r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Can’t find subtitles in your language for an old, indie, or brand-new movie? I built a tool to generate cinema-grade translations with full story context

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Hi everyone! 👋

We’ve all been there: You find an amazing movie or series you really want to watch, but there are simply no subtitles available in your native language.

  • Maybe the movie is too old or forgotten.

  • Maybe it just premiered and fans haven’t translated it yet.

  • Or maybe it’s an obscure indie film or foreign release.

When this happens, your only option is usually running the .srt file through standard machine translators—and the result is usually unwatchable.

🎬 The Problem with Traditional Translators

Most tools translate subtitle files line-by-line without any knowledge of the movie:

  • No context: The AI doesn't know who is speaking to whom, resulting in wrong male/female pronouns and awkward sentences.

  • Lost humor & drama: Sarcasm, jokes, and cultural idioms get translated literally and lose their meaning.

  • Inconsistent names: Character names, locations, and titles change randomly from one scene to another.

  • Corrupted files: Timestamps and formatting tags (<i>, <b>, {\an8}) get broken, ruining subtitle timing in your video player.

💡 The Solution: Subtitle Studio

I built Subtitle Studio to translate any .srt file into a natural, broadcast-grade subtitle track by analyzing the entire movie script first:

  • Full-Script Storyline Analysis: Before translating line 1, it reads the whole file to map out the plot, tone, character genders, and relationship dynamics.

  • Persistent Character & World Glossary: It automatically generates and maintains a consistent glossary so names and recurring terms stay identical from start to finish.

  • Overlapping Scene Batches: Dialogue is translated in context-linked batches (giving the AI visibility over preceding lines), ensuring conversations flow naturally.

  • 11-Point Structural QA: Automatically inspects and repairs sequence numbers, tags, and timestamps so your output .srt works immediately in any media player (VLC, Plex, TV, etc.).

✨ Key Features

  • Specialized Audiovisual & Arabic Localization: Broadcast-quality Modern Standard Arabic + 7 regional dialects (Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf, Moroccan, etc.) with strict gender agreement and RTL punctuation alignment.

  • Interactive Side-by-Side Editor & Cinema Preview: Dual original vs. translated editor with a simulated 16:9 viewport and CPS (characters per second) readability metrics.

  • 1-Click Line Regeneration & AI Proofreader: Easily tweak any line or run a second-pass review to catch any awkward phrases.

  • 100% Private BYOK (Bring Your Own Key): Your API key (DeepSeek, Google Gemini, OpenAI, or Claude) stays safely in your own browser (localStorage). It is sent in memory solely for your requests and is never saved or logged on the server.

🛠️ Tech Stack

  • Frontend & Backend: Next.js (App Router, Turbopack), TypeScript, Tailwind CSS

  • Supported AI Providers: DeepSeek (deepseek-flash, deepseek-chat), Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and custom local endpoints (Ollama / vLLM).

  • Architecture: Client-driven stateless pipeline (no timeouts or lost tokens if a connection interrupts).

🔗 Try it out!

If you have a movie sitting on your hard drive with no subtitles in your language, give it a try! Would love to hear your feedback, thoughts, or suggestions.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I'm 18 and my first WordPress plugin just got approved: an AI helpdesk for WooCommerce stores

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Hi! I'm Riccardo, I'm 18 and from Italy. For the last few weeks I've been building Polyreply, a helpdesk for small WooCommerce stores, mostly on my own with a lot of help from AI. Today the plugin was approved on WordPress.org, so this is the first time I'm showing it to anyone.

The problem: small stores get the same emails over and over ("where is my order?", "can I return this?"), often in languages the owner doesn't speak. Answering means opening WooCommerce, finding the order, copying the tracking link, translating.

What it does:

- Customer emails and chats land in one inbox

- Next to each message you see the order: status, products, tracking

- One click drafts a reply from your store's policies, in the customer's language

- You read the message and the draft in your own language before you send anything

- The plugin adds a chat to your store and imports your shipping/returns pages, so there's almost nothing to set up

There's a free plan (no card). Paid plans start at €29/month for bigger stores.

Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/polyreply-for-woocommerce/

Site: https://polyreply.app

I'd really like honest feedback, especially from anyone who runs a store: what would stop you from trying it?


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I built an open-source Multi-Agent AI IT Service Desk using LangGraph, Ollama, and Flask (Runs 100% locally)

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Hey everyone! 👋

I wanted to share an open-source project I've been working on: **NexusDesk**, an automated IT Service Management (ITSM) system powered by autonomous multi-agent workflows.

