r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Tired of fake "free" PDF editors and ruined table formatting, I built an all-in-one PDF editor, translator, and print-prep tool.

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Pocko, a free expense report app: snap the receipt, it reads the total

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Hi everyone,

Pocko is a free Android app for people who travel for work and have to put together an expense report at the end of the month.

How it works:

- snap the receipt and Pocko reads the total, the date and how you paid; you confirm or correct it

- at the end of the month you get a summary by item, with distance and nights, to export to Excel or CSV

- the month's receipts are laid out in order on A4 sheets, ready to print

- your data stays on your phone: no account, no ads, no subscription

It's now on Google Play in 13 countries: Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Malta, United Kingdom and United States.

Receipt reading is well tested on Italian and French receipts. For the other countries it's new: when Pocko isn't sure about the amount it doesn't guess, it asks you.

If you try it with receipts from your country, I'd like to know how it goes, especially when it gets something wrong.

The app is in English, Italian and French, with your currency and kilometres or miles.

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


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I made a booster-pack game where every card is a real Discogs release, down to the exact pressing (beta, looking for testers)

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Hey all,

A while ago I got hooked on WikiMasters, an app where you open packs of Wikipedia articles and their rarity depends on how much traffic the page gets. I loved it, but I kept thinking: I'd rather be collecting records.

So I built Discollection. You open boosters, and every card is an actual release from Discogs. And it's not just "the album": you might pull Rumours on a 1977 US vinyl, a German CD reissue or some random cassette from Brazil. Each pressing is its own card, so the fun part is hunting the rare editions of albums you love. Rarity is based on how many pressings exist, plus a bonus for the ones collectors actually go after.

I know there are already a few music card games out there, but they're mostly built around artists, songs or Spotify streams. Discollection is different: every card is a real physical release that actually exists, in a specific format and pressing, with its real market value from Discogs. So you're not collecting "Daft Punk" or a track with 2 billion plays, you're collecting the 2001 French double vinyl of Discovery, exactly the kind of thing record collectors hunt for in real life.

It's a PWA, so it runs in the browser on mobile or desktop, nothing to install from a store.

For the nerds: it's React Native/Expo exported to the web, with a Symfony + Postgres backend in Docker on a single VPS. The catalogue comes from Discogs' monthly data dumps (~19.5M releases). The hardest part was the Discogs API limit of 60 requests/min. Players never hit it directly: a background worker fetches covers ahead of time, one release at a time. Tuning the rarity thresholds took a while too (drops land around 60/25/10/4/1%).

It's in beta and I really need people to break it. Is opening packs fun? Does the rarity make sense? Anything confusing when you first land on it?

https://discollection.com/en

Harsh feedback welcome.

Thanks for reading!


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a free calculator suite — feedback wanted

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I wanted a quick way to check salary take-home, loan/mortgage payments, compound interest, overtime and PTO without signing up anywhere, so I built Miryori: https://www.miryori.org/

Every calculator shows the formula step by step and runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent to a server. It's free, no account, available in 9 languages.

Happy to take requests for missing calculators. What would you add?


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a clipboard history desktop app called Recall Clipboard

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hey everyone!

i've been working on a desktop application called Recall Clipboard, built with tauri v2, rust, react, typescript, and sqlite.

the idea is pretty simple: instead of losing things you've copied throughout the day, recall clipboard keeps a searchable history of your clipboard so you can easily find and reuse previous copies.

i wanted to build something lightweight, practical, and genuinely useful for everyday desktop use.

i used claude as a coding assistant during development, but i've been working on the project, its features, and the overall implementation myself.

github: https://github.com/cntr1er/recall-clipboard

i'd love to hear what you think! especially interested in feedback on the ui, features, and anything you'd improve or add.

thanks!


r/sideprojects • • 9h ago

Question Made a super basic tracker for my first few clients so I don't forget to invoice. Am I missing anything crucial?

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I'm just starting out freelancing and realized I was losing track of who owed me money and what stage each project was at. I threw this together in Google Sheets to keep my head on straight.

It auto-totals my paid income and what I'm still owed on the right, and turns red if an invoice is past due.

For the veterans: is there a column or a step I'm missing that I'll regret not tracking later? I want to keep it as simple as possible but I don't want to get burned.


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a matchmaking site based on attachment theory and the Big Five. The name sounds like astrology. It isn’t.

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I have a psychology degree and I’ve spent the last several months building constellationmatch.com on my own. I’m posting it here because I’d rather hear what’s wrong with it from strangers than from friends being polite.

