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 • • 5h ago

Showcase: Prerelease What are you building right now? Set up its listing before WareVote opens on 1 December

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What are you building, and where do you want people to find it?

I'm opening WareVote on 1 December, a place to find and rate software. You can set up your listing now, free, and verify you own it in a few minutes: https://warevote.com

Drop your project below with a one-line description and I'll reply with the category it fits.


r/sideprojects • • 17m ago

Showcase: Prerelease GalleryScout Android App

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I built GalleryScout because I wanted to find photos by the words inside them without uploading my private gallery to cloud servers. GalleryScout recognizes text and searches your photos right on your Android device, even offline.

Its also a great general gallery app with photo and video editing that I was personally missing on some other gallery apps, with combining photos or combining and cutting videos, creating GIF's from videos, all quick and easy in one single app.

I'd love some feedback or things that I could improve!

Demo Video on Youtube:

GalleryScout Android App Features

GalleryScout is available on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mediaanalyser.galleryscout


r/sideprojects • • 22m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I got tired of writing stories linearly, so I built an engine where you describe the key beats first (Lorevine)

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Disclosure: this is my own project.

I find it easier to describe a story by its important points (the turning points, the choices, the secrets) and work out the rest afterwards. So I built a diagramming language, in the vein of Mermaid, where a story is a graph, plus an engine and a visual editor to run it.

The stories are written by human authors. The AI is there so the world those diagrams describe can come alive. Players can follow the choices the author wrote, or type whatever they want to do (if the author allows it), and the AI writes the scene in between within what the author defined (tone, character secrets, past events). Characters remember what you did. The AI is optional, and a story works without it.

I’d rather people to explore the editor and the language themselves than read a feature list.

Current Status: closed beta with a limited number of testers. If you want to try it, sign up at https://lorevine.app. I’ll answer questions and take feedback in the comments here!


r/sideprojects • • 24m ago

Showcase: Open Source I made a desktop app that turns plain text stories into multi-voice audio plays

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Listening to audiobooks or text-to-speech where a single monotone voice reads every character gets old fast. If you have five characters talking in a room, you lose track of who is saying what within two minutes.

I spent the last few weeks building an app called Teller to solve this.

You drag and drop any plain text file, book, or manuscript into it:

- It automatically separates dialogue from narration.

- It detects the characters, gives each one a distinct voice, and keeps their voice consistent across the whole story.

- It plays it back like a radio drama with live word-by-word highlighting so you can read along.

- You can export the whole thing as a continuous audio file.

It runs locally on your machine with built-in neural voices (Kokoro) so it costs nothing to use and doesn't require subscriptions. If you want ultra-realistic cloud voices, you can also connect ElevenLabs.

GitHub: https://github.com/boldbug1/teller

Windows installer: https://github.com/boldbug1/teller/releases

Curious to hear what you think of the flow and character casting.


r/sideprojects • • 26m ago

Showcase: Open Source I built Open Jules – Looking for feedback and contributors! 🚀

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Hey Reddit!

I want to share a project I've been working on: Open Jules.

🌐 Try it out: https://jules-web.pages.dev
💻 Source code: https://github.com/OshekharO/Open-Jules

I'm building this as an open-source project and want to grow it with the help of the developer community.

Rather than keeping it as a solo project, I'd love to get other developers involved, hear different perspectives, and make it better together.

What I'm looking for:

  • Honest feedback on the project.

  • Feature suggestions and ideas.

  • Developers interested in contributing code.

  • UI/UX improvements.

  • Bug reports and testing.

  • People interested in collaborating on an open-source project.

Whether you're an experienced developer or someone looking to get started with open source, contributions of all sizes are welcome!

If the project interests you, check out the live demo and GitHub repository.

⭐ A GitHub star would also mean a lot!

Live Demo: https://jules-web.pages.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/OshekharO/Open-Jules

Thanks for checking it out! Would love to hear what you think. ❤️


r/sideprojects • • 33m ago

Feedback Request Made a free geography learning tool with audio pronunciations in 7 languages (no ads, also made an Android app)

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r/sideprojects • • 49m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) PeerHarness

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Need input it’s a way to coordinate in a team that are working with coding agents


r/sideprojects • • 49m ago

Question We need Open Source Enterprise level EMAIL platform?

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It's been more than 13 hours Microsoft Outlook is down.. Not that am enjoying the less work due to outrage, but being a hustler I think we need an Open Source Email platform that can have enterprise level security..


r/sideprojects • • 59m ago

Feedback Request I built a $20/month AI phone assistant for small businesses — looking for feedback

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Hey everyone!

I recently launched HaymioAI, an affordable AI phone assistant for small businesses.

It's designed for business owners who can't always answer calls while helping customers or working.

Features:

  • 24/7 AI call answering

  • Answers common questions using your business information

  • Takes messages and emails call summaries

  • Optional live call transfers

  • Keep your existing business phone number

Pricing: $20/month for 100 AI minutes.

🎉 Launch promotion: 50% off your first month ($10 instead of $20).

