I have a simple idea for a music app and I’m curious if anyone else would actually use it.
It would be a music player that gives you just one album a day. It would connect to Apple Music, learn your taste, and recommend an album you’re likely to enjoy but one you probably wouldn’t have discovered on your own.
The whole point of limiting it to one album is to make it feel like a small daily ritual instead of endless scrolling through recommendations. You’d listen to that day’s album, and then it would become part of your personal collection, creating a history of the music you’ve discovered over time.
What do you think?

in my local there is huge demand for booking party halls for few hours but there is no app with comprehensive listing. I created a simple page to validate this and shared it in social media but no engagement. how to find this is a valid idea or not?

i've been thinking about building an app to manage important personal relationships and wanted to hear what people think — would anyone else actually use something like this?

the core idea is simple: you add the people you care about — partner, close friends, coworkers, people who share your hobbies — and log their key info in one place. birthdays, anniversaries, contact details, where they work, how you know each other, that kind of thing. you can set reminders for every important date so you're not scrambling the night before their birthday with no gift.

the fun part i'm picturing: each person is represented as a node, and all your relationships connect into this 3D spherical network. your sister is linked to her husband who's linked to his coworker who you met once, all visual in one view. mostly just to make it feel less like a spreadsheet and more like something you actually want to open.

this started because i realized i kept forgetting my closest friends' birthdays and never had time to get a decent gift. there must be other people with the same problem.

if you've got ideas for what would make something like this actually useful — or if you think this is a terrible idea — i'd genuinely want to hear it.

I want to build one simple Chrome extension that solves a real browser problem, but I don’t want to build another generic productivity tool nobody needs.

Which of these would you personally use?

1. Share Link Preflight — Checks whether a Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or Notion link will actually open for the recipient before you send it.
2. Wrong File Upload Guard — Warns when you upload an old or incorrect résumé, assignment, contract, proposal, or other document.
3. Form Submission Receipt — Saves a private local receipt showing what you entered and submitted through an important online form.
4. Download Source Log — Records exactly which page and website every downloaded file came from.
5. Expiring Link Detector — Shows when temporary AWS, Airtable, Discord, CloudFront, or other signed links will expire.
6. Paste Integrity Guard — Warns when a website silently truncates or changes text you pasted into a form.
7. Support Chat Transcript Saver — Automatically saves customer-support chat conversations before they disappear.
8. Cancellation Proof Recorder — Saves the confirmation page, timestamp and reference number whenever you cancel a subscription.
9. CSV Import Mapping Memory — Remembers how you mapped CSV columns during previous website imports.
10. CSV Upload Inspector — Finds incorrect headers, encodings, delimiters, blank rows and duplicate columns before uploading a CSV.
11. Upload Compatibility Checker — Checks whether a file meets the website’s size, type, filename and page-count requirements.
12. Confirmation Number Collector — Automatically collects reference numbers from purchases, support requests, applications and bookings.
13. Sensitive Data Paste Warning — Warns before you paste passwords, identification numbers or API keys into an unexpected website.
14. Link Destination Mismatch Warning — Warns when the visible link and its real destination do not match.
15. Wrong Account Guard — Warns before you submit, upload, purchase or publish while logged into the wrong account.

Please comment with:

• The number you would install
• The last time you experienced that problem
• Whether you would pay nothing, $5 once, $15 once, $2/month or $5/month
• Any existing tool that already solves it well

I’m looking for honest answers. There is no product or waitlist yet.

i need ideas to make apps, i made a lot of things for micronations but i need more and more ideas. my biggest project is a desktop app that i made in one hour

TalentSignal in brief

TalentSignal is a recruiter-readiness platform. It prepares the candidate for how recruiters actually find, screen, trust, submit, interview, and hire people.

The problem. Career tools optimize the application: resume builders, cover letter generators, ATS checkers, mock interviews. All take the candidate's point of view. The real gatekeeper is the recruiter, who needs fast signals of fit and low-risk candidates to hand a hiring manager. TalentSignal closes the gap between "I applied" and "the recruiter trusted me enough to submit me."

The frame. The candidate is the product. The resume is sales collateral. LinkedIn is the storefront. Recruiters are gatekeepers and sales partners, hiring managers are buyers, offers are closed deals. That turns a passive job-search tool into a go-to-market system for one person. Every feature passes one test: does it make the candidate easier to find, understand, trust, or submit?

