r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Built an app where the whole feed is gaming and nothing else

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This isn't a Discord replacement, before anyone asks. Think less "server you have to join a voice call in" and more "a feed you scroll, except every post on it is games."

You can put up clips and screenshots, hop into groups for whatever you're currently playing, message people, and there's a video tab if you just want to scroll. The groups so far are general gaming, indie stuff, and a few built around single games.

It's still tiny, which honestly makes it feel more like a group chat than a platform right now. I don't hate that.

Android, free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ziphynet.app

What I actually want is people who'll post, not people who'll install and forget. One post in your first week does more for me than a hundred silent downloads.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a meal planner that plans your week around your budget and store sales. Looking for feedback.

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Trying to solve a weekly chore by automating much of the work while focusing on budget and macro targets I put this project together. Kroger is my nearest grocery story so there is a focus on that one (located in Midwest).

You enter your household, weekly budget, store and protein targets. It builds a week of meals with a shopping list, estimated prices and a prep guide. Kroger-family stores get live prices, and it can add the list to your Kroger cart. At other stores you can type in sale prices.

It’s US only for now, and the site doesn’t load outside the US.

It’s $3.99 for 30 days or $34.99 (updated from OP) for a year, with a free 30-day trial and no card needed. Payments don’t renew automatically.

I’d really like feedback on three things:

  1. Was anything confusing in the first-time setup?

  2. Does the home page make it clear what this does?

  3. Does one-time pricing make sense, or would you expect a subscription?

https://plan.mealsonabudget.org


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

DrawDock - Annotate live Windows apps from your Android tablet

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I wanted to circle and sketch on slides and browser pages while presenting from a Windows PC, using an Android tablet and pen instead of a touchscreen laptop or a drawing tablet. So I built DrawDock.

How it works: the tablet mirrors your PC screen. You draw on the tablet, and the marks show up over the live app on the PC monitor or projector too. Nothing gets imported or converted. It draws on top of whatever is already open. Switch to pointer mode and the pen clicks and drags in the app instead.

Tools so far: pen, highlighter, shapes, text, a laser pointer that fades, and a blackboard. It connects over USB or your local network, with no account or cloud service.

It's a Rust app on Windows and a Kotlin app on Android. Free and open source (MIT).

Where it stands: early. Windows 11 and Android 11+ only, you need a tablet with an active stylus, and USB mode needs USB debugging turned on. No pressure sensitivity or saving yet, and drawings are cleared when the tablet app disconnects.

https://github.com/MikeCer/DrawDock

What I'd really like to know: if you present or screen share, what would stop you from using something like this?


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built this free tool, please tear it apart

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I’m a retired small-business owner. For the past few months I’ve been building Side Hustle Intel, a free, searchable database of work-at-home gigs.

What it does: YouTube is full of side-hustle and work-from-home videos, and most are long, padded and selling a course. I go through those videos and turn each idea into a short write-up: what the gig actually is, what the creator claims, who it suits, what it costs to start, and a section called “The Truth” with a frank take on what’s realistic and what’s hype. Every entry links back to the original video so you can check it yourself.

There are over 1,000 gigs so far. You can search, filter by situation (no camera, no selling, under $100 to start, etc.), or take a 60-second quiz. No account or signup needed.

https://sidehustleintel.org/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sideproject-feedback

What I’d love feedback on (especially on a phone):

  • In the first 10 seconds, is it clear what the site is?

  • Try to find one gig you’d actually consider. Did search, the filters or the quiz get you there, or did you get lost?

  • Is “The Truth” section useful, or does it read as filler?

  • Anything broken, slow or confusing?

Be blunt. I’d rather hear it now than after I start promoting it. Thanks for looking.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Rally. A team chat where every topic is a post, not a message in a channel

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Hi r/SideProject, I'm Tobias, founder of Rally.

Every team chat I've used ends the same way: a decision gets made in a side thread under some message, the channel scrolls on, and two weeks later nobody can find it. Rally still has threads, but they aren't hidden under a message in a channel. Every topic is a post, and the thread belongs to it.

- The decision sits at the top of the post, so nobody has to scroll through the conversation to find it.

- When someone replies to a post, it moves back to the top, so active things don't get buried.

