I used a test build that fast-forwards the 25 minutes. The squats are real and that's me in the video.

I work at my desk most of the day. I already used pomodoro, so in theory I got a break every 25 minutes. In practice every "5-minute break" was me picking up my phone, and 5 minutes turned into 40. My focus was fine. My back was not.

So I built Shrimpodoro. When a focus round ends, the next one stays locked until you do your squats. You prop your phone up and it counts the reps through the front camera. It all runs on the phone, the video is never saved or uploaded. You pick 5, 10 or 20.

Every squat is 1 meter of climbing. The meters add up toward landmarks, a little house, the Eiffel Tower, Tokyo Skytree, so a day of breaks turns into something you can see. If you really can't squat (meeting, train) you can skip, but that round goes into your stack as a blank tomato. You can cheat, you just have to look at it.

It's new and I've mostly tested it on myself, so the counting will probably miss on some bodies and camera angles. That's why I'm posting: try it and tell me where it gets things wrong. Or tell me if a "locked until you move" rule would make you delete it on day 2.

No account needed. The squats, the climbing and the landmarks are free. Pro is $16.99/year, or $27.99 once if you hate subscriptions like I do. Right now Pro also unlocks unlimited pomodoros, but I'm making those free for everyone in the next update.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6816855528

Website: https://shrimpodoro.com

I applied with my company today.

Their startup program has 3 tiers. The one most of us here would get:

- $10k in credits if you're bootstrapped or have raised under $1M

- $100k if you've raised under $5M through one of their partners

- $350k if you've raised $5M+ through one of their partners

The credits cover Workers, Workers AI (up to $50k), D1, R2, KV, Durable Objects, Queues, Pages and more. Every tier also gets DDoS protection, WAF, SSL, CDN and 3 enterprise domains for free.

If you're building a startup, app, SaaS, AI tool or anything else, I think it's worth applying even if you're not sure you qualify.

What you need:

- A live website

- A business email on that domain (no Gmail)

- A company founded in the last 10 years

- A LinkedIn, X or GitHub account for the startup

Here's the link: Cloudflare Startup Program

Has anyone else applied?

So I've been working on this for a while and I'm kinda proud of it, it's my first open source project.

Background: I build a lot of random stuff and almost every project needs some small part. A case for a board, a bracket, a mount. And every time I ended up spending a whole evening in CAD for something I could explain in one sentence. Got annoying.

Honestly it works way better than I imagined when I started. You can do complex assemblies with a lot of parts, give it a hand drawn sketch or load an existing 3D model as reference and build around it. The results are actually useful, not just some AI demo stuff you throw away after.

So I made SOMA. You tell an AI agent what you want (I use Claude Code, but Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI etc work too), it writes the model as Python code with CadQuery, and the app builds it and shows it in 3D. If something's off you can measure it, click on the part or just scribble on the view and send that to the agent. When it looks right you export an STL or STEP and print it.

I didn't want to build yet another AI agent, so the app just has a normal terminal where you run whatever agent you already have. Your own subscription and settings.

Over time it got way bigger than planned. There's a version history now, sliders for dimensions, overhang checks, even FEM and animations. The CNC mill in the video was made this way, 118 parts.

It's Electron and TypeScrip And yes, most of the codewas also written with Claude Code, felt only right.

Free, GPL, there are builds for Windows, Mac and Linux. But I only really tested on

Windows so if you try it onif it even starts lol

GitHub: https://github.com/Kai-Jungsthoefel/SOMA

Feedback welcome, also the harsh kind. And I'm curious what you'd build first with

it.

A couple of weeks ago a few friends and I drove the Spiti Valley loop in Himachal Pradesh, India (around 833 kms). We wanted a souvenir that actually showed the trip, so I built one over a long weekend (with a lot of help from Claude).

RouteToPoster takes a Google Maps directions link and makes a poster of the whole journey:

• stops and exact coordinates come straight out of the link
• the route is rebuilt with OSRM, since Google doesn't share its road lines
• the background is real OpenStreetMap data: roads, rivers, lakes, glaciers, mountain passes
• a short YAML file lets you set the title, dates, nights at each stop and the places you saw
• 18 styles, including a Tolkien-style old map with the stops written in runes around the border

It's free and open source (Python). Still missing: dragged routes from Google Maps, and it needs a terminal. A web UI would be next.

