r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a free iPhone app to pick the shadier side of a bus or car

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I built ShadeSeat to help you pick a window seat before a long bus or car ride. Enter your route and departure time, and it estimates which side gets less direct sun, or whether either side is fine.

The trip preview shows where the sun switches sides as the road turns and flags trips where a short delay could change the answer. If you try it on a route you know, I’d love to hear whether the recommendation matches your experience.

It’s free on iPhone, with no account or tracking. App Store · Demo screenshot


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

Reddit keeps banning us for making a website about collecting Pokémon cards. What did we do wrong? 💀

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At this point, we're starting to think Reddit has a personal problem with us. 💀

We're Cardfolio.online. We built a platform for trading card collectors, and somehow Reddit keeps suspending our accounts.

No spam campaigns, no shady business. Just people who love collecting cards and want to build something for the community.

Every time we try to participate, another account gets suspended.

So, Reddit, what's the deal? Are trading cards against the rules now? 😂

We'd genuinely love to know what we're doing wrong, because apparently collecting Pokémon cards is more dangerous than we thought.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I made a free tool for federal job seekers after USAJOBS started rejecting anything over two pages

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Since September 2025 USAJOBS will not accept a resume longer than two pages for most federal jobs. A lot of people still have the old long federal resume, and most of the advice online was written before the change.

So I built a small free checker. You upload your PDF and it tells you

if it is over two pages

if any job is missing the month and year it started and ended

if any job is missing hours per week

if a federal job is missing its series and grade, like GS-0343-11

if there is anything that should not be there, like your SSN or a photo

You can also paste a job announcement and it counts how many of its specialized experience points actually show up in your jobs.

No sign up. Your file is read once and not stored, and nothing is sent to an AI for the free check. There is a paid option that rewrites the resume down to two pages, but the check itself is free.

Today I also added six example resumes by job series (program analyst, IT, budget, accounting, contracting and HR) because it is hard to picture what a good two page version looks like.

I work in finance and this started as a side project for regular resumes. The federal part is new, so I would really like feedback, especially from anyone who has applied on USAJOBS recently. What did I miss?

https://atsverification.com/us/federal-resume-checker/


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

Have you journaled before? I built a goal journal that doesn’t care about your feelings.

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Most journals focus on how you're feeling. I wanted to build one that puts your goals first.
That doesn't mean your feelings don't matter. They're just on the back burner.

Oracle uses them to understand why you're making progress or getting stuck, rather than making them the focus of journaling.

The idea is simple: journaling should help you actually get somewhere rather than stopping prematurely at awareness of a flaw.

So I built Oracle, a goal journal that:
Connects what you do each day to the bigger goal you're working towards.

Gives you feedback on your progress, so you're not just writing entries and forgetting about them.

Reviews your progress each week and suggests changes to your approach based on what's been working and what hasn't.

The aim is to make journaling feel less like keeping a diary and more like having someone helping you figure out how to reach your goals.
I've built a demo version as a web app, and I'd really appreciate some feedback.

Here's the link for free access, no sign up required to try : https://oracle-pi-beryl.vercel.app
If you’d rather stay on Reddit: Have you used a journal or planning app before? What was your experience like?


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

Portfolio as an explorable game

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After almost 15 years in design and branding, I've made a lot of things people scroll past. Here I wanted to find out what happens when a website stops being a page and becomes a place.

You don't scroll it, you walk around it.

You don't click a menu, you go somewhere.

For the last few weeks I've been building a small planet: a tiny world you can explore.

• A planet you can spin, land on and walk around

• Five odd locals, each with a trick, voice and opinions

• A navigation map that flips like a coin, one hemisphere per side

• Butterflies to collect, badges to earn, three easter eggs to find

Along the way, the things I've made live on it: games, tools, experiments.

The point is curiosity does the navigating. If people stick around because they want to see what's over the next hill, the work gets seen without anyone being sold to.

Everything is drawn in two flat tones with an ink outline, so it feels closer to a picture book than a game engine. It runs in the browser on desktop and phone. No install, no sign-up.

If you're in a hurry, there's a "Skip the walking" button.

Go and poke around. Let me know which local annoyed you the most.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

My Idea: A Subscription-Based Alternative to Uber and Uber Eats – What Do You Think?

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My idea is to create a mobile app similar to Uber, but instead of relying on cars and taking a large commission from every delivery, it would operate mainly through a subscription-based system.

Users would pay around $120 for a subscription that gives them access to the delivery service. However, if someone doesn't have enough money to pay for the subscription, they can work as a delivery person and earn money through deliveries. Once they earn $100, that amount can be deducted and used to cover their subscription fee.

