DealtHealth & Care · reference · 2026-08-23Set how today is going and it deals three activities that genuinely fit, from a deck of 110 plus ideas for an afternoon with someone living with dementia.Carers supporting someone with dementia have to fill an afternoon with something that fits how mobile the person is today, how long they can hold attention, whether both hands are usable, and what is actually in the house. Recalling options under fatigue is the hard part, so the same three activities come round again and again while a binder of better ones sits unread.
JiggerOperations · puzzle-game · 2026-08-20Drill your bar's drink specs from memory, measures and build order included, and the specs you keep getting wrong come back until they stick.A new bartender is expected to build dozens of house drinks from memory, each with its own spirits, measures, method, glass, ice and garnish, and a wrong build means a remake in front of the guest. The spec book sits in a folder in the office and nobody reads it twice, so the specs get learned by being corrected mid service.
PlimsollEducation · editor · 2026-08-20Paste a worksheet and see the reading level it actually demands, which sentences carry the load, and which words the class will need taught first.Teachers hand out an extract or a worksheet without knowing whether its reading demand matches the class in front of them, and the pupils who cannot access it are the ones least likely to say so. Free readability sites return a single grade number and no word level detail, so nothing tells a teacher which words in the text will need pre-teaching or which sentences are carrying the load.
TelltaleHealth & Care · puzzle-game · 2026-08-20Practise spotting unhelpful thinking styles in real sentences: name the style at work, see the words that give it away, and get the ones you keep missing scheduled back at you.Therapy hands people a list of a dozen or so unhelpful thinking styles and expects them to start catching those patterns in their own thoughts. The list gets read once and the catching never gets practised, so the handout names a skill it never builds.
ColdlegCreative & Media · reference · 2026-08-20Pick the two ends of an audio link and see the pin map, the level gap and exactly what goes wrong before you plug it in.Most home studio faults come down to a level or wiring mismatch: instrument level into a line input, an unbalanced cable in a balanced patch, a multicore wired to the other manufacturer's pinout. Working out which one it is means knowing what each connector actually carries and what level each device expects, and that lookup gets redone from scratch every time something hums or goes quiet.
LegendHealth & Care · reference · 2026-08-19Decodes the letters after a medicine name on the carton, MR, XL, SR, LA, CR, EC and the rest, and compares two boxes to show whether they are the same product family.Care staff and family carers reading a medicine carton against a chart have to know what the letters after the drug name denote. The same drug sits on the shelf as plain, MR, XL, SR, LA, CR and EC versions, and that suffix is the only thing on the box distinguishing them, so the question of whether two boxes are the same product family gets answered by guesswork or by waiting for the next pharmacy delivery.
EngrossResearch & Policy · editor · 2026-08-19Paste the scrappy shorthand you scribbled during a committee meeting and get a formal minute back, with last meeting's unfinished actions already written up as matters arising.Whoever takes the minutes for a parish council, residents' association or committee writes fast shorthand during the meeting, then spends an evening days later rewriting it into a formal record with resolutions worded properly and every action attributed to a person and a date. The previous meeting's unfinished actions have to be dug back out of an old document and restated as matters arising, so the rewrite starts from nothing every month.
TermcardHealth & Care · tracker · 2026-08-19Keeps every child's paid club block in one register and tells you which re-booking window opens next.Children's clubs sell in blocks of a set number of sessions, each with its own end date and its own re-booking window, announced on a paper letter that arrives in a book bag. Families lose a swimming slot they have held for two years by missing that window by three days, and no single place holds which block runs out first across a child's swimming, karate and Scouts.
ProngTrades & Field · utility · 2026-08-19Pick the countries on your trip and the devices in your bag, and get the smallest set of plug adapters that covers the whole route plus which devices need a voltage converter instead.A trip through several countries carrying a laptop, a camera charger and a hair dryer needs a specific and usually small set of plug adapters, and for one or two of those devices a voltage converter rather than an adapter. Travellers look up plug types one country at a time, then buy a universal adapter as insurance and still arrive without the thing they needed.
