Aug 3 – 9, 2026 · Edition W32
What Reddit's builders are making this week
1,879 new projects from 9 builder subreddits, sorted into 200 groups and 23 themes. Fastest riser: AI-assisted game creation ▲ +67%.
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-assisted game creation▲ +67% 56 in 4w
- Website audit and monitoring tools▲ +58% 56 in 4w
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents▲ +53% 44 in 4w
- Event planning and scheduling tools▲ +51% 53 in 4w
- Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking▲ +51% 45 in 4w
- Casual browser games▲ +49% 68 in 4w
- Tabletop RPG and RPG games▲ +48% 46 in 4w
- All-in-one fitness and health trackers▲ +46% 55 in 4w
Cooling
Same comparison, biggest drops. Same 40-project minimum.
- Football fan games and apps▼ -52% 40 in 4w
- Website builders and portfolios▼ -25% 58 in 4w
- Habit tracker apps▼ -24% 59 in 4w
- Map-based place discovery apps▼ -23% 53 in 4w
Most built this week
| Group | Projects | vs prior 4 wks |
|---|---|---|
| AI coding agent tooling | 23 | -11% |
| AI image generation and creative canvases | 22 | +8% |
| Multi-agent coding workspaces | 21 | -9% |
| Gym workout trackers | 20 | +6% |
| AI text rewriting tools | 20 | ▲ +27% |
| Event planning and scheduling tools | 20 | ▲ +102% |
| AI chat organizers and prompt libraries | 19 | -11% |
| Personal budgeting and expense trackers | 19 | -3% |
| Personal note-taking apps | 19 | +23% |
| Language learning apps | 19 | +8% |
| Casual browser games | 19 | +24% |
| AI job search assistants | 17 | +9% |
By theme
Games and gaming tools
Casual, puzzle, word, trivia, strategy, multiplayer and indie games plus trackers and tools for gamers and collectors.
164 projects · 8.0% share
- Casual browser games19
- Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking16
- Casual mobile arcade games14
- Online card, board & party games13
- AI-assisted game creation13
- Video game backlog trackers12
- Browser strategy and simulation games12
- Daily word puzzle games11
- Daily logic puzzle games10
- Chess training and analysis tools10
- Browser racing and driving games9
- Tabletop RPG and RPG games8
- Trivia and quiz games5
- Geography guessing and quiz games5
- Indie video game showcases4
- Trading card collection trackers3
- Tidewright — Simulates sandcastle building on the beach with selectable textures and visual effects.“I created Sandcastle simulator with Opus 5.”
- VibeFPS — Runs a browser-based cyberpunk first-person shooter with wave-based combat against procedurally generated drones and bosses.“A vibe-coded 3D FPS that runs entirely in your browser”
- Vibe Games Studio — Runs an autonomous AI-agent team that pitches, builds, markets and publishes browser games with no human staff.“I vibe coded an entire game studio. No humans. 37 games live.”
Creative media generation and editing
AI and manual tools for creating and editing images, video, 3D, music, audio, subtitles, stories and photo libraries.
133 projects · 7.0% share
- AI image generation and creative canvases22
- Audio playback and sound tools16
- Music practice and creation tools15
- AI and desktop video editors13
- AI 3D model generation13
- Photo library organizers and sharing12
- Photo and image editors12
- AI story generation and fiction writing11
- AI short video generators10
- AI music and song generation5
- Video subtitle generation and translation4
- gesture.live — Turns hand gestures tracked by camera into chords, melodies, drums and effects for electronic music.“I made a website that turns hand movements into electronic music”
- Lets people buy individual cubes in a shared 3D grid and attach a name, message, picture, or voice note to each one, with deeper layers unlocking as outer layers sell out.“I'm building a big cube where you buy one small cube and put whatever you want on it”
- Rescript — Edits video by cutting clips according to words deleted from an on-device transcript.“I built a free open source Descript alternative that edits podcasts on-device”
AI coding agents and agent orchestration
Tools for running, monitoring, orchestrating, securing and giving memory to AI coding agents and multi-agent systems.
