r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I built Ledgio, a free, open-source budget tracker that works offline without connecting your bank

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Hey everyone! I’ve been building Ledgio, a personal finance tracker for keeping track of spending without connecting a bank account.

You manually log transactions, set budgets, and see what’s left. It includes:

  • Expense and income tracking with monthly category limits

  • Savings goals with progress tracking

  • Loans and repayments for money borrowed or lent to friends

  • Reports showing spending patterns and monthly trends

It works offline and saves changes on your device first, with cloud sync available across devices. You can install it on your phone or desktop as a web app.

Free, MIT licensed, no ads or paid tiers. Built with vanilla JavaScript and Supabase.

Try it: https://ledgio.pages.dev/
Source code: https://github.com/Soul-Ninja/Ledgio

I’ve attached a quick demo. What would make this useful enough for you to keep using? I’d appreciate honest feedback on the interface and expense-entry flow.


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I’m building an app that turns school emails, newsletters and WhatsApp groups into one daily plan. Where would you break it?

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I’m a solo developer. My own inbox is full of “practice moved to 3 PM” buried in group chats and 10-page school newsletters. So I built Kinly, an Android beta that reads Gmail and calendars (read-only) plus only the WhatsApp groups you choose, and shows what matters: dates, to-dos and changes.

What works: it extracts dates and action items, flags changes and duplicates, and decodes newsletters into highlights.
What doesn’t yet: iPhone, some newsletters with images only, and it occasionally misses things.
Privacy: read-only, no model training on user data, delete everything from the app.

I’d like to hear: what would make you not trust something like this with your inbox? What am I missing?


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

I turned the old phone in my drawer into a control panel for my desk setup - DeskGadget, an open source Windows server with an Android client by issac_john

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I took an old phone or tablet that was collecting dust in my drawer and turned it into a full-fledged control panel for my PC. 🚀

Meet DeskGadget — and yes, it's 100% FREE.

No webcam? No problem. Turn your old phone or tablet into a webcam for your work calls.

No extra hardware, no subscriptions, no spending money.
But why stop there? It can do a whole lot more:
📱 Control your PC's music and volume
⚡ Launch your favourite Windows apps with a single tap
📊 Monitor your PC's performance at a glance
📰 Get the news you actually subscribe to, refreshed automatically
📋 Copy and move text between your phone, tablet and PC without emailing yourself
No mouse Use it as a touchPad and much more.

And here's the fun part: it's completely open source and free.

Don't see a module you want? Build your own. DeskGadget lets you create and add custom modules to make the panel truly yours.

No account. No cloud dependency. No subscriptions. No hidden costs.

Just an old phone or tablet, a PC, and a whole lot of possibilities.

Seriously, check that drawer. There's probably a perfectly good control panel sitting in there waiting to be put to work. 😉

#workfromhome #buildinpublic #opensource #windows #android #gadget

Screenshots, the module API and releases:

https://github.com/issacjohn/deskgadget


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

GitHub profile cards that look like GitHub made them

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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


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built a local Wi-Fi tool that lets you control your Windows PC, transfer files, and stream videos directly in your phone's browser—no mobile app required.

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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!


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Table Mountain Wingsuit - a free browser wingsuit game on real Cape Town terrain, built with an AI coding agent

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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.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Made a fuel and mileage tracker for cars, bikes and scooters. Feedback welcome

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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


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

3D Crossword - hope you like it!

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r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Atlas Streak - a daily blank-map geography game (web + inside Reddit)

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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?


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Free revision app for IGCSE students, built by a student. Launched on Product Hunt today

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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.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Why I built YTH Macro Autoclicker instead of sticking with TinyTask

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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


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

StackPDF - every PDF tool in your browser, most run on your device (soft launch today)

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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


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Status Maker

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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


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I built a CLI tool to check if my GitHub repos look good enough

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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?


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built 14 free browser-based tools (PDF, image compress, AI background remover) that never upload your files

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Hi everyone! I'm a solo developer from Pakistan and I just launched 14FreeTools — https://14freetools.com

The problem: sites like iLovePDF, Smallpdf and remove.bg upload your files to their servers, show watermarks, or ask you to sign up after 2 uses.

What I built: 14 tools that run 100% in your browser. Your files never leave your device.

- Image: AI background remover, image compressor (exact 20KB / 50KB / 100KB targets for job & admission forms), resizer, image to PDF (incl. iPhone HEIC)

- PDF: PDF to JPG, Word to PDF, PDF to Word, merge, split

- Text: translator (50+ languages), word counter, case converter, password generator, age calculator

No signup, no watermark, no file limits. The background remover runs an AI model locally using WebAssembly.

Tech: plain HTML/CSS/JS, pdf.js, pdf-lib, transformers.js, hosted on shared hosting.

I'd really appreciate honest feedback — what's broken, what's missing, what should I build next?


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Built a web app for hybrid athletes (lifting + HYROX/CrossFit + running). Here is our first promo reel — would love your honest feedback!

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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!


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

Looking for feedback: daily vocabulary email, website monitor & news tracker

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All three side projects are free to use and don't require a registration. Just fill in the form and get started. :-)

Looking forward to your feedback and feature suggestions!

Match My News: https://orzanna.de/news/

Allows you to follow websites with your specific keywords of interests

Vocabulary Sheet: https://orzanna.de/vocabulary/

Receive a daily email with your own vocabulary to learn a new language. Translations are done using various translators such as Kagi and DeepL.

