Aug 24 – 30, 2026 · Edition W35
What Reddit's builders are making this week
1,828 new projects from 9 builder subreddits, sorted into 200 groups and 23 themes. Fastest riser: Startup promotion and creator deals ▲ +111%.
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.
- Startup promotion and creator deals▲ +111% 45 in 4w
- Browser image compressors and converters▲ +106% 50 in 4w
- Event planning and scheduling tools▲ +51% 61 in 4w
- Personalized digital greeting gifts▲ +50% 40 in 4w
- Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking▲ +48% 54 in 4w
- Audio playback and sound tools▲ +41% 49 in 4w
- Video game backlog trackers▲ +35% 52 in 4w
- Music practice and creation tools▲ +34% 55 in 4w
Cooling
Same comparison, biggest drops. Same 40-project minimum.
- Claude Code session monitors▼ -35% 41 in 4w
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries▼ -30% 63 in 4w
- AI short video generators▼ -27% 52 in 4w
- AI and desktop video editors▼ -22% 51 in 4w
- AI browser automation extensions▼ -21% 41 in 4w
Most built this week
| Group | Projects | vs prior 4 wks |
|---|---|---|
| Personal to-do and daily planners | 25 | +23% |
| AI image generation and creative canvases | 22 | +17% |
| Gym workout trackers | 21 | -2% |
| Local voice dictation apps | 21 | ▲ +71% |
| Multi-agent coding workspaces | 20 | -5% |
| Map-based place discovery apps | 20 | ▲ +48% |
| Habit tracker apps | 19 | ▲ +27% |
| SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure | 19 | ▲ +39% |
| Personal budgeting and expense trackers | 18 | -7% |
| AI text rewriting tools | 18 | -1% |
| Browser image compressors and converters | 18 | ▲ +96% |
| AI chat organizers and prompt libraries | 17 | 0% |
By theme
Games and gaming tools
Casual, puzzle, word, trivia, strategy, multiplayer and indie games plus trackers and tools for gamers and collectors.
151 projects · 9.6% share
- Casual mobile arcade games17
- Online card, board & party games16
- Daily logic puzzle games16
- Video game backlog trackers15
- Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking15
- Casual browser games12
- Daily word puzzle games10
- Trivia and quiz games9
- Tabletop RPG and RPG games7
- Browser strategy and simulation games6
- AI-assisted game creation6
- Browser racing and driving games6
- Trading card collection trackers5
- Indie video game showcases5
- Chess training and analysis tools3
- Geography guessing and quiz games3
- Deadfall — Lets players play a browser game that grows with suggestions the author adds each day.“Day 4 of adding whatever you tell me into my game”
- Lets viewers suggest features that the developer adds to a game each day.“Day 3 of adding whatever you tell me into my game”
- Rhystic Tracker — Tracks Magic: The Gathering Arena game state and displays it in a desktop interface.“How to avoid "AI" default design? Help Please”
Creative media generation and editing
AI and manual tools for creating and editing images, video, 3D, music, audio, subtitles, stories and photo libraries.
108 projects · 6.4% share
- AI image generation and creative canvases22
- Music practice and creation tools15
- Photo library organizers and sharing12
- AI and desktop video editors12
- Audio playback and sound tools11
- AI short video generators9
- Photo and image editors9
- AI 3D model generation7
- AI music and song generation5
- Video subtitle generation and translation4
- AI story generation and fiction writing2
- StemKit — Downloads audio from a YouTube link, splits it locally into selected instrument stems, and plays them synced with the video.“I built a free desktop app that splits any YouTube song into stems”
- Generates 3D game assets by running an AI model through an iterative create-and-judge workflow from a reference image.“AI 3D Asset Creation Engine gets better”
- Lets users mix and match shapes and presets in an interactive visual tool.“Improved based on Feedback”
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 · 5.4% share
- Website audit and monitoring tools13
- AI marketing content generators10
- AI paid ads management tools10
- Web and SaaS analytics dashboards8
- AI search visibility trackers8
- AI social media schedulers7
- App store optimization tools7
- SEO audit tools6
- Reddit marketing and lead finding6
- AI outbound sales prospecting5
- Email inbox and infrastructure tools5
- AI email writing and outreach tools5
- Local business lead finders5
- LinkedIn outreach and content tools4
- App Store screenshot generators3
- GeoHats — Helps brand owners appear in AI search results by generating improved website pages, social media content, and backlinks.“I finally made $1150 after failing 4 times 🥂”
- Helps content creators manage client pipelines, pitch portfolios, and view analytics in a B2B SaaS tool.“Hit 100+ waitlist users on my SaaS, but struggling with B2B customer acquisition. Am I overcomplicating this?”
