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Products that do what DialASmile - tell people why you love them, even when you're not around does
Hey guys, I've been working on this cool little side project and was wondering everyone's thoughts on it. Check it out at www.dialasmile.me I came up with the idea while trying to create a romantic gift for my girlfriend. Her last boyfriend had made a webpage with all the reasons he loved her on it, and so of course I wanted to one up him! So I decided I'd set up a phone number that she could call whenever I'm not around and she's lonely, that would speak all the reasons I love her out loud. I ended up making one for my mom too for Mother's Day, and she loved it, so I thought, "Hey maybe…
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Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spreadvk.e... iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-new-elim/id6463781107 We know life can be busy. And we often struggle to make time for the people that matter most to us. According to a Harvard study from 2021, "36% of all Americans [...] feel “serious loneliness.”" [1] We created an app to help people focus on their most personal relationships and guide them through forming more meaningful connections with them, in the hopes to combat the "Loneliness Epidemic". We just…
2023 · elim.app
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The feedback I've had for it so far is mind blowing "I love it" "Oddly satisfying" "Satisfying" "Can't stop playing with this" "Nice" "You're crazy, well shipped" "Highly therapising process 10/10 would recommend!" "10/10 Internet" "Popped a few.. I feel happy now" "Gosh darn it. I feel better now." "Good app to end the day" "My work progress is wrecked from now on" "I will make it my routine to pop these at the end of each work day" ... and more! I submitted a form somewhere once and they showed me a confetti. Made me feel good. But to see it again I'd have to keep resubmitting…
2024 · twitter.com
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Hey HN, I made conversation starter game. Here's how it works: - Choose a theme like "Couples" or "Favorites" - Tap to reveal thought-provoking questions - Take turns answering and discover new things about each other I made ConvoCards because everyone has an interesting story to tell, but these don't often come up in day to day conversations. I also enjoy using them for journaling and self reflection. I hope you enjoy playing and learn something new about someone close to you!
2024 · convo.cards
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After constantly forgetting to buy my wife flowers (and not hearing the end of it), I've got a ghetto MVP that is already keeping me out of trouble. Happy wife FTW! Feedback? Love/hate? http://remembertheflowers.com
2011
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Hi guys, We have just built Ultimategiftlists.com My girlfriend keeps asking me what I want for Christmas. I also need to buy stuff for my nephew. So I wrote a list of stuff out for my girlfriend and sent her an email of links showing her the stuff I wanted. I found that my brother did exactly the same to show me what I should get my nephews. There had to be a better way to do this. Amazon wishlist exists but it doesn't do it as effectively as I wanted. Therefore my mate and I built our new site - www.ultimategiftlists.com - it's hopefully very simple to use and has a really cool feature…
2012
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The idea of creating this site came to me when I was thinking of gifts to get family and friends for Christmas after a very exhausting work week. Getting Christmas gifts or gifts in general can be time consuming and mind draining if you are the type of person that likes to give thoughtful gifts and does not like to repeat gifts. I decided to compile data of key points like gender, age group, hobbies, favorite things, favorite sports etc of the person receiving the gift, so as to suggest several gifts the receiver is most likely to love. Since I wanted to share this with others that might…
2022 · thealmostperfectgift.blogspot.com
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Hi HN, Made this little service where people can subscribe and receive a comforting message as a text through whatsapp, each day. I hope it helps alleviate some of the stress in their life :)
2024 · relaxingquotes.com
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For fun this Valentine's Day, a couple buddies and I decided to play around with the idea of digital Valentines. We cranked out the project in the month of January as a "nights & weekends" project. We'd love any feedback in general! Our next step is to figure a way to seed this in key communities, to see if it has any chance of taking off. The URL is www.1millionvalentines.com (or www.1MVS.com). Thanks!
