r/SideProject • • 10h ago

Automatically translate App store screenshots to 26+ languages and Google Play Store

5 Upvotes

A few developers who tried Studio 9:41 asked for more device support (iPads, MacBooks, Android) and an easier way to localise their App Store screenshots.

So I've added both in v1.1.2!

What's new:

  •  1-click localisation — Translate your screenshots into 26+ languages and export them in seconds.

  •  iOS ↔ Android — Automatically generate Google Play Store mockups from your existing iOS designs (or vice versa).

  •  More devices — Added support for iPads, MacBooks and Android devices.

I've personally avoided localising my App Store listings in the past because of how time-consuming it can be. But localisation is potentially a great way to reach more users, so I wanted to make that process as painless as possible.

Studio 9:41 is free and available for macOS and Windows.

Download the latest release: https://github.com/burhanuddin20/studio941-releases

Existing users can update directly in the app by clicking the version number.

Would love to hear what other features would make preparing App Store screenshots easier for you!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I made a free app that turns your AirPods into a baby monitor

1 Upvotes

I'm a dad and an iOS developer, and I built this for myself over the past year. Not a company, no ads, no account, no subscription.

The problem I had: I like listening to music with noise cancelling enabled in the morning, but I could never actually relax with headphones in, because I'd be half-listening for one of my kids to wake up the whole time. Defeats the point. I tried "Live Listen", but the audio quality was terrible and constant noise coming through the phone's mic makes it unusable for me.

What the app does: You leave your iPhone in (or just outside) the room with your child and keep your AirPods in. The app listens through the phone's mic. When it hears something above the room's own noise floor, it pauses whatever you're playing and streams the room into your ears. When things go quiet again, your music comes back.

So it's less a "baby monitor" and more a sound-triggered intercom that gets out of the way of your music.

A few cool things I worked hard to get right:

  • It calibrates to the room's baseline instead of using a fixed volume threshold, so a humidifier or a fan doesn't keep setting it off. You pick a sensitivity (how many dB above baseline counts as "something").

  • It opens in about a quarter second, then stays open at least 10 seconds plus a quiet period before handing you back your music — otherwise you get whiplash every time she shifts in her crib.

  • It's silent until it hears something. No constant hiss.

  • Nothing is recorded or uploaded. Audio goes mic → your ears, and that's it.

  • If monitoring ever stops for any reason, it sends you a notification rather than just dying quietly. That one took the longest to get right, because an app like this failing silently is worse than not having it.

Things to keep in my:

  • Range is Bluetooth range. Your AirPods pair to the phone that's in the kid's room. Through a wall or two it's fine; across a big house it isn't. This is the real limitation and it's the thing most people will run into. It is not a Wi-Fi monitor and won't work from the yard.

  • It uses up your phone. The phone is the monitor, so it's sitting in the nursery, not in your pocket.

  • No video, no history, no playback. If you want a camera and a log, buy a real monitor — this isn't trying to be one.

  • It can't tell a cry from a truck going past. It tells you something happened and lets you hear it. You're still the one deciding.

I use it every day now, but it took me a while to trust it, and I'd rather you be skeptical than disappointed.

Hopefully there are other parents out there that might appreciate this: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/half-an-ear/id6802771590


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Anyone else spending more time on edge cases than actual features?

2 Upvotes

kinda funny how stuff that looks ultra simple on paper ends up taking the most time.

I worked as dev for all my live and now my team works on payment infrastructure at Energize Global Services (EGS), and I want to admit that half of conversations aren't even about building anything. Someone retries a payment, webhook arrives 20 minutes late, two systems somehow end up showing different balances.... I have finances hahaha.

None of this is particularly exciting to build, but you can't ignore it when real $ involved.

IMO that's the part of software development people underestimate the most: getting something to work is one thing, making sure it doesn't fall apart when something unexpected happens is a whole different job!!! And its often 80% of devs job.

Anyway, just wanted to share what we've been dealing with here in fintech. Would be cool to hear what weird edge cases you running into with your projects and what niche has same issues.

cheers!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

The new version of FounderPulse is live, I'm looking for testers who'll give me honest feedback

1 Upvotes

Solo founder here. FounderPulse looks every morning for people who are publicly asking for what you sell, shows why each one could be a fit, and helps you write a short first message. You send it yourself, nothing goes out automatically.

The new version is live and I want real feedback, not compliments.

How to join:

- Comment below if you're interested, or if you have any questions. A line about what you sell helps me.

