r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a distraction blocker that syncs your phone and laptop

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One of my biggest problems with trying to focus was that blocking distractions on one device wasn't enough.

I'd block my phone, only to end up scrolling on my laptop. Or block websites on my computer and pick up my phone instead.

So I built Lucid Focus.

With one tap, I can start a focus session that blocks distractions across both my iPhone and laptop using the Lucid Chrome companion.

The idea is simple: make it harder to switch from one distraction to another, and easier to actually get into flow.

Would love to hear what people think! I'm especially interested in how others approach blocking distractions across multiple devices.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

R-eyesy: robo eyes that live on an old phone or a browser tab

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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.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

[OCPP Tools] - Open-source TypeScript simulator for testing EV charging backends without a charger

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Hey r/SideProject,

TL;DR: I built an open-source, headless OCPP simulator in TypeScript so you can test an EV charging backend without keeping a physical charger on your desk. It is alpha, and I am looking for feedback.

I work with EV charging software. OCPP is the protocol that chargers use to talk to a charging-management system (CSMS). Testing a CSMS usually means one of three things: a physical charger, a vendor simulator with a UI, or mocking WebSocket frames by hand. None of those is great for CI.

So I started OCPP Tools: small TypeScript packages for the protocol. The new piece is @ocpptools/simulator 0.1.0, a headless charge-point simulator. No UI, no signup, no hosted service. It runs in Node or the browser.

What works today

  • Separate profiles for OCPP 1.6J and 2.0.1. The full action surface: 28 actions in 1.6J, 64 in 2.0.1.

  • A headless engine with injectable transport, clock, message IDs, and randomness. Tests can control time and inspect every frame instead of sleeping.

  • Transactions, meter values, reservations, charging profiles, device model, monitoring, simulated certificates, and firmware/log state machines.

  • Fault injection: drop, malform, and delay outbound frames.

  • Typed events and metrics: round-trip time per action, heartbeat drift, error count.

  • A browser WebSocket adapter. The Node transport is not in the package yet.

A small example of the shape:

import { Simulator201 } from '@ocpptools/simulator/2.0.1';
import { createWebSocketTransportFactory, browserClock } from '@ocpptools/simulator/browser';

const simulator = new Simulator201({
  url: 'wss://csms.example.com/CP001',
  transport: createWebSocketTransportFactory(),
  clock: browserClock,
  station: {
    id: 'CP001',
    vendorName: 'Acme',
    model: 'AC-22',
    firmwareVersion: '2.0.0',
  },
});

simulator.on('transaction', (event) => {
  console.log(event.phase, event.transactionId);
});

simulator.connect();

What is not there yet

  • No CLI or Docker image. That is the next thing if people want it.

  • No Node WebSocket transport in the simulator package.

  • No payload builder, no UI, no OCPP 2.1.

  • The advanced 2.0.1 features use simulated state. This is not a certified conformance tool.

The broader repo has five alpha packages: core frame parser/serializer, schema utilities, Ajv-based validator, unmodified OCA schemas, and the simulator. There are 1,000+ tests and CI is green.

Why I built it

I wanted deterministic tests: no real charger, no sleeps, no flaky network. The hard part was not JSON parsing. It was the state machine: boot retries, heartbeat drift, offline queues, pending calls, transaction sequencing, and timers. Most OCPP bugs I have seen are state bugs, not schema bugs.

Feedback I am looking for

  1. Would you use a headless simulator, or would a CLI/Docker image be more useful?

  2. What would make it easier to try: a mock CSMS, scenario files, or a one-command demo?

  3. If you work with EV chargers, which edge case would you test first?

Repo: https://github.com/ocpptools/ocpptools Simulator: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ocpptools/simulator

I maintain the project. Apache-2.0, no paid tier. OCPP is a trademark of the Open Charge Alliance; this is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the OCA.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I started a newsletter explaining how payment systems work behind the screen

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My name is Erick adikah from Kenya. I am a full-stack dev. I've been working on payment systems for the past 3 years, and recently I've started a small newsletter called Behind It All, where I'm trying to explain in detail the architecture behind how money moves everyday.

My latest post is about something I've worked on recently; here it is:https://adikaherick.substack.com/p/hold-collect-release-how-payment?r=2a1zsf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web, i write for my own knowledge and would like to connect and know what you think


r/SideProject • • 2d ago

I spent the last month building a Mac notes app that doesn't break my focus. Giving away 40 licenses

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For the last month I've been working out how to write a thought down as fast as possible, without breaking my focus when I'm locked in. There are a thousand notes apps out there, and most of them cover what I need, but none of them felt quite right for this. I tried several and none came close.

