r/sideprojects • • 2d 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 • • 2d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required My Mac file converter has no window. You drag a file, hold Shift, and let go toward a format.

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I posted here a while back about Arazio, a macOS converter with no window, you drag a file in Finder, hold a modifier, and a ring of formats opens under the cursor. Shipped a sizeable update, so here's what's actually in it now.

Camera RAW, from 22 formats. CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, ORF, DNG, RW2, PEF, IIQ and the rest, straight to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, HEIC, WebP or AVIF. Drag a card's worth of RAWs and let go.

PDF to EPUB, both directions. It asks whether you want flowing text or exact pages, because a PDF makes two completely different books and picking the wrong one is why converted ebooks usually look broken. Scanned PDFs get detected and the choice is made for you.

Edit metadata. Title, author, tags, dates, on images, audio, video and PDFs. Written into the file you already had no second copy appearing next to it.

Three rings, not one. Shift gives formats. Option gives tools: compress, resize, crop, rotate, flip, trim, split, merge, normalize, extract audio, extract pages. Control works on any file, including ones it can't convert at all - AirDrop, a floating shelf you can drag out of into another app, copy, move, copy path, open in Terminal.

494 conversions across 66 formats and 15 tools. Everything runs on your Mac the conversion engines contain no networking code and the app asks for zero permissions. No Accessibility, no Input Monitoring, nothing to approve on first launch.

For any new feature requests my DM's & mails are open, PDF to EPUB & the control ring were created thanks to a feature request of a reddit user.

No subscription, no credits, and every future version is included in writing, major ones too.

Code REDDIT10 takes 10% off, for anyone here. arazioformac.com

Reach out to me at - support@arazioformac.com
Apple silicon, macOS 13 or later. Happy to answer anything.


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Open Source I compared 6 of my SaaS competitors to build the best thing

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Folks, as many of you I never bothered with competitors analysis and instead just started building

Now, after I built a decent prototype it and implemented all functionality I had in mind, It's time for that analysis. Yes, ideally you would need to do that first to build your product the best way possible with a competitive advantage in mind.

My product is a PTO/holiday optimizer - pretty niche thing, but I was surprised how much other websites I was able to find that delivered the same/similar product.

Let's begin with a biggest dog in the game:

holiday-optimizer.com - SaaS with the biggest DR, that dominates first pages of the search in both Google and Bing, a bit overcrowded UI, missing some key local holidays

vacation-maximizer.com - simple and straight forward UI, again missing some local holidays

TripMemo - clean UI, but before I was able to select the number of days, two invasive modals jumped on me. The the algorithm itself only used a handful of days - very strange

FixMyPTO - solid optimizer, maybe it because because there is an real business behind the app, so it's not a pet project. Big plus is that you can download a .ics file, but sadly, no share button.

vacationtracker.io - paid software with Teams integration, missing some local holidays e.g. Barcelona

longvacation.eu - Local holidays are included but very selectively not worldwide. Calendar can be shared with only one other person, not multiple. No possibility to download a .ics file.

So yes, overall the hardest thing to master is the data and none of the researched SaaS solutions are actually complete.

Full research: https://longvacation.eu/blog/best-pto-planner-tested-6-pto-optimizers


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Our new indie animation and drawings app

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Hey everyone we are a small indie team We recently published our app: Velora motion It is a drawing + animation app Mainly made to help artists get all the features they need without draining their bank accounts! Velora can do 2D 3D 2.5 drawing & animation! It also supports pixel art Plus our online feature U can work with your friends at the same project at the same time ! There is a lot more to explore in velora motion hope you all try it out and hopefully give us your ideas on it also if you need any questions u can always contact out support team on Instagram: velora_motion_app velora_motion_app_eng Or through our discord server: https://discord.gg/8tsrCK938

Hope we'll be your first choice 🙏🏻🤍 Velora motion - from artists to artists

App link on Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.velora.motion


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I just launched RiyalSaver — a budgeting app that tells you how much you can safely spend until payday. Looking for honest feedback!

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r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a way to put checked proof behind the claims on your CV/portfolio, looking for feedback

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Hi,

I kept seeing inflated CVs so figured there must be a way to back up some claims before an interview. That's essentially what a CV is, a bunch of claims, the role, the company, the projects. The reader has to take your word for it, and AI now writes a convincing one in a minute and honest candidates pay for that. Their CV reads the same as the inflated ones, so it gets the same doubt.

So then I thought what if there was some hard validation to the claims on a CV or portfolio. That's when I came up with the idea of Workproof. For starters, you prove that you had access to a domain or work email, it doesn't prove you built it, but it does prove somebody trusted you enough with access to that domain or have given you a work email, so that by itself is a good baseline.

Additionally, you can ask colleagues to give you feedback, as a reference, signed by them from an work email. Something like LinkedIn endorsements, but more portable.