TroncOperations · utility · 2026-08-18Splits a shift's tip pool by hours and role, then tells you the exact notes and coins to hand each person out of the drawer you counted.Hospitality supervisors divide a shift's pooled tips between the staff who worked it, weighting a bartender differently from a runner and prorating anyone who came in late or left early, then count that split out of a drawer holding only certain notes and coins. The arithmetic gets redone on a calculator every night, the odd penny lands wherever, and the record of who got what leaves with the scrap of paper it was written on.
SickbayHealth & Care · reference · 2026-08-18Pick a childhood illness and the day its exclusion period counts from, and see the earliest school day the child can go back.School and nursery attendance rules set an exclusion period for each common childhood illness, and each one counts from a different trigger: the last episode of sickness, the day a rash crusts over, or the first dose of antibiotics. Parents look the rule up again every time a child is off sick, then work the return date out on a calendar or ring the school office to check.
LockstopTrades & Field · toy · 2026-08-17Pick a rig, drag a steering line across a yard corner, and watch the swept path of every wheel and overhang trace out with the tightest gap measured in millimetres.A long vehicle does not follow the path its front wheels take. The rear axle cuts inside the turn, a trailer cuts inside that again, and the front overhang swings out the other way, so drivers and yard marshals judge whether a rigid or an artic will clear a corner by feel and find out they were wrong by scraping something.
MiscueEducation · puzzle-game · 2026-08-17Practise naming the misconception behind a pupil's wrong answer, one marked page at a time.A wrong answer in a pupil's book usually comes from one specific misconception, and naming that misconception is what separates a reteach that works from one that repeats the first explanation louder. Teachers pick the skill up slowly and by accident, one marking pile at a time, with no way to practise it deliberately away from the stack.
TrommelResearch & Policy · puzzle-game · 2026-08-17Drills you on which bin the awkward household items go in under the collection scheme you set up, and keeps bringing back the ones you get wrong.Kerbside collection schemes differ street by street on the awkward third of the waste stream, so cartons, foil, soft plastic film, black trays and pizza boxes get guessed at, and a wrong guess contaminates a whole load. People want their own scheme's answers to become automatic instead of something they look up while standing at the bin.
GamutCreative & Media · editor · 2026-08-16Score every foreground on background pair in a colour palette against the WCAG thresholds at once, then let the app move one swatch the smallest distance that clears the failures.Designers shipping a colour palette have to prove every foreground-on-background pairing in it, which for ten swatches is ninety ordered pairs checked one at a time in a browser contrast tool. Changing a single swatch silently invalidates the whole row and column it sits in, so the check never stays done.
FreeboardTrades & Field · utility · 2026-08-16Pick a material and a tipper, see how much goes on before it weighs out or cubes out, with the swell from the dig already counted.Tipper drivers loading loose material work backwards from their payload to a volume in the body, and the answer changes completely with the material because a cubic metre of wet clay and a cubic metre of woodchip weigh nothing alike. Dug material also swells once it leaves the ground, so the volume that came out of the hole is not the volume that goes in the body.
UllageOperations · utility · 2026-08-15Work out how many pints, glasses or measures a keg, cask, box or bottle actually gives after cellar losses, and what to charge to hit your gross profit.Bar supervisors work out how many servings a keg, cask, bag-in-box or spirit bottle actually gives once line loss and wastage come off, convert that into pints, thirds, wine measures or 25ml shots, then solve backwards from a target gross profit to a menu price every time a supplier puts a price up.
PostmarkTrades & Field · tracker · 2026-08-15Turn one move date into a dated plan of every organisation that needs your new address, in the order they have to be told.Changing address means telling around forty separate organisations, each with its own channel, its own timing and its own thing it needs from you. The ones that get forgotten surface months later as a missed renewal or a letter at the old house, and the list is rebuilt from memory every move.
InseamHealth & Care · reference · 2026-08-15Turns any children's clothing or shoe size into what your child wears right now, and tells you how long it will still fit them.Parents buying children's clothes and shoes secondhand meet three incompatible size systems at once: an age band on one label, a height in centimetres on another, a US number on a third, and a shoe scale that changes its step partway up the range. They convert listing by listing while browsing, with no way to hold their own child's current measurements against the answer.
