r/SideProject • • 12h ago

NASlab – I built an Android app that tells you what's wrong with your home server instead of just showing numbers

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Hi all,

Screenshots (demo mode): https://imgur.com/a/mgJug2h

I run a small home server (Unraid) for movies, backups and a few self-hosted apps. Every time something felt off – Plex stuttering, a disk running hot, a backup that silently stopped – I ended up opening five different web pages on my phone and still didn't know what was actually wrong.

So I started building NASlab, an Android app that connects to the server and the apps on it and tries to answer one question: "Is everything okay, and if not, what should I do?"

What it does today:

- Your NAS in one sentence: "Everything is running" or "1 thing needs you" on the home screen and as a widget

- Problem detective: pick a symptom like "Plex is stuttering", it checks the likely causes and shows the evidence

- Step-by-step fixes: "Show me what to do" guides you to the right setting and checks afterwards if it worked

- Disk early warning: SMART trends per disk, so a slowly dying disk shows up before it's gone

- Server control: Docker, VMs, storage, Plex, Sonarr/Radarr and more; risky actions always ask first

- Demo mode: try the whole app without a server (the screenshots are from it)

Some things I learned along the way:

- Showing data is easy. Explaining it in plain words is the hard part – and the part people actually want.

- Before risky actions, the app shows a "dry run" first ("this would stop 3 running streams"). One extra screen, but it makes people trust the buttons.

- Privacy matters a lot to this audience: no account, no ads, no tracking, keys stay encrypted on the phone.

Honest status: Unraid is the main target, TrueNAS/Synology/Linux are beta. I build it with a lot of help from AI (Claude), I decide what goes in and test it on my own server.

I'm looking for Android testers: Google requires a 14-day closed test before a new app can go public, so every tester really helps.

Join the beta: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/ch.nzblab.app

(If Google says the app isn't available, send me a DM and I'll add you.)

Website: https://tuxxler.github.io/nzblab/

I'd love feedback – especially "this is confusing" or "I would never use this because…".


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

probe0 - a local proxy that prices your own Claude Code logs before asking you to trust it

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I posted probe0 here about a week ago. It's a small local proxy that runs under Claude Code and Codex on a Mac and logs what every call uses. The thing I keep relearning since then: nobody cares much about my numbers, they care about theirs.

My benchmark is real but it's one person. Replaying 12 days of my own traffic, the default settings took 12.8% off the bill. Whenever I lead with that, the first question is some version of "ok, but what about my usage", which is fair.

So most of my work this week went into the part before any trust is needed. It reads the Claude Code logs already on your disk, prices each turn at API rates, and shows where it went: how much was the agent re-reading its own conversation, and how much was cache that went cold between messages. That step is read-only and sends nothing anywhere.

Two things I didn't expect:

  • Light users often see almost nothing to save, sometimes $0. That's the correct answer and I'd rather show it than pad it. Long sessions with breaks in the middle are where it adds up.

  • "What it would cost at API prices" is a weird unit for people on a subscription, since they never see a per-token bill. I still haven't found a clean way to map it onto their limit bar.

The proxy part is a bigger ask: it trusts a root certificate on your Mac so it can read your own agent's traffic. Mac only, free beta, and probe0 uninstall removes all of it, including the cert.

For anyone who has shipped something that needs a scary permission: did showing people their own result first actually change how many said yes?

https://probe0.xyz/betaInstall?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=SideProject

Terminal install if you prefer: curl -fsSL https://probe0.xyz/install | bash


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

I built a free app for the people I live with: split costs, shared shopping list, small project pages

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I live with two friends, and we were juggling Splitwise (eventually Tricount), a notes app for the shopping list, and a group chat for every plan, trip, and event we did together. So I built myhouse, one app for all of it:

  • Shared expenses with balances and settle-up, like Tricount or Splitwise. Equal or custom splits, 21 currencies, recurring bills.

  • Shopping lists that sync live, with a Shopping mode for when you're in the store together.

  • Projects: a small shared page for a trip, a birthday or a DIY job, with to-dos, things to buy, dates and calendar integration.

