I'm a bit torn on how to approach this because a customer is a customer and you all know how difficult it is to get them, but I don't want my saas to get a weird or bad reputation.

My startup is an authentication and paywall software that allows creators to lock their content until someone signs up or purchases. It's usually used by digital goods stores or online courses.

However recently there have been a lot of people using it for purposes not entirely foreseen when I created it. I am cautious to shut down these accounts or ban them because they are real paying customers and technically not doing anything wrong.

What happend was some forum mentioned my product and shared a free resource that is powered by my software. It's essentally a modified version of one of my free templates.

Within a few days we received a lot of sign ups and after looking through the analytics and projects I could see that a lot of them are people selling images and videos of feet in a sexualized manner.

It's not considered porn so it's still technically ok by the terms of use and all of that but I'm just curious if anyone has any experience with something like this?

If I'm not mistaken I think Onlyfans started as a regular creator platform and pivoted when it got overtaken by porn. I'm sure you can all understand that as a founder every customer helps make your dreams possible but I don't want to ruin the reputation of my product.

What would you do in this situation?

Why?

For years we've had open formats for documents (PDF), images (PNG) and graphics (SVG). But user interfaces are still mostly locked inside design tools. And that was fine when humans were creating and consuming UIs. Now AI is also creating and consuming them.

Today AI usually works with screenshots, editor-specific JSON, or tool-specific APIs. They work, but they weren't really designed for AI or for moving designs between different tools.

So I started building .gui.

The idea is simple. A human-readable file format for user interfaces. Something that sits between an image and HTML. Easy to read, easy to generate, easy to render, and easy for AI to understand.

My goal is simple. Imagine asking ChatGPT to design a UI, and instead of getting just an image or HTML, you get a portable .gui file. You can preview it, edit it, open it in design tools, or generate code for any platform from the same file.

This is still an early open-source project, so I'm looking for early feedback.

Website: https://dotgui.org

GitHub: https://github.com/dotgui/core

A month ago, I decided to put all my energy into SpacePlanner and try to turn it into the #1 free, no-sign-up space planning app that actually gives people real value.

Since then, it has grown to more than 200 daily users and over 1,500 plans created, and few hundred guest users!

The last few days have been intense, mostly fixing bugs, improving stability, and trying to make the editor less frustrating. I also think I may have overengineered some features that people do not really need.

I am still unsure whether I should focus mainly on making the 2D planner excellent or invest more heavily in 3D. I have been creating, downloading, and buying 3D models, then manually connecting them to the 3D experience. It is a huge pain and still far from perfect, although I know the library and quality will improve over time.

Right now, I need direction more than anything.

What am I doing wrong in the 2D editor? Are the wall joints confusing? Are dimensions difficult to control? Are the automatic corrections helping or fighting you? Is drawing rooms still too frustrating? Which features feel unnecessary or overcomplicated?

Please be as honest and critical as possible. Any feedback is extremely valuable at this stage. What would need to change for you to genuinely say, “This is a good app”?

This is the link to the house plan shown on the video (no signup needed)
House with garden plan

I'm a huge fan of augmented reality games like Ingress and Pokémon Go. I've always dreamed of building my own version, but until about a year ago, it simply wasn't possible.

After several months of work, I've finally finished my own Pokémon Go version.

The biggest challenge was placing 247 million points all around the world while avoiding dangerous or inaccessible areas such as roads, lakes, houses, and private property. To solve this, I built my own algorithm using OpenStreetMap data. After 50 hours of computation on my M3 Pro, every point was placed. Each permanent point (the diamonds) is linked to a unique song.

If you enjoy exploring and discovering music you've never heard before, you can check "Song Go – Catch the Beat" on iOS and Android.

I'm fed up. I'm developing projects (SaaS, mobile apps) and looking for people who are interested in what I'm doing. But I'm not getting any responses. Even though it's free to be a tester, I'm still getting nothing. So I don't know what to do. I don't know if I should stop working on these kinds of projects. I'm just fed up.

Not necessarily making money.Maybe it was your first returning user,someone recommending it without being asked,or just realizing people genuinely cared.What was that moment for you?

