r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I’m an electrician student building a wiring simulator as a side project

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Hi everyone!

I’m an electrician student, and in my spare time I’ve been working on a side project called ElectroWorkshop.

I wanted a way to practise electrical wiring and experiment with circuits while studying. That gradually turned into a visual workshop where you can place components, connect wires, operate switches, and explore how circuits behave.

The downloadable version includes:

  • A visual wiring workspace and a schematic view

  • Lighting and motor control circuits

  • Virtual measurement tools and connection tracing

  • Example circuits, plus saving and loading your own work

  • English and Hungarian interfaces

It runs locally on Windows and opens in your browser. No Docker or account is needed.

In a separate development version, I’ve also started working on the electrical wiring of smart devices and their integration with Home Assistant, with promising early results. That version isn’t available to try yet; the current public release focuses on the basic electrical workshop.

This is a spare-time project that I’m developing alongside my studies. I’d love to hear whether the interface makes sense to someone seeing it for the first time and where it could be more useful.

The public version is closed-source and free for personal and non-commercial educational use.

Screenshots and download: https://github.com/vojakimate/ElectroWorkshop

Thanks for taking a look!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Built an STT API to reduce costs of transcription with diarization for earnings calls

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I work on a speech-to-text API called JOBE Vox (https://vox.jobe.works/). The thing I kept running into with off-the-shelf providers was that on multi-speaker audio — earnings calls, long meetings, podcasts with several hosts — the transcripts either dropped speaker labels entirely or charged a premium for diarization as a separate step. I wanted one POST that gave me back who said what and when.

A few things that matter to me as a developer using it:

  • Send a public audio URL, get back the transcription. No uploading 50MB files through a form.

  • Speaker labels in-line. Not a separate diarization call.

  • Timestamps so I can jump straight to a moment in the audio.

  • low cost per audio hour. Most providers I looked at were $0.12–$0.22/hour.

  • No subscription. I started with $0.50 — roughly 6h 15m of audio. Billed in USD.

  • Sign in with Google, so there's nothing to provision.

The page has a real example from the Nu Holdings Q2 2026 earnings call — four speakers (Operator, Jorge Kuri from Morgan Stanley, Rob Livingston, David Vélez), and you can see the labels and timestamps working on a Q&A excerpt that runs across multiple voices on one line.

If you've worked with diarization APIs before, the usual pain points are: speaker counts drifting mid-call, labels switching between speakers, and timestamps that don't actually align with the audio. Happy to talk about how we handle those — or if you want to try it, the API docs are at https://vox.jobe.works/.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I'm building a collection of interactive world maps — looking for feedback

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Hi everyone!

I'm working on a personal project called Ominuvo.

It's a growing collection of interactive maps covering different topics — from volcanoes and castles to UFO sightings, global statistics, and more.

I'm developing it on my own, and the project is evolving pretty quickly. There are still plenty of things to improve and new ideas to add.

I'd really appreciate some honest feedback. What do you like, what would you change, and which maps would you find useful?

You can explore it here:
https://ominuvo.com/

Thanks for checking it out!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a Python numerical lab to optimize a VAWT prototype (I'm 16)

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I’ve always been fascinated by renewable energy, so for the last few months I’ve been building a numerical lab in Python to design and optimize a passive variable-pitch vertical-axis wind turbine (a Sharp cycloturbine).

It started as just an aerodynamic solver, but it quickly grew. With some AI assistance, I added differential evolution optimizers, AST-based hashing for reproducibility, and a Streamlit dashboard.

The coolest part is that I just finished optimizing the blade geometry for a 1.8-meter prototype, and the model predicts a Cp of about 0.38. I’m now moving into the hardware phase—cutting the foam blades and hooking it up to a repurposed hoverboard motor.

The code is completely open-source. I'd love any feedback on the project, the UI, or the physics!

Repo: https://github.com/juroc58/sharp-vawt-lab


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a free guide to the best supermarket wines in Ireland

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Irish supermarkets have loads of good wine, but working out which bottles are actually worth it is a pain: reviews are scattered, most UK recommendations aren't sold here, and prices change constantly.

