r/BuildToShip

Been doing mobile development for a few years. Every release cycle, same thing - build is ready, client needs to test, and the next 30 minutes is me explaining TestFlight.

"Check your email." "Did you accept the invite?" "It says I need to update the app." "Why does it say 'This app is no longer available'?"

At some point I just stopped counting how many hours I'd lost to this across projects. It's not a hard problem, it's just a friction problem. TestFlight wasn't built for fast client feedback loops. It was built for Apple's review process.

So I built AnShare. Upload your IPA or APK, get a link and QR code, tester scans it and installs - no invite, no App Store, no account required on their end.

It auto-parses the app name, version, bundle ID and icon from the binary so there's nothing to fill in manually. For iOS it uses Apple's OTA install protocol so it works natively on device. For Android it's a direct APK download.

Also built a CLI so you can drop it into CI/CD and have every build automatically shared the moment it compiles.

Been using it on my own projects for a while and figured other people probably have the same frustration. It's free to try - anshare.link

Happy to answer questions about how the OTA install works if anyone's curious, that part had some interesting edge cases.

I’ve been working on a small project: a zero-knowledge, E2EE audio chat that runs in a single PHP/JS file. No database, messages delete after 24h.

I managed to solve the NAT traversal issues by switching from Trickle ICE to Vanilla ICE (wait-and-retry approach), which finally lets me call between a PC and a 4G phone.

I’m curious—from a cybersecurity perspective, what are the biggest risks in a P2P architecture like this? Besides the obvious metadata leaks from the signaling server, what else should I be looking at to harden the privacy?

Any feedback or "this is a bad idea because..." comments are welcome! v2v.site

Upfront: I built this, so this is a maker looking for feedback, not a neutral rec. Mods, happy to move it if it's the wrong spot.

Backstory — every SaaS I built needed the same plumbing, and I kept assembling the same stack: Clerk for auth, Stripe + a metered-billing tool for usage, something for notifications, a flags tool, i18n. Five dashboards, five bills, glue code in between. On the third project I gave up and built the layer myself as one SDK. It's called BuildBase (React/Next.js).

What it ended up covering:

• Auth + multi-tenant workspaces — email/password, magic link, Google/OAuth. One toggle flips the app between single-user (B2C) and team mode (B2B), enforced at the API so there's no conditional code.
• RBAC at two levels — roles for my own team, and roles for end-users inside their workspaces. Checked server-side, configured in a dashboard.
• Usage-based billing — quotas, overages, metered Stripe. Usage recorded client/server/batch, enforced at the API (so the paywall can't be flipped from the browser console), overages auto-billed.
• Non-destructive plan versioning — change pricing and old customers stay grandfathered on their version; new signups get the new one. No forced migrations.
• Notification engine — email + push + Slack with delivery gates + drip workflows, wired to billing events.
• Plus feature flags, i18n (8 locales, RTL, per-currency), outbound webhooks, and a headless API-key layer so you can pull your data out anytime. BYO Stripe + email sender, so no revenue cut.

Honest state: it's for React/Next.js only, and so far validated mostly by me running it on my own four products in production. That's the whole reason I'm here — I want feedback from people who aren't me.

What I'm actually unsure about:

1. Is bundling all of this into one SDK useful, or does it scare you (too much lock-in / too much in one basket)?
2. Where's the line — what would you still want to own/swap out yourself?
3. If you've assembled the 5-tool stack before: what did it actually cost you in time, and would you trade it for one vendor?

Not dropping a link in the body to keep it rule-friendly — happy to share if you want to poke at it.

I'm a student developer from Nepal and I just finished building BlockTrack — a SaaS platform that records every step of a product's supply chain permanently on the blockchain.

The problem it solves:

Right now, companies track shipments using Excel sheets, emails and PDFs — all of which can be faked. There's a $500B counterfeit goods problem, food safety recalls that take 7 days to trace (people die), and customs disputes where both sides have different "records."

What BlockTrack does:

Every time a product moves hands (factory → shipping → customs → warehouse → retailer), that checkpoint is recorded permanently on the blockchain

Nobody can go back and change it

Anyone can scan a QR code and see the full verified history of a product

Built on Polygon (cheap gas fees, fast transactions)

Current tech stack:

Next.js frontend

Node.js/Express backend

Supabase database

Solidity smart contract deployed on Polygon Amoy testnet

What I'm trying to figure out:

Would a mid-size pharma company, food brand, or electronics importer actually pay for this?

What's the #1 feature missing before this becomes sellable?

Has anyone here dealt with supply chain fraud or traceability problems in their business?

Is there anyone who'd want to pilot this for free in exchange for feedback?

I know enterprise security features (per-company logins, role-based permissions, audit logs) are missing — that's my next sprint. I just want to know if I'm building something people actually want before I spend another month on it.

Happy to share the GitHub link or demo video if anyone's interested.

Brutal honesty welcome — what am I missing?

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hi, soooo I built a bot that saves my insta login in .env, in a github codespace, and I can use the bot to download and repost old high stake posts with AI captions and tags, it is currently working on Anime only. I do need developers to help me refine it

There is an issue that I am facing, proxy issue because codespace and vps get banned on insta so I am currently running on custom proxy, but I do want to refine it to be able to run without anything but a start command from terminal