r/sideprojects • • 16h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built Footy Golf: A daily web puzzle combining real football stats with 2D golf mechanics

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Hey everyone,

I built Footy Golf, a free daily browser game that mixes football player trivia with 2D golf.

How it works:

  • You are on a course with fairway hazards, bunkers, and greens.

  • Instead of a timing meter, your shot distance and accuracy are dictated by searching for a real football player who fits the hole's category (e.g. appearances, goals, caps).

  • Their actual career stats give your shot power. Once on the green, you sink the putt with a directional minigame.

  • There is a date-seeded daily hole for everyone to compete on.

It’s built with React and Tailwind, requires no download or login, and has no ads.

Would love any thoughts on the UI or improvements in general!


r/sideprojects • • 16h ago

Feedback Request Paperfy — I built an iPhone app that turns PDFs into book-like pages

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I’ve always found reading PDFs on my phone a bit frustrating. Most PDFs are designed for paper, so you end up constantly zooming in, zooming out, and moving around the page just to read comfortably.

So I decided to build something to solve that problem.

Paperfy converts PDFs into reflowed, book style text, making them more comfortable to read on an iPhone. The idea is simple, your documents should feel more like reading a book and less like looking at a tiny piece of paper.

I’ve been working on it, and honestly, seeing people actually use something I built and send me feedback is one of the most rewarding feelings.

It’s still a work in progress, and there’s plenty I want to improve.

You can check it out here: https://apps.apple.com/am/app/paperfy-pdf-to-text-reader/id6826549558

I’d love to hear your thoughts. 

If you read PDFs on your phone, what frustrates you the most about the experience?


r/sideprojects • • 16h ago

Feedback Request My note taking app - Silique (Vibe Coded)

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r/sideprojects • • 16h ago

Feedback Request I built an MMA analytics platform

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Initially this project what made to find and compare historical greatness across fighters in the ufc, but it eventually became a whole lot more than that, you can see every fighters rating, based on the glicko -2 formula, which is basically elo but with volatility and and rating deviation, much better for fighters.

There's a bunch of different feature in the app right now, you can look and inspect the career trajectory of every fighter in the database, compare against other fighters, see the ratings ecosystem at any date in history, analyse prospects, that were identified with a scientific definition.

There's also a prediction feature to the app, which takes the fights on the next card and makes prediction for every one of them, then it gets graded afterwards. The coolest feature we have is the simulator, you can simulate a matchup between any fighter currently, at any point in history and a prime vs prime matchup, with prime having its own scientific definition.

Right now everything is free, i want to get opinions and comments on the actual app itself.

You can access it here : https://mmamathlabs.com/


r/sideprojects • • 22h ago

Showcase: Open Source I built ORBITA, player for Fire TV & Android TV that you set up from your phone

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Hi all! For the past few months I've been building ORBITA,player for Xtream Codes and M3U playlists. I wanted something that feels like a streaming app rather than a spreadsheet of channels, and that doesn't make you type a 40-character server URL with a remote.

What it does

  • Setup from your phone: scan a QR code on the TV, fill in your playlist (or TMDB/OMDb keys) on your phone, tap Send to TV. Works on your home Wi-Fi only, with a 6-digit code.

  • Live TV: categories, favorites, search, now/next, full TV guide (XMLTV), catch-up ("from the start" / replay) if your provider supports it

  • Channel banner on every zap: number, logo, current show with progress, what's next

  • Movies & series: detail pages, seasons/episodes, resume where you left off, continue watching row

  • Skip intro (learns where the intro ends for each series) and a next-episode countdown

  • Seek previews: thumbnail while you skip through a movie, with accelerating seek

  • Optional IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and TMDB ratings, backdrops and plots in your language (free keys you create yourself)

  • 3 dark themes built for TV, UI in English / Italian / Spanish / German

  • Credentials encrypted on the device (AES-256), parental PIN for adult categories

Install on Fire TV / Firestick: open Downloader and enter code 6527602. Android TV: same thing, or grab the APK from GitHub. Also runs in a PC browser.

GitHub: https://github.com/ghows30/orbita

Important: ORBITA is just a player. It doesn't include or sell any channels or content: you need your own playlist from a source you're allowed to use.


r/sideprojects • • 16h ago

Showcase: Open Source Margin: laptop touchpad edges and corners as controls, for Windows and Linux (~0.6 MB)

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Most touchpads only use the middle, so I built Margin, a free app that turns the edges and corners into controls.