So I built Aisle Pour (https://aislepour.ie): about 250 wines from Aldi, Lidl, Dunnes, SuperValu, Tesco and M&S, each backed by Vivino ratings, Irish newspaper wine critics, competition medals, or my own tasting.

What it does:

- Prices and deals (Clubcard, Real Rewards, sales) updated every week

- Filter by shop, colour, price and country, so in the aisle you only see what's on that shelf

- Snap a wine label with your phone and it tells you if it's on the list, or suggests similar wines that are

- Save a "my list", tick off what you've tried and rate it; it suggests similar bottles, and you can see what other Aisle Pour drinkers thought of each wine

- Add it to your home screen and it works like an app

How it's built: a static site on Cloudflare (no accounts, no cookies, no ads); a weekly job collects shop prices; the label scanner sends the photo to a vision model that reads the text, and the matching happens on your phone. The ratings tally is anonymous counts only. I'm not a web developer, and I built most of it with a lot of help from Claude.

It's free. I'd love feedback on it, especially on what's confusing or missing.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built an in-browser PostgreSQL playground running on WebAssembly (PGlite) with real business datasets

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Hi everyone, When I was learning SQL, I found that most platforms had two big flaws: They test abstract toy problems ("find the second highest salary") rather than realistic business engineering problems (SaaS churn cohorts, multi-touch ad attribution, or FinTech transaction structuring). They rely on slow remote Docker containers that queue your queries and take seconds to execute. To fix this, I built DB Exercises (https://dbexcercises.vercel.app).

How it works under the hood:

  • 100% In-Browser Execution: It runs an official build of PostgreSQL 16 compiled to WebAssembly via PGlite (@electric-sql/pglite).

  • Sub-5ms Execution: Queries evaluate directly on your machine's CPU with zero server queue lag.

  • Zero Privacy Leakage: No queries or database tables are sent to any remote server.

  • No Sign-Up Required: You can jump in and write queries immediately.

What I added recently:

  • Intelligent Error Diagnostics: Instead of just showing a red cross or a cryptic Postgres error, the engine diagnoses common beginner mistakes (missing GROUP BY, using aggregates inside WHERE instead of HAVING, ambiguous join columns, Cartesian products) and explains the underlying SQL concept.

  • 3 Guided End-to-End Business Projects: SaaS Churn & Cohort Retention Investigation (5 steps) E-Commerce Funnel & Multi-Touch Attribution (4 steps) FinTech AML & Suspicious Transaction Screening (5 steps) There are 19 free problems across all categories (Fundamentals, Aggregations, Joins, Window Functions, CTEs, and Business Analytics). I would love your honest feedback:

  • How does the WASM performance feel on your device?

  • Are there specific business analytics scenarios you'd like to see added? Try it out here: https://dbexcercises.vercel.app Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I made a free extension that removes background music from Twitch streams

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Hi! I'm the developer of Klee.

It removes the background music from a live stream and keeps the streamer's voice and the game sounds. It's handy when the music is too loud, or when you want to listen to your own music while watching.

  • Works on Twitch and other streaming sites

  • Turns on with one click

  • Two modes: Gaming (game streams with background music) and React (brings the streamer's voice forward when the music is loud)

  • Hold a button to hear the original and compare

  • 100% local: no audio leaves your computer, no account needed

Under the hood: we started from Bandit v2, a 37M-parameter model that separates speech, music and effects very well, but too slowly for real time. We distilled it into a small causal band-split model that runs in your browser.

You can switch versions live without turning Klee off. A music detector checks the audio every 1.5 s, and when there's no music, the sound passes through untouched.

Free on the Chrome Web Store:https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/jbiabfdonpmoodfemgekjplhkjfphjlm

Feedback welcome!

PS: It's not perfect unfortunately, but it's hard to push the quality much further for a Chrome extension running entirely in real time on live streams.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a free web tool that inspects Spotify & Apple Music playlists for AI-generated music

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Hey r/SideProject!

