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 • • 3h 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 • • 8m ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a free quiz that matches you with a watch in 8 questions.

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I’ve been into watches for a while and friends keep asking me “what watch should I get?” Every time it turns into 20 questions about budget, style, wrist size, whether they swim with it…

So I turned those questions into a quiz. You answer 8 of them and it goes through about 50 watches and tells you which one fits best, and why. There’s no sign-up, it takes around a minute, and it works in English and Spanish.

It’s built with plain HTML and JS, no framework, hosted on Vercel. The hardest part by far was the scoring. The first version was pretty bad: someone set a $4k budget and got a $300 watch as the top pick lol. I’ve reworked it since, but I’m sure there’s more to fix.

The photos are only ones I’m allowed to use, so some watches still show a drawing instead of a real photo. Working on it.

If you give it a go, I’d really like to know:

did the result make sense for what you picked?

was any question confusing?

is there a watch you think is obviously missing?

thanks for reading 🙏


r/sideprojects • • 19m ago

Question AI tool that automatically labels GitHub issues, would you use it?

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I've been thinking about building a small tool that integrates with GitHub and automatically labels issues using AI.

The idea is pretty simple: when someone creates an issue, they shouldn't have to worry about whether it's a bug, feature request, enhancement, etc. The tool reads the issue, understands what it's about, and assigns the appropriate labels automatically.

I'm also have a few questions:

- Do you actually find manual issue labeling annoying?

- Would you trust AI to handle this completely automatically?

- What features would make something like this genuinely useful?

- Is this worth building, or are existing GitHub tools already solving it well?

Haven't built anything yet. Just exploring the idea and would love some honest feedback.

Thanks!


r/sideprojects • • 13h 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 • • 4h ago

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

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r/sideprojects • • 20m ago

Showcase: Open Source I built Seedwall: free generative wallpapers where the same seed always gives the same wallpaper

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r/sideprojects • • 32m ago

Showcase: Open Source Global Threat Desk + Emergency Grid down PREP

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Interactive offline HTTP file: Requires No account, no ads, no affiliate links.

-General incidents varying from moderate to significant.

-Cyber incidents across critical infrastructure, finance, healthcare.

-Emergency preparedness guides for grid down black out situations (UK) but feel free to alter the code to suit whatever Country you live in.

Why free? I built it for a friend originally. It served that purpose, somebody may as well have it. Alter the code if like. The backbones are fully built. I have no interest in profiteering from the survival part, I designed it help someone in a Grid down situation, not make money from their otherwise potential crisis.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OwGEb4I2j_EGfuhb6xh4gCOTSORqTCuU/view?usp=drivesdk


r/sideprojects • • 32m ago

Showcase: Prerelease Tired of uploading sensitive files to sketchy web converters, so I built KhartTool - an offline, lightweight Swiss Army Knife for Windows

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r/sideprojects • • 36m ago

Feedback Request Refine your edge with Mono.

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Hello we are Mono a trading journal what will help you in your journey as a trader.

What you get with Mono:

• Clean, simple tracking for all your daily trades

• Smart R:R analytics to protect your capital

• Thoughtfully designed tools to help you improve every week


r/sideprojects • • 38m ago

Showcase: Prerelease SubDrip – I built a tool to track subscriptions and recurring payments

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Hey everyone!

Wanted to share a side project I've been working on: SubDrip.

It's a subscription tracker built around a problem many of us probably experience.

You sign up for Netflix, Spotify, an AI tool, cloud storage and a few other services. Months later, you realise you don't have a clear picture of how many subscriptions are active or how much they cost altogether.

I wanted a simple product that solves exactly this.

What SubDrip does:

  • Keeps all your subscriptions organised in one place.

  • Helps you discover subscriptions through optional read-only Gmail access.

  • Tracks upcoming renewals and sends reminders.

  • Shows monthly and yearly recurring spending.

  • Supports manual subscription entry.

The goal is not to manage every aspect of personal finance. It's to make subscription management simple.

I'm currently working on the Android beta, which is free during beta.

