Jul 27 – Aug 2, 2026 · Edition W31
What Reddit's builders are making this week
1,905 new projects from 9 builder subreddits, sorted into 200 groups and 23 themes. Fastest riser: Terminal workspaces for AI agents ▲ +85%.
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.
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents▲ +85% 49 in 4w
- Language learning apps▲ +53% 72 in 4w
- AI-assisted game creation▲ +53% 52 in 4w
- Casual browser games▲ +52% 64 in 4w
- Tabletop RPG and RPG games▲ +50% 44 in 4w
- Website audit and monitoring tools▲ +42% 56 in 4w
- Desktop pet companions▲ +40% 44 in 4w
- All-in-one fitness and health trackers▲ +37% 54 in 4w
Cooling
Same comparison, biggest drops. Same 40-project minimum.
- Football fan games and apps▼ -47% 44 in 4w
- Personal health and medication trackers▼ -25% 41 in 4w
- AI tool directories and usage trackers▼ -21% 58 in 4w
Most built this week
| Group | Projects | vs prior 4 wks |
|---|---|---|
| AI coding agent tooling | 27 | -1% |
| AI image generation and creative canvases | 25 | ▲ +38% |
| AI chat organizers and prompt libraries | 24 | +5% |
| Multi-agent coding workspaces | 23 | ▼ -22% |
| Claude Code session monitors | 21 | -2% |
| Gym workout trackers | 20 | +2% |
| Local voice dictation apps | 19 | ▲ +59% |
| Personal to-do and daily planners | 18 | ▼ -22% |
| Personal budgeting and expense trackers | 18 | -3% |
| Website builders and portfolios | 18 | +13% |
| AI short video generators | 18 | -8% |
| AI tool directories and usage trackers | 18 | ▲ +40% |
By theme
Games and gaming tools
Casual, puzzle, word, trivia, strategy, multiplayer and indie games plus trackers and tools for gamers and collectors.
159 projects · 7.6% share
- Casual browser games18
- Online card, board & party games14
- Tabletop RPG and RPG games13
- Casual mobile arcade games11
- Browser strategy and simulation games11
- Daily logic puzzle games10
- Trivia and quiz games10
- Browser racing and driving games10
- Geography guessing and quiz games10
- AI-assisted game creation9
- Daily word puzzle games9
- Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking8
- Chess training and analysis tools8
- Indie video game showcases7
- Video game backlog trackers6
- Trading card collection trackers5
- DEEPWATER — Lets players defend an oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean in a browser game.“Vibe coded full game in 3 days”
- NewBlocks — Lets players explore a procedurally generated open world MMO with crafting, professions, raid bosses, and a player-driven economy.“I work a boring 9-5, but thanks to AI I can pursue my childhood dream of game development on the side”
- Lets the player build a zoo across floating islands, each with its own biome and animals, in a Zoo Tycoon style voxel prototype.“I built a tiny floating zoo, just for fun”
AI coding agents and agent orchestration
Tools for running, monitoring, orchestrating, securing and giving memory to AI coding agents and multi-agent systems.
144 projects · 6.7% share
- AI coding agent tooling27
- Multi-agent coding workspaces23
- Claude Code session monitors21
- AI agent orchestration platforms16
- Codebase analysis for AI-written code14
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents14
- AI coding agents for Git repos11
- AI agent security guardrails9
- Persistent memory for AI agents7
- MCP server tooling2
- generic-app-bootstrap-prompt — Provides a starting prompt that helps an AI coding assistant understand a project, organize files, write rules, and verify a foundation before building.“Everyon bashes vibe coding and “AI slop,” but hardly anyone is actually helping.”
- mex — Maintains a Markdown wiki inside a code repo and builds a local code graph so agents can load only the relevant symbols and knowledge.“My Claude Code kept rereading the same repo instead of preserving what it learned, so I built an open-source fix. 1,200 stars later, the new version used 90% less tokens than grep while still finding every expected symbol.”
