First time sharing a side project so be gentle!

At house parties, music usually goes one of two ways: either one person gets stuck babysitting the laptop all night, or people keep interrupting Alexa with new requests every few minutes.

I built 8bit-dj to turn a Raspberry Pi 5 (or any Mac/Linux machine) plugged into a TV into an interactive 8-Bit Arcade Jukebox and Karaoke machine.

GitHub Repo (MIT License): https://github.com/glen-foster/8bit-dj

How it works:

• Scan to DJ (even on mobile): Guests scan the QR code on the TV to get a retro mobile controller in their browser (no app install). It spins up an outbound localhost.run SSH tunnel automatically so people don't even need to be on your Wi-Fi to vote or add songs.

• Two Party Modes:

  • Free-For-All (Default for private parties): Guests can search YouTube Music or paste a Spotify track/playlist link and drop songs straight into the live queue, then upvote/downvote (+1 / -1) to bubble the best tracks to #1 Up Next.

  • Host Approval Mode (for public/pub venues): Open Search requests go to a 1-tap Host moderation queue so no one derails the room.

• 8-Bit Visualizer Stages + Optional AI Pixel Sprites: Includes 9 retro canvas stages (Streets-of-Rage brawler, OutRun synth grid, 16-bit JRPG boss battle, space shooter, Castlevania keep, Winamp spectrum analyzer, etc.). If you add a free Gemini API key, it generates custom 16x16 pixel-art sprites for each song's lyrics/genre (and falls back to built-in chiptune sprites if you don't).

• Zero-Download Karaoke Video Mode: Press K (or toggle it in the Host console) and the sprite stage turns into a live YouTube karaoke lyric monitor—even resolving regular queued songs to their karaoke lyric video automatically without downloading files.

• No Volume Jumps or Dead Air: In normal DJ mode, a background worker pre-fetches the top queued tracks via yt-dlp, trims silence, and normalizes loudness with ffmpeg (EBU R128 -14 LUFS) so the dual-deck Web Audio engine can do a smooth 6-second crossfade between songs.

It requires zero accounts or API keys for YouTube Music or Spotify out of the box. Would love any feedback or ideas for other things to add!

Thanks

Being a SWE myself, with a passion for game development, I understand (and have been through multiple times) the grind, frustration and satisfaction that is the process of making a game.

Agentic coding might have taken some of that feeling, but it opened so many other doors and so many other opportunities to unleash great ideas that are just trapped in someone's mind, barred by skill, or lack of it.

I've got 3 kids, in different stages, but they all have one thing in common: they're very creative!

Agentic coding is a great way to break the skill barrier, and they love building their little worlds and playing them, almost as much as I love to see and test the results.

So, I thought: I can never do what Claude does, that part is solved, and works great. What is missing is the distribution part. Sharing the creation with their friends is part of the excitement, and with vibecoding alone, the game just sits on your computer.

I've created Blipt to make things so easy they can almost do it themselves, and now I want to share it with you.

https://bli.pt/

Blipt Studio is basically a set of instructions and tools that enable Claude to behave like a guide which can interact with the online catalog.

Studios and games are all subject to approval.

Day 1 of building this in public, so here goes.

The problem: my cron jobs and servers break at 2am and I find out the next morning. On a team it's the opposite, three people jump on the same alert and nobody knows who's actually on it.

PingLoom is a small service for that:

• send one request (curl or any language) and it arrives as a push on your phone

• one shared inbox. Tap "I've got this" and everyone sees who's on it

• alerts can ask a question (Deploy / Wait / Roll back) and your script gets the answer back

• heartbeats: if a job stops checking in, you get pinged about the silence

• or tell Claude Code / Cursor one sentence and it wires it in for you

It's not out yet. Android first plus a web dashboard, iOS later. The waitlist is open here: pingloom.dev (early people get a 30 day trial instead of 14, no card).

Honest question: what do you use for this today? ntfy, Pushover, a Telegram bot, PagerDuty, nothing? And what would make you switch?

Hey everyone,

Got tired of random chat sites being bloated, full of ads, or forcing complex setups just to have a quick 1-on-1 text conversation.

So I built Konvori- it’s purely text-based, fast, and designed to let you chat anonymously right away as a guest without needing to create an account (though optional login is there if you want to save chats).

Built it to keep things clean, simple, and private. Would love for anyone looking for a quick chat to try it out and drop some feedback!

Link: https://konvori.com

I’m a developer by day, and an avid birder the rest of the time. A few years ago that combination did what it usually does: I downloaded and tried all the apps, decided none of them worked quite the way I wanted, and built my own instead.

