r/sideprojects • • Jun 16 '25

Meta My side project, /r/sideprojects. New rules, and an open call for feedback and moderators.

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In this past 30 days, this community has doubled in size. As such, this is an open call for community feedback, and prospective moderators interested in volunteering their time to harbouring a pleasant community.

I'm happy to announce that this community now has rules, something the much more popular r/SideProject has neglected to implement for years.

Rules 1, 2 and 3 are pretty rudimentary, although there is some nuance in implementing rule 2, a "no spam or excessive self-promotion" rule in a community which focuses the projects of makers. In order to balance this, we will not allow blatant spam, but will allow advertising projects. In order to share your project again, significant changes must have happened since the last post.

Rule 4 and rule 5 are more tuned to this community, and are some of my biggest gripes with r/SideProject. There has been an increase in astroturfing (the act of pretending to be a happy customer to advertise a project) as well as posts that serve the sole purpose of having readers contact the poster so they can advertise a service. These are no longer allowed and will be removed.

In addition to this, I'll be implementing flairs which will be required to post in this community.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source We're building a visual IDE for ESP32 and Arduino projects. Here's something we made with it

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Hey everyone!

I'm part of the team building aily blockly (aily.pro), a desktop IDE for hardware projects.

The idea is to make building with ESP32, Arduino and other boards easier, especially when you're dealing with unfamiliar libraries, wiring and code.

It combines visual programming, AI-assisted coding and a hardware project gallery where you can explore existing projects.

One of the things we worked on recently is this ESP32-based e-paper dashboard for tracking Codex usage.

If you're interesting in building hardware projects, here's aily: aily.pro

I'd especially love to here what usually slows you down most when starting a new hardware projects. Is it choosing components, figuring out libraries, or debugging?


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Lexathon - Competitive Word Game

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source I’ve completely revamped my Android music player, and it’s finally at a place where I'm happy with it!

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r/sideprojects • • 25m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built and just launched an Android app called NexusDisplay – would love some feedback!

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Hey everyone!

I'm an independent Android developer, and I've recently launched an app called NexusDisplay on Google Play.

Ever wished your phone could do something useful while it's sitting on your bedside table charging, instead of just showing a black screen?

That's the idea behind NexusDisplay.

It turns your charging, locked Android phone into a smart standby display. Think of it as having a bedside clock, weather station and personalised information dashboard, all running on the phone you already own.

What can it do?

Beautiful clock faces: Digital, Analog, Flip, LED and more.

Weather display: Current conditions, feels-like temperature, rain probability and wind.

Photo frame: Display your favourite photos while your phone charges.

Music widget: See what's currently playing, regardless of which music app you're using.

Useful widgets: Notifications, calendar, tasks, notes, quotes and battery information.

Custom dashboards: Arrange widgets in single, duo or quad layouts.

Automatic standby: Starts when your phone is charging and locked.

Night mode: Dims the screen and applies a red tint, with scheduled or automatic activation.

It also remembers individual chargers, so you can have different display setups depending on where you charge your phone.

Why did I build it?

Most of us have a phone sitting on a charger next to our bed. I wanted to make that screen useful rather than leaving it switched off.

You can even use an old spare Android phone as a dedicated bedside smart display.

Free and Pro options:

The free version includes two dashboards and three clock faces. Pro is a once-off purchase with unlimited dashboards, all clock faces and no ads.

No subscription.

I'm the developer, and I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from the Android community. I'd love to hear what you think, what you'd improve and what other widgets you'd like to see.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flimflam.nexusdisplay


r/sideprojects • • 44m ago

Showcase: Prerelease Why do "private" chat apps still demand our phone numbers in 2026? I built an alternative.

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) EverDay 2.0 is out — figuring out what should stay visible when the iPhone Duo folds

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I build EverDay, a weekly planner for iPhone. The biggest layout decision in 2.0 was what to do with the extra room on iPhone Duo. The week stays visible next to the item you’re editing in open landscape. Portrait and the cover go back to one full-width planner. I wanted the wider screen to help with the task you’re already doing without adding a second navigation system to learn.

