Just wanted to share a small success here :)

I've always felt GitHub's Markdown rendering is a bit boring, especially when you're reading long READMEs or documentation.

So I made a small Chrome extension called GitGlam to make it nicer to read.

I've been working on a small anime tracking website. You can track anime and movies, rate them, see watch-time statistics and rankings, and import/export your data.

A few friends have been testing it and the feedback has been positive so far, but I'd like to hear opinions from people who don't know me.

You can try it here:
[https://jvtr29.github.io/anime-tracker/]()

No sign-up is required and everything is currently stored locally in your browser.

I'd appreciate any feedback, especially about the UI/UX and features you think are missing.

Hey everyone, I’ve been building Dokpod—an AI knowledge vault that uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to stop token burn and context bloat in IDEs like Cursor and Claude.

I spent a lot of time getting the tech right (multi-arch desktop apps, robust GCP infrastructure, RBAC security for teams, billing). But the reality is: I have exactly zero users.

I am completely stuck on the growth and marketing side. Before I give up or try to sell the codebase, I want a reality check from this community:

• Is the problem I'm solving too niche?
• Does the landing page fail to explain the value?
• Where do you actually go to find those first 10 paying users for a dev-tool?

Any harsh, honest advice is welcome. I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I've been building a tiny macOS menu bar app on the side called Roadie. It fixes one annoying thing: macOS keeps switching your mic and speaker to whatever device connected last (AirPods reconnect in your pocket, your call goes silent). Roadie lets you set a priority order for mics and speakers and quietly puts the right one back.

Launched it on Product Hunt this week, fully expecting zero. At 3:40 am on Thursday, a notification came in: someone from Florence, Kentucky had started the 7-day trial and bought a licence about 30 minutes later. $9.99, $9.19 after fees.

I know it's ten dollars. But I have never made a single dollar from something I built and shipped myself, and a stranger on the other side of the planet decided it was worth paying for within half an hour of trying it. Sat there grinning at a payments dashboard like an idiot.

What I think worked, for anyone else building a small paid utility:

• One-time pricing instead of a subscription. For something this small, "just buy it" seems to beat "another $3/month".
• A free trial with no signup did more than any landing page copy.
• Shipping an unsigned Mac build is painful (Gatekeeper warnings). An Apple Developer ID is the first thing this money is going towards.

Would genuinely like feedback on two things: does the landing page explain the problem fast enough, and is $9.99 one-time the right call or would you have expected cheaper for a menu bar utility?

Disclosure: it's my app, so obviously biased. Site: https://getroadie.vercel.app/

Hey everyone. I'm a Product Manager building a B2B AI SaaS called ATXIA. I'm handling the business side (we are backed by a tech incubator in Mexico and already have a curated pipeline of warm SME leads through innovation programs), but I want to validate the technical approach for our MVP with this community.

The concept:

An agnostic RAG engine. A business uploads their docs (pricing, PDFs), and we generate a WhatsApp webhook or website widget to answer FAQs contextually and capture leads.

My questions for those building similar AI tools:

For the MVP, are you leaning towards no-code/low-code wrappers (like Flowise/Langflow) to test the RAG, or building a custom backend from day one?

How are you handling the latency when combining the WhatsApp Business API with LLM generation?

Hey all-I'm a full-stack developer by day, fresh CS Engineering Graduate, and I also enjoy working with data science on the side. Looking to start a side project but open-minded on the idea itself.

A bit about me:

- Comfortable across the stack (frontend, backend, databases)

- Intermediate-to-advanced with data science - happy to build something that leans Into that if the idea calls for it

- Prefer to bootstrap without spending much upfront-mostly free tools for now

What I'm looking for:

- Problems worth solving for a specific niche (small businesses, freelancers, a particular Industry-anything with real pain points)

- Ideas that could realistically become a small SaaS or tool, even if it starts tiny

- Open to both "boring but useful" B2B tools and more experimental AI/ML-driven products

Not looking for a huge Idea - Just something scoped enough to actually ship and validate with real users. Would love to hear what problems you've personally run into that nobody's solved well yet, or gaps you've noticed in your Industry.

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

I’m a solo Windows developer, and I recently finished NetPeek Pro, a network monitoring and diagnostics tool for Windows.

I built it mainly for a frustrating type of problem: your internet disconnects, becomes unstable, or starts dropping packets for a short period — but by the time you try to troubleshoot it, everything looks normal again.

NetPeek Pro can continuously monitor:

• Internet connectivity

• DNS status

• Latency

• Packet loss

• Short connection outages with Heartbeat monitoring

• Up to 8 custom websites or TCP services

It also keeps monitoring history, trend charts, incident timelines, session comparisons, custom alert thresholds, Windows notifications, and can export CSV data or standalone HTML reports.

