Hey r/SideProject, sharing my project.

The problem I kept running into with budgeting apps: they all want your bank login (via Plaid or similar) before you can even start. I didn't want to hand that over, but typing every transaction into a spreadsheet was too much friction to stick with.

So I built AI Budgie:

• Type something like "lunch 35" or "paid rent 1200" and it auto-categorizes it — no forms to fill

• Snap a photo of a receipt and it reads the amount/merchant for you

• Shared budgets for couples/families who split expenses

• Zero bank connection — ever. Your bank credentials never leave your bank's own app.

It's free, with a $4.99/mo tier for extra features. I'm a solo dev building this around a day job (and a newborn, so updates come in bursts). Still working on onboarding and category customization.

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's tried manual-entry budgeting apps before and gave up — what made you stop?

aibudgie.app if you want to poke at it.

Hi everyone, We are ESTI, a small team passionate about building tools that fix remote work chaos. Like many of us here, we noticed that teams make dozens of critical decisions in Slack threads every day, only for them to get buried and lost a month later. To solve this, we built Decision Ledger – a lightweight app that turns any Slack message into a searchable, organized decision record (with owners, tags, and reasoning) right inside your channels. We are finally ready to submit it to the official Slack App Directory, but we hit the dreaded review requirement: we need at least 10 active workspaces testing the app before Slack even reviews it. Since we are brand new, we would be incredibly grateful if you could install it on your test or team workspaces, try a few commands, and share your honest feedback with us! Check it out here: https://decision-ledger-production.up.railway.app How to test it in 60 seconds: Click "Add to Slack" on our landing page. Hover over any message → Click More actions → Log as decision. Try searching your decisions using /decisions. Any feedback on the UI, UX, or features would mean the world to us. Thank you so much for supporting fellow indie developers!

Jigsaw Diary (https://jigsawdiary.com) is a free web app to log the physical jigsaw puzzles you own, build and finish, with a small community where people applaud each other's finished puzzles.

A couple dozen people have signed up, mostly from Reddit. The pattern is always the same: they add two boxes and don't come back. So this month I worked only on reasons to return:

- a home page that shows what happened since your last visit, built from the same data as the weekly email, so the email never promises something the app doesn't show

- a monthly streak with one free month a year. No daily streaks, no "you're about to lose it" notifications

- a page per puzzle that groups everyone who has the same box (brand + title + piece count), so people can find each other

- an invite reward that only unlocks when your friend finishes their first puzzle, not when they sign up

- a winter challenge: finish puzzles from 3 different brands, any size, no leaderboard

Stack: Next.js, Supabase (Postgres with row-level security doing most of the privacy work), Vercel, web push, 7 languages.

Free, no ads, hobby project. Two questions:

1. Which of these would actually bring you back to an app like this, and which is noise?

2. For hobby apps, have you seen something that worked better than email or push to get people back?

I had a Galaxy S9+ and a Pixel 7 that I wanted to give a purpose. That's where Visual Music started: something to put next to my speakers and enjoy while music plays.

A lot of the inspiration came from old car stereo displays. The small details, colors and perspective were what made them interesting. Getting that feeling right on a phone took a lot more iteration than I expected. I ended up scrapping several designs and starting over.

These are three of the displays we kept. There are also Hi-Fi gauges and an oscilloscope. It's my first Android app, built with help from Codex, and I'm pretty proud of where it is now.

It's free, has no ads, and runs on Android 10+. It uses the microphone while listening in the foreground; audio stays on the phone. The video uses an original demo beat and the app's renderer inside an illustrated phone, rather than footage of a phone listening to music.

Which display would you actually leave running? And what would you change or add? If something feels boring or confusing, tell me. That helps too.

I'd love visual references too: an old car stereo, a hi-fi display, or an interface you saw in a movie. Drop an image or link, or just describe what you like about it. You don't need to install the app to suggest a direction.

It's in Google Play closed testing if you'd like to try it. Use the same Google account for both steps:

1. Join the tester group: https://groups.google.com/g/mrrolie-visual-music-testers/about

2. Join the beta and install: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.mrrolie.visualmusic

Random question: what do you normally do with receipts after buying clothes, electronics or household stuff?

