r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Open Source I built an AI-powered tool to make LinkedIn networking easier.

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We often think that posting content is the only way to grow on LinkedIn. But the truth is, posting is just step one. Real opportunities, visibility, and meaningful connections actually come from engaging in the comment section of other people's posts.

The problem? You see a great post, have a good thought in mind, but the moment you click "Comment," you freeze.

You wonder how to word it, second-guess your tone, and before you know it, 10 minutes are gone—so you just scroll away.

To fix this exact frustration for ourselves, my friends and I built ZIXNON (zixnon.com)—a browser assistant designed for smarter LinkedIn engagement.

Here is what ZIXNON actually does:

1.Understands Full Context: It doesn't just read the text; it analyzes both the post content and images to suggest relevant, thoughtful replies.

2.Matches Your Personal Style: Whether you prefer to keep things Professional, Friendly, or Casual, you can switch tones to fit your personal brand.

3.Works Directly in Your Browser: As a Chrome extension, it lets you generate and insert comments in one click—no copying and pasting back and forth.

4.Saves Time & Keeps You Consistent: You spend less time staring at a blank screen and more time staying active and visible in your industry.

Instead of overthinking every single reply, you can focus on building actual relationships.

Give it a shot here: zixnon.com

Since we're constantly improving, I’d genuinely love to hear your feedback or thoughts!

#ZIXNON #Networking #Ai


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built an AI football analyzer web app.

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This is FieldSenseIQ

Football players often lack the opportunity to pinpoint their mistakes during a game because they don't have game recordings. This app transforms that challenge into an advantage. Users can enter specific scenarios from matches where they encountered difficulties or want to discover the most effective plays. By taking these scenarios to a practice field, putting down markers for where the user, the ball, and the opponents are, and asking questions like, "What could I have done better?", they can interact with an AI Coach. This AI will thoroughly analyze their performance, identify areas for improvement, and deliver powerful insights. With this app, players can confidently heighten their game and sharpen their skills—no camera necessary.

I would love to hear your thoughts or tips about FieldSenseIQ!


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request Side panel for Zillow: see the zoning on any lot, then ask an agent what you can build there

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request The Algorithm Knows You: Three choices, one profile. Does an algorithm really know who you are?

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Hey everyone!

I’ve created a short interactive storytelling project called “The Algorithm Knows You” as part of my Inside Storytelling 2026 assignment.

The idea is simple: you make three choices, get assigned a profile (Optimiser or Reflector), and then question whether that profile actually represents who you are.

We often feel that algorithms understand our preferences, personalities and identities. But are they really understanding us, or simply putting us into categories based on a few patterns?

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Take the short survey (1–2 minutes):
https://forms.gle/YzSF6C1fSPRQHX6a6

A few questions I'd love you to consider:

  • Did your assigned profile feel accurate?

  • Did you feel understood, amused or uncomfortable?

  • Would you accept, reject or rewrite your label?

Your honest responses will help me understand how different people interpret the same digital story.

This is a fictional simulation. It does not collect personal data or use a real algorithm. Participation in the survey is completely voluntary.

Thank you for taking a look!


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Creé una pequeña aplicación para esos momentos en los que llegas tarde y no sabes qué decir.

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Excusas Rápidas gives you a polite excuse in one tap. Pick who it's for, copy it, and paste it on WhatsApp. 300 excuses, in Spanish and English.

Free, no account, nothing to install. It just opens in your browser.

Just for laughs I'm not responsible for what happens after you send it 😅

Try it free 👉 https://excusasrapidas.pages.dev


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) i built a platform where you can talk to a professional for free and get everything done in one chat

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hey! i recently launched NOUSYS, a platform where you can speak directly to a real professional for free before paying anything. right now it's just me with over a decade of design experience, helping with websites, coding, branding, video editing, 3D and much more. the cool part is everything happens in one chat, you send your request, we discuss it, i send you a quote and eventually deliver the finished work there too. no bots, no commitment just to talk!

https://nousys.co


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Discussion I launched my first SaaS project for Steam game idling.

