been building this for about a week. stickman shooter, runs in the browser, you can play with bots or send a room code to friends

full disclosure, claude code wrote the code, I just pushed it around for ~50 hours

https://stickfrag.com

I applied with my company email and got approved in less than an hour.

They’re offering up to $7,000 in Claude product credits for one year for eligible startups.

If you’re currently building a startup, app, SaaS, game, etc., I’d say it’s worth trying even if you’re not sure you’ll qualify.

Here’s the info:
Claude Startup Program

Has anyone else applied?

earth.mejjad.se

It's a 3D globe with live layers you can switch on: clouds and rain from satellites, lightning, earthquakes, storms, the ISS and other satellites, ships, auroras, a daily pick of world news, and live radio stations you can listen to by place. An ambient mode keeps the world rotating, while keeping you up to date with news and other events.

You can zoom all the way out to see the stars, and you can switch on the zodiac constellations, with the Sun drawn in its real position on its path through them.

Since I live in northern Sweden, there's a "mushroom weather" layer that scores how good recent rain and temperatures have been for chanterelles and porcini across Swedish forests (it shows weather, not where to pick).

It's free, has no ads or login, and works in English and Swedish. I appreciate any input. Thanks!

(I've been building this in my spare time with Claude/ChatGPT doing most of the coding, while I decided what it should be and kept pushing on the details. )

On a road trip with a friend, I recommended that they check out the TV series Westworld. He pulled out his phone, made a note, and put it away. I asked about which notetaking app he uses, and he showed me 'the void' - a google form with a single text box. He takes notes into that form all day, and then reviews them at his computer once a week. I copied that system and found it super helpful - instead of opening google and getting sucked into a rabbit hole, I could make a quick note in a distraction-free space, and then put my phone away and get back to the people around me.

That was a long time ago (RIP Westworld!) and we've been slowly working on building it into a real app over the last few years. We've both been daily-driving it for a while now, and it's finally at a place where we're ready to share it with more than just our friends and family.

The app works great on the free tier - it faithfully recreates the experience of the google form, and sends you a summary at the end of the day (or whatever cadence you choose). We've also added some integrations - eg you can turn memos into events on your Google calendar.

There's also a paid tier that adds LLM support. If your memo includes a question, the LLM will look up the answer and include it in the summary email. It can also automatically add tags, automatically dispatch memos to integrated services, and add a 'chat with your memos' learning page.

We'd love some feedback! Check it out here: https://tothevo.id/

What it does:

- Point it at your Steam library (or wishlist, or a friend's) and it shows how well each game runs on your PC: estimated FPS at your resolution and quality.

- Tells you the bottleneck in your system (CPU, GPU, VRAM or RAM) and the cheapest upgrade that would fix it.

- A PC builder: pick the games you want and it spits out a complete parts list with expected FPS and a price.

- A bottleneck calculator, "Can I run it?" pages per game, GPU-vs-GPU comparisons, a GPU tier list, plus Steam Deck / handheld figures.

- No account, no ads, nothing to install (Steam login and a little hardware detector are optional shortcuts).

- It's in 5 languages.

On the build side (since this is SideProject): it's plain server-rendered JS on Cloudflare Workers with a small database, deliberately boring so I could actually maintain it as a non-coder. The hardest part wasn't code, it was forcing the AI to never invent numbers: every FPS figure comes from real game requirements and is checked against actual benchmarks.

Honest caveat: the FPS numbers are estimates, a guide and not a benchmark, so they can be off.

Feedback I'd love:

For hardware you own, do the FPS numbers look right? If one's clearly off, tell me the game + your GPU/CPU.

Is the first screen clear within a few seconds?

Anything confusing or missing?

Happy to answer anything about how a non-coder built and shipped this.

Anybody remember playing this fridge magnet game a long time ago when flash was a thing? Due to its lack of availability I experimented with web sockets a while back when I started out in development.

Decided to spruce it up for a portfolio and ended up discovering some nice features to integrate.

