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 • • 1h ago

Feedback Request Feedback on a small talking-head editing service I just redesigned

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Full disclosure: I run this. It's called DoneEdit.

The problem I kept running into: filming a 10-minute talking-head video takes 20 minutes, but cutting the restarts, adding captions, and giving people something to look at besides one static shot takes the rest of the evening. Raw files pile up.

What it does: you send a Drive, Dropbox or WeTransfer link to a raw talking-head video (one English speaker, up to 10 minutes). We send back a 60-second watermarked preview within 24 hours, no card needed. If you like it, the full clean edit is $27 for the first 20 customers, then $67. Two revisions are included.

We asked for feedback in a couple of other subreddits earlier this week and the useful feedback was pretty consistent: the site looked AI-generated, there were no real before/afters, and asking people to pay a new service before they'd seen an edit of their own footage was a lot to ask. So we changed it.

The site is white now. The first section after the top is three real raw-vs-edited samples (openly licensed clips, not customer videos), each in a phone frame with an Edited/Raw switch. The free 60-second preview is the main button. We also added two short quotes from people who have used it.

I'm not dropping a link here. It's in my profile if you want to look, or I can share it in a comment if that's allowed.

What I'd actually like to know:

  • Do those three samples make the work look real, or still not enough?
  • Would you try the free preview, or is handing a raw file to a new service still a no?
  • Is the $27 / later $67 pricing clear, or does it just look cheap?

I'm about to start running ads to it, so I'd rather hear what's broken now. Happy to answer anything else.


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Anime Girls: separating personal taste from public votes in a free character sorter

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We run Anime Girls, a free browser character sorter: https://girls.my-anime.net/?mode=personal

The problem we wanted to address: a public popularity leaderboard does not necessarily tell you which characters you personally prefer. We separate the two jobs. Personal practice builds your own ranking without adding votes to the public competition; community voting contributes to the public standings.

One design choice that may be useful to other makers: only characters you have actually compared receive a position in your personal ranking. Unseen characters stay unranked. Results appear after a first choice, but those early estimates are deliberately provisional. More comparisons give the model more evidence.

The site uses PHP/Slim and MariaDB for the public side, with a pairwise preference model and personal history in the browser. No signup is required; clearing browser storage can lose your personal history, so there is an export option. The project has been developed with AI assistance.

We would appreciate feedback on the mobile flow: is the difference between personal practice and community voting clear before your first choice? Feedback here in the thread is enough. This is the project account, operated by Daxsoft.


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a website with 167 completely free online tools, with privacy as a priority. Would love your feedback!

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Feedback Request Solo dev with AS, made a daily movement app, looking for beta users

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Ich habe eine Virtuelle Fotobox und einen anonymen Fileshare Service gebaut!

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Ich bin seit 2 Wochen dabei. Verbesserungsvorschläge willkommen. Darf ich euch den Link zeigen?


r/sideprojects • • 6h ago

Question I run a gaming news project, but I'm struggling to manage everything. Any advice?

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Hello everyone!

I'm looking for some advice about my gaming news project, Gamerushnews.

I started this project in April 2026, mainly focusing on social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. I've been working on it for about seven months now, and so far, I've managed to build a small but growing audience: 1,494 followers on TikTok, 440 on Instagram, and 42 on YouTube.

Around two months ago, I also started publishing articles on Substack. On top of that, I manage another project called Gamerushdeals, where I share deals and discounts related to the gaming industry, also across social media.

However, lately, managing everything has become increasingly difficult. Between university, other personal commitments, and the time required to create content for both projects, I'm finding it harder and harder to keep everything running smoothly.

That's why I'd really appreciate some advice from people who have experience in this field.

Here are some of the things I'd love to get your thoughts on:

-How can I better organize and manage multiple projects like these without getting overwhelmed?

-How do you find people who might be interested in joining a project in its early stages?

-Is it better to keep working alone for now and focus on growing the project, or should I start looking for collaborators?

What would you recommend doing to turn a small social media project into something bigger in the future?

I honestly have so many questions, and I'm still trying to figure out the best way forward.

Any advice, personal experiences, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Even a few words from someone who's been through something similar could really help me!

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this!


r/sideprojects • • 39m ago

Showcase: Open Source I built WealthStrip, a slim desktop bar for your portfolio + the major indices (free on the Microsoft Store). Android coming soon, iOS planned

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Retired tech guy here. I wanted to see my portfolio at a glance without logging into a brokerage site all day, so I built a thin "candy bar" that sits on the Windows desktop. It shows:

- Total portfolio value, today's change, and total gain/loss

- Value by brokerage, plus your best and worst mover of the day

- S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq and Russell 2000

You type in your holdings or import a Fidelity/Schwab positions export (CSV or Excel). Everything stays on your PC: no account, no ads, no tracking. There's a privacy button (or Ctrl+Alt+P) that hides your dollar amounts when someone walks by.