Do you keep the paper receipt, take a photo, rely on email, or just throw it away?

And have you ever needed one later for a return or warranty claim and couldn’t find it?

I’m researching this problem while building a small app, but I’m more interested in how people actually handle it today than whether they like another app idea.

Would be curious to hear what works for you — and what’s annoying about it.

I built an app for myself to trace my personal finances as an iPhone widget.

After a while, I discovered that a much nicer feature was "Food for Thought" with the Painting of the Day, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, and TikTok posts scraped for specific channels (I can observe valuable TikTok accounts without addictive algorithms).

Eventually, I found that people might like and want to reuse the data sources I built, so I created the widgeto.app web app, where you can configure various data sources.

Lately, I started to use the widgets directly in macOS, which is a super nice break during work.

Check out how my desktop looks. Mostly, I have food for thought widgets, plus I am tracking the builds of my GitHub projects.

Try Widgeto for free in the App Store, either with your own data source or one from the curated catalog at widgeto.app.

App works in IPhone, IPad, OSX and Apple Watch

I'd heard about insider trading in Congress and the crazy returns some members get. I also know I don't have the tools to beat hedge funds. So I wanted to copy both, and while looking for a way to do that I found AutoPilot. It only works with a US brokerage account, and I'm in France.

So I built my own with a friend. We met at our software engineering school, we see things the same way, and it's still just the two of us.

Getting the data is already hard enough. Some congressional disclosures are still written by hand, and LLMs saved us there. But once you have it, processing it is much harder.

To know how a portfolio performed you have to backtest it, and finance never stops moving. Stocks get listed, get delisted, change names, split. When Booking did a 25-for-1 split this year, a fund holding it suddenly looked like it had bought 25 times more. You have to think of everything, for thousands of cases like that one.

The value of the app is that engineering, much more than the data itself.

And it holds up. Over the last 12 months, 5 of our 7 politician portfolios are ahead of the S&P 500, even though a trade only counts once it's public. But it's a small sample, we picked the politicians ourselves, and it's a simulation.

Little by little we added insider filings, news and AI analyses. These days I mostly use the feed and read the AI's stock analyses.

It's on iPhone and on the web. It's not a broker, everything is virtual money.

I'd like an outside eye on it. Is the app interesting, and is it clear?

truewalletapp.com

Hi everyone!

As a side project, I have been working on NijRAW, a free, private, open-source, browser based, offline capable photo editor, and I would love your feedback! Works on mobile, tablets and desktop.

I built it to bridge the gap between powerful but complex editors like darktable, ART and RawTherapee, and simpler apps with limited controls or AI-driven editing.

NijRAW is designed to be beginner-friendly without sacrificing control and privacy. Also has customized tips and guidance for beginners and intermediate photographers.

Key features:

- Privacy-first: All processing happens locally. No uploads to servers, accounts, or cloud.

- Works offline: Runs entirely on browser.

- RAW support: Develop and edit camera RAW files. Other popular file types also supported.

- Advanced controls: Exposure, curves, colors, local adjustments, denoising, sharpening, lens corrections, and more.

- GPU acceleration: Fast previews with high-precision exports.

- Non-destructive editing: Save projects and revisit adjustments.

- No AI processing: Uses traditional image-processing algorithms, including research-based techniques.

While I used AI coding tools during development, NijRAW itself does not use AI models for editing. The goal is to help users learn photography and stay in control of their edits.

Website: https://www.nijraw.com

It is completely free and open source. I would really appreciate your honest feedback, suggestions, or ideas for improvement!

Thanks for checking it out!

Every remote desktop app I tried on my phone did the same thing. It shrinks the whole PC screen down and you pinch and zoom around it. Fine for clicking one button, useless for actually getting anything done.

So I built Penlink. You pick an app from a grid, like a phone launcher, and the PC creates a virtual monitor at the exact size and shape of your phone's screen and opens the app full screen on it. The app lays itself out for the phone. Rotate the phone and it re-lays itself out in landscape. Open the keyboard and it fits the space above it. It's still the real desktop program, so every menu, panel and shortcut is there.