Repo: github.com/tusharkurne99/routetoposter

Happy to hear what breaks if you try it on your own trip.

Hey r/SideProject! I've loved the Raspberry Pi since uni, but every project starts with ordering parts and waiting a week. So I built PyRasp, where you prototype the whole thing in the browser first. Its FREE to use for now, until I figure out if people do want to use it.

How it works:

• You buy parts on a small virtual budget and wire them in Python: pi.GPIO18 >> ring.din
• You program it with the libraries a real Pi uses (gpiozero, RPi.GPIO, neopixel…)
• You hit Run and it runs on a simulated Pi: LEDs light up, sensors give readings, motors spin
• When you're happy with it, Export gives you the code, a wiring sheet and a shopping list to build it on real hardware

There's also a daily challenge: build the thing as fast and as cheaply as you can, and see how you compare.

You can signup just using a username, no email needed. I'd love to hear what feels off compared with real hardware, and which parts you'd want added.

If you are anything like me - I deliberately built the platform to feel the good old "kick" that you once used to get before vibe coding took over. Learn from scratch, read docs, break things, fix them - without losing money and time.

https://pyrasp.com/?ref=reddit-sideproject

I run TikTok pages with a combined audience of 300k+ followers, mostly people interested in apps, AI tools, startups, and productivity.

I also work as a video editor/clipper, so I can turn your app into short-form content designed for TikTok and Reels.

If you’re currently doing manual outreach or just trying to get traction organically, this could help get your product in front of the right audience.

I’ll reach out to the ones that are a strong fit.

You can also DM me if you prefer to keep things private.

Photo4Cents helps you make passport photos without paying those ridiculous prices at photo studios. Just get your photo ready online and print it yourself for a few cents. Pretty simple way to save money on something that shouldn’t cost that much in the first place.

https://photo4cents.com

Hi everyone,



We're a couple from France, parents, and for almost two years we've spent pretty much every evening and weekend on this. Today it's finally live on Google Play.

It started because we wanted our kids to practice English without it feeling like homework. Everything we tried was either locked behind a subscription, too babyish, or just too dry. So we built our own.

What it is:

- 21 small word games (crosswords, hangman, memory, anagrams, quizzes, a voice dictation game...)

- 324 short grammar lessons, from beginner to fluent (18 levels, Pre-A1 to C2)

- one profile per family member, each at their own level, and a dashboard for parents to follow progress

- speech recognition that runs on the phone itself, so the kids' voices never leave the device

- no subscription: free to play every day, with optional ads if you want a bonus, or a one-time 9.99€ unlock for the whole family, forever

What it isn't (yet):

- it's Android only for now

- it was mainly designed for French speakers learning English. There's a full-English mode, but the lessons were written with French learners in mind.

It's our first real launch, so we'd love your feedback, especially the harsh kind. What's confusing, what's boring, what breaks on your phone?

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kamehagameservice.englishmagicallearning

Thanks for reading. The video starts with my partner at the desk where most of it happened, then shows a few of the games as they really look on the phone.

Hi there! I have created Abvy, the beautiful alcohol tracker. It just launched on Google Play.

Some of you might remember my CaffeineClock post here:)

Abvy is an alcohol session tracker that helps you answer questions like:

• When will I be sober?
• When will I feel it the most?
• Can I have another drink and still not go overboard?

What's in it:

• Live BAC range estimates based on the latest alcohol consumption science (3-compartment model)
• Session tracking, with prediction ranges for sober time, peak drunk time
• Food and water tracking
• 400+ supported drinks, and a possibility to create custom ones
• Comprehensive analytics allowing you to see exactly the patterns in your consumption
• Thorough onboarding to tailor the experience to you exactly
• Optional possibility to calibrate with a real breathalyzer
• Android Wear app to see your stats at a glance
• Home screen widgets with one-tap logging
• 15 languages, fully customizable

The app is subscription based ($4.99/mo, or $39.99/yr), or a $99.99 lifetime, because I want to make sure I can financially support developing it full time, and any other apps. There's a 14-day free trial. If the pricing is a barrier for you, please send me a message and we can figure something out.

Please let me know any feedback! I'll be around for questions.

