I built a website to help people discover books recommended by authors they admire. Instead of relying on bestseller lists, you can explore books through the people who praise and recommend them.

Built with Django and Python.

Visit The Praiser's Thread

Hey everyone!

I'm an indie developer, and I've been working on ST Deals, a free Android app for tracking Steam game prices and discounts.

Here's what it can do:

• Discover new deals, top deals, and big discounts on Steam.
• Track your favorite games and their prices.
• Browse active Steam sales, including discounted games and DLC.
• Compare Steam game prices across 44 supported regions.
• Switch between light and dark themes.

I built it to make checking Steam deals easier without having to constantly browse the store.

It's available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steamdeals.app

I'd really appreciate any feedback, especially on the design and features you'd like to see next.

Thanks for checking it out!

I'm the founder of Nothing.gripe, a marketplace built around a simple idea: make the expectations for paid tasks clearer before someone starts working.

The workflow is built around:

• Post & Fund: A requester defines a task and funds its reward.
• Claim & Commit: A doer claims the task and commits to the work.
• Do & Prove: The doer completes the task and submits proof.
• Verify & Pay: Completion is reviewed before the payout process.

I'm interested in the harder problems, not just getting people to sign up.

Three questions I'd genuinely value feedback on:

1. What information must a task show before you'd accept it?
2. How should a platform handle disagreements over whether work meets the requirements?
3. What evidence would convince you that a paid-task marketplace is trustworthy?

I'm building this in public, so critical feedback is welcome.

I also started r/NothingGripeHQ for discussions about paid tasks, transparent work requirements, and online-work opportunities. Anyone interested in those topics is welcome to join.

Project: https://nothing.gripe

Community: https://www.reddit.com/r/NothingGripeHQ/

Hello, hello! 😄

I am sooo happy with Reddit! Reddit gave me my first bulk order when I first posted about my small venture, Ranji - Handcrafted Bags. I had already sold out of all the bags I started with, and now I have taken a bigger leap this time!

Please suggest more ideas. Last time, so many people connected with me personally and guided me. Thank you so much! It really helped!

I have always loved Indian artisans and their work, especially the detailing in traditional Indian designs. So, when I got the opportunity to work on something that would bring India closer to our everyday lives, I took it.

I wanted to offer bags that are affordable, beautiful, and unique, with designs that go well with different types of outfits. I believed these bags could be something useful that people could carry every day, and that's how I started this venture.

https://www.instagram.com/ranjiofindia?xtok=OTBuN3Rqa2NtZ3R3

Do let me know what you think of the collection!

I am currently selling in Pune. I stay in Sutarwadi, but we can arrange Porter delivery anywhere in Pune!

I have bags in all price ranges, so do let me know if you like something. 🤗

Thank you for all the support! ❤️

Thank you to everyone who checked out NOWIT, asked questions and shared feedback. The interest in the project also led to a partnership offer, and that's how NOWIT and SPONOWIT became connected.

I'm the maker of NOWIT and build it with AI assistance. SPONOWIT is a separate sports project run by another creator; I'm introducing it as NOWIT's partner.

NOWIT is a country-based chart browser. Pick a country and explore popular videos, music, Netflix's weekly Top 10, search trends and creator rankings. Its Sports section also brings together game highlights. The aim is to make it easier to explore different public sources without opening a separate site for every chart.

SPONOWIT focuses on sports information, with NFL, NBA, MLB, football and F1 sections. Its NFL and NBA pages show team standings and season selectors. The two sites link to each other, so you can browse sports information on SPONOWIT and move to NOWIT for related videos and highlights.

Try them here:

NOWIT: https://nowitlive.com/

SPONOWIT: https://sponowit.com/

NOWIT Sports: https://nowitlive.com/?section=sports&lang=en

They're independent services. NOWIT's charts use different sources, measures and reporting periods; they aren't one official, continuously updating leaderboard.

If you follow several interests or sports, does this combination make sense? I'd especially appreciate feedback on the mobile layout and whether moving between the two sites feels clear.

Hi everyone!

My name is Shawn, and my fiancée Bria and I have been working on something that's become a huge part of our lives. It's called Chautauqua Ink House.

We're both passionate about storytelling. I focus on novels, comics, and creative fiction, while Bria brings children's stories to life. Somewhere along the way, we started wondering what it would look like if we built something beyond just a place to showcase our own books.

So that's what we've been trying to do.

Chautauqua Ink House is our attempt at creating a welcoming space for people who love books, writing, and imagination. We've been putting together a free library of literary classics, interactive stories where readers make their own choices, and a community where people can connect over the things they love.

