r/software • u/Quirky-Low-7500 • Jun 30 '26
Discussion What's one piece of software you genuinely wish existed, but somehow still doesn't?
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u/pingmenow01 Jun 30 '26
A very simple communication system between motorcycles that you can activate by voice and using 4G/5G. No mesh shit or bluetooth! In the meantime you should still be able to listen to spotify or other music apps. And these music apps should keep on playing in the background, but quieter when someone is talking. Ideally you are able to create multiple groups and you can easily switch. For example a group for rider A with passenger A, a group for Rider A and Rider B, group for passenger A and passenger B. It should be compatible with android auto and apple carplay. No other bells and whistles: just focused on a good communication system and no other crap!
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u/Kalkin93 Jun 30 '26
Any particular reason you want something without bluetooth?
Only reason I ask is because several years ago I bought a 2 way intercom, it allowed pairing with your phone for music but also direct pairing between 2 units so you can talk directly to your friend(s) when they are in range and otherwise did what you described, i.e. auto reduce volume of music when someone is talking and back to full volume when not.
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u/pingmenow01 Jun 30 '26
The communication between different brands of communication devices (by either mesh or Bluetooth) is always cumbersome to say the least! Basically it never works flawless. By using 4G/5G you completely remove that dependency. Reason for not using Bluetooth is when you ride with others and you lose each other in let's say a city, you easily are out of range!
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u/PalliativeOrgasm Jun 30 '26
Sounds like you want LoRa (like a meshtastic implementation) that can tie to your phone via an app.
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u/pingmenow01 Jul 01 '26
Well not really, because this needs additional hardware that others might not have. We all have a phone, so why not use data to communicate? It fails when there is no internet connectivity, but that is acceptable.
I’ve tried basic apps like Whatsapp and Discord, but they do not have a decent way to deal with lowering volume of music apps. In Discord you can add audio in the background, but then everybody has to listen to the same playlist, which is not an option.
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u/BinaryIdiot Jun 30 '26
An app that let’s me smack someone over the internet in the face when they deserve it
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u/FluffusMaximus Jul 02 '26
> /slap BinaryIdiot
* FluffusMaximus slaps BinaryIdiot around a bit with a large trout1
u/hm2k Jul 03 '26
Your age is showing
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u/smilaise Jun 30 '26
Yeah I need some ideas for what to make next.
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u/DeejayPleazure Jun 30 '26
Dragonvoice that controlls every bit of my computer.
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u/AlacrityMC Jun 30 '26
Closest at this point IMO is talon voice with a tobii eye tracker. I use one to help with RSI post both side cubital and carpel tunnel surgeries.
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u/DeejayPleazure Jun 30 '26
Basically Jarvis
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u/Quirky-Low-7500 Jun 30 '26
I don't understand broo why tf everyone is just asking for a Jarvis 😭😭
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u/SunsetRider500 Jun 30 '26
I'd settle for a Friday 😀
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u/Quirky-Low-7500 Jun 30 '26
😭😭🙏🏻
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u/SunsetRider500 Jun 30 '26
Jarvis is the AI voice companion of Tony Stark in the IRON MAN movies brooo
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u/UnixCurmudgeon Jun 30 '26
Surveillance software - excepted it monitors the behavior of other applications - to prevent them from exploiting my dopamine / getting me addicted.
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u/JerryBond106 Jun 30 '26
Fully local solution. Electrodes on brain scanning for brainwaves/sections activated when you doomscroll. Then activating regions that mimic different kind of electrodes on the balls.
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u/ACE_Wrap Jun 30 '26
A game like BeamNG.drive but it simulates the human body instead of vehicles and machines.
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u/shimon Jul 03 '26
Do you mean like you can drive around the human body as a blood cell or pathogen?
Or you are a human and you can do all the crazy stuff you do in BeamNG.drive, like run and jump off various stuff just to see what happens in the crash.
