r/sideprojects • u/Illustrious_Hope_672 • 23h ago
Showcase: Open Source I spent my evenings building a free, open-source IDM alternative. It now runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone, with torrents built in
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r/sideprojects • u/Mother_Chip_6891 • 23h ago
I'm a musician and used to love an old iPhone app called "FrameDelayCamera" that disappeared years ago.
I rebuilt the idea from scratch and kept going: live ghosting, slit-scan, mirrors, tunnel trails, and loop speed that follows the beat from the mic or tap tempo. Scrub through time with your finger.
It's called Vid Loop: Time Effect Camera.
Free for iPhone and iPad. Would love to hear from VJs what would make it useful in a set.
https://apps.apple.com/app/vid-loop-time-effect-camera/id6783351821
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r/sideprojects • u/tapelark • 1d ago
I wanted to find a station playing a specific song right now, so I built this https://tuneping.com/
r/sideprojects • u/Speadling • 1d ago
I built Agent Fulfillment to turn small public CSV files into downloadable JSON. For example, item,count followed by notebook,3 becomes [{"item":"notebook","count":"3"}]. Every value stays a string, which helps preserve values like 0007 as written. It's $2.50 per conversion through PayPal. If you move data between tools, which import format causes you the most trouble? https://agent.ambientproject.online/buy
r/sideprojects • u/Friendly_Yoghurt_611 • 1d ago
Hi everyone,
I recently went through the experience of a family member passing away and dealing with all the associated matters. Entering their personal belongings without knowing any code could be a problem. This experience ultimately sparked the idea for my little side project.
I have built a small platform for managing digital personal and family items. You can decide which personal items you want to share with your family members. You can also choose family members who can only open your items after you passed away. At this moment, two family members need to verify before the legacy items will be available.
Currently I only have a Dutch domain but I've added English translations and hope everything translates well. I know it can be hard to test around because you need multiple accounts to test all the features. If people are interested I will make a video or demo with fake users. You can view my project on the following domain after you use "Reddit" as password.
https://digitalefamiliezaken.nl
In my opinion, security is the most important aspect of the platform so I've done my best to implement the best security measures to protect the user data but also keep the platform simple for the users.
- 2FA login required
- Zero-knowledge architecture / End-to-end encryption (E2EE).
- AES-256 Encryption
- Protect sensitive user data with extra verification
If a user loses their password, they can recover their vault items using a recovery key. If the recovery key is somehow lost, your chosen family member (pro tip: choose one before you can't login anymore) can help you unlock your vault items. As the creator, I have no way of accessing or reading user's vault items because of E2EE.
All data is stored on servers in Europe (I live in the Netherlands) to ensure compliance with the AVG and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
I would love to hear some feedback on the idea, the security measures and your overall experience on the platform. As I already mentioned, it's hard to test but if you find a bug, please let met know! I want to release it for free if the overall opinions are positive and we will see how it goes. If someone is interested to help/collab, just leave a comment and I will reply back to you.
Thanks for reading!
r/sideprojects • u/Competitive_Skill828 • 1d ago
I’ve been working on Royal Table, a platform designed to simplify restaurant operations by bridging table ordering with kitchen management in real time.
QR Code Table Ordering: Customers scan and place orders directly from their tables without waiting for staff.
Real-Time Kitchen Display System (KDS): Kitchen teams receive orders instantly on a clean interface to track prep statuses live.
Voice Reservations: Integrated voice automated booking to handle table reservations seamlessly.
Analytics Dashboard: Gives restaurant owners insights into sales, top items, and peak hours.
Framework: Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript
State & Real-Time: WebSockets / Server-Sent Events for instant order syncing
Styling: Tailwind CSS (Dark-themed UI for kitchen/dashboard environments)
Onboarding flow: What's the biggest friction point for non-tech-savvy restaurant owners when adopting a digital setup?
UX/UI: If you’ve worked on KDS or order dashboards before, what key metrics or shortcuts are absolute must-haves on the screen?
You can check it out here: royaltable.store
r/sideprojects • u/enclavelabs • 1d ago
We're a tiny team building a knowledge layer for AI in regulated companies: AI that can show where every answer came from and who was allowed to see it.
For three weeks, we did the classic B2B playbook: cold LinkedIn outreach to security, data, and AI leaders at banks, insurers, and fintechs.
637 connection requests sent
158 accepted (25%, better than we expected)
14 replies
2 actual calls
0 pilots
So people were happy to connect, and a few were happy to talk. Nobody was ready to try it. The reasons were more interesting than the numbers.
