Last Saturday my parents' Xiaomi TV played a full-screen sponsored ad before they could even open Netflix. I gave Claude Code the model number, it found the TV on our Wi-Fi, turned off 25 ad and tracking apps (disabled, not uninstalled) and built them a simple home screen with just their apps.

I posted the before/after and it took off. In 4 days:

• 200+ people sent pull requests adding their own TVs, now ~150 models from 50+ brands
• 16k GitHub stars
• It works on Android TV and Google TV, no root, and one command puts everything back

What surprised me most: the prompt that makes it work is mostly a list of things the agent must NOT do (never uninstall, back up first, never touch the packages that break casting or Wi-Fi). Most of those rules came from strangers' TVs breaking in new ways.

Free and open source: https://github.com/Gathin23/cleanyourtv

Happy to answer anything about it.

Insurers are legally required to publish their negotiated rates with hospitals (Transparency in Coverage Act), but they bury it in massive, nearly impossible to access files.

So I scraped 100TB+ of this data and built a AI chat-based tool that makes it searchable:

• Estimate costs for medical procedures, visits, labs, imaging before you go
• Find cheaper providers nearby and see exactly how much you'd save
• Check if they're in-network and see reviews

The price gaps are insane. Same MRI can be $400 at one place and $2,800 ten minutes away. Insurers hope you won't shop around.

Try it out: https://momentarylab.com/healthcare-navigator

Got to 10K users through SEO and the product is still rough around the edges, but would love feedback on what would make it more useful! Happy to chat about what worked well for us regarding distribution :)

A new site, four phone agents, a daily AI digest, six games, a workout app, an embroidery file converter, a Whisper setup, a skill scanner and a content calendar.

The pattern that worked: I keep each build small and finish it in a day or two. The ones that dragged were the ones where I hadn't said what "done" means. Happy to share how I brief it.

I honestly believe that we are not far from seeing software factories/companies that claim that they don't write a single line of code using AI and they will charge insane amount of money. Same with graphic design, copy writing, etc...

Thoughts?

Built https://www.autospend.app/ . Punch in up to 4 cars and compare fuel cost, efficiency ratings, and insurance claim indexes side by side, using Canadian and USA data.
Made this for fun and I'd love to hear what you think. Let me know what's missing or what you'd change.

Introducing 'Inter Folia' - - A virtual library where you can browse and read real books

Enjoy the hunt for a great book while exploring some of the world's most beautiful libraries in our virtual park setting. Find real books from Project Gutenberg, Open Library, and other open sources. Browse, check out, and read directly in game or send to your favorite e-reader.

Early Access on itch: https://noodleonit.itch.io/inter-folia

Current features:

• Five famous library buildings recreated and fully explorable containing the book collections, in a chill park setting.
• 180k copyright-free books from Project Gutenberg are readable in game.
• Card catalog search system. Search by author/title/subject, choose a book and a cat guide will lead you to it's location in the stacks
• Books are organized by Library of Congress subject areas and author for easy browsing and discovering new titles.
• Check out system and book drop locations, so you can ready anywhere in the park. Links to download for your Kindle/e-reader for reading anywhere IRL.

Future plans:

• NPC's that read audio short stories / poetry in various locations across the map
• Secret doors that open when certain books are selected
• A goal of 12 famous library buildings, and 3 million browsable books
• A 'banned book' library

Bonus feature if I finish everything else:

• Fill the park with an arboretum of real tree species, recreated in 3d to as close to reality as possible, all labeled for visitors to learn about and appreciate while they listen to their audio books.

Happy Reading!

Inter Folia, Fructus

I wanted to share my journey building JuicySearch, an OnlyFans search engine that's taken off much faster than I expected.

The Problem

OnlyFans is huge - $7.9B revenue in 2024 with 5M+ creators and 400M users. But there's a major issue: OnlyFans has no native search functionality. Users can only find creators through direct links from social media or other channels, making discovery incredibly difficult.

