Aug 17 – 23, 2026 · Edition W34
What Reddit's builders are making this week
1,950 new projects from 9 builder subreddits, sorted into 200 groups and 23 themes. Fastest riser: Browser racing and driving games ▲ +74%.
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.
- Browser racing and driving games▲ +74% 42 in 4w
- Audio playback and sound tools▲ +54% 51 in 4w
- Event planning and scheduling tools▲ +46% 55 in 4w
- AI 3D model generation▲ +40% 47 in 4w
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents▲ +35% 47 in 4w
- Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking▲ +33% 47 in 4w
- Visual canvases and diagram generators▲ +26% 40 in 4w
Cooling
Same comparison, biggest drops. Same 40-project minimum.
- Habit tracker apps▼ -30% 54 in 4w
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries▼ -25% 70 in 4w
- Personal journaling apps▼ -23% 47 in 4w
- AI browser automation extensions▼ -23% 40 in 4w
- Claude Code session monitors▼ -23% 53 in 4w
- AI agent orchestration platforms▼ -21% 62 in 4w
- UI design extraction & AI design tools▼ -21% 49 in 4w
Most built this week
| Group | Projects | vs prior 4 wks |
|---|---|---|
| AI image generation and creative canvases | 31 | ▲ +54% |
| Multi-agent coding workspaces | 30 | +20% |
| Gym workout trackers | 23 | +6% |
| Personal note-taking apps | 22 | ▲ +28% |
| AI text rewriting tools | 22 | ▲ +39% |
| AI tool directories and usage trackers | 22 | ▲ +43% |
| Personal to-do and daily planners | 21 | +12% |
| AI coding agent tooling | 21 | ▼ -29% |
| Online card, board & party games | 20 | ▲ +41% |
| Language learning apps | 19 | +16% |
| Startup promotion and creator deals | 19 | ▲ +223% |
| Personal budgeting and expense trackers | 18 | -17% |
By theme
Games and gaming tools
Casual, puzzle, word, trivia, strategy, multiplayer and indie games plus trackers and tools for gamers and collectors.
173 projects · 8.4% share
- Online card, board & party games20
- Daily logic puzzle games17
- Browser strategy and simulation games14
- Browser racing and driving games14
- Video game backlog trackers13
- Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking13
- Tabletop RPG and RPG games11
- Casual browser games10
- Casual mobile arcade games10
- Trading card collection trackers10
- Trivia and quiz games9
- AI-assisted game creation9
- Daily word puzzle games7
- Chess training and analysis tools6
- Geography guessing and quiz games6
- Indie video game showcases4
- Lets players race futuristic hover vehicles in a browser-based, old-school arcade racing game.“Vibe coded this game in four months”
- Break A Leg !! — Turns real-world GPS running into a zombie chase game on a neighborhood map, where players shoot pursuing zombies and collect ammo and power-ups.“I made a game where you run from zombies IRL”
- Plays as a game built in Unity with AI-generated 3D models and sound effects, developed by vibecoding with Claude Code.“Started vibecoding with Unity a week ago”
Creative media generation and editing
AI and manual tools for creating and editing images, video, 3D, music, audio, subtitles, stories and photo libraries.
131 projects · 6.7% share
- AI image generation and creative canvases31
- Photo and image editors16
- Music practice and creation tools13
- AI short video generators12
- Photo library organizers and sharing11
- AI and desktop video editors11
- Audio playback and sound tools10
- AI 3D model generation9
- Video subtitle generation and translation9
- AI story generation and fiction writing5
- AI music and song generation4
- Kitbitz — Provides a free library of 2,000+ hand-drawn illustrations in 13 kits for download as SVG or PNG, Figma libraries, or a Figma plugin.“I spent a year drawing 2,000+ assets for a product that never took off, so I released them all for free”
- S.T.F.U — Listens through the microphone for yelling, then minimizes the game and shows escalating fullscreen overlays and sounds, while logging each event.“S.T.F.U - I built an app that punishes my kid for yelling while gaming. It calibrates to his voice, escalates consequences, and logs everything.”