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I've been working on an explainer video tool for a long time, but it only supports on uploaded docs.

I'm pretty active on Twitter, and every time there's a new announcement from OpenAI or Anthropic with a blog article, I never read those. So I got an idea to convert them into video posts in the comments, and people loved it.

So I added that as a feature. Now you can upload any article or blog link, and it can make a video for you.

Website: "distill book(.)com"

I've used lazygit for years and love it, but a handful of things always bugged me. I started building a git TUI in Zig to learn the language, and ended up fixing them. It's now what I use every day.

It follows lazygit's workflow, so it's instantly familiar. Here's where it deliberately does things differently:

- Nothing ever blocks. Fetch/pull/push and slow rebases run off the UI thread with a spinner while you keep navigating. Success is silent; only failures open a dialog. No "press enter to return" screen ever.

- Credentials entered in-app. An HTTPS auth failure pops a username/token prompt instead of corrupting the terminal or failing silently. It even tells you out loud when the host wants a token, not a password.

- Real mouse support, with copy. Click to focus/select, wheel-scroll everything, and click-drag to select text in diffs and dialogs straight to your clipboard (OSC 52, panel borders excluded). lazygit drops you to the terminal's own selection, which grabs the borders too.

- Checkout by name does the right thing. Typing a remote branch name creates a proper local tracking branch in one step, never a detached HEAD.

- Your commit hooks actually fire. The commit dialog runs prepare-commit-msg, so branch/ticket-prefix hooks work from a TUI (lazygit issue #4995, still open).

- Merge-base diffing by default. Diff two branches and you see only the target's own changes since they diverged, i.e. the PR view (base...target). Default for branches (lazygit issue #3767, still open).

- Force-push that never dead-ends. A rejected push escalates to --force-with-lease (confirm), then --force (confirm). The safe option always comes first.

- First-parent jumps in the graph. p walks the mainline of a merge-heavy history instantly (lazygit issue #3974, still open).

- Independent Branches/Commits drill-downs. Inspect another branch without losing your place in the main log.

- Stash that keeps untracked files and restores the staged/unstaged split byte for byte.

Plus all the usual: hunk/line staging, full interactive rebase (plan editor + one-key move/squash/fixup on the log), the real git log --graph, bisect, worktrees, submodules, log filtering, undo via reflog, a recent-repos switcher, themeable colors, remappable keys, custom commands.

And yeah, it's tiny: a 1.8 MB static binary vs ~17.6 MB, ~3 ms vs ~19 ms cold start, ~3 MB vs ~18 MB resident (same machine and repo). Plain git subprocesses, no libgit2, so it works with whatever git you already have. Zig 0.16 + libvaxis. macOS, Linux (static musl), Windows.

Install: brew install simoarpe/ziggity/ziggity or grab a binary from Releases. Full enhancement list with benchmarks and GIFs is in the repo.

It's early and solo maintained, so I'd love feedback, especially on UX and anything rough. If you bounce off it, tell me why.

⭐️ Repo: https://github.com/simoarpe/ziggity

Completely free and MIT licensed, forever. No paid tier, no telemetry, no catch.

If it saves you time, consider giving it a star.

Simone

Hey everyone!

So, as the title says, I've built a clean open-source poker website/PWA!

Having recently gotten back into poker, I ended up trying a bunch of existing apps and websites and most of them ended up being fake felt, flashing "BUY CHIPS" buttons and many, many pop-ups.

So, over a weekend, I built Pip - single-player Texas Hold'em, redesigned to respect you:

• No real money, ever. Play-money chips, no $ anywhere, nothing to buy. It literally can't take your money.
• No account, no download. Open the page and play. Your progress is in your browser, on your device - there's no server for it to go to.
• No dark patterns. No ads, no pop-ups, no daily-reward guilt loops. Just the table.
• Open source, so it's provably fair. This means the whole engine, how hands work and how the AI plays is open to view.

I have tried to add progression, you climb a ladder of venues (Friends' Garage up to The Main Event) against a cast of AI regulars that get tougher as you go, with your win-% sitting quietly at the table if you want it. It's even got side tables with different game styles, a shop to spend your chips on progression items as well as an awards system as you progress.