CurtilageResearch & Policy · reference · 2026-08-15Type a worry about a planning application and find out whether the council must weigh it or has to ignore it, then build your response from the grounds that count.A comment on a planning application only carries weight when it raises considerations the planning system actually weighs, such as overlooking, highway safety, noise and daylight, rather than loss of view or property value. People writing a response inside a short consultation window have no quick way to tell which of their concerns qualify, so they send a letter that half misses.
AliquotEducation · utility · 2026-08-02Works out the weigh-out mass or the dilution route for a school science practical, scaled to the number of groups taking the lesson.Secondary science teachers size every practical twice, once for the class and once for the technician. A titration for eight groups needs the stock dilution worked back from the target concentration and volume, and the same arithmetic is redone for every class that takes the lesson at a different group size, with the formula masses read off a chart taped inside the prep-room cupboard.
BrigadeHospitality & Leisure · puzzle-game · 2026-08-02Place prep, cook and wash tasks on one shared kitchen timeline across limited burners, pans and hands, then score your service against the best schedule a solver can find.“I used to have a friend whose mom could whip up literally anything so effortlessly. Mid week, just home from work, she's cooking a three course meal out of nowhere, and when she's done the kitchen is basically clean. I struggle with it so much. How do some people cook so effortlessly?”
AditResearch & Policy · toy · 2026-08-02Hunt primes of the form k times 2^n plus 1, and keep every one that Proth's theorem proves along with the witness that proved it.“Proth primes are numbers of the form k * 2^n + 1, and they have a neat property. Proth's theorem gives you a deterministic proof of primality, not just a probabilistic test, so when you find one you actually know. I wanted to go find one myself and the ways in are a $200 FPGA board, a Windows binary from the 90s, or joining a distributed project that hands you a work unit and picks the numbers for you. I want to choose where to dig, watch the proof come back, and keep the ones I found.”
QuireEducation · tracker · 2026-07-29Time a reading session in your target language and find out whether the book sits at your level and whether your pace is actually getting faster.“Everyone says read Harry Potter in your target language. It took me 1 hour and 44 minutes to get through one page. It's genuinely rewarding and this is the third language I'm doing this with, but I have no idea whether that pace is normal for where I am, whether it's getting faster, or whether I just picked a book that's way above my level and should swap it for something easier.”
BaileyEngineering · editor · 2026-07-29Write the rules for what a place contains, a village holds a house and a pond, a house holds four tables and a chest, and get a laid out 2D map you can reroll, tweak and keep.“I want to describe a place as a set of rules, a village must contain a house and a pond, a house must contain four tables and a chest, and then have the generator turn that into a real laid out 2d map I can reroll, tweak and keep. Every generator I find already decided what a village is for me.”
WhorlTrades & Field · utility · 2026-07-29Names the shrub in front of you from what you can smell, see and feel, asking whichever question rules out the most species next.“There is a bush by the drive I still can't put a name to. Every photo app guesses something different, and the thing that actually stands out about it is the smell when you crush a leaf, which is exactly what a photo can't capture. I want to work it out from what I can see, smell and feel standing in front of it.”
SoffitTrades & Field · utility · 2026-07-29Works out how many degrees hotter one room runs than the rest of the house, splits that gap by cause, and ranks the fixes by degrees per dollar.“We replaced the HVAC and had the attic insulation redone, and the upstairs bedroom and office are still hot while the rest of the house is fine. I want to know what is actually causing it in those two rooms and which fix to do first, instead of guessing or paying someone to guess for me.”
TineCreative & Media · toy · 2026-07-29Build a body out of masses and springs, strike it, and hear the sound the simulation makes.“I want to make sound by simulating real physical objects, masses connected by springs, and then hear what happens when I strike them. Almost every synth I can open in a browser is oscillators and filters, so you are always sculpting a waveform rather than building something that vibrates. I want to construct the body first, give it a shape and a stiffness and a damping, and then hit it and find out what it sounds like.”
RistraHospitality & Leisure · reference · 2026-07-28Tap the chile a recipe names and the one you actually have, and it works out how many pods or spoons swap in, the heat range you land in, and what the flavor gains or loses.“Recipes keep calling for dried chiles I don't have. I never know which fresh pepper I can use instead, or how much of it, and every chart I find is just a picture of peppers with no way to work out the swap.”
