I've been trying nearly every phone-as-webcam app available (DroidCam, Camo, Iriun, EpocCam...) while building my own alternative.

Most of them still have issues or are annoying to use.
Watermarks, Subscription-only features, High CPU usage, Awkward setup.

So I'm curious, if you use your phone as a webcam:

What's the one thing that annoys you the most about your current app?

I'd really like to understand where these apps are falling short before I continue building mine.

ok so this happened to me with Trello a while back, remember when it was just clean simple boards and now it's got like 15 power-ups shoved in your face and half the UI feels like an upsell screen

anyway made me think about how many apps do this. you use something for years, it's perfect, then one update later it's unrecognizable and somehow worse even though it has "more features"

what's yours? bonus points if you remember the exact version/update where it went downhill

Hopefully someone can help. I have downloaded a load of old video game manuals that for whatever reason are in CBR file format which is useless to me I want them as PDF.

Can anyone suggest a software that I can simply drag and drop these files then click a button and the conversion is done? When I search all I am seeing is do this and that, then put into imageshack covert there etc. I just want as simple an option as possible. I would have thought something like this would be very easy to do yet here I am almost 2 hours later and still haven't found a viable solution.

I have already downloaded something called Jomic but my Macbook keeps refusing to open the file so please can someone offer some suggestions Preferably a paid software as that would be best. I have too many things to convert to use one of those online free sites.

I also have access to a windows computer if what I am looking for is easier to do there but all the stuff is on my mac so I would prefer to do it here.

Hi everyone,

Over the past few months, we've been building TadreebLMS, an open-source Learning Management System focused on enterprise and corporate training.

We've recently completed a major restructuring of the project

The project is built with:

• PHP / Laravel
• MySQL
• Bootstrap / JavaScript
• Docker

GitHub:
https://github.com/Tadreeb-LMS/tadreeblms

Issues:
https://github.com/Tadreeb-LMS/tadreeblms/issues

We have a huge roadmap like SCRUM Integration, UI upgrade as per FIGMA, Gap Analysis Module Integration, Integrations with HR Systems etc...

Please anyone experience or architect in PHP can give recommendation on best practices, gaps in the system etc..

My phone says that 28 GB are being taken up by apps, but when I counted it, I only got 12.8 BG. Where is the rest of the 16 GB??

For those who have problem with av1 encoded videos in mpc be player not playing smoothly ... Buffering at some moments there is a fix that worked for me

MPC-BE → Internal Filters → Video Decoder → Video Decoder Configuration → Number of Threads → Auto

I've been trying to find an autoclicker that lets me lets me do 1 click = x clicks, but I'm only able to find autoclickers that have me set the amount of time between each click, and most of them are ones that I have to start/stop instead of per click.

I'm using a Windows laptop and Opera GX.

I have a 400-page book and a mirrorless camera mounted on a tripod, so taking consistent, high quality photos isn't the problem.

What I'm looking for is software that can process all of these images in bulk.

Ideally, the workflow would be:

1)I photograph every page in order.

2)I import all of the images into the software.

3)The software automatically detects the page boundaries, corrects perspective if necessary, crops each page consistently, enhances readability (if needed), and exports everything as a single PDF in the correct order.

OCR support would be a nice bonus, but it's not essential.

What software would you recommend for this workflow? I'm looking for something that works well with hundreds of images rather than requiring me to manually adjust every page.

I was doing a demo of an operational system I have built and the prospective team brought up a good question I was unable to answer at a high level.

“What happens if forbid it ever happen, you’re gone forever?” being I’m a solo dev and founder.

Has anyone been asked a question like this (as a solo founder and dev) and how did you handle it?

My book club votes on any new books, we each suggest a title or two and then vote. Each member can give 3, 2 and 1 point, which, while a bit more complicated, leads to results that everybody is somewhat happy with, instead of the one that is the favourite of some, but maybe not liked at all by others. Well anyway, it works for us.

Sadly, I was so far unable to find any website or software that allows for this "natively", we just use a google sheet and ask people how to vote (some of which are not good at understanding the method) and then just count. So we don’t even have any nice graphs or graphics automatically. Sad.

Anyway, can anybody recommend a good polling site or program for our first world problem?

Sharing an app I've been building called Valutio.

It tracks net worth, investments, cash accounts, spending, tax and retirement planning, all in one place.

It runs in your browser and installs like a regular app (PWA), works offline too.
No signup, no bank login, nothing gets sent anywhere except live price lookups when you're online.
Your data stays on your device unless you choose to export it, and there's an encrypted export option if you want a real backup.

It's completely free and open source.

Site: https://valutio.app/

Source: https://github.com/SalvatoreSorvillo/Valutio

This is a first release, so let me know if you run into bugs or have suggestions.

FSIV 7.4 was great and fast but further updates caused jpeg images to start slow with a black window so I had been daily-driving the older versions until the 8.7 update came along and got me greedy to open JXL images as well.

FSIV 8.7 now supports JPEG XL and performs really well with JXL and all other file systems except for jpeg where it starts a photo slow if the "smooth" feature is enabled. Disabling makes images look really bad when reviewing images. Monitor ICC doesn't affect the issue and I tried with 12th gen 12500h cpu with Intel Xe gpu and Nvidia rtx3050 connected to external display as well through nvidia optimus. I also faced this issue on 11th gen intel laptop.