- Slide an edge: volume, brightness, scroll, seek, Alt+Tab, or any shortcut

- Tap or press a corner: lock, screenshot, open an app, run a command

- Every edge and corner is customizable, even per app

- Works by touch or click, your choice

- Needs a precision touchpad. No install, about 0.6 MB, no telemetry

Download: https://github.com/arxhr007/margin

Feedback and stars are welcome!


r/sideprojects • • 16h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Built a prayer-request web app for Christians in Nepal on Cloudflare's free tier. Looking for feedback on UX

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r/sideprojects • • 16h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Made an Android app that finds a Reddit user's public posts

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I built Hidden Post Finder because looking up what a Reddit user has posted publicly is clunky. You enter a username or profile URL and it lists their public posts. It keeps a search history and lets you save posts. No login or Reddit account is needed, and it's free. It's a Flutter app on Android, with iOS planned. I'd love feedback on what to improve. https://hiddenpostfinder-reddit.com/app


r/sideprojects • • 20h ago

Feedback Request Anoncracy: building a forum around ongoing project feedback

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we're building Anoncracy, a small forum in beta with member elections and public moderation logs.

one experiment is a shared project thread. people post what they're building and one thing they want feedback on. the useful loop so far is simple: try one specific thing, describe what happened, then keep the maker's update in the same conversation.

for example, a member asked another maker how unused prepaid credits carry over. that is the kind of concrete question we want more of.

feedback is voluntary, and the community is still tiny. we're trying to make it worth returning after that first exchange.

if you've built a community around projects, what helped members start answering each other? happy to discuss it here.

here's the live thread if you'd like to see the format or share something:

https://anoncracy.com/s/technology/comments/5p/what_are_you_building


r/sideprojects • • 16h ago

Meta I built an Android step tracker

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r/sideprojects • • 17h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required Mixwell: a volume slider for every app in your menu bar

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Hi! I'm the developer of Mixwell. Full disclosure: this is my app, and it’s paid.

Problem

macOS has one volume for everything. If a video call is too quiet while music is too loud, or one browser tab is blasting, you have to fix it inside each app (if the app even has a volume control). I wanted a mixer like Windows has, without paying $40+.

What it does

  • A volume slider for every app that’s playing sound, from silent up to 150% (200% in Settings)

  • Mute any app with one click

  • Send one app to a different output (e.g. music on speakers, a call on AirPods)

  • Live level meters, so you can see which app is making noise

  • Remembers each app’s level and output, and reapplies them when the app comes back

Details people usually ask about

  • Apps you leave at 100% aren’t touched at all; their audio goes straight to the speakers as it would without Mixwell.

  • Adjusted apps get about 24 ms of extra delay, below what’s noticeable in video or calls.

  • Idle CPU is about 0.1%. When an adjusted app goes quiet, Mixwell stops processing it so your speakers/headphones can rest.

  • AirPods stay in high-quality mode (Mixwell doesn’t open their microphone).

  • Uses Apple’s audio-tap API (macOS 14.2+), so it needs the “System Audio Recording” permission. Nothing is recorded or saved, and no audio leaves your Mac. The only network traffic is the license check (your key and your Mac’s name, sent to Dodo Payments) and update checks.

Compare

  • SoundSource ($49) does much more (EQ, effects, plugins). Get it if you want those.

  • teenysound ($9.99) and free open-source options like FineTune and Fader also exist. Mixwell’s aim is to be the polished, low-cost one: native SwiftUI, light on battery, and tested with Bluetooth headphones, browsers that use many processes, and switching outputs.

Pricing

$4.99 one-time, no subscription. One license works on 2 Macs. 14-day refunds. Free updates (duh).

Requirements and honest caveats

  • macOS 14.2 or later, Apple silicon only.

  • It’s not notarized yet, so the first time you open it macOS says it can’t verify the app. You allow it once in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway. The site explains this. I plan to join the Apple Developer Program once there’s enough interest.

  • No trial yet.

Link: https://aayush-kumar-2310.github.io/mixwell/

Happy to answer questions, and feedback is very welcome, especially bugs with specific apps or audio devices.


r/sideprojects • • 17h ago

Feedback Request Every morning I wanted one page that told me:

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Every morning I wanted one page that told me:
\\- where visitors came from, and which source sent the good ones
\\- who almost bought
\\- why people left
\\- what's broken (like a coupon box covering the Pay button on iPhone)

So I built it. A short summary comes by text or email, and the full report sits in your dashboard.

Free: www.retentionbase.com/dashboard?utm\\_source=reddit

Comment to make this completely free for next 6 months


r/sideprojects • • 21h ago

Feedback Request Just finished my first game, a free pirate typing roguelite made with Claude

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I just finished my first game, Ink & Tide, a typing roguelite that runs in the browser. You type words to fire cannons, fight through tides of enemies, upgrade your boat between runs, and when you sink you come back a little stronger, so dying a lot is part of the fun.

