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Compound: Money Conversations for Couples

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:31:33 +0000

We've shipped Compound, a new layer for couples focused on money conversations and retirement alignment. This is not a budgeting ledger; it does not sync with banks or track transactions. Instead, Compound addresses the documented challenges couples face around finances.

Key features include:

AI-Guided Money Dates: A weekly guided session for couples. Reflections are only revealed once both partners have answered, creating a reciprocal unlock.
Financial Disclosure Ritual: A secure, end-to-end encrypted space to discuss sensitive financial topics. Disclosures are revealed with consent.
Retirement-Alignment Dashboard: Scores how aligned your retirement assumptions are and projects a funded ratio. Includes AI conversation starters for identified gaps.
Legacy Binder: A client-side encrypted vault for essential documents like accounts, insurance, wills, and contact information. The server never sees your passphrase.

Compound is for couples aged 35-65+ looking to improve their financial communication and alignment. It costs $99 annually and covers both partners. A 7-day preview is available before the hard paywall. No monthly options, no ads.

Compound

AI Sales Validation Prompt

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:02:08 +0000

The AI Sales Validation Prompt is a tool designed to help you validate your product idea by asking potential customers about their needs and willingness to pay. This prompt is useful for uncovering genuine market interest in your product. It's aimed at founders, entrepreneurs, and product managers who want to test their ideas before investing time and resources into development. The prompt helps you gather valuable feedback and insights from potential customers, which can inform your product development decisions.
AI Sales Validation Prompt

Vesta: Daily Connection for Long-Married Couples

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:41:20 +0000

We shipped Vesta, a new app for long-married couples aged 45-65+. The goal is to help keep connections strong by providing a daily prompt for communication, focusing on topics relevant to established marriages like finances, retirement, caregiving, and intimacy.

Each day, two partners receive a single AI-tuned question. Answers are only revealed when both have responded. This is followed by a gentle conversation guide.

Key features include:

Fair Play mental-load balancer: Makes invisible household work visible and offers a negotiation guide.
Weekly Date Night ritual: Encourages a shared streak that requires both partners' participation.
'Story of Us' Memory Mantle: A space to store photos and notes.

Vesta is available via a single annual subscription of $59.88, covering both partners. There's a 7-day grace window, after which a hard paywall is enforced. The app is fully private with no advertisements.

The interface uses a 'Hearth & Home' aesthetic with warm colors and a navigation system organized like rooms in a house.

Vesta

Shipping Midnight: A Browser-First Adult Party Game Platform

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:45:02 +0000

Today, we're releasing Midnight, a 21+ adult party-game platform. The goal was to build a polished, browser-first experience for this category, addressing gaps we saw in existing options.

Midnight allows a host to sign in, open a room, and share a 4-letter code. Friends can join instantly from any phone using just a nickname; no app download or account creation is required. Per-room session tokens provide anonymous access.

The platform includes interactive mini-games, moving beyond simple text prompts. Current games are Hot Seat (answer a prompt, vote the funniest), Most Likely To (vote a player), and VIP Spin & Dare (digital bottle + dares). There's an opt-in, default-off spicy mode that introduces 21+ prompts, protected by an age gate. All content is filtered using AI safety measures to prevent explicit, illegal, or non-consensual material.

The system uses a server-authoritative phase machine and scoring, rather than client-side polling. Pricing is host-pays: only the host needs a VIP subscription, while players always join for free. The free host tier includes 2 games, supports up to 6 players, and displays ads. Midnight VIP is available for $7.99/month or $59.88/year, offering access to all games (including spicy content), support for up to 12 players, and an ad-free experience. One-time game packs can also be purchased for $3.99-$5.99.

Midnight

Scoop: Friends Prediction League

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:47:35 +0000

Scoop is a prediction league platform designed for adults 18-30. It allows friends to host a private league, make predictions on sports, pop culture, or personal challenges, and stake virtual 'Scoops' (bragging points) on each other's picks. The platform features a host-pays model, where only the league host needs a premium subscription, and friends can join for free. Scoop also includes AI-suggested predictions, safe forfeits, and a dramatic news-wire season recap. Scoop

Reflective Writing Assistant

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:26:41 +0000

The Reflective Writing Assistant is a prompt template that guides an AI to help you articulate your unique perspective on any topic. It encourages deep personal reflection and original thought, moving beyond factual summaries. This tool is for anyone looking to gain genuine understanding and personal insight. It's designed to help you think critically and explore your thoughts in a more meaningful way. Reflective Writing Assistant

Scramble: A 4-Player Co-op Cooking Game

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:05:34 +0000

We've just shipped Scramble, a 4-player non-horror physics-comedy co-op cooking game. The goal was to create a silly, streamable alternative to the current horror-dominated co-op market.

Scramble is designed for adults aged 18-30. You can host a shift and share a 4-letter code with up to three friends, similar to how Jackbox games work. The game takes place in a top-down kitchen built with React-Three-Fiber. Players cooperate to fulfill increasingly absurd AI-generated food orders, like "Burger, extra pickles, and a side of existential dread." You need to complete orders before the chaos meter reaches 100%, which results in the kitchen catching fire.