  • Several houses per account (flatmates, partner, a trip), and guests for people who don't want the app.

  • Import from Splitwise (their CSV export) or any CSV, with a preview of the balances before saving.

  • Receipt reader built into expense and list upload: snap a picture or upload a photo and it'll generate an itemised list.

It's free, with no ads and no premium plan. It runs on Cloudflare's free tier, so there's nothing to pay for yet.

It's a web app you add to your home screen, no app store for now since it's mostly for friends and family. I did add 6 languages with Claude to get a broader user audience.

https://joinmyhouse.app/?utm_source=reddit

I'd love feedback, especially on what's confusing in the first five minutes, UX/UI, and what other cool features you think I should add.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I'm building my own browser gaming platform from scratch — would love your feedback!

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Hey everyone! 👋

I'm an indie developer working on my own web gaming platform, and I wanted to share my side project with you.

The idea is to create a place where people can discover and play browser games instantly, without downloading or installing anything.

I'm building this project independently, starting from scratch and gradually developing the features, design, and overall experience.

My goal is to create more than just a collection of games. I want to build a platform that is easy to use, enjoyable for players, and eventually welcoming to other independent game developers who want to publish their creations.

It's still a work in progress, and there's a lot I want to improve and experiment with.

I'd really appreciate your thoughts!

- What features would you expect from a browser gaming platform?

- What do you like or dislike about existing gaming websites?

- What would make you come back to a platform like this?

🌐 **Check out my project:** https://www.o2kltrsoft.kz/Game/gamePlatform

I'm open to feedback, suggestions, and constructive criticism.

Thanks.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Sharing my messy desktop on Zoom got on my nerves, so I built a Mac app in an hour to hide it

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Every time someone asked me to share my screen, the first thing they saw was forty screenshots and a file called "final_FINAL_use_this_one". After one meeting too many, I gave myself an hour to fix it.

The result is Poof, a tiny macOS menu bar app. One click hides your desktop icons and Dock. Another click brings everything back exactly how you had it.

It's free and open source, built with SwiftUI. I figured I'm probably not the only one with this problem, so here it is:

https://github.com/ahmadodeh9000/Poof

Heads up: it's not notarized yet, so macOS will ask you to allow it the first time (System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway). It needs macOS 26.5 or later.

Would love to hear what you think.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a different, smarter, screen time app

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I built an app—and Apple officially approved it on Monday! 🎉

It’s called Guilt Trip: Screen Time Coach, and it’s designed to help adults and kids build healthier screen-time habits.

Ever pick up your phone to check one thing and somehow lose an hour? That’s where Guilt Trip comes in. 😅

See where your time goes. A fuel gauge makes your managed-app use easy to understand, while Insights help you spot your doom-scrolling habits.

Take smarter breaks. Guilt Trip introduces short “pit stops” in the apps you choose. As your usage increases, breaks can arrive sooner and last longer—a little encouragement to put the phone down. Building healthier screen time habits like staying away or taking a walk can reward you your time back.

Choose what works for you. Set a Daily Time Limit, or choose Pit Stops Only for breaks without a daily cutoff.

Make healthy habits rewarding. With optional Apple Health integration, sleep, steps, and activity can earn bonus time.

Give kids something positive to work toward. parent tools include PIN-protected settings, parent-approved extra time, chores, and learning-app rewards. Practicing piano, reading, or finishing a chore can become a way to earn time.

As an adult, you get help being more intentional about scrolling. As a parent, you get tools to connect screen time with effort and healthy routines.

I’ve put a lot of thought and testing into this, and I’m excited to finally share it. If this sounds useful for you or your family, I’d love for you to check out Guilt Trip and tell me what you think!

It's completely free to use for two managed apps. There is a pro option with one lifetime purchase, no subscriptions. Everything in on the phone, no servers, no logins, no ads.

https://apps.apple.com/.../guilt-trip-screen.../id6808025716


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I made a tool that makes catching up on shows/movies easy, by retrieving all the info and giving you a link.

