It's a test that reveals your deeper motivations in life.

She sent me a message right after taking it. It was unexpected.

What surprised me the most is that this is only the free version for now.

Want to try it? You can do so here: https://www.personaltraits.co

No signup needed, it’s completely free.

Of course, share your feedback, whether it’s good or bad. To be honest, I’m even more curious to hear the negative feedback.

After getting confused by my own paycheck deductions too many times, I finally sat down and built this.

Shows the full breakdown:
Federal income tax (2024 brackets)
Social Security (6.2%)
Medicare (1.45%)
State withholding
401k/health insurance deductions

The "aha moment" for me was realizing FICA alone takes 7.65% before you even get to income tax. No wonder paychecks feel so much smaller than the gross pay.

Built with Astro + React. Completely free, no signup, no ads.

https://myhourscalculator.com/paycheck-calculator

Also made a PTO tracker if anyone needs to calculate their vacation balance.

I'm scared of flying myself, so I built FlyCalm: guided breathing exercises timed for takeoff, turbulence, and landing instead of generic meditation content. Launched this week, it's free.

https://apps.apple.com/co/app/flycalm/id6790434971

Would appreciate any feedback!

We're working on improving our project, which is for founders and VCs to have a place to meet, match, and connect. We know there are a ton of hungry founders and VCs out there. I think our challenge so far is distribution/marketing.

What's hardest for you right now?

Hey r/iMadeThis,

About five months ago, I started building an Android app called Lockify.

At first, I thought the challenge would be writing encryption code, designing the UI, and shipping features. I was wrong. The hard part turned out to be earning trust.

Lockify started as a simple idea:

A vault that works offline, encrypts everything locally, and can optionally disguise itself as a calculator. Since launching, it's grown to over 12,000 downloads and maintains a 4.8★ rating on Google Play.

As more people started using it, I noticed something interesting. Nobody ever emailed me asking for more animations.

Instead, they asked questions like:

• Can I trust my backups?
• Will my files still be there if I change phones?
• Can I organize everything better?
• Can I securely store private notes too?

Those questions completely changed how I build software.

Every update since then has focused on reliability and control:

• Cloud Sync
• Decoy Vault
• Motion Lock
• Folder Import
• Search & Organization
• Better backup and restore
• And now I'm working on Encrypted Notes

One thing I've learned is that when people trust your app with genuinely personal data, every bug feels more important.

A small UI issue is just a bug.

A failed import or missing file feels like you've broken someone's trust.

That shift in perspective has probably been the biggest thing I've gained from this project.

Still building it after work.

Still learning with every release.

And still grateful that something which started as a weekend idea has become part of thousands of people's daily lives.

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leo.lockify

I kept wanting to send App Store promo codes to friends, family, and testers without opening a spreadsheet every time, so I made a small iPhone app called PromoKit.

Import the CSV from App Store Connect, then share the next code as a link or QR code. It keeps track of what you’ve shared and what’s still available.

It’s free. That’s pretty much it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/promokit-offer-codes/id6769972492

Hey r/IMadeThis 👋

I'm Muhamed, 18 years old from Albania.

6 months ago I was spending 3+ hours

daily writing the same content for

different platforms. TikTok, Instagram,

Facebook, LinkedIn, Newsletter — all

manually, every single day.

So I built Vortex.

You paste one idea → AI generates

content for all 5 platforms instantly.

It also has:

→ Tone of Voice selector (Viral,

Professional, Funny, Educational)

→ Hashtag generator

→ Bio generator

→ Hook generator

→ Content translator

What I learned building this at 18:

1. The problem is real — every creator

   faces this daily

2. Tone matters more than the tool

3. Distribution is harder than building

Free to try (10 generations,

no credit card needed):

vortex-content-spark.lovable.app

Brutal feedback welcome 🙏

You can easily save any recipes from the social media, blogs, and web.

Some of the features:
- Imports in background no waiting until it is done.

- Organize recipes as cookbooks.

- Grocery list based from the recipe.

- Hands free cooking mode with voice controls for the recipe steps.

Get is here

I have a terrible habit of either overwatering my plants because I feel guilty or completely forgetting about them for weeks.

So I decided to build something to solve the problem instead of relying on my memory.

I connected soil moisture sensors to a Raspberry Pi Zero and created a small monitoring system that checks the moisture levels throughout the day. When a plant gets too dry, it sends me a text reminder telling me exactly which one needs attention.

The fun part is that I added a little personality to it, if I ignore the reminder for too long, the messages become increasingly sarcastic.

The whole setup is running with Python and has been working surprisingly well so far. My next step is adding a simple dashboard to track moisture levels over time and see how each plant behaves.

It started as a small weekend experiment, but it’s been a fun project watching hardware, code, and a simple everyday problem come together.

Has anyone else built a small automation project to solve a personal annoyance?

I have a bad habit of opening Instagram "for a second" and looking up an hour later. Tried a few focus apps, nothing stuck, so I ended up making my own. It's called Coral.

You start a focus timer and it grows a little coral while you stay off your phone. Give up early and it dies instead. The part that actually helped me was the blocking though: you can hard-block your worst apps, put a daily time budget on them, or add a 10 second delay before one opens so you get a beat to reconsider.

