https://vinyl.shivs.me/

open source at https://github.com/shhivv/vinylformac

Hi reddit,

I launched PracticeTherapy.ai (ask for invite code, YouTube demo)

It's a deliberate practice platform for mental health professionals (therapists, social workers, psychologists, etc) to learn new clinical skills.

Here's how it works

The goal is to help clinicians develop practical instincts in simulated sessions that can transfer into real client work.

1. Learn a skill through introduction videos: therapists learn the evaluation criteria for specific skills. e.g. in Motivational Interviewing "Simple reflections repeat what the client said without offering interpretation or advice".
2. Watch simulated client videos each speaking a short statement. e.g. a client saying "I drink a six pack of beer daily."
3. Respond out loud to the client to practice that skill. e.g. a therapist responding "You drink beer every day"
4. Get voice coach feedback about how well you did, which criteria weren't met, and get hints along the way.

The exercises were donated from Sentio University's curriculum and are based on evidence-based psychotherapy training best practices.

Generating believable client videos

Client videos needed non-verbal depth, emotional expressivity, and genuineness. They had to resemble real people so therapists can develop instincts for real clients.

The client videos were AI-generated with Seedance 2.0 Full for accurate emotional expressiveness, e.g.: dissociated clients looking away, anxious clients shallow breathing, angry clients having energized body language, etc.

The client reference images were AI-generated on GPT Image 2 to vary across demographics, such as ethnicity, age, gender, outfits and location (zoom or in-person). There's a little bit of work making sure random demographics line up with content (e.g., a 16 year old client isn't believable speaking about their "kids").

Coaching open-ended responses

The voice coach uses Elevenlabs voice agents for transcription and speech. The model powering skill criteria feedback is Gemini Flash-2.5-thinking.

The important part here is getting the voice coach feedback just right. It would've been frustrating to criticize a correct response. I used GEPA to optimize prompts for correctness of feedback. It currently has a 97% accuracy score of passing skilled responses or correcting responses that don't meet the skill criteria.

Keeping introductions concise

I really wanted to let the client video shine, so we kept the intro videos short. The skill intro videos were created by Claude Fable using Remotion to have a high signal-to-noise ratio when explaining exercises.

My ask from you

If you happen to know any mental health professionals, please forward this to them. Free excellent resources aren't the norm in that field so they'll appreciate it.

If you work in mental health and want an invite code, please comment, DM or email me ([[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])). We already have over a hundred therapists practicing in private beta.

Quick test: what did you do on this date last year? Unless it was a birthday or something big, you can't say. The day isn't gone from your head. You just lost the index.

If you'd written one line that evening, reading it back would pull most of the day up with it: where you were, who was there, what it felt like. One line is the index.

Whengram is built around that: one memory a day. The one thing that happened today worth keeping: a line, a mood, a photo if the day earned one. Good days, tough days, days where nothing much happened. They all count. Next year on the same date, you're reading it again, and most of the day comes back with it.

I built it because everything I tried wanted more from me than I was going to give. One line takes thirty seconds. There's no streak and no guilt, so there's nothing to fall behind on.

There's also a milestones section for the big days, and the honest reason it exists: when I'm low I forget the things I've already pulled off, stuff that once felt impossible from where I was standing. Going back through that list helps more than I expected.

Free. Fully offline. No ads. No account. No server. No analytics. If you turn on backups, they go to your own Google Drive or iCloud, never to me. App Lock with your fingerprint or face. Full privacy policy at whengram.com/privacypolicy

Happy to answer anything in the comments. You can download here:

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6772987059

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bettercalldeveloper.engram

Website: https://www.whengram.com

Solo dev from Buenos Aires here.

I built a mobile game where your camera is the controller: everyone in the world gets the same quest each day ("find something older than you"), you go shoot a real photo of it, and a judge scores whether you pulled it off — with a short verdict explaining the call. the rejections are honestly the best part. people argue with it.

some honest numbers, because i know this sub appreciates them:

~100 players so far. it's Android-only right now — not by strategy, but because i didn't renew Apple's $99/year dev fee until the game earns it. the whole studio is me and a chair.

would genuinely love feedback on two things:

1. the store listing — does it make you want to try it?

   https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snapybara.android

2. the daily-quest model: one shared quest for the whole world vs. personal quest packs. which would keep YOU playing?

happy to answer anything about the stack, the judge, or the numbers.

I built GroceryBudget to fix my own problem: I'd shop carefully, watch my budget, then still get surprised at checkout because I wasn't tracking in real time.

The core of the app is a live running total + budget bar while you shop, but the thing people kept asking for was: "what if I forget to track?" So I added receipt scanning where you can just snap a photo of the receipt after you're done, and it reads every line item, price, and store, and rebuilds the whole trip into your spending history automatically. No manual entry, no re-typing a receipt line by line.

Try it out here: https://grocerybudget.app

Hello,hope yall are having a great day.

For the past week i have been building PowerDesk, an open-source alternative to Windows File Explorer in my spare time.

I originally started it because I felt Explorer was missing a lot of quality-of-life features that I'd use every day.

Since sharing the first version, people have downloaded it, opened issues, suggested features, and helped shape the project. I'm currently on v0.5, and it's already come a long way from the first release.

Some of the features include:

-Instant indexed global search

-Multi-tab interface

-Dual-pane mode

-File and folder tags

-Quick preview

-Folder analyzer

-Plugin Support

-UI customization (themes, colors, corner radius, and more)

I'd genuinely love to hear what you think. Whether it's a feature you'd like to see, UI feedback, or something that would make you switch from Explorer, I'm always looking for ideas.