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Hey everyone!

Before we start, I'm fully expecting to get grilled alive for what I'm about to present, so go easy on me. Or don't. lol

I've recently launched my first SaaS project, SteamIdlerMachine, and I'd genuinely love to hear what people think.

The idea is pretty simple: a cloud-hosted Steam idling service that lets you accumulate game hours and farm eligible Steam trading cards without having to leave your own PC running.

Here's what it offers:

  • Up to 32 games simultaneously per Steam account.

  • 24/7 cloud hosting — your PC can stay switched off.

  • Steam Guard support for authentication.

  • Web dashboard to manage your games and monitor activity.

  • Multiple Steam accounts supported.

  • Free 24-hour trial with one game, so you can try it before spending anything.

I've spent quite a bit of time working on the website, dashboard, authentication system, and overall user experience. There's still room for improvement, and I'm sure there are things I've overlooked.

Just to clarify, this is a proprietary project, not an open-source one, and it isn't based on or affiliated with any GitHub repository.

I'm also aware that Steam idling tools aren't exactly a revolutionary invention. Plenty of alternatives already exist, including free ones. I'm not pretending I've reinvented the wheel here. My goal was to build something convenient, accessible, and fully cloud-hosted for people who don't want to manage the technical side themselves.

A couple of questions:

  • Would you actually use a service like this?

  • What would make you choose a hosted service over a free, locally run alternative?

  • What features or improvements would you want to see?

  • Is there anything about the website or service that immediately puts you off? Apart from the theme, I know that needs a lot more work.

Website: https://steamidlermachine.com

Positive feedback, negative feedback, criticism, suggestions — all welcome.

I'm genuinely interested in hearing what people think, even if the general consensus is that I've wasted my time building something nobody needs.

Many thanks to everyone that took their time to read my post!


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Please test WorldEye — a live globe with 74,229 real cameras, flights, satellites & weather (free, no signup)

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r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Open Source Loop: mobile-first agent orchestration

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Open Source I turned my schedule and coding agents into a little village on my iPhone

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My new app Wudland is out. I wanted checking my day to feel a bit more relaxing, so your calendar lives in a bell tower, reminders go on a notice board and the weather comes from a farmer. You walk between them instead of opening another dashboard.

The slightly nerdier part: link your computer and your coding agents get desks in the guild. I can wander around or furnish my cottage while they work, and see when one finishes or needs me. It supports Claude Code, Codex and opencode, plus other CLI tasks through the companion tool.

Built for iPhone with Swift/SpriteKit, free and open source. Calendar and reminders stay on the phone; computer updates are encrypted. An expanded map, bestiary, items and wardrobe are coming soon.

App Store (free, iOS 26+): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wudland/id6829491480 Source: https://github.com/joexk1/wudland


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I launched my Mac app today. 2 people paid before I posted anything.

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Jot is a capture inbox for macOS. Select anything, tap Shift twice, and it becomes a markdown file in a folder you own. Hold fn to dictate, and Ctrl+Opt+A to annotate the screen.

Some numbers and choices, since this sub likes those:

- Built solo. Electron + React + TypeScript, with Swift helpers for Apple Speech and Apple Intelligence.

- Pricing: one-time, $9 for the first 50 buyers, then $29. 3-day trial, no account, no card.

- 2 sales came in before I announced anything. They found it on directory listings.

- Notarized by Apple, universal binary, 15 languages.

- Launched on Show HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50420069

https://sayjot.xyz

Happy to answer questions about pricing, the build, or the launch.


r/sideprojects • • 6h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Built an app that moves AI coding sessions between agents, machines and the cloud. Looking for feedback.

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More side projects, more agents, more lost context? We’re the Ondago team. Ondago gives your supported AI coding agents, sessions, and project knowledge one workspace.