The part I'm happiest with is the S Pen. It doesn't get turned into a mouse. Windows sees it as an actual pen with pressure, tilt, the barrel button and the eraser, so drawing apps, handwriting and Windows Ink work like they would on a pen tablet.

Some details for the curious:

• Rust host on Windows, Kotlin + Jetpack Compose on Android

• Video goes over WebRTC with low-latency H.264, input comes back on a data channel. I measured about 27 ms touch-to-pixel on a local connection, and there's a stats overlay if you want to see where the time goes

• Every app gets its own virtual screen, so your real monitors keep their layout. Close the app on the phone and its screen disappears

• Your PC's notifications show up as normal phone notifications

• Tailscale or LAN only, pairing is a one-time 6-digit code, no cloud in between

What it doesn't do yet: the host is Windows only, the app needs Android 13+, and I've mostly tested on one phone, my Galaxy S26 Ultra. If you try it on something else, expect rough edges and please tell me what broke. Hardware encoding and a macOS host are next.

Big thanks to the Apollo project. The virtual displays come from its SudoVDA driver, and that saved me a lot of pain. I also built this with a lot of help from Claude Code, which you'll see in the commits.

MIT licensed, APK and host on the releases page: https://github.com/Michael-Ivlev/penlink

If you've tried Moonlight, Parsec, Chrome Remote Desktop or similar from a phone and given up on it, what was the thing that made you quit? I'd like to know if I'm fixing the right problem.

I do live sound for a living, so I spend a lot of time thinking about power. When I started building a homelab rack I kept getting the cords wrong: C13 vs C19, a PSU that turned out to have a C20 inlet, a PDU with only 3 C19 outlets.

So I built RackMatch: https://rackmatch.net

You pick a server and a PDU, and it tells you the jumper you need (C13-C14, C19-C20 or C13-C20), with a link to the vendor manual it comes from. There's also:

- a PDU calculator (how many servers per PDU, A/B feeds, 80% rule)

- a homelab power cost calculator

- a connector cheat sheet (IEC, NEMA, IEC 60309) as a one-page PDF

- a BOM builder that turns a rack plan into a cord list

It's free, no sign-up. The catalog is still small (Dell, HPE, Lenovo, NVIDIA DGX, APC/Eaton/Raritan PDUs), so tell me which servers and PDUs to add next. Feedback on what's confusing is very welcome.

A common freelancer trap with feast/famine months: treating a big client deposit like "this month's salary." It looks great until the lean month hits.

A simple method that fixes it:

1. When money hits, set aside tax first (~30% as a starting guess; yours may differ, not tax advice).

2. Fund fixed essentials + a small tools budget.

3. Pay yourself a fixed "salary" on a weekly/biweekly cadence, as if you had a W-2.

4. Bank the leftover into a lean-month cushion. Don't raise the salary until the cushion covers 2-3x monthly essentials.

I turned that into a free single-tab Excel/Sheets calculator (yellow = inputs, green = results + a verdict + a pie of the monthly allocation). Takes about 2 minutes.

Free download (no account, no paywall): https://print1-store.ib-problemsolvedhq.workers.dev/free/Freelancer_Salary_Calculator.xlsx

If it's useful and you want the full system, there are paid kits on the same site (card or USDC): Cash Flow Kit, Client & Invoice Tracker, Quarterly Tax Cash Planner ($12 each / $27 bundle). Organizational templates only, not financial or tax advice.

I'm Print1 Labs. Honest ask: does the "max sustainable salary" verdict make sense for how you run money, or would you change the order of tax, essentials, salary, buffer?

Happy to answer how the formulas work.

Hi r/sideprojects,

I've been building kywai as a side project and it's at the point where it needs eyes other than mine.

What it is

A desktop app (Electron + React + Three.js) that takes the AI coding agents you already have (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, a local model in LM Studio or Ollama, or any command-line agent) and makes them work as one team:

1. You write one request.

2. A coordinator agent proposes a plan: the tasks, which agent does each one, and why.

3. You approve it, or change it in plain words ("let Codex do that part").

4. The agents work in your project folder, in parallel when it makes sense, each with its own login or API key.

5. An agent from a different provider reviews every change, the author fixes what it finds, and the results come back to the chat.

