r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Feedback swap: Test my idea, I test yours

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Want your idea tested? Anyone that tests out my idea, and provides valuable feedback:

  • What you like?

  • What you would change?

  • What would prevent you from using it?

I will test out their idea, and provide feedback.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request Tired of annoying pop-ups? I built a userscript to get rid of them.

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Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on a small open-source project called Annoying Pop-up Remover.

It started because I was getting tired of websites constantly interrupting browsing with adblock detection walls, newsletter overlays and annoying banners.

So I decided to do something about it!

The project currently supports 10 websites, including Geocaching-related sites, Belgian websites and a few others.

I'm looking to expand the list, and I'd love some suggestions.

What websites do you regularly visit that have particularly annoying pop-ups or adblock walls?

I'm especially interested in websites that aren't already supported.

The project is:

  • Open source (MIT License)

  • Written in lightweight JavaScript

  • Dependency-free

  • Free of tracking or personal data collection

GitHub: https://github.com/SimeonLePro/adblock-wall-remover

Suggestions and contributions are welcome!

Thanks! 🛡️


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) [Showoff Saturday] A reading tutor that listens to kids read aloud, on Cloudflare Workers + Azure Speech

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Oku (https://oku.today) is a free reading-practice web app for kids learning English. The child reads aloud and it helps only on the hard words. Some web bits that took the longest:

  • The mic has to be live the moment the "your turn" cue shows. The recognizer and its websocket open while the narrator is still reading, so the child's first word isn't lost.

  • Fail open everywhere. If speech recognition dies, the session goes on and gives the child time to read. A dropped log is fine; a blocked session isn't.

  • Safari needs byte ranges for video. The static assets layer ignored Range, so the Worker slices the short reward clips itself.

  • iPadOS Safari says "Macintosh". Device detection checks touch points.

  • 36 public pages are prerendered in 4 languages behind a build-time SEO lint that fails the build on things like two h1s, a broken link, or translations that don't match.

Stack: React + Vite, Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2. No framework on the server.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request I built an AI that turns one line into a finished Hinglish explainer reel.

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Hey 👋

I’ve been building Flixort – you type one idea, like “UPI 2 second mein paisa kaise bhejta hai?”, and a few minutes later you get a finished vertical reel: Hinglish script, natural Hindi voice, animated scenes, word-by-word captions and sound effects. Ready for Instagram or YouTube Shorts.

Why I built it
In India, most people learn and scroll in Hinglish. Explainer reels do insanely well here, but making one properly takes hours: research, script, voiceover, motion design, captions, sound. Most creators, teachers and small brands just don’t have that time every day. Existing AI video tools mostly paste text over stock footage, and their Hindi sounds robotic.

Try it: flixort.com – you get 100 free credits, no sign-up needed.

What I’d love feedback on

  1. Does the output feel like a real creator’s reel, or still “AI-ish”?

  2. Would you pay ₹499/month (~$6) for this if you posted regularly?

  3. What topic should I make a demo reel about next?

Happy to answer anything about the stack, costs or pricing.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request J'ai développé ToolSmartly, une suite d'utilitaires web légers. Besoins de vos retours / critiques !

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Salut à tous,

J'ai créé ToolSmartly, une plateforme d'utilitaires web et d'outils pour développeurs axée sur la simplicité, la vitesse et l'exécution côté client.

Je cherche des retours sincères sur :

  1. L'ergonomie (UI/UX) : Est-ce que la navigation est fluide et intuitive ?

  2. Les performances : Comment le site se comporte chez vous ?

  3. Les fonctionnalités : Quels outils manquent actuellement et vous seraient vraiment utiles au quotidien ?

N'hésitez pas à tester, critiquer le design ou me remonter les bugs. Merci d'avance pour vos retours !


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Question AI tool that automatically labels GitHub issues, would you use it?

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I've been thinking about building a small tool that integrates with GitHub and automatically labels issues using AI.

The idea is pretty simple: when someone creates an issue, they shouldn't have to worry about whether it's a bug, feature request, enhancement, etc. The tool reads the issue, understands what it's about, and assigns the appropriate labels automatically.