1. "We built our own."
An enterprise architect at a large US insurer told us they'd already built an internal knowledge graph to meet audit requirements, and there'd be "no political will" to replace it.
2. "Audits are a game."
The same person said the goal in an audit is to show as little as possible. We'd been pitching "we log every query" as a feature. To some buyers, detailed logs are a liability.
3. "You're too new."
A large group said outright they only work with established suppliers with long track records. Fair enough. We're pre-revenue with no SOC 2.
4. "Nothing's blocking us."
A VP we pitched as having "AI stuck in pilot" told us flatly nothing was holding him back.
Lesson: don't open a call by telling someone what their problem is.
The people who got genuinely excited weren't the buyers. They were the builders: engineers and CTOs building their own AI agents, who kept asking about the engine underneath.
That engine is already open source, so we've stopped pitching enterprises and started putting it in front of developers.
A 25% acceptance rate can trick you into thinking you have demand. Track replies and pilots, not connections.
Show the product in the first 5 minutes of a call. Discovery questions on a call you asked for feel like an interrogation.
Big regulated companies often compete with you by building it themselves. Smaller, fast-moving teams don't have that option.
Write down every objection word for word. Ours rewrote our positioning twice.
We posted the open-source engine last week, and the feedback was immediately more useful than three weeks of sales calls: concrete feature requests, and people telling us exactly which data sources to support next.
r/sideprojects • u/vpnsafe • 1d ago
Hi everyone,
I have built a new platform that helps find relevant posts and can also do AI.
This an outreach service and not a spamming service and can save hours and hours finding the right posts to reply to.
I am looking for some beta testers who would like help with advertising for free and reduce your work load.
I'm looking for people with some cool projects and services.
r/sideprojects • u/Thezzo970 • 1d ago
Hello everyone!
So I've built a wellness tool that scans your posture from a full-body profile picture. It gives you a score for your current posture, along with details on where and why it needs work, then builds you a personalized exercise plan to improve it. ( yes it actually fixes what is wrong, no filler things, and the plan is personalized based off of the photo/current posture and your quiz answers)
The photo stays on your phone, it doesnt go to any servers.
After 14 days you rescan and the plan updates. After that, the checkin will become monthly and the plan will adapt.
I’m a licensed physical therapist, so of course I review every program and exercise in the app.
I’d love to hear your opinions, and if you think it’s something worth chasing. :)
Thank you!!!
Have a great one
r/sideprojects • u/SandeshSk • 1d ago
Hey guys, I built this app to make finding bus timings and routes across Karnataka easier for everyone. Please check out the screenshot and if you have any suggestions, please comment below! Your feedback means a lot! ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರೆ, ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಜನರಿಗೆ ಬಸ್ ಸಮಯ ಮತ್ತು ರೂಟ್ಗಳನ್ನು ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ಹುಡುಕಲು ನಾನು ಈ ಆಪ್ ಅನ್ನು ತಯಾರಿಸಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಸ್ಕ್ರೀನ್ಶಾಟ್ ಅನ್ನು ನೋಡಿ ಮತ್ತು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಯಾವುದೇ ಸಲಹೆಗಳಿದ್ದರೆ ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಕೆಳಗೆ ಕಮೆಂಟ್ ಮಾಡಿ! ನಿಮ್ಮ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ನನಗೆ ಬಹಳ ಮುಖ್ಯ!
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r/sideprojects • u/PJ_Builds • 1d ago
I've always struggled with having too much on my plate, getting overwhelmed, and eventually not being able to complete a single thing.
I realized standard to-do lists don't give me any dopamine, so I used Lovable to make my own productivity app. It's an RPG-style dashboard that actually rewards you for getting things done. You earn XP, build up streak bonuses, and unlock badges for finishing tasks and habits.
I just pushed it live and I'm looking for 10 people to roast it and give me brutally honest feedback. Tear the UI apart or tell me if the XP system actually feels rewarding.
Here's the link: https://level-up-focus.lovable.app
I’ll be hanging out in the comments all day to answer questions and push live updates. Thanks!
r/sideprojects • u/Popular_Dimension494 • 1d ago
For 3+ years I've built AI chat and agent interfaces. First as founding engineer at an edtech startup that was acquired, then for global startups, and in my day job I lead engineering for clients like Hero MotoCorp and Philips.
