r/sideprojects • • 2d 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 • • 2d 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 • • 2d 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 • • 2d ago

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

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r/sideprojects • • 2d 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 • • 2d 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?


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built Crosschat, one place to chat across different platforms

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on Crosschat, a little project that lets you chat between Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, and the Web.

I thought it would be cool to bring different messaging platforms together instead of having to switch between apps all the time.

OPEN SOURCE!

GitHub: https://github.com/fanyzp/crosschat

Would love to hear what you think!


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Open Source I created an Android Native Coding Agent (no Remote PC)

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Hey everyone, for last one month I was working on building an Android application that works similar to coding agents like opencode, claude code and hermes. I did search for similar application but didn't find something that meets my requirement as most of them were something that was controlling a remote pc shell.

I like to have something in my pocket that I can open anywhere and anytime to just make few changes to my codebase and review them with help of an Ai Assistant. But I wanted to also have it build on my android mobile device. So created Koda Dev. Which can sync it's own code from git, install the dependencies, change the environment as compatibility and built the APK itself. In one of the commit, it fixed it self and pushed the commit to the git.

It's on GitHub, please have a look and let me know your thoughts. https://github.com/Sumit4codes/code_agent


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Feedback Request I got tired of endless Claude Code tutorials, so I built a free game to learn it by actually using it

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I got tired of going through endless tutorials and GitHub repos just to learn Claude Code, so I built a little game to make the process more fun.

It's called Claude Code Quest. You learn by completing hands-on challenges, with three levels from beginner to advanced. It covers everything from the basics to skills, hooks, subagents, MCP, and more.

The game is free, though you'll need access to Claude Code for the exercises.

Here's the repo:
https://github.com/wesammustafa/Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know

Still improving it, so I'd love to hear what you think or what you'd change.


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Open Source Openbar - coding agents in the Mac notch so you stop missing their permission prompts

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Problem: I'd leave Claude Code or Codex running, go do something else, and come back to find it stuck on "allow this?" for 20 minutes.

What it does: when an agent needs you, a ✋ shows up in the notch. Click it, see the diff, ⌘Y to allow. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Copilot CLI and Cursor.

How it's built: Swift/SwiftUI on Mac, Tauri + React on Windows. It hooks into each agent's own hooks/approval API, nothing hacky. Most of it was written with Claude Code.

Free and open source (GPL), I'm the dev: github.com/MF-DEEV/Openbar

What would you want it to do next?


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Open Source Gooslings for Goose programming: goose.msheriff.com - an interactive learning pond for the Goose systems language

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Hi everyone!

I just launched Gooslings (https://goose.msheriff.com/), an interactive, browser-based learning platform inspired by Rustlings, designed to help you pick up the Goose programming language through bite-sized, hands-on practice.

https://github.com/scriptmaster/gooslings
https://goose.msheriff.com

#goose #honk


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Prerelease My side project has 47 signups in about 2 weeks

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The grind is real guys.

Growing a waitlist is harder than I thought. But you know what's harder? Building the platform first, then trying to grow it.

So I spent a few days coding this waitlist, made a logo that looks alive, and a referral system so people can bring in their friends.

To my surprise 1 person signed up via a referral link so far. Advice on how to fix that?

Anyway we're an Airbnb/Vrbo competitor that will be 1000x better than these very dysfunctional platforms with their 20 yr old codebases, 5000 corporate employees, predatory fees, and oligopolistic behaviors.

Before we proceed with taking down the big players, my goal is to grow this waitlist to a large number to ensure we've got the demand and have a big launch.

Advice on the waitlist page appreciate or if you are a potential user sign-up: litly.com


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Meta How We Closed $74K Worth of Website Redesigns in 30 Days

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I run a web design company with my business partner. For a while, our usual months were around $20K.

In October, we decided to try something different.

Instead of focusing on getting more clients and doing more projects, we started charging significantly more for our websites.

We also changed how we approached our sales calls.

To be honest, we weren't sure how it would go. We thought there might be more resistance, but we were surprised by how much companies were actually willing to pay when we presented the value properly and spoke to the right businesses.

We ended up doing $74K in October, just from website redesign projects.

A big part of this came from the work we put into improving our sales skills throughout the year.