Solution:

After studying all the existing OnlyFans search engines and reading countless Reddit threads about what users actually wanted, I spent 5 months building JuicySearch with these features, and I think I got the best product available right now:

• Natural language search - Type anything and get relevant OnlyFans creators
• 500K+ indexed creators in our database (classified with local uncensored LLMs)
• Location search - Find creators near you (city/state level for US, country level globally)
• Advanced filters & sorting - Narrow down creators by numerous attributes, and sort by many options (age, gender, fetishes, body preferences, content type etc.)
• TikTok-style browsing - Switch between grid view to TikTok style browsing with even more details about creators
• Image search - Upload a photo to find that creator or similar OnlyFans creators using face match
• Wishlists - Save creators you're interested in
• Browser extension - Find similar creators while browsing OnlyFans available on Chrome and Firefox

First Month Results

After 30 days of promotion, I've done some paid ads, but also organic promo, getting 50% of traffic directly with:

• 50K users
• $2K+ in revenue (CPA, CPL, CPC)
• 6+ minutes average time on site
• 20% returning users daily

The key difference between JuicySearch and competitors is relevance. Other OnlyFans search engines prioritize paid placements over relevant results. I only show sponsored creators when they actually match what people are searching for. But also I have much better filtering and sorting options, wishlists, TikTok browsing style, and image search no one else offers.

What's Next

I'm working on enhancing location search globally, improving the matching algorithms, and also will work on search suggestions but need more data for this. Each day I'm thinking about new features that I can add.

The main work will still be doing promotion. SEO is the primary focus but I don't want to push it unnaturally. I'm sure I have the best OnlyFans search engine, so SEO will come naturally over time.

What do you think? If you want to check it out and give feedback, I'd appreciate it!

More info on my website: https://merlinslibrary.net/

Essentially the library can read all markdown, txt and word files. You can fill the library with over 3000 of your own books and interact with the library through magic or through the animals

Every focus app I used only counted hours. Most days I tried to focus but I never really felt motivated and the focus apps never felt gamified enough.

So I built a timer that counts runs instead: the unbroken stretch between pressing Start and your attention going somewhere else. When your mind wanders, you press “I got distracted” (or Space). The clock stops, the run is logged, and you start again when you’re back. Getting distracted isn’t failing. It’s the thing being measured, and your average run is the number that grows.

What it does:

• A visual disc that shrinks as time runs out, inspired by the Time Timer, originally made for a kid with ADHD
• No sign-up: open it, press Space, you’re focusing
• A to-do list beside the timer, so time adds up on each task, plus a “park a thought for later” box for mid-run ideas
• Optional groups of up to 8 friends who can see when each other are mid-session, a low-pressure kind of body doubling. Nobody is ranked; everyone is compared only with their own past weeks
• Overflow mode, so hyperfocus isn’t cut off at zero

What surprised me most: most of the work went into what the timer doesn’t do. No red numbers, no leaderboards, no buzzer when you get distracted, just a soft tick. An app that sounds disappointed in you is one you stop opening.

Free and ad-free (with the link), made in Australia: timer.logicfire.app/ad-free

Would love feedback, especially on the groups feature. Happy to answer anything.

Hi! I'm Ria (she/her) and I am currently a college student. I have been working on a product called mooboard. It is basically a smart matrix LED display that can show various things throughout the day like timed lyrics (my fav) as you listen to music, the time and weather, calendar events/tasks, TV Shows/Movie titles and seasons, and so so much more. It also has a growing app store with 20+ custom apps (with a public dev kit to make more) and free updates for years to come.

I originally built this as a product for myself using an ESP32-S3 as a way to have something cool on my wall and learn how to do embedded systems work. Got a little too interested and now I have a print farm, and just last week I sent out my first custom PCB!!!

I am working on making a small batch by the end of this year and have already started shipping dev boards to some friends. I’d love to know what would make you want one, or what would put you off.

Hardware and product walkthrough: mooboard.co/start
Web portal: https://imgur.com/a/BGkNiQ5

So far, it's just been me doing all the work so I am also looking for more developers/help too!! Thank you!!!

Also, join the discord: mooboard.co/discord

Hey all. I’m one of the founders of Braind.

What it is: AI agents that handle the back office for one-person and small businesses: invoicing, chasing late payments, bookkeeping, admin. We already run agents for a handful of small firms, and we just opened early access for solo operators.

The one design decision we keep coming back to: everything is approval-first. The agent drafts the payment reminder, the invoice, the follow-up, and you approve it before anything is sent. From what we’ve seen, owners don’t fear AI being bad at the work. They fear it acting without them: emailing a client, changing a price, sending something they never saw.

Where we are: early. Some parts are live with early customers, others are still being built. Free until you’re earning.

What I’d love feedback on:

1. Does “approval-first” make you trust it more, or does it sound like extra work?
2. Does the page explain it clearly in 5 seconds? braindd.xyz/founders?src=reddit-sideproject&icp=5

And if you run something solo: what’s the one admin job you’d hand to an AI tomorrow?

I got into roguelite by playing Brotato and decided to make my own with Opus 5.5: Lumenfall

Please share you thoughts!