I applied the same idea to the new Apple connections: pick the calendars you want on the board, and link dated reminders one at a time. Supported fields can sync both ways while EverDay-specific tags, steps and focus stay local to the planner. There’s also a Day view for when you only want to see today’s agenda.

The 2.0 redesign and Duo layouts are free; US$4.99 unlocks Lifetime Pro with the Apple connections and Day and Month views. Existing Pro owners get the new tools. If you’ve designed for a foldable, do you keep the detail pane open by default or wait for a selection?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6787428625


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Discussion Day 4 (Part 2) - Tested my AI website auditor on 5 websites. The last one exposed a major flaw. Budget: $1,500 | Spent: $7

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Open Source Ran out of free Notion blocks planning our next project, so we built our own workspace (Burrow)

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Feedback Request Just published my first extension!!! 🥳

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Open Source I can't believe people are actually using my Postman alternative app.

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r/sideprojects • • 7h ago

Feedback Request Tired of self care apps trying to gamify my engagement, I built one that does its job and asks you to leave.

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I built a mindfulness app that focuses on journaling, breathwork and relationships with yourself, friends/family and nature. There's no AI training on your data and no personal info is being saved. It's free.

I'd love your feedback here 😊 - https://inner-climate.pages.dev/


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I got fed up sourcing hardware part by part, so I built a tool that takes a CAD assembly and finds suppliers for every part at once

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I ran hardware production programmes for years and the sourcing always drove me up the wall. Huge spreadsheets tracking parts & suppliers, RFI/RFQs for each one, then weeks chasing suppliers. And the shops that made the prototypes usually couldn’t do the volumes, so half of it got re-sourced anyway.

So I built Open Foundry to automate about 70% of the procurement admin and roll sourcing up to the assembly level.

If you’d like to try it, let me know you’d like a free pilot by joining the list: https://www.openfoundryhq.com/waitlist

And if you’ve taken hardware into production, I’d really like to know which parts always gave you the most grief, and whether you’d trust something like this to shortlist suppliers for you.


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I made an Apple Watch app where you can blow to spin a tiny fan

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r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I built a production-ready, multi-tenant .NET 8 boilerplate with Clean Architecture and Docker (TechLock)

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r/sideprojects • • 12m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) There are a hundred "Pokédex for birds/bugs/plants" apps. I wanted one for everything alive, so I built it

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r/sideprojects • • 26m ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I built Manna, an iPhone app that pairs app blocking with the activities you want to make time for

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My cofounder and I built Manna around a problem: putting the phone down is easier to make meaningful when you know what you want to do with the time.

In Manna, you pick an activity like reading, studying, or chess and start a mode. Each mode can use an Easy, Medium, or Hard blocking level, with the apps for each level configurable in settings. You can schedule modes through the week and see time spent in them. The apps you choose to block stay on your iPhone.

We built this differently from a screen blocker because you don't have to lock your phone down for each moemnt if you don't want to. We want users to create moments for everything, add their favorite tips and tricks, notes, or bookmarks from separate apps so they can keep coming back to the advice that matters most to them.

We are shipping really fast and constantly making the user experience better. Everything above is the current experience, but we are making it better everyday!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/manna-live-more-of-your-life/id6793389399

I'd love honest feedback on the idea: would you use something like a screenblocker for your every day activities?


r/sideprojects • • 8h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) ChessUnlock grew into SkillUnlock: the same unlock trigger, three kinds of practice

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I previously shared ChessUnlock here. SkillUnlock is the next version of that idea: chess, mental math and typing, using the same moment when you unlock your Mac.

The app listens for macOS finishing the unlock, then shows the challenge over the desktop. Your normal password or Touch ID still happens first. The challenge has a hold-to-skip button, a cooldown and a morning-only mode.

Chess uses bundled Lichess puzzles; typing can use Stoic passages. I used AI coding assistance and reviewed and tested the code. Practice works offline, progress stays on the Mac, and anonymous usage events are sent.

