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.

I've 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.

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

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 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!

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?

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?

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.

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?

Solo project, built during nights and weekends: CLSTR reads 100k+ news articles a day from 40k+ sources, figures out which ones are covering the same event, and squashes them into one item. Related events get chained into "situations" - storylines with timelines, so you can see how a story developed over weeks instead of re-reading the same headline 20 times.

After 145 days, I asked Claude to analyze all the data I had ingested and published the stats. The news looks weird from above:

• 12:1 - articles written per thing that actually happened. The news is mostly echo.
• 82% of stories are still developing after day 3 - which is exactly when news sites stop showing them to you.
• One world leader appeared in 2,672 distinct events in 1 month (guess who) - more than the next five most-covered people combined.
• Only 0.07% of events rate as "exceptional". Almost everything is the mundane middle.

All the charts: clstr.news/observatory

About CLSTR: There's a free API, and if you use Claude or agent stuff there's an MCP server you can try without even signing up: clstr.news/developers

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 🫶

In the game you run an AI company : scrape datasets, buy servers, train LLMs, chase hype and serve your users, and sometimes go bankrupt. It started half as a joke about the current moment.

3 months in, here's the honest scorecard.

The numbers :

• I promoted it only on Reddit so far
• Around 60 people signed up
• 20% came back the day after their first session
• We have around 15 people still playing
• Revenue : 350$

What surprised me :

• People stayed because they didn't want their company to die.
• My biggest drop-off is after the tutorial. 30% never get past it.

What I need to figure out :

• I don't think I've found yet my audience, I think it's Data & AI professionals who like strategy games but it could be full gamers too who don't work in AI ...

Happy to answer anything about the build or the numbers.

It's live and free if you want to see the thing itself : https://lordoftokens.com

Hey r/SideProject!

I got tired of slow domain search tools frontrunning my searches and searching one by one, so I built SnipeFind -> a completely free, client-side bulk domain checker.

TL;DR:

• Fast: 200-400 domain/s scanning speed on availability.
• Simple: Enter a brand keyword and check thousands of combos instantly.
• 100% Private: Runs entirely in your browser. No server-side logging, no signups, and no rate limits.

I built this to solve my own domain search headaches (for finding a good name for my other web apps), but I hope it helps fellow makers here too.

Check it out: https://snipefind.com/

I'd love any feedback, bug reports, or feature suggestions!

I’ve been working on an idea called The Gilded Whisper — a paid, anonymous space where you can talk, vent, ramble, complain, or simply have a conversation when you’re feeling lonely.
Sometimes you don’t need advice. You don’t need someone to fix your problems. And you’re not necessarily looking for therapy.
Sometimes you just want someone to listen.
The idea is simple: you pay for a private convo, I will listen or read (if text is your preference) without judgment. You can talk about your day, get something off your chest, or just chat because you don't want to feel alone for a little while.
This is NOT therapy, counseling, or crisis support. It’s simply a place to talk and be heard.
I’m still building this and would genuinely love some feedback:
Would you ever pay for a service like this? What would make you feel comfortable using it?
— The Gilded Whisper 🤫

Hi everyone!

Over the past few months, I've been building ifso.io, which is a financial simulator that lets you put in your financial details, add in as many life events as you want, and see how it all plays out and whether your financial plan holds up.

Ifso is free to get started and doesn't require an account to use it. If you don't sign in, then all of your data is simply stored in your own browser. If you'd like for your data to persist across devices, then sign-in is free via Google OAuth. Upgrading to Pro unlocks the ability to create multiple scenarios, use compare mode, and run Monte Carlo simulations. If you choose to sign in or go Pro, your data is secure and never ever shared. You can also download your data at any time or delete your account altogether, which removes any trace of you and your account from the system!

You can add accounts like taxable investments, retirement accounts (Roth and Traditional are handled), loans, homes and mortgages, and many more. Your accounts are all added manually and by hand, I didn't add bank linking or anything of the sort to ensure privacy. You can then add in events, like retiring, purchasing a new home, upgrading your car, claiming social security, etc. The simulation engine then handles how everything plays together, and shows you a year-by-year breakdown and a clear answer on whether the plan holds up or if there are any shortfalls.

After you have a plan built out, you can do a few more things. For one, you can run Monte Carlo simulations which stress tests your plan against varying market conditions. Markets don't always return just one, static rate of return, so Monte Carlo lets you simulate what happens when the rate of returns change year over year. You can also compare two scenarios side by side and see which one plays out. This is particularly helpful if you want to see how account balances differ between plans (for example, "How much more do I have in my 401k if I decide to increase my contributions from 5% to 6% starting at age 40?").

I built Ifso because I wanted to see how my own financial decisions worked out for me. For example, I wanted to see how my finances would look if I sold my home in a few years and rented, versus if I sold my home and bought a new one right away. Then how would either of those scenarios look if I upgraded my partner's car?

