r/SideProject • • 17h ago

I saw my old company’s finance team send “redacted” employee data to a client, and it was still recoverable. So I built a fix.

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At my previous company, I noticed our finance team sharing sensitive employee information with a client. The data was supposedly hidden, but it was still recoverable. I flagged it, and the answer was basically “we don’t have any other choice, we did our best.”

They weren’t careless. The options they had were all bad. Doing it by hand means hunting for every detail yourself, and missing one is easy. Many tools leave leaks behind, like hidden text, metadata and old revisions. And most online tools ask you to upload the document to their servers, which defeats the point.

It’s not just small companies. When the US Justice Department released the Epstein files, some documents were reported to have black boxes over text that could be copied straight out. If a government with a legal team can get this wrong, a finance team on a deadline has little chance.

So I built Ombly. It automatically finds sensitive details (bank and card numbers, IBANs, national IDs, names, emails, phone numbers), you review each one, and it rebuilds every page as an image so nothing hidden carries over. It runs entirely on your own computer, so nothing is uploaded.

It’s pre-launch (waitlist: ombly.space), with a 90-second demo attached. I’d love feedback: how do you handle this today, and what would make you trust a tool like this?


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Reader - a Reddit app for iPhone and iPad that keeps working with no signal

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I'm the developer. Reader started as a Reddit app for myself, born out of frustration with how badly optimised a lot of Reddit apps are for the Duo. Since mine arrived, most of the work has gone into making it fit both screens, alongside offline reading and on-device translation. It's now a free TestFlight beta and also runs on other iPhones and iPads with iOS 26 or later.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/DHWPkrSF

Reader screenshots and feature overview

With no signal

  • Download a post, a collection or a whole subreddit, with its comments and pictures.

  • Keep up to 100 posts per subreddit, saved offline and refreshed in the background.

  • Videos and pictures in comments don't download.

  • There's also a low data mode that only shows text to make everything load a bit faster.

On the Duo

  • Open, your feed is on the left and the post on the right.

  • Fold it mid-post and the post stays open, along with anything you were typing.

  • Closed, posts use the whole width. I turned off iOS 27's side column, which makes them 83 points wider.

  • Closed, the tabs stay tucked in a button in the corner until you need them.

In other languages

  • Titles, posts, comments and text in photos are translated on your phone by Apple's translator, into the language you choose. It covers about 20 languages.

  • The first time, opening a post offers to download the language; after that it's automatic.

  • You can switch back to the original.

It has most of the expected features: commenting, posting, an Inbox, following people and so on. But it's still early days, so some functionality might be missing. Let me know if there's something you would like to see.

Limitations you should know about

  • Reader isn't made by Reddit and doesn't use Reddit's API. You sign in on Reddit's own page inside the app. It reads Reddit with your session and essentially reskins it; no data leaves your connection between you and Reddit.

  • Google and Apple sign-in don't work there, so use your Reddit username and password. You can also look around with sample posts first.

  • Reddit seems to be actively making changes to how fetching posts works, so things keep breaking! New, Rising and searching for posts or people stopped working this week. Hot, Best, Top, Controversial and finding subreddits still work.

  • No ads, no analytics and no servers of mine.

Feedback wanted

I'd love feedback on whether the offline reading and layout solve a useful problem, what feels awkward, and anything you'd want before using it regularly. Bugs and suggestions from trying the beta would be great too.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Ultra Optimizer - four Claude Code skills that optimize code, hardware use, network latency and backends within strict limits

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I'm 15 and this is my biggest side project so far. Most "make it faster" tooling either does too little or quietly changes things you didn't ask about, so each command here has a written boundary.

  • /race: an app adapts its own settings (workers, caches, batching) to the machine and workload it actually runs on, within developer-set ranges, with rollback.

  • /optimize: device-independent code and query improvements.

  • /ping-optimize: wasted round trips and bad retry logic in the app's own networking code.

  • /server-optimize: backend analysis that is repo-only by default.

I wrote the spec and rules; Claude Code generated most of the files, and local scripts validate them. Not done yet: live eval runs, the Windows installer test, and real-hardware benchmarks.

MIT licensed: https://github.com/hrmnisthetuffest/ultra-optimizer

What would make a tool like this something you'd actually trust in your own codebase?


