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I’m 32 and tracked my fiber for a week mostly out of curiosity.

I was getting like 12g a day.

The recommendation is 25–35g, which honestly explained a lot. I always had mid-afternoon crashes, bloating, and just random stomach stuff I never really thought about.

The tracking apps I tried didn’t really help either. MyFitnessPal tracks fiber, but it’s buried behind calories and macros. Cronometer felt way too detailed for what I wanted.

I basically just wanted an app that told me one thing:

Did I hit my fiber today or not?

So I built one.

It has a daily ring for your fiber goal, barcode scanner, 200+ USDA foods, and a plant diversity score. That last part was kind of surprising to me. A lot of gut health research points to variety per week, not just total grams.

A few honest surprises after using it for ~6 months:

• Getting to 30g isn’t that hard once you realize where fiber actually comes from. Beans, oats, raspberries, chia, avocado, etc.
• Plant diversity was harder for me than the actual fiber goal.
• A lot of packaged “high fiber” foods are not as useful as they make themselves sound.

Free, iOS only, on device, no account.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6760719879

Would genuinely love feedback on the food database or anything that feels off.

I built it as a pure skill-based arcade game — no complex controls, just timing, physics, and those “one more try” moments.

• Free to play.
• Optional IAP: Revive, which lets you continue your current run.
• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6764475676

Finally releasing Micracode - an open-source, self-hostable ai App builder.

It’s basically a open source alternative to lovable that runs on your own server and lets you build/deploy apps instantly.

- batteries-included: db, files, auth, payments (planning to support in future)

- code-editor

- BYO AI key

repo link: https://github.com/Jamessdevops/micracode

(Any star will be super appreciated ❤️)

I am basically building things together with our contributors based on your feedback :)

I'm so happy to hear about more things to implement.

Thank you all!

A couple weeks ago I posted a game where you hear 4 notes and try to repeat them on a piano and most of you (and me) were humbled by it.

I took your feedback and made some updates:

- Note labels on the piano — each key now shows its note name (A, E#, B, etc.) so you're actually learning while you play

- Harder scoring — the game is a bit more unforgiving now, as it should be

- Articles section — I added some reading material to help you actually get better at this

You can try it at pitchd.net

Also, I'd love to feature articles written by people in this community. If you know your stuff and want to contribute a piece, drop a comment or DM me. Would be cool to have this become a real resource for people training their ear.

Hey guys, I built my first app… well, not really my first, but my first one that I’m seriously putting out there

It started as a simple to-do list app, but it turned into more of a life logger. I kept downloading different apps for finance, to-do lists, Pomodoro, workouts, and habit tracking, and honestly, it felt annoying switching the app

So I thought, why not combine everything into one app?

so yeah Lazier was born

I’d really love your feedback:

• What should I change?
• What should I remove?
• Does the UI suck? Be honest (actually idk because i'm suck with it )
• What feels good?
• How does it feel after using it?

I actually use it every day myself and surprisingly… it kind of works
here is my download link now it only on ios because i wrote it on swift

download here [Lazier]

edit:
here is my screenshot also

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/KER9oOxz

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/l91ZVg5I

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/cncr2xU2

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/h0N2uedq

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/mfL_YODU

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/JPrLT5hp

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/6UoszF3k

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/Yt5fuxvB

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/xYnH1jKL

https://hobb.franx.dev/f/PGR2DDqp

The monthly cost for AI tools is starting to look like a premium cable package. When you add up a text generator, an image generator, and a coding assistant, it gets expensive fast.

Lately, I’ve been digging through GitHub to find out if free, open-source repos can actually replace the paid giants we’re all used to. The short answer: Yes, and the privacy benefits are a massive bonus.

Instead of paying for a bunch of different platforms, you can use UI wrappers and local model runners to handle heavy lifting right on your own hardware.

I just published a post covering the exact GitHub repos that are replacing things like ChatGPT Plus, Midjourney, and Copilot. I focused on tools that are genuinely useful for everyday tasks, not just highly technical research projects.

Check out the full list and setup guide here:https://mindwiredai.com/2026/05/19/free-github-repos-replace-ai-subscriptions/

Curious to hear from this sub—have you fully transitioned to local AI yet, or are the paid models still too far ahead in convenience for you to cancel?

I'm a software engineer with 6+ years across startups in the Web3 & SaaS space.

Burned out twice trying to optimize my way through everything before realizing the real thing slowing me down wasn't a productivity gap, but it was the patterns underneath I never actually examined.

So I built Mindwise. It's an AI-based structured 19-step program across 3 chapters (more to come) and not just another chatbot you vent at. It assigns you science-based frameworks depending on your situation.

Launched a few weeks ago. 400 users so far with 60+ hours of usage totally, mostly through word of mouth and SEO/AEO. It's free to start and no subscription cost.

About to start looking for investors, so I'd genuinely rather have the website, app and positioning torn apart now than later.

