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Most packing lists ignore the actual weather — so I built a tool that doesn't
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Most packing lists ignore the actual weather — so I built a tool that doesn't

Generic packing lists are almost always useless. they don't care if it's monsoon season or if you're actually planning to hike — they just give you a generic list of t-shirts and socks. I got tired of manually checking weather patterns and luggage weights every time i moved countries, so i built a dynamic generator.

The tool covers 130+ countries and factors in destination-specific climate data, gender, and specific activities. the logic splits everything into essentials, clothing, electronics, toiletries, health, and carry-on items. it also estimates the total weight of your gear, which is usually the part where people mess up.

It is completely free. I am looking for blunt feedback on the logic for multi-activity trips — specifically if the balance between "essentials" and "other items" feels right for your region.

https://pack-lightly.com/tool/packing-list-generator/

u/Realistic-Log-4414 — 19 hours ago
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Finally made a little video to show Line Cal in action

Four weeks ago, I released Line Cal - an app that let's users put their calendars on a timeline, with notes and an integrated Kanban task board. I've gotten 40 sign-ups since I launched, am supporting 21 languages, and am continuing to iterate on a consistent basis.

I wanted to share a short demo video of adding an item from the backlog directly onto the timeline to showcase some of what this app can do. Users can use it with or without signing (it uses a local-first architecture, with cloud sync for authenticated users).

u/dellydoesitpa — 18 hours ago
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Rate my SaaS idea plz

Looking for honest feedback on whether this solves a real enough pain point or if it’s just “nice to have.”

I built Dunningly.app — a tool that automates overdue invoice follow-ups for freelancers, consultants, and small agencies.

The problem I was trying to solve:

Most people don’t forget to follow up on unpaid invoices…
they avoid it because it’s awkward and mentally draining.

So the product handles:

  • automatic overdue reminders
  • escalating tone over time
  • CSV/PDF invoice import
  • reminder tracking
  • pause/resume reminders per invoice

Basically “set and forget” invoice chasing without sounding aggressive or damaging client relationships.

One thing I’m especially trying to figure out:
is the real value the automation itself, or the psychological relief of not having to manually chase clients?

Curious what people think.
Would you use something like this?
If not, why?

u/Delicious-Term1339 — 23 hours ago
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What are you building? Let's promote each other

Hey founders, what are you building?

🚀 Built something cool and want more people to know about it?

I created ContactJournalists.com because PR was one of the biggest growth drivers in my own business.

We have a 7 day free trial for you to get stuck in and look around :)

A single feature can do so much more than generate a nice ego boost:

✨ Build high-authority backlinks
✨ Improve your SEO
✨ Increase your visibility in AI search (GEO)
✨ Drive targeted traffic to your website
✨ Build trust with potential customers
✨ Open doors to podcast interviews and partnerships

The problem? Finding relevant journalists and podcasts takes forever.

That’s exactly why I built ContactJournalists.com.

What you get:

📰 Live press requests from journalists actively looking for expert comments and product recommendations

🎙️ Hundreds of podcasts looking for guests

🔎 Searchable journalist database with reporters, bloggers, and editors across dozens of niches

✍️ AI Pitch Helper to help you craft stronger responses

📂 Save contacts and media opportunities to your own lists

📈 Track your submissions in one dashboard

👀 See when journalists save your profile

Who it’s for:

🚀 Solopreneurs
💻 SaaS founders
🛍️ Ecommerce brands
📣 PR agencies
🏋️ Coaches and consultants
🤖 Indie hackers
🏢 Startups and small businesses

If you’re building something and want to get featured in the press, appear on podcasts, and grow your brand organically, it’s designed for you.

🎁 Free 7-day trial
💷 Then just £14/month

It takes about 30 seconds to get started.

👉 https://www.contactjournalists.com

Would genuinely love your feedback from fellow founders and marketers. 😊

#PR #SEO #GEO #SaaS #Solopreneur #Startups #IndieHackers #PodcastGuest #BuildInPublic

u/Capuchoochoo — 23 hours ago
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wearehere — see who's tracking you online, and make it harder for them

- It shows you who's watching. Every site quietly hands your activity to ad networks, data brokers and analytics firms. wearehere names them — so you can finally see which companies follow you across the web, and how often.

- It cleans up tracker cookies automatically. The long-lived cookies sites use to recognise you for months get shortened the moment they're set — no settings to fiddle with, no manual clearing. Trackers lose their memory of you.

- It blurs your device fingerprint. Even with cookies gone, you can be re-identified by tiny technical details of your browser. wearehere feeds trackers slightly-wrong, per-site answers, so the same browser looks like a different device everywhere — and the disguise rotates weekly so you can't be profiled over time.

- It reads the fine print for you. wearehere finds and flags a site's terms and privacy pages, so you know what you're agreeing to without digging through legalese.