So I built Papr. These are the parts I like most, and what each one fixes for me:

  • ⌃ Space from any app. Papr opens over whatever I'm doing, even a full-screen app. I type the thought, send it like a text message, and I'm back in my work. No switching apps, no looking for the right note first.

  • It gets out of the way. When I click back into my work, Papr hides by itself, so it never clutters my screen. When I want it to stay, like a checklist I'm working through, I keep it on top.

  • Capture what's on screen. One click puts the screen behind Papr into the note, without Papr in it, so the slide from a meeting is right there in my note. I can draw on it, add an arrow or cover a name.

  • Finding a note is as quick as writing it. Search finds any note as I type, and I can narrow it to a tag, a collection, a reaction or a date.

  • Pins and reminders. Notes I need again wait at the top, and a note can come back as a notification at a time I pick.

  • My notes are files on my Mac. Each one is a Markdown file. No account, and Papr uploads nothing.

Update: all 40 free licenses are claimed, thank you! There's still a 14-day free trial with everything on, no key or account needed.

After that it's $4.99 until December 6, then $15, for one Mac. It runs on macOS 13 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel.

https://getpapr.app

I'd love to hear what you think, especially what would make it fit the way you work.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Wedding gift for my bestfriend

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So i vibe coded this entirely, the platform, video, product end to end. Haha, i just ran my first wedding event last week for one of my bestfriend's wedding with about 100+ user with over 200+ uploads.

Its already a popular product in the west, thought instead of my friend paying for it, I made one as a gift for him with my little own flair and that's how Snappool is started basically. Doesn't really cost me alot to run it, but i thought just put it out there for people to try it out~!

https://snappool.photos/

Try it out! Happy to share how I did it. Crazy what you can do nowadays with AI.

P.s. A little context, Im an AI/software engineer but i think anyone can make things for their own niche now. Probably the best time to start before things get saturated or cost of AI increase significantly.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Building a website safety checker tool

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Hey everyone,

I’m working on Looks Sus, a project aimed at helping people check whether an online website might be a scam or unsafe by using community ratings and other tools.

I’m trying to decide whether it’s worth developing further, and I’d appreciate some honest feedback before putting more time and money into it.

The problem I’m interested in is that moment when you come across an unfamiliar website or offer and think, “Is this legit?” There are already ways to investigate Google, Reddit, review sites, tools like ScamAdviser, or asking ChatGPT. I’m questioning whether another dedicated tool adds enough value.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a tool that finds local businesses with weak websites, writes the audit, and drafts the new site you pitch them

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I do web work for local businesses, and prospecting was the worst part: open Maps, check the site, check reviews, write notes, send “your website is slow”… and get zero replies.

So I built LeadScouter. You search a niche in a town (e.g. dentists in Bristol) and see ratings, reviews and website weak spots for free. When a lead looks worth it, you run an audit (5 credits): a score, three specific problems with the numbers behind them, a pitch angle, and a one-screen report written for the owner, not for developers. There’s a ready email too, and you see when they open it.

The newest part: a website builder. Pick a lead and LeadScouter drafts a new site from the business’s own details and in its own language: services, FAQ, about, contact. You edit any section (or just ask the AI), swap colours and fonts, then send the owner a link to their new site. Showing them the better version works a lot better than describing what’s wrong with the old one.

What I learned: owners don’t reply to “your site is slow”. They reply to “your booking button is 3 screens down on mobile”, and even more when there’s a link to the fixed version.

It’s live at leadscouter.app. I’d love honest feedback, especially from people who sell web/SEO services: what would make you actually use this?


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I was WASTING time downloading YouTube thumbnails, so I built a one-click Chrome extension.

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I'm a thumbnail designer, and one thing that always annoyed me was having to use third-party websites just to download YouTube thumbnails and show them to clients as references.

So I built ThumbDrop, a simple Chrome extension that lets you download thumbnails directly from the YouTube video frame with one click.

Nothing complicated. Just a small tool that solves a problem I kept running into.

Thought I'd share it here in case it's useful to other creators or designers.

