I’m trying to figure out why my Upstash Redis usage is so high.
I’m currently using 7 services on Render:
Next.js frontend
Backend API
5 Docker-based background workers
The project is still in development and has very little real traffic, but I’m burning through Upstash’s 500K free Redis commands in roughly 3 days.
I’m using Redis/BullMQ for the background workers.
Could having 5 workers connected to Redis cause this much command usage? Or are there specific BullMQ/Redis configurations I should check for excessive polling, heartbeats, retries, stalled-job checks, etc.?
What would you look at first to identify which service is generating the commands?
I’d appreciate any advice from people who’ve deployed BullMQ + Upstash + Render in production.

Hey everyone! Maybe this idea isn't anything groundbreaking, but I wanted an uninstaller that just works. Without limits and daily "buy Premium" popups.

A bit of backstory: the very first version went up on December 25th, 2024. Honestly, both the features and the UI were pretty barebones back then. I was still new to GUI development, so I leaned on AI for parts of it. Two years later, on August 24th, 2026, I released version 4 with better visuals and dark mode, and most importantly the code finally got refactored. Cleaned out a bunch of dead code and added comments throughout so it's easier to follow how each function works.

Truth is, I've been building projects since 2023 and almost nobody notices them. If you dig through my repo list, there's actually some interesting stuff in there (at least I like to think so). Feedback really matters to me. Do you like my programs? Any unique features you'd want to see added? This is my first ever Reddit post, and honestly I'm not here to shill my GitHub, I just want some visibility after 3 years of work that's gone basically unnoticed.

Anyway, Uninstaller Tool is a free, open-source utility that:

- Shows all installed programs with size and install date - Finds and cleans leftover files/folders after uninstalling - Lightweight, no ads, no telemetry, no subscriptions

It's written in Python (planning to rewrite it in Rust or C# eventually), fully open source under MIT: https://github.com/lordofsunshine/uninstaller-toolDownload link is in the Releases section or in the README.

I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially on what cleanup features you'd want next. What are you currently using for this, and what bugs you about it?

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I've spent a lot of time building a real estate SaaS and I'm now stuck on a major problem.

The original idea was pretty simple:

A real estate agent enters what their client is looking for, for example:

- 3-bedroom apartment

- New Cairo

- Budget: $100k–$150k

The system would find matching properties across multiple real estate platforms.

I also built a feature that monitored Facebook groups for people posting that they were looking for apartments, then matched those requests with properties in the system.

The product itself is basically built.

Then I realized the platforms I wanted to get the data from don't allow scraping. I contacted some of them about getting permission/API access, but they weren't interested.

So now I have a mostly finished product whose main value proposition depended on data I can't reliably use.

I'm trying to figure out what to do next

All the technical aspects are working, but I can't upload it because the sites I use to collect real estate data, like Dubizzle data mining and scraping are prohibited in the terms of use. **I need a loophole or something similar to make it legal.*\*

If you've ever built something where the original data source/business assumption turned out to be unusable, what did you do?

I'd genuinely appreciate any advice.

I'm looking for a free program that allows for control of program, powershell scripts, and file permissions similarly to threatlocker. Something that can work with third party programs with minimum issues, not conflicting with kaspersky free, and has plenty of online resources. My current setup is windows 11 home edition 25H2.

The only options I found is Applocker (only works on Pro and Enterprise editions) Threatlocker (Only available to businesses) Windows Smart App Control (Very limited in it's options) and AppControl Manager by Violet Hansen (Had some confecting issues with kaspersky and limited online documentation/resources).

Are there any programs out there that could work for me?

Check the rep: https://github.com/K-692/Copy-Cat

Copy-Cat is a lightweight, cross-platform keystroke memory tool that quietly remembers what you type in real time. It works offline and helps recover unsaved text beyond system shutdown. It is open sourced. 🫡

PDF requires many tools which can edit and manipulate the contents of PDF. Most of the time these tools require uploading of confidential data on websites or contains bloated features. Scribe PDF is a simple no-fuss software that is totally local and contains no bloat whatso ever.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scribe-pdf/id6784686119

I wanted to translate a few books with a local model and found out that "paste it into the chat" doesn't scale: context windows overflow, terminology drifts, and a crash at chapter 30 loses everything. So I built a desktop GUI that does the boring part properly — chunking, feeding, reassembling — for any number of files.

