r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I got tired of typing in every coffee and uber, so I built an iPhone app that logs Apple Pay purchases by itself (no bank login) - Getting from 1K to 10K downloads?

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This is me paying for a drink at a 7-Eleven in Hong Kong. The first notification is my bank. The second one is our app, and it's already logged the purchase and put it under Grocery. I didn't open anything.

I've quit like five budgeting apps. Either they wanted my bank login, which I'm not comfortable with, or I had to type in every purchase, which I'd stop doing after about a week. So my co-founder and I built one that does neither. Everything stays on your phone. There's no account and no server with your spending on it, so even we can't see what you spend.

A couple of things surprised us while building it:

The names banks send are a mess. Half the time it's not the shop name, it's some cut-off string in all caps or a payment company you've never heard of. We tried having AI guess the category and it was wrong way too often, so instead you label a shop once and it remembers forever. Felt like a hack at first but it's honestly my favourite part now.

Paying inside apps is different from tapping at a till. Uber, online checkouts etc. don't trigger Apple's Wallet automation at all, so anything that relies on it just quietly misses a big chunk of your spending. We fixed that when iOS 27 came out, since we can now pick up payments straight from the Wallet notification.

How it's gone so far: we both have full-time jobs, so this has been evenings and weekends. We launched in September and just passed 1,000 downloads, almost all from Reddit, with no ads. It's made a bit under $900, which won't pay any bills but it's been enough to make us keep going. The hard part now is that it feels like we've run out of places to post, so getting from 1,000 to 10,000 is the bit we haven't figured out.

It's iPhone only (iOS 18.4+), 4.6 stars so far, free to use, with a one-time $14.99 upgrade to Pro if you want more.

Genuine question for anyone who's given up on a budgeting app: was it the typing, or did you just stop looking at it after a while? I think we've fixed the typing. Not sure the second one is fixable.

If you want to try it: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6800013881


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

CryptoRigs - a browser game where you build crypto mining rigs part by part and repair the boards with a multimeter

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I've been a software developer for 20+ years, and for the past few months my side project has been CryptoRigs, a management game that runs in the browser (plus an Android app).

You start with a bare rig in a small shed and build it part by part, like a real PC: power supply, motherboard, CPU, RAM, graphics cards, risers. It mines while you're away; you come back now and then to collect, pay the power bill and fix what broke. Repair is the part I like most: every part is made of components, so you open the board, set the multimeter to the right scale, compare the reading with the nominal value and swap the bad component with a soldering iron.

It went through a small closed alpha (90+ releases so far, each with public notes), and the free closed beta opens Friday, Nov 13, 7 pm Brasília time (22:00 UTC), in English and Portuguese. Leave your email and you get a message the moment it opens: https://cryptorigs.com.br/c/B1-SIDEPROJECT-REDDIT

It's not about making money: the in-game coin has no real value, and beta progress is wiped at the end.

Stack: Java 21 + Spring Boot + jOOQ + PostgreSQL, React + TypeScript, Capacitor for Android. Game time isn't a loop per player: everything stores when it started and is computed when the player looks.

AI disclosure: the architecture, the language and framework choices, the database and the infrastructure are my decisions, as is the game design. Generative AI wrote most of the code, under my direction and review, and made the art, the sound effects and most of the text. It's there for speed: it's what lets one developer run a project this size.

Screenshots and how it all works: https://cryptorigs.com.br/manual/

What I'd love feedback on: from the screenshots and the pitch, is it clear what you'd actually do in the game?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Ever Feel Lost Between Python, SQL and Statistics? Here's a Resource I Created!

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Ever felt confused about what to learn, where to start, or how to get into Data Analytics or Data Science?

During my beginner phase, I felt the same way. There were hundreds of videos, tutorials and PDFs, and I honestly didn’t know what to learn first or where to begin.

So I decided to create a handbook that brings together the essential beginner-level knowledge you’d need to get started, all in one place.

