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$100k MRR as a solo founder with UGC creators + Apple ads
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$100k MRR as a solo founder with UGC creators + Apple ads

Yesterday X got crazy because of this App.

A guy, nomading in Bangkok, created this app last year and today reached his first $100k payout…

This is two years salary of a software engineer in Europe. But received in one month.

anything is possible in 2026 guys

u/Bubbly-Storm6109 — 15 hours ago

[Hiring] Need App developer to build an app

Rate is $10~$20 per hour with 1~3 months.

Comment with your portfolio projects, total years of experience and app links which are live so that it will be easy to evaluate for me.

Thank you.

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u/Radiant-Tear1467 — 13 hours ago
I made an app for people who travel and want to remember how a place actually felt
▲ 5 r/SideProject+2 crossposts

I made an app for people who travel and want to remember how a place actually felt

Not photos. Not check-ins. Just your voice, 20 seconds, tied to the exact GPS coordinates where you stood.

When you go back months or years later your phone quietly reminds you that you left something there.

There’s also a time capsule mode.

https://apps.apple.com/it/app/sonorae/id6760564492

u/gmnt_808 — 4 days ago
Spotify playlist maker
▲ 2 r/AppBusiness+1 crossposts

Spotify playlist maker

I have this playlist on Spotify that has 2,000 songs in it, basically every song I ever liked, and I always wanted to find the top n songs in it. Not just by how many times I've listened to them but by ranking them myself. I've built this taste engine that helps pick pairs and ranks items in the list based on your preference. I've also built a mobile app with a social server in case people wanted to create playlists to play with their friends or the public.

Now I've done this all just vibe coding, and I don't have much experience with mobile apps myself, so I was hoping that anyone would be interested in evolving this idea, checking for any issues, and maybe publishing it. The taste engine is also an independent library, so if you wanted to reuse it for other purposes, feel free to do so.

https://github.com/amirhyou/Taste-Engine

u/amirhyou — 6 hours ago

Helping users discover long press menus

Hi All,
I just published an app. The app has a lot of features that are hidden behind long press menus to prevent the ui from getting cluttered. After the onboarding it drops you into the main app with an app tour which consists of 10 slides (like 1 sentence each) that basically explain how to use the app (like it highlights something and says "long pressing widgets for options to do x,y,z"). Problem is it seems like this strategy isn't working well since people are skipping the tour (which, now that I think about it,is probably what I would do to).

I'm debating between:

  1. Adding a screen to the onboarding that basically just begs users to watch the tour.
  2. Adding a screen to the onboarding that says something like "important tip - long press on anything in the main app for options" - this is redundant if the user does actually go through the tour
    3 - adding a "help" button at the bottom of the main app - I don't really like that this adds a button to the main app that will only be used once or twice but will probably stay there forever (unless I remove it after the user demonstrates that they understand the long press interaction or something weird like that).
    4 - Disallow skipping the app tour & require some sort of interaction during it to demonstrate understanding (long press here to continue). This would probably be the most effort. I'm not sure if users would find it annoying.

Thoughts? I'm leaning towards option 1 but I'm not sure that it will help since users might just click through the extra slide without reading it? Would it be annoying to make them long press something to prove they read the slide?

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u/ElectronicCat3293 — 4 hours ago
▲ 10 r/ProductivityApps+1 crossposts

Tasks and notes

Guys, humble question here: I’ve been working on an end-to-end encrypted task and notes app (web, iOS) for the past months, together with my daughter. I will need outside feedback. How do I do that without getting hammered for posting an ad?

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u/WarthogSwimming6866 — 20 hours ago
▲ 7 r/SaaS+1 crossposts

Explain me your Saas In a single hook !!!!

Let’s see how many viewers understands your product in a single hook . If you get it , an upvote for the product’s comment and post will be appreciated, so that would work as a hint that their hook is working .

Let’s start in the commments !!!!

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u/product_shaper — 17 hours ago
Mindfulness Productivity App, Trains How Awareness Works
▲ 4 r/ProductivityApps+3 crossposts

Mindfulness Productivity App, Trains How Awareness Works

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a project that sits somewhere between productivity and mental clarity, and I wanted to share it here because it approaches things a bit differently than most apps in this space.

Most productivity tools I’ve used focus on:

task management

habit tracking

discipline / consistency

Those are helpful, but I kept running into the same issue:

👉 when my mind was overwhelmed, distracted, or emotionally off, no system really “worked”

So I built an app based on something I’ve been developing called Cognitive Transformational Mindfulness (CTM).

Instead of trying to force behavior, it trains the state of awareness behind behavior.

What it actually does

The app helps you:

notice early signals of distraction or overwhelm

stabilize your attention (without forcing focus)

work with mental resistance instead of fighting it

turn emotional “friction” into usable clarity

One thing that makes it different is how it’s structured:

👉 It uses a question-and-answer format, where the app guides you through short reflective prompts and you respond in real time. This helps you actively work with your mind, instead of just passively consuming content.

