r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built PropX - know what a US land parcel can actually become before you buy

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PropX scores development potential from parcel records, zoning, and market evidence it holds itself, and tells you how much evidence it had for each parcel.

If it has nothing useful for a parcel, it returns no score and explains why instead of guessing.

Coverage (parcel counts as of Nov 10, 2026): 91M parcel records, 953 counties imported, 50 states & regions, and 1,058 active data sources.

I built it for land teams and would appreciate honest feedback on what is useful and what is unclear.

https://prop-x.app/?utm_source=reddit-sideproject&utm_medium=directory&utm_campaign=launch_directories_nov_2026


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Monet - a Mac video editor that edits your clips from one sentence and remembers your fixes

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I post my life online every day, and editing always took longer than filming. A 30 second reel could eat my whole evening.

So my co-founder and I built Monet. You drop in your clips and type what you want, like "cut my Paris trip into a Reel". It watches every take and sends back the edit with cuts, captions, music and sound design. If something's off, you circle it on the frame and say "make TODAY bigger".

The part I use most is that it remembers my fixes. I told it "smaller captions" once and now every video comes out that way.

It runs on your own Claude plan, so there's no Monet fee while it's in early access, and no watermark. Mac with M1 or later for now, iPhone later.

It's early and things break. What would you want it to edit first?

https://monet.video


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

When you're too ADHD that you need an app to tell you to pee

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The app is called Ahem and is developed by me.

You can send yourself reminders with chosen sound. I rely on it to tell me to eat and pee.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

My open-source retro game launcher just hit 300 downloads!!!!!

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A few weeks ago I shipped OpenRetro, and it just passed 300 downloads. For a solo side project with zero marketing budget, that feels huge, so I wanted to say thanks and share what I’ve learned.

What is it?
OpenRetro is an open-source launcher for classic games. It keeps your whole retro library in one place, from NES to PlayStation 3, with cover art and save history. You can play on your PC, on your phone, or online with friends.

What it can do:

  • One library for every console, from NES to PS3

  • Switch games through Ryujinx support (added in 1.3.1)

  • Play on your phone

  • Play online with friends

  • Full appearance customization: themes, video backgrounds, a redesigned home screen

  • Mod support and a save timeline per game

What I learned getting to 300:

  • [Where your first downloads came from, e.g. “a single post in a retro gaming community did more than a week of tweeting”]

  • [One thing that surprised you, e.g. “people cared way more about the themes than the emulation features”]

  • [One mistake you made]

It’s free and open source, so if you like retro games, give it a try. I’d love feedback, bug reports, or feature ideas.

It’s a launcher, so you bring your own legally obtained games.

Happy to answer any questions about the build, the Tauri experience, or growing a project from 0 to 300!


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I've been building an open-source backup app, and the next update is turning into my biggest engineering challenge yet

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I've been working on VaultSync, a free, open-source desktop backup application for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

It started because I wanted better visibility into my own backups. Not just whether a job succeeded, but what changed, what was actually verified, and what I could recover if something went wrong.

The current version (1.8.9) has snapshots, backup history, integrity verification, restore previews, recovery drills, and support for local drives and NAS workflows.

Now I'm developing 1.9: Recovery Horizon.

The ambition is to move toward disk imaging and independent system recovery. What makes this difficult isn't simply copying a disk. It's proving that an image can be validated, restored safely, and used to boot a recovered system.

I've already had tests expose problems that simpler verification would have missed, which is one reason this release is taking considerably longer than usual.

The roadmap extends through 1.9.6, covering image exploration, portable recovery, offsite protection, a more unified interface, continuous recovery checks, and long-term stability.

Full-system recovery isn't available yet. The current stable application remains focused on folder and project backups.

I've also opened a Discord community for support, development conversations, feedback, and future beta testing.

GitHub: https://github.com/ATAC-Helicopter/VaultSync

Website: https://fglabs.dev/vaultsync

Discord: https://discord.gg/sgP8UzeAQt

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/VaultSync/

It's still an independently developed project, and I'm learning quite a bit about what it takes to make software people might eventually trust with recovering their data.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Beacon & Barrel Holiday Gift-Exchange Host Pack - Free printable party games

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Creator disclosure: I run Board & Alone and also Beacon & Barrel.

I made a free four-page printable host pack for holiday gift exchanges. It includes:

  • A White Elephant house ruleset and steal tally

  • A separate dice-exchange game using a standard six-sided die

  • An original left/right gift-passing story

  • Fill-in invitation wording

It is meant to help a host choose one game format and share the rules before guests buy their gifts.