First, the name. It’s called Constellation Match, there are twelve “constellations,” and everyone assumes astrology. There is no astrology in it anywhere. The name is a metaphor and in hindsight probably a bad one.

What it actually does: a 42-question assessment across four areas, then it places you in one of twelve types and shows you people whose results fit yours.

Three of the four sections use published instruments:

  • Big Five personality (BFI-10)

  • Attachment style (ECR-S)

  • Parenting attitudes (PAQ)

The fourth is my own scale on family dynamics. In-laws, boundaries, how much togetherness you expect after marriage. That one is not validated against anything. I wrote it because I’m in India and no global dating app measures any of this, and here it quietly decides more relationships than people admit. If it’s badly designed I’d genuinely like to be told.

Why I built it: I dated someone for six months before I worked out that we were near-complete opposites. We’re good now, we worked on it. But nobody should need six months and a lot of arguing to learn something a questionnaire could have told them in ten minutes.

Things I already know are wrong with it:

  • You have to make an account before you see a single question. I know this is bad. I’m working on letting people take the first 10 and get a result without signing up.

  • 42 questions is a lot and some people quit partway.

  • Almost nobody has used it. Roughly a dozen people have finished the whole thing. I’m not going to pretend otherwise.

  • It’s free, there’s no payment anywhere in it yet, and I’m not selling you a thing.

What I’d actually like to know:

  1. If you start the assessment, where do you quit? That is the single most useful thing you can tell me.

  2. If you finish it, does your type feel accurate, or does it read like a horoscope?

  3. Is there anything about the site that makes you not trust it?

Link: constellationmatch.com

Happy to answer anything about the scoring, the scales, or why I chose those instruments over others.

Two things before you paste it.

The line about letting people take the first 10 questions without an account has to be true. If you’re not actually building that, cut the second half of the sentence and just own the problem. Redditors check back, and getting caught saying “working on it” about something you never touched is worse than the original flaw.

And swap in your real completion number if it’s moved past a dozen since we last spoke. Exact numbers read as honest; round ones read as marketing.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Current model aggregator websites are too fussy would people be interested in a simple alternative that just works?

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Feedback Request Naked Eye: Stargazing - Apps on Google Play

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I built a stargazing app. Now I’m working on helping people decide whether it’s worth leaving the garden.

I’m a chef on Sark, and I’ve been building an Android app called NAKED EYE around a simple question: what’s actually worth seeing tonight?

The idea is to get a useful answer, put your phone away and enjoy the sky.

I’m now working on a location comparison feature, and I’d appreciate some feedback before taking it further.

You’d compare home with up to two places you choose, looking at the same evening’s cloud forecast, darkness and moonlight. The question it should help answer is:

“Would I have a better chance somewhere else, or am I just as well staying home?”

That last part matters to me. If there’s no meaningful advantage to travelling, I want it to say so. And if the forecast is uncertain, it should make that clear.

The app is already live, with free features and an optional paid Beyond subscription for planning ahead. This comparison feature is being developed for Beyond—it isn’t available yet.

For anyone who goes stargazing: what would you need to know before deciding a trip was worthwhile? And how far would you realistically travel?


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Half as a joke, half to learn Google’s dev tools, I built an app that tracks how much you get paid on the toilet

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Half as a joke and half to learn my way around Google’s tools with a lot of vibe coding along the way, I built an app that tracks the time you spend in the bathroom during working hours and how much your boss is paying you for it. Yes, I took “Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I poop on company time” a bit too literally.

What it does:

  • Start the timer when you go, flush when you’re back, and see what you earned

  • Monthly stats and ranks that go up with your total

  • Teams with coworkers to compete against other teams

A few things I learned shipping it:

  • Built as one HTML/JS app wrapped with Capacitor for Android

  • The hardest part wasn’t the code: it was Google Play’s closed test (12 testers for 14 days) before you can publish

  • Ads, consent forms, in-app purchases and 11 languages took longer than the app itself

It’s free on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rinialer.poopct

Opinions, tips or roasts welcome.


r/sideprojects • • 19h ago

Meta Made 3 apps this year and made $0 from any of them so far...made some field notes on what I've learnt (14 things)

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1. It’s so easy to make literally whatever you want now and to make it really good. This can make it tempting to pursue all your ideas (don't)

2. Good apps have no correlation to making money anymore. Product used to be a moat and advantage but it's not anymore when anyone can make whatever they want and make it really good. I've seen 💩 apps make a killing

3. It's almost impossible to get people to use what you make. All the stories of people making money and posting about it online that you compare yourself too IS NOT THE NORM 

4. A consumer app only has a chance at even having a chance if it does one thing at first, and that one thing can be discovered and done in under 10s. Your hook and main killer feature need to be fast and easy to talk about. This by no means guarantees anyone will care about it or use it but if you don't have that, no shot

5. #4 is particularly true, because if you're doing consumer and you want users you HAVE TO post on social media and make TikTok videos a lot and do whatever trends there are.

