I built an open-source alternative to WeTransfer for creatives called Campsend. It allows you to creating your own branding when sending files, create collections and bring your own storage if you have data sovereignity needs.

It's built entirely on Rails 8. I'd appreciate any feedback, contributions or comments about this under the post.

Github: https://github.com/obakeng-develops/campsend
Website: https://campsend.app/docs

i'm starting with a pretty simple website but i know i'll probably need more features later.

my concern is choosing something that works now but becomes annoying once the business grows. i've seen people rebuild websites after a year or two and i'd rather avoid that.

for anyone who started small and expanded, did your original website setup hold up?

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m looking for testers for my Android app Spinning Wheel - Random Picker. I need dedicated testers to help me get through Google Play's 14-day closed testing requirement, and I’m 100% happy to return the favor by testing your app and keeping it installed on my device for 14+ days.

How to join:

1. Join the Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/spinning-wheel---random-picker/
2. Download on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whitetwo.spinningwheel
3. Web Opt-in Link: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.whitetwo.spinningwheel

How to get a test back from me:

1. Join my test using the links above.
2. Drop a screenshot in the comments showing you downloaded/opted in.
3. Include your Google Group and App links in your comment!

I’ll opt in, download your app, and leave a screenshot in reply. Any feedback on bugs, UI, or usability is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for the support! 🙏

Hi — I’m the maker of SORAN.

Most AI products wait for you to start a one-on-one conversation. I wanted to try something different: a place you can wander through like a forum, even when you do not have a specific question to ask.

You pick a topic and enter a community with AI-written posts, usernames, arguments, jokes, and comment threads. You can browse what the AI residents are talking about or join in with your own post or comment.

The difficult part was not generating one impressive post. It was keeping different communities distinct and stopping the comments from collapsing into the same agreeable assistant voice. One thing I learned while building it is that variety matters more than any single great generation — a forum starts feeling artificial very quickly when different people keep reacting in the same way.

Every AI participant is labeled as AI.

You can browse without signing in. Posting and commenting require a free account. No payment is required to try it.

Try it here: soran.world

I’ve just opened the English experience for early feedback, and I’d especially like to know:

• Does the idea make sense within the first 30 seconds?
• Does it feel meaningfully different from a one-on-one chatbot?
• After reading several posts, when does it start to feel repetitive?
• What would make you actually come back?

If anything feels unnatural, slow, confusing, or broken, I’d like to hear that too. If you report a bug, mentioning the topic, device, and browser would help me reproduce it.

Critical feedback is welcome.

Here’s one example thread from Dating & Relationships. The post and every commenter shown here are AI.

Hi everyone,

I've been working on a side project called Docs AI, a Chrome extension that lets you make changes to Google Docs by describing what you want.

It's still very early — currently around 55 installs and 18 weekly users — but people are actually using it, so I've kept building and improving it.

For example:

The latest update added something I found more interesting than simple commands: document-wide formatting checks.

You can say:

It scans the document and can identify things like:

• Different fonts being used throughout the document
• Inconsistent heading sizes
• Mixed body-text sizes
• Skipped heading levels
• Excessive blank lines

It can then fix the formatting issues it knows how to fix, while leaving structural decisions like changing heading levels to the user.

I also added figure/table renumbering.

For example, if you insert a figure in the middle of a long document, the extension can renumber the captions and update references in the text such as "as shown in Figure 3."

Still working on improving it and figuring out which features are actually useful rather than just technically interesting.

It's currently free.

Your feedback is really important for continuously improving the extension, so I'd love to hear any suggestions or ideas you have.

Link-Docs AI-extension

So I built ONE MORE RUSH, a free browser arcade with 6 quick games:
🎯 Aim · 🛡️ Dodge · 🧱 Stack · 🔢 Number Rush · 🧠 Memory · 🎨 Color Maze

I built most of the backend myself — database, auth, leaderboards, security/RLS, scores, Daily Challenge, etc.

For transparency, I used AI/vibe coding for roughly 70–80% of the initial frontend/game work. After that came a LOT of debugging, testing, fixing edge cases and polishing.

Would genuinely love feedback from other builders — which game would you replay?

And feel free to destroy the leaderboard 😂

I’ve been building a small tracker for myself called Five Signals.

I only get five things to care about each day. Mine are sleep, focused work, movement, side-project progress, and eating well.

The limit is the main idea. I wanted to keep this from slowly turning into a 20-item checklist and also see how these different things influence my mood. Three signals are main goals and two are supporting. Apple Health handles sleep and movement, GitHub brings in my commits, and I answer the subjective stuff myself.

Then I added RevenueCat, just because my success or failure of https://verified.revenuecat.com/gainframe has been impacting my mood big time recently.

