Every designer I know has The Folder.

Mine was called inspo_FINAL_v3. 4,000 screenshots, zero names, and I could never find anything in it. Pinterest wasn't much better. I'd search "dashboard" and get someone's kitchen.

So one night I said to my wife, "give me one weekend, I'm going to fix this."

That was 200+ hours ago.

I can't really code. So I did the whole thing with Claude Code, which mostly meant me explaining what I wanted, Claude building it, and then me explaining again, slower, with more feelings.

At one point I asked it to make a single button blue. It rewrote half the site and proudly told me it had "made some improvements." Nothing worked. I learned what git was that night.

But then, around 2am one night, the "similar designs" feature finally worked. I clicked one design and it pulled up five I didn't even remember collecting. I just sat there clicking for an hour like a kid.

What it turned into:

* 14,000+ real app screens, full flows from signup to settings
* 5,000+ curated designs, branding, illustration, ads, launch and motion videos
* Search that actually gets design words like "empty state"
* Pinterest style "more like this," but only design stuff

It's called PixlPin and it's free. You're honestly some of the first people to see it, so tell me what's missing or what annoys you.

https://PixlPin.com

Hey all, I’ve been working on this for the past few weeks and wanted to share it.

I got tired of checking multiple apps to see who was live, and honestly I missed just flipping through channels and stumbling onto something new. So I made StreamSurf, a TV-guide-style grid of what’s live right now on Twitch, YouTube and Kick.

What it does:

• Everything live in one grid, with categories (Gaming, Just Chatting, Music, Sports…) and filters by game and language
• Click a row and it plays right there in the platform’s own player, so you can flip through streams like channels
• A Trending tab for streams that just started or are picking up viewers fast, so it’s not just the same big names
• Streamers live on more than one platform show up as one row, with each platform’s viewer count
• Only want some of the platforms? Switch any of them off in Settings and the guide only shows the rest
• Favorite channels to get your own list, with what they’ve got scheduled later and a notification when they go live (while the site’s open in a tab)
• Multiview for watching up to 4 streams at once on desktop
• A retro mode based on the old ’90s TV Guide channel, slow auto-scroll and all

It’s free, with no account or sign-up, and it works on your phone too. Favorites are saved in your browser.

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

https://streamsurf.tv/?ref=sideproject

I've been building a site for board game cafes to help them digitize their catalog and showcase their games to customers. For customers it gives them easy search/filtering AND game tools to get them started (small stuff like rolling dice or picking who should go first... admittedly I have been having a lot of fun with making the tools and then going to board game cafes to try them out myself)

I've spent months building it, and recently started reaching out to cafes to see if they'd be interested in using it. (yes I talked to people and ai and research before making this to see if there would even be value and a lot of people seemed interested)

One of the responses I got was:

"If we wanted a vibe coded website, we could 'make' one ourselves, thanks."

I'm not even sure they looked at it 🥲 This is was imo a harsher response than called for but also not the first person to have a similar response.

I have feelings too random internet business owner.

"Why would I use this when I can make my own?".

1. Its free for you and your customers (unless you want more features).
2. You haven't made one yet or we would not be having this conversation.
3. It's free for you and your customers.......

I was born in the ancient times now referred to as the 90s

I have been coding since blah blah continued my career with web dev in 2018, and while I do use AI in my process..often.., there's a lot more going into this project than simply "vibe coding".

I feel like the response also came from my own marketing shortcomings. I poured time into a lot of features for board game users like myself that I really believe have value but I'm not sure how to express that in a quick message on insta.

Anyway, this whole thing has me thinking:

Has the rise of vibe coding made it harder to convince people that software has value?

It seems like the mindset now is shifting from "Wow, you built that?" (which was always fun to hear) to "Anyone can build that now." (and my non-verbal answer to that is "Ok but you didn't so here we are").

I'm curious whether other indie developers have run into this during outreach, and how you've handled it. Kinda related: Is AI assisted coding still just vibe coding? If claude writes my documentation and codex makes my images and google's stitch and other ai tools make my design.... Then its still "vibe coded"?

