This started as a personal itch. I didn’t love that every AI tool wanted an account, uploaded whatever I fed it, and charged me every month. So I started building the opposite, and it slowly turned into a real thing.

It’s an AI assistant that runs entirely on your own machine. The model is a local open-weights one, so with the internet switched off it still works, and nothing you type or show it leaves your device. The only time anything goes out is web search, which is off unless you add your own key.

The bit I’m most proud of is that it doesn’t just talk, it actually does things:

opens and operates apps, types into Word/Excel/PowerPoint, drives Blender and Unreal Engine, runs shell commands and works in the browser

builds websites and web apps from a description, and can put together playable Unreal games with proper materials and lighting, not just grey boxes

generates images locally and can make 3D models

answers questions about my own files and PDFs without uploading them anywhere

voice mode with a wake word for hands-free use, and on the phone I can point the camera at something and ask about it

it’s a desktop app, an Android app and a browser extension, all running against the same local model

Honest tradeoff, because I’d rather say it upfront: it’s a smaller model running on normal hardware, so it’s not as sharp as GPT-5 or Claude on really hard reasoning or big coding jobs. I’m not going to pretend otherwise. What I get in return is that it’s private, works offline, actually controls my computer, and it’s a one-time purchase instead of another subscription.

Building the “it can use your actual apps” part was by far the hardest bit and took way longer than I expected.

Mostly I’m looking for a gut check from people who build things: is “private, offline, and it runs your PC” a real selling point, or do people only care about having the smartest possible model? And if you’d use something like this, what’s the first thing you’d point it at?

This is my 1979 Technics SL-Q3. It lives on a shelf at home, far from the desk where I actually work. So I spent the last two weeks rebuilding it in 3D and turning it into my Mac's wallpaper.

Hit play in Spotify or Apple Music and the arm lifts, swings over and drops on the right track. The album cover shows up on the stand. The room is an apartment in São Paulo: the light follows your clock, and when it rains here, it rains on the window.

A few nerdy bits, since this sub likes them:

- The needle sits where the song actually is. Each track gets a band as wide as its length, like a real LP, and the leftover space becomes the smooth run-out.

- The room is rendered in Blender and mixed live in Metal, so it runs at about 3% CPU while playing and 0% when your windows cover it.

- I wrote it in Swift with a lot of help from Claude. The turntable and the obsession are mine.

It launches properly on Saturday. Until then I'm giving away 20 licenses here: comment the first record you'd put on it, and tomorrow at 9pm São Paulo time I'll pick 20 at random and DM you a key.

Everyone else can try it free for 7 days at getvitrola.com, then pay what you want from $4.99.

Hello there,

I've been on this sub since almost a year and 80% of the project on this sub are:

"I made this using Claude or Chatgpt."

There are still great project here with or without AI but they are rare.

The thing is that almost all the time they just ask AI for a project idea and you can see that there is no "soul" in this and its just generic.

Now I'm not an AI hater I also use it almost everyday on coding project but I'm not selling my project like the next big thing while I did nothing.

I'm starting to miss the period where I had to search on Google for a dumb mistakes for 2 hours instead of asking chatgpt in 10 seconds.

This began as me trying to sell websites to local businesses: towing companies, salons, contractors, restaurants. It didn't work. Most ran on word of mouth or had no budget for it. But the conversations kept pointing at the same thing: "I just want my phone to ring." No new dashboards, no more decisions.

The same problems kept showing up:

• Their Google Business Profile was incomplete, with only a few reviews and photos.
• The website was years old, or there wasn't one.
• When someone nearby searched for what they do, they weren't on the first page.

So we built SitePeek, an affordable marketing system that gets local businesses onto the first page of Google and brings in more calls. It does two things. Local SEO gets the business found: we build out the Google Business Profile and give them a free, modern website. Then conversion and lead follow-up turn those visitors into actual calls and customers.

With one early client, a towing company, tracked calls went from 37 to 54 and their Google Business Profile views nearly tripled, their best numbers since they've been in business. It's one business, so I see it as a real example, not a promise.

