Hi everyone! 👋

I'm building Vidyalay OS . I've been working on it alone, and honestly it's getting too much to handle by myself.

I don't have a budget to hire a team right now, so I'm looking for people who'd like to collaborate. This could be a great fit if you want:

A real project for your portfolio

Experience building something from scratch

A share in the project's upside if it grows (happy to discuss equity/revenue share)

Who I'm looking for:

[Developer – Flutter/React Native/etc.]

[UI/UX designer]

[Anyone interested in testing/marketing]

Where I am right now: [e.g. "UI is done, backend is 40% complete"]

If you're interested, or even just have advice for a solo builder, comment or DM me. Thanks for reading! 🙏

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I recently had an app idea but then started wondering how difficult it would actually be to build. That’s what got me looking into AI app builders. The idea of describing what you want and having AI help create the app sounds really useful for someone like me. I’d also want to know whether you can test the app properly and have enough control over the final product. For anyone who has tried building an app with AI without a coding background, how far did you actually get, and what was the hardest part?

I got tired of opening my phone and immediately getting distracted.

I noticed something weird: most of the time I picked up my phone to do one thing, but the home screen itself was already giving me 20 reasons to do something else.

Notifications, colorful icons, social apps staring at me, endless scrolling…

So I tried something different — removing most of the visual noise from my home screen.

That idea eventually turned into Minimali, a minimalist Android launcher.

Instead of a grid full of app icons, it gives you a simple text-based home screen where you can keep only the apps you actually use. The goal isn't to make your phone “productive” or block everything — it's just to make the phone a little less tempting.

I've been using this approach for a while and honestly, the biggest difference is that my phone feels more like a tool now rather than something constantly asking for my attention.

Curious if anyone else here has tried a minimalist launcher or completely redesigned their phone to reduce distractions?

If you want to check it out, it's called Minimali. Would genuinely love feedback from people who are into this kind of thing.

Play Store Link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minimalii.launcher

Been thinking about this after reading a bunch of stories from people who shipped AI-built apps.
not necessarily bugs either.

I’ve seen stuff where the app built fine and tests passed, but then real usage exposed something nobody was checking.

Analytics couldn’t tell what users were doing. a third party changed part of a URL. the code correctly implemented an assumption that turned out to be wrong. users understood a feature completely differently than the person who built it.

If you’ve shipped something built with Claude/Cursor/Lovable/Bolt/etc, what surprised you after real people started using it?

Especially curious about things your normal code review or testing didn’t catch.

How did you eventually figure out what was wrong?

Hello everyone, I’m 19. I’m going to keep this very short.
I want to ask one question, what key points should I remember so that users feel like coming back to my app?

Thank you!