- Plays sound effects in response to Claude Code hook events, such as a tense soundtrack while Claude is thinking and a coffin dance theme on token exhaustion or API failure.“Tired of staring at the screen while Claude thinks... so I made the waiting a little more fun. 😂”
Creative media generation and editing
AI and manual tools for creating and editing images, video, 3D, music, audio, subtitles, stories and photo libraries.
143 projects · 7.5% share
- AI image generation and creative canvases25
- AI short video generators18
- AI 3D model generation16
- AI and desktop video editors14
- Photo and image editors14
- Photo library organizers and sharing13
- Audio playback and sound tools13
- Music practice and creation tools12
- AI music and song generation10
- AI story generation and fiction writing4
- Video subtitle generation and translation4
- Sidecam — Captures photos and 4K video inside a separate app, keeping them out of the system camera roll and optionally mirroring them to the user's iCloud Drive as plain files.“I'm a surgeon, not a developer. I spent a year building the camera app I needed and shipped it last week”
- Miniskyline — Converts a selected area of Earth or other planets into a data-derived 3D model ready for multi-color 3D printing.“Miniskyline - Fully Vibecoded Web Tool for Turning any Area on Earth to a Printable 3D Model! 12,000 users in 40 days.”
- Creates custom fonts for users.“I made a font creation App with my first 95 paid users!”
Personal finance and investing
Budgeting, expense and subscription tracking, bill splitting, pay tracking, trading journals, stock research and crypto tools.
106 projects · 5.8% share
- Personal budgeting and expense trackers18
- Subscription and recurring charge trackers17
- AI stock research tools13
- Retail trading tools and journals12
- Personal finance planners and trackers8
- Receipt scanning & expense tracking8
- Shift, hours and pay trackers8
- Investment portfolio trackers8
- Group expense splitting apps6
- SEC filing stock research tools5
- Crypto trading and portfolio tools2
- Crypto wallets and payment tools1
- Manages subscriptions with monthly or yearly plans, generating invoices and payment reminders for manual bank transfer or cash payments.“First real money ever made from my SaaS!!”
- Ledgr — Tracks expenses by parsing bank and payment SMS messages on the device, without uploading them to a server.“Got tired of asking “where did my salary go?” every month, so I spent 6 months building an app that reads bank SMS on-device — nothing gets uploaded to any server. Would honestly love your feedback.”
- Tracknix — Automatically reads transaction messages on an Android phone, categorizes expenses, and shows spending insights offline.“Made a simple automatic expense tracker to actually start saving”
Personal productivity and notes
To-do lists, note-taking, calendars, reminders, focus timers, meeting notes and visual thinking tools for organizing work and life.
105 projects · 5.7% share
- Personal to-do and daily planners18
- Project management tools18
- Personal note-taking apps16
- Visual canvases and diagram generators12
- Personal calendar apps10
- Pomodoro focus timers9
- AI meeting transcription and notes9
- Markdown editors and viewers6
- AI voice note apps5
- Personal reminder and nudge apps2
- Pulls notifications and tasks from a user's productivity apps each morning into a single view of what needs attention.“I have no idea where to start with getting users for my app!”
- TwoDo — Shares a two-person to-do list with a partner via a 6-character code, with lock screen widgets for ticking off items and sending nudges.“I couldn't find a shared to-do app made for exactly two people, so I built one for my wife and me”
- Time Pencil — Lets users draw their day as colored arcs around a clock face and syncs with existing calendars.“You asked for a Watch+Wear OS version of my lazy clock planner: done (+24h mode & 30+ visual tweaks)”
Marketing, SEO and sales
Tools for content generation, social scheduling, SEO and AI search visibility, ads, outbound sales, email, app store optimization and analytics.
102 projects · 5.6% share
- Website audit and monitoring tools17
- AI outbound sales prospecting11
- AI search visibility trackers11
- AI social media schedulers10
- Web and SaaS analytics dashboards8
- Email inbox and infrastructure tools8
- AI marketing content generators6
- AI email writing and outreach tools6
- SEO audit tools4
- Reddit marketing and lead finding4
- Local business lead finders4
- App store optimization tools4
- AI paid ads management tools3
- App Store screenshot generators3
- LinkedIn outreach and content tools3
- Generates search engine traffic and prospects for a software company's SaaS product through SEO.“Our SaaS just crossed its first million 🙏”
- Provides an AI agent inside a sales workspace that reads open CRM records, researches prospects, finds leads, drafts outreach, and runs scheduled jobs that report to Telegram or Google Chat.“We built an AI sales workspace and I'm not sure who to sell it to first”
- Pulls SEO metrics from an API, flags large spikes or drops, and compiles them into client reports that are emailed after review.“Built a dashboard with an MCP server for SEO + Claude. Does this count as vibe coding or just tool orchestrating?”