- FlipIt — Generates AI-made images or video from user prompts or uploaded photos.“just hit 950$ in my first month! how do i scale further?”
Marketing, SEO and sales
Tools for content generation, social scheduling, SEO and AI search visibility, ads, outbound sales, email, app store optimization and analytics.
117 projects · 6.3% share
- AI paid ads management tools16
- Website audit and monitoring tools15
- SEO audit tools9
- AI marketing content generators9
- AI social media schedulers8
- AI outbound sales prospecting8
- Web and SaaS analytics dashboards8
- Reddit marketing and lead finding8
- App store optimization tools8
- AI search visibility trackers7
- AI email writing and outreach tools7
- Email inbox and infrastructure tools5
- App Store screenshot generators4
- Local business lead finders3
- LinkedIn outreach and content tools2
- flagwars — Lets users pay to place their logo and link on a country of a live world map, where others can outbid them to take over the spot.“I made a game where you can put your startup on the map. Anyone can steal your spot back.”
- serps.io — Tracks search engine rankings in Google and citations of a site in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.“What are you building this week?”
- Monitors and improves how a brand appears in AI search answers, for a monthly subscription sold on a free trial.“Launched 2 weeks ago. Stripe says $2,800 MRR and has charged $0. Welcome to trial purgatory.”
Personal productivity and notes
To-do lists, note-taking, calendars, reminders, focus timers, meeting notes and visual thinking tools for organizing work and life.
115 projects · 6.0% share
- Personal note-taking apps22
- Personal to-do and daily planners21
- Project management tools15
- Visual canvases and diagram generators12
- Pomodoro focus timers11
- Personal calendar apps8
- AI meeting transcription and notes7
- Markdown editors and viewers7
- Personal reminder and nudge apps6
- AI voice note apps6
- Provides productivity features as a mobile app that users can download and pay to unlock.“8 months, 50k downloads, and $276 ❤️”
- Sends daily check-in reminders to people living alone and alerts their emergency contacts by email or SMS if they do not respond, with a manual SOS button.“I built an app that checks in on people living alone and alerts their family if they don't respond”
- DoneJar — Provides a kanban board where completed tasks are dropped into a jar that visually fills up over time.“I built a project management tool that uses a jar to visualize your finished tasks”
AI coding agents and agent orchestration
Tools for running, monitoring, orchestrating, securing and giving memory to AI coding agents and multi-agent systems.
112 projects · 5.3% share
- Multi-agent coding workspaces30
- AI coding agent tooling21
- AI agent orchestration platforms18
- Codebase analysis for AI-written code11
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents10
- AI coding agents for Git repos8
- Claude Code session monitors7
- AI agent security guardrails3
- Persistent memory for AI agents2
- MCP server tooling2
- Builds AI agents for agencies to automate their work.“quit my job 2 years ago with zero expectations. mid-year revenue:”
- Provides a local searchable knowledge base of Unreal Engine 5.8.1 headers, docs, and tutorial transcripts so Claude Code can retrieve accurate API names.“Quick question: would you pay ~10€/month for ready-made RAGs of the tools, engines and apps you vibecode with?”
- ContextDL — Stores project context as intent files in the repository so AI coding agents can implement changes from short intent descriptions instead of long prompts.“Real Vibecoding? Don't write prompts. Express intent. Write ContextDL”
AI assistants, chat and model tools
Tools for organizing AI chats, comparing and routing LLMs, AI research, companions, desktop assistants and AI media detection.
88 projects · 4.5% share
- AI tool directories and usage trackers22
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries13
- LLM gateways and model comparison10
- AI research and source-cited answers9
- Multi-AI decision debate tools8
- AI browser automation extensions7
- Desktop AI assistants7
- AI companion character chat7
- AI image detection and photo analysis5
- NotGPT — Connects users to chat with strangers who pose as an AI chatbot, with ratings and a leaderboard.“AI chatbot powered entirely by humans”
- Pinkerton AI — Provides a no-signup chat interface to 25+ hosted AI models, storing chat history only in the browser's local storage.“I built an AI chat platform where you can ask literally anything no filters — no email, no logs, nothing try it !”
