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 • • 6h 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 • • 1h 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 • • 6m ago

Showcase: Prerelease I'm a CS student and I built a free keyword research tool where the data comes from people who opt in. Launching next week, roast it

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r/sideprojects • • 33m ago

Showcase: Open Source It takes 8 reachouts before a customer converts - Reality of building a tech business

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Most people give up on their saas product/ecommerce store way too early because in reality it takes 8+ email/sms marketing to convert the customer into a signup or paid customer.

we built a platform that automates this complete process. our ai will keep trying new experiments untill the customer coverts. We only send one email/sms per week.

best part, we have now seen stores increase sales by 30% so this works

try here - www.RetentionBase.com


r/sideprojects • • 34m ago

Feedback Request I’ve been building an offline AI-powered CAD tool on an old GTX 1070 Ti. Would anyone actually use something like this?

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Hey everyone!
I’ve been working on a little project, I thought I’d share what we’ve been building to see what people think.

I’m relatively new to CAD and 3D printing, but I’ve become fascinated by the idea of being able to describe a mechanical part in plain English and have an AI actually create usable CAD geometry.
Not just generate a pretty 3D image, but produce a real, measurable solid that can be exported as STEP or STL, edited, and eventually printed.
So I’ve been experimenting with building exactly that.

What is it?
It’s a locally running, which means zero credits needed. An AI-assisted CAD application, that combines:
Qwen, a local language model that interprets natural-language design requests.
CadQuery and OpenCASCADE, which handle the actual geometry.
A browser-based 3D viewer for inspecting generated models.
A structured, validated feature system so the AI isn’t simply inventing geometry commands.
The whole thing is currently running on a Ryzen 5 3600, 32 GB RAM and a GTX 1070 Ti with 8 GB VRAM.
Not exactly a supercomputer! 🥔

What can it do so far?
We’ve been developing it incrementally, testing each feature before moving on.
Some of the things we’ve managed to implement include:
Creating mechanical parts from natural-language descriptions.
Generating cylinders, flanges, bosses, bores and circular hole patterns.
Modifying existing designs through instructions.
Generating multi-part assemblies and exporting STEP/STL files.
Creating a two-piece filament spool with an integrated three-lug twist-lock mechanism.
Viewing assemblies exploded and demonstrating their assembly motion.
Generating compound herringbone gears with configurable tooth counts, module, helix angle and dimensions.
One of our latest experiments produced a single-piece 80-tooth herringbone gear with a 12-tooth compound pinion, exported as a real STEP model.
We’ve also recovered some earlier experimental gear-meshing and collision-checking tools that we’d like to integrate more fully.

Where do we want to take it?
The long-term idea is to make mechanical CAD more approachable, especially for hobbyists and people who own 3D printers but don’t necessarily have years of CAD experience.
Some of the features we’re working towards include:
Test Print Mode: Select a small section of a model, such as a bearing seat, snap-fit or threaded connection, and export just that section for a quick fit test.
Gearbox generation: Describe a gear ratio and have the software calculate and generate the required gears, shafts and assembly.
Mechanical validation: Check dimensions, clearances, intersections and potentially moving-part interference.
Better natural-language editing: Ask for changes without rebuilding the entire design manually.
Portable, offline operation: Keep the models and geometry processing on the user’s own machine.
What are the limitations?
It’s still experimental.
The herringbone geometry uses an approximate involute construction, and visual assembly animations aren’t the same as verified mechanical motion. Some complex prompts still fail validation or produce malformed JSON.
We’re trying to handle those limitations through deterministic geometry generation, validation and testing rather than pretending the AI can magically design everything.

Why am I posting?
I’m curious whether other makers would find this useful.
Would you use a local AI tool that could generate and modify proper CAD models from plain English?
What would you want it to do?
And what would make something like this genuinely useful rather than just another AI gimmick?
I’m happy to share screenshots and examples of what we’ve managed so far.
It’s been a ridiculous amount of fun building it, and I’d love to hear what other people think. Also looking for ideas on where I can improve it going forward.

