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There are links for terms & privacy with this info - but it was only on the login page (so I guess it was easy to miss). I fixed that by adding the links at the bottom of the page also.

Thanks for your feedback!

Last year I tracked my days in a spreadsheet. Not in a done / not-done way, but with a 0–100 score based on effort and intent.

Reading 10 pages still mattered even if the goal was 30. That small shift actually helped me stay consistent.

I wanted to do the same thing in 2026, but just rebuilding that spreadsheet (again) was a pain so I stopped fighting it and vibe coded a tiny app instead.

Zilnic is just that: rate your day, add a note, see some simple stats over time. No streak anxiety. No guilt. No “you failed today” energy.

It works with or without an account if you want to try it.

Location: Romania (EU)

Remote: Yes (EU / US async-friendly)

Background:

10+ years product-focused engineer (Android-first), strong in 0→1 shipping and product/UX execution. AI: Building AI-integrated apps (LLM prompting, UX flows, basic RAG concepts); early-stage, learning by doing.

Recent work: Consumer apps (journaling/coaching/habits), Compose Multiplatform (Android/iOS), subscriptions + distribution experiments.

Looking for: Early-stage AI startup; open to trial/part-time and even unpaid initially for the right project.

Email: alin.postolache@gmail.com

Not feeling attacked or anything. Thanks for sharing your feedback and feelings.

I also feel like focusing on the gender gap and inequality in tech and trying to fix it in some way is something not that simple to do.

P.S. Men can also apply to any job from TinyGigs.co - but hopefully companies and women alike will feel that on TinyGigs there's a place to connect more easily

I understand what you mean - but the idea of the website is not to be sexist or discriminate based on the gender but actually trying to close the gender gap since there's a known problem that women are unrepresented in the tech scene.

Where is the sexism in a community of women makers?

‍ TinyGigs started as a curated community of women makers (designers, developers, marketers, etc) looking to find exciting new projects to work on, in their spare time or even full time. Based on the feedback received, and also since there doesn't seem to be an open job board focused on women makers the idea for a simple job board to help women everywhere seems pretty interesting and with potential.

Also, the Tiny Gigs job board can be a way to for companies that may feel like there's a gender gap in their teams by having the possibility to reach out to a talented pool of women in tech, design, marketing and more.

There's also a tiny web version here: GetBlaze.app (https://www.getblaze.app)

The list is simple and clean. * "beautifully crafted" was mostly of a funny reference to the Apple keynotes haha.

Hey there - my name is Alin and today I wanted to share with you Remote·Roulette - a biweekly curated email with the best remote jobs - the third project for my personal challenge - "12 Startups in 6 Months".

I'm currently working on another, bigger project called TalkFirst.Today - a chat only dating app but until it will be ready for release I wanted to release this tiny project called.

With Remote·Roulette I wanted to build a fun way to discover new tech remote jobs without having to keep on searching on different job boards.

Looking forward to hear what you think about it.

Sign up now should work - hope you'll try the app one more time :D

Cheers and thanks for your feedback.

Hey - thanks for your feedback - I'll take a look and fix the problems. About the preview - that could be a good idea - I think I'll add an email example so the users can make an idea of what they'll get.

Hey there - my name is Alin and today I wanted to share with you Likes|Digest - a weekly email digest & a searchable list of your Twitter likes - the second project for my personal challenge - "12 Startups in 6 Months".

I wanted to build Likes|Digest because I often times I like different tweets as a way of bookmarking - but never get back to them.

So I thought that a weekly email reminder with all of these likes could at lest help me take another look over it. And since Twitter doesn't provide a search feature for all this likes I've also added a search feature (which is still a work in progress).

Would love to get your opinnion on it.

I think it was 50/50 even though initialy I thought that the front end would take longer since I wanted to just use the bare minimum features from Vulcan.js.

Since Vulcan is still an early stage project there were (and still are) some stuff that I needed to change also some stuff in the backend.

Also - there were some problems with the DNS records and almost a day was spent working on it.

Hey guys - today I wanted to share the #1 Startup for a perosnal challenge - "12 Startups in 6 Months"

AlDente - https://www.aldente.io - A ProductHunt like community for food and drinks enthusiasts where users can share and discover tasty new dishes.

