Jake Crump

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Weekends are for side projects!

Share what you're going to be building or an idea you're kicking around.

And then give some feedback to a fellow Maker! 🙏

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Lautaro Nievas

This weekend I’m refining a platform we’re building for businesses to launch their own assistant — not just a chatbot, but something that books appointments, sends reminders, and answers real questions.

We handle all the technical setup (WhatsApp, workflows, database), and the client just gets a ready-to-use panel where they can manage everything.

Still figuring out how to balance flexibility with simplicity — but it’s getting closer every week.

Happy to check out what others are building too 👀

Jake Crump

@lautaro_nievas Sounds cool! Who are your typical users? I could imagine something like this being pretty helpful for small businesses and non-tech folks. Kind of a plug and play solution.

Lautaro Nievas

@jakecrump Exactly my friend! It's focused on small and medium-sized businesses. The idea is to sell automations like an agency, but with a CRM style to give it more value and something tangible, so they can see how it works (if they want). They can view website and WhatsApp chats from the same place and, at the same time, test the chat's inner workings.

P.S.: I'm thinking about adding an internal agent to whom they can add information about their business to simplify processes or questions about chats (how many appointments were scheduled, the most common time or day, etc)

Jake Crump

@lautaro_nievas Very cool! I like the internal agent idea. I feel like context is king when it comes to making AI agents/chatbots work well. Definitely makes sense to be able to upload that info internally to improve user facing chats.

Meer Kapoor

@jakecrump  @lautaro_nievas I love your line of thought.

Harvansh Chaudhary

@lautaro_nievas this sounds solid. Handling all the tech stuff so clients get a ready panel is smart. Finding that balance between flexibility and simplicity is always tough but sounds like you’re on the right track. Curious how you’re managing WhatsApp workflows and keeping it smooth for users. Keep pushing, it’s getting closer every week!

Lautaro Nievas

@harvanshchaudhary For now, I'm creating them myself and assigning them to an app user, but I already have a first version of automatic workflow creation in n8n, where every time the user scans the WhatsApp QR code or generates the website script, the workflow is triggered. The workflow will be created in the future.

steve beyatte

I want to stitch together Suno, Gmail, and Zapier to make an automation that sings me my unread emails every morning.

Jake Crump

@steveb Hahaha, please build this!

Harvansh Chaudhary

@steveb That sounds pretty cool. Getting emails sung to you feels like a way better wake-up call. Can’t wait to see how it turns out! Do share when u are done with it.

Nischal Kanishk

@steveb Haha sounds amazing. Just thinking out loud here, I am someone who scans the mail rather than reading, and when the mails are really important I open and still I read only 50% to get the context. It might be just me or maybe a lot of people like me who do this, for them this listening to mails might not be the right thing. If you are planning to expand this product, then surely research and talk to people if they really need it.
Cheers,
Hope to see it live someday :))

Igga Fitzsimons

@steveb Amazing! Ha! Reminds me of an app idea that transforms recipes into rap songs.

Ruxandra Mazilu

@steveb suddenly, I need this :))

Jake Crump

I'm going to resurrect an older project this weekend. It's a minimalistic daily journaling app that lives in the mac menu bar. It's more focused on brain dump / stream of consciousness writing over structured writing.

I'm planning on using Electron which I've never seriously set down and used before. We'll see how it goes!

Mike Kerzhner

@jakecrump Very cool! I use Apple Notes for this at the moment. But, you know, Apple Notes is... special.

Olive

@jakecrump Sounds cool. Been kicking a similar idea around in my head for a while now. None of the current note taking type of apps really do it for me. Any potential integrations possible/planned?

Enzo Marc

@jakecrump I'm also working on something similar.
Apart from the minimalist style, I'm also planning on integrating hot corner window triggering. I'm looking for a way to access the minimalist note editor even quicker than from the menu bar.

Actually, the quick note editor shows above the dock when users hover over the app icon in the dock.
And when users click on the menu bar icon, the quick note editor shows below the menu bar.

I ended up using Flutter for building that. But I've already explored many other options including Electron, and even Rust with Tauri.

