Jul 20 – 26, 2026 · Edition W30
What Reddit's builders are making this week
1,942 new projects from 9 builder subreddits, sorted into 200 groups and 23 themes. Fastest riser: Language learning apps ▲ +62%.
The heatmap
Each square is one theme in one week, compared with that theme's own 12-week average. Hover or tap a square for the numbers; click it to see that week's projects.
Themes with fewer than 600 projects in 12 weeks are faded and marked "low sample", because small counts swing hard. Themes under 50 projects are left off the map.
Rising
Share of projects, last 4 weeks vs the 8 before. Groups with 40+ projects in the last 4 weeks.
- Language learning apps▲ +62% 73 in 4w
- AI-assisted game creation▲ +59% 50 in 4w
- Browser strategy and simulation games▲ +51% 50 in 4w
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents▲ +50% 40 in 4w
- UI design extraction & AI design tools▲ +39% 69 in 4w
- Event planning and scheduling tools▲ +39% 45 in 4w
- AI 3D model generation▲ +39% 41 in 4w
- Casual mobile arcade games▲ +37% 51 in 4w
Cooling
Same comparison, biggest drops. Same 40-project minimum.
- Football fan games and apps▼ -47% 42 in 4w
- AI tool directories and usage trackers▼ -26% 54 in 4w
- Map-based place discovery apps▼ -24% 51 in 4w
- AI resume tailoring tools▼ -21% 44 in 4w
Most built this week
| Group | Projects | vs prior 4 wks |
|---|---|---|
| Personal budgeting and expense trackers | 28 | ▲ +72% |
| AI coding agent tooling | 27 | +7% |
| Multi-agent coding workspaces | 26 | -3% |
| AI chat organizers and prompt libraries | 24 | +9% |
| Personal to-do and daily planners | 22 | +6% |
| AI short video generators | 22 | +10% |
| AI agent orchestration platforms | 22 | +10% |
| AI job search assistants | 22 | ▲ +64% |
| Language learning apps | 21 | +19% |
| UI design extraction & AI design tools | 21 | +23% |
| Gym workout trackers | 19 | -8% |
| Habit tracker apps | 19 | +3% |
By theme
Games and gaming tools
Casual, puzzle, word, trivia, strategy, multiplayer and indie games plus trackers and tools for gamers and collectors.
153 projects · 7.4% share
- AI-assisted game creation19
- Daily logic puzzle games15
- Casual mobile arcade games15
- Online card, board & party games14
- Trivia and quiz games12
- Tabletop RPG and RPG games12
- Casual browser games10
- Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking10
- Video game backlog trackers8
- Trading card collection trackers7
- Browser racing and driving games6
- Indie video game showcases6
- Geography guessing and quiz games6
- Daily word puzzle games5
- Browser strategy and simulation games4
- Chess training and analysis tools4
- GTA 6 clone (voxel) — Generates a voxel-style open-world multiplayer game where NPCs, traffic and TV content are driven by AI.“Day 49 of building GTA 6 using claude”
- Plays a simple HD-2D style top-down game demo built with Codex-generated map, sprites and sound effects.“I vibecoded this hd2d style game demo in 1h strictly using codex and nothing else (5.6 sol high)”
- MonopolAI — Lets players run a browser-based Monopoly game against up to three human or AI opponents.“MonopolAI: The Online Vibe Coded Board Game”
AI coding agents and agent orchestration
Tools for running, monitoring, orchestrating, securing and giving memory to AI coding agents and multi-agent systems.
137 projects · 6.6% share
- AI coding agent tooling27
- Multi-agent coding workspaces26
- AI agent orchestration platforms22
- Claude Code session monitors18
- Codebase analysis for AI-written code13
- AI coding agents for Git repos10
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents10
- AI agent security guardrails6
- Persistent memory for AI agents3
- MCP server tooling2
- Invisio — Parses codebases into a Neo4j graph of classes, functions, calls and imports, then answers structural questions and triages CodeQL alerts into automated fix PRs.“A Question”
- OpenSlides — Creates animated code presentations as an offline desktop app.“I built a free, open-source, offline alternative to CodeSlides”
- Builds customer-facing AI agents from a website URL and uploaded documents, connected to business tools and deployed across web chat, voice, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and phone.“Two technical co-founders, product is ready, stuck on marketing and sales”
Creative media generation and editing
AI and manual tools for creating and editing images, video, 3D, music, audio, subtitles, stories and photo libraries.