About the site: My goal is to make it easy for board game cafes to show off their catalog, and for users (especially new users) to be able to get into new board games without feeling completely overwhelmed.

http://enquantodurarafe.com.br/

Writing is a hobby of mine, and I thought it would be a great idea to build 3D scenes from my book on this website to bring the story to life and engage readers.

I'd love to get your first and final impressions of the site. Specifically:

• First impression: When the page first loads (before scrolling), what are your immediate thoughts and feelings?
• Final impression: After browsing the content (feel free to just skim it as you normally would), how did that impression change?

Solo dev here. I launched an iOS app about two weeks ago and it just passed 100 downloads per day without spending anything on ads. Sharing what worked because I think it’s reproducible.

1. Pick a market where people are already looking for alternatives.
I didn’t try to create demand. I looked for an app category with strong demand where the leader is expensive or frustrating (paywalls, ad grinding, missing features). When users are actively searching “alternative to X”, half the marketing is already done.

2. Get ChatGPT to recommend you.
This was the surprise. I noticed ChatGPT showing up as a referrer in App Store Connect. People ask it “what’s the best alternative to X?” and it answers with a short list. So I built pages on my website specifically around those alternative/comparison questions, honest and detailed. A few days later, my app was the first recommendation for my main query. ChatGPT now brings me 50+ downloads a day on its own.

3. Go multi-language from day one.
Most indie devs launch in English only and compete in the most crowded market. Every new language is a new funnel: new App Store search results, new ChatGPT answers in that language, less competition. I’m rolling out more localizations on the store listing and in the app itself, and launching on Android in several languages.

4. Watch the data closely and iterate fast.
I check analytics every day: where people drop in onboarding, when they hit the paywall, who converts. Small changes (shorter onboarding, paywall timing, pricing tiers) ship within days, not months. The first version is just a test.

That’s it. No growth hacks, no ad budget yet. Happy to answer questions about any of these steps.

My little app Weatherling www.weatherling.app that I released a month ago is #3 in the Mac App Store today! (It even shows up on the front page!) It's #2 in Utilities category. I gotta give all the credit to subreddits like this and r/macapps because I have yet to spend a dime on advertising, and the community feedback has been amazing.

I'm about to start a paid tiktok push, though, so wish me luck. I need all the eyeballs to beat out Logic Pro for the #2 spot in the rankings.

Keep the feedback coming. I've already got a lot packed into the next v1.7 release.

I wanted to build an automatic garden irrigation with a few Arduinos, and couldn't find a simulator that runs more than one board at a time – let alone simulates the water, weather and heat around it. So I started building my own.

What it does right now:
- you place Arduinos, sensors, pumps etc. in 3D, wire them up and write normal Arduino code
- several boards can talk to each other over serial
- water, weather and day/night are simulated, you can fast-forward days
- thermal view and a test bench that shows where your build would break

Tech: vanilla JS + three.js, no framework, no build step, small Python server for feedback. Everything runs in the browser.

It's an early prototype – I'm mainly trying to find out if anyone besides me would actually use this before I put months into it. First feedback from was really helpful (someone tried serial between boards, so I added it the next day).

https://test.betting-chess.com/?von=sideproject
(the domain is just a test server I had lying around, sorry 😅)

Would love honest feedback – what would make this useful for you?

Hey everyone,

Streaming recommendations have gotten completely stale for me. Whenever I finish something that really lands, like a tight psychological thriller, an intense character study, or a story with a very specific, gritty tone, the "Because you watched X" row is almost always useless. It just pushes the same generic genre tags or whatever licensed title the platform wants to promote that month.

I was constantly spending 45 minutes doom-scrolling three different apps and digging through years-old Reddit threads just trying to find something that scratched the exact same itch.

So I built Tangent.

• Maps, not lists: Pick a title and it shows what surrounds it, linked by shared themes, story devices (unreliable narrators, time loops, slow-burn tension), and creative DNA.
• Every link tells you why it's there: Written out in plain words so there are no mystery black-box match percentages.
• Movies, series, and anime in one place: An anime that hits the same nerve as a live-action show you loved can actually turn up right next to it.
• Where to watch: Integrated streaming info across 20 countries (including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and India).
• Free and zero friction: No paywall, no account needed to browse.

