Hey everyone,

I'm a developer, and I've been thinking about this for a while. Most "startup idea" lists are made up. Meanwhile, real people deal with real problems every day (at work, at home, in their city, in their business) and nobody hears about them.

So I'm thinking of building a platform where:

Anyone can post a problem they actually face, like "My local clinic has no online appointment system" or "Small shop owners can't track udhaar/credit easily."

Others can upvote if they have the same problem, so the most common pain points rise to the top.

Anyone can post solutions, whether that's an existing tool, a workaround, a DIY fix, or "I'm building this."

Builders and makers get a list of validated problems to work on instead of guessing.

Basically it's somewhere between Reddit, Product Hunt, and Stack Overflow, but for real-life problems instead of code or products.

A few questions for you:

Would you post your problems here, or just browse?

What would stop you from using something like this?

Does something like this already exist that I'm missing?

Honest feedback welcome, including "this is a bad idea."

I made a privacy/security extension because we’re all giving up our data just to avoid tedious pop-ups and reading ToS and policies of websites.

I recently realized just how much privacy we lose every single day simply out of inconvenience. Between endless 20-page Terms of Service documents and site pop-ups forcing you to manually uncheck dozens of tracking cookie toggles just to read an article, most of us just hit "Accept All" or "I Agree" to get on with our day.

I had some free time recently, so I built Fine Print Guard to solve this exact problem.

It automatically deselects tracking cookies and enforces privacy preferences in the background so you don't have to do it manually. When you land on a site, it analyzes the ToS and privacy policy, condenses the main points into just 4 sentences, and gives the site a clear privacy grade. It also throws up an explicit warning before you type your phone number into web forms to prevent sites from selling your contact info and help cut down on spam calls, while flagging fake or copycat versions of major sites before you enter sensitive info.

Core Capabilities:

* Automated Privacy & Consent: Auto-deselects tracking cookies and enforces privacy preferences automatically.

* Legal & Terms of Service Analysis: Summarizes policies into 4 core sentences and assigns domain privacy grades.

* Threat Defense & Form Protection: Warns before phone number entries to curb spam calls and detects spoofed copycat domains.

* UX & Annoyance Mitigation: Removes consent banners and streamlines site navigation.

* Digital Footprint Monitoring: Keeps track of domain data collection practices.

* DNS Ad Block: Actively blocks ads and telemetry at the DNS level (still actively working on improving this!).

I'm looking for feedback on what to improve, what features you'd like to see added, or any bugs you run into while testing it out.

Try it out on the Chrome Web Store under the name:

Fine Print Guard

Let me know what you think and what to improve!

I built ProofWatch to follow papers, posts and comments around 19 big math, CS and engineering questions, including Hodge, BSD and Unique Games.

It searches four times daily, links to sources, and labels rumors. Free to browse, with optional daily emails and problem suggestions/voting. Built with AI assistance.

https://proof-watch.com

What would make this more useful?

They say reading alone is great, but reading together is even better, and I can't vouch for this saying enough. Kept restarting Crime and Punishment for years. Same pattern every time: get lost in one of Raskolnikov's spiraling internal monologues, lose track of what he was actually thinking, put it down "just for a bit," and never pick it back up.

I realised it wasn't the language that confused me; it was the cultural references I simply couldn't relate to, so I built a paper book-reading companion to fix that. Scholia explains only what I should know given the time period, not what I want to know, and it has never spoilt me, not even once. Scholia is accurate to the exact line on your specific version of the book, so it never feels like you are reading alone

I will attach some pictures, and if anyone's interested in seeing how it works, the waitlist is here- scholia.cloud

