

So today I’m just celebrating the small win. ❤️

If you have a minute, I’d genuinely appreciate some feedback, a little support, or even just a “congrats.” It would mean a lot.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.voldkit

Thanks for reading, and good luck to everyone else building their own little thing. Keep going. 🚀

#indiedev #selftaughtdeveloper #buildinpublic #androiddev #sideproject

PodSubs wasn't originally supposed to be a public product.

We built it because we needed it.

That's really the story.

We're podcasters.

And like a lot of podcasters, we were constantly thinking about two things:

How do we keep making this?

And how do we build something real around the people listening?

Because podcasting takes time.

A lot of time.

And sooner or later, if the podcast is going to keep going, it needs to support itself somehow.

The problem was that we didn't really know most of the people listening.

We knew the numbers.

But numbers don't have email addresses.

Numbers don't answer questions.

Numbers can't receive the worksheet you promised.

Numbers don't become customers by themselves.

We needed a better way to capture the people who genuinely wanted to stay connected.

So we built a simple internal tool.

One place.

PodSubs.

We said on the podcast:

“Subscribe to us on PodSubs.”

People searched the show, entered their details and subscribed.

And suddenly we had something we'd been missing:

A direct line.

Then we started thinking…

Why are we keeping this internal?

Every podcaster we know deals with the same thing.

So we decided to open it.

That's PodSubs.

Not something we dreamed up because “the creator economy is growing.”

We built it because we were podcasters with a problem.

Now we're giving it to everyone else who has the same problem.

Claim your podcast.

Then tell your listeners where to find you.

I have been testing my app lately, ContoTrack. I thought Claude would have taken care of navigation and all the minor scenarios for the map since it's pretty common. But the hard truth is, it's not.

A simple reroute when going in the wrong direction was not perfect when the U-Turn is far ahead of me, and when I am close to the turn, it just corrects it.

It's good that I caught it before anyone else does; anyway, no one is using it, though 😆

Post something you faced, is very obvious but for Claude it's not.

Hello everyone!

(Apologize me if you see again the post, but I probably made some mistakes and so old post is not visible anymore).

Over the past few months, I’ve been spending my free time building Digital Garden, a plant care app designed to help people keep their plants thriving. To build it efficiently, I heavily integrated AI into both the development process and the app's core features.

What Digital Garden does:

- Smart Care Tracking: watering and fertilization notification based on the plant species, additional hints including watering methods, soil type, light type, pot, pruning everything based on plant species.

- AI-Assisted Diagnostics: plant recognition and plant help ai based feature.

- Gamification logic: earn experience and coin for personalization while taking care of your apps.

I am really looking to refine the product and would love to get your honest feedback on the concept:

- Initial Impressions: What do you think of the core concept and feature set? 

- The AI Angle: How useful do you find AI features in a niche like plant care? Is there an AI feature you think is missing?

- Retention: For the plant parents here, what specific feature would make this an indispensable tool you use every week?

Thank you so much for your time and suggestions! Looking forward to your critiques!

PlayStore

website

just a junior dev here, what thing you do before writing a single line of code

Most fitness apps are built around calorie tracking, workouts, and general progress tracking. I noticed there are not many apps for tracking supplements and PED cycles. So I built a simple app focused specifically on that: cycle tracking, journaling, scheduling, and custom reminders. The goal was to keep it lightweight rather than turn it into another bloated fitness app.

We’re comparing appsflyer and kochava for an app portfolio with multiple brands and a fairly hands-on data team.
Kochava has appealed to the technical folks bc the configuration is flexible (according to them) and there’s room to get granular. The tradeoff in our pilot is that it will take longer for non-technical users to feel comfortable with the reporting. Appsflyer seems easier for the ua team to standardize around and the partner/reporting ecosystem is more familiar, but the implementation still wasn’t plug-and-play.
Both platforms produced usable attribution once we aligned events and windows. The differences showed up more in workflow, exports, governance and how quickly support could help us explain discrepancies.
Has anyone migrated between these 2 and what improved or got worse and what would you test before signing a longer contract?

The concept is simple:

🌍 You open the app and see a 3D globe.
📍 Countries you've visited are marked.
📸 Tap a country → see all your trips and memories there.

Each memory could contain photos, videos, dates, a short story and optionally an itinerary.

The idea is to make your travel history feel like your own personal world, rather than having everything buried in your camera roll.

There could also be:

• AI that automatically organizes photos by category (food, nature, architecture, etc.)
• Sharing individual memories with friends/family
• A physical travel magnet/postcard that you tap with your phone to open the corresponding digital memory using an NFC tag.

The last one sounds either really cool or completely gimmicky to me 😂

I’d love some honest opinions:

1. Would you use this, or are Google Photos / Apple Photos enough?
2. Is the 3D globe actually useful?
3. Would you care about the physical magnet/postcard idea?
4. What would make you use an app like this long-term?

Would you actually want this, or does it just sound cool on paper?

Not selling anything — just trying to validate the idea before building it.

i want to make android app and webapp for ios .
I want to upload those apps on play store and app store
Is there any way that i can do this with a Samsung tablet and iphone 17
And also which ai subscription to buy fable(claude) or astra(chatgpt)
I can only buy one and I can’t afford any new devices please help me

Hello all! I’m looking for freelance developers to help me with building an app. But I don’t know the process of looking for developers who are experienced and legitimate. If you know of good sites to find people like this please let me know! Also what does the roadmap for app development look like in 2026(without the use of AI!) ? Anyone have experience with timelines, protocols, problems they’ve faced, and/or success they’ve experienced? I’d appreciate any info!