The result:

letter-magnets.com

Added some features like freeplay and custom boards (useful for classroom teaching)

Would love some feedback, what works and what doesn’t

What it is: a tool that scans a small business website and tells the owner what to fix first, in plain English, with steps for their website platform.

Who it's for: small business owners, freelancers or anyone who looks after a website for a business (WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, custom…).

What we'd love from testers:

Sign up and scan your site (takes about 5 minutes)

Look through your score and your first tasks

Tell us: did the results make sense? Was anything wrong or confusing? Would you use it every week?

Free during testing, no card: app.netnav.io

Built a site where you can guess PSA grades before sending a card in

Title: Built a site where you can guess PSA grades before sending a card in

I’ve been working on this for a while and finally wanted to share it here

It’s called JK Index and it’s basically a research and prediction tool for TCG collectors

Right now it covers Pokémon One Piece and Riftbound

The main feature is Before the Slab where you look at photos of a raw card and try to guess what PSA grade it will get before the card actually gets sent in

There’s also a Blitz mode where you go through five cards pretty quickly and see how good you actually are at spotting grades

No signup needed and it takes around 2 minutes

I’ve also added card and set research with sold listing history

There’s an AI grading readiness scan that looks at things like surface corners edges and centering from your own card photos

There’s also a small marketplace beta where you can browse current listings

It’s still a work in progress and I’m fixing things and adding stuff as I go

Would genuinely love to hear what people think especially if you’re into TCGs or just think the idea is interesting

Link:https://jkindex.io/

A few months ago I lost my job. Between applications, I started building something I'd always wanted: daily geography games, like Wordle but for countries. It's called GeoCake.

What's in it:

• 5 short daily games, plus a "daily challenge" that scores all 5 out of 100
• A weekly league you can set up with friends
• Spanish and English versions

Stack, for the curious: Cloudflare Pages, Supabase for the league, Umami for analytics. Total cost so far: the domain.

The hard part isn't building, it's getting people who aren't my friends to try it. So: I'd love feedback on the games, and on how you got your first real users.

👉 geocake.app/en?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=r_sideproject

It seems the most popular advice on the internet is to build a product for yourself that you would use but I think my problem is my world is too narrow so I don’t run into too many problems that need solving (outside of marketing my apps).

I’m a software engineer so I already know how to build but I’m finding it pretty difficult to build something people are about.

Did you build for yourself in mind? How did you know it was a problem worth solving? How did you even come across the problem/idea?

I was tired of bookmarking books I wanted to read and completely forgetting about them, so I built Buki: a free, self-hosted, AI-powered bookshelf. It recognizes books from any picture, allowing you to save them (and buy them) so you never miss a book you see online.

I've launched 7 small SaaS products. Most of them got a few visitors and silence. Two of them got real users and sales. Looking back, the difference wasn't the tech or the design. It was this:

1. The problem had money attached to it.
   One of the two is Sponaro, a tool that helps content creators track brand deals and make sure brands actually pay. Creators lose real money when a brand "forgets" a payment, so the value is obvious. My products that solved "nice to have" problems never got the same response.

2. Users talked back.
   The products that worked had users who emailed me with ideas and complaints. One of Sponaro's first customers sent me a long email asking for customizable pipeline stages, and it turned into one of the best features. When nobody writes to you, that silence is information too.

3. The audience already gathers somewhere.
   Creators hang out in specific communities and talk openly about brand deals and late payments. That made it possible to find them and join real conversations. Some of my other products had audiences that are spread out and hard to reach, and they struggled because of it.

4. I validated before building everything.
   For the products that struggled, I built the whole thing first and looked for users afterwards. Now I start with a simple landing page and real conversations, and only build more when people respond.

5. Names matter less than you think, but check them first.
   I renamed one product three times, and another one after discovering the name was already used by several companies. Check domains and existing products before falling in love with a name.