117 projects · 5.9% share
- AI coding agent tooling23
- Multi-agent coding workspaces21
- AI agent orchestration platforms16
- Codebase analysis for AI-written code15
- Claude Code session monitors11
- AI coding agents for Git repos10
- AI agent security guardrails9
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents8
- Persistent memory for AI agents3
- MCP server tooling1
- Provides a command-line developer tool built with the Freebuff coding assistant.“Built a CLI dev tool with Freebuff – looking for feedback”
- Gitcito — Provides a desktop Git client with workspaces, tabs, integrated terminals, diffs, a merge conflict solver, file previews, and AI-generated commit messages.“I vibe coded a GIT client”
- Checks AI assistant responses before they reach users and flags possible violations of privacy, financial, and sanctions regulations.“One year building, three months selling, zero customers. Frustrated and exhausted - where did I go wrong? i will not promote”
Marketing, SEO and sales
Tools for content generation, social scheduling, SEO and AI search visibility, ads, outbound sales, email, app store optimization and analytics.
115 projects · 6.3% share
- AI outbound sales prospecting15
- SEO audit tools13
- AI marketing content generators12
- AI search visibility trackers11
- AI social media schedulers9
- Email inbox and infrastructure tools9
- Reddit marketing and lead finding7
- Website audit and monitoring tools6
- Web and SaaS analytics dashboards6
- Local business lead finders6
- App store optimization tools6
- AI email writing and outreach tools5
- App Store screenshot generators4
- LinkedIn outreach and content tools4
- AI paid ads management tools2
- SuperCMO — Provides open-source skills that teach AI agents to generate marketing creatives such as UGC videos, product videos and photoshoots.“I left my job at Google to build startups. It's been 2 years. And it has not been pretty.”
- Wizible — Researches SEO topics from Search Console data, generates articles from competitor pages, and optimizes published pages automatically.“Built a Tool that literally automates SEO”
- Sitesyn — Builds an editable brand and audience profile from a product URL, then generates marketing graphics and short animated videos with AI-generated imagery through a chat interface.“What are you working on this week? Drop it here”
Personal finance and investing
Budgeting, expense and subscription tracking, bill splitting, pay tracking, trading journals, stock research and crypto tools.
97 projects · 5.3% share
- Personal budgeting and expense trackers19
- Shift, hours and pay trackers14
- Personal finance planners and trackers12
- Retail trading tools and journals11
- Receipt scanning & expense tracking9
- AI stock research tools9
- Crypto wallets and payment tools6
- Subscription and recurring charge trackers5
- Investment portfolio trackers4
- Crypto trading and portfolio tools4
- SEC filing stock research tools2
- Group expense splitting apps2
- JournalX — Logs and analyzes trading activity in a trading journal app.“A competitor took our app name and is now outranking us on Google. What do we do?”
- Delivers analysis of stock earnings reports to a Discord server within a minute of release.“Hi! I built a real-time alert and analysis for earning reports!”
- Spent — Logs personal expenses on an iPhone from typed entries or receipt photos, with an optional on-device AI that extracts receipt details and answers spending questions.“i got tired of paying a subscription just to look at my own spending, so i built an expense tracker where the AI runs on-device”
AI assistants, chat and model tools
Tools for organizing AI chats, comparing and routing LLMs, AI research, companions, desktop assistants and AI media detection.
96 projects · 5.1% share
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries19
- AI tool directories and usage trackers16
- AI research and source-cited answers12
- LLM gateways and model comparison11
- AI browser automation extensions11
- AI image detection and photo analysis9
- Desktop AI assistants7
- AI companion character chat6
- Multi-AI decision debate tools5
- why.com — Asks a series of follow-up questions after each answer to explore a topic by asking why repeatedly.“just launched why.com”
- Slopcheck — Presents a daily set of photos one at a time and asks players to guess whether each is real or AI-generated, then shows the clues.“I made a daily game that teaches you to spot AI-generated photos”
- Godwit — Runs large mixture-of-experts language models on small Apple Silicon Macs by streaming expert weights from SSD as needed.“I built an engine in Swift that runs a 120-billion-parameter AI model on a 16GB MacBook Air”
Personal productivity and notes
To-do lists, note-taking, calendars, reminders, focus timers, meeting notes and visual thinking tools for organizing work and life.