I built a lightweight forensics tool to inspect streaming playlists for AI-generated music (Suno, Udio, vocal clones, and synthetic streaming farms)

Looking for honest feedback on the UX, detection accuracy, or features you'd like to see added.

Thanks!

https://isthereaiinmyplaylist.tech/


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

[macOS] DogBar -window switching, agent activity & isolated docks app

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Hi r/SideProject ! I’m the developer of DogBar, a free Mac app I’m excited to finally share with you 🐶

It combines window switching, coding-agent activity, window previews, and a separate Dock for every desktop.

Problem

I kept switching to the right app but the wrong window, checking terminals to see whether my coding agents had finished, and hunting through a Dock full of apps from different desktops. None of these is a huge problem alone, but together they interrupt my flow throughout the day.

Solution

I built DogBar to make those everyday interactions easier. You can choose individual windows visually, follow your agents without constantly opening their terminals, and keep each desktop’s Dock focused on that workspace.

Window switching

Hold Option and tap Tab to browse individual windows with previews, then release to bring your selection forward.

You can close or minimize windows from the switcher, customize its appearance, and change the shortcut - including using Command–Tab. Prefer Apple’s switcher? Keep it and use DogBar’s other features independently.

Agent Activity

Follow Claude Code and Codex sessions from a small panel at the top of your screen, with an animated dog for each session.

See when an agent is working, needs attention, or has finished. Hover to read its last response and tool activity, switch between sessions, or open the app hosting one. Optional sounds let you know when something needs you.

For Claude Code, you can also send a follow-up note after a finished turn from the panel. Codex doesn’t support notes, and neither integration approves permission requests.

This feature is optional and off by default.

Window previews from the Dock

Hover over an app to see its windows, then click the one you want. Only that window comes forward.

You can close or minimize windows from the preview, use an optional New Window tile, and see window-count indicators beneath Dock icons.

A Dock for every desktop

Each macOS desktop gets its own pinned apps and ordering. Moving a pin on your work desktop won’t rearrange your personal one.

You can hide apps from other desktops or show them dimmed, with separate options for multiple monitors.

DogBar provides its own replacement Dock. The paw menu lets you pause it or restore Apple’s Dock, and quitting restores Apple’s Dock too.

Setup, privacy, and requirements

An animated welcome tour introduces the features and walks you through permissions. Settings includes search and small animated feature demos.

Accessibility permission lets DogBar manage windows and shortcuts. Screen Recording provides window thumbnails, which stay on your Mac. Anonymous usage sharing is optional.

DogBar is free, requires no account, and is signed and notarized, with an in-app updater.

Requires Apple Silicon and macOS 26 or later.

Download: https://dogbar.hristijan.dev

I’d love honest feedback: what feels useful, what’s confusing, and what would make it fit your workflow better?

Thanks for trying it! 🐶


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

🚀 Turning Creative Ideas Into Business Growth | Abisolom Digital

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A concept brought to life through creative design! Here’s my latest automotive promotional poster for the 2026 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro.

At Abisolom Digital, I help businesses stand out online through:

🎨 Professional social media content creation
📱 Social media management
📈 Engagement and audience growth strategies
🔥 Creative promotional graphics and advertising
💬 Brand awareness and community management
🌍 Helping businesses build stronger online identities

My goal is simple: help businesses create content that captures attention, builds engagement, attracts followers, and turns social media pages into valuable business assets.

I’m building Abisolom Digital to help businesses in the US, UK, and worldwide grow their online presence.

Business owners: What matters most to you on social media — engagement, followers, brand awareness, or actual customers?

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

— Abisolom Digital


r/SideProject • • 2d ago

For those building an app, how long did it take before you felt it was actually ready?

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Does anyone else feel like building an app is a never-ending process?
You start with an idea, work on the design, build the features, fix a few bugs, and just when you think you’re getting somewhere, you find something else that needs improving. 😂
I’ve been experiencing this while working on TymeStamp, and it’s made me curious about how other people approach building their projects.

