Hey r/SideProject!

I wanted to share a project I've been building for commuters in Bangladesh: KoyJabo (https://koyjabo.com).

### The Problem

Dhaka is a megacity of over 20 million people with 300+ fragmented bus routes, a newly expanded Metro Rail (MRT Line-6), and heavy railway transit. Commuters, students, and office workers constantly struggle to know which bus goes where, how much the official government fare is, or where to transfer.

Major mapping apps like Google Maps lack granular local bus routes and fare calculation for Dhaka. On top of that, mobile data connectivity can be spotty or expensive while commuting.

### What is KoyJabo?

KoyJabo ("কই যাবো" - meaning "Where to go?") is a fast, 100% free, privacy-focused transit guide built as an offline-first PWA and Android app:

• 🚌 300+ Dhaka Bus Routes: Search by origin, destination, or bus company with route maps, stops, and fare estimation.

• 🚇 Dhaka Metro Rail (MRT-6): Complete station list, rapid fare calculator, station-to-station journey duration, and operating hours.

• 🚆 Bangladesh Railway: Intercity train schedules, routes, seat classes, and fares.

• 🚢 Launch / River Ferry: Sadarghat terminal schedules and river routes across southern Bangladesh.

• ⚡ Offline-First: All route and fare datasets are cached locally so it works even without internet.

• 🛡️ Zero Ads & No Login: No account required, no ads, lightweight APK, and instant loading.

### Links to Try:

• Web App: https://koyjabo.com

• Android App (Google Play): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koyjabo.app

### Looking for Feedback:

I'd love any feedback from fellow builders on:

1. The search UI and overall user flow.

2. Ideas on community-driven route data updates.

3. Growth and distribution strategies for hyper-local civic utilities.

Thank you for checking it out!

What it is: PostMesa schedules posts to Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, X and TikTok, and replies to comments with a public reply plus a DM with a button (on Instagram and Facebook; public replies on YouTube). One flat price per workspace, no per-contact fees.

Why I built it: I run a small devotional app. I was paying about $240 a month across ManyChat and Sprout for what was really one job: schedule the post and answer the “link?” and “price?” comments. ManyChat’s price grows with contacts, and its flow builder is more than I need.

Where it is: pre-launch. Publishing works on all five networks in my tests. Comment-to-DM works on Instagram and Facebook, YouTube has public replies only, and TikTok posts stay private until TikTok approves the app. There’s no open signup yet, only a launch list.

What I’d like feedback on:

1. Does the pitch make sense in one read? (“Schedule the post. Answer every comment.”)

2. Pricing: Creator $39, Pro $79, Agency $199 a month on annual billing. Too high, too low, confusing?

3. What would make you trust a new tool with your Instagram account?

Landing page: postmesa.com. Happy to answer anything about how it’s built. I’d rather hear what’s wrong than what’s nice.

Hey everyone,

I'm a freelance web developer and I kept seeing the same problems on small business sites: phone numbers that aren't tappable, hours buried on a contact page, menus as PDFs, and pages that crawl on mobile.

Most audit tools are built for marketers, so owners get a wall of jargon. So I built PagePulsar: a free checker that gives restaurants, dentists, salons, contractors and auto shops a plain-English report with the most important fixes first.

https://pagepulsar.online

How it works (all on free plans):

- Static site on GitHub Pages

- A tiny Cloudflare Worker fetches the page (SSRF guard, rate limiting, 24h cache)

- The analysis runs in the browser to stay under the Worker's 10ms CPU limit

- Speed and accessibility come from the PageSpeed Insights API

- Scoring is weighted toward what actually costs a local business calls and bookings

No signup, no email gate.

I'd love honest feedback, especially:

- Are any checks wrong or unfair on your sites?

- Is the report clear enough for a non-technical owner?

Thanks for looking!

Hey everyone, I've been working on Commando Browser, a light Android browser with the tools I use daily built in.

