Sep 7 – 13, 2026 · Edition W37
What Reddit's builders are making this week
2,001 new projects from 9 builder subreddits, sorted into 200 groups and 23 themes. Fastest riser: AI paid ads management tools ▲ +195%.
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▲ +195% 45 in 4w
- Startup promotion and creator deals▲ +185% 59 in 4w
- Browser image compressors and converters▲ +62% 52 in 4w
- Indie project showcase and launch platforms▲ +60% 54 in 4w
- Daily logic puzzle games▲ +55% 65 in 4w
- AI 3D model generation▲ +53% 51 in 4w
- Local voice dictation apps▲ +43% 75 in 4w
- Real estate & rental tools▲ +37% 42 in 4w
Cooling
Same comparison, biggest drops. Same 40-project minimum.
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries▼ -35% 55 in 4w
- AI short video generators▼ -28% 50 in 4w
- AI coding agent tooling▼ -22% 59 in 4w
- Travel and trip planners▼ -21% 54 in 4w
- Screen recording and screenshot tools▼ -21% 42 in 4w
Most built this week
| Group | Projects | vs prior 4 wks |
|---|---|---|
| Personal to-do and daily planners | 30 | ▲ +31% |
| Multi-agent coding workspaces | 30 | +9% |
| Gym workout trackers | 29 | -4% |
| AI image generation and creative canvases | 25 | -8% |
| Photo library organizers and sharing | 24 | ▲ +60% |
| Local voice dictation apps | 23 | +11% |
| Personal budgeting and expense trackers | 20 | +1% |
| SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure | 20 | +24% |
| AI tool directories and usage trackers | 20 | ▲ +69% |
| AI and desktop video editors | 20 | ▲ +67% |
| AI 3D model generation | 20 | ▲ +151% |
| AI job search assistants | 19 | ▲ +36% |
By theme
Games and gaming tools
Casual, puzzle, word, trivia, strategy, multiplayer and indie games plus trackers and tools for gamers and collectors.
155 projects · 9.4% share
- Daily logic puzzle games19
- Online card, board & party games17
- Daily word puzzle games15
- Browser strategy and simulation games13
- Casual browser games10
- AI-assisted game creation10
- Tabletop RPG and RPG games10
- Browser racing and driving games9
- Casual mobile arcade games8
- Trivia and quiz games7
- Video game backlog trackers7
- Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking7
- Trading card collection trackers7
- Chess training and analysis tools6
- Geography guessing and quiz games6
- Indie video game showcases4
- Desi Mayhem — Lets players race motorbikes through Indian city roads, dodging traffic and fighting other riders, in the browser.“I made a Road Rash-inspired browser game set on Indian roads”
- Simulates a zombie outbreak spreading through a 1:1 scale recreation of a hometown, modeling police response and evacuation.“A Zombie Outbreak simulation in my home town.”
- Flappy Ups — Turns pushups into controls for a Flappy Bird style game.“Made a game to help me become a Super Saiyan”
Creative media generation and editing
AI and manual tools for creating and editing images, video, 3D, music, audio, subtitles, stories and photo libraries.
148 projects · 8.2% share
- AI image generation and creative canvases25
- Photo library organizers and sharing24
- AI and desktop video editors20
- AI 3D model generation20
- Photo and image editors16
- AI short video generators10
- Audio playback and sound tools10
- AI story generation and fiction writing10
- Music practice and creation tools6
- Video subtitle generation and translation5
- AI music and song generation2
- enikq — Plays ambient music matched to selectable scenes such as a café, camping trip, or late bus ride.“Made a small ambient music website”
- PixCarry — Backs up phone photos and videos in the background to user-owned storage like S3, a NAS, or a desktop app, then deletes the originals from the device.“I made an iPhone/Android app that backs up every photo to your own S3/Server/NAS instead of iCloud then frees up the phone”
- Let Me Googly Eye That For You — Adds googly eyes to images on web pages.“Let Me Googly Eye That For You”
Personal productivity and notes
To-do lists, note-taking, calendars, reminders, focus timers, meeting notes and visual thinking tools for organizing work and life.
