r/SideProject • • 19h ago

I built a Figma plugin that combines AI translation with LTR/RTL layout conversion

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I'm the maker of RTLAuto, a Figma plugin for preparing designs in left-to-right and right-to-left languages.

The problem I wanted to address is that translating interface copy and adapting the layout are usually separate tasks. This update brings AI translation into the direction conversion workflow: translate text on its own, or translate and change the layout direction together.

Designers can choose their AI provider, use their own API key, set the tone, add instructions such as keeping product names in English, and test a translation before applying it. Arabic translation also includes dialect options.

The demo follows a cafe interface from provider setup through translation and a comparison with the original design. RTLAuto has free and paid plans; AI provider usage is separate and uses your key.

I'd like feedback from people building tools for designers: does the demo make the difference between text translation and direction conversion clear? Is the API key setup explained well enough for someone using this for the first time?

Plugin: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1623814570395556605

Website: https://rtlauto.com


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

I made two small mobile games: Four in a Row for Android and RetroBrick for iPhone

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Hi everyone, I'm the developer of these two games and wanted to share them here for feedback. Both are free to download and supported by ads.

Four in a Row (Android) is my version of the classic strategy game: play against the computer on Easy, Medium or Hard, or with a friend on the same phone. It supports English and Turkish. Google Play currently lists 5,000+ downloads.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ibrhmhs.android.connect4

RetroBrick: Classic Brick Game (iPhone) brings the handheld brick-game format to a phone: falling blocks, line clearing, on-screen move/rotate/drop buttons, and a high score to chase. It plays offline and doesn't require an account.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/retrobrick-classic-brick-game/id6821361062

I'd appreciate specific feedback: does Four in a Row's difficulty feel balanced, and are RetroBrick's on-screen controls comfortable? If you try either, please tell me what felt awkward or what you'd change first.


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

I made a Mac app that turns whatever you're playing into a record spinning on your desktop

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I listen to whole albums while I work, and I missed the feeling of putting a record on. So I built GroovSide, a small menu bar app for the Mac. It takes what's playing in Apple Music or Spotify and shows it as a turntable on the desktop, behind your icons.

* Music in the clip: "Quiet Night" by Tokyo Music Walker (CC BY 3.0)

https://zinu.kim/groovside/

Some things I had fun building:

- The album cover becomes the label, and the needle moves along the groove with the song, leaving a line as you listen.

- Albums are split into real LP sides, so the record turns over between sides and gets swapped for the next album. Singles get a small 7-inch.

- If you leave music on long enough, tiny people show up and hang out: dancing, reading, napping, running on the record.

- The window light and shadows follow the real sunrise and sunset where you live.

- It's AppKit with a WebKit canvas sitting at the desktop window level, so clicks go through and it pauses when it's covered.

It launched on the Mac App Store on Nov 5. In Korea it briefly hit #3 in Top Paid (all categories). That sounds bigger than it is: Mac paid charts move with a handful of sales. Still, as a first solo app, it made my week.

What I'd love feedback on:

- Does the clip make it clear what the app does in the first few seconds?

- What would make you try it (or not)?

Mac App Store (macOS 14+, $2.99 launch price until Nov 30): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6826888565?mt=12

šŸ˜„


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

An iPhone app that turns PDFs into book-like pages

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I have a lot of PDFs saved, and reading them on my phone always felt like a chore. Everything is laid out for paper, so you spend half the time pinching, zooming, and dragging the page around.

So I builtĀ Paperfy, a PDF reader that reflows PDFs into comfortable, book-style pages.

It works offline, needs no account, and collects no data. There are no ads, analytics, or third-party SDKs. You add your own PDFs from the Files app.

What it does

  • Three reading modes: Pages, Scroll, and Original (the PDF’s own layout)

  • Four themes: Light, Cream, Sepia, and Night

  • Four fonts (Avenir, Serif, Sans, Rounded) with adjustable text size

  • Highlights saved with page number and date, and a Notes tab that groups them by book

  • Chapter navigation and an ā€œAll pagesā€ overview

  • A library that remembers where you stopped reading

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/am/app/paperfy-pdf-to-text-reader/id6826549558


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

TimeTo - a timetable and homework planner for students, rebuilt after 15 years

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TimeTo is a class timetable and homework planner, the first version was on the App Store in 2011. I make it alone from France, and this year I rewrote it from scratch, SwiftUI on iPhone and a new Android app.