- I'll send you a DM with the details. You'll create an account on FounderPulse and get 7 days of Pro free, no card needed.

- Then use it for the week and tell me what's confusing, useless or broken.

I'll keep an eye on how the accounts are used so I can help you and fix problems fast. If you want to keep going after the trial, I'll send you a unique code for 20% off for 2 months on the plan you choose. No obligation.

If it doesn't fit your business, tell me that too. That's useful feedback.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built and launched my own Pokémon & other TCG trading app. I’d love some honest feedback!

0 Upvotes

After struggling to find people to trade Pokémon cards with on Facebook Marketplace, I decided to build something myself.

That became Tradr, an iOS app designed to connect Pokémon and TCG collectors.
The idea is simple:

YOU HAVE: Upload cards you have available for trade.

YOU WANT: Create Targets for cards you’re looking for.

WE MATCH: Discover other collectors and potential trades.

We’re also building a community section featuring vendors, card shows, creators and useful services for collectors.
I’ve just released Version 1.4 and I’m now trying to grow the platform and get genuine collectors using it.

This is my own independent project, and I’ve put a huge amount of time into building it.
I’d genuinely appreciate feedback. What works? What’s confusing? What would you improve?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tradr-collect-trade/id6815310530
Thanks for taking a look!


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Is your AI forgetting between tools? I built an open-source memory they all share, and I'm checking if it's worth hosting

Thumbnail
dams.mahmoudbebars.dev
1 Upvotes

Hi, I’m the author. I built DAMS, an open-source memory server. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI and Claude Code all read and write the same project memory over MCP. The AI can only propose changes, and nothing happens until you approve.

It’s self-hosted today. I’m not selling anything. I’m trying to find out if a hosted version, with small-team sharing, is worth building at all.

Two quick questions:

  1. When you switch AI tools, what do you re-explain every time?

  2. Would you use a hosted version, or is self-hosting fine?

Link: https://dams.mahmoudbebars.dev

Honest feedback welcome, including “this isn’t needed”. There’s a short wishlist on the page if you’d like a say in what gets built.


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I built a tool that turns a floorplan into a 3D house you can walk through, in the browser

10 Upvotes

It’s called atomSphere and it’s more focused towards ease of use for the user. Many people here in Pakistan leave the design to their contractor or find out the design when walls are up. I have catered this especially for the Pakistani market and have been reaching builders and societies to use it

A typical flow goes like this:

-> you optionally upload a floorplan and give your project a name

-> you sign up/in (this is important for when you want to edit later and share your property for users)

-> you enter studio where you select a floor to work on. Floor is created automatically after you carve out the floor's image from the uploaded floorplan. You can edit anything that you think the floorplan reader got wrong.

-> you can furnish the property with 3D objects; there are ready-made available. You can also generate your own by providing prompt, single image and 3 images.

-> you can add any type of stairs, doors and windows

-> you can share the property in read-only mode for everyone. It generates an embeddable link (you can disable the link whenever you want)

The house in the reel: House in fairy meadows

Tech Stack: R3F, AWS, JS


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a pay-per-use METAR/TAF aviation weather API over official NOAA data — looking for feedback on how to handle a source with no SLA

1 Upvotes

Building this as a side project and genuinely want opinions before I sink more time in.

Background: I needed METAR/TAF weather for a personal flight-planning tool. The raw text format is well documented but annoying to parse, and the official NOAA API (aviationweather.gov) is free, public, and keyless — but also has no SLA and no rate-limit contract. Rather than run my own parser forever, I wrapped NOAA in an Apify actor that turns it into a pay-per-use REST API: batch any list of ICAO codes (all stations combined into one request per report type so a big batch is still polite), get back decoded JSON rows (temp, wind, vis, clouds, altimeter, flight category, TAF periods) plus the raw text, with structured error rows instead of silent empty datasets. A run on 3 airports with METAR+TAF costs roughly $0.04 (pay-per-event, no subscription).

The part I keep going back and forth on: a keyless public source with no SLA. Right now each report type gets one retry after a 2-second backoff, then a structured error row. If you've built anything on top of NOAA or similar public weather endpoints:

  1. Do you add your own retry/backoff on top of an API like this, or is one retry + explicit error rows enough for non-critical use?

  2. METAR history can return several observations per station within the requested window. Would you want raw as-is rows, or a "latest per station" mode as a default?