119 projects · 5.8% share
- Personal to-do and daily planners30
- Personal note-taking apps18
- Pomodoro focus timers16
- Project management tools12
- Visual canvases and diagram generators12
- Personal calendar apps10
- Personal reminder and nudge apps7
- AI meeting transcription and notes7
- Markdown editors and viewers7
- AI voice note apps0
- Hold my notes — Displays sticky notes as dots along the edge of a Mac screen that expand on hover and sync via iCloud.“Hold my notes: Sticky notes that feels real and you will actually love using!”
- WELTEN — Runs Pomodoro focus timers and adds a tree to a desktop forest for each completed session.“I made a Pomodoro app that grows a forest on your Mac desktop”
- Witness — Lets users complete to-do tasks by submitting photo proof that another community member verifies.“Roast this before I sink more months into it: a to-do app where strangers verify your tasks with photo proof”
Health, fitness and wellness
Workout, nutrition, medication, mood, journaling, mental wellness, spiritual and astrology apps for personal wellbeing.
107 projects · 5.0% share
- Gym workout trackers29
- All-in-one fitness and health trackers17
- Personal health and medication trackers15
- Mental wellness and calm apps15
- Personal journaling apps9
- AI calorie and nutrition trackers7
- Mood trackers and personality quizzes5
- Scripture and prayer apps5
- Drink logging and cocktail apps4
- AI astrology and divination readings1
- Provides personalized journaling and chat-based coaching that adapts to a user's MBTI-based cognitive profile and stress patterns.“Pricing a hyper-personalized AI coach, Is $12-$15/month the sweet spot or too high for B2C ?”
- Whengram — Lets users save one memory per day and revisit past entries, including on-this-day widgets and yearly memory books.“Update: My app just crossed 1,500 downloads in over a month”
- Vent — Lets users speak out loud about their week and have an AI respond like a friend, then carries those notes into their therapy sessions and offers a scheduled fake phone call to help them leave uncomfortable situations.“I'm validating an app for people in therapy before I fully build it. Landing page is up, nothing else is. Tear it apart.”
AI assistants, chat and model tools
Tools for organizing AI chats, comparing and routing LLMs, AI research, companions, desktop assistants and AI media detection.
105 projects · 5.2% share
- AI tool directories and usage trackers20
- LLM gateways and model comparison17
- AI browser automation extensions12
- AI image detection and photo analysis11
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries10
- AI research and source-cited answers10
- Desktop AI assistants9
- AI companion character chat8
- Multi-AI decision debate tools8
- Robomonkey — Lets users build browser extensions with AI, generating and automating extension code from their descriptions.“My extension reached 3,000 active users and 1600$ total revenue”
- SolveAtHome — Pools users' spare AI agent tokens to run bounded research tasks on open math problems and shares results for verification.“I build a distributed AI compute platform to solve hard problems - looking for feedback”
- Argument Analyzer — Takes each partner's side of a conflict and returns a structured, neutral breakdown of the disagreement.“We were about to break up, so I built an app to save our relationship.”
Desktop and device utilities
Window managers, clipboard tools, file cleanup, dictation, screen capture, input remapping, wallpapers and device dashboards for power users.
105 projects · 4.7% share
- Local voice dictation apps23
- Desktop window and dock utilities17
- Desktop pet companions13
- Alternative computer input & remote control12
- Screen recording and screenshot tools11
- Desktop file organizers and cleanup8
- Device monitors and ambient displays7
- Android launchers and phone utilities6
- Clipboard history managers4
- Wallpaper apps and live wallpapers4
- Runs an emulated adult fruit fly brain, built from the FlyWire connectome, in the browser via WebAssembly.“A full fly brain emulated in the browser and provided a pleasant life”
- DockyHub — Turns an old iPad into an always-on family dashboard showing calendars, photos, reminders, meal plans, chores, and smart home controls.“I made an App that can turn an old iPad into a family dashboard (similar to Skylight)”
- WinDuo — Mimics the iPhone Duo fold screen effect on a Windows laptop by using the webcam to estimate hinge angle.“WinDuo: the iPhone Duo fold effect on any Windows laptop”
AI coding agents and agent orchestration
Tools for running, monitoring, orchestrating, securing and giving memory to AI coding agents and multi-agent systems.
