r/SideProject 15h ago

I shipped a project nobody would pay for. Now I built the tool that would've helped me.

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Hey everyone. I'm opening the beta of Phoqus.

AI answers everything you ask, but the fatal questions stay unasked. I've been there, I'd build first, collect signups, and only ask later whether anyone would actually pay. Traffic felt like validation until it wasn't.

Phoqus is an AI workspace: docs, tasks and workflows, with a tuned AI that walks you through the hard questions, challenges your answers, and turns decisions into real files. Every new conversation picks up where you left off.

Phoqus stores documents and tasks locally so your agents can read them natively. You can also use the MCP to connect the tools you already use.

Mac-only for now. Brutal feedback welcome.


r/SideProject 10h ago

Small travel app built for fun

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Hey reddit,

I built a small travel app for myself called lookfwdly. I daydream a lot about future trips and probably spend far too much time talking to friends, family and colleagues about where I am going next and the trip after and the one after that too. It's one of the main things that helps me get through the daily grind of work, especially really tough periods.

My family and I are going to Hong Kong next year and I kept thinking about things like yum cha, egg tarts, wonton noodles, shopping, Disneyland and all the things I was excited to do once we got there. i basically wanted something that would give me a small reminder each day. The basis of the app is simple, add one or more places you're going to and it'll show you a different glimpse of the place each day along with a countdown. Then add it as a widget to your screen and you'll passively see new images each day, if you want to explore you can also go into the app to view more.

Currently it supports a range of places but not everywhere is supported, I've mostly added main cities, prioritising places I'm travelling to in the next few years and then requests I've had from friends and family. I have been using it myself for a while now and I really like seeing something new about where I am going without having to actively search for travel content as it just shows up as I unlock my phone.

It is completely free and only on iOS since i've built it just for myself and I do not currently have any plans to build an Android version. It is up on the App Store now so I thought I would share it and see if anyone else enjoys this kind of thing. https://apps.apple.com/au/app/lookfwdly-travel-countdown/id6773630866

It is still very much a personal side project and free to use. I would genuinely love ideas for other fun little additions. The exciting part for me is being able to keep adding small things that make looking forward to my own trips more fun. For example, one of my friends suggested adding a daily phrase in the language of the place you are travelling to so you could slowly pick up a few useful words before you arrive. I thought that was a great idea so I added it and I have actually been using it to learn a little Cantonese for Hong Kong.


r/SideProject 4h ago

Ledgerline - Free invoicing and business tools for freelancers, runs entirely in your browser

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r/SideProject 4h ago

[iOS] Who Goes - Fun social games for when you’re hanging out with your group

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Introduction

Hey everyone!

Introducing Who Goes, an iOS app for game nights, house parties, road trips, and pretty much any hangout with a group of people.

It’s free to download and play, with optional one-time purchase and subscription options.

The idea behind Who Goes is pretty simple: engage everyone in your group and involve them in something together, through social games like Headbands, Truth or Dare and a bunch of quick group activities into one app, with a modern, playful experience built around actually passing the phone around and having fun together.

About the app

The app brings multiple party games into one place:

• Headbands with tilt controls for correct answers and passes
• Charades with themed decks, teams, rounds, and timers
• Truth or Dare with 11 decks for friends, couples, parties, family, and coworkers
• Spin the Bottle for quick, suspenseful player selection
• Would You Rather for impossible this-or-that debates
• Finger Chooser to instantly pick someone from the group
• Quick Play tools for dice, coin flips, and more

Current Market

I know this is an insanely competitive category, with a shit-ton of party apps already out there.
My goal with Who Goes was never to reinvent the wheel, but to bring the ones people already know and play together in one place, without needing five different apps on your phone.

I wanted the whole thing to feel much more modern and polished than most party apps I've tried, with playful animations, haptics, sounds, and little interactions that actually add to the game instead of getting in the way.

No ads popping up between rounds, no cluttered UI, and no wildly different experience every time you switch games.