128 projects · 6.5% share
- AI short video generators22
- Photo and image editors18
- AI image generation and creative canvases17
- AI and desktop video editors15
- Photo library organizers and sharing13
- Music practice and creation tools9
- AI 3D model generation9
- Audio playback and sound tools8
- AI story generation and fiction writing6
- AI music and song generation6
- Video subtitle generation and translation5
- Ditther — Applies retro image effects such as pixel art, ASCII and halftone to images in the browser with one click.“First month as a solo SaaS founder: Ditther generated $1,341 in revenue and got 50 Pro users. Here's what worked.”
- ai-tattoos.com — Generates tattoo design ideas with AI.“I'm tired boss..”
- Edits photos in a desktop photo editor application.“Vibecoded an app, got my first 600 users, sold pre-orders for the final product, and marketed it entirely myself. AMA”
Marketing, SEO and sales
Tools for content generation, social scheduling, SEO and AI search visibility, ads, outbound sales, email, app store optimization and analytics.
123 projects · 6.3% share
- Website audit and monitoring tools16
- Web and SaaS analytics dashboards14
- AI social media schedulers12
- AI email writing and outreach tools11
- SEO audit tools10
- Email inbox and infrastructure tools10
- AI marketing content generators8
- AI outbound sales prospecting7
- LinkedIn outreach and content tools7
- Reddit marketing and lead finding6
- Local business lead finders6
- App Store screenshot generators6
- AI search visibility trackers4
- AI paid ads management tools3
- App store optimization tools3
- Klipsy — Generates faceless short videos, images and text posts, then publishes them on a schedule to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and X and reports engagement.“I built an app nobody found, so I built the thing that posts for me”
- tryproduck — Reviews a website as a first-time user and sends back a list of bugs and confusing points.“Its feedback Friday so tell me what you are building!”
- MailBeacon — Validates email addresses in real time and in bulk using token-based credits.“YOLO’d 4 months of my life into an email validator. 0 customers. $0 revenue. Not leaving.”
AI assistants, chat and model tools
Tools for organizing AI chats, comparing and routing LLMs, AI research, companions, desktop assistants and AI media detection.
110 projects · 5.4% share
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries24
- AI browser automation extensions19
- LLM gateways and model comparison14
- AI tool directories and usage trackers12
- AI companion character chat12
- AI research and source-cited answers10
- AI image detection and photo analysis7
- Multi-AI decision debate tools7
- Desktop AI assistants5
- Adds a browser extension for developers; the post does not say what it does.“I just got my first paying customer. ❤️”
- Lets businesses train an AI chatbot on their own website content.“I did it 🤩! crossed $273 in revenue with my saas.”
- HumanGPT — Mimics a ChatGPT-style chat interface where real people answer questions live in place of an AI model.“LLM tokens are expensive. Humans are free.”
Health, fitness and wellness
Workout, nutrition, medication, mood, journaling, mental wellness, spiritual and astrology apps for personal wellbeing.
99 projects · 5.3% share
- Gym workout trackers19
- All-in-one fitness and health trackers18
- Personal health and medication trackers12
- Personal journaling apps10
- AI calorie and nutrition trackers10
- Mental wellness and calm apps9
- Mood trackers and personality quizzes7
- AI astrology and divination readings6
- Scripture and prayer apps5
- Drink logging and cocktail apps3
- Provides skincare routine guidance through a mobile app with a premium tier.“I cried over my first sale”
- Kailo Live — Streams live video of runs from Apple Watch, iOS and Android devices.“Twitch, but for running”
- Grit: stoic journal — Delivers daily and weekly stoic quotes and offers journaling, meditation, breathing exercises and sleep sounds in one iOS app.“I will personally checkout your saas. Drop them below!”
