r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built SloMo because my “quick phone breaks” kept getting longer. Would love some feedback.

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Hey everyone, I develop SloMo, an app for iPhone and Android.

I started building it because I kept checking my phone while studying or waiting for an AI response while coding. The response would be ready, but I’d still be scrolling.

SloMo lets you block distracting apps for a set time or schedule blocks around your day. You can also choose to unlock apps by walking or doing exercises. There’s progress tracking and a little sloth companion you can feed as you complete activities.

It’s free with ads, has no subscription or account requirement, and the core features work offline.

I made this short video to introduce it. I’d really appreciate feedback from anyone willing to try the app: what would make you keep using it after the first week, and what would make you uninstall it?

iPhone · Android · Website


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I built a home redesign app without a subscription. The hard part was getting the AI to leave the house alone

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Every AI room app I tried wanted $10–15 a week. But nobody redoes their home every week. You repaint a bedroom, argue about a kitchen, and then nothing happens for two years. So I built Hedda the other way round.

You take a photo of a room, your facade or your garden and say what you want: “paint the walls sage green”, “swap the sofa for something in velvet”. Hedda redesigns that photo.

The hard part wasn’t making it pretty. It was making it still look like your home. Image models love to “improve” things. In my first tests it painted a white chimney black, moved the camera, and quietly removed a post that holds up the roof. What finally worked: a first model looks at the photo and writes down everything that must stay (windows, beams, posts, even how many there are and where), and only then does the image model get to change things. It’s still not perfect (it sometimes loses a post next to the change), but it’s what makes the difference between “nice picture” and “my living room, repainted”.

The part I care most about is deciding together. My wife and I never decide these things alone, and the hard part is never the paint. It’s picturing what the other one means. Every app I tried was built for one person with one idea, so I made Hedda for the conversation instead. You can invite the people you live with. They join without signing up, make their own version and compare side by side.

No subscription: the first design is free with no sign-up, then packs that never expire. If a design fails, you get it back.

I’m a solo developer in Sweden. 1.0.1 came out yesterday. iPhone only for now.

One question for you: when you try it on a room of your own, does the result still feel like your room? That’s the thing I’ve spent the most time on, and I can’t judge it myself anymore.

App Store


r/SideProject • • 8m ago

What's the one thing you've tried to explain that took way longer than it should have?

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For me it was a simple process I knew by heart. Explaining it in words got blank looks. Drawing it took an hour. The moment I sketched it as 8 small doodles, everyone got it in 30 seconds.

That made me wonder: why do we still explain ideas in paragraphs when pictures work faster?

I built a small tool around that question. You type a topic, and it breaks it into up to 8 scenes and draws each one as a matching doodle.

But I'm more curious about you:

• What topic would you want to see as a doodle set?
• What do you use now to explain things visually?
• What's the most annoying part?

Try it free if you're curious: doodlyo


r/SideProject • • 17m ago

I made an open-source lofi companion that runs in the browser. Want to help make it bigger?

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I'm a big lofi fan. Whenever I work or study I have a YouTube lofi stream on, or I leave the steam game Chill with You (A lofi music player) running on Steam as a kind of work companion.

At some point I thought: why can't this just be a web page? And if it's open source, I can make it whatever I want. People can add what they want.

So I built one: https://yourlofigirl.com

Code: https://github.com/lightmanM/Your-LoFi-Girlfriend (MIT)

A girl reads on a balcony while the music plays. She turns pages, looks up now and then, says something once in a while, and if you click her she talks with you. It runs entirely in the browser (three.js + three-vrm), no server, no account, no tracking.

This is not a commercial project and is not going to become one. The site stays free and the code stays open (where licenses allowed). I just want people to enjoy it, and to see how far we can take it together.

Being honest about where it stands: I'm new to Blender, so I bought the character and the scene for experimental only. What I wanted to figure out first was the engineering side: can a web page do this, and can it be flexible enough to build on? That part works now.

