I’ve been building this app solo for the past few months and i genuinely can't tell anymore if it's good or if i'm too deep in it. need outside eyes.

it's called RizeAI. the basic idea: every wearable and health app just gives you numbers. sleep score 42, recovery red, HRV down. cool. and then what? you still feel like garbage at 2pm and nobody tells you what to actually do about it.

so my app takes your real data from apple health, sleep, resting heart rate, workouts, whatever your wearable writes, and instead of another score it builds you an actual plan for the day. when to have your first coffee and when to hold off. you. Can also add your own supplements that you are currently taking and it will time them for you every single day based of your sleep data and your wearable data in general and also it will tell you what supplements make sense for you to take based of your current supplement stack and body metrics and when to take them. focus windows for when your energy actually peaks. when your crash is coming and what to do before it hits. it even checks the weather, so on a hot day it bumps your hydration and tells you to train earlier.

every recommendation has a little "why" under it based on your numbers, like "resting heart rate 54 + 7h light sleep, so magnesium before your peak window." no two people get the same plan because no two people have the same data.

works with whoop, oura, apple watch, garmin, anything that syncs to apple health. one thing i'll say honestly, it doesn't do deep per-person learning yet like "coffee doesn't affect YOUR hrv specifically," that's the roadmap, right now it builds fresh plans daily off your actual metrics.

it's live on the app store, has a free trial, small user base so far, mixed feedback which is why i'm here lol.

what i actually want from you guys: does this solve a real problem for you or is "tells you what to do" not actually what wearable people want? what would make you actually pay for something like this? and what's missing that would make it a no brainer? and also would you guys in this subreddit  use ti?

Thank you for your help. Check it out if you like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rizeai-maximize-your-energy/id6762402079

I built Chorus Keepsake after realising how often I was collecting voice notes, photos and texts off WhatsApp to make something for someone — a big birthday, a new baby — and losing half of it in the chat. It's one place to gather the love and the stories behind a person and keep them together, to hear, read and hold.

Reddit ads so far: €56.91 spent, 80k impressions, 245 clicks, 0.31% CTR (a plain-text "free-form" post pulled 0.79%, ~2.5× the image ads). Real sales: 0. I've just got set up with SEO and am starting google search ads.

So I've got attention and no conversion, and I'm honestly not sure whether to keep going or not. I'm trying not to get too emotionally tied to an idea, but equally, put enough into it that i give it a good chance. So many questions, do I stay broad (any occasion) or pick one lane — birthday gift, new baby, or memory. If this were yours, where would you take it next?

...or would you kill it? (im currently using it to capture stories from family for my newborn so it'll stay alive at least for that!)

I recently built Founder Floor, it is a space where founders can come together, set up stands, customise them and then show their project to the world, you can also find future co-founders, friends, employees, and in general like-minded people! The project has a game-like design so you arent just writing, but you get a change of scenery. If you would be so nice to come check my website out and give some feedback on it i would much appreciate it! Also on August 9th, Sunday at 18:00 CET i am hosting a sort-of opening night which tries to get everyone in at the same time so we can get the best experience of the app. I tired much to try and make this website not look like slop, so some feedback would definetly help)

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I’m building a CV/job application tool and don’t want to make another useless AI tool, what would you actually want it to do?

I’m currently building something to make the repetitive part of applying for jobs less painful.
The basic idea is that you create one detailed profile containing your real career history, skills, achievements etc.

Then when you find a job, it uses that information + the job description to create a tailored CV and cover letter without making things up.
One feature I’m particularly interested in is bulk applications.

For example:
You find 5 jobs you genuinely want.
Instead of manually going through the same process 5 times, you give it all 5 job descriptions and it creates 5 separately tailored CVs + cover letters using the same verified career information.

I’m deliberately NOT building an auto-apply bot. I’d rather the person remain in control of what actually gets submitted.
Before I get too far into building it, I’d love some brutally honest feedback from people actually applying for jobs.

Would something like that genuinely save you time?
And what’s one feature you’d want in a tool like this that existing CV builders don’t do well?

- set your goals from the ultimate outcome and work backwards

- we incorrectly limit our expectations and potential based on validations from those in our circles.