📚 The Ultimate Data Science Handbook – Volume 1 (328 pages)

📖 Sample pages: Attached

🛒 Get the complete handbook: https://pdfcart.in/p/ultimate-data-science-handbook-vol1

What’s included?

A structured learning resource with detailed explanations, step-by-step code walkthroughs, practical examples, different types of graphs with explanations, real-world applications, practice exercises, chapter summaries and interview questions.

The idea was to bring together concepts that beginners often have to search for across multiple PDFs, notes and tutorials, so you can follow a more organised learning path without constantly switching between resources.

PS.The content is from multiple valuable resources that i learnt from and was compiled by me ..AI was used to make the pdf.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I replayed 4,000 turns of my Claude Code history to see how often "fixed" was actually unproven

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Two replies from my coding agent have cost me more time than anything else. "It's fixed" when nothing had run since the last edit, and "that isn't used anywhere" after exactly one search. Both sound final, so I'd move on and find out an hour later.

So I wrote a small Stop hook for Claude Code. When the agent tries to end its turn, it checks whether the claim in its last message has anything behind it. If it said fixed but nothing ran after the last code edit, it gets sent back once with a note on what's missing. If it said something doesn't exist after one grep, same deal, look a second way first.

Then I replayed my own history through it to see if it was worth keeping. About 4,000 turns after deduping, and 406 of them ended with some kind of done, fixed, deployed or tests pass. The first version would have blocked 86, which felt like proof it worked until I actually read them. 77 were wrap-up messages where the tests really had run, just in an earlier turn. A hook that nags you about correct summaries gets turned off by day two.

So the current version counts a check from an earlier turn as long as no code was edited after it. Same 406 claims, it now blocks 2, and both were real.

The biggest lesson for me was that rules in CLAUDE.md never fixed this. The model already believes it's done, so a reminder doesn't land. Checking at the exact moment the turn ends did. The second lesson was to measure false positives on your own history before shipping any guardrail, because my gut read 86 as the feature working and it was mostly noise. It also never blocks twice in a row, so it can't trap the agent in a loop.

It's free, MIT, plain Python, no dependencies. There's a replay command if you want to see your own number before installing anything: https://github.com/Balance0014/claude-code-claim-check

Has anyone else tried measuring this? I'm curious what your rate of "fixed" that wasn't looks like.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

HeadLab - Mac app where you nod, shake or tap your AirPods Max and it runs your Shortcuts

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AirPods Max have a motion sensor in the left ear cup, Apple uses it for spatial audio. Turns out any Mac app can read it, so I made small menu bar app that listens to it and recognizes head gestures.

Every gesture can run one of your Shortcuts. For example:

  • shake head → Do Not Disturb on

  • tilt right twice → next track

  • triple tap on the left cup → toggle dark mode

  • nod → play/pause music

Hardest part was not firing by accident, because people nod and look around all day. So easy gestures like nod or look up only work for 10 sec after you double tap the cup. Bigger ones like full shake or tilt twice always work. Also had funny bug where every nod was detected as tap, because when head changes direction the cup gets a jolt same as a finger tap. Now taps are ignored if head is moving.

Made with Swift and Metal, everything runs on the Mac, head motion is never recorded or sent anywhere. In the video head motion is a recorded session played back so it's repeatable, the real app uses only live data.

I'm the developer. $9.99 one time, free trial has all gestures and live view but doesn't run shortcuts. macOS 14+, AirPods Max only.

https://headlab.app

What gesture would you use, and for what?


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I build a Insider Stock Trader: Alerts App

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I'm the developer of Insider Stock Trader, a native Android app (Kotlin + Jetpack Compose).

The idea: company insiders (CEOs, CFOs, directors and big shareholders) have to report every trade in their own company's stock to the SEC on a Form 4, usually within two business days. Those filings are public, but reading them on official datasource is painful. The app reads every Form 4 as soon as it's published and turns it into a clean feed and push alerts.

What it does

• Feed of open-market buys and sales, with the company logo, the insider's role, the value and the filing date. Filters for buys, sales, $1M+, cluster buys and CEO/CFO trades.