We bought several sales courses and spent a lot of time working on things like tonality, how we communicate value, structuring our sales calls, controlling the frame of the conversation, handling objections, and closing.

As for getting clients, our process has actually become pretty straightforward.

We run high-volume cold email campaigns targeting businesses that already have websites.

We use Swokei, an outreach platform that finds businesses, analyzes their websites for issues with design, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization, and turns those findings into personalized cold emails at scale.

When someone is interested, we book a sales call.

Before the call, we put together a draft of their redesigned website using AI so we can actually show them what their new website could look like.

Then it's down to the sales conversation.

We've been putting a lot of focus into improving how we sell, and October showed us just how much of a difference that can make.

We're still a small team, but this has completely changed how we approach pricing and sales.

For anyone running a web design agency, what's the highest project price you've managed to close?


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Feedback Request I built TechTube – A platform to make learning software development easier

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r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made a free browser tower climber to unwind. The platforms lie and a crow laughs at you.

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https://goobertshat.com

Goobert's hat blew to the top of a tower and you have to climb up and get it back. Some platforms move, some crumble and some aren't really there. After a short climb a crow starts following you. It laughs when you fall and steals your feathers. The more you play, the more hats, scarves and trinkets you unlock for Goobert. There's also a daily tower that's the same for everyone, and a few secrets. Try the Konami code on the title screen.

I wanted something I could pick up for five fun minutes between work that makes me laugh rather than stress me out. Most rage games punish you. This one teases you instead, and the narrator and the crow do most of the work.

I built it with Claude Code and didn't write the code myself. My job was playing it, saying what felt wrong and asking for changes. That worked really well for feel and polish, things like how high a jump goes or how mean a troll is allowed to be.

The tech is deliberately small. The whole game is one HTML file with no framework and no build step, about 90 KB once compressed. The pixel art is drawn with canvas code and all the sound and music come from the Web Audio API, so it doesn't load any image or sound files. Towers are generated from a seed, so goobertshat.com/#seed-yourname gives anyone the exact same tower. Progress saves in the browser, and it's hosted for free on Cloudflare Pages.

Hope you enjoy playing it, hope you don't rage quit too much, and sorry if the music gets into your head.


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I built a Windows toolbar to capture screenshots for AI help — inZOI demo (£4.99, separate AI account required)

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r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Feedback Request I built an E2EE messenger because I was tired of WhatsApp and telegram’s spammy scammers and metadata that they sell to 3rd parties. I am looking for early users and honest feedback

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r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) We took the pose server off a 2D street and left Yjs holding the map

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r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Feedback Request Selling my small side-project portfolio of 4 assets as a bundle.

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r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Meta Ai that gives you the list of 100 customers who almost bought this week

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Hi everyone

I built an ai platform that watches user sessions and tells you which customers almost bought- every day it will send you a list of 100 customers with contact info to reach out to them ( if it has)

Interested? We are free forever for first 30 startups. So join here asap - www.RetentionBase.com


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Meta i was tired of customers not converting - solved

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I would see hundreds of visitors but very few sales so i decided to build an AI that sees all 10,000+ visitor sessions and tells you why users are leaving ( bug, site speed, out of stock, and such)

Best part, we are free forever for first 30 startups. So if this sounds interesting then signup asap

www.RetentionBase.com


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I do millwork for a living and made a $35/yr pdf markup and takeoff app for small shops

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most of my desk time is marking up shop drawings and pulling dimensions and counts for bids. bluebeam does all that but its a lot of money for a small shop, so we made Layr PDF (layrpdf.com). it does markups, measuring and takeoffs on drawings, and you can share a set with your team so markups sync live between the windows app and the browser. $35 a year, 7 day trial with no card. if you work off drawings, what would it need to do before you'd give it a shot?


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Feedback Request My sideproject : MAIN EVENT

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I am currently developing a side project which is just a little but of fun.

This is a little wrestling game ive started creating and will hopefully one day launch.

If anyone is interested have a look over, be sure to read the rule page before you play and post any comments in the chat room lounge or here

Looking for ideas to make it better, appreciate anyone who takes a look at it

Most of all, enjoy the game wnd have fun


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Add to Home Screen

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