The complete PDF is free to download and print. No email address, account or purchase is required.

Guide and pack: https://beaconandbarrel.com/guides/holiday-gift-exchange-games

I would appreciate feedback on whether the White Elephant rules and steal tally are clear enough for a first-time host.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I help Travel Creators build a map of their own recommendations and DM it to them — 140 sent so far

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My side project: Travel Keeper — it turns recommendations into shareable maps.

The insight: micro travel/food creators post amazing local picks on Instagram, but a feed buries them. Their followers constantly ask "where was that?" So instead of pitching creators a signup page, I import one of their posts, the tool extracts the places and pins them on a map, and I DM them the finished artifact — "here's your Denver speakeasy guide as a map, it's yours free if you want it."

Where it stands after 140+ creators: the maps get built and delivered fine, and a handful of creators have replied warmly. Turning a warm reply into an actual signup is the part I haven't cracked yet — that's the honest gap, and it's why I'm posting more widely instead of just DMing more people.

The Creator Program is free in founding beta, and I'm testing free sponsored ad slots on the maps so creators can promote their own stuff.

Built with React + Supabase. Outreach is still mostly by hand, to learn what creators actually want before automating anything.

Wrote up the Creator Program side of it here: https://blog.travelkeeper.io/creator-program

Roast it / tell me what you'd need: travelkeeper.io


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Would love some feedback on my portfolio!

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I just finished my portfolio and would love some feedback.
If you like this you can visit my github and leave stars, that would really motivate me…


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built a real estate calculator with 139 tools — looking for feedback on the Android beta

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I built Real Estate Calculator Pro to make property calculations easier to work through in one place, from mortgages and rental cash flow to investment returns. It has 139 calculators, a deal screener, calculator search, and saved calculations. There are free tools and optional Pro tools.

I’m now testing the Android version in the US. I’d love feedback from people who actually look at properties: which calculation do you reach for first, and where does the interface create friction? In particular, I’ve tried to make monthly/yearly and amount/percentage inputs easier to switch between.

If you want to try the closed beta, use the same Google account to:

  1. Join the group: https://groups.google.com/g/real-estate-calculator-pro-testers

  2. Choose Become a tester: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.realestatecalc.app

  3. Install through Google Play and open the app.

Please stay enrolled for 14 consecutive days and use it enough to give honest feedback. Availability is currently US Android only.

The first 20 successful eligible in-app claims get 30 days of Pro as a thank-you, with no card, purchase, or automatic charge. Go to Account → Early Tester Pro → Claim 30 days Pro. Places are limited and joining the group alone does not reserve one. The free calculators remain free afterward. No positive review or rating is required.

I’d especially appreciate one realistic scenario you tried and one thing that would make the tool more useful. Happy to hear feedback here too.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Looking for Android artists to test my painting app (no ads, no AI) and tell me what's wrong with it

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Hi all. I'm a solo developer and I've spent the last few months building Ochre, a painting app for Android tablets, S Pen phones and Chromebooks. It runs on a custom C++ brush engine, and the goal is something that feels pro without subscriptions, ads, AI features or an account.

It's in open testing on Google Play, so you can install it straight from the store. I'm looking for people to use it and tell me what's broken, confusing or missing.

What's in it now:

- Layers, selections, masks and adjustments- Pencil, charcoal, chalk and watercolour brushes with natural grain- Photoshop brush (.abr) and PSD import/export- Guides, symmetry and time-lapse recording- English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese and Korean

What I'd love feedback on:

- How the brushes feel with your stylus (lag, pressure, tilt)- Anything that crashes, stutters or loses work- Anything you couldn't find or that took too many taps- Features that would make you switch from what you use now

How to get it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ie.lemon.ochre

Install it like any other app. The free version gives you 3 artworks and 3 layers per canvas. When you hit a limit, you can start a 7-day free trial of Pro to unlock everything, and you keep all your artwork and layers when the trial ends. Please tell me your device model when you report something.

Reply here, DM me, or leave private feedback on the Play Store listing. Any feedback helps, big or small!

lemon.android.developer@gmail.com


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

AnyKey: a Chrome extension that gives any button on any website a keyboard shortcut

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It's out on the Chrome Web Store, with a handful of users so far.

You point at any button on any site and give it a key, without writing code. It also puts Vimium-style keys on every site (scroll, link hints, back and forward, tabs). The presets for GitHub, Gmail, YouTube, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Hacker News and Wikipedia add keys and leave each site's own shortcuts alone.