- Zirofix — Scans websites for issues across SEO, accessibility, and performance.“built a simple website diagnostic tool — looking for feedback”
Personal productivity and notes
To-do lists, note-taking, calendars, reminders, focus timers, meeting notes and visual thinking tools for organizing work and life.
97 projects · 5.1% share
- Personal to-do and daily planners25
- Personal note-taking apps14
- Project management tools14
- Visual canvases and diagram generators11
- Personal calendar apps9
- Personal reminder and nudge apps8
- Pomodoro focus timers5
- AI meeting transcription and notes4
- AI voice note apps4
- Markdown editors and viewers3
- Veltrune — Provides a productivity app that the author promotes to users who sign up but mostly do not use it.“My users are churning and they refuse to talk to me”
- Provides a personal knowledge management system with Android and desktop versions that share a common database.“How do I give away apps that need a database?”
- Small Talk Notebook — Stores notes about people met in conversation so the user can recall details before seeing them again.“I built a memory aid app 6 months ago, it has helped a lot”
Health, fitness and wellness
Workout, nutrition, medication, mood, journaling, mental wellness, spiritual and astrology apps for personal wellbeing.
92 projects · 4.6% share
- Gym workout trackers21
- All-in-one fitness and health trackers13
- Personal health and medication trackers12
- Personal journaling apps12
- Mental wellness and calm apps10
- AI calorie and nutrition trackers8
- Mood trackers and personality quizzes5
- Scripture and prayer apps5
- Drink logging and cocktail apps3
- AI astrology and divination readings3
- Tracks the author's fitness journey through a personal fitness app that has paying subscribers.“Finally got my first 4 users”
- Lets users journal and track personal entries in a web app with a free tier and a paid tier.“123 active users, $0 MRR. How do I actually get people to pay?”
- Iris — Lets people write private journal entries that an AI companion reflects on, asks questions about, and finds patterns across, with entries encrypted under a passphrase only the user holds.“Day 14 of my first App Store launch, which I have been building on the side over a year”
File, document and everyday web utilities
Privacy-friendly browser tools for PDFs, image conversion, documents, forms, QR codes, file sharing, vaults, links and calculators.
90 projects · 4.8% share
- Browser image compressors and converters18
- Document scanning and processing tools11
- Browser-based utility tool collections11
- Browser-based PDF toolkits10
- Online calculators and math tools7
- URL shorteners and link-in-bio pages7
- Encrypted vaults and password managers6
- File sharing and transfer tools6
- Pricing and cost calculators6
- Online form builders and autofill5
- QR code generators and scanners3
- iButler — Lets hotel guests scan a QR code to order food, drinks, room service and other hotel services from their phone, routing tickets to the right staff station.“Built a QR room-service portal for a boutique hotel. 209 orders, €4,941 through it this month.”
- Manages content for organizations in a specialized niche as a standalone offline HTML file.“Thinking of going commercial...”
- FeatCtrl — Provides a SaaS sign-up and login flow that pushes users toward passkeys, with TOTP required for password accounts.“Friction on user registration/authentication ?”
Personal finance and investing
Budgeting, expense and subscription tracking, bill splitting, pay tracking, trading journals, stock research and crypto tools.