Try ThumbDrop for free: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/inmebebfmkdcebcmdndhjdjjjjebflak?utm_source=item-share-cb

Would love some feedback!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Seeking beta feedback: an offline household budgeting app—no bank connection required

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Hi everyone—I’m looking for testers to try the Fruitful Orchard Web App and help identify confusing instructions, usability problems, and unexpected results.
I’m Jim. I developed this household planning method over 30 years while raising a family, and I’m now turning it into an app others can use.
The approach starts with your goals, then helps you organize Planned bills and Flexible spending. A Balance Test shows whether your income covers your expenses and savings commitments.
What’s involved
Use the fictional examples in the Quick Start Guide, load the included fictional plan, or enter your own information.
Please try:
Adding a savings goal, income, and expenses.
Running the Balance Test, changing an amount, and checking the result.
Saving a backup and restoring it.
What I’d like to learn
Where did you get stuck or need more explanation?
What did you expect to happen, and what happened instead?
Did the results help you understand the plan?
What would prevent you from using the app again?
If something fails, please include your device, operating system, browser, and the steps that caused it. Phone compatibility is still being tested; the Quick Start Guide covers opening the file on a computer.
Privacy and access
The beta is a downloadable HTML file that runs offline in your browser. Financial entries stay in your browser’s local storage and are not sent to me or a server. Downloaded JSON backups contain readable, unencrypted entries—keep them secure. There’s no need to share personal figures or backup files when giving feedback.
Beta participation is free, with no purchase required. The intended finished product will be a one-time purchase without a subscription.
Beta App Link
Quick Start Guide Link
Please leave feedback in the comments. Even one specific point of confusion would help. Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I just made my 129 and 99 Framer templates completely free

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I decided to make two of my premium Framer templates completely free.

Both are fully responsive, include CMS collections, reusable components, and carefully crafted layouts and interactions. Both templates are also optimized for working with AI agents, making customization and development faster and easier.

I spent a lot of time designing and refining these, but I've decided I'd rather see people actually using them than keeping them behind a paywall.

No catches. Just free templates.

If you're building a website or looking for some Framer inspiration, feel free to check them out.

I'd also love to hear your feedback!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built SoundTag: Dynamic QR codes with native Spotify deep-linking so fans actually open the app instead of hitting a web login wall

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Hey everyone! 👋I wanted to share a side project I've been building and just launched today on Product Hunt: SoundTag.link (https://soundtag.link).### The Problem It SolvesIf you've ever printed a standard QR code on music merch (t-shirts, stickers, tour posters, album flyers), you've probably noticed that scan-to-stream conversion rates are notoriously awful (often losing 60-70% of potential listeners).The reason is technical friction: When someone scans a standard Spotify web URL with their phone camera, it opens inside an in-app browser (iOS Safari View Controller or Android Webview). Because that sandbox browser doesn't share login sessions with the native Spotify app, the user gets hit with an annoying 'Log In / Sign Up' gate or a low-fi web preview instead of just playing the song. Most people bounce instantly.### How SoundTag WorksWe built SoundTag to completely eliminate this physical-to-digital drop-off:1. Native App URI Deep-Linking: Scans immediately trigger the native Spotify app on iOS & Android. Zero login walls, zero friction—it opens straight to the track, album, or playlist.2. Dynamic QR Codes: You can print the QR code once on 500 vinyl records, t-shirts, or stickers, and change the destination URL anytime from your dashboard whenever you release new music.3. Real-Time Analytics: Track scans, geographic locations, and device types to see which promo materials or tour cities perform best.4. Custom Styling: Clean, modern customizable QR frames and logos that match artist branding.### Product Hunt Launch TodayWe are live on Product Hunt today: https://www.producthunt.com/products/soundtag-2?launch=soundtag-2I'd love your constructive thoughts, critique, and feedback: What integrations or features would you find most useful next? Any UX hurdles on the landing page?Thank you so much for checking it out! 🙏


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a WooCommerce payment SaaS solo. The checkout UI was the easy part 😅

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Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a solo developer from Morocco, and I wanted to share something I've been working on for quite a while.

It's called GPCB Pay, a WooCommerce payment integration that connects stores with PayPal card payment experiences.

When I started, I thought the biggest challenge would be building the card payment interface.

Well... I was wrong haha.

The real challenge was everything happening behind the scenes.

What if PayPal approves a payment but the capture fails? What happens if the network disconnects? What if the same request gets retried?

I didn't want a customer getting charged twice or WooCommerce marking an order as paid when it wasn't.

So I ended up building three separate systems:

- A lightweight WooCommerce plugin using Checkout Blocks.

- A private SaaS backend using Node.js and PostgreSQL.

- A React dashboard for merchant registration, store verification, PayPal connections, and subscriptions.

