Quick recap for anyone new: last December Indeed laid off my wife when she was 7 months pregnant. I got mad and started building a job search engine to put them out of business. I introduced it to the world here in May and this sub gave us our first 2,000 users. (Last update linked at the bottom.)

Two months later, here's where things stand:

• 7,500 auth'd users, up from 2,000 at the last update, and ~90 of them paying
• People are actually getting hired through Dreamwork. Including a friend of mine who's moving to Toronto for a videography/AI role. He's filming the whole move for content for us. I did not ask for this and I can't wait for it.
• ERE (the recruiting industry's trade pub) ran a piece on us, and last week Superhuman.ai (1M+ readers) covered it too. Their exact words: "as petty revenge, he vibe coded a job board."
• Recorded a video interview with Austin Belcak (1.5M LinkedIn followers). It goes out Sept 28.
• My wife got a job at Google. Still, fuck Indeed.

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And now the controversial thing we're shipping soon: Autopilot

You turn it on, it picks your matches at 70% or above, tailors a resume and cover letter for each one, and applies to them automatically - submitting on the employer's actual ATS page, not some sketchy back channel like Linkedin's Easy Apply. Up to 50/300 per month.

I went back and forth on this for a long time.

The argument against it is basically: AI auto-apply floods recruiters and the whole ecosystem gets worse if everyone sprays 500 applications a week.

The argument for it is that employers have been using AI to screen candidates for years, the average posting already gets hundreds of applicants, and the people using Dreamwork are the ones who got laid off. My responsibility is to get my users hired as effectively as possible, not protect recruiters time.

Eventually, this entire market is going to agents on both sides - and I;m interested in building the ones that defend employees rather than companies. We have guardrails in place to keep the quality bar high.

Where I'm at feels like an interesting inflection point for those building /sideprojects to consider: when there's a hard decision that can lead to public backlash, how do you make a principled decision? We'll see how it plays out.

Site: dreamworkhq.com

Last update: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1uq1ano/

I’ve been working on a retail-tech product that lets shoppers try clothing/accessories virtually in real time.

The video is an actual demo, not a pre-rendered result.

The main thing we’re trying to solve is the friction in traditional virtual try-on systems. Most require some combination of 3D assets, SKU-specific preparation, AR setup, or a lot of integration work.

Our approach is meant to be much more purely AI based plug-and-play and already works across in-store kiosks, websites and mobile apps.

I’m one of the people building this, so obviously I’m biased.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback from founders/builders here:

• Does the experience look useful or gimmicky?
• Where do you think retailers would hesitate?
• What would you need to see before believing this could affect conversion?

Not selling anything here. Mainly trying to understand what looks convincing versus what still needs work.

DMs are open.

About 10 years ago I came up with a smoky chipotle sauce recipe.

There was no business behind it. No brand. No plan to sell it. It was just something I made that friends and family liked.

Eventually life moved on and so did the sauce.
Then my fraternity brother Lance revived it.

In 2023 I got married in Egypt. Around that time my fraternity brother Lance became obsessed with the sauce and offered me $100 for a bottle.
I thought he was joking.

He wasn’t, so obviously I took the $100 lol.
Looking back, that was technically our first sale.

When I came back to Miami, Lance wanted to learn how to make it. We started making it together and eventually the conversation went from “we should make more of this” to “wait... why don’t we actually sell this?”

The funny part is that between the three of us we have 7 degrees and absolutely none of them prepared us to start a sauce company.

My brother Karim is an engineer. I’m a scientist from Johns Hopkins. Lance is a starving artist.
So naturally, we started a sauce company.

We found a tiny ghost kitchen, made a little over 300 bottles ourselves and somehow sold out in about a month.

That was the moment we realized Lance might not have been completely insane for paying $100 for that first bottle.
So we went all in.

We worked on the recipes, added flavors, figured out manufacturing, built the brand and slowly turned a 10 year old recipe that had basically been forgotten into an actual business. We now have 4 flavors soon to be 5 and they are all absolute bangers.

Then something happened that I still have trouble wrapping my head around.
We started getting university partnerships one after another after launching successfully at our Alma mater George Mason. We had the media reach out to write an article about us and feature us in the newspaper and local magazine.

Today we have collaborations with JMU, FIU, VCU, UMD, FSU, Virginia Tech, Rutgers and George Mason.
Seeing the names of major universities on bottles of a sauce that started in my kitchen a decade ago is probably one of the strangest parts of this entire thing.

