u/AchillesFirstStand

I set off walking from the centre of Sarajevo, I just saw a waterfall on Google Maps and thought I'll walk there.

Was about 3 hours uphill, past a lot of barking dogs in the outer city. Only saw one person in my hour long hike through the park.

I got to the waterfall and it had snow at the bottom of it and a broken bridge, so couldn't go any further!

I was exhausted on the way back, so I spoke to a local guy I saw sitting outside and he ordered me a taxi.

It turned out he knew the owner of the hostel I was staying at!

My costs were like $400 / month, now I am getting it down to about $200 / month, so the game should pay for itself.

The code was inefficient when I started, but have now been optimising it and moving different functionalities onto different services.

I am now spending 12 hours / day with Claude to test various things, fix Sentry alerts, setup monitoring and error alerts, optimise costs and get the app setup so it can support hundreds of concurrent users. Currently it has ~100 sales and about 10 people playing at any time.

I am also using AI-generated content (wouldn't work without it), so I am having to be clever about when the content is generated, i.e. right at the point that it is needed, as long as it's quick.

The game is Animalis if you want to check it out. Mobile game on iOS & Android: https://playanimalis.com/

You photo wild animals and they appear on your screen, which you then battle & capture. Plus some other features, which actually make it into a fun, challenging game.

Just wanted to share with some other people who can probably relate.

I hope ok to post. You photo an animal and it IDs the species and brings it up on your screen for you to battle & catch.

You can build out your encyclopaedia, it works with all animal species, including birds, bugs and other beasts.

Over 500 unique species have been identified worldwide so far by people playing the game. It has a competitive element, where you trade / battle with other players, the animal capturing is the part that hooks people.

You can see some of the species caught around the world so far on the map here (view on desktop): https://playanimalis.com/

You can also download the game on Android / iOS at the same link: https://playanimalis.com/

Link: https://playanimalis.com/

Uses AI to identify the animal species, then generates the assets on the fly, e.g. images, moves, stats etc.

It uses the real world as the game map, health centres are places of worship, shops are grocery stores, every public park has a gym where you compete with other players.

You can level up species and grow them to the next stage, e.g. caterpillar > chrysalis > butterfly.

The further you go from urban areas, the higher level the animals are. Stronger, but harder to catch.

You can battle / trade with your friends and you get more leaves (in-game currency) for capturing endangered species (don't disturb them).

The game started with no assets, the whole map is programmatically generated, all the animal data is generated on the fly and cached to the database for future encounters.

Other cool stuff:

• it uses the real animal's animal call in the game
• weather in the game is your current real-world weather
• houses are styled accurate to the local building style
• shadows / night-time are based on the real world time of day & year (location of the sun)

The aim is to get people out in nature and appreciating wild animals.

Edit: Here is the app link, on iOS & Android, available now: https://playanimalis.com/

I'm vibe (AI) coding multiple hours per day. I'm sat at my laptop screen, bad posture, having to type like a chump, I sometimes use voice commands.

I'm having to constantly switch tabs, if Claude makes an image for me I have to switch tab or find it in a file directory like a chump.

I legit see no reason to use a keyboard and a tiny screen anymore. I only need to be at the computer to read things and give inputs, I could much more easily do this standing up, walking round the room. The display would be so big that I don't have to come back to my computer and read the little characters on the screen, I can just see the status from across the room.

Has anyone built this or can I buy it somewhere? I would spend like $500.

Closest realistic thing is probably a large touchscreen monitor or a standing desk.

Here is me catching a moth, although to be honest the identification is not 100% perfect, so please correct me if the ID is incorrect.

You can capture moths, build up your team, then compete with other players. Link: https://playanimalis.com/

Made this myself over the last few months, thought this might be of interest to Lepidopteraphiles :)

The game gives you the full taxonomy, brief description, the animal call (not so much for moths), its conservation status and its growth stages, e.g. larva, pupa, adult.

Hope you check it out! Let me know if any questions. The game display is dark because it was night time in the real world.