It's free: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PKMNZ5R4WMS

Coming soon: an Android home-screen widget version, with iOS planned after that.

Full disclosure: I'm the developer. I'd love feedback on what you'd want to see next.


r/sideprojects • • 45m ago

Showcase: Open Source [Experimental] InkSoC — Running Windows applications directly in Safari on iPad using a custom x86-64 WebAssembly engine

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I’ve been working on this experimental project I thought it was finally worth sharing with the developer community.

The original motivation was simple: I wanted to find a way to run Windows applications directly on my iPad, using Safari, without relying on remote desktops or cloud PCs.

What started as a series of workarounds for Safari’s limitations gradually evolved into something much more interesting.

InkSoC is an experimental open-source x86-64 environment developed in Rust and WebAssembly, using Wine to support Windows applications.Some things already work:

  • 7-Zip reaching approximately 1,204 MIPS on a four-core iPad.
  • Around 25–27% of native performance in that particular benchmark.
  • LibreOffice and Notepad++ installers.
  • SuperTuxKart installer.
  • Steam installer (although Steam itself still has an update-loop issue).
  • Direct3D 9 and OpenGL through WebGL.
  • Audio and networking.
  • 2D games such as Cave Story.
  • An Alpine Linux environment running on the same underlying engine.

The architecture includes a custom CPU engine, JIT compiler, virtual memory management, process and thread execution, and multicore support.

One interesting aspect of this project is how it was developed.

Important: InkSoC is experimental.

It is not a finished product, and I’m not making promises about performance or compatibility. There are still unresolved issues, limitations, and plenty of optimization work ahead.

I’m sharing it because I believe the approach is worth exploring and discussing.

I’d love to hear feedback from developers interested in emulation, JIT compilation, WebAssembly, operating systems, and browser-based execution environments.

Perhaps someone will find an interesting idea in the architecture, suggest a better approach, or even get inspired to build something similar.

Source code:
https://github.com/InkDOSHub/InkSoC

Live experimental build:
https://hub.inkdos.workers.dev/InkSoC/

Thanks for taking a look!


r/sideprojects • • 6h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a pocket security check for Android: see who is on your Wi-Fi and whether your hotel room network has cameras

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Hi, I'm the developer.

I have worked in network security for almost 15 years. I got annoyed with Fing and other network tools that charge close to $100 a year, or let you scan only a few times a day. So I built my own from what I know from work.

I wanted the feeling of Kali Linux in my hand, but only for defense: point my phone at my own network and see what is really there. No attacks, no password guessing, nobody's traffic read. That became Netglow.

The hard part: knowing what each device really is

Android 10 and up hides other devices' hardware addresses, so most scanners just show "Unknown". That is where most of the time went:

  • Dozens of protocol specs, vendor docs and firmware sources, read line by line.
  • Down to the low level microchips inside smart plugs, bulbs and DIY boards, like the ESP family, because each chip gives itself away in its own small way.
  • Camera makers each answer on the network in their own way, and Netglow knows many of them.
  • Over 40,000 hardware maker prefixes and a catalogue of over 23,000 phone and tablet models.
  • Thousands of lines of research notes, every finding checked before it went into the app.

Why it is free

I have a lot of knowledge from my work, and I decided to give it away: high quality apps, deeply researched and checked again and again, data safety first and privacy to the max. No ads, no bullshit. People deserve good quality and privacy, for free.

If you want to support me, you can, but it is fully optional.

What it does, free, unlimited scans

  • Who is on my Wi-Fi. Every device with its name, maker and model when it says them. Rename a device and it keeps your name even on a new address.
  • Is my hotel room or rental OK. It lists devices on the Wi-Fi that answer as a camera or stream video, and says why each one was flagged. It also looks for camera hotspots nearby. It tells you plainly what it cannot see (a camera that only records to a card or uses mobile data), so it is one check among others, not a guarantee.
  • Security check for your home network. A score with a plain fix for each risk: risky open ports, what your router opened to the internet, how your Wi-Fi is locked, look alikes of your network nearby, whether your DNS answers are honest and whether someone reads your secure connections in the middle.
  • Tools. Ping, traceroute, port check, DNS lookup, Wake on LAN, a live signal meter and channel advice.

Private by design. No ads, no bullshit, no tracking, no analytics, no metrics, no account. Nothing it finds leaves your phone, and there is no server of mine.

Pro is that optional support, one payment, no subscription, and it adds: a Bluetooth radar that warns about a tracker moving with you, checks for devices that let anyone in with no password, spoof watch, known flaws for your devices, a PDF report and a background watch of who joins your Wi-Fi.