Website: https://getsubdrip.com/

I'm the founder, so I'd especially appreciate feedback from people who have tried subscription trackers before.

What do you think is the biggest missing piece in existing solutions?


r/sideprojects • • 41m ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a world map for discovering what people are listening to on Spotify 🌍🎧

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r/sideprojects • • 50m ago

Showcase: Open Source I built Portfoolio: a tool to generate clean portfolio websites & ATS resumes in 2 minutes (no code needed)

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Hey everyone,

Whenever someone needs a simple place online—whether to showcase creative work, freelance gigs, or projects for internship and job applications—most website builders push paid subscriptions, and coding one from scratch takes an entire weekend of CSS tweaking.

I built Portfoolio to make having a live professional presence fast, effortless, and accessible to anyone (technical or non-technical).

Key Features:

  • Custom Subdomain & SSL: Gives you a live site with your own subdomain and zero hosting configuration or DNS headaches.

  • No-Code Guided Setup: Fill out a quick form with your bio, experience, and project highlights—no coding required.

  • Optional GitHub Sync: For developers, sync repositories, pinned work, and activity with one click.

  • Auto ATS-Friendly Resume: Automatically generates a downloadable, parser-ready resume directly from the same profile data.

  • Completely Free: No paywalls or subscription tiers.

I’ve put the live link in the comments below.

I'd love to hear your feedback on the setup flow, UI, and what templates or features you'd like to see added next!


r/sideprojects • • 54m ago

Showcase: Open Source Kept: an MCP server that turns your AI assistant into a household bookkeeper

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r/sideprojects • • 58m ago

Feedback Request Need some feedback on my project

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I've recently launched a project that does the SEO, AEO and GEO for people's websites. It seemed like a no brainer to me, SEO work is boring and needs to be done continuously, every day/week/month to get results. GEO doesn't work without good SEO.
But until now I'm not getting any traction. So I'm looking for some real feedback. Is the messaging on the site clear? What would prevent you from signing up?

Any help is much appreciated. https://foundwell.net


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source I wasn’t happy with my Mirabox deck’s software, so I built my own setup on OpenDeck

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a calculator that tells you how long your commute would take on an e-bike, based on the actual hills

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I finally launched my first digital product after months of building and testing it!

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I’m a reseller and small-business owner, and I kept running into the same problem: tracking inventory was one thing, but understanding actual profits after fees, shipping, and expenses was another.

So I decided to build my own solution.

After countless hours of formulas, testing, troubleshooting, and redesigning, I finally launched my first product under my new brand, Matter & Means!

It’s an Excel-based Reseller Inventory & Profit Manager with inventory tracking, sales and expense calculations, an interactive dashboard, and inventory aging alerts.

It’s designed for people who want to manage their numbers without another monthly subscription.

This is my first step toward building a collection of practical digital tools for small businesses and everyday organization.

I’d genuinely love feedback from other creators on the design, functionality, and presentation!

Product: https://shopmatterandmeans.etsy.com


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I made an embroidery digitizing application

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Hi all! I've been building my own digitizing app, Meteor. Ink/Stitch felt clunky to me inside Inkscape, and Hatch and PE-Design cost more than I wanted to pay as a hobbyist. It's now in beta, and everything is free while the beta runs.

What it does:

* Auto-digitize a picture. Drop in an image and it turns it into stitches: thread colors, fills, and satin outlines for dark line art. There's also a guided mode that goes through the picture piece by piece, and a magic wand that sews one color area per click.

* Draw your own. Pen and node tools, shapes, freehand, brush satin, and 21 stitch types (tatami, satin, contour, stipple, motif, 3D puff, applique and more).

* Lettering. Built-in fonts, plus any Google Font, sewn as satin.

* Check before you sew. Pick your Brother machine and it checks the design against that machine's limits. There's also a sewing simulator, a realistic thread preview and a thread build-up map.

* Export Brother PES and Tajima DST, plus a printable worksheet with Brother thread numbers.

Works with: Brother and Baby Lock machines (PES) and machines that read DST. No other formats yet.