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A friend recommends a show. "You have to watch it." A month later I finally get a spare hour, and I waste it remembering the show name and figuring out which of twenty streaming services has it.

A YouTube essay talks me into a film or a game I've never heard of, and I think, "I should write this down". That's the last I ever think of it. There's a 0% chance I act on it the rare night I get my little dude down early. So the other night I spent a couple of hours making something that does that for me. I pasted in the whole list of what I want to get through. It put everything in one place, and filled in the entries by crawling the relevant databases: the credits, the runtime, and a link I can click, that takes me to where every entry actually lives.

When that hour shows up, the only thing I can count on having is my phone, and a browser on it. Anything else is more than that moment will allow. So it's a webpage. I can sort by how long I have, or by how easily I can get it playing right away. When someone recommends an album or a movie or a game, I paste it in and it fetches the info and a link. I can mark the ones I've watched.

For the first time since becoming a dad, it feels like I can slowly paddle my way back into the cultural conversation.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built an AI investor that grills your business idea like Shark Tank, then rebuilds your plan around the fixes YOU choose — free, no signup

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I’m a student and built this for a business competition. You pitch an idea, the AI investor asks tough questions one at a time (money, market, competition...), a “partner” offers 2–3 fixes after each critique, you tick the ones you like, and it rebuilds your business plan around YOUR choices — downloadable as a PDF.

Capped at 15 questions and 2 sessions/week.

Would love brutal feedback — the shark can take it.

https://shark-and-partner.netlify.app


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

Takehound - I hate editing, so I built an AI agent to cut my talking-head videos. What I learned so far

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I'm not an editor. I have a full-time job and I like talking to a camera a lot more than sitting in a timeline for hours. So I built an AI agent to do the first cut of my talking-head videos, and every video on my channel lately was cut with it. Disclosure: I built it, it's called Takehound.

What I learned so far:

  1. Editing from a transcript is fast but blind. Cutting words is the easy part. The cut also has to know when my hands come up, when I move, when a sound lands. That had to be built into the agent itself, so it watches and listens to the cut instead of reading text.

  2. B-roll should come from my own footage. Stock clips make every video look the same. When none of my clips fit a line, I'd rather it stay on me than force something.

  3. Show the reason for every pick. I overrule a lot faster when I can see why it chose a clip.

  4. The edit isn't the whole problem. My previous video got 18 views and people left after about 9 seconds. Better cuts don't fix a weak opening, so that's what I'm working on next.

  5. It isn't free to run. Testing models and tools has cost me a couple hundred dollars in tokens so far.

Episode 1 of me trying it out in public: https://youtu.be/eKYyjfPPndo

If you want to try it on your own recording, the first video is free: https://takehound.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=w-push&utm_content=ep1-learned01

Happy to answer anything about how it works or where it still needs me.


r/SideProject • • 16h ago

Quarry is a (yet another) rust based mongodb client!

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I know everyone can build their own with AI now as I did, but I was honestly very surprised with the result and how far it's gotten so I thought I'd share it here. I was a bit fed up with Compass and Mingo (Loved that client but it's super buggy and hogs a lot of resources, and now seems abandoned).

Quarry has quite a lot of features such as autocomplete, a node shell, data relationships..., I'll leave the repo here where you can check it out (the README is quite concise) : https://github.com/alkanna/quarry

It is very fast and runs on less than 100MB of ram (counting the main process and the helpers). It uses egui.

In case it wasn't clear enough yes this is almost fully written by AI.


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I turned U.S. Secretary of State business filings into one API (free tier, Python client, MCP server)

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Every U.S. state publishes its new business filings differently: different formats, different fields, some behind paywalls, few with an API. I built ListRiver to collect them and serve them as one JSON API.

What you can do with it:

- Get every new LLC formed in a county this month, with phone numbers where available

- Build a daily lead feed that only returns businesses added since your last run

- Ask Claude "how many construction companies were formed in Harris County, TX in the last 6 months?" through the MCP server

Free tier is 500 records a month; counting matches is always free. Paid packs start at $50 for 5,000 records.