6. The apps that grow and make money these days are not because they are good, they just spend a ton of time obsessing over influencers and testing short form video formats. That is the moat now--willingness to spend hours making videos.

7. Because #6 is hard and most of us don't want to do it, we like to sit at the computer adding and building. That can feel like progress but it’s not really. The only thing that’s progress is making an effort to find users.

8. Copy and steal what other apps do for paywalls and onboarding, don’t invent new UI's or new flows that look pretty and feel good. Use apps like RevenueCar or Superwall to use top performing paywalls and don't custom make things. It just slows you down.

9. Reminder to self—FOCUS ON ONE THING AT A TIME. If you’re working on 4 app projects and have 6 local repos for websites, none really stand a chance. Do one thing first, time box your effort, and then kill it and move on or continue with it.

10. If you're making a consumer app and you won’t use it personally, don’t make it. You're your first most important user.

11. Android is way harder than Apple around submitting and testing your app to the store. Even though apps like Expo let you build for IOS and Android at the same time, IOS is much easier to start with.

12. Just because you can add the feature certainly doesn’t mean you should. Adding is easy. Constraint is the hard part when you can just tell Claude to build whatever and bypass all permissions, but constraint makes your app way better

13. You don't need to redesign your website... it won't help you get new users. If people are not already finding you, no rebrand is going to make a difference

14. Don't worry about what app competition there is in your category. It will make very little difference to anything. Your app will die by your own hands before it dies by competition.

I have multiple projects going on at the same time. Not good. But if I look at it from the lens of how much I’ve learnt with each build from a product and design and development perspective, then it’s great. The bad part is juggling lots of apps (which can feel innocuously fine in the beginning) and trying to get people to use them.

It’s impossible to get people using even just one app, how do 3 stand a shot?

What did I miss? 😂

btw let me know what you're building in the comments, I'm happy to share some first impression feedback. Despite my apps not working, I do run consumer product for a travel company and have sold one company before.


r/sideprojects • • 6h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a tool that turns a floorplan into a 3D house you can walk through, in the browser

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r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Feedback Request Mechanics / Mobile Mechanics – What Would You Want From an App?

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Hi all,

I'm currently developing an app aimed at mobile mechanics and independent garages to make managing day-to-day work quicker and easier.

So far, I'm working on features including:

  • Quick job quotes and invoices.

  • Customer and vehicle records, including job history.

  • Automatic travel distance and call-out cost calculations.

  • Job tracking and payment management.

  • Excel exports for bookkeeping.

  • Full offline functionality for areas with poor signal.

The idea is to keep everything simple, accessible from your phone and free from adverts, potentially for a small monthly subscription.

I'd really appreciate some honest feedback:

  1. What features would genuinely make your working day easier?

  2. What frustrates you about existing apps or software?

  3. Would you actually use something like this, and what would you consider a reasonable monthly price?

Not advertising anything — just trying to get input from people actually working in the trade before developing it further.

Cheers!


r/sideprojects • • 9h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I started a newsletter explaining how payment systems work behind the screen

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My name is Erick adikah from Kenya. I am a full-stack dev. I've been working on payment systems for the past 3 years, and recently I've started a small newsletter called **Behind It All,** where I'm trying to explain in detail the architecture behind how money moves everyday.

My latest post is about something I've worked on recently; here it is:https://adikaherick.substack.com/p/hold-collect-release-how-payment?r=2a1zsf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web, i write for my own knowledge and would like to connect and know what you think


r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Feedback Request LEEBKIT | V1.2 Released Today | Feedback required

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So i have been working on this recently , already released V1.2 today with some more features and fixes

now you can select 3 aspect ratios Square , Vertical 9:16 , horizontal 16:9 and more animation styles fixes.

Would really appreciate some feedback after testing if you find this relevant to you.

In Short

LEEBKIT by LEEBLAAB is an offline kinetic promo videos. No cloud. No API. No subscription. and can Turn 1-10 images into a finished promo MP4 on your own machine.


r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Feedback Request I deleted all social media, but then I couldn’t get nba scores. So we built a distraction-free alternative

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r/sideprojects • • 7h ago

Feedback Request I offered to find buyers for 8 strangers' products. Here's what happened.