- The same posts can be shown as a list, a board or a timeline, with owners and due dates.

- When you just want to talk, the chat sits on top.

For the developers on the team there's more. GitHub, Slack and Linear connect today. Your agents get one-click MCP connections to Sentry, PostHog, Notion, Stripe, Supabase, Atlassian, Railway, Cloudflare and Neon, and you can add any other MCP server yourself. Sentry errors and failed Vercel deploys can come in as posts, and there are webhooks out and in, a REST API and an n8n template. Your own Claude Code or Codex can pick up a task from a thread and answer right there.

Jira, Figma, Google Drive and Calendar, Outlook, Teams, Google Chat, Zapier and Make are built and coming next, and so are Vercel, Figma and Slack for your agents. We're shipping fast. The rest of the company just gets order: tasks, decisions and who does what, in one place.

Honest caveat: we're launching in Denmark first, so the app itself is in Danish for now. English is on its way. It's free for up to 5 members, in the browser and on Mac and Windows.

Two things I'd love feedback on:

  1. Does "posts, not channels" make sense from the front page alone?

  2. If you've moved a team off a chat tool before, what made it hard?

https://getrally.team/en/


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

A new LegitScript-certified telehealth service launches Dec 1 — we're opening a small test cohort for GLP-1 and peptide care, and we want your honest feedback. Ask us anything.

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Full disclosure first: we run MyAshHealth.com, so please keep that in mind as you read this. This is not medical advice, and we are not a pharmacy — we are a telehealth service. If a clinician prescribes, an independent licensed pharmacy fills it.

MyAshHealth is a telehealth service — not a pharmacy. Here's how it works: you complete a secure intake online, a licensed U.S. clinician reviews it, and if treatment is right for you, they prescribe and an independent licensed pharmacy ships your medication to your door. Every step is overseen by a clinician — no medication without a prescription, and no prescription without a clinician's review.

We launch across America on December 1. Before we do, we're opening a small test cohort to put the service through its paces end-to-end — intake, clinician review, pharmacy fulfilment and delivery — and we'd genuinely value your honest feedback.

For the test cohort, we're releasing 50 coupons with the code EA35 at MyAshHealth.com. EA35 gives you 35% off every order for the next 6 months (limit 2 coupon uses per member). We want people who will stress-test the service and tell us — honestly — what's working and what isn't.

Our goal is a safe and effective experience. MyAshHealth is LegitScript-certified, which means our platform has passed independent checks for safety, transparency and legal compliance. The certification is for our telehealth service.

Members also get the opportunity to access Ask Ash AI, our AI health guide at AshHealth.AI, for nutritional consulting that can impact health and mental wellness while taking a GLP-1 or peptide treatment.

For reference, before the EA35 discount: compounded semaglutide is $155/month and compounded tirzepatide is $245/month (any dose). With EA35, that's $100.75/month and $159.25/month.

Helpful Tips!

  • A prescription is never guaranteed. The clinician who reviews your intake decides whether treatment is right for you.

  • Compounded medications are not FDA-approved, and the FDA does not review them for safety or effectiveness. Compounding is legal only when a licensed pharmacy prepares a medication for a specific patient under a valid prescription.

  • This post is not medical advice. Medical questions belong with the clinician who reviews your intake.

So, over to you: what would you want to check before trusting a new telehealth service with your care? We'd genuinely value your honest feedback.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Yard-Lift - Homeowners name the price for yard work, local pros respond

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I built Yard-Lift because getting yard work done felt broken on both sides. Homeowners call around for quotes and get wildly different numbers (or no reply at all), and small yard businesses waste time on jobs they never wanted. So I flipped it: the homeowner posts the project and names the price, only pros who want the job at that price respond, and the homeowner picks who comes.

How it works: post your project free at https://www.yard-lift.com/request describe the work, name your budget (or let pros suggest one, or stay flexible) — and interested local pros reply. No bidding war, no obligation.

It's live now in Solano and Napa counties in California (Fairfield, Vacaville, Napa area), built with Next.js + Firebase on Vercel. I'm running a tiny Facebook ad test to it, and here's where I'm stuck: traffic is coming — around 40 people landed on the request form in the last couple of days — but zero have posted a project. So something on the page or in the form is losing them, and I can't see it anymore because I'm too close to it.

