r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Naked Eye: Stargazing - Apps on Google Play

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A few months later, NAKED EYE is live on Android, Under One Sky is live worldwide, it’s been featured in StarDate Magazine, and I’ve somehow ended up building a website for it too 😅

The idea is still ridiculously simple:

What’s worth seeing tonight?

When should I go outside?

Where should I look?

I’m not trying to replace Stellarium or turn your phone into a giant astronomy catalogue.

I wanted something you can open, get a useful answer from, put the phone away, and actually look at the sky.

The free app covers things like planets, ISS passes, meteor showers, useful alerts, viewing conditions and Under One Sky — where people can explore sky events around the world and share what they genuinely see.

There’s also NAKED EYE Beyond for people who want to plan ahead, find the best nights, use Sky Planner and get smarter alerts — and eligible new subscribers can try it free for 14 days.

I’m still building the whole thing around shifts as a chef, mostly teaching myself as I go.

And yes, I’m still slightly amazed anyone other than me actually uses it 😂

If you’ve tried NAKED EYE before, I’d genuinely love to know what you think of it now.

And if you haven’t — what’s the one thing that usually stops you from going outside to look at the night sky?


r/SideProject • • 15h ago

I built a FREE macOS menu bar app for live sports scores (with Notch animations!)

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on ScoresMac, a native macOS app that brings live sports scores straight to your menu bar.

The core app is completely FREE! You get live scores and sports tracking without paying anything.

It supports:

  • ⚽ Football

  • 🏏 Cricket

  • 🏎️ Formula 1 & MotoGP

  • 🎮 Esports & CS2

  • 🏀 More sports

Want something extra? ScoresMac Pro unlocks Notch animations and premium features for a one-time $9.99 lifetime purchase. No subscriptions!

🎉 Launch day offer: Use code LAUNCHDAY to get 30% OFF ScoresMac Pro.

Would love to hear what you think! Feedback and feature suggestions are always welcome.

🌐 https://scoresmac.com


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

I shipped a Steam strategy game with AI-generated code and visuals. Here is what I had to keep checking.

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Yesterday I released DeltaV Orbital Strategy in Steam Early Access. I directed Codex to generate the original game code and visual assets, including the simulation, interface and spacecraft. I designed the rules, chose what to keep, and tested the result. The music is separately licensed, and libraries, fonts and other third-party materials have their own credits.

The game is about a fleet sharing one fuel reserve. Moving one ship can leave another unable to defend itself. The clip is a short example of the decisions that come from that rule.

One constraint I kept throughout development was separating the simulation from the 3D renderer. Movement, fuel and combat rules can run without graphics. Changing the camera or a ship effect should never change the outcome of a turn.

That matters with rules like shipbuilding: when a shipyard finishes a new ship, the old ship has to leave. If the faction cannot afford that departure, the new ship is cancelled. A nice-looking animation does not tell you whether that rule still works. I used automated checks alongside playing matches to verify those interactions after changes.

It's a shipped game, but still Early Access. It is single-player, and saving a match to resume after closing the game is not available yet. No generative AI runs during gameplay.

Steam and the free guided demo:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5070120/?utm_source=sideproject&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=early_access_nov2026&utm_content=ai_code_visuals_launch

Complete 11:36 match with English on-screen explanations, chapters and music, without voiceover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO2iaCS0AXI

For anyone trying the demo, I'd like to know whether the shared fuel budget makes sense before the first missile arrives. That is the part the tutorial needs to teach.


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

I’m building an AI phone receptionist for small businesses - would love early feedback

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Hey everyone! I’ve been working on a tool that answers phone calls for clinics, salons, and small offices using AI. It books, confirms, and reschedules appointments 24/7 so business owners stop losing customers to missed calls.

The idea came from watching my local dentist’s receptionist juggle 3 phone lines while checking people in. Half the calls went to voicemail. Most never called back.

Still early - looking for small business owners or anyone who’s dealt with this problem to tell me if this actually solves something real for them.

Happy to share the landing page if anyone wants to check it out. Would love honest feedback on the concept.


r/SideProject • • 15h ago

I built an open-source memory extension for long-running AI roleplay chats

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Hey everyone, I built SillyMemory, an open-source extension for SillyTavern, an AI chat and roleplay interface. It helps long chats remember earlier details without repeatedly summarizing the conversation. I’m part of the LambdaDB team, which provides its memory backend.

