Sep 14 – 20, 2026 · Edition W38
What Reddit's builders are making this week
2,196 new projects from 9 builder subreddits, sorted into 200 groups and 23 themes. Fastest riser: Startup promotion and creator deals ▲ +75%.
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▲ +75% 52 in 4w
- AI 3D model generation▲ +74% 51 in 4w
- Browser image compressors and converters▲ +65% 58 in 4w
- Local voice dictation apps▲ +55% 81 in 4w
- Browser strategy and simulation games▲ +37% 42 in 4w
- Music practice and creation tools▲ +32% 43 in 4w
- Map-based place discovery apps▲ +30% 78 in 4w
- SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure▲ +28% 73 in 4w
Cooling
Same comparison, biggest drops. Same 40-project minimum.
- AI coding agent tooling▼ -33% 53 in 4w
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries▼ -29% 62 in 4w
- Personal journaling apps▼ -28% 42 in 4w
- Travel and trip planners▼ -27% 56 in 4w
- Language learning apps▼ -24% 56 in 4w
Most built this week
| Group | Projects | vs prior 4 wks |
|---|---|---|
| Gym workout trackers | 41 | ▲ +37% |
| Desktop window and dock utilities | 25 | ▲ +107% |
| Personal to-do and daily planners | 24 | -18% |
| Personal note-taking apps | 24 | +9% |
| AI study and tutoring apps | 24 | ▲ +35% |
| AI image generation and creative canvases | 23 | ▼ -20% |
| Online card, board & party games | 23 | +24% |
| Website builders and portfolios | 22 | +6% |
| Map-based place discovery apps | 22 | +2% |
| Photo and image editors | 22 | +24% |
| AI and desktop video editors | 21 | +16% |
| AI chat organizers and prompt libraries | 20 | +22% |
By theme
Creative media generation and editing
AI and manual tools for creating and editing images, video, 3D, music, audio, subtitles, stories and photo libraries.
156 projects · 7.2% share
- AI image generation and creative canvases23
- Photo and image editors22
- AI and desktop video editors21
- AI short video generators20
- Photo library organizers and sharing18
- Music practice and creation tools13
- AI story generation and fiction writing12
- AI 3D model generation9
- AI music and song generation9
- Audio playback and sound tools7
- Video subtitle generation and translation2
- Last One Photo — Lets anyone replace a single shared photo on a website, erasing the previous one.“I made a website where the entire world shares one photo.”
- Black hole AR — Renders an augmented reality black hole with gravitational lensing that can be placed in a room, with editable shape, colors, textures and emojis.“I vibecoded an augmented reality lensing black hole made of pizza emojis that you can put in your living room”
- Pholu — Lets people create private shared spaces for storing photos, videos, audio and memories, with AI features to help find and revisit old memories.“I built an app, but getting the first users feels much harder”
Games and gaming tools
Casual, puzzle, word, trivia, strategy, multiplayer and indie games plus trackers and tools for gamers and collectors.
154 projects · 8.2% share
- Online card, board & party games23
- Browser strategy and simulation games15
- Casual browser games13
- Casual mobile arcade games12
- Daily word puzzle games12
- Daily logic puzzle games11
- Trivia and quiz games10
- Multiplayer browser games & matchmaking10
- Video game backlog trackers9
- AI-assisted game creation8
- Tabletop RPG and RPG games8
- Browser racing and driving games6
- Trading card collection trackers6
- Chess training and analysis tools6
- Geography guessing and quiz games4
- Indie video game showcases1
- Lets players experience a playable VR game from a cat's point of view.“Made a VR game using AI and it actually worked”
- Strait of Hormuz Mine Sweeper — Plays a minesweeper-style game on a map of the Strait of Hormuz, where clearing mines earns cash that affects inflation and a stock chart.“Strait of Hormuz Mine Sweeper”
- coinclicker — Lets users click a coin for a chance to win real money.“Probably the dumbest side project ever...”
Health, fitness and wellness
Workout, nutrition, medication, mood, journaling, mental wellness, spiritual and astrology apps for personal wellbeing.