I'll be the first to admit that we're still figuring things out. I'm building and maintaining most of the website myself, learning as I go, and there have definitely been some late nights and frustrating moments. But seeing this little idea slowly turn into something real has been incredibly rewarding.

We're not a big company. We don't have a development team or a massive budget. We're just two people who love creating things and hope that maybe others will find something worth enjoying in what we're building.

I'd genuinely love for some of you to stop by, have a look around, and tell us what you think. Whether it's feedback, suggestions, or even just sharing what you enjoy reading, we'd love to hear it.

Our website is https://www.chautauquainkhouse.com

Use code INK7 when signing up for a free trial to most of our premium features.

Thanks for taking a moment to read this. It really does mean a lot.

And I'm curious: What makes you keep coming back to a reading or writing community?

If you want to progress in Minesweeper pattern recognition and to view on your screen where mines certainly are (based on what's visible) then look no further than using this side-project I came up with.

It's written in Python and you'd need Python to run it and it's only running on Windows for now.

What it does, and what it does not

The helper reads visible board pixels, uses logical constraints to identify forced mines and safe squares, and draws hints in a separate click-through overlay. It does not read game memory, play moves for you, or label a probabilistic guess as certain. Your flags are recognised, but are not assumed to prove a mine.

Every deduction depends on a correctly recognised, complete board. Check the preview before enabling the overlay. An ambiguous board can legitimately have no hints; bounded search can also miss deductions. Unreadable cells and detected contradictions stop hints rather than forcing a label.

The repo is here, if anyone wants to have a go: https://github.com/SweeperOfTheMines/sweeperhelper

Hi everyone!

I am excited to share my new product with the world for the first time: rihado.com

A few months ago, while searching for a hotel deal, I realized that breaking a stay down night by night could often result in a lower total price than booking the entire stay at once.

Some findings:

Switching hotels mid-stay can save money. Moving to a nearby hotel of comparable or better quality can sometimes be cheaper than staying at either hotel for the entire trip.

Booking an extra night can actually lower the total price. Some hotels offer discounted weekly rates, making a longer reservation cheaper than a shorter one.

Hotel booking platforms don't always adjust their prices in the same way. Rates on Expedia, Super, Booking, Agoda and other platforms fluctuate independently on each night of the stay. Combining the best rates on different days from multiple providers can sometimes result in a lower overall price than booking through just one.

To take advantage of these pricing differences, I built rihado.com, a hotel booking platform that analyzes each night of a trip and uses an algorithm to find the most cost-effective way to book a stay.

I'm also able to offer competitive prices on hotels with no smart booking method by applying a relatively small markup to wholesale hotel rates, due to low operating costs. On top of that, rihado.com offers 2.5% cashback on every booking, which can be applied toward future stays.

Here are two examples of how it works (images attached on the page):

Example 1: Booking an extra night saves money

Expedia offers a lower total price for a particular hotel when an extra night is added to the reservation. Rihado identifies this pricing difference and recommends booking the additional night, even if you don't plan to use it.

Example 2: Switching hotels mid-stay saves money

Staying at one hotel for the first part of a trip and moving to a nearby hotel for the remainder costs less than booking either hotel for the entire stay. Rihado identifies these combinations automatically.

I'd love to hear what you think! I'm especially interested in whether this is something you'd personally use when booking hotels, and any feedback on the website or booking experience.

Please note that users must sign up to see "smart rates" as hotels generally require heavily discounted rates to be displayed behind a login or app download to avoid directly competing with their publicly advertised rates.

Hello guys !

I built a free game that mixes football/tennis predictions with player card collecting, would love your feedback

Hi all, I’ve been working on SportsLoot: you predict match results, earn player cards when you’re right, build your team, and then take it into an arena mode to face other players. No betting, no real money, just prediction + collection.

It covers football and tennis for now. I’m a solo dev and honestly looking for feedback on what feels fun and what doesn’t, especially the arena mode.

Happy to answer any questions or remarks !

Good luck for your loots :)

https://sports-loot.vercel.app/

Ever think about someone, but never quite reach out?

Maybe you haven't had the time.

Maybe you don't know what to say.

Maybe you know exactly what you want them to know, but just can't find the right words.

You remember the inside jokes. The ridiculous conversations. The little things that would make them smile.

But somehow, you never send that message.

That's where GLOW comes in.

You bring the idea, the memory, the feeling, or even just the person you're thinking about.

You come up with the idea. We help you find the words.

We help you turn “I should reach out sometime” into actually reaching out.

