How does one explain this-
The 60 days was automatic but the renewal will be decided by the officer and tourists will have to explain why they are staying longer
I started building \[iKrypt\](https://ikrypt.com) last year and the original idea was something related to smart contracts. The plan was to create a place where users could generate, manage, and interact with contracts and encrypted data through a simple web interface.
After thinking about it more (few months passed and very less traction), I started wondering whether people would actually trust a new website with highly sensitive things like contracts, wallets, or anything important. and honestly who would trust an unkown site with a smart contract? what was I even thinking when I started building this lol.
So instead of pushing that idea, I changed direction and built something smaller. the new site does this- iKrypt now lets you create encrypted self-destructing links for things like:
1/ passwords
2/ API keys
3/ login credentials
4/ .env values
5/ temporary secrets
Current flow is simple:
paste secret -> create link -> send it
The link can expire after a number of views or after a time limit that you set on the site.
No login / No signup required.
I wanted to ask:
1/ Would you use something like this?
2/ Would you trust a new site with temporary secrets?
3/ What would make you trust it more?
Looking for honest feedback before spending more time building it.
OPEN SOURCE: https://github.com/digitalwareshub/iKrypt10
I started building this in January 2026 mainly to deal with my own reading backlog. for the past year I kept saving articles “to read later” (like we all do) and never actually reading them. Bookmarks, Pocket, Telegram saved messages, browser tabs… same story every time.
So I built something for myself:- paste any article URL and it gives: (1) a 3-line AI summary, (2) key takeaways and (3) natural-sounding audio
The biggest difference for me personally was the summary layer.
I can now decide in 60–90 seconds whether something is actually worth my attention before listening to the full thing.
It works with:
1/ articles
2/ blogs
3/ research papers
4/ PDFs
5/ even photos/OCR of printed pages
ofcourse there is a block list in place, you CAN'T post x or reddit thread links and few more.
There’s also:-> a Telegram bot - submit your URL and it processes it and plays the audio , a chrome extension (free tier 20 articles/day)
I originally built it just to clear my backlog during commutes and walks, but it’s slowly become part of my daily workflow now.
try this out and let me know what you think - sornic
(Quick note: I’m the developer. Happy to answer questions or take feedback.)
This project failed twice before it finally started getting traction.
I bought the domain on May 13, 2025 after a road accident in Bangkok.
A biker hit me and fled the scene. Luckily it happened right outside my condo building and the gate CCTV recorded everything. I got the footage and tried extracting the license plate, but none of the apps I tried could properly enhance the image.
That frustration led me to build my first version of this project.
First idea: an AI photo enhancer app.
Worked fine technically.
Kept it live for ~5 months.
Result:
0 sales.
Then I pivoted into a PDF table extractor built with Python.
That also stayed live for a few months.
Same problem:
people don’t really want to upload sensitive/confidential files to unknown new apps.
So around 54 days ago I rebuilt the entire project again.
This time into lightweight browser-based utilities which has 3 tools- (1) speech to text (2) text to speech and (3) youtube to text
Built on a shared backend/database with my other projects
Traffic is still small, but this is the first direction that actually feels natural and gets consistent usage.
Biggest surprise:
a huge chunk of traffic came from ChatGPT referrals.
Biggest lesson:
if something clearly isn’t working, pivot early instead of emotionally holding onto the original idea.
Current direction is privacy-first:
no Google Analytics, no ad trackers, no creepy tracking stuff.
just the default Vercel analytics because the apps are hosted on Vercel.
This project failed twice before it finally started getting traction.
I bought the domain on May 13, 2025 after a road accident in Bangkok.
A biker hit me and fled the scene. Luckily it happened right outside my condo building and the gate CCTV recorded everything. I got the footage and tried extracting the license plate, but none of the apps I tried could properly enhance the image.
That frustration led me to build my first version of this project.
First idea: an AI photo enhancer app.
Worked fine technically.
Kept it live for ~5 months.
Result:
0 sales.
Then I pivoted into a PDF table extractor built with Python.
That also stayed live for a few months.