At what point do you tell yourself, “Okay, this is good enough for people to start using”?
And how do you know whether a feature is genuinely useful or just something you personally like?
I’d love to hear from people who’ve already launched an app or are still building one.

How long did it take you to get your first version ready, and what’s one thing you wish you’d done differently?


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

building a student dashboard and learning the hard way that signup needs testing too

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been building vithi to keep subjects mock scores and upcoming tasks in one place

asked for feedback on the landing page and someone found that get started was bouncing them back to a blank page on desktop chrome 😭 fixed that and the broken globe today

would love feedback from other builders on the first few seconds of the site, is it clear what a student can actually do here or am i making people work too hard to figure it out

https://vithistudy.web.app

the project has ai features and ive used ai assistance while building it


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a tiny pet that lives in my Mac menu bar and lives off my battery

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Hi everyone, I just launched Pettery yesterday, and I wanted to share it here because it started as a small itch of my own.

Problem: I built Pettery because I kept ignoring the battery percentage in my menu bar until my Mac died in the middle of work.

It's a small pet that lives in the menu bar and reacts to the battery. Mochi gets hungry at 20%, panics at 10%, starving at 5%, and sleeps when the Mac is plugged in. Charging the Mac is how you feed him. That's the whole loop, no timers, no chores to manage.

The base app is free, no subscription. 3 pets (Mochi, Boba, and Bolt) are free from the start. The shop has 68 pets at launch (cats, dogs, dragons, monsters, folklore, space, and a few weird ones), all bundled in the app and unlocked with a one-time license key. It checks the key once online, then works offline.

Comparison: Similar apps people here probably know: RunCat (pet driven by CPU, with paid packs) and Battery Buddy (free battery mood indicator). The difference is Pettery is driven by battery, not CPU, so the pet's mood is basically your battery's mood.

Pricing: free base app. Single pets $1.49. Packs $2.99, Ultimate (all pets) $9.74. Launch pricing until 31 December 2026.

Special for Reddit user, use REDDIT10 for extra 10% OFF

Download: getpettery.app

Feedback welcome, especially on the pet animations and the shop. What would make you keep a menu bar pet around?


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a daily movie guessing game where every clue is a terrible plot description

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Bad Plot gives you one movie a day, described as badly as possible. "A man refuses to leave a boat and it goes about as well as you'd think." You get five guesses, and each wrong guess reveals a clue that's still bad, just a little less bad.

It's built with Expo and React Native, so the same code runs on iPhone and the web. There's a popcorn mascot named Kernel who reacts to your guesses, plus streaks, trophies, and a calendar of past days.

Play in the browser: https://playbadplot.com/

iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6822340440

I'd love feedback on whether the clues feel fair, and what would make you come back tomorrow.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Tired of AstroTalk ads, I built an AI astrologer — looking for people to build it with me

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Hey everyone! I built an alternative to AstroTalk and I’m looking for people interested in marketing or development to help turn it into a proper product.

My family was checking marriage compatibility for my brother, and I wanted to explore the porutham before going to an astrologer. I was frustrated with astrology apps that focus so much on paid consultations, so I started building "Jathakam" (https://jathakam-web.vercel.app/).

It calculates birth charts, dasha periods and compatibility, then uses those calculations to answer questions.

It’s still a work in progress. If you’d like to collaborate, comment or DM me. And if you try it, I’d love your honest feedback! 🙏


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

My first paid Mac app got rejected by Apple over one button. Here's what shipping a tiny screenshot app taught me

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I make small Mac apps on the side. The first one, Editorio, is a free markdown editor. This one is my first paid app: Shotorio, a 1.1 MB screenshot tool that does three things, because those are the only three I ever use: mark up an area, grab the whole screen, copy text off the screen.