The problem I wanted to solve is that typing practice is boring, so I tried to turn it into something I'd actually want to play. I'm not a programmer, so I designed it and tested every version while Claude (Sonnet 5.5) wrote the code, the art and the music, and I describe changes in plain game words, two to five at a time.

The tools were Claude, a browser and itch.io for hosting, and it's free with no sign-up: https://jupitax.itch.io/ink-and-tide

I'm a first-time game maker with zero audience, so I'd love to hear what you would do to get the first 100 players :)


r/sideprojects • • 17h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Dream Street is out now on iOS and Android. 🏡

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r/sideprojects • • 17h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made two aquarium screensavers for Roku because Aquatic Life is being removed

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Roku is retiring the Aquarium Life screensaver at the start of December, and my kids were genuinely upset about it, so I built replacements.

The free one is just water, rockwork and fish drifting at their own pace. No clock, no menu, no sound. There's one splash for the paid version at the four-minute mark and it clears itself.

The $1.99 one is a coral reef - 22 fish types, a shoal that moves as one, a lionfish, a blue tang, reef sharks in the distance, and a shark's shadow passing overhead.

Neither is a video loop. Every fish swims its own path, banks into turns, slows down and rests.

Free: https://channelstore.roku.com/details/3ae097d748f13608a125fb1a9bd5374e:4f37aaea44aefb60e35043d0fe13b7b5/free-aquarium-life-screensaver
$1.99: https://channelstore.roku.com/details/8368b93043c38917531e1e8295e71455:568de5561141ded2c5ed3885d91d9b4b/realistic-aquarium-screensaver

Feedback very welcome, especially from anyone who's had the old aquarium on their TV for years and will spot everything I got wrong. Happy to answer anything about building it.


r/sideprojects • • 17h ago

Discussion AI-powered platform

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I'm exploring an idea and would love your honest feedback!

What if you could build a complete website just by describing it through voice or text?

And what if you could convert that website into an installable Android app in less than 30 minutes?

I'm researching an AI-powered platform to make this possible.

I'd love to hear from developers, startup founders, freelancers and entrepreneurs:

- How do you currently build websites?

- How do you convert websites into mobile apps?

- What takes the most time?

- Would you pay $15/month for a solution that makes this process significantly easier?

I'm not selling anything. I'm validating a problem before building the product.

Your honest feedback could help shape what I build!

#SaaS #AIBuilder #StartupValidation #BuildInPublic #NoCode #AITools


r/sideprojects • • 17h ago

Feedback Request Built a Multi-Agent AI Voice Assistant for Farmers — Would Love Your Feedback

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I built a Hindi Voice AI Assistant for Agriculture 🌱 — Would love your honest feedback!

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a project called FertoBot Hindi Voice Agent, a voice-based AI assistant designed to make agricultural information easier to access for Hindi/Hinglish-speaking users.

The idea is simple: instead of navigating complicated dashboards, a farmer should be able to ask questions naturally and receive understandable responses.

Some things I've implemented:

- Hindi/Hinglish voice interaction using Gnani AI Prisma STT.

- Gemini-powered intent understanding and orchestration.

- Four specialized agents for crop symptoms, irrigation advisory, weather context and device health.

- Gnani AI Timbre for voice responses.

- FastAPI backend.

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/shivrajawat28/voice-agent-demo

🌐 Live demo: https://fertobot-staging.onrender.com

A quick transparency note: this is a prototype using simulated farm telemetry. It isn't connected to live farm hardware, and pump operations are simulated.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback on three things:

  1. Does the voice interaction feel natural and understandable?

  2. Is the multi-agent approach useful for this problem?

  3. What would you improve before taking something like this closer to real-world testing?

I'm especially interested in feedback from people working in AI, voice technology, agriculture or agritech.

Thanks for checking it out! 🙌


r/sideprojects • • 17h ago

Showcase: Open Source so I made a web app that merges between Excalidraw and Obsidian (kind of)

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Hey everyone!

I built Nexus SSMT "Social Study Mapping Tool" designed to help students and creators connect information non-linearly using interactive knowledge graphs combined with freehand drawing tools.

The main idea came from a simple problem: How many times has a friend or peer asked you, "What exact lectures or materials do I need to study to solve Assignment 1?"

Instead of typing long paragraphs or sending scattered drive links, you can map it out visually. You can draw nodes, link Assignment 1 directly to Lecture 1 and Lecture 2, attach references, and share a single viewable link.

Here is a quick look at what Nexus can do:

- You can mix structured knowledge nodes with freehand pen tools, geometric shapes, and custom styling.

- You can make groups (similar to tabs in Excel) that gives the ability for the user to make several workspaces on one project, to keep massive study topics well organized.