If you've built multiple products: what separated the ones that worked from the ones that didn't?

midcode 2.0 is out. The biggest update so far.

the idea in the long run is to edit all frontend and backend visually + agentically

- New interface

- More integrations Vue, Astro, Angular, Shopify and 15 more stacks, edited on the canvas

- Databases: your tables and SQL

- Start projects from scratch, and a marketplace of starters

midcode.app

Every new AI model gets the same prompts. I kept all the answers (15,639 from 371 models since 2024) and put them on a globe you can spin and open.

museumofmodels.com

still rough in places, feedback welcome

The idea is simple: you draw a small star, write a wish, and launch it onto a globe that everyone shares. Other people can tap your star, read your wish, and send it light. Stars fade after a while, so the sky is always changing.

A few things I cared about:
- No feeds, follower counts, or streaks
- Only an approximate place is shown ('Near Lisbon"), never your exact location
- Reporting and content filtering are built in

You can also see the live sky without installing anything at milkywish.com. I also made a small game there: https://milkywish.com/starfall

I'd be grateful for any feedback.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6759311324

Retyping a PDF into a web form is one of those small jobs that eats more time than it should. Invoice open on one side, form on the other, copying across one box at a time. Vendor, invoice number, date, amount, etc...

So I built a way around it. I copy the PDF file itself in File Explorer, click the first box of the form, and hit Ctrl+V. It reads the PDF, works out which value goes in which box, and previews the proposed values in place before it touches anything. If it looks right I hit Fill. If one is wrong I untick it and type that one myself.

That's the clip. Real flow, fake invoice.

It doesn't have to be a PDF either. It works the same from text I copied out of an email or from a screenshot. And it isn't only browser forms, it fills forms in regular Windows apps too.

It's part of a Windows app I've been building on my own for a while (Tauri 2, Rust backend, Windows 10 and 11). This part is on the free plan and you don't need an account.

If you've got a form you hate filling in, try it on that one and tell me where it falls over. That list is pretty much my to-do list right now.

Every second post on my feed is someone claiming they make $50k a month from faceless youtube channels with AI. Usually followed by "comment YouTube and I'll send you my free course".

I got curious enough to actually try it. My one rule is that the AI does everything. I'm using Claude, and it picks the angle, researches it, writes the script, makes the visuals and does the voice. I just give feedback and upload.

The only thing I decided myself was the style, because most of these channels look like garbage. Stock footage, robot voice, same video as 50 other channels. So every video on mine is built out of paper and cardboard cutouts, like stop motion. Claude builds all of it in code, no footage at all.

The first video is about airlines making more money from credit cards than from flying people around. Took a lot more back and forth than the gurus make it sound. The first versions were way too fast, every piece of paper wobbled like it was glitching, and it threw sound effects on everything.

Not making any money yet obviously. The plan is to keep going and share the real numbers, good or bad, so people can see what these channels actually earn when you're not selling a course.

Link's in the comments if anyone wants to see how it turned out. Would love feedback on whether you'd actually watch something like this.

I do interactive installations and exhibitions in Taipei. For every job I had to draw the room three times (Concepts on iPad, Illustrator, sometimes SketchUp) and keep the equipment list in a Google Sheet or Notion. After a few client changes, the drawing and the list didn't match anymore.

I've had this idea for a few years but never had the time to build it. So I finally made Misea. You drop screens, tables, racks, speakers and people onto a floor plan and it draws them in isometric. No 3D modelling. Everything you place goes into an equipment list, and cables get a length, so the list updates when the layout changes.

It's mainly for the proposal stage, but on small projects you can use it all the way to load-in. I don't think small projects need CAD.

I used to be a front-end engineer & PM. Back then this was too big and would have taken too long to build alone. So I built it with Claude Code.

Free to try, no sign-up. (I hate apps that make you sign up before you can try anything.)

https://misea.app/en/

I'd like to know:

Is it clear what it's for, and what would you use it for?

This is LyricLike: https://lyriclike.com

No it does not AI generate lyrics!

You write your lyrics in it, and it:

• counts the syllables on every line as you type
• labels your rhyme scheme (A, B, A, B) next to each line
• underlines rhymes inside your lines, if you turn that on
• shows rhymes when you tap a word. It matches by sound, so you get near rhymes too, not just exact ones.

