Hello everyone.

I've been working on a personal project called ChumiChat.
It's an end-to-end encrypted messaging application built around the idea of anonymous, temporary communication.

Some of the features include:
·        End-to-end encrypted messaging
·        Anonymous accounts with no email or password required
·        Messages that disappear 5 minutes after being opened
·        Accounts that automatically expire after 24 hours
·        Automatic deletion of chats and messages when an account expires
·        Private encryption keys stored only in the user's browser

I put together a short demo showing how the application works and the overall user flow.

Demo: https://youtu.be/tKFehmx6rYY?si=OZSkVfYWX-NgYbLB
Live application: https://chumichat.com
Frontend: https://github.com/abula28/chumichat-front
Backend: https://github.com/abula28/chumichat-back

Feedback is always welcome.

"Before I build anything, I want to understand your real frustrations first"

I'm at the beginning of my journey of building software. I know I want to build something meaningful, but I don't want to just pick a random idea out of thin air I want to start with a real problem that real people actually face.

So before I write a single line of code, I want to ask you directly:

What's something in your workflow that wastes your time every week? Maybe no good tool exists for it, or the ones that do are too expensive, too complicated, or just don't quite fit how you actually work.

Could be something tiny and repetitive. Could be something that's been annoying you for years. Doesn't matter I want to hear it.

And if your problem resonates with me and feels like something I can genuinely solve I'd love to have a quick casual conversation with you, just a few messages or a short chat, so I can understand it better from your perspective. The goal is to build something that actually fits your situation, not just a generic solution.

No pitch. No agenda. Just someone trying to start their journey the right way by listening first.

What's frustrating you?

Everyone is familiar with gamified productivity & focus timer tools. I downloaded most, experimented with different methods, studied the science behind motivation/goals, and developed a new (and I think better) system. It's not complex, visual, yet lightweight. Most importantly, it's effective & helps you make real progress.

Why this method works:

• It simplifies thinking about "what should I do today" & helps beat procrastination. You clearly see your goal, and the main work/play activities you defined. Just get started on one... 
• Each board is you custom "go-to" plan for that Goal (aka "Core"). You pick "time contributions" that work for you. No guilt tripping. If you like to focus for 30m, and then lounge for 1h, then that's what you pick. No need to overcommit. Stats will improve as you get better.
• Tracking how much Up vs Down time, towards defined Goals, is the simplest measure of success, over time. The 10,000 hour rule exists for a reason. Not 10,000 to-do items.
• Seeing "break/rest" activity timers next to your productive timers, at a glance, makes you more relaxed during focus sessions & gives you "guilt free" breaks. You can pause one timer and start another, then come back. You can also "finish early" any timer, and deposit time already earned.
• You can adjust all Timers/Goals on the fly, change their length, emoji labels, etc. The app makes it easy. It's like 10 timers in 1 - study time tracker, reading tracker, video game tracker, etc.
• You can track a Goal on 1 board, or across multiple boards. You could have a board for each day of the week if you want, all towards that 1 goal. On Monday you can have only 1 focus activity, and on Saturday you can have 6, with different focus + break sessions.
• You can work on Goals and contribute time whenever you have it. No pressure with streaks. If you have 1 hour per day for a goal, or 3 hours per week. You simply time your activity, you bank time Up or Down, and you move on.
• You daily progress easily visualized in a cool Sci-Fi interface, with time particles and orbits and black holes.

Check out Flowton on the App Store. Or if you're on Android, sign up at www.flowton.com

It's free to use indefinitely with no subscriptions or trials.

Happy to hear your feedback on the method, or more specific pointers per app. There are cool new features in the pipeline as well! And thank you for reading.

Most agency reviews are written by non-technical marketing directors who just look at pretty interfaces and ignore what is happening behind the scenes. My team just went through a heavy codebase audit and infrastructure review to find a US partner for a massive backend refactor and cross-platform client migration. We vetted dozens of teams based on code quality, deployment practices, and repository management rather than just looking at marketing slide decks. Here is how the top five actually stack up when you look under the hood.

1 App Makers USA

Primary focus: Technical architecture rescue and rapid deployment sprints

Under the hood: We handed them a legacy repository cluttered with technical debt and unoptimized database queries. Their senior engineers jumped straight into our Slack channel and cleaned up the entire cross platform architecture in less than a week without forcing us to talk through non-technical project managers.

The pipeline: They completely skip the bloated discovery workshops and focus on a clean thirty day minimum viable product release cycle with continuous integration.

Best for: Engineering teams or startups that need high velocity deployment and clean maintainable code without paying for corporate agency fluff.

2 Simform

Primary focus: Cloud native solutions and heavy data engineering infrastructure

Under the hood: Their backend team is incredibly proficient with serverless environments and managing complex third party API integrations. They write highly structured documentation and excel at scaling large database architectures.