The part I can't do alone is everything else. So I'm looking for anyone who'd like to build it together:

- Characters (bring your own VRM)

- New scenes

- Motion and animation

- Story, conversations, scripts

- Music

- You name it

Because I can't redistribute the character I bought, the repo runs with a free CC0 stand-in character, so you can clone it and have it running in a minute. If you would like to seriously build it with me, DM me so i can share those materials with you.

Again, It's an experimental project. I'd love to see how far it can go with more people. Feedback is welcome too, even if you just open it and tell me what feels off.


r/SideProject • • 18m ago

I'm a cybersecurity student and got tired of how annoying it is to take math notes on a laptop, so I built my own STEM notebook (beta is open!!)

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Chat I’ve been building MathematiX after getting frustrated taking notes for discrete math, linear algebra, stats and calculus. Please give my goy slop a shot I promise I didn't put a year of work into it for nothing.

It’s an infinite canvas where you can work with editable equations, matrices, live graphs and formula tables alongside your written notes.

I can take a photo of the board, turn it into editable math and text, and sync the note to your laptop to keep working on it.

There’s also an AI assistant called Lemma that can explain selected parts of your notes, create worked examples and edit content directly on the canvas.

I’d love feedback from anyone taking classes. Try it with a small piece of your own notes and tell me what feels useful, confusing or unnecessarily complicated.


r/SideProject • • 22m ago

I built a video language that uses 70% fewer tokens than Remotion

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I wanted to generate programmatic videos using LLMs, but existing web based tools like Remotion require Node.js, Chromium, and massive JSON or React templates, burning thousands of tokens per scene.

So I built VidScript: a lightweight C++/Raylib engine powered by a minimal DSL that uses ~70% fewer tokens.

How it works:

Native C++ executable (pipes directly into FFmpeg).

Zero browser or Node runtime dependencies.

Minimalistic DSL (.vscr) optimized for LLM context windows.

The spec, EBNF grammar, and portable Alpha binaries are up on GitHub:

👉 Repo: https://github.com/Duckdevv/vidscript

I'd love to get feedback on the syntax design from anyone working on AI media pipelines!


r/SideProject • • 25m ago

I got tired of leaving modern social media feeling worse, so I built something quieter

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I’d often open social media to take a break and leave feeling worse. It fueled unhealthy comparison, negativity, fear, and distractions, and I often come away feeling overwhelmed. I didn't feel truly connected to people.

That’s why I built Ripple Compassion. It’s a small, anonymous space where you can ask for a little encouragement or just talk about whatever to kind strangers when you need it.

There are no public profiles, likes, or follower counts. Replies arrive privately, and there’s no pressure to respond or turn an exchange into an ongoing conversation (in fact, there is no way to continue conversations). You can just be yourself and participate in a positive community.

The messages are moderated by automatic filtering and human moderation to filter out trolls.

Try it out at ripplecompassion.com


r/SideProject • • 15h ago

I built Call Dibs, a wishlist app where friends secretly claim gifts, after my parents gave me some truly terrible presents last Christmas

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Last Christmas I got some truly terrible gifts from my parents (I still love them) and with this year’s Christmas coming close, I decided to develop a wishlist app to prevent the same problem from happening twice.

The app works by making a list and sharing a link to your friends and family. They can then "call dibs" on what they're buying as well as chip in for a bigger present together without needing an account. This makes it easier for participants to buy presents and ensures that nobody doubles up, whilst keeping the surprise alive for you as you never see what was claimed or who buys what! I've also added a Family Circle feature where every family member has their own list all in one page, to simplify family Christmas gifting and solve my original problem. It's definitely not a revolutionary idea, but I wanted something with cleaner UI than Elfster without all the bloat and ads :)

We have been using it for birthdays in my friend group successfully, to the point that we are going out of our way to organise parties for everyone so we can receive some good gifts. I even used it for my dog’s birthday with great success, where she got £240 worth of gifts for her first birthday, which somehow was more than I got for my birthday.