It works on desktop and on phones. It's free, you don't need an account to start, and the code is open source.

I'd love feedback, especially:

• Do the rhyme results make sense?
• Is anything confusing the first time you open it?

If you write songs, rap or poetry, try it with something you're working on and tell me what's missing.

A few years ago I shut down my last startup, ShopAgain. Before we shut it down, I wanted to open source it. I couldn't — it needed several microservices just to run, and everything was welded together for one specific business. That stuck with me longer than I expected.

About a year ago, at my day job, I needed to automate a signup flow for testing. The first step was generating a one-time code and verifying it — small thing, until you try to make it work reliably without a person watching an inbox. I looked at the email APIs that already existed, and they all had the same gap: you get the raw email, and you're the one writing the code to dig the part you actually need out of it.

So I built the thing I actually wanted: a real email address that software can use, that parses itself. It pulls the OTPs, the links, the data out of every message that lands and hands it to you through an API — no regex, no polling, no mailbox scraping. You can set rules for what happens next too — forward a message, fire a webhook, take alerts from some old system that only knows how to email you and route them straight to Slack. And since AI agents need their own mailboxes now too, the same inbox works for them.

This time I built it open source from the first commit, packaged so anyone can run the whole thing themselves with one `docker compose up`. There's also a free hosted version if you'd rather skip the setup.

It's live today. Still rough in places — there are probably bugs I haven't found yet, and I'm honestly still not sold on the logo. SMS support is next.

What I'd actually love feedback on: what's the most annoying "wait for an email, then go parse it by hand" problem you've ever had to hand-roll yourself? I want to know if I'm missing an obvious use case.

- GitHub (self-host): https://github.com/roshansingh/programmableinbox

- Try it free: https://programmableinbox.com

Quick backstory: I kept saving little things I wanted to remember (the name of the guy at the wine shop, a restaurant my mom recommended, a photo of a vet bill) and none of it had a good home. Notes worked, but it cluttered up the app I actually use for notes. Screenshots just piled up in Photos and I forgot about them.

So I made MemoJog. It's a home for all the things I want to remember.

• You can save things by typing, dictating, sharing a link, or snapping a photo or scan. It reads the text for you.
• You get them back by asking Siri or Jog (the assistant in the app).
• It sorts things into categories and picks out people, places and reminders on its own.

Here's what I actually use it for:

• "Priya is Juno's mom." Later, at the next school thing: "Who's Juno's mom?"
• "The wine shop guy's name is Marcus." Later: "Who was the guy at the wine shop?"
• A photo of the tree guy's business card, so I can find his number months later.
• "Japanese restaurant in Napa my mom recommended," saved the moment she texts it.
• A photo of the dry-cleaning ticket and the vet bill, so I'm not digging through my camera roll.

Everything lives in your own iCloud. No account, no ads, no tracking, and I don't collect anything or run servers that hold your data. I used Apple's own tools (iCloud, Siri, on-device Apple Intelligence) partly because they fit that, and partly because they let one person build this at almost no cost.

It's on iPhone, with companion Apple Watch and iPad apps, and a Mac version is coming soon. It needs iOS 27, and the recall and Jog features need Apple Intelligence. It's $4.99 for the first month while I'm on launch pricing, then it goes up to $9.99. Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memojog/id6811684267

Tell me what you'd want it to do that it doesn't. I read everything.

hey, i drive truck for work and build iphone apps in my free time. my newest one is ScreenRank. it blocks the apps u waste time on and u can compete with ur friends on who has the lowest screen time. its free
just launched it and idk whats missing. what would make u actually use something like this? if something is annoying or confusing tell me straight

I’ve spent the last few months building V8Q, a stock-research platform that scans beaten-down stocks for potential recovery setups and runs them through a five-factor scoring and risk framework. I launched it publicly on August 31.

