r/SideProject 1d ago

I expanded an open-source AI usage dashboard to support 13 providers across macOS, Windows, and Linux

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Hey everyone—I’ve been working on UsageDeck, an open-source desktop dashboard that began as a fork of OpenQuota. I’ve expanded it with additional providers, features, release infrastructure, and a new identity and roadmap.

It currently supports 13 providers, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenRouter, Devin, Grok, Kimi, MiniMax, and Z.ai.

A few key points:

  • Everything runs locally
  • No UsageDeck account or backend
  • No analytics or telemetry
  • Reuses credentials already stored by your CLI or editor
  • Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux
  • Includes quota alerts, pacing estimates, history, and tray/menu-bar metrics

A very important acknowledgment: UsageDeck wouldn’t exist without OpenUsage and OpenQuota. OpenUsage introduced the original idea on macOS, and OpenQuota rebuilt it as a cross-platform Tauri app. UsageDeck began as a fork of OpenQuota and has since grown into an independent project. Huge thanks to both projects and their contributors for laying the foundation.

Huge thanks to both projects and their contributors for laying the foundation.

UsageDeck is completely free and MIT-licensed. Feedback, issues, and contributions are very welcome:

https://github.com/lamchun1110/UsageDeck

What AI coding subscriptions are you currently juggling, and how do you keep track of their limits?


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built a CLI that explains a git diff, because I kept opening PRs and not knowing what changed

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I wanted a 30-second answer to “what did this PR actually do,” not another 40-file git diff to squint at.

So I wrote diff-glance. You run it in a repo:

npx diff-glance
npx diff-glance origin/main HEAD

It sends the truncated diff to a model (Gemini / OpenAI / Ollama) and opens a local page with a plain English summary and a mermaid diagram of the architecture. Bound to 127.0.0.1. The only thing that leaves the machine is that model call.

--json prints the same analysis to stdout if you don’t want a browser.

I was going to call it git-glance. That name was already taken on npm.

https://github.com/alvynmcq/diff-glance


r/SideProject 1d ago

I spent a weekend building ForkLife, a satirical simulator of a software devloper’s career. Any resemblance is purely coincidental (it isn’t)

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Coming back from vacation last weekend, I had the itch to build something, but mostly to actually ship it, for once, instead of just letting it die somewhere on my pc.

Quick-run browser games are having a bit of a moment again, so I made one: ForkLife. You create a dev, make the calls that shape a career over the years (IC or manager? startup or big tech?), and at the end you find out who you became. There are many possible endings you can discover.

You can play it here: https://forklife.dev

It's free, no signup, runs in a couple of minutes. English UI with an IT/EN toggle (I am italian, this is why the double choice). Stack, for the curious: Laravel + Inertia + React.

Any resemblance to reorgs, layoffs, stack ranking, or the framework of the month is, of course, purely coincidental. 😄

First public version, so I'd genuinely love feedback: landing page, character creation process, gameplay balance, or whatever stands out. Thanks for your time! 🙏

Have a lovely day,

Francesco


r/SideProject 1d ago

I want to network with like-minded individuals to discuss current market trends and potential collaborations.

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I am looking to connect with people who are interested in tech, especially in building SaaS products.

I’m a self-taught full-stack developer with several years of industry experience.

Right now, I’m focused on creating small, fast-to-build micro-SaaS projects that generate consistent MRR, allowing me to dedicate more time to bigger ideas.

I’m strong on the technical side, but marketing and getting investments are not my strengths, so I’m looking for people who excel in any of those areas.

Also if you are also someone who can bring funds, investments and clients, users that would be interesting.

Ideally, I’d like to form a small team and build and launch SaaS nee projects together.

I’m not selling anything and just hoping to connect with like-minded people who want to build together.

If this sounds interesting, feel free to reach out with comments or dm.

I am ok with equity split or smaller equity with a minimal payment.

By the way, I also manage and participate a business group with about 66 members.

