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      <title>FREE OPENSOURCED CALORIE TRACKER</title>
      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/free-opensourced-calorie-tracker-2a35</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;"Fud AI - Calorie Tracker" v2.0 just got approved and is live on the app store&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;yesterday i submitted it for review after making the whole thing FREE and OPEN SOURCE.&lt;br&gt;
apple approved it today.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;QUICK RECAP if you missed it:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;you bring your own api key. supports gemini, openai, claude, grok, groq, together ai, openrouter, or run it fully local with ollama. you can use GEMINI's free tier api and it costs you literally nothing.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;no account. no sign in. no cloud. no ads. no tracking. everything stays on your phone. api keys stored in keychai.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;snap your food, speak it, use a nutrition label, or just type it. tracks 13 nutrients, weight trends, calorie charts, macro averages. apple health sync. works on ios 17.6+&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I MADE THIS FREE because tracking calories is important for health and staying in shape and that should be accessible to everyone. not locked behind a $8/month subscription&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;source code is on github. if you want a feature or find a bug just open a PR or an issue at &lt;a href="http://github.com/apoorvdarshan/fud-ai" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;http://github.com/apoorvdarshan/fud-ai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;try it free 👉 &lt;a href="http://apps.apple.com/us/app/fud-ai-calorie-tracker/id6758935726" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;http://apps.apple.com/us/app/fud-ai-calorie-tracker/id6758935726&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>FREE OPENSOURCED AI-POWERED CALORIE CALCULATOR</title>
      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/free-opensourced-ai-powered-calorie-calculator-1i9h</link>
      <guid>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/free-opensourced-ai-powered-calorie-calculator-1i9h</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;i just submitted "Fud AI - Calorie Tracker" v2.0 for review&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;i made it completely FREE and OPENSOURCED the whole thing (fuck money no need to make it paid)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;you can bring your own api key now.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;supports gemini, openai, claude, grok, groq, together ai, openrouter, or run it fully local with ollama.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;you can use it for absolutely FREE OF COST using developer/free-tier api for your personal use, i recommend using gemini api.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;no account. no sign in. no cloud. no ads. no tracking.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;everything stays on your phone. PRIVACY-FIRST.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;api keys stored in keychain.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;snap your food, speak it, use official nutrition label, or type it. tracks 13 nutrients, weight trends, calorie charts, macro averages. apple health sync. works on ios 17.6+.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;facing an issue or awant a new feature you can open PR in source code.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;i built this because i wanted a calorie tracker that actually respects privacy and is absolutely FREE OF COST since tracking calorie is vital for heath and to stay in shape and should be accessible to EVERYONE.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;u can try it free here👇&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fud-ai-calorie-tracker/id6758935726" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fud-ai-calorie-tracker/id6758935726&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;for the time being it is approved in appstore you can git clone from github and build it through xcode to try &lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/apoorvdarshan/fud-ai" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://github.com/apoorvdarshan/fud-ai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>WHO'S GONNA CARRY THE BOATS ?</title>
      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/whos-gonna-carry-the-boats--2kce</link>
      <guid>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/whos-gonna-carry-the-boats--2kce</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;AND THE LOGS ?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;not the app that sends you a notification saying "don't give up!"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;cravings don't care about your streak they show up at 2am when you're bored and alone and one click away&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;so i built the SOS screen memes, distractions, real stuff that hits different when cravings do&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;been building this, shipped it, got approved previous week&lt;br&gt;
👉 "QUIT ALL - BREAK EVERY HABIT"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;smoking, vaping, alcohol, porn, social media, weed, gambling, caffeine, overspending all at once&lt;br&gt;
because most people aren't just fighting one thing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;it also tracks how much money and time you actually saved&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;runs fully on device locally&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;privacy-first&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;try it 👉 apps.apple.com/us/app/quit-all-break-every-habit/id6760978934&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>QUIT ALL - BREAK EVERY HABIT</title>
      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/quit-all-break-every-habit-1dfp</link>
      <guid>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/quit-all-break-every-habit-1dfp</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;imagine instead of just showing a TIMER, it shows SOS screen with MEMES and real distractions when cravings hit&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;cravings don’t care about your streak&lt;br&gt;
they show up at the worst time&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;honestly this is the part I didn’t see in other apps and it makes a difference&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;been building this for a while and finally shipped it and got it approved&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"QUIT ALL - BREAK EVERY HABIT"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;track and quit multiple habits at once&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
smoking, vaping, alcohol, porn, social media, weed, gambling, overspending, caffeine&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;because most people are not dealing with just one thing&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;also added feature that shows money and time saved over time  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;everything runs on device locally, privacy-first&lt;br&gt;
no server no account no backend&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;try it👉 &lt;a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quit-all-break-every-habit/id6760978934" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;apps.apple.com/us/app/quit-all-break-every-habit/id6760978934&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>NORNLORE — the Daily Prophet but for YOUR birthday</title>
      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/nornlore-the-daily-prophet-but-for-your-birthday-3mmi</link>
      <guid>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/nornlore-the-daily-prophet-but-for-your-birthday-3mmi</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;you enter your birthday and it pulls up every famous person born that day, every world event, every song and movie... all in a magical newspaper with moving photographs&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;built it in a one night.&lt;br&gt;
366 dates, 2,594 tales, all free&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;nornlore.vercel.app&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>3 people signed up to beta test Scowld this week

still early and the app is rough but knowing real people are actually installing it and trying it out means a lot to me 🥰

if you want to try it the TestFlight is open.</title>
      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/3-people-signed-up-to-beta-test-scowld-this-week-still-early-and-the-app-is-rough-but-knowing-44d5</link>
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      <title>added AVATAR switching to SCOWLD today

