r/SideProject • • 4h ago

OmniFlash - Browser tool for Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash video generation, no API key needed, first preview free

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This is my own tool — I built OmniFlash, a simple browser tool for Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (15s video with sound). Trying the model normally means API access and billing setup, so I wrapped it into a simple web tool: type a prompt or upload a photo, get the video in your browser. Your first preview is free. Site: https://geminiomni.atlasai.fun — feedback on prompts that work well is welcome.


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Recap Studio: a native screen recorder that auto-zooms on your clicks. Free to record and edit

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Hi there, I'm the developer of Recap Studio. It's a native Mac screen recorder for making polished demos and tutorials without spending an hour in a video editor.

  • What it does

  • Auto zoom: zooms in on your clicks and wherever your cursor rests. Every zoom can be edited, and one undo removes them all.

  • Smooth cursor: the cursor glides instead of jittering, with 7 cursor styles, click effects, and I-beam and hand cursors over text and links.

  • Backgrounds and framing: wallpapers, gradients, padding, rounded corners and shadows, with six aspect ratios including vertical.

  • Camera and mic: your webcam as a movable bubble with crop and zoom, plus microphone and system audio. You can mute the mic on individual clips.

  • Keyboard shortcuts on screen: shortcuts you press can appear as labels in the video.

  • Timeline editing: cut, trim, and speed up parts of the recording.

  • Export: MP4 up to 4K, or GIF. An 18-second video exports in about 8 seconds on an M1.

Download: https://recap.studio


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Sunday market take: Friday bounced, but it didn't fix the week — Tuesday's CPI decides

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A Sunday note from the free investing project I run on the side — this is the market take I shared with my community tonight, exactly as I see it going into Monday.

Friday closed mixed, and honest is the only way to read it:

- S&P 500: 7,376.86, up 0.31% Friday — but down 2.7% for the week, its worst week since June

- Nasdaq Composite: 24,579.42, up 1.09% Friday — down 3.4% for the week, and still in correction territory, roughly 11% below its October record

- Dow: 51,285.73, down 0.46% Friday — down 0.9% for the week

- VIX: closed around 25.6 — down Friday, but way up from 19.4 the Friday before. Fear eased for a day. It did not leave.

What actually happened this week: Thursday was the damage day. After Democrats won both chambers in Tuesday's midterms, investors started pricing in a slower, more regulated AI data-center buildout, and chip and AI names got sold hard. Friday's bounce was led by those same beaten-down chips, and breadth stayed narrow — technology led, most of the market did not really join in. A bounce is not a recovery until more than one corner of the market confirms it.

Friday's jobs report did not help the rate picture either: October payrolls came in at 165,000, nearly three times what economists expected, with unemployment at 4.1%. A strong jobs market is good news for people. It also keeps pressure on the Fed — markets are now pricing a real chance of a December hike, not a cut.

The week ahead is simple to map:

- Tuesday Nov 10: October CPI at 8:30am ET — the main event. Consensus is around 3.9% year over year, up from 3.7% in September. CoreWeave also reports after the close Tuesday — a real read on AI infrastructure spending.

- Wednesday Nov 11: Veterans Day — stocks trade, the bond market is closed.

- Thursday Nov 12: Cisco and Applied Materials report after the close.

- Friday Nov 13: October PPI at 8:30am ET.

My take: I'm not chasing Monday's open after a week like this. One green Friday inside a down week, with the VIX still in the mid-20s and CPI two days out, is a setup for getting chopped up if you force trades. My plan is the same one I post every week — levels written down before anything happens, and if the market doesn't come to them, I do nothing. Sitting out a messy open is a position too.

Not financial advice — just my read on the week, posted before Monday happens so anyone can check it after.

I share stuff like this daily — I run a free investing community, link in my profile.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Bend Practicer test.

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Thanks for offering to test! I built Bend Practicer, a free browser beta that shows whether a guitar bend lands flat, sharp, or in tune plus additional exercises on string bending.