133 projects · 5.3% share
- Gym workout trackers41
- Personal health and medication trackers17
- Personal journaling apps16
- Mental wellness and calm apps16
- All-in-one fitness and health trackers11
- AI calorie and nutrition trackers8
- Mood trackers and personality quizzes8
- AI astrology and divination readings6
- Scripture and prayer apps6
- Drink logging and cocktail apps4
- somequiet — Generates guided meditation sessions tailored to how the user feels, and turns journal entries into meditations.“We built a meditation app that creates a session for how you feel right now, and we'd love feedback”
- Provides a subscription software product for fitness coaches, with a client onboarding flow.“Need a dev - any advice?”
- BDYCTRL — Tracks strength training workouts on mobile so users can follow a training routine wherever they are.“Spent 15 months building my dream, left my 9-5 & just passed 100 users”
Personal productivity and notes
To-do lists, note-taking, calendars, reminders, focus timers, meeting notes and visual thinking tools for organizing work and life.
127 projects · 5.2% share
- Personal to-do and daily planners24
- Personal note-taking apps24
- Pomodoro focus timers20
- Project management tools11
- Visual canvases and diagram generators11
- Personal calendar apps11
- Personal reminder and nudge apps10
- AI meeting transcription and notes6
- AI voice note apps6
- Markdown editors and viewers4
- Timepencil — Shows the time as a hand-drawn style glanceable illustration rather than digits.“A paper thing I drew each night during lockdown, turned into a clock app”
- life-fixer — Combines to-do lists, habit and health tracking, notes, calendar, journaling, and other personal utilities into one customizable app with pages that can be hidden.“my app reached 100 downloads today, exactly 1 month after release and i can’t believe it”
- Lets users speak journal entries and transcribes them to text on-device.“Would you use a journaling app that transcribes your voice instead of typing?. Please answers the following question....”
Desktop and device utilities
Window managers, clipboard tools, file cleanup, dictation, screen capture, input remapping, wallpapers and device dashboards for power users.
120 projects · 4.9% share
- Desktop window and dock utilities25
- Screen recording and screenshot tools20
- Local voice dictation apps14
- Desktop file organizers and cleanup13
- Desktop pet companions12
- Wallpaper apps and live wallpapers10
- Alternative computer input & remote control9
- Android launchers and phone utilities8
- Device monitors and ambient displays7
- Clipboard history managers2
- AnyDub — Dubs speech in video calls, YouTube videos, and web page text into another language in real time.“I would love to check out your Chrome extensions and leave a review.”
- Kekoso — Transcribes speech to text on the device, without sending audio off the machine.“I submitted my Mac app to 40+ directories in three days. Here is the list, what each one costs, and what it actually does for you”
- lumabar — Replaces the Windows taskbar with a floating dock that shows live widgets and system tray icons.“Introducing lumabar 0.1 - An iOS-style floating dock for Windows”
AI assistants, chat and model tools
Tools for organizing AI chats, comparing and routing LLMs, AI research, companions, desktop assistants and AI media detection.
115 projects · 5.7% share
- AI chat organizers and prompt libraries20
- LLM gateways and model comparison20
- AI tool directories and usage trackers18
- AI research and source-cited answers16
- AI browser automation extensions12
- Desktop AI assistants10
- Multi-AI decision debate tools7
- AI companion character chat6
- AI image detection and photo analysis6
- JEV — Answers yes-or-no questions from a small language model, letting users probe what the model knows.“Experiment to see if JEV is smart”
- Offers a non-AI, privacy-first alternative to an app that relied on costly AI features.“I finally got my first paying customer after 10 months 🥹”
- Carry — Saves ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok conversations as markdown files on the local computer.“Got my first paying user today ($59 lifetime) 🚀”
Personal finance and investing
Budgeting, expense and subscription tracking, bill splitting, pay tracking, trading journals, stock research and crypto tools.