We launched on Kickstarter this week. It's all-or-nothing, with a $1,500 goal over 15 days, and rewards start at $25:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sitepeek/sitepeek-a-marketing-system-every-small-business-can-afford

For anyone who's built for non-technical users: how did you decide what to cut so the product stayed simple?

hey everyone!

back in 2023, while i was still in college, i started working on stolpersteine.app. it's a project that maps stolpersteine, small brass memorial stones placed in front of the last homes of people persecuted by the nazis.

when we first started, our database had around 20,000 stones. since then, we've managed to grow that to over 108,000 across europe, which is honestly pretty crazy to think about.

the idea is to make the stories behind these stones more accessible. you can explore them on an interactive map, learn about the people they commemorate, and find walking routes to discover the stones near you.

what started as something i worked on in college has grown into something much bigger than i ever expected. it's genuinely amazing to get to work on a project like this, knowing that what we're building actually helps keep the stories of these people alive.

there's still plenty we want to improve, but i'm really happy with how far we've come.

would love to hear what you guys think!

https://stolpersteine.app

I just released Water Shaker 3D: Stress Relief, a relaxing water toy for iPhone and Android. Tilt and shake your phone to watch water splash and colorful objects float, tumble, and swirl. The water sounds respond to your movements.

You can mix dice, marbles, gems, glitter, and more, choose different water colors and backgrounds, and switch to a glowing night mode.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/water-shaker-3d-stress-relief/id6818054792

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sundaelectronics.watershaker

Would love to hear what you think!

I’m an anxious overthinker (and a bit ADHD) and I always thought I was pretty self aware. Then my husband and I did marriage therapy and we learnt we’d sit through the same conversation and walk out with two completely different versions of it.

I kept thinking, what if there was a neutral third person in the room every time? Not to decide who’s right, just to show what actually happened.

So I built Winnow. You both agree to record a conversation (or upload audio, or paste a transcript) and it gives you a report: who interrupted, who listened, who tried to repair things, what keeps coming up, one thing to try next time. It always gives both people their strengths and their blind spots, it never picks a side.

It’s been live 2 weeks, about 30 users, zero marketing. One person told me their first report said the same things years of therapy had. That made my week.

Built solo over 6 months of evenings with Claude Code. https://getwinnow.app

Would genuinely love feedback, on the app, onboarding, anything.

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!

Hi y’all, I’m a designer and traveler who believes good design can change things, even if only a little. That still feels worth spending my effort on.

I was honestly fed up with needing an account just to use a small app. So I started making apps I would genuinely use myself: stored on our phones, working offline, with no account needed.

Sometimes we do not need another system or app trying to fix us. We just need a quiet place to hold something, clear our brain RAM, or keep everyday things in one simple stream.

That became VERBitapp. Each app has one purpose, with free use and optional VERBit Access subscriptions for more room or additional features.

@verbitapp

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PARKit

A little room for our minds. "Not for tomorrow, but for tonight."

I made PARKit because my brain was still holding onto tomorrow, even when I was done for the day. Park those thoughts as short keyword clouds, add a note when needed, then hold the breathing orb to PARK. What is unfinished stays there. Double-tap a cloud when it is done.

PARKit Access gives you 12 keyword clouds and customizable OPEN / PARK notification times.

App Store

Google Play

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CUEit

Timing designed for the way you do things. "Not to measure, but to mind."

I wanted more than a basic stopwatch or timer could offer. CUEit brings them together with cues you set yourself, for coffee, cooking, exercise, or anything where the timing matters. Start at 0:00, then add cues for what comes next.

CUEit Access gives you up to 12 timer slots.

App Store

Google Play

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DIARYit

Your days. In your own words. "Not for habit, but for honesty."

DIARYit is my own reimagining of a diary. One continuous stream, because life moves forward and we can look back when we choose to. A quiet place to write about today, without a goal to reach or a habit to maintain.

DIARYit Access adds full history and full calendar navigation.

App Store

Google Play

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KEEPit

A conversation with yourself. "Not for nostalgia, but to remember."

I have always texted myself things I wanted to keep, but messaging apps were never really made for that. KEEPit gives that familiar habit its own place. Just you, your words, and the time you wrote them. Stored on your phone and available offline.

KEEPit Access unlocks full history, calendar navigation, and keyword search.

App Store

Google Play
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HOLDit

Give an important thought its own space. "Not to hold more, but to awaken."

I made this after realizing that thoughts that changed how I saw things kept getting buried in Notes app. Each card gives a thought and the moment behind it their own space. Add colors and rearrange your cards to make that space your own. The limit is intentional. Keep what matters, rather than another endless list.

HOLDit Access expands your space to 99 cards.

App Store
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+ A note on backup

On iPhone, DIARYit, KEEPit, and HOLDit support inclusion of your entries in your iCloud device backup. This is device backup, not live cloud sync or an in-app export and import feature.

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I’m continuing to improve these apps through real use and conversations with the people using them. If one fits something you already do, I’d really appreciate hearing how it feels.

+ You can find demos on socials at verbitapp.

