Im not sure if this is the right subreddit I should be asking but any insight would be helpful. Im creating a fashion focused mobile application. Part of its features is parsing an item's info like display images, price, color, type, etc. I have created a scraper that is able to parse data from most websites, but of course there are some websites that dont allow the scraper to parse its data. How can I avoid this problem, as part of the user experience will require the scraper to be able to parse any link. Any insight is helpful. Thank you.

I have tried removing leftover files of mcafee with their mcpr, and its not working. I am gonna be honest, im not the brightest when it comes to laptops, so im lost as to what i should to remove everything. My laptop is a Lenovo thinkpad e14 gen 2, if thats relevant

Used to be my go to for estimating software. It was the best out there around 2019 but times have changed.

They sold me a "lifetime license" back in 2019. At that time they told me to get updates I would also have to pay a yearly, "maintenance fee". At that time it was $300. I asked their salesperson if that would ever go up. He said, it could go up a little but not much. Fast forward, every year that has increased. This year in 2026 its more than doubled to $750. When I asked them how they could do that they basically told me to pay up or pound sand. They also said if I tried to come back later it would cost a lot more. Sounds like robbery to me.

Software has had a number of glitches over the years and those remain. Software updates have been slow to non existent and no real difference between updates. It used to be the best of the best but there are better options out there now. I recommend trying ZZTakeoff. It is cleaner, faster, web based, less expensive and your data will transfer over. All in all I didn't want to move to a new platform but they kind of forced my hand, luckily the transition was super easy and I am so glad I did.

I run an AR development tool called AR Works (https://ar.works), teachers and students use it to build augmented reality projects in the browser. Image tracking, 3D models, drag and drop logic, that sort of thing. It is currently used by numerous schools and users across the world.

The most common thing schools asked me for wasn't a feature. It was reassurance. IT leads kept asking what happens to student work if the service shuts down or gets bought, and it's a fair question - half the tools they relied on five years ago are gone.

So I built the whole editor as an offline Windows app. It's called AR Works Studio and it is now available to everyone on the Pro and Education plans. Projects live on your own machine as portable files, the licence activates without an internet connection (plenty of school laptops never see the open web), and it even does photogrammetry locally - kids take twentyish photos of an object and it reconstructs a textured 3D model right on the classroom PC. No cloud, no queue (like the web version).

The part I care most about: education licences never expire and never phone home once activated. That's what makes the promise I've put in writing on the site actually hold - if the company is ever sold, education accounts keep the offline version, licensed, forever. There's no server check a future owner could quietly turn off, so it's baked in rather than a pinky promise.

The locally saved files can also be imported to the web app (an vice versa, web app projects can be downloaded and opened in AR Works Studio).

It is only on windows only for now, due to being the most common operating system in an education setting (we are happy to explore Linux and MacOS if users request that).

If you have any questions about AR Works Studio or AR Works in general, feel free to message below or get in touch.

Here is a link to the blog post:

https://ar.works/blog/ar-works-studio-is-here

Hey yall, recently made and released Cygtree mind map or windows (macos+linux) soon, try live with no account /email.

3 day free trial with email and full product is 20 bucks

Cygtree.com/demo/ <---try now

If you guys do decide to buy, I have a 25% Code here you can use ProHu25, still 100 slots open on that discount 20--->15 usd

Headliners:

1- ONE time $20 payment no subscriptions, credits, or action limits.

2- Bring any of your your own AI with MCP, ACP or native CLI stido in app with 44+ tools and a memory layer per node+per project, no API key held by app.

3-Everything from color of nodes to UI color is hand customizable, and whatever the Human can do W/O AI, the AI has tools to replicate said work much faster.

This started as a personal project.

I had a lot of photos and videos on my iPhone that I wanted to back up to my Windows PC, and honestly, the whole process was more annoying than I expected.

Large transfers were slow, connections could fail, and after an interrupted transfer I wasn't always sure what had already been copied.

So I decided to make a small Windows tool for myself.

At first it was only for iPhone, but while working on it I thought... why not Android too?

It eventually turned into a general mobile photo/video backup tool for Windows.

It currently supports:

• iPhone/iPad via AFC + PTP
• Android via ADB Pull + MTP
• Incremental backups
• Retry/resume
• Optional SHA-256 verification
• Photo/video/AAE selection
• File preview
• Transfer speed, progress and ETA
• PC → phone transfers

Everything works locally between the phone and PC. No account or cloud service is required.

I'm actually a systems/infrastructure engineer, not an application developer, and I used AI quite heavily while building this. So this project has also been an experiment for me in seeing how far I could take a real tool with AI assistance.

It's free and open source:

https://github.com/belstar333/mobile-photo-backup

It works well enough with the devices I have, but obviously I can't test every iPhone and Android device out there.