ScumbleCreative & Media · puzzle-game · 2026-07-28Timed drills on realistic office screens under simulated vision loss, with an adaptive staircase that finds the exact severity you can still work at.“I spend my days in classic knowledge worker apps: Office 365, Teams, Google Docs, Confluence, Salesforce, PowerBI. I'm also slowly losing my eyesight, and I want to use the time to adapt. The end state will be a sort of fuzzy frosted glass vision rather than total blindness. What should I be looking at to make the transition to a low vision knowledge worker?”
DuctusEducation · puzzle-game · 2026-07-28A reading drill for letterforms you cannot decode yet, from blackletter and copperplate to italic Cyrillic and Greek hands, scored glyph by glyph so it keeps serving the exact shapes that fool you.“When I first cracked open the book I thought there was no way I was going to struggle this much through a simple story just because of the font. After about ten pages I adjusted, but I guess I'm at the level where I have to start reading handwriting and recognizing more artsy fonts and stuff.”
ByreFinance & Legal · explainer · 2026-07-28Run the same two cows and six households through 54 economic systems, turn by turn, and watch who ends up holding the milk, the cows and the money.“The two cows jokes are the only explanation of economic systems that ever stuck with me, but they stop at the punchline. I want to actually run the two cows under each system and watch where the milk, the cows and the money end up, so I can put socialism, feudalism and venture capitalism side by side instead of just laughing at them.”
FadwaterHospitality & Leisure · companion · 2026-07-28Tend a pod of orcas with time on their hands, watch one whale invent a fad, and see it spread through the pod or burn out.“Young orcas have so much free time that they invent things to do. One of them starts carrying a dead salmon around on its head, and within a few weeks half the pod is doing it, then it just stops and something else takes over. The rudder-bumping is the same thing, a game that spread. I want to sit with a pod like that and see a fad start, catch on and burn out, instead of only reading about it after the fact.”
PlumbHealth & Care · utility · 2026-07-27Pick or build a weekly lifting split and get a per-muscle set scorecard that shows what is under-trained, what is double-counted, and the smallest set of edits that fixes it.“I put together a weekly lifting split and I have no idea if it is actually any good. I don't know if I'm hammering some muscles way too much and barely touching others, or whether the whole thing is balanced. I don't want to log workouts for a month first to find out. I just want someone to look at the routine itself and tell me what's wrong with it.”
SkeinResearch & Policy · editor · 2026-07-27Write down a one line idea and it lands in the group of earlier ideas it echoes, with the shared words lit up and the match score shown.“I have lots of ideas I want to make real, but they get lost when I don't write them down and they never come back. I want an app where I just write my ideas and it organises them by itself, so when a new idea resonates with ones I already wrote it puts them in a group and I don't have to connect the dots myself.”
ReprieveFinance & Legal · utility · 2026-07-27Works out which household chores are worth paying someone else to do, in what order, and the household income where each one starts to make sense.“Our jobs are demanding and stressful and the chores still pile up all week. Is it common for couples like us to pay someone else to do the groceries, laundry and cleaning? And what does the income actually have to look like before paying for that stops feeling irresponsible?”
MandrelTrades & Field · utility · 2026-07-27Keeps a shelf of your filament spools with what is really left on each, then tells you which one can finish the print in front of you and by what margin.“Sometimes I do not have enough filament remaining to print a part, and I do not have another spool of that filament available to swap mid print. Right now I have to guess whether to try the print and hope for the best, or just wait until I buy more.”
LiferTrades & Field · tracker · 2026-07-27A bird life list you fill with one tap per species, ranked by which birds you have not seen yet are actually findable in your region this month.“Lost my life list. Email goes nowhere, deleted and reinstalled and nothing works. Years of birding gone. I can no longer save my birds.”
IdlewildHospitality & Leisure · reference · 2026-07-26Ranks a curated catalog of idle and incremental games against the session length, total playtime, platform and monetization you actually want, and shows why each one matched.“I play idle games exclusively on my iPad and it's getting pretty hard to discover new games. Half of what gets posted is a Steam link and I can't tell that until I've clicked it. And I can't tell before I start whether something is a four hour experience or one of the multi hundred hour games I actually want, or whether it's going to be wall to wall ads and IAP once I'm an hour in.”