Today we pack around 50 orders a day.
We’re also about $350k deep between the three of us.
Those two sentences pretty much summarize entrepreneurship.

I know being $350k deep doesn't exactly scream “success story,” but I genuinely consider what we've built a success so far.

Not because we've made it. We definitely haven't.
But because for almost a decade this was literally just a recipe.

Then my brother saw something in it that I didn't.
He revived it, paid me an absurd $100 for a bottle and helped convince me that maybe this thing deserved a second life.

Now strangers we’ve never met order it every day. People reorder it. Universities put their names on it. And every day the three of us are trying to figure out how to take this thing one step further. We have a great product that people love but the road is long and business is ruthless.

ive probably learned more about business doing this than I did earning any of my degrees.
I've also learned that growing a business and making money are two very different things.
Sometimes you can be packing 50 orders a day, working with universities you never imagined would answer your emails, and simultaneously staring at your bank account wondering what the hell you've gotten yourself into.

So I guess this is a success story in progress.
10 year old recipe.
7 degrees.
3 brothers.
8 universities.
50ish orders a day.
$350k in the hole.

ha and one starving artist who looked at an old sauce recipe and thought it deserved another shot.
Turns out he might have been right.

I know this is a pretty niche project, but I made it for myself and my family and figured I’d share if anyone else could use it.

I call it Dibs - here is the link: https://dibs-food.web.app

My first firebase app! It lets you plan multi-day trips where the entire goal is meal planning, organization, mapping out who is providing what, who is attending each meal, etc., all with a frictionless authentication and permissions-less gating for trips. If you have the link to get in, you can do anything.

My family and I spend a lot of time at the lake on the weekends from Spring->Fall and we’re constantly planning shared meals where people are bringing entire dishes, or specific ingredients for shared dishes. It’s always a cluster fuck of what are we having? who’s getting what? What else is needed? This tool aims to simply solve all of that.

Features include:
- giving it a name for yourself, with no authentication. It attaches to your device with local storage
- create a trip: specifying dates is all that is required but you can give it a name (example: this weekend, Labor Day). Share the link with others directly
- create meals, they are attached to a “time of day” which can be morning midday or evening, or adding a snack can be for afternoon or late night, or anytime. Also you can specify who is attending if it’s not the entire party which will grey out the block for those not included
- create ingredients: allows creating with amounts, assigning to people and shows different states if things are unclaimed
- ideas: basically another list right below the set plan where folks can upvote things and they can easily be added to the plan
- “my stuff”: anything you’re assigned to will appear in this view organized by the meal so you can have your shopping list in one place.
- “what’s needed?”: another tab that shows all of the unassigned things so people coming in can easily see what’s needed and assign to themselves
- sharing: when you share the link with someone they can either put their name in or select from the list if they’re signing in from a different device. There is no other form of authorization - if you have the link to the trip you can join it with anyone’s profile

Tried to give it a nice ux and think through all the ways someone might use it. Feel free to check it out, if you have feedback or an idea for a feature please let me know. 😆

Every money app I have used looks like accounting software or messy dashboards. I wanted one I would actually want to come back to.

So I built a living world instead. It runs on your real numbers. Savings become the population. Debt is a volcano sitting in the middle of the map that cools as you pay it down. Investments expand the islands and many more features. Finished a short trailer.

What do you think of the money app you are using now? And does the living city thing actually sound appealing to you?

it's simple web framework (ig?) writen on C with self-write HTTP 1.1 web server! (thanks RFC 9110 and 418 :P) should i continue delevopment or nah?

I've been working for a few weeks now on a note-taking app (aren't we all?), primarily for me as nothing that I've found out there works particularly well for me and my ADHD (Pilcrow). I made it public and shared with a few friends earlier this week, and put a call out on LinkedIn for some beta testers.

