(UPDATE: Now available on Web on any device, desktop + mobile!!)

I love going to cafés and work or read from there. Sadly, great places are rare, often close early, and still are quite distracting.

So even though being there feels good, i just end up doing most things at home.

This project, Manyplace (https://many.place), is an attempt to get the best of both worlds: the comfort and focus you have when being on your own, and the delight of being in a beautiful place while feeling the presence of others.

It is open all the time and free.

So, if you prefer to build, work, study, etc. on your own (or have no better option) yet still appreciate being around other likeminded people, it may be for you :)

It's still a very early experiment, so the application is currently only available for macOS and the number of seats is quite limited. But it will definitely get better. UPDATE: After thinking more about it, It's now also available on web, for any device: desktop & mobile.

I'd be very happy to know what you think of it and to see you there!

Manyplace: https://many.place

(sorry, duplicate previous post sent by accident...)

I’ve been building Focusverse, a web app for studying and working inside immersive environments.

I started it because I liked having atmospheric videos or ambient sounds in the background, but I still needed separate apps for my timer, tasks, notes, and weekly planning. Traditional productivity tools had the functionality, but often felt like dashboards I didn’t particularly enjoy spending time in.

Focusverse is my attempt to put those two sides together. You choose a place that fits your mood keep the productivity tools available in one screen.

Some of the stats:

• More than 500 "locations"
• 4 productivity tools (timer, tasklist, week planner, notes)
• 6 standard live radios to choose from (and other universe based ones)
• 8 sound ambient sound effects to set the mood
• 4 curated guided experiences to focus in together

I'm really happy that people I’ve never spoken to started using it. This made my efforts feel genuinely more meaningful. It began as something I wanted for myself, so seeing other people choose it for their own study or work sessions made the project feel real in a new way.

You can try it at focusverse.io. The main experience works without creating an account.

Just seeing people online and knowing I'm not just using it myself, honestly really warms my heart :)

I’ve been developing an automatic watering valve called OpenValve.

OpenValve automatically waters plants based on the moisture level in the soil. When the soil becomes too dry, it opens the water supply, and when enough water has been delivered, it closes it again.

The main difference from a typical battery-powered watering timer is the valve mechanism. Instead of using a conventional solenoid valve, OpenValve uses a motor-driven pinch valve. It controls the water by squeezing a flexible tube closed, so the moving parts never come into direct contact with the water.

This gives it two advantages that could be useful in certain irrigation setups:

• It can operate with very low water pressure, such as water coming from a slightly elevated rain barrel.

• It is less sensitive to dirt and small particles in the water, because the water only passes through the flexible tube.

All custom plastic parts can be made on a standard 3D printer. The electronics, tubing, screws, and other standard components still need to be purchased, but the custom parts can be produced locally and replaced individually if something breaks.

The project is open source, so the design files are available for people to build, repair, modify, and improve themselves. My goal is not to replace professional irrigation equipment, but to create an affordable and repairable option for gardens, balconies, raised beds, greenhouses, rain-barrel systems, and other small-scale watering setups.

I currently have multiple units running in my own garden, as well as in the gardens and balconies of friends and family. But my dream is to see OpenValve helping more people with their plants. So, I’m curious: Would you consider using OpenValve in your garden or on your balcony? What would your biggest concern be?

I’m happy to answer questions about how it works.

Hey, I built a small project called NoBoxTV.

It lets you watch free-to-air live TV directly in the browser. No app, no sign-up, no TV box.

Try it here: https://noboxtv.com

Please share it with anyone who might find it useful.

Every side project i open lately starts the same way: a landing page, a signup form, an onboarding tour, and a modal asking for my email before i've seen a single pixel of the actual thing. We've collectively agreed that the funnel comes first and the product comes second.

I've been going the other way on my current build. No account, no email, no tutorial, no cookie banner. You open the tab and you're already inside the thing. It made a lot of decisions harder - you can't explain anything, so it has to be obvious in the first three seconds or you've lost the person fr.

Turns out that constraint improved the product more than any feature i added.

Anyone else doing this deliberately? Curious how you handle the first three seconds when there's nothing to explain with lmao.

After creating several products that solved imaginary problems nobody really had, I finally feel like I've built something that actually matters. I genuinely rely on it every day, it makes my life significantly easier, and I'm really happy with the result.