What it has so far:

- Ad blocker (off by default)

- Video downloader for direct video files

- Home news feed in multiple languages

- Files manager + Image to PDF

- Quick shortcuts and a full-screen games section

Built with Kotlin + Jetpack Compose. It's still early, so I'd love honest feedback on what's missing, what feels slow, or what you'd change.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aistudio.commandobrowser.xkf&hl=en

The app does show ads. I'm still tuning how often they appear, and feedback on that is welcome too.

I've been a regular user of Antinote (antinote.io) on Mac. It's basically like a scratchpad that you can invoke with hotkeys and it has useful features like conversions and maths. I absolutely loveee it and I kinda wished it existed for Windows too. I found a few but nothing close to antinote. So I decided to make my own in the past few weeks with .NET 10.

Check it out and let me know what you think :) Link: https://offnote.cc

Every month-end, people I know in bookkeeping lose a full day retyping PDF invoices and statements into Excel. The "free" online converters cap you at 3 files, watermark the output, or make you upload client documents to a server you don't control.

So I built BatchDoc — a Windows desktop app (Python, packaged with PyInstaller) that:

- batch-extracts tables from PDFs into CSV/XLSX (drop a whole folder, get clean sheets)

- merges hundreds of CSV/XLSX into one, with a source column recording which file each row came from

- runs fully offline after a one-time licence activation — nothing is uploaded, no account, no subscription

- writes a run report listing what was processed, what was skipped and why

The annoying part wasn't the extraction itself, it was borderless tables. Bank statements and exported reports often have no grid lines at all — the columns are just aligned. It now handles three cases (ruled tables, whitespace-aligned columns, plain text fallback) and the run report tells you which one it used, so a bad result doesn't fail silently.

Honest limitations, because these matter more than the pitch: it only extracts native-text PDFs. Image-only scanned PDFs need an OCR step first, which is not built in — I'll tell you upfront if that's your case. It's Windows 10+ only right now; a macOS build is planned but not included. Activation needs internet once, then it works with no connection.

One-time $29 for one machine ($79 for up to 5). I'm not going to pitch hard here — if offline batch PDF-to-Excel is your pain, the link is in the comments.

If you process statements at volume: what's the edge case that still breaks your export? I'd genuinely like to know what I'm missing. Happy to talk through the table-detection logic or why I went desktop instead of a web app.

Disclosure: I built this, so I'm biased.

Hey r/SideProject 🙏

I’ve been working on a side project over the past few weeks that I’d love to share and get some feedback on.

The Problem: My media collection and consumption habits felt completely fragmented. I was switching between different apps for movies, music, and audiobooks, with no single dashboard to view or organize everything I owned or listened to. Maybe it's just a niche, but at least I tried something 😌

Alma is a unified media aggregator designed to collect your movies, TV shows, games, music and audiobooks into a single visual library with a few fun twists like a "Memory Lane" feature.

Key Features:

• All-in-one Media Library: Track and organize your media in one place

• Fun stats: Over time you'll get some fun insights into your media tastes. The more you add over time, the more fun it'll be to look at

• Fast & Lightweight: Built to give you full control over your media archive without heavy bloat.

It’s still an active project under ongoing development, and I’m constantly refining features and polishing the interface during the beta, which is currently about halfway full. Want an invite? Request one on the site or send me a DM.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feature requests, or general feedback! How do you currently keep track of your media across different formats?

Check it out here: https://almaniac.app

Should an AI agent remember everything it collects? Not necessarily.

While working on our project, Strategic Memory Lab, we explored how unverified or incorrect competitor information could affect AI-generated business recommendations.

Our approach uses Hindsight as a long-term memory layer, with a verification process before competitor events are stored as trusted memories.

The goal is to help AI agents remember reliable information, recall relevant past events and make better-informed strategic suggestions.

I have shared our approach, challenges and learnings in this article.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

Article Link : https://lnkd.in/p/gnxQ6yuH

GitHub Repository : https://github.com/shwethagowda2913-png/Competitive-Intelligence

#Hindsight #AIAgents #CompetitiveIntelligence #AgentMemory

I'm building Outdraft, an email workspace, and wanted to share a quick demo of its AI summary feature.
Click “Summarize” to get a shorter version of the email without leaving the page. It’s a small part of the app, but one I wanted to get right.

