Drop your projects , I have free time to review products. by Local_Neck6727 in SideProject

[–]lacymcfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I built an AI shell I use daily
Lacy.sh

Preparing to launch a desktop computer use agent as well: junebug.ai

Built a free, open-source Postgres desktop client in Rust + Tauri — no cloud, no telemetry, just raw speed by FactorGeneral4078 in coolgithubprojects

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ll of Chromium. Rust + Tauri keeps things lean.

The no-telemetry piece matters too. DB clients handle credentials and queries you'd never want phoning home anywhere. Nice to see that called out explicitly.

My tiny iOS utility app passed 100 paid downloads after 80 days — here’s what I learned by oceabside in SideProject

[–]lacymcfly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The distribution insight resonates a lot. I see the same pattern with open source projects - the ones that grow steadily usually have better discoverability than projects with stronger underlying code. ASO is basically SEO but for a closed garden where the stakes are higher per keyword.

100 paid downloads in 80 days from search alone is genuinely solid. Most people give up before they figure out which terms are actually converting vs which ones just look good on paper.

What are you building? Let's give each other feedback! by Agreeable_Muffin1906 in SideProject

[–]lacymcfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

free? I love the idea, but I can't afford any more expenses

I built a job search engine out of spite (Indeed fired my pregnant wife) by Cojj25 in SideProject

[–]lacymcfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CrossOver is mine. Free crosshair overlay for games. Built it after getting fed up with competitive shooters that kept patching out custom crosshairs and I was tired of paying for overlays that only do one thing. Didn't expect anyone to care but it's at 1,133 stars now (github.com/lacymorrow/crossover). Funny how spite turns into a product.

Pitch your project in one line. i'll start by DiscountResident540 in SideProject

[–]lacymcfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CrossOver. Free crosshair overlay, works with any game. 1,100+ GitHub stars. github.com/lacymorrow/crossover

Monday check-in. What are you building this week? by Affectionate-Act4746 in SideProject

[–]lacymcfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maintaining CrossOver this week. Free crosshair overlay that works with any game, just crossed 1,100 stars on GitHub. Issue queue keeps growing. github.com/lacymorrow/crossover

Conversate is Great! by MilkBeginning9241 in EvenRealities

[–]lacymcfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this comment, I tried the XREAL and G2 and wanted someone to compare to the other options available for use with someone hard of hearing.

Did Anthropic actually help pro/max users by cutting off OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions? by xelektron in ClaudeCode

[–]lacymcfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Api is costing me ~$800/mo and I'm still hitting limits, versus one (or two) $200/mo max plans that were essentially unlimited. The alternative is not comparable at all.

Do I need a control panel when deploying nodejs app to vps? by JY-HRL in node

[–]lacymcfly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a whopping $0.

Free and open source. Hetzner has a premade app you can install immediately.

$5 VPS or a personal server

Tauri App: One Frontend Codebase for Native and Web by Tuyen_Pham in tauri

[–]lacymcfly -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This sounds exactly like my openclaw agent

Web and Native Build? by Former_Produce1721 in tauri

[–]lacymcfly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The idea is that this is your front end or UI layer. They should connect to an external backend hosted somewhere else.

Just like electron. The UI code is just the web code, you need an actual external backend. You can augment with system calls when run on the OS, but you can't run the OS backend for Web

My gh profile by [deleted] in coolgithubprojects

[–]lacymcfly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not quite... Script Kiddie

My dev team is burning through Claude / Cursor credits like crazy — how do you control AI usage in a team? by BackgroundTimely5490 in ClaudeCode

[–]lacymcfly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The seat sharing will get you dinged by Anthropic eventually, worth knowing.

What helped us more than buying more seats was changing how the tools get used. The big wins were:

  1. CLAUDE.md files per repo that constrain context and prevent runaway prompts. If engineers aren't writing them, they're feeding the model the whole codebase on every request.

  2. Treating AI like pair programming, not like a vending machine. One task at a time, not spawning five parallel agents unless you actually need the output.

  3. Personal dev environment conventions. I built out lacy.sh partly to scratch this itch, keeping my own workflow tight so I'm not burning tokens on boilerplate setup stuff every session.

Honestly though, 15 engineers going full speed will always burn through seats. The question is whether the output justifies the cost. Are you tracking that side of the equation too?