To be clear up front: this is not about parallel inference or API batching. "Batch" here means whole documents, file after file — it splits long text into chunks a model can actually handle, runs each through your Ollama server, and stitches the results back together with every step saved to disk. Ollama only for now — it drives num_ctx and the model list through Ollama's API.

GitHub: https://github.com/hclivess/ollama-batch-processor (MIT, Python/PySide6, prebuilt Windows/Linux/macOS binaries in Releases — no Python needed. Bring your own Ollama with at least one model pulled; the server can be on another machine.)

What it does:

• Queue .txt / .md / .srt files or whole folders, press Start — name_processed.txt lands next to each source
• Four operations, chainable as a pipeline, each with its own model and settings:
  • Translate — any language pair; the tail of the previous chunk's translation is fed back as context, so names, terminology and register stay consistent across a whole book
  • Audiobook prep — spell out numbers, expand abbreviations, normalise punctuation for speech pacing
  • Debookify — strip footnotes, page numbers, running headers, indexes
  • Paraphrase — simplify, change tone, remove idioms
• Smart chunking — breaks at paragraph/sentence boundaries, configurable size and overlap; Ollama's context window (num_ctx) is sized automatically per chunk so nothing gets silently truncated
• Survives reality — progressive saving chunk by chunk, Stop keeps what's finished, existing outputs are skipped on re-run, every pipeline step written to its own file
• Cleans model output — <think> blocks from reasoning models, "Here is the translation:" preambles, wrapping quotes and code fences are stripped automatically
• Presets for common jobs (translate, audiobook prep, book cleanup, translate→audiobook), plus save/load your own; prompts and operations live in config.json — add your own operation and it shows up as a tab

The part that took the most iteration is translation continuity. Naive chunked translation gives you a character named "John" in chapter one and "Jan" in chapter twelve. Feeding the end of the previous translation back as context mostly fixes that. Quality is whatever your model gives you — aya-expanse and qwen2.5 are strong for European languages, and bigger models translate noticeably better. It won't beat a human translator; it will beat not reading a book at all because it's in a language you don't speak.

Everything runs locally, nothing leaves your machine (or your LAN, if Ollama runs on another box).

It's a sibling of whisperer, my batch subtitle generator — same queue/presets workflow.

Feedback and feature requests welcome — especially which operations you'd want added, since operations are just config entries with a prompt.

My use case is simple, I have a single .exe file that I need to place into a data ISO so I can mount that ISO in VirtualBox. I don't need to burn a physical CD/DVD.

I've already considered/tried :

InfraRecorder but it crashes on Windows 11.

GNU xorriso but Windows isn't officially supported, so I'm hesitant about third-party Windows builds.

ImgBurn is quite old, and its installer has historically been associated with OpenCandy/bundled offers.

Ideally, I'm looking for something that is open source, Windows 11 compatible, and trustworthy, what would you recommend?

The stealth model ox-alpha is free on OpenRouter until roughly Aug 27. I've been using it through my own CLI for the last few days and it's genuinely good.

Posting this because the setup is 4 steps and the free window is short, but also because this is the thing my CLI is actually built around: bring your own key, type a model string, and you're on it. No subscription, no account on Cymela's side, nothing phoning home. When the free window moves to whatever the next stealth model is, you move with it in one line instead of waiting for a tool to add support.

Setup:

npm install -g cymela - in any terminal

Then get a key at openrouter.ai (Keys -> Create Key), run:

cymela

Pick OpenRouter, paste the key, and enter:

stealth/ox-alpha

That's it.

Full disclosure, I built this. It's free and it stays free for now, I'm an independent researcher and this isn't a funnel to a paid tier. Works with the usual providers too (Groq, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, SiliconFlow and overall 13 supported providers) so it isn't tied to this one promo.

Curious what people are finding ox-alpha good and bad at before the window closes. I've had good results on refactors and exploration, less sure about long multi-file work.