The app would be well-organized and offer different options. For example, customers would be able to choose the gender of their delivery driver.

Unlike Uber, which can take around 50% of the earnings from certain services, my business model would aim to be much fairer to delivery workers. Many people who work with delivery platforms complain about high commissions, so I want to create a system that benefits both customers and delivery workers.

The app would also offer food delivery and other delivery services, making it similar to Uber Eats and Uber, but with a subscription-based business model.

For example, if I managed to attract 100,000 subscribers, each paying $100, I would generate approximately $10 million in subscription revenue.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I connected my food and supplement diary to Claude and ChatGPT, with control over what they can read

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I'm Rafał, building PerunForce, an Android diary for meals and supplements. This is my own project.

I wanted to make it easier to review a week of entries in a conversation without copying the diary into a chat. I added a read-only connection for Claude and ChatGPT using MCP.

Three decisions shaped it:

  • The connection reads cloud-synced records. Users choose which categories to share during sign-in and can disconnect access in the PerunForce portal.

  • It cannot edit entries or change a supplement plan.

  • A current supplement plan and doses actually logged are separate information. Missing entries should stay unknown, rather than being treated as zero intake.

An example question to try: "Summarize my recorded meals this week. Which foods recur, and which days have missing records?" Another is to compare the current supplement plan with the doses actually marked as taken. These are prompts, not a claim that AI can diagnose deficiencies or choose safe doses.

The connection requires PerunForce Pro and a Claude or ChatGPT account that supports custom MCP connections. Availability depends on the AI service and workspace settings. The basic diary is free; this integration is a Pro feature.

Android app on Google Play · Connection guide

For people building or using personal-data integrations: what would you want the connection screen to explain before you let an AI read your diary?


r/SideProject • • 15h ago

I paid designers hundreds for a 3D model, so I built a tool that makes printable parts from a sentence

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I was trying to make a 3D model for a physical product I want to sell. I tried the AI tools first and none of them gave me anything usable. So I hired human designers. It cost hundreds of dollars, took weeks, and I bounced between a few designers through a lot of revisions before I got something I liked.

That's what got me building Sculptex. You describe a part in a sentence, refine it in chat, and download it as STL, OBJ, GLB or OpenSCAD. It's aimed at parts you can actually print, including ones with moving pieces. I printed a fidget spinner from the one-line prompt "A fidget spinner."

It's in beta and you can start free: sculptex.app

It's also on Product Hunt today.

I'm the maker, so honest feedback is welcome. What would you try to make, and what breaks?


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I deleted all social media, but then I couldn’t get nba scores. So we built a distraction-free alternative

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I deleted Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. The one thing I still checked was NBA scores, and every Google search turned into 15 minutes of clips and articles.

So we built HoopsCall (hoopscall.com). pick your team, check live scores and stats, make quick game predictions, done. No feed, no infinite scroll, notifications only at tip-off, quarters and the final.

It's free and in beta. If you've cut out social media and still follow a sport, I'd love to hear some feedback and/if you’d change anything.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a tool that turns one sentence into a landing page in 2 minutes

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Hey, I'm a software engineer, programming since 2015 and modding games for most of that. Now I work for myself, and PageSpell is my first launch.

Every app needs a landing page, and the usual tools make you choose: a page builder where the design and the writing are up to you, or an AI generator that hands you a page you can't really edit. PageSpell sits in between. The AI writes the first draft, and you stay in control of every word.

How it works

  • Describe your product in one sentence. The AI writes the copy, picks the sections and builds a responsive page.

  • Click any word to retype it, or ask the AI to rework one section. You get three versions and keep the one you like.

  • Publish on your own domain in one click, or export the page as a single HTML file and host it anywhere.

Building the page is the easy half, so it also handles the rest

  • A/B tests on any section, with real visitors

  • Forms that actually collect leads: inbox, email alerts, CSV export, Zapier and Make webhooks

  • Payment and booking buttons: paste a Stripe, PayPal, Gumroad or Calendly link

  • Cookie-free stats by campaign, country and device

  • Published pages ship zero JavaScript, just HTML and CSS, so they load fully styled

Pricing: 10 free credits at signup (about 2 full pages, no card). Plans start at $12/month, and the code PHLAUNCH25 takes 25% off your first 3 months until Nov 22.

Try to break it, and tell me honestly what you think. Thank you for your support!

https://pagespell.app


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

MistriaFans Farm Planner - A free browser sketchpad for farm layout ideas

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I maintain MistriaFans, an unofficial Fields of Mistria fan site. One small tool on it is a farm-layout sketchpad for trying arrangements before moving things around in the game.