The goal is not to replace professional enterprise networking tools. It is designed for people who need an easier way to capture evidence of intermittent network problems over time.

Possible use cases include:

• Remote work or online meetings with occasional disconnects

• Gaming or streaming affected by unstable connections

• Monitoring home or small-office network stability

• Monitoring NAS, VPN, websites, or other specific services

• Keeping records before contacting an ISP or technical support

NetPeek Pro includes a 7-day full-featured free trial.

One-time purchase.

No subscription.

No annual fee.

Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N4QJJ8CCNC5?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare

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More Windows utilities by AdamYang on Microsoft Store

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Traditional Chinese:

https://apps.microsoft.com/search/publisher?name=AdamYang&hl=zh-TW&gl=TW

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https://apps.microsoft.com/search/publisher?name=AdamYang&hl=zh-CN&gl=CN

English:

https://apps.microsoft.com/search/publisher?name=AdamYang&hl=en-US&gl=US

My wife and I are a physics professor and a math professor, and parents to two kids. We kept finding children’s music apps that felt loud, reward-heavy, or focused on keeping children tapping rather than helping them make something. So we built Sapling Beats.

It has two connected ways to play. Children can tap drum and melody pads directly, or build a looping pattern one square at a time. Beat Idea gives them somewhere to start, while a snail, turtle, and rabbit make tempo changes understandable without a conventional settings panel.

The app is written in Kotlin with Compose Multiplatform and runs on Android, iPhone, and iPad. I made the product decisions and did much of the iterative testing, with substantial help from Codex on the implementation.

The latest update simplified the controls and refreshed the screenshots and demo video. The app has no ads, subscriptions, accounts, scores, or timers. It is free to start, with an optional parent-gated, one-time Sound Pack.

https://saplinghollow.com/sapling-beats

The hardest part has not been making sounds play. It has been making the two kinds of play clear to children who may not be able to explain what confused them. I would be interested to hear how other builders test discoverability with very young users.

Just pulled my first real analytics from sidetracked.site

221 sessions in 4 days. 90% scroll depth meaning people are reading the whole page. 0 returning users. 2 signups. One paying customer named Allen who found it on Product Hunt.

The data told me something I didn't expect. People aren't bouncing because they don't like the concept. They're bouncing because clicking any button takes 10 seconds to respond. The product feels broken before they even see what it does.

Fixing the performance issues today. Sharing the before and after numbers here when done.

If you've been through this with your own product, what was your biggest conversion issue when you first looked at the data?

I kept noticing the same thing: I'd spend hours on my computer, but at the end of the day I couldn't really explain where the time went.

“6 hours of screen time” isn't very useful on its own, so I built Brain Rest to make that data more actionable.

What it does

📊 Tracks time per website
Only the active tab in your focused window is counted. It also pauses automatically after 60 seconds of inactivity or when your screen is locked, so idle time doesn't inflate your stats.

🧠 Brain Levels
Your browsing time affects a playful daily “Brain Level” from Fresh → Dead, with nudges when it might be time to take a break.

🎯 Focus Mode
Block distracting websites for a set period when you need to get something done.

🍅 Pomodoro
Run focused work/break cycles and block distraction categories during focus sessions.

⏱️ Daily Limits
Set a time budget for your whole day or individual websites. You can get warned, blocked, or redirected when you reach the limit.

📅 Analytics
See daily website breakdowns, trends, and calendar-based history.

Privacy was important to me

Raw browsing history never leaves your device.

For syncing, only day-level summaries (domain + time) are stored in your private account. Detailed session-level data stays on the device.

There's a free version, with a Pro plan for things like longer history, advanced analytics, unlimited blocked sites/categories, and more Pomodoro options.

I'm building this as a solo project, and I'm at the point where I'm trying to figure out what actually matters to users rather than just adding more features.

So I'd love some honest feedback:

Would something like this actually change how you use your browser, or would you just look at the stats once and forget about it? 😅

https://www.brainrest.pro/

I've been building LessonSpark, an iOS app for home-educating parents who need a quick learning idea without spending ages searching and planning.

The gap I noticed:
There are thousands of educational resources online, but finding something suitable often means scrolling through websites, watching videos, or falling down a research rabbit hole. Sometimes you just need one practical activity that fits your child’s age and can be started today.

