Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026 · Edition W36
What Reddit's builders are making this week
1,807 new projects from 9 builder subreddits, sorted into 200 groups and 23 themes. Fastest riser: AI paid ads management tools ▲ +149%.
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.
- AI paid ads management tools▲ +149% 41 in 4w
- Startup promotion and creator deals▲ +146% 51 in 4w
- Browser image compressors and converters▲ +67% 52 in 4w
- Real estate & rental tools▲ +42% 42 in 4w
- Local voice dictation apps▲ +40% 69 in 4w
- Personalized digital greeting gifts▲ +30% 40 in 4w
- Indie project showcase and launch platforms▲ +30% 46 in 4w
- Shopify and ecommerce merchant tools▲ +27% 40 in 4w
Cooling
Same comparison, biggest drops. Same 40-project minimum.
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries▼ -31% 59 in 4w
- LLM gateways and model comparison▼ -23% 40 in 4w
- AI and desktop video editors▼ -21% 49 in 4w
- AI tool directories and usage trackers▼ -21% 49 in 4w
Most built this week
| Group | Projects | vs prior 4 wks |
|---|---|---|
| Gym workout trackers | 27 | +15% |
| Local voice dictation apps | 23 | ▲ +76% |
| Personal to-do and daily planners | 22 | +4% |
| Website builders and portfolios | 21 | ▲ +62% |
| AI agent orchestration platforms | 20 | ▲ +25% |
| Map-based place discovery apps | 20 | ▲ +34% |
| AI image generation and creative canvases | 19 | -6% |
| AI short video generators | 19 | ▲ +62% |
| AI study and tutoring apps | 19 | +18% |
| Habit tracker apps | 18 | +9% |
| Browser tab managers | 18 | ▲ +43% |
| Pomodoro focus timers | 18 | ▲ +54% |
By theme
Creative media generation and editing
AI and manual tools for creating and editing images, video, 3D, music, audio, subtitles, stories and photo libraries.
134 projects · 8.3% share
- AI image generation and creative canvases19
- AI short video generators19
- Photo library organizers and sharing17
- AI 3D model generation15
- Photo and image editors13
- AI and desktop video editors11
- Music practice and creation tools9
- Audio playback and sound tools9
- AI story generation and fiction writing9
- AI music and song generation7
- Video subtitle generation and translation6
- KNOCK-KNOCK — Lets users throw together beats from samples in the browser and share what they make.“Fable 5.1 is crazy. Started this 8 hours ago.”
- Nixra — Lets creators configure AI content production with saved, reusable setups instead of freeform prompts.“My first customer!!!”
- Wascape — Streams photoreal 3D Gaussian splat scans of real towns into the browser for walking and biking around.“A photoreal game demo which can be accessed from browser”
Games and gaming tools
Casual, puzzle, word, trivia, strategy, multiplayer and indie games plus trackers and tools for gamers and collectors.
125 projects · 8.2% share
- Daily logic puzzle games13
- Casual browser games12
- Casual mobile arcade games10
- Trivia and quiz games9
- Browser racing and driving games9
- Online card, board & party games8
- Video game backlog trackers8
- Browser strategy and simulation games8
- Tabletop RPG and RPG games8
- Trading card collection trackers8
- Chess training and analysis tools8
- Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking7
- Daily word puzzle games6
- AI-assisted game creation5
- Indie video game showcases5
- Geography guessing and quiz games1
- Lets players explore a cave system leading to a beach town and a snowy mountain village, gathering ingredients, trading items and brewing recipes.“Day 5 of vibe coding a cozy game with no dev experience.”
- Simulates a passenger flight where the user watches the in-flight map and window and reacts to turbulence.“lol I made a flight simulator, but you're just the passenger”
- VELOCIDE — Lets players move fast through arenas with grappling and dashing while trying to avoid being destroyed in a first-person shooter.“Alright, I'm finally showing people what I've been working on”
Personal productivity and notes
To-do lists, note-taking, calendars, reminders, focus timers, meeting notes and visual thinking tools for organizing work and life.