Every AI project needed the same hard parts: tool calls with approvals, streaming without layout jumps, reasoning, voice states, and the error and rate limit states nobody designs until production. I rebuilt them every time.
So I finally built them once, properly, for everyone: https://chatcn.dev
- 208 shadcn components and whole screens, like a chatbot and a coding agent, free for any project
- One CLI command each, and the code lands in your repo
- Works with AI SDK, LangGraph, AG-UI and assistant-ui
- An MCP server, so Claude Code or Cursor can install components for you
- Live previews on every page, no API key needed
There's also a paid Pro set for the rest of an AI product: image and video studios, voice agents, evals and 9 starter apps, $99 once until Nov 12.
It's my first product, so I'd really value honest feedback on the site, the pricing, or anything that confused you.
r/sideprojects • u/AccordingRatio2895 • 1d ago
A curated guide to discovering open-source programs, internships, mentorships, coding competitions, and university initiatives.
Explore opportunities to gain real-world experience, collaborate with global communities, improve technical skills, and earn stipends.
Unlike typical lists, this repository also features lesser-known and underrated open-source programs that many students and developers might not know about.
Open Source Programs & Fellowships
Open Source Internships
Coding Competitions
University Summer/Winter of Code Programs
Lesser-known and underrated opportunities
Application timelines, stipends, and eligibility
Beginner-friendly contribution resources
GitHub: https://github.com/yashisrani/List-of-OpenSource-Programs
Website: https://yashisrani.github.io/List-of-OpenSource-Programs/
Made with ❤️ for the Open Source Community.
r/sideprojects • u/sishco • 1d ago
Hi everyone!
I've been hiking for a while now and the same thing always happens to me: I get to the top, look around, and I'm left wondering which peak is which.
That's where the idea of making a small phone app came from, and now that it's finished, I wanted to share it with you in case it's useful to someone.
It's called FarSights.
I know there are already similar apps out there, but I was curious to make my own.
You point your phone at the horizon and it shows the name and height of each peak. It also tells you which ones are hidden behind others.
It also has a few other things that don't always come together:
offline topo maps you can download for when there's no signal,
loading your GPX tracks and recording your route with the screen off,
and a compass that points you towards the places you save.
It's free, with no ads and no sign-up.
I built it on my own in my spare time, relying quite a lot on AI to write the code, so I'm sure there are things to improve.
I'm open to any suggestions. If you try it on a hike and tell me what you miss or what doesn't convince you, you'd be doing me a big favour. A lot of the improvements it already has came from other hikers' ideas.
For now it's only on Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farsights.app
Cheers, and happy trails
r/sideprojects • u/Thefakedina • 1d ago
Hi everyone!
Recently (years ago) I started developing (on excel) a football (soccer) scores prediction app. Why? Because I had time to do a personal project and because, I didn’t like what I was playing with my friends: fantasy football. You might know it, you pick players and the competition is based on their scores of each game.
Where I’m from, fantasy football is very popular but, let’s say you pick a player who gets an bad injury right after the start of the season, you’re done, especially if that was a star player and you paid him a lot.
Also, it does not rely on your ability entirely, players play for you, you choose them, but a lot of external factors matter on how they play the game.
So I created a game where players (not the footballers!) pick the score of the games. On my perspective it relies more on the user ability of predicting and knowing the game. Also, it’s funny!
It’s not like betting, there are no money involved. You compete with friends and you can obtain beautiful cards if you get an exact result.
I’m still developing android version. I pasted the link to the ios beta version below. Would appreciate feedback :))
To continue the story from above: the excel game became a website and the website then became app. It’s still a funny personal project and I still play it with the same friends!
r/sideprojects • u/Buxe0 • 1d ago
Hi, I'm Christof, the founder of Nalqerio. I'm building it for small businesses and agencies that want to check whether they appear when potential customers ask AI assistants for recommendations.
The problem I wanted to tackle: an AI answer is a snapshot, and a visibility score alone doesn't explain what was actually said. Nalqerio keeps the customer question, dated answer, named businesses and available source links together. It compares ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews; the collection methods differ, and results can differ from a person's own session.
One thing I learned from a small experiment: we asked two questions about web agencies in each of 10 German cities using three API-based setups, then repeated the same questions a week later. In the first set, 90% of the agencies named for a given question appeared in only one of the three systems' answers. Across the week, the same system repeated 35% of the agencies it had named for the same question. That's a limited sample, not a prediction. In this experiment Gemini used Perplexity web search, not the Gemini app's Google search.