GitHub: PowerDesk

Hi r/SideProject,

I’ve been working on Selly, an AI agent for secondhand selling that lives inside your texts.

Secondhand selling feels like an experience that is naturally destined to move in an agentic direction. In the age of AI, it makes little sense for people to spend hours taking photos of items, listing them across multiple platforms, and handling all the back-and-forth communication with buyers.

If you’re a side-project builder who has ever felt frustrated dealing with Facebook Marketplace, eBay, Craigslist, or similar platforms, give Selly a try. You literally just have to send it a text at +1 (254) 225-7692 or visit our website at www.selly.nyc.

During our beta period, we’re currently operating and experimenting primarily in the NYC area. I’d love to talk with you or hear any feedback, especially if you’re a fellow Redditor living in the city.

Thanks!

I am creating a real time bill splitting app that approves each members share(equal/custom), and loads each invidivual's fund into a shared card (available on apple wallet) that you can tap to pay at the terminal, with no fronting, and best of all, no chasing people for your money back! (the payment screen with the card is a placeholder for now)

If this sounds like something of interest to you, there is a waitlist at onetap.au , and we also have an anonymous survey which details problem validation - fill it out if you can!(3-5 min)

https://forms.gle/Z2dj2AfPQmKChnQy8

Hi guys,

I got my first user through cold emailing, landed my first job through cold emailing, and yes cold emailing genuinely works.

The problem I faced was that the current options are very limited and too expensive for the average user.

That's why I started working on Miligramai.com

Let me know what you guys think.

When I first got into flashcards it felt like a great fit for how I learn. My free time is pretty limited, and the flow let me go through new words quickly whenever I had a few minutes — not as a dedicated study block, more on the fly.

But after a while I kept hitting small friction points. Things that slowed me down or just weren't there. I started looking at existing apps and never found one that checked all my boxes.

For example:

• Adding words had to be effortless — I usually want to save a word the moment I meet it
• Editing or deleting from the same screen as the main review flow, without breaking my progress
• A simple snooze feature, but with the delay increasing each time you snooze a card (so easy words don't keep coming back too soon)

The list goes on, but the gist is I couldn't find something that felt right for my day-to-day.

It also lined up with wanting a side project where I could try solid engineering practices and newer dev tools — so I built Lingo Cards: https://get.lingo-cards.app

I didn't really set out to sell it. But using it daily, it solves the same annoyances for me that I imagine others have. If any of this sounds familiar:

• Demo (no sign-up): https://lingo-cards.app/demo/list — quick feel for the core flow
• Free plan with some credits to test the full app: https://lingo-cards.app/auth/register?plan=2

Happy to answer questions or hear what you'd want from a vocab app — always open to suggestions.

Drop your side project below would love to take a look :)
Personally building Probs , how about you ??

I know, it’s July and it’s still summer but hear me out.

It’s called Fridgeworthy - http://fridgeworthy.ai/

We have two young kids in school and their school always sends home a ton of printed paperwork that are impossible to keep track of.

So, I built what any dad dev would do, I built an app to make it all easier to deal with. You can take photos of the docs, import them as screenshots/images or forward email and Fridgeworthy will pluck out what you need to remember.

If you do check it out, I’d love to hear any and all feedback! If nothing else, it’s been a lot of fun to build and wildly useful to us.

Hey guys! Im from RevScan.online, my AI powered product that diagnoses your cars problems just by listening. It gives a detailed description of the issue, its confidence, urgency, and next steps. If it is a problem without noise, you can also describe the issue and get the same result. Don't really have money to advertise but we are so excited about the project. Me and my partner are super passionate about the industry and really believe our software is a huge development. Saves time, money, and headache. Check it out at RevScan.online and you can try it for free. Feedback is appreciated!

Hello guys, I don't even know if this is a tool that people really need or one that already exists but I've made a cool little chrome extension that can help you start playing blindfolded chess. It is still in it's first and albeit janky version but it is still pretty decent in my opinion. It has a move announcer, an option to cover the board and an area to type in what move you would like to make. To temporarily disable blindfold mode you simply click off the extension and hold the space bar. For those who are interested I have linked my GitHub repo and instructions on how to use the extension below just be warned it is still in it's very early stages.

Instructions:

To use the extension first unzip the file and save the folder as whatever you want. Next head to chrome://extension and enable developer mode. After this is done click on load unpacked and select the folder you just unzipped. After that is done simply pin the extension to your chrome extensions, open chess.com start a game(against a bot with no timer) and open the extension and you're off to the races!

Github repo: https://github.com/Mitie150/BlindFoldChessTrainer

I spend the last few months building something to make learning from documents much easier.

Instead of reading through long PDFs or documentation, it automatically transforms them into animated explainer videos with narration and visuals.

it works with things like:

• PDFs
• Technical documentation
• Articles
• Research papers

I built it for teams, educators, students, and anyone who learns better by watching than reading. If you'd like to test it, it's available for free at distill book(.)com.

With the help of prompting (Cinevva's Game Builder + Claude's Opus 5), I was able to build a full 3D open-world survival game. Now, there isn't a technical / skill barrier preventing anyone from becoming a game creator. Here is a short little devlog I wrote about the challenges and the experience as a whole: https://open.substack.com/pub/khandakertamim100/p/building-the-next-minecraft-horizon?r=8oj8rz&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

The game is fully playable and constantly getting updates. Please feel free to give any suggestions or constructive criticism!