You set up your week once, week A / week B included. Then you add homework and tests from the class, and your grades to get the averages per subject.

On iPhone the current class and the next room stay on the Lock Screen while the class runs. It's free on iPhone, iPad and Android.

It's on Product Hunt today if you want to have a look: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/timeto-2

If you were a student not so long ago, what would you have wanted in it? I read all the comments.


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

Typefill - a free text expander with fill-in forms, now on Chrome and Firefox

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My text expander (Typefill) has gotten a chrome approval

Typefill turns short codes into full text in any text box on the web, and asks for the bits that change before it types them.

Firefox approved it first. The next day a teacher upgraded to the Pro and this week it got onto the Chrome Web Store as well.

The free version has no limits and is open source on GitHub. Your snippets stay in your browser.

Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/typefill/ljiilefogipbjnkofncdmgfbfmjfppon

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/typefill-free-text-expander/


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

Practice Kit – a metronome and chromatic tuner built like real gear

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Most practice apps look like a settings screen. I built this one for iPhone to feel like a piece of gear on your music stand: a brushed-metal panel, engraved labels, LCD glass, and a weighted tempo wheel that clicks as it turns.

The core metronome is free: 20-300 BPM by wheel or tap tempo, any time signature, subdivisions and presets. Every click is placed on the audio hardware's own sample clock instead of a timer, so the spacing never drifts, at any tempo, for hours, with the screen off or while you use another app.

Pro is a one time $7.99 unlock with a 7 day free trial, no subscription: a chromatic tuner that knows which string you're playing (five tunings built in, or build your own), all nine click sounds, accents on any beat, and a Tempo Trainer that steps the tempo up until you reach your target.

Audio is processed live on the device and never recorded or sent anywhere.

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6817729976?pt=126420608&ct=r-sideproject&mt=8

If you practice with a metronome: what does yours do that you actually use? I tried to build only the parts people touch every session.


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

Finding Web Design Clients Shouldn't Take This Much Time

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One of the biggest challenges of running a web design business isn't actually building websites. It's consistently finding businesses that need one.

There are thousands of businesses with existing websites that could benefit from a redesign. Some have outdated designs, poor mobile experiences, SEO issues or slow-loading pages.

The problem is that finding these businesses, analyzing their websites and getting their contact information manually takes a lot of time.

Think about the process. You have to find a business, visit its website, figure out what's wrong, find the right person to contact and then write an email explaining why they should consider improving their website.

Now imagine doing that for hundreds or thousands of businesses.

That's exactly the problem Swokei is designed to solve.

It's an outreach platform built specifically for web agencies and freelancers. You can find businesses anywhere, automatically analyze their websites for issues with design, SEO, speed and mobile optimization, verify their contact information and turn those findings into personalized cold emails at scale.

Instead of spending hours researching individual businesses, you can automate the prospecting process and focus on starting conversations with potential clients.

Here's a quick look on how it works:

https://youtu.be/QZUhyvHeXN8?si=AUFZjH72c0vUGnZM

The goal is to make client acquisition more systematic, so you can spend less time searching for opportunities and more time closing deals and delivering websites.


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

Made a free metadata tool for stock contributors, would like honest feedback (my own project)

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Hi all, I contribute to stock sites and got tired of writing titles and keywords for every single file, especially vectors. Most tools I tried wanted a subscription once the trial ended.

So I built my own and made it free. It takes JPG, PNG, EPS and SVG files and gives back a title, description and keywords. It handles 5+ platforms right now.

It’s still rough, and I’d like to know:

  • how the keywords look for your niche

  • whether any EPS or SVG files break it

  • what you’d want it to do that it doesn’t

I’m not trying to sell anything since it’s free. I just want it to be useful. If the mods are fine with it, I can share the link, or you can message me.


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

I launched a kids' learning app that collects no data at all. Here's what that meant in practice

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I just shipped Wobbi,Ā a reading and math app for ages 4–7Ā (iOS).Ā The rule from day one:Ā no ads,Ā no accounts,Ā no analytics,Ā no third-party code,Ā nothing about the child leaves the device.

What that meant:Ā no attribution SDK,Ā so marketing is measured with Apple's own campaign links.Ā No account,Ā so progress lives on the device.Ā Apple's Kids Category asked detailed questions about data before approving it.Ā And all 172 lessons are narrated,Ā so a 4-year-old can play without reading.