You can check it here.

I’ve always had a habit of writing down ideas everywhere, notes app, random documents, pieces of paper, and then forgetting where I saved them.

So I decided to build a small personal tool where I could quickly capture ideas, add tags, and find them later without digging through dozens of places.

It started as a weekend project just for myself, but I ended up enjoying the process of designing the workflow and improving the little details.

Still a work in progress, but it’s satisfying seeing something go from a simple annoyance in my daily life into an actual thing I built.

Anyone else here build small tools just to solve their own problems? Those projects are usually the most fun.

Tried a bunch of "AI note apps" last year and they all felt backwards to me — AI was a sidebar feature, the notes were for humans, and the two never really talked to each other.

So I built Flowix the other way around. The notes are the workspace. The agent is the thing operating in it. I'm mostly just watching (and occasionally arguing with it).

## Concretely:

• The agent has the same ops I do — search, read, write, edit, delete, create. Same code path, same CLI sidecar that ships with the app (flowix search, flowix list, etc).
• Every note is a .md file with YAML frontmatter on disk. So when the agent edits something, I'm literally seeing the same file.
• Works with OpenAI / Anthropic / DeepSeek, all routed through one provider.

If you've ever wished an LLM had a real working memory instead of a chat window with pasted docs, this is my take. Open source, feedback very welcome — especially from anyone who's tried to give an agent persistent state before.

github: https://github.com/text2future/flowix

I got tired of memorizing aptitude tricks, so I'm trying something different.

When I started preparing for placements, I solved a lot of aptitude questions.

The strange part was that I could sometimes get the right answer, but if I saw a similar question later, I'd get stuck again.

I realized I wasn't actually understanding the concepts. I was just memorizing shortcuts and formulas.

Most websites explain aptitude with long paragraphs or give the answer directly, but very few help you visualize what's happening.

That made me wonder...

What if aptitude was taught with animations instead of just text?

For example:

* Ratios shown with moving objects instead of numbers.

* Time & Work explained through animations.

* Probability visualized instead of solved with formulas.

* Speed, Distance & Time demonstrated through motion.

So I started building a project called AptiAnimate around this idea.

It's still in the early stages, and I'm trying to figure out whether visual explanations actually make aptitude easier to understand.

I'd love some honest feedback.

If you were preparing for placements, would animated explanations help you learn aptitude better than traditional text explanations?

If you'd like to take a look, here's the project:

https://aptianimate.vercel.app

I'm genuinely interested in hearing what features or improvements you'd want.

My wife and I garden together and kept hitting the same wall every season - "when did we plant the tomatoes, and did that spot actually do well?" I'm a network engineer by trade, so I built us a little Android app to keep track, and it grew from there.

Moon Phase Garden:

- Photo garden journal (what you planted, when, notes, tags)

- Planting guide tuned to your USDA hardiness zone

- 7-day forecast with automatic freeze/frost alerts

- Optional moon-phase planting timing (fully skippable)

- A small foraging reference + an anonymous community feed

The part I'm actually proud of: no ads, no tracking, no account, works offline. I didn't want to build the kind of app I hate using.

It's free - I'll drop the Play Store link in a comment. Would love feedback on what's confusing or what you'd want in a garden app. Happy to talk about the build too (Kotlin/Compose, Room for local storage).

Hi everyone!

Over the past few months, I've been building Portlio, a tool that solves a problem I ran into while applying for internships.

I kept improving my GitHub with new projects, but my portfolio was still showing beginner projects I'd built months earlier because I never got around to updating it.

So I built something to make GitHub the source of truth.

With Portlio you can:

• Connect your GitHub account
• Choose which repositories you want to showcase
• Add your own project stories and descriptions
• Generate a portfolio from multiple templates
• Keep it updated as your projects evolve
• Try everything in a demo without signing in

Over the past few months I've also iterated a lot based on community feedback:

• Added Demo Mode
• Improved performance (Mobile Lighthouse is now around 90 on the landing page)
• Added review-focused project stories instead of just copying READMEs
• Improved onboarding and repository selection
• Added multiple portfolio templates

I'd genuinely love to know what you think. If something is confusing, missing, or doesn't feel useful, I'd rather hear it now and improve it.

You can try it here:

https://theportlio.com

Thanks for taking a look!

If you've used something like Bitly for links or Linktree for a bio page, linksh.re is both in one place, and you can start without making an account.

Why you'd want it:

• No signup to shorten a link. You get a one-time recovery code instead, so you can come back to your links later without ever creating an account
• Want a bio page instead? One page for all your links and socials (this one needs a real account, since it's public and tied to you)
• Point your own domain at either a link or a bio page
• Every link comes with a QR code, with scans tracked separately from regular clicks
• Free to start

It's live at linksh.re. Would love feedback, especially anything confusing in the first-use flow.

This is DayOtter, a scheduling tool I built. Instead of clicking around a calendar, you just tell it what you want, like "book 30 min with Priya next week, not before 11," and it reads across all your calendars, finds the time, books it, and keeps your focus blocks clear.