82 projects · 4.0% share
- Personal budgeting and expense trackers18
- Personal finance planners and trackers9
- Receipt scanning & expense tracking9
- AI stock research tools8
- Subscription and recurring charge trackers7
- Group expense splitting apps7
- Retail trading tools and journals6
- SEC filing stock research tools6
- Shift, hours and pay trackers4
- Crypto trading and portfolio tools4
- Investment portfolio trackers2
- Crypto wallets and payment tools2
- Calculates how much money is genuinely spendable today by accounting for all upcoming bills, paydays and credit card spending, and notifies the user on the morning a manual payment is due.“I built an iOS app out of the budgeting spreadsheet I've used for 16 years.”
- Agaemon — Sits between AI agents and blockchain, checking each requested transaction against a policy before executing it.“AI agents can execute transactions. But who controls what they’re allowed to do?”
- Canadian finance calculator — Calculates Canadian take-home pay, tax-sheltered account growth, retirement timelines, debt payoff, and rent vs buy in the browser without sending data to a server.“I built a free Canadian finance calculator that runs entirely in your browser (no backend, no account, no data collection)”
Indie maker launch and validation
Platforms for validating ideas, launching and promoting side projects, building websites and exchanging feedback and testing.
82 projects · 4.4% share
- Website builders and portfolios17
- Startup promotion and creator deals17
- Startup idea validation tools16
- Indie project showcase and launch platforms14
- Indie app testing exchanges10
- Product feedback and testimonial tools8
- testimonialvault — Collects customer testimonials and displays them on a wall of love page.“I code at 4 AM in Cuba because that's when the internet works. No Stripe, no PayPal, 0 users. Building in public anyway.”
- PASTEL — Runs a SaaS whose function the post does not describe; the domain suggests a review service.“Genuinely, I want to give up.”
- WordPress to Astro site port — Converts a WordPress and Elementor site's database dump and media into an Astro site with custom interactive islands.“Ported an Entire WordPress & Elementor Site to Astro Islands in 15 Minutes (100% Vibe Coding)”
AI coding agents and agent orchestration
Tools for running, monitoring, orchestrating, securing and giving memory to AI coding agents and multi-agent systems.
80 projects · 4.9% share
- Multi-agent coding workspaces20
- AI agent orchestration platforms14
- Claude Code session monitors9
- Codebase analysis for AI-written code9
- AI coding agents for Git repos9
- AI coding agent tooling7
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents5
- AI agent security guardrails5
- Persistent memory for AI agents1
- MCP server tooling1
- coderook — Hosts code and files in version-controlled repositories as an alternative to GitHub.“I made this to use instead of GitHub and Codeburge”
- Scans a code repository to identify the product features actually implemented and shows evidence for each one.“Two weeks ago my repo scanner was able find 4 of 48 features. Today it found 42”
- Foremerge — Lets parallel coding agents declare planned symbol-level changes in a repo and raises warnings when their plans collide before code is written.“We open-sourced the internal tool that stops our AI coding agents from breaking each other's work”
Desktop and device utilities
Window managers, clipboard tools, file cleanup, dictation, screen capture, input remapping, wallpapers and device dashboards for power users.
80 projects · 4.5% share
- Local voice dictation apps21
- Screen recording and screenshot tools10
- Desktop window and dock utilities10
- Android launchers and phone utilities9
- Desktop file organizers and cleanup8
- Device monitors and ambient displays7
- Desktop pet companions5
- Alternative computer input & remote control5
- Wallpaper apps and live wallpapers3
- Clipboard history managers2
- Motboard — Displays text messages, weather and rotating playlists as a split-flap style board in a browser.“I built an alternative to Vestaboard that doesn't cost 199/year”
- Notely — Transcribes speech into text on iOS, Android, and Mac.“Coding the app wasn’t the hard part, here’s what I learned”
- Controls Govee smart lights by letting the user point the phone camera at a bulb to change its color or brightness.“would you use this?”
AI assistants, chat and model tools
Tools for organizing AI chats, comparing and routing LLMs, AI research, companions, desktop assistants and AI media detection.