Roast away.

https://mindwise.so/
iOS App & Android App

Not asking for validation. Asking if you’d actually pay and why or why not. Be brutal.

The problem.

Every developer building with AI APIs is one bug away from a surprise bill. It happened to me. A retry bug caused one user to hit my endpoint nearly 3,000 times in 14 minutes. Nothing crashed. Everything returned 200.

My Anthropic bill told a different story.

Normal protections don’t work here. Rate limits are per API key not per user. Observability tools show you the damage after. Nothing watches in the execution path where calls actually happen.

So I built Monrow. Three lines of code. Wraps your Anthropic or OpenAI client and throws an error before the next call fires when something looks wrong. Free tier. No account. No card.

The business model.

Free protects one server. When you scale to two servers each sees half the traffic and neither fires. Pro at $29 a month aggregates across all servers so detection works at real scale. That is the only reason to upgrade. I am not going to pretend otherwise.

Live right now. MIT licensed SDK. monrow.io

What would make you pay $29 a month for this? What would make you not? What am I missing?

I started siliconsnark.com in early 2025. So far, so good! As my tagline states, SiliconSnark is "tech with a wink." I celebrate tech innovation, and call out the nonsense.

I try to save my meanest takes for companies that deserve it (cough Roblox cough), but for the most part I have fun and am generally positive about the companies I profile.

Currently accepting ideas for tech companies and products to write about. No catch (no fee, membership costs, etc.). Just looking to build some community. If you want me to write about you, reach out!

This sub gets the assignment better than most so I'll be direct.

The no-code movement solved half the problem. You can build almost anything now without knowing how to code, which is genuinely incredible and wasn't true five years ago. But there's still a gap that nobody talks about. Even with the best no-code tools you still have to know which tools to pick, how to connect them, how to write copy that converts, how to set up ad accounts, how to source products, how to structure a funnel. The learning curve didn't disappear, it just moved.

Most people in this sub know exactly what I mean. You've spent a weekend deep in Zapier trying to get two things to talk to each other that should just work. You've rebuilt your Webflow site three times because the first two didn't convert. You've watched your Notion dashboard get more elaborate while the actual business stayed the same size.

That's the gap Locus Founder closes.

You describe what you want to build. The AI handles everything else. It sources products directly from AliExpress and Alibaba (or sell YOUR OWN digital services, products, or content), builds a real storefront around them, writes conversion-optimized copy, then autonomously creates and runs ads on Google, Facebook and Instagram. No Zapier. No Webflow. No piecing together eight tools that half work. Just a running business.

If you don't have an idea yet it interviews you and figures out what makes sense for your situation.

We got into YCombinator this year and we're opening 100 free beta spots this week before public launch. Free to use, you keep everything you make.

For the people in this sub specifically, this isn't a replacement for no-code tools for people who love building. It's for everyone who wanted the outcome but never wanted to become a tools expert to get there. Big difference.

Beta form: https://forms.gle/nW7CGN1PNBHgqrBb8

Happy to answer anything about how it works under the hood.

Let me know what you guys think! ❤️

I want to be upfront. I am not a developer. I have never written code professionally. I run a beard oil brand in Korea and had zero technical background going into this.

But I had a problem I wanted to solve.

Every time I used Claude or ChatGPT my results were mediocre compared to what I kept seeing others post online. I was typing conversationally, basically just chatting and hoping something useful came back. My prompts were not improving and I had no idea why.

I looked at existing prompt tools and they all did the same thing. Rewrite your prompt. Hand it back. No explanation. You copy the result, use it once, and learn absolutely nothing.

So I decided to build something different. Something that actually teaches you why your prompt was weak and why the fix works.

I called it Seuseung (스승), Korean for revered master or mentor.

What it does:

It lives inside Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. No tab switching, no copy paste. You type your prompt, click a button, and a panel slides in from the side with a score across Clarity, Context and Specificity, a diagnosis of what is weak, an improved version optimized for whichever AI you are using, and most importantly a teaching section that explains the real reason each change makes the AI respond better. Plus 3 principles you can carry forward to every future prompt.

The teaching part is the whole point. Every other tool just fixes the prompt. This one tries to make you better at prompting so you need the tool less over time.

How I built it:

Entirely with Claude's help. Every line of code, every debugging session, every deployment issue. I had no idea what a proxy server was when I started. I did not know what CORS meant. I had never touched Node.js or Chrome extension APIs.

It took longer than a developer would take. There were a lot of errors and a lot of going back and forth. But it shipped.

The stack if anyone is curious: Chrome extension with content scripts injected into Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, a Node.js proxy on Railway that handles the Anthropic API calls and usage tracking, Polar for payments, GitHub Pages for the privacy policy.

Free to try: 10 lessons per day

Pro: unlimited at $4/month or $29/year

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/스승-·-seuseung/kgblidfbdjmfehfphgjfmbieigocejni

Happy to answer questions about the build process or the product. Especially from anyone else without a technical background thinking about building something.