Developer tools and infrastructure
Deployment platforms, databases, monitoring, security scanners, app builders and low-level tinkering projects for developers.
98 projects · 4.9% share
- UI design extraction & AI design tools21
- Security scanners for AI-built apps15
- Uptime and API monitoring12
- Network diagnostics and VPN tools12
- GitHub profile and repo tools9
- AI prompt-to-app builders8
- Database clients and SQL tools7
- Self-hosted app deployment & dev infra6
- Hobby languages and operating systems5
- Domain name search tools3
- .gui — Defines an open, human-readable file format for describing user interfaces that can be previewed, edited, and converted to code.“I built an open file format for user interfaces, like SVG or PDF.”
- NetLens — Visualizes Wi-Fi signal strength in augmented reality and on floorplans, with live channel and access-point tools and exportable survey reports.“I created NetLens - Augmented Reality Wifi Visualizer”
- snake-and-commits — Generates an animated SVG of a Snake game that pathfinds to GitHub contribution cells for display on a profile.“I built this”
Personal finance and investing
Budgeting, expense and subscription tracking, bill splitting, pay tracking, trading journals, stock research and crypto tools.
97 projects · 5.3% share
- Personal budgeting and expense trackers28
- AI stock research tools13
- Subscription and recurring charge trackers10
- Receipt scanning & expense tracking9
- Personal finance planners and trackers7
- Shift, hours and pay trackers7
- SEC filing stock research tools5
- Crypto wallets and payment tools5
- Retail trading tools and journals4
- Crypto trading and portfolio tools4
- Group expense splitting apps3
- Investment portfolio trackers2
- partystarter — Provides an equity screening tool and stock research based on the author's own investment philosophy.“Help Getting customers”
- Tracks stocks with a guest mode that lets users use the full app without signing up, and requires an account only to save a watchlist or set alerts.“I'm launching with no signup wall. You can use the whole app before I ever ask for your email. Am I stupid?”
- SableSpend — Tracks personal spending and budgets across web and iOS as a replacement for YNAB and Monarch.“My wife and I spent 10 months building our own finance app because we didn't like anything else”
Personal productivity and notes
To-do lists, note-taking, calendars, reminders, focus timers, meeting notes and visual thinking tools for organizing work and life.
87 projects · 4.7% share
- Personal to-do and daily planners22
- Personal note-taking apps16
- Project management tools12
- Pomodoro focus timers12
- Personal calendar apps7
- Visual canvases and diagram generators5
- AI voice note apps5
- Personal reminder and nudge apps4
- Markdown editors and viewers4
- AI meeting transcription and notes0
- Birdie — Shows an animated bird that flies across the screen before calendar meetings with a one-click link to join.“Bird Notifications”
- OneThingDaily — Lets users focus on one task each day through an iOS app.“I FINALLY GOT APPROVED!!”
- Bento — Creates, edits, presents and collaborates on slide decks inside a single offline HTML file.“My side project hit #1 on Show HN (~1k points) - Bento: An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)”
Desktop and device utilities
Window managers, clipboard tools, file cleanup, dictation, screen capture, input remapping, wallpapers and device dashboards for power users.
84 projects · 4.4% share
- Local voice dictation apps16
- Desktop pet companions15
- Screen recording and screenshot tools9
- Desktop window and dock utilities9
- Desktop file organizers and cleanup9
- Device monitors and ambient displays7
- Alternative computer input & remote control6
- Clipboard history managers5
- Android launchers and phone utilities4
- Wallpaper apps and live wallpapers4
- FileXAI — Helps users find old files, screenshots, and documents stored on their phone.“A Reddit meme is about to make me my first $1,000.”
- Ultilight — Lights up a desk coaster with NeoPixel animations that respond to in-game events in games like League of Legends and CS.“Built an ESP32/Rust-powered gaming coaster, got 10K+ likes on Instagram, but only 2 sales. Where am I messing up?”
