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I built India's LARGEST Civic Social Network, here's my journey and app.

Why I built Accountable

Disclaimer: When I say India's largest Civic Network this is what I mean: The App currently has all MPs, Cabinet Ministers, MLAs, State Ministers, IAS, IPS, Police Stations, food safety officers and many more authorities all of them mapped according to their jurisdiction boundaries no other app in India has that today hence the claim "Largest".

https://www.accountable.social/download

I'm Tarun, a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft. Like every Indian, I've lived with broken roads, overflowing drains and public services that answer to no one.

At 20, I voted for the first time, in a municipal election, and noticed something unsettling: almost no one around me knew who they were voting for. They voted for a PM's face, a CM candidate, a party symbol. Few could name their corporator. Many didn't even know their ward. Politics is central, but governance is local, and the people who shape our streets are the ones we can't name.

So I started with one simple idea: open an app and see who your leaders are, based only on where you're standing. Today, Accountable maps 15,000+ authority profiles to their jurisdictions, from ward corporators and MLAs to MPs, Union ministers, and IAS and IPS officers.

Then I hit the next wall. Social media gave us a voice, but nobody gave it an address. Civic issues drown under cricket, movies and manufactured outrage. So I built a social network just for public life, where civic posts come first. You post with evidence, tag the authority or company responsible, and credit the officials who get it right. It isn't a grievance portal, and it isn't partisan: every party gets questioned, including yours.

The last wall was isolation. People facing the same problem were fighting it alone, with no leverage against powerful leaders. When your MP answers to about 18 lakh voters, one voice is easy to ignore. So Accountable lets people unite through petitions, movements and communities drawn on election boundaries, from wards up to all 543 Lok Sabha seats. Your location adds you automatically. Alone, you're a complaint. Together, you're a constituency.

Since March, alongside my day job, I've built it solo for Android, iPhone and the web, through Google Play rejection after rejection. Within two weeks of launch, Accountable crossed 10M+ views across X, Instagram and Reddit.

Looking back, I'd been following three words from Dr B. R. Ambedkar all along: Educate. Agitate. Organize.

Accountability shouldn't end on election day. With Accountable, it doesn't.

u/Necessary-Plenty-818 — 4 days ago
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I built a spec driven development platform for AI coding agents

Over the last year, I’ve been using AI coding tools almost every day. They’re incredible at writing code, but often were terrible at maintaining the context of the product. Every new session felt like starting over.

So I built BuildBoard, a local-first Mac app that creates a structured workflow from before the AI starts coding to finished.

The flow looks like: product idea, to requirements, to visual mocks, to implementation plan, then building with an AI coding agent. Everything stays in plain text files, so it works with Git and doesn’t require another cloud account.

I have used my own app to create a couple other ideas, prototype or improve existing projects. It allows me to track, and build on an idea. It helps me establish a shared understanding with my agents and align on the expectations. Also it’s helpful to visualize before building. I found it easier to adjust UI/UX before implementation but right in the planning phase.

I’d love feedback on whether this matches your workflow, what’s missing, and how you’re handling long-term context with tools like Claude Code or Codex.

https://getbuildboard.com/

u/GoyaKing — 3 days ago
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I built a pixel canvas where the biggest buyer sits in the center

I've always loved the story of the Million Dollar Homepage as the creator made the website to pay for his tuition fees so I got inspired from him and made this to pay for mine. Story: I finished my masters in CS with a first class degree but couldn’t graduate this July because I couldn’t pay the fees.

Anyways,

How it works: you buy a rectangle of pixels and fill it with pixel art, text, or an image. The twist is you don't pick where it goes. The highest paying tile sits at the dead center of the canvas, and everyone else spirals outward by how much they paid. So your position isn't permanent if someone outbids you, the whole canvas re-sorts and your tile physically slides outward. Amounts are hidden on the canvas itself, so you can only guess who paid what from where they sit. There's a top 10 leaderboard that does show the numbers.

Browsing is free, you can pan and zoom the whole thing without an account: thepixelorbit.com

Happy to answer anything about the packing algorithm or how it's built. Also genuinely want to hear what's confusing about it I've stared at this too long to see it clearly anymore.

u/tashkan — 3 days ago
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Redesigned UI.Devsloka.in Would love to hear your feedback

Title: Redesigned UI.Devsloka.in. Would love to hear your feedback

Hey everyone,

We've revamped the UI of ui.devsloka.in, and it's a big improvement over the previous version.