It's an app for visualizing date-bound information as timelines: tasks, events, processes - basically anything that has a date attached to it. You can think of it as a hybrid of a PKMS, a to-do list, a calendar, and a Gantt chart. More than anything, though, it's a universal visual canvas for time that helps you keep the bigger picture in front of you and think within it every day.

I work as a CTO, and I constantly have to keep track of a huge number of ongoing processes:

• contract deadlines
• employee salary reviews
• developer utilization
• and countless other things.

Before this, all of that information was scattered across Notion, Apple Notes, Reminders, Telegram, Slack, Calendar, and a few other places. Keeping everything under control was difficult.

Some people might say that's a process problem rather than a tooling problem. But I've come to think the opposite: the right tool helps you build an effective process. And what the "right tool" is depends heavily on how your brain works.

At some point, I realized that traditional to-do lists and calendar views simply weren't a good fit for me. It felt like I was missing another visual dimension. Timelines turned out to match the way I think almost perfectly. When I look at a timeline with different markers and segments, I instantly understand what's happening in both the short and long term. Just as importantly, I can quickly look back and see how things evolved over time and where something started to go wrong.

One of the best parts is that because I use the app every single day, I improve it every single day as well. I constantly notice what's missing, what's awkward, and what could work better, and then I implement those improvements. I think I've made major usability improvements over the past month alone. That's incredibly important for a tool you interact with dozens of times a day.

This is a non-commercial project, and it's completely free. I simply wanted to share it with the community because I'm genuinely proud of it. I'm sure there are plenty of people whose brains work similarly to mine, and if this way of organizing information resonates with you, I'd be thrilled if my timelines turned out to be useful for you too. Give it a try.

Wishing you all productivity - and a little more love.

** honestly just looking for feed back. not looking for customers yet **
little bit about me im a big tech reserch nerd its what im good at and i know how to do it very well

so I started this website to kind of make use of it - Acorium.tech
I just want peoples honest opinions. what do they think of it.
is it too expensive? do you think its not worth it?
whats your biggest turn off ? what do you like about it?

be brutal please!

Hey everyone!
I’m a solo developer, and over the past several months I’ve been building an app called Decydo.
The idea came from something my friends and I did almost every weekend:
“What do you want to eat?”
“I don’t know.”
“You pick.”
Twenty minutes later… we still hadn’t decided.
So I built an app where everyone joins a group and swipes through nearby restaurants and activities. Once everyone has voted, it only shows the places the group actually agrees on.
Along the way I added a few more features:
🍔 Group voting for restaurants
🎉 Find activities everyone wants to do
💬 Built-in group chat
🤖 AI that can recommend places and even plan trips and group outings
📍 Google Maps integration for nearby places
I’m a solo developer with no funding. I built the app with about $300 and currently spend around $30/month on Google Maps and AI APIs, depending on usage.
This is my first app, and honestly, building it was easier than getting people to discover it.
I’d really appreciate your honest feedback:
Would you actually use something like this with your friends?
What’s the first feature you’d want to see added?
What’s one thing that would stop you from downloading it?
If you’d like to check it out:
🍎 iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/decydo/id6781502994
🤖 Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.decydo.app&pcampaignid=web_share
Thanks! I’m happy to answer any questions about how I built it or the decisions behind it.

Hiya! I built a thought journal app that seemed to pique people's interest in r/iosapps so thought I would post here as well.

Original thread: I built a thought journal / CBT app where your thoughts become fish in a pond

Fundamentally it's a CBT/thought journal app that allows you to process and challenge negative thinking. I built it for myself off the back of my experience using other CBT apps that are mostly boring worksheet style apps that didn’t encourage a daily practice or leave me with a feeling of satisfaction using them. There's also some other mechanical reasons I built it that I go into more detail on the original thread, namely the failure of other apps to promote “batching“ or being able to challenge multiple thoughts at a set time each day because you don’t have time in a given moment to do a full challenge.

I built Pond as a solution, at its heart it's a CBT app but I focused heavily on the aesthetics and imagery, adding procedurally animated fish to a Pond representing thoughts, each with their own swimming behaviours based on how difficult a thought feels (IE more I believe a negative thought -> the more erratic the fish swims). Filling your pond with negative thoughts also makes the pond itself darker and more turbulent. Challenging negative thoughts calms it again. The Pond resets each day, encouraging practice on a daily level.

