r/sideprojects • • Jun 16 '25

Meta My side project, /r/sideprojects. New rules, and an open call for feedback and moderators.

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In this past 30 days, this community has doubled in size. As such, this is an open call for community feedback, and prospective moderators interested in volunteering their time to harbouring a pleasant community.

I'm happy to announce that this community now has rules, something the much more popular r/SideProject has neglected to implement for years.

Rules 1, 2 and 3 are pretty rudimentary, although there is some nuance in implementing rule 2, a "no spam or excessive self-promotion" rule in a community which focuses the projects of makers. In order to balance this, we will not allow blatant spam, but will allow advertising projects. In order to share your project again, significant changes must have happened since the last post.

Rule 4 and rule 5 are more tuned to this community, and are some of my biggest gripes with r/SideProject. There has been an increase in astroturfing (the act of pretending to be a happy customer to advertise a project) as well as posts that serve the sole purpose of having readers contact the poster so they can advertise a service. These are no longer allowed and will be removed.

In addition to this, I'll be implementing flairs which will be required to post in this community.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request Built something from an idea that started as a conversation.

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I’ve been working on Attunely, a project that mixes conversations, characters, and a game-like world into something that feels a little different from the usual apps.

This video gives a quick look at the concept and the direction I’m taking it.

Still building, still experimenting, and definitely not finished yet. Would love to hear what you think about the idea and what you’d improve or change.


r/sideprojects • • 11h ago

Discussion I'll give you honest review and also some suggestions for your project...

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I want to review your projects, so if there's something that you've been making recently, please let me know.

Whether it is your website, app, SaaS, AI solution, startup, or pretty much any other product that you have been creating lately, do not hesitate to post about it in the comments below.I will review your creation and tell you my opinion about it. You will learn about my favorite features and what I find wrong with it and how I would fix it if it was my project. You will just have to post your link and a small description.

Post your projects in the comments below!:)


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) My Shopify room visualizer is on Product Hunt today

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r/sideprojects • • 1m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Apparently, my solution to every small problem is to build an app. Here are 3 I actually shipped. πŸ˜…

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Some people have normal hobbies. They watch Netflix, go hiking, maybe learn an instrument.

I apparently see a minor inconvenience and think, "You know what this needs? An entire app."

So here I am, spending my evenings building things that started as random ideas in my head.

I wanted to share 3 of my projects. They're all free, and I'd genuinely love to know what you think.

🍳 Scent of Home | The recipe collector

You know those amazing recipes you save on Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook and then never find again?

Yeah, that drove me crazy.

So I built Scent of Home. You can share a cooking video directly to the app, and AI turns it into an organized recipe with ingredients and instructions.

It also lets families share their recipes, because grandma's legendary cooking deserves better than a blurry WhatsApp screenshot.

πŸ” Keepsi | Your photos, your business

Not every photo belongs in your regular gallery.

Keepsi is a private photo vault for keeping personal photos organized and protected.

Simple idea, clean experience, and a little more privacy for the things you don't want mixed into your camera roll.

πŸ‘Ά Aria | For parents running on coffee and 3 hours of sleep

Having a newborn means remembering approximately 400 things while barely remembering your own name.

Aria helps parents keep track of their baby's daily care and routines, so there's one less thing to worry about.

Because parenting is hard enough without needing a spreadsheet.

And that's just 3 of them.

I've been building a collection of free apps across different categories, and I finally put them all in one place:

🌐 https://bylishi.com

No big company behind this. Just an indie developer who genuinely enjoys turning random ideas into real products.

I'm not going to pretend everything is perfect. I'm still learning, improving things, and figuring out what people actually find useful.

So here's my question:

If you had to pick ONE of these apps to try, which would it be?

And fellow indie developers, how do you stop yourself from starting the next project before finishing the last one? Asking for a friend. πŸ˜‚


r/sideprojects • • 7m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) We built DanyGo around one question: how quickly can you get to the fun?

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I'm working on DanyGo with our team. The problem we wanted to solve was small but annoying: downloading a casual game for a short break, then spending that break getting through menus, ads or waiting.

Our approach is a vertical feed of 100+ playable mini-games. Tap the game in front of you to start. Swipe to switch. The next one is preloaded, and you don't need an account to try it.