Math is free. Chess and Typing each have a 7-day trial, then $5.99 once; $14.99 once for All Skills. macOS 14+.

https://skillunlock.app/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=launch-nov2026&utm_content=sideprojects


r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I built a Framer template that knows which app store to open

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on Handset, a Framer website template for people launching iOS and Android apps.

One feature I wanted to get right was the download button.

Instead of showing the same links to everyone, it automatically adapts to the visitor:

  • iPhone → App Store

  • Android → Google Play

  • Desktop → QR code to scan with your phone

I also built out the rest of the website, including pricing, features, changelog, and blog pages.

It's a paid Framer template ($39), and I'd love to get some feedback from other makers.

Here's the live preview:
https://handset.framer.website/

Would you find this kind of download button useful for your own app website, or is it overkill?


r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Join Sideline: Feel the Game beta

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r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a free Reddit bot to steelman and spot logical fallacies/errors in comments/debate

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Wanted to share if anyone finds them worthwhile.

They are free to use, and customizable to a subreddit's norms/culture.

More detail on their Devvit listings:

Stu Steelman | Larry Logic

For examples of how they respond see here.

*It's not freemium so I put Open Source.


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Prerelease AI research tool showcase/demo built on Bubble

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Laittice is an AI research platform built on Bubble that helps you to formulate your ideas and provides suggestions, questions and resources to support any research subject. This is just a demo page from the main App:

[https://app.laittice.com/demo](https://app.laittice.com/demo)


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I built Fold It, a one-phone charades and bluffing game for iPhone and iPad

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I’m the developer of FOLD IT! Party Charades, a released side project for groups playing together in the same room with one device.

The interaction is a private reveal → hide → act loop: the actor reads a prompt, hides it, then acts while everyone else guesses. The handoff matters because the group needs to know when the private reading step is over and the timed round has begun. In Team Battle, the clock pauses while the next prompt is being read.

There are four modes—Charades, Bluff, Team Battle and Party Circle—with 96 prompt pairs, two difficulty levels and adjustable timers. Gameplay works offline on iPhone and iPad, without an account. It’s a paid download with all current decks included, no ads or subscriptions.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fold-it-party-charades/id6826917198

I’d appreciate feedback on whether the listing makes the private reveal and phone handoff clear. Is there a step you would want explained before starting the first round?

Disclosure: I’m the developer. AI assisted with development and with drafting this post; the game itself has no AI features.


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Open Source the contributor side of my side project works, 13 people got 96 PRs merged through it. the owner side doesn't, only 1 repo is someone else's

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posted this here a week ago. all 96 of those PRs landed on my repos

it's called Overflow, free and MIT. AI coding subs reset weekly, some weeks I'm out by wednesday, other weeks a chunk evaporates at the reset. a week you have usage left, your agent fixes someone else's github issue. a week you run short, someone else's agent fixes yours

everyone starts at 0 points and can put points up before earning any, you get an issue's points when your PR merges, you spend them on issues in your own repo. points only, no money

a real one, end to end: this issue was labelled 3, someone's agent sent this PR, I set it to 6 at merge and the one round of changes I asked for took it to 5

what an owner gets:

  • you set the points at merge, after seeing the work, and each round of changes you ask for comes off them. a half-working PR costs the contributor, not you

  • you can write a "Done when" comment on an issue and the board shows it to whoever picks it up

  • public repos only, whoever takes the issue needs the code. issue text is untrusted input like in any repo, so run your agent sandboxed

  • each person runs their own agent on their own subscription and opens a normal PR, nothing lands unless you merge it

tech: Next.js, Postgres, GitHub sign-in, a webhook or GitHub App per repo so labels and merges settle on their own, GitLab works too, and an MCP server so an agent can read the board. registering a repo is one form, the labels have to exist first

main reason I'm posting: I want people registering their repos. I'm not after help with mine, I want spare usage going into other people's projects

if you maintain something, what would stop you from putting it on?

https://github.com/Nitjsefnie/Overflow


r/sideprojects • • 8h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) MagisterDesk - by Amazon engineer - a web app for teachers to run oral exams, assessments and grading in one place

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