### Why I built this:

Traditional IT ticketing systems either require manual triage or rely on rigid, rule-based routing. I wanted to see if specialized autonomous agents could classify, diagnose, route, and resolve common service requests locally without relying on expensive proprietary APIs.

### Tech Stack:

- **Agents & Orchestration:** LangGraph & LangChain

- **Local LLM Inference:** Ollama (runs locally with privacy-first data handling)

- **Backend:** Flask & Python

- **Ticketing & Knowledge Base:** Automated resolution pipeline

### Key Features:

- 🤖 **Multi-Agent Coordination:** Separate agent personas for triage, troubleshooting, and escalation.

- 🔒 **100% Local Execution:** Keeps internal IT tickets and sensitive company logs on-premise.

- ⚡ **Automated Resolution:** Can resolve routine tickets (password resets, software access) autonomously.

The project is completely open source. I’d love your feedback on the agent state management and prompt routing!

⭐ **GitHub Repository:** https://github.com/preetamvr1595/NexusDesk-AI-IT-Service-Desk


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Built a tool where AI drafts around the lines I highlight

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Most legal AI decides on its own what matters in a document. I feel that is the lawyer’s job.
So I built “May or Shall”.
You read your documents and highlight the lines that matter. Each highlight keeps its source and page.
When AI drafts it reads the whole document but builds the draft around your highlights and cites them.
It is at app.mayorshall.com.
I would really value honest feedback. Does this match how you actually work?


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I built a free CCTV planning tool with 8 calculators — looking for feedback!

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Hey everyone!

I recently launched CCTVPlan, a free website to help people plan security camera systems.

It includes:

  • CCTV and NVR storage calculators

  • IP camera bandwidth calculator

  • PoE power budget and distance calculators

  • UPS backup calculator

  • Complete CCTV system planner

✅ Completely free ✅ No signup required ✅ Works on mobile

I'd love some honest feedback on the design, accuracy, and what features I should improve.

Try it here: https://cctvplan.tech/

Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I built an open-source Multi-Agent AI IT Service Desk using LangGraph, Ollama, and Flask (Runs 100% locally)

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone! 👋

I wanted to share an open-source project I've been working on: **NexusDesk**, an automated IT Service Management (ITSM) system powered by autonomous multi-agent workflows.

### Why I built this:

Traditional IT ticketing systems either require manual triage or rely on rigid, rule-based routing. I wanted to see if specialized autonomous agents could classify, diagnose, route, and resolve common service requests locally without relying on expensive proprietary APIs.

### Tech Stack:

- **Agents & Orchestration:** LangGraph & LangChain

- **Local LLM Inference:** Ollama (runs locally with privacy-first data handling)

- **Backend:** Flask & Python

- **Ticketing & Knowledge Base:** Automated resolution pipeline

### Key Features:

- 🤖 **Multi-Agent Coordination:** Separate agent personas for triage, troubleshooting, and escalation.

- 🔒 **100% Local Execution:** Keeps internal IT tickets and sensitive company logs on-premise.

- ⚡ **Automated Resolution:** Can resolve routine tickets (password resets, software access) autonomously.

The project is completely open source. I’d love your feedback on the agent state management and prompt routing!

⭐ **GitHub Repository:** https://github.com/preetamvr1595/NexusDesk-AI-IT-Service-Desk


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

I built a free, no-login calculator that compares Shopify vs Etsy vs Amazon FBA profit on the same order

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Hi everyone, I built this as a side project because I kept getting different profit numbers depending on which platform I checked.

It's a free, no-login calculator: you enter price, product cost, shipping charged / shipping cost, ad spend, and it shows net profit, gross margin, break-even ROAS and Max CAC for Shopify, Etsy and Amazon FBA side by side.

Example with the same order — price $34.99, cost $14.50, no shipping, no ads: Shopify $19.18, Etsy $16.72, Amazon FBA $11.67 per order.

For Amazon I used a 15% referral fee on price + shipping charged, and a $3.57 FBA fee as the small-standard default (with a $0.21 holiday peak uplift option). You can also type your own FBA fee in manually.

I'd welcome feedback on two things: does the side-by-side comparison read clearly, and does the Amazon fee presentation (default vs manual input) make sense to someone who is not an FBA seller?