- Records Windows screen footage and automatically adds zooms, pans, transitions, cursors, and backgrounds, with keyboard-driven director controls and a virtual camera output.“I spent 4 months building this. 70 people tried it, and nobody came back.”
Travel, maps and outdoors
Trip planners, place discovery maps, GPS tracking, interactive globes, sky trackers, weather and car ownership apps.
72 projects · 3.8% share
- GPS trip and ride tracking16
- Map-based place discovery apps13
- Travel and trip planners12
- Interactive world maps and globes11
- Car ownership and maintenance apps7
- Sky, space and flight trackers7
- Consumer weather apps6
- Compiss — Points the user toward the nearest public toilet using a compass-style display.“I vibecoded a compass app to find the nearest toilet, called Compiss. Because when you gotta go, you gotta go”
- GearMind — Diagnoses vehicle issues and guides users step by step through repairs.“My first ever project as a young founder ⭐”
- theautobodydirectory.com — Lists body shops across the US using state license and business records, shown on a map with 160,000+ pins.“I'm not a coder, i manage Claude like an employee and it built a nationwide body shop directory. here's how, review my website?”
Entertainment, music and news consumption
Apps for discovering and tracking music, movies, TV, podcasts, radio, livestreams and curated news digests.
71 projects · 3.8% share
- Online video downloaders and players13
- AI news aggregators and digests12
- Livestream viewing and streamer tools10
- Movie & TV recommendation trackers7
- Music discovery and sharing apps6
- TV, movie and anime trackers6
- Local music and radio players5
- AI news aggregators and digests5
- Podcast apps and AI tools4
- Internet radio players3
- Song Go — Lets players catch songs by walking to map locations placed around the world, each linked to a unique track.“I built Pokémon Go for music. I placed 247 million songs across the globe. Go catch them all !”
- Similarities Engine — Recommends albums to try based on a user's five favorite albums.“After a 30 year break, I finished my music recommender website!”
- Radiogram — Streams internet radio stations and podcasts on iPhone and iPad, with song recognition and browsing by country, language and tags.“After 7 months of development, my internet radio app has finally been approved by Apple 🎉”
File, document and everyday web utilities
Privacy-friendly browser tools for PDFs, image conversion, documents, forms, QR codes, file sharing, vaults, links and calculators.
68 projects · 3.6% share
- Browser-based PDF toolkits11
- Browser-based utility tool collections10
- Document scanning and processing tools9
- Pricing and cost calculators8
- Browser image compressors and converters6
- File sharing and transfer tools5
- Online form builders and autofill5
- Online calculators and math tools4
- URL shorteners and link-in-bio pages4
- QR code generators and scanners4
- Encrypted vaults and password managers2
- Geometry Solver — Solves geometry problems inside a Chrome browser extension.“I sold a Chrome extension last month (built back in 2024). Some of what I learned felt non-obvious to me at the time, so I wanted to share”
- ezqr — Generates QR codes for users.“How I get ChatGPT and Gemini to cite my pages!”
- The Dollar Web — Provides over 200 free utility tools that run in the browser, such as OCR, background removal, PDF combining, and resume building.“I spent 15 months building a website with 200+ free tools. What’s the best and worst thing about it?”
Home, food and lifestyle
Family organizers, home inventory, meal planning, recipes, home design, pets, plants, wardrobes, real estate, shopping and dining.
68 projects · 3.8% share
- Price trackers and comparison tools11
- Home, cabinet and construction design tools10
- Meal planners with grocery lists10
- Recipe managers and generators8
- Digital wardrobe and virtual try-on7
- Real estate & rental tools6
- Shared family and household organizers6
- Restaurant discovery and group picking5
- Pet health and care trackers3
- Home inventory and maintenance trackers1
- Plant identification and care apps1
- TheKetchupp AI — Lets restaurant guests order food through a conversational AI assistant instead of browsing menus.“What's the coolest thing you've built (or are building) recently?”