2013
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Hey HN! As I sat to write my 2025 reflection, I realized one thing I was missing was a ‘year wrapped’ for my relationships — I got my music, got my photos, got my fitness wraps — but what about my relationships? Specifically, I wanted to figure out what my text conversations say about my relationships and myself, and if there’s been evolution throughout the year. Who reaches out more? What’s our tone and conflict resolution? What were our month by month successes and conflicts? So I built an app that analyzes WhatsApp conversations (.txt files) and surfaces the patterns — using Anthropic’s…
Dec 2025 · textunwrapped.com
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It has been a while since I have shared my app, that I made to be able to practice my Danish while chatting with my grilfriend - I often used GPT to write as much as I can in Danish, and I replaced the words I didn't know with {Englis words in curly braces}. While this was great, it was rather annoying to type the prompt always, so I figured a GPT wrapper would work well here. Last time when I launched, it went viral! I was super happy (and grateful!) for all the feedback and excitement — but it also meant my tokens disappeared fast, and many people ended up trying an app that no longer…
Oct 2025 · menerdu.com
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Hey! I know many people are addicted to their smartphones including me, so I built a way to actually use a dumbphone in today's world. You just connect your stuff like whatsapp, email, calendar etc. and can then access them through SMS or voice calling with an AI assistant. There are a lot of apps on smartphones that allow you to reduce screen time but they all require you to fight the desire to not delete them. Even if you are disciplined, it takes away energy from your life that could be used elsewhere. Moving to a dumbphone frees you completely since there is no way to get lost to the…
2025 · lightfriend.ai
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Long time lurker, short time member. A few weeks ago I released my new Android app, SemiSilent, which allows you to whitelist contacts so that they ring your phone even when it's on silent mode. I've found it useful when on call or when my wife is working hours that I'm sleeping. I've already released a few updates, and I'm working on adding a few more based on feedback I've gotten. I'd appreciate any feedback you'd have, whether it's feature requests, criticisms, thoughts on how to market, or any other wisdom you'd care to share. My site with information:…
2011
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2012 · giftmating.com
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My parents got super confused when PhonePe (payment app in India) updated their app overnight. They immediately blamed me for "breaking their phone" lol. I had to spend an hour showing them how to use the new design. Same thing happened with WhatsApp video calls. I realized this is a common problem - we teach our parents tech stuff once, but they forget because they don't practice enough. So I made this tool that lets my parents practice using apps through step-by-step tutorials at their own pace. No one rushing them, no one judging. The goal? Help my parents feel more confident with…
2025 · teach-your-parents-smartphone.com
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Hello there! I hope you're doing well today! I wanted to share something with you. Recently I was on the hunt for the best way to journal daily. Well, I had this idea - what if I could feed all my daily entries to an AI (ChatGPT), and create a friendly, supportive character like Socrates or Simon Sinek? This way, I could ask any questions about my life and mental health, and get some amazing advice on how to improve myself! The results have been absolutely mind-blowing ! I even made a short GIF to show you how it works - check it out! - https://gifyu.com/image/SdHLH I've…
2023
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https://www.touchgrass.fm About one month ago while visiting us from overseas, my wife’s parents were in a terrible car accident. Everyone involved is alive and going to be okay. But what followed was a series of emotional, physical and logistical challenges that pushed my wife and her family to their limits. For the first week we were practically glued to our phones, contacting family members, insurance companies and air ambulance services. I found myself obsessively checking my phone for updates, sending empty messages and mindlessly scrolling feeds. My screen time reached all…
2025 · touchgrass.fm
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Hello everyone! I have a hobby project that has become fairly full featured that I figured I would share. The idea of MinimalChat has been to create a project that is a lightweight and dead simple application that can be deployed locally in a few seconds (with docker). While of course also having most of the nice to have features and looking pretty nice. A nice bonus is it a Progressive Web Application so it can be installed like a normal application to your mobile device. It has a full mobile UI. For those using Chrome and Edge you can also locally download, load and host entirely via your…
2024 · github.com
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I’ve started working on a new startup called Thoughtful Post (https://thoughtfulpost.com) It’s a useful and fun-to-use app that will help you organize and remember all of your friend’s birthdays/weddings/anniversaries and help you find interesting and new gifts to get them based on their likes and dislikes! There are collaboration features and surveys you can use to farm your friends likes/dislikes and work together with friends to pick out gifts for people. All of the functionality is in the mobile app:…
2022 · thoughtfulpost.com
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Create audio boards for every occasion: long distance love!
Nov 2025 · apps.apple.com
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Happy Valentine's Day! I built a language learning app designed specifically for couples, where one partner helps the other learn a new language in a fun, personalized way. My partner is originally from China, and I wanted to learn Mandarin and Cantonese to speak to her family. But learning through other apps, I found many words sounded awkward or outdated — especially due to regional differences. I wanted to sound natural and local, not like a textbook. Instead of struggling alone, I thought why not learn together? Many of my couple-friends were in the same boat but had no real system and…
2025 · couplingcafe.com
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I hate small talks, I build a social game to help me deepen my relationships and connect with people beyond the shallow levels. I want your feedback, maybe inspire me with questions you would like to see popping in the game.
2022 · askdeeply.com
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Hey HN! Halfway through moving to Canada and whilst my conversational French gets me by, I'm absolutely rubbish when someone rattles off phone numbers at full speed (quatre-vingt-dix-neuf anyone?). So I built a virtual pet that thrives on correctly answered number challenges. 20-second drills throughout the day: get them right and Lexie grows, get them wrong and it gets a bit sad (but never dies, this isn't the 90s). Speak, type, or tap your answers. Would love any feedback/bugreports. Or just rant about how the Belgians sensibly say "nonante-neuf" whilst we're stuck with…
2025 · apps.apple.com
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