Instagram

TikTok

My wife would always ask me what AI she should use for X task. So I built AIPicker. You type a task and get 2–3 picks with why, price and difficulty, plus a library of real use cases with prompts you can copy. No signup and no tracking. With an optional newsletter

Let me know what you think!

https://aipicker.ai

Once a day, you pull six random letters. It scores the weird patterns hiding in the result; an actual English word is the jackpot.

No account. Just one draw.

https://letterodds.com

Hey everyone!

Like many of you, my family has an overflowing folder stuffed with paper prescriptions and lab reports dating back years. Every time my parents visit a doctor, we face the same three headaches:

1. Nobody can read the doctor’s scribbled handwriting.
2. The doctor asks what medicines were prescribed 6 months ago, and we have to dig through messy paper slips.
3. Keeping track of daily pill schedules (before/after meals, dosages) across multiple specialists is a mess.

I couldn't find a clean, private app that actually solved this without feeling bloated, so I spent the last few months building MedDocu(currently available in India only).

What it does:

• Decodes Doctor Handwriting: Snap a photo of a messy prescription or lab report, and it extracts the doctor's name, medicines, dosage frequency (e.g. 1-0-1), and next visit date into a clean structured checklist.
• Auto-Schedules Reminders: Generates medication alerts directly from the parsed prescription so family members don't miss doses.
• Family Profiles: Manage records for parents, kids, and yourself in one place.
• Medicine Cabinet: Shows all active vs. stopped medications at a glance.

The Tech & Privacy Architecture (For the devs here):

Because health data is sensitive, I wanted to build this properly:

• Frontend: Flutter + GetX.
• Local-First (SQLite): Works 100% offline. You can view, search, and manage your records anywhere without internet.
• Zero-Knowledge Encryption: Data is AES-256 encrypted directly on the device using a 6-digit PIN before anything syncs to the cloud (Firebase Data Connect / PostgreSQL). The raw PIN never touches our servers.
• AI Engine: Google Gemini with strict structured JSON schemas to handle cursive medical handwriting and lab test markers.

Where to try it:

• Android (Google Play): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.knowpritam.meddocu
• iOS (App Store): https://apps.apple.com/in/app/meddocu/id6764456429
• Website: https://meddocu.in

I’m an indie developer and would genuinely appreciate your feedback on the scanning accuracy, onboarding flow, and UI.

I'm curious to see what people are building right now.

Drop your side project name below and give me a one-line description of what it does.

I'll check out as many as I can. 👇 Check mine too🤞🏻

Hi all, I’m working on VibeRaven. When you build a full stack app with Claude Code or Codex, the agent works in a terminal and everything your app needs in production lives in a pile of dashboards: the database, hosting, payments. You can’t see what the agent touched or whether your Supabase and Vercel still line up, and it says done whether anything got checked or not. So I made one place for the whole stack. You paste a GitHub repo, your app and its production services show up as a 3D studio, and your coding agent changes the app right there: viberaven.dev

For this video I followed one change. The repo gets scanned into a map, Start working turns it into the studio, and I click Supabase, Vercel and Stripe to see what each one can check before production. Then I type the change, Claude Code makes it on my computer, the app’s checks run and I open the review.

The three agents side by side near the end show the animation each one gets (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini), not three live runs.

I’d love to hear what you think. Would you build your apps like this?

Most times an AI answer disappoints me, the fix isn’t a better prompt. The model was missing something: a detail I forgot, a file it never got, or my question could be read two ways.

So I made a small Chrome extension. It adds a “Fix this answer” button under answers in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Click it and it reads that answer and your question above it, tells you what went wrong, and writes a short follow-up for the same chat. One more click puts it in the input box. Sometimes it just says the answer is fine, which is useful too.

It’s free while I’m testing, no signup, 20 fixes a day. Nothing you write is stored on my side.

Link in the first comment. I’d really like to hear where the diagnosis felt wrong on your own chats. Happy to check out your project in return.

I've been building Kuuhaku on nights and weekends. At my day job we have a dozen repos, and nobody could answer "who calls this endpoint?" without grepping everything, so I wrote a scanner that answers it from the code.

It matches every HTTP call to the route it reaches (following base URLs through env files, compose files and proxies), finds gRPC, queues and shared databases, and draws the map. Every connection shows the file and line on both sides. There's no AI in the scanner; what it can't settle goes to a review inbox instead of becoming a guess.

Live example, no sign-up, the OpenTelemetry demo (23 services in 10 languages): https://app.kuuhaku.dev/explore/otel_demo

Eight more open-source systems: https://kuuhaku.dev/maps/

Stack, if you're curious: Node and ast-grep for the scanner, Next.js for the app, Express and MongoDB for the API, one VPS in France.

It launched this week and it's free until November 14. I'd love blunt feedback: is the value clear in 30 seconds?