We've redesigned a lot of components, added more blocks, and spent time improving the animations, transitions, and overall feel of the UI.

The focus was on making the components look better, feel smoother, and perform well. There's a lot more to explore now, especially if you're into building modern interfaces with good animations and interactions.

Would love to know what you think of the new version. Feel free to share your feedback and suggestions.

Website: https://ui.devsloka.in

u/FrequentAd1332 — 4 days ago
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I built this grid-based flowchart editor designed for speed

Hey PKMS, I made this tool after I got frustrated with how slow it is to make flowcharts in most software. You spend too much time dragging around boxes into pixel perfect position, instead of just focusing on the structure.

Knotend is a different kind of editor -- it's grid-based which lets you navigate around with your arrow keys like a spreadsheet, make selections, use Tab etc to add nodes rapidly. It has a lot of autolayout so you can focus on rapidly building out a flowchart without having to think about layout all the time.

You may remember I posted a prototype of this a few years ago! It was quite different. You couldn't manually place nodes anywhere like you can in this current design (You can see it at old.knotend.com)

Use it for free at: https://www.knotend.com

Thanks for checking it out! I'd love any feedback.

u/escooter — 6 days ago
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I made a free browser boxing game with real PvP. The hardest part was making counters feel fair online

I made this: a browser boxing game (no download, no signup) with real-time PvP over websockets.

The challenge I'm still working through is counter timing. Landing a counter punch feels great locally, but when two players are 150ms apart, what felt fair in testing starts feeling random. I've been tuning server-authoritative hit resolution so the timing window stays tight without punishing anyone's ping.

Current progress: real PvP matchmaking works, there's a spectator lobby where you can watch live fights, and I put a 1,500 XP bounty on my own dev account so there's always someone worth hunting.

If anyone's built real-time multiplayer in the browser, I'd love to hear how you handled hit timing. Happy to share what's worked (and what hasn't) in the comments.

Play it here: https://browserboxing.com

u/boxing-boxing — 5 days ago

Building got easier. Finding real users feels like the hard part now.

Been building software for a while and I’m starting to realise the code isn’t really the scary part anymore.
You can build something decent pretty fast now. The harder bit is figuring out if anyone actually cares enough to use it, then getting in front of those people without turning into another guy dropping links everywhere.
This time I’m trying to finish one thing properly, talk to actual users, learn what matters, then decide what to build next.
Anyone else finding the same thing? Building feels easier, distribution feels harder.

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u/Reasonable_Major_458 — 5 days ago

My cold-outreach tool got a reply from a VP at OpenAI and Google Deep Mind - looking for beta users

So some context, job portals feel broken; AI-written resumes going into AI screeners, humans nowhere in the loop. So I started cold emailing hiring managers directly and got a 20% reply rate (2/10 - small sample, but miles better than portal silence).

The approach recently got me a direct reply from a VP at OpenAI that turned into a warm intro.

The annoying part was the manual research: finding the right person, figuring out what to say. So I built a tool that does it - finds relevant hiring managers and drafts a short, punchy outreach email.

Looking for beta users and brutal feedback. If you're job hunting or just curious, happy to give access. Genuine question: has cold outreach worked for others here, or am I overfitting on 10 emails?

Edit: its Jugaadu.app if anyone wants to try

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u/ComputerSciToFinance — 5 days ago

Title: I built a free website to help trading card collectors avoid scalper prices. Looking for some honest feedback.Hey everyone!I’m a network and security engineer by trade, but recently I’ve gotten into collecting trading cards. One thing I quickly learned is how frustrating it can be to find

Hey everyone!

I’m a network and security engineer by trade, but recently I’ve gotten into collecting trading cards. One thing I quickly learned is how frustrating it can be to find sealed products at retail prices. Between scalpers, preorders selling out in minutes, random retailer queues, and constantly checking websites for restocks, it honestly started feeling like a second job.

So a few weeks ago, I decided to do something about it and started building PrintedPrice.