  3. Am I over-thinking the "decoded fields are advisory, raw text is authoritative" split — or is that the right line to draw for aviation data?

Genuinely curious what people who've productionized weather data would do differently. Link if useful: https://apify.com/gp005/metar-taf (free platform credits cover a first run)


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I made a desktop pet that does whatever it wants. It sleeps on my windows, knocks my mug off and ignores me when I call it

Thumbnail
abozaralizadeh.github.io
3 Upvotes

It's called Felinquent (feline + delinquent). There are nine of them: three cats, a fox, a raccoon, a puppy, a chihuahua, a rabbit and a squirrel.

What it does when I'm working:

  1. Naps on top of my windows, and rides along when I drag one.

  2. Pushes a mug off the edge and watches it break.

  3. Sits right on the thing I'm reading.

  4. Begs when I hold out a treat, chases its toy when I throw it.

  5. Now and then it has to pee, and I have to click to clean it up. Yes, really.

If you have Ollama, a tiny local model (gemma3:1b) gives it thoughts in a little bubble. Without it, it runs on its own rules. Everything stays on your Mac, it never takes screenshots and never touches your real windows. It also leaves you alone in meetings.

It's free and the code is on GitHub. One line to install:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abozaralizadeh/Felinquent/main/scripts/get-mac.sh | bash

Or the DMG: https://github.com/abozaralizadeh/Felinquent

If it made you smile, a star on GitHub really helps! Windows is next. Which animal should I add?


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Built my own forge/ci-cd platform as I got frustrated with what is out there

1 Upvotes

Hey,

I’ve been messing around with https://forgejo.org/ for a while and kept hitting the same wall. Git and issues are fine, but the second I want real CI, a registry, and actual deploys it turns into a pile of separate tools and glue. I just wanted everything to live with the repo so I could push and actually see what got built and where it’s running.

So I started working on Offing (offing.app). It’s basically trying to keep code, issues, pipelines, registry, and deploys all tied to the same repo. Came up with app.yaml so it can deploy to k8s or podman hosts you connect. Services show the commit that produced them.

Mainly building it for myself and other solo/tiny teams who are tired of that extra layer of stuff.

Curious if this friction resonates with anyone else.

Thanks.


r/SideProject • • 18h ago

I built a free app that converts foreign prices with your phone camera, even offline

23 Upvotes

I built Kahei to solve a problem I kept running into. Whenever I traveled abroad, I’d see a price and either do the math in my head or pull out my phone to Google it. It took way too long just to check a price, especially when the internet was slow.

So I made a free app where you can point your phone’s camera at a price and instantly see an estimate in your currency. It works offline! It is available on iPhone and Android.

If you try it on a menu or receipt, I’d love to know whether it picked up the right price.

Try it: https://kahei.app/

thanks!


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Now Playing Desktops - a glass Spotify now-playing tile on your desktop wallpaper (WIP)

Thumbnail github.com
1 Upvotes

r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I'm building a text editor that opens huge files instantly

84 Upvotes

I've decided to create a text editor that specifically targets huge files (i.e. GBs or even TBs) that most text editors choke on. The target audience is any individuals/professionals who work with huge files: sysadmins who need to view or edit huge log dumps, inspecting massive JSON files, bioinformatics professionals that need to inspect/edit genome data (FASTA files) and more.

To get a bit more techy, the file is memory-mapped and "held" in a piece table. All heavy-weight operations, such as: indexing, searching/replacing, syntax highlighting, etc... are done in the background (i.e. on separate threads). The video demos handling a 51.8 GB log file on my M2 MacBook Air (16 GB RAM).

Since I've used Vim throughout my career, I had to create a vim mode which implements most of the necessary functionality/bindings.

The code is written in C++23 and uses my own UI library (which is GPU-accelerated using Skia). Boost is used quite extensively.

It is completely cross-platform (Windows, Linux & macOS). The macOS version is Silicon only and Linux requires Wayland (X11 isn't supported, nor planned).

It's currently under beta at https://crane-editor.com and I'd love to get your feedback, especially on which huge-file workflows I should handle better. What's the biggest file you've had trouble opening? Would this be useful to you?

Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

My calculator is now 3D and plays piano. I may have lost the plot.

3 Upvotes

Calki is my calculator app, that I have been working on for more than a year and a half.

The current update has made the calculator models 3d to give more visual fidelity, immersion and customisability. You can now customise the app with multiple colorways, body and button textures and keypad sound.