It's an early side project. The connections are strongest for story-driven, character-focused titles right now and naturally thinner for obscure ones, but I'm actively improving it.

I'm keeping direct links off the main post to avoid self-promo spam filters, so drop a comment below or send me a DM and I'll send the link right over!

Right now the best way to experience Rivers & Roads is on the Youtube channel which streams 24/7. You'll notice that you never see the same thing twice if you look close, you'll find lots of unexpected things along the way. I've lost count of how many things are possible. You'll even see the drivers get out of the car sometimes to stretch their legs. There's also an open-world multi-player version online which works decently well in the browser but is still under active development. The stream updates several times a day with new features and improvements.

I like watching it to just relax and enjoy the scenery. I have a digital picture frame on my mantle that constantly streams it as sort of a living picture. You're welcome to do the same.

I took inspiration from Over the Hill, an awesome game that I've never played I've but seen on Youtube. Also, I recently came across another game, Slow Roads, that's quite similar but wasn't, in this case, the inspiration. I've never played that one either but it seems worthy of a mention. I'm sure there are others, but I think where Rivers & Roads Shines is the huge and growing variety of content, the focus on beautiful and scenic landscapes, and soon, the ability to play online with lots of other players.

I don't really have a business model for this, but if you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them!

hey everyone! i built an open-source authentication microservice in go and a typescript sdk for it. just wanted to share in case anyone needs something like this :)

warden: https://github.com/fatihacan1/Warden

js sdk: https://github.com/fatihacan1/warden-js

I got interested in looped transformers: one transformer block reused several times instead of a stack of different layers. Since the same weights are reused, they're very cheap on memory, so I wanted to see if I could build a looped world model tiny enough to run on a microcontroller.

I used a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W as the chip. For the worlds, I used 5 small games that run in a terminal: Breakout, Flappy Bird, Pong, Pac-Man lite and a Doom-like raycaster with a minimap.

The data for training was sampled from the real games as (frame, action, next_frame, reward) and the model learns to predict the next frame from the current one and the action. The model is trained with int8 quantization and the weights are exported to Rust and run on the Pico using embassy_rs.

On top of it I though it was cool if it could also run an agent on-device and I added Stream AC(λ), which learns from one transition at a time with no replay buffer. It can start from scratch and learn to play inside the dream, directly on the microcontroller.

Can be played in the browser (the same Rust compiled to WebAssembly): https://sheepseb.github.io/stealth/tinyworldformer.html
Code, weights and the full write-up: github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer
Happy to answer questions!

I'm the developer. Lenslines is a teleprompter for Windows that puts your script in a small black notch at the top of the screen, right under the webcam. You read your notes and still look at the camera on calls and recordings.

What it does: It scrolls while you talk and waits when you stop. Point at it to pause, scroll back, or pull it down into a floating window. It's hidden from screen shares and recordings in apps that use Windows' standard capture.

What was harder than I expected: Making the voice scrolling feel natural. It follows whether you're speaking, not each word, so it waits for you instead of racing ahead. And getting through Microsoft Store review: my first submission got rejected because one of my search keywords was a brand name.

It went live on the Microsoft Store this week. $9.99 once, no subscription: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PJJ4RZ3PB0P?cid=reddit-sideprojects

I've redone my homepage three times now and somehow it still looks dated.

I've changed the fonts, tried different colours, even looked at a few websites I liked for reference. But the end result is always pretty average, and I'm running out of patience with it.

Was looking at Gamma's website builder as an option for starting over - especially because I know i can build it myself. Although I'd rather not rebuild for a few years after.

Has anyone tried this? Did this approach work for you?

Hi all, I'm a student in Brussels and this is my side project: Tarmako (https://tarmako.com/en/?utm_source=reddit_sideproject).

What it does: every two hours it checks fares on about 1,900 routes from 68 European cities (Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, Lisbon, Madrid...). Each route has a "usual price" built from all the fares we have logged on it since September. When a fare drops far below that, the people who follow that departure city get an email with the dates, the airports and a search link. It doesn't sell tickets.