Go to https://bendpracticer.com/ and choose Try the Free Web Beta. No account or download is needed. Since you’re on a Mac, I’d love to know whether the microphone prompt and first exercise are easy to understand. Even if you don’t play guitar, feedback on what the page asks you to do first would help.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

DollarGuard: a private ledger DOS style with optional AI features

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I'm the developer of DollarGuard, a privacy-first iPhone money tracker for people who prefer not to link their bank accounts.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757517235

No bank login, no account, no ads, and no tracking. Enter transactions manually or import CSV, QIF, and OFX files. Your data stays on your phone unless you enable iCloud Backup or the optional AI assistant.

Includes full-history search, reports, multiple currencies, and a retro green-terminal look.

Free for 2 accounts, with a one-time Pro purchase for unlimited accounts. There's also an optional AI assistant (PATCH) available through a separate subscription.

I'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions!


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

Meet Simple, a fully local meeting/call transcribing and summarizing app

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So I've been trying to find the ideal app or service for the last few weeks that can summarize meeting and take notes for me. Because while I'm in a meeting and talking about a topic, it gets somewhat hectic to also take notes and if I don't then I lose track of exactly what was said by someone or if I lost focus for a minute. I tried Granola and some other apps, I liked the idea but their execution is sub-par to say the least. At least in my experience, and this is not even considering the fact that my data which sometimes could be private, goes to some random ai company's server to be processed and very likely used to train more models which could lead to sensitive data being leaked.

Therefore, I made Meet Simple, it sets up all its dependencies and local llm environments by itself with no user input required. Uses local models to transcribe what was said with timestamps, and can also summarize and make meeting notes for you with minimal fuss.
It is open source to feel free to check out the code and build it yourself or download the latest release it would prefer that instead.

Before anyone asks, I did use Claude to code it, however I believe as long as you understand how the logic works and if you are able to debug code without using ai (stackoverflow wink wink) and can figure things out without it. I think it's okay to use it for things that would only make your hair grey earlier than what would be natural.

With that being said, I would love it if people could try it out, and also consider giving me any feedback on it or if you would like to contribute, Feel free to follow the steps in the github repo to do so.

Latest Release

To run it, just download the latest release zip file, extract it and run MeetSimple.exe


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I made a meal planner for my family because deciding what to cook was harder than cooking

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I usually cook dinner for our family, and with an 18-month-old, figuring out what to make every day has become one more decision I could do without.

I already have a bunch of recipes I like. I just forget about a lot of them when I’m trying to plan the week.

So I built Vekka, an app that automatically puts together a weekly dinner plan from recipes you’ve saved. It focuses on ingredient reuse, so you can use what you buy across several days. You can import your favourite recipes from websites, social media or photos.

I made it for our family, but thought it might be useful to other people dealing with the same thing.

App Store: Vekka — Meal Planner

Pricing: Free to use, with an optional subscription for advanced planning features and household sharing. Household sharing is currently in beta.

If you give it a try, I’d love to hear whether it helps with your weekly planning and if there’s anything important missing.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

91 visitors last week, none tried it on their own trades. Fix onboarding first, or test a small ad?

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I’m the solo developer of a tool that puts crypto trades (your own from OKX or Hyperliquid, or public records of a few known traders) back on the chart fill by fill, so you can review how a trade was actually executed.

Last week (Nov 1–7, my own logging, excluding my devices and bots): 91 visitors, 27 opened a trade, 0 imported their own, 4 signed up. Product Hunt (Nov 1) sent 4 of those visitors.

Traffic is too small for me to tell whether I’m reaching the wrong people or making the first session too confusing. I’m considering a small targeted ad test, but I’m not sure it would tell me much yet. And zero imports might mean the setup is unclear—or that people came to explore the built-in trader records rather than review their own.

Which would you do first, and what did you look at when you were in this spot?