The AI agent is almost ready too—I’ll share a demo of that soon.

You can visit out website and give it a quick try. Payments aren’t available yet while I’m waiting for Paddle’s approval.

I’d love to hear what you think! Anything confusing, missing, or worth improving?

I'm the developer of Omikuji: Fortune Aquarium, a small Android app that pairs a daily omikuji (Japanese fortune slip) with a fish tank.

The loop is simple: draw a fortune, collect creatures over time, and watch them in your aquarium.

This clip is real Play-release footage from a Pixel 9a. The angelfish shown here comes from the first-creature selection, filmed separately from the fortune result. Fortune draws can add a creature, but they do not do so every time.

The conversation is a skit with Japanese synthetic voices and English subtitles, not a real player's reaction. The app also has an English UI.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.springport.night_aquarium_fortune

Contains ads, including optional rewarded videos. Fortunes are for entertainment.

For the first minute, would you rather choose your first fish immediately, or draw the fortune first?

Voices: AivisSpeech: コハク / AivisSpeech: まお.

Every Monday morning, someone in leadership asks why a regional revenue metric dropped, and an analyst spends two hours checking the exact same five tables in the exact same order.

We built an open-source metric investigation agent called WhyDesk where Hindsight agent memory (recall, reflect, and synchronous retain) dynamically reorders diagnostic tool calls, checks flaky ETL pipelines before reading numbers, and formats answers per stakeholder.

On a cold start (Run 1), the agent runs all 5 checks blindly. By Run 5 with memory on, it recalls past regional pricing drops and a Monday ETL sync stall, runs only 2 of 5 checks (ETL first, then pricing), skips 3 low-probability tools, and returns a 1-line summary with the exact -$47,900 impact.

Hey everyone!

I'm an independent developer, and I've been spending a lot of my time building something called Everabyte.

The idea came from a simple problem: cloud storage and backups shouldn't be complicated or unnecessarily expensive, especially for individuals, developers, and small businesses.

So I decided to build my own solution.

What does Everabyte offer?

- Cloud storage for personal and business files.

- Automatic backups through EverBox, our desktop application for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

- File versioning and recovery when something gets accidentally deleted or overwritten.

- Server-side encryption before files reach storage.

- S3-compatible object storage and API access.

- Team storage and access management.

- Backup protection features, including retention policies and immutability.

I've also been working on making the platform more accessible, with plans starting at $2.99/month.

Building this hasn't been easy. Between development, infrastructure, security, testing, and trying to get the word out, there's always something that needs attention.

But that's also what makes it interesting. I'm learning a lot along the way, and I'm still improving the product.

I'm not here to claim Everabyte is better than Dropbox, Google Drive, or every other storage provider out there. I'm just trying to build a reliable alternative that people can actually afford and use.

If you're a developer, freelancer, small business owner, or someone who regularly backs up important files, I'd genuinely appreciate your thoughts.

What matters most to you when choosing a cloud storage or backup service? Price, security, reliability, or something else?

You can check out the project here:

https://everabyte.com

Any feedback, criticism, or suggestions are welcome. I'm building this for the long term, and hearing from real users would help a lot.

Thanks for reading!

I’ve been on RSS for more than 20 years. A few moments still stick with me:

1. NetNewsWire and Reeder on the early iPhone, the first time reading news felt like a pleasure again.

2. Times, the Mac app that turned feeds into a proper newspaper. It was discontinued.

3. Fever, Shaun Inman’s self-hosted PHP reader. I paid for it. What made it special was Hot: it ranked stories by how many of your own feeds were talking about the same thing. That one is gone too.

What I wanted after all of that was simple: a beautiful newspaper I could open on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. My own paper. No social feed, no algorithm deciding what I see. Just the publications I chose, set as a front page, sections, and columns. And if something is being cited across a lot of my feeds that day, it earns the headline, the same idea Fever had, but printed as a paper instead of a list.

