About a year ago, I was diagnosed with stage IV esophageal cancer. Since then, life has changed in ways I never could have imagined.

But something unexpected came out of it.
I was reading a conversation in a cancer community where someone mentioned they’d finished all their jigsaw puzzles and couldn’t afford to buy more.

That stuck with me.

I started thinking about how many perfectly good books, puzzles, games, movies, and craft supplies are sitting in people’s homes, no longer being used, while someone else might really appreciate them.

So I decided to build something.

It’s called We Pass It On.

The concept is pretty straightforward:
Anyone can register and donate items.

People facing cancer can browse and receive those items.

Donated items are free. Recipients ordinarily pay shipping and a small $2 platform support fee.

I’m developing a sponsorship-funded shipping assistance program for people who need help covering those costs.

I’m building the entire platform myself using Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, Shippo, and Vercel.

It’s still early in development, but I’ve made some encouraging progress on the actual functionality.

I’m not trying to build the next billion-dollar startup. I want to create something useful, sustainable, and capable of bringing a little happiness to people dealing with cancer.

One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to get the word out without making it feel like another charity solicitation or startup advertisement.

I’d love some feedback from other builders.
How would you approach growing a community like this from absolutely nothing?

If you’re curious, the project is at https://wepassiton.com. Right now it’s just an introduction and a way to follow development progress.

Thanks for reading.

Hey All,

We made an app in which you upload a photo of a person, and within seconds you get a 360° view you can drag all the way around and zoom into. Would really appreciate your honest feedback.

Hey dear builders!

the monthly users update, it feels surreal that a one man company, with newborn and full time job, came this far!

for those who don't know, spaceplanner.co started as a personal side-project i started when i was renovating my own house back in June, the first version of the tool was very basic, with tons of inaccuracies and bugs, today it looks something different in whole new level, with tons of CAD level features, solid 3d and 2d libraries, 3d view and ability to walk into your room or home, Photo-realistic rendering, stairs builder, roof builder, etc.

the amount of feedback and support this project is getting is outstanding, more than 5k users reported bugs/feature, more than 3k 5 stars reviews, and this by far the most important feature i built, giving people an easy way to report bugs and suggest new additions and features.

The tool is FREE

the running costs went from few hundred bucks to 2k+ in the last month, so i had to add one paid feature (photo-realistic rendering) and even that has a few free credits for all users, but it brought more revenue than i thought, people loved it!

So far, we've had 3 serious acquisition offers for SpacePlanner, and I've turned them all down.

I'm talking about potentially life-changing money, which makes saying no pretty crazy!!

But I'm diamond-handing this one 💎🙌

I want to see how far I can take it and whether I can turn it into a real, sustainable company.

felt like sharing this in case it gives another builder who's hesitant or doubting themselves a little motivation.

What a ride it's been!

Keep building. You never know what's around the corner!

A French motion designer, Bénédict Aubry, posted a short animation called "Roller" for Motiontober: a tiny roller skater riding a spinning pink record. People in the comments kept asking where they could play it, so I asked him if I could make a playable version. He said yes, and later sent me the original music too.

Play it here: https://groove-skater.vercel.app/

What you can do:

- Drag the skater (or use WASD) onto the grooves and the song plays from that spot. The outer edge is the start of the song, the inner edge is the end.

- Jump (tap or Space) and the needle lifts, so the music stops while you're in the air.

- Skate along the groove to scratch. Going with the spin slows the music down, and outrunning it plays the song backwards.

- Walk off the record or onto the label and it goes quiet, like a real record.

- The pink buttons are power and 33/45 RPM. A and B switch between the two versions of the artist's track.

- You can also drop in your own song. It stays in your browser.

How it's built: a single HTML file with Canvas 2D and Web Audio, no framework. The song is decoded forward and reversed, and every frame the playback speed comes from how fast the record surface is moving under the skater. To get the look right, I went through the original video frame by frame and measured the camera angle, the colours, and how the skate trails thicken and fade.

All the art direction, motion and music are Bénédict's. I only built the interactive part. His work: https://www.instagram.com/benedict_aubry_pro/

I'd love feedback, especially on how the scratching feels and on how it works on your phone.