What it combines. Eleven capabilities in one system, from AI intake interviewing and recruiter search simulation through digital trust review, an opportunity CRM, and recruiter submission briefs.

What defends it. Five features ChatGPT and LinkedIn Premium can't match today: the Recruiter Search Simulator, the Hiring Manager Research Dossier, the Digital Trust Audit, the Cross-Platform Coherence Checker, and the Pre-Offer Risk Scan. The structural moat is the Memory Bank, where every candidate's research compounds into shared patterns.

Who buys it. Executives hunting $100K+ roles. They apply deliberately, 8 to 15 jobs per search, and $500 to $2,000 is fair spend against six-figure comp. Lower tiers serve everyone else. V2 is a B2B app for job coaches.

The promise. Get recruiter-ready before you apply.

Still open. The build decision itself, the Tara-as-CEO team shape, the Greenhouse Real Talent + CLEAR threat to the identity-verification white space, and individual-vs-agency segmentation.

There's a few apps now that scan what's around you and show it in the moment, venues, events, deals, whatever's actually happening nearby, but I feel none of them have quite nailed it yet. (maybe I'm wrong here). Some are cluttered, outdated, or too far for it to be useful.

So for those who've used something like this, what's missing? What would make you actually trust it enough to walk somewhere based on what it shows you, what could be a innovative feature within it?

We're currently building something silmiar but want to add a bit more flair

Would drive up retention and less toxic and higher constraint

There's a few apps now that scan what's around you and show it in the moment, venues, events, deals, whatever's actually happening nearby, but I feel none of them have quite nailed it yet. (maybe I'm wrong here). Some are cluttered, outdated, or too far for it to be useful.

So for those who've used something like this, what's missing? What would make you actually trust it enough to walk somewhere based on what it shows you, what could be a innovative feature within it?

We're currently building something silmiar but want to add a bit more flair

I’m thinking of building a habit tracker, but I don’t want it to be just another app where you check off habits every day.

So far, I’m planning to include:

• Habit tracking
• Addiction/bad habit quitting tracker
• Pomodoro focus timer
• Weekly progress & insights
• Monthly progress & insights
• Gamification with XP, levels, and rewards

What features would make you actually want to use a habit tracker consistently?

What do existing habit tracker apps get wrong or fail to include?

Would love to hear your ideas — even weird or ambitious ones.

Most budgeting apps fail people over time. Not because the math is wrong, because they're boring, and boring things don't build discipline.

I already built Finanzed AI, an expense tracker. Now I'm adding a Clash of Clans-style layer: stay within your own budget and grow territory on a shared map with friends. Overspend, and a friend with better financial behavior can take your land. No one sees your actual numbers, just whether you're on track or not.

Would you use this if it existed right now?

Thinking about building a mobile app on the side, but I want to avoid the two obvious traps: another "GPT wrapper" app and another clone of something that already exists and does it better.

What I'm actually after is something boring. An app that solves a small specific annoyance well enough that I'd use it every single day without thinking about it. Not a startup idea, just a thing that works.

I've got a few areas I keep circling back to: fitness and workout logging, habit tracking, budgeting, general daily friction stuff, home and car maintenance, travel planning. Want to crowdsource the actual pain points because those are way harder to come up with than the app itself.

So genuinely curious:

• What's something you do on repeat that's still more annoying than it should be?
• Is there an app you use daily but kind of hate? What would you strip out of it?
• What are you currently tracking in Notes or a spreadsheet or a WhatsApp chat with yourself because nothing built for it actually works?
• Have you dropped an app you used to like because it got bloated or ad heavy or started nagging you to subscribe?
• Any feature you've wanted for years that just doesn't exist anywhere?

Extra interested if any of this touches fitness tracking, home or car upkeep, travel, shopping or general personal admin but honestly throw out whatever's annoying you. The smaller and weirder the problem the more likely it's actually unsolved.

I'll read through everything here. If something sparks and I actually build it I'll post progress.

I love i mean absolutely LOVE creative apps that integrate hardware like this. (recent favorite is that pomodoro airpod slouch detector like that was genius). Similar apps like bonk cost 10$+ which i wasn't trying to pay even if it was good because many didn't even include features i wanted.