Same problem:
people don’t really want to upload sensitive/confidential files to unknown new apps.
So around 54 days ago I rebuilt the entire project again.
This time into lightweight browser-based utilities which has 3 tools- (1) speech to text (2) text to speech and (3) youtube to text
Built on a shared backend/database with my other projects
Traffic is still small, but this is the first direction that actually feels natural and gets consistent usage.
Biggest surprise:
a huge chunk of traffic came from ChatGPT referrals.
Biggest lesson:
if something clearly isn’t working, pivot early instead of emotionally holding onto the original idea.
Current direction is privacy-first:
no Google Analytics, no ad trackers, no creepy tracking stuff.
just the default Vercel analytics because the apps are hosted on Vercel.
I built this because I genuinely needed it for myself.
I keep finding interesting Hacker News threads but don’t always have time to read 400+ comments.
So I made a small terminal-style site that:
- tracks live HN trends
- calculates a simple “Tide Score”
- lets you click KTA to get AI-generated key takeaways from the discussion
No signup or anything.
Right now I’ve rate-limited it to 5 KTA requests per hour per IP so the API bill doesn’t destroy me 😅
Would love feedback:
https://trendingtide.xyz
I built this because I genuinely needed it for myself.
I keep finding interesting Hacker News threads but don’t always have time to read 400+ comments.
So I made a small terminal-style site that:
- tracks live HN trends
- calculates a simple “Tide Score”
- lets you click KTA to get AI-generated key takeaways from the discussion
No signup or anything.
Right now I’ve rate-limited it to 5 KTA requests per hour per IP so the API bill doesn’t destroy me 😅
Would love feedback:
https://trendingtide.xyz
I built this because I genuinely needed it for myself.
I keep finding interesting Hacker News threads but don’t always have time to read 400+ comments.
So I made a small terminal-style site that:
- tracks live HN trends
- calculates a simple “Tide Score”
- lets you click KTA to get AI-generated key takeaways from the discussion
No signup or anything.
Right now I’ve rate-limited it to 5 KTA requests per hour per IP so the API bill doesn’t destroy me 😅
Would love feedback:
https://trendingtide.xyz
I built a tool few months back called TalkMate.online. It is an AI voice companion. You can talk to it to brainstorm ideas, practice a language, or just think out loud.
The site is doing well and ranks on the first page of Google and Bing. People are finding it, but I want to be realistic.
Since anyone can just use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to do the same thing, I want to know: Is there any real reason to use a simple tool like mine?
I made it so you don't have to log in or download an app. You just open the site and start talking.
Can you try it and tell me the truth? Is it actually useful, or is it a waste of time since the big AI apps exist?
Try searching using talkmate or talk mate or talkmate ai and you’ll see the site in the SERP
If the current site is a bad idea and I know most would agree, what do you suggest I build/pivot on this?
I built a tool a few months back called TalkMate.online. It is an AI voice companion. You can talk to it to brainstorm ideas, practice a language, or just think out loud.
The site is doing well and ranks on the first page of Google and Bing. People are finding it, but I want to be realistic.
Since anyone can just use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to do the same thing, I want to know: Is there any real reason to use a simple tool like mine?
I made it so you don't have to log in or download an app. You just open the site and start talking.
Can you try it and tell me the truth? Is it actually useful, or is it a waste of time since the big AI apps exist?
Try searching on bing or google using talkmate or talk mate or talkmate ai
If the current site is a bad idea and I know most would agree to this, so what kind of a site do you suggest I build on it?
I used to waste so much time trying to make YouTube Shorts quote cards.
The process was doable but time consuming..... find a good photo of someone like Peter Thiel, upload it, then manually add text overlays in some editor I barely knew how to use. I'm not a designer and I don't have hours to spend on this.
So I just built a simple browser tool where you upload the photo, type your top label, center quote, and CTA text
and it generates a YouTube shorts post worthy 9:16 card instantly. No Canva. No signup. No watermark.
This is the actual interface. I've already used it for a few Shorts and one got 1,500 views and 44 likes and I was very happy with the results. not bad for a quote card post right?