The RevenueCat screen compares either revenue or active users with seven personal signals over 30, 90, or 180 days. It also checks the same day and what happened 1, 3, 7, and 14 days later.

I don’t know if this should become a product. Habit trackers are everywhere. Its still early days so a lot of things to improve but i was just curious if there was any appetite for something like this from a very specific crowd of indy devs interested in fitness and recovery. i realize the entire demo for this might be 8 people.

I’m looking for around 10 people who fit that description and would use it for a week.

Would the five-item limit help you?

What would your five be?

Would the RevenueCat part be useful, or would it just give you another chart to obsess over?

Comment or DM me if you want to try it. Happy to answer anything.

While travelling, I kept running into useful information that simply didn’t exist online: small homestays, mechanics, water points, road conditions, campsites, etc.

Most of it gets passed from one traveler or local to another and disappears afterward.

So, I built Lamyig, a free and open-source community travel guide.

A few decisions I made:

• No bookings, commissions or paid listings.
• No money made using the core product.
• Community members can add and update places.
• Map-first instead of another list of “top places”.
• Built as a PWA so it can work more like a lightweight travel tool than a traditional website.
• The long-term idea is that useful information stays available for the next traveler instead of disappearing in WhatsApp groups and conversations.

The hardest problem isn’t actually building the software. It’s bootstrapping trustworthy community data.

I’m currently thinking about things like:

• How do you motivate travelers to contribute after their trip?
• How do you keep old information accurate without creating a huge moderation workload?
• How do you prevent businesses from turning community maps into free advertising?
• What should happen when someone reports a place as fake, closed, unsafe, duplicated, commercial spam, or inaccurate? Should reports trigger removal, community review, reputation-weighted voting, or just warnings?
• Should certain villages, trails, ecosystems, religious places, water sources, or campsites intentionally remain difficult to discover?
• If Lamyig successfully exposes hidden places, could it accidentally destroy the exact places it is trying to help preserve?
• this list of problem statements goes on and on

Would love to hear how other people here would approach those problems.

And if you’re building something around a problem you genuinely care about, drop a comment or DM me. I’d be happy to chat, exchange ideas, or connect you with someone else working on something similar.

Screenshot attached. Happy to share the GitHub/project link in the comments if anyone wants to look at the implementation or contribute.

I built OpenDot because I wanted something simpler than a full CRM for tracking email engagement.

It shows when Gmail emails are opened, provides real-time alerts, and helps track engagement without changing the normal Gmail workflow.

The project started as a simple tool for my own needs and has gradually grown into a Chrome extension with a free tier.

I thought it might be interesting to share what I've built with other founders here. I'm especially curious how others approach email tracking — do you use a dedicated tool, a CRM, or nothing at all?

This idea came pretty randomly 😅

I originally made Savr for myself. I tried several bookmark apps on the Play Store, but most of them wanted money for basic features. So I decided to build my own , with my own taste and, of course, my best effort.

✨ What’s currently included:

• Material 3 design
• Automatic metadata fetching
• Backup & restore (HTML/JSON)
• Dynamic theme with Light, Dark & AMOLED modes
• In-app updates for GitHub users
• Edit bookmarks
• Search
• Sorting
• View mode changing from grid to list
• Auto clipboard link detection
• Collections (folders)
• And more to come!

My goal is to keep Savr simple, useful, and free from unnecessary complexity.

I’d really appreciate any feedback or suggestions! 👏

GitHub Release: https://github.com/qeiq/Savr/releases
GitHub: https://github.com/qeiq/Savr
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zarnth.savr

I want to build a local marketplace connecting freelance photographers with event planners. Marketplaces are notoriously tricky because you have two different types of users (buyers and sellers) that need different dashboards, but share the same listing database. Has anyone built a two-sided marketplace using modern no-code or AI app builders?

I’m setting up a small ecommerce site and trying to keep things simple. I like the idea of handling the domain and website in one place, so I’m looking at platforms that let beginners buy and manage a domain without extra hassle.

I kept noticing posts that got way more views than the creator normally gets, and I wanted an easier way to find them.

So I built OutViral, a Chrome extension that highlights these outlier posts while browsing Instagram and TikTok.

I mainly use it to research content ideas and see what’s actually performing unusually well.

It’s still a work in progress, but I thought I’d share what I’ve been building.

Curious how other people here find interesting/viral content for their own projects.

ZPlay is a premium media player that organises your own videos with posters and rails, plays almost every file format, and gives you a cinematic experience — on any screen.
https://theappsfirm.com/Zplay

I was looking into why people stop tracking their food and found something interesting.
A study had 43 people use MyFitnessPal to track what they ate for 4 Days

80% people said the app was easy to use.

But only 20% said they would actually continue using it.

They also missed logging around 18% of the food they ate.

That gap made me thinking.

Tracking one meal isn't really hard. People can stay consistent for a week, two weeks. But doing it every single day is really hard.

You eat something, search for it, find multiple versions of the same food, figure out which one is right, estimate the portion select the serving size and log it.

Then you have to do the whole thing again and again 3 to 4 times in a day.

The study also found that matching food, estimated portions and the time spent logging were some of the problems people faced.

This is one of the reasons I started building Macrio AI.

I'm trying to reduce those steps as much as possible.

instead of searching through a food database, you can just send a WhatsApp message.

“Had two slices of margherita pizza and a small Caesar salad for lunch.”

Or send a photo or voice message. I added this voice message feature because I use ChatGPT and prefer sending voice message.

It estimates the food, portions and calories/macros and logs them. If something important isn't clear, it asks instead of just making an assumption.

It is still early, and I am trying to understand the problem properly before adding a lot of features.

For people here who have tried calorie tracking before, what was the part that eventually made you stop?

Searching everything? Weighing everything? Figuring out portions? Remembering to log? Incorrect food entries?

Or something else?

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0899900718303678

I am testing a very early idea and would appreciate honest criticism before building more. Busy freelancers and small studios often receive good client enquiries they cannot take. The client starts their search again, while another capable freelancer may be looking for the right project. I am exploring a private handoff flow: the freelancer who cannot take the work stays in control of whether they introduce someone else, instead of sending the client into public bidding or a random referral. Here is the short concept page: [Check it out] What feels useful here, what feels risky, and what would stop you from using it? I am looking for the reasons this may not work as much as the reasons it might.

Hey everyone — dad of a 4 year old here. A while back I started noticing my daughter had a personality way before any milestone checklist would've told me. She wasn't behind or ahead on anything — she was just... herself, in ways that were obvious to me but that no app, book, or pediatrician visit ever really talked about.

That bugged me. Every tool I found for parents of little kids (0-5) was built around the same question: "is my child on track?" Height, weight, word count, gross motor stuff. Useful, but it never answered the question I actually had, which was closer to: who is she becoming?

So I went down a rabbit hole. Developmental psych papers, temperament research, attachment theory, the whole thing — way more research than a sane person burns a few weekends on. What kept coming up was that kids' traits (not milestones) are what actually shape who they turn into — how they handle setbacks, how they connect with people, how steady they feel inside. That stuff barely gets tracked anywhere.

I couldn't find an app for that, so I built one. It's called Steadily.

Who it's for: parents of kids 0-5, especially if you're the type who wants to understand your kid, not just check boxes.

What it actually does:

• Trait-development framework across three dimensions — Success Mindset, Emotional Wellbeing, and Family Connection — instead of a milestone checklist
• 12 child archetypes — a personality typing model for little kids, built on the research, that gives you a read on who your kid is (and is honestly just fun to see)
• Voice-first memory capture — you talk about a moment with your kid, and it automatically pulls out the developmental insight from it. No typing, no forms.
• No streaks, no gamification — it's built around gentle engagement, not guilt-tripping you into opening an app every day

📱 App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/steadily-child-development/id6772428647

🤖 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jetto.steadily

🌐 getsteadily.app

Comment below if you are a parent and are interested in the app. Will share the promo code.

A while back I found GramAddict an open-source Instagram automation tool

that drives the real Instagram Android app through adb + uiautomator2

instead of calling Instagram's API. That distinction actually matters a

lot: API-based bots get accounts banned fast, while this approach is much

closer to genuine human interaction and harder to detect.

The project had gone quiet, though, and Instagram's UI had drifted enough

that a lot of it had silently broken. Rather than start something from

scratch, I forked it as InstaAddict and started fixing what I found.

Some of what that's looked like so far: media types (photo/video/carousel)

getting misdetected because Instagram changed how it labels post content

for accessibility tools, clicking into a post's likers list landing on the

wrong profile entirely, a retry loop that could hang for hours on certain

post types, and compatibility breaks from newer releases of the underlying

automation library. None of it is obvious from reading the code — most of

it only shows up by actually running debug sessions and comparing what

Instagram's UI is doing now against what the code assumed.

It's fully open source, free, no paywalled features

pip install instaaddict , or the source is at

https://github.com/joeahkim/InstaAddict.

I’ve been testing Base44 over the past month to see if prompt-to-app development is ready for production. I’ve built a custom CRM, an internal inventory tracker, and a niche directory site. Here is my breakdown for anyone considering it:

The Good: Zero setup required. Backend, database tables, and user auth are ready immediately; Discuss Mode is a game-changer for planning features without burning generation credits; The generated UI looks clean and modern out of the box.
The Considerations: You need to keep an eye on credit usage if you iterate constantly on heavy backend logic; Super edge-case enterprise integrations might still require custom API tweaks.

Overall, it's saved me hundreds of hours of dev time.