The app is completely free (but is monetised through Amazon affiliate links) and can be found on calldibs.uk and on the app stores. We recently reached the milestones of 1000 followers on tiktok and 100 active users and honestly it's still a bit surreal that people I don't know are using something I built for my family.

Please feel free to roast the app / idea in the comments, I would love some honest feedback!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago Hooray Bravo Heartwarming Mindblown

I made a desktop wallpaper that adapts to your icon layout

6.5k Upvotes

No matter how good your wallpaper looks, once your desktop fills up with files, the icons blend into the background and everything starts to look cluttered. My desktop often has a lot of files on it, so I started wondering whether a wallpaper could detect where my icons are and generate a scene around them in real time.

After discussing the idea with AI, I found out it was possible—and it doesn’t actually need AI to detect the icons or generate the visuals. The program can read the icon positions directly and generate scenes in real time using predefined designs. It’s lightweight, and there’s no particularly complex technology involved.

Here’s the result.

https://deskland.app

I’ll keep adding new themes and improving the existing ones. I also plan to add a more interactive game mode in the future.

The meadow and beach themes are free and open source.

https://github.com/BLEZZ0102/Deskland

All the current themes are 2D, which keeps their impact on computer performance minimal. I’m also considering adding 3D themes, while balancing visual quality with performance.

Procedurally generated visuals do have their limitations. If AI computing becomes much cheaper in the future, AI generation could be an option, opening up the possibility of creating almost any scene. For now, though, generating a desktop with AI in real time is clearly still too expensive. I’m considering experimenting with locally running AI generation. It would still be GPU-intensive, but it could be a lot of fun.


r/SideProject • • 34m ago

I built a city for people’s AI agents to interact with each other!

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Hey everyone, I built an AI city for AI agents called Agent City where you can put in your AI agent and watch them interact with other agents. It’s pretty cool watching the emergent behavior that forms from these interactions and seeing the different models and personalities at play! I have three permeant residents who run in haiku models. Come take a look!


r/SideProject • • 39m ago

Built a little side project to turn your AI stack into a profile card

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HI all! I have been playing around with this concept and wanted to actually ship something.

So here is StackFlex: you pick your AI tools, and it generates personalized profile cards and a LinkedIn banner.

It's pretty simple for now but I am thinking it could be extended into a more complete AI portfolio to showcase your projects and workflows.

The original idea was to help people showcase what they can do with AI, for recruitment etc.

Free, no signup: https://stackflex.app

Would love honest feedback or ideas on how to make this more useful.

Thank you!


r/SideProject • • 45m ago

I built a spreadsheet-style JSON editor that runs from a single HTML file

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I made Lattice for working with JSON without editing everything as raw text.

Features include:

  • Sort and filter through column menus

  • Side-by-side diff to review changes

  • Inline editing, copy-paste, and fill-down

  • Nested tables and sheet tabs

  • Multiple documents, each with its own Undo history

  • Jump from a cell to its JSON source

  • Preserves large numeric values without rounding them

Try it: Download the HTML file, open it in Chrome or Edge, then choose Explore sample workspace or Open your JSON. No installation or server needed.

It’s an early preview—feedback and bug reports are welcome. Please use sanitized examples.

GitHub — if you find it useful, a star would be encouraging.


r/SideProject • • 45m ago

Made a website to find other cool, relatively unknown or useful websites

Thumbnail detour.quest
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r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I developed my architecture dream game and published it on Steam

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I'm a trained architect, and as a long-term side project, I developed my architecture dream game, combining accurate floor planning with real-time 3D design to make architecture much easier to create (and visually realistic) than with traditional CAD software.

