I built macrosforhumans.com because I had been using cronometer since 2020 on and off and was familiar with tracking macros but always hated the entry. Measurement is something that you have to do regardless but the annoyance of having to suffer through their search/recipe/diary CRUD UI was unbearable. With MFH there is no mobile or web app. it's just a phone number that you text. This reduced the friction for me significantly and I've already lost a few pounds and, after recently turning 30, hopefully a few more with more diet and exercise.

I've been building this for a while but I'm working on getting my first 100 users now which is my first foray into the marketing/sales side of things and any tips would be helpful. Also I didn't realize until later that the name, while I think is pretty cool, might be extremely poor SEO? :-)

I also think that these kinds of post-app apps are a curious idea and will become more popular, although likely (hopefully not) through sms as the communication medium. I am off this week and plan to write some stuff about it but it feels really cool to remove the terrible CRUD UIs entirely from this part of my life. I tell my friends that even if it doesn't take off I'm never shutting it down because I enjoy using it over myfitnesspal/cronometer/macrofactor etc so much.

Hello-- I've been building Astrotechne, a modern technical astrology workspace.

I wanted to experiment with building my own ephemeris and calculation stack, and refine my agentic development workflow... and honestly make astrology software that doesn’t look like it was made in 2004.

I started with asteroid calculation software, because much of it is Windows-only, and really inaccessible. (For the best one you literally need to email a guy to get it)

A friend also asked me for a replacement for the old PlanetWatcher.com-- a site where you could use a time scrubber and animate through a chart (it's no longer around)

Inevitably, the project has expanded into so much more... It's been a great way to experiment with MCP, different agentic coding processes, and to test some of the custom harnesses and context management tools I've been hacking on.

Check it out!

https://www.astrotechne.com

Jove

Working on the chainsaw for my centaur form factor robot. Have one part to machine then just need to weld everything up and will be ready to try it out. It uses a motor and controller sourced from an E foil, and has 2DOF position control. https://www.satyress.com/buildprogress

I've also been slowly chipping away at a Jagged Alliance 2-like game in Godot. Nothing to share yet but if anyone else is also frustrated that there hasn't been a good video game since Jagged Alliance 2 and you want to work on it reach out to me through the contact in my profile.

I left my job as a principal software engineer a few months back and have been working on an agentic harness and https://blackbear.app -- a local first, end-to-end encrypted everything app with file editors for notes, documents, sheets, free-hand canvases, slides, and a whole lot more. Also features a calendar and task system, and a lightweight discovery engine. There's a BYOK agent system (Pax) that works with you across the whole app (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and local Ollama support). Works in a browser, from the CLI, and from native mac and linux apps (mobile on the way). Not exactly sure my end goal yet, but it's been fascinating building these things

I got sick of being on Zoom calls and having things lag or glitch, and not knowing if the issue was something I'm responsible for or not. Is it my LAN/Wi-Fi, my ISP path, some broader Internet issue, or Zoom?

So, I built a tool to answer that. Major goals have been to keep low energy/cpu usage (so I can run it 24/7), have it adapt to the apps/traffic I'm using (rather than use static monitoring endpoints), and to deliver both at-a-glance answers in the menubar and in-depth detail in the dropdown.

It's called Breakdown. It's a free (for typical uses). It's Mac-only for now (but if enough people ask for Windows I'll port it).

https://breakdown.live

I'm going whole hog on LLM-driven development to build out an old school FOSS forum that can run in resource-constrained environments with a minimum of fuss. Think phpBB but written in Rust with modern UI niceties and a SQLite backend. My hope is that interested parties will be able to deploy this on random SBCs or Unikraft and use cloudflared to expose their service to interested parties. Watching old forums that I used to frequent get gobbled up by VerticalScope makes me pine for the days of small self-hosted communities that existed for the hell of it instead of monetized interaction.

Spending time with family, working my Cloud SecOps job and in the little free time that i have, trying to improve LoopTroop ( https://github.com/looptroop-ai/LoopTroop ) - an open-source GUI to create/update apps using AI.

I used to teach C to students many years ago, and with agents it's becoming a niche craft. C is still both an important and fun language to use, and I've been very slowly making a C language course to let beginners learn a bit about the language and practice writing simple code with no AI: https://c-course.com

A work in progress, and will stay so for much longer, I guess.

I’m building a performance testing tool with a Rust core using Tokio and Reqwest, with a Python interface built around Typer and PyO3. You can use it as a regular CLI, but you can also write performance tests directly in Python. The goal is to keep the developer experience simple and familiar while using Rust for fast, concurrent, high-throughput load generation.

I was actually facing a huge friction problem when it came to closing clients—both at my agency and in a wholesale business I run with my family—because the whole quoting and payment process was really outdated. So, I built a software tool to eliminate that friction; it’s like a live Notion-style interface where the salesperson and client can update the quote and communicate via a public link. That same link allows for approval and payment—using cards or bank transfers, obviously via the Stripe API—and handles everything related to invoicing and sales. It ended up being really useful for my agency, too, allowing me to send clients more professional quotes with a detailed project breakdown so they can clearly see what the work entails and understand the pricing. Honestly, I’ve definitely noticed an improvement in sales.