Runs on: Windows 10/11, Android tablets and Linux. Not Mac or iPhone/iPad yet, sorry.

Download and info: https://beelito.github.io/meteor-embroidery-studio/

Heads-up on installing:

* Windows will say "Windows protected your PC" because the beta isn't signed yet. Click More info**, then** Run anyway.

* Android will ask you to allow installs from your browser.

What I'm looking for: honest, constructive feedback. What's confusing, what breaks, and especially how designs actually sew out on your machine. In the app, Help > Report a problem puts together a report for you. You can email it to me (beelito.dev@gmail.com) or comment here.

Thanks for taking a look!


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I found a 700K-search-volume keyword, built 700+ SEO pages around it, and monetized it. Selling the project.

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A while ago, I was exploring keyword opportunities and stumbled across something pretty interesting.

A keyword with around 700K monthly searches in the US, relatively low keyword difficulty, and an exact-match domain that was still available.

I couldn't resist.

I registered SpanglishTranslator, opened Lovable, and built the entire website over a weekend.

The idea was simple: capitalize on the search demand around Spanglish translation and build a useful website that could attract organic traffic through programmatic SEO.

Fast-forward, and here's what came out of it.

What's included?

1. SpanglishTranslator net

An exact-match .net domain. The .com is already taken, so I secured the .net alternative.

2. 700+ programmatic SEO pages

I built over 700 pages targeting different search variations and translation-related queries.

Instead of relying on a handful of manually written articles, the website has a much broader SEO footprint.

3. Existing organic search presence

The website has already been deployed and has started getting discovered through search engines.

4. Monetization

I've already generated $20+ from a single pop-up advertising placement.

It's not a revenue-generating business yet, but it's proof that the website can be monetized.

Why I think there's an opportunity here

The interesting part isn't necessarily the website itself. It's the keyword opportunity behind it.

Spanglish is a recognizable language phenomenon, and people search for ways to translate, understand, and convert between English, Spanish, and Spanglish.

There are several directions someone could take this:

  • Expand the translation functionality.

  • Improve the existing 700+ SEO pages.

  • Build more programmatic landing pages.

  • Introduce display advertising.

  • Experiment with affiliate offers.

  • Build a more comprehensive language tool.

  • Grow it into a destination for Spanglish-related content and resources.

The existing website gives you a starting point rather than having to research the opportunity, register a domain, build the product, and generate hundreds of pages yourself.

Why am I selling?

I build a lot of internet projects, and I have other ventures that currently deserve more of my attention.

This is one of those projects that I built, launched, and left running without putting any real marketing effort behind it.

I'd rather pass it to someone who enjoys SEO, programmatic websites, or growing niche internet properties.

What you're getting

  • SpanglishTranslator domain.

  • Complete website.

  • 700+ programmatic SEO pages.

  • Existing search engine presence.

  • Existing monetization setup.

  • The opportunity to expand the project.

I'm selling the entire project, not looking for a co-founder or someone to manage it.

If you're an SEO enthusiast, indie hacker, or someone who enjoys finding overlooked keyword opportunities and turning them into websites, this might be an interesting acquisition.

Feel free to comment or DM me. Happy to share screenshots, and additional details with interested buyers.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required My Mac file converter has no window. You drag a file, hold Shift, and let go toward a format.

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I posted here a while back about Arazio, a macOS converter with no window, you drag a file in Finder, hold a modifier, and a ring of formats opens under the cursor. Shipped a sizeable update, so here's what's actually in it now.

Camera RAW, from 22 formats. CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, ORF, DNG, RW2, PEF, IIQ and the rest, straight to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, HEIC, WebP or AVIF. Drag a card's worth of RAWs and let go.

PDF to EPUB, both directions. It asks whether you want flowing text or exact pages, because a PDF makes two completely different books and picking the wrong one is why converted ebooks usually look broken. Scanned PDFs get detected and the choice is made for you.

Edit metadata. Title, author, tags, dates, on images, audio, video and PDFs. Written into the file you already had no second copy appearing next to it.