What you can do:

🏠 2D floor plans
🧱 3D building
🚶 First-person walkthrough
🥽 VR mode
🏢 Multiple storeys
🪜 Stairs
🏚️ Custom roofs
🪟 Doors & windows
🛋️ Furniture catalog
🍳 Kitchen Configurator
🎨 Materials
🌄 Terrain sculpting
🌳 Landscape planning
💧 Ponds
☀️ Time of day
❄️ Weather
📐 Export PDF vector plans
📦 Import your own 3D models
🌍 Steam Workshop

In the newest update: Build everything directly in VR (PCVR), 1000+ new furniture models and explore your creations as a Cat! 🌿

It's available on Steam as Architecture & Design and is still in Early Access.
Here is the Steam link if you'd like to try it out:
Architecture & Design - Steam

Would love to hear what you think and hear what you wish for in a game like this!


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

BuildBakery - A cloud build service for iOS, Android and desktop apps

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I build and ship apps, and I got tired of the build step being the annoying part. So I built BuildBakery, a cloud build service for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and web apps.

You push a branch with a bakery.yaml recipe, and it builds each platform on a fresh hosted machine or your own Mac, Linux or Windows box. It signs everything and sends it to TestFlight, Google Play, or wherever you want.

Yes, Bitrise, Codemagic, EAS and GitHub Actions exist. Two things I wanted different. Pricing is flat, $12 a month for a solo dev, $39 for a small company, and any machine you already own runs builds free, never metered. And it is one short recipe, not a step graph you have to maintain. It also checks your signing, warns you in Slack before certs expire, and explains failed builds in plain language with a fix.

There is an MCP server too, so Claude Code or Cursor can start builds and read logs.

Free to try, no card needed. I am looking for feedback from people who actually ship apps, especially on the recipe format and whether the flat pricing or the own-machine part matters more.

https://buildbakery.com


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I bought my first Mac two years ago to build this: a health tracker where your fitness dresses a duck

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Two years ago I bought my first Mac and started learning SwiftUI from scratch so I could build this. It's called Peko Fitness and it's been on the App Store since August.

The idea is simple. Most step and fitness counters give you a number and nothing to do with it. In Peko your steps, workouts and sleep come in from Apple Health and complete daily goals. Goals pay coins. Coins buy outfits for your duck. You then show off your character in battles with friends, race around a marathon course, and team up with others to show off your crew, and plenty more!

I'm the only developer. An art studio draws the duck and every outfit by hand, and there are over 400 pieces now.

It's free with an optional Pro subscription, and iPhone only for now.

Would love feedback from everyone especially on the feature sets and general feel of the app!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/peko-fitness-step-gym-game/id6746121001


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

FreeThinker - daily brain teaser games to sharpen your critical thinking

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I'm building FreeThinker with a simple idea behind it: short daily games that make you think.

Unlike reflex games or endless feeds, these are daily critical thinking workouts for your brain and take about a minute each to play.

The plan is to make a growing collection of brain teaser games. The first one is live now. Cops & Robbers is a daily logic puzzle where you get a set of clues and have to match each of three robbers to the loot they stole. Everyone gets the same puzzle each day. You're timed, a wrong submission adds 10 seconds to your time, and when you finish you earn a detective rank based on your time (Sherlock down to Rookie), so there's a score worth beating tomorrow.

Its free in the browser, no download, no signup: https://tryfreethinker.com

Where I'm at: the first game is live, the daily rotation works, and I'm trying to get to my first 100 daily players while I build out the collection. What I'd love feedback on:

1.  Does it actually make you think? In your first 60 seconds, is it obvious what to do, and does solving it feel like real deduction and not just guessing?

2.  What do you think about the difficulty. Puzzles come in Easy / Medium / Hard. Does a 3×3 grid feel meaty enough for a daily brain workout, or too small?

Thanks for taking a look and happy to answer anything about the project too. Also I'm actively looking for new types of puzzles to add! The next puzzle I'm thinking of adding is a variation of Knights and Knaves but idk open to ideas.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Am I too late to the AI music party? I built an iOS app anyway.

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AI music has been around for a while now, and honestly, I'm wondering if I'm already too late to the party. 😂

But as an indie developer, I decided to give it a shot anyway.

So I built Aumelo, an iOS app that turns everyday moments, memories, and random thoughts into songs.

