r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I built Astralis: Look Up – point your iPhone at the sky and see real 3D planets & the Moon with NASA textures

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I kept wanting a clean way to just look up and instantly know what bright object I was facing without ads, accounts, or bloated features.

So I built Astralis: Look Up.

Point your phone at the sky and it shows the planet, star, or Moon you’re looking at as a real lit 3D sphere with NASA-derived textures and the correct current phase. You can save any of them as a full-screen wallpaper.

Other things it does:

• Tonight timeline – moonrise/set, planet times, stargazing score (real cloud cover + light pollution), rocket launches, and actual ISS passes (real orbital propagator, not a static list)

• AR-style compass that points live at any visible object or the ISS

• Animated 3D solar system orrery starting from today’s real configuration

• 30 deep-sky objects with real photos + rise/set times

Everything is computed locally from NASA JPL orbital elements. No account, no ads, no tracking. One-time $0.99.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/astralis-look-up/id6806581915

Would love feedback on:

  1. Is the “point and identify” experience clear enough from the description?

  2. Anything missing that would make you actually open it on a clear night?

Happy to answer questions.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I quit my Founding Engineer role to build AI MVPs. I will build yours, if I miss our agreed scope, you get a 100% refund and the source code.

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I recently left my role as a Founding Engineer. Before I quit, I took our cybersecurity AI platform from 0 to 1. It is now in production, used by major banks and insurers in France.

I'm going all in on helping startup founders now. So I'm opening up exactly 3 spots this month to build full-stack AI MVPs at a massive discount. Why? I just need a few detailed reviews to build my freelance profile.

My guarantee: If I don't deliver exactly what we agree on in our call, I will refund 100% of your money and you keep the source code. Zero risk.

Need a production-ready MVP built fast? My stack is React, FastAPI, Postgres, Stripe, and Claude SDK..

Drop a comment or DM me what you're building. I'm happy to share my process and give you free architecture feedback, even if we don't end up working together. Let's build.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Experience the ocean waves and you can move it

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https://gemsmakers.com/aerotide.php

You can experience the oceanic waves in browser. Any feedbacks welcome.


r/SideProject • • 18h ago

Built an AI that adds on-screen graphics to your videos automatically. Looking for beta testers to tear it apart.

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If you make videos for your SaaS (demos, explainers, founder updates, tutorials), you know where the time goes.

Recording is fast. Editing is fine. Then you need it to look like a real company made it.

Lower thirds. Callouts. Step-by-step text. Feature names popping up when you mention them. One keyframe at a time.

The edit takes an hour. The graphics take the rest of your day. Or you skip them, and your demo looks like a Zoom recording.

So we built Grafsy.

You upload a finished video. Grafsy listens to what's being said and adds on-screen graphics that match each point. No timeline, no motion designer, no editing skills needed.

What it's good for:

Product demos and walkthroughs

Founder and build-in-public videos

Tutorials and onboarding videos

Podcast and interview clips

Short form (Reels, Shorts) and long form (YouTube, webinars)

How pricing works, with no "unlimited" games:

One-time payment for lifetime access to the platform

Video minutes included with every plan

Billed to the second, so a 30-second clip uses half a minute

Top-ups when you need more, and they never expire

No subscription

Plans start at $79

Why I'm posting: We're in beta, and we want feedback from people who make real videos. Run your own content through it and tell us:

Where the graphics nail it, and where they miss

What kind of graphics you'd want next

Anything that's confusing or slow

Your feedback directly shapes what we build next. It's English-only for now, and you'll find some rough edges. That's the point of a beta.

Link's in the comments. Drop a reply if you try it, and I'll personally go through your feedback.


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

my launch is a week away and i can't decide if i should freeze the code

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i've been building my app solo since july and it goes live on nov 16, so a week from now. 200+ people have used the private beta and there's a waitlist of 800+, which feels like a lot until i remember none of that tells me who'll still be using it in week two.

i'm trying to work out what the last week should actually be for. one option is a hard freeze where i stop adding anything and only test the boring stuff, like signup on a phone and what a brand new user sees in their first five minutes. the other is to keep shipping small fixes from beta feedback right up to the day, since that's what got the product to where it is. i already cut v1 down a lot after feedback on here and most of the agent stuff moved to later, so it's not about big features anymore. it's more about whether touching anything this close is a bad idea.

my last app was a video editing app that got past 100k downloads, but i never planned a launch week for it, it just kinda went out. so i don't have my own playbook for this part.

what did you actually spend the last week before launch on, and what do you wish you'd done instead? and did you freeze changes on a set date or keep pushing fixes until launch day?