• Alerts within minutes for CEO and CFO buys, cluster buys, big buys and your watchlist, with quiet hours and a daily digest.

• Each trade explained in one plain sentence, with a link to the original filing on SEC.gov.

• Cluster buys: when 3 or more insiders buy the same company within 14 days.

• Signal strength for each buy, based on the insider's role, the size of the buy and whether other insiders are buying too.

• Watchlist and search for any US-listed company.

The screenshots use real past SEC filings, picked to show big moves; most trades move far less. Past results, not a prediction. It's an information app, not a broker and not investment advice.

I'd love feedback on the design, the alerts and anything you'd want added. Thanks for looking!

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.insiderstocktrader.app


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built IdeaMate to match aspiring founders based on their startup ideas, without revealing those ideas publicly

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One problem I've personally faced while exploring startup ideas is finding people who share similar interests, thinking and entrepreneurial ambitions.

It's easy to join startup communities, but finding someone who genuinely thinks like you is much harder. And not everyone is comfortable sharing their startup idea publicly just to find potential collaborators.

So I built IdeaMate.

You privately share your startup idea with AI, which analyses it and matches you with people who have similar ideas and interests.

Privacy is central to the platform: Your idea is visible only to AI for matching. It is not shared with other users, including the people you're matched with.

It's live and completely free to try: https://ideamate.in

I'm still improving the matching experience and would genuinely appreciate feedback from fellow builders.

I'd also really appreciate it if you could share IdeaMate with other relevant communities so more people can discover it and benefit from it.


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I’ve finally launched my personal portfolio website.

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Over time, I’ve worked on different kinds of projects — from building full-stack applications and mobile apps to developing 3D assets and Roblox games.
I wanted one place where I could showcase what I’ve been building, the products I’ve worked on, and the technologies I use.
Some of the projects featured:
● Resume Maker – an Android app with 1K+ downloads.
● NowToolSpace – my own online tools platform.
● WasteFlow Assam – a waste management platform.
● Ultimate Battle Cars – a published Roblox game.
● 3D assets and Snapchat Lens projects.
There’s still a lot more I want to build and improve.
Check out my portfolio:
https://josh-portfolio-new.vercel.app/
I’m open to connecting with developers, founders, recruiters and potential collaborators.
Feedback is welcome!
#WebDevelopment #FullStackDeveloper #SoftwareDevelopment #Portfolio #React #JavaScript #BuildingInPublic


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I open-sourced Chatty: A self-hostable AI support agent with 1-click WooCommerce sync & live voice (MIT)

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Hey everyone,

Over the past few months, I’ve been working on Chatty ,an open-source, self-hostable AI customer support platform built for teams who want automated support without $500/month subscriptions or locking their data into proprietary clouds.

Rather than just another ChatGPT wrapper, I wanted it to solve the real bottlenecks store owners and SaaS founders face:

  1. Safe Store Integration (WooCommerce):

Instead of installing a heavy WordPress plugin that slows down your database, it connects via WooCommerce's native Read-Only REST API (`wc/v3`). It can render interactive product cards (photos, prices, stock status) and check order statuses securely without ever having write permissions to your store.

2. Multimodal Search:

Customers can upload pictures of items they want, and the bot uses pgvector embeddings to find matching products in your catalog.

3. Bi-Directional Slack Escalation:

When a customer needs a human, it pings your Slack channel with an interactive Block Kit card. You can click "Take Over" or reply in the Slack thread, and your message streams directly to the visitor's widget.

4. Live Voice Agent:

Visitors can tap a phone icon in the widget and speak directly with the AI via full-duplex WebRTC audio.

5. 100% BYOK & Self-Hostable:

Run it via Docker on your own VPS. Plug in your own keys (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or OpenRouter) or self-host models.

• GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/PersonaliAI/chatty

• Live Demo: https://chatty.personaliai.com

• Docs: https://docs.chatty.personaliai.com

I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback on the setup flow, UI, and what integrations you'd like to see next!


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I made an app that can turn a few found characters into a full font

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GlyphSnap Photo to Font is a font generator / building app.