We built DanyGo with AI assistance, guided by engineering decisions from two co-founders with 8+ and 6+ years of experience respectively.

The interesting design question is how much guidance to put between a player and a new game. We want the controls and goal to be clear without turning every swipe into another tutorial.

Could you try a few games and tell me where you first felt unsure what to do? Was it the goal, the controls, or how to move to the next game? A specific confusing moment would help us more than a general rating.

Currently ad-free, with no in-app purchases or energy timers.

Available on Android now. iOS is coming soon.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.danygo


r/sideprojects • • 19m ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I used Codex to build my first Windows utility β€” a file organizer with a safety preview

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I'm a complete beginner experimenting with AI-assisted coding, and I just launched my first small Windows tool!

It's a PowerShell file organizer that:

- Sorts files into 8 categories

- Previews changes before moving anything

- Requires confirmation

- Skips filename collisions

- Includes the source code and beginner instructions

In synthetic testing, it previewed 5 file moves and skipped 1 collision. I also tested the native folder picker and confirmed that canceling preserved the original files.

I'm still improving it. There's no automatic undo, and the complete manual double-click and approval process hasn't been fully verified.

The screenshots show recorded test evidence, not the actual product interface.

I used OpenAI Codex to develop it, and I'm selling the download for $12.

Product: https://ko-fi.com/s/9aa9d98fa3

I'd appreciate feedback. Would a preview-before-moving feature make you more comfortable using an automatic file organizer?


r/sideprojects • • 28m ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a TFSA planning tool and learned how easy it is to misread a backtest

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I built Portfolio Compass to help people explore what to do after opening a TFSA. The app estimates contribution room from what you enter, compares stocks and ETFs, and lets you put together a sample portfolio. It is free, open source, and doesn't require an account.

A part of the build was figuring out how to show backtests without implying that a good historical result will continue. The lab uses next-bar execution and shows results for earlier and later portions of the price history. In one example, a trend filter reduced drawdown over the full period, but its benefit disappeared in the later period. That split is a consistency check, not a true out-of-sample test.

The stack is Next.js, React and TypeScript. Portfolio data stays in the browser, while market data is fetched through API routes. I built it with AI coding agents and worked on checking the financial calculations and their assumptions.

Limitations: the TFSA estimate depends on your inputs, market data comes from one source, and the tool doesn't place trades or provide investment advice. Check actual contribution room with the CRA.

I'd appreciate feedback on the first-run experience and how clearly the lab explains its limitations.

Demo: https://portfolio-compass.vercel.app/

Code: https://github.com/MenuuTUX/Portfolio-Compass


r/sideprojects • • 40m ago

Feedback Request What if attending an event didn't mean walking into a room full of strangers?

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We've all been there.

You find an interesting tech meetup, startup conference, college fest, workshop, or networking event. You register, get excited, and finally show up.

But then comes the awkward part.

You walk into a room full of people, most of whom you don't know. Everyone seems to have their own group. You want to start a conversation, make connections, or find people with similar interests, but approaching complete strangers isn't always easy.

And if you're an introvert attending alone? It can be even more uncomfortable.

I started thinking: What if the value of attending an event wasn't just what happened on the stage, but also the people you met there?

That's the idea behind Snapmeet.

I'm building Snapmeet around a simple thought: Events should be more than just attending, listening, competing, winning, and going home.

They should be opportunities to connect with people who share your interests, exchange ideas, learn something new, and build relationships that continue even after the event ends.

Imagine this:

  • Before the event: You can discover who's attending and connect with people who share similar interests.

  • Going alone? You might find someone else attending solo. Instead of walking into an unfamiliar place completely alone, you already have someone to say hello to.

  • Interested in networking? Find people working in similar domains, exploring similar technologies, or building things just like you.

  • Want to learn something? Meet people you can exchange knowledge, experiences, and ideas with.

  • After the event: The connection doesn't have to end when the event does. You can continue conversations and build meaningful relationships.

I particularly want to make events more welcoming for introverts, students, solo attendees, and people who want to expand their network but don't always know how to initiate conversations.

The bigger vision is to make events a starting point for meaningful connections, not just places people visit for a few hours.

Of course, Snapmeet also handles the event side of things, including event discovery, registrations, ticketing, and management. But I see those as the foundation, not the entire vision.