114 projects · 5.1% share
- Personal budgeting and expense trackers17
- Retail trading tools and journals14
- Personal finance planners and trackers13
- Receipt scanning & expense tracking12
- Subscription and recurring charge trackers10
- AI stock research tools10
- Investment portfolio trackers9
- SEC filing stock research tools9
- Shift, hours and pay trackers7
- Crypto trading and portfolio tools5
- Group expense splitting apps5
- Crypto wallets and payment tools3
- Surplus — Connects to a user's bank account and answers questions about their own spending and finances.“Anyone else spending way too much on AI tools?”
- Commingle — Tracks personal finances, shared expenses and debts, wallets, and multiple currencies in one mobile app with end-to-end encryption.“Commingle: I've been quietly perfecting my personal finance app for 4 years. Decided it's time I actually tell people about it.”
- StockManTools — Provides historical valuation charts, side-by-side stock comparison, and a simplified 10-year bull/base/bear DCF projection for equities.“I built a free stock analysis tool after getting frustrated with Bloomberg's price tag — would love feedback from actual investors”
Marketing, SEO and sales
Tools for content generation, social scheduling, SEO and AI search visibility, ads, outbound sales, email, app store optimization and analytics.
108 projects · 5.1% share
- AI outbound sales prospecting12
- Website audit and monitoring tools11
- SEO audit tools11
- AI marketing content generators11
- Web and SaaS analytics dashboards8
- Email inbox and infrastructure tools8
- AI social media schedulers7
- Reddit marketing and lead finding7
- AI paid ads management tools7
- AI email writing and outreach tools6
- App store optimization tools6
- AI search visibility trackers5
- Local business lead finders3
- App Store screenshot generators3
- LinkedIn outreach and content tools3
- Getlead — Finds and generates B2B sales leads for outreach.“I made $88K with my saas as a solo founder”
- Kitful AI — Generates SEO content and articles to help websites rank in search.“I was going to shut my SaaS down after building for 8 month, now got $500 of sales.”
- SEO Chex — Checks web pages for indexability issues such as noindex tags, robots.txt blocks, redirects, canonical tags and meta tags.“I lost a year of SEO growth because a freelancer left a 'noindex' tag on my categories. So I built the tool I wish I'd had to stop it from happening again.”
AI coding agents and agent orchestration
Tools for running, monitoring, orchestrating, securing and giving memory to AI coding agents and multi-agent systems.
97 projects · 5.0% share
- Multi-agent coding workspaces18
- AI agent orchestration platforms16
- AI coding agent tooling15
- Terminal workspaces for AI agents11
- AI agent security guardrails10
- AI coding agents for Git repos9
- Persistent memory for AI agents6
- Codebase analysis for AI-written code5
- MCP server tooling5
- Claude Code session monitors2
- astra-flash-orchestrator — Routes coding build tasks from a premium Codex model to a cheaper DeepSeek Flash model that implements and tests them, with the premium model reviewing results.“I built an orchestration package that lowered my GPT-6 Astra usage by 98%”
- matrix-cli — Wraps a command-line AI agent and shows Matrix-style rain on the screen while the agent is working.“I vibe coded a wrapper that changes your display to Matrix rain as it is working”
- qagent — Runs automated regression tests against AI agents by sending test cases through a webhook and checking for hallucination, memory loss, and policy violations.“The biggest reason AI features churn customers is silent prompt regressions”
File, document and everyday web utilities
Privacy-friendly browser tools for PDFs, image conversion, documents, forms, QR codes, file sharing, vaults, links and calculators.
97 projects · 4.2% share
- Browser-based utility tool collections17
- Browser image compressors and converters15
- Online calculators and math tools11
- URL shorteners and link-in-bio pages10
- Document scanning and processing tools9
- Browser-based PDF toolkits8
- Encrypted vaults and password managers7
- File sharing and transfer tools7
- Pricing and cost calculators5
- QR code generators and scanners5
- Online form builders and autofill3
- Creates short links and dynamic QR codes with UTM tracking, real-time analytics, geo and device tracking, scheduling, and password protection.“My SaaS just made $0.000 revenue in 60days after launch and I am so grateful, this feels so real 🎉🎉🎉”
- Lets users share files online, with a free plan and paid upgrades.“300+ daily active users, but consistent paid conversions are still hard. What would you investigate first?”
