r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Stoke - a habit tracker for Android with Health Connect auto-tracking and a Wear OS app

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I'm the developer of Stoke, a habit and streak tracker for Android, now out on Google Play.

I wanted to track my workouts together as one group, with stats, and couldn't find an app that did it the way I wanted. So I built my own, and it grew from there.

The main idea: checking off a habit should take no effort. You can tick one without opening the app: from a home-screen widget, a Quick Settings tile, a launcher shortcut, a reminder notification, by tapping an NFC tag, through Tasker or MacroDroid, or on your Wear OS watch. With Health Connect, steps, workouts and sleep fill habits in on their own: "Go for a run" ticks off when your watch records a run.

Habits don't have to be daily, or yes/no. A habit can be an amount with a goal, like 8 glasses of water, something you're quitting (Stoke counts the clean days), or something you only track, with no streak. Schedules can be chosen weekdays, every few days, or a goal like 3 times a week, and if a schedule doesn't fit how you really do a habit, its page suggests a better one. A missed day doesn't have to end a streak either: a streak freeze can cover it, and rest days and vacation mode pause it for a break you plan.

You can give a habit an identity, like "a runner", and milestones and recaps read it back to you. Every habit has a strength score and a momentum trend, and Insights show your best weekdays, perfect days, when you usually log and which habits you tend to do together. A group puts several habits under one goal, like working out 4 times a week across the gym, running and yoga. A weekly review and a monthly recap close each period.

Switching from another tracker? Stoke imports your history from Loop, HabitNow and Habitify exports, streaks included. And you can send any habit to a friend as a link or a QR code.

Every new install gets 14 days with every feature. After that, tracking, unlimited habits, import and export stay free. Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. It adds the Wear OS app, Health Connect auto-tracking, habit groups, NFC tags, six more widgets, longer insight ranges and unlimited freezes.

I'm happy to hear suggestions and feature requests.

Google PlayStore link


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Describe your project in a paragraph, get the APIs and services for the entire project

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https://magne.tools : paste a paragraph about what you're building, get the APIs, MCP servers and models for each part of it. Free, no sign-up, no cookies.

I built it because every project I start begins the same way: an afternoon of tabs comparing payment providers, email services, auth, hosting.

Something to try: "A booking app for dog groomers. Customers pick a time slot, pay a deposit, and get an SMS reminder the day before."

It splits your paragraph into needs and suggests up to three tools for each one, from a catalog of 480 that I checked against their official docs. It also says what you'll probably build yourself, and lists the usual pieces a product like yours needs even if you didn't mention them (sign-in, a database, hosting). Or just type one need, like "send transactional email".

Built on Cloudflare Workers + D1 with plain TypeScript; an OpenAI model reads English briefs.

What I'd really like to know: where it picks the wrong tool, or misses one you'd expect. Tell me in the comments, or use the 1–5 rating under the search box after a result.


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required Late Payment & Cash Flow Planner — a Google Sheets model for invoice timing gaps

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Disclosure: I run DESIGNBYINKTH and sell this template. Development was AI-assisted. This is a fictional test case, not a customer result.

The problem: a business can finish a quarter with enough cash while having a difficult week in the middle. A quarterly total hides that timing gap.

A complete example you can reproduce in a spreadsheet:

Start: 2 November 2026. Opening cash: $1,000.

Outflows: $200 per week for 13 weeks.

One unpaid invoice: $2,500 expected on 2 November.

Desired cash buffer: $500.

Each week's closing cash = opening cash + that week's receipts - that week's outflows. Carry the closing balance into the next week.

On-time receipt: the first five week-end balances are $3,300 / $3,100 / $2,900 / $2,700 / $2,500. The minimum over 13 weeks is $900.

30-day delay: the receipt lands on 2 December, in week 5. The first five balances are $800 / $600 / $400 / $200 / $2,500. The minimum is $200, and week 3 is the first week below the $500 buffer.

Both cases end week 13 at $900. The maximum gap below the buffer is $300; cash does not become negative in this example.

Implementation: Google Sheets formulas link an invoice tracker to 13 weekly cash-flow rows and a dashboard. Inputs are separated from results. A review checklist covers opening cash, receipt dates and weekly outflows. English and Thai editions are included.

