I’m building https://Brainerr.com, a growing collection of brain teasers updated weekly.
Our ideal users are parents and senior adults looking for screen-free ways to stay sharp.
Deal: Life-time deal is available on super discount.
Who are you building for?
Rustrak is a self-hosted error tracking server compatible with any Sentry SDK — single Rust binary, ~50MB idle, optional Next.js dashboard.
webview-ui 0.2.0 — The dashboard is now fully responsive on mobile. Issue and event detail routes show skeleton UI during fetch, eliminating layout shift. UI primitives migrated from Radix UI / shadcn to Base UI (internal change, no visual difference). Rustrak bolt icon replaces the generic Terminal icon. Bug fixes: stale issue dropdown state, sticky sidebar height, broken API docs link.
Dependency sweep — TypeScript 6.0.3, Node.js >=22, ky 2.x, lucide-react 1.x on the JS side. actix-web 4.13, tokio 1.52, sqlx 0.8.6, sentry 0.48.2 on the Rust side.
Docs — Initial Sentry protocol compatibility drift report added.
GitHub: https://github.com/AbianS/rustrak/releases/tag/v0.2.2
After months of work, Vollthex is officially on Google Play. It's a live wallpaper app, but the wallpapers actually react to your phone. Battery draining? The wallpaper dims. Missed a call? The aura changes. Day turning to night? The wallpaper follows.
Some wallpapers work as an overlay , keep your own photo as the background and let the animation breathe on top of it.
Not loops, not gifs , real-time, every frame.
Give it a try, maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vollthex.app
10+ years as a freelance UI/UX designer. Zero coding background. Always had app ideas but couldn't build them.
Then AI tools changed everything.
Spent a few months building MileStage - a payment tracking tool for freelancers. It's live, real users, real money flowing through.
What it does:
Breaks projects into stages. Each stage locks until the client pays the previous one.
No more delivering everything and then chasing invoices. No more "can we just add one more thing" while payment sits unpaid.
The stack (no-code friendly except where noted):
Hardest part?
Stripe webhooks. AI got me 80% there. The last 20% I had to actually learn what was happening. Worth it though.
The result:
A real product solving a real problem I had for years. $19/month, zero transaction fees, 14-day free trial.
Anyone else here gone from no-code to "some code with AI help"? Curious how others are bridging that gap.
I kept switching between ChatGPT and Claude and wanted one cleaner place to use both.
So I built Layzer.
Still early, but it’s live now at https://layzer.ai
Would love feedback.
I have been building side projects with Claude Code for the last year and the same thing kept happening on every new repo.
Claude reads the codebase. Claude asks where my auth helpers live. Claude picks a state management approach that is different from the one I used last week. By the time it writes any actual code I have burned a few thousand tokens just teaching it the project again.
The thing that broke me was realizing I had explained my Stripe webhook pattern to Claude probably forty times across different repos. Same explanation, same code, different session.
So I tested a hypothesis. Most stacks give the AI too many choices, and every choice costs tokens to deliberate. I built the same feature twice. Once on a default Next.js setup. Once on a stack where I had picked one way to do everything and documented it.
The opinionated version finished in roughly 60% fewer back and forths. Not because the AI got smarter. Because there was nothing to decide.
That stack is what I packaged into LaunchPaid. The site is launchpaid.app.
What is in it:
Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, Supabase, Tailwind, shadcn. One auth pattern. One way to fetch data. One Stripe setup. Plus 15 skills in the .claude/ folder for the recurring stuff (Prisma migrations, Stripe webhooks, adding a new dashboard page, the auth flow). Copy-paste templates for new routes, server actions, forms. A memory layer that holds stable project context so Claude does not have to rediscover it every session. And on top of that a persistent memory so each session understand your project as much as possible.
Average session on a new feature is running around 20k tokens for me now. Before this it was on average 70k tokens.
My brother ran a 25-person window treatment business. About a year ago we were going through his lead data and noticed something brutal:
30-40% of his leads were coming in after hours. Evenings, weekends. Average callback time was around 18-24 hours. By the time his team called back, half had already booked someone else.
The math worked out to roughly $70K/year in revenue he never had a shot at. For a $2M business. Just from slow callbacks.
I spent 8 years in trades software before this and I'd seen the same pattern over and over with home service businesses. Owners obsess over conversion rate and average ticket but almost nobody runs the math on lead response time.
Here's the fix, step by step. None of this requires a big budget or new hires.
Pull last 90 days of leads from your CRM (or wherever they live). Tag the ones that came in after 5pm or on weekends. Compare close rates between "responded within 1 hour" vs "responded within 24 hours" vs "responded after 24 hours."
Most owners are shocked by what they find. The 24+ hour bucket usually closes at less than half the rate of the under-1-hour bucket.