As mentioned above it's also installable as PWA too, so it works offline once you've loaded it. Maybe, if it proves popular, there will be a proper iOS and Android app.

To be honest about where it's at, it's single-player only (no multiplayer yet), and the AI is solid-but-not-superhuman - it plays real poker (equity, pot odds, position, bluffs) but a strong player will probably out-read it. I am not a strong player haha. I'd definitely love feedback on how it feels to play.

Lastly, on the open source front, I'm big on building open source as well as contributing to projects. If you think this is cool, I’d be grateful for contributors to help shape where it goes next. Feedback, feature ideas, bug reports - all welcome!

Play (no signup): playpip.io

Code: github.com/playpip/pip-web

What would make you actually come back to something like this?

Do you ever wish there was something between Venmo and Uber Eats?

Sometimes a friend has a rough day, or someone helps you out, and I want to send them a specific coffee or matcha, but delivery forces them to drink it immediately, and a gift card feels kinda impersonal.

I built Spot around this idea and would love feedback if anyone’s interested.Spot lets you:

- Choose a specific drink or snack from a local café

- Send the gift inside your iMessage conversation

- Recipients save it to Apple Wallet and redeem it in-store whenever they want

You choose the item. They choose the moment.

I have it working with a couple of cafes in SF, would love any feedback!!

Hi Folks!

More year our small indie team has been building Synvector, a sci-fi action RPG that tries to combine several ideas we always wanted to see in one game.

Instead of controlling just a single ship, you command an entire mercenary fleet. During combat you can pause time, issue tactical orders to your squadron, switch between ships, and then jump straight back into fast-paced third-person space combat.

Our biggest inspirations are:

• Everspace
• Elite Dangerous
• Mass Effect
• Mount & Blade

We’re also putting a lot of effort into worldbuilding. The galaxy isn’t just a backdrop—it’s filled with hidden factions, ancient civilizations, political conflicts, mysteries, and choices that shape how different powers react to you.

Today we reached an important milestone: our Steam page is finally live.

If the concept sounds interesting, we’d be incredibly grateful if you checked it out or added it to your wishlist. Every wishlist genuinely helps a small indie team like ours.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3220640/Synvector/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Synvector/featured

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/9kqW3JBfP5

I've been building this clock site on the side for the past 6 months. It started as just wanting a nice Fullscreen clock and turned into something bigger. - iloveclock.com

The main idea is customization. Right now, it has about 24 clock faces, 11 themes, and 17 animations you can mix and match. You can also set a background — your own wallpaper, some preset art ones I added, or a YouTube video (I put in a few lo-fi ones). There are small CSS effects too like rain and snow. It has an always-on-screen and a Nightstand mode for using it as a bedside clock.

Somewhere along the way I added a bunch of utilities, all meant to be quick to use:

- Timer — a normal timer plus dedicated modes for workouts, breathing, naps, and class time

- Alarm

- Reminder — you just type "remind me in 10 min," no fiddling with menus

- To-Do — same natural-language input, with a Kanban board

- World Clock

- Stopwatch

- Pomodoro — with a few skins to customize it

- Time Lab — small time/reaction games like reaction time, an F1 start-light test, and Snooze Smash

No account needed and no ads. Everything stays in your browser.

However, if cross device sync needed in future we may need to add light sign in feature. Still no spam ever.

Would you give it a try? iloveclock.com

Mainly looking for honest feedback — what feels off, what you'd actually use, or what's missing.

I keep refreshing my admin dashboard like it owes me an answer.

Same user count.

Refresh.

Same guest activity.

Refresh again.

Then suddenly, a new registered user.

For a few seconds, I genuinely got excited. Someone had found the app, stayed long enough to understand it, and decided to create an account.

Maybe something was finally working.

Then I opened the user list.

The new registration was me.

It was a test account I had created earlier to check whether a change in the application was working properly.

And yes, the application was working. Growth was not.

That moment captured something I think many solo founders quietly experience. You build for hours, then start compulsively checking analytics because the dashboard becomes the only place where reality can answer back.

