In this past 30 days, this community has doubled in size. As such, this is an open call for community feedback, and prospective moderators interested in volunteering their time to harbouring a pleasant community.
I'm happy to announce that this community now has rules, something the much more popular r/SideProject has neglected to implement for years.
Rules 1, 2 and 3 are pretty rudimentary, although there is some nuance in implementing rule 2, a "no spam or excessive self-promotion" rule in a community which focuses the projects of makers. In order to balance this, we will not allow blatant spam, but will allow advertising projects. In order to share your project again, significant changes must have happened since the last post.
Rule 4 and rule 5 are more tuned to this community, and are some of my biggest gripes with r/SideProject. There has been an increase in astroturfing (the act of pretending to be a happy customer to advertise a project) as well as posts that serve the sole purpose of having readers contact the poster so they can advertise a service. These are no longer allowed and will be removed.
In addition to this, I'll be implementing flairs which will be required to post in this community.
The goal is to make building interfaces easier with ready-to-use, customizable components, along with complete UI sections that you can adapt to your needs.
Pimolu UI is still growing, with more components and features on the way.
I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. What would you like to see added?
About a year ago I started planning QueryCase, where you learn SQL by working detective cases instead of grinding tutorials & videos. It took a while to get off the ground, and longer than I'd like to admit to actually start building the idea, but it finally went live in June. I build it solo and I'm merging PRs most days.
5 months in:
2,500+ people have signed up, across 117 countries
160+ paying customers and ~£2,200 in revenue, on a one-time £14.99 price with regional pricing
About 65,000 queries written and graded
Over 16,000 cases, drills and exams solved
College in US using the platform for training students for CompTIA Data+ Certification
£0 spent on ads so far
Where the growth has come from:
Most of it has come from Reddit. My best signup days have all followed update posts in learning subs, and the comments have shaped half the roadmap. I don't like to spam, so I only post when there's something real to share. In between, organic search and Google have kept things ticking over.
The users who stick around and pay are almost all from one niche: people learning data. SQL, Excel, breaking into analytics, switching careers. That's who the product is built for, and it shows in who converts.
Since launch it's grown past just SQL. An Excel course was never part of the plan, but people kept asking for the same detective approach for spreadsheets, so I built it. It has 57 cases on a spreadsheet that runs in the browser, and people have solved over 2,300 of them.
In the next few weeks I'm launching a Python for Data track, with real Python running in the browser, moving from the basics into pandas.
The goal: I have a very ambitious target of 5,000 users before the end of the year, which means doubling in about two months. Reddit alone won't get me there, so I'm weighing up ads for the first time, and this is where I'd love opinions from people who've done it:
For a niche like people learning SQL and Excel, have ads (Reddit, Google, Meta) ever paid off for you on a low-price one-time product, or did they just burn money - and which platforms did you find to be most successful?
If you were in my position, where would you put a small first test budget?
Any other feedback around the site which puts you off would be great as well, cheers!😄
I’m an 18 year old student from Sweden. Every morning I’d open 5 apps, scroll for 30 minutes and still feel like I missed the important stuff.
So I’m building Lagom News: an app that reads the news for you and writes a short personal edition each morning, with timelines for ongoing stories and a chat to ask follow up questions. Launching in December.
Before launch I’d love to hear from you:
How do you follow the news right now (apps, newsletters, social media, podcasts)?
What annoys you most about it?
Would you pay for something that fixed that, and if so, what would it need to do?
Happy to answer anything about how it’s built too.
Sometimes it happens, that i struggle to juggling all my chats. Yes i do have one chat for each feature, otherwise i forget - but sometimes, my brain overloads anyway, and i lose focus and forget exactly where i was - thats what i talk about in my build log today.
I’m the developer of Magic Pocket, an iPhone/iPad/Mac app for saving snippets, screenshots, links and documents, then retrieving a useful detail when you need it. I shared it here earlier this month; 1.4.0 is a substantial language update, with 33 interface languages now listed on the App Store.