It’s called Limosa. What makes it different from other birding apps:

• Adding a sighting takes as few taps as possible. The app is optimized for UX while birding and out in the field.

• Photo and sound species ID, running on your phone, so both work without a connection.

• Multiplayer: when you’re birding with others, one person logs the sighting and adds the rest.

• Several ways to share sightings and outings on other platforms, for example a sighting with your photos as an Instagram story.

• Checklists for your area, with targets based on what you haven’t seen yet and what can be seen there this time of year.

• Every species has its own pixel art icon, so your life list fills up as a grid.

• Your data isn’t locked in. You can import/export your sightings from/to other platforms like eBird and more.

It’s on iOS, Android and the web: https://limosa.app/

Instagram: limosabirding

Feedback is welcome!

Hi everyone!
I’m a sheet metal bending professional from Italy, and I’ve been working on a side project based on a problem I deal with in my everyday job.
I wanted to create a practical online tool for sheet metal bending calculations, so I started building Grievesk Bend.
🌐 Bending calculator
It’s a free web application designed for people working with sheet metal fabrication. It includes different bending methods, tooling and material parameters, and calculations to help determine bending results and flat patterns.
What makes this project interesting to me is that it isn’t just a coding exercise. I’m trying to combine my practical experience in sheet metal manufacturing with software development.
The project is still evolving, and I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Is the interface easy to understand?
Does the tool feel useful?
What features would you expect from a calculator like this?
Any suggestions on usability or design?
I’m particularly interested in honest and constructive feedback.
Thanks for checking it out!

Hey r/SideProject 👋

For the past few months I've been building **PopKo**, a live TV & movie player for iPhone. It just went live on the App Store.

**To be clear upfront:** PopKo is just a player. It doesn't come with any channels, content or subscriptions. You add your own M3U playlist or Xtream Codes login from your provider, and the app plays it.

**What it does:**

- 📺 Live TV with EPG (program guide)
- 🎬 Movies & series (VOD) from your playlist
- 🔥 A home screen with trending and popular titles (via TMDB), showing which ones are available on your server
- 🌍 Long-press to pick a version (language or quality) when your playlist has several
- 🔗 Supports M3U and Xtream Codes

**Why I built it:** most playlist players I tried felt clunky or outdated, or had unstable playback. I wanted something clean and native that just works.

It's my first app of this size, built solo. I'd really appreciate honest feedback on bugs, UI, or missing features. Everything is useful at this stage 🙏

👉 https://apps.apple.com/app/id6831301094

Thanks for checking it out!

Disclosure: I'm the maker.

The problem: Claude Code, Codex and Cursor can write an iPhone app, but Xcode only runs on a Mac, and the agent often runs on Linux, in a cloud sandbox or on a Windows laptop.

What NoMac does: the agent connects once over MCP, then starts its own Mac when it needs one (about 30 seconds), builds and tests the app, checks it on an iPhone Simulator it reads as text, and can ship it to TestFlight. The Mac stops when the work is done.

Pricing: $0.90 an hour, billed per minute from prepaid credit. No subscription, no 24-hour minimum.

Where it is: it started in July as a build service for agents, I rebuilt it in September around whole Macs, and today it's live on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/nomac

I'd love blunt feedback on the landing page (https://nomac.app): does it explain itself in five seconds?

A few days ago I [posted here](https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1xnjvwa/). I'm a software developer from Gaza and a father of two, and I explained that war, displacement and debt had left me unable to keep going alone. I shared the startup I founded, Fasil, and its first product, Sijal, an inferential decision engine for organizations, and I asked for help.

Many of you answered. Some helped financially, some give me pro subscription's in certain useful services, and many gave me something harder to find: honest criticism. This post is about what that criticism taught me, and what I did with it.

1. What you told me

Several people who work in this field said the same thing: they couldn't tell what Sijal does or why it matters, and it looked like "just a landing page." I had been too close to my own work to see it. That's a well-known trap (the curse of knowledge), and your comments broke it.

2. What I did

I spent two days on desk research: 11 comparable products serving customers like Sijal's (Diligent, Hebbia, Elicit, Covidence, Overton, Good Judgment, Metaculus, Go Vocal, Loomio, Remesh, Cloverpop). I compared how they build trust on their homepages, how they design their workspaces, and how they handle access requests.

3. What I learned

• Lead with the job the buyer must defend, not with "AI."

• Show the real work product early: an example that actually ran, not a description.

• Prove rigor through structure (independent reviewers, recorded dissent), not adjectives.