- Printicorn — Lets users design flyers, posters, newsletters, signs and cards in the browser and opens Microsoft Publisher files.“I built a free web based Microsoft Publisher alternative since it's going away. What features am I missing?”
Entertainment, music and news consumption
Apps for discovering and tracking music, movies, TV, podcasts, radio, livestreams and curated news digests.
96 projects · 4.1% share
- Music discovery and sharing apps17
- Online video downloaders and players17
- Movie & TV recommendation trackers15
- Local music and radio players10
- AI news aggregators and digests8
- TV, movie and anime trackers8
- Livestream viewing and streamer tools8
- Podcast apps and AI tools5
- Internet radio players4
- AI news aggregators and digests4
- Plexo — Splits a single download across multiple internet connections to speed it up.“I built Plexo — a download manager that combines multiple internet connections for a single download.”
- Good News Digest — Curates daily positive news from over a thousand events into eight cross-checked stories with illustrations, shown as a calm browsable mosaic.“I made a news app that's just about progress and kindness in the world”
- Generates on-demand audio history podcast episodes from any typed topic, with two hosts that answer listener questions mid-episode.“I built a history podcast you can interrupt: type any topic, and two hosts tell the story and answer your questions mid-episode”
Home, food and lifestyle
Family organizers, home inventory, meal planning, recipes, home design, pets, plants, wardrobes, real estate, shopping and dining.
96 projects · 3.7% share
- Recipe managers and generators15
- Restaurant discovery and group picking12
- Home, cabinet and construction design tools11
- Home inventory and maintenance trackers11
- Price trackers and comparison tools9
- Shared family and household organizers9
- Meal planners with grocery lists7
- Pet health and care trackers7
- Real estate & rental tools6
- Digital wardrobe and virtual try-on6
- Plant identification and care apps3
- MiamBot — Imports recipes from links, photos, or PDFs into clean recipe cards with a screen-awake cook mode, meal planning, and grocery lists.“My wife and I used to spam each other with Instagram reels and TikToks of recipes we’d never cook. I spent the last few months building a solution.”
- SnapDiagnose — Identifies likely household repair problems from a photo and rates whether they are safe to DIY or need a professional.“I built an app that diagnoses home repairs from a photo — and tells you when not to DIY”
- Snap Dish — Suggests recipes from photos of fridge and pantry contents, adjusted for family size and dietary preferences.“I built this web app simply for myself and my family. Wondering if there’s any value for actual users?”
Travel, maps and outdoors
Trip planners, place discovery maps, GPS tracking, interactive globes, sky trackers, weather and car ownership apps.
85 projects · 4.0% share
- Map-based place discovery apps22
- Travel and trip planners18
- GPS trip and ride tracking17
- Car ownership and maintenance apps12
- Consumer weather apps6
- Interactive world maps and globes5
- Sky, space and flight trackers5
- WherePark — Automatically detects when the user stops driving and saves the parked car's location on the phone.“I made WherePark: an app that automatically notices when I park my car, so I stop forgetting where it is.”
- Renders a stylised weather system with rain, lightning, storms and ocean waves for a fishing and exploration game.“Weather system in a game I made with AI”
- PaceLink Go — Shows riders' locations on a map during a group ride so members can track each other's position and pace.“I built PaceLink Go to help you keep track of your riding buddies”
Small business and freelance operations
CRMs, invoicing, client management, ecommerce, AI receptionists, WhatsApp automation, marketplaces and reselling tools for small businesses.
84 projects · 3.8% share
- SMB operations and SaaS infrastructure19
- Shopify and ecommerce merchant tools19
- Freelance client management tools12
- Freelancer invoice generators12
- Resale marketplace listing tools8
- AI phone receptionists & voice agents6
- Freelance and local gig marketplaces5
- WhatsApp business automation tools3
- Handmade crafts and physical goods0
- TWT — Runs business operations for field service companies, linking work orders, scheduling, crews, expenses, quality control, worker pay, customer billing and financial reporting.“I spent a year vibe coding a substantial SaaS platform. The product is built. What are the costs to bring in experienced eyes?”