77 projects · 4.3% share
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries17
- AI browser automation extensions11
- LLM gateways and model comparison10
- AI research and source-cited answers9
- AI tool directories and usage trackers8
- AI companion character chat7
- AI image detection and photo analysis7
- Desktop AI assistants5
- Multi-AI decision debate tools3
- 4 Log — Generates four humorous persona reactions to a life decision a user describes.“I built an app that asks “4 log kya kahenge?” about your life decisions”
- Comet AI — Runs an AI browser that performs low-risk actions automatically, asks before sensitive ones, and blocks dangerous ones.“I never asked the one question that mattered. So I built a browser that asks before it acts.”
- free-llm — Provides free temporary access to LLM inference through an API.“Free LLM API access for a limited time”
Developer tools and infrastructure
Deployment platforms, databases, monitoring, security scanners, app builders and low-level tinkering projects for developers.
76 projects · 4.5% share
- UI design extraction & AI design tools17
- Uptime and API monitoring12
- Self-hosted app deployment & dev infra10
- Security scanners for AI-built apps10
- AI prompt-to-app builders8
- GitHub profile and repo tools6
- Database clients and SQL tools5
- Network diagnostics and VPN tools5
- Domain name search tools2
- Hobby languages and operating systems1
- NotifKit — Provides a self-hosted notification layer handling retries, scheduling, rate limits, deduplication, preferences, channel fallbacks and delivery tracking.“Open sourced my notification infra (delivers 230K+ notifs everyday) so nobody else has to pay per message. Self-hosted on your own Postgres/Redis, 0 cost per message.”
- reposwipe — Lets users swipe through, submit, save and upvote code repositories to discover new ones.“I built the tinder for finding new repos: reposwipe.com”
- Linear clone — Recreates the Linear issue tracker and Figma design tool interfaces as single-page web demos.“One-shot Prompt test”
Entertainment, music and news consumption
Apps for discovering and tracking music, movies, TV, podcasts, radio, livestreams and curated news digests.
69 projects · 3.7% share
- Music discovery and sharing apps15
- Online video downloaders and players12
- TV, movie and anime trackers8
- AI news aggregators and digests7
- Movie & TV recommendation trackers6
- Local music and radio players6
- Podcast apps and AI tools6
- Livestream viewing and streamer tools5
- Internet radio players2
- AI news aggregators and digests2
- Ventic — Streams torrent video while downloading and tracks watch progress, episodes, and subtitles across desktop, mobile, and TV.“I made Ventic - an app that streams torrents like Netflix, keeps track of what you're watching, and works on a TV remote”
- Radio Shuffle — Plays randomly shuffled radio stations for listeners to discover music.“Is my 2-year-old side project now part of LLM training data? Suddenly seeing clones everywhere”
- Ampwave — Plays locally stored music files with synced lyrics, an equalizer, and automatic artwork and metadata filling.“Ampwave - Your music, in motion”
Small business and freelance operations
CRMs, invoicing, client management, ecommerce, AI receptionists, WhatsApp automation, marketplaces and reselling tools for small businesses.
69 projects · 3.6% share
- SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure19
- Resale marketplace listing tools10
- AI phone receptionists & voice agents8
- Freelance and local gig marketplaces8
- Shopify and ecommerce merchant tools7
- WhatsApp business automation tools7
- Freelance client management tools6
- Freelancer invoice generators4
- Handmade crafts and physical goods0
- Helps sales reps with a productivity workflow for their deals, currently in development as a SaaS.“i left my good paying job at a software firm to build startups. its been 1 year now & I'm fucked up.”
- Automates a niche office task that previously took hours of manual work, delivered as a web app with subscriptions.“I unintentionally turned a python script into a full SaaS app.”