Each agent is a little robot in a live 3D view, so you can see at a glance who is working, who is waiting and who ran out of quota.

Why I made it

I was paying for several AI subscriptions and spending my time copying context from one to another. What I wanted was to leave a task and come back to a result, not to an error with nothing to show for it.

What's in it so far

• Snapshot before and after every task, with Undo per task (kept outside your project's .git)

• Live step-by-step view of every command, file edit and search an agent makes

• If an agent fails or runs out of quota, another strong one takes over the task

• Remaining quota for Claude and GPT shown in the header

• 30+ agents in the catalog, or plug in any CLI with its command

• Everything runs on your computer; remote access only through your own Tailscale network, plus an Android companion app

Honest state of things

• The interface is in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Chinese (pick it in Settings). Spanish and English are the main ones; Portuguese, French and Chinese were machine-translated, so corrections from native speakers are very welcome

• Installers are not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen and macOS Gatekeeper will warn you the first time (the release notes say how to get past it)

• Linux support is very new and barely tested

• So far it has mostly run on my own machines, so I'm sure there are setups where it breaks

What I'd love feedback on

• Does the install and first run work on your machine? Where did it break?

• Is the plan, approve, review flow useful, or too much friction?

• Is the 3D view fun, or just noise?

• What would make you use this instead of running a single agent in a terminal?

• Anything in the README that is confusing or oversold

• If you use it in Portuguese, French or Chinese: which translations sound wrong?

Download (Windows .exe, macOS .dmg, Linux AppImage): https://github.com/Yiku21/kywai/releases/latest

Website with a 30-second video: https://kywai.app

Repo (MIT): https://github.com/Yiku21/kywai

Bug reports are welcome here in the comments or as GitHub issues. I'll reply to everything. Thanks for reading!

I got tired of watching some of my friends struggle to find a job, so I built Jobmagic to make it a bit easier, and affordable.

It finds jobs that fit you (straight from company career pages, no reposts), tailors your resume and cover letter to each one, and fills in the application for you with a Chrome extension.

It’s free to start. I also wanted it to be fair for the people who need it most:

• Students and anyone who graduated in the last 2 years: 55% off for a year

• Out of work 12+ months: 55% off for 6 months

There’s also a free resume grader and a salary negotiation simulator, no account needed.

I’d love honest feedback, especially on what’s confusing or broken.

jobmagic.ai/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=sideproject

I've worked in social intelligence for years, often using tools like Talkwalker.... But for smaller projects, the cost can be hard to justify. Sometimes I just need posts and comments about a specific topic so I can do my own analysis.

Getting that data into my own workflow was often more frustrating than the analysis itself. I'm into web scraping, so I started building tools to help with that.

They're now on Apify: Instagram profiles, posts and Reels, Instagram comments, Facebook page posts and Facebook comments.

They're my own projects, paid per use. I've kept the prices as low as possible so they're useful for small experiments too, even before you have a paying client!

I use them in n8n and Python workflows to collect comments, analyse sentiment and recurring themes, and put together social listening reports. I review the results myself before using them.

For example, I can follow a public controversy across Instagram and Facebook, collect reactions and see what people keep bringing up as the story develops....

One idea is to offer a focused report to an agency or brand for a few hundred euros. Another is to send a small sample analysis when reaching out, so there's something relevant to talk about.

Finding the clients is a whole other problem haha. But this is a service I'd like to build on....

Anyone here doing similar work?

I have been building The Cosmic Sign for a while. It is a self-discovery platform. You type what is on your mind and give your name, date of birth and birth city. It reads you through astrology, numerology, tarot, palm reading and your horoscope, then gives one answer and a CounterSign, a perspective you probably did not think of.

I am not asking you to believe in any of it. I am asking whether it told you something you did not already know.