(mods said ok to post)

Link: https://customer-finder.com/

Most people are terrible at finding customers for their product, but the chances are there are already people out there looking for it. I built a simple tool that finds threads of people online already asking for your solution or who are potentially interested in it.

I use it for my other app and have already got sales from it. You just input your product url or a description and it returns threads from relevant websites (~40 different sites), including Reddit, LinkedIn, X and more niche ones like mumsnet, Pinterest, business forums etc.

You can optionally use advanced filters to filter by country, language, timeframe, include/exclude specific search terms and filter by website sources.

Then you just click the threads and respond to people asking for your product. No sign-in required and has free usage to trial it. About 400 searches have been completed so far, but I have just updated the search functionality.

Let me know if it did or didn't find you a customer! Appreciate any feedback!

But no, it is super fun, especially if there's random elements

I'm thinking like:

• Construction companies
• Gardeners
• Journalists
• Photographers
• Chefs

I've built a video personal assistant, it tracks your whole day / workday and then allows you to ask it any question about it, like "where did I put X?", "how long was I doing Y?", "what did this person ask me to do?".

I'm looking to speak to normal people (non-techies), to get feedback and see whether this type of product would be useful. I saw the Rewind AI product which was an audio-recording pendant, but it got shut down. This is a similar concept, but with audio & video.

I built this in a few days, so it is just a proof of concept, but you can see what is possible, and it can be improved.

The video is me taking the app on its first walk. I have a cheap camera strapped to my chest and my phone is in my pocket. All interactions are done through my voice (not recorded in the video).

Link: https://www.enquiryai.co.uk/

My colleague recently moved house and found the enquiry process for hiring movers to be a lot of effort. So, we built a tool that allows customers to self-serve, i.e. they don't have to fill out a form and wait for a quote, you just photo the rooms of your house and get a quote instantly.

Saves waiting hours, sometimes days, and saves all the hassle of manually typing out every item in your house.

Looking for people working in the moving business to give feedback, it's ready to integrate in existing websites to increase enquiries. We are also looking to talk to any similar businesses that have manual quoting processes, e.g. Gardeners, Window Cleaners.

Use it to generate data in real-time. I do this for multiple of my apps:

Carbon Footprint Tracker: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/footprint-carbon-footprint/id6755973779 (~800 downloads)

There are millions of products in the world, which would be an enormous amount of work to source all of the carbon footprint (CO2e) data for, most which doesn't even exist.

So, the solution is to use gen-AI (LLM) to estimate carbon footprint data on the fly. I pass it the product name, user's country (based on their GPS location) and get it to output the typical quantity, e.g. 0.3 kg of Beef, and the CO2e per unit, e.g. 32 kg CO2e / kg, UK.

I am able to do all of this in real-time as the AI takes a few seconds to respond, which is acceptable for a scanning app. I then cache the result so that the same query is instant for future users. I don't need a database, I just create it on the fly.

Real-life Pokémon Game: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/animalis-game/id6762081213 (~20 sales)

There are literally millions of animal species globally. My game identifies animals that you photo with your camera, then lets you battle / capture them. This requires evolution chains, moves, stats, types and sprite images. All of these I generate on the fly the first time a new animal is encountered.

During the wait time I just show the game as "researching" and populate the data as it comes in, i.e. the text data is quickest (a few seconds), but the image gen can take up to 20 seconds, so I let the user still start the battle while the image is loading ("researching").

Again, all data is cached so that it's instant for future users. Not a single animal was hardcoded into the game, but now around 500 different animal species worldwide have been populated into the game.

AI is much more useful than chatbots and one-off image generation, it now allows you to make your app in real-time as the user interacts with it.

Built with threeJS, took about an hour. Also used Stripe's globe tutorial for reference.

I generated the dot grid globe, with black dots representing land masses. Then I coloured all search locations, based on user's IP addresses, using my brand colour.

Then for searches targeting a specific location, e.g. a New York based user searching in Spain, I created a line that flies from the user to the search location.

I'll put a link in the comments. If you do a search, your location will show up on the globe, pretty neat :)