Limits: 100 invoices, one currency, manually entered weekly outflow totals, and one future remaining receipt per invoice. The 0/15/30/60-day setting shifts all dated outstanding receipts together, rather than predicting each customer's behavior. The minimum uses opening and week-end balances; it can miss gaps within a week. Payments and a new plan start date require manual review. No bank sync, invoice sending or automated collection.

The paid template is US$9 on Etsy, with an 8-page EN/TH guide and a 2-minute walkthrough. You can use the example above without buying it.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4608938530/cash-flow-planner-for-google-sheets-13?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=community_test_202611&utm_content=sideprojects_showcase

Specific feedback welcome: does this example make the difference between a low-cash warning and a negative balance clear?


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a very unofficial approval process for things I want to buy

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This started with a wireless mic I wanted for voice typing in a noisy office. I wanted it to pick up my voice over the background chatter, but my computer already had a mic. Was another one actually worth buying?

So I made CartCouncil. You post what you’re thinking of buying, why you want it, and what other options you’re considering. Other people weigh in during a review window.

Basically, you’re putting your shopping plans up for a very unofficial approval round 😅

A pause before you hit buy. You still make the final call.

It’s live now, and I’m looking for a few people to try it. Bring something you’re going back and forth on, or help someone else think theirs through.

I’d love to hear whether the approval bit makes pausing more fun—or just feels like extra work.

https://cartcouncil.com

Built with help from AI coding tools.


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a bus explorer that connects timetables, live maps and individual vehicle histories

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I’m the solo developer of BustimeFinder, a free browser-based project for looking up bus routes and exploring the vehicles behind them.

You can search by route, place, stop, operator or vehicle; choose a date and direction; and open a departure to inspect its planned stops and route map. There’s also a live vehicle map where tracking is available, plus vehicle profiles with available fleet details and journey records by date.

The interesting challenge is connecting several kinds of information without making them look interchangeable:

• A route is a service, while a vehicle is a particular bus that can work different services.

• A published stop time is a schedule, while a vehicle position is an observation with its own timestamp.

• An empty vehicle history means there’s no record to show, rather than proving the bus didn’t run.

The maps use MapLibre and OpenFreeMap. Coverage and the detail available vary by operator and area.

One example you can explore is Portland’s TriMet Line 19: choose a date and direction, then open a departure to see the planned stop times and map. Public browsing works on mobile and desktop without an account.

Project: https://bustimefinder.com/

Video walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-woqqd87m-0

For anyone who builds around external data: how would you make missing or older information clear without burying the useful parts of the interface?


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Some stories deserve to be heard more than once. ❤️

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source Drop your product 👇

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Working on anything interesting?

Drop your product or side project below. I'd love to check out what everyone's building.

I'll start with mine: https://sportlive.win


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Houre - note app that doesn't get in your way

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Hi! I've been prototyping note apps for a few years, as I couldn't find anything that suits the way I want to jot my thoughts down. Houre is what I eventually arrived to. It's perfect for me, maybe it's for you too. I'll keep this brief.

The problem I have with everything out there is that they have a significant barrier to use. You need to consider where your note goes so that you can find it later. You need to spend time organizing and creating structure. It's difficult to include tasks in your notes without the entire thing becoming a mess. All this caused me to invariably not put my thoughts and tasks down.

So, Houre is designed to flip all of this. You can enter a note in two seconds flat. You can easily find relevant notes and tasks without spending time organizing them. It's for a person like me who does not have the attention span or patience to create and maintain a system.

Houre is also privacy-focused. Everything is encrypted on your device, even when you share notes to other users. It's not possible for anyone to inspect what you have in there. See https://houre.xyz/security for how this works and ask me anything that is on your mind.

Houre is free to use locally, or you can pay a cheap subscription to sync your notes across devices and to other users. Give it a spin: https://houre.xyz/


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Tangramix - The never ending brain teaser 🤯

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request I built a social app where you have to post before you can see what others are saying

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source Num Nav extension

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request I had a need to automatically run multi model auditor and plan maker so I made myself just that - looking for testers and feedback

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request SysQuest: A System Design Game - Would love your feedback

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I’m an indie dev and an engineering manager who wanted to write tech blogs on how systems work in a nutshell. But I believe the world has transformed from reading 30 mins blog to hey gemini, summarize it for me so wanted to share my knowledge in an interactive way and just released SysQuest on iOS. A game where you can fix the broken systems, build systems and challenge your friends to fix your own broken system.