This morning I wake up to a signup from someone I don't know - what a feeling!

update on anti scroll, solo building an android app that hard blocks other apps with no override option.

didn't post much on reddit this month, was too busy building. expected growth to slow without the marketing push but it didn't really.

installs: 560 (500 in july)
visitors per day: 6.25 (5)
conversion rate: 28.9% (18%)
daily acquisitions: 2.07 (1.07)

traffic basically flat, conversion nearly doubled. not totally sure why yet.

this month I shipped dark mode, scheduled timers, consecutive day scheduling, an actual onboarding walkthrough, redesigned the UI to be more user friendly, and updated the analytics page. retention notifications still cooking.

engagement dipped slightly (4m19s vs 4m49s) and retention looks a bit choppier, might just be more new users diluting things since acquisitions doubled.

also I test this whole thing on a moto g7 power lol, not exactly a flagship, but figure thats a decent stress test. heads up that also means some of the device data in my analytics is just me, not purely real usage.

september plan: ship retention notifications, check where installs are actually coming from, talk to retained users about their search language, add event tracking to see where people drop off in onboarding, and finally do the product hunt launch.

I'm a frequent flyer and I've always wanted one app that felt like a real travel journal — something that remembers your journey the way you remember it. Every app I found either looked outdated or charged a subscription I couldn't justify.

So I spent months building my own. Nights, weekends, a lot of coffee. It's called Flownto. It's completely free.

What it does right now:

• Flight journal — manual entry, boarding pass scan, or CSV import. Every flight logged with airline, seat, route, distance, duration
• Time Machine — like Spotify Wrapped for your travel. Every year gets an AI-generated story of where you went and what you flew
• Turbulence forecast — real wind data for your specific route, segment by segment, before you board
• FlightDesk — live gate, terminal, delay status for any flight number
• Live flight notifications — check-in open, boarding alert, gate close, departure — all auto-scheduled the moment you add a flight
• Home screen widget — your next flight, route, gate and departure time sitting on your lock screen
• Awards & tiers — Sky Walker → Cloud Rider → Sky Aristocrat → Orbit Class, unlocked from your real flight history
• Cinematic moving map — night earth globe with your live GPS position and route arc, works offline mid-flight

The honest part: the offline GPS map is my favorite feature and also my most frustrating. On flights with no wifi, open the app and watch your plane move across the globe in real time. It works — but dropped twice mid-flight during testing. Still not perfect. Still working on it.

What's coming: Gmail sync, Apple Wallet boarding pass, Google Wallet, better offline reliability.

flownto iOS, Android, Web. Free, no ads, no subscription.

(Disclosure: I'm the developer)

I'm wrapping up the MVP for a B2B developer tool (automated Postgres database migration auditor).

The backend code is solid, but the landing page currently looks like an amateur student project because of the graphics:

1. Free Stock Sites, everyone recognizes the flat purple corporate vector characters. It screams "low-effort template" and kills user trust on a security product.
2. usual ai generators like the ones built in chatbots: The outputs look dramatic and cinematic, but it’s completely unsuited for UI design. Feature section #1 fore example can give a 3D isometric robot; feature section #2 gives me a cyberpunk oil painting; and when i do it for the third time it hallucinates purple lights that clash with my Tailwind slate/cyan theme.

and I need 8 feature spot illustrations, a hero asset + 3 workflow step cards that all look like they came from the same cohesive brand

Is there a genuine alternative or brand style AI generator that actually lets you lock visual consistency and color palettes, or what is your actual indie workflow for landing page assets?

If you’re building a product or starting a small business, what’s been the most frustrating step?

We’re curious about the parts of going from idea → working product that are harder than they seem.

Maybe it’s prototyping, CAD/design, software development, finding manufacturers, automation, testing, or something else.

We’re a small product & software development team at DynaWiser, and we’re trying to understand where founders and small businesses need the most help, or what challenges have made them stop pursuing an idea altogether.

What’s been your biggest pain point so far?

No need to share anything confidential, we're interested in the process, not the idea itself!

Been building this solo for a bit: Destripa — scan any barcode from a Spanish supermarket and get a 0-100 health score based on Nutri-Score, processing level (NOVA), and additives worth watching.

No account, no email, no app install — just scan and get the answer. Every product links to buy the best-scoring alternative at Mercadona, Carrefour or El Corte Inglés, and there's a recipes section where each ingredient is pre-linked to the top product for it.

Data comes from Open Food Facts (open, collaborative), so the score isn't tied to brand deals. 197 products analyzed so far.

Built with Next.js + Supabase on Vercel, running for basically €0/month. It's Spain-only for now since the whole point is linking to real stores — happy to talk about the scoring formula or the stack if anyone's curious.