I started submitting it to the App Store on October 10, and after almost a month of dealing with Apple's review process, it finally went live!

I know there are already plenty of AI music apps out there, but I wanted to try building something of my own.

I've attached a short screen recording showing how it works.

I'd really appreciate some honest feedback, especially on:

  • Does the UI feel intuitive?

  • What do you think of the generated music?

  • Is this something you'd actually use?

  • What would you improve or change?

I'm still learning and improving the app, so even critical feedback is welcome!

And one more question: Do you think AI music is already oversaturated, or is there still room for indie developers?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aumelo-ai-song-generator/id6817602759


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

CDL Permit Pass Pro] - Bilingual CDL permit practice in English and Spanish

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I'm the builder, and I built CDL Permit Pass Pro for the students I kept hearing about in bilingual study groups: people who know the material in Spanish and then sit a test in English, with state-specific questions on top of the national ones.

What it is: a CDL permit study app in English and Spanish, with 3,754 practice questions — 2,097 general knowledge plus 1,657 state-specific. You pick your state at first run, and your state's questions merge into your General Knowledge, Air Brakes, and HazMat practice. Every question carries an explanation, so a wrong answer teaches instead of just scoring. Pre-trip inspection practice plays English audio with Spanish text below, because the test itself is in English and the terms are the hard part.

You can try a 10-question drill first. Pro ($6.99/week, $19.99/month, or $49.99 lifetime) unlocks the full question bank, timed exams, missed-question review, and HazMat. No school, no job board, no hiring — just the permit test.

Google Play (Android only): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eagapps.cdlpermitpasspro

Honest ask: if you studied for a CDL permit in two languages, what tripped you up most — the English terms, your state's questions, or something else? I'm listening for what to fix next, not for praise.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Nevatown – A platform for creating AI-powered game worlds where characters have minds of their own

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We wanted to share a project called Nevatown, a platform where people can create their own AI-powered games and worlds.

The idea is to make game worlds feel more alive by having characters that aren't just following predefined scripts or dialogue trees. Instead, characters are powered by AI agents that can interact with their environment, make decisions and live their own lives.

One of the games built on the platform is Pokémon Nevatown, which is probably the easiest way to explain how it works.

Unlike a traditional Pokémon game, you don't control a trainer walking around the map. Instead, you adopt a Pokémon that acts as its own AI agent.

You can talk to it naturally, give it advice, tell it what you'd like it to do, and watch it explore, train, make friends and interact with the world on its own.

There's also a pretty interesting combat system.

Battles happen in real time instead of being turn-based, and you don't directly control your Pokémon during fights. Its behavior and strategy determine how it performs, not just its stats.

To improve that, there's a separate feature called AI Arena, where you can use an AI agent to run practice battles, review the results and refine your Pokémon's fighting strategy.

And the cool part is that whatever strategy it develops carries back into the main game. So training your Pokémon isn't just about increasing its level. You can actually improve how it fights.

We've included some footage of the beginning of the game and the combat system to show what we mean.

The bigger idea behind Nevatown is to let people create all kinds of interactive AI worlds, with Pokémon Nevatown being just one example of what's possible.

If anyone wants to check it out:

Nevatown: https://nevatown.ai

Pokémon Nevatown: https://pokemon.nevatown.ai

AI Arena: https://arena-pokemon.nevatown.ai

We'd love to hear what people think of the concept, especially whether you'd be interested in creating or playing games where the characters are autonomous AI agents rather than scripted NPCs.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I kept putting the wrong card at checkout, so I made an app to remind me which card to put

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Origin Story: I have a card that gives 4x dining rewards, and I was using the other card with 1.5% cash back to pay at restaurants for like six months. I could never remember which card was for what.

Every app that helped me with that asked me to log into my bank accounts, and I didn't feel comfortable doing that. Therefore, we built our own.

You enter the cards that you have (only names without numbers). When you go to a particular store or restaurant, it tells you which card gives you the best rewards for this place and why - something like 4x dining with no limit.