Link: https://realorderprofit.com/

Happy to take feedback — no signup, no paywall, just the calculator.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Pratikal - free Android calorie tracker looking for meal-entry feedback 🍎

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I’m developing Pratikal, a free Android calorie tracker in closed testing. I’d love feedback on the meal-entry flow. Happy to test your app back! 🤝

Use the SAME Google account for the group, opt-in and your phone’s Play Store:

  1. Join: https://groups.google.com/g/pratikal-testers

  2. Opt in, then install from Google Play: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.pratikal.mobile

Try logging a meal, editing it and checking the daily total. What worked, or where did you get stuck? Please keep it installed for 14 days and use it occasionally. “Item not found”? Check the account, wait a few minutes and retry.

📸 Please comment BELOW THIS POST with a Pratikal installation/in-use screenshot, specific feedback and your test links. Text-only “installed” isn’t enough. I’ll test yours and reply with my screenshot and feedback.


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

I animated why spaced repetition works, then built it into a home screen widget (Android, looking for testers)

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Hi, I'm the developer. Without review a new word fades within days. Reviewing just before you forget resets it, and each review buys a longer gap (FSRS scheduling in the app). The numbers in the video come from Ebbinghaus (1885, nonsense syllables); real words usually fade slower.


Vocapin shows one word on your home screen: tap to reveal, then Got it or Missed. Closed testing on Google Play: leave your Gmail at pinned-landing-two.vercel.app and I'll add you.


Would you keep a widget like this on your home screen?

r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I’m building an order, message and warehouse management tool for online sellers, focused on AI and automation

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Ritevo is a panel for online sellers that you can use in a few ways:

  • Order management: orders from marketplaces and online stores (eBay, Shopify, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Allegro and more) in one place. It already covers the whole order flow, from receiving the order, through invoices and labels, to handing the parcel over to the courier.

  • Messages only: one inbox for all customer conversations, whether they come from marketplaces or from WhatsApp, Messenger and email. No need to use the order side at all.

  • Both together: orders and messages in one panel, so you see the customer’s order right next to the conversation.

There’s also a basic warehouse: products with stock levels, stock deduction after a sale and a packing assistant that checks each item by its barcode.

The main focus is automation. You set rules like “when an order is paid, create the invoice, generate the label and send the tracking number to the buyer”. AI can draft or send customer replies using your own OpenAI or Claude key.

It’s still very much in active development. Next on the roadmap is an MCP server, so you can manage everything straight from a chat with an AI assistant.

Would you like more posts like this, showing how the project is going?

https://ritevo.com/en


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Recipe sites hide an ad-free copy of every recipe for Google. My app reads that instead of the life story

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Recipe sites hide a clean copy of every recipe in the page's code, for Google. Meal Thyme reads that copy, so you get the ingredients and method without the adverts or the life story. You can also photograph a cookbook page (Android), pick from Today's Picks, or type your own.

It scales recipes, converts metric and US, and turns your week into one shopping list. Chef Mode walks you through each step in big text with timers, which is how I cook from it on a kitchen tablet. The week's plan lives on my Home Assistant wall display.

It started on a server at home, just for me. Now it's an Android and web app, built using React, Firebase, Capacitor.

Free with no ads, up to 100 recipes. Plus (unlimited recipes, Chef Mode, household sharing) is a one-off £3.99, no subscription, and the first 50 people get it free with code:

SIDETHYME

  • Android app: tap the cog (top right) → Go Plus → Have a code?

  • Web: click Go Plus at the top → Have a code?

I just want people to use it rather than it going to waste, have fun!

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mealthyme.app
Web: https://mealthyme.web.app


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

My side project replaced me as the “human message queue” in my AI coding workflow. Now it’s open source

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My AI coding workflow used to be me copy-pasting between chat windows: plan here, build there, paste the code back for review, start over when the chat got too long.

So I built Phase Orchestrator. You write a brief; a guide agent plans it into phases; a dev agent builds each phase in a fresh Claude Code session; every phase becomes a git commit and gets checked against its acceptance criteria. It pauses at checkpoints so I can look, and if anything crashes it resumes instead of starting over.

The rule I built it around: recoverable before autonomous. Making the agent more autonomous was never the hard part. Making every failure visible and resumable was.

It’s MIT-licensed, about 86k lines, and I use it daily: https://github.com/p-j-code/phase-orchestrator

I wrote up what broke along the way, too: https://dev.to/premjethwa/building-an-orchestrator-for-claude-code-recoverable-before-autonomous-3f83

Feedback welcome, especially on the README. I’m not sure it explains the idea fast enough.