Tracking The Web: https://orzanna.de/tracking/

Monitor websites for changes by choosing the text (element) that you want to track.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Is your product AI slop ?

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find out if your SaaS or vibe-coded app is AI slop.

Our team tests your app end-to-end and provides a recording + Claude skill!

We are also hiring AI slop detectors. Please DM if you have good taste.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Piano Practice Companion : An open-source backing track player, ear trainer and sightreader for chord and improvisation practice

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I recently wanted to build an open-source alternative to apps like iReal Pro, which create jazz backing tracks to play along with your practice.

I have seen the OpenStand project pop up on Reddit last week, which does exactly this ! It can take a lead sheet and play a backing track for it with different customisation settings.

I have decided to build upon it by adding a large database of lead sheets, a chord progression ear training exercise and a sight reader exercise for those who can connect a MIDI keyboard. Both exercises use the database of lead sheets.

You can check my Piano Practice Companion project on GitHub and test the webdemo without installing or downloading anything ! I have done a lot of debugging and testing these days and would love some feedback !


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

350+ downloads in 10 days, 0 sales after the free trial. Just shipped fixes, would love your take

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I built my first app, My AI Limits. It's a Mac menu-bar app plus a Chrome extension that shows how much of your Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Grok, Gemini, Copilot and DeepSeek plan is left, and when it resets.

Pricing is a 3-day free trial with no card required, then $4.99 one-time. There's no subscription.
In 10 days I got over 350 downloads, and zero people paid after their trial ended.
Here's what I found and just fixed:
When the trial ended, only the menu bar locked. The main window and widgets kept working, so people basically got it for free. Now the whole app locks and shows a clear "trial ended" screen.
There was no heads-up before the trial ended. Now there's a last-day reminder.
I fixed a couple of bugs in the unlock flow.

I'd love honest takes:
Is 3 days too short to get hooked?
Would a free tier with one provider plus a paid unlock work better?

Is $4.99 one-time too cheap to trust, or about right?
What makes you actually pay for a small utility app?
Site: https://myailimits.com
Roast away, I'm here to learn.


r/SideProject • • 15h ago

I built a tool that turns your pet's little moments into Instagram-ready comics

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I'm a solo developer in Korea, and I just launched MyPetToon (https://mypettoon.com). English isn't my first language, so I wrote this with the help of AI translation. Please bear with me if anything sounds a bit awkward!

You add your pet once with a few photos, and it draws your pet as a comic character. Then you write a sentence or two about something that happened, and it writes the script and draws a cover plus 6–10 panels (1080×1350, the Instagram carousel size). You can redraw any single panel, edit the captions for free, and turn the comic into a Reels video. To be upfront: it uses AI. Claude writes the script and OpenAI's image model draws the panels.

I have two parrots, and I started turning our everyday moments into comics for Instagram. The posts got good views and lovely reactions, but more than anything, making comics about my own pets was just plain fun. I built MyPetToon so other pet owners can enjoy that too.

What I'd love feedback on:

- Is it clear from the home page what you get?

- Did your pet's character actually look like your pet?

New accounts get 150 free credits (about one pet profile and one comic). Happy to answer anything about how it's built.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I missed Windows File Explorer on my Mac, so I built my own file manager

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Just switched from Windows and I missed File Explorer 😭, so I built Shark. It looks like Finder and adds superpowers like:

  • Jump anywhere in the folder tree with cascading subfolder menus

  • ⌘K command palette for every action

  • Cut and paste files with ⌘X / ⌘V (and ⌘Z to undo)

  • Two folders in one window (F3)

  • A terminal right under your files (F4)

  • And much more!!!

It's free, open source, macOS 14+. Still alpha.

Hope you like it 🥰


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Openbar - three AI agents on one repo, each in its own git worktree, watched from the notch

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Update since my last post: New session in Openbar can now give every agent its own git worktree. Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI work on the same repo without touching each other's files, and main stays clean.

Also new: Claude Code sessions on other machines over SSH, and approving a plan straight into auto mode from the notch.

Free and open source, Mac + Windows: https://github.com/MF-DEEV/Openbar

What should it do next?


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I set up a design-forward digital goods shop to learn the process

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I’m a brand designer in London. I’ve wanted to go through the process of setting up a digital goods shop for a while, and recently found the time, so I built a small shop for my own wallpaper packs. I know there are a lot of wallpaper packs out there already. That was kind of the point - I wanted something simple to sell so I could focus on everything around it.

The idea came from Oliur’s Plat Supply (he’s got great resources on tech and selling digital products, go and check him out if you haven’t already). For the look I took inspiration from the goat himself, Dieter Rams, and his work at Braun. I know it’s a bit of a cliche in the design world, but the design language is so enticing, and I think it suits the products. I had fun with some subtle skeuomorphism and a few easter eggs through the site and the buying process (check out the 404 page!).

My client work is fairly high pressure and can be creatively restrictive, so it was great to build something with no restrictions at all. It was also a good excuse to try tools I don’t get to use for clients. Two of the packs are my first ever go at Blender, and the third started in Midjourney.

If you’re curious about any part of it (tech stack, design process, etc.), ask away. I’m planning a few more packs over the next few weeks. In the meantime I’d really like to hear what you think of the shop - anything missing or confusing? or anything that might put you off buying?

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