ParleyHospitality & Leisure · puzzle-game · 2026-07-26A conversation game where you get a handful of exchanges to move someone's mind, and pushing too hard makes them dig in.“I want a game where the entire challenge is convincing someone. Almost every game gives you combat or a puzzle box, but the genuinely hard thing in real life is reading a person and finding the argument that actually lands with them. Push too hard and they dig in. Say the right thing at the right moment and they come around. I wanted to play that, and I could not find it.”
AmbleHospitality & Leisure · toy · 2026-07-26Breed procedural critters from one parent and watch every offspring work out how to walk on its own, then keep the ones worth breeding again.“After realizing how much work it would be to write a separate generator for each animal type, I changed my method to loosely copy an input model. I take a parent, randomize it a bit while keeping the general body shape, and then generate new features and details. One parent, four random offspring, and they all walk on their own instead of me animating each one.”
InvokeEngineering · editor · 2026-07-22Build long, flag-heavy command lines by clicking through a catalog of real tools, then save the ones you assemble as reusable presets.“I often find myself building up big complex command lines for testing my code, which live in my shell history. Sometimes I can wrap these up in scripts but often my invocations get so variable that I need many flags, and now the command line gets really long and I'm back at square one.”
RectoEducation · reference · 2026-07-22Read short graded Polish passages line by line, tap any line to check yourself against the English translation, and let the sentences you stumble on come back at widening intervals until they stick.“I'm learning Polish and I want to read real content in the language, but going word by word with a dictionary is brutal and one page can take forever. What actually helps is seeing the sentence in the language right next to its translation, so I can follow along and start picking up how it fits together naturally.”
OnshiftEngineering · puzzle-game · 2026-07-22A late-night on-call console where you diagnose and fix a broken Linux server by running real commands in a simulated shell.“I want to get hands on experience hosting and maintaining a linux server, the performance and security side of it. I love how cloud services let me build things without understanding the nitty gritty, but I think the deeper knowledge will help. I want a way to actually practice on a server and learn by doing.”
ThockCreative & Media · toy · 2026-07-21Type on any keyboard and hear it become rich synthesized mechanical switch sounds you can explore, tune, and compare to find the one that sounds right to you.“I love the sound of a good mechanical keyboard but I'm on a laptop all day. I want that satisfying clack when I type without buying a whole new board, and I want to try out different switches to find the one that sounds right to me.”
SinewCreative & Media · editor · 2026-07-21Paste a draft and watch weak, vague, and filler words light up, then swap each for a stronger one with a tap.“I find myself constantly writing things and then copy pasting weak words into google to search for stronger synonyms. What if instead of doing that you just copy and pasted everything into one app and the weak words got picked out automatically and swapped for stronger ones.”
RundownOperations · tracker · 2026-07-20Build a routine once, run it again and again, and see which steps keep slowing you down and whether you are getting faster.“Most productivity tools don't handle repeatable checklists well. Task managers are great for one-off tasks but fall apart with routines, and project management software feels way too heavy for this. I just want a simple way to run the same checklist over and over and see how each run went.”
WordhoardEducation · reference · 2026-07-20Collect the tricky words you meet while reading, keep their meanings, and let spaced review make them stick.“I keep stumbling on words I don't know while I'm reading online, and I want a dead simple place to store them with their meanings so it becomes my own private repository of the tricky words I always end up looking up.”
NibEngineering · puzzle-game · 2026-07-19Hand-write SVG markup to match a target shape and watch a live match score climb as your vector gets closer.“Web dev feels stuck between using HTML presentationally and forcing it to stay semantic for accessibility, and that dissonance bugs me. I really wish there were a clean, purely graphical way to mark up what I mean. SVG can do it, but I never actually reach for it because I'm not fluent enough to write it by hand. Why not use SVG for everything?”
DemurCreative & Media · editor · 2026-07-19Write the message that turns someone down, and see exactly which words make it read as a maybe.“We are accepting game submissions and we cannot list everything, so we have to turn people down. I have no idea how to say no. I want the reply to be clear that it is a no, but I do not want to crush someone who spent a year on the thing they sent us.”