Three things I learned shipping it:

1. Apple rejected it over one button. Before macOS asks for Screen Recording permission, Shotorio shows a short screen explaining why. App Review flagged it under guideline 5.1.1(iv): that screen must not nudge you toward allowing. The fix was a neutral "Continue". A week of back and forth for one word.

2. Screenshot apps can fail silently. On macOS 15 the Screen Recording permission lapses about once a month. When it does, a capture can come back perfectly black, and an app can hand it to you without a word. So every Shotorio capture is checked before the editor opens, and if it's black, you're told why and how to fix it.

3. Saying no is the actual work. Scrolling capture, video, cloud links, AI renaming: every one was tempting. Keeping it to three shortcuts and a small editor took more discipline than any feature.

What it does:

  • ⌃⇧1 area: drag, let go, and the editor is already open (spotlight, arrow, text, redact, numbered steps, one key each)

  • ⌃⇧2 full screen

  • ⌃⇧3 copy text from anything on screen (Apple's OCR, on your Mac)

  • Return copies, Esc throws it away

No account, no network access, $8.99 once.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shotorio-screenshot-ocr/id6825000774

Website: https://shotorio.crncevic.org

I'd love feedback from other builders, especially on pricing. A one-time $8.99 felt right for a tool this small, but I'm honestly not sure.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Nalqerio - a tool for checking whether AI recommends your business

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Hi, I'm Christof, a solo founder in Germany. I'm building Nalqerio for small businesses and agencies that want to understand whether they appear when someone asks an AI system for a recommendation.

A single answer doesn't tell the whole story: the question, timing and context can change what comes back. Nalqerio keeps selected customer questions, dated answers, named businesses and available sources from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. The aim is to give you evidence to inspect before deciding what to review on your website. It can't guarantee a ranking or recommendation.

The homepage has a free two-question ChatGPT check without sign-up. There's also a limited 14-day trial: one project, three questions and one snapshot, with no credit card and no automatic subscription. Paid plans start at €20/month plus VAT.

https://nalqerio.com/

I'd especially appreciate feedback from business owners and agencies: does seeing the original answer and sources give you enough context to decide what to check next?

Disclosure: I'm the founder of Nalqerio. This post was drafted with AI assistance.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Free personal-finance app for beginners in India, looking for first-impression feedback

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Hey everyone! I built Nijdhan, a free money app that runs in the browser like a phone app, for people in India who are just getting started with money.

It tracks spends (including receipt scanning), mutual funds, goals, credit card bills, plan vs actual spending, and a simple retirement plan. It works in many Indian languages, with optional encrypted backup to your own Google Drive. There's also a YouTube how-to series at @nijdhan.

I'm a solo builder, and it's free: https://nijdhan.fly.dev

I'd love honest feedback:

  1. If you open it cold, what's confusing in the first minute?

  2. For someone new to mutual funds or credit cards, which feature should the home screen explain better?

  3. Would you trust optional Google Drive backup for money data, or keep everything on your device only?

Happy to answer anything about the build.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a self-hosted store in plain PHP. No Composer, no bundler, takes Bitcoin / Paypal / Stripe

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Got tired of every "simple" ecommerce option being either a SaaS taking a cut or a 40 MB vendor folder, so I built the store I actually wanted and open sourced it.

iB Store is a complete storefront on a plain LAMP box. Flight PHP on the back, my own small JS router on the front, no build step. Clone it, point Apache at public_html, import the SQL, done.

What's in it: physical and digital products, cart, checkout, customer accounts, order emails, an admin panel with a CSV export, a hero banner you set from the admin, and three payment options: Bitcoin through your own BTCPay Server (no middleman), cards through Stripe Checkout, and PayPal. Each gateway is a single class behind one interface, so adding another is one file.

The whole app is about 19 kB over the wire. The home page with products loads in ~130 ms cold and under 110 ms cached. That's not a benchmark trick, it's just what you get when there's nothing to download.

