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I developed Weather World because I wanted a simpler, more helpful way to stay ahead of the forecast. I truly believe that a weather app should be a tool that makes your life easier, not a source of distraction with ads and confusing menus.

How it helps you: The core of the app is all about visual clarity. I’ve focused on creating intuitive graphs that let you see temperature shifts and precipitation trends at a single glance. Instead of reading through long lists of numbers, you can visualize exactly how your day will unfold. It’s minimalist, lightweight, and built for speed—perfect for anyone who values a clean Android experience.

I’d love your support! Please give it a try and see if it helps your daily routine. If you find it useful, please recommend it to your friends! As a solo developer, your support and word-of-mouth are what help me improve and grow.

In compliance with the community rules, I’ve shared the link via IndieAppCircle. Check it out there and let me know what you think!

Find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danie.pocasisveta

u/Tough_Deer_3756 — 10 hours ago
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Do you really think insulting Microsoft, Windows, Apple, macOS, or their users helps Linux desktop adoption?

I do not. It may entertain some of existing Linux fans, but it will not bring normal users to Linux.

Do not get me wrong: Linux is great where it shines — supercomputers, servers, embedded systems, and even WSL2. In those areas, Linux is extremely strong.

But if we are talking about the mass desktop market — the famous “year of the Linux desktop” idea — then the situation is very different.

Most people choose an operating system because it is convenient, familiar, supported, and runs the software they need. Calling Windows or macOS users names only confirms the stereotype that Linux desktop communities are hostile to ordinary users.

Calling Microsoft or Apple names also does not help in the mass market. Most ordinary users do not care about your personal attitude toward a particular company. They care whether the product works for them.

You cannot insult mass customers and at the same time demand mass-market adoption.

If Linux wants a larger desktop market share, the message should be: “Here is why Linux may work better for you,” not “You are stupid for using Windows or macOS.”

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u/akrivitsky7 — 8 hours ago
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I built an open-source, self-hosted AI gateway: 237 providers (90+ free), auto-fallback combos, and a 10-engine token-compression pipeline (MIT)

Builders-welcome post with the substance up front (disclosure: I'm the maintainer). OmniRoute is a free, MIT, self-hosted AI gateway — one OpenAI-compatible endpoint over 237 providers — built around two problems: runs dying on a provider 429, and tokens bleeding on tool/log output.

One endpoint, 237 providers — 90+ of them free. You point any tool or agent at a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint (localhost:20128/v1) and it can reach 237 LLM providers without you rewriting anything. 90+ have free tiers and 11 are free forever (no card), which aggregates to ~1.6B documented free tokens/month — and that's honest, pool-deduped math (we count each shared pool once instead of inflating it; the methodology is public in the repo). There's a one-command setup-* for 13+ coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Roo, Kilo, Gemini CLI…), so switching your existing setup over takes seconds.

Fallback combos — so it never stops mid-task. A "combo" is a ladder of models the router walks automatically: your subscription first, then API keys, then cheap models, then free ones. When a provider returns a 500 or you hit a rate limit, it slides to the next target in milliseconds, mid-request, and your tool never even sees the error. There are 17 routing strategies (priority, weighted, round-robin, cost-optimized, auto/coding:fast…) plus three resilience layers — a per-provider circuit breaker, a per-key cooldown, and a per-model lockout — so one dead key can't take down a whole provider.

Fusion — an ensemble mode for the hard steps. Beyond simple routing, there's a fusion strategy that fans a single prompt out to a panel of different models in parallel and then has a judge model synthesize one best answer (mixture-of-agents, built in). It's cost-aware, so easy turns stay on one fast model and it only fuses when the step is worth it.

A 10-engine compression pipeline — the part most routers don't have. Every request flows through a transparent compression pass you can toggle/stack per combo. Instead of one trick, it stacks the best of the open-source ecosystem: RTK filters command/tool output (git diffs, test logs, builds) at 60–90%, Microsoft's LLMLingua-2 does ML semantic pruning, Caveman handles prose, session-dedup strips repeats across turns. Critically, code, URLs and JSON are preserved byte-perfect, and a default-on inflation guard throws the compressed version away and sends the original if compressing would actually grow the prompt — it never makes things worse. On tool-heavy sessions that's ~89% average input-token reduction (an 8k-token git diff becomes a few hundred). Full credit to every upstream project (RTK, Caveman, LLMLingua-2, Troglodita) is in the README.

