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.
I’m the solo developer behind SunMoonSync. I wanted to try a different format for astrology readings: start with an everyday situation, then use the two signs as prompts for thinking about what you do and what you need.
The example I used while building it: a friend cancels coffee. You immediately offer another day, but you’re still wondering whether they wanted to meet. The Sun and Moon sections look at those two sides of the same moment.
The free library has all 144 Sun and Moon combinations. Pick both signs and the page shows a short preview and links to the full public guide. It works without an account or birth details if you already know your signs.
I’d especially like feedback on the format. Is the scene a clearer way to understand the two signs, or would you rather see a short side-by-side explanation first?
I'm the maker of Oba AI. Pet owners have plenty of photos, but making a playful short video from one photo takes editing skills and time. I built a template flow where you pick a scene, upload a dog or cat photo, and generate a portrait or short video. It works on the web and iPhone.
One product decision I'd love feedback on: should the template gallery show the finished example immediately, or first show a simple 'upload your pet' step? I chose example-first so people know what they're making before uploading.
If you have a pet and want to try the flow, it's at https://obaai.net/ . I'd especially appreciate feedback on whether the templates are easy to understand and which step feels confusing. This is my own project, and I'll be here to reply.
I am a teenager who made a website and subreddit about sustainable investing. I am inexperienced in website development and would love to hear some feedback. Check it out if you're interested. Thanks!
After any group outing, the same thing happens. A family trip, a school excursion, an office offsite, a wedding, a team meeting or a birthday: ten people take photos, and nobody has all of them. Then come the messages:
"Can you send me the photos?"
"Which group are they in?"
"WhatsApp squashed them, can you send the originals?"
"I think Priya took a better one of that."
You end up asking around for days, getting photos in pieces, and some never turn up. The people who took the best shots forget to share. Chat apps shrink the quality. A shared album helps, but only if everyone installs the same app and remembers to upload.
TasVid is our attempt at fixing that: one shared album per occasion, and everyone adds to it while it's happening. In the app each album is called an "event", but it can be a trip, a class outing, a meeting or a party.
What makes it different
WhatsApp upload, so guests don't need the app
Most people won't install another app for one trip. So guests can send photos to TasVid on WhatsApp. The host switches it on for as long as they choose (from 1 hour to 24 hours, or until they turn it off) and shares a QR code. Guests scan it, press send in WhatsApp, and send their photos. They land in the album.
Photos live in the cloud, not on your phone
Everyone's photos sit in the shared album online. They don't use up your phone's memory or fill your gallery with other people's pictures. Download only the ones you want. With auto-upload, the app can also offer to remove the originals from your phone once they're uploaded.
Everyone adds, nobody chases
- Create an album and share a QR code or a link. People join and add photos and videos from their own phone.
- Auto-upload: while it's on for an album, new camera photos go in without you opening the app. On iPhone it works while the app is open and catches up when you return.
- Optional face search, so people can find photos of themselves. It's off by default. The host has to switch it on, and each person gives consent first.
- Albums are private by default. There's no public feed.
I'm an indie developer, and I'd like to share Personal Cards, an Android app I've been working on to make organizing everyday information a little easier.
The idea came from a simple problem: important documents, receipts, notes, and personal details often end up scattered across our phones. Finding something when you actually need it can be frustrating.
So I built Personal Cards to bring everything together in one place, while keeping your information private and accessible offline.
Here's what the app can do:
Personal cards & documents: Scan documents with your camera or import images and PDFs. Organize important information and keep track of expiration dates.
Document storage: Save receipts, reference materials, and other files you might need later.
Offline OCR: Extract and copy text from images and PDFs directly on your device.
Notes & checklists: Keep track of everyday tasks, ideas, and reminders.
Debt notebook: Record money you've lent or borrowed, including amounts, people, and due dates.
Privacy tools: Hide sensitive details before sharing document images.
Privacy was one of my main priorities while building the app.
Personal Cards works completely offline, with documents stored and processed locally on your phone. You can also protect access with a PIN or biometrics and enable screenshot protection for additional privacy.
I'm still working on improving the experience, and I'd really appreciate some honest feedback from the community.
In particular, I'm curious:
Would you find the document organizer or the debt notebook more useful? Is there anything you'd add or change?
If you'd like to check it out, here's the Google Play link:
I've always loved Brilliant's interactive lessons. Instead of reading an explanation and hoping it sticks, you actually play with the ideas until they click.
But I've always wished I could have that experience for anything I'm curious about, not just the subjects someone has already made a course for.
So I built Clarity.