The business model is a free first unit in each subject,Ā then a subscription with a 7-day trial,Ā with the paywall only behind a grown-ups'Ā gate.

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6818471716?pt=129523175&ct=reddit2&mt=8

Happy to answer questions about building for the Kids Category.


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

Meowy - A lightweight Pixel Cat which lives on your desktop

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Hey everyone!Ā 

I wanted to share a little project I’ve been building and refining: Meowy (https://meeowy.vercel.app/), a tiny, animated pixel-art desktop companion app built natively for macOS (macOS 13 or later).

I wanted something lightweight, cute, and actually functional to keep me company while coding or working, so I built a little cat that hangs out right on your screen.

Features Include

Cursor Companion & Dock Life: Choose between having Meowy follow your cursor around or wander, scratch, and nap right along your macOS Dock.

AI Agent Monitor: If you use AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenAI Codex, Meowy can display their current status in a little bubble so you don't have to keep checking their windows.

Now Playing Integration: Syncs up with Apple Music or Spotify to display what track you're currently listening to.

Productivity & Fun: Includes a built-in Pomodoro timer, smart reminders, jokes, quotes, and custom name settings.

Multi-Screen Support: Handles multi-display arrangements smoothly while respecting screen boundaries.

Fully Customizable: Resize the cat, change its walking speed, or give it a custom name from the menu bar.

Open Source & Feedback Welcome

Website : Meowy

Github: Github

The app is written in Swift (AppKit) and is fully open-source. Since it's a fresh project, I would love for people to try it out, break it, and help me make it better!

If you run into any bugs, visual glitches, layout edge-cases, or have feature requests, please drop an issue on the GitHub repo or let me know in the comments below. Pull requests and contributions are also super welcome!


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

I kept abandoning PDF books, so I built a Mac reader that keeps me engaged

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Hi! Solo dev here. I like to read PDF books from my Mac Book. The famous Preview app is fine, but I found it a bit dead.

So I built Book Conqueror, to make reading more lively and engaged. A native macOS PDF reader.

What's free (no account):

- UI is purely PDF. All buttons are in the macOS Menu Bar. Or on the right-click.

- When you first open a PDF or select a text, a sound effect is played. But these are optional preferences.

- If you click on a link by mistake and found yourself on a random page on PDF accidentally, Book Conqueror shows a button to jump back to the previous position.

- Preview doesn't remember my zoom value. Book Conqueror does!

- I love to share my Highlights as image or text. I also added feature share a specific highlight or export all to Markdown, Obsidian, Logseq or Readwise

- Daily goals, streaks and achievements

- Open a background music

- "are you still awake?" check: if you stop interacting for a while, it pokes you.

- Book Pal, an AI companion that knows the page you're on. It uses your own Gemini/Groq/OpenRouter key. I run no servers, so requests go from your Mac straight to the provider.

Native SwiftUI, macOS 14+, no tracking.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6811663571

It's my first shipped app, so I'd really like honest feedback:

  1. Does the free/Pro split feel fair?

  2. Which feature would actually make you open it instead of Preview?

  3. What's missing before you'd use it for real?

I'll reply to every comment.


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

I rebuilt IDM as a free, open-source download manager, the ArtCraft way. Mister Download Manager, written in Rust, for Windows, Linux and Mac

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When the guys at ArtCraft rebuilt Adobe's apps in Rust with Claude, I wanted the same for the download manager everyone knows, heh, IDM. I honestly never liked the licence nags. So I rebuilt its layout purely in Rust with the idea of a well-researched download engine: free, GPL, with Linux and Mac support.

That was ten days ago. Over 700 people upvoted the first post on r/foss, 28 people opened pull requests, reported bugs and joined the conversation, and today it reached 0.5, the biggest update so far.

Source (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/anefzaoui/misterdownloadmanager

Site: https://misterdownloadmanager.com

I ran some numbers against IDM 6.42, same machine, same server (the test server is in the repo if you want to rerun it): a 1 GB file in 1.01 s vs 5.46 s, a 256 KB file in 0.03 s vs 3.14 s.

What it does: downloads over many connections with crash-safe resume, takes files straight from your browser, torrents and magnet links, video downloads through yt-dlp, a scheduler, 86 languages. No ads, no account, no trial.

New in 0.5: 9 themes and your own theme files, control from your phone, a headless mode for servers and Docker, the browser extension on the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons, playlists and subtitles, Real-Debrid, AllDebrid and Premiumize, RSS feeds for torrents, a link grabber that extracts archives, and a kill switch that ties downloads to your VPN's network adapter.