Agent-native — the agent can drive the router itself. There's a built-in MCP server (95 tools across 30 audited scopes, over stdio / SSE / streamable-HTTP), plus A2A (v0.3, JSON-RPC 2.0) support. That means an agent can query providers, switch combos, read its own remaining quota and manage memory through the gateway — not just consume tokens through it.

It's 100% local (zero telemetry, AES-256-GCM at rest), MIT-licensed, has a prompt-injection guard on every LLM route, opt-in memory, and runs on npm, Docker, desktop or your phone via Termux.

For context on whether it's worth your time: it's grown to ~9.8K GitHub stars, 1,490+ forks and 280+ contributors in ~4.5 months, with 21,000+ automated tests and 1,830+ issues closed — so it's a battle-tested project, not a brand-new experiment.

npm install -g omniroute

GitHub: https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute · Site: https://omniroute.online

Would value a critique of the routing/compression architecture from this crowd.

u/ZombieGold5145 — 2 days ago
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Blueberry Linux - Looking for contributors

Blueberry is a self-hosted, source-built Linux distribution: a minimal, rolling CLI server system in the BSD tradition. A single source tree produces the base (a pinned prebuilt kernel, glibc, the bpm package manager, the build system) and every package is a recipe in packages/, built from source and served from the project's own signed repository. There are no upstream binary mirrors.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/zsigisti/blueberry

Here is the discord: https://discord.gg/GPfBnbDPHE

u/Healthy_Swimming5175 — 2 days ago
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Trouble with publishing app on app store and google play

I just want to clarify first that I hate working with AI, but this is my job so I have no choice.

So my boss has vibe coded an app using Replit and also a website for the same service with Lovable. It's been like 2 weeks since he started with it and he wants to publish the app and gave me the task to do so. The problem is, I have NO experience in this at all, I applied to be a salesman here and now I got some kind of promotion, not that my salary reflects that lol.

I've gone through a lot of basic steps for both app store and google play, but now I'm stuck. Can't seem to upload a build for app store connect and I can't get ahold of an AAB document for Google Play. I try asking the Replit AI but it's giving me instruction that don't even make sense. For example, it's telling me to go to certain sections on Google Play Console that's not even there.

Any help would be appreciated. Even just an agreement that this whole thing is dumb would make me happy. Thanks in advance!

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u/fat_shadyy — 5 days ago
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Where Did You Guys Find Your Girlfriend

Decided to build this project since I didn't have the courage to find a girlfriend for myself this summer after getting an "ew, no" so I need inspiration + hope.

Please share where and how you found your partner on my project: https://where-it-all-started.vercel.app/

Much appreciated

u/Unique-Factor-1022 — 5 days ago
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looking for an experienced developer/programmer for a serious paid automation project.

I need help building an advanced automation system for a browser-based game, including automatic actions and logic-based decision making with high accuracy.
I’m specifically looking for someone with experience in:
• Browser automation
• Bot development
• Scripting / automation tools
• Logic-based systems
If you have experience with similar projects, or know someone who does, feel free to DM me with your background or previous work.

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u/legend_8x — 8 days ago
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I Built an AI Companion from Scratch (Memory, RAG, 3D, Voice, Autonomous Behaviors) Here's What I Learned

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share one of the most technically challenging projects I've built over the past few months.

The original idea sounded simple: build a 3D AI companion that could chat with me.

It eventually grew into a system featuring:

  • 🧠 Long-term memory with RAG and pgvector
  • 🎙️ Real-time voice conversations
  • 🎭 3D facial expressions and lip sync
  • ❤️ Relationship/personality system
  • 🤖 Autonomous behaviors and proactive conversations
  • ⚡ Node.js + TypeScript + PostgreSQL + Prisma backend

The biggest surprise wasn't the engineering.