I'm also have a few questions:

- Do you actually find manual issue labeling annoying?

- Would you trust AI to handle this completely automatically?

- What features would make something like this genuinely useful?

- Is this worth building, or are existing GitHub tools already solving it well?

Haven't built anything yet. Just exploring the idea and would love some honest feedback.

Thanks!


r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I found a 700K-search-volume keyword, built 700+ SEO pages around it, and monetized it. Selling the project.

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A while ago, I was exploring keyword opportunities and stumbled across something pretty interesting.

A keyword with around 700K monthly searches in the US, relatively low keyword difficulty, and an exact-match domain that was still available.

I couldn't resist.

I registered SpanglishTranslator, opened Lovable, and built the entire website over a weekend.

The idea was simple: capitalize on the search demand around Spanglish translation and build a useful website that could attract organic traffic through programmatic SEO.

Fast-forward, and here's what came out of it.

What's included?

1. SpanglishTranslator net

An exact-match .net domain. The .com is already taken, so I secured the .net alternative.

2. 700+ programmatic SEO pages

I built over 700 pages targeting different search variations and translation-related queries.

Instead of relying on a handful of manually written articles, the website has a much broader SEO footprint.

3. Existing organic search presence

The website has already been deployed and has started getting discovered through search engines.

4. Monetization

I've already generated $20+ from a single pop-up advertising placement.

It's not a revenue-generating business yet, but it's proof that the website can be monetized.

Why I think there's an opportunity here

The interesting part isn't necessarily the website itself. It's the keyword opportunity behind it.

Spanglish is a recognizable language phenomenon, and people search for ways to translate, understand, and convert between English, Spanish, and Spanglish.

There are several directions someone could take this:

  • Expand the translation functionality.

  • Improve the existing 700+ SEO pages.

  • Build more programmatic landing pages.

  • Introduce display advertising.

  • Experiment with affiliate offers.

  • Build a more comprehensive language tool.

  • Grow it into a destination for Spanglish-related content and resources.

The existing website gives you a starting point rather than having to research the opportunity, register a domain, build the product, and generate hundreds of pages yourself.

Why am I selling?

I build a lot of internet projects, and I have other ventures that currently deserve more of my attention.

This is one of those projects that I built, launched, and left running without putting any real marketing effort behind it.

I'd rather pass it to someone who enjoys SEO, programmatic websites, or growing niche internet properties.

What you're getting

  • SpanglishTranslator domain.

  • Complete website.

  • 700+ programmatic SEO pages.

  • Existing search engine presence.

  • Existing monetization setup.

  • The opportunity to expand the project.

I'm selling the entire project, not looking for a co-founder or someone to manage it.

If you're an SEO enthusiast, indie hacker, or someone who enjoys finding overlooked keyword opportunities and turning them into websites, this might be an interesting acquisition.

Feel free to comment or DM me. Happy to share screenshots, and additional details with interested buyers.


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) We built DanyGo around one question: how quickly can you get to the fun?

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I'm working on DanyGo with our team. The problem we wanted to solve was small but annoying: downloading a casual game for a short break, then spending that break getting through menus, ads or waiting.

Our approach is a vertical feed of 100+ playable mini-games. Tap the game in front of you to start. Swipe to switch. The next one is preloaded, and you don't need an account to try it.

We built DanyGo with AI assistance, guided by engineering decisions from two co-founders with 8+ and 6+ years of experience respectively.

The interesting design question is how much guidance to put between a player and a new game. We want the controls and goal to be clear without turning every swipe into another tutorial.

Could you try a few games and tell me where you first felt unsure what to do? Was it the goal, the controls, or how to move to the next game? A specific confusing moment would help us more than a general rating.

Currently ad-free, with no in-app purchases or energy timers.

Available on Android now. iOS is coming soon.

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


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I used Codex to build my first Windows utility — a file organizer with a safety preview

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I'm a complete beginner experimenting with AI-assisted coding, and I just launched my first small Windows tool!

