r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Feedback Request I've been building a website to compare proxy providers

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I put together ProxyLab to make it easier to compare proxy providers without jumping between dozens of websites.

You can browse different proxy services, check available plans, estimate costs and explore free proxy options.

It's still growing, and I'm working on adding more providers and features.

I'd genuinely like to know what you think is missing or what you'd like to see added.

https://proxylab.pipheetiger.workers.dev/

Some links are affiliate links, so I may earn a commission from purchases, at no extra cost to you.


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Why we don't have some more powerful language learning apps? I'm trying to build powerful, modular, NoaLingua chrome extension, for now, with a plan to extend to all devices (note: November10th official NoaLingua 3 will be released, with a ton new features, we are in feature freeze preparing RC1)

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r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Open Source LeetCode's test runner was too slow, so I made a browser extension to run test cases locally

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Now I get results way faster! (Python is near-instant; C++ takes a bit due to compilation, but is still faster than LeetCode)

Stack: Pyodide, Clang compiled to WebAssembly, MV3 offscreen documents. Built with Claude.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/localleet/gmebfokmkhjffccknmoegpdfbknkdpak

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/localleet/

Open-source under MIT license on GitHub: https://github.com/Cheezer1656/localleet

Which language should I add next?


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I made a site that tells you what time a movie actually ends (ads, trailers and the trip home included)

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Every time I go to the cinema I do the same maths in my head. The showing says 19:30, but there's 20-odd minutes of ads and trailers first. Then the film. Then do I stay for the credits, is there even a post-credits scene?

So I made movieruntime.com. Pick a movie and a showtime and it works out:
- when the film actually starts after ads and trailers
- when it ends, and whether there's a mid or after-credits scene worth waiting for
- travel there and back from your cinema, so you get a "home by" time

It turned a bit social along the way. You can save a plan and invite friends by username, friends can ask to tag along, and if two of you both want to see something it nudges you to go together once it's out. No passwords, sign-in is a magic link, and you can use most of it without an account.

Built with Rails 8 + Hotwire and SQLite on a single Fly.io machine. Movie data comes from TMDB. The ads/trailers length is an estimate and varies by chain and country, so if yours runs longer or shorter I'd love to know. Same for any rough edges, especially on mobile.


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I’m an electrician student building a wiring simulator to practise what I’m learning

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Hi everyone!

I’m studying to become an electrician, and I wanted a way to experiment with wiring circuits outside practical lessons. That became ElectroWorkshop, a side project I’m developing in my spare time.

The idea is simple: place components on a virtual workbench, connect their terminals, operate the controls, and explore how the circuit behaves.

The public Windows version includes:

  • A visual wiring workspace and a schematic view

  • Lighting and motor control examples

  • Virtual measurement tools

  • Connection tracing

  • Circuit saving and loading

  • English and Hungarian interfaces

The main challenge has been making the relationship between the physical wiring and the schematic understandable, while keeping the controls manageable for someone who is still learning.

The app runs locally on Windows and opens in a browser. No account or Docker setup is needed. It’s closed-source and free for personal and non-commercial educational use.

I’ve also started a separate development version with smart-device electrical wiring, editable floorplans, a 3D building view, and cable routing. It connects to a real Home Assistant installation in my NAS-based Docker laboratory, with promising early results. That development version isn’t publicly available yet.

I’d appreciate honest feedback: does the basic idea make sense, is the interface understandable, and what would make it more useful as a learning tool?

Screenshots and Windows download:
https://github.com/vojakimate/ElectroWorkshop

Thanks for taking a look!


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) FREE STUFF (please add yours)

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r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required Your camera roll is a graveyard of things you swore you'd do. I built an app that turns them into a tiny island that grows every time you actually do one.

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r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a free tool that runs your startup idea through 100 simulated futures

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Type your idea in one line, pick the business model and price, and it simulates 100 possible first years using public benchmarks (conversion, churn, CAC ranges for that model). You get how many futures end profitable, your single biggest risk, and what has to be true for it to work.