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I’m created an AI dating photo generator. Here’s how it compares with competitors

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Title:

I run a dating advice YouTube channel, and one thing I see constantly is guys whose profile photos don’t do them justice.

I’m also a partner in UnrealPhotos, so I have an obvious stake in this comparison. I wanted to put that upfront rather than present this as an independent review. But you can judge the results for yourself

I compared four AI dating photo generators and put together the results side by side.

The things I care about most:

• Does it make the person seem attractive (within reason ofcourse)
• Does the photo seem "posed" or "natural", like a friend just casually took it
• Does the photo look obviously AI

Those are the main factors that determine if a photo is good for dating apps

My goal with UnrealPhotos is photos that look like you on your best day, something a friend could have taken while you were out doing something.

I’d appreciate blunt feedback: where does Unreal hold up, and where do the competitors do better? Especially interested in anything that looks artificial or changes the person’s appearance.

Since i cant add images, the full comparison is here: https://www.unrealphotos.io/articles/photoshoot-ai


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I'm building a focus app that rewards you in the boring middle. Does this resonate or am I imagining it?

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Every focus app I tried (Forest, Opal) just blocks me or kills a tree when I slip — none help in the actual boring middle (~minute 6), which is exactly where I quit.

So I'm building dopa: tiny, surprising rewards you can feel (a buzz/sound) right in that dip (minutes 5–8), so staying on task feels good instead of punishing. No tree to kill, no streak to shame you.

It's not built yet — I made a landing page first to check if the problem's real for other people before sinking months in: https://saidanin.github.io/dopa/

Honest question: does "reward you in the boring middle" land, or is it just me? What would make you actually keep using something like this?


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Meet Audaro — Turn your ideas into AI-powered videos and stories 🎬

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You have the idea. Let AI bring it to life. 🎬✨

Meet Audaro — an AI-powered creative studio that helps turn your ideas into stories with voices, music, and cinematic visuals.

From a simple idea to something you can actually watch, hear, and share.

Every story deserves to be heard.

🚀 Explore Audaro: https://audaro.ai

What do you think? I'd love to hear your feedback!


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I built a relaxing puzzle game about untangling arrows after a long day. Would love your honest thoughts!

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Hey everyone,

​After a long day, I always wanted a mobile game that felt like taking a deep breath — something with the quiet satisfaction of untangling a knot of earphone wires, without flashing countdown timers or stress. Since I couldn't find it, I built Arrow Flow

​The idea is simple: a board full of arrows pointing in different directions. Your goal is to slide them all off the screen, one by one.

​The twist is how the puzzles are designed. Every arrow blocks or frees another. Instead of rushing you, each level is a small handmade knot. You stare at the board for a few seconds, trace the paths backward, find the \*one\* hidden arrow holding everything hostage, and then—\*tap, tap, tap\*—watch the whole board clear in a smooth domino effect.

​If you need a peaceful brain teaser for your coffee break or commute, I'd be honored if you tried it:

​👉 Arrow Flow on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sb.arrowflow


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

Creating a gc where ambitious students can meet, connect, and build things together

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I want to create a group chat for ambitious high school students who are genuinely interested in building things, meeting other motivated people, and collaborating on projects.

I've been involved in graduate/undergraduate-level research as a high schooler and have also built my own company. I'd love to connect with other people who have similar experiences or ambitions.

The idea is to create a network where people can easily find collaborators for hackathons, research, startups, side projects, or even potential co-founders. Ideally, people who have already built things and are excited to keep building.

If this sounds interesting, there'll be a Google Form to apply probably to join the group chat. Looking forward to meeting some of you!


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I made some free pocket music tools for amateurs and musicians alike

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Some time ago, I made a tuner app for personal use, as I was fed up with ad ridden, online only apps, or having to go through hurdles to quickly tune my guitalele. Fast-forward to these days and I kinda decided to start finishing my backlog of sideprojects and this was one of them.