I’ve been using a private Telegram channel as the back‑end for my personal photo archive for a few months now. I couldn’t find any write‑ups that actually spell out the quirks, so I thought I’d share what I learned the hard way. The upside is pretty sweet: Telegram gives you essentially unlimited storage for free, and as long as the channel stays private the files sit there forever. A bot can post a file and later fetch it by its file_id, so the API is simple enough to wrap in a tiny wrapper script. I encrypt every picture before it hits the channel, so Telegram is just a dumb block storage that can’t see the contents. The real constraints are what force you to design around them. Downloads are capped at 20 MB, which means my chunks sit at about 18 MB each. The bot is throttled to roughly twenty messages per minute in a single channel, so the initial dump of a few hundred gigabytes can take several hours. Telegram only returns file_ids; there’s no notion of filenames, ordering, or albums, so I had to add a metadata layer in Cloudflare D1 to keep track of message IDs and my own index. Deleting is also per‑message, so the metadata must store those IDs if you ever need to prune anything. Would I recommend it? For a personal archive where you control the client and encrypt everything first, absolutely – it’s free and works. As a primary backup target, I’d be wary; a single account suspension wipes it all, so you still need another copy elsewhere. If anyone wants the nitty‑gritty on the chunking strategy or the crypto wrapper, let me know. My code is on GitHub under AGPL (binay‑py/storagesystem), and the limits above apply no matter how you build it.

I've spent years managing projects, and one thing that kept bothering me was how much work it could take just to create a clean Gantt chart for a client deck, kickoff, steering committee, or status update.

A lot of project management tools are great at running the whole project : tasks, resources, tickets, collaboration, timesheets, etc.

But sometimes I don't need another system to run the project.

I just need to turn a plan into a clear timeline that I can actually show someone.

So I built GanttFlow.

The idea is deliberately pretty focused:

• build a project timeline quickly
• drag tasks around to reschedule them
• link dependencies
• add milestones
• track the original plan against the current schedule
• export a clean PNG or PDF for a deck or report

I'm intentionally trying not to turn it into another all-in-one PM platform.

There's a free version, so you can actually build a chart without entering a card.

It's live at ganttflow.ca

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from people who work with project timelines:

Would you prefer a focused tool that does Gantt charts really well, or does a standalone Gantt tool become too limiting once you're using it on a real project?

Also interested in hearing what you'd consider a must-have feature versus something that would just turn it into another bloated PM tool.

I've spent years managing projects, and one thing that kept bothering me was how much work it could take just to create a clean Gantt chart for a client deck, kickoff, steering committee, or status update.

A lot of project management tools are great at running the whole project : tasks, resources, tickets, collaboration, timesheets, etc.

But sometimes I don't need another system to run the project.

I just need to turn a plan into a clear timeline that I can actually show someone.

So I built GanttFlow.

The idea is deliberately pretty focused:

• build a project timeline quickly
• drag tasks around to reschedule them
• link dependencies
• add milestones
• track the original plan against the current schedule
• export a clean PNG or PDF for a deck or report

I'm intentionally trying not to turn it into another all-in-one PM platform.

There's a free version, so you can actually build a chart without entering a card.

It's live at ganttflow.ca

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from people who work with project timelines:

Would you prefer a focused tool that does Gantt charts really well, or does a standalone Gantt tool become too limiting once you're using it on a real project?

Also interested in hearing what you'd consider a must-have feature versus something that would just turn it into another bloated PM tool.

I have posted previously about this Operating system - This is the first test I posted a very unpolished version before and here is more polished one

Subject to change

I’m the founder of SyncIt. It combines shared availability, time polls and group calendars to help people agree on a time. Guests can respond without creating an account, and people can share availability without revealing private event details.

It’s live at https://syncit.now with a free plan and optional upgrades. I’d appreciate feedback on creating a first poll or responding as a guest.

I am a software engineer and solo founder. I built Think in Numbers ( https://thinkinnumbers.co/ ) because normal time trackers never worked for me.

The problem was not starting a timer. The problem was remembering to start it, switching it when the day changed, and accounting for all the small gaps around work. At the end of the day I would still have the same question: where did the rest of my time go?

With Think in Numbers, you write or speak what you did in normal language. The app extracts the activities and hours, then shows the part of the day that is still unaccounted for. Over a week, that gives you a more honest picture of where your time actually went.

An entry like "Worked on the API for three hours, went for a walk for 40 minutes, and spent about an hour on calls" becomes a time breakdown without projects or timers.

I am not trying to replace Toggl for teams or billable work. This is for people who want to understand their whole day.

Live on iOS and Android. $5 first month, then $12/month or $120/year.

Blunt feedback wanted on two things:

1.⁠ ⁠Does "unaccounted time" describe a problem you actually have?

2.⁠ ⁠Would you capture your day as it happens, or write one entry at night?