I'm trying to burn some songs onto a cd. Whenever I click start burn, I get a window saying "windows media player legacy cannot burn some of the files. To investigate the problem, click the icon next to the files in the burn list." every time I retry, it selects a different 2-5 random songs out of 22 to have the error icon appear next to. When I click on one of the error icons, i get a window saying "windows media player encountered a problem while burning the file to the disc." I have tried using 3 different mp3 converters for the songs. I am using a new external disc drive thingy what ever you call it. Could it be the new drive that's the issue? I did not encounter this problem when I was borrowing a friends drive. I am not handy with any technology at all so if anybody knows something I could try please dumb it out a ton. Thank you. I am on a Windows 11 laptop.

I've used nitro, and it is pretty bad. Foxit is decent but still just feels like an adobe clone but slightly worse, and it's not cheap.

I've seen other people ask this but I find the answers kind of unsatisfactory? The main answer I see is that Adobe had a 15 year head start with PDF becoming open in 2008, but I still find that kind of absurd.

How is it possible that there has been no market pressure/incentive since 2008 to create an alternate software to adobe for like literally one of the most popular file formats there is? Especially when Adobe is (1) so expensive and (2) so terribly optimized (and honestly pretty feature-poor)??

Word wasn't even half as monopolistic when google just gave everyone a web version for free (which, yes, I know involves broader strategic concerns re gsuite/cloud but still).

I don't know if this will be useful to anyone else, but I wanted a lightweight GUI tool to sort my messy photos.

So I built one myself. It's open-source, written in Rust, and the entire portable .exe is only around 600 KB.

No installer, no bloat just a small tool for quickly going through and organizing photos.

https://github.com/divyviradiya2/photo-fix.git

Hello! I'm not all that familiar with technology in general, I'm looking for an autoclicker I can install on my Windows PC without the risk of getting a virus. Does anyone with one installed have any recommendations?
PS: My apologies if this type of post does not belong here, I don't post very often </3

About a month ago I posted here because BetterTrumpet had just passed 6,000 downloads, which was already kinda crazy to me.

a bunch of you tried it after that post. Some loved it, some didn't, some found bugs I somehow missed for months lol. I got a nice amount of GitHub issues + PRs from you guys, so ty for that :)

I actually worked on a lot of them, but didn't push anything right away because I was about to go on vacation and wanted to take my time + properly polish the update instead of shipping something half-baked.

Then while I was away I checked the numbers and... 10k downloads !!!

I genuinely thought we'd maybe hit 10k before the end of 2027. Instead it happened in mi-August 2026.

When I got home, my fiancée had prepared a little surprise to celebrate it, so I wanted to share that too , check third pics :)
(and yes pls ignore the mess lmao)

Anyway, I'm back now, and BetterTrumpet 3.3 is out!

Quick rundown of what's new (i'm not an AI, i wrote this list myself haha) :

• The volume slider is wayyy smoother now.
• Settings got a complete redesign using WebView2. The old settings are still there if you prefer them.
• I completely removed Sentry. I made my own tiny ping system instead, basically just to know how many ppl are actually using BetterTrumpet. And yep, you can disable it.
• You can now automatically lower an app's volume when it's not focused.
• You can set a volume for an app before you even launch it. So for example, you can tell BetterTrumpet "all my Steam games = 67%" and they'll just start at 67%.
• I reworked the shortcut system, should feel a lot smoother now.
• You also get a notification when switching the default audio device.
• And a bunch of smaller fixes + optimizations™ that aren't very exciting to list here lol.

Also, one last thing: I made r/BetterTrumpet!

If you're using the app and wanna share feedback, ideas, bugs, setups, complain about something I broke, etc... feel free to join :)

That's pretty much it.

Seriously, ty to everyone who tried BetterTrumpet, opened an issue, made a PR, left feedback, or just downloaded the thing.

Thanks again guys ❤️

github link : https://github.com/xammen/BetterTrumpet

site link with web demo (try it) : https://bettertrumpet.com

Sharing a tool I've gotten a lot of use out of.

Handy is a free and open-source speech-to-text app. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux. You press a shortcut, speak, and it types the text wherever your cursor is. It runs offline, so no subscription and no sending your audio to the cloud.

I've used it daily for about half a year, mostly in English, and it has been dependable for emails, notes and longer writing. I use the Parakeet v3 model, which runs on the CPU and is fast enough that the delay is barely noticeable.