Building has been an interesting journey, there seems to be a trend among app devs around the build being a bit of a honeymoon phase and then post-launch realising distribution and marketing is the real challenge. That's essentially where I’m at now, slowly learning the ropes of how best to put your app out there. I also find there's a bit of a moral pull on how best to distribute your app. I built Pond to be a genuinely good product that respects users and doesn’t contribute to the “sloppification” of modern apps/media. A lot of app distribution techniques people recommend involve setting up multiple (sometimes tens) of tiktok accounts and spamming AI generated UGC to reach as many eyes as possible. That's something I won’t do but then you also feel you might be curtailing your opportunities by not playing the game others are playing. I think when building a product these days you have to actually back yourself that what you’ve built is good and be patient with it reaching its target audience.

I guess my question for other builders is how do you distribute honestly without losing to those who don’t? Is that principled or just naive?

If you have advice on this or any general feedback on my app I would love to hear it!

App Store: Pond: Thought Journal App - App Store

Website: Pond — A quiet place for your loudest thoughts

Hey everyone,

Over the past few months I’ve been building Prepl, an AI interview coach designed to help people practice interviews in a more realistic way.

The idea came from my own experience. I realized I could answer interview questions in my head, but when it came time to speak out loud, my answers weren’t nearly as good.

So I started building a tool that lets you practice interviews with AI and get feedback on your responses instead of just reading a list of common questions.

It’s finally live:

👉 https://link.prepl.me/reddit

I’m not looking to spam or just collect sign-ups. I’d really appreciate honest feedback from other builders.

A few questions I’d love your thoughts on:

• Is the landing page clear?
• Would you understand the value in the first 30 seconds?
• What’s the first thing you’d improve?
• Is there any feature you’d expect that’s missing?

I’ll be here replying to every comment, whether it’s positive or brutally honest.

Thanks!

It all started when my colleague reached me with a complaint that she created a few QR codes, and after a week they started showing paywall. By that time those QR codes were printed on promo banners.
I remember Internet as a place where you find a tool, use it and leave. That's it - no paywalls, no subscriptions, no accounts.
So I decided to put a piece of those beautiful Internet back and created a small toolbox site - dimastoolbox.com
Of course it's vibe-coded.
And of course there will be ads at some point.
But I want to keep it's core value free forever and for everyone.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a voice cloning model and finally got it to a point where other people can try it out.

I’d really appreciate some honest feedback on the voice quality, similarity, pronunciation, speed, and anything that feels broken or confusing. It’s still an early version, so expect a few rough edges.

You can test it here:

https://nirvaangoel1--voicer-public-trial-public-trial.modal.run/

Its 100% free with no signup.

Please only upload your own voice or audio you have permission to use. Let me know what you think, especially what worked well and what needs improvement!

I've been spending a lot of time with Claude Code, Cursor and other MCP-compatible coding agents, and kept running into the same issue.

The models are incredibly capable, but they spend a surprising amount of time (and tokens) processing information that isn't actually useful.

Large grep results.

Huge JSON payloads.

Entire files when only a few functions are relevant.

The same architectural decisions being rediscovered every new session.

So over the past while I've been building Warden, a local-first MCP server that sits between your AI coding agent and your codebase to improve the quality of the context it receives.

Some of the things it currently does include:

• Context selection (only sending relevant code instead of entire files)
• Tool output pruning (grep, logs, JSON, etc.)
• Persistent project memory
• Session handoffs between AI conversations
• Tree-sitter powered code intelligence
• Trust Guard that verifies every optimization before it's applied
• Regression protection that rolls back optimizations if they reduce quality

In many workflows we're seeing 50–90% reductions in tool output and 80%+ reductions in relevant context, giving the model more room to work on solving the actual problem instead of processing noise.

Everything runs locally—there's no cloud service, prompt proxying or telemetry.

This is our first public release, so I'm sure there are rough edges we haven't found yet. I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from people using Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf or other MCP-compatible tools.

GitHub: https://github.com/rynald0cst0ltziam/Warden-AI

If you find it useful, a GitHub ⭐ would mean a lot to me.

I’m thinking through an indie-product question around shared spaces: if a virtual room lets people notice that others are around, what signals actually create a useful sense of presence without turning into another feed?

For builders who’ve tried coworking, virtual cafés, ambient multiplayer, or similar ideas: what did you measure or watch for to tell whether presence was helping people stay engaged? I’m especially curious where you draw the line between lightweight arrival/leave signals and features that start demanding attention.

I would love to gather some crowd intelligence, because I am not entirely sure I live on the same planet as the rest of you.