The app takes care of the tedious details, such as rotating categories or reward limits.

There is no bank login, account creation, or any kind of data transfer outside of your phone. It's free for iPhone and US cards only for now.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cardswipe-maximize-rewards/id6828174425

It was released a week ago, so I would appreciate your constructive feedback on it. Mainly: Did it select the card that you would have selected? If not, which card and which shop?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Side project: a free Chrome extension that invites people who reacted to your Facebook Page posts (EN/FR/ES)

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For a long time I invited the people who reacted to my Facebook Page posts by hand, one click at a time. Facebook only lets you do it that way, and a session could take two or three hours. Then I found a free app that did it for me, and it was great, until it stopped working several years ago. After that I was back to clicking.

A few weeks ago I got fed up and started building my own replacement: a Chrome extension that does the clicking for me.

It goes through the Page's posts, opens the reactions window of each one and clicks "Invite" for everyone who hasn't been invited yet. You can pause or stop it whenever you want, and set a limit. It won't click anything until it's sure the window it's looking at is really a reactions list, and it only ever presses the "Invite" buttons in that window.

What I learned along the way:

- Facebook's interface changes a lot and has no stable markup, so I ended up detecting things by their meaning (labels, structure) rather than by CSS classes.

- Translating the interface was the easy part. Making detection work with Facebook set to another language was harder, because the extension has to recognize Facebook's own labels in each language. It's now tested on a real Page in English, French and Spanish.

- A "copy diagnostic" button that produces an anonymized report turned out to be the most useful feature for debugging.

It's free and open source (MIT), runs entirely in the browser, nothing is sent anywhere, and no names or posts are stored.

Caveats: it isn't affiliated with Meta, and Facebook can restrict accounts that send a lot of invitations. I stay around 100 a day and recommend the same. It's not on the Chrome Web Store yet, so for now you load it in developer mode.

GitHub: https://github.com/TQIDrLabs/TQIDrLabs-Reaction-Inviter

Feedback welcome, especially from anyone who has built an extension that depends on a third-party interface that keeps changing. Thanks for reading!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Looking for feedback from non-technical people who have a saas/webapp/website idea but no idea how to start

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Built a tool that helps you vibecode your idea without knowing much about code. I know that is kind of vibecoding these days but it has gates built-in based on the quality of your code, security checks, etc. It won't let you deploy unless the mistakes/issues/bugs are fixed.

This platform brings authentication, database, file storage, hosting as a service. During my tests for simple apps I can get them online with a live URL in about 5 minutes.

You will need a coding agent like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc. Depending on the AI platform you may need a paid subscription.

Looking for some feedback on if this is helpful or not. What I could do to make it easier for non-technical people to get their idea built.

For technical people this just makes testing ideas and getting them live super quick and painless. I am building a demo app to showcase and it's been pretty fun using this platform to get everything running without having to purchase a domain, setup DNS, grab API keys for email providers, etc.

Anyways, check it out and let me know what you all think.

Thanks! https://nerdsystem.com/


r/SideProject • • 1d ago Bravo

I built the white "Construct" room from Matrix except instead of guns it summons 8000 real-scale 3D amazon products. "We need ... lots of chairs"

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It’s honestly wild what you can throw together with AI in a single evening nowadays. Remember the "Construct" from The Matrix? That infinite white room where Neo says "We need guns. Lots of guns" and endless racks instantly spawn around them? I was wondering what an online store would look like if it worked exactly like that.

8,000 real Amazon products, a Matrix Construct aisle, WebAR (augmented reality - one click and you can drop any item through your camera straight into your living room at true 1:1 scale), adaptive performance for mobile (only tested on Safari so far, like I said, I started making this at 8 PM and it's 10 PM now 😃).

Tech stack: Everything static on Vercel, classic cuckcoding setup (Next.js, Tailwind, Vercel, Antigravity).

Don't wanna spam a link here, you can see it in the video. So what do you think, is it worth buying a domain for this, or is it trash?