I’ve been working on a social media website called Wall.

I wanted to create another place where people can share their thoughts, make posts, follow others, and have conversations without needing to jump between several different platforms.

It’s an independent project, and I’m looking for people willing to create an account, try it out, and help build the community.

I’d really appreciate feedback on the design, features, and what would make you want to keep using it.

Check it out: https://wall.murelkoval.ca

What would convince you to join a new social media platform?

Got my small project to the point where i can start charging for it, but now im wondering whether its worth keeping the payment page on my own site or just redirecting people somewhere else.  Never thought checkout would be one of those tiny decisions that turns into a whole afternoon of research lol, but just noticed Whop and some other platforms offer both hosted and embedded checkout. I'm not sure how much difference that makes when youre starting out.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

When you're building something, there's always another thing to fix, another feature to add, another detail that could be better.

But sometimes I wonder how much of that polishing actually matters to anyone besides the person building it.

I personally think showing imperfect work earlier can be more valuable than spending months getting everything just right.

Curious where everyone stands on this. Does sharing early genuinely help, or does it just bring opinions that distract you from your original vision?

I'm Gavin, the founder. I kept watching friends ship an app in a weekend and then discover nobody wanted it. So in Tactyl, Dex questions you first: problem, customer, competitors, pricing. A live score moves as you answer. Our test idea hit 45% and "Problem validated" quickly, and the product builder only opened at 30%. At 50% a real person reviews it. Free tier, no card.

2-minute walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPz3YK9LkUA

I'd honestly like to hear where the questioning feels annoying versus useful. https://tactyl.co

After daycare, I get about 2h with my 2yo incl. dinner & then bed. Every baby app I tried for play ideas turned those 2h into homework, milestone charts quietly suggesting he might be behind, 3K+ activities library my brain can't choose from at 5.30 pm, daily notifications, and a paywall before you can see most of it.

Being a PM (10y at FAANG) & the mom here, I did the most PM thing - read the reviews to check if I was the only crazy parent. A few hundred 1,2-star reviews of the incumbents later, it was not just me. The same complaints repeat: the anxiety about "behind," paywalls, subscriptions, content overload that makes working parents feel guilty for doing none of it.

So I built the opposite, for my baby first:

- One card a day. One small fun play idea, matched to your child's exact age (0 to 36 months), also prepping them for the approaching milestones as a by-product.

- Every card has one honest line about WHY the activity matters.

What it deliberately does not have: homework, accounts, subscriptions, notifications, milestone tracking, or a server holding your child's data. Your child's birthday live in your own browser. No app store, nothing to install, works on any browser.

It is free, and live here: https://midnightbuilds.fyi/cuddles-and-cue/

Genuinely curious if it helps you too. What do you think?

Hearby reads text aloud on a Mac, mainly AI replies: select, press ⌃⌥S, listen. It cleans up Markdown and code before speaking, and the voice runs on the Mac instead of in the cloud. Things I learned getting it out the door:

1. Choosing a voice model meant choosing a license. The speech library I used links espeak-ng, which is GPLv3, so the whole app had to be open source under GPLv3. I'm selling the signed build for $19 and the code is on GitHub. Check what your dependencies link before you plan a closed-source business.

2.Apple's first notarization for a new developer team took about two days. Every one after that took about a minute. Don't schedule a launch around your first one.

1. A notarized app inside an unsigned DMG still fails Gatekeeper's check of the download. Sign the disk image too.

2. The voice bundle shipped with Chinese number-reading rules turned on. For a while, every number in English text was read in Mandarin. I removed those rules and wrote my own number speller.

The demo shows the same AI reply read as written (48 s) and by Hearby (17 s).

Site, with a 7-day free trial: https://hearby.app/?ref=r-sideproject

Source: https://github.com/HearbyApp/Hearby

Feedback on the landing page is very welcome, especially on whether the pricing section is clear.

https://reddit.com/link/1xc48tp/video/uzyd70qvywwh1/player

I’ve been working on this for a while: proschi.app

The main idea is that you write the high-level design (HLD) of a system in a simple DSL, with all the requirements next to it (like costs, p99 latency, availability) and an endless number of number use cases.

It all started with messy documentation I had to work with: HLDs were defined in one place, SLAs in a different place, use-cases in a third place; it was hard for me to perceive this, so I thought it made sense to combine all of them together and have a way to visualize it.