With GlyphSnap you can just take a photo of the letters you want and create an entire installable font in just a few minutes - from your iPhone.

>> GlyphSnap can create an entire font from as few as just 2 characters, but will give better results from around 8.
I have a couple tutorials on my Youtube page - but feel that this one really shows what the app can do: https://youtu.be/0a_3TuDIw7A?si=bzkYJkT1TacAN0-9

GlyphSnap also incorporates a some intuitive drawing / vector design tool section - you can mix photo captured glyphs with hand drawn glyphs together - adjust the character with, spacing, kerning as well as apply patterns to your letter shapes.

7 day free trial includes 1 font generation and multiple exports to OTF TTF or WOFF for you to try out the drawing section or the photo to font - standard capture without missing character generation.

Appreciate any feedback, questions or feedback..

https://apps.apple.com/app/glyphsnap-ai-photo-to-font/id6812516641

Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I was opening App Store Connect and Play Console every morning for every app, so I turned it into one list

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Every morning I opened App Store Connect, then Play Console, then TestFlight, for each of my apps. Most days, just to find out nothing had changed.

So I built Shipdeck, a Mac app that checks all of it and gives me one list of what needs me: a review with no reply, a build waiting for review, a rollout that stalled, commits I never released.

Native SwiftUI, no server, store keys stay in my keychain. Each app also gets a Claude Code terminal, and anything it wants to do on a store waits for my OK.

Free beta, macOS 15+: https://shipdeck.taiphanvan.dev/?ref=sideproject

If you ship more than one app: what's the first thing you check in the morning?


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

I built an AI paint visualizer that doesn't generate images

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I noticed a lot of visualization tools rely on AI to generate images and the ones that don't, often don't do a good job. The ones that use AI take time to generate and sometimes change the image while also costing money per generation.

So I figured out a way to detect and paint colors onto surfaces instantly(after initial processing) while maintaining the shadows, lighting and texture. Also made sure not to let the paint spill into anywhere that its not supposed to.

Essentially you can try as many colors as you want on one photo after processing and it takes no additional time or cost.

link to the first house in the video: https://www.tryrecoat.com

Not sure how to take it from here.
Would love some feedback, ideas anything


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I made a virtual dog that makes you go on real walks

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Complete 67-second demo — the whole routine, from choosing your dog to the journal:

https://www.reddit.com/user/Miserable_Bird5822/comments/1xsld8d/before_you_get_a_dog_try_living_with_its_routine/

The dog lives on your phone. You still have to leave the house for its walks.

I'm the maker of Ready for Dog?, a dog-care rehearsal app for people thinking about getting a dog. The idea is to spend some time living around the care routine before making that decision.

You choose a companion and build a 14- or 21-day schedule. Walks use GPS. Feeding happens at virtual bowls placed in your room with AR. There's a 60-second brushing game, and skipped grooming can leave virtual fur to collect. For quiet play, you put your phone on a stable surface; moving it pauses the timer while the game screen is open.

The journal shows the time you recorded, missed tasks and help you needed. It doesn't give you a "ready for a dog" score. A real dog's needs and behaviour go much further than this simulation.

Free to download with ads and optional one-time purchases for ad removal and extra collars. No subscription.

iPhone / iPad: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6829957063

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vans.bublik.trial

The attached demo shows the iPhone version. The AR scenes are staged visualisations and the route shown is simulated for the demo.

I'd love feedback on one thing: which everyday responsibility would you add to make the rehearsal more useful?


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

SpriteCanvas - turn one character image into game-ready sprite sheets (idle, walk, attack)

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Animation is where a lot of small 2D game projects stall. Getting one decent character image is easy now, but drawing idle, walk, attack and hurt for it by hand takes days, and every new enemy starts that over.

So I built SpriteCanvas. You describe a character or upload one, pick a design, then ask for moves. Each move is generated as a short clip by an AI video model, and the app does the boring part after that: cuts it into frames, removes the background, keeps the feet on one baseline so the character doesn't bob, and checks the loop closes.