Edward Michaelson

@jakecrump if you could create something FASTER than apple notes for brain dump that does a little bit of auto-organization, it would crush

Harvansh Chaudhary
Thinking of launching something fun and weird😁: Indie Mugshotwall - a public wall of makers, but styled like a criminal lineup. Every indie hacker gets a mugshot with their product titles listed like aliases. Your face, your builds, your crimes all on display. And You list your projects like you're a suspect in a digital heist. Think Product Hunt meets FBI’s Most Wanted, but for makers. It’s super early, but I mocked a launch page, a product card, and a founder's mugshot - https://x.com/AINotSoSmart/statu... Just trying to bring some personality and humor back into product discovery. Would love thoughts from fellow makers - (PS: it was a fun idea) Useful? dumb? Should I keep going?
Mike Kerzhner

@harvanshchaudhary Oh I love this. Maybe I can paste a github repo url and get a lineup?

Harvansh Chaudhary

@mikekerzhner damn that’s actually a banger idea
 Repo URL in, mugshots out. Someone also suggested pulling data from X but their API pricing be wild rn

Harvansh Chaudhary

Hey @mikekerzhner , tried ur idea... Was able to do it in just 2 prompts, check how's it https://imgdrop.toolsfobia.com/image/682831a590f3d đŸ€”

steve beyatte

@harvanshchaudhary Link doesn't work :-( But sounds super fun

Harvansh Chaudhary
@steveb updated..... check again please, u will find the mugshot.... m waiting for feedback 😃
Graeme

@harvanshchaudhary fun and weird is the way to go

Harvansh Chaudhary
@graeme_fulton yeah.... realized it quite late. if it doesn't make others happy... atleast you were vibing building it.
Graeme

@harvanshchaudhary yeah, everythgn is related, and all the pieces come together into something bigger too

Harvansh Chaudhary
@graeme_fulton so u mean I should go with it and feel the vibe?? You in?
Graeme

@harvanshchaudhary haha I mean you can reuse any part of it, if it doesn't go anywhere beyond a bit of fun, you still have all the API stuff to reuse for anything, so why not

Harvansh Chaudhary
@graeme_fulton hell yeah.... that's the motivation I need. 😁😁
Gabe Perez

I've been itching to experiment building something with Apple's HealthKit. Been really into health data lately! Are you working on anything?

Jake Crump

@gabe Oh interesting! I can tell you a request I have haha. I'd love a rucking (weighted walking) workout tracker for my apple watch. The built in workouts don't have that particular workout included so I just use hiking. But it's pretty inaccurate because it's not factoring in or tracking the weight I'm carrying.

Gabe Perez

@jakecrump oh that's super interesting! You're like in theory combining weight training with some cardio. I'm actually surprised there's no way to customize this. Let me do some digging!

Jean Willame

@gabe It could be interesting to see that! I swear that since I bought my apple watch, I've become addicted to my health data ahah

Edward Michaelson

@gabe i would use a stupid simple app that tracked progressive overload of a few big compound lifts over time (squat, deadlift mainly). Would be great to have the timescale progression loaded into healthkit with ability to drill down into session specific data

Gabe Perez

@emikes919 I'd love that too for runs like how has my 5K been progressing over time, or sprints. "Compressed" app coming soon... maybe?

Edward Michaelson

@gabe exactly, same idea. launch away baby!

Rohan Chaubey
Launching soon!

A simple chrome extension that allows me to store message templates for LinkedIn and X. It also allows personalization with first name.

This idea came up when I received 500+ birthday wishes across social platforms and couldn't manually respond to each.

Jake Crump

@rohanrecommends Cool idea! So kind of like quick snippets with some personalization options. Any other platforms you're planning to include? I'd assume adding other platforms means adding in the ability to automatically pull in user data from there right?

Rohan Chaubey
Launching soon!

@jakecrump yes! Most messages are repetitive. Example, every time someone sends me an invite to connect on LinkedIn, I ask, how did they discover my profile or if there's a reason they reached out.

Currently, it supports LinkedIn and X. I plan to include Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Reddit, Facebook and Instagram in the near future. Or maybe AI functionality to auto-generate some obvious replies :)

Edward Michaelson

@rohanrecommends if you really nailed the ux this would get traction

Cyril Chaillan

Trying to grow @CodenQuest and preparing for a new launch on Product Hunt. The goal is to have all the visuals and overall post ready so I can finally schedule the launch!

Juan Secchi

@cchaillan Hey @CodenQuest looks super fun! Good luck with that launch and don't hesitate to reach out to us if you need some tips.

Cyril Chaillan

@juan Thank you Juan, really appreciate the support!

Edward Michaelson

@cchaillan nice! what's the new launch? just relaunching the product with new features?

Cyril Chaillan

@emikes919 Yes new features, tried to adjust the product vision by adding bite size lessons on different topics like to prepare for different interviews or to learn a language from scratch.