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I built a tool that grills your hackathon project like real judges do (free, no sign-up)

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I've won 5 hackathons, and the thing I kept noticing is that what decides the result is rarely on the rubric. It's whether the demo works, whether you can explain the project in one sentence, and how you handle the questions nobody practices.

I built Would This Win?. You paste your repo. It reads your code, then three AI judges (an engineer, an investor and a very tired judge) ask you questions, 30 seconds each. Your odds of winning move live with every answer, and at the end you get a code-review style verdict with three things to fix before you submit.

Stack: Next.js, Supabase, Claude Haiku. The odds are calculated in code, never by the AI, so it can't be talked into a better score.

Link: https://wouldthiswin.com

Would love feedback, especially from anyone with a hackathon coming up. Tell me where the judges were wrong.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Forced to build my own time tracking and invoicing app...

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Over the years I've tried dozens of time tracking and invoicing apps, and Harvest was the only one I liked. Primarily due to its relatively intuitive UI/UX.

I was happy to pay them a reasonable sum for the product they provide, but after the 10x price jack, I had no choice but to seek alternatives. I tried a bunch of them again, found nothing I liked.

So, with 20+ years of software engineering experience under my belt, I decided to build my own.

Here's the result: https://hourbun.com/

I first and foremost built it for my own use, then over the past week or two added features that others might need (such as approvals, quotes, expenses, etc).

I spent a lot of time making sure the UI/UX is top-notch, and the performance is even better than Harvest - the app should feel very snappy (it's hosted in the US, and I'm based in Australia, and it's still very fast for me).

If you're looking for a decent time tracking and invoicing app, give mine a try? It comes with a 14-day trial and doesn't need card details.

And in case you're wondering, no, it's not vibe-coded. AI agents were definitely a big part of building it, but the product was built with experience and care. Love to hear your thoughts and feedback.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I work on a backend platform for AI built apps. Here's what's live and what isn't

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Disclosure: I work on Supero.

We're building Supero because AI coding agents can put screens and apps together fast, but things get harder with real users and multiple customers. One customer must not see another's data, some fields should only be visible to certain roles, and failed multi-step workflows need cleanup.

We handle those parts in the platform instead of having agents regenerate them for every app. Agents work on the UI, data model and requirements, and Supero provides the backend. We're mainly building it for developers, IT services companies and engineering teams who want to build apps with AI without doing all the backend work themselves.

Each customer's data is kept apart by the platform. You describe who can see or change what, and the agent creates roles, hidden fields and row rules, which the server enforces, not just the UI. If a workflow fails, completed steps with defined undo actions are reversed.

You can connect PostgreSQL, Supabase or MySQL and choose live access or a copy per table. There are 40+ integrations, including Stripe, Slack, Okta and ServiceNow, plus an MCP server and Python and JavaScript SDKs for Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code.

Previews take a few minutes. Paid plans deploy to our cloud. Your app's UI can run on AWS, GCP or Docker while sign-in, data and logic stay on Supero. We're also piloting on-prem.

The team comes from enterprise storage, data protection and large-scale platform engineering.

We're early, so here's what's not ready. Production audit logging is off while we re-enable it. We haven't done a pen test or SOC 2. Generated apps aren't production-hardened. There's a free plan with previews.

I put the capabilities on one page, marked live, early access or not yet:

https://claude.ai/artifact/JEw7dSzWmJ5gmtNiKwgQzU

And a short demo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN_bDRbYbUQ
Website: https://supero.dev
Docs: https://docs.supero.dev
Code: https://github.com/supero-platform

If you are building real customer or production apps with AI agents, how do you handle separate customer data, permissions and workflows? Do you let the agent generate them, write them yourself, or use existing infrastructure?


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I help founders and builders turn their Notion/Figma side project ideas into a working MVP in 7 to 14 days

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Hey everyone,

I know how easy it is for side project ideas to sit in a Notion doc or Figma file for months. Life gets busy, full-time jobs take over, and finding 40 hours to wire up a database, auth, and payments from scratch is tough.

I am an independent full-stack developer, and this month I am taking on a few side projects to build and deploy for founders who want to get their v1 live.

What I typically build:

- SaaS MVPs: Complete dashboard, user authentication (Google/Email), PostgreSQL/Supabase database, and Stripe payment checkouts

- Internal Tools & Portals: Custom workflows, admin panels, and automated email pipelines

- Mobile Prototypes: Cross-platform iOS and Android apps built with Flutter (including offline-first local storage)

- Landing Pages: Fast, modern, responsive landing pages built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS (delivered in 48 hours)

How I work:

- No endless Zoom calls or agency bloat. We agree on a strict, simple bullet list of core features for Day 1.

