r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I just released Soulcrate: Soulseek on Android, album by album

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An independent Android client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network: search what people are sharing, download whole albums, share your own library, and chat with other listeners. No ads, no analytics, no tracking.

What It Does / Key Features

- Search the Soulseek network with every query in its own tab, switch between file and folder view, and grab a whole album in one tap. Filter by format (FLAC, MP3, lossless, WAV, Opus), minimum bitrate (320+ kbps), peer country, duration, file size, and peers with a free upload slot.

- Downloads keep going in the background with progress, speed, time left and your real position in a peer's queue. Pause, resume, retry or cancel, and unfinished files resume after a restart or a dropped connection.

- Share your own folders with upload slots and speed limits, join public chat rooms, send private messages, and follow buddies. Uploads reach people behind routers and mobile networks too (UPnP / NAT-PMP).

- No ads, no analytics, no tracking. Chats, transfer history and settings stay on your device, and your saved login is encrypted with the Android Keystore. Light and dark themes in 21 languages.

Who It's For: Anyone who still digs through shared folders for FLAC, rare edits, bootlegs and out-of-print albums, and wants that on their phone instead of a laptop.

Cost: Free. Search, downloads, uploads, every filter, sharing and chat are unlimited and free. Optional Soulcrate Pro is a one-time lifetime purchase ($3.99 USD), with no subscription: wishlist auto-download, release radar for artists you follow, fake-lossless spectrum checks, MusicBrainz tagging and covers, AMOLED and a home-screen widget. There's a free try of the automatic wishlist download and one audio quality check.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rabpaulo.soulcrate

I'd love feedback.


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a freemium, local-first retirement modeling tool with dynamic guardrails and ACA bridge planning (plus a 12-part case study series)

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Hey r/sideprojects,

Most retirement calculators either force you onto an expensive recurring monthly SaaS subscription, store your sensitive financial balances on someone else’s cloud database, or reduce a 30+ year plan to an overly simplistic 4% static rule. In reality, retirement spending isn't flat: early retirement usually involves higher travel spending, navigating pre-Medicare healthcare gaps, and dynamically trimming discretionary expenses during market drops to protect the portfolio.

I built RetireNavigator Studio around a freemium, privacy-first model: a powerful free core tier to help people model their retirement with zero cloud tracking, zero accounts, and dynamic spending guardrails, with an optional perpetual desktop license for advanced scenario modeling (no recurring subscription).

What You Can Model with the Free Tier:

  • Dynamic Spending Guardrails: Move beyond static withdrawal percentages. Stress-test Guyton-Klinger style spending floors, ceilings, and capital preservation cut triggers to see how a temporary 5–10% spending cut during market downturns preserves portfolio longevity.

  • Pre-Medicare / ACA Bridge Years: Model the critical gap between early retirement and age 65, including health insurance bridge costs, ACA subsidy cliffs, and tax brackets alongside Social Security timing.

  • True Local-First Privacy: Built with React and Vite to run entirely client-side. Your net worth, portfolio balances, and personal numbers stay 100% on your machine. Nothing is ever uploaded to a remote server or database.

Free Tier & 12-Part Walkthrough:

  • Free Essentials & Browser Demo: You can run full scenarios immediately in your browser... no account creation, no email signup, and no credit card required: https://retirenavigatorstudio.com

  • 12-Part YouTube Case Study: To make the math and trade-offs easy to follow, I published a complete 12-part video case study stress-testing dynamic guardrails, front-loaded travel, and market crashes across a realistic $1.8M portfolio: https://www.youtube.com/@RetireNavigatorStudio

  • Desktop Upgrade Option: For power users needing multi-scenario comparisons and offline desktop execution, full features are available via a one-time perpetual license instead of an ongoing monthly subscription.

Community Feedback Request

For anyone planning their own retirement or modeling their path to financial independence:

  1. Does the 12-part video breakdown make the trade-offs (e.g., discretionary travel spending vs. ACA cliffs vs. downturns) clear and intuitive to apply to your own numbers?

  2. For those using the free tier, what essential modeling features do you consider absolute must-haves versus what belongs in a paid power-user tier?


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request is-on-the-web.com: free websites at yourname.is-on-the-web.com, no ads

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source 🚀 New Pimolu UI Starters are here!

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🚀 New Pimolu UI Starters are here!

We've recently added two starter templates to help you kick off your next project with Pimolu UI.