The idea is pretty simple. I wanted one place where collectors could see what’s coming out, what the actual retail price should be, when they have an opportunity to buy it, and which retailers have products available without ridiculous markups.

What started as a small personal project has grown quite a bit. The site now tracks upcoming releases, preorder windows, retailer queues, lotteries, and fair-price inventory across several trading card games, including Pokémon, Lorcana, One Piece, and Magic. I’ve also started writing guides to help newer collectors navigate a hobby that can be surprisingly confusing.

One thing I’ve been pretty perstnt about is keeping it free and accessible. No accounts, no paywalls, and no marketplace. I just want to build something genuinely useful for people who enjoy collecting but don’t want to spend their entire day hunting for products.

I’ve been putting a lot of my free time into this, and while I’m happy with how far it’s come, I also realize I’ve probably developed some serious tunnel vision from staring at it for so long.

That’s why I’m posting here. I’d really appreciate some fresh eyes on the project. I’m curious whether the purpose is immediately obvious, whether the site is easy to navigate, and whether it feels like something people would actually use. I’m especially interested in hearing what doesn’t work or what you think could be better.

I’m not looking for anyone to sugarcoat it. If something sucks, tell me. That’s how I’ll improve it. Visual clarity and information presentation is important it’s a lot of info I’m trying to get across

Here’s the site: https://printedprice.com

Thanks for checking it out! I’d also love to hear from anyone who’s gone through the process of turning a personal frustration into a side project. It’s been a pretty interesting experience so

u/WaitingOnNiko — 5 days ago

Got sick of Trump’s “two or three weeks” timeline predictions, so I built a free site that tracks them

Every time he says "two weeks" or "by the end of the year," it just kind of evaporates. Nobody goes back and checks. So I made a site that does.

NostraDonald.com logs the deadlines he sets for himself, with his exact words, a link to the source, and a countdown clock. When the deadline passes, it gets scored: on time, late, or didn't happen.

Some things I found along the way:

- 13% of his deadlines have been met on time so far..

- Of the 12 "two weeks"-style deadlines on the site, 1 came true on time (the June 2025 Iran strike decision).

- On March 31 he said the Iran war would be over in "two weeks, maybe three." It's now more than five months past that deadline, and still going.

- Coming up: Canada "getting rid of all the tariffs" within "three or four weeks" (Oct. 26), and his newer promise that the Iran war will end "immediately after our election" (Nov. 10).

I'm a former fact-checker, so I tried to keep it fair. Only things he said himself, with a timeframe you can turn into a real date. Hits get logged the same way as misses (the Jan. 6 pardons on day one are marked on time, for example). The rules for how deadlines are counted are on the "How it works" page.

It's free, no ads, no signup. Every card has its own share link with a preview image.

If you spot a mistake or think I missed one, there's a form on the site and I'll check it. Feedback welcome.

nostradonald.com
u/BiglyPredictions — 6 days ago

I'm building my first SaaS in public. Let's see how this goes.

I've spent years building software for other people.

Now I'm trying to build something of my own, and I've decided to share the journey publicly for the first time.

The product is called Afterword. I'm building it to solve a problem I personally find interesting: turning the thoughts in your head into something worth sharing.

I've spent a lot of time writing code, tweaking things that probably don't matter yet, and figuring out what to do next.

The part nobody really prepares you for is that building the product is only one piece of the puzzle. Getting people to care about it is a completely different challenge.

I don't have a big audience, a marketing team, or a playbook to follow. I'm figuring this out as I go.

So I thought I'd start sharing what I'm building, what I'm learning, what goes wrong, and hopefully what works.

No big promises. Just building and learning in public.

If you've built a SaaS before, what's one thing you wish you'd known at the beginning?

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u/Majestic-Narwhal-945 — 5 days ago
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I built a free, privacy-first sobriety app. 1,500 visitors in 2 months, under 20 signups. Where am I losing people?