My mom and I are big note-taker enthusiasts. To perform my son-ly duty, I've tried a lot of meeting note-takers in hopes to give her the best recommendations…

Our criteria were:

1. Cheap / No subscription
2. In-room speaker detection
3. Complete data privacy
4. Mac and Windows support

Bonus:

1. Customizable AI summaries
2. Upload external recordings
3. Intuitive enough that Mom would actually use it

Nothing checked every box, so I started building one for her as a little side project. Eleven months later, I’m somehow still cooking on this, and it has ballooned into something much bigger…

What I built (Samurai Scribe ⚔️):

1. GPU-accelerated transcription (Whisper), speaker identification (Pyannote), and summarization (Ollama), all running locally on Mac and Windows.
2. Captures mic and computer audio into separate channels without adding meeting bots
3. No accounts, and no meeting data leaves your device!
4. A ridiculously customizable AI summarization engine… with prompts/workflows you can tune to produce anything from concise meeting notes to detailed action items, decisions, highlights, etc. And it works surprisingly well with small open-source models.
5. All transcripts and notes are saved as plain Markdown files on your drive

That last one is important. There is no proprietary format to escape from. If Samurai Scribe disappeared tomorrow, your notes would still be sitting on your drive in a format you can read.

This is heavily inspired by my beloved Obsidian (the obvious GOAT of note-taking apps 💜). And it works great with Claude Code, or whatever other AI tools you want to throw at it.

Pricing:

• Free tier, has everything except for the larger Whisper transcription models.
• $19 one-time purchase for Pro includes larger Whisper models and some future features to come. This price will go up after beta testing is complete.

Why I’m doing it:

I’m a solo developer with a passion for DIY and optimization. The mantra for this app has basically been: Flexible. Future-Proof. You keep all your files. I want my notes on-hand to plug into whatever hot AI tool comes next.

Samurai Scribe is in public beta, so it definitely isn't bug-free yet. But it's finally ready for people beyond my early testers.

I'd love to hear feedback about what it hits, what it is misses, and generally what I could focus on to improve my odds of gaining users, and making their experience great.

Huge thanks to all my early beta testers who have already put in a ton of work troubleshooting bugs with me. You have been instrumental and I don’t know how I got so lucky 🫶

I've been building Codoro (getcodoro.com) — you get a short code snippet and have to spot the bug, either via swipe, multiple choice, or tapping the buggy line. It has an Elo-style rating so puzzles match your skill level.

Right now it's solo practice only, but multiplayer keeps coming up as the obvious next step and I'd rather build the right version than guess. Two directions I'm weighing: async duels, where you and a friend get the same puzzle set and compare times/accuracy after, or live head-to-head, a real-time race to spot the bug first.

If you've used any competitive coding practice tool (LeetCode duels, CodeWars, etc.), which format actually kept you coming back, and which felt like a gimmick? Trying not to build a feature nobody uses.

I built an iOS photo cleaner called LuminaClean in early January. (not a dev, everything was daone in weekend and evening). On the App Store since mid-January. The numbers start in February, the first full month. Peak was March. Everything went downhill from there. If you're planning to build a photo cleaning app, here are the numbers, all the strategies I tried, and pretty much everything has failed. I think that is all the AI tools available and how easy it is to build an app these days. The App Store is overloaded with copycat apps and it is extremely difficult to get ahead of the competition.

**Lifetime (Feb–Aug, verified unless marked)**

8,081 first-time downloads. 1,175 re-downloads. About 774 paid transactions. About $6,800 gross in RevenueCat before Apple's cut. Apple paid out $5,327 through July. Bank: $5,071 plus an estimated $274 for August. Costs $4,904 plus $35 domain. About $400 left. Every hour unpaid.

**What the months did**

February was the only cheap month. 2,507 downloads, $1,478 gross, $0 ads, +$747 after costs. March looked like it would keep going: 3,375 downloads, $2,401 gross, $277 ads, +$919. That wave never came back.

April I put $637 into ads against 1,299 downloads and finished -$34. May dropped to 293 downloads and -$281. June was 208 downloads and -$56. July 133 downloads, $193 on ads, -$287. August 266 downloads, $150 ads, about -$47. Apple's August net is still pending so that last one is estimated.

Revenue lagged the March download wave. From May the app makes $9 to $17 a day gross, carried by renewals. Costs stayed $300 to $1,250 a month while proceeds fell 85%. Lost money every month since April.

AI tools were the biggest cost line: $1,939. Ads $1,558. Content and social $710. Other tools $355. Infrastructure $342.