The language is pretty simple. Something like this:

user "User"      [Actor]
api  "Notes API" [REST API]
db   "Notes DB"  [PostgreSQL]

user -> api : HTTPS
api  -> db  : SQL

traffic {
  "Create a note" 200 rps
}

requirements {
  p99 "Create a note" < 200ms
}

Every component comes with default values (latency, capacity, cost and so on), so you can get going without tuning anything. If your setup is different, you can override them with your own numbers.

Other stuff that’s in there:

1. You can embed your diagrams in your own docs, wiki, or blog.
2. The .proschi files can run in your CI (npx proschi test), so if someone changes the architecture and breaks a requirement, the build fails
3. LeetCode-style problems, except instead of writing a function you design the app (URL shortener, chat, payments, video streaming...) and tests check whether your design holds up
4. Roadmap if you’re preparing for system design interviews
5. Review cards for training different system design topics
6. Skills for the agents so you can ask them to design the HLD for you.

It’s completely free. Everything you see now will stay available; I won't put it behind a paywall later.

I’d really like feedback, especially if something feels confusing or the simulation numbers look off for your use case.

Feel free to check the repo, contribute your own system design problems, or use it to document your use cases.

Imagine two people living thousands of miles apart. Both are flying to Rome next weekend. Same destination, same dates, potentially perfect timing.

But traditional dating apps probably would not connect them until they actually arrived.

So I built TravelNeighbors.

Instead of matching people based on where they live, it helps travelers discover each other through overlapping destinations and travel dates.

The platform is live in beta. But now I have run into a problem that no amount of coding can solve.

The cold start problem

If I launch worldwide, there may not be enough people in each destination, If I focus on just one city, I lose the whole point of building something around travel.

So here is my question for other builders

If this were your project, would you launch in one popular destination like Bali, focus on specific travel dates, or try to attract travelers worldwide from day one?

I am genuinely interested in hearing what you would do, including why you think this idea might fail.

For anyone curious about what I built:

https://travelneighbors.com

For the past few months, I've been building a product "Linden". Its a low latency deterministic layer for ai agents. Linden helps businesses verify AI-generated outputs before they lead to real-world actions. It evaluates AI outputs against expected schemas, trusted data, and business rules to determine whether an action should be allowed, flagged, regenerated, blocked, or sent for human review.

Linden helps businesses ensure their AI agents don't just produce convincing answers — they make decisions that align with actual business requirements, verified information, and configured limits.

I have tried cold email outreach that didn't work. Published a professional demo across multiple platforms, drove 0 signups. Now, i don't know if I just built something that serves no purpose. However, when i was building this, i did a research, looked at a lot of articles talking about the same thing. If this problem exists, then why no one willing to try it out?

I got tired of opening five streaming apps to find out where something is playing, so I built a site for it https://findmovies.ca.

What it does

• Search any movie or TV show and see every service that carries it, country by country, split into stream / rent / buy.
• You can look at any country, not just yours. That’s handy if you travel, have family abroad, or want to know what a VPN could unlock. The catalogs differ a lot from country to country.
• Sign in with Google to keep a watchlist and pick your countries and services. Every Friday it emails you (and can send a browser push) about saved titles that are streaming on your services.

How it’s built

• React and MUI on the front end, a Go API with MongoDB and Redis behind it.
• Data is from TMDB, and streaming availability comes from JustWatch via TMDB.
• The server renders the page tags so link previews and search engines see real content.

It’s free, with no ads. It’s a solo project, so I’d like to hear what’s missing, what’s confusing and what’s broken.

https://findmovies.ca

Hey everyone!

I'm a computer science student building Countly, a nutrition app focused on helping people understand what nutrients they're actually getting from their diet.

I've noticed that a lot of food trackers focus heavily on calories and protein, but it can be harder to understand how your food, supplements, and bloodwork fit together.

We're building Countly to bring those together in one place.

The goal is to help users:

-Track calories, macros, vitamins, and minerals

-Track supplements alongside food intake

-Understand possible nutrient gaps over time

-Get food-first recommendations that fit their goals

-Track bloodwork results and how it changes over time

We're still developing the app, and I'm looking for people interested in testing an early version and giving feedback. Everyone on the early-access list will get 3 months of premium for free when the app launches.

I'm especially interested in hearing from people who currently use apps like MyFitnessPal or Cronometer, regularly take supplements, or track their bloodwork.

I'd love feedback on what's useful, what's confusing, and what features you'd actually use.

If you're interested, you can join the early-access list here: https://trycountly.app

Also happy to answer questions or hear what you wish your current nutrition tracker did differently.

Thanks!