WinnowEngineering · reference · 2026-07-19Tick what your WSL install is actually doing wrong and get the ranked cause, the exact fix command, and a .wslconfig built from the fixes you accept.“I deleted a bunch of files inside WSL and the ext4.vhdx on my Windows drive is still the same enormous size. There is no obvious way to get that space back. It is the same story with every WSL problem I hit: networking dies on the VPN, file watchers never fire on /mnt/c, vmmem eats all my RAM, and the fix is always some setting I only find after reading four GitHub issue threads and a random blog post.”
ConvectHospitality & Leisure · utility · 2026-07-19Maps your oven's hot and cold spots from a tray of toast, then tells you which rack to use, which way to face the pan, and what minute to rotate it.“My oven cooks unevenly. One side of the tray always comes out darker than the other, the back burns before the front is done, and I never know whether the fix is moving the rack, rotating halfway through, dropping the temperature, or shielding a corner with foil. Every recipe assumes my oven behaves like the one the recipe was tested in, and mine clearly doesn't.”
VersoEngineering · editor · 2026-07-19Paste a sentence that mixes Arabic or Hebrew with English, numbers or punctuation, and see character by character why it renders the way it does, then copy back a fixed version.“This question is specifically for people who use right-to-left OSes and software (Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi). When you navigate with the arrow keys or edit mixed text, text that has both right-to-left and left-to-right segments in it, what do you expect the caret to do, and where do you expect the characters to land? Right now a phone number or an English word dropped into an Arabic sentence sends the punctuation to the wrong end and there is no way to see what is actually happening.”
CallsheetEducation · puzzle-game · 2026-07-19A face memory drill where you study a small cast, then pick them out again under new lighting and angles while the app names the feature that told them apart.“I have a fairly severe case of Prosopagnosia. I couldn't consistently recognize my parents until middle school, and even as an adult I often question myself. One of the most annoying versions of this is that I can't really watch live-action movies or TV shows, because I lose track of who is who and the plot stops making sense.”
BasaltEngineering · editor · 2026-07-18Write Excel macros in a clean modern syntax and watch real, pasteable VBA compile out beside them as you type.“I don't have a lot of background in computer science, but recently we saw some new languages come alive. Elixir is built on the Erlang VM, Scala and Clojure target the JVM, and Clojure compiles to JavaScript too. Every one of those started because people were stuck writing something worse on a platform they couldn't leave. VBA is exactly that platform and it never got its language. I'm still writing Dim and Set and For Each in a grey editor from 1998 because the macro has to run inside Excel, and there is nothing that lets me write in something decent and get VBA out the other end.”
HushFinance & Legal · tracker · 2026-07-18Log a neighbour's barking dog as timestamped episodes and see how the record stacks up against the noise nuisance criteria a council actually uses.“Barking dogs are one of the most common noise complaints everywhere. Reporting that to the owner or the city council, with proofs, may be complicated and time-consuming: it requires listening to barks through all the day, for days, recording them and keeping track of start time, end time, intensity.”
PinchHospitality & Leisure · puzzle-game · 2026-07-18Taste a simulated dish, work out what it is missing, and season it into balance without ruining real food.“Every recipe just says season to taste and I have no idea what that means. I add salt, taste it, and still can't tell if it needs more salt or something else entirely. Half the time I overdo it and the whole dish is ruined, so I never get to practice without wasting a meal.”
DeadfrontTrades & Field · puzzle-game · 2026-07-18Spot the code violations in a rendered electrical panel, then find out what you missed and why it matters.“I've got a subpanel installed and I can't tell if it's actually up to code. The wire and the breaker look plausible to me, but I don't know whether the grounds and neutrals are supposed to be separated in there, and I have no idea what else I should be checking. I'd rather catch a mistake now than find out the hard way.”
RedressFinance & Legal · utility · 2026-07-18Tells UK rail passengers who owes them for a delayed or cancelled train, how much under that operator's Delay Repay bands, and exactly how to claim it.“The train on my ticket never actually ran. I have no idea who is supposed to compensate me for it, how much I'm owed, or how I even go about claiming it.”
GlossFinance & Legal · reference · 2026-07-17A searchable glossary that turns startup and venture jargon into plain definitions anyone can understand.“It is very difficult for me to explain what I'm doing to my mom. There are startup glossaries out there but a lot of the definitions are missing. I want a simple webapp: a searchable glossary of startup terms with plain definitions I can actually understand.”