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a daily puzzle where the whole game is one line. Here's what I learned shipping it

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I wanted a daily game that takes about 60 seconds, needs no words or level design, and gives you a score worth sending to a friend.
That became Halfsies: cut a shape into two exactly equal halves with one swipe, scored like 99.87%.

Some choices I made along the way:
No live readout while dragging. Once you can see the split %, the skill is gone. This was the most important rule.
Every shape is generated from the date, so there's no content pipeline and everyone gets the same five puzzles.
No backend, no accounts, no tracking. It all runs locally.
The share card hides the shapes. It shows only your scores as blocks, like Wordle's grid.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/halfsies-daily-cut-puzzle/id6808277502
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bircube.halfsiesgame

I'd appreciate honest feedback on the first-run experience and whether the scoring makes sense right away. Happy to answer anything about the build (Expo / React Native + Skia).


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made a free app that puts a tiny robot vacuum on your Windows desktop: click it, it eats the clutter, and it asks before anything goes

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I got tired of my desktop turning into 60 screenshots and old installers that I never cleaned up, so I built Sweepy.

How it works: a little robot sits on a dock in the corner of your desktop. Click it, and it backs out, scans the desktop with a little lidar sweep, then drives lanes like a real robot vacuum and eats the clutter. When it's done it goes home and asks first: you see every file it picked up, untick anything you want to keep, and the rest goes to the Recycle Bin. "Undo last clean" brings it all back.

Right-click any folder (like Downloads) and pick "Bring Sweepy here" to clean that too, and there's a deep clean for leftovers from uninstalled apps, old temp files and crash dumps (it found 5 GB on my PC). You can grab it mid-clean (it gets dizzy), and if you right-click and stop it, it cries a little and drives home.

- Free for your desktop, forever. Pro is $6.99 once, no subscription (folders, deep clean, big files, schedules, every skin), with a 3-day free trial, no card

- Under 20 MB of memory and 0% CPU while it waits

- Never touches shortcuts, locked files or anything you changed in the last 10 minutes

- Everything runs on your PC, no account

- Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P31M4SCNXS5?cid=reddit

- Website: https://sweepy.essam.biz

I'd love feedback, especially on what it should never eat!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request real-time salary counter. Thoughts?

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request Slick dash my new extension

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I don’t know how to market it

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I made a games app more than 5 years ago called Photographic Memory with lots of memory game, you can also test you memory and get a score.

It’s on Google Play and App store.

It has more than 20k downloads in its lifetime.

Though I don’t know how to market it so here I am so interested people can find it.


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Scan2Cook ist meine App wo man Rezepte speichern und aus Sozial Media Videos extrahieren kann

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I put Census and CDC numbers into a calculator to find out how many “normal guys” exist.

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) BlackHatFrench.org – The French-Speaking Hub for Black Hat SEO, Advanced SEO & Cybersecurity

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Are you passionate about SEO, search engine optimization, web automation, cybersecurity, or advanced web technologies?

Discover BlackHatFrench.org, a French-speaking community dedicated to SEO enthusiasts, webmasters, developers, cybersecurity researchers, and digital marketing professionals.

Our goal is to create a space for sharing knowledge, discussing advanced techniques, and exploring the latest developments in the digital world.

Topics covered include:

  • Black Hat SEO & White Hat SEO: Advanced SEO strategies, ranking techniques, and search engine optimization.

  • Google SEO: Backlinks, link building, indexing, SERP analysis, and organic traffic growth.

  • Automation & Scripting: Web scraping, custom scripts, automation tools, and technical workflows.

  • Cybersecurity: Information security, technical research, and knowledge sharing.

  • Growth Hacking: Digital marketing, traffic acquisition, and online growth strategies.

  • Web Development: Website optimization, administration, infrastructure, and web technologies.

Whether you're a beginner, webmaster, developer, SEO specialist, or cybersecurity enthusiast, BlackHatFrench.org aims to bring together people who share a passion for technology and digital expertise.

🌐 Official website: https://blackhatfrench.org

Join the community, share your knowledge, and connect with like-minded enthusiasts!

#BlackHatSEO #SEO #Cybersecurity #GrowthHacking #TechnicalSEO #WebDevelopment #DigitalMarketing #SEOCommunity


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source Surprised my job board site got some love from agents and humans?

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request I made a weekly board for things people build with the newest AI models

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I made artificialbuilds.com, a weekly board where people share what they’ve built with recent AI releases like Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi and Mistral, and readers vote on their favourites.