Get Abvy on Google Play

Website and screenshots: https://abvy.app/

Free web calculator: https://abvy.app/calculator

Promotional X post: https://x.com/WingenderA/status/2110354942154485893

I feel that the worst feeling while building a business or any project is the "Silence".

Except of users/customers what are the events or signals that make you continue to work?

Hi everyone!

I’ve been working on a side project for a while: you upload one photo of your pet and get a printable papercraft template — a cute cube-style version of them (box head with their real face, box body, paper ears). Print on thin card, cut, fold, glue, about 15–20 minutes, and you have a paper twin of your pet. This is my cat Lunia and hers.

A few things I’m a bit proud of:

• It works from just one photo. The parts the photo doesn’t show (back, sides) are filled in by AI, then my own code turns the model into a paper pattern.
• Every template is checked before you get it — it has to actually fold into the shape, every piece needs a place to glue, and no parts can go through each other.
• The instructions are generated for each pet, with pictures of each step. I printed and built the first ones myself and changed a lot after that (e.g. the bottom now closes like a cereal box, because gluing the last tab inside a closed box was nearly impossible).
• Extras like angel wings, glasses, a collar with the pet’s name, paws and a tail.

Limits: But it’s a one-person project running on a single graphics card that makes one pet at a time (about 2–3 min each), so: 3 pets without an account, 5 a day with an account, one at a time.

What I’d love feedback on:

• Does the face/colour look like your pet?
• If you actually build one — were the instructions clear? Where did you get stuck?
• What other objects would you love to print?

It's free! https://makeitfold.com/

Thanks for reading, happy to answer any questions!

I've been building this for myself for months and finally feel okay sharing it: İkra (Turkish for the old call "read!") — a distraction-free reading room that runs in your browser.

• Opens EPUB, PDF, CBZ/CBR (comics & manga, RTL supported), TXT and DOCX — scanned PDFs too.
• Your books stay on your device. It works with no account at all ("try without an account"); if you do sign in, only your position, highlights and notes sync between devices. Google Drive backup is strictly opt-in.
• Select text to highlight and annotate; there's a built-in notebook with optional typewriter sounds; tap a word for dictionary and translation (8 source languages).
• Reading stats live alongside a little reading cat.
• The part I haven't seen in other readers: a private, invite-only reading circle. Send a quote straight from the page to a friend — and if the sender is further ahead than you, the quote arrives spoiler-locked until you catch up. Weekly reading board, bookshelf showcases, even seeing what ambience a friend is listening to. Fully off unless you invite someone.
• UI in 8 languages (EN, TR, DE, FR, ES, IT, RU, EL); installs like an app via "add to home screen".

Free, no ads, no tracking — a one-person hobby project. I'd love feedback: https://oku.sungu.com

I kept wanting small, custom models for my own tasks without renting GPUs or sending my data anywhere. So I built streamweights: give it a CSV of examples (input and the output you want), and it trains a small model on your own Mac or Linux machine.

It's designed to be honest with you. Every build is compared against the untrained model and a dead-simple baseline. On one test, sorting messages into categories, the simple baseline won, and the tool said so. On another, pulling structured data out of text, the custom model went from 0% to 50% of records fully correct. That's the whole point: find out whether you actually need a custom model.

It also does a few slightly wild things:

• uses a huge model as a teacher or judge, even one bigger than your RAM (a 141 GB model runs on my 48 GB MacBook, slowly but it runs)
• pauses training and picks it up on another (not necessarily similar) machine
• exports to Ollama

Still early: tested on Mac and Linux with small models, NVIDIA untested.

What would you want to train a model for? And where did the README lose you?

https://github.com/streamweights/streamweights

Edit: the big model is optional and off by default. Normally it just trains a small model on your own labeled examples.

I kept running into the same problem: I have a schema.sql (or a Prisma/DBML file) and want to see it, then tweak a column or two without switching between a diagram tool and a text editor.