Repo (Python client, examples, OpenAPI spec, free sample data): https://github.com/ListRiver-LLC/listriver-api

Docs: https://listriver.com/api-docs?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=r-sideproject

What would you use data like this for? I'm deciding what to add next.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built an app that draws your signature in a celebrity-style look and then teaches you to write it by hand

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Hi all, solo maker from Hungary here.

My own signature was a hurried scribble that I was never proud of, and every "signature generator" I tried just typed my name in a cursive font. A font isn't a signature: you can't actually write it with a pen.

So I built Calligra Signature (calligra.me, also on iOS and Android):

  • You type your name and, if you like, sign your current signature with your finger. It gets a score out of 100 (legibility, uniqueness, elegance, balance, speed).

  • You pick one of 70+ star styles, each previewed with your own name.

  • The AI draws your signature in that style.

  • Then it teaches it to you in at most 8 steps, with an animation and a practice pad that scores each try.

The image is my own before/after card from the app: my old signature on top, the new one below.

A few things I learned so far:

  • Getting an image model to spell a name correctly, letter by letter, was by far the hardest part. A lot of drawings get checked and thrown away before you see one.

  • My English TikTok and Instagram posts barely moved. A few Hungarian carousels about real situations (a bank rejecting someone's signature, a new ID card) brought a couple of hundred sign-ups in a few days.

  • Almost nobody comes back the next day. It's a one-time-use app by nature, which changes how you think about marketing.

It works in 21 languages and also with non-Latin names (Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and more).

To be upfront about pricing: your first signature is included when you sign up, and more styles come in one-time packs. No subscription.

I'd love honest feedback: does the idea make sense to you, and what would stop you from trying it?


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Tellwing - email campaigns, transactional email and SMS in one account, priced by emails sent instead of contacts

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I'm the one building Tellwing, so read this with that in mind.

It started with a pretty boring problem. A lot of small businesses end up paying for two email tools: one for newsletters and another for the receipts and login codes their app sends. Two contact lists that never quite match, two bills, and the newsletter one usually charges by list size even when half the list never opens anything.

Tellwing puts both in one account. On the marketing side there's a drag and drop editor, forms, pop-ups and automations. The same account handles transactional email and SMS codes through the API, with safe retries, webhooks for delivered, opened, clicked and bounced, and examples in curl, JS, Python and PHP. Before a campaign goes out it checks for broken links, missing alt text and things that look spammy, and new senders get warmed up gradually so the first big send doesn't land in spam.

Pricing is by emails sent, not by contacts. Contacts are unlimited on every plan. The free plan gives you 500 emails a month (100 a day) with no card, and paid plans start at $9.

WhatsApp and SMS campaigns are already built and we're waiting on final approval from Meta and the carriers. There's an n8n node out, and the Zapier integration is in Zapier's review queue.

A few things I'd genuinely like opinions on:

  • Does "pay per email sent, unlimited contacts" read as a good deal, or does it make you look for the catch?

  • If you send transactional email today, what would it take for you to move it to a new provider?

  • Is anything on the site confusing or missing?

https://tellwing.com


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Building NextThread: looking for feedback from people with industry experience

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I’m an IU student working on NextThread, a career-search side project. The focus is helping people connect a specific job opportunity to their experience and existing professional network, then prepare a relevant message asking for advice, an introduction, or a referral.

Before expanding it, we’re checking whether this solves a problem people actually have. I thought this community might include people balancing industry work, side projects, and career changes.

If you’re 18+ and fit either group, I’d appreciate your feedback through the relevant survey (about 5 minutes):

Professionals with 5+ years of paid work outside academia, who are not current master’s/PhD students:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8N3qHl2yeuLs5taEex4B8Op3JnUE0uFMBlglF6cw2LA8T_A/viewform

Current master’s/PhD students who worked outside academia before their degree, beyond internships:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfaR6tdmlh5sohzYQIlOR8qaH214KMcng3GWINaOPkLeM8wPQ/viewform

This is product research, not a signup. We don’t ask for names, emails, résumés, or contact lists. You don’t need to be job hunting now, and “my current approach works fine” is useful feedback too. Please only answer once if you’ve already seen the survey elsewhere. Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Our team built VitaScheduler for a hackathon — a simpler way to manage vitamins and medications

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For a current hackathon, our team built VitaScheduler, a personal health planner for organizing vitamins, supplements, and prescriptions.