- ChatGPT Pro Tools — Adds extra features to the ChatGPT web interface in Chrome, such as pinning chats, through a browser extension with an optional paid tier.“10 months free = $0. Added a $4.99 tier on day 295: first sale in 19 days, $574.39 in two months”
File, document and everyday web utilities
Privacy-friendly browser tools for PDFs, image conversion, documents, forms, QR codes, file sharing, vaults, links and calculators.
87 projects · 4.5% share
- Browser-based PDF toolkits13
- Browser-based utility tool collections13
- Document scanning and processing tools11
- Browser image compressors and converters9
- Pricing and cost calculators8
- Online calculators and math tools7
- QR code generators and scanners7
- File sharing and transfer tools6
- URL shorteners and link-in-bio pages6
- Encrypted vaults and password managers4
- Online form builders and autofill3
- ImageLens Viewer — Previews images inline in the browser with zoom and simple canvas controls, without opening new tabs.“Enhanced ImageViewer got removed from chrome web store, so I made my own!”
- Combines freight, tariff, trade flow, and FX data with a company's costs, inventory, and procurement constraints to support import and export decisions.“Way too early in the market that my only competitor is excel.”
- Klypix — Stores files, links and notes from any folder in a single portable file, with optional local-only use and phone-to-desktop sending.“I vibe coded this and use it daily in ALL folders in a single file (.KLYPIX)”
Indie maker launch and validation
Platforms for validating ideas, launching and promoting side projects, building websites and exchanging feedback and testing.
82 projects · 4.4% share
- Startup promotion and creator deals19
- Website builders and portfolios17
- Startup idea validation tools14
- Product feedback and testimonial tools13
- Indie project showcase and launch platforms12
- Indie app testing exchanges7
- Publishes a news site built with Django and Postgres, receiving scraped content from an external agent through an API.“After today's AI-assisted coding session, I asked Clod how my 45 years of experience moved the needle”
- Rest in Beta — Lets people post abandoned side projects and vote on whether they should be resurrected or left to rest.“I built a graveyard for unfinished side projects.”
- top5.lol — Lets people pay for one of five fixed leaderboard seats, with the top spots going to the highest bidders.“I copied outbid.lol but made it scarcer instead of cheaper”
Home, food and lifestyle
Family organizers, home inventory, meal planning, recipes, home design, pets, plants, wardrobes, real estate, shopping and dining.
80 projects · 4.1% share
- Real estate & rental tools13
- Shared family and household organizers11
- Home inventory and maintenance trackers9
- Pet health and care trackers8
- Price trackers and comparison tools7
- Meal planners with grocery lists7
- Recipe managers and generators7
- Home, cabinet and construction design tools5
- Plant identification and care apps5
- Restaurant discovery and group picking4
- Digital wardrobe and virtual try-on4
- Collects gluten-free and other allergy-friendly recipes from across the web and lets users sort and save them.“Created my first website and got plenty of not such cool comments”
- Shows a family wall display with calendar, weather, tasks, and bus arrival alerts, and takes voice commands to read and create Google Drive, email, and calendar items.“I stretched my assistant into a better skylight .”
- Fly Reaper — Logs fly kills with an annoyance score, fly size, weapon and aftermath, then shows stats, achievements and rank progression.“I built the most absurd app I've ever made”
Health, fitness and wellness
Workout, nutrition, medication, mood, journaling, mental wellness, spiritual and astrology apps for personal wellbeing.
79 projects · 4.1% share
- Gym workout trackers23
- Personal health and medication trackers16
- All-in-one fitness and health trackers7
- Personal journaling apps6
- Mental wellness and calm apps6
- Drink logging and cocktail apps6
- AI calorie and nutrition trackers5
- Mood trackers and personality quizzes4
- AI astrology and divination readings3
- Scripture and prayer apps3
- Intimassy — Tracks private sexual life and health data in an encrypted app.“4 months ago I lost my job, Reddit helped me to understand what I am doing wrong with my app and now it has 1500 daily users and makes ~100 USD a day”
- DiaryThreads — Lets people keep a private journal of short timeline entries with replies, quotes, long-form articles, and trend analysis across past entries.“I launched my iOS journaling app two weeks ago. It passed 300+ downloads, and I wanna thanks you all in Reddit.”