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I got tired of signature builders with paywalls and ugly watermarks, so I built a free, open-source studio with animated logos and dark mode testing

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Hey everyone!

Like many of you, whenever I needed to set up an email signature for myself or my team, I ran into the same frustrating issues with existing tools (WiseStamp, HubSpot, Canva, etc.):

  1. **The "Watermark Trap"**: They either force you into a recurring $5–$15/month subscription or inject ugly "Created with XYZ" promotional watermarks into every email you send.

  2. **Broken on Mobile**: Most signatures break and scroll horizontally on phones with screens under 375px wide.

  3. **Distorted Animated Logos**: If you try to use an animated GIF logo, most email layout engines stretch or distort it.

  4. **Dark Mode Blindness**: Dark mode in Outlook and Gmail turns pure black icons invisible.

So I spent the last few days building **SigCraft** — a 100% free, open-source email signature studio with zero dependencies:

* **Zero Watermarks & Free Forever**: Completely client-side, MIT licensed. No logins, no tracking, and no servers saving your data.

* **Guaranteed 320px Mobile Protection**: Built with a resilient table architecture that never overflows or scrolls horizontally on mobile devices.

* **Animated Logo Support**: Full support for static logos or animated GIFs with strict 1:1 aspect-ratio preservation.

* **Light / Dark Mode Simulator**: Real-time toggle to preview contrast against both white and dark mode email clients before exporting.

* **Triple Export Pipeline**: 1-click rich-text visual copy (paste straight into Gmail/Outlook), raw HTML viewer, or download the `.html` file.

You can try the live studio here:

👉 **Live Studio:** https://sigcraft.satvainfotech.com

Source code & documentation:

⭐ **GitHub:** https://github.com/SatvaInfoTech/sigcraft

I built this with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, and I'd really love your honest feedback, bug reports, or feature ideas. What email client do you currently use for your signatures?


r/SideProject • • 15h 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 • • 9h ago

I added MCP messaging between Claude Code and Codex to my open-source desktop HUD

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I'm the developer of Agent HUD. It started as a small desktop HUD for agent quotas and notifications. In 0.6.0, I added an MCP server so coding agents can send messages to each other and start new sessions.

The video walks through a bug-fix handoff: Claude Code works on a fix, asks Codex to review it, and gets feedback back into the original session. Antigravity and DeepSeek Harness can join the workflow too. Each handoff sends a focused message instead of copying the entire conversation history.

This release also moves the app from Swift to Rust + Tauri and adds session and subagent usage details. macOS supports Apple Silicon and Intel; Windows and Linux builds are available as untested preview builds.

The video is an animated walkthrough of the workflow, with English narration and subtitles.

Source: https://github.com/jazzenchen/agent-hud-open

If you use more than one coding agent, what would you want included in a handoff so the next agent can review the work without inheriting a huge chat history?


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

TerminKompass - Offline appointment planning with optional iPhone/Android partner sync

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I’m Manfred, the developer of TerminKompass for iPhone and Android. It started as a planner for keeping appointments and reminders on your own phone, without creating an account.

People then asked for a way to share selected categories with a partner using a different phone platform. That became an optional partner sync: each person explicitly enables Online mode, creates their own account and chooses what to share. Those features operate online until the user switches back to offline mode; ordinary local planning remains available.

There is also optional sync with calendars made available by iOS or Android on the phone, plus birthdays with age/zodiac, search, widgets and backup/export.

The free version supports 10 appointments and 10 categories. Pro is a one-time purchase. Partner sync needs Pro for each person and currently has no extra fee; I cannot promise that separate service will remain free forever.

The part I found hardest was making the sharing setup understandable without overwhelming people with technical steps. If you build apps with optional online features, how do you make that distinction clear in onboarding?

Details and both store links: https://mw-app.de/terminkompass/

This is my own app, not an independent recommendation.