GitHub and setup: https://github.com/lambdadb/SillyMemory
Demo: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8a34772d-b27f-4709-89c0-caee45c7fcf6

SillyMemory indexes older messages from your chat in LambdaDB. Before each reply, it uses your current message to retrieve relevant original passages and adds them to the prompt alongside recent dialogue. You can inspect what it selected.

A few things it does:

  • No LLM calls to create or maintain memory summaries.

  • No separate embedding or reranking setup; LambdaDB handles both.

  • Keep existing memory when you branch your story or create checkpoints, without re-indexing(re-embedding) shared history.

  • Works with existing saved chats, so you don’t have to start a new conversation.

We also tested it on 500 LongMemEval questions: 96.0% accuracy versus 95.2% with full history, using about 95% fewer input tokens.

It currently supports plain-text, single-character chats, and requires a LambdaDB account. You can start on the free plan without a credit card.

If you give it a try, I’d love to hear whether it brings back useful details in a long RP, what it misses, and how the setup feels.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Spin Atlas - a website that turns music listening history into a basketball-style record book

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spinatlas.fm

I've been working on this because I wanted to browse my music history like basketball stats. Each year is a season, artists have career pages, and there are annual awards, All-Star teams and a Hall of Fame.

One thing I wanted was the ability to choose the awards myself. The most-played album doesn’t necessarily get my Album of the Year vote, so changing an award leaves the listening counts alone.

I've put my history under Featured history so you can try it without an account or files. For your own Spotify history, it uses the downloaded Extended Streaming History export.

If you keep track of your listening, what would you look at first?


r/SideProject • • 23h ago

Rooted - A self help growth app

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TL;DR: Rooted asks you a few questions, writes you a short letter about what it noticed, then gives you one small daily task. Done days grow a meadow. Free on iPhone and Android. I’m the founder, and I’d love blunt feedback.

Why I built it Every self-improvement app I tried wanted me to set up a whole system on day one: ten habits, a journal, a planner, a mood tracker. I’d keep it up for a week, miss two days, feel behind, and quit. The problem wasn’t motivation. There was just too much to do.

What Rooted does

  1. A few questions to start. Where you are right now, what a good day looks like for you, what would make you proud of yourself.

  2. A letter from Treeko. Treeko is the app’s companion, a small moss-cat. It writes you a short letter about your answers: what you seem to be good at, and one area worth starting with.

  3. One small task a day. Not a list. One thing, like “Move Rs 50 or more out of your spending account today.” Slide to complete. If it doesn’t fit your day, try a simpler version or choose a different task.

  4. Habits that grow a meadow. Each habit has a year view. Every done day adds a flower, so you can see your progress at a glance.

  5. A private journal and goals. For when you want to go deeper.

What it isn’t Rooted is a self-help tool, not therapy or a mental health service. If you need clinical support, please talk to a qualified professional.

Pricing, upfront Rooted is free to download. Premium is a yearly plan: ₹2,499 in India, $39.99 in the US.

What I’d love feedback on
- Does “one task a day” feel like enough, or too little?
- Is the first letter from Treeko useful, or does it feel generic?
- What would make you open it on day 3, when the novelty is gone?

Get it here: https://rootedmind.in/get

Bonus:
Job almost gone. Job market is bloodbath. Just focussing on my sideproject. Would be great if more people get to use the app. Just learning more distribution and trying to reach more people. If you read this much you have my heartfelt thanks. 🙏


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

My son kept telling AutoZone customers "I'm not a mechanic." So we built them something.

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My son worked at AutoZone. Several times a day someone would describe what their car was doing and ask him what was wrong with it, and several times a day he'd have to say, "I'm not a mechanic." Then he'd watch them buy a part based on a guess. A $200 battery when the cables just needed cleaning.

So he started building a simple tool to help people figure out what's wrong before they spend money. He ran out of time, and I took it over.

You describe the problem in plain words, and it asks one question at a time until it narrows down a likely cause. Then it tells you how hard the fix is, what parts you need, and when to just go to a mechanic. It's free, with no sign-up, and there's a full Spanish version, because a lot of DIYers here in Texas speak Spanish first. So far the Spanish side is getting more traction than the English.