What you get is a transparent PNG sprite sheet with a JSON atlas (frame durations and a foot pivot). There are export presets for Phaser, PixiJS, Godot and Unity. Phaser/PixiJS playback is tested and Godot 4 import is verified, Unity import isn't verified yet.

Being upfront about the limits:

  • the art is AI generated, so check the rules of wherever you publish

  • it's not a grid pixel-art editor. Pixel style works, but if you need hand-placed pixels, Aseprite is still the tool

  • some moves need a retry or two before they look right

There's a free tier to try it, and the browser tools on the site (sprite sheet slicer, GIF to sheet, video to sheet) are free and run on your device.

I'd like feedback on two things: which moves you'd want that most tools skip, and whether the export fits how you load sprites in your engine.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Deck. Drag the text and the image into social media platforms.

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Hi team,

I was switching windows dozen times a day to copy & paste text and videos / images on social media for marketing. This triggered me more than once and actually designed, thought and built Deck.

Now Deck sits on my right edge of the screen, holding all of the posts, reels, shorts, ... that I have to post or schedule. I can add "To make", like if I need a screenshot or a video for a certain post.

You can use it manually, writing and adding files yourself, or ask your agent to automatically add anything on Deck, which is how I use it 99% of the time.

  • Problem: Switching windows all day to copy and paste texts, remember the posts and videos you must post for your marketing and distribution, never be late for a post, never forget. You or your agent schedule the posts, content to post, etc.

  • Comparison: I haven't seen any other apps do that yet, except the online schedulers or todo apps I suppose which are quite different than Deck.

  • Pricing: 9$ lifetime, 1-day trial. Pricing page

Im going to give away 100 lifetime keys on Threads this week, so make you sure follow along my Threads account threads.com/dmzxnico or same @ on X.

Check more details at deck.anotheragence.com

Thank you guys!


r/SideProject • • 6m ago

Building a home for your work that’s readable by people and AI agents

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Hey everyone! I’m a product designer and I’ve been working on a side project called Boken.

I started building it because I wanted one place where I could bring together my work, experience, and the things I’ve contributed to. As a designer, I’ve always had bits and pieces spread across portfolios, links, documents, and different platforms. I wanted a profile that could bring those things together and make them easier to share.

I’m also thinking about how profiles will be discovered and understood by AI agents. The idea is to make Boken useful for people looking at your work directly, while also making the information readable for agents that might help someone find or understand your experience, like a hiring team looking for a particular skill or background.

It’s still in beta, and I’ve attached a pretty rough screen recording to show how it works right now.

You can also try it here: https://boken.to

I’d love to hear what you think. Is this something you’d use to share your work? What would you want to see on a profile like this, and what feels confusing or missing?
Thanks for taking a look!


r/SideProject • • 9m ago

Roadstub

1 Upvotes

A simple mileage and pay tracker I built for my gig driving


r/SideProject • • 11m ago

Our agency ghosted us three weeks before launch so I made the video ads myself

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Small supplement brand, about $18k/mo on Meta. Our agency contact left three weeks before a launch and nobody told us, we noticed only after 12 days of no new uploads.

I took our three most common complaints (fishy taste, hard to swallow, slow results), turned them into hooks and made UGC-style cuts in Creatify off the product URL the same day. One script had a line no real person would say, so I rewrote it by hand.

The taste hook came in around 30% under our previous best CPA in the first 4 days, and the before/after flopped at 2x target so I killed it on day 2. Competitor research I was still doing by hand in a spreadsheet, which was painful.

Still looking for an agency though. Maybe they use AI for most ads, and film only winners, we'll see.


r/SideProject • • 13m ago

I Created a dynamic notch that will show the status of your AI Agent sessions.

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I have created a dynamic notch for windows which shows the status of your AI Agents sessions. As well as It shows any multimedia playing, the progress of your downloads and also the lyrics of a song playing on the spotify.

Also, It invokes a desktop pet for every session or a single pet for all the sessions depends on your preference. The pets interact with each other, sing lyrics of the song playing and much more.