👉 It also includes general information sections, where you can learn the deeper framework behind the method — how awareness, emotion, and cognition interact — so you’re not just doing exercises, you actually understand what’s happening.

It’s less like:

👉 “do this task now”

and more like:

👉 “get your mind into a state where doing the task becomes natural”

How it’s different from typical productivity apps

Most apps assume:

if you manage time → you’ll be productive

This assumes:

if you manage awareness → time and behavior follow

So instead of:

reminders

streak pressure

optimization loops

It uses short practices (5–10 minutes) to:

reset attention

reduce internal resistance

rebuild momentum from a stable state

Why I’m sharing it here

I’m trying to figure out if this kind of tool actually fits into the “productivity” category or if it’s something different.

If you’ve ever:

had the perfect system but couldn’t follow it

felt mentally “off” and nothing worked

noticed that focus is more about state than discipline

https://righteous-actor-2387.glide.page/

u/Academic_Assumption1 — 16 hours ago
Looking for Beta Testers for a Personal Budgeting App
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Looking for Beta Testers for a Personal Budgeting App

Hey everyone!

I’m currently building a personal budgeting app focused on helping people track expenses, stay organized, and actually understand their spending habits in a simple, practical way.

Before moving forward with new features, I want to make sure what’s already built is stable, useful, and genuinely solves real problems. That’s where I need your help.

I’m looking for early testers who can:

  • Use the app in day-to-day life
  • Share honest feedback (bugs, UX issues, missing features)
  • Help shape what gets built next

A few things to know:

  • Some features are marked as “coming soon” — I’m actively working on them and they’ll be rolled out in future updates
  • The goal right now is stability, usability, and validating what users actually need (instead of blindly adding features)

What you get:

  • 6 months of premium access for free post launch
  • Early access to upcoming features
  • Direct influence on product decisions

How to join:

Fill out the attached form to get access.

Your email will be used only for tester onboarding and communication related to this beta — nothing else, no spam.

If you’re interested in improving how you manage money and want to be part of building something meaningful, I’d really appreciate your help

forms.gle
u/ascentdevs — 10 hours ago
Ios automated Expense tracking
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Ios automated Expense tracking

What if you never had to log an expense manually again?

I’ve been working on a personal project, and the idea is pretty simple:

Your expenses should track themselves.

No manual entry.
No categories to fill every time.
No “I’ll do it later” (and never do).

Once set up, the app just reads your transaction SMS and keeps everything organized for you — automatically.

Here’s the part I cared about the most:

100% private

  • No account creation
  • No data leaving your device
  • No Bank Account linking
  • No tracking, no analytics, nothing shady

Your financial data stays yours. Period.

I built this because I was tired of:

  • Forgetting to log expenses
  • Giving apps access to sensitive data
  • Overcomplicated “finance tools”
  • No tool existed which does it automatically

I found an interesting way to read the SMS on ios devices and using that it automatically tracks all the expenses based on your transaction messages.

Not launching yet — still refining things.

But I’ve opened a small waitlist to understand how many would be interested in it : https://waitlister.me/p/lekka

  • Zero-effort expense tracking
  • Privacy-first design
  • Something that just works in the background

If this sounds interesting, I’d love to share early access soon.

Also, not sure if my app would get accepted in app store. Would love to hear honest thoughts.

u/Hairy_Cattle_116 — 17 hours ago

Expenses tracker

As a college student I have been facing a problem for a long time then to solve this issue I created this app to track daily expenses of college students It gives you a lot of insights about your expenditure

Tell me how to increase the consumer especially college students..

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u/ChrisKyleSt49 — 13 hours ago
▲ 2 r/SideProject+1 crossposts

I audited an open-source trading platform and found 12 security issues. Here's my 25-point checklist.

Ran a full audit on a Next.js + Supabase app. Found:

- CRITICAL: API key in localStorage (any XSS = full account takeover)

- HIGH: No input validation on profile updates

- HIGH: SECURITY DEFINER on rate limit RPC

- MEDIUM: No rate limits on public endpoints, CSP allows unsafe-inline

Turned my process into a 25-point checklist covering auth, injection, IDOR, XSS, infrastructure, and business logic. Each check has a real example + exact fix.

Happy to answer questions about any findings.

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u/Technical_Income_745 — 14 hours ago
Looking for Beta Testers for a Personal Budgeting App

Looking for Beta Testers for a Personal Budgeting App

Hey everyone!

I’m currently building a personal budgeting app focused on helping people track expenses, stay organized, and actually understand their spending habits in a simple, practical way.

Before moving forward with new features, I want to make sure what’s already built is stable, useful, and genuinely solves real problems. That’s where I need your help.

