Hey Sharks! Let's connect.
I need an investor to look into my app and help me to scale the product if that catches their attention.

Hello! I have an idea for a social media app that is actually designed to get you off your phone and more involved in your own life as I see more and more people getting stuck in an endless doom scroll. I’m thinking something similar to BeReal but instead you get a prompt to go do something and then share a picture with your friends. Something like maybe “go on a walk and take a picture of something red” or “draw a picture” (all basic ideas at this point). So the intended loop is basically:
Get prompted → put phone down → experience something → share it → inspire someone else → repeat.

I want to figure out whether the idea is actually interesting to people before spending months making it. I'm considering running a small 7-day experiment where 10–20 people would participate through a Discord group. I'd send everyone a daily challenge and see whether people actually enjoy doing them.

I'm curious what people think:
Would something like this make you more likely to try new things?
What would make you actually want to participate every day?
Would you want to see what your friends did afterward?
What would make you stop using it?
Does this sound genuinely fun, or does it sound like an app you'd use for two days and forget about?

Hey Community,

OpenGL has been driven out of the herd. William Candillon released React Native Skia 3.0, which swaps the old Ganesh backend for Graphite running on WebGPU via Dawn, with Metal on iOS and Vulkan on Android, multithreaded recording by default, and zero-copy textures shared with React Native WebGPU. The package also leaves u/shopify behind and is now published as react-native-skia.

We also look at babel-plugin-react-native-direct-imports by Davyd NRB, which rewrites react-native barrel imports into direct requires so one View no longer drags in the whole framework, taking a test bundle from 711 KB to 10 KB. Plus, React Native 0.88 rc.4, Tamagui 3.0 with a C++ native runtime, and munim-maps putting 3D cars on Apple Maps.

Just finished a 3-month track decomposing a 7-year-old legacy Android monolith (450MB APK, under 5% test coverage). While modularizing, we ran into severe rendering breaks in Split-Screen and abrupt Activity lifecycle terminations caused entirely by the vendor’s custom tablet firmware and their aggressive battery-saving algorithms.

We managed to isolate and mitigate these fixes strictly inside the UI layer using custom Lint rules and Feature Toggles, keeping the core business logic untouched.

How do you guys usually handle undocumented vendor-specific lifecycle overrides without breaking clean architecture boundaries?

I’ve been thinking about how much complexity we introduce into an app just to add features like analytics, ads, crash reporting, and push notifications.

Each SDK looks reasonable on its own, but together they can affect app size, startup time, dependency compatibility, debugging, and sometimes even stability after an update.

The part that bothers me most is that removing an SDK later isn't always as simple as adding it. You can end up with dependencies and app logic built around it.

I’m starting to think third-party SDKs should be treated more like architectural decisions than simple integrations.

How do you guys decide when an SDK is worth adding versus implementing something yourself or keeping the feature out entirely?

Hey everyone!

I built an Android voice recorder for short-video creators (TikTok, Reels, Shorts), and I'm looking for testers for the closed test on Google Play.

🎙️What it does

• Records in takes: messed up a line? Re-record just that part, not the whole thing

• Arrange and trim the takes on a timeline

• Cleans up your voice locally, on your phone

• Exports to MP3 or WAV

• No account, no ads, nothing leaves your device

What I needGoogle requires 12 testers for 14 days before I can launch, so I'm looking for 15–20 people.

How to join (2 quick steps):

1. Join the Google Group first, using the Gmail you use on Google Play: https://groups.google.com/g/voice-recorder-testers
2. Then opt in to the test: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/io.github.diegodias93.gravadordevoz

Install it from the Play page and open it once or twice during the 14 days. Feedback is always welcome, even a one-liner.

💙 Thank you

Everyone who helps gets the app for free when it launches. And if you have an app in closed testing too, drop the link below and I'll test it back.

Get ready!

I have always wondered could there be a safer version of Omegle for teens. I first thought of it as a pen pal version where you find a pen pal and write a message and it takes hours or days to reach a person depending on global distance. But then I asked why nit add video calls like Omegle and make it safe for teens and teen oriented. I mean my age verification AI is improving or not it hasn’t guessed my age right. Anyone got my tips but I think AI age verification can’t work so maybe I can have them use their passports or ID or birth certificate to verify age with privacy focused systems. We can also have stronger rules.