Honest about limits: this raises the cost of tracking — it won't make you invisible. I pair it with Firefox and uBlock Origin to block requests too.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wearehere/ajlgpjdjccjmhnojnpcmicdndcpelbjo

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wearehere/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

u/Tight_Heron1730 — 23 hours ago
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Reddit-shaped, no operator power, no stored emails. Roast me.

Subs, threads, votes, mods. None of the rest.

- Operator runs the lights. No mod appointments, no override button, no special voice. If I go bad, fork the repo and walk.

- Sign-in is a magic link. The email is fingerprinted on arrival and never stored — same address on two plato sites gives you two unrelated handles.

- Public modlog. Enough community flags auto-collapse a post; enough upvotes after a mod removal auto-restore it. The math can override the mod.

- Plain text only, no uploads. RSS out of every sub, RSS in for your follows + replies. Interop on day one.

Live: terribic.com/about · Code: github.com/hamr0/plato

Tear it apart.

u/Tight_Heron1730 — 22 hours ago
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I built a free alternative to Epieos [pip install mailaccess]

Tired of paying $99/month for email OSINT. Built my own.

Checks 800+ platforms, breach exposure, infostealer logs, DNS/WHOIS, the works. But the part I'm actually proud of: instead of dumping a raw hit list, it builds an identity graph and tells you *why* something is high confidence, shared username, same avatar, matching display name across platforms. No other free tool does this.

Exports to STIX 2.1, Maltego, JSON, PDF. Pipeline-ready too.

pip install mailaccess

mailaccess investigate email@example.com

https://github.com/KatrielMoses/MailAccess

fully open source, happy to answer questions.

u/LockInternational893 — 24 hours ago

How are people handling long-term memory in creative AI agents?

I'm working on a creative AI project and ran into an unexpected problem.

Generating content wasn't particularly difficult. Maintaining consistency across sessions was.

Users would come back and ask for something like "same atmosphere but darker" or "same style but slower," and the system would understand the request but lose a lot of the context that made the previous result work.

For people building creative agents, how are you handling long-term memory and preference persistence?

Are you storing explicit preferences, retrieving previous outputs, using reflection/summaries, vector search, graph memory, or something else?

I'm curious what approaches have worked well in practice.

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u/MithranNinjaMOB — 22 hours ago
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I built gosuggestai.com — an AI Gift Concierge that gives actually thoughtful personalized gift ideas

Looking for gift ideas and kept getting the same generic lists, so I made a small AI tool that acts like a personal concierge.

Just describe the person + occasion + budget and it suggests thoughtful gifts.

Free to use: https://gosuggestai.com

Would appreciate any feedback — especially if the suggestions feel useful or not.

u/Most_Wolf_8472 — 1 day ago
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I built a tiny direct-modeling CAD app for quick prototyping

I was looking for a tiny CAD app for fast prototyping and testing random model ideas, but most CAD software felt way too heavy for what I needed.

So I made a small direct-modeling mini CAD and decided to open source it in case it helps someone else too.

To be clear: this is very much a vibe-coded project and more of a lightweight wrapper / experimental UI layer than a serious CAD kernel. But for quick experiments and simple modeling ideas, it’s already pretty useful.

Repo:
https://github.com/pawelzduniak-design/mini-cad

u/SeriousExperience319 — 23 hours ago
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Salam everyone,

If you've used ChatGPT or Claude in Arabic, you've probably noticed something: the answers in Arabic feel noticeably weaker than in English. It's not your imagination. These models are trained on way more English content, so structured English prompts get better results — even when you want the answer in Arabic.

For most of my friends and family here in the Gulf, switching to writing prompts in English isn't realistic. So I built Prompify — a free Chrome side panel that:

- You write in Arabic (Khaleeji is fine — أبغى، أحتاج، اكتب لي…)

- It rewrites your idea into a structured, English-style prompt

- Sends it to ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini / DeepSeek

- The AI responds in Arabic, English, or both — your choice

Free tier: 5 prompts/day, no signup. Paid is $2.99/month if you need more.

Built specifically with the Gulf in mind: Arabic RTL UI, Khaleeji vocabulary recognized, dialectal input handled.

Chrome Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/iggmhjkkdhafliofnnhaopjhlmfaokjp

Genuinely looking for feedback. What use cases would you want it to handle better? Government memos? School work? Marketing copy? Tell me what's missing.

شكرًا

u/Severe_Whereas_1921 — 1 day ago
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I built a pixel-art AI companion for Linux that lives on your desktop and grows a personality the longer you use it

Hey everyone! After months of weekend hacking I'm ready to share this side project.

What is Pip?

Pip is a tiny animated character who lives in the corner of your Linux desktop. She chats via Claude Code CLI — no separate API key needed, just your existing session. She dances when your music changes, reminds you to hydrate, plays games, and slowly develops a genuine personality over time.