- SpacePlanner — Lets users draw 2D floor plans of rooms and walls and view them in 3D, without requiring sign-up.“Huge progress on SpacePlanner thanks to your feedback. Please roast it again!”
- ChefBook — Helps users store and organize recipes in an Android app.“How an accidental viral trend in Uzbekistan gave my side-project 1k+ downloads and its first paid user”
Digital wellbeing and habits
App and site blockers, social feed reshapers, habit trackers and wake-up alarms that help people control screen time and build routines.
66 projects · 3.5% share
- Habit tracker apps19
- Phone app blockers12
- YouTube browser extensions11
- Social media feed tools10
- Distracting website blockers7
- Challenge-to-dismiss alarm apps7
- StrivoSteps — Rewards users with badges, community challenges, and redeemable vouchers for walking.“I made an app that pays to walk.”
- YouTube Comment Screenshot Tool — Captures screenshots of YouTube comments from within the browser.“My Extension Made Me Money - Are these results good?”
- One Thing Daily — Lets users set one daily goal, share progress photos or updates with friends, and grows a virtual tree as goals are completed.“I need brutal feedback for my app”
Small business and freelance operations
CRMs, invoicing, client management, ecommerce, AI receptionists, WhatsApp automation, marketplaces and reselling tools for small businesses.
65 projects · 3.3% share
- SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure19
- Resale marketplace listing tools11
- Shopify and ecommerce merchant tools11
- Freelance client management tools8
- Freelancer invoice generators6
- AI phone receptionists & voice agents5
- WhatsApp business automation tools3
- Freelance and local gig marketplaces2
- Handmade crafts and physical goods0
- Stepify — Provides an online SaaS service with a free tier and a paid Pro plan, with the product's function not described in the post.“1200 signups, 3 subscriptions, No retention.”
- Supports a construction company's day-to-day operations through a custom internal app built with vibe coding.“So I built an app and my company actually wants to use it. What happens now?”
- FedFinder — Surfaces upcoming federal contract, grant, and RFP opportunities from public government sources before they are posted, scores them against user criteria, and identifies contracting officers.“Built a SaaS that surfaces federal contracts, grants, and RFPs before they post publicly. $0 in revenue so far. What would it take for you to pay for this?”
Social networks, messaging and dating
Alternative social networks, encrypted and anonymous chat, dating and couples apps, greeting gifts, polls and event planning.
62 projects · 3.3% share
- Private encrypted messaging apps18
- Personalized digital greeting gifts11
- Alternative and anonymous social networks10
- Event planning and scheduling tools8
- Dating and couples apps6
- Anonymous and community chat apps5
- Opinion polls and civic tech4
- AirConnect — Lets travelers on the same flight find and message each other over Bluetooth without internet or accounts.“Built an app that lets you chat with other passengers on your flight — no wifi, no server, fully offline (Bluetooth)”
- MeetVap — Provides an open-source messenger with real-time messaging, offline delivery, voice and video calls, encryption and push notifications.“Building an Open-Source Messenger with AI Changed My Mind About Software Engineering”
- Yuna — Chats with users as an AI persona that interprets romantic partners' behavior and explains what they think and feel, with optional voice replies.“I built a free AI that helps men understand women — and helps women understand men. Looking for honest testers.”
Education and learning
AI tutors, flashcards, language learning, video summarizers and reading tools for students and self-learners.
60 projects · 3.1% share
- Language learning apps21
- YouTube AI summarizers & note-takers11
- AI study and tutoring apps10
- Ebook readers and book trackers10
- AI flashcard study tools8
- railtyping — Lets users practice Japanese station names by typing them in order along a rail line, with per-station timing and accuracy stats.“I built a typing game where you type Japanese station names to drive a train down a real rail line — 42 lines, no ads, no login”
- Claras — Generates custom-prompted summaries, tables of contents, and AI chat for YouTube videos from a browser side panel, including bulk analysis of playlists and search results.“my youtube summarizer extension passed $1k lifetime. sharing what people actually use it for (its not the summaries)”
- VCrumb AI — Lets users take rich-text notes and timestamped screenshots beside a YouTube video, stored locally in the browser.“How I built a local-first YouTube note-taking extension (and why local storage made study notes feel so seamless for learners as core)”
Browser extensions and web reading
Extensions for managing tabs and bookmarks, clipping and summarizing pages, rewriting text and tweaking the browsing experience.