103 projects · 5.2% share
- Multi-agent coding workspaces30
- AI coding agent tooling18
- AI agent orchestration platforms11
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents9
- Codebase analysis for AI-written code8
- AI coding agents for Git repos8
- Claude Code session monitors7
- Persistent memory for AI agents7
- AI agent security guardrails4
- MCP server tooling1
- Grid Console — Puts tasks from local coding agents on a board and shows each card's session, questions, planning notes and changed code for review.“I built a workspace for coding agents. Looking for early testers.”
- Runs a staged development pipeline that turns a design document into an implementation plan, sequences plans into a work package, and executes them phase by phase through LLM calls with human approval.“Factories?”
- Catalogs open source AI skill files from GitHub into a department, team, and category hierarchy, flagging duplicates and malicious prompt-injection files.“Mapped 120,523 open source AI skills onto an org chart”
Marketing, SEO and sales
Tools for content generation, social scheduling, SEO and AI search visibility, ads, outbound sales, email, app store optimization and analytics.
103 projects · 5.2% share
- AI social media schedulers12
- Email inbox and infrastructure tools10
- AI email writing and outreach tools10
- Web and SaaS analytics dashboards9
- AI paid ads management tools9
- Website audit and monitoring tools8
- AI search visibility trackers8
- AI outbound sales prospecting6
- AI marketing content generators6
- Local business lead finders6
- App store optimization tools5
- LinkedIn outreach and content tools5
- SEO audit tools4
- Reddit marketing and lead finding3
- App Store screenshot generators2
- Tracks job applicants through the hiring pipeline, built around a lawn care company's needs.“$60k per month business”
- Renders a pixel-art village dashboard where each paying subscriber is a villager and milestone buildings unlock as revenue and customer counts grow.“I needed a metrics dashboard for my SaaS, so I built a medieval village instead, every paying customer is a villager”
- ZenMode — Automates LinkedIn outreach by scraping target profiles and sending connection requests and follow-up messages through a desktop-controlled browser.“I used AI to build a LinkedIn automation tool without knowing how to code, now it’s making $1,752 MRR 🚀”
File, document and everyday web utilities
Privacy-friendly browser tools for PDFs, image conversion, documents, forms, QR codes, file sharing, vaults, links and calculators.
95 projects · 4.7% share
- Browser-based PDF toolkits17
- Document scanning and processing tools13
- Online calculators and math tools12
- Browser image compressors and converters10
- Pricing and cost calculators9
- Online form builders and autofill9
- Encrypted vaults and password managers6
- File sharing and transfer tools6
- URL shorteners and link-in-bio pages6
- Browser-based utility tool collections5
- QR code generators and scanners2
- discovery-loop — Runs an evolutionary program search overnight on open math problems, checking each candidate solution against an automated verifier.“I vibecoded my way to a math record and my OpenClaw agent was cited as a contributor”
- putmysign — Provides a cheaper e-signature service for PDFs, with an API, an embeddable signing widget, templates, and a free no-account signing tool.“Need an expert opinion about marketing strategy”
- NotGPT — Answers chat-style queries like unit conversions and percentages using rules, regex and traditional NLP instead of an LLM.“I made a weird little project - NotGPT”
Personal finance and investing
Budgeting, expense and subscription tracking, bill splitting, pay tracking, trading journals, stock research and crypto tools.
86 projects · 3.9% share
- Personal budgeting and expense trackers20
- Personal finance planners and trackers16
- Retail trading tools and journals8
- Receipt scanning & expense tracking8
- AI stock research tools7
- Subscription and recurring charge trackers6
- SEC filing stock research tools5
- Crypto wallets and payment tools5
- Investment portfolio trackers4
- Crypto trading and portfolio tools3
- Group expense splitting apps3
- Shift, hours and pay trackers1
- budget-tracker-tui — Tracks personal spending and investments in a keyboard-driven terminal interface with budgeting tools and visual breakdowns.“I built a budget-tracker-tui to track personal finances”
- deadcatfound — Runs a trading operations desk in demo mode, using a local CLI AI tool on the user's machine to process scheduled work.“Local-only on the user's machine, or hosted? Stuck on the tradeoff”
- Shows a daily market bias to help day traders decide their direction quickly.“I have no idea how to market my website to people and I need brutal feedback.”