We've included built-in proximity voice chat using WebRTC. This means your friends' voices get louder as you get closer to them, adding to the chaotic fun. The shift state, including orders, scoring, and chaos levels, is server-authoritative to prevent score manipulation.

Scramble is a one-time purchase of $7.99 with no ongoing subscriptions. There are optional cosmetic packs for $2.99, but they are never pay-to-win. A free demo is available, featuring one level and one chef, without voice chat.

After each shift, you get a scoreboard and an AI-generated fail-recap replay, perfect for sharing in your group chat. The visual style is a "Splattered Diner" look, with bold colors, ripped order-ticket cards, and oversized buttons.

Scramble

Ember: A New Co-op Game Platform for Long-Distance Couples

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:04:24 +0000

We've shipped Ember, a new game platform for long-distance couples aged 18-30. The app is designed to provide a dedicated 2-player co-op experience.

Ember allows partners to pair using a single invite code. Gameplay involves taking turns through narrative co-op mini-campaigns during the day, each designed for approximately 10 minutes of engagement. These campaigns lead to a synchronous finale played during a 'Date Night' with P2P voice chat.

One subscription covers both partners. Additional features include a private chat for sending love notes on handwritten stationery, a shared photo and note memory wall with AI weekly recaps, weekly date-night streaks, and anniversary mechanics. The turn engine is server-authoritative, ensuring that only the active partner can advance the story and validating choices against an in-code catalog.

The free version includes 2 campaigns and 7 days of history. Premium, priced at $7.99/month or $59.88/year, offers access to the full library, voice chat, unlimited history, and AI recaps.

Ember

Night Deck: Daily-Seed Roguelike Deckbuilder

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:03:21 +0000

Night Deck is a daily-seed roguelike deckbuilder designed for adults 18-30. It combines the daily-ritual format with deckbuilder depth, offering a unique gaming experience. Each day, players worldwide get the exact same procedurally-generated run from a global seed, with one attempt and no redos. The game features a branching node map, turn-based card combat, card drafting, and relic collection. Players can compete on a global leaderboard and share their progress with friends using a Wordle-style share grid. The game is free to play, with basic stats and limited features, while a premium subscription offers additional features like archive runs, practice mode, and ad-free experience. Night Deck

Shipped: Real-time Webcam Motion Detector with OpenCV

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:02:45 +0000

Today, I'm sharing the Real-time Webcam Motion Detector. This tool is built using OpenCV and provides a direct way to detect and highlight motion captured by your webcam.

The core functionality involves capturing video frames from the webcam. It then applies a technique called frame differencing. This process compares consecutive frames to identify pixels that have changed significantly, indicating movement. Once motion is detected, the tool draws bounding boxes around these moving objects in real-time.

This snippet serves as a foundational example for anyone interested in computer vision tasks, particularly those involving real-time video analysis. It's not a complex application, but rather a clear demonstration of how to implement basic motion detection. Developers can use this as a starting point for more advanced projects that require identifying changes in a video stream, such as security monitoring or interactive installations.

It's a practical example showing the integration of webcam input with image processing techniques to achieve a specific, visible outcome.

Real-time Webcam Motion Detector

HomeCraft: A Home Maintenance and Project Tracking App

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:58:51 +0000

We've released HomeCraft, an application for managing home maintenance tasks and projects. It's built to help track work done on a house, similar to how activity is tracked in a fitness app.

HomeCraft allows users to create detailed project threads. Each thread can include photos, notes, materials used, hours spent, and associated costs. This structure is intended to provide a comprehensive record of each project.

The app also features a seasonal maintenance checklist. This checklist is designed to help users keep up with routine tasks like changing HVAC filters or cleaning gutters, by tracking completion streaks. For Plus users, an AI-generated calendar provides maintenance suggestions based on home type, climate, and system ages.

A home-value dashboard is included to show equity and frame project expenditures against potential return on investment. AI capabilities assist with logging expenses from receipts, estimating project costs and materials, and summarizing longer project threads for community sharing.

HomeCraft offers a free tier that includes one active project, three reminders, basic expense tracking, and read-only access to the community workshop. A paid tier, HomeCraft Plus, provides unlimited projects, the full AI calendar, a budget dashboard, posting abilities, and data export.

HomeCraft

Task Load Balancer: Python Script to Auto-spread Overloaded Work Days

ItsEvilDuck — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:54:42 +0000

I've just shipped the Task Load Balancer, a Python script designed to help manage uneven workloads.

The script takes a CSV file as input. This file should list your tasks, their respective due dates, an estimate of the effort required for each task (in hours), and a priority level. Once loaded, you can configure a daily work-hour limit.

The core function of the script is to identify any day where the sum of estimated task effort exceeds this set limit. When an overloaded day is found, the script begins to redistribute tasks. It prioritizes keeping higher-priority tasks on their original day. Lower-priority tasks are moved to subsequent days until the daily limit is met or all tasks are distributed.

This tool is intended for anyone who plans their work in a spreadsheet and wants to proactively identify and mitigate potential workload spikes. It automates a portion of the scheduling adjustment process, aiming to provide a more balanced daily task distribution.

Task Load Balancer: Auto‑spread Overloaded Days