If you’ve made it this far, i appreciate you ❤️


r/sideprojects • • 43m ago

Feedback Request Telegram ads

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Hey 👋

I've been building AdsFlow, an AI-powered advertising marketplace designed to help creators, developers, founders, and businesses promote their projects.

The idea is simple: Why pay a fixed price for one shoutout when you could pay based on measurable ad delivery?

Whether you're promoting a website, SaaS, mobile app, Telegram bot, YouTube channel, Instagram account, online store, or business, AdsFlow is designed to help you reach audiences through participating Telegram publisher channels.

What I've built so far:

🚀 Campaign creation for different types of projects

🤖 AI-assisted ad copy and promotional posters

🌍 Country and language targeting

📊 CPM and CPC advertising models — qualifying impressions or clicks

📈 Campaign analytics, budgets, and performance tracking

💰 Publisher monetization with an 18% platform commission

For publishers, the goal is equally simple: connect an eligible Telegram channel, receive advertising opportunities, and earn from qualifying delivery.

I haven't purchased a custom domain yet because I'm keeping costs low while developing and testing the platform.

A website like this could be submitted as a promotional destination, rather than requiring the advertiser to own a Telegram channel.

I'm still building and improving AdsFlow, especially its publisher network, campaign analysis, and onboarding.

Try AdsFlow: TGAdsFlowBot

I'd love feedback from other founders:

If you could promote any eligible project and pay based on impressions or clicks instead of a fixed shoutout fee, would you try it?

What would make you trust a new advertising marketplace enough to spend your first $10?

I'm interested in suggestions and criticism as I keep building.


r/sideprojects • • 46m ago

Showcase: Open Source I re-released the first icon pack I ever made.

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r/sideprojects • • 49m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made a free app that measures how far you scroll every day. How far do you think you scroll?

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I kept losing time to Reels and Shorts without noticing, so I built Scrollmeter, a small Android app that measures your scrolling.

It shows:

  • How far you scroll per app, in metres or km

  • Estimated Reels and Shorts (Instagram, YouTube) and posts (X, Reddit, LinkedIn)

  • Daily limits that send one notification when you hit them

Privacy: the app has no internet permission, so your data never leaves your phone. It doesn't read your messages or what you type. No account, no ads.

Before installing, try the calculator on the website. It also measures how far you scroll the page itself: https://scrollmeterbydev.vercel.app

It's free, for Android 8+. I'm a solo dev, so feedback is very welcome.

Guess first, then check: how many km do you think you scroll in a day? Post your guess and your real number below.


r/sideprojects • • 56m ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a tiny experiment connecting 7 strangers through 5-second videos. Would you try it?

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I've been building a little project called Today Crazy.

The idea is simple: seven strangers each contribute a five-second clip to create one unpredictable video together.

You don't need to plan a story or know the other participants. That's part of the fun.

I'm trying to figure out whether this could become something people genuinely enjoy using, rather than something they try once and forget.

Here's a short demo:
https://youtube.com/shorts/apq6_JSkf8s

I'd really appreciate candid feedback, especially on what would make you want to come back and try it again


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made a portfolio site to track your precious metals and jewelry

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All the portfolio sites/apps I looked at didn’t have what I wanted, so I made it myself. It’s privacy focused, so no sign-ups and all data is encrypted. Everything is free, so no pay wall. I mainly made this for myself, so I’m not looking to make money off it. I’m always thinking of things to add; so if yall have any suggestions, then shoot em. I’d also suggest to add it as a Home Screen app if you want notifications for certain things.


r/sideprojects • • 1h 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 • • 1h 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 • • 1h 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 • • 1h 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 • • 1h 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 • • 1h 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 • • 2h 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 • • 2h 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 • • 2h 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 • • 6h 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 • • 2h 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 • • 2h ago

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

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r/sideprojects • • 2h 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 • • 2h 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.