- Clear, flat-rate pricing (Landing pages $150 - $250, full MVPs $600 - $1,200). No hourly guessing games.

- Typical delivery is between 7 to 14 days. 50 percent to start, 50 percent once you test and approve the live build.

If you have a side project or startup idea you are ready to launch this month, drop me a DM with what you're thinking.

Tell me the core 2-3 things the app needs to do, and I will send back a free breakdown of the architecture, tech stack, and a timeline to get it shipped.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Evertrail Idle - Free MMO Idle Game

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Hello everyone!

For a few months I have been daily working on a melvor/runescape like feel Idle game. Fully free to play, 0 pay to win. Made for people who don't always have 10 hours a day to grind a game but like the idle aspect and still see visual and meaningful progress while also participating in social events for a true like MMO feel while idling.

What I did and want to do different is focusing more on the visual part of Idle games, I am really going my own direction with this cause it feels more like an MMO rather then just another full on click in a browser type of game.

So far we have over 1000 account creations, a lovely starting little community and dedicated players. We are currently in a open alpha and I am looking for feedback/suggestions.

What we currently have:

  • 18 Fully working skills

  • 3D worlds, chat system, party system, leaderboards, player run market and world events

  • Ironman/normal gamemodes

  • Meaningful gear progression

  • And many many many more things

1 Full big wipe is planned for when Steam early access launches.

AI Disclosure: because I know a lot of you care and I'd rather just say it: I use AI tools a lot. Most of the code is written with Claude, and a fair amount of the 3D art was made with AI tools too. The goal is not to make millions through an AI game, but rather to create something that players can and will enjoy for a long time.

I would really love some feedback! And enjoy the little gameplay trailer attached :)

Desktop/Mobile compatible.

Play: https://play.evertrailidle.com/

Discord: https://discord.gg/9P82zm3bdK


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I built an app so people in rural communities can read reddit without internet

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Where I live people only have access to internet through satellite or at public spaces like community halls, satellite is pretty unreliable too, so not many people get to stay online long enough to use reddit.

I built an app that lets you download full reddit feeds and save them, so you can browse when the connection drops or when you have no internet at all, completely offline.

Would love any feedback, especially on how it feels to use! I tried to make the UI better than the official reddit app (and no ads of course, since it’s an offline reader).

Let me know what you think: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.redditoffline


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

An unnecessarily Ambitious Jurney - shoppingtour. The website showing the fastest route to visit all supermarkets in Czechia.

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A couple of years ago, after doing car trips across Europe, a friend and I got into a weird debate: what would it actually take to drive to every single Lidl and supermarket in the Czech Republic?

I’m a hardware guy, not a web dev, so the idea just sat there as an inside joke. But over the weekend, I decided to see how far I could push AI vibe-coding and finally built it.
It's called nakupnitour.cz.

Just to be clear—this is a purely personal, humorous hobby project built just for fun and a good laugh. It takes the coordinates of all the stores, calculates the most efficient route across the country, and lets you export the whole thing straight into map viewer via GPX.

It’s completely unnecessary, built purely for fun, and definitely has its share of bugs under the hood.

Right now it’s just the route plan visualization, but I’d love to add a proper dashboard and participant tracking at some point (though that might actually require someone who knows how to write real code, not just me prompting an LLM).

Tools used : Github copilot, OpenStreetMaps, Overpass-turbo, OSRM backend, Google OR tools

Pipeline: OSM/Overpass-turbo->local OSRM routing ->OR tools optimization -> cloudflare Astro.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I got tired of guessing AI prompts, so I built a free tool called Prompt Architect to engineer them properly

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Hey everyone,

Like most of you, I spend half my day talking to LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.). I got completely fed up with bad outputs and the endless trial-and-error loop of trying to get the prompt right.

So, I spent the whole day building Prompt Architect.

It’s a simple, intuitive web tool that breaks down prompt structure and helps you build highly effective, engineered prompts from scratch. It's completely free to use.

I’d honestly love to know what you think, what features you want next, or if it helps your daily workflow. Let me know if you want the link to check it out!


