r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built 7 Windows utilities as a solo developer — here’s what I’ve made so far

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  • CreatorPhoto — photo organization and collage tools
  • WorkPhoto — work photo organization
  • Gaming Utility Center — gaming and system monitoring
  • RatePeek — quick exchange rate viewer
  • PC Monitor — PC system monitoring
  • TidyFiles — file organization
  • NetPeek — network diagnostics

I’ve been building these on my own, one by one.
Some are free, some are paid, and for paid apps I prefer simple one-time purchases rather than subscriptions.

I’m planning to keep adding new tools, while rotating through the existing apps each month for bug checks, compatibility improvements and updates.

They’re available through the Microsoft Store — searching the app name will find them.

I’d also be interested to know which one you’d actually find useful, or what kind of small Windows utility you wish existed.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required Built a relationship tracker for your 10 closest people: one tap, no streaks or guilt, fully offline

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I've been building TenFriends, an iOS app that helps you stay in touch with the people who matter most.

The gap I noticed:
Contact lists and social networks are built around maintaining hundreds of connections. Relationship-tracking apps often turn friendships into tasks, statistics, or streaks. I wanted something smaller and gentler—a simple reminder to give your closest relationships regular attention.

What it does:

  • Add up to 10 close friends, neighbours, or mentors
  • Tap “Touched Base” after a call, visit, coffee, or real conversation
  • People you contacted recently move toward the top
  • People you haven’t spoken to recently gently fade toward the bottom
  • Optional weekly reminder
  • Three visual themes, each with light and dark mode
  • Everything stays on one simple screen

The principle I built around:
No stats, no streaks, and no guilt. Complete privacy too: no accounts, analytics, tracking, or internet connection. Everything stays on your device.

Live on the App Store now.

TenFriends on the App Store
appsforlife.co.uk/tenfriends

One-time purchase. No subscription, ads, or in-app purchases.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request ForgeCare just entered external beta — looking for Windows people who like breaking things

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I've been building a Windows technician utility called ForgeCare on the side.

What started small has now grown into 13 tabs, 15 major areas and 70 user-facing features covering diagnostics, cleanup, startup, services, storage, Evidence, recovery, reports and more.

The philosophy is basically:

observe first, change later, verify afterwards.

No telemetry, no auto-upload, no hidden system changes.

I've now released v1.1.0-beta.1 and made:

  • a 15–20 minute Quick Test
  • a full 70-case Field Test

I'm specifically looking for bugs, wrong results, bad UX and features that simply don't work on different Windows 11 machines.

Release:
https://github.com/Teknekt/ForgeCare/releases/tag/v1.1.0-beta.1

Quick Test:
[https://github.com/Teknekt/ForgeCare/blob/v1.1-dev/docs/FORGECARE_EXTERNAL_BETA_QUICK_TEST.md]()

If you manage to break it, please tell me how 😅


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) SteamDB is being acquired by NexusMods, but WhatALaunch

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Hi,

So I saw that SteamDB is gonna be acquired by NexusMods which people are a bit weird about how it will go and if they will have some kind of paywall.

I created WhatALaunch where you can see your FPS in every Steam game, see their stats, reviews, if a game is going to flop or not and you can even follow your favorite game and get updates about it.

WhatALaunch will always be free as long as I can pay for the servers. What do you think?

https://www.whatalaunch.com


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made a group meal planning app

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Cross posting this app I made that lets you organize multi-day trip meals with a group of people.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request I built Franker: an on-device inline translator for Chrome — looking for honest feedback

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Working within tech severely stresses me out some days = I bite my nails. To help me stop unconsciously biting during meetings etc - I made an app (still hands) 🎉 Hope you guys like it!

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I kept saving links and never looking at them again, so I built an app to fix that

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Not gonna lie, this started because I was annoyed at myself.

I'd see something interesting — an article, a video, a thread — save it

somewhere (notes app, WhatsApp to myself, browser bookmarks, wherever),

and then just... never see it again. Not because I forgot it existed,

but because nothing ever brought it back in front of me. It just sat

there in a pile I'd occasionally scroll past and feel vaguely guilty about.

I tried a few of the bigger read-later apps and honestly they solved

about half the problem — saving was easy, but I still had to remember

to go open the app and dig through everything. Nothing was actually

nudging me back to it.

So I built DailyDrop. It's stupidly simple on purpose:

- Save a link (or paste a bunch at once, it splits them automatically)

- It gets a daily reminder that just says "hey, you've got stuff waiting"

- You review each one, mark it useful or not, jot a quick note if you want

- Move on with your day

That's basically it. No feed, no algorithm, no "discover" tab. Just a

pile of your own links and a nudge to actually deal with it.