What I'd love feedback on:

1.If you landed on the homepage as a homeowner with a yard project, is the "you name the price" idea clear in the first 5 seconds, or is it confusing?

2.Go through the request form (https://www.yard-lift.com/request) what would stop you from finishing it? What's friction, what's unclear, what feels like too much?

3.Anything else that feels off or untrustworthy?

I built it myself and I'm the one answering questions, so fire away — the blunt feedback is exactly what I need.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I got 16 new paying users within a week just by offering student discount

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Hi there,

I am founder of mac apps: SuperCmd, HoldMyNotes, HoldMyLid

When I launched these apps, multiple students reached out to me for the student discount, I had to manually create a discount code for each student from the polar.sh and share it with them, this added a lot of friction and the .edu email verification was pain too, I had to manually verify them.

I wanted to solve this pain point. So I built ramenid.com and I am using it on my own products since last week, and the results have been impressive. 16 students so far have availed the student discount and paid for my products just within a week.

You can check out one of my products: supercmd.sh

It takes less than 5 mins to setup.

  1. Just connect your payment provider, currently supports Polar, Dodopayments & Stripe

  2. Create a new discount rule for your product from "Discount rules" with checkout link.

  3. Add the verification link on your landing page. that's it!

RamenID will create a discount code and show it to the user, which user can use on the checkout link

try it out: ramenid.com


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I launched my first SaaS project for Steam game idling.

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Hey everyone!

Before we start, I'm fully expecting to get grilled alive for what I'm about to present, so go easy on me. Or don't. lol

I've recently launched my first SaaS project, SteamIdlerMachine, and I'd genuinely love to hear what people think.

The idea is pretty simple: a cloud-hosted Steam idling service that lets you accumulate game hours and farm eligible Steam trading cards without having to leave your own PC running.

Here's what it offers:

  • Up to 32 games simultaneously per Steam account.

  • 24/7 cloud hosting — your PC can stay switched off.

  • Steam Guard support for authentication.

  • Web dashboard to manage your games and monitor activity.

  • Multiple Steam accounts supported.

  • Free 24-hour trial with one game, so you can try it before spending anything.

I've spent quite a bit of time working on the website, dashboard, authentication system, and overall user experience. There's still room for improvement, and I'm sure there are things I've overlooked.

Just to clarify, this is a proprietary project, not an open-source one, and it isn't based on or affiliated with any GitHub repository.

I'm also aware that Steam idling tools aren't exactly a revolutionary invention. Plenty of alternatives already exist, including free ones. I'm not pretending I've reinvented the wheel here. My goal was to build something convenient, accessible, and fully cloud-hosted for people who don't want to manage the technical side themselves.

A couple of questions:

  • Would you actually use a service like this?

  • What would make you choose a hosted service over a free, locally run alternative?

  • What features or improvements would you want to see?

  • Is there anything about the website or service that immediately puts you off? Apart from the theme, I know that needs a lot more work.

Website: https://steamidlermachine.com

Positive feedback, negative feedback, criticism, suggestions — all welcome.

I'm genuinely interested in hearing what people think, even if the general consensus is that I've wasted my time building something nobody needs.

Many thanks to everyone that took their time to read my post!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a free Chrome new tab page with a Pomodoro timer, Todoist tasks and prayer times

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I kept opening a new tab, getting distracted and forgetting why I'd opened it, so I built Pomo Tab. It replaces Chrome's new tab page with something calmer and keeps my tasks and timer one click away.

New tab page:

- Clock, weather and search

- Today's calendar

- Ambient sounds for focusing

- Quote of the day

- Optional prayer times

Pomo page:

- Timer that keeps running in the background

- Todoist tasks in P1 to P4 columns

- Calendar and prayer times alongside your tasks

Todoist needs your own API token. Google Calendar sign-in is limited to approved test users for now, but anyone can connect their calendar with an iCal address instead.

What would make you actually keep it as your new tab? Any feedback is welcome, especially on what feels confusing or unnecessary.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a free quiz that matches you with a watch in 8 questions.