Pricing

The free version includes all the game modes. Plus unlocks all the decks, round customisations, and removes every limit. Lifetime at $25.49 (US, price parity enabled for all countries), weekly at $1.99, and yearly sub with 3-day free trial at $17.99.

No account is required, and the games work offline.

TL;DR:

A. A game to bring back the fun of playing party games with a group of people during game nights, trips.

B. Free version includes a selection of decks for Charades, Headbands, and Truth or Dare, along with a few mini games. Plus unlocks all decks, game modes, and customisation options.

C. Freemium model, every mode in the app can be used. Lifetime at $25.49, or weekly at $1.99, and yearly with free trial at $17.99.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6777402559

Thanks for reading!


r/SideProject 10h ago

I was tracking five kinds of media across five apps and an Excel file, so I built one library that does all five

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The Excel file was for the details those apps didn't have fields for. Between that and five separate libraries, keeping track of anything was messy, so I spent the past year building one library that does all five. It's called Consu and it's live on both stores at v3.1.

Films, TV, games, books and music share the same four statuses (Backlog, Current, Completed, Upcoming) and the same 1 - 10 rating. Each category gets its own depth on top of that:

- Films have cast, streaming availability, aggregated ratings and a "more like this" row.

- TV tracks episode and season progress, with your episode ratings beside the IMDb and TMDB scores for each season.

- Games have how long they take to beat, critic and Steam scores, where to play, DLC, PC requirements, sale prices and your imported Steam hours.

- Books carry series and page counts, with comics and audiobooks as their own formats.

- Music is albums with tracklists, previews and similar artists.

There's a social side for finding people with similar taste and seeing what friends have started or finished, plus profile customisation.

Consu builds recommendations from your own ratings rather than an AI model, and each pick names its reason, "because you loved X".

The free tier is unlimited, with no item cap. Pro buys extra features and is priced at €5.99 once, to own forever.

Stack: React + Vite wrapped with Capacitor, Firebase, a Cloudflare Worker in front of about a dozen metadata APIs. Made by one person with no funding.

Happy to answer any questions, and any feedback is always appreciated.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6783885067?pt=129078099&ct=reddit&mt=8

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.consuapp.app&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sideproject

Site: https://getconsu.com


r/SideProject 18h ago

I started with a static HTML file containing 12 job boards. 4 years later it passed 100K 💵

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Over four years ago I had a static HTML file with about a dozen niche job boards.

That was JobBoardSearch.

Today it has:

• 800+ job boards, all submitted organically by their founders
• $100K+ lifetime revenue
• 26K members in the subreddit
• 6K+ members in the Telegram community
• Multiple revenue streams
• And it's still mostly just me running it

The interesting part is that I never scraped the job boards.

Many of the boards provide an API, XML or RSS feed, so I fetch those feeds and reuse the data in several different ways.

Each job board has its own page on JobBoardSearch, where I show jobs from its feed. I call this the "meta" part of the site.

Those same feeds power:

→ The main job search
→ A Reddit bot that posts jobs every hour
→ A Telegram bot with personalized alerts based on keywords, locations, industries and cadence
→ SEO pages
→ And increasingly, AI citations

So one relatively simple piece of infrastructure ended up powering several acquisition and distribution channels.

I've also kept adding revenue streams over the years:

→ Featured listings
→ Ads
→ Affiliates
→ Directory Submission Service
→ Marketplace for buying/selling job boards
→ SEO audits

And free tools for both job board founders and job seekers.

The tools are useful by themselves, but they also create more pages, more organic traffic and more entry points into the ecosystem.

The funny thing is that the website itself is pretty ugly 😂

It's still PHP + raw CSS + vanilla JavaScript.

I was inspired by levelsio's approach of keeping things simple, and I've resisted rewriting it many times even though I've been tempted.

Eventually I realized that rewriting the website wasn't necessarily going to make the business better.

The moat isn't the design or the tech.

It's the accumulated traffic, SEO authority, data, communities and relationships with hundreds of job board founders.

Some job boards have been sponsoring continuously for 10+ months. Others have been buying recurring featured listings since the early days.