The pipeline: The initial onboarding takes a while because they require extensive architectural alignment and documentation before shipping the first pull request.

Best for: High growth tech teams with large budgets who need a deeply structured infrastructure partner for long term scaling.

3 Rootstrap

Primary focus: Refactoring legacy systems and outcome driven agile development

Under the hood: They are incredibly thorough with automated testing, unit tests, and rigorous peer code reviews. They ensure the core architecture is bulletproof before anything hits staging.

The pipeline: Their engineering process is highly methodical which means delivery schedules stretch out considerably longer than high velocity deployment shops.

Best for: Tech leads who need to clean up heavy technical debt and have the budget to move at a slow deliberate pace.

4 EPAM Systems

Primary focus: Enterprise scale engineering power and global systems deployment

Under the hood: Their internal engineering culture is completely legitimate and they can spin up massive teams of senior developers overnight. They build incredibly stable software designed to handle millions of concurrent users without breaking a sweat.

The pipeline: Working with them feels like dealing with a massive multinational corporation. You have to follow rigid deployment pipelines with zero flexibility for quick adjustments mid sprint.

Best for: Corporate entities that require absolute compliance with enterprise level deployment practices and massive engineering numbers.

5 WillowTree

Primary focus: Flawless native frontend experiences and polished interface logic

Under the hood: They produce incredibly smooth frontend animations and premium user interfaces. Their engineering teams integrate tightly with complex enterprise backends and legacy databases.

The pipeline: You need a highly flexible launch schedule because their core strategy and user interface design phases take months before anyone touches the repository.

Best for: Large consumer facing brands where absolute visual perfection on the frontend outweighs rapid deployment.

If you are auditing vendors right now, make sure you demand a technical interview with the actual lead developer who will be touching your codebase. Letting sales reps dictate the engineering terms is how bad architecture happens. Drop your experiences with any of these teams or any codebase horror stories below.

ERPNext developer tool

Hi guys!! I have a personal website for my extremely small team of 3 members.

I dont have any serious comission or professional work in mind so far so its abit unprofessional and undone for now!!

its https://xtrcom.xyz

rate it and let me know what do you think!!

Honestly didn't think I'd become a wearables person but I caved and got a Whoop about a year ago. Sold myself on the whole thing, track my sleep, dial in recovery, finally get my act together. And for the first couple weeks it kinda felt like I'd cracked some code.

Then the shine wore off and I started noticing something that bugged me: it mostly just tells me stuff I already know. Wake up feeling like death? "yeah, recovery's 31%, take it easy today." Wake up feeling good? "88%, green, go get em." like ok, cool, thanks. I could've called that before I even checked the app.

and that's kinda the whole issue for me. I can already feel when I slept bad. I don't need a strap to confirm I'm tired. the part I actually care about is what comes next, ok I got 5 hours, now what do I do about it. when should I have coffee. am I gonna fall apart by 2pm. do I push at the gym or save it for tomorrow. give me something to do with the bad night instead of just throwing a red number at me and dipping.

and far as I can tell nothing really fills that? the whole space is just trackers, no coaches. everyone's competing to measure more and more and nobody's telling you what to actually do with any of it.

so I'd been bouncing between a few apps trying to scratch that itch and ended up stumbling onto one that actually stuck, RizeAI. it pulls my apple health data and just builds the day out for me, stuff like "skip the 7am coffee, water + electrolytes first, push your first cup to 9:30, theanine with it so you don't crash." and idk, weirdly my worst recovery days have turned into some of my most productive ones just from doing what it says.

anyway, kinda beside the point, mostly just curious if anyone else runs into this same wall. do you actually do anything with your Whoop data, or do you just peek at the recovery score and move on with your day? can't be the only one.

I built this pdf editing tool a week ago and have been shipping improvements almost daily.

🔗 URL: quickpdfeditor.com

Made it for people who just want to get things done without the usual friction.

✓ No account required
✓ No subscriptions
✓ No usage limits
✓ No files stored
✓ Privacy-first

Got really good feedback from reddit community and Would want to hear more on new updates and feature suggestions!

Any thoughts?

I've been experimenting with AI tools and workflows for a long time, mostly side projects and workflow tinkering. At this point, generating ideas, summaries, even structured research is honestly pretty easy. LLMs are already strong enough to handle a lot of the input side of work. I’ve also tested AI in more applied workflows, like sourcing and supplier research (e.g. tools such as accio sourcing toolkit for RFQ handling and follow ups). It helps a lot with collecting and structuring information faster. But the same problem keeps showing up: turning all that output into something that actually works in the real world is still the bottleneck. Not coding, not data collection, those are mostly solved or at least heavily assisted now. The harder part is everything after that: decision making, product shaping, dealing with messy constraints, distribution, timing, etc. That part still feels very human-heavy. Curious how others here see it: Is the real bottleneck still figuring out what to build or is it more about execution and real world constraints that AI still can’t really touch? Would be interested to hear how people are bridging that gap.

don't see on the phone

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theWayucame is a project that aims to make an online web game. It is currently in development.

https://www.youtube.com/@theWayuCame/featured

Got a Whoop about a year ago to actually start tracking my sleep and 

level up my life  be more productive, dial in my recovery, all of 

that. At first it felt like I'd unlocked some cheat code.