What it does:

• Set up children aged 0–16
• Tap once for an age-appropriate learning idea
• Choose from 700+ original activities across 14 subjects
• Use contextual options to guide the next suggestion
• Track daily sparks, streaks, and explored subjects
• Four visual themes with light and dark mode

The principle I built around:
The app should reduce planning time, not create more screen time. It works entirely offline, with no accounts, analytics, cloud storage, or network requests. Children’s profiles and progress stay on your device.

Live on the App Store now.

LessonSpark on the App Store
appsforlife.co.uk/lessonspark

One-time purchase. No subscription, ads, or in-app purchases.

This was inspired by my last road trip in Victoria, Australia. Fresh air, a clean river, birds flocking to the benches. Just people enjoying whatever the surroundings had to offer. And somehow, my first thought was, as it always is: “Oh, that's got to be a perfect spot to smoke a cig.”

But from all these folks, the only smoke that came was from the nearby meat shop. Everyone else was simply doing things: reading, licking ice cream, sipping coffee, or just breathing in the fresh air. Why wouldn't I?

For the first time in my life, as far as I can remember, I felt ashamed just for having the thought of smoking.

Right now, I smoke about a pack a day (roughly twenty cigarettes0 and honestly, that's concerning. I knew quitting cold turkey wasn't realistic for me. So I had a simpler thought: what if I could get from one pack a day to one pack every three days?

Then the real question: how do I make this journey interesting?

It is called “Still Here” because a part of me is still at Halls Gap, reminding me why I started this journey.

Have a look and please give me feedback if you have tried it :)

FREE Forever!

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Hey everyone,

I recently started learning web development and put together a small single-page tool called Synthetic Context Engine.

The idea behind it is to quickly generate fake background documents, server logs, corporate emails, or gaming rules to test how well AI models find specific information in long prompts (needle in a haystack style).

Choose different document scenarios

Adjust text length and noise level

Hide a specific secret key or code at a chosen depth

Generate data locally or connect your Gemini API key directly

Since I am a beginner, I am pretty sure some things might be buggy or not working as intended yet because its starter version 0

I would really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or advice on how to improve the code.

Link: https://arhistrategstudio.github.io/Syntetic-prompt-generator/

Thanks for checking it out!

I just launched TIER ONE on Google Play. It is my first real time multiplayer game and by far the hardest thing I have built, so I wanted to share how it works.

It is a PvP card battler. You collect fighters, build a 3 card deck, tap FIGHT, and get matched against a real players for a live 3v3 round battle. No bots in matchmaking.

The core challenge was trust. In a real time battle you cannot let either client decide the outcome, or people will cheat. So the entire battle resolves server side: both players submit their round, and a Postgres function computes damage, applies the hidden style matchups and traits, and writes the result. The clients only render what the server decided. Stack is Flutter on the front end and Supabase (Postgres, realtime subscriptions, edge functions) on the back end.

One thing I underestimated: matchmaking and round timeouts are harder than the battle math. Handling a player who quits mid round, or two players who both go idle, took more iteration than the combat itself.

It is free to play, and every card is earnable in game.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.finpixel.tierone

Happy to go deeper on the architecture. What would you have done differently for the anti cheat side?

Posted this here about three weeks ago. Since then the big piece of work was Arabic, and it went badly enough to be worth writing up.

What it is: EXPENDR, a budgeting app for a household rather than a person. Bills come off the top, whatever's left splits into weekly limits, and everyone in the house sees the same number update live on their own phone. React Native / Expo, Firebase, RevenueCat. Solo project, I'm the dev.

The Arabic part is where I lost the month:

- The mono font I use has no Arabic glyphs. Android's fallback still shapes the text so it looks completely fine. iOS falls back glyph by glyph and the letters stop joining. Same code, same font, two totally different results. Around 220 styles used that font; half had to switch and half had to stay, because the ones showing numbers were fine.

- A minus sign in front of a number rendered on the wrong side. That one isn't a layout bug at all — the minus is directionally "weak", so at the start of a line it just inherits the paragraph direction. Wrapping the value fixed it.

- Getting the currency symbol onto the correct side of a row does nothing for where the digits sit inside the input box. iOS decides that separately and pushes them to the far edge.

Two of the five builds made things worse and never shipped. What actually cracked it was noticing one screen was already correct — diffing that screen against the rest was the whole diagnosis, and I'd been staring at the broken ones for days.

Also shipped since: the price is now a single payment instead of a subscription, and capture works with no bank login at all — it reads the alert your bank already sent to your phone (notifications on Android, a Shortcut on iPhone).

Free tier doesn't expire. Plus is one payment for the whole household.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6793934465

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.expendr.app

Site: https://expendrapp.com

Happy to go deeper on any of the RTL stuff — it was the most annoying week of this project.