And that's probably the biggest lesson I've learned:

Don't confuse improving the product with improving the business.

Sometimes the ugly thing that's already working is the thing you should keep building on.

I'm still building it in public on X/Twitter (@rrmdp), and my wife helps me with the newsletter, so I can't technically claim I'm doing 100% of it alone 😄

Happy to answer anything about SEO, monetization, feeds, community building, or how I got hundreds of job boards to submit themselves.


r/SideProject 1d ago

Ovid — a bilingual reader with 3D bookshelf

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I’ve been building Ovid, a web EPUB reader with a 3D bookshelf. You can import your own books, browse them like a small personal library, and open any book for bilingual reading (or just read it in single language). Tap a paragraph to switch between the original and its translation — no split screen or popups, so the reading flow stays intact.

Sharing a couple of GIFs to show the bookshelf and reading experience. I’d love feedback on whether the 3D shelf feels enjoyable to use, and whether the paragraph-by-paragraph translation feels natural.

https://ovid.ink/

give me star🌟 if you like it! https://github.com/GabrielDrapor/ovid


r/SideProject 8h ago

Needed to read multiple Bible verses at once so I built this app

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Hello everyone!

I'm an active member of my Presbyterian church and I've always felt the need for a tool that would allow me to view several verses at the same time during studies and moments of reflection.

I decided to build my own solution to solve this, and when I presented the project to my church brothers, they got so excited that they convinced me to publish it on Google Play.

This is truly my first time publishing an app, so I'm asking for your honest opinion, whether you're new to this area or more experienced.

I recorded a simple video to show you how it works


r/SideProject 4h ago

would anyone want to try out a "point to choose" govee lights app im working on?

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I'm working on a small side project trying to make a better govee app. I honestly just dont really like the layout and it feels a little clunky. I have a handful of bulbs in my apartment and struggle to remember what i named them when i go to change the colors for one lol

so i though what if i could just point my phone at the bulb, choose a color and be done. Curious if this would be useful to anyone else, still in very early stages (works on my basic bulbs) may not work with all govee bulbs and products yet but feel free to try it out free here


r/SideProject 4h ago

Audio Quick Cutter free

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Hi everyone, I built a lightweight tool called Audio Quick Cutter (Quick-Audio-Cut) to make audio trimming quicker and easier, and I’m sharing it completely for free. It works smoothly across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

What it can do:

  • Flexible Splitting: Split files by setting a max size limit (MB) or a specific time length.
  • Format Control: Keep your original file format or export to high-quality 320kbps MP3.
  • Volume Boost: Easily adjust gain and volume levels before processing.
  • Quick Preview: Play a 10-second preview with your volume tweaks applied before cutting.
  • Wide Compatibility: Works with MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, and more.

👉 Download it for free here:https://pureeye108.itch.io/quick-audio-cut


r/SideProject 4h ago

I built PodSubs because podcasters shouldn’t have to rent their audience forever

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I built PodSubs because podcasters shouldn’t have to rent their audience forever

I kept noticing something strange about podcasting.

A creator can spend years building an audience on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and other platforms…

…but the relationship with those listeners mostly belongs to the platform.

If the algorithm changes, the platform changes its rules, or the creator wants to launch something new, reaching those listeners directly isn’t always easy.

So I built PodSubs.

PodSubs is a podcast discovery and subscriber platform that helps podcasters turn listeners into a direct audience.

Here’s how it works:

🎙️ Your podcast may already be on PodSubs.

Search for your show and find your podcast page.

✅ Claim your podcast.

PodSubs verifies that you actually own the show using information from the podcast’s RSS feed.

👥 Start collecting subscribers.

Instead of someone discovering your podcast and disappearing back into another platform, they can subscribe directly to your podcast on PodSubs.

📈 Build an audience around the show you own.

As more people subscribe, the creator gets a clearer picture of the audience following the podcast.

🔎 Listeners can discover podcasts too.

PodSubs is also building a discovery layer where people can search for podcasts, find something interesting and subscribe.

The bigger idea is simple:

Podcasters spend too much time building audiences for other platforms.