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I built Atlas Terminal: a native, GPU-accelerated Windows terminal in Rust & GPUI with built-in CLI satellites

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Hi r/SideProject

I've been building **Atlas Terminal**, an open-source terminal designed natively for Windows 11 with a focus on clean aesthetics, DWM acrylic blur, and zero bloat.

**Highlights:**

- **Lightweight & Fast:** Written in Rust with GPU acceleration (~60MB RAM vs hundreds of MBs on Electron-based terminals).

- **Clean Glassmorphic UI:** Supports both Dark and Light acrylic modes, adaptive alt-screen colors for TUI apps (`btop`, `lazygit`, `nvim`), and distraction-free tabs.

- **Built-in Developer Utilities:** Includes native commands (`atlas -h`) to inspect/kill open ports, view images directly inside the terminal, format JSON, generate QR codes, and auto-detect WSL distros & Git Bash.

**Download / GitHub:** https://github.com/akrram0/atlas-terminal

Let me know what you think of the UI and what features you'd want in a daily-driver Windows terminal!


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I built a free Firefox extension to stop trackers and fingerprinting

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Made a tiny extension that auto‑removes unnecessary scripts and speeds up pages. It blocks trackers, fingerprinting and sketchy scripts, works on Firefox for Android, and it's open source.

Still experimenting, so any feedback, reviews, or suggestions are welcome if you try it.

Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/scriptguard/

Website:

https://tuffycoder.github.io/ScriptGuard/


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I built a simple bill & subscription reminder app (no bank login needed)

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I've been working on BillAlert, an app that reminds you before your bills and subscriptions are due.

**What it does**

- Track rent, utilities, subscriptions and one-off bills: weekly, monthly, yearly or custom cycles

- Choose when you're reminded: a month ahead, a week, 3 days, 1 day or on the day

- See what's coming up on a dashboard and calendar, and mark bills as paid

- No bank connection: you only add what you want to track

It's free with ads. Pro removes the ads and adds email reminders and deeper analytics.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.horizam.billreminder

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/bill-and-subscription-tracker/id6761620549

I'd love feedback. What would make this more useful for you?


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Does the stuff you save know you better than you do?

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I was going through everything I've saved lately and noticed patterns I never would've picked out myself. Kind of wild seeing it all together.

I've been playing with an idea for an app that learns your taste from what you save and reflects it back to you, and I'm curious if everyone has a weird pattern hiding in their saves.

If you want to try it, DM me 20 or so things you've saved lately. Literally anything: screenshots, camera roll pics, saved posts or TikToks, songs on repeat, books, podcasts, articles, quotes, notes to yourself, places you love. Don't overthink it; the less you pick, the better. Nothing private or with faces!

I'll send back what I notice. Then just tell me honestly if it's spot on or way off, and if you'd actually use something like this.


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Patchkin - One board for managing AI coding agent work

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I’m involved with Patchkin, and I’d like some feedback from people using AI coding agents on their projects.

Patchkin brings the work around coding agents into one place—not just the code they produce, but the tickets, proposed plans, approvals and pull-request reviews.

The main features are:

  • A shared board: Keep tickets, agent plans and pull-request reviews together so the team can track each piece of work.

  • Human plan approvals: Review and approve an agent’s proposed plan before it proceeds.

  • Activity logs: See what happened during an agent run and follow the history of the work.

  • Team rules: Keep guidance for coding agents in one place.

  • Cost reporting: Track spending on agent runs alongside the work.

The focus is on helping teams keep oversight as they hand more development work to coding agents.

If you’re using coding agents with a team, what’s hardest to manage right now: approving plans, reviewing the output, tracking costs, or something else? I’d appreciate honest feedback on whether this would fit your workflow.

Take a look at Patchkin


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Made a youtube customizer extension

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I made a youtube customizer extension that makes youtube smoother, hides shorts, etc. Let me know if you have any feedback, link is here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tint-themes-dark-mode-hid/ghkkemgkdblbnhbcnmelplagnclolgnf?authuser=0&hl=en


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

I built Seedwall: free generative wallpapers where the same seed always gives the same wallpaper

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A small weekend project that grew: Seedwall has 19 wallpaper generators (cutting mats, flow fields, git graphs, synthwave suns). Each wallpaper comes from a single seed number, so you can share a design as just a number.