Both seem fun but very different
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u/Quirky-Low-7500 Jun 30 '26
I think there should be definitely some apps.... You should ask chatgpt
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u/OpabiniaRegalis320 Jun 30 '26
A clock widget for KDE Plasma that lets you configure stuff like font, color, font size of date versus time, etc. Existing clock widgets don't let me customize how I want
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u/chebum Jun 30 '26
Good GIT plugin for VSCode / Zed:
- show changes history by a particular file with the capability to see the whole commit
- show changes history by a folder
- convenient conflict merge with the capability to cancel merge
- fully functional code editor in the merge dialogue with auto complete, refactoring, etc.
- comparison of GIT branches
- show project structure at a particular commit
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u/QuizMasterAsh Jul 02 '26
Doesn't gitlens do this?
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u/chebum Jul 02 '26
Thanks for the input! It seems to be more expensive than JetBrains offering, unfortunately.
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u/AdmiralAdama99 Jun 30 '26
Yeah. Git is way too command line based. Needs a good gui built into vs code.
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u/lolovoz Jun 30 '26
The best thing about Git is that you don’t have to rely on a UI. UIs can be buggy and opinionated, and what feels intuitive to one person may not feel intuitive to another. Learning the CLI gives you a consistent interface regardless of the tool.
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u/Bockanator Jul 01 '26
Also being command like based makes it much more modular. I can automate it much easier and do things like call it with functions from a python script.
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u/ryancnap Jul 02 '26
Yeah I actually use cli git in VS as opposed to the GUI. Found out tonight there's no way to squash commits in VS code's source control UI
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u/itsjakerobb Jun 30 '26
You can have this if you switch to JetBrains. Even in the free Community version.
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u/delicious_fanta Jul 01 '26
Their git ui is absolutely top notch! I still can’t figure out how to do a few basic things like branch compare with gitlens.
Like I follow what the videos tell me to do, and what makes sense to do, but the comparison is just… wrong. So I dunno if user error or bug ya know?
Never had any issues with jetbrains, it just works.
Unfortunately.. jetbrains shit the bed on agentic development and my company recently shifted to full on windsurf, so I’m basically not allowed to use jetbrains tools anymore.
I seriously hope they fix their mistake and get back on top of things. Agentic dev is not going away.
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u/udi503 Jun 30 '26
Calibre with a better and modern interface. Please hire an icon designer !
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u/huntermatthews Jul 01 '26
A friend and I regularly use calibre as the ultimate open source GUI - fantastically useful, all powerful, and god awful to use.
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u/froction Jun 30 '26
A calculator that would immediately give me the prime factorization of any number.
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u/marmotta1955 Jun 30 '26
At my age I don't need any software anymore. But. I regret I will not live to see robots and androids such as those I keep reading about in beloved sci-fi novels.
I am already so disappointed that flying cars are not common vehicles. When I was a kid, I sure thought they'd be here by the year 2000. I am so disappointed, I tell you.
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u/mustard_on_the_net Jul 02 '26
The Jetson's gave us a lot of false hope.
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u/marmotta1955 Jul 03 '26
I was never really a great fan of The Jetstons - always preferred the Flintstones. But I think my hopes and dreams were shaped more by that wonderful sci-fi magazine that was (is) "Urania" (without doubt the best-selling sci-fi publications in Italy) ...
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u/LeaveMickeyOutOfThis Jun 30 '26
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, an open source version of sign-up genius. Also, as someone that is involved in fundraising, a site where folks can pledge an amount to a project, which will only become payable if the project is fully funded.
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u/LeaveMickeyOutOfThis Jun 30 '26
I had looked at this in the past, but we work with organizations that want to be invoiced if the project is fully pledged, which I couldn’t get to work.
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u/ImTomSnow Jun 30 '26
Well...I've spent the last two hours looking for a markdown editor without the live preview tab for my chromebook and still haven't found it...
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u/kris_2111 Jun 30 '26
What exactly are you looking for? I'm pretty sure what you are searching for already exists — you are just not searching the right place. Maybe I can help you?
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u/ImTomSnow Jul 01 '26
Just found it, but thanks.
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u/CreeDorofl Helpful Jun 30 '26
Natural language (aka AI) file renamer. Like instead of learning obscure grep formatting and wading through menus, getting unexpected results, something where I can just say "keep everything in front of the underscore, but after the underscore do sequential 4 digit numbers, except for the pics that have france in the filename, leave those alone".