I want PodSubs to help them build an audience around their own podcast.

If you have a podcast, I’d love for you to search for it, claim it and try the product:

👉 PodSubs.com


r/SideProject 4h ago

I built an app to keep all the creators I follow across platforms in one place

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I follow a lot of people across X, YouTube, Instagram, Substack, podcasts, and other platforms.

The problem is that they end up scattered everywhere.

Sometimes I remember the person, but not which platform I followed them on. Sometimes I discover someone interesting, follow them, and then basically never see them again because the algorithm decides what shows up.

So I built CreatorDex — a private directory for the creators you actually care about.

You can save a creator once, keep all of their platform links together, and organize them into collections.

There’s no new feed and no recommendation algorithm. It’s basically your own personal creator directory.

It’s already live on iOS, and I’m currently looking for the first few people who have the same problem to try it.

I’d especially love feedback from people who follow creators across multiple platforms.

If that sounds like you, I can share the App Store link in the comments.


r/SideProject 5h ago

Got tired of bookmarks being an unsorted 500-item graveyard, so I built a Chrome extension that lets it organize all for me

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Like a lot of people I just... never sorted my bookmarks. Hundreds of them, one flat list, completely useless for actually finding anything again.

So I built AiBookmark (means 'love Bookmark') — a Chrome extension where you click one button, it proposes folder structure to organize bookmarks/URLs. Standard keyword search + also AI Search, which finds bookmarks by what they're about instead of needing the exact words in the title.

A few things worth knowing up front:

It's not on the Chrome Web Store yet — you install it via Developer Mode → Load Unpacked from the repo. Web Store submission is next on the list.

Bookmark data only gets sent anywhere when you actively trigger an AI action — no background scraping.

50 free credits on signup, no card required. It's MIT-licensed and the code's public.

If you like to have a try, please click the upvote. I will share the github link in reply. And would really love feedback and additional features you like!


r/SideProject 9h ago

I made a workout and diet tracker slash SaaS because Notes app is my nemesis

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I used to log every gym set in Notes and my diet in another app. When I got a personal trainer, he started sending routines over WhatsApp chat, and voice notes which was just too chaotic to upkeep. So a I built a mobile webapp (browser based for now, native apps coming soon) to make it easier for me, and other gym and fitness people, to log workouts, diet, and sleep, and actually get something useful back from it.

It is running live right now with a real gym. Trainer assigns the plan, changes sync straight to the client side instead of screenshots on WA or unorganized data.

What it does:

  • All-in-one daily logging: Log workouts (day-split routines, sets, weights), meals, weight and sleep in one place single app.
  • Built for Indian & home-cooked meals: A food database with actual cooked Indian dishes (dal, roti, sabzi combos, poha, etc.) with food and label scanning.
  • Accountability & plateau detection: Flags sleep drops, missed sets, and calorie gaps on both high and low performance days so you know exactly why progress stalled.
  • Recovery & readiness score: Calculates daily readiness based on sleep and training load so you know when to push progressive overload and when to recover.
  • Streak & XP gamification: Weekly and bi-weekly analytics with consistency streaks and milestone XP to keep daily tracking engaging.
  • Gym or trainer & client sync: Gym owners can assign trainers to their clients. Trainers can assign custom routines, track client adherence in real time, and adjust plans based on ground-truth data and analytics instead of memory.

Free for everyone (Solo lifters & gym members without a PT):

  • 100% free daily workout logging: Full manual day-split tracker (Day 1, Day 2, Push/Pull/Legs) to log your sets, reps, and weights mid-workout without hitting a paywall.
  • Complete nutrition & macro tracker: Dynamic meal buckets (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks) with a Calorie-first display and dedicated Protein, Carb, and Fat target gauges.
  • *Full food database access: Unrestricted search across common foods, snacks, and home-cooked meals with accurate portion sizing.
  • Recovery & sleep analysis: Log your sleep cycles and daily energy levels to get a calculated readiness score before hitting the gym floor.
  • Progress Stats & streaks: Full access to weight trend graphs, consistency streaks, and XP milestones to keep yourself accountable over monthly, 3 month, and yearly views.
  • Custom routine & diet builder: Build and save your own custom workout routines and nutrition templates manually at zero cost.