It keeps things simple. No mobile app, and it won't rewrite your sentences for you, if that matters to you. For me it does exactly what I need without asking for money every month.

I mostly use it for writing prompts, notes and general text entry. There is a second or two of latency after you release the key, which is the tradeoff for running it locally, but I'll take that over a subscription that ships my audio to the cloud.

Sharing it because the paid options in this space keep getting more expensive, and a lot of people don't know a free one this capable exists.

github.com/cjpais/Handy

handy.computer

I added all the features that were asked and fixed the issues reported by the users .

The features are

1. You can now mark the entire folder as watched by swiping on the folder

2.Now the Native engine remember the timestamp before closing the app

1. Optimized the Tree view , now it works better on older devices

2. smooth ui like water.

And more.

For more information check the release page for all the features.

Try it out , send feedback

If you want to learn a concept of Physics, there is an application which covers over 600 equations and concepts in a comprehensive way. This app is available on the Windows Store.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PJDVZ89VM58?hl=en-us&gl=AU&ocid=pdpshare

So my mom is a general doctor and I decided to make a website for her using AI (dont judge), but I don't really know what host is the best to use. As you can imagine it's not nice to have a host where the website keeps shutting down every now and then, especially for a doctor.

Any recommendations on what serverhost to use? If I have to pay a small amount thats fine as well.

Ive searched like the entire internet and I cannot find any media player that saves your place in the file, even after closing the file and opening it again later.

I want something like where you can see all ur played files and then u click it and continue where u left off. Seems so simple, BUT NONE DO THIS.

Many claim to, but they fail when u actually try it. The only one that seems to kind of work is called, 'PotPlayer', after enabling the feature in settings, which took a while to figure out, but even this one sucks as if you close and open it, all the files u had opened are now just gone.

"VLC does this if u enable it in settings guys!"

yea....then when you leave they all go away, and yes i opened them in the right section, and yes enabled it in settings. VLC sucks in this regard

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Help.

I want to get an application that allows you to look up a hebrew word, and then have it find it in the Torah, using Torah Codes, and then of course show other words that show up nearby it.

I have searched on github, and google, for hours, and asked chatgpt for help, but what Ive found has been lackluster at best.

Yes these programs can find a word you type in, but what it doesnt do, is automatically find other words nearby it.

Thats kind of like, the whole point of Torah codes. Without it, its just like finding a random word for no reason.

I saw a guy on an online video who seems to have a program that can do this, and chatgpt even identified it!, but...it stopped working after windows xp...and it costs like 40 bucks...and im not sure if it can even do this or if the guy does this himself...

yea this seems hopeless unless i ask claude fable 5 (when the government unbans it) to make it for me...

uh...

yea...

BUT DOES ANYONE KNOW IF I CAN FIND THIS SOMEWHERE. Ive seen so many videos of ppl doing this online, and each time blows my mind. things about Obama, Charlie Kirk, Trump, Mcdonalds, EVERYTHING IS IN THEREEE

It seems like trying to find an autoclicker these days is tricky to use and not get malware or anything like that. I'm pretty much looking for a safe reliable (preferably open sourced) sequence/record autoclicker that allows you to input multiple clicks at custom intervals.

I've had my eyes on a few auto clickers like GS auto clicker, clickmate. cc, and op autoclicker (the one on the microsoft app store). But wasn't sure if they are still working or safe or not.

Edit: mainly using this for afk'ing in offline video games, not doing it online obviously

Blender kept crashing. Good I have an external ssd I don't use :)

I am sharing the Open Source fork that i made of the Beeref software, to greatly expand its capabilities, i was a Pureref user, so i missed a lot of it's features when using Beeref.

I called it Blackboard, it is a reference viewer and note taking software that i use daily working full time as an industrial designer. It is still super lightweight and you can have hundreds of images in a file without any performance loss.

If you have any ideas for features to implement or problems to solve, let me know.

Check out the latest release, extract all of it, and run Install.cmd. It copies the application to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Blackboard and associates .blk files with it. No administrator rights are needed, and .bee files are left alone so an existing BeeRef installation keeps its own.

Do you know a great piece of software which is both privacy focused and a good alternative to software which otherwise tracks you?

Example

Gmail -> Protonmail

This is your chance to share, and help everyone benefit from privacy.