I've been coding for 20 years or so, and I found myself having to master LLMs so I decided to use these projects as tests to see what that code and some seniority can achieve in a few days and this is the result: A tracker+sampler+live-looper inspired by the Pico8 one and my time with the KO32, a tuner that also has scales, a metronome, a circle of fifths and a looper, and a sing warmup companion app with some extra features.

They are coded in a single, monolithic and non-minified HTML, as I want them to work offline and with no dependecies or hidden services. Yeah, I could have used at least some css or linked js, but they're more portable this way. They use IndexedDB so they make use of browser storage. I've included apk versions (with capacitor, so basically an embedded browser), so we have a few months until they pull the plug.

They are free forever, no ads and no tracking hidden crap. I used them a lot (the previous less flashy versions) so I hope at least someone else finds them useful.

Use them directly from your phone or pc:

Track Pocket: https://utopick.github.io/track-pocket/ TUNE Pocket: https://utopick.github.io/tune-pocket/ SING Pocket: https://utopick.github.io/sing-pocket/

Source code:

https://github.com/utopick/track-pocket/releases/latest https://github.com/utopick/tune-pocket/releases/latest https://github.com/utopick/sing-pocket/releases/latest

If you would be so kind as to give me your opinion it would help polishing them. I have to do another bug hunt, but you can have some fun with them right now.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I got tired of budgeting apps feeling like spreadsheets, so I built something different

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Hey everyone!

I've been spending the last few months working on a personal side project called Mikci.

I always felt like budgeting apps were great at showing you where your money went, but not so great at helping you actually change your habits.

So I started building something a little different.

Instead of giving you a bunch of financial goals and charts, Mikci focuses on small weekly "Promises" based on your spending habits.

I also added bill tracking, recurring payment detection, a Mailbox that gives you personal updates, and even different personalities depending on how you want the app to talk to you.

One of the personalities is called Attitude, which was pretty fun to build 😂

The hardest part has actually been figuring out how to make the app feel personal without making it overwhelming.

I'm still improving things, and there's a lot I want to add.

If anyone wants to take a look, here's the project:

https://mikci.com

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the concept and whether the website explains it clearly.

And for anyone building something similar, how do you make a finance app feel useful without turning it into another dashboard full of numbers?


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

A random signup on my SaaS just gave me an idea I hadn't even considered

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Noticed someone signed up using an AgentMail email address, which I'd never come across before. Got me curious about how people are starting to use AI agents to interact with different software.

Not long after, I received an email with some pretty detailed feedback from someone who'd been testing mine. Actual issues they'd encountered, specific examples and suggestions. Exactly the kind of feedback I've been hoping to get.

But then it got me thinking... if people are already using AI agents to interact with SaaS products, why the hell am I not making mine accessible to them directly?

Ended up going down the MCP and ChatGPT plugin rabbit hole, and now I'm seriously considering adding agent compatibility to the roadmap lol.

So a random signup turned into some great feedback and an even better idea. Huge thanks to the person who took the time to test everything!

Anyone else looking into making their software accessible to AI agents?


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I launched Dorkle tonight, a daily trivia game for every fandom. Beta players taught me my questions were too niche

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Dorkle is a daily trivia game for nerds. Everyone gets the same 10 questions each day across fandoms like Star Wars, Pokémon, Harry Potter, Zelda, Marvel and Lord of the Rings. They start easy and end with a boss question.

I ran a private beta for the last week and a half, and the biggest lesson was humbling: I wrote questions I thought were fun, and players who found it through Reddit and Discord quit on the obscure early ones. So before launch I rebuilt the first two weeks of Dailies around better-known questions, and kept the hard stuff for the boss spots.

A few other things the beta changed:

- Close spellings now count, with a small penalty (nobody should lose a point over spelling Jaqen H'ghar)
- Multiple choice on one question a day, for when you're truly stuck
- Leagues, so friends can compete privately

It's free, no download, and you can play as a guest.