AI assistants, chat and model tools
Tools for organizing AI chats, comparing and routing LLMs, AI research, companions, desktop assistants and AI media detection.
101 projects · 5.2% share
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries24
- AI tool directories and usage trackers18
- LLM gateways and model comparison12
- AI research and source-cited answers11
- Desktop AI assistants11
- AI browser automation extensions10
- Multi-AI decision debate tools6
- AI image detection and photo analysis5
- AI companion character chat4
- Azrivo — Routes questions to multiple AI specialists, offering direct answers, side-by-side panels, opposing debates with a verdict, and step-by-step plans with deliverables.“I launched the AI product I’ve been building solo. I need 10 honest votes on Uneed today”
- MudrikNow — Reads the active window's UI via accessibility tree and opens a chat panel where an AI can see the screen and guide the user through tasks step by step.“I got tired of explaining my screen to AI chats, so I built an open-source desktop AI that reads your screen”
- Brainary — Turns large sets of documents into coherent, cited, local-first wikis.“Stop letting AI validate your startup idea for you — here’s how I almost fell for it (and what actually works)”
Desktop and device utilities
Window managers, clipboard tools, file cleanup, dictation, screen capture, input remapping, wallpapers and device dashboards for power users.
97 projects · 5.1% share
- Local voice dictation apps19
- Screen recording and screenshot tools15
- Desktop window and dock utilities15
- Desktop pet companions10
- Android launchers and phone utilities9
- Desktop file organizers and cleanup9
- Device monitors and ambient displays8
- Wallpaper apps and live wallpapers7
- Alternative computer input & remote control3
- Clipboard history managers2
- Wallpets — Displays animated cat and dog characters on the desktop wallpaper layer that respond to interaction.“My 1st App rains Cats & Dogs..”
- Mollie's Strava — Records hamster wheel rotations with a hall sensor and ESP32, then uploads them as running activities to a Strava account.“I built a speed/distance tracker for my hamster wheel, which automatically records the data and uploads it to our hamster's own Strava account”
- Tiny Slow Life — Runs a small animated island world along the bottom of the desktop while the user works.“A stranger bought my first paid app today. After a year of building, it finally feels real.”
Health, fitness and wellness
Workout, nutrition, medication, mood, journaling, mental wellness, spiritual and astrology apps for personal wellbeing.
92 projects · 5.0% share
- Gym workout trackers20
- Personal journaling apps12
- All-in-one fitness and health trackers12
- Mental wellness and calm apps11
- Personal health and medication trackers10
- AI calorie and nutrition trackers8
- AI astrology and divination readings7
- Mood trackers and personality quizzes6
- Drink logging and cocktail apps5
- Scripture and prayer apps1
- Whengram — Lets you record one memory per day as a line, mood, and optional photo, to recall the day later.“I built an app for the days too small to post and too easy to lose. Free, no ads, offline first.”
- Guides healthcare teams through privacy incident investigations, tracks missing facts and follow-up actions, and produces audit-ready records.“Any health tech founders in here?”
- Merios — Reads uploaded lab results against optimal ranges and combines them with wearable data and daily symptom logs on one timeline.“Should i stop working on my app and get a job?”
Developer tools and infrastructure
Deployment platforms, databases, monitoring, security scanners, app builders and low-level tinkering projects for developers.
