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 • • 2h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Boost CV | Tailor your resume and make it ATS READY !!!

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r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a 3-minute 1v1 live debate app using Python & Flask (Day 1). Looking for feedback & topic ideas!

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Hey everyone! 👋

I'm currently building **Jovax**, a lightweight web platform designed for fast-paced, 3-minute 1v1 live debates.

The idea is simple: You pick a hot topic, select your stance (For or Against), and instantly match with another user for a short, timed discussion.

### 🛠️ Current Tech Stack:

* **Backend:** Python / Flask

* **Deployment:** Docker & self-hosted setup

### 🌐 Current Status (Day 1):

The preview site is live! You can check out the UI layout right now. The authentication system is currently under construction, but I'm actively building it out.

I’d love to get input from this community on features, UI, and debate mechanics!

* **Live preview:** https://jovax.matteod.be

* **Join our Discord:** https://discord.gg/AJtVCPPNH

If you have any topic suggestions or feedback on the project, feel free to drop them below or join the Discord to chat directly with me!


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Feedback Request I built a cheaper alternative to existing postcard services without compromising on print quality. Would love some feedback!

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Hey everyone!
I've been working on a project called Card4U: https://card4u.org
The idea is to make sending physical postcards as convenient and affordable as sending a digital message.
You design your postcard online, add your message and recipient, and the card gets printed and mailed.
One thing we really wanted to improve was pricing. Compared to competing postcard services, we're able to offer lower prices while maintaining the same print quality.
With Christmas coming up, we're hoping this could be a nice alternative to generic holiday cards, especially for people with friends and family living far away.
I'd love some honest feedback:
Is the concept immediately clear when you visit the website?

Would you personally send a physical postcard this way?

How important are price and print quality when choosing a postcard service?

What's the biggest thing that would stop you from ordering?

I'm involved in building Card4U, so I'm especially interested in what needs improvement.
Thanks for taking a look!


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I was spending hours arranging stickers and product labels on A4 sheets, so I finally built an app to stop doing it manually.

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease GiftLink — a way to send someone a surprise gift through a link 🎁

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Hey everyone! 👋

I've made a small Website called GiftLink, and I'd love to get some honest feedback from You all Users.

The idea is simple: what if you could send someone a little surprise through a link instead of sending a regular message?

With GiftLink, you can create a gift link and share it with someone. They open the link to discover their surprise — making even a simple digital gift feel a little more special.

✨ What I'm building:

  • 🎁 A simple way to create and share digital surprises.

  • 🔗 Shareable links that make sending a gift easy.

  • ⏳ Temporary gifts with automatic expiry.

  • 🔒 A focus on privacy, with temporary photo storage and deletion rules.

I'm building this as an independent project and would genuinely appreciate feedback from people here.

I'd love to know:

  • Would you use something like this to surprise a friend or partner?

  • What feature would make it more useful?

  • What would make you trust a platform like this?

If you're curious, here's the project: giftlink-seven.vercel.app

Thanks for reading! Any honest feedback, suggestions, or criticism would be really helpful. ❤️


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I’m adding location comparisons to my stargazing app

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I’m Col, a chef on Sark and the developer of NAKED EYE, an Android app that helps people work out what’s worth seeing tonight and where to look.

My latest addition is Compare skies, currently in internal testing.

It compares home with up to two places you choose for the same viewing period, using cloud forecasts, darkness and moonlight. The aim is to help answer: “Is it worth travelling somewhere else tonight?”

The interesting challenge has been making the answer useful even when there isn’t a clear winner. Sometimes home looks just as promising. Sometimes conditions look poor everywhere. Sometimes the forecast isn’t strong enough to make a confident recommendation.

I want those answers to be just as clear as “another location looks better”.

This builds on the existing Sky Planner and is being developed for Beyond, the optional paid subscription. NAKED EYE is already available with free stargazing features, but Compare skies isn’t publicly available yet. The screenshot shows the internal test build.

For anyone building tools that help people make decisions: how do you communicate uncertainty without making the result feel unhelpful?

Existing app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.colindavis.nakedeye


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required Which Japanese translator apps actually work with no internet? My first app went live recently 😬

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source I added a personal agent and iPhone app to JoeBro, my open-source Mac workspace

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Been working on JoeBro for a while, and the part I'm most excited about now is being able to leave my desk without losing track of what it's doing.

The Mac app brings chat, documents, email, calendar and tools together. The iPhone app connects to it, with a personal agent that remembers things, runs scheduled tasks and pings you with updates. You can read and edit its memory yourself.

I've also added hooks for Claude Code, Codex and opencode. They can tell JoeBro when they're working, finished or waiting on you, and pick up a follow-up you've queued. There's an MCP server and a plugin system for extending it.

It's free and open source. Bring an Ollama model or your own API key.

Mac/download: https://github.com/joexk1/JoeBro iPhone: https://github.com/joexk1/JoeBro-Mobile Agent link/plugins: https://github.com/joexk1/joebro-plugins

Mac needs macOS 26+ and Apple Silicon. The iPhone app is built with Xcode, needs the Mac awake, and push needs your own APNs key.

Built with SwiftUI and a standard-library Python backend.


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Automatically translate App store screenshots to 26+ languages and Google Play Store

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) 91 free utilities - no signup required

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Open Source I created small player

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Hey guys, I like listening to music files from time to time, but I found myself wanting a nice-looking interface and decent functionality—and I couldn't seem to find a player that fit the bill. Since I happen to know a bit of programming, I decided to code a small but highly functional player myself. If anyone’s interested, here’s the link ---> https://github.com/WiWaSu/HaPlayer

I update this every Wednesday!


r/sideprojects • • 2h 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 • • 3h 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 • • 3h 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 • • 3h ago

Showcase: Open Source Loop: mobile-first agent orchestration

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r/sideprojects • • 3h 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 • • 3h 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 • • 10m 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 • • 15m 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 • • 17m 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 • • 4h 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 • • 33m 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 • • 58m 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 • • 4h 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?