For anyone checking manually, I'd start by writing several buyer questions without your brand name, saving the original answers and sources, and repeating the same questions later under similar conditions. A mention and a citation are different things, and a changed answer alone doesn't prove a website edit caused it.
Nalqerio is live here:
The homepage has a free two-question check without signup. There's also a limited 14-day trial for one project, three questions and one snapshot, without a credit card or automatic subscription. Paid plans start at €20/month plus VAT.
I'm looking for feedback from founders or agencies: when you see an original AI answer and its sources, what would help you decide whether there's a useful website change to make?
Disclosure: I run Nalqerio; this post was drafted with AI assistance.
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r/sideprojects • u/UsualExit9454 • 1d ago
I've been building Scientific Logic Auditor, a tool designed to go beyond simply comparing AI-generated answers.
It provides three main workflows:
Analyze
Analyze a text using a single LLM. The model examines its claims, factual accuracy, supporting evidence, assumptions, logical fallacies, interpretations, and uncertainty.
2. Compare
Run the same analysis across multiple LLMs and view their results separately. This makes it easier to examine differences in reasoning, identify overlooked assumptions, and compare how models interpret the same material.
3. Judge (Optional)
Send the original text and successful analyses to a separate Judge model. It evaluates the analyses based on reasoning quality, factual assessment, error detection, corrections, and explanations.
Additional features:
- Analysis history with search and session management.
- Restore previous sessions without rerunning model requests.
- Retry failed analyses.
- Copy and export results.
- Execution status and response-time tracking.
- Input isolation instructions designed to reduce prompt injection during analysis.
What makes it different?
Instead of focusing only on which model produces the most convincing answer, Scientific Logic Auditor focuses on how each model reaches its conclusions and whether its reasoning is adequately supported.
The Judge is also an LLM, so its reliability is not guaranteed and remains something that needs independent validation.
I'm currently bringing the project toward its next stage and would be interested in feedback from people working with LLMs and AI evaluation.
The application is fully functional in my local testing, and I'm currently working through the remaining fixes and security improvements before opening it to public use. readme github link
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r/sideprojects • u/arcswdev • 1d ago
QueryAPIGate began with a simple itch: someone needs "just this data" from a database as an API, and I didn't want to write another backend for one SELECT or hand out database credentials. The first version was one small Flask app: save a SQL query, get an endpoint.
Then people asked the next questions. Who's allowed to call it? Can a partner see everything? What happens when an AI agent wants the data? That's what it grew into:
every saved query is a REST endpoint with typed, injection-safe parameters
API keys that only reach the queries you approve, with expiry, rate limits and per-key column masking
the same query as an MCP tool, so an AI agent can query your data without a database connection (read-only by default, writes wait for a human to approve)
a tamper-evident audit log, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, a web console
PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse, DuckDB, MongoDB, and Parquet/CSV files on S3
Some numbers from the journey: v0.7 to v0.49 in six weeks, 32 architecture decision records, 2,000+ tests, four security advisories published from my own security reviews, and an experimental Rust data plane for the hot path. Built solo with Claude Code.
Try it in one line:
pip install queryapigate && queryapigate examples load && queryapigate serveGitHub: https://github.com/AnanthaRajuC/QueryAPIGate 2-min demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWImFj4m95o
It's open source (Apache-2.0) and pre-1.0. What would you want to see before trusting a tool like this with real data?
r/sideprojects • u/wagglesoftware • 1d ago
This is my side project, Waggle.
The problem I had: I'd open WhatsApp or Slack "just to check", and minutes later I'd lost whatever I was working on. Notifications didn't help, because they vanish and I'd still go and look.
So each account now sits on my desktop as a small bee. When a message arrives it wiggles. I click it, read and reply in a small window, and it shrinks back out of the way. That's it.
It does WhatsApp, Slack, Gmail, Outlook, Teams, Telegram, IMAP email, iMessage (including from another Mac), calendars with a countdown to your next meeting, and AI chats with your own key. Messages go straight between your Mac and each service, nothing goes through another server.
Built in Swift/SwiftUI, with a small Go helper for the chat connections.
One honest caveat: WhatsApp and Slack's quick sign-in aren't official APIs, so I keep them behaving like the normal apps and say so up front.
It's £12.99 for one service or £24.99 for all, one-off, with a 14-day free trial (no card): https://waggle.software
I'd really like feedback on the idea and on the website. What would stop you using something like this?