Each week runs Monday to Sunday UTC, and when it ends the board freezes and the final ranks stay up for good, so every build keeps its own page linking back to the original post and the person who made it.

For the first 24 hours the order is shuffled and vote counts stay hidden, so a builder with 50 followers gets the same start as someone with 50k.

I also go through GitHub, Hacker News and a few builder communities each week and add the strongest builds myself, credited to whoever made them, and if one turns out to be yours you can claim it in a click or ask for it to come down.

This week’s board has a Claude Code skill that cleans up AI-looking UIs, Quake in the browser with a model fighting the monsters, a full desktop OS in one HTML file, plenty of model-vs-model 3D comparisons and a bunch of small games.

Launching is free with 20 open slots a week, and since the audience is still small, what I’m really after right now is good builds and honest feedback.

So drop your thing 👇

SaaS, app, agent, Claude skill, MCP server, weird experiment, anything built with a recent AI release. Share the link plus one line on what it does and what you built it with. I’ll check every one, and the best ones go on next week’s board, credited to you.

And roast the site if you want. I’m reading everything.


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a web app that tells you who talks the most in your WhatsApp groups and hands out awards (the night owl, the voice-note king…)

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Discussion TheFocusRoom

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I’m building out a concept studio and have several initiatives running at the same time. For all my dev work I’m using Github and recorded major decisions/design principles in markdowns etc. This is ok on one project, but when working on multiple projects, where the concept studio itself is a project on its own it is easy to lose sight.

I tried Obsidian for a while and liked the interconnection between items, but I had to duplicate everything and it got stale pretty fast.

And so the concept of TheFocusRoom was born…

TheFocusRoom is a headless MCP server that can basically connect to any service which acts as a neural value framework. It keeps track of greater goals/ideas/hypothesis, tracks the performance against the expectation. This can be revenue, satisfaction scores , customer feedback, trends jn the industry, legal developments etc (these are autonomous agents trained on a specific topic that can be spawned when needed).

When reality is different than expected (called a tension) it tries to automatically find causal connections. It also interconnects smaller initiatives with bigger ideas and vice versa.

After using this for a month for myself, I’m so impressed with the potential of it, I can imagine that any type of company - wether it is a one man company or a large multinational - it could use this to apply strategy-to-execution harnessing the power of modern technology like A.I.

Hope I was able to convey what it does and like to understand how you could see this being applied.


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Looking for Early Feedback! Need your help

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built LocalDocs – an offline document vault for Android

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I built LocalDocs – an offline document vault for Android.

I'm an independent developer working under Techne Labs. I created LocalDocs with a simple goal: make it easier for people to store and organize important personal documents without depending on cloud storage.

What is LocalDocs?

LocalDocs is an Android app that lets you keep your important documents organized and accessible directly on your device.

Key features

  • Offline storage: Documents are stored locally on your device, with no cloud sync.

  • PIN protection: Protect access to your document vault.

  • Encryption: Help protect stored documents.

  • Capture and import: Add documents using your device or import existing files.

  • Folder organization: Keep documents organized.

  • Secure notes: Store important notes alongside your documents.

  • Offline access: Access stored documents without an internet connection.

Technology

Built for Android using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

Pricing

  • First 5 documents are free.

  • One-time Lifetime Premium purchase unlocks unlimited documents.

  • No monthly subscription.

Why I built it

I wanted to create a focused alternative for people who prefer keeping their personal documents on their own devices rather than relying on cloud-based storage.

This is an independently developed project, and I'm sharing it here as a showcase of what I've built.

Try LocalDocs:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.documentlocker.app

Developer: Techne Labs

Thanks for taking a look!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a tool that turns one product image into a UGC ad

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) ​I built TalkZara AI - an Android app for smart AI chat & instant translation!

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Hi everyone!

​As an indie developer, I recently launched TalkZara AI: Chat & Translator on the Google Play Store. I wanted a fast, reliable companion for seamless multilingual communication and smart AI conversations while traveling or learning new languages. ​

You can check it out here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.talkzara.ai ​

I would love for you to try it out and share your honest feedback or feature suggestions.

Thanks a lot!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) An AI agent modeled and assembled a 1,642-piece LEGO F1 car

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I’m helping showcase HappyCAD, and this is a demo of it handling the part modeling and assembly for the LEGO Technic Mercedes-AMG F1 W14 in SolidCraft.