94 projects · 5.1% share
- Personal note-taking apps19
- Personal to-do and daily planners14
- Pomodoro focus timers14
- Personal reminder and nudge apps8
- Personal calendar apps8
- Visual canvases and diagram generators7
- AI meeting transcription and notes7
- Project management tools6
- AI voice note apps6
- Markdown editors and viewers5
- CountdownShare — Creates shareable countdown timers for events and deadlines, with a paid Pro tier and API access.“100+ users/day, but nobody will pay!”
- Spark — Lets users quickly dump unfinished ideas into a low-pressure place to store them.“made an app nobody wanted lol”
- Focusverse — Combines immersive background environments, ambient sounds, and radio with a timer, task list, week planner, and notes on one screen.“I built the focus space I wanted to study in and now people I don’t know are using it”
Health, fitness and wellness
Workout, nutrition, medication, mood, journaling, mental wellness, spiritual and astrology apps for personal wellbeing.
90 projects · 4.9% share
- Gym workout trackers20
- Personal journaling apps15
- Personal health and medication trackers12
- All-in-one fitness and health trackers12
- AI calorie and nutrition trackers12
- Mood trackers and personality quizzes7
- Mental wellness and calm apps6
- AI astrology and divination readings3
- Drink logging and cocktail apps2
- Scripture and prayer apps1
- Smart Jyotish AI — Calculates Vedic astrology charts and generates AI-written analysis of them.“Today, someone paid for the app I built. 🥹”
- Pond — Guides users through challenging negative thoughts in a daily thought journal, showing each thought as a fish whose swimming and the pond's mood reflect how distressing the thought feels.“I built a thought journal app where your thoughts become fish, now trying to work out how to distribute it honestly”
- PersonalTraits — Runs a personality test that shows people what motivates them.“I think most side projects don't die from a bad idea. They die from silence.”
Home, food and lifestyle
Family organizers, home inventory, meal planning, recipes, home design, pets, plants, wardrobes, real estate, shopping and dining.
82 projects · 4.5% share
- Pet health and care trackers11
- Plant identification and care apps11
- Recipe managers and generators9
- Restaurant discovery and group picking8
- Real estate & rental tools7
- Meal planners with grocery lists7
- Shared family and household organizers7
- Digital wardrobe and virtual try-on7
- Price trackers and comparison tools6
- Home inventory and maintenance trackers5
- Home, cabinet and construction design tools4
- airender.ai — Generates redesigns of an uploaded room photo using real purchasable products and produces a shopping list with prices and links.“I built an AI that redesigns your room using products you can actually buy”
- masland.tech RAM price tracker — Tracks DDR4 and DDR5 desktop memory prices on Newegg and Amazon over time.“I've been tracking the price of RAM over the last month and it has started to trend back down”
- Habiproof — Lets users create properties, add areas, scan rooms with AI to generate inspection checklists, and export them as PDF.“I’ve been a developer for nearly 20 years. I built and launched my latest app using 100% "vibe coding" with AI agents. Here is what I learned.”
Desktop and device utilities
Window managers, clipboard tools, file cleanup, dictation, screen capture, input remapping, wallpapers and device dashboards for power users.