76 projects · 3.9% share
- Security scanners for AI-built apps13
- Self-hosted app deployment & dev infra12
- UI design extraction & AI design tools10
- Hobby languages and operating systems9
- GitHub profile and repo tools8
- AI prompt-to-app builders7
- Uptime and API monitoring6
- Database clients and SQL tools4
- Network diagnostics and VPN tools4
- Domain name search tools3
- Devellix — Generates complete software projects, such as websites, Discord bots, Minecraft plugins and Roblox scripts, from a plain-English description.“I built an AI that creates software from a prompt -- websites, Discord bots, Minecraft plugins, Roblox scripts, and more”
- Picks colors from the screen and copies them in a browser.“How I got 100k users in 6 month”
- Creates and hosts status pages for showing service uptime to users.“Three months after my first paying customer, here’s where my SaaS is today.”
Entertainment, music and news consumption
Apps for discovering and tracking music, movies, TV, podcasts, radio, livestreams and curated news digests.
74 projects · 4.0% share
- Music discovery and sharing apps12
- Local music and radio players11
- AI news aggregators and digests11
- TV, movie and anime trackers11
- Online video downloaders and players9
- AI news aggregators and digests6
- Movie & TV recommendation trackers5
- Livestream viewing and streamer tools4
- Podcast apps and AI tools4
- Internet radio players1
- ordertowatch — Displays a chronological viewing order for film and TV franchises like the MCU, DC and Star Wars.“I made my first ever website that displays the timeline of different sagas, (MCU, DC, Star Wars, Etc.) I need feedback since I have never done this before.”
- AniCult — Streams the latest airing anime episodes on a free website with no ads or login.“I made my own anime website – AniCult”
- The Amazing Jukebox — Streams hand-picked music from the public YouTube embedded player with a synchronized live chat and no sign-up.“I built an algorithm-free music curation site using the public YouTube API to escape biased recommendations”
Home, food and lifestyle
Family organizers, home inventory, meal planning, recipes, home design, pets, plants, wardrobes, real estate, shopping and dining.
72 projects · 4.0% share
- Price trackers and comparison tools9
- Pet health and care trackers9
- Real estate & rental tools8
- Restaurant discovery and group picking8
- Home inventory and maintenance trackers7
- Meal planners with grocery lists7
- Recipe managers and generators7
- Digital wardrobe and virtual try-on6
- Shared family and household organizers5
- Home, cabinet and construction design tools4
- Plant identification and care apps2
- Fullpack — Catalogs photographed belongings with AI naming and categorization and turns them into reusable packing lists.“Now your pile of hoard can fly.”
- Turns restaurant menus into browser-based augmented reality menus with life-size 3D dish models, voice search and table-side ordering.“I built a fully automated AR menu system for restaurants”
- ShopFair — Scores brands out of 100 for ethics and shows who owns them, active boycotts, and certifications.“I made an app that tells you who actually owns the brands you buy”
Travel, maps and outdoors
Trip planners, place discovery maps, GPS tracking, interactive globes, sky trackers, weather and car ownership apps.
70 projects · 3.7% share
- Car ownership and maintenance apps14
- Map-based place discovery apps13
- Travel and trip planners11
- Consumer weather apps11
- Interactive world maps and globes9
- GPS trip and ride tracking8
- Sky, space and flight trackers4
- Lets strangers send a message to a car owner by scanning a QR sticker, without revealing the owner's phone number.“I made QR stickers that let strangers message you about your parked car without seeing your phone number”
- mapthings — Lets users map and save custom points or places on a map.“Here's my little side project - be nice please :)”
- Witness — Adds historical context from newspapers and place data to family tree entries and generates stylized neighborhood views of ancestors' eras.“I'm 71, spent my career building healthcare expert systems, and just shipped a genealogy app — here's what I learned”
Social networks, messaging and dating
Alternative social networks, encrypted and anonymous chat, dating and couples apps, greeting gifts, polls and event planning.