I’m looking for early testers who can:

  • Use the app in day-to-day life
  • Share honest feedback (bugs, UX issues, missing features)
  • Help shape what gets built next

A few things to know:

  • Some features are marked as “coming soon” — I’m actively working on them and they’ll be rolled out in future updates
  • The goal right now is stability, usability, and validating what users actually need (instead of blindly adding features)

What you get:

  • 6 months of premium access for free post launch
  • Early access to upcoming features
  • Direct influence on product decisions

How to join:

Fill out the attached form to get access.

Your email will be used only for tester onboarding and communication related to this beta — nothing else, no spam.

If you’re interested in improving how you manage money and want to be part of building something meaningful, I’d really appreciate your help

forms.gle
u/ascentdevs — 9 hours ago

We asked 15 startup founders what they'd spend their first $10k on if they had to build a tech product. The results were split 3 ways.

The answers reveal a lot about how founders think about early-stage risk.

Group 1: "Build the MVP" (6 founders) Spend it all on development. Get something in users' hands fast. Validate with a real product, not slides.

Their logic: talking to customers is great, but nothing beats watching them use your actual product.

Group 2: "Validate first, build second" (5 founders) Spend $2K-3K on landing pages, ads, and customer interviews. Only build if validation proves demand.

Their logic: most ideas fail because nobody wants them, not because they're poorly built.

Group 3: "Hybrid approach" (4 founders) Split it: $4K on a scrappy MVP, $3K on initial marketing, $3K reserve for pivots.

Their logic: you need some product to test with, but you also need to get it in front of people and have room to adapt.

Here's what's interesting: the "validate first" group had ALL failed at least once before. The "build first" group? Mostly first-timers.

Experience changes how you spend.

If you had $10K today to start a tech product - where would you put it? And has a past failure changed how you'd allocate it?

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u/arpit2412 — 10 hours ago

Testers Wanted

looking for uk football card collectors to test an app for me. also not essential to be collectors. finding it really difficult to find anyone that will help. let me know if your interested. I have one of 12 testers so far..

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u/BOU1982 — 18 hours ago

Optimization vs. Clutter: My 2026 Developer "3-Device" Strategy

I’ve been trying to reduce my device clutter without sacrificing security or my dev workflow. I just added a Pixel 5 (€190) to my stack, and I’ve realized that instead of one $1,000 "do-it-all" flagship, a 3-device functional split is more effective.

Here is how I’ve optimized their roles to keep my pockets light and my banking safe:

1. The Daily Workhorse (Oppo Reno7 Lite):

  • Role: Primary daily driver and Banking Device.
  • The "Why": I refuse to give up the physical notification LEDs (Orbit Light) on the Reno. I hate AOD, and this hardware feature is irreplaceable for my workflow. Since it’s my "clean" stock phone, it’s also the safest place for my primary banking apps to stay compliant with Play Integrity.

2. The Master Node & Dev Tool (Pixel 5):

  • Role: App development, heavy multitasking, and Unlimited Storage.
  • The "Why": With 8GB of RAM, the P5 handles IDE/browser switching better than modern budget phones. More importantly, it’s my "Upload Station." By syncing all my media to the P5 for Unlimited Storage Saver backup, I effectively bypass the Google One subscription tax forever.

3. The Legacy Tester (iPhone SE):

  • Role: Physical iOS testing only.
  • Optimization: Since I have a Mac M2 with full simulators, I’ve retired my extra physical Android test bricks. I keep the SE in a drawer and only pull it out for hardware-specific iOS edge cases (camera, haptics) that the simulator can't perfect.

The "Consolidation" Result: I only carry the Reno and the Pixel. The iPhone stays home. I get the hardware features I love, the dev power I need, and zero monthly storage fees.

My Questions for the Community:

  • To the collectors: At what point does "optimizing" become "hoarding"? Am I better off carrying two phones, or should I be looking for one device that has both 8GB+ RAM and a physical notification LED? (Does that even exist anymore?)
  • To the devs: How much do you trust M2 simulators vs. physical hardware in 2026? Are you comfortable retiring your physical test devices yet?
  • The P5 Longevity: For those still on the Pixel 5, is the Snapdragon 765G finally hitting a wall, or is the RAM/Unlimited Storage keeping it in your pocket?
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u/Just_Avocado2761 — 19 hours ago

Help me learn how to build apps

Hi Folks. Can someone point me to any useful videos on YouTube or any other platforms that can help me learn on how to create an app from scratch . I don’t have any coding knowledge and would like to learn leveraging AI tools

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u/thepenguinsoul — 22 hours ago

I need your experience

I am a 15-year-old young man, and I want to become an entrepreneur; however, I feel that my age presents certain limitations when it comes to starting a company.

Could you recommend some business ideas to earn money? I believe an online business would be the most suitable option, right?

Furthermore, I am eager to collaborate and help you with your own businesses to gain experience. I live in Barcelona, Spain. If you need help with your company or would be willing to let me learn from you and your daily life as entrepreneurs, I am ready to give my absolute best.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this message.

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u/Ill_Joke655 — 5 hours ago
Week