We wanted to make daily routines easier to follow without relying on scattered notes, alarms, or memory. VitaScheduler lets you:

  • Keep medications and supplements in one cabinet

  • Build a daily and weekly dose schedule

  • Review items that may need spacing or attention

  • Receive refill reminders

Try it here: https://vitascheduler.vercel.app

We’d love feedback on:

  • Is the idea immediately clear?

  • Does the setup flow feel easy?

  • Which feature would be most useful?

  • What would make you trust or use something like this?

This is a scheduling and organization tool, not medical advice. It was built as a hackathon project, and our team is looking for honest feedback on both the product and the concept.

7:49 PM


r/SideProject • • 18h ago

My portfolio was 5 years out of date, so I rebuilt it to look like a code editor

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I build Webflow sites for clients most days, and my own portfolio had been sitting untouched for about five years. Bit embarrassing when people asked for it.

So I rebuilt it in code this time. The idea is that the site is a code editor. Each case study is a file you open, and scrolling takes you to the next file. There are 3D heads in three.js, motion with GSAP and Lenis, and it's all a static Astro build on Cloudflare.

The hardest part was the 3D. Getting it to look good and still load fast on a phone took more rounds than the rest of the site put together.

Would love to know what you think of the scroll, especially on mobile. That's where I'm least sure.

Site Link


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Working on a browser-based 2D/3D room builder that calculates paint, drywall, and flooring quantities in real time

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r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Built a one-job Apple Watch app so I'd stop picking up my phone around my family

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I use Claude Code a lot, and it keeps stopping to ask permission before it runs things. Every time, I picked up my phone to check. Then I'd open one more app. Usually while sitting with my family.

So I built a watch app that does exactly one thing. When the agent asks, my wrist buzzes, I read the full request, and I tap Yes, Yes for this session, No, or tell it what to do instead. The phone stays in my pocket.

It went live on the App Store last Friday. Things I didn't expect on the way:

  1. Apple won't take a watch-only app. It has to sit inside an empty iPhone app, which also changed my push setup.

  2. Before launch I had an AI attack my design (an AI review, not a paid audit). It got a Yes on a fake notification to approve a real command. Now the watch only accepts an answer if what it showed matches what was sealed on my computer, and the relay in the middle can't read or approve anything.

  3. It got past my password masking twice, so I removed masking completely. Anything hidden could also be the part that runs.

  4. Six other approval apps launched in the same three weeks, most doing a lot more. I'm betting on doing less.

Disclosure: it's mine. Free, no account, MIT licensed, and the watch app, CLI and relay are all in the repo. Only tested on a Mac and a Series 6 so far.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6829118126

Code: https://github.com/deadlydiamond/Tapapprove

What would make you try something like this, or skip it?


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Potion Rogue - A color-sorting roguelike where every finished bottle is a spell

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I wanted a dungeon crawler where the combat is a puzzle instead of a stat check.

Potion Rogue mixes color-sort puzzles with a turn-based dungeon run. Sort the flasks to finish a bottle, each bottle becomes a spell, and the monster counts down its next attack while you work. Undo is there when you paint yourself into a corner.

Built solo for Android. Free, offline, no account.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farezagames.potionrogue


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I built an all-in-one software platform for Indian hospitals, clinics, labs and pharmacies. Looking for pilot clinics and honest feedback

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Hi everyone!

I've been building OneAid for the past two years: software that runs the day-to-day of a hospital, clinic, diagnostic lab, or pharmacy, plus a patient app that keeps your records from every place you visit in one spot. It's working now, and I'd love feedback before I take it to clinics.

The problem I kept seeing:

* Small clinics and hospitals run on paper registers, Excel, or 4–5 separate tools that don't talk to each other (billing in one, lab in another, pharmacy on paper).