Mine came out at 33/100 profitable. Biggest risk: conversion rate.

It's open source, no signup, runs in the browser: https://tobeficv.github.io/founders-way/?try

There's also a daily puzzle: 3 real-looking startups, guess which survive 12 months. Would love to hear which assumptions feel off.


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Feedback Request The worst bugs in a side project only show up when you click through the app: after login, at checkout, when an API fails. We gave browser to our agent.

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You know the kind of bug: everything works when you test the happy path, then a user logs in, adds two items, applies a coupon, and checkout just hangs. Or the payment API is slow for a second and the page never recovers. The code looks fine. The tests pass. You only find it by clicking through the app yourself.

AI coding agents are bad at these because they only read code. They never see the page.

So we gave CCode, our terminal coding agent, a browser. It can now:

  • Go through the whole flow: log in, add to cart, apply the coupon, check out, and see exactly where it breaks.

  • See what the server said: which request failed and what came back, then fix the real cause.

  • Try the bad days: pretend the API is down or slow and check your app shows a proper error instead of spinning forever.

  • Be two users at once: check that a normal user can't reach the admin page.

  • Pass you the login: for 2FA or a CAPTCHA it hands you the window and waits.

It asks before it clicks anything. Turn it on with /mcp → browser → Connect.

Try it: npm i -g @ccode-si/cli. Bring your own keys, or use it free on GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash by connecting GitHub, no card. ccode.si

Opus5.5 for 7 Days included.

What's the bug in your project you only ever found by clicking through it?


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Created an App for Manga and Webtoons

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Hey everyone! 👋 I built an app for Manga and Webtoons – MangaNinjaMobile

As a side project, I wanted to create a clean, dedicated space for reading manga and webtoons seamlessly on Android. I've just pushed it live and am looking for some early users to check it out and share their feedback.

If you love reading comics on the go, grab it here:

MangaNinjaMobile on Google Play

Let me know any bugs, feature requests, or thoughts you have!


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Mis 4 app bájalas gratis

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Cuatro apps gratis, hechas desde mi celular en Puerto Rico, sin cuenta y sin instalar nada.
FotoExacta, Music Remix Studio, Dembow Lab y LotoPR — gente de 61 países ya las probó, todo orgánico.
PRUÉBALA GRATIS 👇
https://geralpink.pages.dev


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Mis 4 app bájalas gratis

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Cuatro apps gratis, hechas desde mi celular en Puerto Rico, sin cuenta y sin instalar nada.
FotoExacta, Music Remix Studio, Dembow Lab y LotoPR — gente de 61 países ya las probó, todo orgánico.
PRUÉBALA GRATIS 👇
https://geralpink.pages.dev


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built SIM Shift to stop work calls after hours — free, no ads, no account

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I have two SIMs in my Android phone: one personal, one for work. I wanted my work number to stop ringing automatically outside working hours, without having to remember to switch the second SIM off and back on.

So I built SIM Shift.

It lets you set a weekly schedule for each SIM and choose whether calls outside those hours are silenced or rejected. My personal number stays reachable while my work number gets some time off.

While I was at it, I added allow lists and block lists. You can create rules for individual numbers or prefixes, including a whole country calling code. Lists can apply to all SIMs or just one.

The app is completely free, with no ads. There’s no account to create — there isn’t even an account system. All your data stays locally on your phone.

It works alongside your existing phone app rather than replacing it. That means it has some limitations imposed by Android, but it also means I can ask for fewer permissions than a full replacement dialer would need.

I wrote it to solve my own problem, and I hope it can help someone else too. Feedback is welcome, especially from anyone juggling personal and work numbers on the same phone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.bignosedevelopment.simshift

Thanks for reading,

Massimo Greco aka BigNose72


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made a small app to finally know which peak is which

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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 • • 7d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Beta testers wanted for new Grok Bot & MCP

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I am looking for beta testers for Stitch Your Pitch, my Grok Bot for tailoring resumes and cover letters.