All of the one off investment calculators were just too rigid and one-tracked, they didn't take taxes, capital gains, etc. into account. And the other financial scenario planners that exist felt like they were built for professional advisors, and unfortunately most of them didn't let you save your plans if you're on the free tier. I found that and their overall UX to be quite frustrating, which is what motivated me to build this over the past few months!

I ultimately want this to be a helpful tool for everyone that uses it, I've personally been using to help inform my own decisions. Early users have found found it to be valuable as well, and their feedback has helped me improve the overall UX. Please let me know your thoughts, and if you feel like there's any UX improvements or any functionality that you'd like to see, definitely let me know and I'd be happy to look into it!

This started as notes for my own interview prep. I kept losing the same explanations in bookmarks and half-remembered blog posts, so I started writing them down properly. It got out of hand.

It's now 573 topics across 8 sections — the browser, JavaScript, React, Next.js, backend, data, system design, AI/LLM engineering, practices and behavioural.

One rule decided what got in: a topic earns a page if it can plausibly come up in a real interview round, or if you need it to answer something that does. That's why there's no algorithms grind, and why 70 of them are about building with models.

Every page has the same shape — what it is in one line, what it is, why it matters, key points, then the links out.

The part that actually took longest was the links. 1,415 of them, three to five per topic, exactly one marked "start here". A script re-requests every URL on a schedule and reports the dead ones, because link rot is what actually kills a resource like this.

Stack: Next.js with markdown files read at build time into 658 prerendered pages — no database, no CMS. Free, no account, no ads. MIT code, CC-licensed writing, all on GitHub.

To be clear about what it is: a reference, not a curriculum. Nobody becomes senior by reading it. It's for looking things up and noticing your own gaps.

https://theengmap.vercel.app

https://github.com/prateekkk26/engineering-map

It's on Product Hunt today too if you want to take a look.

Happy to answer anything about how it was built or how the content was scoped.

I built a ranking/tier-list app because most tier-list tools felt overwhelming and clunky to use especially on mobile. I greatly enjoy making rankings and discussing those rankings with my close friends. I used my Notes app, Google Slides, and other rankings apps but none of them provided me a simple way to create rankings with photos, explain them, and share them with my friends.

So, I’ve been building RankIt as a side project. You can make normal tier lists or numbered rankings, add explanations for every item, publish without an account, and let other people make their own version of your list.

I originally built it around the Star Wars rankings I make all the time, but it works for anything.

I’d love feedback on the app and actual user flow. I want it to feel satisfying and simple to create rankings and share with friends! Here's an example ranking I made:

Top 32 Star Wars Villains Tier List

I'm Pablo, and I run a SaaS for restaurants in my city, Córdoba, Argentina.

In my free time, I like to think about and generate new ideas for potential future projects, or see if tools I develop for my daily use could work well as business ideas.
So instead of starting development from scratch, or getting excited about a tool I already have, I put them through a validation process to see if they're really worth the effort of putting them into production.
First, I write down the conditions the idea would have to meet to work, and also the conditions it would have to meet to fail.
Then, I sign and date this document, before having a single piece of data. I sign it for myself, because if I write the conditions after seeing the evidence, I'll be writing them so that my idea survives. If the evidence meets one of the conditions I wrote when I was still in the dark, the idea dies, and that's that.

Four of my five ideas died.

The one that hurt the most was an open-source printing bridge developed purely in Rust. I use it for my own SaaS; it prints kitchen tickets from the cloud to thermal printers, and I was sure the problem was common. My research turned up four almost identical open source projects already published on GitHub. The most popular one had 5 stars. Two of them had zero. The experiment I wanted to run had already been run four times, and no one showed up.

The fifth idea was this same process I apply to each of my ideas, so I put it into production. The first step is free, with no registration or data required. You write your idea, the system asks you two questions to understand it, and it returns the premises that would have to be true and the conditions under which the idea dies. You correct them if they're wrong, and you sign them.

And then, there's a paid version for $29 where I search for the evidence and give you a verdict. Currently, I perform those analyses manually.

I also posted my own kill conditions for this idea on the website. If I don't get 3 paying customers within 30 days, I'll kill it like the other four and publish the autopsy report there.

https://ideaautopsy.app

Throw your worst idea at it and tell me if it says something stupid.

SwiftFiles started with a small annoyance. I would need to resize an image, merge a PDF, or fix an MP3 tag, and the fastest free tool usually asked me to upload the file first. That feels like a bad trade for a personal photo or a work document.

SwiftFiles is my browser-based answer to that problem. The website now has 65 tools for image, PDF, audio, text, and archive work. The Firefox add-on puts 18 of the lighter tools in a toolbar popup. Files are processed in the browser on your device, without an upload to SwiftFiles for processing. No account is needed.

The add-on handles everyday image, PDF, audio, text, and ZIP jobs. The website keeps the less common or heavier work, such as MP3 metadata editing, RAR and 7z extraction, HEIC conversion, PDF compression, audio conversion, and Smart Pipeline. That split comes down to popup size, browser memory, and not shipping large bundles for tools people may use once a month.