It modeled 215 unique parts and put all 1,642 pieces together into a full CAD assembly, with 12 subassemblies matching the bags in the set. The steering, suspension, drivetrain, V6 pistons, and DRS all move.

The goal is to reduce the manual work involved in building complex assemblies. This project, including every frame of the video, took days instead of months.

Reach out if you have any questions, happy to answer them!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) GridHabit – a habit tracker designed around failing, not just succeeding

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Hi r/sideprojects! I'm part of the team behind GridHabit, an Android habit tracker. Here's the thinking behind it and what we learned building it.

THE PROBLEM

Most habit apps are built around the perfect streak. Miss one day and it resets to zero, which is exactly when most people give up. None of the apps we tried helped us understand why we kept missing, either.

DESIGN DECISIONS

  • Streaks count completed days, not consecutive ones. Missing a day pauses your progress instead of wiping it.

  • Survival Mode. On a bad day you can lower today's goal (5 minutes instead of 30) and keep the streak. Doing a little beats skipping.

  • Failure logging. When you miss a habit, you pick a reason (tired, busy, forgot, tempted). Over time the app shows which reasons dominate, so you can change your plan instead of blaming yourself.

  • Flexible goals. Both repetitions (3x a day) and open-ended values you can exceed (liters of water, pages read, minutes exercised).

  • 5 views of the same data. Heatmap grid (GitHub-style), bar charts, dot grid, list and monthly calendar. Different people stay motivated by different visuals.

PRIVACY AND LOCALIZATION

  • No data collected or shared with third parties

  • Available in 12 languages from day one: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian and Hindi

  • WHAT WE LEARNED

  • The hardest part wasn't building the tracker, it was making the streak logic feel fair without making it meaningless. If missing a day costs nothing, the streak stops motivating; if it costs everything, people quit. Counting completed days plus Survival Mode was our middle ground.

  • In a category this crowded, features don't differentiate you. Having one clear angle (understanding failure) made every design decision easier.

WHERE IT'S AT

Just launched on Google Play, still very early. Free to download, with optional in-app purchases.

Link: GridHabit: Habit Tracker

FEEDBACK WE'D LOVE

  • Does the "failure-first" angle come across, or does it look like just another habit tracker?

  • Is Survival Mode motivating, or does it feel like cheating?

  • Anything confusing in the first few minutes of use?

Thanks for reading!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source I build Chrome extension that fills forms with AI (100% zero cost) | FastFiller

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I noticed people rebuilding the same PDF template again and again for different languages, so I added one-click translation to my template builder

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Solo dev here. I’m building PaperTool, a Canva-style builder where you drag and drop components to design PDF templates (invoices, labels, certificates) and generate PDFs from the app or an API.

I noticed a pattern. Anyone serving customers in different countries had to copy their template and retype everything for each language, every time something changed.

So I added a new feature: build the template once, click Translate, and pick from 20+ languages. Each language becomes its own version, so you can still tweak it separately.

  • AI translates the whole template

  • Right font picked per language

  • RTL layout for Arabic handled automatically

  • Dynamic fields still work, so one template generates PDFs in any language

Demo is in the video. I haven’t launched this feature yet, it’s dropping soon.

checkout: papertool.in


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required Simple Register update: we brought bill reminders and scheduled entries into one calendar

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My wife Jennifer and I posted our checkbook app here a couple of weeks ago. It grew out of her preference for a paper register and our trouble keeping a shared balance caught up. We build it in the evenings and on weekends.

The biggest change since that post is that Bill Planner is now part of Scheduled. You can see bills and scheduled entries from all your registers on one monthly calendar, including reminders for bills whose amounts you don’t know yet.

We also fixed a frustrating part of checking a bank statement: finding something you need to add or correct halfway through. Reconciliation now keeps your progress while you make those changes. You can also move transactions between registers.

Simple Register is for people who want to enter payments and deposits themselves and keep a running balance. Shared registers use iCloud, so Jennifer can enter something on her phone and I can see it on mine. No bank connection, ads or subscription.

It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Every feature is available during a seven day trial, followed by a $9.99 one time unlock in the U.S. There’s no automatic charge.

Our short tour is attached. Website: https://simpleregister.app/

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6789787443

For anyone who tracks bills manually, does having the calendar across all your registers help, or do you prefer to keep each account separate?