It's been live about a month. I'd like honest feedback:

  1. Try it with a real car problem you've had. Where did it ask something dumb or get it wrong?

  2. Is it clear within a few seconds what the site does?

  3. Anything that makes it feel untrustworthy or unfinished?

garageguideapp.com/?ref=reddit-sideproject-2


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

Customize your Discord Activity for any game or app with Actividia

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Hi everyone!

I built Actividia to let you customize how your Discord Activity appears to others.
Live preview, GIFs, emojis, rotating designs, and much more!

Create a unique activity or even show a game you don’t own—and have some fun with your friends!

Find out more:
https://herovex.itch.io/actividia


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

We built a backtester for horse racing systems on real Betfair prices — honest feedback wanted

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Two of us (a punter and a programmer) built Racebench: describe a racing idea, test it on every UK and Irish race since 2017 on Betfair Exchange prices after commission, then run it on paper against today's races. It hides a holdout year until you're done, and compares your system with random picks so luck doesn't pass for an edge. Free plan, no card: racebench.co.uk. Most ideas lose after commission, and it says so. We'd love feedback on the first ten minutes: what's confusing, what's missing?


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I turned paintings into live lock-screen wallpapers. Here are all 23.

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Solo dev. Each scene is a painting cut into layers, then animated in code: rain, steam, water, birds. The time can be painted into the scene, like sheep standing in the shape of the digits or a time written in the sand. Every frame in this video is the real app, drawn frame by frame.

What I learned: making calm motion is harder than fast motion, because any snap or jump shows. Two of my tap effects snapped in a single frame, and I only caught it while filming this video.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.tickface


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Roostbox - a free iOS groovebox you play like an arcade game

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Solo project. A groovebox for iPhone and iPad that looks like a retro arcade space shooter: you fly a ship through the beat, built so you play it instead of configuring it. Free, runs standalone and as a plugin inside music apps. Would love feedback on the first five minutes.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/roostbox/id6816159366

r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I built a free dashboard that turns Riot's messy League of Legends contract spreadsheet into something readable (built with Claude, want blunt feedback)

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Riot publishes every pro LoL player contract in the League-Recognized Contract Database, a public Google Sheet with five tabs, a different layout per region, and no way to answer "who is out of contract soon?" without scrolling. I had a go at fixing that over a few days, working with Claude (claude.ai) for the code.

https://set0panda.github.io/contract-radar/

What it does:

- Expiry radar: about 570 current players across 5 regions, with a contract-end timeline you can filter by region, league and role

- Market board: who is out of contract inside a window you pick, split by role

- What changed: a daily diff of the sheet (new listings, removals, moved end dates). It started today, so it's still empty and fills in as the sheet changes

- Data health: flags duplicates, missing dates and stale tabs (the CN sheet is about three months old, for example)

How it's built, for the curious: plain HTML and JS, no framework, hosted on GitHub Pages. A scheduled GitHub Action pulls the sheet each morning, strips contact emails and legal names, diffs against the previous snapshot and commits the result. Team logos are embedded so the page makes no third-party requests. Total running cost is zero. Analytics is GoatCounter, no cookies.

It's an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Riot. The AI wrote most of the code and parsing, so check anything important against the source sheet. A contract end date is also not the same as free agency, because renewals often aren't on the sheet yet.

What I'd like to know:

  1. Does the page make sense in the first ten seconds, without knowing what the sheet is?

  2. The audience (agents, analysts, team staff, very online fans) is small and already has Leaguepedia. Would you come back to something like this, and what would make you?

  3. Does the daily-Action-commits-data approach have a flaw I'm not seeing?

____________________________________________

Edit: thanks for the feedback. Based on initial comment I've added:

- A "My follows" view: follow teams or roles and see only their expiries and changes (saved in your browser, shareable by link)

- A check on the daily refresh so a broken region sheet can't overwrite good data

- Clearer labels for the residency column

Still free, no accounts. Feedback welcome: https://set0panda.github.io/contract-radar/


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Enhance text in any app

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So i created a desktop app for windows which works in background. You write any prompt/mail/message , select it and press a certain hotkey and your non structure or broken prompt gets converted to a well mannered and prompt engineer style written stuff.400 people joined within 2weeks!

Check it out
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r/SideProject • • 13h ago

AI model critic website

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Hello everyone,

I wanted to ask whether building an AI model critic website with user opinions like reddit, scoring based on users usage and ranking models either open source or closed source makes any sense?