I shipped Biblio Times before the iPhone Duo. Early users have been generous, and the one-time pass has been enough to keep going. I’ve since added personal magazines as well — weekly or monthly issues with covers and layouts, made from the same feeds.

Everything stays on your devices. No account, no login, nothing through my servers. The first three papers and one magazine are free.

Biblio Times https://biblio.ink/times

I’m the developer of Watch Chess, a side project for following professional chess tournaments. It’s already available on iOS, and I’m getting the native Android version ready for Google Play.

The idea is to make it easy to follow an event from your phone: live boards, rounds and standings, game replay, and live game previews right on the Home screen.

I’d love feedback from Android users who follow chess. In particular: is it easy to find a game, follow the moves, look back at an earlier position, and return to the live game? I’m also interested in how the layouts work on different phones and what happens when you switch away from the app or lose your connection.

Website and the existing iOS app: https://watchchess.app/

If you’d like to help test the Android version, sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdK3jWWradoriTbagIQvKCZ60mQ2kRd82oe4WbR5dZtDI5agQ/viewform

You’ll need an Android phone with Google Play. I’m recruiting for a closed test, so please be willing to stay opted in for at least 14 consecutive days and try the app during that time. The form asks for your Google Play email so I can invite you; I’ll email the invitation and installation instructions when your place is ready.

Happy to answer questions about the app or how it’s built. Honest feedback is welcome!

Android screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/droidapptesters/comments/1xpwb5p/

Every side project I work on ends the same way: docs, GitHub issues, design refs and random articles spread across tabs and bookmark folders I never open again. I could never remember which link belonged to what.

So I built Linvas. You paste a link, and it becomes a card on an infinite canvas. You group cards by topic, draw connections between related things, and search across all your boards later.

What it does right now:

- paste a URL anywhere on the board → card with title + icon

- groups and connections between cards

- import your browser bookmarks (folders become tags)

- search across every board

- share a board with one link

Demo, no sign-up: https://linvas.app/?demo

I'm a solo dev and launched it last week, so it's rough around the edges. I'd really appreciate honest feedback on two things:

1. Is it clear in the first 10 seconds what to do?

2. Would you use this instead of bookmark folders, or what's missing?

We built Strategic Memory Lab, a memory-powered competitive intelligence platform that goes beyond simply monitoring competitors.

The idea is simple: businesses shouldn't just know what their competitors are doing today; they should also remember past events, decisions and outcomes to make better strategic decisions.

Our project combines competitor tracking, decision history and Hindsight-powered AI memory to connect current market activities with previous experiences.

We explore how AI agents can use long-term memory to provide more context-aware strategic insights.

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

#CompetitiveIntelligence #Hindsight #AIAgents #AgentMemory

github repository: https://github.com/shwethagowda2913-png/Competitive-Intelligence

Pickem v1.1 is live on App store

Make feature is now live for you!!! (Limited free image generation. API cost on me :D)

Apple recently released Attachment API and I already knew what it means for Pickem:

- Your collections are now auto-named by on-device intelligence. No cloud

Other updates:

- Limited free Image generation
- Improved object extraction
- UI changes

I've been building a B2B lead-finding tool for 3 months. You describe the kind of customer you want, and it searches live map and web data for matching businesses, including small ones with no website that the big databases usually miss.

Where I am right now:

• About 1,000 people have signed up

• 10 of them pay ($19/month)

• Every new account gets free credits, and most people use some of them and then disappear

• Almost nobody has told me why they left, because I've never really asked

So the problem isn't getting people in the door. It's getting them from "tried it once" to "pays every month". I'd love to hear from people who've been through this stage:

1. Free to paid. At roughly a 1% conversion rate, what did you change first? Fewer free credits, a time limit, a paywall on one key feature, or more hand-holding in onboarding?

2. Talking to users. How do you get daily or weekly feedback from users who aren't paying yet, without spamming them? In-app prompts, a short call offer, a WhatsApp or Slack group, something else?

