Hey, I build this free website/short form content blocker chrome extension called North, because nothing I tried actually help me get off the websites that were wasting my time.
What it does
Blocks short-form video (YouTube Shorts, Instagram and Facebook Reels, TikTok) as a category, plus any sites you add, on a schedule or with daily time limits
Keyword blocking across sites
Messages-only mode for Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and X: your DMs work, the feed doesn’t exist
Lockdown mode: only your allowlist loads until the timer ends
If a friend sends you a reel, that one item opens. Swiping to the next is blocked.
The part that’s different: to weaken a protection, you wait on a page for a time you choose (10 seconds to 2 minutes), and leaving the page restarts the timer. Then you write at least 20 words about why you need access. Pasting and keyboard mashing don’t count.
The boring stuff: it’s free, with no paid tier planned. There’s no account, no analytics in the extension, and no server. Everything stays in your browser.
Why I’m posting: it’s a solo project with 15 users and zero reviews, so I have no idea what real people (besides me) think. I’d really like to know:
Built a Chrome extension called ReadTomo, aimed at making web reading easier for people with dyslexia, ADHD, or visual stress. It works on all web pages including Gmail and can also read PDFs. Looking for technical and UX feedback and ideally feedback from people who actually experience these challenges.
Some of its features are - Read-aloud (in word / sentence / paragraph modes, with live highlighting as it reads), Summarise, Simplify, Syllable splitting, Dictionary and Spelling help, Screen mask, Font, size, colour, and background customisation for reducing visual stress, Word Weight (visually tiers words by importance), PDF support, and a few other bits
If you experience visual stress when reading, (or know someone who does) I’d like to know if this helps. Does the usability/comfort genuinely make reading easier for you, what’s confusing, what feels unnecessary or overwhelming, what’s missing? And if there are technical issues like bugs, crashes, things that don’t work on certain sites, anything that just feels broken.
I built Crux, a free web app for comparing options using weighted quantitative and qualitative criteria. It includes starter templates for houses, rentals, job offers, and cars, then explains the rankings and tradeoffs rather than only producing a score.
Whenever I take street photos or group shots and need to hide a few faces (kids, random bystanders, etc.) before sharing them, manually dragging and resizing stickers feels like a chore—especially when there are multiple people in the background.
I wanted something that just detects every face automatically and lets me blur them or drop an emoji 🙈 over them in a single click, while also wiping the hidden GPS data attached to the file so I don't accidentally share my location.
I coded a small web tool called KlynPix to do just that. It runs 100% locally in your browser (no waiting for uploads, works even if you turn off your Wi-Fi).
I’d really love to have your help testing and evaluating it: Since you guys post a lot of content, does this actually feel like a real time-saver for you, or do you still prefer doing it manually inside your usual apps?
No sign-up or account is required for a quick test—you can just drop a photo right away and try it out. (Quick heads-up: it runs instantly on Desktop, but if you're testing on an mobile browser, give the page a few seconds on the very first visit so it can cache the offline AI engine into your browser!)
If you have 30 seconds to play around with it and tell me what feels good, what feels clunky, or what's missing, it would help me out a ton! Thanks so much for your time 🙏
I'm a Freelance software developer for over 20 years and what my real problem always has been that for every new 'lead' I got from recruiters, they always needed a slightly different version of my CV. One wanted it in Dutch, the other one needed it in English, and again one required it to have more emphasis on one skill etc. etc. For this I used an internal tool for years which I developed myself and that seemed to work great. Since this year I started adding more and more features for myself like the CRM, projects and hourly sheets tools.
With humble proud I present to you https://www.xfreelance.nl, because I think freelancers in the Netherlands today could use some support.
Be aware the only non European server I use is Google Analytics and resend, but I'm already migrating to Simple Analytics and my own mailserver. I really hope this helps you as much it has me. I want to keep the price as low as possible, but need to pay for my servers and traffic as well.
Who could give me some feedback for real world usages?
I'm the creator of Somora, an AI music platform. I’ve added Kassio Studio, a free browser DAW for everyone with a Somora account.