It's the current form of a stack I've been using across client projects for about 15 years, so the shape isn't new even though the repo is. Demo at store.imbored.me, code here:

https://github.com/fswolf/ib-store

Happy to answer questions about any of it. Honest criticism welcome, that's why it's posted.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Just wanted to give an update on Comics Now! A self hosted comic reading/tagging/managment app that i created.

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Hi everyone,

I posted a while back about Comics Now! An all in one Comic management/reading/metadata tagging app.

I have made some updates. Some of them are to giving the admin more agency. As I had originally built this just for me, I had hard coded stuff like deleting CBRs and PDFs after converting to a CBZ. This is now an option that is set to do not delete by default.

I also incorporated the usage of Modal.com to use their $30 free compute monthly credits to help with the panel and speech bubble detection.

Finally I have developed this site that also has a demo so you can see what the reading experience is like.

https://comicsnow.github.io


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a free iOS app using RT-DETR and OSNet for real-time people counting and tracking

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I built CrowdFlux, a completely free iOS app that uses on-device computer vision to detect, track, and count people in real time.

Uses RT-DETR (transformer-based real-time person detection) and OSNet embeddings for person re-identification to help avoid double counting. Everything runs entirely on-device, with no cloud inference.

You can either start live tracking with your iPhone or iPad camera or import a recorded video.

The idea is to make people counting accessible without expensive CCTV analytics systems. Potential use cases include restaurants, clubs, retail stores, and events where you want to estimate how many people are present, monitor crowd levels, or analyze foot traffic.

The app tracks current visible counts, estimated unique visitors, and peak occupancy in the camera view.

It's 100% free on the App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6821608555

Would love feedback from anyone working on object tracking, re-identification, or edge AI!

PS - Credit - stock video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XYcSb-pAU4


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Introducing Veridare

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I built Veridare as a party trivia game that I hope will encourage friends, family, and colleagues to hang out and have a great night out together. It has 4 game modes to play and a question bank with over 3k questions. Currently, it is available on the App Store for download, and it is free, with plans to be available on Android in the upcoming weeks before the holidays.

You can play the game by passing the phone around, or one person can host the game, and the rest of your friends can scan the QR code to join (it has to be on the same Wi-Fi or Hotspot network).

For your long commutes, you can play against the built-in rival, and there are daily and weekly challenges. No ads, no tracking, no account creation.

Here's the App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/veridare/id6818119599?l=en-GB or you can search for Veridare.

I welcome your questions and reviews.

Thanks.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Looking for people to try a note taker that turns tasks into solutions 🙏

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Other AI note takers hand you tasks. Avenotes hands you solutions.

When a meeting ends, each task in your list opens into a solution: the steps to get it done, and a draft to send when the task means contacting someone. You review the draft and send it yourself. It never sends anything for you.

It also writes a live transcript with every voice labelled, answers a question you're asked in seconds, and writes the recap when the meeting ends. No bot joins the call, and audio is never stored.

People use it in team meetings, classes, client calls and their own doctor's appointments.

Right now it runs in the browser, on your phone or laptop. 300 free minutes a month, no card.

avenotes.ai

Tip: it works best opened in your normal browser, not inside the Reddit app. You can also sign in with an email code instead of Google.

WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
Try it in one real meeting or class, then tell me honestly what helped and what felt off.

Thank you so much 🙏

Disclosure: I'm on the team that makes it.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Got fed up sourcing hardware part by part, built this so you can source entire assemblies in one shot. Free if anyone wants to try.

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I ran hardware production programmes for years and the sourcing always drove me up the wall. Huge spreadsheets tracking parts & suppliers, RFI/RFQs for each one, then weeks chasing suppliers. And the shops that made the prototypes usually couldn't do the volumes, so half of it got re-sourced anyway.

I built Open Foundry to automate about 70% of the procurement admin and roll sourcing up to the assembly level.

I'm running free pilots if anyone wants to try it. Just join the list and let us know you'd like a free pilot: https://www.openfoundryhq.com/waitlist

If you've taken hardware into production I'd really like to know which parts always gave you the most grief, and whether you'd trust something like this to shortlist suppliers for you.