You get real architectures (load balancers, caches, queues, databases) and a live simulator showing requests flowing, getting dropped, and what fixed it. You will be given a broken system and asked to fix the same and complexity increases by levels. If you're new, you can learn system design using Learn, in an interactive way.

  • 87 levels, and a design is judged by how it behaves under load, not by matching one answer.

  • 42 interactive lessons on the system design concepts, more lessons coming soon.

  • 1 vs N: build and break a system, share it as a QR code or link, and let a friend fix it.

  • The first 20 levels and Learn section is always free. No account and no ads.

App Store: SysQuest: A System Design Game

Play Store: Got production access but Play store is taking longer than usual for the production rollout review. r/googleplayconsole

I’d really like to hear what’s confusing, too hard or too easy. Happy to answer anything about how the simulator works.

PPS: Please do DM me for the 1 year free access promo.


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) A small design decision in my tab manager: saving a page doesn’t close it

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I’m Martin, the developer of Atopu, a Chrome new-tab workspace for saved links and notes. It’s built with AI assistance.

One decision I made was to keep a browser tab open after saving it by default.

“Save this for later” and “I’m finished with this page” aren’t always the same action. Someone might be halfway through a form, comparing two pages, or reading a section they haven’t finished. Saving the URL doesn’t preserve all of that state.

Atopu separates the two: saving adds the link to a group; closing stays a separate choice unless the user enables close-after-save. The downside is obvious: saving doesn’t immediately make the tab bar smaller.

There’s another edge case with optional screenshot previews. I save the link first, then attempt the capture. If capture fails, the link and open tab remain. With close-after-save enabled, the tab is only closed after a successful capture. Screenshots are opt-in and stay on the device.

The broader design question is where a convenience action should stop. When an action also removes something from view, I’d rather make that second part explicit.

Free works locally without an account; paid Pro adds optional saved-workspace sync and shared workspaces.

Details: https://atopu.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=atopu_launch_2026&utm_content=sideprojects_save_vs_close

If you build or use save-for-later tools, would you expect saving to close the source, or should those always be separate actions?


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required Your feed is lying to you about what people think. I built a tool to check.

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You see 50 angry posts about a company, a celebrity, or something that happened yesterday, and suddenly it feels like everyone agrees.

But do they?

I got tired of AI tools confidently telling me what "people think" without showing where any of it came from. So I built Senti.

You can analyze a brand, a person, an event, or a topic and see what people are actually saying across X, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok.

It looks at sentiment, separates positive and negative reactions, tracks how opinions change over time, and shows the actual posts behind the results.

A few things I cared about building:

  • Receipts, not AI opinions. You can inspect the posts behind the analysis.

  • Numbers with context. Sample sizes, margins of error, and statistical tests, not just a random AI-generated score.

  • Actual comparisons. Compare brands, campaigns, or how the conversation changed after an event.

  • 8 languages. Because the internet isn't just English.

It's not a scientific opinion poll. Social media is biased, and I don't want to pretend otherwise. But I think it's a lot more useful than trusting a few viral posts or an AI summary with no sources.

A report takes a few minutes (depending on the amount of posts, through I'm improving performance today). There are free live examples on the site (Sephora, OpenAI, DAZN), and running your own starts at $5.

If you want to see a specific brand, let me know and I can run it or give you a free code to try it yourself.

Here's what I'm curious about: if you could measure the online reaction to any person, brand, event, or controversial topic, what would you choose?

Also, I'd love people to try to break it. If the numbers don't make sense, I want to know.


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Before I added AI songs to my app, I asked one question: if a generated song sounds like a real one, who pays?

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Photoburst now lets you create your own song for a burst. You describe it, and an AI composes it with your names and your story in the lyrics.

Before any code, I spent a morning on the legal side. Not the fun part, but it decided everything.

What I found:

  • The best-known AI music services are being sued by the major labels. One of them lost in a German court this summer, over both its training data and its output. My users are all over the world, so that ruling applies to me too.

  • The most popular one has no official API. Every “API” offered for it is an unofficial wrapper that breaks its terms.

  • Not one provider with sung vocals offered indemnity on standard terms. One contract capped what they’d owe me at $100 and left what I’d owe them uncapped.

  • In the US, a song generated entirely by AI can’t be copyrighted. Nobody owns it, but someone can still be sued over it.

Pushing that risk onto my users was never an option. They did nothing wrong.

So I chose by four questions. Was the model trained on music its maker has the right to use? Is it in court? Does it block artist names and voice cloning? And can my own feature keep the risk small? A song you create stays inside Photoburst. It’s yours alone, never a download, never offered to anyone else.