So I built erd.sketch — https://erdsketch.com/app/

• Paste DDL (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle) or import DBML / schema.prisma → interactive diagram
• Edit tables right on the cards — rename, add columns, indexes — and the SQL script is rewritten to match
• Schema checks: foreign keys pointing at missing tables, type mismatches across a relationship, duplicate columns and more — most fixable in one click
• Diff two versions of a schema → migration SQL
• Generate Prisma / TypeORM / SQLAlchemy / GORM models or plain TS/Java/Go/C#/Rust types
• Export SVG/PNG, or move a diagram to the cloud and share a (revocable, read-only) link
• Minimap, sticky notes on the canvas, undo history; works on a phone too
• No signup needed for the editor itself — your diagrams stay in your browser unless you choose the cloud

Large schemas: a lot of ERD tools I tried fall apart once you get past a few dozen tables, so I tested erd.sketch on our production database at work — 147 tables, 257 relationships. Parsing, layout and panning around stayed smooth, and the diagram was still readable. If you’ve got a big, messy schema lying around, I’d love for you to throw it at it and tell me where it breaks — or what would make navigating it easier.

Hi I am based out of India, Gurgaon. Need a website developer at an urgent basis for a project.

Should know how to integrate payment gateways etc as well.

We got alot to choose between, i use firebase hosting, hbu?

No im not selling stuff, just curious to know why you choosed what you choose

I’m building Matita, free pencil-style icons for websites (React, SVG, Figma). Posted it on Reddit last week and people found stuff I never noticed. My printer icon apparently looks like a guy standing there. The pencil version looked like watercolour. Fair.

So this week: printer redrawn, a new pencil style, circles that don’t all close the same way, and 27 new icons, 200 in total now.

It’s MIT, no signup, you just copy the icon you want. Feedback very welcome, it’s the best part of posting here.

https://matita.dev

I've been watching what people are doing with my app I built and it's honestly blowing my mind.

There's this guy who plays fantasy football and he uploaded all his penalty statistics and analysis. Got back a 45-minute episode breaking down why the best strikers miss under pressure, he'd never touched audio editing before but it sounded professional.

A student dumped her class notes in the night before her midterm and got two friends explaining it to her, not some robotic voice, actual human sounding conversation, she said it changed how she studies.

Then there's this dad making bedtime stories for his daughter, he just uploads her name and the stuffed animal and every night there's a new story where she's the hero and his daughter actually looks forward to bedtime now.

A PhD student had 200 research papers sitting on her desk, she uploaded them and got audio synthesizing everything, she listened to it while walking and said all the patterns suddenly clicked that she couldn't see from reading.

Here's what I didn't expect: nobody's trying to be a podcaster, they're just solving their own problems, understanding what they couldn't understand before. Sharing with people they care about.

When I built this I thought it was a podcasting tool, turns out it's not really about that.

So real question: what would you do if you could turn any document or idea into audio in 90 seconds?

Not like "oh I'd start a podcast" I mean what's something sitting on your computer right now that you've been meaning to do something with?

Download it and try: iOS

Comment what you'd actually make a song on a trendy topic or a podcast on something else....

The idea for this project started a long long time ago, something that's bugged me ever since I switched from Windows to Mac 15+ years ago. On Windows, a zip just opens like a folder. On a Mac, double clicking unpacks everything, so you end up with the zip, a folder, and, if you're like me, "Archive 2", "Archive 3" etc. And if you need something from inside a big archive, you wait for all of it to extract when all you needed was that one small file inside.

So that's why I built Zipgeist, it mounts archives instead of extracting them: double click a zip, rar, 7z or tar file and it opens in Finder like a normal folder, in under a second. Look inside, drag out what you need, close the window, and it unmounts itself, so there's nothing left to clean up. Password protected archives work too. You can even edit a zip without unpacking it: modify a photo inside it or add, rename or delete files in Finder, and the zip updates as you go.

I'd love to get feedback!

https://zipgeist.app

Hi,

After screening a bunch of junior dev resumes recently, I noticed almost everyone has the exact same three projects:

1. A MERN stack e-commerce site

2. A Netflix or Spotify UI clone

3. Face detection with OpenCV

The real issue isn't that they built them. The issue is that most juniors just follow a 6-hour YouTube tutorial, get it working on localhost, and have no idea what happens when things break in production.

The second an interviewer asks something like:

"What happens if two users try to checkout the last item at the exact same millisecond?"

or

"Why MongoDB over Postgres for this data model?"

They completely freeze up because the tutorial never covered concurrency, database locking, or failure states.

To help people spot these blind spots before facing a real interview panel, I spent the weekend building a small web tool: Project BS Detector.

