r/indie_startups

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

I'm one of the people building Swooni, a relationship app for couples.

We built it because most relationship apps feel either too clinical, too generic, or like homework. Swooni is meant to make relationship growth feel more practical and easier to stick with.

What makes it different:

- Based around the Gottman Magic Ratio and therapy-inspired principles.

- Small daily challenges that help couples stay connected without making it feel heavy.

- Progress, rewards, and a couples community layer that shows in-app actions without exposing private relationship details.

It's not therapy or a magic fix, but it's designed to help couples notice connection patterns and stay more intentional over time.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swooni-relationship-tracker/id6557063166

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.honeyroots.app

Would love honest feedback from anyone who tries it.

It's been a little over six months since I launched and it has been quite a journey. No exponential growth or huge user spikes but rather slow and steady growth. But in my opinion that is the best for building something actually valuable because you can react to user feedback along the way and constantly keep improving the app.

It's so crazy, just two weeks ago I was celebrating 2,000 users here and now I have hit another unreal milestone of 2,400! I can't thank everyone enough. I really mean it, so many people were offering their help along the way.

Of course I will not stop here and I am already working on the next big update for the platform which will benefit all the community. More is coming soon.

I've built IndieAppCircle, a platform where small app developers can upload their apps and other people can give them feedback in exchange for credits. I grew it by posting about it here on Reddit. It didn't explode or something but I managed to get some slow but steady growth.

For those of you who never heard about IndieAppCircle, it works like this:

• You can earn credits by testing indie apps (fun + you help other makers)
• You can use credits to get your own app tested by real people
• No fake accounts -> all testers are real users
• Test more apps -> earn more credits -> your app will rank higher -> you get more visibility and more testers/users

Since many people suggested it to me in the comments, I have also created a community for IndieAppCircle: r/IndieAppCircle (you can ask questions or just post relevant stuff there).

Currently, there are 2402 users, 1969 tests done and 587 apps uploaded!

You can check it out here (it's totally free): https://www.indieappcircle.com/

I'm glad for any feedback/suggestions/roasts in the comments.

Hi! I’m Ash, a student who started my Etsy shop in March 2026 to help save for college. I make handmade kandi bracelets, necklaces, keychains, and other colorful accessories.
I’m incredibly grateful to have reached 8 sales with all 5-star reviews so far! If you have a moment, even just visiting or favoriting my shop would mean a lot and helps support a small business.

🛍️ Shop: https://ashkandicorner.etsy.com
💚 Tips (optional): https://cash.app/$ashketchum7789

Thanks so much for taking a look!

I've been building kewe, a micro-SaaS AI agent that connects to a business's WhatsApp and handles the repetitive front-desk work: answering clients, booking appointments, sending reminders, and following up on no-shows — 24/7, no code.

Instead of going broad "for SMBs," I niched down to appointment-based businesses: clinics, dental, med spas, salons, vets, plus hotels, travel agencies and tour operators. The bet is that these folks live in WhatsApp, lose real money to missed messages and no-shows, and don't want heavy corporate software.

It's free to start (no card), which is a deliberate GTM risk I'm still testing.

Would love this community to roast it:

- Is "appointment businesses" too broad still, or a good wedge?

- Free-to-start for a WhatsApp AI agent — smart for early traction, or am I leaving money on the table?

- Anything on the landing page that's unclear or that you'd cut?

Landing page: https://kewe.io/en/ — happy to return the feedback on yours.

Hey everyone 👋

I'm the solo developer behind Mac+ (macplus.pro). Up front: this is my own app, and I'd really like your honest feedback.

The itch I was scratching: I was tired of staring at the same frozen wallpaper all day. The macOS desktop feels kind of… static. So I built the thing I actually wanted a native, lightweight app that makes the desktop feel alive withoutturning my Mac into a space heater.

What it does:

• 15 animated scenes rendered on the GPU with Metal (aurora, plasma, waves, rain, snow, fog…) 
• 44 color palettes + a custom palette creator recolor any scene live 
• Use your own video or image as a living background 
• 52 folder-icon patterns stamped onto the real macOS folder shape or import your own image, and apply it to many folders at once 
• 12 desktop widgets (clock, date, focus timer, season, year progress…) you can drag anywhere 
• Little companions that wander across your screen 
• Multi-display, and it now speaks 4 languages (EN / FR / DE / ES)

 

Why it won't wreck your Mac:

• 100% GPU rendering (no CPU video decoding), 30 FPS by default, capped resolution 
• Auto-pauses when the screen sleeps or when a fullscreen app covers the desktop 
• Driven entirely from a tiny menu-bar item

 

Honest about pricing: there's a free tier (a handful of scenes, palettes, icons and widgets) so you can try it for real before paying. Pro unlocks everything 7-day free trial, then €1.99/month, or €9.99 once (lifetime, no subscription).

Here is a promo code : « LAUNCH30 » :)

The idea is simple:

A lot of founders are good at building products, but get stuck when they have to explain, position, and market them.