- Connects sole operators and small construction businesses with companies that need workers at short notice.“Any ideas on how to get people to get people on an app? open to any idea”
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
- Car ownership and maintenance apps12
- GPS trip and ride tracking9
- Sky, space and flight trackers6
- Interactive world maps and globes5
- Consumer weather apps4
- EarthView — Shows which cities lie on the opposite side of the planet when the phone is pointed at the ground.“I built an app where you can see what cities are on the other side of the earth”
- Deconstruct Sun — Captures a panoramic skyline, traces trees and buildings, and estimates direct-sun hours to produce a PDF site report.“Deconstruct Sun – An iPhone app for documenting and analyzing site sunlight”
- GPxplore — Records GPS tracks on Android and provides a GPX editor, fog-of-war exploration map, and per-track stats.“GPxplore: offline GPX recorder, viewer and editor (Android)”
Home, food and lifestyle
Family organizers, home inventory, meal planning, recipes, home design, pets, plants, wardrobes, real estate, shopping and dining.
68 projects · 3.5% share
- Real estate & rental tools13
- Digital wardrobe and virtual try-on10
- Price trackers and comparison tools8
- Shared family and household organizers7
- Restaurant discovery and group picking7
- Home, cabinet and construction design tools6
- Home inventory and maintenance trackers6
- Recipe managers and generators5
- Meal planners with grocery lists3
- Pet health and care trackers2
- Plant identification and care apps1
- Scores French addresses by likelihood of a property sale in the coming months, using open government transaction, energy and land registry data, and caps subscribers per postal-code sector.“Our product gets worse the more customers we sell it to. So we capped it.”
- iOwnIt — Lets household members take ownership of recurring chores and the mental tracking of what needs doing.“iOwnIt - an app for the mental load in a household”
- priceerrors.app — Sends phone notifications about deals, freebies, and price errors.“I built an app that send you different deals, freebies, price errors right on your phone”
Social networks, messaging and dating
Alternative social networks, encrypted and anonymous chat, dating and couples apps, greeting gifts, polls and event planning.
65 projects · 3.3% share
- Event planning and scheduling tools17
- Personalized digital greeting gifts12
- Alternative and anonymous social networks11
- Private encrypted messaging apps10
- Dating and couples apps8
- Opinion polls and civic tech6
- Anonymous and community chat apps1
- Wedding Crashers — Lets couples list a wedding by rough area and timeframe so strangers can request to attend, with the host approving each guest before details are revealed.“I built an app that lets couples fill empty wedding seats with strangers who actually want to be there”
- LDR Companion — Provides a private shared space for two people in a long-distance relationship, with a countdown to their next visit, each other's local time and distance, daily photos, shared memories, future plans, and activities for when apart.“I built a tiny app for long-distance couples because I missed the boring parts of being together”
- Money Behind the Ballot — Organizes political donation, corporate and PAC contribution data so people can see who funds politicians and campaigns.“I built a site to make political money easier to understand”
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.
63 projects · 3.4% share
- Habit tracker apps19
- YouTube browser extensions12
- Social media feed tools12
- Distracting website blockers10
- Phone app blockers7
- Challenge-to-dismiss alarm apps3
- Lategame — Tracks habits and tasks as XP and ranks with charts comparing progress across days and weeks.“My ADHD brain couldn't stick to any habit tracker, so I built one that actually feels like leveling up a character”
- Levelite — Turns completing real-life habits into RPG progress, letting users climb a roguelike tower and fight battles through their routine.“Levelite - I'm finally growing with my gamified routine app”
- EYEBALLS.WTF — Lets people pay to place a YouTube link on a public leaderboard ranked purely by bid amount.“The top spot on my leaderboard costs 3usd and I think that is the interesting part”
Browser extensions and web reading
Extensions for managing tabs and bookmarks, clipping and summarizing pages, rewriting text and tweaking the browsing experience.