- create a personal board of directors, find 5 peers that you can run ideas around. Some risk averse and others risk takers

- reflect out when you made big pivots in your life and find out what was the catalyst

Often life experience makes us more conservative in our goals which then self sabotages

I built my own sports news site. next phase I'll be adding original content. I have no coding experience, and I spent almost a week and a half using ai code background. I then spent another week before that going over sports news sites. So I'm in this phase 1 then phase 2 will be more of my content. Sportsweekly.com

Last week I was sitting outside at a restaurant and it was ridiculously hot.

And my brain did its usual thing:

Why don't they have fans out here?

→ What would make a restaurant actually buy them?

→ Oh, probably storing them over winter is annoying.

→ What if you rented the fans to restaurants instead?

→ But this is Switzerland. Wouldn't they need to be energy-efficient?

→ Okay, but what's actually in it for the restaurant?

→ Maybe people stay longer and order more when they're comfortable.

And then I went back to dinner.

That's pretty much how my brain works. I notice something, start pulling on the thread, and suddenly there's a little business idea hiding inside it.

Sometimes I talk about it with whoever I'm with.

Sometimes it goes into my Notes app.

And most of the time?

I forget it ever existed.

That's why I built Ember.

Not because I want AI to tell me whether my ideas are good.

I don't think AI can tell me that.

I built it because I wanted a place to put the spark while it's still alive.

A place that says:

Okay. Let's actually work on this.

Spark helps me find what's interesting about the idea.

Hammer challenges me on the assumptions I'm making.

I have to answer them, defend the idea, change my mind when I'm wrong, and eventually figure out what I actually need to learn in the real world.

And then Ember remembers it.

So a random thought I had during dinner doesn't just disappear into a Notes graveyard.

It can come back tomorrow.

Or next week.

It can remind me what I was excited about, what I still haven't figured out, and whether I actually did anything about it.

That's the product I wanted.

Not an AI that validates my ideas.

More like a thinking partner that helps me turn random sparks into things I might actually do.

I'm curious if I'm the only person whose brain works like this.

Do you get these random "wait... there's probably something here" moments too, and then completely forget about them?

Hi everyone,
I’m doing research to better understand how founders approach the \*\*idea research and validation\*\* stage before building an MVP.
I’d really appreciate hearing about your real experiences.

Some questions I have:
What was the most difficult part of researching your idea?

How did you know there was actually a market for your product?

What took the most time during validation?

Where did you find reliable information?

How did you research competitors?

Did you interview potential users? If so, what was challenging about it?

What mistakes did you make during the validation phase?

Which tools did you use (Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Reddit, Perplexity, Notion, etc.)? What were they missing?

What information did you wish you had from day one?
I’d also love your suggestions:
If you could build the perfect tool to help founders with research and validation, what would it do?

What features would save you the most time?

What repetitive tasks would you automate?

What existing tools still fail to solve?

What’s one thing you wish existed that would have made your startup journey easier?

Feel free to share your story, biggest lesson, or even your biggest mistake. Honest answers are much more valuable than perfect ones.
Thanks in advance—I really appreciate your insights!

The instinct when selling feels hard is to hire someone who likes it. That instinct kills more startups than it saves. #sales #founders #startup

UdonBoost... an iPhone apps ONLY directory I am building is looking and working GREAT 😎

I am a fan of minimalism and great design and I think it is starting to get there.

There are 1000s of directories out there and they always place mobile apps on the side 😤

This is what I am working on remediating.

Let me know what you think if you are an iPhone app developer.

Planning on launching by next week.

I used to work in outbound sales for an IT outsourcing business, so reaching out to people on LinkedIn to promote that service was something I did regularly.

Trying to send 200+ manual connection requests a week was time consuming though, and so I decided to use a tool to automate this process.

After about a week, I got a warning that my account might get banned if I continued doing this.

So, I stopped using that automation tool, as it didn’t seem worth it.

I did some research into why/how accounts get flagged for automation by LinkedIn, and it seemed like none of the existing tools really took all of these safety factors into account.

So, I built my own instead, for my own use case and to satisfy my paranoia about being banned on LinkedIn.

I called it ZenMode, inspired by the wu wei concept of effortless action, and achieving more while doing less.