It was realizing that inference and Text-to-Speech costs become the real challenge when you start thinking about scaling to thousands of users.

Although I decided to stop the project, it taught me more than any course or tutorial could. It gave me hands-on experience designing AI systems, memory architectures, streaming pipelines, vector databases, and agent workflows.

I documented the entire project in a 5-part technical series for anyone interested in how these systems are built.

Articles

Demo Videos

Version 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5s87c845xI

Version 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6esXviAIhTM

If you're an engineer working on LLMs, AI agents, or companion apps, I'd love to hear what technical challenge surprised you the most.

And if you're hiring engineers in this space, I'd be happy to connect and discuss the project in more detail.

My LinkedIn Post for more details:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mohamed-abusaif-050_ai-softwareengineering-llm-share-7476743528967114752-5KQ2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADLKhdkBx-oCy9dCS11RpiVRHPBe7Pjbupo

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u/Alarmed_Albatross_96 — 8 days ago
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Hiring Freelance WordPress Developer for Plant Marketplace Startup (India)

Hi everyone,

I'm building a Pune-based online marketplace connecting customers with local nurseries.

I'm looking for an experienced WordPress developer who can build a modern, fast, mobile-friendly e-commerce marketplace.

Requirements:

WordPress + WooCommerce

Elementor Pro (or similar)

Multi-vendor capability (Dokan/WCFM or equivalent)

Nursery partner registration

Product categories

Plant search and filters

Cart & Checkout

Razorpay integration

WhatsApp chat

Order tracking

Speed optimization

SEO-friendly structure

Security best practices

Clean UI/UX

Deployment on Hostinger

Bonus:

Experience building marketplaces

Portfolio of WooCommerce websites

Ability to suggest improvements

Please send:

Portfolio

GitHub (if available)

Estimated timeline

Expected budget (USD/INR)

Your country/time zone

Looking for someone interested in a long-term collaboration.

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u/Darshan_only — 9 days ago
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a distressed developer

Hi everyone!

I'm currently looking for projects where I can contribute my skills and collaborate with a team. My main goal is to gain hands-on experience by working on real-world projects, so I would greatly appreciate it if you could consider me for your project or invite me to collaborate.

I'm eager to learn, contribute, and give my best in every opportunity. Thank you very much for your time!

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u/Upset-Put-5080 — 10 days ago
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Development help

I read the rules so if this isn’t allowed, just pm me, and take down the post, instead of banning me

I need a discord bot for a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon themed server and while it isn’t ideal, I would preferably need someone who would work for free (I don’t have the money right now)

Pm for details

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u/Fun_Touch7817 — 7 days ago
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main project idea recommendations

Hey everyone,

I’m heading into my final year of my B.Tech in AI & Data Science and I need to lock in my main project. I want to build something genuinely interesting and cool, but it also needs to be academically rigorous enough that my college evaluators won't instantly reject it for being "too simple" or "not having enough scope."

I specifically need something that effectively bridges both Data Science (heavy data processing, analytics, pipeline building) and AI (ML models, LLMs, predictive systems).

For context on what I can handle, my current stack and background include:

  • Solid experience building RAG-based applications (I recently built an LLM-powered legal assistant covering Indian laws with a focus on vector storage and hybrid search latency).
  • Comfortable with Big Data ecosystems (Hadoop, Pig, R programming).
  • My daily driver is Arch Linux (Zsh), so I’m totally fine with complex, terminal-heavy setups, intricate architectures, or algorithmic optimization.

I’m looking for project ideas that combine heavy data processing with a solid AI component. Ideally, something that solves a real-world problem or has a highly impressive architecture that looks great on a resume and is guaranteed to get approved by strict professors.

Does anyone have any specific domains, project ideas, or even recent IEEE papers I should look into? Any advice is hugely appreciated!

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u/yabai_baka — 7 days ago
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Project help

Can anyone help doing a project the project title is shadow vendor discovery.

We need inputs and workflow to develop a module on this idea .

If anyone can guide or suggest dm or comment.

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u/Fit-Vegetable-2161 — 10 days ago