r/launchigniter

This is the app (called "LWP+"), and I've shown here the video that I've published there:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lb.lwp_plus

At first I was happy about what I created on the video, but then I thought that it looks more like a tutorial here, instead of maybe focusing on what's the most interesting. Surprisingly, ever since I've published the video, it actually got quite some views already (29 after 2 days), despite the fact it's a bit of a niche app. Still, I think maybe it can be improved.

I want to know what you guys think about the video (which has audio, BTW).

Here's about the app:

It's a live wallpaper app, that has these features:

1. Allows showing color/image/animation/video as content (users choose the file from the file system). No special effects so some users that complain about the dimming/zooming effects actually like using it. Users can also choose whether it should scroll or the type of automatic cropping.

2. Allows (some) control over the Material-You colors of the OS, as it lets users to choose the colors to report the OS about what's on the wallpaper. This means that like on Android 17, users can choose the colors they want (if the OS supports it) despite the content not matching it.

3. Setting of double-tap to lock the screen. Some launchers don't offer this, so I added it to the app too.

4. Some extra flags that (on some devices) should affect colors further, such as black/white text and/or black/white icons on status bar and/or lock screen and/or launcher.

The app is completely free, ad-based. Users can remove the ads including by just watching full screen ads. Originally it was created to offer dark-theme on devices as it wasn't a toggle on the OS settings, and was based on the colors of the wallpaper.

we all something, these days everyone is building something. We've actually been obsessed with creating something. And that's what we're doing.

A few months ago, i built a small app, I started paying more attention to what people were saying about the products we were using. It was surprisingly messy.

One useful comment was on Reddit. Another was buried in an App Store review. Someone mentioned a feature they wanted on X. Then a competitor launched something interesting, and we almost missed it.

The weird part was that all of this information was available. We just didn't have a good way of putting it all together.

At some point, I realized I was spending more time on building in features instead of listening to the customer and understanding it

So we started building something for ourselves. That's how Mindphor started.

It brings customer feedback and competitor activity together and uses AI to find the patterns that are easy to miss when you're checking everything manually. You can use it for your both android and ios apps.

It's still early, and we're learning a lot from putting it in front of other founders.

We're launching it now, so if you're building an app and this sounds like a problem you've run into, I'd genuinely love to hear how you deal with it today.

Here's the link: Mindphor

TaskLoco is a sticky-note storyboard workspace for tasks, events, notes, projects, files, reminders, and anything you can stick in or attach to a digital sticky note.

Freemium version now includes 100 taggable sticky notes no strings attached

Website: https://www.taskloco.com

So built something, that's gonna help you leave your bed as soon as you would wake up, help you to go office/lecture, then go for gym, then take as many steps as you set, then limit your phone usage for the day.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.akountbl.app

Try out and give review 🫡

This week I spent some time improving the tennis section on https://www.sportlive.win/?league=tennis.atp

I wanted a simple way to follow ATP matches, scores, and players without bouncing between multiple sites, so I've been building it out little by little.

What did you ship this week? Curious to see what everyone is working on 👇

https://world-sim.uk/ launching friday!

World-Sim has been a passionate project of mine for the past few months.

It's a world fully simulated down to real world physics and chemistry. It has a real environment and ozone.

Every element and material has real physical properties, and that's how the sims learn. There's no tech tree and no recipe list anywhere in the code. When someone tries something, the engine works out what would really happen from the properties of what they used and how hot their fire was. Nobody is handed bronze. Someone has to get a hotter fire first, and a hotter fire is its own chain of things to figure out. Embers, a stone ring, a clay oven, a kiln, charcoal, then forced air. The ages fall out of that on their own.

We populate the world with starting families. Each little guy is led by a "wise-man", which is a simulated person with a full model behind them. The wise-men run on a mix, Claude, Groq and DeepSeek in the cloud and a local Hermes for the rest, so you get a real variety of temperament between the houses.