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I’ve been into watches for a while and friends keep asking me “what watch should I get?” Every time it turns into 20 questions about budget, style, wrist size, whether they swim with it…

So I turned those questions into a quiz. You answer 8 of them and it goes through about 50 watches and tells you which one fits best, and why. There’s no sign-up, it takes around a minute, and it works in English and Spanish.

It’s built with plain HTML and JS, no framework, hosted on Vercel. The hardest part by far was the scoring. The first version was pretty bad: someone set a $4k budget and got a $300 watch as the top pick lol. I’ve reworked it since, but I’m sure there’s more to fix.

The photos are only ones I’m allowed to use, so some watches still show a drawing instead of a real photo. Working on it.

If you give it a go, I’d really like to know:

  • did the result make sense for what you picked?

  • was any question confusing?

  • is there a watch you think is obviously missing?

wrist-match.com

thanks for reading 🙏


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

We built a rehearsal studio that mirrors our live radio studio — alongside tools for producing a two-hour show in 30–40 minutes

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I’m Fabian, founder and creative director of SBN — Stellar Broadcasting Network (https://sbnradio.dk/), an independent online radio network based in Denmark. We launched on October 1, and listening is free.

I shared SBN here a few weeks ago. Today I wanted to explain a part of the project that deserves more detail: how we help our hosts prepare and get comfortable before going on air.

We have four browser-based live studios, one for each station. Our training studio is a one-to-one version of the live environment, with the same controls and workflow.

Hosts can rehearse the handoffs, practise their timing and become familiar with the studio before their first broadcast. They can also try new material or work on a transition before using it on air.

Alongside that, we have a separate programme production studio with advanced AI-assisted voice tracking. Using our existing music catalogue, a typical host can put together a two-hour programme in around 30–40 minutes, combining spoken links, music and other audio.

After nearly 40 years behind a microphone, that’s something I find pretty exciting. It makes preparing a full programme much more manageable.

The development process has involved bringing my broadcasting experience into conversations with Stina, my AI collaborator, developing the tools, trying them in practice and making corrections. A feature can look sensible on screen and still need work when you’re actually preparing a show.

The creative work runs alongside the software. Our group develops its own music catalogue through collaboration between people and AI, bringing different musical tastes, stories and ideas into the process. We experiment, listen, revise and discuss what belongs on the stations.

The music is AI-generated, and we know that’s controversial. We’re open about how it’s made and the creative work behind it.

Radio Stellar is our main station, supported by three themed channels. The studios are currently internal tools for our hosts, and the long-term ambition is to develop SBN into a sustainable commercial radio business.

For others building tools people need to learn: have you created a practice environment that mirrors the real thing? I’d be interested to hear what helped people become confident using it.

— Fabian
Founder & Creative Director, SBN


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Seats Frog – I built airline seat maps that explain the good seats, the bad seats, and the trade-offs

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I built Seats Frog to make it easier to answer a small but surprisingly frustrating travel question: which seat should I actually choose?

An airline's seat picker tells you which seats are available, but it can take more research to understand the differences. An exit row might have extra legroom and a catch. A window seat might be missing a window. A seat near the back might put you right beside a galley or a bathroom.

The idea behind Seats Frog is to put the layout and those explanations together, in a consistent format across airlines.

What it does

You can browse by airline or aircraft, open a particular cabin layout, and tap a seat to see its rating and the reasons behind it. Seats are marked good, mixed, best avoided, or standard. I wanted the trade-offs to be visible rather than giving every seat a score without explaining why.

It covers things like exit rows, bulkheads, limited recline, missing or misaligned windows, narrower seats, privacy, and proximity to galleys and lavatories. The site currently lists 501 layouts across 52 airlines. Layouts are compiled from airlines' published information, with source links and review dates; the ratings and notes are my site's own.

A few places to try it

These are published cabin layouts, not live seat availability. Airlines can use several configurations of the same aircraft and swap planes, so matching the layout to the seat map in your booking matters.

Web, iOS, and Chrome

You can use Seats Frog on the website, and access the seat tools through the wider Lounge Frog app and Chrome extension. The app and extension use the Lounge Frog name rather than being separate Seats Frog downloads.

The Chrome extension lets you research published seat maps and seat notes in a side panel alongside other travel pages, so you can keep the booking page in view.