- Tracks workouts for a personal training app being prepared for public launch.“Finally Finished the Core of my App - Claude Design Help”
Personal finance and investing
Budgeting, expense and subscription tracking, bill splitting, pay tracking, trading journals, stock research and crypto tools.
78 projects · 4.1% share
- Personal budgeting and expense trackers18
- Retail trading tools and journals10
- Subscription and recurring charge trackers7
- AI stock research tools7
- Investment portfolio trackers7
- Receipt scanning & expense tracking6
- Shift, hours and pay trackers5
- Crypto trading and portfolio tools5
- Personal finance planners and trackers4
- SEC filing stock research tools3
- Group expense splitting apps3
- Crypto wallets and payment tools3
- Snapceipt — Scans photographed receipts, extracts each line item, categorizes them, and shows spending breakdowns.“My first vibe coded app (first app in my life also) just launched in App store!”
- QuantRank500 — Records public trading predictions with tamper-evident hash locks and settles them automatically against the market.“I built a site where nobody can edit their trading track record. Tell me why it won't work.”
- Rubiwo — Tracks expenses for Canadian freelancers and small businesses in a CRA-compliant way.“650+downloads-100 registered users $0 Revenue-How do I get my first 10 paying customer.”
Developer tools and infrastructure
Deployment platforms, databases, monitoring, security scanners, app builders and low-level tinkering projects for developers.
75 projects · 3.8% share
- UI design extraction & AI design tools14
- Self-hosted app deployment & dev infra13
- AI prompt-to-app builders13
- Hobby languages and operating systems8
- Security scanners for AI-built apps7
- GitHub profile and repo tools6
- Network diagnostics and VPN tools6
- Database clients and SQL tools5
- Uptime and API monitoring3
- Domain name search tools0
- Parses local Sapience surveillance logs on a work PC into a SQLite database and generates an HTML activity report of the user's own captured data.“My company is spying on my productivity - Now I can see, too”
- Phone Simulator — Previews a website on popular phone and device screen sizes to catch layout bugs before production.“My extension crossed 30K weekly users today - 5 lessons from 11 months of building”
- Reimplements the Fortress programming language compiler in Rust with LLVM as a backend.“Anyone else do unhinged things with AI”
Small business and freelance operations
CRMs, invoicing, client management, ecommerce, AI receptionists, WhatsApp automation, marketplaces and reselling tools for small businesses.
72 projects · 3.9% share
- Shopify and ecommerce merchant tools14
- Resale marketplace listing tools12
- SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure10
- Freelancer invoice generators9
- AI phone receptionists & voice agents7
- WhatsApp business automation tools7
- Freelance client management tools6
- Freelance and local gig marketplaces6
- Handmade crafts and physical goods1
- Manages Bol and Amazon seller orders, stock across channels, and repricing.“After 7 years, ~100K of my own money and 800 MRR, I'm shutting down my SaaS. My fiancée summed it up in one sentence.”
- OdoReach — Sends bulk WhatsApp marketing messages for businesses through the official WhatsApp Business API.“14 paying customers 9k INR collected. tiny milestone but wanted to share”
- Lets customers book appointments through an AI assistant over WhatsApp, Telegram and payments for small businesses.“My AI booking app offered a customer 09:00 today. At 16:21. With a confirm button.”
Entertainment, music and news consumption
Apps for discovering and tracking music, movies, TV, podcasts, radio, livestreams and curated news digests.
70 projects · 3.5% share
- Online video downloaders and players18
- Music discovery and sharing apps13
- Movie & TV recommendation trackers8
- Local music and radio players8
- AI news aggregators and digests7
- TV, movie and anime trackers4
- Internet radio players4
- Livestream viewing and streamer tools3
- AI news aggregators and digests3
- Podcast apps and AI tools2
- Analyzes news narratives and comments on under-reported stories through a homemade robot.“I made a robot and it’s brain”
- Movmash — Lets couples watch movies and shows together while living in different places.“$47 in the last 30 days from my first SaaS”
- Audioo — Plays internet radio stations chosen by spinning a globe and picking a country.“I built a free internet radio where you can literally spin the globe 🎧🌍 and listen to a station”
Travel, maps and outdoors
Trip planners, place discovery maps, GPS tracking, interactive globes, sky trackers, weather and car ownership apps.