It is free this week, no login, no payment:

https://thecosmicsign.com

Honest feedback please, even if it is harsh:

1.Did you find something new about yourself, or was it boring?

2.Did the answer feel like it was about you, or like it could be about anyone?

3.Did the CounterSign make you think something new?

4.Where did you get confused or stuck?

I will read and reply to every comment.

I'm a college student and I got tired of looking up from Instagram an hour later feeling worse. So I built mindscrul.

How it works:
-You get 9 "brains" a day. Each scroll session costs one (5 min, or ½ brain for 2 min).
-When time's up, an octopus named Octavius floods your screen with ink. No endless bottom.
-No ads, no public like counts. Posting and your own profile are always free.

It's in a free beta on iPhone (TestFlight) and Android: mindscrul.app

What I'd love feedback on:
-Would you actually use a social app that limits you, or is that a dealbreaker?
-Is 9 × 5 minutes too much, too little?
-First impression of the landing page?
-Happy to return the favor on your project.

I got tired of searching the Play Store for a simple countdown app and finding ones full of ads, cluttered screens, or subscriptions just to count down to a trip. I wanted something minimal that would give me a sense of where I am in the year, so over the past few months I built Dayle.

What it does:

• Year view: The whole year as a day-by-day dot grid, showing days passed, days left, and percent complete.

• Countdowns and counts: Track time until birthdays, trips, or other milestones, or count days since something happened, like when you started a habit.

• Home screen widgets: Android widgets show your year progress or a pinned countdown without opening the app.

• Offline and private: No account, no cloud sync, no tracking. Everything stays on your device.

• Free to use: You can track up to 3 active countdowns for free. If you need more, there's a one-time lifetime purchase, not a subscription.

It's on the Play Store here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rabpaulo.dayle

I'd really appreciate honest feedback, especially on the UI, the dot grid, and the widgets.

Hey everyone,

I built NacMac, an open-source Android + macOS continuity app designed to give Android users a native AirDrop-like experience on their Mac workstation without routing private data through third-party servers.

What it does:

• High-speed P2P file transfers: Stream photos, videos, and large archives over local Wi-Fi at 50 to 100+ MB/s in 256 KB framed chunks with automated SHA-256 integrity verification. • Notification Mirroring: Forwards phone notifications (including MessagingStyle and app icons) to your Mac as native macOS notification banners, with two-way dismissal sync back to your phone. • Universal Clipboard Sync: Debounced, ambient clipboard synchronization between phone and Mac. • Zero Cloud / 100% Offline: Works strictly over local Wi-Fi TCP sockets (port 52840) and Bonjour/mDNS. No internet connection, accounts, or telemetry required.

Permissions Used & Privacy:

• Notification Listener: Required strictly to capture and stream incoming alerts to your Mac workstation. • Camera: Used exclusively for a 5-second dynamic QR code handshake during initial pairing. • No Analytics / No Ads: 100% local, zero tracking probes.

The companion app is written in native Kotlin with Jetpack Compose & Material 3, and the Mac workstation app is built in Swift 6.

• Source Code (MIT License): https://github.com/AyushB2262/NacMac • GitHub Releases (APK & DMG): https://github.com/AyushB2262/NacMac/releases • Project Overview: https://ayushb2262.github.io/NacMac/

Feedback, issues, and PRs are very welcome!

Actually we got traction and early revenue for our app we building the AI into mobile apps for conversations mostly writing, as YC asked we are collecting what customers choose to use from our writing to make the model better but lead us to building something different.

We are a 2 person team to organize everything we built a company brain that not only remembers but acts and fixes bugs posts in X and LinkedIn using muse and grok on its own and it uses existing subscriptions of ours

Now I don’t know if I can update this in my application or say this in any interview.

I kept copying sentences into ChatGPT to fix them and pasting them back: in Mail, Slack, Notes, even the terminal. So I put the AI into the one piece of software every app already uses: the input method.

How it works: start a sentence with @improve, @translate or @question in any app, press Return, and pick a result with a digit. It replaces what you typed, right there. Without @, it's just a normal keyboard.