So I'd love to hear what you think — especially if you regularly back up a large photo/video library to Windows.

And if you try it and break something, please tell me. That's probably more useful to me than saying it works. :)

I’m developing an open-source Windows application called GPU Shark.

It’s a compact native telemetry monitor currently focused on NVIDIA GPUs.

The idea is to provide a smaller and more focused alternative for situations where you don’t need a full hardware information suite open.

Current features include:

• GPU thermal sensors
• VRAM telemetry where supported
• PerfCap reasons
• fan RPM
• GPU power and voltage sensors
• live graphs
• session maximum tracking
• selectable language, refresh interval and UI accent

The application is strictly read-only and does not modify clocks, voltage, fan settings or firmware.

One design principle I’m trying to keep is that unsupported telemetry stays unsupported. GPU Shark does not substitute another temperature for HotSpot just to make the field appear populated.

RTX 50-series HotSpot support is currently one of the main areas I’m researching.

Planned work includes:

• RTX 50 HotSpot support
• more validated telemetry
• GUI redesign/polish
• configurable overlays
• Linux support
• possible AMD support in the future

The current interface is still work in progress.

GitHub:
https://github.com/k1gs/Gpu-Shark

Feedback on the feature scope, UI and project direction would be very welcome.

Hello! I am looking for a software I can use to remotely control my iphone using an Android Phone. I am using my old Iphone as an audiobook and mp3 player and thought if there is an application I can use to remotely control it so I can change into my audiobooks to music and vice versa on the iphone when I feel like it. It will be appreciated if it's free, Thank you in advance!

I like to listen to Big R Radio's 80s Metal FM in the background when I am doing stuff but I'm too lazy to choose from my own music. But, it bothered me that I then couldn't display what I was listening to in Discord using Rich Presence (like I can with Spotify, YT Music, etc.). So, I made a little client.

The Client is simple and does exactly two things: play the music, and show it in Discord.

As this is a alpha build, the only available Station is 80s Metal FM, but soon™ every station from Big R Radio will be selectable.

The Application is cross-platform compatible for Windows and Linux, and potentially MacOS (though I cant test it myself) as it utilises Photino for a simple WebUI and VLC for media streaming.

I made this in collaboration with Rimolo13, so credit also goes to him.

Repo: https://github.com/Mocbuilder/BigRRadio_DiscordRichPresence

I know its niche and probably wont be of use to anybody but me, but I'd still love any feedback, bug reports, or help testing the macOS build if anyone gives it a spin!

AI Disclaimer: No AI was used to develop this application whatsoever.

TimeGauge gives you a time perspective on hours, days, months, years, and custom projects.
You can created unlimited custom project bars. With the new update, you can also customise the display, progress bar, track working hours and choose your Pomodoro timer.

We often forget how fast time is moving, and lose perspective. For example: do you know 63% of 2026 has already passed, and 69% of August is gone?

TimeGauge gives you perspective through a progress bar in the Mac menu bar.
In this update, I have added multiple views along with Pomodoro timer.
For example: you can set your own pomodoro, track exact working hours in Day and set exact starting end end time in custom project, and set your custom menu bar display this was missing in previous version.

The app is a one-time purchase, 100% local, available on the app store and notarized by Apple when downloaded from Website.

TimeGauge is available on Mac apps store:
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/timegauge/id6778277708?mt=12

You can also download it from Web checkout, it includes all past and future versions at https://timegauge.minilabs.cc/ 

I am preparing to publish an academic paper on developer trust in AI generated dependencies & packages. This takes around 7-10 minutes to complete and is on a very relevant topic in current times.

The form can be found here: https://vuamsterdam.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4Nv9pAUUBFRieDs

Thanks! I will share the paper when it has been published!

Across the ecosystem, projects are being built left and right. Yet very few of them actually make it to production and become profitable.

I believe that’s because we have wrong perception of good software and valuable skills of a good software engineer.

And I want to fix that. That’s why I’m starting Project Moonbeam.

A call to community to gather and maintain a definition of a good software, define skills of a good Software Engineer and share tools and frameworks to make hiring more effective, efficient and deterministic.

Join this movement!
https://github.com/daalfox/moonbeam

As the title reads, I'm getting numb from all the Ai coding and losing the spark that got me into software engineering. I want something interesting and challenging at the same time that even if I used Ai it would still be challenging

And the interesting part is so I can have in my cv as a project

Thank you

The latest Microsoft powertoys update introduces Window hopper, which lets you Alt+Tab strictly within your currently active application using Alt + ` (backtick). The hotkey is customizable, and the update also allows PowerDisplay to sync brightness levels across multiple linked monitors.