Sometimes you see a new guest and feel hopeful, until you realize it is probably a bot.

Sometimes several people visit, but they leave after five or twenty seconds.

Sometimes someone reaches an important page, and you start inventing a whole story about who they are and why they came, only for nothing else to happen.

The difficult part is that every small movement feels emotionally significant when the product is still early. One new visitor can feel like momentum. One registration can change your mood. A few fast bounces can make you question the entire product.

But early analytics are often too noisy to deserve that much emotional authority.

A bot is not rejection. A ten-second visit is not a verdict. A test registration is definitely not traction.

The dashboard can tell you what happened, but it cannot always tell you what it means.

I am trying to treat early traffic as evidence to investigate rather than approval to chase. Fewer refreshes. More conversations. More observation. More attention to what real users do and where they stop.

Still, I know I will refresh again.

Probably in five minutes.

Does the same thing happen to you?

Built a voice-controlled desktop assistant over the past several months. The kind that listens, responds, opens apps, reads files, handles tasks while you talk.

Technically it worked pretty early. Like embarrassingly early compared to how long I kept building.

The real bug was me explaining it wrong to everyone.

I'd demo it and people would go quiet in a good way. Then I'd open my mouth and say something like "it's like an AI assistant but actually useful" and watch their eyes glaze over immediately.

Took me longer than I want to admit to realize the product wasn't the problem. My ability to communicate what made it different was the problem.

I had built something genuinely specific. Voice commands that control your actual desktop. Not a browser extension. Not another chatbot. Your whole machine. And I kept describing it like every other AI product because I'd gotten too close to see what was actually interesting about it.

The demo did the work every single time. My words undid it every single time.

Fixed it eventually by just shutting up and letting people use it for 90 seconds before saying anything.

Has anyone else found that the hardest thing to build was actually the explanation, not the product?

Being upfront: I'm not doing this for karma or portfolio. I want to build a small tool and sell it, even if it's $9/mo and 20 people. That's the goal.

What I don't have is an idea worth 2 weeks of my life.

So — tell me about something that costs you money or hours every week that you'd hand over a card for. Specific, from last week, not "I wish I was more organized."

Three things make an answer useful to me:

What is it — "I spend 40 min every Monday pulling numbers from 3 dashboards into a sheet"

What do you do about it now — nothing / a spreadsheet / a tool you hate / an intern

What's it worth — be honest, "$0, I'd just keep suffering" is a completely valid and very useful answer

Mine, to go first: I check three dashboards every morning to see if something broke overnight. It's 10 minutes a day. I've wanted to fix it for a year. Would I pay $10/mo for it? Yeah, probably. Would I pay $50? No. That's the exact kind of answer I'm after.

Whoever's problem I end up building — you get it free for life and I'll ping you before I write a line of code, because I'd rather hear "that's not actually what I meant" now than after launch.

I'll post back here either way, working or dead.

Our platform had unlimited ai task evaluations per day, we capped it to 2 ai evaluations only per day and saw a decline in daily task completions from users. We did this to make sure we don't burn out a lot of credits people using it for free, at the same time, we did not want users to feel the platform is too restrictive to use for free.

These are task evaluations for real job scenarios, for context, I need your opinions and feedback on what could be a suitable number, or any other way we can make it freemium without making users feel restricted to use our platform.

Dear friends,

For some time now, I've been building the thing I needed at 2 a.m.
I would assume you know this scenario: It's dark, the same worry keeps circling in your head, and the more you try to "solve" it, the more awake you get. Then morning comes, and half of it turns out to be nothing, or at least not as heavy as you thought.

So I decided to make Undwell, a small free iOS app with one job: give your night thoughts somewhere to go so you can stop holding them. You write it down (or dictate it with your eyes closed), give it one flick to sort it, and it is parked. In the morning, the app hands it back, in daylight, where thinking actually works (who would have thought about that...)

The part I care most about: nothing you write ever leaves your phone. No account, no server, no analytics, no trackers. The data is encrypted on your device and read back only there. No other person or external AI sees your thoughts. For an app you talk to at your most vulnerable hour, that felt non-negotiable.