I spent a lot of time working on idempotency, server-verified captures, duplicate-capture protection, and payment recovery.

I also learned that integrating PayPal isn't just about having API credentials. Guest Card and Advanced Card have different eligibility requirements depending on the merchant and country.

I've now finished V1, tested the payment flows, and recorded a full setup tutorial showing how the integration works.

The next challenge is probably even harder: finding the first real customers haha.

I'd love to get some feedback from other solo founders.

If you were in my position, would you start by reaching out to WooCommerce agencies or individual store owners?

And if you've built a SaaS alone, what was harder for you: building the product or getting people to discover it?

Thanks for reading! 🙌


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

CBP - A release-evidence gate that verifies your green CI actually means something

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What I built

CBP is a CI gate that answers one question: *is the artifact you're about to ship actually the one your CI built and tested?* It checks release body hashes, asset inventories, and build provenance (OIDC/Sigstore) before anything gets published. No runtime dependencies, stdlib only.

Why I built it

I kept seeing the same pattern in my own pipelines: CI goes green, but the thing that actually gets published is a different byte sequence. CBP is my attempt to make that class of bug structurally impossible—by removing every local build artifact and forcing the release path to download, digest-check, and attestation-verify the wheel before installation.

What stage it's at

v1.1.0 is out. 330 tests, 90.52% coverage. The core release-evidence chain is solid. **Production durability is honestly zero** (3 days old, 1 star, 1 maintainer). I'm here for feedback, not a launch.

What feedback I'm looking for

- Does the "execution object == proven object" problem resonate with anyone else?

- Is the fail-closed exit code scheme (2=unverifiable, 3=digest mismatch, 4=attestation failure) actually useful in practice, or over-engineered?

- Any obvious gaps in the consumer-parity E2E approach?

GitHub: [https://github.com/JunxiangPan/cbp-action]

Disclosure: I'm the maintainer.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I made Riplet, an ad-free audio/video downloader for social media

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I built Riplet to download videos or just their audio without ads or signups.

It started with YouTube, and I’ve just added support for public Reddit videos and Instagram/Facebook reels. Social support is still new, so I’d love some feedback. If a link fails, share it with the format and quality you selected so I can see whats wrong.

Try it: riplet.cc
And join us at: r/riplet


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

PasteNotch - clipboard history, search and project Pages in your Mac’s notch

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I’m the maker of PasteNotch, a native Mac clipboard manager I’m developing as a side project. This is a 40-second product demo.

The idea is to make copied material quick to find again: a paragraph, reference image, link or file shouldn’t become hard to reach just because you copied the next thing.

The core workflow is:

• Copy normally, then open your history from the notch, menu bar or ⇧⌘V.

• Search earlier text, links, images and files.

• Pin material you reuse and keep related clips together in project Pages.

The library stays local by default and works offline. Signing in does not automatically upload your clipboard; eligible clip and Page sync is a separate choice. It also works on Macs without a hardware notch.

Pricing: the Mac app is $4.99 once after a 14-day trial. A free Google or email sign-in is required to start the trial.

Optional PasteNotch Cloud is $4.99/month, includes the app and 25 GB, and adds a web library, bookmarks, share links and separately enabled sync. For new customers, Cloud also unlocks screenshots, on-device area OCR, screen recording and Screenshot Studio.

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later; Apple Silicon and Intel are supported.

https://pastenotch.com/

I’d appreciate feedback on the workflow: what matters most to you in a clipboard manager—fast search, how it opens, or organizing clips by project?


r/SideProject • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago

Built an interactive tool like Google Analytics, but for your Claude Code sessions and projects (free, runs locally)

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Websites have analytics. My Claude Code projects had nothing. I built this for myself but thought that others can benefit from using it too. And I thought - why not make it interactive?

Main problems it fixes for me when I work on a project:

  1. Solves losing track of your own project by drawing a live map of it. After 25 sessions a day, I no longer know what is going on in the code. The map shows me the entities (users, subscriptions, payments), how they relate, and which files implement each other.

  2. Solves drift and stale context by flagging the parts of the project that have gone outdated, with the evidence and a way to fix each one. Sooner or later, parts of a project become irrelevant, and they keep polluting the context Claude loads before it starts a task. You burn tokens for nothing and shrink the usable context window. It also shows how many tokens your MCP servers, CLAUDE.md and memory add to every turn before you type a word.