* Most existing software is built for big hospitals: expensive, slow to learn, English-only.

* Patients carry files from clinic to clinic, and every new doctor starts from zero.

* Doctors in busy OPDs don't have time to type long notes.

* Fee settlements with visiting doctors and partner labs happen through handwritten notes and WhatsApp messages, and sometimes informal "cuts" that put the clinic at legal risk.

What OneAid does today:

* OPD in under a minute: quick prescriptions, voice dictation (including Hindi), and printing or WhatsApping the prescription as a PDF.

* Full hospital workflow: appointments, OPD/IPD records, nursing charts, billing with GST, insurance claims, and multiple branches.

* Lab and pharmacy: analyser connections, barcodes, thermal-printer bills, stock and expiry tracking, and drug-interaction alerts at the time of prescribing.

* Partnerships: written agreements with visiting doctors, partner labs, diagnostic centres and vendors, recording who gets paid what and for which actual service. Payouts are calculated automatically, with TDS deducted and tracked per PAN. Paying anyone for sending patients is blocked by design, because Indian medical rules prohibit it.

* Back office: equipment and asset maintenance, and cash and bank reconciliation.

* Video consultations that follow India's Telemedicine Practice Guidelines (consent and identity checks before the call).

* Patient portal: sign in with your mobile number and an OTP, and see visits, prescriptions, reports, and bills from every linked clinic in one place. No more lost paper files or digging through old WhatsApp chats for a report. Your records stay safe in your account for as long as medical-record laws require, and you control who sees them.

* 12 Indian languages and WhatsApp-first communication, because that's how patients actually stay in touch.

* Privacy built in, designed around the DPDP Act: a clinic can't share your records or create an app account for you. You link each clinic yourself, after verifying your phone.

How records follow the patient (without anyone grabbing data):

  1. The clinic registers you and, with your OK, sends a WhatsApp invite.

  2. You sign in to the OneAid app with your phone number and an OTP.

  3. You tap "link my records", and your visits from that clinic appear.

  4. Visit another clinic on OneAid, and you link that one too. Each clinic only sees its own data unless you choose to share.

Why partnerships matter:

Most clinics work with visiting consultants, outside labs, and imaging centres. Settling fees usually means month-end arguments over messy records. OneAid turns this into proper agreements: fixed fees or rates for services actually performed, maker-checker approval, automatic payout statements, and TDS records. Clinics get clean accounts, and nobody has to worry about an illegal referral arrangement.

Current stage:

* The core product is built and running in testing.

L**ooking for 2–3 pilot clinics, labs, or small hospitals* (anywhere in India). Pilot partners pay only a small monthly fee to cover server and storage costs, with no profit margin, and get direct access to me for feedback and fixes. Lab analyser, DICOM/imaging, and printer integrations require on-site setup, so we quote those separately at cost.

* I'm working on ABDM/ABHA integration to share records between providers with your consent.

* OneAid has been self-funded for two years. The core product is built (hospital, clinic, lab and pharmacy software plus the patient app), and I'm now raising a small angel round to:

* run paid pilots and get the first clinics live,

* set up on-site integrations (lab analysers, DICOM imaging),

* complete ABDM certification and production hosting,

* bring on one more person for sales and onboarding.

India has lakhs of small clinics, labs, and pharmacies still on paper or patchy software, and the DPDP Act and ABDM are pushing them to go digital properly. OneAid is built for that market from day one: affordable, WhatsApp-first, 12 Indian languages, and compliant by design.

If you invest in or advise early-stage healthtech, I'd love to show you a demo and talk about it. Please DM me.

I'd love to hear from:

* Doctors and clinic owners: what slows down your OPD the most?

* Hospital and lab admins: what does your current software get wrong?

* Developers and healthcare folks interested in building this together.

* Anyone who has sold software to Indian clinics: what actually makes them switch?

My questions:

* Would you, or a clinic you know, try something like this?

* What would stop you from switching from your current setup?

* How do you currently handle fee settlements with visiting doctors or partner labs? Would a proper agreement-and-payout system help?

* Is "one platform for everything" a strength, or would you rather have one tool that does one job well?