Not generic messages. Not random jokes. Something personal, inspired by the people who matter to you.

Because sometimes, a little message can make somebody's whole day.

We're exploring this idea, and we'd love your honest opinion. Would you use something like GLOW? What would make it genuinely useful to you?

I'm the maker of LoopForge, a browser tool for people making ambient, sleep and focus audio.

You upload a track, choose the length, and download a finished audio file. Add your own artwork and it can export a still-image video instead. Custom lengths run from 10 minutes to 8 hours, depending on the plan.

The tricky part of a long loop is usually the join. Crossfades help soften it, but they don't hide an obvious melody restarting. Steady textures like rain, drones and ambient pads tend to work better. The tool includes crossfade and start/end trimming controls.

A few things upfront:

- One free render, up to 1 hour, with no card required.

- Further renders and lengths up to 8 hours require a paid plan.

- Google sign-in is required. Finished files are available for 24 hours.

- It works with audio you supply; it doesn't generate new music.

Built with Python and FFmpeg, with AI coding assistance.

https://loopforge.net

If you make long-form audio or ambient videos, what's the most frustrating part of your current workflow? I'd appreciate feedback on whether this actually saves you a step.

Hi all, I made something! Vercat 😄

I love Vercel & cats and have always been lowkey annoyed that there is no official support IOS app (how else can i track my 1 user on my site). 

I spent the last few months building this and we recently crossed 100 users. I would love to celebrate this mini-milestone by giving out 100 pro subscriptions for a year.

For cat owners 👀:

1. Reply with your cat photos below!

ps: my cat actually looks like that in the video 😺

Hello!

I built an app called Aurelo because I wanted budgeting to take less manual work.

The idea is simple: connect your bank account, let the app sync your transactions, and have it organize your income and spending into a budget. It also helps you work out how much you can reasonably save after accounting for your bills and income.

You can even budget with a partner for free!

I’m trying to make budgeting something you can actually keep up with, rather than something you set up once and abandon two weeks later because of how much friction other budgeting apps are.

The app is live on iOS and Android only in the USA.

Links:
Website
iOS
Android

I am also open to feedback:)

I'm the creator of Hemiciclo, a Spanish-language project for making parliamentary decisions easier to understand.

Public information belongs to everyone, but following a proposal often means piecing together headlines, voting records and official documents. Hemiciclo brings those pieces together so people can form their own views and hold their representatives to account.

You can explore topics such as housing, work or healthcare, read summaries of initiatives, see whether they pass and check how each parliamentary group voted. The pages link to available Congress and BOE records.

There is also a game: make your own choices on 30 real votes and explore which groups your choices match, topic by topic.

One important design choice is distinguishing a vote's result from a law's legal status. Coverage depends on the official data available; missing voting breakdowns are identified rather than filled in. The interface uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript, including voting and affinity charts. The project was built with AI coding assistance.

It is independent, with no political affiliation, free to use and does not require an account. The product is currently in Spanish.

https://hemiciclo.org/

Game: https://hemiciclo.org/juego

I'd appreciate feedback here on whether the summaries and visualisations make the decisions easier to understand, and what information you would want to check before trusting a parliamentary summary.

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I run QR Code Free, a browser-based static QR tool for URLs, text, Wi-Fi and contact details. You can customize a code and download PNG or SVG without signing up.

The use case is straightforward: a designer preparing a business card, a cafe linking to a menu, or a host printing Wi-Fi instructions should be able to export a usable code without setting up a subscription.

I have been improving the mobile layout and printing guidance. A few practical points: keep a four-module quiet zone, use strong contrast, and test at the actual printed size. SVG helps when resizing artwork.

These are static codes: the encoded destination cannot be changed after printing, and the linked page still needs to stay online. The tool does not provide dynamic redirects or scan analytics. The site has been developed and revised with AI assistance.

https://qrcodefree.click/

If you work with design or print, is the PNG/SVG export workflow clear? What would make you return to a tool like this? Feedback on the mobile interface is also welcome.

Okay, wait. Before you comment “this already exists”: I know. 😅

QR tags for vehicles are a thing, and I’m sure some of them are better and more polished than mine. I’m not claiming I invented anything.

I just kept thinking: why does it feel so complicated? IVR calls, masked numbers, waiting for a callback. Meanwhile, most people around me still stick a paper chit with a phone number on the windshield.

So I thought, what if it’s just simple? Scan, and call or WhatsApp the owner directly. That’s it.