If your numbers are bad here, every other step matters more.
The instinct is to hire after-hours coverage or use an answering service. Don't.
Answering services charge $1-3/call and don't actually book the job.. they take a message. Customer still has to wait until business hours to confirm. Half the value is gone.
Hiring an after-hours dispatcher costs $40K+ all-in and you're paying them to handle a fraction of a call's worth of work most nights.
Forwarding to the owner's cell works for six months until the owner burns out. Predictable.
The real answer is structural: the customer should be able to book themselves at 9pm on Saturday without anyone on your team being involved.
You need software that does three things:
- Show your real availability (not just "request a callback")
- Pre-qualify the lead with 3-5 questions (service type, urgency, location, scope)
- Confirm the booking automatically with a text/email and add the job to your tech's calendar
A lot of tools do different versions this depending on how complex your operation is. house call and jbbr are decent, getdriive (where I work now) also factors in drive time. Pick whichever fits your stack. We tried to build a flow with Calendly, N8N, and Zapier but we had to create like 98 appointment types and hack together service areas but it didn't really work.
This is where most teams half-ass it. The booking link needs to live in:
- Your Google Business Profile
- Every page of your website (especially homepage above the fold)
- Your missed-call auto-responder ("Sorry we missed your call, book here: [link]")
- Email signatures on every team account
- Your Google ads / Facebook ads
- Your invoices to existing customers (recurring service) If a customer can't find a way to book in under 10 seconds, they'll call a competitor.
Don't show your real calendar to every visitor. Ask 3-5 short questions first.
Bad lead types to filter out:
- Outside your service area
- Looking for services you don't offer
- Tire kickers gathering quotes for projects 6 months away
- Pure commercial when you only do residential
Qualified leads see real time slots. Unqualified ones get routed to "someone will reach out within 24 hours" or a partner referral.
This sounds harsh but it actually improves your close rate AND protects your tech's calendar from bad jobs.
Once they book:
- Immediate confirmation text + email
- Reminder 24 hours before
- Reminder 1 hour before
- Tech notification with customer info pushed to their phone
- "On my way" notification when the tech leaves
This is table stakes but a shocking number of trades businesses still do reminders manually or skip them entirely. No-show rates drop 20-30% when this is automated.
After 30 days, run the same math from step 1. You'll see:
- After-hours bookings 2-4x higher
- Total scheduling labor down 15-25%
- No-show rates down 30-50%
- Better tech route efficiency (if your tool routes by location)
For my brother's business: scheduling labor dropped 81% in the first quarter. Bookings went up. Office stopped playing phone tag.
A few things to know:
- True emergencies should still go to a human. Have a path that detects urgency keywords (flooding, no heat, smoke) and routes to your on-call line.
- Long sales cycles (renovation, solar, big remodels) only benefit partially. Self-booking works for the first appointment. The longer cycle that follows still needs human salespeople.
- Don't try to fix all 7 steps at once. Get steps 1-3 working, then layer in 4-7. Most teams that try to boil the ocean give up.
Happy to answer questions if anyone wants to dig into specifics.
Most people don’t need another AI tool.
They need something that actually does the work for them.
So for the last 3 months, I’ve been building GrowlyAI with @alyrelative
Today it entered final testing phase and we’re opening the waitlist.
GrowlyAI handles:
- content ideas
- posting
- outreach
- and a lot more of the boring and repetitive stuff that will be handled by your AI assistant
So you don’t have to.
If you’re building or managing socials, this might save you hours every week.
Hey everyone,
Almost 2 months ago I launched a completely free personal finance app after getting frustrated with how hard it was to clearly track where my money was actually going.
A lot of banking apps automatically categorize transactions, but many times the categories just don’t really make sense for your own life, and after a while the data becomes messy and not very useful. I also wanted something that made managing multiple accounts easier without everything feeling disconnected or confusing.
So I started building something simpler and more flexible where you can organize transactions the way you actually think about your money.
Since the last time I posted here, the app somehow grew to 624 users, which honestly I never expected. I genuinely didn’t think we would get this close to 1000 users this fast, so thank you to everyone that tried it and gave feedback.
Recently I added iOS widget support, which was one of the most requested features.
The widget shows your most frequently used categories and when you tap one of them, the app opens directly into the add transaction screen with that category already selected.
The goal was basically to reduce as much friction as possible when adding transactions so expense tracking becomes something you can do in a few seconds instead of feeling annoying.
I also started working on an AI assistant inside the app.
You can use your own API key and ask questions about your finances and transactions, things like:
It’s still in early stages and there’s a lot more to improve, but I thought it could become a more natural way to interact with your financial data instead of manually filtering through everything.
The app is still completely free.