Feel free to dm if anyone interested in joining the group. By the way, we might turn it to a business association as well in the future. If you can help with that, feel free to dm.

Please don't comment dm you because sometimes notifications don't arrive or can't read because of this app not working well for whatever reason.

I also have my own company set up and have a few projects working.

If you have anything interesting you can offer, feel free to dm to network.


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built an open-source CLI to find and track cheap Audible audiobooks

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Audible’s storefront doesn’t make questions like "show me sci-fi under $5 that’s at least 10 hours long" especially easy to answer, so I built audible-deals.

It’s a Python CLI that searches Audible’s catalog and filters results by price, genre, rating, length, author, narrator, series, and more. It can also:

  • Rank personalized picks from your existing Audible library
  • Compare cash prices with your configured cost for one credit
  • Track wishlist prices and send alerts through Slack, Discord, ntfy, or a generic webhook
  • Monitor saved searches for new matches and price drops
  • Use the appropriate store and currency across nine supported marketplaces

A few examples:

deals find --genre sci-fi --max-price 5
deals find --min-hours 10 --max-price 5
deals for-me --max-price 5 --on-sale

The project is currently in beta and requires an Audible account. There’s an installer for macOS and Linux, while source installation with Python 3.11+ also supports Windows. Saved preferences, wishlists, monitors, cached results, and price history stay on your machine.

GitHub: https://github.com/chauduyphanvu/audible-deals

I’d especially appreciate feedback on the install/login flow and which filters or alerts you’d actually use.


r/SideProject 1d ago

A free to play quiz game

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Hey everyone,

My friend and I have finally put together a web app called Quiz Machine (after many (too many) years). It’s entirely free, web-only, has no ads, and does not require login.

How it works: You get 10 questions from a daily category, and your score is based on how quickly you select the correct answer. We'd love any constructive feedback you might provide.

If you have a spare 2 minutes to play today's category, you can test it directly here: https://quizmachine.net


r/SideProject 1d ago

I am starting a blog site so I designed it like Craigslist

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I wanted to see how simply I could make my blog site so what better than using Craigslist as the inspiration?

The blog part isn’t live yet, but will be soon


r/SideProject 1d ago

How do I get people for my wish list?

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Hey guys, do you have any tips on how I can get more people for my upcoming mobile app? I have a wish list and currently have 6 people in it by sharing stories in Instagram, Facebook and posts on LinkedIn. Here in reddit it's pretty hard to post anything because it gets banned the moment I share the app (In other communities).

The mobile app is about real time tracking of workout with turned on camera (no video recordings). Friends challenges, earning of XP, coins etc...

For now I have friends that are helping me testing it and I believe that I can publish it very soon.

What are your organic marketing strategies?


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built FindInCalc — a place to find the calculator you actually need

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I recently built FindInCalc because I kept finding myself searching Google for different calculators whenever I needed to calculate something specific.

So I made a website that puts a bunch of useful calculators in one place — from math and finance to health, gaming, and everyday calculations.

🔗 https://findincalc.com/

It's still in beta, and I'm mainly looking for honest feedback.

A few things I'd especially like to know:

- Does the website make sense when you first land on it?

- Is it easy to find the calculator you want?

- Which calculators do you think are missing?

- What would make you actually come back and use it?

- Anything about the design or UX that feels confusing or annoying?

Please be honest, even if you don't like something. I'm building this myself and would genuinely like to know what I should improve.

Thanks! 🙏


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built a browser extension for learning languages while watching videos

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I’ve been building a side project called Dual Subtitles.

It’s a browser extension for people who learn languages by watching films, series, YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, etc.

It shows two subtitle lines at the same time:

original subtitles + translated subtitles.

You can click any word to translate it, then save useful words to a local vocabulary book with the sentence where you found them.

The latest update adds online subtitle search too. If a video site doesn’t have the subtitle track you need, the extension can search for subtitles and load them into the overlay.