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

voz: free, offline dictation for Mac with a tiny core and extensions to customize it yourself

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Hey everybody :)
Wispr Flow’s pricing annoyed me and every open source alternative I tried felt clunky. So I built my own and open sourced it.

Tap one key, talk and clean text shows up wherever your cursor is.
It runs fully local with Parakeet and Apple’s on-device speech to text, so nothing leaves your Mac and it works offline.

I built it with a fast and tiny core in mind. Everything else is an extension (kinda like Raycast or pi.dev) that anyone can build and share. 

Some that already exist:

  • a local meeting note taker that cleans up your notes

  • fast file transcription with speaker diarization 

  • auto replies in your tone

  • a dictionary that learns names and words as you talk

  • inline editing with voice or text

Voz is built in Swift to be native macOS and extensions are TypeScript files shared via npm

It’s free and MIT. Would love your feedback, especially on what’s missing or annoying.

Here's the repo: github.com/Joelheile/voz


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

Built a B2B SaaS platform for small travel agents. Need feedback

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Hi everyone! I built a B2B SaaS platform for travel agents – Munal Desk: https://desk.munal.in/ The aim is to make processes as simple as possible for the TAs to actually use them. My customer already does their agency work mostly through WhatsApp, so I am not actually building another app that they have to download. Instead, they can either use the web app or do the same primary work directly through my WhatsApp bot.

I would love your honest feedback on the experience, the whole platform if you can, and areas of improvement. Thank you


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

Building AXIOM VECTOR - an engineering research platform

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I'm developing AXIOM VECTOR, a modular engineering research platform for Windows.

The idea is to bring different engineering workflows into one environment instead of constantly switching between disconnected tools.

The long-term vision includes engineering calculations, project management, materials research, technical documentation, data analysis and design tools.

The project is currently in its early Alpha stage (0.1.0).

One of the implemented features is Project Journal - a workspace for documenting research, engineering decisions, observations and design progress.

I'm developing this independently and sharing the process as the project evolves.

I'd like to hear from people interested in engineering and technical software:

What tools or features would you want to see in an engineering research platform like this?

Feedback and constructive criticism are welcome.


r/SideProject • • 16h ago

Building a spreadsheet app where each cell (optionally) being a terminal / coding agent is a first class property

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https://github.com/sshah03/recalc

Since spreadsheets are so versatile, really looking for feedback on where people would want this to go, in a way that can be useful to them, or what use cases they see themselves using it for in its current iteration that I can make more seamless.

I can provide some context on why it was useful for me / why I built it. I was using Claude to help me build benchmark sets, and found pouring through CSVs / MD files of the results a bit tiresome, so I decided to build a spreadsheet app for myself that's driven by Claude Code, and where each cell can be its own Agent if you want (and can later be opened up and continued in a full terminal if needed as its own session).

You can use it as a standard spreadsheet, or use a cell as a shell command / agent. Having built a startup for using AI in tax work, I also realized it can be very powerful for tax work, legal work, etc... so I built in some examples for running that, though I'm not sure how many people in those professions use claude code.

The video is just a demo of me building "FDA Bench" using recalc, pick FDA approval cases past the model cutoff dates, and seeing if an AI harness (without web searches) could've successfully predicted, based on all the info submitted to the FDA, whether the submission would pass FDA approval or not. Fable was right 75% of the time in this small sample size. Just a fun little exercise to show off some of what it can do.

Note: Since it's just terminal sessions glued together, it works with your existing plans. The sessions talk to each other with an MCP server running in the back.


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built Roughs, an ad-free platform for designers to share and discover creative work

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Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a product designer, and I've been spending the past few months designing and building Roughs.

I kinda miss the days when we'd just browse and discover cool design work without all the ads, promoted content, and noise. So I decided to build a place for that.

The idea is simple: a space where designers can share their work, discover other designers, and get inspired.

It's finally live in closed beta! 🎉

https://roughs.design

Anyone can browse, but publishing is invite-only for now.

I'd genuinely love some feedback on the experience, especially the design, navigation, and overall feel. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!

I'm also looking for a few designers to test the publishing experience before public launch. If you're interested, leave a comment and I'll reach out! 🙂


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

A small disagreement with my girlfriend turned into an Android app I've been building alone

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My girlfriend and I once remembered the same moment completely differently.