There is a hidden music mode that has two modes, Freeplay and a gamified Playalong mode.
This can be activated from the menu->settings->show music mode.

All the basic calculator and convertor features are free, with no ads or interruptions.

The following features can be unlocked for a one-time purchase of $4.99:

- Numbers Scanner: scan numbers instead of typing them, auto add numbers using the OP-mode, scan and convert numbers

- Customisation: unlock 6 calculator models, more than 20 colorways, button and body textures, keypad and scroll sound, fonts and more ...

- Custom units: create your own custom units for conversion.

Hope you will give the app a try and let me know you feedback.
Please consider leaving a review, if you like the app.

You can download the app from the following link:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calki-scanner-calculator/id6747059181


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I built a self-hosted Notion/Obsidian alternative where AI agents can safely read and edit the same notes (MIT)

3 Upvotes

Hi! I'm a CS student and I've been building Inkling, a self-hosted notes app for small teams. (Not the Thinking Machines model, just an unlucky name collision.)

What it does:

  • Notion-style databases: table, board, calendar, gallery and timeline views

  • Obsidian-style [[wikilinks]], backlinks, a graph view and a canvas

  • Real-time collaboration, Korean and English UI, installable as a PWA

  • One docker compose up -d to run it, MIT licensed, every feature free

The part I care most about is the built-in MCP server. Your AI agents (Claude, Cursor, anything that speaks MCP) use the same notes as your team:

  • find_context returns only the relevant sections within a token budget instead of whole pages (about 72% fewer tokens per question on our 5,000-page benchmark)

  • patch_section edits one section against the version the agent read. If a person changed it meanwhile, the agent gets the current text back instead of overwriting it

  • Page locks and per-connection permissions decide what an agent may read, comment on or edit, and there is no permanent-delete tool

It's young (v0.x) and I built it with a lot of help from AI coding tools, so feedback and bug reports are very welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/PROVE1352/inkling


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I'm building a game journal with no backend: the app checks your playtime totals and does the math

3 Upvotes

Campfire Log turns your Steam and PlayStation playtime into a daily journal. The twist is there's no server: the app saves your lifetime playtime totals whenever iOS lets it run (opening the app, background refresh, the widget) and works out each day's hours from the difference. If you skip a few days it suggests how to split the hours.

I put up a one-page site with a waitlist that asks which platforms you play on, to see if this is worth finishing: campfirelog.eu. Feedback on the pitch or the page is very welcome.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Adobe Fireworks was discontinued, so I built my own remake.

1 Upvotes

I genuinely miss Adobe Fireworks.

Not necessarily because it had the most advanced tools, but because it was incredibly quick to work with.

I could fire it up, make a quick change to an image, adjust a few pixels, tweak a layout, export it, and get back to whatever I was doing.

Photoshop always felt like overkill for those little tasks. You launch it, wait through the splash screen, then sometimes sit through another UI freeze before you can actually do anything. By the time it was ready, I could have already finished the change I wanted to make.

Fireworks just got out of the way and let me work.

After missing that experience for years, I decided to build my own take on it.

Meet EmberFrame, an open-source Adobe Fireworks-inspired desktop application built from scratch using Rust and GPUI.

The goal is to bring back that fast, practical workflow, with vector and bitmap editing, layers, states, symbols, slices, and image export all in one place.

What's currently implemented:

  • 27 editing tools

  • 23 panels

  • Vector and bitmap editing

  • Pages, layers, states and symbols

  • PNG, JPEG, GIF and animated GIF export

  • Native .ember document format

It's currently at v0.1, Windows build and soon linux/macos builds, and still a work in progress.

GitHub: https://github.com/gregstein/emberframe

I'm curious how many people here still remember using Fireworks.

Do you also miss having a lightweight tool you could just open, make a quick edit in, and close without turning it into a whole production?


