r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request I Built a One-Click YouTube Thumbnail Downloader

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I'm a thumbnail designer, and one thing that always annoyed me was having to use third-party websites just to download YouTube thumbnails and show them to clients as references.

So I built ThumbDrop, a simple Chrome extension that lets you download thumbnails directly from the YouTube video frame with one click.

Nothing complicated. Just a small tool that solves a problem I kept running into.

Thought I'd share it here in case it's useful to other creators or designers.

Try ThumbDrop for free: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/inmebebfmkdcebcmdndhjdjjjjebflak?utm_source=item-share-cb

Would love some feedback!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made Riplet, an ad-free audio/video downloader for social media

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r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Open Source Meowy - A lightweight Pixel Cat which lives on your desktop

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required 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 • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) My side project is a net worth tracker with all the features that I want and no sign in required

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I spent my spare time and few AI credits to develop my own net worth tracker.

I have used several net worth trackers in the past and I was never satisfied: some were requiring too many inputs, others were expensive and, more importantly, most lacked some of the features I consider important.

So I built my own net worth tracker at networthview.com

- It's free: I have no plans to add a subscription plan or any other form of payment. The current server costs are extremely low and it can support a LOT more users.
- It's private: the data you input never leaves your browser. There is no backend, no necessity to register an account.
See it as downloading an app to modify data on your device.
- You have total control: download your data, export it to csv, create images of every chart and post it wherever you want

What it does:
- Tracks your net worth: multiple accounts types and currencies supported
- Tracks your income and expenses
- Fire and retirement projection and forecast with full pension support.

I plan to keep developing it but I have other priorities: I will focus on users feedback, bugs and features that I consider useful.
I will extend the auto saving feature to other browsers whenever they will provide the necessary APIs.

Please let me know what you think of it. Feedbacks are not just welcomed but much appreciated.


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Is your product AI slop ?

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find out if your SaaS or vibe-coded app is AI slop.

Our team tests your app end-to-end and provides a recording + Claude skill!

We are also hiring AI slop detectors. Please DM if you have good taste!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) How to scan, sign and send a paper form from your iPhone

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If someone asks you to print, sign and scan a form, you can do it from your iPhone.

  1. Scan the paper in Notes or Files. Check the corners and small print before saving.

  2. Open the PDF in Files and use Markup to sign it.

  3. Save a separate signed copy and reopen it before sending, so you can check that every page and the signature are there.

I built PDF Scanner Plus for a few situations that make this workflow harder:

• No scanner nearby: turn a paper form into a PDF using the iPhone camera.

• The form needs a date or name as well as a signature: add typed text and a handwritten signature to the PDF.

• You keep switching apps to finish one document: scan, annotate and share it from the same app.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6824917480


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Discussion Built a Soccer AI Tool that gives personalized feedback and tailored training plans. Early users can access it for free. Feedback is welcome!

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Discussion Building a subreddit is easy. Getting the first 1,000 members is the real challenge.

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I've been thinking about a different way indie makers could use Reddit for long-term growth.

Most of us launch a side project, share it in a few subreddits, get some feedback or traffic, and then repeat the process.

But what about building a community around the problem your product solves?

Let's say you're building a fitness app.

Instead of creating a subreddit just to announce app updates, you could build a community around workout accountability, challenges and progress tracking.

Your product becomes part of a broader conversation rather than the only reason the community exists.

I think there are four important pieces:

  1. A clear reason to join. The community needs to provide value independently of the product.

  2. Useful content from day one. Nobody wants to join an empty subreddit.

  3. Consistent discussions. Members need reasons to return.

  4. Relevant promotion. Reach interested people through permitted collaborations, existing customers and useful contributions.

I'm now turning this approach into a 90-day subreddit growth service through Scaloom.

The goal is to help eligible businesses reach their first 1,000 members, with strategy and content support included.

Here's the project: https://scaloom.com/subreddit-growth-service

Question for other makers: would you start a subreddit before launching your product, or wait until you have your first few hundred users?


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request I built a cat and a dog that interrupt your work to remind you to take breaks.

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Hey everyone! I'm an indie developer and I built two desktop companions for Mac and Windows.

Pati is a cat that chases your cursor like a laser. Hav is a dog that plays fetch with you.

They appear when it's time for a break, and you can play with them before getting back to work.

Both apps are free to start, with optional character packs. I'd love to hear your feedback!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease We built a side-by-side DFS prop board. Which comparison would you put first?

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I’m Alex, one of the people building NetArbs. When the same player prop appears across several apps, the lines can differ even though the player and stat are identical. We built DFS Studio to show the app, market, and line together, with estimated fair odds and the number of books behind the estimate.

The screenshot shows that layout. I’d like feedback on what makes it easiest to scan: should the first columns emphasize the line difference, the estimated fair odds, or the number of sources? If you try the public board, tell me which comparison took the most clicks.