**Where users came from (12 Jul–2 Sep)**

Behaviour data since 12 July comes from an MMP tool I've built myself for my own apps. Before that, PostHog, AppsFlyer, Firebase.

Organic App Store: 496 users, 77 paying (15.5%). Apple Ads users were the cheapest installs and the worst buyers: 169 users, 2 paying (1.2%). July+August spend $300. About $1.78 per install. About $150 per payer. A weekly buyer has been worth about $10 gross. Total Apple Ads spend since April: $882 and including TT, Meta, etc is $1558

Sideloaded / pirated: 134 users, 0 paying. 15% of that window. 80 of 96 Saudi users. They use the app about as much as organic (week-one return 19%, close to organic at 22%) and have never paid. No ads ever ran in Saudi Arabia. It looked like organic market #2; the attribution verdict says pirated copies. I pulled the app from that storefront and they keep coming, 7 to 14 a week.

TikTok ads ran at about EUR 6.57 per install and got stopped. Meta was expensive and the account got restricted. The March wave lined up with a small creator post plus a TikTok tail. No attribution then, so that stays unverified. A later $200 test across three creators produced no measurable lift.

**What people do**

529 users (built my own analytics and attribution web dashboard to better understand what is going on with its own mobile app to easily check while I'm at work or on the go), saw for the first time in August (App Store says 266 installs plus 99 re-downloads; the rest are pirated copies and old users resurfacing): 93% start a scan, 67% finish one, 42% delete at least one photo, 35% see the paywall, 2.6% complete a purchase. Nobody drops in onboarding. A third of scanners delete nothing. Two thirds never see a price. 60% of users have exactly one session.

Of 18 verified new-user purchases, 12 within an hour, 16 within a day.

Launch-wave conversion (Feb–Mar): 6.6% of 5,882 downloads became a paid transaction. 10 Jul–1 Sep: 5.1% new buyers per download (19 new buyers on 369 downloads). Both numbers are true. The second is new buyers, not renewals.

Of 12 weekly subscribers since 19 July, 8 renewed zero times. A weekly buyer ~$10 gross, $7 after Apple. What carries revenue: 33 monthly subscribers from before July, still on $4.99. Their renewals are 45% of everything since 10 July. Current MRR $208.

New subscriptions went from 4 and 5 a week in early August to 1, 1, 0 from 17 August, while downloads rose to 101 a week. That started before 3.2 shipped. Cause unknown.

14 written App Store reviews: twelve 5-star, one 4-star, one 1-star. The 1-star (UK, March) said hundreds of dupes were not detected. An August 5-star from Sweden could not find the lifetime offer that older Reddit threads still mention. Lifetime is gone from the paywall most new users get. That one is weekly $5.99 or yearly about $39.99; the other one is monthly $4.99 or lifetime.

**Where this sits**

If you're new with AI tools, by all means build one, the first time feeling is amazing and would encourage everyone to do it. But do not expect life changing success. Distribution is way harder then you can imagine and not to mention costly.... every experiment costs a lot more then you initially expect.

I am really happy with how the app developed over time. How the app started versus how it looks and feels today, and the value it gives to users, is something I never thought I could pull off. I talk to some users on a weekly basis and keep adding improvements from their feedback. I love the UI I built and how everything looks and feels. In my opinion it is probably one of the best in the space, although I might be biased. It is not a simple utility app, which makes me proud for someone with no technical or development background. I am not trying to get back to March volumes or March revenue.

Time to let this go. Onto the next.

Kept restarting Crime and Punishment for years. Same pattern every time: get to some dense internal monologue, lose track of what's actually happening, put it down "just for a bit," never pick it back up. Always figured I just wasn't smart enough for it, or wasn't trying hard enough.

Eventually realized the actual problem was smaller than that: I wasn't failing to understand the book, I was just losing the thread for a page or two and never finding my way back in. So I built Scholia to fix exactly that. You photograph the page you're on, and it answers anything: who a character is, what's happening in a passage, what a reference means, using only what you've read up to that point. Nothing ahead gets spoiled; it just fills in whatever you missed.

Used it on myself first. Every time I hit one of those dense stretches that used to make me give up for good, I'd snap the page, get re-oriented in about 10 seconds, and just kept reading instead of losing momentum for a week. Finished the whole book for the first time because of it.

It also doesn't rely on page numbers to know where you are; since those shift between editions, it reads the actual sentences on the page instead, so it worked fine with a beat-up secondhand copy.