WhereasFinance & Legal · utility · 2026-07-17Paste a EULA or terms of service and see which clauses are the boilerplate every company uses and which ones are quietly taking something real from you.“I bought a $30K professional cinema camera that doesn't work unless I sign away my rights to privacy and possibly the video content I make with it, at least it seems that way. I'm not a lawyer. I read the whole agreement and I still can't tell which parts are boilerplate every company uses and which parts are quietly taking something real from me.”
SprocketHospitality & Leisure · puzzle-game · 2026-07-17Drag instruction tiles into a program, press run, and watch a toy robot carry it out on the bench so you can see the exact step where your plan broke.“I want to get my kid started with programming and everyone says start with a robot, something they give instructions to and then watch it actually move so they can see why their plan worked or didn't. The good ones cost a few hundred pounds and I have no idea whether it holds their interest past the first week.”
MullionCreative & Media · editor · 2026-07-17Drop two or more images onto a sheet and get one lined up composite you can nudge and export.“I have two images and I want them as one image, side by side. Everything I find is either open a full photo editor and figure out canvas sizes and layers yourself, or install ImageMagick and read the man page. There has to be a way to just put two pictures together, line them up, and save the result.”
IdiomEngineering · reference · 2026-07-17Pick a design pattern and see which languages make it a single keyword, which make you write forty lines, and the real code for every one.“A design pattern is an artifact of a missing feature in your chosen language. Half the boilerplate I hand-write as a pattern in one language is a single keyword in another, and I have never found a decent place to look up which is which before I commit to a stack.”
ParallaxResearch & Policy · explainer · 2026-07-16Watch China's mandatory GPS coordinate offset push any point off the real map, and measure the exact drift between where you stand and where the map thinks you are.“My phone's GPS is way off the whole time I'm in China. The map puts me on the wrong street, sometimes a block or more from where I'm actually standing, and it only ever happens there. I can't figure out why, or how far off it really is.”
KeyringOperations · utility · 2026-07-16A quiet keyring for your two-factor logins that keeps every account's six-digit code live and copies it with one tap.“More and more I find myself keeping data on webapps like gmail that is really sensitive. I don't doubt someone could impersonate me or steal my identity if they shoulder surfed my password and had intent. Why is there no open and easy to use 2-factor authentication? Is it just because nobody has built a good one and made it simple to actually live with day to day?”
TenderFinance & Legal · utility · 2026-07-15Add the credit cards in your wallet to see the best one to use at every kind of store and where your rewards setup still has gaps.“I want a way to manage all the credit cards in my wallet and see how they complement each other. I never know which card gives the best rewards for a given store, and I can't tell where the gaps in my setup are.”
CarbonFinance & Legal · utility · 2026-07-15Map your spreadsheet columns to a fillable PDF once, then generate a filled copy for every row.“I have a large number of PDF forms, think government applications, that I need to write data into. Right now we are doing it by hand, but I would love to find a tool that lets me map some sort of schema to a PDF and then generate a new filled PDF from that data and the mapping.”
KotobaEducation · reference · 2026-07-14A tap-to-build phrasebook that assembles correct Japanese for ordering, directions, and everyday moments in Tokyo, shown large in kana and romaji.“I'm going to Tokyo soon and I don't speak any Japanese at all. I'm nervous about ordering food, asking for directions, and the moments where nobody around me speaks English and I just freeze up. Translation apps are slow and clunky when you're standing at a counter holding up the line. I want a simple way to say or show the basics, point at what I mean, and handle the common situations without fumbling every single time.”
MiloHealth & Care · tracker · 2026-07-14A Starting Strength progress tracker that logs your working sets and auto-prescribes next session's weights, deloading you automatically when you stall.“I'm running Starting Strength and I want an app that just tracks my progress for me. It should already know the program, tell me exactly what weight to load next session, and handle the deloads when I stall, instead of me redoing the math in a spreadsheet every time.”
HunchResearch & Policy · puzzle-game · 2026-07-14Lock in your answer and how confident you are before the truth is revealed, then watch a proper-scoring calibration curve show whether your confidence is actually any good.“I started writing down my own prediction before I read the AI's answer, and it honestly changed how the whole thing felt. I want something that makes me commit my guess and how confident I am first, then reveals the answer, and over time actually shows me whether my confidence is any good or if I'm just fooling myself.”