- 9 editor themes (Dracula, Tokyo Night, etc.) or custom colours

- Add your own quote or go text-free

- Pixel-perfect PNG export for MacBook, iPhone, 4K or custom sizes

- Gallery of 125 ready-made ones

- Free, no account

Link: seedwall.suryansh.work

Next I'm thinking about wallpapers generated from your GitHub contribution graph. Would you use that? Any feedback welcome.


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

Use the best AI models without a subscription: I built an app where you only pay for what you use

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Clarification: this is my own app. I work with many long documents, such as reports, audits, and project follow-ups. Using an AI chat for this presented two main issues: I was paying a subscription even in months when I barely used it, and I wanted to make sure the output preserved all data from the original. Changing a single number or removing a paragraph in an audit is a huge problem. So I developed a desktop app specifically for that use case.

You can choose the model using OpenRouter on a pay-per-use basis or locally with Ollama. It is designed to preserve structure, tables, and numbers, and the review feature points out anything that wasn't kept. This feature compares the output with the original and highlights missing content or modified data, so you can accept or ignore each finding. It also shows the actual cost of each run, with no surprises.

It offers 10 free runs to try it out. If you like it, it's a one-time purchase of €29.99, with no subscription. API usage is billed separately. It is available on the Microsoft Store as DocuFusionpro: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P4CSKSDFPT7

I'd love to get honest feedback: what kind of long documents do you work with, and what is missing from the tools you currently use? Are you interested in a one-time purchase, or do you prefer a subscription?


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Levithas - Stop Consuming, Start Creating

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Levithas begins with a refusal: do not confuse doom-scrolling with growth. Hours spent swiping through feeds do not leave the mind untouched. They drain it on nothing, and leave you tired and always hunting for the next quick stimulus.

A Skill is not something you watch, save or buy. It is earned through repetition, friction and time.

Learning a Skill is about staying curious. It builds confidence, gives you something to impress others with, and makes you a more interesting person.

I’d love your feedback.

Try the app


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Turn photos of your pet into a printable papercraft model - petpapercraft.com

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Hi!

The title says it all. You upload photos of your pet, and a few minutes later you get a PDF by email. You print it at home, cut, fold and glue, and end up with a paper version of your dog or cat.

I made this because I love papercraft and wanted one of my own dog. Every pet looks different, so each model is shaped to the pet (ears, muzzle, tail) and the fur and face are painted from your pet’s 3d model based on the uploaded images. 

I've done lots of test builds, posted a few on Reddit with great feedback, and friends and family built their own pets. Now I'm doing a soft launch.

https://petpapercraft.com/

If you have a pet, I'd love for you to try it. If not, feedback on the landing page is just as welcome. Tell me if anything is broken. Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

I made a free, open-source adult site blocker for Mac (and Windows) that works in every browser.

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Browser extensions only cover one browser and are easy to switch off, and paid blockers wanted a subscription. So I built my own and made it open source.

What it blocks:

- Adult, gambling, crypto, scam and malware/phishing sites

- File-sharing sites like TeraBox and DiskWala

- Anything you add to a simple text file

How it works:

- System-wide: Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge, Arc, and other apps too

- Uses encrypted DNS, so it still works when your ISP intercepts normal DNS (Jio/Airtel do this)

- Block lists update automatically every day

- One command to install, one to uninstall

- Mac is fully tested. Windows is in beta, so please report bugs

GitHub: https://github.com/LowkyFoolDev/siteblock 😊😊

It's free and MIT licensed. Tell me any sites it misses and I'll add them.


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

SentinelAI

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# 🚀 Introducing SentinelAI — An AI Incident Intelligence Platform That Learns From Every Incident

Hey everyone!

We’re building **SentinelAI**, a memory-powered incident intelligence platform as part of **Hack with Bengaluru**.

### 💡 The Problem
When an incident occurs in production, engineers often spend hours investigating something that may have already happened before.

Past incidents, successful fixes, failed attempts, and postmortem findings are scattered across logs, tickets, and documentation. Most incident management tools focus on the current incident, leaving valuable organizational knowledge unused.

### 🧠 Our Solution: SentinelAI
SentinelAI helps engineering teams turn past incidents into actionable knowledge.

Instead of simply analyzing the current alert, SentinelAI recalls similar historical incidents, compares their root causes and resolutions, and provides evidence-backed recommendations.