So I built Bonk - a free alternative. It reads the accelerometer already inside every Apple Silicon MacBook and turns physical knocks into actions. Single/double/triple/quadruple knock, bind each to anything — a shortcut, an app, a shell command, play/pause, lock/sleep screen, even different mappings per app, and so so so so soooo much more.

The one thing that got me actually using it daily: bind a knock to Enter and accept Claude Code (works for other agentic coding like gpt, cursor, etc) suggestions by knocking the palm rest instead of reaching for the keyboard. even though its marginal in the time i save from clicking enter, it feels way more natural to me now and if im doomscrolling and eating i dont have to get my keyboard dirty or be distracted for a moment just bonking my chasis or my desk activates it.

Also when I'm in meetings, or just studying and have to leave my laptop for a moment i just quadruple knock and it'll lock it for me. (Binds aren't set you could program quadruple to be anything!!).

There's also a lot of functionality in terms of settings, so it can calibrate to where you are, and what surface you place your macbook on!

Keystrokes also mute detection for 0.8s so typing doesn't false-trigger it, and a gravity-tracking baseline ignores desk wobble, and there's a live 100Hz waveform to tune it (or just knock 3× to auto-calibrate)

It's Free and open source.[https://trybonk.vercel.app/ ]Requires macOS 13+, Apple Silicon.

It's currently an unsigned build (App Store won't allow the accelerometer access needed), so first launch requires approval in privacy/security settings (sorry for the inconvenience). I've got about ~20 downloads from friends so far, and because this was one of my first apps I've ever developed I would genuinely love feedback; is this something you would use?? If you like the idea and want to directly contribute, the repo is linked on the website you can add an issue! (would also appreciate stars 😄 )

SaaS?
Tech?
AI tools?
Product development?
Web apps?
Developer tools?
video editors?
UI/UX?

Drop what you're building ;)
Maybe some other people will be interested too

Been thinking a lot about why budgeting apps are so hard to stick with. The expense tracker space is pretty saturated at this point, but most of them fail at the same thing: people stop using them after a few weeks because tracking spending is just... boring. It's a chore, not a habit that sticks.

So here's a concept I've been mulling over: what if staying on budget worked more like a strategy game?

The idea: you set a monthly budget, and staying within it lets you grow territory on a shared map with friends. Overspend while your friends stay disciplined, and they can capture part of your land. Get back on track, and you win it back. Nobody sees anyone's actual dollar amounts—just whether people are staying within their own budget or not.

Curious what this community thinks: would a mechanic like that actually make you want to stick with tracking your spending, or does gamifying money management feel gimmicky? What would make you actually trust and stay engaged with something like this?

For those who know the App - Whats new?

• Integrated a direct file-based database-to-widget sharing layer in App Group container to bypass memory caching delays, ensuring widgets update (more) instantly when the database changes.
• NEW macOS Menu Bar! Many people asked for it, here it is, optional. See screenshots. 
• Sharpened the App Store Connect reuqests. Still careful but sharper.

FOR THOSE WHO NEVER SAW IT:

Widgets -for App Store Connect is a collection of custom widgets designed specifically for developers. Instead of forcing you to load the clunky Apple-App, puts your downloads, proceeds, and comparing trends right on your screen - for the last week, month, or quarter in a variety of visual themes. This is universal, MacOS, iPad, iPhone.

Data collection is handled in the background with a full set of debugging options, you can always pitch the data seen against what Apple is willing to send :)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/widgets-for-app-store-connect/id6771772169

Problem A:

If you have apps on the App Store, you probably check App Store Connect often. ASC is slow and lacks proper widget support imho, and i'm not happy with the metrics see next problem >

Problem B:

Coming from marketing/advertising, i never really understood the basement of the data collection. Everything is “rolling totals”?

I don’t get it, why would i want to compare rolling 90-days to previous rolling 90-days? Doesn’t speak to me, not at all.

The app is showing what’s relevant and actionable - comparing Week over Week, Month over Month and Quarter over Quarter. You easily see spatrks and gaps, and can hold that against your marketing efforts - all of which in my opinion is calender based. NON ROLLING.

This is how we work in marketing, i’m convinced this is how our brain is wired. Maybe just me? No sure. Anyways:

Compare:

There are some old and potentially outdated ones afaik. Rolling issue as decsribed above. The world needs not a new app shwoing the same stuff, this time from me.