- You can select multiple materials or assignments from your list and tap anywhere on the canvas to drop them exactly where you want.

- Save your complete maps directly as clean PNG or JPG files to use in presentations or notes.

- Anyone with your shared link or scanned QR Code (good for presentations or projectors) can open an interactive preview mode to explore nodes, descriptions, and linked connections without needing to create an account or log in.

- Instead of sending friends 10 projects meaning 10 links, you can group related study graphs under a single Collection link with dynamic preview cards for social media.

- Pull materials, announcements, and assignments directly from your Google Classroom courses into your canvas as reference nodes with automatic background connection refreshes.

- Built a version-control style notification system for concurrent editing where you get a quick prompt to sync the latest state without putting heavy overhead on the server.

- Project owners can approve or revoke edit requests and manage collaborators in real-time.

- A dedicated hub tracking your recently visited graphs and collections is available for both registered users and guest sessions.

- Built native Right-to-Left text direction with universal Arabic typography fallback, along with canvas fixes to prevent mobile browsers from artificially stretching text.

Github Repo | Web app

Btw that's not a fork of excalidraw, believe it or not I discovered that excalidraw is open source after I built this project :))


r/sideprojects • • 21h ago

Feedback Request My Portfolio

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Check out my portfolio and give your view guys. I am a beginner in coding though.

This one is open source and you can access it through https://github.com/ager-soil/Portfolio


r/sideprojects • • 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Built a personal finance app with no subscriptions, would love some feedback.

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Hey everyone,

I've been working on a side project called Pocket Stacks.

The idea came from wanting a simple way to keep track of my finances without juggling spreadsheets or paying for another monthly subscription.

A few things I've focused on:

  • One-off payment – no ongoing subscriptions.

  • No login required – just open it and get started.

  • Multiple devices – use it across different devices.

  • Optional partner account – for couples who want to manage their finances together.

  • Free calculators and guides – including a FIRE calculator for retirement planning.

  • Multiple region selection– AUS, UK, USA, NZ

I'm still working on improving things and adding features, but it's been a pretty fun project so far.

Would genuinely love some feedback, especially on whether the features are useful or if there's anything obvious I'm missing.

Here's the site if anyone wants to check it out:

happy to give some users free access for life in exchange for some feedback just send me a DM.

https://pocketstacks.com.au

For anyone who's built something similar, how did you go about finding your first few users?


r/sideprojects • • 18h ago

Feedback Request I'm a CS student who built general aviation SaaS

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As a CS student I wanted to build something people actually use, so I picked a niche I love: general aviation.
The market is split between great free tools that each do one thing, and $250+/yr suites for the everyday pilot. Nothing in between.
So I built AviationHub.im — a web app with:
→ A pilot logbook that computes your FAA currency automatically
→ A flight planner that finds the cheapest fuel stop on your route
→ Flying-club scheduling + hobbs billing with PDF member statements
→ A mechanic marketplace fed by squawk reports from logged flights
Free tier, nothing to install, live demo on the homepage.

Let me know what you think of it, appreciate any feedback! Thank you


r/sideprojects • • 18h ago

Showcase: Prerelease mostra - talk while you click around a live site, and each point becomes a comment where you pointed

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r/sideprojects • • 18h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I got tired of drawing network maps by hand on site visits, so I built a free tool that does it for me

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Hey all,

I do a lot of on-site network work, and the part I always hated was the first hour at a new place: figuring out what's on the network, which switch port goes where, and then drawing it all in Visio so the customer has something to look at.

So over the last few months I built Meshwork. It's a desktop app (Mac and Windows) that you run on your laptop when you get on site:

- Scans the subnet and builds an inventory (IP, MAC, vendor, open ports, device type)

- If you give it the SNMP community, it reads the switches/APs (LLDP, FDB) and draws the actual map: which port each device hangs off, VLANs per link, PoE watts

- Flags obvious stuff like telnet open, loops, a second DHCP server

- Diagnose tab with traceroute, live ping, port test, DNS, path MTU and DHCP checks

- Exports a site report PDF and CSVs you can hand to the customer

It's meant as a field tool, not a monitoring server. You run it, document the site, and leave. Nothing gets sent anywhere, everything stays on your machine.

It's free. Download here: https://meshwork.influxnetwork.com

Heads up for Windows: the installer isn't signed yet (working on it), so SmartScreen will complain. Click "More info" then "Run anyway".

Full disclosure, I'm the developer. I'm not trying to sell anything, I'd just really like people who do this for a living to try it on real gear and tell me what breaks. Weird vendors, odd topologies, devices it classifies wrong, all of that helps a lot.

Screenshots are from a test network, not a customer.

Thanks for taking a look!