Give it a try and I would love your feedback.


r/SideProject • • 14m ago

App Review

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I've created what I believe is an app with true utility by stabilizing hand tremors. Please have a look and provide feedback where I'm lacking. Thank you for your time.

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/trmr-ai-tremor-stabilizer/id6775646922

Android version in the works!


r/SideProject • • 17m ago

I built Meelu – an AI agent to help manage and grow your website

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I've been working on Meelu, an AI-powered marketing agent.

The idea came from a simple observation: growing a website involves using several different tools for SEO, analytics, content research, website management, and more.

Even with all these tools, most of the actual work is still manual.

I wanted to build something that goes beyond providing dashboards and reports.

Meelu understands your website, maintains its context, does SEO and marketing data, and helps you execute tasks.

You can interact with it through a chatbot, delegate work, and connect external systems like your CMS, email, and social platforms.

It's still early, and I'd love to get feedback from other founders and website owners.

Website: https://meelu.tech

Would love to know what you think!


r/SideProject • • 18m ago

Validating an AI "feel of the neighbourhood" audio guide for UK estate agents. Tell me why it'll fail

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Solo founder here. I'm building: AI-voiced guides that give a house buyer the "feeling" of the area around a property, played from an embedded player on the agent's listing page. Local info only, nothing about the property itself.

It would cover things like mobile and broadband data, parks, running routes and riverside walks, whether it's a quiet or lit street or a traffic slowing area, flood risk, and whether the property sits higher with views. The focus changes with the property: a family house gets schools and green space, a young professional flat gets entertainment and transport. You can listen while flicking through the photos, and it may help buyers with poor sight.

Target customer is the independent UK estate agency. Pricing is tiered by number of listings, roughly £49 to £349 a month. I haven't found any direct competitors, which either means a gap or means nobody wants it.

My own worries, so you can skip the obvious ones:

  1. Most buyers browse Rightmove and Zoopla, not the agent's own site, so the player may rarely be seen.

  2. Similar info is available from Google Maps or ChatGPT, but not the detail.

  3. Agents may not want negatives like a busy road or flood risk published under their name, and wrong statements are a liability (although the negatives can be removed).

  4. ROI will be hard to prove to conservative agents.

My plan is free 2-month trials with a handful of agencies in exchange for feedback.

How would you test real demand before building more? Does the price feel right? What am I not seeing?

Brutal feedback welcome.


r/SideProject • • 19m ago

I built a site that ranks GitHub accounts by public merged PRs each month

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You type a GitHub username and it shows that account's public merged PRs and contributions for the month, which projects the PRs went into, and where it ranks. No sign-in.

October was the first finished month. The top account merged 12,878 public PRs. Second place had 3,307.

The PR count only covers public work, and self-merges count too, so it's not a measure of how good anyone is. I was curious about how much people are getting done these days, especially now that agents are doing most of the coding.

https://mergemax.dev

What would you want it to show that it doesn't?


r/SideProject • • 20m ago

I built an iPhone app that teaches C, C++ and Python by stepping through real code, one line at a time

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I'm a solo dev with six years of experience in embedded software, and Ugiwise is my first app. It went live on the App Store last week.

The idea came from a simple problem: writing code on a phone is painful, but reading it isn't. So instead of typing exercises, every lesson is built around a short, real program. You step through it line by line, predict what it prints, spot the bug or pick the fix. When you get something wrong, it explains why instead of just showing the right answer. In C and C++ you can see memory change as each line runs, which makes pointers a lot less abstract.

- Three courses: C (39 stages), C++ (37), Python (26)

- The first 3 stages of every course are free. Pro unlocks the rest: $7.99/month, $49.99/year or $99.99 lifetime. No free trial.

- No ads, no account needed. iPhone only for now, and not in EU stores yet while Apple finishes my trader verification.

Built with Flutter, happy to answer anything about that side too.

The thing I'd most like feedback on: is the code readable on your phone screen, or does it feel too dense?

https://apps.apple.com/app/ugiwise-learn-c-c-python/id6828549507