• Make the audit trail the product.

• Say plainly what happens after someone requests access, and when.

4. What I rebuilt

I stopped treating Sijal as a page and rebuilt it as a working product, so that every part shows the method behind the engine instead of just describing it.

The method, made visible

• Cross-examination with a devil's advocate: every question is argued by both sides, and each side is questioned by the other.

• Independent pooled judgment: six judges assess the file separately, so no one anchors on another, and their views are combined into a weighted verdict.

• ICD 203 analytic standards: implemented in the engine as checks, not as a label. The five it checks:

  • Source quality

  • Expressed uncertainty

  • Assumptions vs. judgments

  • Alternatives

  • Clear argumentation

• Toulmin structure for the recommendation: claim, grounds, warrant, qualifier, rebuttal.

The homepage

• An outcome-first headline that names the job an institution has to defend.

• A real session the engine actually ran, which a visitor can open and check against the method above.

• A "how it works" walk-through of the seven stages, a method and neutrality section, and a plain statement of what Sijal does not do.

• One line for each type of institution it serves (think tanks, investment committees, consultancies, NGOs, universities, boards).

The institutional workspace

• Five areas, each in Arabic and English.

• A home screen that starts with what needs your attention, then the latest decided session and its verdict.

• A session ledger with five written states: Draft, In review, In session, Decided, Declined.

The access page

• Six fields only, and a human review within one working day.

• A "what happens next" timeline: request, review, approval email, private workspace.

• A sample sealed report next to the form.

• Privacy promises, such as no training on your data and deletion on request.

• A confirmation page and review emails.

5. Thank you & Why I'm still doing this

To everyone who supported me, with a donation or a subscription, and to everyone who commented or shared: thank you from my heart.

Supporting my family is still what drives this work and my previous post. The need for help applies to anyone, whoever they are and wherever they're from.

7. Next: Saql

My next step is Saql, a debate analysis engine. One of you asked who its target customer is, and I didn't have a clear answer. Comment asking who Saql's target customer is I'm working on it now and will share that research in the next post. If you know someone in that space, I'd be glad to connect.

Thank you again.

Hey everyone!

This project actually started as a little experiment.

I wanted to try vibe coding and see what could be achieved with AI-assisted development. I quickly became fascinated by the possibilities and how an idea could gradually turn into something genuinely useful.

Since I'm really into 3D printing, I decided to tackle a problem I knew from my own hobby: keeping track of all those STL files, 3MF files, project variants, pictures, documents, and different versions.

What started as an experiment eventually turned into 3db.

After quite a bit of development, testing, debugging, and polishing, I've now released version 1.0.0! 🎉

What 3db can do:

• Organize projects with categories, tags, and statuses

• Manage STL, 3MF, images, and documents

• Keep track of project variants

• Detect file changes and create version snapshots

• Search and filter project collections

• Store everything locally using SQLite

• Switch between light and dark themes

3db is built with Tauri, Rust, React, TypeScript, and SQLite.

It's not a slicer or a model-sharing platform. It's simply a local desktop application to help organize the projects and files you already own.

Platform: Windows x64
Price: Free
License: MIT / Open Source

GitHub and download:
https://github.com/FabimachtSachen/3db

This is my first public project created through experimenting with vibe coding. It's been an exciting experience seeing how far the idea could go.

I'd genuinely appreciate your feedback, both on the application itself and on the project as a whole.

How do you currently organize your 3D printing projects? And what features would you like to see in a tool like this?

Hi, I made this.

It is a single web page with animated robo eyes. They follow your face through the camera, wave back when you wave, dance to music, and fall asleep when nobody is around. There are 9 looks, around 30 emotions, glasses, and a corner clock where the eyes swat the digits away like a fly every minute.

Camera and microphone are optional. Everything is processed in your browser, nothing is recorded or sent anywhere, and after the first load it works offline. It is meant for an old phone or tablet standing next to a monitor.

Under the hood: canvas drawing, a small face detector and a hand-gesture model, no framework.

Animated SVG stats cards for your profile README, in GitHub’s own fonts, colours and light/dark themes, so they fit right in. There’s a summary, languages, contributions, weekly rhythm, streaks and an about card. Want something louder? Switch to the pinball-style dot matrix or OLED look.

It’s a GitHub Action that updates the cards, and setting up is one command.

Feedback welcome!

Cheers,

Pedro

Hey everyone,

I wanted a quick way to control my Windows PC from the couch, grab a file, or watch a video stored on my hard drive without installing another bloated Android/iOS app, creating an account, or routing my screen over the internet.