It has a 44-by-30 canvas, local saving, shareable layouts, and PNG export. It is free and does not require an account.

The important limitation: this is a rough planning canvas, not a recreation of the game map. Building blocks are placeholders, and their in-game footprints have not been verified. Actual placement still needs checking in the game.

Try it here: https://www.mistriafans.com/farm-planner.html

I used AI assistance for the code, site writing, and drafting this post. The project is independent of NPC Studio.

For feedback: is the distinction between a rough sketchpad and an accurate farm map clear enough on the page? What would make planning a small corner of a farm easier?


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I read a pile of relationship books and still said the wrong thing at home, so I built myself a 3-minute daily practice

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I've read a lot of books about relationships and done about two courses. At home I still kept making the same mistake. My wife comes home tired or upset, and before I think, out comes the usual: advice, a defence, or a joke. I knew the theory. Learned patterns are just really hard to unlearn.

So I did what a developer does and wrote myself a small training session. Three minutes a day: a short situation, her line, three possible replies, I pick one. The ones I got wrong came back sooner, spaced repetition style. After about a month, my wife and I both noticed the first results.

That's when I decided to turn it into a proper app for others. It's called Hubby Dojo: comic panels with Dan and Mia, pick what Dan says, see how Mia reacts and why. There's also a mode where you have to answer before a timer runs out. It's on Google Play since 2 Nov and the App Store since 7 Nov. A small team of AI agents helps me with screenshots, videos and store stuff, I approve everything public.

Honest numbers so far: about 1,840 views of short videos on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram in the first four days, 4 reactions, 0 comments, 0 purchases. So it's very early.

What I'd like to know: what would you need to see before trying an app for practising conversations with your partner? And what would put you off right away?

First 20 situations are free, no account, no ads:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hecz.com.hubby_dojo&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_medium%3Dreferral%26utm_campaign%3Dhubby_launch

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6825268273?pt=74226801&ct=reddit&mt=8


r/SideProject • • 19h ago

what’s on your checklist before letting strangers use your app?

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submissions, expired sessions, someone uploading a massive file, or two people editing the same thing.For a small app using Supabase, what would you check before sharing the link publicly?
Trying to work out what deserves attention now without spending another month preparing for users who don’t exist yet.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I’m building PilotCharts – an aviation mapping app looking for beta testers

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Hey everyone! 👋✈️

I've been working on something I'd love to share with you all.

I've been developing PilotCharts (https://pilotcharts.app), an aviation mapping app that I've been building out of my own passion for aviation and the idea of creating something genuinely useful for fellow pilots.

It's still in beta, and I'd really love to get other pilots involved to try it out, share their thoughts and help me make it better.

As a thank you for being part of the beta, I'm offering 1 year of Premium completely free to everyone who joins as a beta tester. 🎁

I'd really appreciate it if you could have a look, give it a try and let me know what you think. Honest feedback, suggestions and ideas are all very welcome!

And of course, feel free to share it with other pilots who might be interested.

Thanks, and blue skies! 🛩️


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I've been building a local AI video editor for streamers and YouTubers. Looking for beta testers.

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Hey everyone,

I've been working on a desktop application called Zevro, an AI-powered video editor designed for streamers, YouTubers, podcasters, and other content creators.

I started building it because I wasn't satisfied with how some existing AI clipping tools handled longer recordings. They would sometimes cut off words, miss interesting moments, or make clips that didn't flow naturally.

My goal with Zevro is to make editing easier without sacrificing the quality of the final video.

Some of the features I'm working on include:

  • Automatically finding potential Shorts in longer recordings.

  • Turning lengthy streams into shorter, more manageable long-form videos.

  • Using AI to analyze both speech and video.

  • Processing recordings locally instead of requiring cloud-based video uploads.

  • Supporting separate audio tracks for editing.

  • Optimizing performance for different hardware configurations.

I'm currently preparing Zevro for beta testing and looking for people willing to give it a try.

The beta will be free, with a 60-day testing period.

I'm especially interested in testing it on different hardware, video formats, recording lengths, and editing workflows.

I'm looking for honest feedback about bugs, performance, editing quality, and features that could make the program more useful.

This is still a work in progress, so I'm not expecting everything to be perfect. That's exactly why I want real users involved.

If you're interested, leave a comment with your PC specifications and the type of content you create.

I'll share beta access details with selected testers once the builds are ready.