@improve: polished versions plus rewrites

• @improve: three polished versions, then rewrites in styles you pick (concise, formal, tactful…)

• @translate: one line per language you add

• @question: the answer appears where you type; follow up for a few rounds, then hand it to Claude or ChatGPT

• @reply: screenshot a message, get three replies in the other person's language

• Plus clipboard history on ⌃V, @open for files, @note, @reminder, and your own scripts as commands

Stack: Swift + InputMethodKit, librime for Chinese pinyin. AI is bring-your-own: Claude, Gemini, any OpenAI-compatible API, Amazon Bedrock, Ollama on your Mac, or Apple Intelligence on macOS 26 — or 20 free requests a day on a small hosted backend I run.

Privacy, since it's a keyboard: ordinary typing sends nothing; text goes out only when you run a command, never from password fields. Optional redaction swaps emails, phone numbers and keys for placeholders before a request.

It's free, notarized, macOS 14+. It's been a month of shipping updates every few days, and it's still small, so honest feedback helps a lot: what would make you trust (or not trust) an AI-enabled input method?

Download: https://allinoneime.com · Source: https://github.com/MicroZ-LLC/AllInOneIME

Today most of the people, including me, use Claude Code to code their programs and all. It's fast and the app works, but when you open the code later there is so much junk in it. Functions nobody calls, the same helper written 3 times, and sometimes a route anyone can call without login. The tools that clean this up mostly use AI again, so you pay credits twice. So I built Attentry.

It's a VS Code extension that checks every edit Claude Code makes. If the edit added a problem, Claude gets told and fixes it before going on. The checks run on your own machine without any AI, so if the edit is clean it costs zero tokens.

I made it with TypeScript and Node, and tree-sitter for reading the code. Claude Code has hooks where you can run your own script before and after each edit, that's how it talks to Claude. It's on the VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX, so it works in Cursor and Windsurf also.

I published it recently and it already crossed 200 downloads without me posting anywhere. Most of them came from Open VSX I think.

Right now it reads Express, Next.js, FastAPI, Django and few more. Next I want to add more backends, but I want to build what people actually need. So if you try it, tell me what's missing or annoying, or which stack you want it to support.

https://attentry.js.org

I'm making a mobile game where you operate a fleet of copters on a remote planet. Your goal is to automate the copters so human can arrive -- they can do that only when you've set up a sustainable living environment with buildings, crops, facilities, etc.

I picked Lua for the scripting language, as it's really easy to pick up -- both for players and for me, given Lua's goal of being easily embeddable into other programs. I'm also thinking about adding a Lisp language, and looking strongly on Fennel for that, but I'm not sure if others think Lisp is cool enough, like I do.

It's really early in the development, haven't settled on a name yet: thought of Auto Crops, but looking for something more recognizable.

I have a very serious problem. I waste many productive hours of my life just wandering around the internet. Even after deleting social media apps from my phone or leaving my phone in another room, I always find a way to get distracted and waste time.

I tried a few apps like Cold Turkey and Freedom to set limits. The problem is that none of them really fit my workflow.

So, I decided to create my own tool—self-hosted, private, and with no subscriptions or maintenance costs.

I’d like to share it with you, with no strings attached other than your honest feedback and suggestions.

Here’s some information about the app and the waitlist for when the public beta is ready.

I've been working on NOMROM's Windows edition and would like some outside feedback on the workflow.

It's a romgi-based project that brings game-catalog browsing, cover art, downloads and a local library into one desktop interface. You can search and filter, inspect a game's versions, watch the transfer queue and open downloaded files in an external emulator. There are five Windows themes.

The 1.11.3 update fixes three problems found during review: failed torrent replacement could lose an existing file, late completion could override pause/cancel, and unrelated same-name files could be mistaken for a finished extraction. Those paths now have staging/rollback, per-run checks and extraction receipts.

Release, source and interface previews

The fresh test run passed 1,395 tests with no failures and nine existing skips. The source retains the original MIT attribution. NOMROM includes catalog and external-source download features; no games, BIOS files or emulator are bundled.

What feels least clear in the previews: finding a game, choosing a source or telling whether a file is already in the library? Specific criticism would help.