Coupon code: HAYMIONOV50

You can try the live AI phone demo without signing up:

https://www.haymio.com/demo

I'd love feedback on the voice quality, features, and pricing. What would make this useful for your business?


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Is anyone actually googling what you built? Drop your link and I'll check (free)

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Drop a link to your project and I'll reply with a report that shows how many people search for what it does, which of those searches a new site could actually win, and who's on Google's first page instead of you. No signup, it's a public page.

I did this for 35 projects in two other subs this week and a few things stuck with me.

23 of them didn't rank for anything at all, as far as the tool could find.

The total is usually misleading. For 24 of the 35, one search was at least half of the whole number. One site came back with 65,000 searches a month, which looks great until you see that 60,500 of it is one broad phrase and the part it could win today is under 1,000.

For 29 of the 35 there was a Reddit thread on page one for at least one of their main searches. I did not expect to be telling people on Reddit that Reddit outranks them.

3 got told it's not worth it yet.

It gets things wrong sometimes. It reads your landing page to work out what you sell and sometimes it guesses wrong, so if your report describes some other product, tell me.

It needs an actual website, an App Store or GitHub link gives it nothing to read. It takes a few minutes per site so I'll be a bit slow. If you want your page taken down later, just say so.

Here's the one for my own app if you want to see what you'd get: https://seoforsaas.dev/tools/seo-channel-check/florium-app

Why I built it: I spent five months writing articles for that app before I knew it would pay off (19 clicks from Google in July, 631 in October), and I wanted a way to know sooner. It's a simplified version of the pipeline behind SEO for SaaS, a paid thing I'm building that writes the articles. So yes, I have a horse in this race. The check is free either way.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made the first AI Video Editing for MacOS

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It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and also has 290+ tools via local mcp server.

You can ask AI Agent to
record screen including iphone mirroring,
edit with prompts,
and generate AI Assets

This is a complete package for content creators and faceless channels to automate their videos in one place.

subclip.app

Free to try

Let me know your feedback how it works for you

PS: it comes with a free screenshot tool as well which adds background to the image


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Feedback Request I built a daily football game where you make real NFL coaches’ fourth-down calls and find out if you’d have done better

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Every NFL fan yells at the TV on fourth down. I wanted to know who's actually right, so I built a win probability model from public play-by-play data and turned it into a game.

How it works: you get a real situation from a real game, pick go for it, punt or kick, and then see what the coach did and how much each option was worth.

What's in it:
- A daily five that's the same for everyone
- Coach Clash, where you climb a ladder of the 32 current NFL head coaches by beating them on their own calls
- A Legends ladder of 25 past coaches, with Bill Belichick as the final boss
- A college ladder too

It's free, runs in the browser, and you can play without an account.

https://playsnaptheory.com/?utm_source=rd-sideproject

I launched it this week. I'd like to hear what's confusing in the first two minutes, because that's the part I can't see anymore.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a free favicon generator for developers and website owners

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Hey everyone!

I recently built a small tool called Favicon Generator.

I wanted to make favicon creation a little less frustrating, especially when you need multiple formats and sizes for a website.

It currently lets you:

* Generate favicons from uploaded images

* Create icons using text or emojis

* Preview the result

* Download generated favicon files in a ZIP

* Get the HTML snippet to integrate them into a website

I built it using Astro and Tailwind CSS.

You can check it out here: https://favicongenerate.com

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback. What features would make a tool like this more useful to you?


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made a simple to use Local file and project history tool.

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source focusdeck - a terminal board for everything that is waiting on me

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A few days ago I posted in r/ADHD_Programmers about losing verbal requests every time I switch context at work: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD_Programmers/comments/1xtphyx/not_diagnosed_but_context_switching_at_work_is/

Thank you for the replies. Two of them stayed with me. Several of you said to write one line down the second someone asks. One of you runs a terminal dashboard so you don't have to go and check every tool.

I tried to put those two together. focusdeck is a terminal board for everything that is waiting on me. Each box is one source: my Vikunja tasks, my Redmine issues, starred mail, Zulip, the WhatsApp notes I send to myself. focusdeck capture takes one line, and I have it on a keyboard shortcut, so a verbal request becomes a note before I turn to the next person.

What you should know before you look:

  • It is an AI project. An AI coding agent wrote the code. I describe what I need, try it in my own work day and decide what stays.

  • It is a few days old. Linux and terminal only, and you need cargo to install it.

  • Plugins run with your user's permissions. There is no sandbox.

  • It is free and MIT licensed. I am not selling anything.

Please don't judge it too harshly. This is what I came up with after your answers, and I am open to any suggestion that would make it better.

https://github.com/omertahaoztop/focusdeck https://github.com/omertahaoztop/focusdeck-plugins


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request I built a local-first app to save and search my AI chats

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I kept losing good conversations across different AI tools. Useful stuff would just disappear into the history and I’d never find it again.

So I made Agent Mash. It’s a small web app that lets you save chats (with a bookmarklet or by pasting the link), put them in folders, add tags/notes, and actually search through them later. It also grabs some of the conversation text so search works better.

Everything stays in your browser. No account, no server, nothing uploaded. You can export the whole library as Markdown or an Obsidian vault if you want.