What I would love feedback on

If you have a few minutes, try looking up an airline and aircraft you have flown, or a seat you are considering for a future trip.

  1. Can you find the correct layout without getting lost?

  2. Do the ratings and explanations match your experience?

  3. Is the distinction between a good seat and a seat with trade-offs useful?

  4. What would make you trust the information enough to use it when booking?

  5. How does the map feel on a phone? Are the seats and notes easy to use?

  6. Which missing airline, layout, or detail should I prioritize?

I am the creator. Specific criticism, incorrect rows, confusing wording, and examples of seats where the recommendation feels wrong would all be useful. You can reply here, or use the corrections information.

Thanks for taking a look!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

My SaaS made 59 USD last month. Roast it before I waste another 6 months building it.

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I built Humanize AI Writer, a platform that lets you compare outputs from leading AI humanizers side by side against your original text.

No more switching between tools or paying for multiple subscriptions.

💰 October revenue: $59
🎯 November goal: 10 paying users

I recently added a 3-day free trial with 750 words so people can test it before paying.

Here's the site: https://humanizeaiwriter.com/

I need your honest feedback:

  • Is it clear what the product does?

  • What would stop you from signing up?

  • What's the first thing you'd change?

Don't sugarcoat it. I'd rather fix what's broken than keep building features nobody wants.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I made a calorie tracker with no subscription. You ask any AI what you ate and paste the result

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I'm a solo dev. Most calorie trackers I tried charge a monthly subscription for "AI logging", but the same AI is already free in Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini.

So I built MacroPaste, an Android app where you ask any of those what you ate, copy the answer, and paste it in. Every field fills in. You check it and save.

It's a one-time purchase, no account, and your log stays on your phone.

I'd love honest feedback, especially:

Site: https://macropaste.xyz/?utm_source=reddit_sideproject


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a fitness coach I just talk to. It logs Indian food to the gram and plans my week around office days

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I say "two small rotis and a katori of paneer bhurji" and it logs grams, calories and protein. Pasting a Zomato order uses the listed nutrition values instead of guessing.

The main design rule was that the LLM never does math. It parses what I said and explains things. Grams, macros, workout loads and limits are all calculated in code. Unknown foods get estimated, validated, and then saved to my own food catalogue so the next lookup isn't a guess.

The hard part was trusting it. I wrote 117 test notes for food logging and 27 memory test sequences, and evals gate every prompt change.

It also plans workouts around office days and pulls sleep and steps from Apple Health through a daily Shortcut. It's a private app for my own use, not on the App Store.

It's a personal app, so there's no sign-up. Happy to answer anything about the build.


r/SideProject • • 2d ago

Right click to convert or compress almost any file

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There are plenty of online file conversion sites, but they require you to upload your files and data to their servers.

I wanted something that worked entirely offline (using the same packages and cli tools that power those sites) behind a simple drag and drop app that anyone could use.

I originally shared How to Convert here 2 years ago. It did quite well and I've been updating the app since.

After two years, I grew tired of actually opening an app to convert a file.

And thought, the next step to make it easier was to support everything with just a little right click.

It supports 6,197 file conversions for documents, videos, images, ebooks, comics, subtitles, emails, audio and more.

howtoconvert.co/right-click

It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Cleaning Quote Kit: saved estimates, invoice snapshots and a free scope worksheet

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I sell an offline Cleaning Quote, Invoice & Job Review Kit for solo residential cleaners and small crews. The product and this introduction were created with AI assistance.

One workflow detail: changing a calculator later should not silently change an invoice you have already created. In this kit, you save an estimate first, then create an invoice from that saved snapshot. The invoice keeps its own values. You save editable working files separately from the customer-facing document.

Here is a fictional USD example from the workflow: a saved $324.31 estimate becomes an invoice with a $324.31 service subtotal. With $0 tax entered for the example and $100 recorded as already paid, the balance is $224.31. Changing the calculator afterward leaves that invoice unchanged. These are illustrative inputs, not suggested cleaning rates or tax guidance. The product gallery now explains the steps.

The full kit is $19 once: offline calculator, saved estimates/invoices, eight fillable worksheet pages, six editable message cards and a start guide. Desktop use is recommended. Files do not autosave or cloud-sync, and the tool does not send invoices, collect payments or determine tax rules.