57 projects · 3.2% share
- AI text rewriting tools18
- Bookmark managers14
- Browser reading and clipping tools11
- Browser tab managers8
- Browser extensions and utilities6
- Resurf — Collects bookmarks, screenshots and reference links into one visual, simple place for saving design inspiration and reading.“Started this side project in January for my own itch. Just crossed 10k revenue”
- Living Web: AI Assistant & Content Summarizer — Runs local or cloud LLMs in a browser sidebar to summarize pages, chat with documents, explain or translate text, and automate basic form filling and table exports.“I built a free Chrome extension to run local LLMs (Ollama, LM Studio) and cloud APIs in a browser sidebar”
- aa-dark — Applies a dark theme to the Artificial Analysis website so its pages are easier on the eyes.“for other people addicted to reading Artificial Analysis:”
Education and learning
AI tutors, flashcards, language learning, video summarizers and reading tools for students and self-learners.
55 projects · 2.7% share
- AI study and tutoring apps17
- Ebook readers and book trackers16
- Language learning apps14
- YouTube AI summarizers & note-takers4
- AI flashcard study tools4
- OpenStudy — Organizes links to official university course materials and generates self-study plans with progress tracking.“I built OpenStudy — a free way to find official university courses and create a flexible self-study plan”
- Ovid — Lets users import EPUB books into a browser-based 3D bookshelf and read them with paragraph-level toggling between original and translated text.“Ovid — a bilingual reader with 3D bookshelf”
- Study-Track — Tracks study sessions and supports productivity for students.“2.5k to 7k+ users in 90 days with $0 ad spend. SEO basically did all of it.”
Careers and job search
Job search assistants, resume tailoring, interview and conversation practice, coding interview prep and builder networking.
43 projects · 2.3% share
- AI job search assistants17
- AI resume tailoring tools11
- Coding interview practice tools4
- AI mock interview practice4
- Founder and builder matchmaking4
- AI conversation practice coaches3
- Matches European companies with curated fractional C-level executives through an online marketplace.“I co-founded and exited a startup the old way. Building a new venture from scratch now shows me how much has changed.”
- JobBoardSearch — Aggregates job listings from hundreds of niche job boards via their feeds and APIs into one searchable site with alerts and bots.“I started with a static HTML file containing 12 job boards. 4 years later it passed 100K 💵”
- Tailors a resume to a specific job posting using a built-in editor with AI assistance.“Am I stupid ? or just ethically challenged ?”
Sports fan apps
Sports management sims, trivia, prediction pools and live score tools for fans of football and other sports.
29 projects · 1.4% share
- StatGaze — Shows live and historical sports stats across several leagues, with player form comparisons, injury updates and AI-assisted natural-language search.“****The first 100 sign-ups get 1 year of the Pro tier entirely for free****. Test out my Sports Stats Webpage.”
- FootballManagerSim — Lets players run a text-based football club through a 35-season simulation and compete for trophies.“I've built a text based football manager for in between which is completely free and requires no login”
- MMA Bridge — Lets fans rate and review UFC events right after they end, pick a Fight of the Night, and make fantasy fight picks with accuracy tracking.“I built an MMA website and would really appreciate some feedback”
Miscellaneous
A catch-all of loosely related or undescribed side projects that don't fit a clear category.
1 projects · 0.0% share
- BeHind — Provides a social platform where early-career people share unpolished stories about their journeys and connect with others in similar situations.“Building an authentic social network app”
Didn't fit any group
123 projects this week were too far from every group. New kinds of projects show up here first.
- Screw IT — Lets players sort a messy pile of 777 nails and one screw on a virtual workbench.“Nobody asked for a nail sorting simulator. So i made one.”
- Checks that scanned barcodes match the correct product and adds items to a system quickly.“Quick app to check if the barcodes scan to the right product with a quick add to system function”
- vpnonly — Routes selected Mac apps through a VPN while leaving all other traffic on the normal connection.“I made this: mac app that puts one app on your VPN instead of the whole thing”
- Danger Berry Spice Co. — Sells small-batch hot sauces with unconventional flavors such as black garlic, peach bourbon, and pizza.“I started a hot sauce company as a side project — 466 sales later, here we are”
- notyourturn — Gives one visitor at a time 10 seconds of control over a shared web page in a global queue, where they leave something behind for the next person.“I built a website where only one person can control the page at a time”