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      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>I built xscore - scores any X account based on the official open source algorithm (xai-org/x-algorithm)</title>
      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/i-built-xscore-scores-any-x-account-based-on-the-official-open-source-algorithm-a63</link>
      <guid>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/i-built-xscore-scores-any-x-account-based-on-the-official-open-source-algorithm-a63</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F8olkttvxrtff9c2rhcok.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F8olkttvxrtff9c2rhcok.png" alt="x score analytics" width="800" height="1034"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
19 signals. per tweet breakdown. runs locally on your machine.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;just run this in your terminal:&lt;br&gt;
npx -y &lt;a class="mentioned-user" href="https://dev.to/apoorvdarshan"&gt;@apoorvdarshan&lt;/a&gt;/xscore @username&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;i got 64/100. check yours&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://xscores.vercel.app" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;http://xscores.vercel.app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>[Boost]</title>
      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/-37c4</link>
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      &lt;h2&gt;Meet your AI Waifu&lt;/h2&gt;
      &lt;h3&gt;Apoorv Darshan ・ Mar 16&lt;/h3&gt;
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      <title>Meet your AI Waifu</title>
      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/meet-your-ai-waifu-29m1</link>
      <guid>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/meet-your-ai-waifu-29m1</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fexm9mmvoddbguv4me6uz.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fexm9mmvoddbguv4me6uz.png" alt="AI Waifu" width="800" height="449"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
I just made an AI companion you can talk to on your iPhone/iPad&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And it's OPEN-SOURCE!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I built it in 3 nights because the idea wouldn't let me sleep.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She has a 3D anime avatar (sourced from amica-arbius-MIT licensed), talks hands-free, sees through your camera, and remembers everything about you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;How it works:&lt;br&gt;
  → Talk to her naturally, hands-free&lt;br&gt;
  → She sees what you see through your camera&lt;br&gt;
  → She remembers details across every conversation&lt;br&gt;
  → Choose your AI: Gemini, OpenAI, Claude, or others&lt;br&gt;
  → ElevenLabs voice makes her sound real&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your phone is the companion. Your API key is the brain.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I built this because every AI chat app felt lifeless. I wanted something that feels like talking to someone who actually knows you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Honesty, just have anime waifu bro!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Join the beta 👇 &lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://testflight.apple.com/join/7WgDe7e4" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://testflight.apple.com/join/7WgDe7e4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;PRs are welcomed 👇&lt;br&gt;
GitHub: &lt;a href="https://github.com/apoorvdarshan/scowld" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://github.com/apoorvdarshan/scowld&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;website : &lt;a href="https://scowld.vercel.app" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://scowld.vercel.app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>your DAILY WORK as a RECEIPT</title>
      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/your-daily-work-as-a-receipt-1na3</link>
      <guid>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/your-daily-work-as-a-receipt-1na3</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;connect your tools… github, slack, calendar… it pulls everything you did today and prints it as a thermal receipt with a dollar value                    &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;proof of work, formatted as a receipt&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;built the whole thing in one night&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Try it → &lt;a href="http://daxerly.vercel.app" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Daxerly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>I Built the Billionaire Version of Zuckerberg's FaceMash</title>
      <dc:creator>Apoorv Darshan</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/i-built-the-billionaire-version-of-zuckerbergs-facemash-55p3</link>
      <guid>https://forem.com/apoorvdarshan/i-built-the-billionaire-version-of-zuckerbergs-facemash-55p3</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Remember that scene in The Social Network where Zuckerberg builds FaceMash in his dorm room? Two Harvard students pop up, you pick who's hotter, ratings update live?&lt;br&gt;
I built that. But for billionaires.&lt;/p&gt;

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  What is it?
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bsmash.app/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;bsmash.app&lt;/a&gt; — short for Billionaire Smash.&lt;br&gt;
Two billionaires from the Forbes 400 show up on your screen. You tap the one you think is more "smash-worthy." Their score goes up, the other goes down. A live leaderboard tracks the rankings across everyone voting.&lt;br&gt;
That's the whole thing. No sign-up. No paywall. Just open it and start voting.&lt;/p&gt;

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  Why?
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Because I can bitch.&lt;br&gt;
Honestly? I was scrolling the Forbes list one night and thought — sure, we know who's the richest. But who does the internet actually find attractive? Nobody was ranking that. So I did.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Go vote
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bsmash.app/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;bsmash.app&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Takes 2 seconds. Who did you pick first? Drop it in the comments — I'm collecting data on whether the internet has taste or not.&lt;/p&gt;

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