118 projects · 5.8% share
- Personal to-do and daily planners22
- Pomodoro focus timers18
- Personal note-taking apps14
- Project management tools12
- AI meeting transcription and notes11
- Visual canvases and diagram generators10
- Personal reminder and nudge apps9
- Markdown editors and viewers9
- Personal calendar apps7
- AI voice note apps6
- Orbis — Turns completed focus sessions into randomly graded celestial bodies placed in a private galaxy.“every focus session in my app spawns a random planet. this is my galaxy after 3 months.”
- Adds a one-click recording button to Google Meet's call controls.“My First Chrome Extension Cross 75+ Users”
- Idea Committer — Gives users one daily task for a side project and requires proof, such as a working URL or a GitHub repo, before unlocking the next day.“I got tired of abandoning my own projects”
Health, fitness and wellness
Workout, nutrition, medication, mood, journaling, mental wellness, spiritual and astrology apps for personal wellbeing.
100 projects · 5.1% share
- Gym workout trackers27
- Personal health and medication trackers15
- All-in-one fitness and health trackers15
- AI calorie and nutrition trackers15
- Mental wellness and calm apps9
- Drink logging and cocktail apps6
- Personal journaling apps5
- Mood trackers and personality quizzes4
- AI astrology and divination readings2
- Scripture and prayer apps2
- Counts push-up reps on iPhone with the camera, accepting only full reps, and pairs users in live side-by-side sets against strangers.“I built an app that makes you do push ups against a random stranger, live, and the camera counts for both of you”
- What The Fuck Can I Eat — Displays government food recall data and related news stories in an easy-to-read reference page.“My latest ADHD-vibe-coded piece of crap”
- Helps users fight obesity and track weight loss, according to the author's account of personal results.“My iOS app finally got approved”
Personal finance and investing
Budgeting, expense and subscription tracking, bill splitting, pay tracking, trading journals, stock research and crypto tools.
98 projects · 5.1% share
- Personal budgeting and expense trackers17
- Subscription and recurring charge trackers13
- Personal finance planners and trackers11
- Receipt scanning & expense tracking11
- AI stock research tools10
- Shift, hours and pay trackers8
- Retail trading tools and journals7
- Investment portfolio trackers6
- Group expense splitting apps6
- SEC filing stock research tools5
- Crypto wallets and payment tools3
- Crypto trading and portfolio tools1
- YouSpend — Tracks personal spending on an iPhone app.“Can't believe this actually works”
- WWT — Provides a trading-terminal style website with market signals, tools, and account-gated signals tab for traders.“I made a lot of updates to my website, got time to take a look?”
- Merido — Brings cash, investments, pensions, property and debt together to show overall net worth and how it changes over time.“We’re building a UK app to help people understand and grow their wealth, rather than just track their spending”
Marketing, SEO and sales
Tools for content generation, social scheduling, SEO and AI search visibility, ads, outbound sales, email, app store optimization and analytics.
91 projects · 4.7% share
- AI outbound sales prospecting14
- Local business lead finders11
- AI paid ads management tools10
- AI search visibility trackers8
- Website audit and monitoring tools7
- SEO audit tools7
- App store optimization tools7
- AI social media schedulers6
- Email inbox and infrastructure tools6
- AI marketing content generators5
- AI email writing and outreach tools4
- Reddit marketing and lead finding3
- Web and SaaS analytics dashboards2
- App Store screenshot generators1
- LinkedIn outreach and content tools0
- ScoutVybe — Scans social platforms for people with intent matching a product's problem and drafts personalized replies.“Drop your product... let’s get you the next 100 users”
- HungryDevs — Finds local businesses lacking good websites, analyzes their existing sites, drafts outreach messages, and builds a replacement website with an AI builder.“Looking for beta testers for my SaaS”
- Inbox Academy — Creates and runs email micro-courses, including generating course content through an MCP server.“Why most SaaS in-app onboarding tours get ignored (and why more products are testing email micro-courses)”
AI coding agents and agent orchestration
Tools for running, monitoring, orchestrating, securing and giving memory to AI coding agents and multi-agent systems.