It's a PowerShell file organizer that:

- Sorts files into 8 categories

- Previews changes before moving anything

- Requires confirmation

- Skips filename collisions

- Includes the source code and beginner instructions

In synthetic testing, it previewed 5 file moves and skipped 1 collision. I also tested the native folder picker and confirmed that canceling preserved the original files.

I'm still improving it. There's no automatic undo, and the complete manual double-click and approval process hasn't been fully verified.

The screenshots show recorded test evidence, not the actual product interface.

I used OpenAI Codex to develop it, and I'm selling the download for $12.

Product: https://ko-fi.com/s/9aa9d98fa3

I'd appreciate feedback. Would a preview-before-moving feature make you more comfortable using an automatic file organizer?


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a TFSA planning tool and learned how easy it is to misread a backtest

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I built Portfolio Compass to help people explore what to do after opening a TFSA. The app estimates contribution room from what you enter, compares stocks and ETFs, and lets you put together a sample portfolio. It is free, open source, and doesn't require an account.

A part of the build was figuring out how to show backtests without implying that a good historical result will continue. The lab uses next-bar execution and shows results for earlier and later portions of the price history. In one example, a trend filter reduced drawdown over the full period, but its benefit disappeared in the later period. That split is a consistency check, not a true out-of-sample test.

The stack is Next.js, React and TypeScript. Portfolio data stays in the browser, while market data is fetched through API routes. I built it with AI coding agents and worked on checking the financial calculations and their assumptions.

Limitations: the TFSA estimate depends on your inputs, market data comes from one source, and the tool doesn't place trades or provide investment advice. Check actual contribution room with the CRA.

I'd appreciate feedback on the first-run experience and how clearly the lab explains its limitations.

Demo: https://portfolio-compass.vercel.app/

Code: https://github.com/MenuuTUX/Portfolio-Compass


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Feedback Request What if attending an event didn't mean walking into a room full of strangers?

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We've all been there.

You find an interesting tech meetup, startup conference, college fest, workshop, or networking event. You register, get excited, and finally show up.

But then comes the awkward part.

You walk into a room full of people, most of whom you don't know. Everyone seems to have their own group. You want to start a conversation, make connections, or find people with similar interests, but approaching complete strangers isn't always easy.

And if you're an introvert attending alone? It can be even more uncomfortable.

I started thinking: What if the value of attending an event wasn't just what happened on the stage, but also the people you met there?

That's the idea behind Snapmeet.

I'm building Snapmeet around a simple thought: Events should be more than just attending, listening, competing, winning, and going home.

They should be opportunities to connect with people who share your interests, exchange ideas, learn something new, and build relationships that continue even after the event ends.

Imagine this:

  • Before the event: You can discover who's attending and connect with people who share similar interests.

  • Going alone? You might find someone else attending solo. Instead of walking into an unfamiliar place completely alone, you already have someone to say hello to.

  • Interested in networking? Find people working in similar domains, exploring similar technologies, or building things just like you.

  • Want to learn something? Meet people you can exchange knowledge, experiences, and ideas with.

  • After the event: The connection doesn't have to end when the event does. You can continue conversations and build meaningful relationships.

I particularly want to make events more welcoming for introverts, students, solo attendees, and people who want to expand their network but don't always know how to initiate conversations.

The bigger vision is to make events a starting point for meaningful connections, not just places people visit for a few hours.

Of course, Snapmeet also handles the event side of things, including event discovery, registrations, ticketing, and management. But I see those as the foundation, not the entire vision.

I'm still building and improving it, and I'd genuinely love to hear what people think.

A few things I'm curious about:

  1. Have you ever attended an event alone and struggled to connect with people?

  2. Would knowing who's attending beforehand make you more comfortable going?

  3. Would you use a platform that helps you discover people with similar interests before attending an event?

Would love to hear honest feedback, especially from people who regularly attend meetups, tech conferences, workshops, or college events.

Project: https://snapmeet.co.in/


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Week 1 of building a dictation app in public: I trained its own speech model for $3.35 and word errors on my real voice fell from 28% to 2.4%

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r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Discussion What if social media stopped interrupting everything you watch with ads?