Stack: Python, PostgreSQL, a small server, plain HTML pages in 7 languages, and the reels on our socials are generated automatically from the alerts.

What I'm struggling with: getting from free sign-ups to people who actually pay (there's a 7-day trial with every alert, then €4.99/month billed yearly, or a small free plan). If you've built a newsletter or alert-type product, I'd love to hear what made your first users pay.

Any feedback on the landing page or the emails is welcome too.

My main gripe i was spending too long creating mock ups and using multiple tools. This solved my problem and hopefully it can help others.
It’s completely free: https://github.com/burhanuddin20/studio941-releases

I am a builder. It’s free, no ads.
You write a real quote and the story around it. A person (editor) reads it before it goes live.
Honest answers needed:
- Within 5 seconds, what did you think it was?
- Would you write a story, if not, what stopped you?
- Anything that felt off?
- Did it make you feel like it is a safe space for you?

Link : https://livedquotes.com/

Hey all, solo dev here. I built this gamified app for actually sticking with the stuff you want to get better at, and I’m looking for people to help me try to break it and find ways I can improve it. 

A while back I was struggling a lot, with many things. This is one of the things I wish I’d had back then, and I’m guessing some of you could use it too.

It’s based on the Solo Leveling system (yes, yet another one), but it uses AI to break any goal you have down into small “SideQuests” you can get done in a day or a week, so you reach that goal step by step. My goal is to make it as free and easy to access as possible, with no ads either. Right now it uses a copy/paste format: the app gives you a prompt to paste into an AI of your choice (I recommend Claude, I’ve had the best success with that one). If you have a Anthropic API key, you can plug it in and everything works right in the app.

If you want to try it out: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Jjgx6AwH

I’d love to hear about places you got stuck or confused, or anything that feels off.

Free, iPhone only, no account, no API key needed, and everything is stored on your phone.

I got tired of revenue screenshots, so I started tracking AI businesses whose revenue is pulled straight from their payment processor (Stripe, RevenueCat or Superwall, via TrustMRR) instead of a founder's tweet.

I've checked 45 so far. A few things surprised me:

- The biggest one, Chatbase ($864k a month at its last sync), stopped syncing on Jul 31. Then this weekend its TrustMRR page disappeared completely. So I took it out of the ranking. It's listed separately with its last verified number and date.
- The new #1, GojiberryAI ($424k a month), hasn't updated since Aug 14 either. Its payment key expired, so that number is frozen too. I still rank it on its last figure but flag it as stale.
- The middle business of the 42 I rank makes about $31.5k a month. Drop the 5 with stale data and it's about $22.5k. Way less glamorous than the timeline.
- An AI agency with 55 paying clients (AEO Engine) makes about $165k a month. That's roughly $3k a client.
- A calorie tracker app (Nutria) has about 15,000 paying users at about $3 each. Similar money to plenty of SaaS on the list, totally different business.

Full disclosure, this is my site. The table is free to browse and sort, no signup: https://imademoneywithai.com/leaderboard/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch1026

If you want it as a spreadsheet, that's free with an email, and you can reuse it with a link back.

If you know an AI business with public payment data that I'm missing, drop it below and I'll check it.

Hi r/SideProject. I'm a solo dev in Camas, WA, and Pigskin Lab is what I've been building for football nerds like me: you type a question the way you'd say it to a friend ("how is Purdy doing on third down this year compared to his own 2023?") and it builds you a dashboard.

The part I care about most: every number comes from nflverse play-by-play going back to 1999, and a language model never writes a number. The question gets turned into a query, the database answers it, and the page shows what came back.

I recently demoed it on the Filmstudy - Baltimore Ravens Talk podcast (the demo starts around 3:15): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBgK2yWz4OU&t=195s

What was hard:

- Plain English is messy. "His", "this year", "compared to his own 2023", a player named like three other players. Getting those to resolve to the right season and the right person took far longer than building the dashboards did.

- Trust. A stats site that is wrong once is dead, so a big chunk of my time went into checking answers, not adding features.