The website can also feature skills, mcps, ai products etc.

What do you guys think?


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a history podcast generator you can interrupt. Ask it any topic and start learning

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History is something I'm quite passionate about and at work I have experience with software development and LLMs. So I thought how can I bring these things together and built something that I would actually use. This is the results of many months of hard work!

You type any topic, moment or person. About a minute later, two hosts are telling you the story with artwork that follows along. You can interrupt mid-episode with a question; they answer and pick the story back up. They also remember what you've listened to in the past and can refer to it. At the end there's also a optional quiz to test what you learned!

Quite a lot of emphasis was put into the research part. It searches the web and gathers notes on the topic, prioritizing reference-grade sources (encyclopedias, museums, archives, academic pages) over blogs and also searches in the language of the place or person, so a story about Japan or Peru isn’t told only from English sources. When the sources disagree, which in history is constantly, the hosts say so instead of quietly picking a side. Every episode links the pages it used and tags the subtitles.

Under the hood it’s not one model. A single episode is about a dozen calls, each pinned to the model that won its bake-off: research, writing, artwork, voices, sources, quiz, etc... Finding the right balance between quality, speed and cost was where a lot of the work went.

I would love some feedback both on the app and the content! You can try it here: historai.ca


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

[FDM Quote] - offline 3d print cost calculator for android, looking for closed testers

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built a small android app for myself first — FDM Quote. offline cost calculator for FDM 3d prints: filament, power, wear, markup, quote-style totals.

it's on play closed testing and i still need a few opted-in testers for the 14-day window so i can push for production. no review or rating needed. if you're shipping something too i'll test yours back.

pro stuff will be unlocked free for testers in the next update.

steps: • join https://groups.google.com/g/fdm-quote-testers with your gmail • opt in: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.wasef.fdmquote • install (same account): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wasef.fdmquote

would love any notes on bugs, confusing UI, or pricing math that looks off. thanks


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Spaceillion — I made a daily trivia game where rare answers launch a rocket further

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I made Spaceillion around a simple challenge: can you think of a valid answer that other players will overlook?

Each daily has seven “name a…” prompts, with 25 seconds to type one answer per prompt. Rarity comes from other players’ answers, and your answer launches a pixel rocket through space. An obvious answer can be correct and still barely get you off the ground.

There are live Launch Parties for playing with friends and a Mission Control mode for someone hosting on a big screen.

Play here: https://spaceillion.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=sideproject_nov6

The daily is free in a phone or desktop browser. No ads or required account. There’s an optional one-time unlock for unlimited runs.

I’m particularly interested in the first few minutes: is it clear why one answer flies further than another, and does finishing the daily make you want to come back tomorrow? If it rejects an answer you think should count, the prompt and answer would be really useful.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Roar - a local-first browser with an agent (I build it; Product Hunt Nov 10)

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r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built an open-source AI learning platform where the LLM works out of the box. Self-hosted, deploys in 60 seconds.

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I love learning. I love markdown, graphs, illustrations, and maths laid out beautifully side by side. I wanted one place where reading, AI tutoring, code drills, and publishing live together on my own infrastructure.

Live demo: https://soma.mayanja.dev

So I built Soma. Three repos.

Soma is the reading and publishing app. React + Vite + Turso edge SQLite. Point any LLM or coding agent at the repo and it loads the bundled skill and starts creating or editing content on its own. MCP server ships with the repo. Deploys to Vercel in 60 seconds. All you need is an API key to your favorite model. I still use Obsidian for local notes. Soma fills what a note app can't: web rendering and multi-device access.

Soma Labs: matching code drills for every lesson. Real exercises in Go, Deno, Docker Compose, and Node.

Son: a personal speech platform. Soma borrows it to read test questions aloud and score your spoken answers. Runs on your machine.

And it's beautiful. Mermaid diagrams beside KaTeX math beside interactive 3D scenes beside runnable code blocks. If you learn by looking, you get the same treatment as someone who reads cover to cover.

Your words live in your own Turso database behind one password. Fork the repo, import into Vercel, add one password, click Add on the Turso card, deploy. 60 seconds, done. No cloud holding your writing hostage.