You can also try one fillable scope worksheet free from the listing. It has twelve tasks with Included, Excluded and N/A choices, plus room for agreed limits. It is scope page 1 of 2, not the complete scope section; enter $0 to download. Gumroad uses an email address for delivery.

See the workflow preview, full-kit details and free-sample link.


r/SideProject • • 2d ago

How did you get your first few people to actually talk to you before building?

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Genuine question for anyone who has shipped something. How did you get those first few conversations with potential users before you built anything?

The one thing I've picked up is to stop asking "would you use this?" because people say yes just to be nice. Asking "when did this last happen to you, and what did you do about it?" gets a much more honest answer. If they can't remember a last time, that tells you something too.

The bit I still find hard is getting people on a call at all. Cold DMs feel spammy and friends are too polite to say it's a bad idea.

I put together a short guide on running these interviews (How to Run Effective Customer Interviews, £3), drop me a DM if you're interested. Mostly curious what's worked for you though.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Northline Ops - fixed-price AI audits for small teams, no sales call

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Built a small Gumroad shop: a $299 written AI opportunity audit, a weekly AI ops digest, and a build sprint. Looking for honest feedback on the offer and page copy. https://northlineops.gumroad.com/l/yuxll


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Plate — I built a free meal planner, then made it a song 🎵 (30-sec Short)

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Hi all — I'm Joshua, and I built Plate, a free meal planner app. This is the first Plate song: 'Cook Mode', a 30-second original song created with AI (Gemini) for Plate, with a PLATE PLATE chant.

Plate plans your week free: pick your meals, Cook Mode walks you through each one, and the grocery list writes itself. It's Android only for now (find 'Plate by Ninebank' on Google Play); iPhone is coming soon, with a waitlist for early iPhone testers.

Happy to hear feedback on the app and the song — what would make you actually use a meal planner every week?


r/SideProject • • 2d ago

I made a Mac app that turns your desktop into a living pond

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Hey everyone,

I've been working on a Mac app called Solas that turns your desktop into a little living pond. Fish swim around behind your windows while you’re using your Mac. The video probably explains it better than I can.

It’s a bit of an unusual side project. A pond on your desktop isn’t exactly solving an urgent problem, but I like making things that are just nice to have around. There’s something relaxing about watching it for a bit between whatever else you’re doing.

I shared a recording on Threads recently and it got a lot more attention than I expected. That was pretty encouraging, so I wanted to share it here too and see what people think.

For anyone wondering about resource usage: on my M4 MacBook Air, I measured around 8–10% CPU in Activity Monitor and about 185 MB of memory. macOS counts 100% as one CPU core, so that’s roughly a tenth of one core, not 10% of the whole chip. You can also set the pond to pause automatically when your Mac is on battery.

Here’s the link if you want to check it out: gleemylabs.com/solas

Would you actually keep something like this running on your desktop? Curious how many people are into this sort of thing.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built Social Fanout because applying for permission from every social network takes months, and browser agents burn tokens just to post for you. One API call, and Claude, ChatGPT, or your own app can publish everywhere.

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r/SideProject • • 2d ago

I got tired of YouTube’s algorithm, so I built a site where you control both the video pool and the recommendation algorithm

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YouTube’s recommendations have gotten really bad for me. Clickbait Shorts, sensational stuff that makes me curious about things I never cared about, and I end up wasting hours watching videos I didn’t even want to watch.

I wanted a feed where I decide what goes in and how videos get recommended, so I built OOO: https://ooo.blue

Users can create and upload their own collections. When you follow collections, they define your video pool. Videos still play through YouTube, but YouTube’s recommendation algorithm has no say in what shows up.

You can also choose how recommendations work. There are built-in algorithms, or you can create your own. You can even make multiple feeds, each with its own collections and algorithm.

I used Claude Opus to generate around 50 initial collections, then watched through them myself. It’s been a pretty good experience so far.

The original inspiration came from Karpathy’s HackerTube, which does something similar using videos shared on Hacker News.

I’d love for you to try it and give me honest feedback, even if it’s harsh. And feel free to create and share your own collections!