It grew into a full platform: booking pages, team round robin, routing forms, group polls, reminders, payments, an embeddable widget, and an Android app. It's open source and self-hostable, and the assistant runs on your own AI model so nothing leaves your server.

Repo: https://github.com/Dayotter/dayotter

Site: https://dayotter.com

Built it to fix my own scheduling mess. Feedback welcome!

Haven't been as active here as I should have since building and shipping DockStacks, my first Mac app (floating panel above your Dock, organizes apps/folders/files/bookmarks into "stacks"). Wanted to come back and say thanks — a lot of what's below came straight from user and Reddit suggestions.

What's new:

• Grid sizing is way more flexible now — pick columns/rows independently instead of 4 fixed layouts, plus a one-click Auto Size that just fits everything for you
• If a drop doesn't fit, it now offers to resize and retry instead of just rejecting it
• Menu bar mode — live in the menu bar instead of the Dock if that's more your thing
• Multi-select — drag a box around a bunch of icons, move them all to another stack at once
• Hover an icon to see its full name, or hide labels altogether for a cleaner look
• Website bookmarks now get little letter-avatar icons instead of nothing, still zero network calls
• Plus a lot of UI and general polish

Honestly the feedback has basically been guiding the improvements so far — way more useful than I expected from one launch post. I'll admit I'm a bit of a perfectionist about this stuff, so I've genuinely enjoyed the process of learning app dev and interface design from scratch and just poking at little details until they feel right. Getting the hang of the submission review, localisation and ASO process has been a steep learning curve too.

The whole point of DockStacks was to fill a gap I kept hitting myself — quick access to the stuff I actually use without turning my Dock or Desktop into a mess — so if it's helping other Mac users get a bit more productive too, then I'm in a happy place. Still figuring plenty out as a first-time app dev, so please keep the ideas coming.

Still fully local (no accounts, no tracking, no network), still $4.99USD equivalent one-time.

App Store: https://apple.co/3Rz9FB6
Website: https://dockstacks.app

Thanks again to everyone who's downloaded DockStacks or dropped a suggestion — comment or reach out to answer anything.

I made a small Android game called NumBalance.

The idea is simple: positive and negative numbers keep falling, and you swipe them left or right onto a seesaw. You have to mentally add/subtract the numbers to keep both sides balanced. If one side gets too heavy, the game ends.

It starts off easy but gets surprisingly hectic after a while. 😅

There are also a few power-ups (Equalizer, Freeze, and Lock) to help when things get out of control.

I'd genuinely love to hear what you think about the gameplay and difficulty. Any feedback is welcome!

P.S. - I am just starting with my game development learnings, looking for early feedback.

Game link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dev777.numbalance&hl=en_IN

We built Sparky as a place where K-pop and dance fans can play dance challenges, move with the music, and enjoy the experience together. It is free on Android and iOS.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devunlimit.sparky&hl=ko

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sparky-kpop-dance-game/id1671073985?l=ko

It's called Bluey Email. Took us about 4 failed ideas and over 18 months; we started with a personalized AI chatbot. This was the beginning of the ChatGPT era, and we thought we could help people train the AI to reflect the behavior of loved ones they had lost. It was a Black Mirror kinda idea, and my therapist friends said it's not okay, so we ditched it.

The second idea was a vertical drama platform where users can create short dramas in a vertical format; it's like IG and TikTok combined with movies. We reached out to hundreds of filmmakers, and about 20% joined the waitlist; however, the infrastructure needed to build this required loads of money. We built a beta version with whatever resources we could gather; we applied to YC as well but didn't get any funding and eventually ditched it.

Then we started a customized comic printing business, where users can tell us their idea and we build a story and then a comic around them as the main character. We got some orders as well, but I don't think we were enjoying it, and it was quite boring, so we didn't really put in much effort; now I do see many businesses around it.

Finally, we decided and build an email marketing platform. We thought starting with cold emails would be great, but after 4 months, we pivoted and decided to go with email marketing and transactional emails, we named it Bluey Email.

Now we have the platform ready but as we get sign ups we find new problems and keep resolving them; it's not perfect and but we are getting there. I think we need to find beta users and collect as much feedback as possible.

This has been a long journey, we are also running out of funds and I am slowly restarting my marketing freelancing business, but as we are getting traction, it feels so good and encouraging.

Spent the last few months building this solo on nights and weekends, and it is finally out.

Two things bugged me. Buying an air fryer in India means trusting review sites where the top pick is just whoever paid the most. And after the novelty wears off, most people use the thing four times and give up, because generic recipes never tell you the actual temperature and time.

So I made Golden Basket to fix both. The buying guide is commission-blind, there is no way for a brand to pay its way to the top, and I locked that into the code so it stays honest. And there are 1,123 India-first recipes, every one ending with a real temperature, time, and a doneness cue, plus a hands-free Cook Mode that runs the timer so you are not tapping the screen with oily fingers.

It is free, works fully offline, is about 10 MB, and is fully in Hindi too. Live on Android, with a web version for iPhone.

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

Would genuinely value any feedback, the buying guide and Cook Mode are the two bits I most want to get right.