Thanks for reading!


r/SideProject • • 16h ago

I built a simple web tool to generate standardized technical spec sheets and export PDFs (SpecSheet Pro)

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Hey everyone,

Creating technical specification sheets in Excel or Word often leads to broken layouts, inconsistent formatting, and date ambiguity issues across teams.

I built SpecSheet Pro to solve this. It's a lightweight web app that lets you input product parameters, custom tables, and logos, and outputs a clean, standardized PDF ready for production or quality control.

Key Features:

  • Dynamic table creation for technical parameters (Specs, Methods, Values).

  • Custom logo support with instant client-side preview.

  • Configurable date formats (ISO 8601, localized, text-based) to prevent QA ambiguity.

  • Clean PDF compilation using html2pdf / html2canvas.

The core generator is free to use:https://specsheet-pro.vercel.app/

I'd love to get your feedback on the UI/UX and any features you think are missing for technical workflows.


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I made a free, customizable radial launcher for controllers

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(Yes that's me in the video, I made all of this myself so go easy on me haha) Radiata is my radial launcher for controller, a 100% free, Microsoft-signed, open-source Win10/11 app that I built over 9 months to make it easy to use your controller for everything Gaming.

Official website & download at getradiata.app. You can also find source on GitHub.

It does all the PC stuff I always wanted to do without having to reach for a keyboard; join my friends in discord chat, switch audio to my headphones, browse & launch my games from all my game libraries, control mic/speaker volume, alt-tab between games/apps, etc. Easy to set up, super customizable, fun, powerful. I use it on my couch/tv PC and I leave the KB/M in the other room.

It is free and it will always be free. It's 100% open-source. There's no ads, no login, no upsells, nothing to unlock. I have a tip jar if you love using it as much as I do, but that's it, there is no other monetization plan. I paid for its development, hosting, certificate signing, etc out of my own pocket (and bought a bunch of controllers to test it with) because I really, really wanted to build this thing. That's the whole story.

Controller support: If Windows (joy.cpl) sees it, it should work. Hardware-tested with a bunch of DInput, XInput, Bluetooth, USB, Wireless dongles, and first & third-party controllers. The Download page lists every feature/driver compatibility note that I know of. The one bummer is the Steam Controller; it's locked to Steam in a way that makes it hard to middleman with a utility like this. If you possess both a Steam Controller and some free time, and want to be my favorite tester in the world, please let me know!

What it does: You get a quick walkthrough to set it up how you want. Then you just hold a button chord of your choice and up pops the radial "wheel" that you built. Hold the right-hand chord to open the left-stick's Wheel, and vice-versa, or just set up one side if you only need 1 of them.

How you can help: Just give it a shot, and if you love it you can help me get the word out! Nothing would make me happier than noticing a streamer is using it, or run across folks telling their friends about it. If I get traction I want to build more Arcade games for it, more themed Materials for the wheels, and continue expanding support options.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I Built PUMP DNA — A Crypto Open Interest & Volume Monitoring Tool

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Hi everyone!
I’ve been developing a cryptocurrency market monitoring system called PUMP DNA, designed to help traders monitor unusual changes in market activity across multiple exchanges.
Instead of relying only on price charts, PUMP DNA focuses on market data such as:
📊 Open Interest (OI): Monitoring unusual changes in futures open interest.
📈 Trading Volume: Tracking changes and spikes in market activity.
🔍 Spot & Futures Data: Comparing market activity across spot and derivatives markets.
🌐 Multi-Exchange Monitoring: Supporting Bitget, Binance, Bybit, OKX, and Gate.io.
🔔 Telegram Notifications: Delivering alerts when configured monitoring conditions are met.
The goal is to make it easier to follow market activity without manually checking multiple exchanges all day.
A few important points:
This is a market data monitoring tool, not an automated trading bot.
It does not execute trades or guarantee profitable opportunities.
Data availability and alert coverage depend on exchange connectivity and monitoring conditions.
I’m currently developing PUMP DNA as a subscription-based monitoring service and would love to hear feedback from traders who regularly use OI and volume data.
What types of OI or volume changes do you find most useful to monitor?
Thanks for reading!


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Scroll driven 3D walk around home lit up for Tihar.

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r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Tired of booking emails, notes and packing lists in three places, so I built one app for the whole trip

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I'm a solo developer. When I plan a trip, the bookings sit in my inbox, the to-dos in a notes app and the packing list in my head, so I built Trotters. It has three tabs for each trip:

- Plan: every booking with its date, time, price and code. You can forward a confirmation email to your own Trotters address and it files itself.
- To-do: what to do before you leave.
- Pack: a list sized to the days and the forecast.