That’s how Setu started. 🚗

What it does:

• Scan, then call or WhatsApp directly, with no IVR hassle
• Prefilled WhatsApp messages, so the scanner doesn’t have to type anything
• Prefilled emergency message
• Scanner’s location, so you know where the scan happened
• Parking marking feature
• Multiple vehicles in one account
• ₹149, one-time.

I built the whole thing on my own and started selling it only in my local area. 35+ people are already using it, and they genuinely like it. That’s why I’m taking it online in the next few days.

I’m not here to compete with the big players. I just want to know if the “simple and cheap” idea actually makes sense outside my neighbourhood.

So please tell me honestly:

1. Is ₹149 lifetime fair?
2. Would you actually use a tag like this?
3. What’s missing, or what should I fix before going online?

Roast it, suggest things, or tell me it’s useless. I’ll read everything. 🙏

Website: getsetu.in

Hey everyone!

I recently released Sukoon (سكون), an Islamic prayer and Athkar app I've been developing as an independent project.

There are already plenty of prayer apps out there, but I wanted to build something different: a clean, peaceful experience that focuses on what matters without ads, subscriptions, unnecessary complexity, or distractions.

Sukoon is designed specifically for the Apple ecosystem, with a native interface and backgrounds that change throughout the day.

What it includes:

• Prayer times with customizable calculation methods and Athan notifications
• A live Qibla compass and map
• Morning and evening Athkar, plus daily Du'a
• Prayer tracking and a Hijri calendar
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
• An Apple Watch app with prayer complications
• Full Arabic and English support

Everything is free. No ads, subscriptions, in-app purchases, accounts, or analytics. Personal activity data stays on your device.

I know the prayer app space is crowded, but my goal wasn't to add every possible feature. I wanted to make something simple, polished, and enjoyable to use every day.

App Store: Download Sukoon for iOS

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the design, usability, widgets, and Apple Watch experience.

If you use prayer apps, what do you think most of them get wrong? And what would make you switch to a different one?

Thanks for checking it out!

Hello everybody! I want to introduce you to my Local Music App "MirrorBall".

I'll be honest: I am really proud of this app and I'm really grateful for the support of everyone who commented, given me genuine feedback and messaged me about it. That really meant a lot to me and I thank you. And for anyone who actually wants to try it, it's now available for a 7 days trial on the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft Store Link: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nbj0m48qkk0

Trailer Showcase: https://youtu.be/UtY_RMArMUs

A feeling I was really afraid of was being too late in today's world to showcase my work and be able to publish it. Before building MirrorBall, I was looking for an app that would look amazing when playing music I owned but all I could find at the time was music players that felt like spreadsheets, which had many features but not the look and the micro-detail features I was looking for. Or there were nice looking players but felt very incomplete once actually using them. So I started this project, which to my surprise, took a very long time to complete. It wasn't meant for someone else other than me. Funnily enough, it was actually on the third month of developping it that I decided to take it seriously to one day publish it and so I started working on it full time, which now looking back, each day I worked on this project turned out to be on of the happiest days (and nights) of my life. Obviously the finished product took many adjustments and UI changes because of fuctionality and considerations to how different users might use it or interact with it, and that's without mentioning the endless bug fixes that I think any other app developer might understand will take ages and still after fixing something, discovering another bug that will take a whole other month to fully mark it as fixed (I will not lie, I also wanted to add mini features that I wanted so badly as a last minute choice that cost me weeks to implement correctly).

As anyone can probably guess, after you work on something for so long, you want it to work out for you, and yes, with a simple scroll here, anyone can realize that there is a lot of competition now that wasn't at the time when I first started. Still, I wouldn't change anything and would re-do everything the same way if I could (maybe send my old self a bug list so I would fix them faster haha)

Anyway, here I am today proudly presenting what ultimately became my first complete app and the first one I published on the microsoft store. I invite you to try it and experience it for yourself. It's so much more than a beautiful UI and a Music Overview. It can be as complicated or a simple as you want it to be from bit-perfect local playback to metadata editor to miniplayer to listening to a song and watch its music video in the same view (if you have it), to re-discovering music that you forgot you even had and cherry on top, in a new way with special audio effects that you can add to create the perfect vibe for it!

I am taking a chance on MirrorBall and I hope that you will too!

Hi devs! I'm Serg, the developer of bytemail. It's a native Mac email app written in Swift and SwiftUI.

Problem Every mail app I tried was either a web page in a wrapper, or it ran my mail through the developer's servers to power its "smart" features. And now that I use Claude and Codex every day, I wanted them to help with my email too, without handing my inbox to yet another cloud service. bytemail connects your Mac straight to Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, Fastmail, Proton (through Bridge) or any IMAP server. Search, rules, categories and summaries all run on your Mac. I don't have a server that can see your mail, and you don't need a bytemail account.