Now my daily posting to youtube shorts just takes 2 minutes.
It's free to use at yt7 would love any feedback, no rate-limiting.
We are living in a time where it is easy to build anything and one should not have any reason to complain. Sky is the limit.
I used to waste so much time trying to make YouTube Shorts quote cards.
The process was doable but time consuming..... find a good photo of someone like Peter Thiel, upload it, then manually add text overlays in some editor I barely knew how to use. I'm not a designer and I don't have hours to spend on this.
So I just built a simple browser tool where you upload the photo, type your top label, center quote, and CTA text
and it generates a YouTube shorts post worthy 9:16 card instantly. No Canva. No signup. No watermark.
This is the actual interface. I've already used it for a few Shorts and one got 1,500 views and 44 likes and I was very happy with the results. not bad for a quote card post right?
It's free to use at yt7 would love any feedback, no rate-limiting.
Built a free speech-to-text tool (shrp.app). Traffic was flat at 20-30/day for months.
Then something happened around April 30. Last 7 days: 505 visitors, 1,109 page views. Bounce rate actually dropped 10%.
Top referrers: chatgpt (189), google (66) and reddi t (22)
ChatGPT is sending nearly 3x more traffic than Google right now.
My best guess: the site has a llms.txt file that describes what the tool does. ChatGPT may be reading it and recommending the site when users ask about speech-to-text tools.
Has anyone else seen this pattern? Is LLM-driven traffic becoming a real acquisition channel?
I asked myself: why am I generating audio when thousands of live radio stations already exist?
So I rebuilt the product into something simpler:
A clean web app where you can search cities, countries, genres, or moods and instantly listen to live radio streams from around the world.
No signup. No feed. No endless scrolling. Just press play.
Honestly, this version feels 10x more natural and costs almost nothing to run compared to the AI version.
Big lesson for me: sometimes the better startup isn’t creating new content, it’s organizing existing value in a better experience.
Would love honest feedback:
Would you use a product like this?
I’ve been building Tera FM for a couple of months now, a website that turns news and curated written content into short audio briefings.
The idea started as:- instead of opening 10 tabs, scrolling Google News, or watching YouTube clips, you press play and hear a clean audio version of what’s happening. It has global news sources, tech/business feeds, and a few original curated channels like Morning Focus, ADHD FM, Founder FM, etc.
there's also famous news channels like BBC, NPR, Reuters, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, etc. Tera FM fetches from the RSS feeds of these sites and generates audio, it first warms those stations by checking updates every 5 minutes so up-to-date info can get be fetched. It then summarises the news for every rss fetch and generates audio using TTS.
but now I have a bigger issue- the site has been live for 4 months or so. the first month I paid around $100 for Google Cloud tts services and the current month is approx 180$ or so. as you know- no one would pay to listen to news. if I ask this question to myself- I wouldn't pay to listen to news on any app- so I've kept it free from the start.
But I’m now questioning the monetisation - my honest doubt is: would anyone actually pay for this?
People already have YouTube, Google News, podcasts, live TV streams, social media, newsletters, and source websites. So “pay to listen to news” feels weak.
The stronger angle might be: “A calm personal audio briefing that saves you time and keeps you informed without doomscrolling.”
Possible Pro features could be:
personalised daily briefing
multilingual audio
premium business/tech sources
deeper context on stories
listening history/favorites
custom briefing builder
original curated audio channels
I’m trying to decide whether this should stay free while I improve retention, or whether I should introduce a soft Pro tier only for deeper/personalised features.
Would you pay for something like this if it became part of your morning routine?
Or is this one of those products that is useful, but not valuable enough to subscribe to? by the way- I've already 24 people who have subscribed to daily news alerts to their email. the count is less but its been growing like 2 per week.
I’d appreciate blunt feedback. the site like is tera fm
EDIT:
and this is a simpler version I’m testing, a simpler direction,,, a clean player for live radio streams from around the world.
Search a city, country, topic, or mood and start listening instantly.