Also released the app on Android!

Edward Michaelson

@cchaillan nice good luck! keep cranking

Justin Bao

This weekend, we’re deep in the final stretch building Filo Mail — our AI-native email client, aiming to ship by the end of the month. 📹

Filo turns emails into actionable To-Dos and helps you manage inbox chaos without the noise. We’re super close to launch, but polishing every detail to make sure users get the smoothest, most intuitive experience possible.

Would love to hear any feedback or tips from fellow makers on what makes an email client truly delightful to use 🙌

Jake Crump

@justin_bao Focusing on to-dos is an interesting approach. I know for me, one of the things I love about @Superhuman is the focus and ease of getting to inbox zero. I think one of the ways they do that best is with keyboard shortcuts. So I'd highly recommend including/focusing on that!

Justin Bao

@jakecrump Thanks Jake! 🙌 We’ll definitely include keyboard shortcuts when the desktop version drops — totally agree they’re essential for power users. Right now, we’re debuting our iOS mobile app first.

Superhuman is an incredible client that nails efficiency and productivity. What we’re aiming for with Filo is a bit different — it’s AI-native from day one. That means AI isn’t just a sidekick, it’s baked into the core, enabling deeper integrations and smarter in-app actions. Hoping to deliver a fresh take on what an email client can do.

Edward Michaelson

@justin_bao if you can nail the actionable todo list and have them push to my notion todo list with a scheduled gate for me to approve/deny each one, I would 100% use it.

although notion mail may be a competitor here

Justin Bao

@emikes919 Great suggestion, we'll sure do that! I feel like all AI-native products now are still in a discovery phase, and we’re all working hard to reimagine what the inbox experience could be with the right dose of intelligence. Notion Mail’s doing cool stuff, no doubt — but honestly, I don’t see us as competitors. We’re all pushing to move beyond the Outlook-era workflow, and if we can collectively raise the bar for what an inbox can do, we all win.

Edward Michaelson

@justin_bao i don't disagree. will be interesting to see where this goes since at the end of the day, email will always just be a "list". No matter how you slice it.

I'm by no means an expert, but the quality of the intelligence + a sick UX feels like what will win here. Although we don't even know what winning looks like yet!

Justin Bao

@emikes919 Definitely, it just feels inevitable that the old system gets a full revamp with AI. We’ll see it evolve as we go—and hopefully we all ride the wave when it hits.

Sharath Kuruganty

Just shipped Kithbook. It’s an AI-powered rolodex that remembers who you met, when, and why — automatically.

Link: https://www.kithbook.com/

Jake Crump

@5harath Love this idea! Just signed up for early access. Also, very nice design on the landing page 👌

Sharath Kuruganty

@jakecrump thanks Jake. Appreciate that!

Edward Michaelson

@5harath this is actually sick. it the UX was truly effortless to navigate and source info from the database, would 100% use it

bonus if it integrates with my CMS / lead tracking database of choice (for me it's notion)

Nischal Kanishk

This week I am sort of researching the market, identifying pain points.
Main Idea: Travel sector

From thinking of travelling to a place, to coming back home, everything in an app. I want to build a super app for Local+ International + Domestic travel. With features like community approved itineraries, budget planner, splitting budget, pre-booking adventures, restaurants and more, suggesting best spots on the way, safety advisory and real time notifications, connecting with other travellers, earning loyalty points to redeem in the app.

I am looking for people who love to travel and can help me with insights. Drop your email or Insta and I'll send you a link where we can connect to discuss.

(Creating something with people for people)

Juan Secchi

@nischal_kanishk Hey Nischal, I travel a lot and can definitely see myself relying on app for ideas and planning. I can imagine a tool that I can use to plan and create a travel dashboard with everything I need before I arrive somewhere, and that has an offline mode because I won't always have internet access.

Nischal Kanishk

@Juan Great Insight Juan!
I would love to connect with you over a call, and ask you few questions that can help me build the perfect product. If you are interested, can you share your email or Linkedin?

Edward Michaelson

hey @nischal_kanishk ! I can offer some feedback here.

I've traveled extensively. I've visited 34 countries and lived abroad in Hong Kong and Indonesia for 6 years, and now that I'm back living in the US, I probably visit 1-2 new countries per year (going to Ireland for the first time next week!).

I've experienced pretty much every travel-related problem there is and have become an expert planner over the years.