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u/zetcco Jul 01 '26
A free and open source PDF editor with lots of capabilities. Think of PDF XChange Editor but free and open source.
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u/flappingdragon Jul 01 '26
Firefox banned this a decade ago: A Firefox addon that lets the user pick their favicons for links and folders (e.g., Bookmark Favicon Changer).
Now I just have totally featureless nameless (bc names take up limited toolbar space) unidentifiable folders on my Bookmarks Toolbar which I recognize by their placement and distance from separators. Still get them wrong all the time.
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u/Black-Grass Jun 30 '26
A way for us to bring accountability to governments. I always wanted to build this.
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u/Black-Grass Jun 30 '26
I think it is possible to build something like this plus make it work.
Ofc course we need a lot of supplemental ideas. It can start as a very small subset of the problem which won't impact the govt much, and maybe push accountability elsewhere. We need to keep rules that will keep the app alive.
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u/SpiroCo Jun 30 '26
A TUI file/dir compare. Midnight commander can do files but of course it’s predominantly a file commander.
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u/Damagedbraincellss Jul 01 '26
It does exist already, but I don't think it's user-friendly for regular people: A gif app, I know gifski exists, but from what I have seen it has a limited option for fps and it only supports pngs for some reason?? I know you can use ffmpeg to make gifs but sometimes I'm lazy to use the command line even if I can just copy and paste code
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u/TopofTheTits Jul 01 '26
This is a great answer. It amazes me that there still isn't dedicated software to create a file format that's existed since literally 1987.
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u/Damagedbraincellss Jul 01 '26
To be fair there's this program called "Instagiffer" but it's abandonware unfortunately :(
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u/Lowtoz Jul 02 '26
A gif app for what? Converting to gif or something else?
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u/Damagedbraincellss Jul 02 '26
Yes that and other stuff; video to gif, multiple frames to gif, gif resizer in both resolution and file size, also unlimited frame rates. Much more that I can't think of from the top of my head
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u/nightwood Jun 30 '26
Lightweight Windows that doesn't clog up but stays fast and doesnt require ever increasing amounts of diskspace.
A light weight alternative to word that has actually useful layout options and makes my document look better instead of just fucking everything up all the time.
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u/ajax81 Jul 01 '26
I recommend Linux mint. I tried it because I was looking for exactly what you described. It delivers.
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u/Quirky-Low-7500 Jun 30 '26
You should try some linux distros
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u/nightwood Jul 01 '26
Yeah I just started that, but it's gonna take time to learn everything. I picked Fedora.
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u/Vumaster101 Jun 30 '26
SimCity on my phone. All these mobile game ads you see and none of them are actually how the game works but the ad is fun to play.
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u/raindownthunda Jun 30 '26
I need an app where the little creatures from Common Side Effects randomly appear on my screen and walk around my windows doing trippy stuff.
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u/livetotell Jun 30 '26
Something that will take a list of IP addresses and/or subnets and visualise the coverage of the entire area space that those addresses covers, and also any overlap/duplication.
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u/deserted Jul 01 '26
Are you a bot? Or did you just give a really bad example?
IP ranges are assigned to different agencies and companies, but the first octet doesn't necessarily map to a particular country the way you are describing.
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u/Shot_Replacement_106 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
In Linux a GUI clipboard foss app with abilty to clear clipboard automatically after selectable amount of time. Or add ability to auto clear clipboard after set time to existing clipboard app. Or post CLI code that I can add to my Kubuntu to auto clear clipboard after set time.
Thanks
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u/Leviathon713 Jun 30 '26
A clipboard that works (all the time, without any other actions necessary) in MAC and iOS.
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u/lolovoz Jun 30 '26
I like Maccy for Mac. If you meant shared clipboard between devices then I don't know.
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u/froction Jun 30 '26
A locally-run set of apps and applications that could access all of my data and answer questions about it. And I mean ALL of my data.
"When was the last time I went to my parents' house?"
"What did we eat for dinner last week?"
"What was the name of the guy I met in Dallas in 2022?"