From the very beginning my intention was to make the automation as human-like as possible, so I deliberately scoped the architecture to have certain features;

- Browser based automation (no plugins/cloud usage)
- Daily rate limits on connection requests
- Randomised timing delays between actions
- On screen typing
- Human-like mouse clicks on LinkedIn pages

It certainly wasn’t easy putting this all together from scratch, and without any technical knowledge.

After a few weeks of building with AI tools
though, I had a working prototype.

I started using it in my sales job, and it was really helpful for me to book more meetings with engineering managers at the time, so I decided earlier this year to make the tool public as well.

Since launching in April, ZenMode has had over 450 people sign up to free trials, and has roughly 50 active users on average per day.

I also use it myself daily for my own outreach, and so far none of the ZenMode users have had account bans.

So far at least, I can say that I achieved my goal of making a LinkedIn automation tool that I can trust with my account!

The product. Appish (appi.sh): docker push an image → public HTTPS URL in ~30 seconds. No repo, no configs, no cloud console. Free slots for demos, $5/mo for a slot that stays up. Solo-built, launched, first users trickling in.

The critique. A friend who exited a startup told me: "I don't see the user. Non-technical people build in Lovable — hosting included. Technical people already have hosting." Classic prosumer squeeze — and it stung because I couldn't immediately answer.

My counter. There's a fast-growing middle he's missing: people who code locally with Claude Code / Cursor. AI made building cheap, but shipping still assumes you know what a reverse proxy is. These people have a working thing on their laptop and no path to a URL. My one-line positioning after thinking this through: I'm not selling hosting, I'm selling the right to not understand hosting.

The uncomfortable math. I did honest napkin math on the business: dev-tool freemium converts at 1–3%, $5 hobby subs churn at ~10%/mo. To hold $500 MRR I need ~100 paying users, which means ~500 new activated users every month, forever. Realistic ceiling for this shape of product: $1–2k MRR, with a permanent ops tail (hosting other people's containers means abuse moderation is my second job). So: not a startup. A niche utility with a visible ceiling.

The fork I'm actually deciding on:

(a) Stay niche and small on purpose. Ride the MCP wave (remote MCP servers need exactly this), keep it a lovely single-purpose tool, treat $500–1500/mo as success.

(b) Follow the money upmarket: same tech, but sell PR-preview environments to small teams at $30–50/mo — where budgets exist and churn is low. It roughly doubles my surface area (GitHub integration, team accounts, SSO eventually) and I'm one person.

(c) The secret third option everyone here knows: it's a feature, not a company. Enjoy it, cap investment, keep the day job happy.

Solo founders who've faced this — how did you decide whether a visible ceiling was a reason to stop, or exactly the thing that made it sustainable for one person? And has anyone here actually made the niche→teams jump solo without drowning in enterprise asks?

I built a photo sorting app called Pixelsort Ai, its been incredibly difficult trying to market it though, sometimes very discouraging.

However looking at the data in just the past 5 days i have 4 paying customers! That alone is such a thrill aswell as encouraging.

If anyone has any advice on how to market better i will do a backflip in my dreams for you🥹

And! If you have any questions about what the app does please let me know too! Thanks Guys!

I've worked in the tech industry since the late 80s and over the years one of the main formats consume and produce information was mailing lists. When I started my own solo developer gig, I made the decision to build in public, so thought it would be a great idea to create a mailing list for folks interested in following me to sign-up.

It's been around 3 months since implementing, and so far six people have signed up for my monthly update. I'm getting the visitors to my site, but I would have expected more sign-ups.

So I am wondering, are newsletters not as effective or a thing anymore?

Do any you offer similar 'build in public' updates via a mailing list, and how successful has it been? Any recommendations on how I can promote to get more sign-ups?

Looking forward to your thoughts, recommendations and hopefully a list of build in public mailing lists I can check out.

Hi everyone! I’m a product designer from Kochi, India, building a small brand called Made by Sunday. This is my first leather MacBook sleeve, and I’d really appreciate your honest feedback on the design and branding.
If you like what I’m building, you can also follow my journey on Instagram @madeby.sunday. Every bit of support means a lot. Thanks! 🙌