The fun parts:

  • Relationship system — 4 levels from "New Friend" to "Best Friend" (500+ interactions). Her tone and humour actually change at each milestone. At Best Friend she teases you and writes diary entries about your day.
  • Music awareness — reads your MPRIS player via playerctl. Dances when a new track starts, fetches Claude-powered facts about the artist.
  • Mini-games — right-click for AI Trivia Quiz, 20 Questions, or Rock-Paper-Scissors. She tracks your score and reacts with matching animations.
  • Pomodoro — fires a "shout" bubble after 25 minutes. Hard to ignore.
  • Daily content — word of the day, coding or creative challenge, time-aware greetings (she knows it's 3 AM).
  • Memory — say "remember: X" to save a note. She'll bring it up later.

The technical parts:

  • Python 3.9+ / PyQt6
  • AI via claude -p subprocess in a QThread — not the Anthropic API
  • MPRIS music via playerctl, window tracking via xdotool, idle detection via pynput
  • Priority bubble queue: LOW drops if busy, NORMAL queues, HIGH jumps to front
  • Atomic personality.json writes, rotating log files, graceful SIGTERM handling
  • 5-state canvas animation (Idle, Happy, Dancing, Thinking, Talking)

No API key needed. If you already use Claude Code, she just works.

Homepage: In the first comment
License: Polyform Noncommercial 1.0 (free for personal use)

Feedback are welcome

u/kikimora47 — 1 day ago
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I built my own AI model for a gamified rep tracker made for WFH workouts

Hey r/SaaS ,

I’ve been building Repsify, a gamified workout app for people who want to stay active at home without needing a gym, equipment, or a full workout program.

I built my own AI rep-counting model for it. It runs on-device and uses pose/form data to count exercises like pushups, pullups, situps, and squats. Your camera feed stays on your phone, workout videos are not uploaded or stored.

I wanted it to feel less like a traditional fitness app and more like a game you can play throughout the day.

Gamified rep tracking: Earn XP, build streaks, unlock crests, and climb ranks.

Made for WFH: Do quick sets between meetings or whenever you realize you’ve been sitting too long.

No gym needed: Built around bodyweight reps and simple home workouts.

AI rep counting: The app watches your movement and counts reps automatically instead of making you manually log everything.

Leaderboards: Compete globally, by country, or with friends.

Privacy: Rep counting runs on-device. Camera frames stay on your phone, and Repsify doesn’t store your workout videos.

Pricing: There’s a free version, with Pro options at $1.99/week, $4.99/month, $29.99/year.

I’m an indie dev trying to do things the right way. I’d love for you to check it out and let me know if the UI feels intuitive! Anyone who wants to use the app DM me and when you sign up let me know and ill give you a limited edition Founding Members hidden Crest!

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/repsify-rep-tracker-rank/id6765833984

u/GShunYT — 1 day ago

[20M] just hit my first 1k as a broke college kid

honestly never thought i'd be writing one of these but here we are

quick backstory : i was the most average kid you can imagine. nothing special , decent grades , spent wayyy too much time scrolling. always had this thing in my head abt wanting to make my own money but i didn't had a single clue. prolly wasted my first 1.5 years of college just sitting on that feeling

then in november i was doomscrolling like usual and saw some reels about people getting paid to "clip" content.i clicked on it more out of boredom than anything. ended up joining a discord server that ran one of these clipping program figured ok, one month why not

first month was rough, like really rough.i was posting clips on yt and insta..getting absolutely nothing. like 200 views on a good day. was pretty close to calling it quit ngl. but i told myself one more month before i drop it for good

then one of my clip just hit 80k views on yt overnight..that's when something clicked - i had been picking clips based on what i thought sounded smart or impressive.but those don't hook anyone. the clips that actually pop are the ones where you litreally cannot look away in the first 2 seconds

made my first $80 from that. month after that $432. month after that $600. and like the genius i am, i blew all of it on a college trip without telling my parents lol. felt completely insane spending money i made from sitting in my room clipping podcasts.

stuff i'd tell anyone trying this:

  • volume for the sake of volume is a trap. i wasted my first 2 weeks spamming posts thinking quantity = results. it doesn't
  • picking the right moment to clip matters wayyy more than how clean your edit is. ive seen ugly edits do millions because the clip choice was good
  • actually look at your retention graphs. like really look at them. if people are dropping at second 3 your hook is mid, fix it
  • finding music that doesn't get your video muted is still the bane of my existence. if anyone has a real solution pls drop it in the comments

happy to answer anything if anyone's curious

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u/n1gesh — 1 day ago

Share your side hustle — I’ll feature it on my website with 980k monthly visitors

I spend a lot of time discovering random indie projects online, and honestly some of the best products have almost zero visibility.