Generic AI tools help a bit, but the output often feels vague because the AI does not really understand the product.

Sitesyn starts with your product URL.

It scans your website, builds a product memory, and uses that context to generate marketing assets like graphics, positioning ideas, and promo videos.

The goal is to help founders turn what they already built into usable marketing without having to start from a blank prompt every time.

sitesyn.com

Would love honest feedback.

I've spent the last few months building something and I'm finally at the point where I want to share it properly rather than just quietly hoping people find it.

The idea came from a frustration I kept seeing (and feeling myself): SQL tutorials teach the syntax fine but there's never a reason to care about the answer. You filter a table called employees, get a result, and nothing happens. Your brain doesn't bother keeping it.

I wanted to try a different approach. QueryCase teaches SQL through detective investigations. You get a briefing from Chief Fox (our mascot), a real database to query, and a mystery to crack. The JOIN matters when a suspect has an alibi. The WHERE clause matters when you're trying to find who entered the building at 22:13. The SQL is the tool for solving something, not the point in itself.

Here's what's actually in it:

• A structured learning path across 54 cases, going from Recruit through Rookie, Detective, Senior Detective, and Chief Detective. Each rank has drills and a level exam to pass before you progress.
• Sandbox mode where you can explore real datasets (IMDB movies, Spotify, sports stats, Steam games) and run whatever you want with no pressure and no mystery attached. Just free exploration against actual data.
• Everything runs in the browser using DuckDB WASM so there's nothing to install.

I'm a solo developer and this is genuinely early days. I'm sharing here because this community is exactly the kind of people I built it for, and I'd rather get honest feedback now than find out later I've built the wrong thing.

What's missing? What would make you actually stick with something like this versus what you've used before?

querycase.com if you want to take a look.

Any feedback appreciated!

Hi everyone,
I’m the developer of Ideon: Personal Knowledge, an iPhone app I built because my useful notes, screenshots, photos, voice notes, and AI answers were scattered everywhere.
The idea is simple: tap +, save a thought with optional photo/video/audio, and it becomes part of a private personal feed you can search later.
It also has an optional ChatGPT connector workflow, but the app works manually without ChatGPT.
I’m looking for honest feedback more than promotion:
Is the use case clear?
Would you use a feed-style knowledge app instead of a traditional notes app?
What feels confusing or unnecessary?
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/ideon-personal-knowledge/id6783103263?l=en-GB
Free trial, then optional one-time lifetime unlock.

https://www.nologin.in/
It is a platform for instantly sharing text, code, links, and files without creating an account. The goal was to remove the friction of signups and make sharing as fast as possible.
Open the site, paste or upload, and share. It supports customizable links, file uploads, , edit locking, and automatic expiration for privacy

So honesty is always the best policy, and i'm not interested in wasting anyone's time so...

let's talk about what your building, what you recently shipped, lets see it below. regardless of whether your in my niche i will happily provide feedback for anyone that needs it, but could we make it mutual. Happy to provide feedback publically here or in a DM, just let me know what your more comfortable with.

As the title says, im looking for talent, products and services to join our community. we've built the next generation of professional networking, built on action not noise. we currently need Founder mentors, Business Coaches, content creators, motivation speakers, entrepreneur enthusiast and much more.

We have monetization options for all creators (zero commision), be it courses you wish to deliver, communities you which to grow, products to sell, digital or physical, and services you can provide.

Right now we're probably in the same position as a lot of people, we recently got our first 22 users, and managed to convert 3 to paid, we have 10 out the 22 daily active so, really with the results so far

Itsadoerthing.com

I grew up in the Casey Neistat era of YouTube. That's where my love of filmmaking started, and it's the reason I shoot everything — phone, drone, camera, doesn't matter. If something's happening, I'm recording.

The problem? I have years of footage I've barely touched.

Every time I sit down to edit, I hit the same wall: I know the shot exists somewhere, but I can't find it. I'm scrubbing through folders at 2am, scanning thumbnails, trying to remember which SD card had that golden hour drone shot over the river. It kills the creative momentum every time, and honestly it's the reason I haven't posted a YouTube video in five-plus years.

I looked at what was available — every DAM I tried was either built for photos, required cloud uploads, or just gave you basic tags like "beach" and "dog." Nothing that actually understood how a frame was shot.

So I built my own.

What it does:

• Runs a custom fine-tuned vision model entirely on your Mac — no cloud, no uploads, no internet required during analysis
• Analyzes every extracted frame with a structured 7-field caption: scene, subjects, shot type, composition, mood, lighting, setting
• Transcribes audio with word-level timestamps so you can search for what was said, not just what was shown
• Hybrid search (semantic + keyword) — type "handheld tracking shot at golden hour" and the exact clips surface in seconds
• Export directly to Final Cut Pro, Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or EDL — it relinks to your original raw files, no transcoding
• Build storyboards by pulling selects into Boards with custom in/out points

The MCP thing (for the nerds):

I've also connected it to Claude via MCP, so I can describe a narrative I want to tell and have Claude search my entire library, pull the frames I'd need, and lay out a rough edit — "use the wide drone shot from here to here, then cut to the close-up at this timestamp." It's basically an AI director that knows my footage.