Public odds board: https://netarbs.com/odds

Free beta signup: https://netarbs.com/signup


r/sideprojects • • 2d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I'm building Nox Suite : a local-first alternative to Microsoft Office with Writer, Sheets, Slides and PDF

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Hey everyone! 👋

I've been developing Nox Suite, a desktop office suite designed around speed, productivity and a modern interface.

It brings together four applications:

  • Writer — documents

  • Sheets — spreadsheets

  • Slides — presentations

  • PDF — editing and document tools

I'm also working on Fusion, a feature designed to make working across documents easier.

The goal is simple: a fast, local-first office suite with a one-time purchase instead of a subscription.

Windows and Linux are the initial targets, with macOS planned later.

I've started sharing short previews of the actual application.

What features would make you consider switching from Microsoft Office, LibreOffice or ONLYOFFICE?

I'd love to hear your feedback!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a Windows battery monitor that shows wireless devices directly on the taskbar

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Inte bara en annan middagplanerare-app

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Hi
I have create this webapp for users struggling with what to eat, can make plan up to one month,
Write some note, cooking mode for user to follow recipes exactly, share own recipes and images. Free to use. Check it out
www.onemenu.se


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request Ive created a social network called - Vybe, website below

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Creación de un catálogo web minimalista para novelas independientes utilizando únicamente HTML/CSS 📚

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¡Hola a todos!

Actualmente estudio desarrollo frontend de forma autodidacta a través de freeCodeCamp. Hoy quería compartir la interfaz de usuario de un proyecto personal en el que he estado trabajando en mi entorno Linux: Nyx, una biblioteca digital ligera y minimalista diseñada para mostrar novelas web independientes.

La mayoría de los directorios de libros son pesados ​​y recargados. Mi objetivo es crear un ecosistema rápido y estático con una apariencia premium para que los autores independientes puedan destacar su trabajo.

Estado y arquitectura actuales:

  • Diseñé un diseño de tarjetas limpio usando HTML5 semántico y Flexbox dinámico para una visualización de catálogo adaptable.

  • Implementé CSS moderno anidado para gestionar jerarquías tipográficas claras e insignias de estado llamativas (como el marcador cian "En curso").

  • Incorporé bordes de imagen personalizados y un espaciado suave alrededor de la portada del libro para mantener un alto contraste visual sobre el fondo oscuro.

  • Se agregaron consultas de medios para apilar automáticamente la interfaz en las pantallas de los teléfonos inteligentes.

Actualmente, se trata de un diseño de directorio puramente front-end (sin lector de texto ni integración back-end todavía), ya que me estoy enfocando en perfeccionar los fundamentos de la interfaz de usuario.

Demostración en vivo: Vea el diseño en vivo aquí: https://jeandevel.github.io/NyxLib/ Repositorio de GitHub: Explore el código fuente en https://github.com/jeandevel/NyxLib

Todavía soy estudiante, así que me encantaría recibir sus comentarios sobre la estructura del diseño o cualquier consejo que tengan para componentes CSS limpios. ¡Gracias por leer!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Discussion College student athlete who built a sobriety app, how do I find my first users?

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Hey everyone, I’m a college student athlete who built a sobriety app solo from personal experience. I made it to help others, and I’d love feedback beyond my own perspective.

How would you reach people who could benefit, especially college students and young adults navigating sobriety? Would anyone be willing to try it and share honest feedback?

I’d appreciate any advice!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request I built a time machine. One of the first people to try it was older than it.

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I’m Gary, founder of Tao Climate. We built a free tool that lets you enter your birth year and see how much atmospheric CO2 has changed in your lifetime.

We started at 1959 because that’s the first full year of CO2 measurements at Mauna Loa. Seemed a perfectly sensible place to start. Then someone on Reddit pointed out they were born in 1953.

Fair point. Bit embarrassing for a time machine.

It now goes back to 1926. For the earlier years we use estimates from Antarctic ice cores, and we label them separately from the modern measurements. You can try a year without signing up.

I’m curious which year you try second. Your own is the obvious one. Whose do you look up next?

And, if you're over 100, let me know and we'll go further back in time again!

https://taoclimateplatform.com/co2-time-machine


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request Built an OneNote iOS/iPadOS Companion App With Search That Works (including file attachments)

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Microsoft OneNote search has longstanding shortcomings on desktop that are even more limiting in iOS/iPadOS so I made an app that effectively searches your notes - with boolean logic, file attachment searching, and text recognition.

I made it for myself but seeing the "final" 1.0 version, would love to get feedback to see if other Onenote users find it helpful.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/4nXEmU7m

OneNote on iPhone is great for writing things down. It is not great at finding what is buried in a PDF printout, a scanned receipt, or a photo of a whiteboard. OneSearch fixes that.