59 projects · 3.4% share
- Anonymous and community chat apps14
- Alternative and anonymous social networks11
- Event planning and scheduling tools11
- Personalized digital greeting gifts7
- Private encrypted messaging apps7
- Dating and couples apps7
- Opinion polls and civic tech2
- Chatwait — Shows sponsored cards in the wait time while AI chatbots generate responses and pays users a share of the ad revenue.“I built a browser extension that pays you cash back for waiting on ChatGPT”
- Lets users create events where participants add content, which is deleted after 90 days.“I've reached my first 10 customers”
- Manages paying-guest and hostel operations with owner dashboard, rent tracking and reminders, tenant records, service desk, and expenses, in English, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.“After 20 years of building software for other companies, I built my own SaaS for India's PG/hostel market — and learned selling is 10x harder than coding”
Browser extensions and web reading
Extensions for managing tabs and bookmarks, clipping and summarizing pages, rewriting text and tweaking the browsing experience.
58 projects · 2.9% share
- Browser reading and clipping tools16
- AI text rewriting tools14
- Browser tab managers13
- Bookmark managers9
- Browser extensions and utilities6
- Click Translate — Translates a clicked block of text on a web page or replaces a highlighted section with its translation in place.“I finally added monetization to my tiny Chrome extension... and Paddle fees shocked me”
- Zero Startpage — Replaces the Chrome new tab page with a local, frameworkless startpage offering search, animations, calendar, checklist, notepad and a music visualizer.“I spent 7 months building a frameworkless, 100% Vanilla JS New Tab extension with 57 live canvas animations. It got cloned on the Web Store without a Fork or a Star, so here is the original!”
- Viola — Provides a Chromium-based cross-platform web browser that syncs tabs, workspaces and groups in real time across desktop and Android.“I built a spiritual successor to the Arc web browser (cross-platform...Mac, Win, Linux, Android). Full desktop experience on mobile. Would love feedback!”
Education and learning
AI tutors, flashcards, language learning, video summarizers and reading tools for students and self-learners.
58 projects · 3.2% share
- AI study and tutoring apps15
- Ebook readers and book trackers15
- Language learning apps14
- YouTube AI summarizers & note-takers9
- AI flashcard study tools5
- Offers a niche language-learning web app with monthly, yearly, and lifetime subscriptions.“Launched my first app. Great feedback, almost no sales.”
- LessonOps — Provides a hosted software service for lesson operations, though the post gives no feature details.“Built a SaaS and completely lost on marketing”
- ShelfLife — Tracks books on a virtual shelf with realistic spines that can be arranged, decorated, and shared with others.“ShelfLife: A book tracker with shelves that look like your real bookcase”
File, document and everyday web utilities
Privacy-friendly browser tools for PDFs, image conversion, documents, forms, QR codes, file sharing, vaults, links and calculators.
57 projects · 2.9% share
- Browser-based utility tool collections11
- File sharing and transfer tools10
- Browser-based PDF toolkits7
- Document scanning and processing tools7
- Browser image compressors and converters6
- Online calculators and math tools5
- Encrypted vaults and password managers4
- URL shorteners and link-in-bio pages3
- Online form builders and autofill2
- Pricing and cost calculators1
- QR code generators and scanners1
- Decimen — Transfers files between phones by flashing rapidly changing QR codes that the receiving phone's camera reads, without needing a network connection.“Had an idea for air gapped file transfer, able to get 120 KB/s”
- Breeze — Transfers files between nearby devices over local network or hotspot, with optional device sync and gifted themes.“I built an app that is like no other app I’ve seen”
- Image Converter — Converts image files between formats in the browser without uploading them to a server.“Image Converter”
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.
55 projects · 2.9% share
- Phone app blockers14
- Habit tracker apps12
- YouTube browser extensions12
- Social media feed tools11
- Distracting website blockers3
- Challenge-to-dismiss alarm apps3
- Instant Memory — Organizes saved social media posts into one searchable place.“After 10 years as a backend engineer, I finally shipped my first mobile app. Turns out building it wasn't the hard part.”
- Nished — Tracks daily and weekly tasks with gamified XP, levels, streaks, and quests to motivate completion.“After 14 years as a software developer, I finally released my first iOS and Android app—and it was vibe coded”
- Downloads media from X (Twitter) posts through a Chrome extension.“My free chrome extension is doing great”
Indie maker launch and validation
Platforms for validating ideas, launching and promoting side projects, building websites and exchanging feedback and testing.