Home, food and lifestyle
Family organizers, home inventory, meal planning, recipes, home design, pets, plants, wardrobes, real estate, shopping and dining.
83 projects · 3.8% share
- Price trackers and comparison tools13
- Meal planners with grocery lists13
- Home inventory and maintenance trackers11
- Shared family and household organizers11
- Home, cabinet and construction design tools10
- Restaurant discovery and group picking7
- Pet health and care trackers6
- Real estate & rental tools5
- Recipe managers and generators3
- Digital wardrobe and virtual try-on2
- Plant identification and care apps2
- Plate — Generates weekly meal plans for weight loss and shows them behind a paywall.“hard gates convert 5x better than freemium and nobody talks about it”
- Happy Toy Scout — Maps nearby Happy Meal toy sightings reported by users and lets people add their own.“I built a Happy Meal toy finder for my daughters. 157k people used it in 15 days.”
- planplan — Lets users upload a floor plan image and arrange furniture on it in a Sims-style interface.“Was addicted to building houses in sims and now addicted to making the perfect floor plan for my new apartment”
Small business and freelance operations
CRMs, invoicing, client management, ecommerce, AI receptionists, WhatsApp automation, marketplaces and reselling tools for small businesses.
79 projects · 4.3% share
- SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure20
- Resale marketplace listing tools16
- Freelance client management tools10
- Shopify and ecommerce merchant tools10
- Freelancer invoice generators7
- AI phone receptionists & voice agents6
- WhatsApp business automation tools5
- Freelance and local gig marketplaces4
- Handmade crafts and physical goods1
- QuickDesign — Generates design assets for e-commerce product listings.“Just keep building. Don’t give up. 1 Year Success story 30K MRR”
- AutoSell — Automates selling tasks for resellers, based on the product's name and domain.“looking for advice”
- Freelancer Client OS — Provides plain Markdown and CSV templates for managing freelance client pipelines, proposals, contracts, invoices, and review routines.“Built a freelancer Client OS (Markdown/CSV ops kit) — would love a roast on what to cut”
Entertainment, music and news consumption
Apps for discovering and tracking music, movies, TV, podcasts, radio, livestreams and curated news digests.
74 projects · 3.4% share
- Movie & TV recommendation trackers14
- Music discovery and sharing apps13
- Local music and radio players12
- Online video downloaders and players8
- TV, movie and anime trackers8
- Livestream viewing and streamer tools6
- AI news aggregators and digests5
- AI news aggregators and digests4
- Podcast apps and AI tools2
- Internet radio players2
- Sonora — Plays music from Spotify, YouTube Music, Subsonic and local files in a native cross-platform desktop player with synced lyrics.“Sonora: native, crossplatform music player with first-class Spotify/YTMusic support”
- mshpit — Lets concert fans post photos and reviews from shows, follow other fans, and rate live performances.“My Side Project: A Concert Reviews and Live Music Historical Index Thingy.”
- MusicPool — Pairs two anonymous strangers with matching music preferences for a 24-hour chat where they trade songs, then deletes the conversation.“I built an app where you get paired with one stranger, trade songs for 24 hours, and then the chat deletes itself”
Education and learning
AI tutors, flashcards, language learning, video summarizers and reading tools for students and self-learners.
68 projects · 3.0% share
- AI study and tutoring apps18
- Ebook readers and book trackers16
- AI flashcard study tools12
- Language learning apps11
- YouTube AI summarizers & note-takers11
- ttdictionary — Looks up word definitions, pronunciation and examples, and is adding AI-generated explanations, synonyms and grammar help.“We've been building a dictionary for 14 years. Now AI is changing everything”
- Biblio.ink — Catalogs a personal book collection on a 3D shelf showing each book's cover, spine, and back, with in-app ebook reading and reading tracking.“From a discontinued Mac app I used for 13 years to a 3D bookshelf I built for myself. 70 people used it in the last 7 days.”