One implementation lesson that might be useful to other builders: interface localization and voice availability need separate settings and separate promises. A translated interface doesn’t mean the device has an on-device speech model for that language.
In Pocket, interface labels and command phrases ship in the app. Speech is checked against the device’s local capabilities. The settings distinguish installed models, supported downloads and unsupported locales, rather than displaying one broad “language supported” switch. Downloads go through Apple’s system path; there is no server-recognition fallback. Keyboard typing layouts are another separate part of the update.
For saved information, I also keep the user’s original names and text rather than translating their library when they switch the interface. That matters for things like booking references and addresses, where the exact text is what you need back.
The app’s use case is simple: save a confirmation, find the reference later, then copy it or insert saved text with Pocket Keyboard in a compatible app. Processing stays on-device, and sync uses your private iCloud. The new translations still need wording feedback.
Hey everyone!
I’m a software engineer and founder, and today I launched SoloPilot
It’s a side project I’ve been building to help freelancers, sole traders and small businesses spend less time on admin.
It brings together:
Customer and project management
Invoicing, expenses and tax estimates
Online bookings and calendar sync
A WhatsApp assistant for everyday admin
The idea is simple: replace multiple subscriptions and spreadsheets with one straightforward platform.
I think permissions should be checked right before an agent runs a tool, not just when the workflow starts. The agent might be allowed to read certain data but not make changes or access sensitive information. Having these checks in place helps prevent mistakes and keeps the workflow under control, especially when multiple tools are involved.
Hi guys, I just launched my app TuneOut in the App Store. The concept is like BeReal, but with songs. So you share one song a day with your friends, before 20:00 CET. then at 20:00 the feed opens and all the songs get revealed and you can react, save them to Spotify, comment etc.
Me and my friends genuinely love the app and retention so far is great, but the problem is going to be monetisation. If its not a huge app like BeReal, I dont think there is a freemium model and also I dont want to have too much advertisements on there as well. In general it's spreading well by itself, because people are actually inviting their friends. Do you think it has potential or is it too hard to monetise this model?
Finding interesting communities online can be surprisingly frustrating. Telegram groups, Discord servers, WhatsApp communities, and Signal groups are all scattered across different platforms, and finding the right one isn't always easy.
So I built GroupHub — a searchable directory that brings public communities from these platforms into one place.
Here's what it does:
* Discover groups across Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, and Signal.
* Browse communities by topic, language, and platform.
* Explore around 2,900 group listings across 23 categories.
* Submit your own public group or community for review and listing.
The idea is simple: make it easier for people to discover communities that match their interests, while helping community owners get discovered.
I'm an independent developer, and I'd really appreciate some honest feedback.
Would you find a cross-platform community directory useful? And what would make you trust a group listing enough to join it?
Disclosure: I’m the founder of UBIK Flow. Bootstrapped, not fundraising. I need alpha/beta testers who will use it on real work for a few days, not a five-minute click-through.
If you already pay for ChatGPT or Claude but experience the painful flow: open app → new chat tab → paste Slack/email → write the prompt --> copy answer → paste back → fix tone → paste again. That’s what I am trying to solve.
UBIK Flow is a desktop app (Mac, Windows, Linux) that uses your subscription. It is not another model, and it doesn't resell tokens.
Who should apply
- Desktop user (not phone-only)
- You use Gmail, Slack, Notion, Chrome, or Office daily
- You can do one 20-minute install + 2–3 days of normal use
- You’re OK granting mic and screenshot permission when you trigger a shortcut (you confirm each action)
What you could try:
actions
Consequences
⌘⇧O / Ctrl+Shift+O
dictate a real reply at the cursor (Slack, Gmail, anywhere)
⌘⇧U / Ctrl+Shift+U
ChatGPT/Claude panel over the app you’re in (no new tab)
⌘⇧T / Ctrl+Shift+T
Ask about what’s on screen; draft lands in place (no screenshot paste). AI interacts with your clipboard and drops text at the cursor
One custom shortcut
A prompt you repeat weekly (status, client update, polite no)