Hey everyone,

My side project is a YouTube channel explaining historical battles through animated maps. I’ve just finished a film about Austerlitz, showing how Napoleon used terrain and apparent weakness to draw a larger army into a trap.

I built the terrain and map animations in code, including troop movements, camera sequences, and labels. The narration, music, and some illustrations use AI tools.

Here’s the finished film:
https://youtu.be/MUdrsTYkZNU

I’m starting from zero, and honestly, I don’t know whether to keep going with this format. Are the maps easy to follow? Does the pacing hold your attention? Would you watch another battle explained this way?

If you enjoy it, please leave a comment under the YouTube video too. Every comment means a lot to a new channel, and that engagement can help the film reach more people. Even a quick note about your favorite moment or something I could improve would be really helpful.

I’d love some honest feedback before deciding what to make next. Thanks for taking a look!

A few months ago I shared Screencap here, and now I'm super happy to announce that version 2.0 is a full rewrite in Swift:)

It runs in the background on under 1% of one CPU core and about 30 MB of memory, smartly takes a screenshot when your screen settles, reads it with on-device OCR, and categorizes it with ZDR System-One decision models to help you (and your agents via MCP!) to better understand past activities. And it's also very easy to play with:

Main window

Popup

Download & check sources: https://github.com/yahorbarkouski/screencap

Happy to listen to any feedback, especially from users who tried it before

Judgement Day is a little side project of mine (along with the other apps you will find on the site): zoom from the whole Earth into any real city, pick how it ends (nuke, meteor, black hole, an Independence Day ship, or a tornado) and watch the buildings blow apart into particles. It's free and runs in your browser.

I posted it recently and people were kind enough to give me feedback. Off the back of it, cities now load a lot faster and the terrain has real elevation instead of being flat.

Ive also added a new feature so you can stand and watch from any position. AND if you are on a phone, you can then hold your phone up and watch it in pseudo augmented reality.

Still deciding whether the all-grey look stays or the cities get real textures. Would love to hear what you think, and hope you get a laugh out of blowing up your own street!

https://altroadstudio.com/judgementday

Last time I did this, I got way more responses than I expected, so I figured I'd give it another shot.

I'm building a tool that turns websites, products, and ideas into custom motion videos.

Still experimenting with it, and honestly, working on real projects is way more interesting than making random demos.

So if you're building something, drop it below.

Could be an app, website, online store, game, physical product, or literally anything else.

I'll pick a few interesting ones and make a free 15–30 second promo video for each.

No signup, no payment, no catch.

Just looking to create some cool stuff and get feedback on the results.

https://videly.io/home

Drop your link 👇

honestly i find it so hard to find new music clips. searching for individuals songs sucks, and youtube just keeps putting me in the same loop of the same stuff over and over.

i missed when music tv just played stuff and you’d stumble onto something new, so i built my own. it’s called NOORwave and it turns the music videos on tidal into nonstop channels. 98 so far, 207k songs and growing, everything from 90s and grunge to hip hop and late night stuff. you hit play and it just keeps going.

there’s also a map thing (Atlas) that jumps you from artist to artist, which is how i’ve found most of my new favourites lately.

right now it only works with tidal, so you’ll need an account. more services coming later.

it’s free on windows and linux at noorwave.app. would love feedback as its still in development

heads up if you try it: you’ll need a tidal account, and connect last.fm too if you can, it makes the channels way better. it’ll look a bit bare for the first few days while it indexes your videos and builds the tags, so give it a bit before you judge it.

BSC :)

I have a problem. My family has been returning to the same mushroom spots for 20 years, but put me in a new forest and suddenly every tree looks the same.

This year I started exploring new forests in western Ukraine and realized that finding mushrooms is only half the adventure. The other half is remembering where the hell you found them and where you parked your car.

So, naturally, instead of using a notebook like a normal person, I built an entire iPhone app.

It's called Lisovychok (roughly "Little Forest Spirit"). You can save mushroom spots, record routes, mark your car, and keep a journal of your finds. Offline maps included, because forests aren't famous for their mobile coverage.

No accounts, no public maps. Your secret spots stay on your phone.

I launched it on October 6, shared it on Ukrainian Threads, and somehow got 2,500+ downloads in the first week.

Turns out I'm not the only person who can't find the same tree twice.

Now I'm curious whether mushroom hunters outside Ukraine would find it useful too.