79 projects · 4.2% share
- Desktop window and dock utilities17
- Screen recording and screenshot tools11
- Device monitors and ambient displays11
- Local voice dictation apps9
- Desktop pet companions7
- Android launchers and phone utilities7
- Desktop file organizers and cleanup7
- Clipboard history managers5
- Alternative computer input & remote control4
- Wallpaper apps and live wallpapers1
- Flairy — Applies themed, visually distinct icons to macOS folders so they can be recognized at a glance.“I built Flairy, a free macOS app that makes folder organization more visual”
- FocusBar — Shows live tickers, news, alerts, reminders and notes on a slim bar mounted above or below a monitor, with optional spoken news.“Built a little bar display that sits on top/below of my monitor so I stop missing important stuff behind my windows”
- Tabi — Displays a virtual creature in the browser that chases the cursor, hides in empty tabs, and reacts to loud notifications.“What if your browser had a tiny creature living inside it?”
Travel, maps and outdoors
Trip planners, place discovery maps, GPS tracking, interactive globes, sky trackers, weather and car ownership apps.
74 projects · 4.0% share
- Travel and trip planners17
- Map-based place discovery apps11
- GPS trip and ride tracking11
- Consumer weather apps10
- Interactive world maps and globes9
- Car ownership and maintenance apps8
- Sky, space and flight trackers8
- printm — Generates printable map posters of any place on Earth in many styles, with 3D terrain, route overlays, and rotating map videos.“I built a free map poster maker — any place on Earth, 3D terrain, and it records a rotating video of your map”
- Measures pitch and roll with altitude readings, records GPS breadcrumb trails exportable as GPX, and shows how to level a vehicle for camping.“My concept became a reality!”
- Searches flight prices across many airport pairs, dates and trip lengths at once and ranks the cheapest combinations.“I built a tool that checked 5,187 flexible flight combinations for me. Would this be useful to frequent travelers?”
File, document and everyday web utilities
Privacy-friendly browser tools for PDFs, image conversion, documents, forms, QR codes, file sharing, vaults, links and calculators.
73 projects · 4.0% share
- Browser image compressors and converters13
- Online calculators and math tools9
- Browser-based PDF toolkits8
- Document scanning and processing tools8
- Browser-based utility tool collections7
- File sharing and transfer tools7
- Pricing and cost calculators7
- Encrypted vaults and password managers6
- QR code generators and scanners4
- Online form builders and autofill3
- URL shorteners and link-in-bio pages1
- Number Ninja — Gamifies math homework for kids with characters, power-ups and maps to unlock, and shows parents which questions were missed.“I vibecoded an app that is for just one person, the most important person in my world.”
- PDFPookie — Edits, merges, splits, compresses and converts PDF files in a web browser.“I got tired of ugly PDF tools, so I built my own 😭”
- dimastoolbox — Offers a collection of free online utility tools, including QR code generation, with no paywalls, subscriptions or accounts.“I created a website with free tools.”
Developer tools and infrastructure
Deployment platforms, databases, monitoring, security scanners, app builders and low-level tinkering projects for developers.
71 projects · 3.7% share
- UI design extraction & AI design tools16
- Self-hosted app deployment & dev infra11
- Security scanners for AI-built apps9
- GitHub profile and repo tools9
- Network diagnostics and VPN tools6
- Hobby languages and operating systems5
- Uptime and API monitoring5
- AI prompt-to-app builders4
- Database clients and SQL tools4
- Domain name search tools2
- Scans a company's public internet footprint (websites, domains, IPs, email addresses) for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and suggests fixes.“Launched on a product directory and here are the actual numbers that surprised me”
- Monitors third-party API responses for schema, field, type, or value changes and sends alerts, alongside uptime and heartbeat checks.“Early stages – In the early planning stage without any users and being very open about it. I need some genuine feedback before I invest time in building, competing, and marketing this.”
- Ultravibecoding — Provides a programming language, compiler, bare-bones OS, and a WPF terminal host where AI agents coordinate builds through a shared lock.“Ultravibecoding”
Entertainment, music and news consumption
Apps for discovering and tracking music, movies, TV, podcasts, radio, livestreams and curated news digests.