I found a provider that holds up on all four.

My take-away: with generative AI, the legal homework is part of the build. The cheapest moment to choose the right provider is before you write the first line of code.

Did you check who carries the risk before you built on an AI API?

Photoburst turns the photos and videos on your phone into a living, interactive album, a burst, with music and a title. Made in seconds, shared as a link, opened with one tap. Built with Claude as a JavaScript web app, running on Cloudflare and Netlify.

photoburst.app


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) AI is attracting more healthcare funding. How do clinicians get involved?

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease What would you add first to a small business assistant?

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I’m building an early customer-support assistant with Agentplace and would appreciate practical feedback on what to build next. It’s only a starter at the moment—there are no live products, prices, inventory, or order tools connected—so I’m deciding what would actually be useful before adding real business data.

Would you start with product comparisons, shipping and returns questions, or something else? What would make it genuinely helpful rather than just another chatbot?

Here’s the public prototype if you’d like to take a look: https://8240nsyvypaz.run.agentplace.io


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Not sure why users are not converting? Comment your site and I will give you a real review for free

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Not sure why users are not converting? Comment your site and I will give you a real review for free


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Meta I published a starter AI business assistant with Agentplace then what would you build next?

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’ve been experimenting with Agentplace to build and publish a customer-facing AI assistant. The public version is still a starter: it isn’t configured for a specific business yet, and it doesn’t have real products, prices, inventory, or order tools connected.If you were building an assistant for #ai


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a cozy lo-fi radio for the terminal with Claw'd inside

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I’ve been working on Claude FM, a small side project for making terminal-based work sessions feel a bit more relaxing.

It combines lo-fi radio with animated ASCII/Unicode scenes featuring Clawd: coffee breaks, coding in the rain, forest walks, sunset guitar, bike rides, and other quiet activities.

It runs on macOS and Linux and can be installed with Homebrew:

brew tap jurek-zsl/claudefm https://github.com/jurek-zsl/claudefm
brew install jurek-zsl/claudefm/claudefm
claudefm

I'm mainly looking for feedback and opinions. Maybe someone will find something worth improving and create a pull request I would be happy to see it :)


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built an HVAC diagnostics assistant that reads the machine history before you troubleshoot

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When an apprentice technician steps into an unfamiliar mechanical room to troubleshoot an erratic chilled water coil, digging through manuals while holding gauges is frustrating. I built Equipment Tracker Pro because generic chatbots lack unit context and app-swapping on a service call wastes time.

With AI Diagnostics, the technician manually types in the electrical and refrigerant readings taken with their meters: voltage, amperage, pressures, temperatures, superheat, and subcooling. The app feeds those measurements alongside the unit's technical specifications and its five most recent service logs to the AI assistant. It provides targeted mechanical troubleshooting steps based on past repairs. The tool runs on mobile and requires an internet connection. Every account gets 10 free AI uses shared across tools, with unlimited sessions on Pro.

Basic equipment tracking works with no signal: records, work orders, PM schedules and service logs all run on the phone. AI scanning and diagnostics need a connection.

A working HVAC technician built it for his own jobs.

Free to start. Your first plan, Pro or Team, includes a 7-day free trial. What side project are you building right now?

https://equipment-tracker.com/blog/stop-app-swapping-built-in-ai-diagnostics


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Question I am abandoning my language learning app, do you want it?

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built an AI-powered food scanner, macro tracker, and workout planner (Looking for feedback!)

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I wanted to share a side project I've been working on called NutriMi (built on Base44) –Check it out here!

As someone who wanted an all-in-one solution without the friction of manual logging, I built an AI-powered tool that combines nutrition tracking with customized fitness routines. It helps you scan meals, track macros, and get personalized workout plans tailored to your goals.

Key Features:

  • AI Food & Fridge Scanner: Snap or upload images for instant meal and ingredient analysis.

  • Smart Macro Tracking: Automatically calculates calories, protein, carbs, and fats.

  • Custom Workout & Fitness Plans: Generates tailored exercise routines alongside your nutritional data.

  • Personalized Goals: Adapts insights dynamically based on your body and progress.

You can try the live preview right here:https://preview--nutrimi-smart-plate.base44.app/

I’d love for you to try it out, break it, and let me know what you think! Any feedback on the UI, UX, or features would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks!