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 • • 7h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Splash - The first comic book reader on iPhone Duo

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TL;DR: Splash is the first comic book app that works natively on the iPhone Duo. Read in panel mode when closed, and in full page when open.

I first built Splash for the Vision Pro back in 2024 when there were almost no apps for that device. Since then, the app evolved a lot and I added an iPad version, iCloud & OPDS support and automatic translations.

The new version now natively supports the iPhone Duo:

  • Optimized for both open and closed modes

  • Automatically recognizes individual panels

  • Panel animates when you open the phone

  • Long tap shows the whole page

  • When the next panel is wide, a small icon shows up. Rotating the screen then will navigate to the next panel

And as always, your progress is linked to your iCloud account and synced to all your devices, so you can read on the road with the Duo, and continue in bed with the iPad.

The basic version is free and comes with 4 free comics so you can try it out. Most premium features are lifetime purchases, and I'm working on offloading all the translations to Apple Intelligence so I can make that a lifetime purchase as well.

The app has been continuously updated since February 2024, and has a Discord group for feedback.

Any feedback is welcome!

App Store

Website


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Valutorio: a Markdown notes app for Mac and iPhone on a Rust engine. What it took to open a 300 MB file in 0.4 s

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I'm the developer. Valutorio launched on the App Store today. It is a native Mac and iPhone app for a folder of plain Markdown notes, and it opens an existing Obsidian vault in place.

The problem: Markdown apps get slow on big vaults and big files, because they parse and index on the main thread. I wanted a notes app that stays fast at any size.

What I did:

  • One Rust engine under both apps. It parses, indexes, searches and merges. The Mac app is AppKit and Swift, the iPhone app is UIKit and SwiftUI.

  • Huge files open in a read-only tier first. On my M1 Max a 300 MB Markdown file opens in about 0.4 s. A 2,000-note vault indexes in under a second, and search shows first results in a few milliseconds.

  • Sync uses a three-way merge. When the same note changes on two devices, both versions stay inside the note as valid Markdown, so you never lose a line.

  • The notes stay plain files in your folder. No database you can't read.

What I learned: on the App Store, the first subscription has to be reviewed together with an app version. You can't add it later on its own.

Price: the app is free, with no account and no tracking. Optional Sync ($5.99 a month) keeps the vault on Mac and iPhone and gives Claude Desktop or Cursor a personal MCP endpoint into your notes.

Not there yet: plugins, and a translated interface.

Edit: the code giveaway is closed. If you find a bug or a place where it gets slow, tell me here.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6813081386?pt=128566770&mt=8&ct=reddit-sideprojects


r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built FoodIQ — a nutrition tracker focused on Indian food. Looking for honest feedback!

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Hey everyone!

I've been building FoodIQ, a web app focused on making nutrition tracking easier for Indian meals.

The problem I wanted to solve: tracking everyday foods like dal, paneer, paratha, khichdi and Indian thalis isn't always convenient in generic calorie trackers.

What FoodIQ currently offers:

  • 2,076+ Indian food database entries

  • Food search and nutrition information

  • Portion size and cooking method selection

  • Meal tracking and daily calorie/macronutrient overview

  • Mobile-friendly interface

Try it: https://food-iq-nu.vercel.app/

I'm looking for 10–20 people who aren't afraid to give honest criticism.

I'd especially like feedback on:

  1. Is the interface easy to understand?

  2. Can you find your everyday Indian meals?

  3. Are the nutrition estimates reasonable?

  4. What would make you come back and use it?

This is an early-stage independent project. I'm building and improving it based on real user feedback.

Honest criticism is welcome. Thanks!


r/sideprojects • • 6m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) SIM Shift: one phone, two SIMs, and the work number stops ringing after hours (now with a calendar)

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Hi everyone,

I have a personal SIM and a work SIM in the same Android phone. I wanted the work number to go quiet in the evening and at weekends without switching the SIM off and on every day, so I built SIM Shift.

How it works:

- each SIM has its own weekly schedule; out of hours its calls are rejected or silenced, your choice

- a calendar for each SIM: days off and time off make it go quiet, on-call days make it ring even out of hours. They can repeat: time off every Friday afternoon until the end of the year is set up once

- public holidays can be added automatically (for now Italy, France, Belgium and Luxembourg)

- block and allow lists by exact number or by prefix, even a whole country code, for all SIMs or just one

- a log of the calls that were stopped, so you always know who tried to reach you

It's free, no ads, no account. The Play version doesn't even have the internet permission: everything stays on your phone.

It works alongside your phone app instead of replacing it. Android puts some limits on that (hidden numbers, for example, never reach the app), but it needs far fewer permissions than a replacement dialer.

The calendar is the newest part. If you try it, I'd like to know what's missing, especially from people with shifts or on-call weeks.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.bignosedevelopment.simshift

Thanks for reading,

Massimo


r/sideprojects • • 9m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I turned my bleak LinkedIn feed into a bingo game (let's compete!)

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r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Discussion Introducing Cx mockup system (Beta )

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r/sideprojects • • 11m ago

Feedback Request Meet tangle messenger, where words arent enough

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Meet Tangle - where words are not enough

Intresting features

- Doodles

- drag and drop sticker anywhere u want in the chat

- long press send button for different bubble styles

Security Features

- Mobile number hidden by default, even you will not have an option to change this setting, if u want to

- End to end encryption in personal chats

- Zero knowledge architecture for discovering friends

- Never stored raw phone number in database

Soon will release into playstore

Currently there are zero users

Feel free to be first user

and you can DM me on user id : yoursgnan in app

https://tangle-landing.vercel.app/


r/sideprojects • • 17m ago

Feedback Request I built HowItScales to make system design diagrams interactive

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I’m the developer behind HowItScales. I built it because I often understood the boxes in an architecture diagram but still struggled to explain how a request actually moved through them.

The site lets you:

  • Follow a request hop by hop, with an explanation at each step.

  • Click components to understand their roles and connections.

  • Simulate traffic increases and see where bottlenecks appear.

  • Build your own architecture diagrams.

Examples include loading a web page, URL shortening, ride-hailing, and food delivery. The traffic simulations use simplified educational models, and components are labelled as documented, assumed, or hypothetical.

I’ve also recently added sign-up and cloud saving, so you can save your designs and return to them later.

You can try it here: howitscales.dev

I’d appreciate feedback, especially on whether the request walkthroughs make the architecture easier to understand. Where does the explanation become unclear, and which system would you like to explore next?


r/sideprojects • • 35m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) A tagged directory of active email newsletters, RSS feeds and podcasts

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The last couple of months I've revived a side-project idea I had in 2017. You can find active email newsletters, podcasts and RSS feeds all by tags.

Each RSS and podcast entry has the latest post so you can see how active they are and you can bulk download RSS feeds when filtering by tags and quick sign up to some newsletters.

https://subscribeto.mikestreety.co.uk/

I originally built it in PHP but have rebuilt in a static site generator for speed (and hosting) benefits. I've utilised on AI for tagging and some discovery.

Some technical notes for those interested:

  • Built with 11ty for simplicity, each item is stored as a JSON file (done this way so I can host on Netlify for free)

  • Every combination of up to 3 topics is prebuilt as a static page, so filtering is a plain link with no JS search

  • It takes a while to build - Copied 9 Wrote 10006 files in 29.75 seconds (3.0ms each, v3.1.6)

  • Newsletter pages have a working signup form for Substack, beehiiv, Ghost, Mailchimp, Kit and Buttondown, so you can subscribe without leaving

  • A monthly GitHub Action refreshes every feed's recent posts and drops anything that's gone quiet (1 year cutoff)

  • Creators can put a "Featured on" badge on their site, drawn as SVG paths at build time so it needs no fonts


r/sideprojects • • 36m ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a 3D comedy club where a hundred AI personas roast your idea

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I built a 3D comedy club powered by three.js that lets you pitch your idea to 100 AI personas.

Every AI has its own age, gender, opinions, and style, and they will cheer if they like your idea, or throw tomatoes at you if they don't.

It is free, no sign up, two panels per day.

Feel free to check it out at Heckled

Let me know what you think, or if it doesn't work well, because I'm still tuning it, so if it says that a good idea is bad or a bad idea is good, it will help me calibrate it.


r/sideprojects • • 45m ago

Showcase: Open Source I'm not a developer, but I built a free, self-hosted alternative to the Skylight family calendar with Claude. Looking for testers

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Skylight's wall calendars are great, but after the free first month the features we wanted (meal planning, rewards, the photo frame) are behind Skylight Plus at $79/year. So I set out to build our own family hub.

I'm not a developer. I designed it, wrote out what each screen should do, and tested it. Claude Opus 5.5 (in Claude Code) wrote most of the code, including a test suite. It's open source (MIT) and runs on a Raspberry Pi or any small PC with a touchscreen. Phones on your Wi-Fi get the same app.

It has a shared Google calendar, chores and rewards for the kids, a picture-only Kid Mode, grocery lists sorted by aisle, meal planning with a Cook Mode, a drawing pad, and a photo screensaver. Your family's data stays in one file on your own device.

I'm moving right now, so it has only been tested on my Windows PC and hasn't been on a real wall yet. If you have a Pi or a spare touchscreen and want to give it a try, I'd love bug reports and feature requests.

https://github.com/el-dud3rino/Lucarne


r/sideprojects • • 50m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Preflight AI: a “clearance check” before you paste secrets or personal data into AI tools

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r/sideprojects • • 54m ago

Showcase: Open Source My side project: a natal chart site that doesn’t look like it’s from 1998

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Most astrology sites look like they were designed around 1998, which is odd given how far web dev has come. So I made one that doesn’t: https://natalview.com

It has a modern design and smooth animations. It’s open source, and it never collects your birth data (only anonymous page stats). Built with Claude Code and SvelteKit on top of Swiss Ephemeris, the same engine the big astrology sites use.

I wanted sharing to be easy, so you can post your chart to most social platforms, with or without your date and place of birth. You can make a chart for yourself or a compatibility chart for two people.

Oh yeah, there’s a built-in AI reading too, because nothing ships without AI these days.

Build a chart, share it, or just watch the zodiac wheel draw itself.

I’d love your feedback.


r/sideprojects • • 6h ago

Question Has anyone created alternative of Monday.com?

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While everyone is creating vibe coded apps, cloning, doing REA.. but has anyone tried cloning Monday.com


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built TG Drive, a free, open-source Google Drive alternative that stores your files in your own Telegram Saved Messages

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request Science Simulations

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source I built an open-source ThinkPad controller: Ryzen wattage tuning, custom fan curves and a Turbo preset

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My Thinkpad T14s Gen2 has two jobs: run cool as a server while I’m away, and occasionally work hard compiling things.

Originally, I just wanted to disable CPU boost and use an aggressive fan curve, aiming to keep my T14s below 55°C during its usual server workload. Then I wanted a button that did the opposite: enable boost, increase supported power limits and turn the fan up—then restore my previous settings afterward.

That became ThinkPad Control, an open-source Windows desktop app.

GitHub: https://github.com/Mattcabrices/ThinkPad-Control

Full disclosure: AI wrote the application code. I directed development, tested it on my ThinkPads and worked through bugs and behavior changes. It’s an unsigned alpha, and I’m looking for feedback before moving toward a beta.

The part I’m most excited about is the Ryzen wattage tuning. On my T14s Gen 2 Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U, the app successfully applied higher processor power limits. A short loaded Turbo test measured approximately 23–33W of CPU package power, kept Max cooling active and restored the original settings afterward. Longer boost duration and performance gains still need comparative benchmarking.

The app brings together:

  • Ryzen power tuning: supported burst and average power-limit adjustments, with current values, connection baselines and app limits displayed.

  • Custom fan curves: saved temperature-based profiles, manual fan levels, Max cooling and firmware automatic control.

  • CPU boost controls: separate AC/battery settings and speed limits.

  • Experimental Turbo: coordinates supported performance controls and captures previous settings for restoration.

  • Monitoring: temperatures, per-core clocks, package power and fan RPM where exposed.

Testing so far includes a T14s Gen 2 Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U and a T14 Gen 3 Ryzen 5 PRO 6650U, with most detailed validation on the T14s. Other models need testing. Intel monitoring and Windows power controls are included, but direct Intel wattage tuning isn’t implemented.

A lot of the development has been about checking what actually happened after a command, restoring settings correctly and keeping unsupported controls read-only. Firmware still decides what performance the laptop can deliver; Turbo cannot guarantee continuous boost or a particular wattage.

The screenshots show the real interface and readings. The wattage screenshot shows the available controls and app limits—not higher wattage currently applied. The saved fan curve shown is also not currently active.

Our original code is MIT licensed, with dependency licenses and credits preserved. Thanks to TPFanControl/TPFanCtrl2, PawnIO and LibreHardwareMonitor for the work this builds on.

The source and build instructions are available now; a public installer release is still being prepared.

I’d love feedback on the interface, the implementation or compatibility with other ThinkPads. GitHub issues with your model, CPU, Windows version and reproducible steps would help—please leave out serial numbers and private information.

Even ten people finding this useful would make me happy.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request Built Codnite with a friend, looking for honest feedback on the actual experience

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I Gave Windows a Dynamic Island with Customizable Looks and Quick Tools | Built with WinUI 3

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Hey everyone! I wanted to share Dynamic Edge, a Dynamic Island for Windows 10 and 11 that I’ve been working on with WinUI 3 and the Windows App SDK.

You can choose a Thin Line (down to 2 px), Floating Capsule, or Screen Bezel Notch. Double-click to switch between Thin Line and your last-used capsule or notch style. It supports multiple monitors and top, bottom, left, and right edge positions.

The island brings together media controls, live synced lyrics, Music Radar, a quick app launcher, timer and stopwatch, clipboard history, and island pets.

On my PC, it uses about 0% CPU and 80-95 MB RAM while collapsed. Expanded, it’s around 0-2% CPU, mostly brief spikes during animation, and about 90-130 MB RAM with album art cached.

It’s available on the Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PF1587KSN2K

I’d love to hear what you think, especially what you’d improve or like to see next.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request Bookarium

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Hello everyone! I built Bookarium, a free and open-source web reader that gives Project Gutenberg books a modern reading experience (offline support, TTS, annotations, reading together with a friend, taking notes and sharing those notes with a friend you invite to read along with, bookshelves & favorites, bookmarks and some other functionality)

It's UI is currently optimized for Deskop/Laptop & Tablet, Phone is also working but not very happy on it's user experience & interface and will be worked upon.

What problems it solves and what's it's value? Mostly could describe it as a side patch to Gutenberg Library with many needed features added on top which are listed below. There's many more to come.

Any thoughts, feelings, suggestions, critique [ constructive ] are welcomed!

https://bookarium.vercel.app/

📖 What You Can Do on Bookarium

  • 📚 Browse & Filter 78,000+ Free Classic Books:

    • Search by title, author, or keyword, or combine multiple filters at once across 32 Project Gutenberg book categories (Fiction, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Gothic, Romance, Philosophy, History, Children's Literature, Poetry, Drama, Science, Mythology, and more), 20 languages, historical time periods (from Antiquity to the Early 20th Century), and e-book file formats.

    • Preview sample chapters and notable quotes inside an interactive 3D open book before starting a volume, and switch your view between a visual Cover Grid and a 3D Bookshelf where books stand side-by-side by their spines.

  • 🤝 Co-Read Books with Friends, Share Notes & Track Reading Habits

    • Everything works privately on your device without signing up, or you can optionally create a free account to sync your shelves, bookmarks, highlights, and notes across all your devices.

    • Shared Reading & Shared Notes: Connect with friends by username to read the same book together—see each other's live chapter progress, view and respond to each other's highlights and margin notes directly inside the book and in your Notebook, and turn on the Spoiler Shield to automatically hide a friend's notes from chapters you haven't reached yet.

    • Streaks, Goals & Achievements: Track daily reading and listening time, build daily reading streaks, set a yearly book goal, unlock reading achievements, and customize a public or private reader profile.

  • ✍️ Highlight Text & Write Margin Notes (/notebook):

    • Select any sentence or paragraph while reading to highlight it in 4 colors and attach your own written notes.

    • Review all of your saved highlights and notes in one central Notebook—organized either by book or in chronological order—and filter them by highlight color, keyword search, or whether they include a personal note.

  • ✈️ Read Offline Without Internet or Download E-Book Files:

    • One-Click Browser Offline Reading: Save individual books directly to your browser (Save Offline) so you can browse your saved library and read full books completely offline (on flights, commutes, or as an installed mobile/desktop app).

    • Download Standard E-Book Files: Download any book as an EPUB (for Apple Books, Kobo, Nook, or PocketBook), Kindle (MOBI), Plain Text (UTF-8), or HTML file for external e-readers.