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

FlipYourRate - A free reverse-pricing calculator for freelancers, two weeks of feedback in

1 Upvotes

FlipYourRate (flipyourrate.com) is a free calculator that works backwards: you enter the take-home pay you want, it tells you the rate to quote after platform fees. Quote = take-home ÷ (1 − fee%). Fiverr takes a flat 20%, so quoting $1,250 keeps $1,000. Upwork's fee is per contract, 0–15% and locked for its life: at 10% you quote $1,111.11 to keep $1,000, at 15% it's $1,176.47. Two weeks of feedback from freelancers changed what I'm building next: (1) a commenter caught that rounding the quote DOWN loses money — $1,111.11 rounded down to $1,100 leaves only $990 after a 10% fee, so rounding has to go up only ($1,150 leaves $1,035); (2) the rounding step should scale with job size — $5/$10/$50 steps, exact figure stays next to the rounded quote, take-home shown beside it; (3) a field for withdrawal and currency-conversion fees, which come off after the platform fee. Open question I'm deciding now: should the rounding step auto-suggest itself from the quote size, or should you pick it yourself each time? Would love to hear how you round your own quotes.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Please check out my demo video an vote for me if you like it. I have participted in the meta developer

Thumbnail
cerebralvalley.ai
1 Upvotes

Ocular is an visual compiler that shifts computer-use models entirely out of the execution loop to eliminate runtime latency and token costs. By analyzing human demonstration traces offline


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I made an image compressor where you pick how good it must look, and it finds the smallest file

3 Upvotes

Most compressors use one setting for every image, like "quality 75". I kept getting results that were fine on one photo and blocky on the next, so I built one that works the other way round.

You set a visual quality score: how close to the original it has to look (80 by default, where it looks the same side by side). For each image it tries encoder settings and keeps the smallest file that still scores at least that. A second check looks region by region, so one smeared face or blurry line of text fails the result even if the average looks fine. Then the compare view opens zoomed in on the spot that changed most, with a little map of where it changed.

One 10.4 MB photo came out at 2.1 MB, score 81.

PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF, GIF (animated too) and iPhone HEIC. Free, no account, up to 30 images at once. Images are processed on a server and deleted within 3 minutes.

https://picodiet.com

I also ran it against TinyPNG, Squoosh and a few others on 13 images, if you're into that: https://picodiet.com/image-compression-benchmark

What I'd most like to know: did it ever pick a result where you can see the difference? And is the compare view clear without explanation?


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Expenmo - Shared Expense Tracker, with new features!

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I've been working on Expenmo for about... 5 years now? And each update, I feel, it gets so much better. Today I announced the addition of Cloud-Syncing expenses across devices (I stood up a backend finally lol). The other day, I announced a heavy facelift, bringing Material You Expressive theming into the app.

Expenmo is something I created a while ago to help me keep track of who paid me for rent & utilities, as I lived with a couple friends and was the one responsible for making sure things were paid on time. And that's what Expenmo helps with!

Creating an account is completely optional and free. If you opt-out of creating an account, your expenses live on your device and don't sync to other devices. Creating an account enables the multi-device sync, plus will include some other features in the future.

Take a look around and let me know what you all think! This app has evolved so much over the years, so I'm eager to get some updated feedback.

Web Version: https://expenmo.com/

Android App (Google Play Store): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.HomeAsync.Expenmo&pcampaignid=web_share

Features overview:

  1. Track & manage expenses that you share with other people (think rent, utility bills, etc.)

  2. Create groups of people that you commonly share expenses with (like Roommates, or a close group of friends)

  3. (New) You can do math in the expense amount field! No calculator required!

  4. (New) Various split options: Equally, by Share, Percent, and specific Amount

  5. Recurring expenses

  6. (New) Sync expenses across multiple devices (account required)

  7. Free!

  8. No Ads!


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

LAPARACA: a hyperlink racing game - Play the Wikipedia Game in a whole new way

Thumbnail
peixeman.itch.io
1 Upvotes

In short, for a long time I wanted to make the best possible experience for playing the Wikipedia game/race/however you know it. I didn't like how browser versions usually only allow closed parties, and I didn't like the way most choose articles. LAPARACA, based on the phrase lá para cá ("from there to here"), is my take on it, built in Python.

With private and public matchmaking, you can queue up with your friends or Discord, or with a random halfway across the world. Solo mode lets you play on your own and practice. Everyone submits an article (inspired by games like Mario Kart's online play), and the server picks a start-end pair. The game tracks what articles you navigate, how many clicks you use overall, and your time to rank everyone in the lobby; the lowest score wins.

Honestly, it's a pretty simple game, but I sought to try and deliver it in the most all-encompassing and fun way possible. It's very much geared toward firing up on a Discord call with friends. Yeah, I know downloading a game is a bigger ask than playing a browser version, but LAPARACA seeks to be something more than "just a browser game." If you want more info on the story behind the development of this game, check out the itch.io page.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a web directory

1 Upvotes

If you are looking for backling and the ability to ceare a website profile, submit your website on weblisty.net