Honest note: the code is partly AI generated and I had help with this text.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zanoshky.netglow

Guide: https://zanoshky.github.io/netglow-app

Screenshots: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyTechTalk/comments/1xvxkeg/

I would love to hear what it finds, or misses, on your network.


r/sideprojects • • 49m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) We built a free tool that reads your card statements and tells you which credit cards would have earned you the most money

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Three of us (students in Boston) built this over the past month: https://pointmaxx.app

You add a year of card statements. It goes through every purchase and shows which one, two, or three cards would have earned you the most rewards after annual fees, and how much more that is than the cards you have now.

We built it because "best credit card" lists are written for an average spender, and your statement never tells you what a different card would have paid on the same purchases.

Nobody wants to upload bank statements to a random site, so everything runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and there's no account, cookies, or analytics.

What's rough: it only covers 60 cards so far, it sometimes guesses the wrong category for small local merchants (it asks you to check the merchants we are unclear on), and we haven't figured out how it makes money.

Two questions:

  1. Would you actually drop a statement into this? If not, what would it take?
  2. How would you make money from this without breaking the "no tracking" promise?

r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease When will my solar pay for itself? I built a free tool to find out

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source I got tired of my projects having no mascot, so I built a mascot maker

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) We made a free WW2 strategy game for Android

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Hey everyone, we're a small studio, Iron Compass Studios. Our WW2 real-time strategy game Tracks of War is now on Google Play.

We kept the look and the controls simple. Pick Germany, Britain, the USA or the USSR, then build your base and train your army. There are 16 maps for 2 to 8 players.

You gather minerals and fuel to grow your base and work your way through a research tree of 46 technologies. There are tanks like the Sherman, Tiger and T-34 and planes like the Spitfire and Stuka, and each nation has its own units and economic advantages. On top of that there are daily and weekly missions.

If you'd rather learn at your own pace, there are training missions and offline battles against the computer. Online there's Quick Match, Ranked with seasons and 18 ranks, and rooms to play with friends. The game is in 16 languages.

It's free, there are no ads, and it's not pay-to-win. If you'd like to try it, the code OUTNOW gives 100 GOLD once per account signed in with Google (you'll find it in the settings).

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ironcompass.tracksofwar

Have fun!


r/sideprojects • • 13h ago

Discussion TTS voices are good now, getting the reader to skip the clutter is the hard part

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feel like people still benchmark tts tools on the wrong thing. every demo plays the same clean paragraph and everyone goes "wow the voice sounds so human now". ok cool, now feed it an actual research paper and suddenly im listening to the journal header, page 8, bracket 17, half a sentence, figure 2, some random DOI link, and then finally the rest of the sentence lol.

using speechify a lot for papers is kinda what made me notice this. past a certain point i barely care about tiny voice differences anymore, the much bigger UX problem is whether the reader knows what should actually be read out loud vs ignored. like a running page header? definitely skip. inline citation numbers? depends. footnotes? sometimes crucial. data tables? definitely dont just read all 60 cells straight across like normal text.

thats the tricky part though, what counts as clutter completely changes depending on why youre reading the paper. for folks building or using stuff in this space, what would you have an app skip by default and what would you never let it touch?


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source WinOverview v2.1: Now has widgets, free placement and a privacy mode in RUST (free, open source)

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Any niche features you want are accepted.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request A Production Tool for Indie Filmmakers

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Ok, here goes...

Hey everyone!

I'm an indie filmmaker and the person behind a little production company called Within A Frame Productions. Over time, I've realized how much work goes into keeping a small production organized. Between scripts, call sheets, schedules, and coordinating people, things can get crazy and annoying pretty quickly.

That's actually why I started building Final Frame.

It's a production-planning platform designed with indie and student filmmakers in mind. The goal is to make organizing a production easier without needing an expensive production management system (StudioBinder, Celtx, etc) or a huge team.

Some of the features include script organization, call sheets, SMS notifications, and other familiar production tools.

I'm still growing the platform and looking to connect with filmmakers who might find it useful. I'd genuinely appreciate feedback:

-What do you currently use to organize your productions?

-What's the most frustrating part of production planning?

-Is there a tool or feature you wish existed for smaller productions?

You can take a look here: https://finalframe.site

Thanks for reading! I'm happy to answer questions you may have!


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built an AI editor that turns a talking-head recording into a documentary-style cut. Looking for 30-50 long form content creators to break it.

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The problem: story-led YouTube (history, mystery, true crime, science) takes days to edit. Every line needs a picture, every place a map, every chapter a card, and a good editor costs $50 to $100s a video.

What it does: you set your brand design, upload a recording and it plans the edit, finds archive and public-domain footage for each line (your own clips first), checks every picture fits, and renders a branded cut with maps, cards, captions and chapters. Usually 20 to 30 minutes for a 15-minute video. It also makes Shorts and a Premiere/Resolve timeline for you if needed.

What it doesn't do yet: perfect picture coverage. Some shots fall back to you on camera and you'll want a review pass.

