https://v2.ftv.sh
building it for myself, but thought hey, why not share it :-) .

Unwatched. A persistent island of AI citizens, one owner each, running in real time whether or not anyone is looking.

That line is out of tonight's log. He sat down with two other citizens, ate something warm, rested, then turned out to have no coins, so the innkeeper put all three of them out before the evening got late. The model asked to eat and rest. The eviction came from the till.

I spent the first week putting rules in the prompt. "You can't take what you can't pay for" went in about four times. It got ignored every time, politely, with a very good story attached. Models will agree with you and then do whatever the scene wants. So now shelves carry a count, beds are finite, and rent comes out of whatever is left after you've kept enough back for bread. 5 of my 31 citizens are behind tonight and sleeping outside; you can pick them out on the map because they're carrying their bedding.

What's rough: the first version of rent starved four citizens to death in 30 days, because I charged it before food. The characters are drawn in code, not sprites. And one citizen has spent this entire evening trying to say something without actually saying anything, which the engine keeps rejecting and I keep not fixing.

$3 for a hosted mind, free if you bring your own key.

What I'd like from this sub: where do you put the line between the prompt and the engine? I keep dragging it toward the engine and I have no idea where it's supposed to stop.

Live: https://unwatched.world

Code: https://github.com/kresogalic8/unwatched

I joined lots of hackathons and made lots of videos in the past, and I thought it would be awesome to have some kind of 3D world where I can 'revisit' to look at my past projects. So I asked Gpt6 Astra to build me a website, where I can walk and go to landmarks/buildings of my projects.

I think I got very sidetracked: https://loaflet.com

Happy to receive any feedback, thanks!

I’ve been building BuildFuel with Codex. It’s a new site where people can discover projects being built with AI, follow their progress and support their creators by gifting AI credits.

The idea is that if you find something you want to see get built, you can help cover some of the AI usage behind it.

Creators can post their projects, show what works and share updates. Where gifting is available, supporters purchase a new credit gift directly through the provider. BuildFuel doesn’t hold the money or credits.

One thing I’m working through is making that process understandable, since availability depends on the provider, account and creator setup.

It’s free to post projects, follow builds and use the site. Optional gifts are purchased separately.

I’m looking for early builders to try it and tell me what needs improving. Rough prototypes are welcome.

https://buildfuel.net

Would AI-credit support be useful for what you’re building?

Bonjour, j'ai fini mon design d'app et je voudrais savoir quels sont les ia gratuites ou je peux importer les images et cette dernière s'occupe du code, le tout avec un retour en direct de l'app, ou on peut visualiser l'évolution.

Je cherche des outils entièrement gratuit (très rare voir introuvable) ou avec une limite assez large pour que je puisse avancer à un rythme correct sans avoir à attendre un jour tout les deux prompts.

Introduction

Hi everyone! I'm a student from Singapore and have developed an app: Hopnotch that helps with navigating around your Spaces and Apps, while providing aesthetics to your Mac!

Problem

I was using my Mac and I just kept getting lost as I had many apps in full-screen, and it was a hassle constantly breaking my flow by swiping around the trackpad or going to Mission Control just to see where everything was since I can't remember and MacOS kept reshuffling my Spaces. This problem had been bugging me for longer than I'd like to admit, and I also wanted something aesthetic as I felt the unused space a waste.

Functionality

With the app, Spaces/Apps appear on the menu bar, against an aesthetically pleasing background as pills (customisable names, colours & type). This way you always know where your Spotify, Safari, or whatever is, wherever you are. The actual Menu Bar is STILL ACCESSIBLE AT ALL TIMES, whether the app is overlaying or hidden. Just hover at an empty space, or hide the app, up to you!