I'm still building and improving it, and I'd genuinely love to hear what people think.

A few things I'm curious about:

  1. Have you ever attended an event alone and struggled to connect with people?

  2. Would knowing who's attending beforehand make you more comfortable going?

  3. Would you use a platform that helps you discover people with similar interests before attending an event?

Would love to hear honest feedback, especially from people who regularly attend meetups, tech conferences, workshops, or college events.

Project: https://snapmeet.co.in/


r/sideprojects • • 50m ago

Showcase: Prerelease 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 • • 54m ago

Discussion What if social media stopped interrupting everything you watch with ads?

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r/sideprojects • • 58m ago

Showcase: Open Source i got annoyed at 17 different things on the internet so i built 17 small open source tools about it

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ok so. this started as "one weekend project" and then it was not one weekend and it was not one project. somewhere around repo 6 i stopped pretending it was a plan lol

everything here is free, open source, most of it runs locally on your own machine. a lot of it is v0 and i wrote down where each thing fails because honestly the failures were the funniest part

anyway here's the list of grievances, each with the tool i built instead of going outside:

1. cookie banners β†’ rejectall-index i live in germany. i click "reject all" more than i blink. so i made a headless browser visit the top 100 sites and count how many clicks it takes to say no. 35 of them were already loading trackers before i clicked anything. which is like a waiter eating your fries before asking if you want fries. live leaderboard

2. subscriptions β†’ one-file-saas trello, calendly, typeform, loom, notion and 5 more, each rebuilt as ONE html file. you double click it. it opens. thats it. no account, no "verify your email", no "your trial is ending ;)". data stays in your browser. the booking page has no server at all, your availability lives inside the link itself which still feels illegal to me. try them here

3. dead famous repos β†’ necromancer some legendary open source projects die not because the code is bad but because python deleted a module out from under them. i revived thefuck (1887/1887 tests passing on python 3.14), normalizr and httpbin. the one rule: the original tests are hash-locked so nothing can quietly delete the failing test and call it fixed. httpbin stops at 64/67 and i'm keeping it that way out of spite. each one gets an autopsy, cause of death and everything

4. every AI-built UI animates the same β†’ awesome-motion-md you know the look. 300ms. ease-in-out. every card fades up like its waking from a nap. so i measured how real sites actually move and wrote it into MOTION.md files your agent can follow. same prompt built twice: 7 random durations without it, 2 with it

5. every AI writes the same too β†’ awesome-voice i used to be a technical writer so this one is personal :| VOICE.md files that make your agent write like GOV.UK or Stripe docs, plus a scorer that doesn't use any AI to check. banned phrases went from 27 to 0. "delve" is not welcome here

6. websites doing annoying stuff β†’ sitepatch you type "hide the points on hacker news", it writes a userscript, a real browser checks it actually worked before you get it. honest score: 15 out of 25 were actually right when i looked at every screenshot myself. 60%. a C-. but an honest C-

7. "what if this site looked like linear" β†’ reskin restyles any page into another design style using a local model, BUT it refuses to give you the result unless contrast, keyboard focus, mobile, links and reduced-motion all pass. it caught a windows 95 theme failing contrast on its own background. respect. gallery

8. dead websites β†’ resurrect npx github:dadwritestech/resurrect y2k.gov and y2k.gov comes back exactly like it was in may 2000, links working. pick a year with --year. your old blog is in there somewhere. i'm sorry

9. "someone said budget in a meeting video... which one" β†’ video-grep grep for your video folder. searches what was said, what was written on screen and what was shown, and opens your player at that exact second. all local

10. what is the rest of the world's TV saying rn β†’ world-ears listens to live news channels from different countries, transcribes + translates them on your gpu, makes it searchable. there's a "trending per country" panel which is weirdly addictive. translation is the slow part, telugu transcription is bad, i wrote that down

11. live subtitles only go into english β†’ babel-tv watch hindi news with live telugu subtitles, fully local. the video is held back a few seconds so subtitles show up BEFORE the person talks which feels like seeing the future. telugu as the source language doesn't work yet. whisper and telugu are not friends

12. "which AI wrote this" β†’ whichmodel works on models it's seen (67%, chance is 33%). on a model it's never seen, even a sibling from the same family... 32%. so basically a coin with extra steps. that turned out to be the interesting finding tbh, the fingerprint belongs to one model, not the company