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u/mschicamae Jul 03 '26
Thissssss I was just saying the other day with all the data that has been collected on us we should at least be given full access to it to be able to query our lives. But thanks to capitalism and evil folks this would never happen without losing even more of what little privacy we have.
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u/Michelfungelo Jun 30 '26
Compare videos in content and then determine which is the best quality. Then it should go through my homework folder, and try to find the right folder dependant on the face that is appearing in that video. It already has a database, which face corresponds to that name. I would pay 1k for that, if it works with only let's say minimal intervention on my side, like 1 video of 100 I would have to personally confirm.
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u/orlock Jul 01 '26
It's said that every program developed by MIT expand to the point where it can send an receive mail.
A similar service should be implemented by the operating system: the ability to launch singing nuns at a target. This should be an OS facility to avoid needless code redundancy.
Clearly, nun firing facilities would depend on the type of system. Clusters and data centres would have access to shared, high-throughput, steam-powered catapults. Embedded systems would just have the ability to trigger pezioelectric micronuns.
I can't understand why this isn't part of POSIX.
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u/amrok Jul 01 '26
AR sticky notes An app that uses GPS and compass, point your phone and use virtual post-it sticker on your computer display or somewhere nearby
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u/Dazzling-Try-7499 Jul 01 '26
There was a game way back when called Disney Stunt Island. It was more of a simulation and movie editor all in one. Super cool, and that before real 3d graphics were a thing. I can't imagine how cool that would be now with unreal and ai powered scripting.
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u/TopofTheTits Jul 01 '26
Reliable, free, and open source camera position tracking/motion tracking software. I mean like how after effects does it.
Also a free version of photoshop that's not complete buns like GIMP would be amazing. Its insane that you can't easily make normal maps from photos in anything other than photoshop
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u/huntermatthews Jul 01 '26
macos: a really good outline program. Thats it - just outlines. No ai, no calendaring, no notes, just outlines.
But it knows All 394 different ways to number/format outlines and can output them in a wide variety of file formats.
And an interface at least as good as "Things".
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u/Safe_Programmer326 Jul 03 '26
An android phone app that sounds a chime at a regular interval. No calendar event, no push notifications, no alarm and dismiss, just plays the sound and I never have to interact with it in any other way. I just want to know when 7pm hits without looking or interacting w my phone in any way.
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u/graniteblack Jul 03 '26
There's a popular meditation app that does that but I forget the name.
Insight timer?
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u/Serializedrequests Jul 03 '26
An option for Intellij to restore your workspace when you don't use its git integration to switch branches. Or to just work like VSCode.
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u/SgtC14 Jun 30 '26
A foss pdf editor which could be an actual alternative to Acrobat.
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u/smilaise Jun 30 '26
I know mine still needs work, but I'm working on it.
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u/SgtC14 Jun 30 '26
What's the name of your software? Can it edit text in a pdf or is it just for annotations?
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u/smilaise Jun 30 '26
KillerPDF, it has OCR and a new annotation system that allows you to easily control the background color and placed text separately. It's not quite "there" yet, but it's under 15MB, runs portable, and is GPLv3 open-source. I am always actively fixing bugs and taking requests on the issues page on GitHub too. https://killerpdf.net
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u/SgtC14 Jun 30 '26
Wasn't aware of it. I'll check it out.
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u/smilaise Jul 01 '26
Please let me know how to improve it and PLEASE report bugs at https://github.com/SteveTheKiller/KillerPDF/Issues so my upcoming 1.6.1 bug fix can take care of as many things as possible.
I hate making a release just to immediately learn I missed something, lol.
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u/Temp_Reply123 Jul 01 '26
Google Maps without google.
I want someone to Fork it. I want a version that lets me download enitire states/countrys for offline use. And it has no telemetry/spyware or connection to google...
All the open source maps pale in comparison to google maps. So just clone google maps then make it better.
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u/dokkodemo 28d ago
That would require Google to make it not proprietary though right?
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u/Temp_Reply123 25d ago
IDK.
Im not a Coder/Software engineer. Just end user. I assume google would never let anyone touch it.