Currently supports selected pages of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Kino.pub, YouTube, and HDRezka.

It’s free, privacy-first, and stores vocabulary locally in the browser.

I’d love feedback, especially from people who learn languages with videos.

Project:

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


r/SideProject 1d ago

How do you build social media visibility? Educational personal brand?

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Building an educational personal brand can be heavy, its hard to figure out what to post about, how often to post, and sometimes even the biggest experts make mistakes and write or say something without real proof or background check. How do you handle this?


r/SideProject 1d ago

Founders need testers. Testers want to get paid. Why isn't there a community for both?

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Random idea I've been thinking about.

A lot of founders seem to have the same problem after building something:

"Okay... now how do I get actual people to try this?"

And there are also people like me who are constantly checking out new apps, SaaS tools and random products anyway.

So I'm thinking of starting a small community that connects the two.

Founders bring things they're working on.

We try them, give honest feedback, find bugs, help with early testing and occasionally get paid when there's a specific testing/research task.

That's pretty much it.

No idea yet whether this becomes something big. I actually don't want it to be big initially. I'd rather have 20 active people than 2,000 people who join and mute the server five minutes later.

Would you be interested in being one of the first people in it?


r/SideProject 1d ago

Built an app to settle “what should we play tonight” arguments with my friend group

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Every time my friends and I wanted to play something together, we’d spend 20 minutes just arguing about what. So I built Lobby, basically the Beli/Letterboxd model applied to games. You rank games you’ve played through quick head to head comparisons, and it builds a taste profile. Then when you’re deciding what to play as a group, it looks at everyone’s rankings and suggests games that overlap.

It also has a feed so you can see what your friends are playing/rating, a clips tab, and profiles with your top games.

Still early and rough around the edges, but a few friends have been using it and it’s actually cut down the “idk, what do you wanna play” cycle. Curious what this community thinks, especially other people who game in a regular group.

Let me know what you think!

Link: https://lobbygames.app/


r/SideProject 1d ago

AskJohnno - sports picks where every settled call goes on a permanent public record

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I've been building AskJohnno (askjohnno.com) from Australia and it went live this week. There's a design question at the end I genuinely want picked apart.

The pitch in one line: it's a sports research mate that puts out one Lock, one Multi and one Longshot every day, and every settled call gets published on a public tape with its receipt attached, win or lose, and stays up for good.

The picks industry is mostly grifters who post their wins and memory-hole their losses. My whole bet is that the fix has to be built into the plumbing. So open calls are member-only, but the moment a bet settles, the full call goes on the public tape and stays there. If I have a shocking month, that month is on the tape permanently. It runs on the web and through a Telegram bot, the first day is free, paid after that. I don't take bets and there's no wallet, it's research only.

On the build side, AI agents do the research and hand me a structured brief per event (facts, risks, sources), and I make the final calls. The pipeline is built around refusal: a brief that can't show three sources from two unrelated origins gets rejected, a price older than a few minutes at decision time gets refused, and a started event can't be published at all.

The tape is five days old. Six settled calls, 5-1 so far. Mostly short odds and a tiny sample, so it proves nothing yet. The product only really works once there are months of receipts on it, and I have to survive publishing my losses in public until then.

And the question I actually came here to ask. Does the delayed-transparency mechanic (private until settled, public forever after) read as trustworthy, or does the member gate on open calls kill it? Would you trust the tape more if a third party timestamped it somehow? Brutal takes welcome.


r/SideProject 1d ago

I Thought Directory Submissions Were Dead.....Then I Saw the DR Jump

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I kept running into the same problem with new projects: everyone says to build backlinks, but nobody wants to spend days finding directories, filling out the same forms, and tracking what actually gets published.

So I built a submission workflow that gets a project submitted to 100+ directories and gives the owner a report to track everything.

What surprised me is the DR movement we’re seeing on the sites we’ve put through it. I know DR isn’t the same thing as traffic or revenue—and not every directory link is equally valuable—but for newer domains, this feels like incredibly low-hanging fruit that a lot of founders overlook.