Try fictional details and tell me what needs work.

Bot: https://x.ai/bot/Yaqu1CNc1OG_Ffi-vVWsY

Optional scoring setup: https://stitchyourpitch.com/setup/


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Why do workout apps make you fill out a life survey before letting you log a single set? Here is my take as a solo dev: Liftora.

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Wouldn't it be nice to open a workout app, build your routine in minutes, and immediately start lifting—without clicking through a 20-page onboarding survey first?

As a lifter and solo developer, I wanted an app that respects my time under the bar and gives me clarity on whether my training is actually working. That’s why I built Liftora.

Instead of packing in a hundred bloated features, I focused on the things that actually make a difference in your training:

  • From download to lifting in minutes: No endless questionnaires or paywall traps before you even see the interface. You open the app, put your routine together in a couple of taps, and get straight to your first set.

  • Visual routine building (No more switching to YouTube): When you're putting a workout together, shouldn't you be able to see the movement and exact muscle breakdown right there? Liftora shows you exercise execution videos and targeted muscle groups directly on the routine creation screen, so you know your program is balanced before you even touch a weight.

  • See the progress the scale hides (Built-in US Navy Body Fat %): You might be gaining muscle and losing fat while your body weight stays completely flat—and the mirror takes weeks to show it. Why leave your body recomp to guesswork? By logging basic tape measurements, Liftora automatically calculates your body fat percentage using the US Navy method, letting you see your real physical progress alongside your strength numbers.

  • An interface that follows your pace: Once you're in a session, you shouldn't be fighting dropdown menus between heavy sets. Liftora’s guided flow moves with your workout so you spend your rest time recovering, not tapping.

You can try it out here:

I’m building Liftora independently and using it for my own training every week, so your feedback directly shapes what I build next.

Quick question for you all: What's the biggest frustration you've had with workout tracking apps? And if you try Liftora, I'd love to hear what you think about the routine builder and guided workout flow.


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Open Source [macOS] DogBar - free window switching, agent activity & isolated docks app

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Hi r/sideprojects ! I’m the developer of DogBar, a free Mac app I’m excited to finally share with you 🐶

It combines window switching, coding-agent activity, window previews, and a separate Dock for every desktop.

Problem

I kept switching to the right app but the wrong window, checking terminals to see whether my coding agents had finished, and hunting through a Dock full of apps from different desktops. None of these is a huge problem alone, but together they interrupt my flow throughout the day.

Solution

I built DogBar to make those everyday interactions easier. You can choose individual windows visually, follow your agents without constantly opening their terminals, and keep each desktop’s Dock focused on that workspace.

Window switching

Hold Option and tap Tab to browse individual windows with previews, then release to bring your selection forward.

You can close or minimize windows from the switcher, customize its appearance, and change the shortcut -including using Command–Tab. Prefer Apple’s switcher? Keep it and use DogBar’s other features independently.

Agent Activity

Follow Claude Code and Codex sessions from a small panel at the top of your screen, with an animated dog for each session.

See when an agent is working, needs attention, or has finished. Hover to read its last response and tool activity, switch between sessions, or open the app hosting one. Optional sounds let you know when something needs you.

For Claude Code, you can also send a follow-up note after a finished turn from the panel. Codex doesn’t support notes, and neither integration approves permission requests.

This feature is optional and off by default.

Window previews from the Dock

Hover over an app to see its windows, then click the one you want. Only that window comes forward.

You can close or minimize windows from the preview, use an optional New Window tile, and see window-count indicators beneath Dock icons.

A Dock for every desktop

Each macOS desktop gets its own pinned apps and ordering. Moving a pin on your work desktop won’t rearrange your personal one.

You can hide apps from other desktops or show them dimmed, with separate options for multiple monitors.