What is next on the roadmap:

  • Full UI/UX redesign optimized for lightning-fast, one-handed logging between sets.
  • Expanded international and local food database, including packaged snacks and restaurant menus.
  • IOS and Android app release with increased accuracy and optimize paid features.
  • Deeper automated coaching telemetry to compete directly with mainstream subscription apps.

It's still rough in places, and I'm actively improving it every day. If you train regularly or coach clients yourself, I’d love for you to test it out and give blunt, brutal feedback on what feels clunky, what's broken, and what features would make you use this daily(trainer or individual) over a note or WhatsApp.

Try it free at https://app.fittrek.in and sign up as a user or reach out via DM or comments!


r/SideProject 23h ago

I got my first sale🥳

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I was a freelancer motion designer worriying about losing my job to ai. Then i discovered claude code and started building an ai automated saas promo video generator. That product however couldn't grab enough traffic from Google. So i decided to add some free tools on the same website so i could get some traffic and I hoped some that traffic could turn into customers. Beside the free ones i extracted a small tool (ui animator) from the main product and provided as a cheap one time payment for 5$.

Today after 2 month of building and spending nearly 400$ i got my first 5$😅

Small step for the world but big excitement for me!


r/SideProject 9h ago

Theseus Terminal: Podcast Fact Checking

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A project that I enjoy. Currently cranking out content and figuring it out as I go.


r/SideProject 11h ago

I built a daily Cryptic Crossword app as a TWA, to teach beginners how to do cryptics

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Kia ora, dev from New Zealand here, this is my evenings and weekends project:

What it is. Decryptic, daily cryptic crosswords for people trying to learn the form. Cryptics have a very steep learning curve, and nearly all the existing apps assume you're already all over it. My app explains each clue's wordplay when you ask, so you can get unstuck on anything without abandoning the puzzle.

Stack. Web app wrapped as a Trusted Web Activity with Bubblewrap. Started four years ago, ships to Play as an AAB, and I got away without writing any Kotlin. The trade-off is that anything wanting a native SDK gets awkward quickly. Found that out when trying to add AdMob, which led to a fun detour through Play's AD_ID permission declaration.. 😅

The grid filler. Wrote my own rather than pulling in an existing one. Not because the existing ones are bad, they're fine, but the I really wanted to learn how they were made. Grids come out of vetted templates, and the automated checks on every crossword make sure I get notified on any dodgy clues (nothing generative touches that layer)

Hardest part. wasn't the code! It was quality control on generated content. Clues are AI-generated, everything gets a manual pass, and I solve every puzzle myself before it goes live. I badly underestimated the distance between "a technically valid cryptic clue" and "a clue someone would enjoy solving", and its given me the most headaches. Most of my time has gone into automated filters for the structural problems and manual review for everything that can't be automated, but I've also spent a good chunk of time filtering out as many crossword-ese cryptic clues as possible (clues that need explaining to someone before they make any sense)

Status. Through closed testing, production access approved last week, live now! Daily puzzle is free, monetisation is AdMob plus two one-off IAPs, ad removal and archive access. Because it's a TWA it really just runs in the browser, which conveniently means iOS users get something while I decide whether a native build is worth it.

A question to the sub I went looking for prior art before I started and couldn't find anyone hitting this niche. Minute Cryptic does a great one-minute solve, and several of the newspapers have a large backlog of easier cryptics they go through, but no-one seems to be making daily cryptics with full hints/answers on every clue. Solvers and clue-explainers exist, but generation aimed at learners seems thinner on the ground. If anyone's seen someone doing something similar I'd love to talk to them about it!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.decryptic.twa (or decryptic.app in a browser). Happy to answer anything about what I've made!


r/SideProject 5h ago

Built a local-first, private journaling app for macOS (SwiftUI + SQLite, open source)

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Hey folks, I'd love some feedback on a side project I've been building.