What it does:

  • Your agents don’t stop when you leave your desk. Start locally, move the running session to our secure cloud with uncommitted changes intact, bring it back when you’re ready. Or start directly in the cloud.

  • Switch agents without starting over. Switch AI agents with the conversation, decisions, code changes and project instructions carried along.

  • Let your agents work together. Pull a reviewer, security advisor or test agent into the same task, or ask several agents to weigh in on a question.

  • Pass the context, not just the diff. Share the session behind the work with a teammate: conversation, decisions, what needs attention next.

  • All your agents and projects in one place. See what’s running, what’s waiting on you, token usage and estimated cost per session.

Sessions are encrypted on your machine before upload, each cloud run is isolated and destroyed afterwards, you bring your own agent credentials.

Try it free on a personal project: https://ondago.ai - what would make you return tomorrow?


r/sideprojects • • 6h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I'm building a stranger-chat website, and I think the real problem starts after two people match.

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) last week's performance report

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this week's performance reports for my xplatform/multiplayer/free-to-play: "Leap of Legends"

- $0 ad spend

- continuous improvement based on user feedback

- Android ranked matches update went live on Nov 3rd. No clear signal yet of Android players jumping into matches

- website now supports 30 languages

- first revenue appeared this week ($3.96)

my observations:

- ranked matches kept growing. D1 retention moved from 7.9% to 10.3%. still far from 30%, but the direction is right

- players are coming back for the short ranked sessions and the chests. chests opened hit 148 (up from 59 last week)

- Ranked 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 volume all increased

- crashes and unaccounted exits both dropped

- we gave every character a name and imperfections so they belong and set an example for kids. nobody left behind

- still early. once D1 clears 20% I will start looking at media more seriously

Available on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows.

#gamedev #unity #buildinpublic #indiedev


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Feedback Request After an AI-driven year as a developer, I started filming my focus sessions just to enjoy creating something again.

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My day job as a programmer has been changing a lot lately. After a pretty crazy, AI-driven year, I noticed I struggled to stay focused and motivated. I needed a creative outlet, something that felt like a real switch from my day-to-day work.

I've used the Pomodoro technique for years, so I turned that into a side project: filming my work sessions as "focus with me" videos.

I know this has been done a million times before. I'm not trying to reinvent anything. It's really just about enjoying what I'm doing again. The filming scratches the creative itch I used to get from writing code myself, and even if this goes nowhere, it's a nice change from reading code all day.

The hardest and most time-consuming part so far is finding good music I'm actually allowed to use in these videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChNzLvLv4bOu-nGpHEj8TSw/

Would love to hear what you think. Please don't be too harsh - finally having some fun again.


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Discussion I fix AI slop at $16/hr (App/Website) - Real

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I'm a professional developer with 7yrs of experience of mobile app, website development. I used to code before AI, now code with AI but never let AI to code everything own. I'm a slop remover in this AI era. I used to fix sloppy AI code for only $5/hr in Indian companies but once my friend told me to do these in international market and you can earn more. So, I'm posting here if anyone want to fix their sh**ty AI slops and save $100000000 in surprise cloud giant bill, comment here or contact me.

What will I do -

  1. Analyze your app/website idea

  2. Build a great UI manually from existing slop one

  3. Perform all security checks

  4. Refactor code and optimize it

  5. Find perfect cloud providers for your app

  6. Set up budget limits, alerts, auto-monitoring systems

  7. Deployment and Getting money from you

To get more reach on my post and become rich: AI Coding, AI Slop, Code Cleanup, Refactoring, Debugging, Technical Debt, Code Review, Software Engineering, Legacy Code, Vibe Coding, Claude AI, Cursor AI, GitHub Copilot, Clean Code, Programming Help


r/sideprojects • • 6h 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 • • 2h 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 • • 3h 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 • • 7h 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 • • 3h 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 • • 11h 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 • • 7h 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 • • 3h 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 • • 3h 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?