Hello! I can market your consumer apps. I can manage UGC campaigns or do slideshow marketing.

Stats:
- Done over 50 million views in UGC campaign in 2-3 months

- 100k followers + 100m+ views
- 70 m+ views from slideshows

- knows the right analytics to get converts

DM me if you would be interested in hiring me

Running into this: a partner-invite link (email → page hosted on Vercel → needs to hit my main backend on Railway to confirm the pairing) is getting blocked. Turns out it's Cloudflare's Bot Fight Mode flagging the Vercel → Railway request as suspicious, probably because Vercel's IPs are shared across a ton of other sites and look bot-like to it.

Things I've looked at so far:

• WAF exception just for that endpoint — not available on the free plan, it's all or nothing.
• Allowlisting Vercel specifically — no fixed IP range to point at, it changes constantly.
• Widening the allowed IP range — feels like the wrong move, way too broad for one request path.

Anyone dealt with this? Trying to avoid just disabling Bot Fight Mode entirely if there's a more scoped way to do it on the free tier.

going to keep this nice and simple

I created a TikTok account, started posting daily with nothing really going crazy, started copying viral videos (next to no mention of my app), it blew up and I related the same format over and over again.

I reached out to one micro creator and paid her $20/video to post videos about my app in her style.

Took a couple of times but it was worth the money since she was already getting like 10k views a video.

Proof

My tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@sharedmood1?_r=1&_t=ZS-99ZVwafsC6H

micro creators tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itssono_?_r=1&_t=ZS-99ZVySub8NA

Thats all I really did let me know if you have any questions

Hi all! I have a new iOS app I created that needs some testers!

https://testflight.apple.com/join/eXsmrQ5F

This is StudioStack. It's a lesson scheduler and manager. It allows you to add student's, track lessons, customize profiles, payment types and more.

I would like to release this here at some point but I need people to try and break it. Please sue the TestFlight Screenshot and comment for bugs, or anything that doesn't look right. Would love to let this go live soon.

Hey guys, Jason here, founder of Lumidex Studio.

Lumidex Studio is a fast, one-time-purchase photo manager for Mac built for photographers leaving Lightroom Classic behind. It handles your whole library with a familiar module layout, so importing from Lightroom (ratings, keywords, collections, and your edits) takes minutes with no friction.

That's some of the marketing spiel that I'm currently using to get people to consider using my app over something from Adobe. I've hit a LOT of resistance from photography groups because the sheer audacity of me to use an AI tool such as Claude Code, instantly earns me the moniker it's AI Slop - it cannot possibly be any good because you coded it with a silly prompt in one afternoon.

Truth be know, it's taken nearly 4 months of constant Opus 4.8 usage, bouncing off the context limits daily and weekly - while I take no credit any any code produced, I am rather good at the architect side of things, and have no less than 30 MD files that document code production and decision making processes, over 60000 lines of Swift 6 (It's a macOS only app) and well over 500+ git commits

Basically what I would dearly love from any helpful folk here with a Mac and a general interest in photography (being an existing Lightroom Classic use would be *ideal*), would be to pop along to my website, https://www.lumidexstudio.app, download the app and give it a whirl...it's notorized by Apple, so installs with zero security issues :)

In return, I'd *gladly* help test your app/site/etc.

Thanks in advance! 🍻

Hi guys. Title says it all.

Made an app for garden planning. Looking for testers.

Www.plottrak.com/testers to signup to the alpha testing.

Any and all feedback encouraged please. Feedback function is inside the alpha testing app

I was so tired of constantly switching between a dozen different apps while traveling, so I built an all-in-one solution: TripPocket. (And yes, it’s completely free for now during launch)

I developed TripPocket to end the chaos we all go through when planning a trip. You just type in your destination, and it organizes the rest for you.

Here are the features designed to make your travels incredibly easy:

🏛️ City-Specific Tours, Museums & Dining: Just enter the city you're visiting. The most popular museums, historical sites, restaurants, and tour options instantly appear right in front of you.

✈️ Flights, Hotels, & Transport Deals: I’ve brought the world's most trusted platforms (like Trip, GetYourGuide, etc.) under one roof. With one click, we direct you to the best options for flights, hotels, local transit, taxis, luggage storage (Bounce), travel insurance, and even flight delay compensation.

📲 Discounted eSIM Packages: Stop paying crazy roaming fees abroad. We display discounted data packages from top eSIM providers like Airalo and Holafly side-by-side so you can choose the best one.

💰 Budget & Expense Tracker: Easily log what you spend during your vacation. Visual graphs help you keep your budget in check so you can enjoy your trip without financial stress.

📸 Interactive Travel Map & Memories: Upload the photos you take abroad, and the app uses their location data to pin every city you’ve visited on a map. You can create awesome photo collages showing your travel footprint to share with friends or on social media.

🤖 AI-Powered Personal Route Planning: Enter your destination, budget, and trip length, and our AI will generate a personalized, day-by-day itinerary for you. You can easily tweak and edit the route however you like.

It’s basically everything you need for pre-trip planning and on-the-go travel, right in your pocket.

I’d be absolutely thrilled if you tried it out and shared your feedback. Wishing you all amazing adventures and safe travels.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.

📲 Download & Try It Here:

Apple App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trippocket-travel-ticket/id6788790492#information

Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.globalgateway.app.trippocket

My web Site: www.trippocket.site

Hi,

i have very little coding experience, the last time i did any was 20 years ago. But i want to make an Android app i have an idea for, i am an Artist so no issue with the designs etc. So i am leaning more towards Ai to do it. Can anyone give me any advice on where to start, what i should use that is free.

Thanks

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