The honest version:

This isn't the next Adobe, or apoope as I call them. I'm not trying to sell anyone sh!t. I'm a solo dev who had a real problem — couldn't find my own footage, couldn't be bothered to edit because the organization step was too painful — and I solved it. If you're sitting on a hard drive full of raw clips you've never cut into anything, this might be useful to you too.

• $69 one-time perpetual license (includes a year of updates)
• Mac only (Apple Silicon)
• 30 minutes of free cloud processing included if your machine can't handle local inference
• You own it forever

If this post gets taken down, fair enough. If not — daaam.media

From PG's own essay "How to Apply to Y Combinator" this is the man himself describing what happens when he opens your application:

"All the YC partners read applications. We each do it separately, to avoid groupthink. The first question I look at is, 'What is your company going to make?' This isn't the question I care most about, but I look at it first because I need something to hang the application on in my mind."

He reads the first answer to anchor his understanding. Then everything else gets evaluated against that anchor.

"The best answers are the most matter of fact. It's a mistake to use marketing-speak to make your idea sound more exciting. We're immune to marketing-speak; to us it's just noise."

He used the word immune. Not "less impressed by." Immune. Marketing speak registers as silence to him.

"If we get 1,000 applications and have 10 days to read them, we have to read about 100 a day. That means a YC partner who reads your application will on average have already read 50 that day and have 50 more to go. Yours has to stand out. So you have to be exceptionally clear and concise."

The partner reading your application has already read 50 applications by the time they reach yours. They'll read 50 more after. Your application is surrounded by 100 others, and the 99 that are vague and buzzword-heavy have made clarity feel like cold water on a hot day.

The thing i learned, clarity is your competitive advantage. You don't have a team to describe. You don't have a cofounder relationship to explain. You have one thing. State it with the directness of someone who has been inside the problem and knows exactly what it is. Matter of fact. Specific. Like a news headline, not a vision statement.

Curios, what you have learned from this PG's essay...?

I built TestLaunch because I keep seeing Play Store developers posting that they need testers, feedback, or people to join their testing links.

TestLaunch is a free place to list your app, share your testing link, and let testers find projects that need help.

You can add your app name, platform, category, test duration, contact email, description, testing link, and what kind of feedback you are looking for.

The goal is simple: give Play Store developers one clean page to share instead of chasing scattered tester posts everywhere.

It is brand new, so feedback is welcome.

https://tipitylabs.online

ok so i looked up a founder after he cold DM'ed me last week. Decent sell, interesting idea. Clicked his LinkedIn and the company page.

on both pages there was a boring banner and vague bio

I closed the tab. That was it for him.

Here's the thing, every cold DM, every content piece, every podcast appearance routes back to that profile. If the page leaks, the whole pitch leaks. Most founders set it up once and treat it like a lease agreement they don't have to think about again.

The idea i thought of: a productized LinkedIn or X profile audit. Someone submits their URL, you send back a scored report: bio, banner, headline, pinned content, all graded out of 100 with a fix list ordered by impact.

If you want more ideas like this, I found this one on the Grey Market, they send ideas every monday and friday https://www.readgreymarket.com/subscribe

Hey everyone!

I’m part of a small team building Panora, a privacy-focused AI notetaker designed for conversations that happen outside of Zoom, Google Meet, and scheduled online calls.

A lot of AI meeting tools are built around calendar meetings and virtual calls., but many important conversations happen in person, on the go, or in casual conversations. At the same time, companies are becoming cautious about online meeting bots and AI notetakers because of privacy concerns.

That’s the gap we’re trying to solve with Panora.

What Panora does:

• Records conversations from your iPhone
• Transcribes and summarizes discussions
• Identifies speakers, so you know who said what
• Turns conversations into searchable notes
• Lets you ask questions about past conversations
• Helps you stay present instead of worrying about taking perfect notes

Privacy and user control are a big part of what we’re building.

Panora is mobile-first and privacy-conscious from the start. Your conversations are treated as sensitive by default, with the option to keep them fully local. For online features, we aim to be transparent about how notes, transcripts, and AI outputs are handled.

We’ve just opened our beta on TestFlight, and we’re looking for early users who are willing to try it and give honest feedback.

Since it’s still early, we’re especially interested in learning:

• Does this fit into your real workflow?
• Would you use this for in-person conversations?
• What feels useful, unnecessary, or missing?
• What would make you trust an AI notetaker with your conversations?

If you’re interested, do sign up for the beta here:
https://panora.keystonelab.ai/

Happy to answer any questions and would really appreciate any feedback from this community. Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, concerns, or feature requests.

Thanks!