Based on that experience, I'm worried your idea may fall victim to what I call the "super app fallacy".

I see a lot of makers trying to build "all in one" apps for sectors that are operating just fine with a set of disparate tools.

Using the disparate tool stack to do what you need works because each tool does one thing very well, and creating a super app is a solution looking for a problem.

For example, I have a pretty nailed down process for working through trip planning (in approximate order):

  • destination research

  • evaluating points/miles value vs. cash flight prices

  • picking dates and booking flights

  • booking lodging

  • car rental

  • travel insurance

  • experience booking

  • visa considerations

I use different tools for all of these things, and I manage big trips centrally in Notion. Yeah, it's a bit annoying and takes a few hours, but it's not THAT hard, especially since I know what I'm doing.

Let's say you COULD make an all-in-one super app. You would need to do it fast enough to get meaningful traction quickly, which is nearly impossible with the level of feature development you'd need.

Add on the fact that the travel tech space is already super crowded with tons of services for every travel-related task under the sun.

AND travel is one of the most cyclical sectors on the planet, which is another reason to stay away from it.

The alternative is to focus on one hyper-specific problem in the travel space (ideally that you've suffered from personally), and build a tool that absolutely erases it. Then build from there.

What do you think?

Nischal Kanishk

@emikes919 Hey man!
That was a very well put reply. It gave me a real-world insight for sure.

I agree with all your points, and I see the struggle here.

Talking about solving 1 hyper specific problem, yes I am focusing on 1 core pain point and then will slowly integrate everything into one.

I have been interviewing people about pain points, I have gathered some, but as you are very much experienced, I would love to know what are the pain points you think should be solved.

Would love to connect with you on this too!

Edward Michaelson

@nischal_kanishk happy to connect, got your dm on linkedin, will follow up there

Tijs Teulings

I’m updating my app Kilowatt to include a new Garage feature that will allow people to add custom car models next to the library of existing models in the app. With so many new car models coming out it’s nigh impossible to keep up so this will offer people a way to add models that are less popular and not in the app yet. Also I just launched Flexible a fitness app aimed at doing your rehab exercises consistently, I really need to work on some marketing for that one though. It hasn’t even been hunted yet 😅

Jake Crump

@_tijs My wife and I have actually been talking a good bit about switching over to an electric car for our next vehicle. I'll have to remember Kilowatt! Seems super useful. For the new models that users are adding, are you planning on tracking what the most commonly added ones are to include by default? I can imagine that is a lot to keep up with given how many are coming out!

Also, I'm terrible about remembering to stretch before or after workouts. I really like the red panda mascot for Flexible. I'll have to try it out! And you should totally hunt it!

Tijs Teulings

@jakecrump i want to eventually move away from offering the library, as you said it's getting harder and harder to keep up. I think if i help the user identify the right values they can get quite far in adding enough detail to get an accurate charging estimate without needing presets. This will also make it more flexible when adding an older model which might have less range now then when it came out for instance. As the apps that come with your car get better the niche for my app will be customization and things like cost calculation. It seems to already be more attractive to spreadsheet nerd types then average car owners so i think i can lean into that.

And yeah for Flexible i think i'll end up hunting it myself although i guess it's still better if someone else adds it. Thanks for the positive note!

Jake Crump

@_tijs Yeah I think leaning into the customization and cost calculation is a smart move. Good on you for understanding who it appeals to and leaning into that. And I think aiming for approximation over trying to get super accurate for every type of model makes sense. Like you said, even age of the car or something like mileage could affect that. I imagine most people are looking to just get a close approximation.

For hunting Flexible, it's totally fine to hunt it yourself. It really doesn't change anything if it's hunted by you or someone else in terms of it getting on the homepage.

Rabii Luena

I'm developing a text-to-speech platform focused on widely used African languages. Starting with common national languages like English, Arabic, Swahili, Somali, and Amharic, I plan to expand into vernacular tongues such as Igbo, Zulu, Gikuyu, and Sukuma.

Juan Secchi

@rbluena hey Rabii, this definitely sounds useful! Is there anything similar out there, for African languages?

Rabii Luena

@juan I have seen for national languages but not for vernacular languages.

Aakash Puri


This Prompt Assistant is all you need for getting the most out of any AI platform
Thinkvelocity.in

Juan Secchi

@aakashpuriHey, the product looks great! Just one piece of feedback about the landing page: I instantly zoomed out to about 80% because the text appeared too large, even on a 24-inch monitor!

