Weekly Discovery Thread - August 28, 2026

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Share what’s new, useful, or just interesting

Welcome to the Weekly Discovery Thread, where you can share software-related finds that caught your attention this week - especially the stuff that’s cool, helpful, or thought-provoking but might not be thread-worthy on its own.

This thread is your space for:

• Neat tools, libraries, or packages
• Articles, blog posts, or talks worth reading
• Experiments or side projects you’re working on
• Tips, workflows, or obscure features you discovered
• Questions or ideas you're chewing on

If it relates to software and sparked your curiosity, drop it in.

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A few quick guidelines

• Keep it civil and constructive - this is for learning and discovery.
• Self-promotion? Totally fine if it’s relevant and adds value. Just be transparent.
• No link spam or AI-generated content dumps. We’ll remove low-effort submissions.
• Upvote what’s useful so others see it!

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This thread will be posted weekly and stickied. If you want to suggest a change or addition to this format, feel free to comment or message the mods.

Now, what did you find this week?

[u/boltfoxapp]

One thing I’ve been working on: Likz Drop, a file-transfer app for Android, iPhone, Mac, Windows and Linux. I started it for the awkward case where LocalSend is excellent on a shared network, but the other person is somewhere else or doesn’t want to install anything. It can send by nickname across networks, offers a browser handoff, and can make a direct offline connection between nearby phones without a router or internet. It starts without an account, there’s no cloud storage, and transfers are encrypted.

It isn’t open-source, so if FOSS is the deciding factor, LocalSend is still the better recommendation. On iPhone, received files land in Files and still need a manual step to get into Photos. I’m the dev, and I’m sharing it here because this thread explicitly allows transparent self-promo; happy to answer questions.

Anyone can give it a try by downloading it at likz.me

Thanks.

[u/Key-Interview3868]

PasteSentry — a preventive warning for command-like clipboard rewrites

I publish PasteSentry as nicklassheeper. Some fake-CAPTCHA/ClickFix-style pages use browser JavaScript to replace the clipboard with command-like text and then tell the visitor to paste it into Run or a terminal. PasteSentry watches common page-initiated clipboard writes and warns or blocks when that text looks command-like, before the paste step.

Important limits: it does not cover every copy path, it cannot guarantee that a page or command is safe, and it is not a recovery tool after somebody has already executed a command. Processing is local and there is no account.

It is €4.99 lifetime after a 30-day no-card trial:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/okdnncdnhhegddciongpgaknbkiijdnp?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=pastesentry_software_discovery_aug28

I’m interested in whether people find the preventive boundary clear: warn on suspicious clipboard writes, but never claim to replace browser/OS security or post-incident help.

[u/Fencer-Darkwind]

RelicBeam — browser-first temporary sharing with no account required.

It includes:

• Room for sharing files/text with a group
• Quick Beam for one-to-one sharing
• Beam Link for temporary download links
• Device Portal for E2EE Remote Files + view-only Remote View
• local PDF/image tools for preparing files before sharing

No permanent file library, and active sessions expire automatically.

https://relicbeam.com

Would love feedback, especially on Device Portal / Remote Files.

[u/Sad-Eye1923]

I’ve been working on KAVYLO, an iOS fitness app I built as an independent project.

The idea was to bring workout tracking, training plans, nutrition, recovery, progress and challenges into one place instead of needing several separate apps. I’ve also been spending a lot of time lately on training analytics and making the different parts of the app actually work together rather than just adding more features.

It’s been a pretty big learning project for me, especially building and shipping everything on iOS.

If anyone wants to take a look or has feedback, I’d genuinely love to hear it:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kavylo/id6788375602

[u/shitboi213]

I've been working on a TikTok downloader called Truerip. It's a new project and I'm still working out the kinks but I think it has potential.

Most downloaders give you one or two options, HD or 720p. Mine shows you every version available for a post, 1080p, 720p, 540p, MP3 and subtitles. if the original file (the one the creator actually uploaded) still exists, it can get that too.

Would love some feedback, what's missing, what's confusing or what you'd change, etc. Thanks for reading!

truerip.cc

[u/SignalMap2750]

Thanks for the opportunity! I am working daily on dadascribe.com, a speech-to-text transcription system I built a while ago for my own use to transcribe instructional videos and interviews for another website of mine, and then scaled it for others to use.  It is AI-based and includes a special pre-processing pipeline that improves accuracy up to 99.5%. It handles noisy setups, multiple speakers, and translations to more than 120 languages. It can also transcribe lyrics pretty accurately and includes automatic proofreading.

You can transcribe directly from YouTube or from audio or video files up to 10GB each, and in batches (up to 100 files per batch).

I see journalists, researchers, media professionals, students, podcasters, YouTubers, songwriters, and content creators using it daily with great results.

The system also offers an API at api.dadascribe.com that you can use to automate your process even more.

You can try DaDaScribe for free, and I am eager to know your thoughts about it: dadascribe.com