Hey all. I'm a solo, self-taught dev (Army vet, been coding since the Red Hat 5.2 days), and for the past few months I've been building **Quietly Sober**, a recovery app built around one idea: *recovery doesn't have to happen alone.* Its mascot is a turtle named Tucker. 🐢

**What it does:**

- Sobriety milestone tracker

- Daily recovery reflections

- Community boards (general, 12-step, and non-12-step)

- Sponsor Finder (swipeable cards)

- Meeting list with attendance verification

It's free. There's an optional $4.99/mo add-on for AI daily reflections, which helps keep everything else free. It's live on iPhone/iPad, Windows, and the web, built in Flutter.

**Privacy was the #1 design rule.** Sponsor messages are encrypted at rest, nothing is shared without consent, and there's no social feed showing your recovery to the world. People in recovery value anonymity, so the goal is support without exposure: private, but not alone.

**The honest numbers after ~2 months:**

- ~1,500 website visitors

- Under 20 accounts

- 0 paid subscriptions

So traffic isn't the problem. Conversion is. I posted in 9 sobriety Facebook groups and got zero traction, which in hindsight makes sense: people in recovery don't want to be *seen* engaging with a recovery app in public.

**Where I'd love your feedback:**

  1. Does the homepage make it clear what this is, and that it's private? https://www.quietlysober.com

  2. Would anything stop you from signing up?

  3. If you've built for a sensitive niche (health, recovery, mental health), how did you reach people who search privately but avoid public groups?

Brutal honesty welcome. I'd rather fix the leak than keep pouring traffic into it.

u/gumdum1975 — 5 days ago

Just launched my first mobile app Fontavio, free map of drinking water, toilets, showers and other water services for travellers

Hi everyone, I'm a solo developer from Finland. I used to live in a van around Europe, and the daily apps I mostly used showed places to sleep. Most days, I needed somewhere to fill and empty water tanks, use a toilet, or take a shower, and I couldn't find an app made just for that. So I built one myself while keeping costs as low as I could. The most expensive part has been the Apple Developer program, monthly running costs are under 10 euros at the moment.

Fontavio shows 650,000+ drinking water, fill-up taps, toilets, showers, self-service laundry, dump stations, and marina pump-outs on one map. The places come mostly from OpenStreetMap, plus additions and fixes from users. 50 countries: Europe plus the US and Canada. Users can see what's closest or pick a place on the map, then follow the compass or use navigation. They can add a missing place, fix a detail, or confirm in one tap that a place still works.

It's aimed at campervan and boat people, cyclists and runners who need a fountain on the way, hikers, and travellers who need a refill, a shower, or a toilet. It also works for anyone who just needs the nearest drinking water or toilet.

Notable features:
- No login needed, and all filters are free.
- Each place can have details, photos, and reviews.
- Wheelchair access and changing tables are tagged, and other accessibility details can be added by users.
- User location is never stored on the server.
- Free with some ads, a subscription removes them and adds offline maps, a route planner, and private notes.

It's now live on Google Play and the App Store. Links:
- https://fontavio.com/
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fontavio.app
- https://apps.apple.com/app/id6807148940

Would love to hear some feedback: would you use it, and what use cases seem most relevant to you? Any features that seem missing? Anything broken?

u/rasmusjaa — 6 days ago
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My desktop gone crazy with pets. 😭

Pets Therapy - Desktop Pets took over my screen fully. 😀 No can do, it's cuteness overload.

u/cyrilcermak — 5 days ago
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What's new in Sonic Oracle: May update

Hey,

for those who still don't know Sonic Oracle: it's a music discovery tool for Tidal and Qobuz. You type in an artist, pick a depth (Essential, Balanced, or Adventurous), and it builds a permanent playlist of connected artists saved directly to your library. Not a station. Not an algorithm pushing what a platform wants you to hear. Real discoveries based on what listeners with similar taste enjoy.

Big round of updates this week. Here's what shipped:

My Discoveries is new. Your search history is now saved. Every discovery you've made, all in one place. Tap any to revisit it.

Click-to-discover lets you click any artist in your results to start a new search from them. Chain discoveries together until you land on something you never knew existed.

Track variety is improved. Playlists now feature different tracks each time, even for the same artist. Run the same search twice, get fresh songs both times.

Speed. Discovery results are near-instant. Repeat playlists create in about 1 second.

Deeper database. Coverage expanded to nearly 3 million artists and over 3 million albums.

Better niche results. Obscure seeds that previously returned too few matches now pull back stronger results.