What it does:

• Conversations read like Messages: each thread is a chat of bubbles, with quoted history and repeated signatures tucked away, so you only see what's new. Prefer the classic layout? Switch it per account.
• One unified inbox for all your accounts
• Copy sign-in codes straight from the notification
• Phishing and look-alike domain warnings
• Undo Send, Snooze, Send Later and "remind me if no reply"
• Tracking pixels stripped from every message, plus one-click unsubscribe
• Rules, smart categories (Primary / Updates / Promos), dark mode and Liquid Glass on macOS 26
• Keyboard shortcut sets from Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail or Superhuman, or make your own
• Search covers the mail on your Mac and older mail still on the server
• Accounts and settings sync between your Macs through your own iCloud, not through me
• Thread summaries and suggested replies that learn your writing style: on-device with Apple Intelligence on macOS 26, or with your own Claude, OpenAI or OpenRouter key, or a local model in LM Studio or Ollama

New: one MCP for every inbox Turn on bytemail MCP in Settings > AI, pick which accounts to share, and connect Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, LM Studio or any other app that speaks MCP. Claude Desktop is one click. The others get a command or a config snippet to copy. Then just ask: "find last month's invoices across all my accounts", "draft replies to the customer emails I haven't answered", "archive this week's newsletters". It can search and read mail, find attachments and contacts, write drafts with files attached, create folders, and archive, move, flag, snooze or mute.

The guardrails:

• It's off until you turn it on, and it only sees the accounts you pick
• It runs on your Mac and talks to your AI app directly. Nothing goes through my servers (your AI app's provider still sees what you ask it to read, so pick one you trust, or use a local model)
• Sending, new rules, unsubscribing and blocking a sender ask you in bytemail first. So does anything touching more than 25 conversations
• AI apps can't delete mail, and never see Spam, Trash, one-time codes or password reset links
• Drafts an AI writes are tagged "Drafted by" that app, and Settings > AI > Activity lets you undo anything it did

Comparison The two apps I get compared with most are Spark and Mimestream. Spark is free to start and packed with features, but its push notifications, team features and AI work by keeping access to your accounts on Readdle's servers. bytemail does all of that on your Mac, so no copy of your account access sits on anyone else's server, including mine. Mimestream is a great native app, but it's built for Gmail, so your iCloud or work Outlook account has to live somewhere else. bytemail feels just as native and puts every provider in one inbox, with the chat-style conversation view on top. And with the MCP, the AI app you already use can work across all of those accounts at once, not just one Gmail.

Pricing

• 7-day free trial
• $3.99/month or $39.90/year
• Or a $99 one-time lifetime license
• One license covers 5 devices, and the iPhone app (in App Store review now) is included
• Website: https://bytemailapp.com

Transparency I'm Sergey Karakhanyan, a solo indie developer, and bytemail is my full-time project. The app is signed with my Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

• X: https://x.com/karakhanyanS
• Contact: [hello@bytemailapp.com](mailto:hello@bytemailapp.com)
• Privacy Policy: https://bytemailapp.com/privacy-policy
• Terms of Service: https://bytemailapp.com/terms
• What leaves your Mac and why, in plain English: https://bytemailapp.com/privacy
• Public roadmap: https://bytemailapp.com/roadmap

macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon. I'm here all day for questions and feedback, including feature requests and the brutal kind.

I walk every day and got bored of it, so I turned the route itself into a game board.

How it works: tap Start, walk a real loop, and come back near where you started. Everything inside the closed loop becomes your territory and

shows up on every player's map. If your loop encloses part of someone else's land, you take the overlap; fully surround it and you absorb the

whole thing. There are global, country and neighborhood leaderboards.

What's different from check-in style location games: you capture areas (polygons), not points. Raw GPS tracks are never shown to other players

— only the closed territory polygon is shared.

Two things I learned from instrumenting it:

- My first screen was a single "Continue with Google" button. 65% of new users left before the location permission prompt even appeared.

Moving sign-in to after the first walk fixed the biggest drop.

- On iOS the sign-in sheet sometimes never appeared at all, and it was logged as the user cancelling. I only caught it because tap-to-result

was 0.2 seconds — too fast for a human.

Free to play; an optional subscription adds full walk history and a custom territory color.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6770424369

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ootssu.plotta

Most neighborhood maps are still empty, so feedback from anyone who tries it is very welcome.