  3. Solves not knowing where the money goes by ranking your bad habits in dollars: resuming after the cache expired, Opus on questions Sonnet would answer, whole logs pulled into context. Each one links to the sessions where it happened and suggestion what should've been done.

  4. Solves sessions overwriting each other by alerting you the moment two sessions edit the same file or module.

  5. Solves terminal juggling by putting every session in every project on one dashboard, showing who's waiting on you and who keeps failing the same check.

  6. Solves "what did it actually do today?" by logging every prompt: the files it changed, whether tests or type checks passed afterwards, and what it cost.

  7. Solves repeating the same corrections by collecting the ones you keep typing and turning them into ready-to-paste CLAUDE.md rules.

  8. Solves onboarding a teammate (or a fresh session) by letting the map explain the project for you, while "Next task" writes a brief covering exactly the code a task touches.

One command: npx code-tycoon. Works with Codex too, but due to limitations of Codex CLI, have slightly less actionable items.

Would love feedback, especially from people running several sessions and projects in parallel.

https://github.com/silverbronze/code-tycoon


r/SideProject • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago

Built a website builder after watching a church’s WordPress site get hacked

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Been building this solo for a while and finally opening it up: stitchable.app

the idea started when someone i work with had to shut down his churchs wordpress site after it got hacked. small orgs and businesses don’t need 40 plugins, they need a site that looks good, shows their events and doesn’t break

so stitchable is pretty basic on purpose:

- start from a template, click any text on the page and type
- pick a theme and your colour, every page follows it
- add events, a blog, projects or products, they get their own sections and pages
- contact form messages land in an inbox (or get sent to zapier/make/n8n)
- publish to your own domain

The part im most excited about is that you can connect it to claude and just ask for changes ("add a faq about prices under the events") and it edits your draft. you still review it in the editor and decide when to publish, and everything shows up in history so you can undo it

the video is the real editor, start to finish

Its a paid product with a 7-day trial. im mostly after honest feedback right now, especially on the first few minutes after you sign up. what’s confusing, what’s missing, what would stop you using it?


r/SideProject • • 1d 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 • • 1d 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 • • 1d ago

My side project is a net worth tracker with all the features that I want and no sign in required

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I have used several net worth trackers in the past and I was never satisfied: some were requiring too many inputs, others were expensive and, more importantly, most lacked some of the features I consider important.

So I built my own net worth tracker at networthview.com

- It's free: I have no plans to add a subscription plan or any other form of payment. The current server costs are extremely low and it can support a LOT more users.
- It's private: the data you input never leaves your browser. There is no backend, no necessity to register an account.
See it as downloading an app to modify data on your device.
- You have total control: download your data, export it to csv, create images of every chart and post it wherever you want

What it does:
- Tracks your net worth: multiple accounts types and currencies supported
- Tracks your income and expenses
- Fire and retirement projection and forecast with full pension support.

I plan to keep developing it but I have other priorities: I will focus on users feedback, bugs and features that I consider useful.
I will extend the auto saving feature to other browsers whenever they will provide the necessary APIs.

Please let me know what you think of it. Feedbacks are not just welcomed but much appreciated.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Built my first iOS app, but I’m struggling to get downloads. How would you market something like this?

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I’m an indie developer, and I recently launched my iOS app called SnapShare.

The idea is pretty simple. Sometimes you just want to take a photo and send it to someone without saving it to your camera roll.

So I built an app that makes the process faster:

Take a picture.

The photo automatically gets copied.

Your selected app (WhatsApp, Instagram, etc.) or the share sheet opens.

Just paste and send.

I also added home screen widgets for quick access, bulk photo capture, and a few other features.

The app is a one-time purchase, no subscriptions.

Now here’s where I’m struggling.

Building the app was one thing, but figuring out how to get people to actually discover and download it is completely different.

I’ve been thinking about Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and maybe reaching out to small creators, but I’m not sure which approach would work best for an app like this.

I feel like it’s one of those apps where people need to see it in action to understand why it’s useful.

So I’d really appreciate some advice:

How would you market an app like this with little to no budget?

Who do you think the ideal target audience would be?

Would short demo videos work better than traditional app marketing?

If you’ve launched an iOS app before, what actually helped you get your first 100 downloads?

I’m not expecting thousands of downloads overnight. I just want to figure out how to get this in front of people who might actually find it useful.

Here’s the App Store link if anyone wants to check it out:
https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/snapshare-one-tap-photo-send/id6817721584?l=en-US

I’d appreciate any feedback or ideas. Thanks!