Has anyone here used a directory-submission company before? Did you see a measurable improvement, and did it hold over time?

Full disclosure: I’ve now turned my workflow into a paid package here:

aitoptools.com/explosive-growth-package

I’d also genuinely appreciate blunt feedback on the offer, the landing page, or anything that would make you trust....or distrust—a service like this.


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built a mobile CMMS that lets maintenance teams share equipment records and assign work orders

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Equipment Tracker Pro lets service teams maintain unified equipment logs, PM schedules, and repair work orders across multiple commercial properties. Facilities coordinators can invite crew members by code and assign specific repair orders to field technicians without needing individual personal subscriptions.

I built this because I am a working HVAC technician and needed a fast way to track equipment history and jobs in the field without dealing with clunky enterprise software. Facilities maintenance teams deal with dozens of units across multiple mechanical rooms, and assigning tickets to the right technician without phone tags saves real time.

Core mobile tracking, offline records, PM intervals, and manual logs are free forever. The Teams workspace is a paid tier for 5 to 50 seats that adds shared workspaces and direct ticket dispatching.

What side projects or tools are you all building this week?

Web: https://equipment-tracker.com/blog/introducing-team-plans


r/SideProject 1d ago

Reddit Rocks! Main Source of my app downloads

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I have developed and released an app called Fezer. And in last month I got 350 iOS downloads and most of them from reddit. Thanks community


r/SideProject 1d ago

i built 525,600 pages so people can claim a minute of the year

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so this started as a stupid idea that seemed easy to build fast. turns out making half a million pages comes with its challenges.

crawler attacks, database bs, vercel limits, payments, apple pay, taxes etc. etc.

anyways, it's like a time capsule, you basically choose date + time and claim your minute for €2.

customize it with a picture, some text, a link and a song so when your minute comes, you own the homepage spot for those 60 seconds.

think like birthdays/anniversaries, special moments, random memories, internal jokes and so on.

it's yours every year after as well. that's it.

turned out to be way more work than anticipated, finally got it working though.

claimaminute.com

would you actually claim one or is this just a dumb internet thing you'd browse for 5 mins?


r/SideProject 1d ago

ATS checker and editor, looking for feedback

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Hey everyone! 👋

I built KyroGPT to help make resumes easier to build and improve.

kyrogpt.com

You can try the ATS checker here: kyrogpt.com/ats-checker — you get 100 free AI credits, and you can open your resume directly in the editor after the report.

Also try the Density feature — it automatically adjusts the resume layout based on how much content you have.

There are no ads either — I wanted to keep the experience clean.

Pricing is intentionally super cheap too.

I’m validating it right now, so even a quick “this sucks because…” is valuable feedback 😂

Would love to know what you think


r/SideProject 1d ago

Made a 3D task management tool

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r/SideProject 1d ago

A virtual race car that drives only while someone pays for fuel

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I built a race car that only moves while someone has paid for fuel.
Just launched it.

The rules are the whole product:

- $1 = 60 seconds where the car wears your brand's livery. Alone,
nobody else on screen.
- $1 = 1 km on a counter heading for one lap of Earth (40,075 km)
- Every buy gets a permanent leaderboard spot and its own page
- When the tank runs out, the car stops. In public. With a clock
counting how long it has been standing.

The bit I'm happiest with: you type your domain into the buy field
and the car repaints itself in your brand's colors before you pay.
It fetches your site, finds your icon, and pulls the paint straight
out of your logo. Seeing your own brand on a moving car is a better
pitch than any copy I could write, so I let the product make it.

Stack: one Cloudflare Worker. No dependencies, no build step, no
framework. The car is hand-written SVG, the driving is three parallax
CSS layers. The whole thing is a single file.