The first version was ready in about 7 days of "after-hours" work - meaning about 3 hours per night and I tried to follow Reid Hoffman's rule for the MVP : "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

Please check it out and if you have feedback of find bugs please feel free to shoot me a message.

Really nice tool. Great work mate!

I think you could also have this possibility - choose an app category and get the ad spots required.

And still - you could have more control and info regarding your app than just "you had x number of impressions in the last y days".

Indeed - Overcast just did this - and that was also one of the main factors that pushed me to want to build this. I guess Marco would prefer to focus on Overcast and not take care of the ads management system - but since AdMob was not an option for him (and neither for me) he had to.

I'm not sure I've understood - what's not scalable? Selling ads by yourself or using a network that helps you sell ads?

For example - except for some filters you don't quite have control over what ads are being displayed when using AdMob. What AdMob serves - that's what you display.

With this network - if an advertisers wants to buy an ad slot - but you don't agree with the product or service for some reason you're just going to decline the ad.

If they are in the network they have full control over the ads that are being displayed. That's what I'm saying.

I'm not an advertiser and I understand your point - but I think it can be the same amount of work pushing the ad in a black hole of ad impressions - not knowing where your add is being displayed - just some numbers - then trying to guess - because it's a great amount of guessing involved - what should you do to increase the relevance of your ad.

Vetting the apps you want to advertise can also mean time spent - but knowing what are the apps where you are displaying your apps and even who are the type of users being the ad - I for one feel this is a more powerful approach.

But yet again - I'm not a big advertiser spending huge money on it.

Do you know why did Google removed your app?

Big companies have big marketing budgets and are interested in big numbers (eg. huge number of impressions).

I was thinking in terms of a more human approach where advertisers are actually looking to connect with their potential users.

App publishers don't sell impressions - they sell influence by allowing the advertiser to get a spot from their app real-estate.

The app publishers that are going to be accepted in the network will have full control over what ads that will be displayed. It's their choosing if they which ad they display and where as long their app passes our quality-standards (eg. UI/UX, number of active users, regular updates etc)

I feel like the TinyAds network is more about buying influence and exposure and not a fixed number of impressions (that basically translates to the number of times an ad was loaded and that's it).

Also - I'm not sure why would you think your inventory is doled out since the app publisher accepted your ad and you have the guarantee of the ad being displayed on their app?

I agree also - and I would point out also that the ads approach or having a freemium app are the only two viable solutions for mobile apps.

The subscription based model is definitely the Holy Grail of app monetisation but it's also the hardest to achieve especially for mobile apps.

AdMob has some sort of direct sales feature but the billing is not handled by them so I guess there's no interest for them there.

I think that for app publishers being featured on the TinyAds network will increase your exposure to advertisers and help you find new monetisation opportunities.

Also - the advertisers can get access to a loyal and passionate audience that this high-quality apps have. I think it's easier to target this type of audience since you know exactly on what app your ads are running.

Running an ad on Facebook or Google is too opaque to know exactly where your ad was displayed and if it's of any relevance for your product.

I don't think that a big number of users is the only answer for advertisers.

What were your results with this type of monetisation? Do you know any "success stories" of any kind?

And do you think that having this ...more human approach..when selling/buying ads is obsolete?

I think that high-quality apps have a loyal and passionate audiences - a smaller one for sure - but advertisers can rest assured they have access to the best audience money can buy.

I've never thought in terms of Facebook or Google's scale and I actually want to take a more anti-Facebook/Google approach where the amount of user tracking is inexistent. Just track the ad performance and that's about it.

It may be my simplest way of thinking but I've found that having a high-quality, curated app network enables you as an advertiser to target a high-quality and a more relevant audience. Also it's simpler to find the apps you want to target since we've already vetted all the apps in the network to make sure we keep a high-quality standard.

Also - I don't see the publisher's willingness a risk factor if the product, service or brand you want to promote is a relevant one for app user base.

Awesome tutorial mate - love what you've done with the Bolstat landing page.

I think being able to get a landing page out there as fast as possible is very important if you want to test some ideas and looking at your workflow is inspiring.