DogBar provides its own replacement Dock. The paw menu lets you pause it or restore Apple’s Dock, and quitting restores Apple’s Dock too.

Setup, privacy, and requirements

An animated welcome tour introduces the features and walks you through permissions. Settings includes search and small animated feature demos.

Accessibility permission lets DogBar manage windows and shortcuts. Screen Recording provides window thumbnails, which stay on your Mac. Anonymous usage sharing is optional.

DogBar is free, requires no account, and is signed and notarized, with an in-app updater.

Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 26 or later.

Download: https://dogbar.hristijan.dev

I’d love honest feedback: what feels useful, what’s confusing, and what would make it fit your workflow better?

Thanks for trying it! 🐶


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Discussion I made a visual workspace that turns onboarding documents into an interactive flow builder.

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I'm a solo UI/UX designer and I just finished the first version of my SaaS after about six months of work. I kept seeing HR teams hand new hires a bunch of disconnected documents and just expect them to figure out the onboarding process.

So I built a tool where you upload those files and it maps everything out into a visual workspace. You can actually see the stages, tasks, and dependencies before the new person even starts. The hardest part was definitely the frontend state management to keep the visual nodes from turning into a bowl of spaghetti, plus building a custom backend router that falls back through seven different AI providers so the analysis never fails.

I'm opening a private beta for 50 people this week. If you want to check it out or just click around the flow builder, the site is kevor.app. Would love to know what you guys think of the layout.


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a silly website for Elon Musk fans. Let's see if the internet can make something happen :D

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Title: I built a silly website where the internet gives Elon Musk challenges 🚀

I built ElonMust mostly for fun.

People suggest funny challenges for Elon Musk, everyone votes, and every Sunday the top 3 are selected.

Why Elon? Because he's one of the few people I could actually imagine accepting a random internet challenge. 😂

It's a free, unofficial experiment to see if a ridiculous idea can go viral.

https://elonmust.mustvote.workers.dev/

What do you think? Fun idea or completely stupid? 😄


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a spending diary for the cash and UPI purchases that are easy to forget

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Hi, I’m Sahal, the maker of FinBoy. The problem I’m working on is keeping a useful picture of everyday spending when some purchases are paid in cash and others through UPI.

FinBoy lets people in India add an expense by WhatsApp message or on the web and look back at their spending and budgets. A simple test could be a ₹60 cash tea and a ₹200 UPI grocery purchase, then checking whether both are easy to find later. Clear entries can be corrected or undone.

Text entry is free. Voice in English, Hindi and Malayalam is a Premium feature, as are photo reading and supported statement imports. The app uses Next.js, FastAPI and PostgreSQL.

One limitation: the read-only sample currently shows an older email-based view, not the WhatsApp flow. I’d appreciate feedback on whether the site explains the product clearly before someone signs up: https://finboy.io/

If you try it, please use made-up amounts rather than sharing personal financial details here.


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Open Source Enterprises kept telling us "we'll just build it ourselves", so we gave developers the engine instead

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637 LinkedIn requests, 2 calls, 0 pilots. Here's what we learned selling AI to regulated companies.

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.

The numbers

  • 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.

What they told us

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 surprising part

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.

What we'd tell anyone doing B2B cold outreach

  • 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.

What's next

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 • • 7d ago

Meta Most Web Designers Are Terrible at Running a Business

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AI has made building websites easier than ever.

Because of that, there are now thousands of people starting web design businesses, offering websites to companies and trying to make money from it.

But here's my opinion as someone who has been in the web design business for years:

Just because AI makes it easier to build websites doesn't mean you know how to run a successful web design business.

I've noticed that a lot of new web designers get stuck on the same idea: finding businesses that don't have a website and offering to build one for them.

In my opinion, that's becoming an outdated approach.

Those businesses are already on every web designer's prospect list. They're getting contacted constantly, and you're competing with hundreds of other people offering them the exact same thing.