70 projects · 3.6% share
- Travel and trip planners16
- GPS trip and ride tracking12
- Car ownership and maintenance apps12
- Interactive world maps and globes11
- Map-based place discovery apps10
- Consumer weather apps5
- Sky, space and flight trackers4
- Kailo Run Clubs Map — Maps curated run clubs in the SF, LA and Inland Empire areas with sample routes and paces, and offers tools for organizing multi-route group runs.“Interactive Map of Run Clubs”
- Maple — Plans trips in a native iOS app with a focus on smooth, pleasant interaction.“Maple - hopefully not just another travel planner”
- Netlify app — Lets users sign in and sign out using GPS location.“Netlify app”
Desktop and device utilities
Window managers, clipboard tools, file cleanup, dictation, screen capture, input remapping, wallpapers and device dashboards for power users.
65 projects · 3.2% share
- Screen recording and screenshot tools12
- Desktop pet companions9
- Local voice dictation apps8
- Desktop window and dock utilities8
- Android launchers and phone utilities6
- Desktop file organizers and cleanup6
- Device monitors and ambient displays5
- Alternative computer input & remote control5
- Clipboard history managers4
- Wallpaper apps and live wallpapers2
- TKB Assistant — Runs an offline on-device AI chat model alongside Android tools for storage cleanup, battery health, app permission review and device overview.“FREE Lifetime Codes for TKB Assistant | Offline AI + Android Toolkit”
- chaos-capabilities — Converts speech to text and reads text aloud, using either a local model or Microsoft or Inworld speech services.“I broke my dominant hand on Wednesday, and speech-to-text software is a million dollars or it sucks”
- Halo Bar — Puts an expandable taskbar widget on Windows that shows system stats, weather, clipboard history, media controls, a Pomodoro timer and a file shelf.“Windows Widgets Suck. So I Built My Own, And Made It Actually Useful.”
Browser extensions and web reading
Extensions for managing tabs and bookmarks, clipping and summarizing pages, rewriting text and tweaking the browsing experience.
64 projects · 3.2% share
- AI text rewriting tools22
- Bookmark managers15
- Browser tab managers14
- Browser reading and clipping tools10
- Browser extensions and utilities3
- Latr — Sets reminders to revisit a webpage, closing the tab and reopening that exact page later.“I just launched my first product on Product Hunt — Latr 🚀”
- Grammarly-free — Corrects grammar and spelling and rewrites text in the browser using the user's own Gemini API key.“More than a year ago, I launched a free, open-source Grammarly alternative for Chrome. Now it has 3,200+ users and 6,000+ installs”
- textwatermarkremover — Strips invisible Unicode characters from text and paraphrases it with an LLM to disrupt statistical AI watermarks.“Claude started watermarking its text, so I built a tool that removes AI watermarks”
Social networks, messaging and dating
Alternative social networks, encrypted and anonymous chat, dating and couples apps, greeting gifts, polls and event planning.
64 projects · 3.4% share
- Event planning and scheduling tools15
- Private encrypted messaging apps14
- Alternative and anonymous social networks9
- Personalized digital greeting gifts9
- Opinion polls and civic tech7
- Anonymous and community chat apps5
- Dating and couples apps5
- Open Democracy — Proposes a platform for frequent direct polling of citizens on issues, with AI handling the coordination.“Open Democracy”
- Solid Purple — Publishes probabilistic forecasts for every House and Senate race in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections.“Disney took down FiveThirtyEight, so I spent nights and weekends for eight months building my own version. It's called Solid Purple and it's now live.”
- Horse Tinder — Lets users swipe through horse profiles in a dating-style app.“Check this Horse Tinder app I vibe coded!”
Education and learning
AI tutors, flashcards, language learning, video summarizers and reading tools for students and self-learners.