Aakash Puri
@juan got you fixing it rn! Would appreciate you upvoting!
Hien Phan

i’m building the onboarding for VidSummify - AI Daily Digest Email for your favorite Youtube Channels. launched it a few days ago and got a few hundred requests, but not much traction yet.

now i wanna make the onboarding more fun so people enjoy using it right away. thinking about adding little moments like confetti when they do something the first time. maybe even throw in a surprise like a discount code or something playful. also working on tightening up the ui/ux.

what’s something fun or unexpected you’ve seen during onboarding that actually worked?

Valhun Ng

@hien_phan_harry Hey! Great to see a fellow maker from Vietnam đŸ‡»đŸ‡ł 🙌


VidSummify sounds super useful — I’d definitely use it to keep up with my favorite creators without spending hours watching!


Love that you’re making onboarding more fun. One thing I’ve seen work well is a quick, interactive quiz during setup — like picking favorite YouTubers or content types. It adds a personal touch and builds excitement early on.


You’ve already got strong initial interest — just a matter of dialing in the experience now. Keep it up!


I’m working on NewsMate — an AI-powered news assistant that delivers smart, personalized, real-time summaries. It also auto-swipes and reads them aloud, making news totally hands-free. Launch coming soon!


Would be awesome to support each other’s journeys — let’s stay in touch!

Hien Phan

@valhun thank you for the idea about interactive quiz, will try it

Erik StÄlfjÀll

I’m working on Unora. It’s basically one app to handle all your chats and emails from WhatsApp, Instagram, Gmail, Slack, and more. It brings 7 apps into one clean, searchable place. Basically trying to fix the chaos of too many apps 😅

Apart from aggregating your communication, it also uses AI to give you quick priority-ordered summaries boosting your productivity even more. Would love any thoughts! @Unora

Jake Crump

@erik_s Very cool idea! Being able to search across all of those does sound very nice. I'll often forget where I get a message and spend way too long going through the different apps trying to find it haha

Edward Michaelson

@erik_s if you can actually make this a thing I'd be so happy. key thing for me would be latency. There would have to be a super smooth ux

Daniel

This weekend I'm hacking away at Loopify, a social media software my cofounder and I started out of frustration. We wanted something that actually did feel new, didn't require 5 tabs to do simple things, and didn't require enterprise expense just to get along.

Right now I'm working on the analytics view, trying to make performance data actually useful, not just numbers for the sake of numbers.

Would love to see what everyone else is producing as well. Always fascinating to see how different projects transition from idea to UI.

Anyways, if anybody’s interested to chat and tell us your experiences and frustrations, would love to hear https://discord.gg/Q6Ph4eGsgW.

Jake Crump

@dan16 Sounds interesting! So is it a new social media platform? Or is it software for leveraging social media?

Daniel

@jakecrump leveraging social media. It's a competitor for platforms like Hootsuite and Buffer, but dare I say much better... Ok, I may be biased here 😁

lezhu

a tool can visualize your custom code

Jake Crump

@lezhu Is this a web based sandbox? Any particular limitations?

lezhu

@jakecrump Yes, it's a web-based sandbox supporting Python, JavaScript, and C++ (C++ still experimental). Code runs in isolated environments with execution step limits to prevent overload. Current restrictions: no third-party package imports, no interactive input (like input()/stdin), and some syntax (e.g., classes) might not visualize cleanly.

Rania ZYANE

I built an open source plateforme for data usage auditing in Hadoop Ecosystem

Emmanuel Allan

I launched mine this week quick mvp - Launch a high-value MVP in 10 working day. It's good for busy developers or non-technical founders or just founders who want to test the market without putting in the time

Gerome

I launched my side project yesterday called DeepRankAI its a free AI Content humanization tool that turns your AI generated content into human like writing in one click.

Jake Crump

@gerome24 Very cool and congrats on launching! What was the process like for building the AI detection? That feels like a tough problem a lot of people are trying to crack.

Gerome

@jakecrump This is undoubtedly a highly complex problem, and I am still in the process of completing it. However, the humanization tool is already finished and successfully bypasses all AI detection systems and tools. The most challenging aspect of developing the AI detector has been sourcing genuine human-written content to fine-tune the LLM for accurate detection results.

Jake Crump

@gerome24 That's interesting! Is there a particular kind of human-written content you aim for? I'd imagine not all styles would work well.

Gerome

@jakecrump Its basically made to convert the content the user pastes into the text area and wants humanized there is multiple different styles and most work pretty well but the default option works best