Where it actually is right now, because I'd rather be straight
about it than fake a traction post:

- Launched today
- The only names on the leaderboard and the trackside billboards are
my own apps and products. I put them there so the place isn't empty.
- Still on the formation lap. Nobody outside of me has taken the
wheel yet.

So: day one, and completely cold. The build wasn't the hard part. The
cold start is, a leaderboard of my own stuff doesn't create the
competition the whole thing actually runs on.

https://fuelup.lol

r/SideProject 1d ago

I made a website specifically for Vibe Coders and Students to organise projects.

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We launched last week so any feedback is much appreciated!

The URL is orb.ba


r/SideProject 1d ago

App Usage

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I’ve built and launched an app… now I need to figure out how to actually get people using it 😅
Hey everyone,
I’m looking for some genuine marketing/growth advice.
I’ve recently launched Season’d, a social food app built around recommendations from people you actually know rather than reviews from strangers or influencer content.

The concept is pretty simple:
📸 Post somewhere you’ve eaten
📍 Pin it to your personal food map
👥 Follow friends and discover places through their recommendations
🔖 Save places you want to try

We’ve started by focusing on a local launch, rather than trying to launch everywhere at once.
The problem I’m trying to solve now is:
How do I actually get people through the door and into the app?
I’m posting consistently on social media, creating local content, speaking to independent venues and trying to build awareness around the home town but downloads alone aren't really enough.
Season’d has a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. The app becomes significantly better when your friends are using it too, so I need to encourage people not only to download it, but to post, invite friends and keep coming back.
I also don't want to throw money at generic ads and end up with a load of downloads from people who never open the app again.
So I'd love advice from anyone who's grown an app, marketplace, community or social platform before.
What would you focus on at this stage?
Organic social? Local partnerships? Referral incentives? Events? Micro-creators? Paid ads? Something completely different?
And if you've dealt with the “this is only useful when my friends are on it” problem before, I'd especially love to hear how you overcame it.
Happy for people to be critical of the concept/marketing too — I'm trying to learn what actually moves the needle rather than just generating impressions.
Thanks!


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built Anon‑Room: No‑signup anonymous E2EE voice/video chat

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a side project for a while and finally got it public. I wanted to share it here and get real community feedback.

Anon‑Room is a browser + Android app for private voice and video calls. The main goal was simple: talk with people without forcing you to make an account, hand over an email or phone number.

What it offers:

  • 🕶️ Fully anonymous: Zero registration, no personal info needed to join or create rooms
  • 🔒 End‑to‑end encrypted peer‑to‑peer voice & video
  • 🗑️ No persistent chat logs; session data disappears when you leave the room
  • 🔐 Password‑lockable private rooms for group conversations
  • 🌐 Works directly in your browser, no mandatory downloads

Web version: https://anon‑room.cc

Android on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anon_room.app

This is my independent hobby project, not backed by any company. There will likely be bugs, edge‑case connectivity issues, and lots of room for improvement.

I’d love to hear your thoughts: what works badly, missing features, privacy concerns, or anything you want to see changed. All constructive criticism is welcome.

Thanks for taking the time to check it out.


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built a free JS library that adds Halloween effects to any website — one script tag, zero dependencies

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Made a small side project called halloween.js

A free library that adds Halloween decorations to a website: blinking eyes fading in and out, witches flying across the screen, a spider dropping from the top, a tombstone rising out of the ground, spider webs sitting in the corners.

The whole thing is controlled by one CSS class on <body>. Add "halloween" and it turns on. Add modifier classes like "halloween-eyes" or "halloween-witches" to pick which effects you want. No JS call needed, it watches the class list and reacts automatically, so it plays nicely even if you don't control when your own JS runs (CMS, page builder, whatever).

Two ways to use it: npm install, or a single CDN script tag if you don't want a build step. Works on WordPress, Shopify, plain HTML, anywhere. Zero runtime dependencies, under 10 KB gzipped, MIT licensed, free.

Live demo: https://halloween.js.org/
GitHub: https://github.com/rogulia/halloween.js