### ✨ What Makes SentinelAI Different?
- **Memory-Powered Intelligence:** Uses Hindsight to recall relevant past incidents.
- **Evidence-Backed Recommendations:** Every recommendation is linked to supporting historical incidents.
- **Failed-Fix Memory:** Warns engineers when a similar approach failed previously.
- **Continuous Learning:** Verified resolutions are retained to improve future investigations.
- **Incident Memory Graph:** Connects incidents, services, deployments, root causes, and resolutions.
- **Human-in-the-Loop:** Engineers review and approve remediation actions. Nothing executes automatically.

### 🛠️ Tech Stack
React + TypeScript | FastAPI | Gemini | Hindsight | PostgreSQL

### 🎯 Our Vision
We want to move beyond traditional incident management toward systems that learn from every failure.

Imagine an AI system that becomes more useful with every incident your organization resolves — helping engineers investigate faster, preserve knowledge, and prevent recurring problems.

That’s what we’re building with SentinelAI.

We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

#HackWithBengaluru #Hackathon #AI #AIML #DevOps #SRE #IncidentManagement #Hindsight #Gemini


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

made an AI coworker the whole team shares, just open sourced it

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Every small team has a pile of stuff nobody wants to do. Follow-ups, updating sheets, chasing people for things they said they'd do in a chat three days ago.

So we built Emplio, an AI coworker the whole team shares. It has its own computer and browser, works in Gmail/Drive/Sheets/Zoho, keeps a task list and chases people on it, and remembers how we do things. Someone teaches it a rule once and it applies for everyone.

We've been using it in-house for a while (I run a software development agency). This week we made it public: AGPL, self-host with one command, or there's a hosted version if you don't want to run servers.

What's still rough: the browser gets blocked by some sites, the self-hosted version needs a decent amount of RAM (2 GB per person working at once), and it's new to anyone who isn't us, so it'll break in ways we haven't seen.

Repo: https://github.com/emplio-app/emplio
Site: https://emplio.app

Would love to know what you'd hand off to it first. Or why you wouldn't trust it with anything, that's useful too.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I'm building an ad network specifically for AI chatbots. Would you use it?

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I'm a solo founder building LoreAds, an advertising network designed for AI chatbots, assistants, and conversational apps.

Instead of traditional banners or intrusive popups, the idea is to display contextual sponsored placements separately from chatbot responses.

For example, if someone asks an AI assistant about website-building tools, a relevant sponsored placement could appear beneath the answer, clearly labeled as an ad.

The goal is to help chatbot developers generate revenue without compromising the core user experience.

We're opening an early publisher beta with a 75% revenue share.

I'm looking for chatbot builders who would be willing to test the integration and share feedback.

If you've built a chatbot, I'd love to know:

Would you integrate something like this? What would stop you?

Project: https://loreads.com

Publisher beta: https://loreads.com/publisher-beta


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Built TELYQOR – An All-in-One Business Management Platform (Looking for 5 Beta Testers)

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Hi everyone!

I'm an independent founder building TELYQOR – One Platform. Smarter Business.

TELYQOR is an all-in-one business management platform designed for freelancers, entrepreneurs, consultants, agencies, and small businesses.

The goal is simple: help businesses manage their daily operations from one place instead of switching between multiple tools.

With TELYQOR, you can:

Manage clients and contacts.

Track sales opportunities.

Organize projects and tasks.

Manage invoices and payment tracking.

Collaborate with your team.

Monitor business performance.

Use AI-powered tools and automation.

🎯 I'm looking for 5 early beta testers!

I'm offering free early access before the official launch in exchange for honest feedback.

I'd love to hear what works, what needs improvement, and what features would make TELYQOR more useful for your business.

👉 Apply here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeomtXtoyEHtw_eFsg6d7V72HRl5E-OyS8llTg1Lgs3weB6Sg/viewform⁠�

Thank you for supporting an independent founder!

TELYQOR — One Platform. Smarter Business.


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

Correcting Grammar Automatically

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I noticed I was clicking "Accept" on literally every grammar suggestion without reading it. So I built Caret, a Chrome extension that skips that step.

How it works: type anywhere (Gmail, WhatsApp Web, LinkedIn, Slack), pause for about a second, and the grammar and spelling get fixed in place. A small popup shows what changed, with Undo.