88 projects · 5.1% share
- AI agent orchestration platforms20
- AI coding agent tooling13
- Multi-agent coding workspaces11
- AI agent security guardrails11
- Claude Code session monitors8
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents8
- AI coding agents for Git repos7
- Codebase analysis for AI-written code5
- Persistent memory for AI agents5
- MCP server tooling0
- localdock — Gives each local dev server a stable named address on macOS that always points to the right port and can be shared to other devices.“I finnaly started making money with my vibecoded app”
- Sutra — Provides a hosted, authenticated memory and reusable skill store that AI agents share through MCP tools.“I got tired of re-explaining myself to every AI agent, so I built a private memory layer I can take between them”
- BuildBoard — Guides a project from product idea through requirements, visual mockups, and implementation plan into AI-agent coding, storing everything as plain text files.“I built a spec driven development platform for AI coding agents”
Small business and freelance operations
CRMs, invoicing, client management, ecommerce, AI receptionists, WhatsApp automation, marketplaces and reselling tools for small businesses.
81 projects · 4.2% share
- SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure15
- Freelance client management tools13
- Resale marketplace listing tools11
- Freelancer invoice generators11
- Shopify and ecommerce merchant tools9
- Freelance and local gig marketplaces9
- WhatsApp business automation tools8
- AI phone receptionists & voice agents5
- Handmade crafts and physical goods0
- widgetkraft — Provides customer support and web analytics inside Slack and Discord.“Customer cancelled the subscription, sent this”
- Creates quotes and invoices for small service-based businesses.“Need advice”
- OIO — Combines client management, projects, tickets, files, chat and invoicing in one app where clients log in to see their side.“I built an app that runs my whole freelance business. Launched on Product Hunt today”
Home, food and lifestyle
Family organizers, home inventory, meal planning, recipes, home design, pets, plants, wardrobes, real estate, shopping and dining.
77 projects · 4.0% share
- Real estate & rental tools11
- Meal planners with grocery lists11
- Recipe managers and generators8
- Shared family and household organizers8
- Price trackers and comparison tools7
- Home, cabinet and construction design tools7
- Restaurant discovery and group picking7
- Home inventory and maintenance trackers6
- Pet health and care trackers5
- Digital wardrobe and virtual try-on4
- Plant identification and care apps3
- Lets shoppers virtually try on clothing and accessories in real time using AI, without 3D assets or SKU-specific setup.“Built a live AI virtual try-on for retail. Looking for brutally honest feedback.”
- Sweep — Searches multiple online stores at once for a product and tracks price history to flag fake sales.“I'm 16 and I just shipped my first real app: a price tracker that tells you when a "sale" isn't actually a sale”
- MowDaddy — Tracks GPS mowing paths to show lawn coverage, speed, turns, and patterns.“Built an app to track and optimize lawn mowing routes — looking for feedback and beta testers”
Desktop and device utilities
Window managers, clipboard tools, file cleanup, dictation, screen capture, input remapping, wallpapers and device dashboards for power users.
76 projects · 4.3% share
- Local voice dictation apps23
- Desktop window and dock utilities10
- Android launchers and phone utilities10
- Screen recording and screenshot tools9
- Desktop pet companions6
- Device monitors and ambient displays6
- Clipboard history managers5
- Desktop file organizers and cleanup3
- Alternative computer input & remote control3
- Wallpaper apps and live wallpapers1
- PaperReef — Turns photos of hand-drawn fish into animated fish that swim in shared or private virtual aquariums.“I built a shared virtual aquarium where anyone can add their own hand-drawn fish”
- Slap to talk — Detects a double slap on a Mac and uses it to trigger dictation.“Slap to talk: I've trained my mac to detect double slap and use it for dictation”
- Kommz Gamer — Translates players' voice chat in real time between languages and routes it through a virtual audio device.“I got tired of not understanding my non-English teammates, so I built a real-time voice translator for gaming”
AI assistants, chat and model tools
Tools for organizing AI chats, comparing and routing LLMs, AI research, companions, desktop assistants and AI media detection.