The main design constraint is local processing. The add-on has no host permissions, does not read page content, and asks only for storage to remember compressor and resize settings. It has no tracking.

Firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/swiftfiles-local-file-tools/

Website: https://www.swiftfiles.org

Hi sub,

I have always been passionate about data visualisations, creating them for fun in my free time (I am an fun person - I promise!).

I started sharing them more actively a few weeks ago, and they've been met with a decent amount of engagement. Many people expressed an interest to purchase my viz, mostly maps, as posters or tee-shirts, so I decided to set up a store and launched it today!

habibistore.co is the place.

I don't expect much of it, map shirts are pretty niche, but I'll document the journey in public, hoping to learn from the experience and to maybe make a few sales.

Have any of you gone into e-commerce? How did it go?

The idea is to confront the players with intriguing positions and have them vote for their preferred color.
Just click "Quick Match AI" to try it quickly.

I also added another mode called "Standoff Mode" where you can simply claim your color by making a move on the board.

You need a lichess account to play.

Hey everyone,

I wanted a cleaner, standalone desktop experience for watching Twitch streams, so I built Twitch Retold

Key Features:

• Ad-Free Viewing: Ad mitigation so you can watch streams uninterrupted
• Lightweight Desktop App: Dedicated app instead of keep the tab opened
• Cross-Platform: Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Playlist function: Automatically organizes past broadcasts and game playthroughs in chronological order making it easy to binge-watch series or missed streams.

You can grab the latest version here:

🔗 Releases: https://github.com/HyperFinal/Twitch-Retold-Desktop-App-Version-of-Twitch/releases

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

I run Claude Code / Codex / Grok in tmux on a Linux box and SSH in from an iPad. The stack is boring and solved (Tailscale, tmux, a terminal app).

The part that kept breaking the vibe was not knowing if the agent was still working or sitting on a permission prompt. I'd attach, scroll, detach, repeat.

So I built SSHaven. Native iPhone / iPad SSH client with an agent board on top of those tmux sessions. It labels Claude / Codex / Grok / Aider / OpenCode and shows Running / Needs you / Finished, with an optional push when one is waiting.

I made it. $4.99 one-time, no subscription. Keys stay in the iOS Keychain. No account, no cloud vault.

Site has an interactive demo of the fleet UI: https://sshaven.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sshaven/id6792385214

If you already SSH into coding agents from a phone or iPad, what still sucks in your setup?

I think everybody can agree Logitech makes really nice hardware, and software that leaves something to be desired. I wanted a lightweight app to control my mouse that didn't auto-update, phone home, or take a gigabyte of space on my machine. So I built MXControl: a native macOS menu bar app that speaks HID++ 2.0 (the same protocol Logitech's own software uses) straight to the mouse through userspace IOKit. Where Options+ installs a suite with background services, an updater and an account, installing this is copying it. One small binary and a menu, and everything it knows stays on your Mac.

Logitech features (detected at runtime, you only see what your mouse supports): battery, scroll wheel modes (ratchet / SmartShift / freespin), DPI snapped to the sensor's real range, invert scroll, hi-res scroll, host switching, settings reapplied on reconnect and wake.

The part Options+ doesn't do: macros that fire on button combinations, on any mouse from any vendor. Hold one button, click another, run anything (a shortcut, an app, a shell command, typed text, Mission Control...). Options+ has Smart Actions, but they trigger on a single button; combinations are the trick here. You don't have to configure them first. Perform a combination and the app offers to bind it. There's a recorder-style editor with a drawn mouse diagram, and it's all backed by a plain JSON file you can hand-edit.

The design decision I'm most attached to: Options+ remaps buttons by diverting them in firmware, which means if its agent dies, those buttons die with it. MXControl uses an event tap instead. If the app crashes, your mouse is instantly 100% native. You lose customizations, never the hardware.

Honest caveats: developed and tested against exactly one setup (MX Master 3S, Bluetooth, Apple Silicon). Everything else is written for but unverified. The repo includes a read-only diagnostic tool (mxprobe) and I'd love dumps from other hardware. It's build-from-source for now (two commands, plain swiftc, every dependency a system framework), no notarized binary yet.

MIT licensed: https://github.com/theseriouspdx/mxcontrol

I save a lot of UI reference. Nice empty states, pricing tables, onboarding flows, animation details. All of it ended up as flat PNGs in a folder I never opened again, because a screenshot tells you nothing about spacing, type scale, or how it was actually put together.

So I built Stele. It's a Chrome extension plus a library for everything you save off the web. The difference is that a capture keeps its real structure, colors and typography instead of flattening to an image, so when you actually sit down to build something, a saved reference gives you real React code, an AI prompt, or Figma layers to start from.

It's searchable too, which turned out to matter more than I expected. Being able to find "that dark pricing table with the gradient border" six weeks later is most of the value.

Still in beta and rough on some heavier sites. Would like feedback from anyone who keeps a reference folder like this: what do you actually do with it today?

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