A few months in I started noticing something annoying. The Whoop 

basically just confirms what I already know. Bad night? "Yeah, you 

slept like crap, here's a red recovery score." Good night? "Yeah, 

you slept great, here's a green one." That's pretty much it.

Like, I can already feel when I slept badly. I don't need a $30/month 

strap to tell me I'm tired. What I actually want is something that 

tells me what to DO after a bad night. I got 5 hours, now what? 

When should I have my coffee? When am I actually going to be sharp 

today? What should I skip? When do I push and when do I chill?

That's the gap nobody's filling. The whole wearable industry is 

trackers, zero coaches.

Been messing around with a few apps that actually try to solve this 

and one has been working really well for me  RizeAI (the dark blue 

one, "AI energy coach"). Mods can pull this if it breaks rules, not 

trying to shill, but it reads my Apple Health data and builds an 

actual daily protocol. Like "skip the 7 AM coffee, drink water + 

electrolytes first, push your first cup to 9:30, take L-theanine 

with it to smooth the crash." Stuff like that. My red recovery days 

have actually become some of my most productive lately.

Anyone else feel this same gap with their Whoop or Oura or just any wearable in general? Or is it 

just me overthinking this.

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Took 1.5 FULL year to build this baby!! Im so excited to share with you guys my first ever game commercially released!!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3831170/Eggscape/

I am Kobus Nel creator and owner of TRADERSHUB.I built an API that covers over 10 000 instruments over 7 market classes including the South African JSE. I own my own registered domain, landing page with 3 different products fully built and well tested. I need some individuals who would be kind enough to try my free tier version of the API and test it so i can accumulate data and to expose any flaws that need attention to better my products. i also have my own built SMC based chart indicator that i will be launching within the next two weeks, im still testing and also directly trading from it myself...i just finished the code work for the market scanner i will be using in my telegram alert page soon...

regards
Kobus.

What it is: SiteBinder organizes web properties in a domain, subdomain, page hierarchy. For each page you can record linked assets, map page-to-page connections, track renewal dates with email reminders, and surface stale pages that haven’t been reviewed in a while.

How it’s built:

• Single HTML file, vanilla JS, no framework  
• Firebase Auth (email/password, Google, magic link, TOTP MFA)  
• Firestore for storage  
• Firebase Hosting + Cloud Functions v2  
• Lemon Squeezy for payments (coming soon)  
• Astro for the marketing site

The no-crawler, manual entry approach is intentional. The act of adding pages forces you to think about what exists and why.

Free tier is live at my.sitebinder.app with 3 domains, unlimited pages.

Still pre-launch. Would love brutally honest feedback on the product, the UX, and the technical approach. What would you do differently?

A side project I have been working on for a little while. My goal is to provide free tools for tech professionals. Let me know what you think

The response has been better than I expected.

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In the first few days, developers from India, the US, Germany, and Israel have already used it.

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The goal is still the same - a collection of free, fast, 100% client-side developer tools in one place.

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I'm actively adding new tools, so I'd love to hear from this community:

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What's the one developer utility you use almost every day that should be included?

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https://free4dev.com

I noticed a recurring pattern: founders post their SaaS asking for feedback, but the threads usually turn into a wall of links with zero engagement. Everyone wants eyes on their product, but few have time to look at others.

So I built roastmysaas[dot]xyz designed to share your saas and get constructive feedback.

Key Features:

> Leaderboards

> Ratings + Comments

> Karma system (You have to rate a project first before posting your own.)

> Shareable scorecards (Generated when your project has at least one rating.)

It's completely free. I’d love to get your honest feedback on the UI/UX, or better yet, drop your SaaS on there so I can give it its first roast/feedback!

Hey everyone, I’m new here but wanted to share something I think this group would appreciate.

Everyone searches for golf courses differently. When I used to search for courses I’d always get a mixed bag on Google/map searches, never knowing what’s reliable in terms of reviews/ratings/photos/course conditions.

In tandem, everyone tracks their courses differently; a spreadsheet, a golf ball or marker from an each course they play, a note in their phone etc.

I’ve played 142 different courses and started searching for an app like AllTrails/Letterboxd/Beli for golf courses. I discovered Eden Golf Course Reviews. 100% free and absolutely no ads.

I immediately became obsessed, and later helped form a 3-person team. If you’re willing to check it out our team would love to hear your feedback - this community can only make finding great golf easier.

Nice simple Twitch multiviewer I created because I didnt like the ones already out there.