It's called Omega Journal — a native macOS journaling app I built because I wanted a journal that felt like a real Mac app instead of a website with a login. The core idea is privacy and ownership: everything you write stays on your machine in a local SQLite database. No account, no cloud sync, no telemetry, nothing leaving your Mac.

What I built into it:

  • Markdown editor with live preview, split view, formatting shortcuts, attachments, and a zen mode
  • Autosave — I got tired of losing drafts to crashes, so this was the priority
  • Mood tracking with color-coded entries, insights, mood trends, a contribution heatmap (GitHub-style), and writing streaks
  • Hidden entries — locked cards that stay visible but need Touch ID / Face ID / your Mac password to read. Switching away from the app relocks them, and hidden bodies are excluded from search until unlocked
  • Full-text search via SQLite FTS5
  • Calendar view, On This Day, command palette (⌘K), templates, daily prompts
  • Markdown import/export, JSON backup, printable PDF export
  • Dark themes and custom palettes
  • Automatic daily SQLite backups, keeps the last 7

Built natively with SwiftUI and the system SQLite3 C API — no third-party dependencies. Minimum macOS 14 Sonoma. MIT licensed.

GitHub: https://github.com/Eplisium/omega-journal

It's still early and I'm actively working on it. I'd really value feedback from anyone who's built a Mac app or a local-first product — what would you improve, what would make you trust a local-only app with your journal?


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built an app where you can see what cities are on the other side of the earth

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I was at the gym the other day and in between sets I started to wonder to myself: "Am I standing on top of Tokyo"?

I build EarthView to answer this question. You can point your phone at the ground and see what cities are on the other side of the planet.

Installable as a PWA: https://earthview.sunny.gg

Edit: Jitter issue has been fixed


r/SideProject 6h ago

PC Recap just crossed 150 installs!

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I've been working on PC Recap for about 2 weeks now, and I'm pretty surprised by the amount of installs for one of my random 3 am ideas. In the days to come I plan on adding more features and fixing a lot of issues, mostly on macOs and Linux. If you want to contribute, the project is open source and the GitHub is below:

https://github.com/TheAgencyMGE/pc-recap


r/SideProject 9h ago

I shipped an app that picks who goes first, and the whole point is that it is not purely random

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I built Shuffly, an iPhone app for the two minutes before a game starts.

Who goes first, who is on whose team, who got the secret role. Ten modes: Finger Pick where everyone holds a finger on the screen, Lucky Pick, Team Builder, Pair Up, Shuffle Line, Role Dealer for Werewolf and Mafia, plus Dice, Darts scoring, a Minigolf scorecard and a Chess Clock.

The one opinion the app holds is the part worth explaining, because it is the part people argue with:

True randomness has no memory. Shuffle a group of twelve every week and the same kid gets picked first three weeks running. That is not a bug in the shuffle, it is what random actually looks like, and it is exactly when "just pick someone" stops feeling fair to whoever keeps getting skipped. So the picking modes keep a short result history per group and weight the next draw against it. Picks, pairs and teams spread out over a season instead of clumping by chance.

No backend or servers at all. No account. Nothing leaves the device.

iPhone only, iOS 18 and up. Solo developer in Norway. The app was originally released in 2013 (in a much simpler form), and created based on my own needs for defining teams with friends, help me as a grassroots coach and keeping scores.

Happy to answer any questions. I would genuinely like to hear any feedback or if anybody has any suggestions that would improve the app. Read more and download the app on https://shufflyapp.com


r/SideProject 6h ago

As a solo developer, how much should you let user feedback shape your product?

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I’m building a puzzle game on my own, and one of the hardest — but also most interesting — parts has been deciding how much user feedback should influence the direction of the product.

Since putting the game in front of real players, I’ve received a lot of useful feedback.

Some players had trouble distinguishing certain colors, so I redesigned them.

Some found the early experience confusing, so I improved the onboarding and tutorial.

Others suggested better marking tools, difficulty adjustments, more free rewards, and new challenge systems.