The AI model is never told to not say it's AI. We get around this by only telling them data from what each sim can actually see and feel. As far as the ai knows its a person living in the world..

Every other sim has its own moment with a model through our thinking system. Day to day it's run by an advanced algorithm, with the sims dreaming at night. That's when they get their time with an LLM to really think and set their priorities for the day ahead. The dreams carry over too, so a sim can chew on the same thing for a few nights and wake up wanting to try something.

The people in the world feel, remember, have shame, goals and doubts. It's an 11 point emotion system and the rest of the sim reads from it. Being lonely makes someone more likely to open up to a stranger. Two enemies who are both frightened find it harder to keep hating each other.

Story telling is massive for us. Nothing is scripted or prompted. The sims are put in the world with the human drive to survive. They adapt, learn and teach all on their own.

With all the good comes the bad too. Human sin is part of the emotion engine, and in testing we've had kidnap, murder and slave trade. A world that can only be gentle isn't an honest one. But there are three rules to this : Nothing ever pushes a sim towards it, the conditions only make it possible and their own mind decides. The chronicle names what happened but never shows it. And it always costs something, trauma that scars, blood debt passed down generations, a people turning on their own leader over what he did.

We started Dograh, an open-source voice AI platform out of rage and frustration.

Every voice AI tool I tried was too costly, too closed, or too scammy. Add-on after add-on.

So we open-sourced every single line from day one. It’s self-hostable, so you own your stack and your data.

Here's what pushed us deeper. Over the last few months, the big labs have been lobbying governments to ban open source. Some say the quiet goal is to "let wealth access skill without letting skill access wealth." That line stuck with us. It's exactly why we keep going.

Because we believe one thing: no company should own voice AI.

We're a small team going up against deeply funded war chests. Today, we launched on Product Hunt, and somehow we're sitting at #1 so far.

An OSS community member picked us up a few weeks back, and we went viral and hit 5k stars on github.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/dograh-3

If you've got a minute, a star or a bit of support would mean the world.

Made this, so obvious bias, but the problem is real enough that I think it's worth posting.

Everyone saves cooking videos. Nobody cooks from them. The video is a terrible format for actually standing at a hob with your hands covered in something, and a lot of creators never write the recipe down anywhere at all.

ReciReel takes a shared video from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook or YouTube and writes the recipe out properly. Amounts, steps in order, timings, nutrition per serving including net carbs, equipment list.

It reads what's happening in the video rather than just the caption, which matters more than it sounds like it should, because so many captions are just "recipe below 👇" and then there's nothing below.

Free tier is 3 imports then 1 a month, so you can see if it's any good without paying. iPhone, iOS 18+, US store.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recireel-video-to-recipe/id6763971435

If anyone here has tried the other apps in this space I'd be interested in what made you stop using them. That's more useful to me than praise.

I’m testing two ways of positioning an iOS app I built for guitar practice.

Option A:

“A precise guitar tuner with practice tools built around it.”

Option B:

“Tuner, chords, theory, practice and pedalboard tools in one app.”

A is easier to understand, but puts the app in a crowded utility category. B communicates more value, but I’m worried it sounds unfocused.

There’s also an optional AI explanation feature, but I don’t want “AI” to become the whole identity of the product.

If you were testing the App Store screenshots or short-form ads, which promise would you put in the first frame?

Listing for context:

https://apps.apple.com/tr/app/strumai/id6780034403

FIRST BACKLINKS EXCHANGE FOR BUILDERS INSIDE YOUR CODING AGENT

Asked yesterday how you're all getting backlinks. Here's my answer.

The trade always dies at placement. Both sides agree, then someone has to open an editor, find the right page, write the sentence, commit, deploy.

Your agent is already in the repo. Now it writes the link, in your own words.

builders/backlinks is live.

Free. Open source. My first open source project.

Would love feedback. DM me if you want to contribute.

Approving everyone in the morning.