53 projects · 2.8% share
- Website builders and portfolios18
- Product feedback and testimonial tools10
- Indie project showcase and launch platforms9
- Startup promotion and creator deals7
- Startup idea validation tools6
- Indie app testing exchanges3
- RS Toolworks — Presents a demo website for a tools business, asking viewers to critique its design.“Requesting brutal breakdown of my site”
- Goblin Town — Lets visitors walk and jump through a pixel-art town where portfolio projects are discovered, with drawing and community message features.“I built my portfolio as a small pixel-art town instead of a normal website”
- Presents a developer's personal portfolio as a website, with three generated design options.“Created my portfolio website using Claude. Is the "vibe coded" vibe too much in the face?”
Small business and freelance operations
CRMs, invoicing, client management, ecommerce, AI receptionists, WhatsApp automation, marketplaces and reselling tools for small businesses.
46 projects · 2.5% share
- SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure10
- WhatsApp business automation tools7
- Resale marketplace listing tools6
- Freelance client management tools6
- Shopify and ecommerce merchant tools6
- Freelancer invoice generators5
- AI phone receptionists & voice agents4
- Freelance and local gig marketplaces2
- Handmade crafts and physical goods0
- Forminta — Generates invoices for free and offers a paid tier with a dashboard, invoice history, recurring invoices, and branding.“I built a SaaS and 3 months later, no paid users yet”
- wurkflo — Helps small business owners review and document their business processes such as hiring, inventory, and client onboarding.“Everyone says "build an MVP and talk to customers" - but every subreddit bans feedback posts. So what's the actual move?”
- authagonal — Provides hosted authentication with SSO over OIDC, SAML, and SCIM, plus MFA and passkeys.“I made an authentication sass with un-tiered SSO.”
Careers and job search
Job search assistants, resume tailoring, interview and conversation practice, coding interview prep and builder networking.
39 projects · 2.1% share
- AI job search assistants15
- Coding interview practice tools8
- AI resume tailoring tools6
- AI conversation practice coaches6
- AI mock interview practice3
- Founder and builder matchmaking1
- PracticeTherapy.ai — Lets therapists practice clinical skills by responding out loud to AI-generated simulated client videos and receiving voice feedback on their responses.“PracticeTherapy.ai: free training simulator for therapists practicing with simulated clients”
- ResumeChat — Gives job seekers a personal website with their resume and an AI chatbot trained on their career history, plus visitor analytics.“Is my idea terrible, or is my marketing terrible?”
- RoleShift — Offers a free career quiz that matches users to career directions with routes into them, and plans a UK job board listing employers who hire on potential.“I built a job board for career-changers and new grads because I was sick of entry-level yet 3 years experience required…”
Sports fan apps
Sports management sims, trivia, prediction pools and live score tools for fans of football and other sports.
28 projects · 1.5% share
- Puck Passport — Reconstructs a user's attended NHL games from historical data and tracks milestones, badges, and progress toward visiting all 32 arenas.“I built Puck Passport - an Attendance Tracker for NHL Games”
- Master XI — Lets players pick a national team's lineup, tactics and substitutions and simulate the 2026 World Cup to compare against the real coach.“I built a football strategy game where you rewrite the 2026 World Cup”
- The Cut — Runs a survivor-style NFL contest where players pick one player per week and are eliminated when their pick fails, with contests created and shared among friends.“Calling All NFL Fans - Looking For Testers in Inaugural Season!”
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
111 projects this week were too far from every group. New kinds of projects show up here first.
- solar-b — Carries passengers and luggage as a pedal-assisted recumbent trike whose body is solar panels that charge its battery.“I built a DIY solar vehicle (open source)”
- Offers a paid subscription product with a free trial, and its first paying customer canceled two days after subscribing.“My little project finally got first 9$ payment!”
- Scouter — Promotes an app through a landing website, which the author asks reviewers to critique visually.“Does my website look vibe coded?”
- Browser extension with about 1500 organic users; the post does not say what it does.“1500 users! Wow!”
- Extra Extra Crunch — Sells a shelf-stable chili crunch condiment made with garlic, shallots, and de-seeded chili peppers.“I started a chili crunch business with my husband and we've shipped over 125 jars in the first 24hrs.”