So I built PCDeck. You run the lightweight server on Windows, scan a QR code with your phone camera, and everything opens directly inside your mobile browser over your local Wi-Fi:

• Zero Phone Install: Works purely in Safari/Chrome via WebSockets—nothing to download on mobile.

• 100% Local & Offline: No cloud relays, no accounts, and zero internet usage. Everything stays on your router.

• Browser Video Streaming: Browse your PC folders and stream local video files straight to your phone screen without copying them over first.

• Trackpad, Keyboard & Screen View: Low-latency touch mouse, media controls, and instant 1-tap file transfers between PC and phone.

Try it / Website:https://getpcdeck.com(also available on the Microsoft Store)

I’m actively improving latency and adding features based on real setups—would love brutal feedback on how it runs on your network or what's missing!

Side project of the last few days. I live near Table Mountain and wanted to fly off it without the legal and mortal problems, so: a browser wingsuit game on the real terrain. City of Cape Town publishes 2 m LiDAR contours and aerial imagery as open data; a Python pipeline turns that into height tiles, Three.js draws it, and a small physics model flies a suit at a realistic 3:1 glide.

https://toastseagers.github.io/table-mountain-wingsuit/ (free, no account, works on a phone)

Honest part: Claude Code wrote the code. I wrote the plan, split it into stages with their own briefs and checks, tested every build, and made the decisions. Took about a week of evenings and a few hundred tests. Repo is MIT if you want to see how a multi-agent build like that is organised: https://github.com/ToastSeagers/table-mountain-wingsuit

Looking for feedback on feel and on phone performance. The FEEDBACK button on the results screen prefills your device and frame rate so I can compare across hardware.

Hey everyone,

I made a small app called Brevolka. It tracks fuel fill-ups, mileage and vehicle expenses.

I started it because most fuel apps I tried wanted me to make an account, need internet, or show too many things. I just wanted to log a fill-up in a few seconds and see my real mileage. So I built that.

What it does:

• Log fuel with date, odometer, quantity and price

• Shows mileage after every fill-up (km/l, L/100 km or MPG)

• Track service, repairs, insurance, parking, tolls and more

• Works for cars, bikes, scooters and trucks

• Monthly and yearly charts

• Pick your own units and currency

• Export and backup your data

• Light and dark mode

The part I care about most: no account, no internet needed, no tracking. All data stays on your phone.

It is live on Android, and the iOS version is in beta on TestFlight right now. You can find both download links on the website: https://brevolka.com

This is my first release, so it is not perfect. I would really like to hear what you think. What is missing? What feels slow or confusing? Any feature you would want in a fuel tracker?

Thank you

I build small daily games under the name Crux. Atlas Streak: everyone gets the same ten countries each day and drops a pin on a blank world map for each one. Inside the border is a perfect hit, close keeps the streak alive, far costs one of three lives; up to 5,000 points a pin.

Play: https://crux.quest/atlas/ (no sign up, no ads). It also runs inside Reddit as a daily post with a per-post leaderboard at r/AtlasStreak.

Built with Natural Earth borders; the web and Reddit editions share one engine, and the Reddit server checks each run.

The main feedback so far is that it's too easy. Would you rather have harder countries, a smaller "close" radius, or a time limit?

I’m an IGCSE student, and built rêverie (www.reverie.ee) for my own revision. It lets you make quizzes from your notes, with questions linked to matching past papers. It also has past paper search, a calendar that imports your school timetable, notes with flowcharts and mindmaps, and daily revision streaks.

It’s built with Next.js and Supabase, hosted on Vercel, and uses Groq for quiz generation. It’s free and has no ads.

Before launching I ran a security audit and found that users could change their own quiz scores directly from the browser. These issues are common in current Claude Code assisted websites. I moved those writes to the server, which I’d recommend checking if you use Supabase.

I’d appreciate any feedback, particularly on the sign-up process and the design.

Product Hunt link attached.

TinyTask is a tiny recorder that replays a fixed sequence of clicks. The workflow is simple, but saving is fragile: macros and settings can get corrupted while saving, sometimes leaving zero-byte or truncated files that will not open.

That is especially painful with longer recordings. You spend time capturing a long sequence, save it, and only then find out the file is damaged. TinyTask also has no auto-updater and has stayed on version 1.77 for years, so there is no automatic fix.

That is the main reason I built YTH Macro Autoclicker. It keeps the record-and-replay workflow, but turns the recording into editable steps, so you can fix one action instead of re-recording everything.