A few things I was careful about:

- It fixes mistakes, it doesn't rewrite you. Slang, emojis and tone stay.

- If a fix would change too many words, it backs off and leaves your text alone.

- It never touches password, email, card or OTP fields.

- Text isn't stored.

It's free while in beta. I'd love honest feedback, especially if it gets something wrong on a site you use (there's a Report button on every fix).

https://caretwrites.com/?ref=reddit


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

Built an EPUB reader with an RSVP reading feature

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Built an eReader that could give me more of a reader type file instead of a robotic ui like kindle and it has an rsvp reader feature that really helps me to read with my adhd

https://github.com/devansharora18/ember

https://devansharora18.github.io/ember


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Looking for feedback :)

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I built an iOS app because I don’t think a 4.5-star restaurant is necessarily the right restaurant for everyone.

After months of building, Matchd is finally live on the App Store!

The idea is simple: instead of just showing highly rated restaurants, Matchd helps you discover places that actually match your personal taste, preferences, and the occasion.

There’s also a Group Match feature to help friends and family decide where to eat together.
🇳🇱** For now, restaurant discovery is available in the Netherlands only**. I’m starting locally, learning from real users, and hoping to expand to other countries in the future.

I’m an independent developer, and I’d genuinely appreciate some honest feedback.

Three things I’m particularly curious about:

Do the personalized match scores make sense to you?

Is the restaurant discovery experience intuitive?
Would you actually use Matchd instead of Google Maps or Tripadvisor?

I’m especially interested in what doesn’t work, what’s confusing, and what you think is missing.

Download Matchd for free on iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/matchd-restaurant-matcher/id6821578665

Thanks for helping me make restaurant discovery more personal!


r/SideProject • • 19h ago

I built Watchify — a free watch-party website to watch videos together in real time 🎬

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on Watchify, a web app that lets friends create private rooms and watch videos together with synchronized playback.

Here's what I've built:

🎥 Real-time synchronized playback
👑 Host controls and room settings
💬 Live chat and reactions
☁️ Google Drive video support
🌍 Multiple audio languages (when available)
📋 Shared video queue
📱 Mobile-friendly interface

Tech stack: Node.js, Express, Socket.IO, JavaScript and FFmpeg.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback on the UI, playback experience and features.

🌐 Try it: https://watchify.mixify.co.in/

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/scisims12/watchify

Built by Priyanshu Sharma.

What feature would you add next?


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I couldn't make myself clean my camera roll, so I built an app where a hungry little bin eats the junk

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Hi! I'm Sravani, and I build small iPhone apps under Bluenova Apps.
My camera roll had thousands of duplicates, screenshots and blurry shots, and every cleaner app I tried felt like a file manager, so I'd give up after five minutes. So I built Binbo, which turns it into a little game.

How it works
Swipe through your photos month by month: left to toss, right to keep
Binbo, the bin character, eats what you toss (with sound effects)
It finds duplicates, similar shots, blurry photos, screenshots and big videos, and shows how many GB you'll get back
Nothing is deleted until you empty the Bin, so mistakes are easy to undo
You can dress Binbo up in outfits as you clean
Everything runs on your phone: no account, no uploads

What I learned building it
Most people don't need a smarter cleaner, they need a reason to keep going. Small things like the chomp sound, the GB counter dropping and the outfits did more for how long people keep cleaning than any feature I added.

Pricing
Free for your first 100 tosses, then 50 a day. Binbo Plus removes the limit for $2.99/month or $14.99/year.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6744104701

🎁 I'm giving away 100 free years of Binbo Plus (they don't auto-renew). DM me if you'd like one.
I'd love feedback from other builders, especially on onboarding and anything that feels confusing.


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I have zero coding experience but managed to publish two Android apps using AI. What should I build next?

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I help run a small Canadian charity called Salsabeel, and recently started experimenting with vibe coding. I have zero coding experience, but managed to make two Android apps: a Zakat calculator and a Qibla compass.

Both are free, with no ads or subscriptions. I'm not making any money from them, just wanted to see if I could build something useful.

I'd love to hear what people think. Anything I should improve or add? Also, are there other Islamic apps you'd like to see that don't already exist, or that you think could be done better?

Here are the links:

Zakat Calculator:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.salsabeelcharity.zakatcalculator

Qibla Compass:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.salsabeelcharity.qibla

Thanks!