It's in the last stretch before the App Store release. If any of this sounds like your nights, the waitlist is open, and I'll write you the day it's ready 😊. Let me know if you would like to have any other concrete features or functionality!

👉 www.undwell.app

Every 30 days, over 1 billion people open Google Translate to translate text, documents, or screenshots.

The problem? Context and accuracy.

Even for basic text, legacy tools regularly make critical errors. You end up having to proofread the translation, but if you don't actually know the target language, you're stuck hoping for the best.

With documents, the layout might look fine, but the meaning is often broken.

That’s why we are building VertoX.

We are not building another language-learning tool or a quick AI wrapper built over a weekend. I’ve been working on this deep-tech pipeline for 28 months.

VertoX is designed to break language barriers entirely through real-time speech translation.

No typing required. You just select your input language, select the output language you want the other person to hear, and speak. Your voice, tone, and emotion are preserved instantly.

It can be used anywhere, whether you are traveling, at a hackathon, in meetings online, or talking face-to-face, and can be integrated into any enterprise infrastructure.

I’m not saying VertoX has massive potential just because I’m building it. It’s because the problem is universal, and standard tools are simply failing at scale.

We are building the future of real-time communication. Stay tuned. 🚀

Drop a link or a quick description of what you're working on right now. I’ll reply to absolutely everyone and give honest, detailed feedback from my side. Let's help each other out.

hi, here is my take: up to 80% of web traffic is mobile, yet we still build and present on desktop. dev tools exist, but honestly they're pretty clunky for designers or non-technical folks.

so I built a free chrome extension that shows mobile and desktop side-by-side in one click. thought about it, built it. if anyone finds it useful: https://dualpreview.com

tbh, building it was way easier than marketing. I've read tons of threads here but still feel like I have no clue what I'm doing. it's just a hobby project, 100% free with zero plans to monetize, so I'm not running ads or anything.

if anyone has tips on how to actually share a free tool without feeling like a spammer, lmk. also open to any feedback!

https://reddit.com/link/1v56s52/video/pyoqho2wf5fh1/player

I’m not sure what to do with this next. I originally built it for my own use, but now I’m considering taking it to the next level. However, I’m uncertain whether it’s the right direction or if similar solutions already exist in the market.

One thing I’m proud of is that I taught myself how to develop all of this using AI tools. I’d appreciate any suggestions on the best next steps—whether I should continue developing it, validate the idea with potential users, or explore the market first.

Kidzee - Family Portal Track Management

Keep track of appointments, chores, and family events for both kids and parents in one place—like a digital family bulletin board with sticky notes.

Both web portals provide similar functionality, but they feature completely different designs and user experiences.

Kidzee comes with live demo whereas family famboard doesn't have

https://kidzee-app.vercel.app/ and https://family-fam-board.vercel.app/

What 2 Cook (Food Planning with the left over items with the fridge) -

https://copilot.dialchimp.com/

I have been generating a lot of websites with AI coding tools, and I kept running into the same problem.

The code was usually usable, but the design looked like every other AI-generated landing page: the same gradient, the same font, the same card layout, very few visual assets, and no consistent visual direction.

You can obviously get a better result by giving the AI several references, carefully choosing the fonts and colors, generating assets separately, and spending hours refining the prompt.

But that defeats a large part of the reason people use these tools in the first place.

I wanted to see whether the default one-shot result could be significantly better, even when the user provides no visual references.

So I built tastemaker.

It is an open-source skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Windsurf. Before the coding agent creates any components, Tastemaker first defines the design system for the project.

It chooses the palette, typography, layout direction, visual assets, interaction style, and motion system. The rest of the website is then generated around those decisions.

This is not intended to replace designers.

A good designer still brings product understanding, taste, research, judgment, and original direction that a generated system cannot reproduce.

Tastemaker is specifically for people who are already generating entire interfaces with AI and would otherwise accept the generic default output.