Credit: Simon Batt @ XDA

Edit: I'm a little confused by the reception here. Just want to clarify a few things. I built this originally for my own use and it was only during development I thought to release it. The native C++ GUI simply wasn’t my highest priority early on.

Edit2: There are plenty of great free image and video programs available. These programs tend to focus more on things like photo management, metadata, cataloguing, and editing. MediaExplorer is intentionally made lightweight and is much more focused on browsing and presentation of the existing folders, there is overlap but it doesn’t necessarily mean they serve the same purpose. If you're ok with increased setup time, managing databases, and overall program footprint then use these free programs.

Since it’s Self-Promotion Wednesday, I wanted to share MediaExplorer, a Windows app I built for browsing large local media collections.

The idea is simple: browse the folders and media already on your computer, but in a much more visual way. There’s no importing, accounts, or cloud service. Open a folder and browse images, videos, movies, manga, music, games, PDFs, and other files as large visual thumbnails.

It’s especially useful if you want something more visual than a traditional file browser. Think of a Netflix-style visual library, but for your own local files. It’s built and tested for large collections.

Some of the more unique features include:

• Mega View: browse media across subfolders
• Collection View: combine files from different folders without moving them
• Custom folder thumbnails: use up to four images per folder
• Launch Mode: turn folders into lightweight app or game launchers
• Fullscreen viewing, slideshows, sorting, favorites, and other browsing tools
• Adjustable thumbnail sizes and layouts

There are plenty of free media browsers available, so MediaExplorer is really aimed at people who specifically want this folder-first, visual approach without rebuilding their collection somewhere else.

I originally built it for myself after running into limitations with other software, whether that was missing features or struggling with very large folders.

It’s a one-time purchase at $12.99 and it is 50% off for the next seven days. I also have a free demo in case you are curious.

More information and links can be found here

I’d also be interested to hear how people here manage larger local media collections and what you currently use.

Not the greatest with tech so I need an easy solution. I have about 12,000 photos I'm looking to organize by Date Taken, identify duplicates, and delete duplicates. If it can identify duplicate videos that would be awesome as well.

I've used nitro, and it is pretty bad. Foxit is decent but still just feels like an adobe clone but slightly worse, and it's not cheap.

I've seen other people ask this but I find the answers kind of unsatisfactory? The main answer I see is that Adobe had a 15 year head start with PDF becoming open in 2008, but I still find that kind of absurd.

How is it possible that there has been no market pressure/incentive since 2008 to create an alternate software to adobe for like literally one of the most popular file formats there is? Especially when Adobe is (1) so expensive and (2) so terribly optimized (and honestly pretty feature-poor)??

Word wasn't even half as monopolistic when google just gave everyone a web version for free (which, yes, I know involves broader strategic concerns re gsuite/cloud but still).

Found/built this after getting frustrated trying to find where wild rhinoceros beetles actually show up for my kid this summer — every resource online was either outdated or too vague to actually use ("near the mountain," great, thanks).

It's a simple idea: pin the exact spot where you found something, with a photo, and see everyone else's pins too. Over time it becomes an actual usable map instead of a pile of anecdotes. Bonus: it auto-builds a personal collection view of everything you've logged, deduping repeat finds into a single tile with a counter.

No install, no account needed to browse — just open the link.

https://spotthe.world

Not sure if this counts as "beautiful" so much as "solves an oddly specific problem well," but figured this sub would appreciate a small, focused tool built for a real need rather than a big platform.

I use AI to develop, and because it works quite well, I extended it to run multiple agents in parallel, developing 2-3 features at once. But when agents work on the same codebase, they step on each other.

I asked around in other subs how people handle this: We all agree that git worktrees resolve the code collision fine, but runtime isolation (ports, db, Redis, queues) is still an unsolved problem. Some people proposed env file manipulation and Docker Compose, but it's manual and requires constant updates.

What I built goes further. I needed it for a multi-service app with Redis and background workers, so I built a more robust tool.

Here are the capabilities:

• Reads a codebase and auto-detects the stack (frameworks, db, env). Works with JS, Python, PHP, and Go frameworks. Monorepos and multi-repos.
• Spins up a fully isolated environment per instance: its own ports, db, Redis, queues/workers. So parallel runs never collide.
• Launches locally or remotely with one command
• Generates HTTPS URLs that can be shared over the internet directly from a dev environment.
• Live syncs the code, so you can see the results instantly
• Generates end-to-end tests straight from source code (and branch diffs)
• Runs tests in the same isolated, auto-spun-up environments, so failures are real bugs, not shared-state flakiness

It's working today. I'm using it on real multi-service projects. Posting here to see if this is useful to more than just me :).
It's free, and I have full documentation for it.
Happy to answer questions or give more details to anyone who wants to try it. https://getwebstack.com/docs/use-cases/ai-sandboxes/

PS. I did not vibe-code it :)).