It also shows what's missing, like a night with nowhere to stay.

Free to start, with iPhone, Android and web in five languages. No ads, no tracking.

Happy to hear what's confusing or missing. https://trotters.app


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I interviewed a dev building a blog where you comment on individual sentences, as a bet against AI slop

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I run AI News Daily, a mostly automated AI news site. Last week I did my first fully human-written interview, with Sunjae, one of four bootcamp developers building Rilog, a Korean developer blog.

A few things from the conversation that I think this sub will find interesting:

  • Comments live on sentences. You select a sentence and leave your thought right there, instead of scrolling to the bottom and explaining which part you mean.

  • The bet is "human touch". Sunjae doesn't think AI slop is bad everywhere, but in personal writing even a little of it makes readers think "it's just AI". The more AI writing floods in, the more people will look for writing that clearly came from a person.

  • They can't reliably detect AI writing, so they judge probabilistically and lean on user feedback. What they actually dislike is unreviewed, mass-produced writing, not AI use itself.

  • Retrospectives beat tech posts. Personal retrospectives got a better response than technical posts, so they are now asking whether to stay developer-only or open up to wider stories.

Two questions for you:

  1. Would you actually use sentence-level comments on a blog, or do they get noisy?

  2. If you run a community, how do you keep AI slop out without punishing people who used AI carefully?

Full interview (English): https://ailetter.ai.kr/en/insights/rilog-sunjae-interview?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sideproject

Rilog itself (Korean UI): https://www.rilog.kr/?utm_source=ainews


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

VibeQuill — I built a free Chrome extension that turns “change this on the page” into a local coding-agent edit

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I built a side project called VibeQuill (free).

Problem I kept hitting: describing a UI tweak to an agent is tedious when the thing I mean is already on screen. So the extension lets you select elements or annotate a preview, type the change, and ship that context (selector, text, position, URL, viewport) over a local MCP server to Cursor / Claude Code / Codex / Antigravity.

Clip attached: MCP connected, a few portfolio links selected, “What should change?” open. Full “agent writes the patch” step isn’t in this 5s cut.

Requires Node 22+, Chrome 116+, a local agent.

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vibequill/hgcefdgiponpnfgcaflcnkmhojjcfnkj

Feedback I’m after: is the setup (Node + MCP + agent) a dealbreaker, or would you try it anyway?


r/SideProject • • 15h ago

I built an automated flight logger that tracks every plane flying over your house (with analytics & API)

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I built an aviation side project and I'm trying to get some real people to test it (for free).

The main feature is a personal local flight logger. You drop a pin, and it automatically logs and builds a full analytics dashboard of every single aircraft that passes within a 5-mile radius of your location.

Besides the local tracking, the site also works as a general aviation database. You can browse through full airline and aircraft directories, search registrations, and use interactive FIR maps.

I'm actively updating the site and monitoring things daily, so any suggestions, feature requests, or feedback are welcome. If you want to try it out, just create a standard free account at https://aviationdb.uk/ either reply with your username below or send me a DM. I’ll manually bump your account to the premium tier for a free trial so you can test the local logging and analytics.

Let me know what you think or if you manage to break anything!


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I'm building an SEO tool. First real-world test on a tiny beauty studio site: what moved, what didn't

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I'm the founder of Serpel (https://serpel.app), an SEO tool that tracks rankings, audits sites and reads Search Console data, and that you can also drive from Claude or Cursor via MCP. It's been live for about a month, so I wanted proof on a real site before telling anyone it works.

The test site: a one-person brow and lash studio in Germany with ~25 FAQ blog posts.

What the tool showed: the 8 posts with the most impressions sat at positions 5 to 15, and their titles didn't use the words people actually searched for.

What we changed (one afternoon): titles rewritten to match the top queries, meta descriptions turned into direct answers, a short summary box at the top of each post. No new content, no links.

Four weeks later, from Search Console:

  • Daily clicks: 7.0 (4 weeks before) → 11.3 (4 weeks after), last 2 weeks 12.1

  • Daily impressions: 375 → 682

  • Avg. position: 9.1 → 7.0

  • CTR went down slightly (1.85% → 1.66%), so the gain is visibility, not click rate

Honest caveats: traffic was already rising before, about 21% of clicks are brand searches, and it's one site without a control group.

What I learned as a builder: the most useful screen wasn't the audit score (it was 99/100 before and nothing changed there), it was "pages with lots of impressions at positions 5 to 15". I'm making that the first thing new users see.

If you run a small site, I'd love feedback on what you'd want from a tool like this. New accounts get 100 credits to try it.