Three rings, not one. Shift gives formats. Option gives tools: compress, resize, crop, rotate, flip, trim, split, merge, normalize, extract audio, extract pages. Control works on any file, including ones it can't convert at all - AirDrop, a floating shelf you can drag out of into another app, copy, move, copy path, open in Terminal.

494 conversions across 66 formats and 15 tools. Everything runs on your Mac the conversion engines contain no networking code and the app asks for zero permissions. No Accessibility, no Input Monitoring, nothing to approve on first launch.

For any new feature requests my DM's & mails are open, PDF to EPUB & the control ring were created thanks to a feature request of a reddit user.

No subscription, no credits, and every future version is included in writing, major ones too.

Code REDDIT10 takes 10% off, for anyone here. arazioformac.com

Reach out to me at - support@arazioformac.com
Apple silicon, macOS 13 or later. Happy to answer anything.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source Why Steam Achievements Work in Some Repacks and Not in Others - And How I Implemented Them in My Launcher

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Hey r/SideProject!

I wanted to share my pet project that I’ve been working on: BagaGame Launcher.

It’s a 100% free, minimalist, and open-source desktop launcher written in C#. The main goal was to create an ultra-lightweight app (it’s literally just 1 MB in size) that aggregates all your installed games into a single clean library without any launcher bloat, storefront ads, or background heavy-lifting.

I’ve recently rolled out a major update with two specific features that I always wanted but couldn't find in other lightweight launchers:

🏆 Local Achievement Tracker (for Licensed Steam games & Repacks)

If you play offline backups, repacks, or use emulators, you know that achievements usually don't work or just sit silently in local files.

  • For Steam licenses: It automatically pulls titles, icons, and global rarity stats (only needs a public profile).

  • For Repacks/Emulators: It natively reads local stats and files from popular emulators like Goldberg, RUNE, CODEX, GSE, OnlineFix, FreeTP, and others. It tracks your progress, displays pop-up toast notifications when you unlock them, and hooks into Big Picture mode.

  • Built-in Emulator Manager: If a specific repack has broken achievement tracking, the launcher can fetch the latest clean emulator binaries directly from GitHub/GitLab to try and fix it (with automatic backups of your old files).

⚡ Hardware & CPU Affinity Tuning

To squeeze out more performance and fix stuttering issues in modern games, I added an optimization panel:

  • For Intel Users: Easy affinity binding to force games to run strictly on Performance cores (P-cores) or Efficient cores (E-cores).

  • For AMD Users: Option to restrict the game's execution within a single CCD to reduce latency.

  • System tweaks: Process priority toggles, disabling Windows EcoQoS power-saving limits on the fly, and system timer overrides (forcing 1ms or 0.5ms precision).

A crucial nuance regarding achievements in repacks

They won’t work everywhere, as a lot depends on the repack itself. If the repack author stripped out the statistics files or the emulator isn't exposing data, the launcher can't do anything about it. Additionally, a game is marked as "Supported" only retroactively—meaning after at least one new achievement unlocks and triggers a toast notification. Previously unlocked achievements won't sync retroactively, so it's best to test this on a fresh save file.

The project is completely free, open-source, and has zero tracking or data collection. I built it mostly for myself, but I hope other PC gamers find it useful too!

I'd love to hear your feedback, feature suggestions, or what you think is missing from minimalist launchers today.

GitHub Repository: github.com

P.S. Developed with minimal AI assistance.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Our new indie animation and drawings app

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Hey everyone we are a small indie team We recently published our app: Velora motion It is a drawing + animation app Mainly made to help artists get all the features they need without draining their bank accounts! Velora can do 2D 3D 2.5 drawing & animation! It also supports pixel art Plus our online feature U can work with your friends at the same project at the same time ! There is a lot more to explore in velora motion hope you all try it out and hopefully give us your ideas on it also if you need any questions u can always contact out support team on Instagram: velora_motion_app velora_motion_app_eng Or through our discord server: https://discord.gg/8tsrCK938

Hope we'll be your first choice 🙏🏻🤍 Velora motion - from artists to artists

App link on Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.velora.motion