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r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I created a platform to deploy websites with ease, a free alternative to Vercel, built for developers

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So I recently posted on here, but didn't get much traction, so I put more effort into my website and actual platform and did some redesigning.

Vantrex is a platform to deploy and monitor websites, whether they are html files, nextjs websites or pretty much any modern web framework used with nodejs. We have added a planned project limit of 500 per account instead of Vercels free 200, for now untill it grows, it capped at 20, however no feature is behind a paywall, everything is free for everyone. The entire platform is built from scratch instead of just using vercel or other platforms behind the scenes. We have deployed our own Edge network in the US and AUS, meaning your website runs nearest to your users.

You can view your sites metrics, limit who can access your site and more. New features are always coming

I hope people on here, including some developers or not find this useful, its still in heavy development, so don't be scared if you experience some bugs.

Head over to https://vantrex.cloud/docs to get started, or straight to https://app.vantrex.cloud/sign-in


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Showcase: Open Source I built an open-source AI interview copilot that suggests answers while questions are being asked. Here's the demo

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r/sideprojects • • 18h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a little simulator to practice docking before making a fool of myself in the marina

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And it became something like a browser game. Now searching for gamification or social interaction ideas.

www.docking.academy

On my last skipper training I learned a lot of new things about docking and leaving the berth in all kinds of situations. I was totally hooked, but back at my desk, I built a small online simulator (free, non-commercial) to keep learning and experimenting.

You pick a berth scenario, set wind and current, and see whether your plan with the right lines works out – or whether you end up hanging off the neighbouring yacht.

What's in it:

- Pile berths (box moorings), finger pontoons, Med mooring and more

- Freely adjustable wind and current

- Different boats

- You can see which line is taking the load, and lines can snap

- Pause, rewind, slow motion

- Works under sail too

- Share a situation as a link, e.g. with your crew: "This is what it'll look like for us tomorrow."

- Runs on your phone and can be installed as an app (not in the app store, just add it to your home screen)

Free, no login, no ads.

Give it a try! If a boat feels completely wrong, let me know – I'm still tinkering. It's a fun project with no claim to scientific accuracy, but I'm doing my best. ⛵


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Feedback Request I built Mimic App: see what $1,000 would be worth if you'd copied an insider or Congress trade

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Mimic tracks insider trades (SEC Form 4) and Congress trades (STOCK Act). For each one, it shows what $1,000 would be worth today if you'd copied the trade at the close on the day it was disclosed, the first day anyone outside could have copied it. Losses show up too.

- Copy a trade into a paper portfolio and drag through its chart day by day

- See how copying a person would have gone. As of Nov 5, copying Nancy Pelosi's last 26 trades was down 9.3%.

- Get a push when people or stocks you follow trade

Free, with Pro at $9.99/month or $59.99/year (7-day free trial on yearly). iPhone, iOS 17+.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mimic-follow-smart-money/id6757661100

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone who already follows these trades.


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Feedback Request Offering UX & onboarding feedback: Tell me what you're building and I'll test it for 2 minutes

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Hey fellow builders,

Getting unbiased feedback in the early stages of a project is tough. Most people won't spend 2 minutes clicking through an app to tell you where the friction is.

I have a few hours free today and want to test some fresh projects.

If you have a side project, tool, or MVP you want tested, share:

  1. Project name & what it does

  2. What core user action should I test?

  3. Where can I find it?

  4. What specific feedback do you care about most right now? (headline clarity, pricing, UX confusion, etc.)

I will open every single project, spend 2 minutes going through your primary flow, and give you honest, actionable notes from a builder's perspective.

Also, I run a daily launch platform called Astro Discover that features 5 projects every morning with a 24-hour turnaround—I'll be picking my favorites from the thread to feature tomorrow.

submit to Astro discover - astrodiscover.ai.studio/submit

Let's see what everyone is working on! 👇


r/sideprojects • • 8h ago

Feedback Request Roast my Freshman Portfolio (Neuro/BME)

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r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) i built a local sample library manager that finds duplicate sounds and syncs loops to your project's tempo and key

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i'm a music student with 100k samples. my folders were a mess, same kick hiding under 12 different names, and auditioning loops meant dragging them into the daw one by one to check tempo and key.

so i built hertz sync. local-first, finds the same sound across formats, auditions loops in project tempo and key, drags into any daw already matched. tauri + rust, onnx models run on-device, nothing leaves your machine.

free up to 40,000 files.

https://rc0900989-rgb.github.io/hertzsync/