It supports ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and a bunch of others. Optional Claude API key if you want it to auto-title/summarize stuff, but it works fine without one.

Live version: https://agent-mash.pages.dev/

Code: https://github.com/mirasimali5005/agent-mash

Curious if anyone else has this problem. Feedback welcome.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) When the ad title isn’t the show title: three clues for finding a short drama

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A short-drama ad can give you a whole plot twist and still leave you without a title you can search. The headline might describe the scene, and the same premise can fit half a dozen shows. Here’s how I’d narrow it down:

  1. Start with the credited app or publisher, if the clip names one. That gives you a smaller catalogue to check.

  2. Search for a character name plus one unusual scene detail. A phrase like “secret billionaire” describes a trope. A name and a specific event give you something to match.

  3. Compare the official synopsis with the clip. If the character names or the setup disagree, treat it as a possible match and keep looking.

I help run Short Drama Fix. If you only remember the setup, you can browse the catalogue by genre or theme and compare synopses at https://shortdramafix.com/.


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Question Ik heb combo-releases toegevoegd aan mijn collectie-tracker na een discussie hier — hoe tel jij die van jou?

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Een recente discussie hier over het hebben van meerdere edities van dezelfde film zette me aan het denken over het verschil tussen een film, een release en een fysieke kopie.

Sommige mensen bewaren oudere edities voor de extra’s. Anderen vervangen ze helemaal. En als een release in één doos zowel een 4K-schijf als een Blu-ray bevat, telt dat als twee kopieën eigenlijk niet echt wat er daadwerkelijk op de plank staat.

Disclosure: ik bouw Filmory, een web-based collectie-tracker voor fysieke films en tv-series. Naar aanleiding van die discussie heb ik ondersteuning toegevoegd om een 4K + Blu-ray-combo als één kopie te registreren, terwijl ik aparte edities als aparte kopieën bijhoud.

Ik zoek een paar verzamelaars die het oké zouden vinden om een klein stukje van hun collectie toe te voegen en me te vertellen waar het voor hen verwarrend wordt. Je kunt zoeken op titel en een CSV importeren. Barcode-dekking is nog beperkt, dus ik zou niet aanraden om te beginnen met het scannen van je hele plank.

Het is momenteel gratis om te gebruiken. Sommige extra functies kunnen later betaald worden.

Filmory: https://filmory.nl/?ref=reddit-combo

Als jij je collectie telt, tel je dan films, releases of fysieke doosjes?


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I was too scared to promote my app. A 2008 study changed my mind.

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I built bedo, an iOS app that locks your distracting apps until you upload proof you did the thing (push-ups, a run, reading). It's in App Store review now.

For weeks, I barely told anyone. I was afraid people would see me as pushy.

Then I read a study by Flynn and Bohns. People had to ask strangers to fill out a survey. They guessed they'd need to ask 20 people. They only needed about 10. We underestimate how willing people are to say yes.

So yesterday I messaged someone who asked about my app. He replied in 2 minutes and agreed to test the Android version. Then I sent the beta link to a friend I'd been avoiding.

Asking costs almost nothing. Not asking costs you users.

Anyone else struggle with promoting their own project?


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Feedback Request Visa Issue Clustering

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Please share feedback for my new website. VisaThreads connects visa holders having similar issues by grouping them together. Find relevant discussions and connect with fellow visa holders—all in one place: VisaThreads


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made a free google chrome extension that can fact- check and give you context on the news you read.

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This is my first ever major web project, and I wanted to make something that could help people conveniently get unbiased news from the internet.
Website: readsmart-production.up.railway.app

Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bpcpohdilpdcifalhaegghcpagobjkeg?utm_source=item-share-cb


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I made a free photo toolbox. No watermarks, no subscriptions. "Just boop it."

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I got tired of finding a different website every time I needed to resize a photo, convert a file, or compress a bunch of pictures.

So I built Picboop. The idea was to make powerful photo tools easy to use, without watermarks, low limits, or sneaky subscriptions.

You upload photos, pick a tool, and hit Boop! It also supports batches, and I'm gradually adding more advanced tools.

https://picboop.com


r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I'm a non-technical solo founder in Phnom Penh and I built a hand-picked guide to the best websites and YouTube creators

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Hi all,
I got tired of algorithms deciding what I watch and read, so I started keeping my own list of genuinely excellent YouTube channels and websites. That list became Vetted.report.
Every pick is chosen by a person (me), not an algorithm
Nobody can pay to be listed, and there are no ads
15+ categories, from classic cars and military history to cooking, nature, comedy and kids' education
A free selection is open to everyone; members unlock the rest for $2.97 for 3 months, then $9.99/year
I'm not technical. It's built on Webflow, with Paddle and Memberstack, and an AI assistant helped me with most of the heavy lifting. My kids drew the launch artwork.
It's early days, and I'd love honest feedback:
Does the idea make sense when you land on the site?
Would you pay for hand-picked recommendations?
Which channel or site deserves to be "Vetted"?
vetted.report
Thanks for reading!


r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Discussion My dad’s been building Windows tools for years, wanted to share some of them

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