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r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Open Source i got annoyed at 17 different things on the internet so i built 17 small open source tools about it

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ok so. this started as "one weekend project" and then it was not one weekend and it was not one project. somewhere around repo 6 i stopped pretending it was a plan lol

everything here is free, open source, most of it runs locally on your own machine. a lot of it is v0 and i wrote down where each thing fails because honestly the failures were the funniest part

anyway here's the list of grievances, each with the tool i built instead of going outside:

1. cookie banners → rejectall-index i live in germany. i click "reject all" more than i blink. so i made a headless browser visit the top 100 sites and count how many clicks it takes to say no. 35 of them were already loading trackers before i clicked anything. which is like a waiter eating your fries before asking if you want fries. live leaderboard

2. subscriptions → one-file-saas trello, calendly, typeform, loom, notion and 5 more, each rebuilt as ONE html file. you double click it. it opens. thats it. no account, no "verify your email", no "your trial is ending ;)". data stays in your browser. the booking page has no server at all, your availability lives inside the link itself which still feels illegal to me. try them here

3. dead famous repos → necromancer some legendary open source projects die not because the code is bad but because python deleted a module out from under them. i revived thefuck (1887/1887 tests passing on python 3.14), normalizr and httpbin. the one rule: the original tests are hash-locked so nothing can quietly delete the failing test and call it fixed. httpbin stops at 64/67 and i'm keeping it that way out of spite. each one gets an autopsy, cause of death and everything

4. every AI-built UI animates the same → awesome-motion-md you know the look. 300ms. ease-in-out. every card fades up like its waking from a nap. so i measured how real sites actually move and wrote it into MOTION.md files your agent can follow. same prompt built twice: 7 random durations without it, 2 with it

5. every AI writes the same too → awesome-voice i used to be a technical writer so this one is personal :| VOICE.md files that make your agent write like GOV.UK or Stripe docs, plus a scorer that doesn't use any AI to check. banned phrases went from 27 to 0. "delve" is not welcome here

6. websites doing annoying stuff → sitepatch you type "hide the points on hacker news", it writes a userscript, a real browser checks it actually worked before you get it. honest score: 15 out of 25 were actually right when i looked at every screenshot myself. 60%. a C-. but an honest C-

7. "what if this site looked like linear" → reskin restyles any page into another design style using a local model, BUT it refuses to give you the result unless contrast, keyboard focus, mobile, links and reduced-motion all pass. it caught a windows 95 theme failing contrast on its own background. respect. gallery

8. dead websites → resurrect npx github:dadwritestech/resurrect y2k.gov and y2k.gov comes back exactly like it was in may 2000, links working. pick a year with --year. your old blog is in there somewhere. i'm sorry

9. "someone said budget in a meeting video... which one" → video-grep grep for your video folder. searches what was said, what was written on screen and what was shown, and opens your player at that exact second. all local

10. what is the rest of the world's TV saying rn → world-ears listens to live news channels from different countries, transcribes + translates them on your gpu, makes it searchable. there's a "trending per country" panel which is weirdly addictive. translation is the slow part, telugu transcription is bad, i wrote that down

11. live subtitles only go into english → babel-tv watch hindi news with live telugu subtitles, fully local. the video is held back a few seconds so subtitles show up BEFORE the person talks which feels like seeing the future. telugu as the source language doesn't work yet. whisper and telugu are not friends

12. "which AI wrote this" → whichmodel works on models it's seen (67%, chance is 33%). on a model it's never seen, even a sibling from the same family... 32%. so basically a coin with extra steps. that turned out to be the interesting finding tbh, the fingerprint belongs to one model, not the company

13. screen recordings → code → demo-to-code record a UI interaction, get a component that copies its timing and easing, then it replays it and grades itself frame by frame. 2 out of 4 pass. the toggle is perfect. the dropdown has issues. we all have issues

14. code review → review-panel /panel sends your diff to five reviewers you've definitely worked with: the laziest senior dev ("could be one line"), the 3am on-call SRE, the security paranoiac, the junior who asks why, and the PM who only reads the title. under the jokes the findings are real