Meanwhile low-effort AI wrappers somehow dominate every feed.

So I wanted to ask:

What’s the most underrated side project you’ve built recently?

Could be:

  • SaaS
  • AI tools
  • developer utilities
  • automation
  • niche websites
  • productivity apps
  • weird internet experiments

Share:

  • what it does
  • what stack you used
  • biggest lesson so far

I’ll start:

I’ve been building tools focused on utility-first products instead of engagement-first products.

One recent project:

https://www.splitmates.in/

profitai.in

https://lib.profitai.in/

and many more

It’s a minimal shared expense platform with realtime group chat, smart debt simplification, and no ads/social feed.

Curious to see what everyone else is building.

made a subreddit called r/uselesstalk

it’s basically for:

•	random thoughts

•	weird observations

•	pointless conversations
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u/Routine_Charge8497 — 2 days ago
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RateMyStartup - A site where you swipe yes/no on startup ideas

Built a yes/no voting site for startup ideas. Free to vote, $4.99/mo to post your idea and get real feedback.

Stuff that surprised me while building it:

  • SQLite on a cheap VPS is completely fine for an early product. I was way overthinking the database situation.
  • next-auth v5 has basically no real documentation. Had to figure out a lot by trial and error.
  • Stripe was somehow the easiest part. Had it working in like 30 min.
  • Email verification has way more moving pieces than it should for something so common.r

Would love brutal feedback — on the idea, the UX, the pricing, anything.

https://rate-my-startup.com/

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u/TendToTensor — 1 day ago
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Big Update: OpenLLM-Studio now has a built-in Code Editor with strong agentic coding!

I built OpenLLM-Studio — a free, open-source desktop app that makes running local LLMs extremely simple.

OpenLLM-Studio is a simple desktop app that does the thinking for you. You just open it, it scans your hardware (GPU, VRAM, RAM, CPU), uses AI to recommend the best model + perfect quantization, downloads it from Hugging Face, and you’re chatting with it in minutes.

No Ollama needed. No terminal commands. No guessing.It’s completely free and open source.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed trying to run local LLMs, I’d love to know what you think.

Here is the tutorial on how to download Local LLMs using AI in OpenLLM Studio: https://www.reddit.com/r/StartupMind/comments/1spfebg/i_built_a_tool_that_finally_makes_running_local/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

you.GitHub: https://github.com/Icecubesaad/OpenLLM-Studio
Download: https://openllm-studio.vercel.app

u/icecubesaad — 1 day ago
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Made a shell greeter that generates a unique rocket every time you open a terminal tab

every new tab rolls a random rocket. save the ones you like and they'll come back. ~2×10⁴³ combinations, all deterministic from the hex palette.

rn it works on bash, zsh, powershell, and fish

https://github.com/clefspear/starcommand

lmk what you think!

u/Peetabread8991 — 1 day ago
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A voice-first lazy productivity app.

Hi, I’m 25M software engineer and I built a yet another productivity app and I’ll tell you why.

This app solves 2 core problems of productivity apps :-

  1. Every single thing you want to track (habit, journal, mood, meals, workouts, expenses, voice notes etc needs another specific app to download, pay for and learn its own mechanics)

  2. Every app adds more and more features to it which frankly most people never use or need and every additional tap, config and organisation adds to the mental load of using it and eventually abondaning it.

Thats why I built “Log Anything”.

Here you can track everything I mentioned above and more.

It has one timeline screen where you add all your entries from just 1 input box where you can type or speak your entry in natural language and everything else will get auto-parsed for that entry type and will get presented in its own detail screen.

You say,

- 10$ on coffee starbucks
- met anil at coffee shop
- ate chicken burrito with 100g curd
- feeling good due to nice weather
- did bench press 10kg 10 reps, 12kg 8 reps
- weight 81.5kg

All of it gets auto parsed into an expense, interaction, meal, mood, workout and metric without ever touching any form or screen.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/log-anything/id6766284543

Happy Logging.

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What would make you switch RSS readers in 2026?

I keep rediscovering why RSS matters.

A few times now, I’ve spent hours searching for an answer and eventually found it on some tiny personal blog that never shows up near the top of Google. Those are exactly the sources I want to keep following.

But when I tried to make RSS part of my daily workflow again, every option felt like a tradeoff:

- hosted readers are polished, but can get expensive or locked down

- self-hosted readers are powerful, but now I’m maintaining another service

- local readers are nice, but sync gets messy across devices

So I’m building kitereader.com : a managed RSS sync engine with a clean web reader, OPML import/export, and support for third-party readers.

I’m not trying to pitch blindly here. I’d genuinely like feedback from people who still use RSS seriously:

What would make a new RSS service worth switching to in 2026?

And what would immediately make you ignore it?

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u/Code_Ostrich — 1 day ago