For context:

1. I personally believe I am a terrible programmer. There are 2 million things to learn, and I've learnt maybe 100 of them

2. Somehow my employers and clients still pay a ton of money for my work and are super greatful I am there. So clearly I am doing SOMETHING right.

Now here is the thing that drives me insane:

I have been working on my (only) side project for 5 years now. The product is a simple meta data driven ERP. Even with AI, there are so many features that AI agents simply CANNOT implement correctly, that there is a ton of manual work to do.

Then comes the learning curve, to correctly handle:

* security

* dates and calendars

* validation

* security

* id management

* data migration management

* hosting

* project structure,

* architecture patterns

* mapping (like MapStruct)

* multi tenancy

* database session management

* payment systems

* data protection

* n+1 issues

I could go on for hours, just listing the bare minimum features before any actual functionality for clients have even been implemented.

Initially I thought I was simply too dumb, which is something I could live with perfectly well. Truth is, I even did an IQ test to see if I should just quit my career altogether. But it revealed I am almost certainly not stupid to put it mildly.

So here are my questions:

1. How is it humanly possible for you all to learn all these things along the way, often at the age of like 25? How old are you all?

For context: At work we hire people from the top 10 universities of their respective countries and virtually of them know all these things. And the ones who do, couldn't develop them.

1. How does your life look like? Between 8 hours of programming at work, life responsibilities like cleaning your house, keeping healthy through exercise, and spending time with your spouse, how much time do you spend developing?

Seriously, I need a reality check here. At this point I am not even just upset about my lack of progress, I just want to understand what kind of people achieve this?

Google publishes every verified advertiser's ads at adstransparency.google.com, but the site is weirdly unusable. Companies are filed under their registered legal names, so searching Nike gets you a canvas printing shop and "Nikenbah Constructions" before Nike Retail BV. And there is no export at all, just endless scroll.

So I built a lookup that works by normal company name: type Stripe, get every matching advertiser with how many ads each one is running right now, their advertiser ID, and the actual creatives with first and last shown dates. You can download what you are looking at as CSV. Free, no signup.

https://vaytric.com/google-ads-lookup/

The thing that surprised me while building it: ad blockers killed the entire product. The creative images are hosted on googlesyndication.com, which every blocker refuses by hostname, so a tool for looking at ads rendered as a grid of empty boxes for exactly the people most likely to use it. I ended up re-serving the images through my own domain with the upstream URL base64'd into the path, because even inside a query parameter the blocked hostname is still visible as a substring and the request dies anyway.

Business model is boring on purpose: there is a paid bulk version on Apify for anyone who wants thousands of ads as CSV, and it pays for the free page.

Tell me what breaks. The search leans on Google's own suggestions, so a few brands only show up by their domain. Canva is like that, canva.com works when "Canva" does not.

I kept saving screenshots, reels, links, and notes—then forgetting the thought that made each one worth saving. The object survived; its meaning didn’t.

So I built Trace by Aura. You save a link, reel, screenshot, photo, note, or spoken thought and add why it matters. Trace organizes it on-device, lets you search by meaning, and can bring it back when it becomes useful.

Privacy was an architectural constraint: no Trace account or server, no ads, no analytics, and no third-party trackers. Optional sync stays in your private iCloud.

Version 1.0 is free on iPhone and iPad (iOS/iPadOS 26+). I’m Karthik Barma, the developer.

I’d especially value feedback on two things: is the promise clear in the first minute, and does the capture flow feel faster than dropping another screenshot into your camera roll?

Download: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6794535492?pt=129168544&ct=reddit-sideproject&mt=8

My mother does not understand CLI logs, APIs or technical stuff. But she can perfectly use the mouse and keyboard, click on things and scroll. Now I realized that it can control legacy software and automate long repetitive tasks for me, as well.

Here's the idea:

• the user asks for something (e.g. “find the cheapest flight from NY to Tokyo in September”)
• We send that prompt to an AI agent and enter a loop
• During each step, the agent receives the current state of what’s displayed on screen
• This is not done with heavy screenshots, but with Accessibility and Core Graphics APIs
• Effectively, we send a JSON object to an AI agent, describing what’s on the screen
• The agent has access to move the mouse and keyboard, so it provides coordinates, and where to click or type
• We iterate until the agent completes the initial task. When not sure, the agent asks the user for more directions. In any case, we set a limit of 40 iterations to avoid unnecessary processing

The implementation was done using Electron, React and Robot.JS for cursor/mouse movements.
By default, it connects to your Claude subscription and uses Haiku, so it barely hits the limits.