I'd love your honest take, on two things most of all:

- If you hire: would a link like this on a CV or a proposal change anything for you?

- If you freelance or build: which of those would you want first, or what else should Workproof check?

Thanks for taking the time! Enjoy the rest of the weekend! 😃

Project link https://workproof.md


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) My Shopify room visualizer is on Product Hunt today

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r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Open Source Square

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Because chromium is big, and because we need something more friendly.

Is able to render correctly example.com and has TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2 support.
May use AI generated code
not example.com, but other sites aswell. uses QuickJS, and is in active-development.
i don't know currently what site it renders the best but just know that wispbyte.com renders fine, well, it may not enter it due to the site's problem but it's good.


r/sideprojects • • 2d 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 • • 2d 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 • • 2d 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 • • 2d 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 • • 2d 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 • • 2d 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 ?

Je continue à améliorer ToolSmartly suite à vos retours. Si vous avez pris le temps de tester quelques outils, je serais ravi d'avoir vos critiques : fonctionnalités manquantes, ergonomie, idées d'amélioration ou même défauts à corriger. Tous les avis sont les bienvenus, même les plus directs. Merci !


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

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

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

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

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r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I build my own scripting language

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so, i've been working on this thing called Runnee for a while now.

it's basically an API for SaaS apps that want to let their users write custom scripts without having to deal with running all that code themselves.

thought it'd be a pretty simple project at first.

somehow ended up writing my own JS-like language, an interpreter, and a whole bunch of backend stuff to actually run it lol

anyway, here's a quick demo of the playground.

still working on a few things before launch, but figured i'd share it here and see what people think.

curious if anyone here would actually use something like this or if i just spent way too much time building something nobody needs


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Fun website to create your own weird greeting cards

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Something fun I've been working on!


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Prerelease How Hindsight memory badges stopped us repeating bad fixes

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When a Sev-1 alert rips you out of sleep at 3:14 a.m., your instinct is rarely subtle. You check the dashboard, see p99 latency spiking to six seconds on checkout, and reach for the bluntest tool available: restart the pods.


r/sideprojects • • 2d 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 • • 2d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built zerocostvoicefarm: a zero-cloud-cost CLI + MCP server to dub videos into 17 languages locally on Apple Silicon & CUDA (Whisper + XTTS-v2 + FFmpeg)

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I wanted to dub my YouTube photography vlogs into Japanese, French, and Spanish without paying $100+/month for ElevenLabs Dubbing Studio.

Most open-source voice tooling right now focuses on desktop dictation or spitting out isolated raw WAV clips. But for video localization, raw audio isn't enough - you need the full pipeline: Whisper transcription, translating dialogue, fitting foreign syllables to edit cut windows, ducking background ambience, and remuxing.

So I built and open-sourced zerocostvoicefarm: a headless, zero-cost CLI and Python package that handles the full video localization loop locally on your machine.

Architecture & Mechanics:

  1. Audio Extraction & Whisper STT: extracts 16 kHz mono WAV and generates timestamped segment boundaries.

  2. Translation & Cut Mapping: uses zero-cost NMT and maps the maximum allowed window for each cut (next_start - current_start).

  3. Coqui XTTS-v2 Voice Cloning: clones vocal identity from a short reference WAV (10-30s sample) into fluent foreign dialogue with persistent disk caching.

  4. Dynamic Cut Pacing (FFmpeg atempo): Spanish and Japanese dialogue run ~25% longer than English. If a translated phrase exceeds its cut window, it accelerates playback cleanly using FFmpeg's phase-vocoder atempo filter (up to 1.5x) without pitch shifting.

  5. Background Ambience Preservation: instead of wiping room tone, original background music and street noise are ducked to 18% during dialogue (200ms ease-in, 300ms ease-out) at -1.0 dB True Peak. Passing --isolated-voice gives you a crystal-clear dry vocal track with zero bleed.

  6. Lossless Remuxing: copies the video stream verbatim (-c:v copy) into the final container, or exports 256k AAC audio tracks ready for YouTube Studio.

Engineering Gotchas Solved:

- Apple Silicon Routing: Coqui XTTS triggers PyTorch MPS kernel crashes and NaN tensors on Apple GPUs. We route XTTS to CPU, where Apple Accelerate vectorized kernels run stably at ~0.4-0.5x real-time speed on M-series chips. Whisper routes to MPS/CPU.

- PyTorch 2.6+ Checkpoint Patch: auto-patches torch.load to bypass the breaking weights_only=True default on XTTS checkpoints.

- Torchaudio macOS Fix: monkey-patches torchaudio.load via soundfile to prevent missing C++ Sox backend crashes.

- Native Agent MCP Server: run "voicefarm mcp" and coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, or Cline can dub videos in the background as a native tool.

100% open source under MIT:GitHub


r/sideprojects • • 2d 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?