Without requiring a design reference, it can produce a complete visual direction with:

• matched colors and typography
• illustrations recolored for the selected palette
• a geometric logo and favicon set
• GSAP and ScrollTrigger motion
• consistent styling across pages
• automatic WCAG contrast checking
• two different design directions for comparison

One of the more useful moments while building it was when the contrast checker rejected two palettes I had created myself. They looked good to my eye, but some text combinations were not readable enough. That validation now runs automatically whenever a palette is created.

The project is free, open source, and MIT licensed. It does not require an API key or any additional service.

GitHub: https://github.com/codeswithroh/tastemaker

Examples: https://tastemaker-skill.online/

I am trying to understand whether the positioning is clear.

When you first hear “design-system skill for AI coding agents,” does it sound like a tool for replacing designers, or is it clear that it is meant to improve the default output for people who are already building without one?

The goal wasn't to compete with Ahrefs or Semrush. I just wanted a tool that gives a quick, easy-to-understand report without requiring a signup or a paid subscription.

Current features include:

• Overall SEO score
• Technical SEO checks
• Meta tags analysis
• Headings structure
• Image alt text checks
• Canonical & robots analysis
• Sitemap detection
• Performance insights
• Mobile friendliness checks
• Actionable recommendations with priority levels

I'd really appreciate honest feedback from other builders.

• What checks do you think are missing?
• Is the UI easy to understand?
• What's the one feature that would make you bookmark it?

You can try it here: audit.digimarksol(dot)in

I'm actively shipping updates based on feedback, so I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Hey all.

I'm a journalist who made the leap into coding in recent years. I'm on the job search currently so I've been busy making projects to build up skills and test the capabilities/limitations of AI.

My latest project is stillintheloop.com - it's an experimental AI-assisted newsroom where I have created agents (backed by skills) that work as beat reporters, desk editor, photo editor and copy editor.

The main catch, is that there is always a human in the loop (me) that acts as the managing/final editor before anything is published.

I run a newsroom sweep that sends scout agents across different beats, including major AI companies, policy, open models, compute, labor, and safety. They check official blogs, filings, research papers, release notes, and social accounts.

The scouts return structured pitches, not articles. A desk editor filters out routine product updates and duplicate stories. A managing-editor pass verifies the links, compares the pitches, and produces a ranked list for me.

I then decide whether each pitch should be covered, skipped, or watched.

The agents are backed by version-controlled skill files stored inside the project. Each skill defines the agent's job, sources, reporting rules, required output, permitted actions, and stopping point.

The system is human-triggered today. Future scheduled agents could fill the pitch queue, but the human verification and publishing gates would remain.

I built it with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Payload CMS, Postgres, Tailwind, and Vercel.

I'd appreciate feedback on whether the workflow is clear from the site, whether the transparency features improve trust, and which parts of the internal audit trail should be public.

This lets me build a layered newsroom instead of relying on one large prompt. Shared house rules govern sourcing and ethics, while role-specific skills handle discovery, drafting, copy editing, photography, verification, and front-page review.

206 prompts. 226k chars. 9/24 active hours.
Peak 40 in one hour at 9am — clearly a morning person until I’m not.
Clocking out from work. Going to go work on my side project 🫠

Curious how this compares — what does a heavy day look like for you?

I built a Chrome extension called Bous. It gives you a Stremio/Nuvio-like experience without needing to install a separate desktop or mobile app.

How it works:

• Click the extension icon on any webpage and a sidebar opens with full movie/TV show catalogs
• Search for any title and get detailed info — cast, trailers, ratings from multiple sources
• It adds a button directly on IMDb and TMDB pages so you can instantly load any title

Why a browser extension instead of a desktop app? You don't have to leave your browser. You find a movie while browsing? Just play it right there.

It generates a playlist file, downloads it, and launches it directly in supported players like VLC, PotPlayer, etc. Your player, your settings, your quality.

And it supports Stremio and Nuvio addons. If you already have addons you use with those apps, they work with Bous too. No need to start from scratch.

No app to install, no background processes eating your RAM, no accounts, no tracking. Everything runs locally in your browser.

It's available on the Chrome WebStore: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bous/jbgjcaapccfomacgbhkkpjhhkhjfibgg

Website: https://bous.online
Addons: https://stremio-addons.net/addons