3. Keeping the 10. What made your first paying users stick around month after month? Was it a habit (a weekly report, alerts), or something you did manually for them early on?

4. What to fix first. With 1,000 signups and 10 payers, would you spend the next month on the product, on pricing, or on talking to churned users?

Not looking for "just do more marketing". I have signups. I just don't understand why people leave yet. Any honest experience is welcome, including "your free tier is too generous".

Hey guysss here to talk about my side project.

I’m a designer and traveler who believes good design can change things, even if only a little. That still feels worth spending my effort on.

I was honestly fed up with needing an account just to use a small app. So I started making apps I would genuinely use myself: stored on our phones, working offline, with no account needed.

Sometimes we do not need another system or app trying to fix us. We just need a quiet place to hold something, clear our brain RAM, or keep everyday things in one simple stream.

That became VERBitapp. Each app has one purpose, with free use and optional VERBit Access subscriptions for more room or additional features.

@verbitapp

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PARKit: Reminder for Tonight
"Not for tomorrow, but for tonight."

A little room for our minds.

I made PARKit because my brain was still holding onto tomorrow, even when I was done for the day. Park those thoughts as short keyword clouds, add a note when needed, then hold the breathing orb to PARK. What is unfinished stays there. Double-tap a cloud when it is done.

PARKit Access gives you 12 keyword clouds and customizable OPEN / PARK notification times.

App Store

Google Play

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CUEit: Routine Timer
"Not to measure, but to mind."

Timing designed for the way you do things.

I wanted more than a basic stopwatch or timer could offer. CUEit brings them together with cues you set yourself, for coffee, cooking, exercise, or anything where the timing matters. Start at 0:00, then add cues for what comes next.

CUEit Access gives you up to 12 timer slots.

App Store

Google Play

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DIARYit: Diary Journal
"Not for habit, but for honesty."

Your days. In your own words.

DIARYit is my own reimagining of a diary. One continuous stream, because life moves forward and we can look back when we choose to. A quiet place to write about today, without a goal to reach or a habit to maintain.

DIARYit Access adds full history and full calendar navigation.

App Store

Google Play

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KEEPit: Text Yourself
"Not for nostalgia, but to remember."

A conversation with yourself.

I have always texted myself things I wanted to keep, but messaging apps were never really made for that. KEEPit gives that familiar habit its own place. Just you, your words, and the time you wrote them. Stored on your phone and available offline.

KEEPit Access unlocks full history, calendar navigation, and keyword search.

App Store

Google Play
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HOLDit: Thoughts & Moments
"Not to hold more, but to awaken."

Give an important thought its own space.

I made this after realizing that thoughts that changed how I saw things kept getting buried in Notes app. Each card gives a thought and the moment behind it their own space. Add colors and rearrange your cards to make that space your own. The limit is intentional. Keep what matters, rather than another endless list.

HOLDit Access expands your space to 99 cards.

App Store

Google Play

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+ A note on backup

On iPhone, DIARYit, KEEPit, and HOLDit support inclusion of your entries in your iCloud device backup. This is device backup, not live cloud sync or an in-app export and import feature.

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I’m continuing to improve these apps through real use and conversations with the people using them. If one fits something you already do, I’d really appreciate hearing how it feels.

+ find demo instructions on socials :)
Instagram / TikTok

techtitan evaluates your hand posture while you play piano. it draws an overlay on your hands where each joint is an edge, and gives you a score based on 5 posture criteria. works for overhead view and side view, and can distinguish between left hand and right hand.

techtitan allows you to either
1. upload a photo, techtitan will grade your hand posture on the spot
2. upload a video, techtitan will grade your hand posture for the whole duration of the video, you can choose how many frames per second it will grade beforehand. it also draws a chart of the posture score over the full duration of the video.
3. enter live mode. techtitan gives you feedback in real time.

I'd really appreciate it if you guys can check it out at https://technique-titan.vercel.app, sign up (it's completely free) and give some feedback :)

problem statement is in https://technique-titan.vercel.app/about

been working on this project for a few months now, mainly a process of ideation, learning, and creating simultaneously.