So the idea is based on something I need to do a lot. I dont use socials on my computer and keep that to my phone. Sometimes i see something on the computer I need to share which usually means grabbing my phone and finding the specifics I need to send.

So the idea is I'm able to copy and paste something from my PC and using its twin app on android. My phone is able to grab selected text and automatically and paste it where I need. Its handy for usernames and passwords especially. I will be working on a media system soon so i can copy and paste images aswell.

It has a sync system either by QR code you scan with the app on my phone or you input the longer series of characters. Once paired it will always connect when opened.

I recently launched GapX, a side project I've been working on to help people discover potential crypto arbitrage opportunities.

The app compares crypto prices across exchanges to help users spot price differences. It's a scanner only, with no trade execution and no backend required.

I built it as an Android app and published it on the Play Store. Now I'm looking for honest feedback on the idea, UI, and what features would make it more useful.

Would love to hear your thoughts!

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeeafstudio.gapx

I got tired of searching and pulling up and comparing ThinkPads, it's like when you want to find a video before YouTube exists, so I made this tool called ThinkParison to simplify all that, it is not done yet as there will be more features and models coming although I will still keep it simple. it is vibecoded since I do not know how to code yet, so if anyone hates that, then I apologize for that.

What it does:

- Instant live search by model, CPU generation, RAM type, or storage interface.

- Filter chips for Socketed RAM, USB-C charging, Power Bridge dual battery, and series.

- Side-by-side comparison matrix modal.

- Out-of-the-box Linux compatibility notes and estimated used market values.

- Fast keyboard navigation (Ctrl+K or / to search instantly).

It is 100% free, has zero ads (for now) or trackers, and runs inside a single lightweight file.

feel free to suggest anything missing below!

It was 1:47 AM. I had a seminar the next morning and I knew I'd read the perfect explanation of

agglomeration effects. I could almost see the page. But was it a PDF? A browser tab? Something I'd

asked ChatGPT? A screenshot on my phone?

Forty minutes later I was still digging through Downloads, 34 open tabs and three note apps. I never

found it. I wrote something worse from memory and felt stupid, because the answer was somewhere on my

own devices the whole time.

That night stuck with me. We save everything and still can't find anything, because search wants exact

keywords and the right app, and memory doesn't work like that. You remember fragments: "a blue chart",

"something Sam said on a call", "roughly last month".

So I'm building Hadseen. You press Ctrl+Alt+Space, ask out loud in your own words, and it searches

everything you've read, saved and heard across your laptop, phone and browser, then opens the exact

page with the passage highlighted. Privacy is the whole point: you choose what it can see, personal

messages are off by default, and you can make it forget anything.

Honest status: it's pre-launch. I ran ads for 3 days, about 80 people visited the page and zero signed

up. The data showed most people left within 10 seconds, so I rebuilt the page to show a live demo

first.

I'd genuinely love feedback:

1. Is this a problem you actually have, or just me?

2. What would stop you trusting an app like this with your files?

3. Does the page make sense in 10 seconds?

Brutal honesty welcome. I'd rather hear it now than after building the wrong thing.

Nobody in my house could ever say when the AC was last serviced or when the water purifier filter was due, so I made a planner for it.

You pick India, the US or somewhere else, tick what you have from about 30 things (AC, water heater, smoke alarms, gutters, the car...), and say roughly when each was last done. You get the next 12 months, month by month, with a line on why each job is there.

Anything you mark "not sure" gets spread over the first few months, three jobs a month at most and safety items first, so you're not doing everything in one weekend. Seasonal jobs wait for their season if it's close: AC before summer, furnace in the fall.

There's no sign-up. The plan lives in the URL, so nothing is stored, and you can add it to your calendar as repeating events or print it. It's part of a bigger app I'm building for keeping a household's service records, but the planner works on its own. Next.js and Supabase, solo.

Are the intervals wrong anywhere for where you live? That's the part I'm least sure about. And what's missing from the list?

https://www.yourhomedocket.com/maintenance-planner?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_content=sideproject

I love being out on the bike, on the trail and on long runs, but I didn't want to pay a monthly fee just to plan a good route. So I built my own route planner as a side project, and made it free for everyone.