58 projects · 3.0% share
- AI text rewriting tools13
- Browser tab managers13
- Browser reading and clipping tools12
- Browser extensions and utilities11
- Bookmark managers9
- FetchMark — Extracts clean, readable article content from a pasted URL and skips dead links and non-article pages.“Built FetchMark - A web app that extracts clean article content from any link. Just went live and looking for feedback!”
- CommandX — Provides a Spotlight-style command bar in the browser for opening shortcuts, searching, and running tools.“Only 45 users over 6 months. Where do you think I went wrong?”
- QuickWord Counter — Counts words in text typed or pasted into a browser page, entirely client-side without sending the text to a server.“I built a free real-time Word Counter. Looking for feedback.”
Indie maker launch and validation
Platforms for validating ideas, launching and promoting side projects, building websites and exchanging feedback and testing.
55 projects · 2.8% share
- Website builders and portfolios11
- Startup idea validation tools11
- Indie project showcase and launch platforms11
- Product feedback and testimonial tools10
- Startup promotion and creator deals7
- Indie app testing exchanges5
- Déjà View — Researches a described startup idea and reports past companies that tried it, when they operated, when they shut down, and which survived.“I built a tool that tells you who already tried your startup idea, and how they died”
- laststack — Generates and iterates through alternate design directions for sections of a website.“Drop your website in the comments, and I'll redesign your Hero section (if it needs one).”
- Pioneers AI adoption landing page — Presents a landing page for a business with animated layout and motion design.“Rate my website”
Careers and job search
Job search assistants, resume tailoring, interview and conversation practice, coding interview prep and builder networking.
47 projects · 2.6% share
- AI job search assistants22
- AI resume tailoring tools13
- Coding interview practice tools4
- AI conversation practice coaches3
- AI mock interview practice3
- Founder and builder matchmaking2
- TryApplyNow — Uploads a resume and matches it to job listings, then helps tailor one application.“Well, 800 users taught me that signups mean almost nothing”
- Evaluates users' task submissions for real job scenarios using AI, with a daily free-tier cap.“need honest feedback on our freemium (i will not promote)”
- Generates a humorous roast report of a text conversation from uploaded screenshots or pasted chat.“Building a thing that roasts your text conversations, would you use this?”
Sports fan apps
Sports management sims, trivia, prediction pools and live score tools for fans of football and other sports.
34 projects · 1.8% share
- Simulates football matches and team management in a game format.“I’ve made this football simulator”
- RaceRGB — Provides a platform for F1 fans, with details about the service not described in the post.“Have had a good couple of months, for my side gig”
- KlubbFinder — Searches football clubs and shows their fixtures, league standings, home and away tables, and recent form.“KlubbFinder - A football club search tool with fixtures, standings and form”
Miscellaneous
A catch-all of loosely related or undescribed side projects that don't fit a clear category.
0 projects · 0.0% share
Didn't fit any group
100 projects this week were too far from every group. New kinds of projects show up here first.
- Scriopted — Sells a product to its first paying customer through a Stripe payment page.“GOT MY FIRST CUSTOMER, im gonna cry”
- Pixly — Overlays a tracked property boundary line on drone video by tracking a hand-drawn parcel outline across frames.“Pixly – free browser tool that adds tracked property lines to drone footage”
- Tracks smoke-free days as a growing virtual forest, with breathing exercises, a journal and a savings tracker.“I made a small app to help people quit smoking. What do you think?”
- Helps New Zealand independent contractors set aside tax and create invoices without manual spreadsheet work.“Underestimated how difficult marketing and distribution is for a product”
- Offers an edtech platform sold as a one-time purchase for learning, with the author's product details not specified in the post.“Growing beyond Reddit: looking for advice”