74 projects · 4.1% share
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries15
- AI image detection and photo analysis11
- AI research and source-cited answers8
- Desktop AI assistants8
- AI tool directories and usage trackers7
- LLM gateways and model comparison7
- AI browser automation extensions6
- AI companion character chat6
- Multi-AI decision debate tools6
- Browser Relay — Relays highlighted text into multiple browser tabs at once after redacting API keys and secrets locally.“My 2-year-old wanted to sleep on my lap while I coded. That became a Chrome extension.”
- BugDrop — Captures bug reproduction steps, logs, failed requests and screenshots and packages them into a shareable report.“I just want to see if people actually would use it”
- Automatically labels drone photos for real estate photographers.“I hit 250 users with my SaaS what now?”
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.
71 projects · 3.8% share
- Habit tracker apps18
- YouTube browser extensions13
- Social media feed tools12
- Phone app blockers12
- Challenge-to-dismiss alarm apps10
- Distracting website blockers6
- Sets a bedtime alarm that stays on until the phone is face-down and still, and records a 15-second video excuse when the user wants to stay up.“I built an alarm that goes off at bedtime, and films you if you ignore it”
- Spirkz — Delivers short-form educational video reels in a mobile app, with friends, chats, bookmarks, sharing and follow features.“I created an app and got first 100 users , i dont know what to do”
- Follower/Following Export — Exports an Instagram profile's followers or following list to a CSV file, showing the total count first and resuming interrupted exports.“Made a free Chrome extension that exports any Instagram profile’s followers/following to CSV — and actually shows you the real count first”
Travel, maps and outdoors
Trip planners, place discovery maps, GPS tracking, interactive globes, sky trackers, weather and car ownership apps.
69 projects · 3.5% share
- Map-based place discovery apps20
- Travel and trip planners13
- Interactive world maps and globes12
- Car ownership and maintenance apps10
- Consumer weather apps6
- GPS trip and ride tracking5
- Sky, space and flight trackers3
- Rename America — Lets anyone rename US cities, states and lakes on a crowdsourced map, keeping previous names available to restore.“I made a map of America anyone can edit. People have renamed things over 7,800 times”
- eSIMPal — Sells prepaid eSIM data plans for travelers and offers an affiliate API for comparison sites.“I built an Airalo alternative and now it makes more than my dev job – here is how I market it”
- movewhereusa — Ranks US towns against user-set priorities such as allergen levels, budget, mountain views, and job markets.“What's your ideal place to live?”
Indie maker launch and validation
Platforms for validating ideas, launching and promoting side projects, building websites and exchanging feedback and testing.
68 projects · 3.7% share
- Website builders and portfolios21
- Indie project showcase and launch platforms13
- Startup idea validation tools12
- Startup promotion and creator deals11
- Product feedback and testimonial tools7
- Indie app testing exchanges4
- blunlock — Generates a landing page for a product idea, hosts it automatically, and collects emails to gauge how many visitors would pay.“i got lucky with 872 users i guess”
- No One Wants Your App — Reviews a founder's product evidence and challenges their assumptions to recommend one decision and one next test.“No one wants your app. Let's find out if that's actually true before you spend more.”