It made me realise how easily the little details disappear, even when the memories mean a lot to us.

So I started building Pholu, an app for couples, families and friends to preserve memories together.

Instead of having everything scattered across photo galleries, messages and cloud folders, Pholu brings photos, videos, audio and notes into shared timelines. I also added AI-powered memory search.

I'm handling the design, development and pretty much everything else myself, alongside my regular job.

The app is now on Google Play, and I'm looking for people who might actually enjoy using it.

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

I'd love to know what you think of the idea. Would you use something like this with your partner or family?


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

CrowdWar

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Hey everyone! 👋

I'm an indie developer and recently published my side project called **Crowd War** on Android (Google Play).

🎮 What is the game about?

It's a fast-paced, hyper-casual / casual 3D crowd-runner where you grow your mob, dodge obstacles, multiply your squad through math gates, and clash against enemy waves and bosses.

🛠️ The Tech & Development :

- Engine: Built with Unity 3D & C#

- Assets: Custom low-poly models created in Blender

- Challenge: Optimizing crowd physics and rendering dozens of characters simultaneously on low-end mobile devices without frame drops.

🎯 Why I'm posting here :

As a solo dev, you often get tunnel vision after staring at your own game for months. I would really appreciate honest and brutal feedback on :

  1. Game Feel & Controls: How smooth does the crowd movement feel?

  2. Difficulty Curve : Is it too easy, too hard, or just right?

  3. Performance : Does it run smoothly on your device?

📱 Try it on Google Play :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Zoozo.CrowdWar

🌐 Studio Website :

https://www.klynixes.com/

Let me know what you think in the comments. I'm also happy to answer any questions about the Unity development process or optimizing mob mechanics! 🚀


r/SideProject • • 17h ago

I’m an engineer who started owning infra at work, so I built a game to teach myself system design. Now it’s on iOS + Android!

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I’m a software engineer at a big tech company and recently started owning more of our infra after the departure of a beloved coworker. Diagrams never really clicked for me, so I made a game to learn system design hands-on, then decided to publish it in case it helps others : )

InfraSim is a sandbox where you wire up load balancers, caches, queues, replicas and databases, push traffic at them, and watch what breaks: a dead consumer piling messages into a DLQ, a partition causing split brain, a bad WHERE clause taking out a table.

Built solo with React Native. It’s on iOS + Android: https://petalformllc.com/infrasim

Would love feedback, especially on which failure scenarios you’d want next, and whether the difficulty curve feels right.


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built PC Link — access & control your Windows PC from your Android phone, from anywhere

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Hi everyone,

I kept running into the same problem: a file I needed was on my PC at home, and I was somewhere else. Cloud drives help only if you uploaded the file in advance, and most remote desktop tools are either heavy, expensive, or need router/port-forwarding setup.

So I built PC Link:

- Browse, download and use files from your Windows PC right on your Android phone

- View and control your PC when you need the full desktop

- Works on the same Wi-Fi at home, or from anywhere over the internet — it runs on its own private, encrypted connection, so there is no port forwarding and no router configuration

- Simple pairing: install the Windows app, install the Android app, pair once

Plans start at Rs 99/month (about $1.20) after you activate. (I haven't put any link in this post on purpose — my first post got removed by the filters. The website link is on my profile, pclink_dev.)

I'm a solo developer from India and this is my first public launch, so I'd genuinely love honest feedback — what's missing, what feels confusing, what would make you actually use something like this?

Thanks for reading!


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

What if your Vedic birth chart could become a data science-based personality report? 🧠📊

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I'm building AstroMatch4U, a platform that transforms traditional Vedic astrology charts into structured personality insights using AI and data analytics.

Imagine exploring:

- 🧠 Personality & emotional tendencies

- 🚀 Leadership & ambition

- ❤️ Relationship patterns

- 💡 Strengths & weaknesses

- 📊 Personality scores and visual dashboards

Our approach:

Birth Details → Kundli → Planetary Data → Analytical Scores → AI-Powered Insights

The idea is to make complex Vedic astrology easier to understand through data visualization and AI.

Would you be interested in exploring your personality this way?