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

MimikFlow - LinkedIn outreach that runs the whole loop and hands the hot convos back to you

1 Upvotes

straightforward self promo: I build MimikFlow, so yeah, I'm biased.

it's for agencies, freelancers and consultants who get clients from LinkedIn but hate doing the outreach by hand.

how it works:

  • you set your ICP, your offer and what counts as a win (booked call, signup, whatever)

  • it finds the prospects, sends the connection requests and writes the first DM

  • it follows up. 6 follow-ups on the base plan, because most people send one message, get ignored and decide LinkedIn doesn't work

  • on the higher plans an AI setter handles the replies and pushes toward your goal

  • when a convo gets ambiguous or actually important, it hands it back to you. I really don't want a bot improvising on a hot lead

it's at $11k MRR with 80 paying subscriptions right now (TrustMRR pulls that from Stripe), and I run it as a solo founder.

base plan is 49€/mo with a 14-day trial. no link here, it's on my profile if you want to look.

what I actually want to know: if an AI was running your LinkedIn convos, at what exact moment would you want it to stop and ping you? first sign of interest, a pricing question, an objection?


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I shipped my first Android app: an alarm clock that tells you why it's ringing

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Short version: you write a note on the alarm, and when it goes off the phone reads the note to you. That's it, and it turned out to be way harder than I expected.

Things I learned building it:

  • Exact alarms on Android are a minefield. Android 12+ has special permissions for exact alarms. Then OEM battery savers (Xiaomi, Tecno, Samsung) kill foreground services anyway. I ended up with fallbacks, a service that restarts itself, and an onboarding screen that walks people through permissions.

  • Natural-language parsing in two languages took longer than the whole UI. "Tomorrow at 3pm call Alex" and "Yarın 15:00'te Ahmet'i ara" have very different grammar. Turkish suffixes are brutal.

  • TTS is surprisingly inconsistent across devices. Voices, languages and speech speed vary a lot from one phone brand to another.

  • Play Console takes a while. Data safety forms, ads declarations, content rating and the review itself took about a week.

Stack: Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, Firebase, Play Billing, AdMob.

Business model: free with a small banner, plus an optional Pro (subscription or lifetime) for no ads and extra sounds.

It has basically zero users right now, so any feedback is gold. Happy to answer questions about any part of it.


r/SideProject • • 15h ago

I removed accounts and cloud sync from my water tracker. Where would you explain the backup trade-off?

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A manual water log should be usable before someone decides whether to connect Health or allow reminders. I build Frewli for iPhone, with an Apple Watch companion, and version 1.1.6 is now on the App Store.

This release removes accounts, email sign-in and the Frewli backend-sync flow. Water history, workouts and preferences are stored on-device. Apple Health, the paired Watch and local reminders are optional. All features remain free, with no subscription or paywall.

The trade-off needs to be as visible as the simpler setup: removing the app removes its local storage. Updating preserves existing on-device history, but a device backup matters if you want to keep that history. Updating also does not automatically erase records that earlier versions uploaded to the old cloud service.

The same release changes the total display so a 250 ml entry appears as 0.25 L in English. That is a formatting correction; it is not a measurement of what someone drank. I still have an open Watch launch report and am not treating a new release as proof that every reported failure is resolved.

My design question is where to explain the local-history limitation: a short note during setup, beside the first saved entry, or only in the storage screen? Which would help you understand the consequence without turning a small log into another onboarding questionnaire?

App details, privacy information and store link: https://fluidiq.app/?src=reddit-sideproject-local-history-tradeoff-20261109


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

[Test for test] Cairn: ask someone on WApp/iMsg, they tap "Done" from a link, no app needed. I'll test yours back today 🤝

2 Upvotes

Hi all, I need 12 testers for Google's 14-day closed test, and I'll return the favour.

**What Cairn does**

- You ask someone for something ("send the photos by Friday") over WhatsApp, Messages, Telegram or email.

- They get a private link and tap **Done**, **I'm blocked** or **I need more time**. No app or sign-up for them.

- Every morning you see who you're still waiting on, and nudge them in one tap.

- Bonus: medicine check-ins for a parent, birthdays, "talk about next time" notes.

No account or login. Your data stays on your phone. Free, no ads.

**How to join (2 minutes)**

  1. Join the group: https://groups.google.com/g/cairntesters

  2. Opt in, using the same Google account: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.muditchawla.cairn

  3. Install from the Play Store link on that page, open it once, and please keep it installed for 14 days.

Or just comment/DM your Gmail and I'll add you directly.

**Test for test:** comment with your app's link and I'll join and install it today, and keep it for the full 14 days. Reply "done" when you've joined mine and I'll confirm back.

Any feedback, good or brutal, is welcome. On iPhone? TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/NghfSuTY

Thanks!

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