- awesome-submitlist — Lists over 300 directories, launch sites, newsletters and communities where startups can submit their products, with domain rating, traffic and pricing details.“300+ directories, launch sites, newsletters, communities, subreddits and marketplaces to submit your startup, with Domain Rating, traffic and pricing”
File, document and everyday web utilities
Privacy-friendly browser tools for PDFs, image conversion, documents, forms, QR codes, file sharing, vaults, links and calculators.
67 projects · 3.5% share
- Browser image compressors and converters15
- Browser-based PDF toolkits12
- Document scanning and processing tools10
- QR code generators and scanners6
- Browser-based utility tool collections5
- Online calculators and math tools4
- File sharing and transfer tools4
- Encrypted vaults and password managers3
- Pricing and cost calculators3
- Online form builders and autofill3
- URL shorteners and link-in-bio pages2
- PDF Score — Lets users view and work with PDF documents in the browser, with text-to-speech and text search features.“What problem is your vibecoded app solving?”
- Navoks — Creates events from uploaded invoices, documents, or contracts by extracting the relevant details with AI.“Got the first 5 users within one month of launch”
- Nolossy — Lets users upload files without compression and share them via an auto-expiring link, with no account required.“Built a no-account, zero-compression file sharing tool for everyone (RAW support especially for pros), looking for honest feedback”
Education and learning
AI tutors, flashcards, language learning, video summarizers and reading tools for students and self-learners.
64 projects · 3.1% share
- AI study and tutoring apps19
- Language learning apps15
- Ebook readers and book trackers13
- YouTube AI summarizers & note-takers10
- AI flashcard study tools7
- Nivelo — Helps users learn English and Spanish through language learning practice.“People who have launched successful apps...how did you overcome this?”
- Travelingo — Teaches travel-relevant foreign words using silly mnemonic images and associations.“Building Duolingo, but for travellers”
- Maneru — Builds a day-by-day IELTS study plan from a test date and target band, grading Writing and Speaking against public band descriptors.“I built an IELTS prep app that works backwards from your test date — solo, iOS + Android + web”
Developer tools and infrastructure
Deployment platforms, databases, monitoring, security scanners, app builders and low-level tinkering projects for developers.
61 projects · 3.9% share
- UI design extraction & AI design tools12
- Self-hosted app deployment & dev infra8
- GitHub profile and repo tools8
- Database clients and SQL tools7
- Network diagnostics and VPN tools6
- Security scanners for AI-built apps5
- Uptime and API monitoring5
- Hobby languages and operating systems4
- AI prompt-to-app builders3
- Domain name search tools3
- Orchestrates Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Fabric pipelines from metadata definitions.“We published our pricing on day one, including a $100 tier for charities. Was that a mistake?”
- Daemoncore Academy — Offers free learning content about hacking and IT topics on a website.“Daemoncore Academy”
- Forevercomponents — Offers a library of over 500 website UI components for building more creative sites.“2 months of work on a risky side project and im delighted to see the numbers!!!”
Entertainment, music and news consumption
Apps for discovering and tracking music, movies, TV, podcasts, radio, livestreams and curated news digests.
58 projects · 3.2% share
- AI news aggregators and digests10
- Online video downloaders and players8
- Music discovery and sharing apps7
- Local music and radio players6
- Movie & TV recommendation trackers5
- TV, movie and anime trackers5
- Livestream viewing and streamer tools5
- Internet radio players5
- Podcast apps and AI tools4
- AI news aggregators and digests3
- CLSTR — Clusters news articles covering the same event into single items and chains related events into timelined storylines.“My side project read 9.2 million news articles in 145 days, and found some interesting patterns”
- Pulls AI news, filters it, and posts the relevant items to Discord.“What did you actually build this week?”
- Sift — Groups news coverage of the same story and compares wording, claims, framing, and timelines across sources.“I built a news app that shows how different sources frame the same story”
Social networks, messaging and dating
Alternative social networks, encrypted and anonymous chat, dating and couples apps, greeting gifts, polls and event planning.