K-pop, J-pop, C-pop. Full genre coverage for Asian pop including city pop, visual kei, and more.

Landing page refresh. Better mobile layout and updated social previews when sharing links.

More coming. As always, let me know what's working and what's not.

I built this because I personally needed it and nothing like it existed. Still a solo developer, still shipping improvements every week.

Free to try at https://sonicoracle.music/ Three playlists, no credit card needed.

Alessandro

u/panyc77 — 7 days ago
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I built a tiny Windows batch-renaming tool — looking for brutally honest feedback

Hey everyone,

I just finished and released my first small desktop software project, and I'm mainly posting it here because I want feedback.

It's called Batch Renamer.

It's a very simple Windows utility for renaming multiple files at once.

The idea is deliberately boring:

  1. Drop/select your files

  2. Define a naming pattern

  3. Preview the result

  4. Rename them

  5. The processed files are placed into a separate BR\_results folder

I wanted to keep it extremely lightweight, so it's portable. There's no installer, account system, subscription, ads, or cloud processing.

The application runs locally on the user's computer.

There is also no "AI" component collecting data or secretly sending files somewhere. The files being renamed stay on the local machine.

I built it because I wanted a tool that could just do one thing without turning into a giant application.

I'm not looking for customers or trying to sell anything here. I genuinely want to know whether this is actually useful to other people.

I'd especially appreciate criticism:

\- Is the UI understandable?

\- Is the workflow intuitive?

\- Would you actually use something like this?

\- Is there anything that feels unnecessary?

\- Is there something obvious that I'm missing?

\- Would the portable-folder approach bother you?

\- Is there anything about the way the files are handled that you would change?

If you think it's pointless, that's useful feedback too. I'd rather hear that now than spend another month building something nobody needs.

GitHub release: https://github.com/abdullahMTQ/batchrenamer

It's completely free at the moment.

Windows warning: Because the release is currently unsigned and uses a .bat launcher, Windows may show a security warning saying "Unknown Publisher." This is a Windows trust/signing warning, not an application error. You can inspect the files yourself before running them.

Thanks to anyone who takes a look. I'm genuinely interested in what you think.

u/Petifys — 6 days ago

Made a simple, private, and offline-first todo app. Lakun.

Hey guys,

I'm currently building a to do list app / task manager (yes, I know its another todo list app).

The reason why I'm building this because I use todo app every single day, but every one I tried had the same problem: the features I actually needed were locked behind a subscription and some others app give that features for free but locked the other behind paywall. So I built the app I wanted to exist.

Lakun is an offline-first task manager built around privacy:

  • 100% free core app: no account needed, no sign-up
  • All data stored locally on your device, encrypted
  • Categories, deadlines, priorities
  • Filter & sort tasks however you want
  • Calendar view (yes, the thing other apps charge for)
  • Works fully offline

The only paid feature is cross-device sync. Everything else is free.

Who it's for:

  • Students, freelancers, and professionals who live in their todo app
  • Anyone tired of subscriptions for basic features
  • Privacy-conscious people who don't want tasks sitting in someone's cloud

Where to get it:

  • Windows (Microsoft Store): here
  • Linux (Debian & RPM): here
  • Android: closed testing right now. Join here
  • iOS & macOS: coming soon

If you're interested to learn more, please check my website here:
Lakun

Tech Stack:

  • Tauri
  • React
  • React Router
  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • Vite

I'm actively adding more features especially things that can be done offline, so honest question: what's the one thing you wish your todo app did?

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u/luckypanda95 — 6 days ago

Built a working AI meal protein optimizer — looking for feedback

Hey — I built ProtMax, a web app that analyzes any meal (photo or description) and gives you 3 specific ways to boost the protein, plus real branded product recommendations from Amazon.

It’s live now: link in comments

The concept works well — the AI is actually smart about matching suggestions to the meal type (recommends collagen for coffee, plant-based protein for vegan dishes, etc.). It actually thinks about the dish. Italian pasta → swap to chickpea pasta. Mexican → add carnitas. Asian → edamame or tempeh.

What I’m looking for: People to try it out and give feedback/ideas; does it actually feel useful, or does it still feel too generic?

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u/Squirmroom — 5 days ago