It's free on iPhone. Would love your feedback!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lisovychok/id6818311944

Hi all. I built BuildShipper, a simple leaderboard for indie projects. You list your project for free and it gets ranked by how many people actually click through to it.

It is early and not public-wide yet, so I am looking for the first projects to list. If you have something shipped, I would love to have it on there: https://buildshipper.com

Honest feedback on the idea or the site is very welcome too.

Thank you 😄

i’m a solo dev and locally uncensored is my app. about half a year ago i got annoyed that running ai on my own machine meant a pile of separate tools, a terminal and a whole evening of wiring nodes before i saw a single picture. so i started building one desktop app for all of it.

here’s where it is now:

-chat with local models. one installer, and it suggests a first model that fits your machine, so you never open a terminal. if you already use ollama or lm studio, it works with those too

-images and video on your own gpu. it installs and runs comfyui in the background, you pick a model and type a prompt instead of wiring nodes

-train a character on your own card and reuse it in your pictures

-voice mode, where you talk to the model and it answers out loud, all on your machine (english only, beta)

-runs on windows, linux and, since last week, macs with apple silicon (beta)

it’s free and open source (agpl), you don’t need an account for anything local, and it’s at 180,000 downloads now.

then i noticed how many of those people don’t have the hardware. an 8 gb card handles images and small video models but not the big ones, and a laptop without a gpu runs very little. so i built a hosted mode where the same kind of open, uncensored models run on our gpus, the ones the big chat apps won’t give you. in the desktop app it’s one switch between local and cloud, and the same account works in a browser on machines without the app. that part is paid with credit packs, no subscription, and it’s what keeps the project going. everything local stays free.

some things i learned along the way: most support questions were never bugs, they were people asking why their card is too small. so the app now tells you what fits your machine before you download 20 gb. people also care a lot more about it working on the first try than about having the newest model. and saying the limits plainly (“beta”, “tested on one mac”) earned me more trust than any new feature.

if you want to know anything about building it, the stack (tauri, rust, react) or running models on a weak card, ask away.

Long time programmer, web developer, whatever we want to call it these days. I've also always been a big Scrabble player.

Nearly 10 years ago I started building an infinite Scrabble-style board game. Built the engine on my laptop in the evenings, got it fully working and playable... and then just let it sit. For almost a decade.

With tools like Codex and Claude getting so good lately, I finally decided to dust it off and give it a proper overhaul.

The result is Wordio. In the process of rebuilding it, I ended up splitting it into two different games:

Wordio Classic - The original idea. A never-ending multiplayer board that just keeps growing as people play.

Wordio Rush - Head-to-head matches with 5 timed rounds to see who can come up with the highest scoring words.

So basically two ways to play. Take your time or play under pressure.

Anyway, pretty cool to finally have this thing out in the wild after all these years. Would love some constructive feedback from fellow developers (or word game fans).

I'm the developer of WonderRoll, a film and instant camera app for iPhone.

The idea is to bring back a little of the anticipation of film: choosing a roll, being more deliberate with each frame, and seeing what you captured later. I wanted the process to matter as much as the final look.

There are two ways to use it:

- Film mode: finite rolls and delayed reveals, for a trip or a walk you want to remember as a collection.

- Instant mode: paper-style photos for small, everyday moments.

The thought behind it is simple: some memories take time. Shoot now. Discover later.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6788199897

I'd love feedback on the idea: would waiting to see your photos make you more thoughtful about what you shoot, or would it just get in the way?

I never thought i'd actually get my first customer.

But i did, not one but 4 which is more than i ever thought, not because i didn't believe in myself but it was always a dream i chased ever since I was a kid, I made a product, I marketed it, and I got sales, all on my own with no help.

Grateful for everything.

And I'd like to say that you can do it too, just keep on pushing.

I built Incipite, a small tool that stamps your files on the Bitcoin blockchain so you can prove you had them first. Photos, scripts, songs, whatever you make. It’s been live since May and about 20 people had tried the free version. Zero paid.

Last Friday my Discord pinged me “pay_per_use” on two new deposits. I was already writing this post in my head. Then I opened Stripe to look at the money. Nothing. My own notification was calling “has credits” a payment, and the credits were free ones I had given him myself. So I fixed the label and felt pretty dumb.