63 projects · 3.3% share
- Language learning apps19
- AI study and tutoring apps15
- Ebook readers and book trackers13
- YouTube AI summarizers & note-takers9
- AI flashcard study tools7
- AskNotes — Provides an AI-powered notebook that can read a user's notes and generate quizzes, flashcards, and summaries.“I don’t know how to market my saas, and it’s driving me crazy”
- Myto — Captures highlights and screenshots from webpages, PDFs and videos, then auto-generates concept questions and schedules them with spaced repetition.“I built a tool to fix the fact that I forget almost everything I read a week later”
- Wordfolio — Lets users build a personal vocabulary list, mark words as mastered, and challenge friends on words.“Built a vocab app that works like a personal dictionary you build as you go”
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.
51 projects · 2.6% share
- Habit tracker apps12
- YouTube browser extensions12
- Phone app blockers11
- Social media feed tools8
- Distracting website blockers5
- Challenge-to-dismiss alarm apps3
- OPTMZ — Combines habit tracking, to-do lists, gym logging, reading, sleep, nutrition, focus mode with app blocking, and a persistent puzzle-solving wake alarm in one iOS app.“FINALLLYYY”
- ThinkLock — Adds a brief brain challenge before opening selected apps, so users pause before scrolling.“Totally agree”
- YouTube Feed Control — Hides YouTube Shorts, blocks channels, keywords and hashtags, disables autoplay, and can redirect the homepage to the subscriptions feed.“I built a Youtube Chrome Extension that lets you take control of your mind programming”
Careers and job search
Job search assistants, resume tailoring, interview and conversation practice, coding interview prep and builder networking.
43 projects · 2.3% share
- AI resume tailoring tools14
- AI job search assistants11
- AI conversation practice coaches9
- Coding interview practice tools5
- Founder and builder matchmaking3
- AI mock interview practice1
- whatdoitextback — Suggests three reply options to a chat screenshot, matched to the user's texting style learned from a short quiz.“Made a small app that tells you what to text back when you're stuck”
- atsverification — Shows the raw text that applicant tracking software extracts from an uploaded resume, beside the original file.“My side project scans ~200 resumes a day but refuses to show an "ATS score". Every competitor sells one. The refusal became the brand. Roast my landing page.”
- InsightPulse — Builds surveys and interactive interviews with shareable public links, collects responses, and uses Google Gemini to generate questions and analyze answers.“I’m 15 and I built an AI-powered survey & interview platform and I’d love some feedback”
Sports fan apps
Sports management sims, trivia, prediction pools and live score tools for fans of football and other sports.
33 projects · 1.6% share
- DraftHawk — Provides a fantasy football draft room that tracks live picks from ESPN, Yahoo, and Sleeper, ranks remaining players by value over replacement, and offers projection, player comparison, and research tools.“I spent 2 years of nights and weekends building the fantasy football draft tool I always wanted. It's free and drafts start this week.”
- GAMBETA — Lets players run a football career from age 16 in a browser roguelike, with random events, season upgrades and a daily shared-seed challenge.“I built a football career roguelike that runs in the browser - no install, no signup”
- tactica. — Generates football match predictions with explained case files and tracks model performance separately from the user's own betting record.“My side project started as a football model. It somehow turned into all of this.”
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
138 projects this week were too far from every group. New kinds of projects show up here first.
- Presents a playable open-source game demo built with vibe coding.“Somehow I got paid for my open-source vibecoded game”
- BabyPhone.online — Turns two devices into a baby monitor by streaming video and audio directly between them in the browser via a room code or QR pairing.“Nervous to share this, but I built a free browser-based baby monitor — would love honest feedback”
- Presents a landing page for an app with a stone-like, ancient Angkor-inspired and Buddhist-motif visual design.“Have I unsloppified my landing page or am I hallucinating”
- BarberPro — Provides business software for barbershops, though the post does not describe its specific features.“Struggling to get my first customers for my SaaS. What actually worked for you?”
- TempleOS in Half-Life — Runs a TempleOS virtual machine inside Half-Life, drawn onto an in-game monitor that players can type into.“I got TempleOS running inside Half-Life thanks to Opus 4.8”