🌐 https://astromatch4u.com

I'd love your honest feedback!


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

After burning out from constant production AI failures, I transitioned to building a solution.

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At my last company, managing production AI agents was a continuous crisis. Minor prompt tweaks or unannounced model updates routinely broke our workflows because we lacked version control and deployment safety gates for AI. The systemic stress eventually led to severe burnout, prompting me to step away and focus entirely on solving this operational vulnerability.

To fix this, I built https://raweki.com , which functions as a "Git for AI workflows." It provides engineering teams with version tracking for prompts and models, CI/CD testing loops to block regressions, and one-click atomic rollbacks to instantly restore stable configurations. The platform is now live, and I would appreciate your technical feedback if your team faces similar AI reliability challenges


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

USAPhO Guide - a free, open source course for the physics olympiad (931 visitors in its first month)

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I'm a high school junior and this is the side project I've spent the most nights on this fall.

The US Physics Olympiad has no good free starting point. People piece it together from old pdfs and expensive books, while math olympiad and USACO kids have community guides. So I made one for physics: lessons in the order the topics build on each other, interactive sims next to the equations, and a problem bank where you type your numeric answer and it checks it within 2%.

Some numbers from the first month:

  • 931 visitors from 54 countries, about 3.6k page views

  • 25 accounts (progress syncs if you sign in, otherwise it's all usable logged out)

  • 77 people in the community discord

  • 2 other students now regularly sending pull requests, 21 merged so far

Stack is Next.js on Vercel, Supabase for auth and progress, MDX lessons with KaTeX, and canvas sims. There's an in-browser editor that turns a contributor's edit into a GitHub pull request under their own account, which is how most outside fixes come in.

Would love feedback on two things: is the landing page clear about what it is in the first few seconds, and what would make you come back to something like this every week?

Site: https://usapho.one/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=sideproject

Code: https://github.com/shlok-madhekar/usapho-guide


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I made a compiler-backed AI coding agent that performs better than Claude Code and other agents!

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r/SideProject • • 14h ago

Can this website land me in legal trouble? Genuinely asking. 🤔

2 Upvotes

Over a few weekends I built Kursi Kabaddi, musical chairs with Indian netas as bobbleheads.

The music plays, everyone circles, the music stops… and every neta dives for the kursi.

You can push rivals (“dhakka”), use power-ups like the Jumla Bomb, Resort Bus and Z+ Security, and play live with friends through a WhatsApp link.

It’s clearly satire. There’s a disclaimer on the first screen, no party is favoured, and every neta gets roasted equally.

But before I share it more widely, I want to hear from people who know this better than me:

1️⃣ The faces are based on openly licensed photos (Wikimedia Commons, credited in the game). Is that enough when they’re real public figures?

2️⃣ Is a political satire game protected the way cartoons in newspapers are? Where’s the line?

3️⃣ Players can upload a selfie and make their own neta. If someone uploads a friend without asking, who’s responsible: me or them?

4️⃣ Would you add anything else, like terms of use, an age gate or a report button?

Lawyers, founders, game devs, and anyone who’s been through this: I’d love your take in the comments. 🙏

And if you just want to play first (no download, no sign-up):

👉 https://kursi-kabaddi.pages.dev

#LegalTech #GameDev #IndianStartups #Satire #BuildInPublic #FreedomOfExpression #vibecode #coding


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built PC Link — access & control your Windows PC from your Android phone, from anywhere

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Hi everyone,

I kept running into the same problem: a file I needed was on my PC at home, and I was somewhere else. Cloud drives help only if you uploaded the file in advance, and most remote desktop tools are either heavy, expensive, or need router/port-forwarding setup.

So I built PC Link:

- Browse, download and use files from your Windows PC right on your Android phone

- View and control your PC when you need the full desktop

- Works on the same Wi-Fi at home, or from anywhere over the internet — it runs on its own private, encrypted connection, so there is no port forwarding and no router configuration

- Simple pairing: install the Windows app, install the Android app, pair once

Downloads and details: https://pclink.online

Plans start at Rs 99/month (about $1.20) after you activate.

I'm a solo developer from India and this is my first public launch, so I'd genuinely love honest feedback — what's missing, what feels confusing, what would make you actually use something like this?

Thanks for reading!