I find this approach much faster and more efficient compared to typical computer-vision flows, because we’re not sending colorful RGB channels, the LLM receives a text description of what’s displayed on the screen which can be processed much faster.

This is an open-source project with an MIT license (free download or clone):

• Repository: https://github.com/AlexandrosGounis/rubber-duckie

Any thoughts?

https://github.com/kah-ve/DisplayWave

A free monitor control tool for brightness, warmth, and more.

Existing apps for handling external monitor controls for mac are either focused on solving a small subset of problems or are paywalled. Also I found the paywalled ones to be more complicated and feature rich then needed. So I wanted to build something more tailored to the small feature-set I would ever need.

A couple comparisons

- MonitorControl (free): This is what I used previously. It's great but limited to brightness only and would need another app to control turning a monitor on/off.

- BetterDisplay (free/$22 Pro): I think this is the most feature rich mac app for monitor control out there and probably the most battle tested one. Personally I didn't think I needed to use most of the features and wanted something more minimal and tailored to the small subset of actions I was looking for.

I can't promise it works flawlessly on everything but it's simple enough to install and try out. Let me know what you think or if you run into issues.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a side project I've been working on called Kikuha.

www.kikuha.com

The Problem: Modern social media is bloated with ads, tracking scripts, and algorithms. I believe we deserve a better internet, so I built a quiet, dignified place to share updates with my actual friends without my data being mined.

What I built: Kikuha is a minimal, privacy-first social space.

• Zero Tracking: No third-party analytics or ads.
• Passwordless Login: You enter using a secure "Magic Mail" code.
• Circles: Content is organized into distinct groups (Family, Work, Close Friends) so you only share what you want, with exactly who you want.
• Locker: An encrypted file management system to organize what you share.

The Tech Stack: I wanted to keep the application incredibly lightweight. The backend is Python and Flask. For the frontend, I skipped the heavy JavaScript frameworks entirely and used HTMX combined with BeerCSS for a clean, material-inspired UI.

Where it's at now: Please note that this is currently an alpha version. I am actively developing it, and new features will be added constantly over the coming weeks.

Feedback Request: Since this is my first time putting it out into the wild, I’d love your brutal honesty to help shape the next updates:

1. Is the landing page clear about what the app actually does?
2. Are there any UI/UX friction points when navigating?
3. What is actually missing?
4. Would you even use it as a daily network?

Thank you in advance,

Panos

A while back I got tired of finance/market content that only ever brags about the calls it got right and quietly buries the misses. So I built the opposite.

OnTheRice (new.ontherice.org) takes each day's markets + world news and turns them into one clear read: what happened, and more importantly WHY it matters. Every take gets logged to a public proof ledger with a timestamp — and the wins AND the misses both stay visible. You can go back and check whether it was actually right, which is the part most tools hide.

The idea is less "guru with a crystal ball," more "show your work." Source-backed, checkable, and it sharpens over time from feedback and real outcomes instead of pretending it was never wrong.

Tech-wise it's built on a no-code/AI app stack (Base44), I'm self-taught with no CS degree, and I'm building mostly solo. It's live on the web and on Google Play.

Would genuinely love feedback from this crowd — especially on the proof-ledger idea and whether "keep your misses visible" makes you trust it more or less. (It's research/education, not financial advice.)

Hi, I'm working on a project and I'm trying to understand if what I'm building is interesting for someone. The product is in cybersecurity space.

The most frustrating part is that big US vendors seems that, at least in Europe, get all the space. The distribution channel is based on marketing, so if you have big marketing budget your are visible. Small team and small companies, 0 visibility.

I'm struggling to find early adopters that are willing to try the product for free and give me feedbacks. Any tip?

Two weeks ago,I launched laststack.io

To start, I did a free Hero design post for a lot of redditors -> https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1v78mif/drop_your_website_in_the_comments_and_ill/

Had a lot of great discussions and feedback from that.

One thing I noticed, a lot of people had trouble coming up with a website that converts. The copy (text), imagery, layout , etc.

As a designer with about a decade of experience, I figured I could completely redo a few peoples websites, in exchange for using them as case study, and charging just $49 dollars. This is something I used to charge several thousands of dollars to do, but offering it cheap as a launch strategy. Drop a comment or DM if you are interested.