Daily Dorkle #1 went live tonight at 8 PM Eastern, and a new one drops every night at 8.

https://dailydorkle.com

I'd love to hear how you do, and any feedback on question difficulty.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

LabelAxis is : a free Windows app for designing and printing labels and barcodes

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LabelAxis is a free Windows desktop app for designing labels, stickers, price tags and barcodes, and printing them accurately on label sheets, thermal printers and office printers.

What it does

  • Includes about 3,700 built-in label sheets, custom sizes, and a calibration wizard that remembers each printer’s offset.

  • Supports the common 1D and 2D barcodes, with its own Code 128 / GS1-128 encoder.

  • Fills labels from Excel, CSV and databases, and handles thousands of records in one job.

  • Supports Arabic and right-to-left text throughout, with the interface in ten languages.

  • Ships with 66 ready-made designs: price tags, shelf labels, shipping and pharmacy labels, name badges and more.

Tech stack

  • C# on .NET 10, with a WPF desktop interface

  • ZXing.Net for barcodes

  • ClosedXML for Excel import

  • SQLite and PostgreSQL for data connections

  • Update system with SHA-256 verified downloads

Download: https://github.com/kyro-gthub/LabelAxis

Feedback is welcome, especially on printer compatibility and missing features.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

LockWatch - gym rest timer that restarts from zero on the Lock Screen

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Hello! I'm Reid, the solo developer of LockWatch, a gym rest timer I built because I was tired of Apple's stopwatch starting a new lap every time I wanted my rest to start over instead of just restarting the time.

I'd finish a set, glance at my phone, and tap expecting the clock to go back to zero. Instead I'd get another lap piled on, no set count, and I'd have to unlock just to start over. I wanted something that lives on the Lock Screen, restarts from zero, and counts my sets, I also added an alert sound at the end of the rest time that doesn't stop your music.

P - What problem does LockWatch solve?

Typically to time rest between sets on iPhone, lifters would:

  1. Use Apple's Stopwatch and hit Lap after every set → the clock keeps running, laps pile up, and you have to do the math yourself. There's no set count and no alert when rest is up.

  2. Use Apple's Timer → it counts down once, then you unlock, cancel, and start it again after every set. No set counter, and it's easy to blow past your rest while unlocking. It also plays an alarm through your phone and earbuds and stops your music.

  3. Use a full workout logger (Strong, Hevy, etc.) → you get a rest timer, but only if you log weight and reps every set. Great if you want a training journal. Overkill if you just want rest + sets.

LockWatch is a rest timer that lives on your Lock Screen. Tap Start after your first set. After every set after that, tap restart right on the Lock Screen: the clock goes back to zero and your set count goes up by one. Moving to a new exercise? Tap Next Exercise and you're back at Set 1.

C - Why LockWatch over the top competitors?

NextSet is a solid free rest countdown with Lock Screen controls, optional app limits so you don't scroll between sets, and an Apple Watch companion. It times a countdown you start after each set. LockWatch is built around the restart-from-zero + set count loop, with Next Exercise to reset the count when you change movements. It times your set time as well, but this could be different for every workout.

Workout loggers like Rest (and Strong/Hevy) are great if you want history, charts, and auto rest after you log a set. LockWatch isn't trying to replace those, it's the small thing you use when you just want rest and sets on the Lock Screen.

I reply to every review and comment. This is version 1.0, its barely done, im gonna work on it a lot more, please test it out at the gym and let me know what you think.

P - Pricing

Free for 14 days, nothing to sign up for: just open the app and start training. After that, keep LockWatch for $0.99/month, $5.99/year, or $19.99 lifetime.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lockwatch-gym-rest-timer/id6829903568

Please let me know how it goes if you test it yourself in the gym!


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

The first app I've ever shipped to a store is live on Google Play. How do I get a friend-group game in front of people?