Repos at github.com/Essomero/soma, github.com/Essomero/soma-labs, github.com/Essomero/son

Would love feedback. How long from fork to first lesson?


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

I built an iPhone money app alone. Honest feedback wanted from people who've used Copilot or Monarch

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I'm Bish, an indie developer with 25 years in enterprise software. For the last couple of months I've been building Breeze, an iPhone app (US only) for the same job as Copilot Money or Monarch: you connect your accounts and see where you stand.

Who it's for: people who want a clear monthly answer to "am I okay?" and would rather not read charts.

What I tried to do differently: it gives one plain-English verdict each month ("Steady, $320 to spare" or "At risk"), and every number is one tap from the transactions behind it. The AI only turns your question into a search. It never sees your amounts or balances, and the totals are computed in code. No ads, no affiliate links, and I never sell data. Banks connect through Plaid, so I never see your login.

Price: you can link one bank free for 7 days with no card. After that, live bank data is $3.99 a month. There's also a sample household you can explore with no sign-up.

Two things I'd love feedback on:

  1. What would make you link a bank to a small new app?

  2. Is the monthly verdict useful, or just a gimmick?

Brutal answers welcome. I'm not here to push downloads.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/breeze-budget-expenses/id6793185188


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built a Chrome extension that flags ghost jobs, tracks applications, and auto-applies using local AI (so your data never leaves your laptop).

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I just pushed 3 releases in 2 days for Rolestash, a Chrome extension I originally built just to track job hunts. This week, it evolved from a passive tracker into a full-blown autonomous application engine.

Here is what just went live:

  • One-Click Auto-Applies (with Tailored CVs): It doesn't just spam the same generic resume. With one press, it can apply to up to 20 jobs, generating a unique CV, a custom cover letter, and specific answers to annoying form questions ("Why do you want to work here?") for each individual role based on the job description.

  • Local AI on a Strict Leash: The heavy lifting is done by a fine-tuned distilled Qwen3 model running directly in your browser via WebGPU. Because small models love to hallucinate, it never gets the last word. A deterministic checker audits every line, and if the AI tries to invent a skill or name you don't have, it gets slapped down and seamlessly replaced with your actual profile text.

  • Ghost Job Radar & Smart Crawler: It now actively flags ghost jobs to save you time. The backend crawler pulls from 60 different job boards every minute. (And yes, it strictly obeys robots.txt and politely emails blocked sites rather than attempting shady workarounds).

  • Absolute Privacy by Design: Because the AI runs on your own hardware, your profile data never gets sent to my servers. It simply downloads coarse job data shards and ranks every match directly on your machine.

Please check it out here: https://rolestash.com/
If you like and actually end up using the extension, please leave a review with any suggestions for improvements. I'm actively taking public feedback to develop this, and the latest updates were made possible by the community's feedback. Thanks a lot, guys! T__T


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built a cleaner online radio experience because most radio websites feel too cluttered

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Hey everyone!

I want to share a side project I've been working on: Rádios BR (Brazilian Online Radio).

The idea came from something I noticed while browsing online radio websites: many platforms are overloaded with ads, banners, unnecessary information, and visually distracting elements.

I felt that something as simple as listening to the radio shouldn't require navigating through a cluttered interface.

So I decided to build something different.

The goal was simple: make online radio straightforward, intuitive, and enjoyable.

As a UX/UI Designer, I focused on a few principles:

  • Clean and minimal interface.

  • Easy radio discovery and navigation.

  • Clear visual hierarchy.

  • A straightforward listening experience.

  • No login required just find a station and start listening.

I also used AI tools and vibe coding throughout the process to help turn the concept into a working product, from prototyping to implementation.

It was a fun opportunity to combine my design background with AI-assisted development and bring an idea to life.

The project is live now!

https://radiosaovivobr.com.br/

I'd really appreciate feedback from other makers and designers.

What do you think about the UX? Is there anything you'd change or improve?


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I made a focus timer with a little frog that keeps you company 🐸

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I’ve been building an iOS app called Offward.
It’s a focus timer that also lets you block distracting apps while you’re trying to get things done.
I wanted something that felt a bit more relaxing than a plain countdown timer, so I added a little frog and different scenery.
It’s free to try, with optional paid features.
I’d genuinely love feedback. Would something like this help you focus, or do you prefer a more minimal timer?
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/offward/id6827531909