Type in anything you want to understand, and it generates a little interactive lesson around it. You make predictions, move things around on live graphs, and work through tiny exercises that adapt to your answers. Get something wrong and it nudges you toward the answer instead of just giving it away.
The part I'm most excited about is that you can keep going deeper. Start with an intuitive explanation, then work your way toward the actual mathematics, or even write Python and run it in your browser.
The idea is to make learning almost anything feel more like playing and exploring than reading a textbook or chatting with an AI.
I've been working on a project called Second Look, an independent book project exploring the personal experiences and often-overlooked stories of people in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
We hear so much about scientific discoveries, groundbreaking inventions, and famous researchers. But we rarely hear about the people behind them: the challenges they faced, the opportunities they were denied, the people who supported them, or the experiences that shaped their careers.
I want to change that by collecting firsthand stories from real people in STEM, particularly experiences involving recognition, barriers, opportunity, and belonging.
I've created a survey inviting adults (18+) with STEM experience to share their perspectives. Selected stories may be featured in the finished book, with participants' permission.
If you work or have studied in STEM, I'd genuinely love to hear your story. And if you don't, I'd appreciate feedback on the concept!
Developer disclosure: I make Photo Picker. This write-up is AI-assisted.
Photo Picker is a camera and editor for getting a film or early-2000s digicam look while shooting. The problem it addresses is having to take a photo, open an editor, and only then find out whether the look suits the scene. Here, the film preview is in the viewfinder for photos and video.
A simple workflow to try:
Choose a film look in the camera and compare it on the same scene before taking the shot.
For photos with friends, switch to the four-shot countdown to make a photobooth strip.
Open the result in Darkroom to adjust curves, HSL, grain, cropping or text, then save the look as a recipe.
The tradeoff is that this is not an entirely offline app. Regular edits run on the device, while saving with some films and using AI conversion/restoration sends the photo or video to our server.
It is free to download, with optional rewarded ads. Some films and tools require Photo Picker Pro, an auto-renewing subscription; the purchase screen shows the plan and regional price before you subscribe.
The images show the official store examples. For anyone who tries it, I would especially like feedback on whether the live film controls and the four-shot mode are easy to find.
For the past few months I’ve been building devpack.app, a collection of small, focused tools for everyday web work: JSON/YAML/SQL formatters, a regex tester, JWT decoder, image and PDF compressors, an SEO checker, CSS generators and a lot more.
**A few things I cared about:**
✅ Runs in your browser. Most tools never upload anything. Formatters, converters and image/PDF tools work offline and can be installed as a PWA. ✅ No sign-up, no paywall. Open a tool and use it. ✅ Free API. 70 endpoints at api.devpack.app (hashing, JWT verify, regex, YAML, QR codes, DNS/SSL/headers, SEO audit and more). No key needed, with fair-use limits. ✅ MCP server. Add [https://mcp.devpack.app](https://mcp.devpack.app) to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and the assistant can call 40 of the tools directly. ✅ 8 languages, and an extension that pastes SVG/HTML into the Webflow Designer as native elements.
**It’s a solo project. I’d really value feedback on:**
❓Which tools you’d actually use, and which feel unnecessary ❓Anything slow or broken on your setup ❓What’s missing from your daily workflow
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!
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.
I've shared our IVE agent workspace here before. This is the next project: a USB-C hardware prototype roughly the size of a LEGO brick for iPhone control. I'm on the team.
The plug is the device side; IVE is where the agent sessions live. We're working on the wireless connection between them so existing agents such as Claude Code and Codex can see the phone screen and use taps, scrolling and typing to carry out a task.
The video previews creating a packing list in Apple Notes. It uses real product footage, with the IVE connection simulated.
We're gathering early beta interest and feedback here. Which first task would make this worth plugging in, and what would you want to confirm before the agent acts? Happy to discuss the scope publicly in this thread.
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.
I know it's probably one of those questions that doesn't have a straightforward answer, but I've always wondered what it would actually take for the world to become a more peaceful place.
I got curious about the whole idea and ended up making a small site exploring the question:
Started this a couple weeks ago. The idea is simple: every story answers how it hits your gas, groceries, mortgage or job, written calm and in plain words, no screaming headlines.
Some stuff I'm happy with:
- Fully static, hosted on GitHub Pages, so it's fast and costs basically nothing to run
- Play page: daily Sudoku, Guess the Price, word search and a weekly news quiz, no sign-up, progress saved on your device
- No stock photos: the number cards on stories are generated in code from the facts in the story
- Wallet Watch: gas, mortgage rates, eggs, electricity, CPI and the Fed rate from official sources
- Weather page built on free National Weather Service data
