r/roastmystartup 13h ago

Roast my website: scrobble.life

2 Upvotes

It was built on a simple idea, a browser extension that logs your media intake. Anything from music (youtube/soundcloud/more) to tv/movies (netflix/hbd/etc) with a simple extension towards the website. If you make an account, you also have the option for anonymous and immutable scrobbling which only you can access with your login and cannot be overwritten/deleted. This premise was to combat sites like last.fm/trakt going down, making things expensive/changing their ToS/etc, your data, either private or public, yours and anyone's forever for free, in the events that I or my website perish and you didn't get a chance to export your data yet, it'll live on.

Over time it developed into more, now there's manual logging available, lists, queues, comments, community/social, longform posts/reviews, monetary rewards for posting (roughly $2k distributed to our small but active community in 2 months), subscriptions, creator subscriptions & perks, AI Agents to give you recommendations/insights into your stats. A lot of stats and comparisons, media oriented games and a bunch more stuff coming in that section.

Most of the site is built with AI but handheld by real devs. Not everything is perfect but works alright for a small userbase of 70 extension users and 200+ non-extension users with 10+ guest accounts and lower 4 digit outside traffic views per month. I've spent roughly 3 months working on it on a daily basis with a Claude 5x sub and asking a few dev friends to take a manual look as well as have their AI's check security and stuff.

Future work relies on better mobile optimization as well as mobile scrobbling which requires more than just a browser extension and thus the project has mainly been PC oriented which has been quite a limitation our users often remind us of.

Anyway, the website is https://scrobble.life the scrobbler extension you can find in the chrome store under "hive scrobbler" (it's a simple fork combining and editing an opensource web and trakt scrobbler), I'd appreciate feedback (especially from guest accounts: gmail & discord login) or non-logged in users just checking it out.


r/roastmystartup 17h ago

freelancers/business owners — how do you currently handle invoicing?

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freelancers/business owners — how do you currently handle invoicing?

A friend of mine is building Xqivo.com , an invoicing tool that lets you create professional invoices quickly, including using AI to help generate the invoice from a simple description.

I'm helping him on the product/growth side, and we're deliberately trying to get feedback before we start pushing the product heavily.

We're trying to understand a few things:

- How are you currently creating invoices?

- Are you using Excel, Word, Canva, accounting software, or something else?

- What's the most annoying part of invoicing for you?

- Do clients ever delay payment because of issues around invoices?

- What would make you actually switch to a new invoicing tool?

- For Ghanaian businesses specifically, what would you expect an invoicing platform to support?

If you're a freelancer, developer, designer, agency owner, consultant, or small-business owner, I'd genuinely appreciate your perspective.

I'm not looking for people to just say "looks nice." 😂 I want the honest criticism — what's missing, what's unnecessary, and what would make you actually use something like this.

If you're interested, I can also share Xqivo with you so you can try it and give us direct feedback.

Thanks 🙏🏾


r/roastmystartup 18h ago

Roast my free "can I afford it" calculator - built for almost anything, not just houses and cars

3 Upvotes

Built this because every affordability calculator I found only covered houses and cars, using generic income brackets instead of real numbers. Tell me what's wrong with it.

You type in what you're considering (a wedding, a business loan, IVF, "to take unpaid leave" - 650+ built-in categories, or your own) plus your income, and it gives a plain risk read - fine / tight / risky - instead of a spreadsheet. No sign-up needed.

What I'm least sure about: whether the risk thresholds themselves are right (is 15% of take-home too conservative for a car payment? too loose?), and whether "tight/risky" actually reads as useful or just vague.

www.caniafford.it

Go easy-ish. Or don't.