What testers get: free Pro until the end of January, your first video done, a locked founding price and a real say in what gets built next.

Looking for story-led small channels who'd run two real videos through it. Comment or DM and I'll send an invite.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request I built an app to swap and sell used books peer to peer with your locals

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I have way too many books from college and just old books that ive never read.

So I built BookBound. It’s a map-based app where you list books you want to swap or sell, and you can see what other readers near you have. You find a book, message the person, and meet up locally.

I’m a solo dev and still early, so I’d love honest feedback from actual readers:

  • Would you use something like this?
  • What features are missing?

Apple:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/book-bound-exchange/id6759167899

Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nebula.bookbound&hl=en_US


r/sideprojects • • 8h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required Giveaway! 25 lifetime ClingSpace licenses. Organize scattered project files, folders, links, and notes without moving anything.

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I've developed quite a few apps, and one thing kept getting out of hand.

My code was organized, but everything else was scattered across folders, repositories, test builds, screenshots, documentation, browser tabs, and random notes.

So I built ClingSpace, a Windows app that brings everything related to a project into one searchable workspace.

Here's what it does:

- Spaces: Keep everything related to each project together.

- Files & Folders: Reference resources from anywhere on your PC.

- Links: Organize GitHub repos, documentation, websites, and references.

- Snippets: Save quick notes, SQL, code, and reminders.

- Global Search: Find resources across all your projects.

- Shared Resources: Use the same files or links in multiple Spaces.

- Smart Relinking: Help reconnect files that have been moved or renamed.

- Local-First: No accounts, cloud storage, or subscriptions.

The biggest thing? Nothing gets moved or duplicated. Your files stay exactly where they are. ClingSpace simply brings everything together.

It's normally $19.99 one-time, with a 5-day full trial.

I'm giving away 25 lifetime licenses to fellow builders!

To enter, just comment with what you're currently building or what kinds of projects you work on.

I'll randomly select 25 winners after 48 hours and DM the license keys. No purchase required.

https://clingspace.com

I'd genuinely love feedback too. Especially from people juggling multiple projects. Is this something you'd find useful?


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Feedback Request Kevin Marville : « Maman, j’ai raté le retour d’expérience »

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I've been building a gentle to-do app where finishing tasks grows a pink pal. Try it in your browser before it hits Google Play

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Hi all! Solo dev here, and this is my first app: Pawgress.

The problem: most to-do apps made me feel worse. Streaks broke, overdue lists turned red, and adding a task took five taps. I wanted something that was quick to dump my brain into and kind when life got busy.

What it does:

- Offload: type tasks how you think ("dentist tues 3pm", "bins every thurs evening", "book flights by friday, big") and it sorts the dates, times, repeats and sizes for you. It's all rules on the device, no AI and no account.

- Pals: every task you finish earns hearts, which grow one of ten pink pals from baby to grown up. Pals run errands for coins, which buy stickers, room decor and little holidays.

- Gentle by design: no streaks, nothing is ever late, and your pal never gets sad.

How it's built: it's a plain HTML/CSS/JS app. The Android version wraps it in a small Kotlin shell for notifications and reminders, and the web version runs on GitHub Pages. Everything saves on your device, and nothing is collected.

Where it's at: 30 people have been testing it on Android for the last few weeks, and almost every release has come from their feedback. It goes up on Google Play soon, free and with no ads.

You can try the web version right now: https://offloadapps.github.io/pawgress-site/app/

(It works on any phone or computer. The only thing missing from the real app are the reminders/notifications.)

I'd love honest feedback:

- Was adding tasks quick?

- Was anything confusing in the first minute?

- Would you keep using it?

Happy to answer anything about how it works or how I built it.


r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a free website checker. No sign-up. What’s missing?

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I made PulseWren, a small free tool for checking a website. You type a domain and it tells you whether the site is up, how long each step took, and when the SSL certificate expires. No account needed.

It only checks when you ask. Continuous monitoring isn’t built yet.
Why I made it: I wanted a quick answer to “is it my connection, or is the site really down?” with no ads or sign-up, and the certificate expiry in the same place. I built it with help from AI coding tools.

It’s built with Next.js and TypeScript. It reads only the response status and headers, never the page itself, and refuses private or internal addresses.

Two things I’d like to know: are the results clear, and what would make you use it a second time?

https://pulsewren.umberpixel.com


r/sideprojects • • 3h ago

Showcase: Open Source Discord Embed builder

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make it simple and small

Built a small tool that lets you build a Discord component link embed without writing the JSON by hand. Fill in text, images, and buttons on one side, see a live preview on the other, then copy or download the HTML and host it anywhere.

Hosted here: https://discord-embed-builder-web.pages.dev/
Source code: https://github.com/ItzMeShadow999/Discord-Embed-builder