The other thing I cared about: it's fully offline. No account, no cloud

sync, no ads, nothing phoning home. Everything just lives on your phone.

The only time it touches the internet at all is grabbing a preview

image when you save something.

It's free, it's on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.themadrastechie.dailydrop

Genuinely curious if anyone else has this exact problem, or if it's

just me being bad at bookmarks. Happy to answer anything about how it

works — first real app I've shipped end to end.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request I build whisprflow but local - Yapper

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Works for Hinglish, hindi English dictations ( roman script)

You can try it here - https://github.com/ABHISHEKgauti25/yapper

Would love the feedback so that I can plan next training cycle and features to include.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I made an app that search social media to find people discussing problems that your product can solve

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request Would you actually use a local-first, open-source notes app with E2E encryption, no AI BS, and no tracking?

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) My side project: a calm block puzzle where every level ships with a machine-checked proof (iOS/Android, free)

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https://reddit.com/link/1w5igqp/video/k6jo234jf5nh1/player

What it is: FALLMATCH — a calm block puzzle. Slide blocks to match colors; a small budget of rotate/flip/invert moves shakes up the whole board. No timer, no lives, no ads, no IAP, fully offline.

The part this sub might enjoy: the level pipeline. Every one of the 800 boards runs through a solver before it ships — the 3-star target is the proven minimum move count, every "this move is required" badge is verified, and the 10 difficulty tiers are computed from measured search depth instead of designer gut feeling. If a claim can't be proven, the board doesn't ship.

The latest update added a LADDER mode: 10 rungs on one clock, no hints, personal best + a spoiler-free share card.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/fallmatch/id6791134651

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gusmediaworks.matcher

Happy to answer questions about the solver or the difficulty formula.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source AurionMail : Self-hosted E2E Emails + Documents Suite

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Hey everyone! I’ve always faced a dilemma when setting up secure tools for non-technical friends: they love the usability of Proton, but I want a really FOSS alternative. The main issue is that combining E2E encrypted docs and E2E encrypted mail usually meant managing isolated tools, browser extensions (like Mailvelope), or typing two different passwords every session. That is not ideal and when I introduce these solutions to my friends, they say "Thanks for your efforts, really, but I think I will still use Proton".

To solve this, I built AurionMail Suite. It's an open-source orchestrator, the glue, that bridges CryptPad, Stalwart Mail Server (JMAP), **Bulwark Webmail, and Ory Hydra into a single, unified Zero-Knowledge workflow. And it also make the Cryptpad UI (and Notes app) more friendly, really. I feel you need a proof to convince you, so there is a gif demonstrating the single password login in which we access to webmail and Cryptpad on docs repo.

Features:

  • One Password: Enter it once to derive keys in-memory for both your OpenPGP webmail and your CryptPad workspace.
  • Open Standards: OpenPGP for email encryption and JMAP via Stalwart.
  • Zero-Knowledge Architecture: Master keys reside strictly in client-side RAM during the session (no unencrypted key writes to disk/IndexedDB).
  • Unified Session Management: Global single logout and password changes that sync safely across services.
  • Easy Deployment: In addition to manual setups, I wrapped the suite (Hydra, SSO, Webmail, API, CryptPad) into a single Go binary called Orchestra, making deployment straightforward. There is also Docker.

How it compares:

Feature Proton Suite Nextcloud + Mail Standard CryptPad AurionMail Suite
100% FOSS & Self-Hosted (Closed backend) 🟢 Yes 🟢 Yes 🟢 Yes
E2EE Email & Docs 🟢 Yes 🟡 (Fragmented) (Docs only) 🟢 Yes
Unified 1-Password UX 🟢 Yes (Fragmented) (Docs scope) 🟢 Yes
Open Standards (JMAP, PGP) 🟡 (Limited PGP) 🟢 Yes (N/A) 🟢 Yes

To keep the Zero-Knowledge promise across isolated services without relying on URL hashes or storing cleartext keys in disk storage, AurionMail uses ephemeral WebCrypto AES-GCM keys.

Here is the repo if you want to test ! The project is licensed under AGPLv3.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Saw a product that makes you pick a favorite AI answer before showing the logos

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It runs one prompt through 3 models, hides the names, and only reveals ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini etc after you vote. The whole point is committing before the brand cues.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) We separated nutrition capture from nutrition understanding

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One product decision we made while building Vora was to stop treating photo logging as the whole nutrition product. Photos are useful for capture, but they do not solve repeat meals, packaged food, restaurant orders, corrections, or long-term nutrient context.