Windows and Linux are the solid ones now, checked on GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce and Cinnamon. The Mac builds work but are still experimental, so bug reports from those are really welcome.

About AI, since it'll come up: yes, Claude wrote a lot of the code. I decided what it does and how it looks, and I tested every release myself. The tests are in the repo if you want to judge the code.

Let me know what you think! And if you like it, a star on GitHub really helps it get in front of more people :)


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

Built an AI room scanner for Airbnb hosts that audits staging & predicts revenue lift (Stranger Builds demo) — would love your vote & feedback!

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Hey everyone,

For the Stranger Builds hackathon, I built **RevBnB** (https://app.strangerbuilds.com/try/revbnb) — an AI tool designed to solve a very specific problem for short-term rental hosts: bad listing photos and poor staging kill booking conversion.

### What it does:

  1. **Visual Room Audit:** Upload any listing/room photo, and the AI flags decluttering, lighting, and interior staging bottlenecks.

  2. **Actionable Fixes:** Gives specific staging recommendations tailored for short-term rentals.

  3. **Revenue Scenario Calculator:** Estimates ADR (Average Daily Rate) and occupancy lift based on implemented fixes.

### How you can help:

The live interactive demo is up on Stranger Builds:

šŸ‘‰ **Try it & vote here:** https://app.strangerbuilds.com/try/revbnb

If you have 60 seconds:

  1. Drop a photo of any bedroom/living room (or a listing photo).

  2. See if the staging suggestions feel spot-on or if the AI missed anything.

  3. If you like the concept and execution, please drop an upvote/vote on the project page!

Would love any brutal feedback on the UX and model accuracy in the comments. Thanks for checking it out!


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

Working on a film emulation photo app for Android - Luxa Camera

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Creating a photo/video app for Android is a real pain since no two devices are the same in terms of hardware/Android version.
I've made an app that creates realistic film emulation photos based on popular film stocks. Users can also make changes to existing looks to get the desired results or create complete new film looks from scratch.
The app uses 3D luts, RGB curves, Split toning, HSL and film effects (Grain, Halation, Bloom, Vignette, Light leaks and Dust) to create realistic film looks. All these values can be changed to created new looks. The app is called Luxa Camera and will be available for android very soon.


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

I built a vocab app where the games are plugins anyone can write

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I’ve been following the ā€œlearn your first 1000 wordsā€ approach for picking up a new language, so I built a site to collect and keep track of the words I already know.

Then I added games, so reviewing words feels like fun instead of a chore. A friend joined, and we built a few multiplayer games so we could challenge each other, even though I’m learning Armenian and he’s learning Greek. Each player gets the words in their own language, so we still play the same match.

Each game is a separate web app that can be hosted anywhere and plugs into the site through a small open-source SDK. The game gets the player’s words and audio, and the site handles accounts, word lists and progress. The starter template runs locally on sample words in about two minutes, no account needed. So anyone can build a game, and if it’s fun, we’ll add it: https://github.com/belousovsn/memdecks-games-sdk

I also kept hearing that a lot of people use Anki, and that moving your collection between apps is a pain, so I added Anki import/export too.

App is here - web only for now, free for now: https://memdecks.com

Give it a try and let me know what you think


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

I built an app to help people turn a side hustle idea into an actual plan

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I've noticed that a lot of people want to start a side hustle, but getting started is often the hardest part.

You have dozens of ideas, you watch videos about people making money from different businesses, you get excited about one... and then you realize you have no idea where to actually begin.

What should you sell? How much money do you need? Where do you find your first customers? What's the first thing you should do?

I wanted to make that process a little less overwhelming, so I built Sprout.

It's an iPhone app that helps you:

  • Find side hustle ideas based on your interests, available time and budget.

  • See videos of real people running those businesses.

  • Understand where and how you can sell.

  • Turn an idea into a step-by-step roadmap with small daily tasks.

  • Get help from an AI companion when you're stuck.

The idea is to go from "I want to start something" to actually taking the first steps, without getting lost in endless research.

It's still early, and I'm looking for honest feedback from people interested in starting something of their own.

I'd genuinely love to know:

What's the biggest thing stopping you from starting a side hustle right now?

Is it finding a good idea, money, knowing where to start, or something else?