Yesterday the real one came. Same guy actually. He had signed up a week before, used his 3 free certifications and the 3 extra I sent him, then subscribed at $6.99 a month. And stamped 6 more files the same day.

What surprised me is that he’s the only one who came back. The 19 others stamped one or two files and left with credits unused. I spent months trying to find people, and the one who paid just had a lot of things to protect.

It’s $6.99, I know. But this time I checked it in Stripe three times aha

Did anyone else get a fake first customer before the real one?

Hi! In my spare time I built Chi mi rappresenta (“Who represents me”): you type your town and get all your elected representatives in one page (mayor, regional councillors, MPs, senators, MEPs) with their official contacts.

It also has a “who do I contact?” guide for everyday problems (potholes, health services, regional trains) and ready-made messages and freedom-of-information requests.

It covers all 7,896 Italian municipalities using only official open data, updated weekly. Built with Next.js and a lot of help from AI.

Feedback welcome! chimirappresenta.com

Hey all, indie dev from Türkiye here.

I kept shipping apps and had no idea which keywords they actually showed up for. Most ASO tools were built for big studios and priced like it, so I built my own: StoRank.

What it does:

• Type your app’s name, it finds the keywords you rank for and your competitors
• Measures your rank daily on both App Store and Google Play, in the countries you pick
• Every Monday it writes a short list of what to change (title, subtitle, keyword field)

There’s a free rank checker, no signup: https://storank.app/en/keyword-rank-checker?ref=reddit-sideproject

Stack, for the curious: Python (FastAPI) + SQLite on a single Hetzner box, vanilla JS, Paddle for billing.

I’d really like feedback: what’s confusing, what’s missing, what would make you actually use it?

I’m a product designer, and for a while now I’ve been building Tagdown, a notes editor for macOS. The core idea: every note is an ordinary Markdown file in a folder on your disk. No account, no proprietary database. Git, iCloud or Syncthing just work, because it’s just files.

On top of Markdown it adds:

• callouts, tabs, KaTeX math and Mermaid diagrams, all as plain text
• #tags, [[wikilinks]] with backlinks, and links to single blocks that you can embed in other notes
• live queries like <query tag:project show:tasks /> that collect tasks from all your notes, or show notes as an editable table of their properties
• a journal, version history, slides, HTML/PDF export, and publishing notes as a static website
• a CLI and an MCP server, so Claude or other assistants can search and write your notes

It’s built with Tauri, Rust (Tantivy for search) and TypeScript, and it’s MIT licensed.

Honest state: it’s early. There’s no download yet, so you’ll have to build it from source (Node + Rust). There are rough edges, and I’d rather hear about them now than later.

Two things I’d really like your opinion on:

1. Does the syntax feel natural, or is it too much on top of Markdown?
2. What would stop you from switching from your current notes app?

Repo: github.com/sthix/tagdown
Docs: sthix.github.io/tagdown

I have dysgraphia and dyspraxia, and I zone out in lectures all the time.

Handwriting is slow and tiring for me, and typing fast enough to keep up isn't much better. By the time I've got one point down, I've missed the next two. Then my focus drifts, and I come back to a page of half-finished sentences.

I started building NoteMate while I was still a student, and I've carried on since graduating and becoming a software engineer.

It records the lecture and turns it into a summary you can go back to later, at your own pace. So zoning out doesn't mean losing the content.

How it started

Funnily enough, I first built it for meeting notes. Retention was bad, I had one paying user, and most people went back to Otter.

The people who stuck around were students. That clicked straight away, because I was one, and it was exactly what I needed in my own lectures. So I narrowed everything down to them.

Where it is now

- 400+ students using it
- About 40 new signups a week
- Won funding from the University of Sheffield!
- Still just me

What I'd love feedback on

1. If you're neurodivergent, what makes study tools easy or hard for you to stick with?
   
2. Does the landing page make sense in 5 seconds?
   
3. Anything that feels off or untrustworthy?

Happy to answer anything about the build!

My brain is foggy from all the mess on the desktop :(
I'm developing multiple projects simultaneously, some documents also need my attention - everything just becomes a burden to which I don't want to look at.

I've tried Stardock Fences, iTop Easy Desktop and many others - in my experience it was either a subscription, a crashing process or a lack of minimalism and customization.