- Answers phone calls for restaurants and bars using an AI voice agent.“I vibe coded an AI startup to real clients. Then it crashed. Now my team wants to quit”
- Provides a small online software tool that a user pays about €10 per month to use, originally built for the author's own problem.“My first customer came completely unexpectedly ..”
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.
82 projects · 3.6% share
- Phone app blockers18
- YouTube browser extensions17
- Habit tracker apps15
- Social media feed tools15
- Distracting website blockers10
- Challenge-to-dismiss alarm apps7
- Lists fast-growing YouTube creators with filters for channel size and contact availability so designers and editors can reach out to them.“What am I doing wrong?”
- Automatically replies to YouTube comments on a creator's channel using simulated human-like typing.“I just got my first paying customer 🥳”
- Moventria — Lets users earn screen time on distracting apps by completing positive habits like exercise, reading, or studying.“I built an iPhone habit tracker that makes you earn your screen time”
Education and learning
AI tutors, flashcards, language learning, video summarizers and reading tools for students and self-learners.
70 projects · 3.2% share
- AI study and tutoring apps24
- Language learning apps16
- Ebook readers and book trackers16
- AI flashcard study tools8
- YouTube AI summarizers & note-takers6
- LumoTutor — Lets users pause a lecture video and ask questions about the part they just heard, getting explanations, diagrams, and follow-up quizzes.“I built an AI that turns lectures into interactive lessons”
- Sells an ebook the author wrote.“I finally sold the first copy of something I made”
- SpeakingMonkey — Scores each spoken word in a reference sentence from 0 to 100 for pronunciation accuracy.“Built a pronunciation trainer that scores every word 0–100. The scoring API was too forgiving out of the box.”
Browser extensions and web reading
Extensions for managing tabs and bookmarks, clipping and summarizing pages, rewriting text and tweaking the browsing experience.
68 projects · 3.3% share
- AI text rewriting tools19
- Browser tab managers17
- Browser reading and clipping tools13
- Browser extensions and utilities10
- Bookmark managers9
- SuperHumanizer — Rewrites AI-generated text so it reads as more human-written.“My SAAS just crossed 1.7M active users and over 1.2 billion tokens”
- Marble — Displays browsed web pages on an infinite canvas instead of tabs, showing how each page was reached.“I built a spatial browser because I kept losing tabs to rabbit holes”
- Removes or destroys elements on any web page via a browser extension.“An extension to enable destroying of any page 🔥”
Indie maker launch and validation
Platforms for validating ideas, launching and promoting side projects, building websites and exchanging feedback and testing.
68 projects · 2.9% share
- Website builders and portfolios22
- Startup promotion and creator deals12
- Product feedback and testimonial tools12
- Startup idea validation tools9
- Indie project showcase and launch platforms8
- Indie app testing exchanges5
- lunasites — Lets non-coders build and host websites with templates, a visual editor, a CMS, and AI-driven editing.“My side project just made 0.000 revenue in just 6 days after launch and I am so grateful, this feels so real! 🎉🎉🎉”
- Viberant — Lets people discover and share vibe-coded projects in one place.“Opinion: Don't stop building useless apps”
- killmyidea — Scores a user's project idea across about ten questions and classifications using a non-generative model, run in parallel.“I built a side project to test TypeSafe's Jev model with no generative LLM that scores your project idea”
Developer tools and infrastructure
Deployment platforms, databases, monitoring, security scanners, app builders and low-level tinkering projects for developers.
63 projects · 3.4% share
- Self-hosted app deployment & dev infra14
- UI design extraction & AI design tools9
- AI prompt-to-app builders9
- Security scanners for AI-built apps8
- Network diagnostics and VPN tools8
- GitHub profile and repo tools6
- Database clients and SQL tools4
- Uptime and API monitoring3
- Hobby languages and operating systems2
- Domain name search tools0
- Wensity UI — Provides a library of ready-made UI components for developers to use in their interfaces.“Made this purely for fun. Didn’t expect it to actually go this far :)”
- The Deployer — Analyzes a GitHub repository, proposes deployment options with cost estimates, and deploys the app into the user's own AWS, GCP, Azure or DigitalOcean account.“Building an app has become easy. Deploying it properly is still painful. So I built something for that.”