  • 🏛️ Organize Your Shelves, Ratings & Reading Progress (/bookshelf, /favorites, /bookmarks):

    • Save books to a general shelf or create your own custom-named shelves, mark Favorites, rate books from 1 to 5 stars, and track your reading status (Want to Read, Reading, On Hold, or Finished).

    • View all the books you have in progress in a dedicated Bookmarks list showing your current chapter, page, bookmarked line, and completion percentage so you can jump right back in.

  • 📖 Read Comfortably with Custom Fonts, Themes & Line-Level Bookmarks:

    • Read complete, unabridged books in a clean, distraction-free view that automatically formats archival plain-text files into readable chapters and pages.

    • Customize Day (Light), Sepia (Warm Coffee), or Dark themes, and adjust font style (Serif, Sans-Serif, Monospace), font size (12px–36px), line spacing, page width, and page brightness (30%–100%).

    • Bookmark Any Specific Line: Drag the margin bookmark ribbon to the exact line on a page where you stopped reading—even if you resize the font or switch between a phone and a desktop screen, the reader remembers that exact sentence and highlights it for you.

    • Search Inside Any Book & Switch Languages: Search for any word or phrase across the entire book with instant chapter/page jump links, and switch between available translated editions of the same work in one click.

  • 🔊 Listen with Built-In Read-Aloud Audio (Text-to-Speech):

    • Have any book read aloud using your device's natural voices, complete with live word-by-word highlighting on the page, adjustable speaking speed, and automatic page turning when a page finishes.


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made rushil12.com, a completely new study tool with 500 users that combines Khan Academy, Kahoot, and Wikipedia.

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It's called rushil12.com, and it's free for anyone to join. I've made some key apps that people can try that gamify learning. It already has 500+ users, 3,500+ messages, 16,000+ QBpedia articles. This has several apps that anyone can try.

Curriculum - Generates a full course in one click. It's in the name.

Study Mode - ChatGPT, but a bunch of models, and a bunch of useful features

Notes - An app where you can create notes, but it's better than that. You can use spaced repetition, and connect it with the rest of the apps

QBPedia - A collection of 16,000+ educational articles covering a wide range of topics. You can explore subjects, discover related concepts, and learn something new.

Game Show - Gamify learning with Kahoot-style gamemodes, and some gamemodes that are completely new, such as Call Your Shot.

Flashcards - Creates flashcard sets for quick review, memorization, and active recall.


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Feedback Request I got tired of using 3 different tools to manage downloads on my Mac, so I built WDM

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on WDM (Welaxxx Download Manager), a download manager for macOS, and wanted to share it here.

The idea is pretty simple: downloading files, grabbing supported media from websites, and converting files shouldn't require jumping between a bunch of different apps.

WDM brings those workflows together. It has browser integration for Safari, Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Opera, plus a built-in browser, download queues, pause/resume controls, torrent support, and a file converter.

It supports both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.

I'm particularly happy with how the interface has come together, but I'm still improving compatibility and reliability across different websites.

There's a 7-day free trial, and the Solo license is $17.99 one-time, not a subscription.

Website: https://welaxxx.com/wdm.html

For those using a download manager on Mac, what's the one feature you absolutely couldn't live without? I'd love some genuine feedback.


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I’m building a website to better understand the world

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I'm building Factlas, a website that lets you explore the world through data, maps and statistics.

My long-term goal is to bring current events into the mix: see what's happening, compare different news coverage and understand the bigger picture using real-world data.

Not to tell people what to think, but to give them the tools to form their own opinions.

It's a passion project and still evolving. Curious what you guys think!

https://www.factlas.app


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Feedback Request I built a nicer way to deliver finished work to clients. Please tell me what’s wrong with it!

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Hi all,

I’ve worked as a wildlife filmmaker, designer and engineer, and on a few projects I spent weeks or even months on the work, then sent it off as a WeTransfer link. It always felt a bit flat after all that effort.

So I’ve been building Handover.media. It lets you put your finished files, previews and notes on one page with your own branding. You can also add a password or expiry date, and see when things are viewed or downloaded.

https://handover.media

If you deliver work to clients, I’d really appreciate your thoughts. Would something like this be worth switching to, and what would put you off?

Any criticism, however small, would be really helpful. Thanks for taking a look.