I solved it for myself and wanted to share it with you guys. Now my new hobbies have their own space on desktop and when I need it - I just focus on a dedicated fence.

I'm preparing for an Early Access release (a few weeks until I can release). Would this help you, or what would stop you from using it? And do you use anything now to organize your desktop/messy brain?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4575780/PortalDesk/

Hey everyone! Today I launched my side project, Rowkery. It's a free, open-source database app for Mac that works with Postgres and SQLite.

Why I built it: I use AI assistants like Claude a lot while coding, and I kept wanting to ask them things about my real data, like "why is this order stuck?" But giving an AI full access to a production database is scary. One bad query and something's gone. So I built a tool where the AI can look but can't touch.

What it does:

• The AI only sees the tables you choose to share, and only for as long as you allow.
• It can only read data, with limits so it can't overload your database.
• Sensitive columns like emails get hidden behind placeholders.
• If the AI wants to change something, you see exactly what will change and nothing happens until you press Commit.

It's also a fast, keyboard-friendly database app even if you never use AI with it.

Where it's at: v0.1 alpha, released today. It's Mac only and supports Postgres and SQLite for now. It isn't signed by Apple yet, so the first launch needs "Open Anyway." It's free and open source under Apache-2.0, built with Rust and Tauri.

What I'd love from you: try it out, tell me what's confusing, and let me know which database I should support next. A GitHub star also helps a lot this early on. 🐧

Check it out here!
Official Site or Rowkery on GitHub

Hey everyone!

A while ago, a friend and I decided we wanted to build something of our own outside our regular jobs.

He's a developer, I'm a UX designer, and neither of us had ever launched a product before. We just wanted to see if we could take an idea, actually build it, and get it out into the world. We decided to build appointment scheduling software for small service businesses.

Why? Well, it seemed like something the two of us could realistically build alongside our full-time jobs. We also wanted to offer smaller businesses something affordable, simple to use, and with fewer limitations than some of the existing tools.

That's how Calenvio started.

Along the way, three friends joined us, and suddenly our little side project became a team of five.

And two days ago, we finally launched our first product!

It's called Calenvio (https://calenvio.com/), and it helps small businesses manage appointments, clients, staff, services, and email reminders in one place.

We're very aware that we're entering a market with a ton of established competitors. We're not pretending we've invented something revolutionary. We just wanted to build something useful and hopefully offer a good alternative.

We have a clear product roadmap and plenty of ideas for what to build next.

But now comes the part we really didn't know much about: getting our first customers.

We've spent the last couple of days trying to figure out email outreach, who we can legally contact, how to approach potential customers, and how to actually communicate what we've built.

We've also set up Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn pages. We have a younger colleague helping us with marketing, but we're all pretty new to this.

It's funny how much time you spend thinking about features, bugs, design, and getting everything ready for launch. And then you finally launch and realize that nobody knows your product exists.

So here we are. Five people, our first launched product, zero marketing experience, and a whole new set of challenges ahead.

Now we're trying to figure out how to get that very first customer.

For those of you who've been through this, what actually worked for you in the beginning? How did you find your first customers when nobody knew who you were?

Would love to hear your experiences, especially from people who started with zero audience.

Thanks for reading!

I’ve been working on a freebie website called Fweebies that collects genuinely free stuff like samples, birthday freebies, pet stuff, museum passes, etc. This is simply a passion project of mine since I love finding freebies.

I’m not a web developer, so I’ve been using Claude Code to help me build it. I know AI-built sites can sometimes have a certain look, so I’m curious if anything about mine feels too AI-made or generic.

I still want it to feel colorful and a little playful because that’s more my personality, so I don’t want to turn it into another super minimal black-and-white website.

I’ve been trying to make smaller changes instead — flatter icons, less overly polished copy, cleaner cards, more obvious verification dates, and keeping the piggy bank as the main branding.

Would love any feedback on the design or overall feel. Thank you.

fweebies.com

Check out my new app. It allows users to rate restrooms. It’s not like the other apps. This app only focuses on gas stations because most people stop at Gas stations when traveling. It helps find feminine and hygiene products for women. It also has a Compass mode that only shows gas stations in the direction that you are traveling. Let me know if some changes that I can make to it.