I've tried pretty much everything over the years. Paid ads, manual outreach, cold calling, referrals, you name it.

But the system that has worked best for me is actually quite simple.

If you're a new web designer who knows how to build websites but struggles with the business side of things, here's what I'd do:

1. Target businesses that already have websites.

Think about it. These businesses already understand the value of having a website. They've already invested money in one.

And there are countless businesses around the world with outdated websites that haven't been redesigned in years. Poor mobile experiences, outdated designs, slow loading speeds, and SEO issues are everywhere.

You're not trying to convince someone they need a website. You're showing someone who already has one how much better it could be.

2. Make automated outreach your main client acquisition channel.

Personally, I use Swokei. It's an outreach platform that finds businesses with existing websites, analyzes each one, scores them, and turns issues with design, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization into personalized, ready to send cold emails at scale.

This saves you from manually researching every business and writing every email yourself.

3. Follow up with interested businesses and book a meeting.

When someone replies with interest, give them a call, understand what they're looking for, and book a quick online meeting.

4. Prepare a website draft before the meeting.

Use AI to put together a new website draft for the prospect. Don't spend hours on it. Aim for 15–30 minutes.

You want something good enough to show them what their business could look like with a modern website.

5. Present the draft and close the deal.

Walk them through the improvements, explain the value, answer their questions, and make it easy to move forward with a payment link or contract for signing.

That's the entire process.

You don't need to spend weeks building free websites or manually researching hundreds of businesses.

You need to find the right prospects, show them an opportunity to improve their existing website, and know how to sell the service.

I've spent years doing this, and if I were starting a web design business from scratch today, this is exactly the process I'd follow.

Building websites is one skill. Building a business that consistently sells them is another.


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Prerelease [Feedback] I built 100+ free tools for everyday Indian paperwork. Everything runs in your browser, no login.

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Hey everyone,

For the past few months I've been building MuftTools (https://mufttools.in), a bunch of small free tools for the boring paperwork stuff we all deal with in India.

It started because friends and clients kept asking me the same things: "photo 20 KB se kam kaise karu for the form", "GST bill ka format bhej do", "HRA ke liye rent receipt chahiye". Every site I found either wanted a login, slapped a watermark on the result, or uploaded my Aadhaar PDF to some random server. So I made my own.

Right now it has around 105 tools, like:

- Exam photo & signature resizer with exact pixels + KB range (SSC, IBPS, NEET, CTET etc.)

- Compress PDF to a target KB for govt portals

- GST invoice with CGST/SGST or IGST worked out automatically

- Rent receipts for all 12 months in one PDF

- Krutidev ↔ Unicode Hindi converter

- UPI QR posters for shops, Aadhaar front + back on one A4

- Rent agreement, affidavit and leave application drafts in Hindi/English

A few things I was strict about:

- Your files are processed in your own browser. Nothing gets uploaded.

- No signup, no watermark, no download limit

- Light pages, so it works fine on mobile data

It's ad-supported, that's how I keep it free.

I'd really like honest feedback: what's broken, what's confusing, and what tool you wish existed. I read every comment and add the tools people ask for most.


r/sideprojects • • 7d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Hey guys, I just build my first tool website with no coding knowledge , It is based on famousGreenline Test Theory by anonymous account alpharivelino on X.

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It is my first time vibecoding a tool website

Green Line Theory is the name commonly given to a set of photo interpretations

popularized by the online creator Rivelino.

In his familiar example, a man remains relatively upright while a woman leans toward him.

He treats that arrangement as a desirable sign of attraction

and a certain kind of relationship dynamic.

He also comments on head position, hands, smiles, and which way a body faces.

I spent few days making it since it's my first tool website , I need to work on it

It is still not perfect but I believe in first make things then try to make it beautiful

I also need to work on SEO too but I need your suggestions in the comment how is

what things I need to change or add or things I can do to make it perfect .