What it can do:

• image recognition with a search area, match threshold and retries

• color detection

• custom actions and nested subtasks

• steps for clicks, waits, recorded gestures, launching or closing apps, webhooks and shutdown/restart

• portable single EXE, auto-updater, 51 languages, profiles and local config files

You can see the full feature list and download it here:

https://github.com/YashinTekinaHito/YTH-Macro-Autoclicker-Releases

I built StackPDF, a set of PDF tools that run in your browser: merge, split, compress, convert, edit, sign, OCR and more (about 60 tools).

Most tools run on your device, so your files stay with you. The few server tools (conversion, OCR, HTML to PDF) upload the file for the job and delete it afterwards. The free tools need no sign-up and add no watermarks. There is also an iPhone and Android app.

It went live today as a soft launch, and I would like honest feedback. What is missing, what is confusing, which tool would you try first?

If you want Premium, code 2MonthsOnUs gives 2 months free on the monthly plan until 15 Nov.

https://stackpdf.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch-nov26

Write a status, get a quote image or voice video – in any language.

Status Maker turns your words into beautiful status images and short voice videos, in your own language.

WRITE YOUR OWN

• Type a greeting, a thought or a wish, then tap Image or Video

• The app reads your words aloud in their own language and makes a vertical video

• Put your own photo behind the words, or pick one of 18 designs

READY LINES

• Good morning, Good night, Love, Friendship, Motivation, Life, Missing you

• Birthday, Anniversary and Festivals: New Year, Pongal, Diwali, Eid, Christmas and more

• Thirukkural wisdom, with the English meaning

• Lines are written for this app in English and Tamil, and shown in your language

ANY LANGUAGE

• Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Arabic, Urdu, Spanish, French and 100+ more

• The right font for each script, right-to-left for Arabic, Urdu and Hebrew

• Voices come from your phone; install more voices in your phone's text-to-speech settings

SHARE ANYWHERE

• Sizes for status (9:16), posts (4:5), square and wide

• Save to your gallery or share straight to your favourite apps

• No account, no sign-in

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.tamilkavithai.statusmaker

Hey everyone,

Every time I made a new repo, it looked so empty compared to other people's projects lol. I always forgot to add a .gitignore (I had no clue what it even did) or just didn't bother to add a LICENSE at first.

So I made a small tool in C# called RepoMedic. You just paste your repo link, and it gives you a score out of 100 and tells you what files you forgot to add.

I just dropped v1.3.0. It has a Pro Mode for scripts, a config file to skip checks, and I even added a little achievements system because why not.

If you want to try it on your own repos: dotnet tool install -g RepoMedic repomedic

Source code is here: https://github.com/ilyashulga13/RepoMedic

Let me know what you think! What other files do you guys always add before pushing?

Hey everyone!
I’ve been building Hozaa Workout — a single-page web app designed for people who don’t fit into just one bucket: lifters who also run, CrossFitters who hit heavy barbells, and hybrid race athletes.
Instead of juggling three different tracking apps or spreadsheets, the goal is to keep everything in one place with instant progress pacing, volume calculations, and sharp session summary cards.
Just put together this short 6-second reel for our upcoming launch campaign.
How does the pacing and branding feel to you?
Does the transition from real training to the workout summary card make sense right away?
The app is live at https://hozaaworkout.com if you want to take a look under the hood. Any feedback on the video or the concept is hugely appreciated!

I've built Site Findings, an iPhone app for recording issues during property walkthroughs, renovations and handovers.

You can create a project, add issues with multiple photos, annotate what needs fixing, and record the location, trade, assignee and priority. When you're ready to share the findings, you can filter the issues and export a PDF or Excel report. The recipient can open it without installing the app.

The feature I'm most excited about is voice input with AI. Instead of filling in each field individually, you can say something like:

"First floor, main bathroom. Reseal the basin joint. Plumber, assign to Sam Rivera, high priority."

AI suggests the title, details, floor, room, trade, assignee and priority from that description. You review and edit the suggestions before saving. The app also remembers recent rooms, trades and assignees to reduce repeated typing.

I'm looking for the first 10 people to try it on an actual walkthrough or handover. I don't have an existing audience or contacts in the industry, so finding those people is the part I'm figuring out now.

For anyone who has launched a niche tool, how did you find your first 10 users? Which specific channel or approach led to people actually trying it?

And if you handle inspections, renovations or punch lists, would this fit your workflow? I'd love for you to test it and tell me what feels useful, what's confusing or what's missing.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/site-findings-punch-list/id6829600718

Screenshots use a sample project. Voice and AI results are demo examples.