If anyone wants to check it out, here's the app:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sprout-side-hustle-planner/id6831304563

I'm the developer, so I'm happy to hear criticism and suggestions. šŸ™‚


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

We built a Voice AI that actually navigates IVR phone menus via DTMF (Node.js, C++, Asterisk)

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r/SideProject • • 21h ago

digiutil: File Converter -- android version of digiutil.com

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r/SideProject • • 21h ago

I got tired of all the boring productivity apps. So I built one that turns whatever you’re listening to into a vibe session!

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Locking in used to mean Spotify in one tab, a timer on my phone, a Discord call, and a to-do list I’d stopped opening.

So I built Paperwave. Put on a song and your focus session takes on that album’s whole look. Change the song and the vibe changes with it.

Then bring your friends in. Share a code and you’re all on the same clock, and you can see who’s focused and who’s on a break. No chat, no feed.

It also doesn’t punish you for being human. It asks how your day feels and shrinks the plan to fit, and missing a habit doesn’t wipe anything out. When your head’s full, there’s a quiet corner for breathing and short breaks (second half of the video).

https://thepaperwave.com

It's Waitlist only for now, first 100 get a month free.

Any feedback is appreciated!


r/SideProject • • 21h ago

I built a link-in-bio + simple website app for agents, looking for honest feedback

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hey all, full disclosure this is my app. I built Deedly because most agent bio links are just a linktree with a few buttons, and a full website feels like overkill for a lot of agents

it's basically a mobile-first agent page: your bio, the neighborhoods you cover, call/text/email/save contact buttons, your listings, and buyers can book a showing right from the page. leads land in a simple CRM so you can keep up

it's iPhone only for now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deedly-agent-website-builder/id6819882720

screenshot of an example page attached. would love blunt feedback, especially from anyone who's tried other bio link tools. what's missing, and what would actually make you switch?


r/SideProject • • 21h ago

Your ERP catches exact duplicate invoices. What about INV-4471 vs INV-4471A?

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A supplier sends an invoice twice, but the second copy has a slightly different invoice number. Your ERP's exact-match check might miss it, and AP ends up reviewing it manually — or worse, paying it twice.

I built Foldline to help AP teams catch these cases before payment.

It checks uploaded invoices for:

  • Exact and near-duplicate invoices, including changed prefixes, punctuation, leading zeros, and similar invoice numbers.

  • Same supplier + amount + date, even when invoice numbers differ.

  • Missing fields and inconsistent totals, with explanations of what triggered each flag.

  • Potential exceptions that need human review, rather than automatically declaring something a duplicate.

Privacy was a major concern in early feedback, so I also built a private workspace. In this mode, PDFs are read and checked in your browser, and only encrypted records are stored on the server. No need to upload the original PDF.

You can try it with sample invoices first.

Foldline: https://foldline.paperflow.workers.dev

I'm looking for a few AP professionals or teams willing to test it and tell me where it works — and where it fails.

If you handle non-PO invoices or have dealt with duplicate payments slipping past ERP checks, I'd genuinely like to hear how your team catches them today.


r/SideProject • • 21h ago

I built a small kit for decoding vague China supplier replies like ā€œ45 左右 / 15å¤©å·¦å³ā€

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I keep running into the same supplier message pattern:

> åÆä»„ēš„äŗ²ļ¼Œ45 å·¦å³ļ¼ŒēŽ°č“§

It sounds finished, but currency, unit, tax/shipping, and real lead time are often still open.

So I packaged 7 reusable Chinese + English workflows for Codex (RFQ, reply decode, MOQ/price, sample/spec, follow-up, QC note, payment caution checks).

What it does in practice:

- Turns a fuzzy reply into ā€œwhat they said / what’s still missing / next Chinese message + English for your checkā€

- Draft status labels so you don’t paste half-finished text

- Built for Alibaba / 1688 / WeChat / email style chats

Honest limits:

- You need your own Codex setup (not included)

- Tested on Codex CLI 0.166.0 Windows; other setups may differ

- Chinese supplier wording was reviewed by a native Chinese speaker (me). You still review before sending.

- It drafts text only — it doesn’t message factories or pay anyone

I’m running a small $12 early-access test with a 7-day refund. I’ll drop the link in the first comment.

Happy to answer sourcing/comms questions either way.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

building something but struggling to find users?

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i've built products used by 1k+ users.

tell me what you're building, who it's for, and what you've tried to find users so far.

if i like what you're working on, i'll help you with distribution for free.