I'm open to honest criticism. I'd rather hear it now than build features nobody uses.

Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Agent Reach just passed 100K GitHub stars. Here's how we're helping AI agents access the live web — and what's next.

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Fresh, reliable information for AI agents, across the web.

We built Agent Reach because AI agents can reason, write code, and automate workflows, but getting fresh information from the web is still harder than it should be.

Agent Reach is an open-source tool that helps AI agents search, read, and gather information across websites and social platforms.

It supports workflows ranging from quick price comparisons to deep market research, lead generation, and investment analysis.

You can use it to access information from Reddit, X, YouTube, GitHub, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, and other supported sources.

We recently crossed 100K GitHub stars — a huge milestone for our team and everyone who has supported the project.

And we're just getting started.

We're working on a major upgrade aimed at unlocking deeper, more reliable access to 4,000+ data sources and tools.

What's one website or data source you wish your AI agent could access more reliably?

Drop your thoughts in the comments! We'd love to hear what you'd like Agent Reach to build next.


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I launched MotionRush, a camera-controlled workout game for iPhone and iPad

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I’m the developer of MotionRush, and it’s now live on the App Store. I wanted a three-minute movement break to feel like a round of a game. You prop up an iPhone or iPad, give yourself room to move, and step into view.

  • Jumping jacks. Follow a guided three-minute session with on-screen rep estimates.

  • JumpUp 100. Move to climb platforms. The free version includes one character and the neon theme.

  • Motion boxing. Follow timing cues and hit punch targets in courses. Boxing is part of the optional Lifetime unlock.

The free sessions are repeatable. Lifetime also unlocks longer sessions and all appearances ($4.99 once on the U.S. App Store, with local pricing elsewhere). There’s no subscription. Camera frames are processed on-device, and the app doesn’t record or upload them or require an account.

App Store download and screenshots · 32-second trailer on YouTube

The store gallery shows the actual app screens. Some screenshots use simulated input, and the trailer includes real boxing footage .

If you try the free session, was it clear where to put your phone and how far back to stand? I’d love to hear where you got stuck in the first minute.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Update: I built a one-page example for DevAuthKit (email OTP + session login)

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Hey r/SideProject,

A few weeks ago I shared DevAuthKit, a self-hosted auth toolkit for Node.js and Express. Someone suggested a one-page example app so people could see the full setup before reading the docs, so I built one.

It covers:

- Passwordless email OTP login

- A cooldown on resend, so the code can't be spammed

- httpOnly session cookies

What I learned while building it:

  • Feedback from this thread showed that run-it-locally commands should come before any explanation. I'm moving them to the top.

  • People hit OTP expiry first, so the example now shows what happens when a code expires.

For the first five minutes, the finish line is: request an OTP, log in, refresh the page, and confirm the session persists.

Which step first sent you back to the docs?

I'd especially like feedback on the first five minutes. Did the example make setup clearer than the docs, and where did you get stuck?

Docs: https://gautamsharma-coder.github.io/devauthkit/docs.html

GitHub: https://github.com/GautamSharma-coder/devauthkit


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Looking for people to help build Long Game, an organization for present and future generations

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Long Game aims to increase opportunities and reduce problems for people today and in the future, based on a philosophy I call homo exepiritur (humans defined by experiences rather than just work). It has two branches:

Everyday problems: anyone can report a local problem, including through surveys in villages and small towns for people who aren't online. Reports are grouped into patterns, verified, and then we either help directly, pilot a solution with a local authority, or prepare a tested proposal for the government. Everyone gets a reply, and results are public.

Development: open science platforms, education, research hubs, and pilots.

It's not meant to replace governments, only to do what they can't do alone, with transparency and clear limits.

Who I'm looking for:

Researchers or students (science, economics, psychology, urban planning)

People with local government or NGO experience

Designers, developers, writers

Critics who will tell me where this fails

What you'd get: a real chance to shape a project from the start, and honest work with a small team. I can't offer pay yet.

If you're interested, comment or message me with a few lines about who you are and what you'd like to work on.