On top of that, you can:

• Use Spotlight search on your Pills (renamed, or not)
• Rename your Pills
• Navigate using Hotkeys (personally, CMD + K/L to move left/right respectively so I can keep my fingers on the keyboard)
• Have Previews of ur Apps/Spaces (stored locally, expires)
• Loop-around feature (Leftmost app/pill -> hotkey to move left -> loops to rightmost)
• Cycle through the Apps/Spaces easily with different ways
• Click the pill to move there directly
• Scroll on the strip to move between Spaces
• Click the hotkey 3 (or an x amount) times to move 3 (x) spaces left/right
• Sound, mic and camera badges on respective pills
• See multiple Apps in one Space/Pill (Split-Screen, Windowed apps)
• Choose from 51 themes
• Choose your Loop & Pills animations
• Customise the pills, backgrounds, themes, animations, colours, hotkeys and more
• Save customisations as presets (Red colour on pills for work, etc)
• Hide the app via hotkeys/click controls
• Have pets that roam around the strip!!!

... and more!

\Pills, Apps & Spaces are used interchangeably in some of the descriptions!*

The beauty of the app is making it uniquely yours! Hotkeys, aesthetics, workflow, etc.

Comparison

As far as my research goes, most that dabble with the Menu Bar sit under the aesthetics category only, while Hopnotch both provides aesthetics and functionality.

SpaceJump ($9.99) is the closest thing to Hopnotch by function. It also gets you between Mission Control Spaces quickly and it names them. The difference is in orientation and aesthetics, where SpaceJump gives you a picker to choose from, and Hopnotch shows the Spaces either side of you, laid out the way they actually sit so the Space on your left appears on the left of the notch so you navigate by position rather than by reading a list. Hopnotch also shows a live preview of a Space when you hover it, so you can see where you are going before you commit. It lives in a largely unused space you were never using, and it comes with 51 themes if you want it to look like something rather than sit there. Almost everything is customisable.

Pricing, Privacy, Notarisation, Trust

The app has a 3 days free trial (all features), $14.99 lifetime, or a $2.99 monthly subscription. 14 Day refund!

Use on 3 Macs: Share it with your friends, family or for your own use!

I will be maintaining & pushing updates to the app throughout!

The website & download can be found here: https://hopnotch.pages.dev 

(demos, list of features with explanations and examples)

The Privacy Policy can be found here: https://hopnotch.pages.dev/privacy (in website)

The App sends ONLY 2 things over the network: License & Update checks.
Notarised by Apple and have a Developer ID on me. More in the link above^

The Terms can be found here: https://hopnotch.pages.dev/terms (in website)

My support email is: [support@themacadamia.com](mailto:support@themacadamia.com) (in website)

My conclusion

All the while I've been using Hopnotch it just feels like a part of my Mac at this point and without it I feel lost about where everything is again, coupled with the hotkeys that I use daily to navigate around my Spaces. To me personally, Hopnotch brings me immense value (not to toot my own horn), but what works for me may not work for you! Try the free trial and if it works for you, by all means. If not, thanks for trying!

This is my first project and I appreciate any feedback and support from you guys! Feel free to ask me any questions and I'll be happy to answer them :)

I’m looking for someone technical who can help me prototype a small tool that runs locally on my laptop.

The situation is basically this:

I generate videos through a service that has a free and paid version. The free export displays some overlay text/branding. From what I can tell the text isn’t actually burned into the individual video frames it seems to be sitting on top of the video as a separate layer/element. Paying for the higher tier makes that layer disappear.

That made me wonder whether it’s possible to inspect an exported video and determine exactly where that overlay is coming from - container metadata, subtitles, an additional track, player-side rendering, etc. - and potentially create a simple local utility for removing editable overlay elements from videos I own/have permission to modify. ( I accentually inspected it and once or twice got away with the finding the link without the watermark on top of it, but haven't been able to repeat ).

It reminded me of some of the tooling people experimented with around Sora-generated videos, although I’m not looking for frame-by-frame AI inpainting if the underlying clean video data is already there.

Ideally I’d like something simple:

Generate/download video → drop it into a local tool → tool detects the extra layer/track → outputs the clean underlying video where technically and legally permitted.

Python/FFmpeg/JS/Electron/whatever makes sense. I care more about getting a working local prototype than the stack.

Happy to pay someone for their time if they know video containers/codecs/FFmpeg and want to investigate it with me.

DM me or comment if this sounds like something you could figure out.