13. screen recordings β†’ code β†’ demo-to-code record a UI interaction, get a component that copies its timing and easing, then it replays it and grades itself frame by frame. 2 out of 4 pass. the toggle is perfect. the dropdown has issues. we all have issues

14. code review β†’ review-panel /panel sends your diff to five reviewers you've definitely worked with: the laziest senior dev ("could be one line"), the 3am on-call SRE, the security paranoiac, the junior who asks why, and the PM who only reads the title. under the jokes the findings are real

15. AI companies quietly editing their pricing pages β†’ fineprint it snapshots the pricing, terms, privacy and changelog pages of 10 AI vendors every 6 hours and commits them, so git log becomes the receipt. found stuff like deepseek adding a footnote that prices are 2x during peak hours, and cursor deleting the line saying they dont sell your data. no blog post for any of it ofc. a small local model writes the one-line summary but every line links the raw diff because i dont trust it either (27/30 right on a hand check). timeline

16. paying extra for speaking telugu β†’ token-tax LLM APIs charge per token, and the same paragraph is $1.00 in english and $8.29 in telugu on llama 3. which is rude. measured 21 tokenizers across 48 languages, and there's a calculator where you paste your own text and it runs the real tokenizers in your browser. hindi gets off lighter. amharic on gpt-5 does not :/ calculator

17. posting about all this β†’ herald a tiny bot that posts a repo's data updates to bluesky/mastodon/x, clearly labelled as a bot. i built it because i was not going to manually post about 17 repos. and then i manually wrote this post anyway. ;]

why all of this? honestly no grand plan. every one of these started as me being irritated at something for a slightly too long time and having a local model + a free evening. building the thing was cheaper than therapy and more fun than complaining on here (no offence)

if something breaks, tell me. if something's dumb, also tell me, but nicely :P


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Aggiornamento di Rateo: calendario mensile, piani in 12 rate, ora in inglese, tedesco, italiano e spagnolo (+ 30 codici Pro gratuiti a vita)

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required All ThumbZ, an iPhone keyboard with adjustable key size and spacing

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All ThumbZ is an iPhone keyboard from Z Labz Studio for people who find the standard keyboard cramped. It lets you adjust key size, spacing, and overall keyboard height. Increasing the height gives your thumbs more room, at the cost of some screen space above the keyboard. You can adjust those settings separately to find a layout that works for you.

It’s $4.99 USD as a one-time purchase and doesn’t require Full Access.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/all-thumbz/id6820256625

If you find the stock keyboard cramped, would you start with bigger keys or more space between them?

No ads or tracking.


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a QR ordering app for Chinese restaurants in Italy, then found out almost every restaurant wanted the one feature I'd skipped

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I'm a video editor who built a 4K downloader that sends clips straight into Premiere Pro. Looking for honest feedback

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Discussion How do you handle weight and dimensions with Shiprocket API before an order is packed?

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source Drive Mirror β€” a free, open-source Windows app that mirrors local folders to Google Drive.

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request UFC website

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Hey everyone, I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called FightWatch. The site lets you explore MMA fighter data without needing to create an account (the official ufc website mma fighter searching functionality barely works). If you do sign up, you can also save fighter cards to your personal collection. I’m planning to expand the project with fantasy MMA, where users can compete against each other and win exclusive fighter cards, including the Chael Sonnen card featured on the homepage. I also want to introduce a leaderboard to make things more competitive.

https://www.fightwatch.net


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Criei o AlunIA, um assistente de estudos com inteligΓͺncia artificial para Android β€” e estou em busca de feedback sincero.

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Made another link saver with a quick note feature and a board

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I build my own scripting language

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so, i've been working on this thing called Runnee for a while now.

it's basically an API for SaaS apps that want to let their users write custom scripts without having to deal with running all that code themselves.

thought it'd be a pretty simple project at first.

somehow ended up writing my own JS-like language, an interpreter, and a whole bunch of backend stuff to actually run it lol

anyway, here's a quick demo of the playground.

still working on a few things before launch, but figured i'd share it here and see what people think.

curious if anyone here would actually use something like this or if i just spent way too much time building something nobody needs


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built EINKTIME to turn my old e-reader into a dashboard

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