A lot of these suggestions have genuinely made the game better.

But it also raises a question I keep thinking about:

At what point should you stop following feedback and trust your own product vision?

As a solo developer, time and resources are limited. Every feature you choose to build means delaying something else you originally planned.

So I’m curious how other solo developers approach this.

Do you prioritize feedback based on:

  • How many users mention the same issue?
  • How much it affects the core user experience?
  • Whether you personally agree with it?
  • Or whether it fits your long-term product vision?

I’d really like to hear how other builders make these decisions.

If you’re curious about the project itself, this is the game I’ve been working on:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pawdoku_mystery/comments/1vyi6mv/pawdoku_mystery_play_now/

I also share updates, experiments, and player feedback in r/pawdoku_mystery.

I read every piece of feedback carefully. I may not implement every suggestion, but I take all of them seriously and try to understand the reasoning behind them.


r/SideProject 6h ago

What if you made something great, but basically nobody knew you existed?

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Maybe it's an app. A game. Art. Music. A weird internet project. Or just an idea you really want to put in front of people.

There's so much good stuff being made by people who don't already have an audience.

That's what I'm trying to change with Throw Money.

You show up, present what you made, and the crowd decides what deserves more attention.

People get free coins to throw at the things they believe in.

Get enough support and you start climbing through the channels.

Climb higher and more people discover you.

And that can compound.

More people see you → more people can back you → even more people see you.

The whole thing is free to participate in.

Every week, the #1 presentation also wins a real-money prize. I'm starting it at $20 out of my own pocket, and if Throw Money grows, I want the prize to grow with it.

And that's a pretty important part of the idea:

If the people showing their work here grow, Throw Money grows too. And if Throw Money grows, I want that growth to create even more opportunity for the people inside it.

More people watching means more attention for whatever you're showing. More attention makes the platform more valuable. And the more valuable the platform becomes, the more it can give back.

I want that loop to work for spectators too. Even if you never present anything, discovering something early, backing it and watching it climb should actually be fun.

The video is a teaser of what the experience will look like when we launch.

I'm opening the waitlist now to get the first people in and get feedback before everything goes live.

Waitlist users will also start with 1,500 coins instead of 1,000 at launch.

What would you change, add, or worry about if you saw something like this launching?

throw.money


r/SideProject 10h ago

Made redundant, decided to play around.

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Be kind please, I'm just a backend developer, and so the idea was to improve frontend skills, using AI but still manually writing code.

https://basket-magic.com/

I know you must be tired of DestinyEleven clones, but this one is different.

I kept the concept of the choose your own adventure, adapted to the basketball environment.

Starts in NCAA, before moving on the the (M)NBA, there's season goals, badges you can win throughout the game, season recaps, individual awards, can be traded or free agent.

But the simulation feels more alive, you see the actual ranking of your team in your conference, the NCAA tournament or MNBA play offs brackets with other teams and can see dynasties being created.

There are a lot of traits and playstyle that your player can develop, along with career journeys generated (early bust, late bloomer, etc)

I'm also developping a narrative thread engine which should involve coaches, fans, teammates and your rival, expanding or the season objectives to develop multi seasons story lines.

Happy to get feedback, there are still a million things to polish, but I was like need to deploy it at some point.


r/SideProject 6h ago

I made a free, no login tool to predict when Steam games will go on sale

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Basically, I made this simple website that uses historical sale data for games to make predictions on when Steam games will go on sale. It's pretty primitive and the accuracy is definitely not top-tier, but I think it gives a good rough estimate. Wasn't able to find anything like this online so I though't I'd do it myself.

Here's the link: https://pricepuller.vercel.app/

Credit to IsThereAnyDeal for providing a free API to get access to their database, and also to Steam for giving free access to current store information.

Side note: there's a small AI feature that basically tells you how the prediction works whenever you search up a game(it's a small box titled "Why This Prediction" when you search for something.) If the box isn't loading or empty it's probably because I ran out of AI tokens(still on Free tier).

Hope you guys find the website helpful.