68 projects · 3.6% share
- Movie & TV recommendation trackers13
- Music discovery and sharing apps10
- TV, movie and anime trackers10
- AI news aggregators and digests9
- Online video downloaders and players7
- Livestream viewing and streamer tools7
- Local music and radio players5
- Internet radio players4
- AI news aggregators and digests2
- Podcast apps and AI tools1
- Don't Save Matt Damon — Lets visitors make jokes about Matt Damon being rescued in movies by collecting and showing rescue-related content.“I vibecoded the website I wanted to build 10 years ago”
- StarFlicks — Tracks movie and TV watchlists and watched history, with season and episode tracking, rankings, and filtering.“I built StarFlicks: A 100% free, ad-free Movie & TV Tracker — with Trakt / TV Time import!”
- NoBoxTV — Streams free-to-air live TV channels in the browser with no app or sign-up required.“I built a small project called NoBoxTV”
Social networks, messaging and dating
Alternative social networks, encrypted and anonymous chat, dating and couples apps, greeting gifts, polls and event planning.
68 projects · 3.6% share
- Event planning and scheduling tools20
- Personalized digital greeting gifts12
- Alternative and anonymous social networks11
- Dating and couples apps8
- Anonymous and community chat apps6
- Opinion polls and civic tech6
- Private encrypted messaging apps5
- notbrb — Recreates MSN Messenger in the browser with real-time chat, nudges, sounds and winks between friends.“I rebuilt MSN Messenger in the browser, real-time chat, nudges, sounds and winks actually work”
- Lets a user send a yes-or-no question link to someone, where the NO button runs away from the cursor.“my first money ever came from a joke product”
- Hey Postcard — Lets users send digital postcards that arrive the next morning at a random time instead of instantly.“We built a messaging app where messages intentionally don’t arrive instantly”
Small business and freelance operations
CRMs, invoicing, client management, ecommerce, AI receptionists, WhatsApp automation, marketplaces and reselling tools for small businesses.
65 projects · 3.6% share
- SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure16
- WhatsApp business automation tools10
- Freelancer invoice generators9
- Resale marketplace listing tools7
- Freelance client management tools7
- Shopify and ecommerce merchant tools5
- AI phone receptionists & voice agents5
- Freelance and local gig marketplaces5
- Handmade crafts and physical goods1
- Generates customer offer proposals as PDFs from client, project, price list, tax and discount inputs, with a database backend and multi-language support.“My manager vibecoded custom offer software - no coding experience”
- Wapes — Sends bulk WhatsApp messages and manages contacts in a CRM from within Chrome.“My Chrome extension just got its first paying users this week — only 1600 installs so far”
- shelfyai — Reads uploaded inventory files with AI, matches items to existing stock, and updates stock levels.“I created an app I need myself. How do I find more people like me?”
Browser extensions and web reading
Extensions for managing tabs and bookmarks, clipping and summarizing pages, rewriting text and tweaking the browsing experience.
59 projects · 3.1% share
- AI text rewriting tools20
- Browser extensions and utilities15
- Bookmark managers11
- Browser tab managers8
- Browser reading and clipping tools5
- Hides elements or content on web pages through a browser extension.“700 users to 0 in a single day! :0”
- Adds quick-action buttons to a website by tweaking the CSS of its existing buttons, with a premium tier planned via Lemon Squeezy.“scammed by lemonsqueezie (Lemon Squeezie)”
- Scores AI likelihood sentence by sentence, explains why text was flagged, and logs edits to produce an authenticity report.“I built an AI detector because I got tired of teachers/clients accusing my writing based on a blind score”
Education and learning
AI tutors, flashcards, language learning, video summarizers and reading tools for students and self-learners.
57 projects · 3.1% share
- Language learning apps19
- Ebook readers and book trackers15
- AI study and tutoring apps13
- YouTube AI summarizers & note-takers6
- AI flashcard study tools4
- Batch translates ebooks between 100+ languages using an AI model, with a custom glossary for fixed term pairs and an experimental OCR path for scanned pages.“I vibe coded a translate ebooks app in Windows”
- Clulib — Lets users chat with an AI companion that has read an uploaded book, extracts characters and relationships, and hosts book discussion clubs.“Built an AI reading companion because nobody around me reads the same books — would love feedback”
- Perenne AI — Generates study notes, flashcards, and exam-style questions using AI.“I built a website and i'm hoping i can get some beta users who can test it out for me and give me some feedback on what to improve thanks.”