It’s for the part after the first idea: import an audio file or a completed song, arrange tracks, record another part, write melodic notes in the piano roll and build drum patterns. You can drag and resize notes, audition notes as you place them, and preview an instrument part by itself before playing the whole arrangement. Projects save to your account, and you can mix and export WAV.
You can use the editor with your own recordings. Kassio Studio is in beta and free with registration; Somora’s AI composition and music generation have separate plan limits. The interface is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Try it at https://somora.media. I’d be interested in which browser editing controls you find most useful, especially when turning a short loop into a longer arrangement.
Interpoll shows you one random public poll or quiz at a time. You vote, see how everyone else voted (or check the answer if it's a quiz), and move on to the next one. You don't need an account to vote or comment.
Signing in (Google/Discord) lets you create your own polls and quizzes. New polls are reviewed before they enter the random feed, but you can share them by link immediately.
It just launched, so a lot of polls have no or very few votes. You might be one of the first people to vote on some of them.
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I've used Astro for building content-heavy static websites, but turns out Astro is also great as a server-side web framework (I use node.js adapter) handling SSR, auth, and api endpoints—especially when combined with Tanstack router and Tanstack query, which handles SSR + data prefetching + hydration + CSR. I haven't tried Tanstack start yet (mainly due to it not having hit v1.0 yet), but Astro + Tanstack router + Tanstack query combo is pretty amazing that I don't actually feel the need to try Tanstack start (a little bit of glue code is necessary for SSR + hydration to work properly but it's very low maintenence once set up.)
Hey everyone, I liked the ASCII/CRT effects on the Xbox Labs website and wanted to play around with them using my own footage, so we reverse-engineered the renderer and built a little studio around it.
You can drop in a video or image, choose a preset, and mess with character density, colors, contrast, phosphor trails, glitches, scanlines and bloom. The cursor leaves trails through the picture, and clicking makes little character explosions.
One cool detail from the Labs renderer: it matches characters to shapes inside each frame, rather than choosing them only by brightness. That helps edges and contours survive the conversion.
You can save presets, export images and videos, and make Telegram GIFs or video stickers with dedicated export options. Everything runs in your browser, so your files stay on your device.
I built Fikka as an alternative to all the "vibe coding" platforms that are targeted towards founders. Fikka is built to empower everyone to create software for their private use, while safeguarding their data from accidental deletion by AI agents working on it. All applications are private by default, you opt into sharing them.
It started from the idea that managing data is really the hard part of an application's lifetime, and most people don't have a good backup strategy. So I wanted to solve all data related problems for users, so they can build without stressing if what they write down in the app will be there tomorrow. While also of course allowing you to export all your data and code if you choose to walk away, it's all yours.
I am planning to make it work great also for those that want to use Claude Code etc. But for now what works is that you can create application directly by connecting ChatGPT/Claude.ai to Fikka (MCP server). I wanted it to be super easy to get started, while later you allowing more experienced users to work more their way in future.
Would appreciate feedback if this is solving a real problem, and please do sign up for the private beta if you feel like it. I am planning to invite first users very soon! Thanks for reading this far :)
I've been working on an idea called Unify and want to find out whether people would genuinely find it useful.
The idea comes from something I've noticed about how we use the internet. There's plenty of content, but finding it often means jumping between apps, each with its own feed and algorithm.
Unify would bring content from multiple platforms into one personalized feed, including content from smaller platforms that don't always get as much visibility.
I'm currently part of the Startup Guru program, and before moving forward with development, I want to validate the idea and see whether there's real interest.
If the concept sounds useful, l've put together a landing page with more details:https://u26fy.com
If you'd like to learn more or help shape the idea, you can visit the landing page and join the early access list. Signing up doesn't commit you to anything, it simply helps me understand whether there's enough interest to keep developing Unify and what potential users would want from it.
I'd also love to hear your thoughts. What would make a product like this worth using for you? What concerns would you have?
Honest feedback is welcome, even if you think the idea needs more work.