- YouTube Timestamp — Saves timestamps in YouTube videos so users can jump back to specific moments later.“About a quarter of my site traffic started coming from AI. Here’s what I changed.”
Travel, maps and outdoors
Trip planners, place discovery maps, GPS tracking, interactive globes, sky trackers, weather and car ownership apps.
66 projects · 3.6% share
- Map-based place discovery apps16
- Travel and trip planners12
- GPS trip and ride tracking11
- Interactive world maps and globes10
- Car ownership and maintenance apps8
- Sky, space and flight trackers6
- Consumer weather apps3
- Life in Mist — Records GPS routes and clears fog from a map along the paths you travel, keeping a history of trips and replays.“I built an iPhone app that turns your walks into a fog-of-war map”
- Expeditione — Lets visitors explore interactive 3D dioramas of ancient Egyptian life, monuments and the Giza Plateau in the browser.“I spent 1,000+ hours building an interactive 3D reconstruction of Ancient Egypt for the web. Entire scenes are ~1–2MB, no ads, no logins.”
- Shows an interactive Earth website with layers for satellites, moon exploration, the solar system, earthquakes, and ocean currents.“I had GPT-6 add Satellites in orbit, Moon exploration, Solar System view, Earthquakes, and Ocean currents to my earth website.”
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.
65 projects · 3.0% share
- Habit tracker apps15
- Social media feed tools13
- Phone app blockers12
- YouTube browser extensions11
- Challenge-to-dismiss alarm apps8
- Distracting website blockers6
- Remixly — Turns a shared Instagram reel into a third-person long-form X post using its transcript, caption and top comments.“Guyyyyys, 28 paying users in one week!!”
- evoboard — Tracks habits by automatically completing them through integrations and shows progress over time as a yearly contribution map.“Would you use this software?”
- Loop — Breaks down Instagram Reels into hooks, editing, tone, transcripts, and metrics to suggest techniques for creators' own videos.“I built a tool that breaks down viral Reels shot by shot: hooks, editing, and emotional delivery”
Indie maker launch and validation
Platforms for validating ideas, launching and promoting side projects, building websites and exchanging feedback and testing.
64 projects · 3.2% share
- Indie project showcase and launch platforms15
- Startup idea validation tools13
- Website builders and portfolios12
- Startup promotion and creator deals12
- Product feedback and testimonial tools9
- Indie app testing exchanges3
- Taisly — Sells a premium tool to users who find it through search engine pages and translated pages.“My side project finally reached ~$1k MRR after almost 3 years”
- doitlaunch — Lets founders publish their projects for free to gain users and exposure.“Six days, four sign-ups, still zero launches.”
- Lets clients edit Framer websites through Notion.“I am facing conversion problem on my Saas.”
Social networks, messaging and dating
Alternative social networks, encrypted and anonymous chat, dating and couples apps, greeting gifts, polls and event planning.
62 projects · 3.0% share
- Event planning and scheduling tools15
- Anonymous and community chat apps9
- Dating and couples apps9
- Alternative and anonymous social networks8
- Personalized digital greeting gifts7
- Private encrypted messaging apps7
- Opinion polls and civic tech7
- Ether — Lets people join a dating app by recording a 10-second video, with matching only after both sides spark and age verification on every account.“18 months building a video-only dating app. The app is the easy part, it turns out. The empty room isn't.”
- Everlasting Email — Schedules messages, letters, photos and videos to be emailed to a recipient on a set date, after a trusted-contact code check, or after the sender stops checking in.“Built an app that delivers messages to your family on a date, or after you're gone. Solo, about a year, went up on Product Hunt today.”
- Lets people organize and join local in-person meetups, competing with Meetup.com.“My meetup competitor is complete!”
Developer tools and infrastructure
Deployment platforms, databases, monitoring, security scanners, app builders and low-level tinkering projects for developers.
57 projects · 2.8% share
- UI design extraction & AI design tools14
- Self-hosted app deployment & dev infra10
- Security scanners for AI-built apps9
- GitHub profile and repo tools6
- Uptime and API monitoring5
- Network diagnostics and VPN tools5
- Hobby languages and operating systems3
- Database clients and SQL tools2
- Domain name search tools2
- AI prompt-to-app builders1
- FinanceIQ — Provides a Next.js starter with pre-built responsive data tables, chart layouts, and dashboard structures for finance apps.“I built a Next.js App Router boilerplate for financial dashboards. Looking for feedback on the UI and performance!”