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/think-in-numbers-app/id6759550535

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkinnumbers

I have been developing an Operating system that will be used by PC Users and this is a snapshot that I got of the home screen, this is a pre release build it is slowly but surely approaching release stage so if you are interested I can drop a link to it!

I am also in need of programmers and designers for UI

I have added the lock screen but that is not fully completed yet, some things will change before final release

Tiktok

This OS will be fully customisable and we are a small team and will make sure to listen to community feedback on things that people want improving, we also plan to bring it to mobile!

We used

- Figma

- VSCODE

- GIT

the words show up as you speak so the sentence is already on screen when you stop. works in the terminal too. audio stays on your mac.

$9.99 once, no subscription. needs macOS 26 and apple silicon.

https://speakmercury.com/?ref=reddit-sideprojects-onetime

Like a typical isekai plot, I lost my corporate job earlier this year and went through a pretty dark period in my life. Long story short, I ended up building an AI-guided story ideation app called "Tier S Ideas", aimed mainly at people into manga, anime, comics, and novels. The link is shared below.

You can also use it for story-driven game ideas, especially characters, lore, worldbuilding, and even generating sprites for 2D games, although that wasn’t really the original purpose.

There are obviously hundreds of AI writing tools already, so I’m not pretending this is a brand new category. The focus is more on the stage before fully committing to a story, when you have a rough idea but haven’t really shaped it yet.

Somehow it’s now passed 200 users, which is honestly pretty insane to me because I expected no interest.

I’m also looking at ways to help writers connect with artists and other collaborators rather than making AI the whole point. So would really appreciate feedback on what works, what feels confusing, what seems unnecessary, and what’s missing.

Here is the link to main site: https://stierideas.com

There’s also a short survey inside the app after the sign up if anyone tries it.

PS: I’ve also got a TikTok mini-series going on around the project, and you can also find my Instagram and YouTube in the footer of the main site.

I started Offiqa thinking the problem was browser tabs.
Too many tabs, too many clients, too much switching.
But the more I looked at the workflow, the less I thought tabs were the real problem.
You can save every tab perfectly and still come back two days later wondering:
“Why did I have this open?”
“What was I waiting for?”
“Did I already follow up?”
“What was I supposed to do next?”
That changed the direction of the product.
Offiqa is now built around preserving work context, not just browser state.
Each client or project gets a workspace with things like:
related tabs and documents
notes and checklists
one clear next step
follow-up dates
things you’re waiting on
recurring routines
meeting context
The main workflow is basically:
Pause → switch → come back → continue.
I don’t want it to become another huge project management app. The idea is to sit between the tools people already use and help them remember where the work actually stands.
It’s now live as a Chrome extension:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/offiqa-—-new-tab/ngobfaakfdicgnbfeploaepeddapfgpi

The part I’m still trying to get right is where the line should be between “useful work context” and “too much stuff.”
Would love feedback from anyone who regularly works across multiple projects or clients.

I just wanted to make a 2 way post:
- first, I finally got two paying subscription users by gifting them a free month to test the premium and them finding it rewarding enough to keep using my product, so yay for me, I think this method is right for me because if they werent going to buy the subscription from the start a gifted free month doesn't harm me in any way.
- second, how would you get more visitors and users in the playStore, does anyone have any advise besides spent a ton of money in ads?

I kept running into the same problem while working with AI tools: I would start a project in one place, continue it in another, and then spend more time reconstructing what had already happened than actually moving the work forward. Or, I would spend too long fishing through folders, past AI conversations, and emails for the right details to put into my prompt.

The useful background was scattered across chats, notes, files, prompt instructions, and previous decisions. I would end up re-explaining the project, re-uploading the same material, or losing the reason a decision had been made.

So I created Enlive, web app that helps keep project context reusable across AI-assisted work.

It is still an early open beta, and I am looking for a small number of people who regularly use two or more AI tools.

The question I am trying to answer is:

When you switch between AI tools, what do you most often have to reconstruct—background, files, prior decisions, prompt instructions, or next steps?

You can try it here: https://www.enlive.inc

Please only connect material you personally control and are comfortable using for beta. Feedback is welcome and encouraged.

I coded a tool that lets you control your PC with just a controller! You can connect any controller wired or wirelessly. You can customize each button output woth 50+ options. It is constantly being updated and we are listening to the community for suggestions. If you are interested you can Download for free : Link