No ads, no subscriptions.
Still improving it almost every day and every suggestion helps a lot.
If anyone wants to check it out, I can share the links.
Hi everyone! I’m Kelsey — a pediatric OT and mom of two — and over the last several months I’ve been working on a web-based tool called Growing Balanced that’s designed to help families with routines, emotional regulation, transitions, sensory needs, and everyday overwhelm.
As both a therapist and parent, I kept feeling like there wasn’t one simple place where families could organize visual schedules, sensory supports, calming strategies, rewards/motivation, and flexible routines in a way that actually felt doable in real life. So I finally decided to try building it myself.
The crazy part is that advances in AI and technology honestly made that possible for me. I’m not a traditional developer, and a year ago I never would’ve believed I could actually create something like this.
The app includes things like:
- visual schedules
- sensory and calming activity ideas
- regulation supports
- rewards/motivation systems
- kid-friendly routines
- flexible schedule options for real family life
A lot of it is especially helpful for kids with ADHD, autism, sensory differences, anxiety, or big emotions — but honestly many of the tools can help any family create a little more structure and less stress.
Right now it’s completely free because I’m still testing, improving features, and trying to figure out what families actually want and need. Someday I’d love if it could become something financially sustainable, but for now I’m mostly just hoping people will try it and tell me honestly:
- Is this useful?
- What would make it better?
- What features would actually help your family?
If anyone wants to check it out or give feedback, I’d genuinely appreciate it so much.
Let me know when I’d be happy to show the information with you
Thanks for reading ❤️
A while ago I realized something strange:
Most productivity apps kept adding more pressure instead of reducing it.
More notifications.
More complexity.
More guilt when you fall behind.
So I started building LifeOrder — an offline-first productivity app focused on calm organization, reduced mental overload and accessibility.
The goal isn’t to “optimize humans.”
It’s to help people feel less overwhelmed while still staying functional in real everyday life.
Right now I’m mainly focused on:
cleaner Today/Home flow
faster interaction
reduced cognitive load
accessibility improvements
offline AI assistance (future direction)
“no guilt” UX design
A lot of the recent ideas actually came from conversations with people dealing with overwhelm, burnout, ADHD-like struggles, mental fatigue or simply modern life becoming too chaotic.
Still early, still improving it daily, but I’d genuinely love honest feedback from people who care about thoughtful product design.
Do you think productivity apps should become calmer and more human?
Honest confession: I have 800 saved Reddit posts I've never gone back to.
Every time I researched something - SaaS distribution, growth strategy, pricing models - I'd open Google and spend 20 minutes digging. Then I'd realize I already had the perfect Reddit threads saved. Months ago. Sitting there untouched.
The worst part? I kept saving more anyway. "I'll read it later." I never did.
I've been on Reddit for a year. In that one year I somehow accumulated 800 saves and used maybe 10 of them.
So I built Readdit Later - my first ever product. A Chrome extension with an AI agent that searches your saved posts in plain English.
I type "SaaS distribution" and it finds, summarizes, and resurfaces every relevant post I've ever saved. Including ones from 6 months ago I had completely forgotten about.
So far:
It's free to try: https://readditlater.in/
If you also have a saved posts dump - you'll get it immediately.
I tried many tab management apps, in the end i realised that its only shame which stops me from opening another tab.
Supports Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Opera. Polls every 10 seconds.
Six sound packs to choose your preferred method of humiliation.
Set your own tab count threshold before it starts shaming you.
$4.99 one-time license. tabshame.com
Video to show you how it works.
Hey everyone,
I built FixDirectly because I was tired of service pros paying $50–$100+ per lead on other platforms with low conversion.
How it works:
Homeowners post projects (cleaning, repairs, renovations, etc.)
Local pros browse and bid only on jobs they want
Subscription model ($49.99/mo) for unlimited access in your area — you keep 100% of the job revenue
We're in early stages and looking for honest feedback from both homeowners and service providers.
Would love if some of you could test it out
What do you think? Any features missing? Fire away with questions or brutal feedback!
As builders and founders, we all know the struggle. You build a great product, but then you have to market it. Switching between different social media platforms, remembering to post at the right time, and managing multiple accounts usually ends up taking time away from actual development.
I wanted to fix this workflow, so I built Nuno AI.
It’s a smart social media assistant designed to put your social presence on autopilot so you can focus on building.
Here is what you can do with it:
I am launching this here first because I want real, unfiltered feedback from fellow builders. Is the UI intuitive? Does it solve a real pain point for your startup's marketing?
There is a completely free trial available so you can link your accounts and test the full workflow without any friction.
Check out the attached screenshots to see the dashboard in action. Let me know what you think—I'll be in the comments answering questions and taking feature requests!