- Monitors a company's vendors, competitors and tech stack and sends a single alert only when a change is worth acting on that day.“My product's entire job is to notice when something changes. It broke for three days and I did not notice.”
- Interprets a custom toy programming language with SET, WHILE, IF, PRINT and INPUT commands, running on Python.“i made my own coding language :D”
Browser extensions and web reading
Extensions for managing tabs and bookmarks, clipping and summarizing pages, rewriting text and tweaking the browsing experience.
55 projects · 2.5% share
- AI text rewriting tools17
- Browser tab managers13
- Browser reading and clipping tools12
- Browser extensions and utilities8
- Bookmark managers5
- Savage Scraper — Converts the rendered webpage open in Chrome into simplified HTML and copies it to the clipboard, and optionally exposes allowed pages to MCP clients.“I built a Chrome scraper for LLMs, then accidentally ended up building a security-restricted MCP server too”
- SelectorLock — Scrapes web pages from a schema and automatically repairs broken CSS selectors using an LLM when a site changes.“Built a scraper that fixes its own broken selectors when a site redesigns”
- HandWrought — Edits writing in place with AI, showing suggested changes as tracked changes at the cursor for accept or reject, and imports PDF or Word documents.“I built an AI editor that edits inside your writing instead of a chat sidebar”
Careers and job search
Job search assistants, resume tailoring, interview and conversation practice, coding interview prep and builder networking.
49 projects · 2.5% share
- AI job search assistants19
- AI resume tailoring tools12
- AI conversation practice coaches5
- Coding interview practice tools5
- AI mock interview practice5
- Founder and builder matchmaking3
- Combines job discovery, CV creation and tailoring, ATS checking, cover letters, and application tracking in one tool, plus a recruiter-side multilingual candidate database.“I listed my side project for 10k and got a 7.3k offer. Would you take it?”
- ApplyMind — Logs job applications automatically from LinkedIn and stores the CV version, cover letter, and match score in a searchable dashboard.“How do you actually keep track of your job applications? (Built a tool for this, curious what everyone else does)”
- YAMLResume — Compiles a plain-text YAML resume into PDF, DOCX, HTML, and Markdown outputs with schema validation.“I built a YAML-based CV compiler: version-control your CV like code, generate pixel-perfect PDF/DOCX/HTML/Markdown output with one command”
Sports fan apps
Sports management sims, trivia, prediction pools and live score tools for fans of football and other sports.
28 projects · 1.2% share
- NoSpo — Collects official football highlight videos in one place and hides scores, titles and thumbnails by default to avoid spoilers.“I built a site to watch official football highlights without score spoilers”
- Biddo — Lets users claim ranking positions that others can take by outbidding them.“I wanted to make rankings feel less static, so I built this little sideproject”
- AllTimeFootballer — Lets users pick between two football players from different eras and builds a community Elo ranking from the votes.“I built a football GOAT voting site with 660 players – curious what the crowd will decide”
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
125 projects this week were too far from every group. New kinds of projects show up here first.
- Runs a simulated fruit fly brain network to drive a Strandbeest-style walking robot.“I put the fly brain into a robot Strandbeest”
- Spore — Publishes static websites as BitTorrent swarms so visitors' browsers fetch and seed the site without a server.“I built a website that doesn't need a server”
- usegreenroom — Unclear from the post; the author shares traffic numbers for a product called usegreenroom without describing its function.“3 months in: 40k impressions, 500 clicks what should I focus on next?”
- Where is Mr. Kim? — Lets players search a moving Joseon-era Korean village scene to find one man in a straw hat and teal sash.“Where is Mr. Kim? Now you can play it!”
- PrimordiaOS — Runs plugins as autonomous realms that sync state across devices, coordinate agents and microservices, and expose APIs, layered over an existing OS.“I accidentally built a new kind of operating system (PrimordiaOS) and it changed how I think about software forever”