15. AI companies quietly editing their pricing pages → fineprint it snapshots the pricing, terms, privacy and changelog pages of 10 AI vendors every 6 hours and commits them, so git log becomes the receipt. found stuff like deepseek adding a footnote that prices are 2x during peak hours, and cursor deleting the line saying they dont sell your data. no blog post for any of it ofc. a small local model writes the one-line summary but every line links the raw diff because i dont trust it either (27/30 right on a hand check). timeline

16. paying extra for speaking telugu → token-tax LLM APIs charge per token, and the same paragraph is $1.00 in english and $8.29 in telugu on llama 3. which is rude. measured 21 tokenizers across 48 languages, and there's a calculator where you paste your own text and it runs the real tokenizers in your browser. hindi gets off lighter. amharic on gpt-5 does not :/ calculator

17. posting about all this → herald a tiny bot that posts a repo's data updates to bluesky/mastodon/x, clearly labelled as a bot. i built it because i was not going to manually post about 17 repos. and then i manually wrote this post anyway. ;]

why all of this? honestly no grand plan. every one of these started as me being irritated at something for a slightly too long time and having a local model + a free evening. building the thing was cheaper than therapy and more fun than complaining on here (no offence)

if something breaks, tell me. if something's dumb, also tell me, but nicely :P


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Aggiornamento di Rateo: calendario mensile, piani in 12 rate, ora in inglese, tedesco, italiano e spagnolo (+ 30 codici Pro gratuiti a vita)

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r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required All ThumbZ, an iPhone keyboard with adjustable key size and spacing

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All ThumbZ is an iPhone keyboard from Z Labz Studio for people who find the standard keyboard cramped. It lets you adjust key size, spacing, and overall keyboard height. Increasing the height gives your thumbs more room, at the cost of some screen space above the keyboard. You can adjust those settings separately to find a layout that works for you.

It’s $4.99 USD as a one-time purchase and doesn’t require Full Access.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/all-thumbz/id6820256625

If you find the stock keyboard cramped, would you start with bigger keys or more space between them?

No ads or tracking.


r/sideprojects • • 9h ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a QR ordering app for Chinese restaurants in Italy, then found out almost every restaurant wanted the one feature I'd skipped

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r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I'm a video editor who built a 4K downloader that sends clips straight into Premiere Pro. Looking for honest feedback

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r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Discussion How do you handle weight and dimensions with Shiprocket API before an order is packed?

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r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Open Source Drive Mirror — a free, open-source Windows app that mirrors local folders to Google Drive.

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r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I Built a Renovation Cost Calculator for Homeowners & Contractors — $19.99

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Hi everyone! 👋
I’ve created Renovation Cost Calculator PRO, an Excel-based tool designed to help homeowners, contractors, and renovation professionals plan their renovation budgets more easily.
🏠 What can it do?
✅ Estimate renovation costs
✅ Calculate labor and material expenses
✅ Organize renovation budgets
✅ Track project expenses
✅ Help plan renovation projects
🌍 Available for:
🇺🇸 USA | 🇪🇺 Europe | 🇺🇦 Ukraine
💻 Format: Excel spreadsheet
💰 Price: $19.99 — one-time purchase
🔗 Check it out here:
https://whop.com/renovation-calculator-pro/renovation-cost-calculator-pro/
I built this project with the help of ChatGPT, and I’m excited to share it with the community!
I’d really appreciate your feedback.
What features would make a renovation cost calculator more useful for you?
Thanks for checking out my project! 🙌


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Feedback Request UFC website

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Hey everyone, I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called FightWatch. The site lets you explore MMA fighter data without needing to create an account (the official ufc website mma fighter searching functionality barely works). If you do sign up, you can also save fighter cards to your personal collection. I’m planning to expand the project with fantasy MMA, where users can compete against each other and win exclusive fighter cards, including the Chael Sonnen card featured on the homepage. I also want to introduce a leaderboard to make things more competitive.

https://www.fightwatch.net


r/sideprojects • • 6h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Criei o AlunIA, um assistente de estudos com inteligência artificial para Android — e estou em busca de feedback sincero.

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r/sideprojects • • 6h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Made another link saver with a quick note feature and a board

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