- Making every game page readable: a written story, win probability and every drive, all generated from the numbers on the page.

What I'd love feedback on:

- Try one question you actually wanted answered. Did it understand you? If not, tell me the exact wording and I'll fix it.

- Is a dashboard the right thing to hand back, or would you rather get a short written answer first?

It's free during the beta, no ads, no paywall: https://pigskinlab.com/?ref=reddit-sideproject

Happy to talk about the stack or the parsing if anyone's curious.

I look after a handful of Linux VPSs for my own projects and clients, and I wanted one simple place to see how they’re doing and run a few routine commands without SSHing into each one. I started VPS Pilot in early 2025, abandoned it, and restarted it this year with a much clearer idea of what it should and shouldn’t do.

How it works: you run one hub (a single Go binary with SQLite and the dashboard built in) and install a small Rust agent on each server with one command. No external database, no cloud account.

What it does today:

• Live and historical CPU, memory, disk and network charts per server
• Alerts to Discord, Slack or email
• Run commands you’ve declared in a config file on the server, with live output and an audit log

The hub can only trigger commands by name from that config file, never send arbitrary commands, so even if the hub is compromised it can’t run anything you didn’t write on the server yourself.

Next up: log tailing, backups and cron jobs.

On AI: I design the architecture and write the specs, and AI coding agents (Claude Code) write the code. I review everything, and CI runs tests on every PR.

It’s open source (AGPL-3.0). I’d love feedback, especially on what you’d want from a tool like this.

GitHub: https://github.com/sanda0/vps_pilot
Website: https://vpspilot.dev

Hola, gente 👋😊

Les quiero compartir algo en lo que he estado trabajando: creé mi propia app para editar videos, especialmente pensada para quienes hacemos anuncios y vendemos por internet. 💻🎬

Todavía quiero que más personas la prueben y me den su opinión para seguir mejorándola.

La pueden probar gratis aquí: https://adsstudio.lat/

Si hacen publicidad para sus negocios, venden productos o crean contenido para redes sociales, pueden echarle un vistazo y contarme qué les parece. 🙌

¡Toda opinión y sugerencia es bienvenida! ❤️

Capstan has grown up. Still lives in your terminal 😎

Hey! Thanks to everyone trying Capstan and supporting the project. It’s now at v0.6.0, so here’s a quick update.

If you’re new here, Capstan is a compact AI coding agent built in C with Lua extensions.

Recent versions added background tasks and subagents. You can kick off tests or delegate several tasks and keep chatting. The agent can monitor the work and follow up with the results.

There are also task plans, optional background code review, and OpenTelemetry support. You can now investigate where time goes: model responses, tool execution, or subagent work. I’ve also fixed issues with response handling and tool history.

New in v0.6.0: long pastes collapse into compact blocks, and the startup logo assembles from pixels. That’s what the GIF shows :)

The interface uses your terminal’s colors. The README shows Dracula, Nord, Catppuccin Latte, and Tokyo Night. Light themes deserve some love too.

GitHub: https://github.com/theStrangeAdventurer/capstan

If you try it, tell me what annoys you and what’s missing. Stars are lovely, but that feedback helps make Capstan better.

I’m building FairPhoto: a layers-and-masks photo editor with local image and video generation. The idea is to bring local models into a familiar editing workflow.

My team has been working since February to make a better photo editor, one that combines the classic features you’d expect with new capabilities powered by Apple’s machine learning framework for Apple Silicon. It is free to try, has unlimited AI tools that can run on a macbook, and can be upgraded with a one time fee. (The generative local AI components are easy to connect with and simpler than comfyUI).

People are often frustrated by AI fill refusing requests for anything remotely risque. FairPhoto supports local image generation, z-image turbo, qwen, flux, and video generation like Wan and MIniMax as well as robust support for LoRas. In many ways the product is more like ComfyUI with a familiar face than Photoshop. I think people who value privacy and control of generative tools will see the value.

Send me a message if you would like to test it out and give feedback and I will give you a free license key.

https://f-3.ai/fairphoto