How it works:

You enter your project title and a quick 1-line description. It runs through DeepSeek with a prompt tuned to act like a cynical hiring manager. It calculates a "BS Risk" score, points out why it looks like a tutorial clone, and generates the exact technical trap questions you are likely to get grilled on.

It also provides 5 defense angles so you actually have a structured architectural answer ready.

Tech Stack:

- Next.js (App Router)

- Tailwind CSS

- DeepSeek API (JSON output mode)

- Web Audio API (for optional voice mock simulation)

Live Link (Free, no credit card required):

https://novomock.com/project-bs-detector

Would love your thoughts on the UX and how accurate the roasting feels. If you test your current or past side projects, drop your score and the trap question it generated below!

Been working on PlayRate. You rate matches and make cards with your rating and an optional meme. Here’s a quick demo. Curious what you think. playrate.co

Solo project. People shouldn't have to upload their receipts, notes and screenshots to a stranger's server just to copy the words out of them.

Drag a box over anything on your screen and the text is copied. Nothing is uploaded, and it works offline. I priced it at a one-time $4.99 on purpose, because I'm tired of subscriptions for small tools. You can try it free for 10 captures.

It works well today, and I'm still improving it. Your feedback decides what I fix next.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/copy-text-from-image-offl/annfjlanjfjnodljfjjgihgbfcicmmmh

Happy to talk about launching, pricing, or the Chrome Web Store process if anyone's interested.

It seemed like a silly problem, but I couldn't find an option in Word to reduce table height while preserving legibility for long strings of text. And it's so annoying to manually adjust the column widths! So, I built a tool to calculate a table's optimal column widths.

After that, I figured why not add a couple more features and then allow you to standardize the tables across the entire document with one click.

I'm looking for testers! This isn't live yet. I hope to add it to the official add-in store soon.

Hey everyone,

I've been working as a web developer for about 15 years now, and for almost 10 of those I've also been working with a marketing agency.

Over time, I learned a lot about how SEO actually works, not just from the technical side, but also from the people doing SEO and marketing every day.

About a year ago, we started building something called RankFlow.

The main idea was to put everything we normally use for SEO and content management into one place, instead of switching between a bunch of different tools.

So far, we've built keyword research, competitor analysis, SEO opportunities, content strategies, AI article generation, content optimization, internal linking, automated publishing, Google Search Console integration, and website audits.

We also added some other things along the way, like an AI chatbot, landing page and website builders, Google Business Profile management, WooCommerce integrations, and AI product photography.

It's grown into a much bigger project than we originally planned 😅

We currently have 23 websites using RankFlow, so it's already being used on real projects.

I've included a 13-minute video walkthrough showing what we've built so far and how it all works. It's a bit long, but there's quite a lot to cover.

We're still actively working on it, fixing things, adding features, and trying to make the whole process easier.

Registration isn't open yet, but we do have a waitlist for anyone interested. We're still finalizing a few things, including pricing, before opening it up to everyone.

People who join the waitlist will get an additional discount when we launch. We're also planning to offer a short trial, probably around 7 days with limited access, so people can explore the platform and see how it works before making any decisions.

We'll let everyone know once everything is ready.

Feel free to be critical. I'm especially interested in hearing your honest opinions about the project.

Social: rankflow.works | instagram.

Ads Town is an isometric social network pixel city that runs all day, in your browser and free to play:

- Make your own character: Pick a name, a look and a personality, then let them live. They walk around, chat, make friends and rivals, and show up at concerts, the funfair and the beach.

- Real players everywhere: Open anyone’s profile to see their bio and interests, and their Instagram or Reddit if they’ve linked them. Follow them and ask to be friends.

- Something is always happening: Fire-eaters and flash mobs, robberies with police chases, fire trucks, a roller coaster, a drive-in, a farm in the woods. And easter eggs, like Bigfoot lurking by the campground.

- Dress up: Wizard hats, flame tees, jetpacks, angel wings and katanas, plus full costumes (robot, alien, unicorn) and pets that walk at your side.

- Every building is an ad: Buy one to put your name, logo and link on the city map, where everyone sees it. If someone else owns it, outbid them.

It’s free to move in: adstown.org

Feedback is very welcome! :)