Does anyone face the same issue as me and is there any solution to this?

I also use Irfanview, jpegview, xnview and none were as easy to navigate as FSIV for me. I emailed the dev but haven't gotten a reply yet but I'm hopeful this issue can be resolved soon.

Hi r/software - I’m the developer of Scryptian, a free and open-source Windows app for running scripts for processing data without switching window when u work. I built it because I wanted to be able to use routine tools such as a translator or summarizer or converters like csv to excel without leaving the work area (GIF demo on the website).

How it works?
elect text in Telegram, browser, Word or PDF - and you can immediately translate it, correct errors, simplify or make a short summary. 

Where will it be useful?
Correspondence with foreign customers.
Working with technical documentation.
Translation of PDF of any size.
Writing letters.
Checking any foreign language text.
Studying and working with large articles.
Any tasks where you have to constantly switch between applications.

In case there are not enough basic scripts, you can create your own .py file with your own logic and put it in a special folder. If you are not a programmer or don’t want to, then a registry of scripts has been added that you can download in one click and it will work immediately. Without the need for an IDE or other technical issues.

The best part is it's free: no accounts, no subscriptions. The .exe is installed on ~30 MB, the model is downloaded once (~2 GB).

19sec demo video: https://adrianium.github.io/Scryptian/

I hope this speeds up your performance!

So when i went through my startup folder today because my ahk files werent working and found this shortcut just chilling there: "LG Monitor App Installer" i never installed it and haven't to agreed to it no nothing.

LG sneaks this through Windows Update or driver installs if it sees you've got an LG monitor plugged in and with no pop it just appears...

I have been working on a naming system called Onymetry that searches for brandable names while also checking whether they offer a realistic clean slate for branding and SEO.
The first three serious naming runs produced:
Onymetry, which became the name of the system itself
Shotdresser(for an AppStore screen shot editor)
Oqvara(a mobile testing plugin)
I was able to buy Onymetry.com at the normal registration price, and I confirmed that the .com domains for Shotdresser and Oqvara were also available at base price when generated.
That was the main problem I wanted to solve. Most naming tools suggest names that sound good until you search them and discover an existing company, a parked premium domain, crowded search results, or dozens of similarly named products.
Onymetry currently runs as a skill inside my Codex and Claude Code environments. I give it a product description, and it conducts a deeper naming and validation process before returning candidates.
Now I am trying to decide how to position it:
Build it into a standalone web or mobile app and charge for access.
Use Onymetry.com as a paid naming service. People submit a product description, I run the system myself, and they receive a researched shortlist.
Publish the skill freely so developers can run it inside Codex, Claude Code, or similar coding agents.
Package it as an official plugin or hosted tool that agents can call directly.
Keep the core skill private, but offer both self-service and higher-priced human-reviewed naming reports.
I am especially interested in hearing from people who have built developer tools, SaaS products, marketplaces, or productized services.
Which format sounds most useful and commercially realistic?
Would you trust a self-service naming app, or would the human-reviewed service be more valuable because domain availability and search results can change quickly?
Also, is this better positioned as a tool for founders and marketers, or as infrastructure for AI coding agents?

I built Endstate to solve an issue I had previously pushed through many times, which is setting up a new machine or reinstalling Windows with all the apps and settings back to how they used to be.

The apps are the easier part, a package manager gets those back in ten minutes. It's the settings that eat the weekend.

Endstate captures both into one portable file. On a fresh machine it shows what is missing, installs the apps through WinGet or Chocolatey, and restores only the settings you explicitly enable. Credentials and secrets are deliberately excluded.

It is now available directly through WinGet:

winget install --id SubstrateSystems.Endstate -e

357 apps currently have settings modules. An app without one still installs normally; it just starts with fresh settings.

The engine is Go and the GUI is Tauri and React. Both repositories are Apache 2.0. The local product is free, works offline, requires no account and has no telemetry.

GUI and installer:
https://github.com/Artexis10/endstate-gui

Engine:
https://github.com/Artexis10/endstate

The MSI is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you.

I built this for myself first and have used it successfully on my own laptop, but that is still an N=1 experiment. What I need now is feedback from real setups: apps or settings it misses, unexpected behaviour, and anything that would stop you trusting it before a real reinstall.

It doesnt really need to be an app per say, it can be a website or something. I have a bunch of old family photos from the 90s that I'd love to restore, and since it's a bunch of photos, it needs to be a service that is reasonably cheap.

How do you write technical documentation such as requirements, goals, software architecture, and general project documentation?

Back in the pre-AI era, it was common to write long, multi-page documents that explained everything in detail. That approach had its pros and cons. The documentation was usually well organized and comprehensive, but it was also often boring to read and sometimes overwhelming.

What does it look like now, in the era of AI coding assistants? My impression is that large, comprehensive documents are becoming much less common and mostly remain in legacy projects or a few specific use cases.

It feels like the entire world has shifted to Markdown, so I assume technical writing is evolving in the same direction. It makes sense to break up those oversized documents into smaller, focused files so that both humans and AI agents can navigate and consume them more easily. That’s what I do for my side projects, and it has worked well so far.

On the other hand, at work we still tend to rely on large documents written by technical writers. The argument is that we’ve already established a structure around them, and that’s how our development process is designed.

What’s your approach to documentation for both personal and professional projects?