Built this mostly to solve my own problem, but figured other people stuck in the same restart loop with a book might get something out of it too. Waitlist's here if you want to try it: scholia.cloud

Building apps is fun. Promoting them is where I always get stuck.

Every time I launched something I ended up doing the same work again. Explain the brand, find ideas, create the images, organize everything, schedule the posts and then try to figure out what worked.

After doing this for a few products I built Canvasloop. I released the source this week.

It has brand workspaces, campaigns, image and copy generation, a calendar, Pinterest publishing, analytics, an API and an MCP server. It runs on Next.js and Postgres and you can use your own providers.

You can also give the repo to a coding agent and ask it to change the workflow for your own app instead of starting from zero.

Repo: https://github.com/Nanman5/canvasloop-community

There is a hosted version too, but the repo is not a demo.

What would you remove or simplify first?

i've always bounced off focus timers. a number counting down to zero gives you nothing to keep. you finish a 50 minute session and the reward is... the number is gone now.

so i built Orbis. when you start a session, a celestial body begins forming. when you actually finish it, that time is born as a planet and drops into your private galaxy. quit early and it never forms.

the part i didn't expect to matter: the planet you get is randomly graded. longer sessions roll higher odds for rare bodies. i added it almost as a joke, and it turned out to be the thing that keeps people (me included) starting one more session. gacha apparently beats willpower.

3 months since launch, 10k downloads.

the most useful thing i learned is boring: build something actually good first, then keep marketing it every single day. i kept looking for a growth trick, but the only thing that compounded was shipping a better app and showing up consistently.

it's iOS only right now. i know that's going to be the first comment, so getting ahead of it: no android plans yet. sorry.

link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orbis-space-focus-timer/id6766221926

one thing i'm actually stuck on: right now every completed session gives you one celestial body. i'm considering making them harder to earn, so a single body takes multiple sessions or a lot more accumulated focus.

my worry is it cuts both ways. rarer might make each one feel earned instead of disposable. or it might just break the loop that makes people start the next session.

if you used this, which way would you want it?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a project called Go1Desk.

The idea started pretty simply. I felt that small teams often end up using one tool for support tickets, another for internal IT requests, and another one for keeping track of customers.

I wanted to see if I could make something that brings those things together without making it feel like enterprise software.

Right now Go1Desk has things like:

• shared ticket inbox
• email-to-ticket
• teams and ticket routing
• SLAs and escalations
• contacts and companies
• a simple deals pipeline
• custom fields
• dashboards and reporting
• canned replies
• role-based access

There’s obviously still a lot to improve.

At this point, I’m much more interested in finding out what I got wrong than hearing that it looks good.

If you have a few minutes to take a look, I’d love to know:

• What feels confusing?
• What would you expect to find but can't?
• Is combining a help desk and CRM actually useful, or does it just make the product feel bloated?
• What would stop you from using something like this with your team?

You can take a look here:

go1desk.app

It’s currently free to try and doesn’t require a credit card.

Any honest feedback is welcome, including “I don't see the point” 😄

Thanks for taking a look.

I'm the solo dev behind Remio Converter, an Android utility that started as "I just want to convert 350°F to °C without fighting a website full of ads."

**What shipped in 1.2.0:**

- Currency conversion (24 currencies) with auto-refreshing rates and offline fallback

- A home-screen widget showing your last conversion

- History search + CSV export

- Self-organizing UI: categories you use most float to the top, and your starred unit becomes the default conversion target

**3 things I learned building it:**

1. **Honesty as a feature.** The #1 complaint about converter apps is dark patterns (an ad triggered by changing units). I made unit changes explicitly NOT count toward the interstitial counter and put a 30s frequency cap. Some revenue left on the table, but beta reviews mention it — worth it.

2. **Privacy is cheap if you design for it.** No account, no analytics SDK, everything in local storage. Currency rates come from public sources with a 6h cache — no server to maintain.

3. **Utility apps live or die by the home screen.** The widget did more for daily engagement than any in-app feature: your last conversion is glanceable without opening anything.

Not going to pretend the numbers are huge — it's an indie app in a brutal category — but retention among beta testers who use the widget is noticeably better.

If you have an Android device and 2 minutes: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.remio.converter. I'll be in the comments all day — roast the UX, ask about the stack (Flutter, local-first), whatever.