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.
54 projects · 2.9% share
- Habit tracker apps13
- YouTube browser extensions12
- Phone app blockers9
- Social media feed tools8
- Distracting website blockers8
- Challenge-to-dismiss alarm apps4
- How Are You?! — Learns an elderly person's daily routine on their Android phone and notifies family when it detects unusual inactivity.“I give up - and here's what building an app for elderly parents actually taught me”
- Stop Swarm — Overlays pixel-art invaders on the Android screen as daily screen time approaches a user-set goal.“Invaders will take over your phone when you exceed your screen-time goal”
- AlgoRight — Filters out unwanted videos from social media feeds and sends a weekly email summary of watched and removed content.“When you really lock in and only work toward your goals”
Indie maker launch and validation
Platforms for validating ideas, launching and promoting side projects, building websites and exchanging feedback and testing.
51 projects · 2.8% share
- Startup idea validation tools13
- Website builders and portfolios9
- Indie project showcase and launch platforms9
- Indie app testing exchanges8
- Product feedback and testimonial tools7
- Startup promotion and creator deals5
- Collects and shares small profitable micro SaaS startup ideas on a website with paid featured listings.“It took me 148 days to earn my first dollar online”
- apppa.ge — Creates a single shareable link that redirects visitors to the correct app store page based on their device.“My tiny tool just hit $50 MRR after 2 years 🥹”
- Appstantly — Automates setting up in-app subscription products and paywall entitlements across App Store, Google Play, Stripe and RevenueCat from a single pricing config.“Have I just found my $10K/MRR idea or did I just waste my time (and tokens)?”
Careers and job search
Job search assistants, resume tailoring, interview and conversation practice, coding interview prep and builder networking.
45 projects · 2.5% share
- AI job search assistants17
- AI conversation practice coaches8
- Founder and builder matchmaking6
- AI resume tailoring tools5
- AI mock interview practice5
- Coding interview practice tools4
- Manyplace — Provides a shared virtual room where people work, study or read alongside each other in a calm setting.“I built a peaceful virtual place where you can work, study or read alongside others. Like a virtual café or library.”
- Job Track AU:NZ - For Seek — Reveals hidden salary ranges, shows applicant counts, and tracks job applications locally on Seek listings via a browser extension.“Hit my first 100 users 😇 on a tool I built for myself while job hunting. Honestly feels surreal.”
- Lets founders meet and review each other's projects on one platform.“Does anybody have tips on how to scale my SaaS?”
Sports fan apps
Sports management sims, trivia, prediction pools and live score tools for fans of football and other sports.
25 projects · 1.3% share
- Keeps score for friendly sports games played among friends.“First time making an app with vibe coding and need advice on publishing”
- Gaff3r — Organises local football games by managing squads, positions, balanced teams and attendance.“I built a retro football match organiser inspired by Sensible Soccer (vibe check/feedback welcome!)”
- Predict Six — Presents six daily yes-or-no questions across topics like sports and politics, then scores users' calls against actual outcomes.“I vibe coded a social prediction game and need testers”
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
102 projects this week were too far from every group. New kinds of projects show up here first.
- OpenCADStudio — Provides a CAD application for creating and editing technical drawings.“I vibe coded a CAD program”
- OpenValve — Automatically waters plants by opening a motor-driven pinch valve when soil is dry and closing it after a set amount of water is delivered.“i built my own 3d-printable irrigation "timer" and made it open source”
- TraceGraphs — Not described in the post.“Got my first trialing customer”
- Memory Share — Lets older adults write and preserve their life stories through a web service.“I built the platform to help all seniors write and preserve their memoirs (there is a free basic plan). Struggling to promote the service. Need your honest feedback.”
- Lets HR teams run employee recognition programs.“Need ideas on marketing my SaaS”