56 projects · 3.0% share
- Personalized digital greeting gifts12
- Private encrypted messaging apps11
- Event planning and scheduling tools10
- Anonymous and community chat apps10
- Alternative and anonymous social networks6
- Dating and couples apps6
- Opinion polls and civic tech1
- Vow Invites — Creates online wedding invitation pages for couples to share with guests.“I just got my first paying customer for a product I built”
- AERIA — Lets people from different countries connect for language exchange, penpal correspondence and conversation.“I built an international social network in 3 days with AI. It's live, it's completely empty, and I need honest feedback”
- Lets salons, barbers and similar businesses take online appointment bookings.“Having trouble with (no) customers”
Browser extensions and web reading
Extensions for managing tabs and bookmarks, clipping and summarizing pages, rewriting text and tweaking the browsing experience.
53 projects · 2.6% share
- Browser tab managers18
- AI text rewriting tools13
- Browser extensions and utilities9
- Bookmark managers7
- Browser reading and clipping tools6
- Provides a customizable writing app with toggleable side panels and format bar and a distraction-free focus mode.“How can I refine this UI?”
- SiteTell — Scans website copy against a rule set of AI-writing patterns and shows each flagged sentence with the rule that fired.“I built a tool that scores how Ai-written your site sounds. My own homepage got 6 out of 100.”
- Shortie — Creates custom address bar shortcuts for quickly opening websites and URLs.“I built a small Chrome extension called Shortie — looking for feedback”
Careers and job search
Job search assistants, resume tailoring, interview and conversation practice, coding interview prep and builder networking.
39 projects · 2.0% share
- AI job search assistants14
- AI mock interview practice8
- AI resume tailoring tools7
- Coding interview practice tools6
- AI conversation practice coaches2
- Founder and builder matchmaking2
- Automatically opens job applications on Ashby and Greenhouse in a browser, fills out the forms, and submits them with minimal user input.“I built a zero-click agent that applied to 140 jobs for me. Now I’m not sure I should release it.”
- stackholm — Aggregates open job listings in Stockholm and lets users filter them by tech stack, seniority level and sector.“Just trying to kill LinkedIn Jobs”
- engineering-map — Provides a free searchable reference of 573 topics on what senior software engineers are expected to know, each with an explanation and curated links.“I spent months writing 573 topics on what a senior engineer is expected to know. Free, no signup.”
Sports fan apps
Sports management sims, trivia, prediction pools and live score tools for fans of football and other sports.
23 projects · 1.5% share
- LeagueSync — Aggregates fantasy football teams from multiple platforms into one dashboard showing matchups and scores.“I built a Fantasy Football League Aggregator Dashboard”
- Formula Dream — Provides a free Formula 1 companion app with race data tools and a searchable archive of team radio clips with transcripts.“We got our Google impressions from 64/week to 36,758/week. It didn't solve our growth problem.”
- AI Agent Pick'Em — Sends one weekly prompt to eleven LLMs so they compete by predicting sports outcomes.“My weekly AI Agent Pick'Em & Deepseek calls itself ChatGPT”
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
116 projects this week were too far from every group. New kinds of projects show up here first.
- Helps users with a painful problem and charges for the resulting product, as described only vaguely in the post.“I finally made my first revenue after 2 failed businesses.”
- There's Work Tomorrow — Manages property preservation work orders from dispatch through crew field documentation, expense capture, payroll and client billing.“I built software to solve a problem in my contracting business. It works. How do I turn it into a SaaS company?”
- DustRun — Lets the player steer a robot vacuum through a 3D model of a house, collecting debris while avoiding a corgi and returning to the charger before the battery runs out.“I turned photos of my house into a robot vacuum survival game”
- Eye in the Sky — Tells gamblers when to cash out during casino play.“Feel like I am sitting on a gold mine of an app. Just don't know how to market it.”
- The Secret Entrance — Collects one page each from 300 strangers and compiles them into a published book.“I'm trying to get 300 strangers to write a book together”