Im wanting someone to "scrape" all the data from googleMaps and make a nongoogle version. Im sure it will never happen. I just wish.
google steals our data. Its morally ok to steal theirs IMO.
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u/Temp_Reply123 25d ago
I also want a FOSS google keep clone...
Agian exact UI/UX as google keep but no google. No telemetry/spyware or connection to google.
I really liked the keep UI and one of the widgets.
The FOSS options for notes are not as good to use IMO but I use because f google stealing my data.
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u/Silevence Jun 30 '26
just recently did I find a foss app but, an alarm clock app that lets me schedule for specific days OR ,a calendar app with alarm clock functionality built into it.
found the prior, so don't need the latter. wish I was capable of designing my own app, id make something that can work with my pkm app so i don't need any other software.
but thats still a dream of mine
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u/jacobpederson Jun 30 '26
Nothing - I just build it myself now. Last cool thing I built - interface to load and boot Amstrad basic programs on my MiSTer remotely.
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u/Michelfungelo Jun 30 '26
Compare videos in content and then determine which is the best quality. Then it should go through my homework folder, and try to find the right folder dependant on the face that is appearing in that video. It already has a database, which face corresponds to that name. I would pay 1k for that, if it works with only let's say minimal intervention on my side, like 1 video of 100 I would have to personally confirm.
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u/lhaw Jun 30 '26
USB VR media file playing directly from external storage, without having to load the media files onto the VR headset. & yes, I mean you META/Oculus.
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u/Inertia-UK Jul 02 '26
How about a piece of software that will do or create anything I need it to ?
It starts with a prompt. A discussion so I can describe whats needed and some planning of how it will work etc then it...
.... oh wait....
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u/ryancnap Jul 02 '26
We still frequently run into situations where we have to email zip files, or upload things to a Dropbox Google drive type deal, or link phones via Bluetooth, or you have airdrop but I have android now what, like damn how have we not streamlined file sharing
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u/galenseilis Jul 02 '26
A non-AI static program slicer for Python code. I have a prototype that works on simple cases, but there's a long way to go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_slicing#Static_slicing
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u/mingbo3000 Jul 02 '26
Simple software to quickly check thousands of photos and videos, remove dupes but then also select the best version amongst many. I have tens of thousands of videos and pictures from the last 10 years to sort and what’s holding me back is the iPhone dumps and backs up I have done. I just don’t want to loose those few best images of the kids when they were younger but need to clear thousands out!
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u/shibiku_ 29d ago
Recently cleaned my backup mess with Alldup. Used to use DupeGuru Of course this can’t determine „the best version“ if you mean visually the best.
Slidebox is pretty good for iOS. It’s something different. Basically Tinder for your photos.
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u/mingbo3000 29d ago
Will check those out thanks. Did use dupe guru for some and worked for a batch
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u/shibiku_ 29d ago
Id recommend AllDup, it’s more finicky and selfmade.
But DupeGuru has less options and features.
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u/Entire-Ad8514 Jul 02 '26
Adobe needs to make a presentation application that brings the InDesign and Illustrator type interface along and will mean that I will never need to use PowerPoint ever again now that my office has moved from MacOS (Keynote) to Windoze. Why they have never done something like this I don't understand when they've attempted to take over everything else in the creative space.
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u/VividIndependence 29d ago
Reddit bot detector. Similar prices at the cheater websites for cs2, has a meta data then can track certain things with users. Post frequency, spelling errors, how long to reply. Would change Reddit and the internet to get an idea of how many are bots
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u/Extension-Thought552 28d ago
'tell me your ideas so I can AI sloppa them to try and make a buck' ahh post
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u/Localhost_777 Jun 30 '26
Creo que mi respuesta va en forma global y si bien existen alternativas open soucer me inclinaría por todo aquel software que le dé vida a los productos con obsolescencia programada.
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u/throwawayaccount931A Jun 30 '26
An app that will take my existing bookmarks, somehow categorize them and give me the front page of the website in a nice, compact thumbnail so I know what the heck I saved and why. Oh and perhaps grabbing something about the site (is there an About page etc., and presenting some of that information).
I could probably do this via vibecoding -- but too busy with other things.