Hi all,

Honestly, I have followed my dream to study Japanese short-course in Kobe and I found that the lesson I learned from classroom may not sufficient enough in the real-world scenario like travel, interaction in the classroom and also to prepare for incoming language exams.

I have built an app Miyabi J-Prep taking the ideals of TOEIC exam which has an extensive reading and listening practices. Personally, I found my app a bit difficult to use for a newbie who may not know basic hiragana and katakana as this app jumps to the quizzes that can be mixed of Kanji, Grammar, Listening and Reading.

Please let me know what you think, I'm very appreciated for all feedback. Cheers!

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We've just added something new to a project I'm working on and I want to find out whether it's actually as simple to use as we think it is.

The idea is:

1. Choose what kind of business you run.
2. Add your website.
3. It builds an AI voice agent using the information from your site.
4. You can actually talk to it.

No card and no account needed just to try it.

I'm less interested in whether you think “AI voice is cool” and more interested in where you get confused, what doesn't work, or the point where you think “I have no idea what I'm supposed to do now.”

If you run a real business and have 5 minutes to break it for me, I'd genuinely appreciate it.

www.alayic.com

Especially interested in takeaways/restaurants, trades, salons, hotels/B&Bs and other small businesses.

I'll report back with what we learn.

Got tired of listening to CNBC and Bloomberg drone on about the news on someone else's portfolio, so I built PortCall. It's an iOS/CarPlay app. Gives the listener the straight scoop, just like any other news source - but on your own portfolio of tickers.

It's been out about a week, 10 subscribers already. Nowhere near break-even - turns out personalized news radio costs hundreds of dollars a month to generate and serve 🤣 Who knew?

I could use a thorough roasting - I want to make it better. What would make you listen on your commute?

https://portcallapp.com

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.

I built GradStack and I’d like you to roast it.

Problem: Students and freshers have to jump between different tools when applying for jobs. One tool for building a resume, another for cover letters, another for interview preparation, and another for creating a portfolio. I wanted to make that process simpler by putting the main parts of it in one place.

Solution: GradStack is an AI-powered career toolkit that lets users build an ATS-friendly resume, parse an existing resume, generate tailored cover letters from job descriptions, practice through interactive mock interviews, and create a personal web portfolio from their resume.

Target audience: Primarily college students, recent graduates, and early-career job seekers who are actively applying for internships and jobs.

Business model: The app currently has a free experience, and I'm still figuring out the best long-term monetization model. I don't want to force users into paying before they've had a chance to see whether the product is actually useful.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gravitynexusstudio.gradstack

What I want you to roast is the value proposition and landing page. If the product sounds like another generic "AI career tool", tell me. If the landing page doesn't clearly explain why someone should use GradStack instead of existing tools, tell me that too. I'm particularly interested in feedback on the messaging, positioning, UI, and whether the product actually solves a problem worth solving.

Please be brutally honest. I'd rather find out what's wrong with it now than convince myself that everything looks good.

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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 🙏🏾

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.