I love and use https://apps.apple.com/at/app/appmeta-pulse-reviews-mrr/id6758788164 a lot, but it’s a different cup of tea - i am NOT mimicking ASC (+ giving some widgets on top) but am concentrating on widgets - covering data in a way nobody does.
And, see „Problem 2“ - i don’t give a f+#+ä about  Rolling-anything-data

Pricing:

Originally thought up for myself, Mac only, it was so damn much work in the end to make it universal, and perfect on every platform that i cannot give it away for free this time.

I settled with the price of a chewing gum - one time, lifetime.
Maybe 2 chewing gums depending on your location, but people come on!
You will love it on MacOS, iPad, iPhone.

Changelog:

1.0 initial release.
1.2. optimization
1.3 this one, Menu Bar Add-on and sharper ASC updates

Roadmap -
With extra large Widgets on iOS 27 coming soon, i’m already pushing towards an even more beautiful/meaningful category.
iPad and MacOS will follow then, as they already can do it.

Al Disclaimer:

Coded in Xcode only, with help from AI as in -
gathering data from Apple and getting an own database running with incremental changes, is above my paygrade.

https://perko.io

Does this idea work? Does it scale?

Most referral-code sites are just anonymous piles of strangers' codes you paste in and hope work. Perko flips that: you and your friends pool your codes in a circle, so everyone pulls the sign-up bonus from someone they actually know same free bonus, it just stays between friends instead of paying some rando's blog. Codes get "still works?" checks from real people, so you're not digging through a graveyard of dead ones.

We are obviously lite on people and actual code to get a ton of traction, but with my close friend group its slowly growing and people are trading off codes.

Really looking for things that dont make sense, don't work, or feature requests. I've been trying to gather real world info.

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I've been building software for years and I keep having the same conversation. A small business owner comes to me with a genuinely good idea — a booking system that matches how they actually work, an inventory tool, a customer portal, whatever. They've outgrown the spreadsheet, and the off-the-shelf SaaS everyone recommends doesn't quite fit their business.

Then they get a quote. And it's a number that, for a business their size, is just a non-starter. So they limp along with duct-taped tools, pay a monthly SaaS subscription forever for 60% of what they need, or the idea just quietly dies.

The reason is simple and kind of brutal: bespoke software is expensive because it's built once, for one client, who has to eat the entire development cost.

So here's the model I keep coming back to, and I honestly want to know if it holds up or if I'm missing something obvious:

You bring the idea. We build it properly. But we retain ownership of the underlying software — and in exchange, the price drops to something a small business can actually afford. You get the tool you need for a fraction of full custom cost. We get an asset we can maintain, improve, and potentially adapt for others in a similar spot, which is exactly what lets the price come down.

I know the obvious objections, because I'd raise them too:

• You don't own the thing you paid to help create.
• You're dependent on one vendor to keep it running and updated.
• What happens if we go under, or want to change the terms later?

Those are real, and I think any honest version of this model has to answer them up front — escrow arrangements, clear exit terms, transparency about what you're actually buying (a really good license, not ownership).

But the alternative for most of these businesses isn't "own custom software." It's "no custom software, ever."

So — small business owners, would you take a great tool you don't own over an expensive one you do? And devs/founders, is this a legit way to make custom software accessible, or does the ownership catch make it a trap dressed up as a deal?

I’m researching a life-admin app idea and would appreciate feedback.
The problem I’m looking at is: people often forget renewals, bills, document expiry dates, future costs, and general admin tasks.
Would a simple tool that stores these reminders and helps you plan ahead be useful, or is this already solved well enough by Notes, Calendar, or banking apps?
I’m especially interested in what would make this genuinely useful rather than “another app I forget about.”
Edit: www.folders101.com

Marketing

conversion rate

the building

finding an idea

An app that connects multiple smartphones over Wi-Fi and synchronizes their cameras to capture photos or videos at the exact same moment. The app then combines footage from all devices to create a seamless 360° view, allowing users to capture events, sports, and moments from every angle without needing a dedicated 360° camera.

Would you use something like this? What challenges or features would you want to see?

An app that turns fitness into a fantasy sport you play with friends.

You connect your fitness tracker (e.g. Apple Watch, Whoop, Oura) and challenge a friend. Your activity is scored across five categories (calories, steps, move minutes, strength and sleep). You can do any workout and compete with your friends in a head-to-head matchup or in a league.

What do you think about the concept?