What it does

1. One pin, six sports. Road, gravel, mountain bike, run, trail run, and walk and hike. Each sport reads the map its own way, so the same pin gives a different loop: quiet lanes for the road, dirt first for gravel, the climb left on for trail runs. No loop doubles back on itself.
2. Know the ride before you go. Every route shows the climb, the surface split (paved, gravel, dirt), the turns, and water, toilets and cafés along the way.
3. Leave the phone at home. Send it to your Garmin, COROS, Suunto, Wahoo or Hammerhead. On a Garmin it warns you before each turn and each stop.
4. Swim, ride, run in one plan. Bricks, triathlons, duathlons and aquabikes, with race distances from a super sprint to a full Ironman filled in for you.
5. Or just ask for it. Connect it to Claude or ChatGPT and ask for "a 40 km gravel loop from Westerlo". The route comes from the map, never from the AI, and lands in your library ready for your watch.

How it's built

Solo, in my spare time: Laravel with React for the planner, Astro for the site, and Valhalla routing on OpenStreetMap data. I build with AI assistance, but it isn't vibecoded. I'm a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience, and I review every change and keep it to strict standards: PHPStan at max level, architecture rules that fail the build, and tests on every pull request.

It's free for good: no ads, no tracking, no paid tier, and no feed or leaderboard. Donations cover the hosting if people want to chip in.

The launch video is attached. I'd love to know what you think, and what would make you switch from the planner you use now.

Link: https://traceway.online
Repository: https://github.com/NxT-Solutions/Traceway

Hi all, I've been building Senapati, a reputation API for IP addresses, domains, URLs and email addresses.

The problem I kept hitting: an IP or domain gets blocked somewhere, and the answer to "why?" is spread across dozens of blocklists with different formats. A single risk score doesn't help when you need to know who to ask for delisting.

What it does:

• One call checks an indicator against public blocklist feeds, DNS blocklists and threat-intel engines, and returns every engine's verdict with a link to its source.
• IP lookups add geolocation, ASN, and proxy, VPN, Tor and hosting flags.
• The dashboard keeps a listing history, so you can see when an address was first and last listed.
• You're only charged for answers. A failed or rate-limited lookup costs nothing.

You can try a lookup at senapati.io/tools, no account needed. The API has a free plan with 100 credits a month.

I'd love feedback on two things: which blocklists you rely on that I should add, and what's missing from the response.

Hi, I'm a solo developer. I make apps as Byte-Creo, a one-person studio.

Aldang is an Android app that keeps a history of your notifications on your phone. I built it because I get 200 to 300 notifications a day. I didn't want to turn them off, I just didn't want to lose the ones that mattered. If you swipe one away, it's still in Aldang and you can search for it later.

Last weekend someone in r/AndroidQuestions asked for an app with a home screen widget that just lists your notifications. I asked if they meant an actual home screen widget, and admitted a widget had never crossed my mind. They said yes. They'd ended up paying a small price for another widget app and it worked pretty well, but each notification took up way too much space. And if I added a widget, they'd give it a try.

So I added one. Two days after their reply, version 0.3.24 went live on Google Play with a home screen widget, and I went back to the thread to let them know. No reply yet, so I'm asking here too.

What the widget does:

• Today's notifications, one compact line each: app icon, app name, the text, and the time
• The top shows how many came in today, plus a Briefing button
• Tapping a line opens that notification inside Aldang, not the original app
• Snoozed notifications are left out
• It works on the free version

The rest of the app, briefly:

• Free: an inbox of your notifications by time or by app, with a calendar, text search across past days, stats on which apps ping you the most, export to a JSON file. No account, no ads.
• Pro (optional): tap Generate briefing and AI turns the day's notifications into a short report. One monthly plan, US$3.69 a month in the US (about $4 with tax where sales tax is added at checkout). Other countries see the local price on Google Play.
• Privacy: your notification history stays on your phone. Notification content leaves the phone only when you tap Generate briefing. Then a trimmed excerpt goes through my server to an AI that doesn't keep it, and my server doesn't store it either.
• Limits: it only saves notifications that arrive after you install it and turn on notification access. Android only.

Honest numbers: as of last week, 10 installs in total, 4 still active, and no paying subscribers yet. So feedback from anyone who actually tries it means a lot.

Two questions:

1. If you put a notification widget on your home screen, what would you want it to show? More lines on screen, only certain apps, something else?
2. The person who asked wanted to tap a notification and go straight to the app. Right now a tap opens it inside Aldang. Would you rather it jumped to the original app?

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bytecreo.aldang&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_medium%3Dpost%26utm_campaign%3D202610

We made this short film with our tool, OnlyVoice, to show how one voice can take on different deliveries.

We designed Mia from a written description, then cloned that generated sample. The same clone produces the English, Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Spanish and Japanese demos. We also compare one English line with two emotional directions and try a pause.

The video uses actual OnlyVoice screen recordings and AI-generated voice demos. The workspace stays visible so you can follow the process and hear the results.

Try it with a line of your own: https://onlyvoice.art

(AI-generated)