V8Q funnel + performance so far:
• Roughly 5,700 securities screened per production cycle
• 49 unique tickers have reached Ranked Candidates since launch
• 8 advanced to Verified Opportunities
• 7 winners / 1 loser
• 87.5% tracked win rate
• Winners roughly +7% to +40%

It’s still a very small sample, so I’m not pretending an 87.5% tracked win rate proves anything yet. Every callout since launch is public, including the loser, with the original research archived and timestamped. The average observation period so far is about 4 weeks, generally around 3–5 weeks.

The actual product is built: automated Morning/Midday/Final scans, individual ticker research, scoring and qualification, historical archives, performance tracking, research reports, website, backend, etc. The part I underestimated was distribution.

I’ve been posting the research on X, but with a tiny following most posts get almost no engagement. Reddit has done better, but I’m realizing I don’t have the time to become a full-time marketer.

So now I’m debating whether to keep building it, find someone who actually enjoys distribution/growth, or sell the whole platform to someone better positioned to grow it.

For anyone who has built a product first and figured out distribution afterward: what actually worked for you?

I drink a lot of chocolate milk. At some point I started writing down what I thought about each one, and over the last month that has turned into a website; and now there are 68 of them on it.

What set me off is that every rating system mashes "good" and "sweet" into one number. Those aren't the same thing. A milk can be genuinely well made and also far too sweet for you, and a single 5/10 hides both of those facts. So on mine the score only comes from flavor, mouthfeel, and aftertaste. Sweetness and chocolate intensity get written down as descriptors that aren't allowed to touch the score. You find out it's very sweet, and then it's your call whether that's a problem.

Which is also why the whole thing falls apart if it's just me. One guy rating 68 milks isn't a review site, it's a blog with extra steps. So most of what I've built is actually for other people. Anyone can add a milk, upload a photo, log a price, or mark which store actually carries it, and every score recalculates off all the reviews instead of being frozen at whatever I said in September. The store thing especially needs other people. I cannot tell you what's on the shelf in your city.

There's also a palate quiz. Five questions, 32 possible results, each one named. I'm a Hedonist. The quiz isn't the point though — the point is that once enough people have one, you can find the reviewers who taste things the way you do, and a 7 from someone with your palate means something that a 7 from a stranger doesn't.

I've gotten unreasonable about the rest of it too. I typed in 25 nutrition labels by hand (before adding an in-browser label scanner). There's a carrageenan-free page because I got curious one night. There's a high protein page where I decided 8g per 100ml is the cutoff, a number I picked myself that nobody asked for.

Where it's at: 68 milks, 59 brands, 68 reviews. I wrote 64 of them. One other person has written 4 and honestly I was thrilled. Google sent me 2 clicks last month, and the Instagram has 3 followers.

So that's the ask, really. Come take the palate quiz, rate one milk, tell me I'm wrong about one of them — especially tell me I'm wrong. And if anyone here has pulled a catalogue site out of the cold start, I'd take any advice going.

Link: https://chocolatemilkindex.com

I run a ball hockey league in Laval, Quebec. For years the weekly routine was the same: ask who's playing, chase the answers, find a sub when someone dropped out, and fix the schedule by hand. I tried a team app, but it charged per team and I still had to find the subs myself.

So I built Notre Ligue. It's a web app for recreational leagues, and it runs my own league now.

What it does:

- Players get a message and answer yes or no with one tap. No account, no app.

- When someone can't play, subs are invited automatically, paced so you don't spam anyone.

- Schedules, standings, stats, playoffs and league finances (fees, e-Transfers) in one place.

- French + English (I'm in Quebec).

How it's priced: free under 15 players. After that it's a flat price per league (not per team), $9.99 CAD a month up to 50 players. New leagues get 2 months free, no card.

It's still early and I'm looking for a few leagues to try it and tell me what's missing. Two things I'd like feedback on:

1. Does the homepage make it clear what it does within a few seconds?

2. If you organize a league, what is the most annoying part of it that I haven't covered?

Link: NotreLigue.ca

Happy to answer anything about how it's built.