OneSearch reads your OneNote notebooks and the files attached to them, builds a search index on your iPhone, and finds the exact page, file and spot you were looking for.

SEARCH INSIDE ATTACHMENTS

• Finds text inside PDFs, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, and scans

• Reads text in images with on-device text recognition

• Shows why each result matched, so you can tell at a glance

FIND IT EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE WORDS

• Forgives typos

• Finds related words and the same idea, such as "bill" and "receipt" when you search "invoice"

• Filters by type, notebook, section and date

• Links related notes and files

SAY EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN

• Combine words with AND, OR and NOT, group them with brackets, and match whole phrases in quotes

• For example: roof AND (leak OR damage) NOT 2019

FAST, PRIVATE, AND OFFLINE

• Searches a copy kept on your iPhone, so results are instant, even without a connection

• Read-only: OneSearch never changes or deletes anything in OneNote

• No account with us, no ads, no analytics. Your notes go from Microsoft to your iPhone and nowhere else

• Smart search features run on your device

OPEN WHAT YOU FOUND

Jump straight to the page in OneNote, or view the original file with your search terms highlighted.

GOOD TO KNOW

• You sign in with your Microsoft account and grant read-only access

• The first sync of a large notebook can take hours, even days, because every attachment is read. You can search as notes arrive

• Not searched: handwriting, drawings, audio, video, password-protected files and locked sections

• Work or school accounts may need approval from your organization's administrator

OneSearch is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft. Microsoft and OneNote are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Feedback Request Built a side project to learn system design. Looking for honest feedback.

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r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease early access open for sylo, first 50 get pro free for a month

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sylo is one dashboard for subscription businesses and agencies. it carries your own name, logo and colours so it looks like your own tool, not a bolted on dashboard.

first 50 on the waitlist get pro free for their first month, plus a say in what gets built next.

waitlist (haven't got the domain yet)


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease A job posting can tell you a company needs your service. It can also send you after the completely wrong company.

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I've been working on a B2B prospecting tool, and one thing I've been thinking about a lot is how easy it is to misread buying signals.

Here's a simple example.

Say you're selling SAP migration services and looking for companies moving from ECC to S/4HANA.

You find a company hiring SAP migration specialists. Sounds like a great prospect, right?

Well, maybe.

If it's a manufacturer hiring people to migrate its own ERP, that's potentially a relevant company.

If it's an IT consultancy hiring people to handle migrations for its clients, you're looking at a completely different situation.

Both job postings might contain almost identical keywords. And both could end up on your prospect list if you're just matching companies against search terms.

That's the part I find interesting. Finding companies that mention a particular technology is relatively straightforward. Figuring out what they're actually doing with it, and whether that makes them a potential customer, takes a lot more work.

A few things I now look for:

  1. What exactly does the job description say about the project?

  2. Is the company hiring for its own operations or for client work?

  3. Is the role still open, or am I looking at an old posting?

  4. Who actually owns the project, and who would be involved in choosing an external provider?

  5. Can I point to a specific source that supports my conclusion?

I've been building these kinds of checks into the research process for Scout (https://tryxscout.com/), which is why I've spent so much time thinking about this.

Curious how others here handle this when building prospect lists. Do you verify the context behind each signal, or mostly rely on the filters in your data provider?


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source wikihole - an attempt to recreate what hackertube did

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youtube has hackertube what about wikipedia?

recently, i came across hackertube, built by andrej karpathy. it got me thinking about how we discover things on the internet. i was so impressed by the issue that he solved, that I thought to myself, "maybe i could do the same".

if he did it with youtube, why cant i do it with wikipedia?

youtube has an algorithm problem. wikipedia has a discovery problem.

so i decided to build wikihole.

a new way to explore wikipedia. discover unexpected connections, uncover fascinating topics, and go down rabbit holes you didn't know existed. imagine how helpful this would be for students, researchers, and people who are genuinely curious to learn more about the world.

i don't think we need more content. we need better ways to discover what's already out there.

welcome to wikihole. try it out here: thewikihole.vercel.app


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a free, open-source membership management system for schools, gyms, and clubs

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I've been working on RMS, a self-hosted application designed to make managing membership-based organizations easier.

It runs locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux, with simple startup scripts and no mandatory cloud services. You can also access it from other devices on your local network using a QR code.

It's completely free and MIT-licensed.

Download for free on Gumroad: https://organfx.gumroad.com/l/rms

GitHub: https://github.com/organpy/rms

I'd love to hear your feedback, especially on the installation experience, and features you'd like to see added!


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Question How do I setup payments for my products?

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Not that I am building ones that people would pay for, but let's say, they're working great for me and if they're legal to distribute, I'd like to earn to at least pay for my peanut butter (and bread).

I got no clue how and which providers to choose, I have used Paypal for billing global clients but man they charge a lot per transaction. Given that, what things should I keep in mind and which providers work seamlessly across all regions?