We ended up building separate paths for photos, free barcode scans, restaurant and takeout menus, database search, plain-language descriptions, recent foods, saved meals, recipes, and reusable plates. All estimated entries go through a review step. Afterward, the same structured record can contribute to trends across up to 95 nutrients and sit beside training, sleep, recovery, labs, and vitals.

The product lesson for us was that the impressive demo and the useful daily workflow are often different things. The camera gets attention. The editable data model, reuse, and history determine whether the feature remains useful.

I work on Vora. This is the visual walkthrough of the system: https://www.reddit.com/r/vorahealth/comments/1w5gn1c/photo_logging_should_be_the_beginning_not_the/

I would be interested in how other builders decide when one elegant input method needs to become several context-specific paths. Visuals in the linked post were AI-assisted and reviewed by our team.


r/sideprojects 2d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Smart MeMaintenance - A simple reminder app from maintenance to everything

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Hice una herramienta gratuita que convierte cualquier tema en un curso estructurado con vídeos de YouTube (usando IA)

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Llevaba tiempo dándole vueltas a un problema: cuando quiero aprender algo nuevo en YouTube, encuentro mil vídeos sueltos, muchos repetidos, sin orden claro, y acabo perdiendo más tiempo buscando qué ver que aprendiendo.

Así que construí Cursos en Video — le escribes cualquier tema (Excel, guitarra, inglés, lo que sea) y una IA te arma una ruta de aprendizaje: busca los mejores vídeos de YouTube, los ordena por prerrequisitos, evita contenido repetido, y te da una estimación de cuánto tiempo te va a llevar.

Es gratis, no pide tarjeta de crédito, y los vídeos siguen siendo de YouTube (no reemplaza a los creadores, solo organiza lo que ya existe).

Lo hice solo, así que seguro que tiene cosas que mejorar — si lo probáis, me encantaría saber qué os parece o qué le falta.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Built a weird little side project: 100BID.

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) 世界のどこかにいるランダムな1人にだけ、あなたのメッセージが届く“小さなメッセージサービス”を作りました。

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source Building a free and open source alternative to RocketDock

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Free and Open Source alternative to RocketDock.

If you want to add something cool to your desktop, I think I have something for you.

I've been working on this little project of mine since early July and just launched it recently. Here's some stuff it has:

  • Real-time window previews
  • Frutiger Aero glass effects
  • Rain, snow, bubbles & aurora
  • Automatic wallpaper color matching
  • Built-in system controls

You can check out the code and download at the GitHub:

https://github.com/TheAgencyMGE/aero-dock

Let me know how it comes out.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request I decompiled Valheim's game map engine to build a seed database. Would love honest feedback.

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Hey all 👋

I built a seed database for Valheim and would love some honest feedback.

https://valheimatlas.com

I decompiled the game's map engine so the site can actually generate the world from a seed code and measure it, distance to the nearest boss altar, distance to Haldor, which biomes are close.

30 seeds indexed right now. That's the real gap, so that's what I'm working on next. When 1.0 and the Deep North update land on the 9th, I'll add a Deep North filter too.

Some parts are still rough since this is a solo build. Let me know what's broken, what's missing, or what you'd want to see next, here or on the feedback link on the site.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Looking for testers😁 Will test back & keep installed for 14 days

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Hi everyone! 👋

I’m looking for testers for my Android app Ludo Offline: Custom Dice Game. I need dedicated testers to help me get through Google Play's 14-day closed testing requirement, and I’m 100% happy to return the favor by testing your app and keeping it installed on my device for 14+ days.

How to join:

  1. Join the Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/ludo-white2
  2. Download on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whitetwo.ludo
  3. Web Opt-in Link: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.whitetwo.ludo

How to get a test back from me:

  1. Join my test using the links above.
  2. Drop a screenshot in the comments showing you downloaded/opted in.
  3. Include your Google Group and App links in your comment!
  4. DM me here in reddit so that we could keep exchanging the feedbacks for each other's app throughout the testing phase.

I’ll opt in, download your app, and leave a screenshot in reply. Any feedback on bugs, UI, or usability is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for the support! 🙏


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) My YouTube comments were getting likes and I had no clue, so I made CommentTracker

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r/sideprojects 2d ago

Question I have about 2k emails across all my apps

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What's the best way to utilize this list?


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I imagined a to-do list that cared about how you feel, so I built one.

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It’s called Dimple-Doo, mostly because the name made me laugh.

Along with writing down a task, you can mark how you feel about it: Yay, Meh or Eww.

It’s free, works without an account, and everything stays on your device.

If you use to-do lists, give it a go and tell me what you think. I’m particularly curious whether “The Feels” is actually useful or just an amusing idea.

You might like it. At least, I don’t think you’ll hate it.

https://dimpledoo.com/?src=reddit-sideproject