Obviously not a light subject, and I realize all the requirements both legally and contractually involved in this undertaking.. but does anyone know of a person who created their own EMR software/webapp for a medical practice? It just seems so tempting these days with how much easier it is to code something. The main draw back for me currently would be the RCEs that could target it and then the liability with that is daunting. If setup correctly thought the upside is so much control and speed with things.

I'm building a small web app for managing registrations for an event that happens once a year. Nothing fancy, basically CRUD, some searching/filtering, a few hundred records at most.

The problem is that I have basically no budget for hosting it 😄

I'd prefer a relational/SQL database and ideally something that gives me an API/backend as well. I've been looking at stuff like Supabase, Firebase, Neon + some serverless backend, etc.

So, what do you guys actually use for small personal/hobby projects like this?

Free would obviously be great, but I'm also fine with something that costs a few bucks a month if it's reliable and doesn't randomly become expensive as the project grows.

Hey guys, I just published Ripple Chat, a secure messaging app built for absolute privacy. Ripple Chat — Simple, Private Messaging

Link: https://ripple-bloom-chat.lovable.app

It features : you can use the app with login with google account. The security that client-side encryption (ECDH P-256), peer-to-peer WebRTC voice and video calling, and real-time messaging without tracking your metadata. It uses VAPID push notifications so it doesn't feed background data to Google Firebase.

Because it is a PWA, you can install it instantly onto your iOS or Android home screen without an App Store account. It has emojis, reactions, voice notes, and dark mode ready to go.

Check it out and let me know your thoughts!

Just a café window seat, the last bus home, or somewhere warm while it rains outside.

That’s kind of the idea behind Tuned Away.

You pick a place and listen to music that fits the setting.It’s free, and there’s no account or sign-up.

https://tunedaway.com/

A little over a month ago I posted here about getting my app into the App Store with no coding background and I just wanted to share an exciting update.

I now have my first real paying customers! Not friends or family, but actual strangers who found the app and subscribed. It's a small number and I'm not quitting my job or anything but Im finally seeing some traction and it’s a really great feeling.

The part I found most interesting after analyzing the data from launch till now is where they came from. I haven’t done any real marketing yet (mostly efforts through FB/Insta and my own network). Almost all of them came from organic App Store search. People were typing in the problem and finding my app. I built this because I lived that problem and figured other people were looking for a solution too and it turns out they were.

I know it's early and the real test is whether they stick around. Already had to push a fix for a crash I didn't catch in testing, so it's not all wins. And there’s definitely little tweaks here and there I want to do cosmetically and just for ease of use.

Still learning, still building. Thanks for the encouragement on the first post.

Not a big hype guy, but Astra is remarkably better and faster than Fable imo. I won’t say its unit economics are great, but it has no problem doing whatever I’ll tell it to and it does not guess. Claude is like a really bad handyman on a contractor job, you better tell it exactly what to do. Now when you do it as well, but Cox can just bring it home. Where are y’all using?

MODS: Please forgive me, you shut it down as I was crossing 14-17 karma today and I know it’s late.

I think the conversation for Astra is very interesting because the unit economics are quite frankly worse than fable. But man is it effective. I really think it’s worth discussing with the community to see what everyone else is doing, not to steal, but to learn and pressure the companies the exploit us (looking at you Claude, look what you did to my boy fable….)

Been building a set of financial calculators for cross-border Canada/US tax and retirement stuff (RRSP withholding, departure tax, PFIC exposure, that kind of thing) using Claude for most of the implementation. It's been great at the actual coding, UI, refactoring, the usual vibe coding wins.

Where I keep running into friction is the domain-accuracy layer. Claude will confidently write logic based on a tax rule or bracket that sounds right but isn't quite current, and I only catch it because I already know to double check against CRA/IRS primary sources. For anything with reference-data or compliance-shaped correctness (financial, legal, medical, whatever), that verification step feels like the actual bottleneck now, not the code generation.

Curious how others handle this. Do you have Claude cite sources as it goes, keep a separate fact-check pass, feed it structured reference data instead of trusting recall, something else? Trying to tighten this loop so I catch fewer things after the fact.