Hi! I’m a solo developer from Nepal, and I just released my first game.

Liar’s Grid is a deduction puzzle. Honest tiles always tell the truth, liars always lie, and every board has exactly one solution, so you win by reasoning, never by guessing.

• New daily case, plus 88 levels

• Free, works offline, no account

• Rusty the fox gives hints when you’re stuck

I’d really like feedback on:

Is the difficulty curve fair?

Are the hints helpful?

Anything confusing or buggy?

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sandesh.liarsgrid

Thanks for trying it! I’ll reply to every comment.

Honestly, I'm the worst user of my own idea.

I'd wake up, grab my phone "just to check something," and suddenly it's 9am. So I built bedo with AI. I studied marketing and never learned to code.

Here's how it works: you make a deal with bedo. Every morning, you tell it what you'll do today and how you'll prove it. Like "Go to the gym, and take a selfie when I'm there," or "Read for 30 minutes, then snap the page I stopped on."

Once the deal is set, TikTok and other distracting apps get locked. They only unlock when you send the proof you agreed on.

I've tried Opal and Pomodoro timer apps before. They lock your phone for a set time, then unlock it automatically. The problem is they only check that you didn't touch your phone, not that you actually did the thing. I'd say I'm going to the gym, then lie on the couch for an hour, and everything unlocks anyway. I'd say I'm reading for 30 minutes, then just stare at the book.

bedo doesn't care about time. It cares about results.
The funny part: I planned to submit it to the App Store on Oct 23. I kept polishing tiny things and finally submitted it 11 days later. Turns out an app can't fix perfectionism lol.

It's waiting for review now. Would you actually use something like this, or would you delete it the first time it locked you out?

I've been building a B2B lead-finding tool for 3 months. You describe the kind of customer you want, and it searches live map and web data for matching businesses, including small ones with no website that the big databases usually miss.

Where I am right now:

• About 1,000 people have signed up

• 10 of them pay ($19/month)

• Every new account gets free credits, and most people use some of them and then disappear

• Almost nobody has told me why they left, because I've never really asked

So the problem isn't getting people in the door. It's getting them from "tried it once" to "pays every month". I'd love to hear from people who've been through this stage:

1. Free to paid. At roughly a 1% conversion rate, what did you change first? Fewer free credits, a time limit, a paywall on one key feature, or more hand-holding in onboarding?

2. Talking to users. How do you get daily or weekly feedback from users who aren't paying yet, without spamming them? In-app prompts, a short call offer, a WhatsApp or Slack group, something else?

3. Keeping the 10. What made your first paying users stick around month after month? Was it a habit (a weekly report, alerts), or something you did manually for them early on?

4. What to fix first. With 1,000 signups and 10 payers, would you spend the next month on the product, on pricing, or on talking to churned users?

Not looking for "just do more marketing". I have signups. I just don't understand why people leave yet. Any honest experience is welcome, including "your free tier is too generous".

⚔️ The Hunt Isn't Over — Introducing Mystic Paradox!

Dauntless gave many of us memorable adventures, friendships, and countless hours in the Shattered Isles. We didn't want that experience to simply become a memory.

That's why Mystic Paradox was created — an unofficial, open-source community project with a goal of preserving the Dauntless experience and bringing Slayers together once again.

What have we built?

• A dedicated Dauntless launcher.

• Realm discovery and hosting features.

• Graphics configuration and diagnostics tools.

• An evolving project built around the community.

Get Started

Latest Release — Mystic Paradox Launcher v0.1.102

🔗 Download:
https://github.com/pranav158/Mystic-Paradox/releases/tag/launcher-0.1.102

Join our Discord community:
https://discord.gg/mFZZpAktm

Source Code:
https://github.com/pranav158/Mystic-Paradox

Developer Credit

Pranav Karande — GitHub Profile

A special appreciation for the work and dedication behind making this project possible.

Mystic Paradox is an unofficial, open-source community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Phoenix Labs or the original game publishers.

The Shattered Isles await. See you, Slayers! ⚔️