- github-clean-home — Rearranges the GitHub homepage to surface recent repositories and activity and lets users hide sections they don't use.“made an extension to redesign github's homepage”
Social networks, messaging and dating
Alternative social networks, encrypted and anonymous chat, dating and couples apps, greeting gifts, polls and event planning.
61 projects · 2.7% share
- Anonymous and community chat apps13
- Alternative and anonymous social networks12
- Event planning and scheduling tools10
- Dating and couples apps10
- Private encrypted messaging apps8
- Personalized digital greeting gifts6
- Opinion polls and civic tech2
- Jev — Moderates live chat in real time using an AI assistant.“Using Jev for real-time live chat moderation”
- Helps couples organize their wedding and includes a guest concierge that answers questions about schedules and transport.“My app went viral before it was ready. Now it’s launched and I’m struggling to get users. Did I mistake interest for validation?”
- Relays each server member's chat messages to other members through webhooks so they appear anonymous.“I created a discord bot that makes your server chat anonymous”
Careers and job search
Job search assistants, resume tailoring, interview and conversation practice, coding interview prep and builder networking.
50 projects · 2.4% share
- AI job search assistants17
- AI resume tailoring tools10
- Founder and builder matchmaking9
- AI mock interview practice6
- AI conversation practice coaches5
- Coding interview practice tools3
- nojo.club — Provides browser-based virtual rooms with proximity voice chat so solo workers can talk to nearby people.“I made a browser hangout for people who work alone. If I'm in there, I'll play you piano.”
- HiddenJobs UK — Crawls public careers pages of UK companies twice a day and lists vacancies with filters for salary, region, remote and visa sponsor register status.“I have been tracking the careers pages of 108 UK companies. Some numbers that surprised me.”
- pinloop — Aggregates job postings from employer hiring systems and job boards and has a coding agent score each one against a user's resume and preferences.“Trump laid off my dad at 54, so I built a job search engine for Claude Code. It found him a job.”
Sports fan apps
Sports management sims, trivia, prediction pools and live score tools for fans of football and other sports.
19 projects · 0.9% share
- NFL Playoffs Path — Runs NFL pick'em pools with weekly picks, playoff simulations, and private group leaderboards in a mobile or web app.“Built an NFL Pick'em & Playoff app to kill our group Excel sheets or ESPN & Yahoo solutions. Got Great early traction on RevenueCat 3453 users, 118 paid subscribers and 500 USD in revenue, but terrified of after kickoff week churn. How would you handle this?”
- TheDailySquad — Gives a daily set of teams from different eras and lets players pick one player per team to build the best five-player squad, scored against others.“TheDailySquad: Wordle <> Trivia <> Fantasy Sports”
- Sideline — Keeps a Fantasy Premier League team in Chrome's side panel showing live points, goals and price changes.“25 of my 30 installs came from the US. None of my users are from the US.”
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
133 projects this week were too far from every group. New kinds of projects show up here first.
- safearea.info — Provides a visual reference of iPhone and iPad screen dimensions, safe area insets, and reserved regions measured in Simulator.“I got tired of checking safe area insets in Simulator every time a new iPhone came out, so I built a website”
- Provides an open searchable database of 410k plant, aquarium fish and reptile species, with web and mobile access.“Built a species database with 180k monthly visitors. Can't figure out how to make money.”
- Lets a cat ride a cartoon roller coaster along a track through several rooms and out to an outdoor finish line with gift boxes.“I can’t code, but I vibe coded a game for my cat”
- Urchin Skipper — Lets players pilot a boat and harvest sea urchins in a game about commercial urchin fishing.“Vibe coding a game about commercial sea urchin harvesting.”
- Named Atlas — Lets people claim a named place on a shared, zoomable star map with a short message and a link to their site.“I made a night map where you keep a public name (not a plot, not crypto)”