RunwayFinance & Legal · tracker · 2026-07-14A budget-margin tracker for one-person shops. Set a budget per project, log costs and hours, and watch dollars-left burn down with a projected overrun date.“I do a lot of online projects as a one man show, with a lot of 3rd party's, licenses and time spent on each project. Can any of you recommend a tool to keep track of the costs and hours? Something that allows me to see how many dollars are left? I'm constantly going overboard. I don't mean a time-tracking thingy, I mean something that shows me the budget I have left on each project.”
SnapchartResearch & Policy · utility · 2026-07-13Paste loose lines like 'Apples: 50, Bananas: 30' and get a live, correctly-typed chart back instantly.“I often need a quick chart for a README file, a Slack message, or a simple presentation, and firing up Google Sheets or Excel always felt like overkill. I just want to paste text like Apples: 50, Bananas: 30 and get a usable chart back right away.”
JouleHealth & Care · explainer · 2026-07-13An interactive explorer that estimates calories burned from a heart-rate-over-time curve using the published Keytel regression, and shows an honest confidence band that tightens as you feed in weight, age, sex, and VO2max.“Is it possible to measure calorie burn from heart rate alone? My watch keeps giving me a calorie number based on my pulse and I have no idea how much I can actually trust it, or whether you really need to feed in other stuff like my weight, age and sex to get anything close to a real estimate.”
VellumCreative & Media · editor · 2026-07-13A drafting-board editor for building TikZ-quality math diagrams — labeled nodes joined by smooth arrow-routed edges with live math-typeset labels — exportable as SVG or PNG for your site.“I'm interested in having high-quality math diagrams on a personal website. I want the quality to be comparable to TikZ, but the workflows are cumbersome and it doesn't integrate with MathJax/KaTeX. Ideally I would be able to produce the diagrams in JS with KaTeX handling rendering the labels, but this doesn't seem to exist.”
WindowpaneEngineering · explainer · 2026-07-06An interactive playground that virtual-scrolls thousands of unknown, variable-height items and shows the windowing algorithm working live — measurement cache filling in, estimated-vs-measured offsets, binary-search start index, and scroll-anchor corrections that keep position stable.“I need to virtual-scroll a list where I don't know how tall each item is up front. The sizes have to be measured after they render, and every existing setup I tried either assumes a fixed row height or jumps around once the real heights come in. I want something that measures items as they scroll into view and keeps the scroll position stable.”
SteepOperations · tracker · 2026-07-03A read-later shelf where saved links age gracefully and the next good read floats to the top on a decay-driven priority score.“Paid for a read-later app and it keeps logging me out and won't even work on my laptop browser, so it breaks my whole workflow. Honestly we miss you Pocket, I just want something reliable to save links and actually get around to reading them later.”
SwellOperations · explainer · 2026-07-03An ambient, clockless app that turns elapsed time into a rising tide of light you can feel, and calibrates how accurate your internal clock really is.“I sat down to work for 2 hours. I actually worked for 45 minutes. Time just slips away from me and I never notice it going until a whole afternoon is already gone. I wish something could make me actually feel the time passing instead of losing track of it every single day.”
TidingsOperations · utility · 2026-07-03A calm RSS/Atom reader that ranks your feeds by freshness and clears them with a single swipe to mark stories read, unread, or starred.“Please keep developing it. I'm worried this RSS reader is abandoned, and I'm missing the swiping gestures to mark stories as read, unread, and starred.”
ReckonResearch & Policy · explainer · 2026-07-02An interactive explorer for the German Tank Problem: capture random serial numbers and watch a frequentist, a Bayesian, and a Monte-Carlo estimator converge on a hidden population's true size.“How many tanks are the Germans actually producing? The Allies had an expensive question and no good way to answer it, and the statisticians beat the spies with serial numbers alone.”
CadenceOperations · tracker · 2026-07-02A habit tracker for flexible 'N per week' goals that shows exactly which days you completed each task and lets you edit that history.“It lets you create streaks with a goal of 'N per week' so you don't have to do the task every day, but you can't see which days you completed it. I'll often wonder: did I already mark that done today? Or was it yesterday?”
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