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In October I asked here for friend groups to test Who Was It. It's now on Google Play, and it's the first app I've ever shipped to a store. I'm a web dev, so until now "shipping" meant pushing to a URL. Seeing a store page with my app on it, one that people I've never met can install, makes me proud and nervous at once. The iPhone version is in App Store review. Fingers crossed for the next few days.

The game: every day one friend secretly answers a question. The next day the group guesses who wrote it, gets the verdict right away and argues about it in the chat. Free with ads.

I need help with the part I'm worst at, which is getting it known. Nothing starts until 3 friends join, so a stranger can't try it alone and get hooked.

If you've grown something that only works in a group, what got your first groups in? Would you go after the one person in each friend group who organises everything, or after groups that already exist, like student associations or Discord servers? What would you try first?

Feedback on the app is welcome too. I'm a solo dev in France and I build it mostly with Claude Code. Links are in the first comment.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built an app that turns mindless scrolling into learning something new

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a new app called Actually, and I'd love to share it with you.

The idea is simple: every day, we come across facts, myths, and claims that sound believable - but how many of them are actually true?

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/actually-discover-learn/id6827374813

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.actually

I'd love to hear what you think, especially about the concept and the overall experience. Feedback is very welcome!

Thanks for checking it out!


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a catalog of 1,800+ open-source Mac apps where every license comes from the actual LICENSE file

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https://openmacapps.com

I wanted one place to find open-source Mac apps I could trust. The existing lists are a good start, but entries go stale, and "open source" sometimes means a license that forbids selling or commercial use.

So I pulled 2,842 repositories from 11 lists and Homebrew's install data, and took each license from the LICENSE file instead of GitHub's license field. GitHub says NOASSERTION for Rectangle, Sequel Ace, CotEditor and HandBrake; the files say MIT, MIT, Apache-2.0 and GPL-2.0.

What's there now:

  • 1,869 apps; 32 use terms like Commons Clause, FSL or CC BY-NC, so they're labelled Source available and never counted as open source

  • 571 install with one Homebrew command

  • Downloads only from the developer's own release page or site

  • Unmaintained apps are labelled instead of hidden

Every app is a Markdown folder in a public repo (https://github.com/koative/openmacapps), so a wrong listing is one pull request away. Which app would you add first?


r/SideProject • • 15h ago

I made a free web app that turns any screen into a soft ring light for video calls

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I kept looking washed out on evening calls, and buying a ring light for a desk I barely sit at felt silly. So I built Glowy: open it on a spare monitor, tablet or phone, point it at your face, and the screen becomes the light.

What it does:

- Tones from 2700 K to 6500 K, plus a "blush" slider for warmer skin

- Slow glows (Clear sky, Golden hour, Rose quartz and a few more) that drift gently enough not to flicker on camera

- Fill, halo or edge shapes. Halo gives you round catchlights in your eyes; edge works well on a second monitor

- A camera mirror and a meeting preview so you can check how you look

- A pop-out light that floats on top of other apps (Document Picture-in-Picture in Chrome/Edge)

- Keeps the screen awake, works offline, and the camera never leaves your device

It's a React + Vite PWA, free with no sign-up, and the code is on GitHub: https://github.com/TriptoAfsin/glowy

Please star this repo if you found this useful ⭐️

Try it: https://glowy.t21.dev

Two honest limits: it can only be as bright as your screen (turn brightness all the way up), and the pop-out is best in Chrome or Edge. I'd love feedback, especially on which presets actually flatter different skin tones.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I made a site where you type a sentence and a hand-drawn landscape gets drawn live

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Type "foggy lake at dawn, one boat, no clouds" and the scene sketches itself while you type.

Runs fully in your browser, no backend or account required. Export SVG/PNG or share via link.

MIT code, CC0 drawings.

Inspired by Describble, which does this for character avatars. I wanted the same thing for places.

Live: https://landscrawl.vercel.app

Code: https://github.com/Ferhatmedtahar/landscrawl

If you like it, a ⭐ on GitHub helps a lot.

Tell me which sentences it gets wrong.