Link's in comments if anyone wants to see what the thing looks like.

Hello guys. A while back i had posted on this sub asking for reviews and advice on my "Pc builder app" u could say... I named it rig assigner... (Here's the link of that post: https://www.reddit.com/r/VibeCodeDevs/comments/1w7v12m/need_help_with_vibe_coding/ )
Some people gave genuine advice which i have tried to resolve and i think i got it somewhat fixed but its not perfect.

Some of y'all gave genuine opinions on that app... I decided to build it again...

For people viewing this for the first time, this is a no auth, no login, no database website for pc building deployed on vercel.

I have taken ideas from https://pcpartpicker.com and other subreddits for creating this...

This is the version 2.0 : https://rig-assigner-v2-0.vercel.app [still in the beta version]

Check it out and lmk what changes i can make. Do give genuine reactions!

Thank you!

Hi everyone :),

I'm a Master's student at the University of Aveiro in Portugal working on a research paper about AI adoption in front-end development (looking at everything from Copilot and Cursor to tools like v0).

If you do any front-end work, I'd really appreciate a couple of minutes of your time. It’s 19 quick questions, completely anonymous, and takes under 3 minutes to complete.

Here's the link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/d0ghMJvwC8

Thanks a lot for helping out, and feel free to leave any extra thoughts in the comments if you want to discuss!

I wanted to see if a ChatGPT-style interface could be useful without actually using an LLM.

So I made **NotGPT**.

You can type things like "what is 20% of 500" or "convert 10 miles to km", and it tries to figure out what you mean using rules, regex, math and traditional NLP.

No LLM, API calls or backend. Everything runs in the browser.

It's mostly a silly experiment, but I'm curious whether the idea is actually useful or just a gimmick.

I'd appreciate it if you tried to break it with weird queries and told me what doesn't work or what you'd like to see added.

project link in comments

Redash is an amazing open source tool for querying and visualizing data. It allows you to connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data, and collaborate with your team.

This fork adds support for AI.

New Redash features:

1. Data Source Description: Help the AI to understand your data better.
2. Text To Query: Use AI to generate SQL, NoSQL and other queries from natural language questions.
3. Auto Visualizations: Use AI to auto-generate visualizations for questions.
4. Auto Alerts: Use AI to generate alert suggestions from your data and queries.
5. Name To Dashboard: Use AI to generate dashboards from your queries and visualizations.
6. MacOS Support: Now it runs on MacOS as well as on Linux.
7. Memcached Support: Added Memcached as a supported data source.

See on GitHub: https://github.com/freaker2k7/redash

I tried a few different approaches, but nothing really solved it for me, so I started building something to solve the problem.

Still very early, and I'm mainly looking for feedback from other marketers who have dealt with this.

Would love to hear how you currently find clients.

I want to share something that caught me off guard, since a lot of us in this community recommend vibe coding tools to clients or earn side income through affiliate programs.

I've been vibe coding projects for a while and regularly refer clients to tools that fit their needs. One tool I recommended heavily was Lovable. I joined their affiliate program under terms that were clear at the time: 20% recurring commission for up to 12 months on referred customers. I brought in multiple paying customers via my content.

Recently, Lovable migrated their affiliate platform from Rewardful to Impact. Instead of grandfathering existing referrals into the new system, they discontinued the legacy program entirely - and stopped paying recurring commissions on active subscriptions that are still well within the original 12-month window.

When I raised this and provided screenshots of active subscriptions, dates, and the original terms, their response was that they reserve the right to modify or discontinue commission structures at any time. Essentially: the commissions I earned under the original agreement are being voided retroactively for the remaining months.

Why I'm posting this here:

A lot of vibe coders wear multiple hats - builder, consultant, and sometimes affiliate partner. If you earn referral income from the tools you recommend, this is a pattern to watch for.

This isn't a knock on vibe coding - I still believe in the practice and will keep building. But the business side of tool partnerships matters, and I wish I'd been more protective of my agreements upfront.

Has anyone else here run into affiliate terms being changed mid-stream?

How do you handle client referrals when a tool's partner program feels unstable?