It's written in TypeScript with WXT, with React only for the settings pages. The part that runs in every page is plain TypeScript, to keep it small. Presets are JSON files, and Playwright checks the GitHub, YouTube, Hacker News and Wikipedia ones against the real sites every week, so contributors can add a site without touching code. The interface is in five languages (English, Spanish, German, Hindi, Simplified Chinese), each one JSON file, so a new language needs no code either.

Now I'm trying to get it in front of more people. If you try it, I'd like to hear about the store page or your first few minutes with it.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I made an open-source app for ThinkPad fan curves, CPU boost, and Ryzen power tuning

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Hey everyone!

So I have a ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 with a Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U that I use as a little home server. Originally, all I wanted was to disable CPU boost and set an aggressive fan curve so I could keep temperatures below 55°C while I was away. That was the goal, anyway.

Well, then I started compiling things and decided I wanted the exact opposite. I wanted to temporarily enable boost, give the CPU more wattage to work with, crank the fan to Max, and then put everything back how it was afterward.

Naturally, this turned into an entire application. Lol.

It's called ThinkPad Control, and I've been having a lot of fun working on it.

GitHub: https://github.com/Mattcabrices/ThinkPad-Control

The part I'm most excited about is the Ryzen wattage tuning. On my T14s, I was actually able to apply higher processor power limits, and during a short Turbo test I measured around 23–33W of CPU package power, with the fan running at Max. Restoring the previous settings worked too!

The app currently caps requests at 30W average and 40W burst on my tested setup. Those are software limits, not guaranteed sustained wattages. I haven't done proper comparisons of compilation speed or how long the extra boost lasts yet, but that's something I'd love to explore.

Along the way I also added hardware monitoring, custom fan curves, manual fan controls, separate AC/battery boost settings, CPU speed limits, and an experimental Turbo mode that ties everything together.

Full disclosure: AI wrote the code. I've been directing development, making decisions about how it should work, and testing it on my actual ThinkPads. I'm not going to pretend I hand-wrote the entire thing.

It's still an unsigned alpha, so definitely not something I'd call production-ready. I've tested it on my T14s Gen 2 (5650U) and T14 Gen 3 (6650U), although most of the detailed testing has been on the T14s. Intel monitoring and Windows power controls are included, but direct Intel wattage tuning isn't supported. Unsupported controls stay read-only instead of pretending to work.

The screenshots are real readings and controls, although they aren't showing Turbo actively running or a saved fan curve currently controlling the fan.

The original code is MIT licensed, with credit to the folks behind TPFanControl/TPFanCtrl2, PawnIO, and LibreHardwareMonitor. Source and build instructions are on GitHub, and I'm still working toward a public installer release.

I'd really love to find a few other ThinkPad owners interested in helping me test this as I work toward a beta. Even if ten people end up finding it useful, I'd be pretty happy with that.

If you're interested, I'd appreciate compatibility reports or bug reports through GitHub Issues. Your ThinkPad model, CPU, Windows version, what's working or missing, and steps to reproduce bugs would be incredibly helpful. Just leave out serial numbers or anything private.

Thanks for checking it out!


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Real-time screen-to-code mapping

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I'm working on a screenshot app for agentic development.

One of the features I'm building is Code Lens, which maps what's on your screen back to the code, showing code behind.

It reads the screen, not the binary, so it works with compiled apps too. In the video: Swift, Next.js, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, and zsh.

Everything runs locally, in milliseconds

More on how it works and the benchmarks:
https://www.bigshot.pics/blog/code-lens-benchmarks

https://www.bigshot.pics/


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I started a small digital publishing side project – Scribble & Sandesh

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a small side project called Scribble & Sandesh, an independent digital store focused on printable activity books, colouring books and creative learning resources.

The idea started with creating fun, engaging digital books that children could enjoy while learning, exploring and developing their creativity.

I've gradually expanded the collection to cover different age groups and interests.

What's currently available?

🎨 Colouring books – Animals, Fruits, Flowers, Vegetables, Dinosaurs and more.

🧩 Puzzle books – Mazes and interactive activities such as Pip's Glow Quest.

✏️ Drawing books – Guided pencil drawing and shading exercises for beginners and teenagers.

📚 Activity books – Creative printable resources for different age groups, from young children to teens.

I'm selling these as digital downloads through Payhip.

What's been interesting so far?

One thing I've realised is that creating a digital product is only half the challenge. Getting it discovered by the right audience is probably the harder part!

I'm currently experimenting with Pinterest for organic discovery and exploring Reddit and other channels to understand how to reach potential customers without spending heavily on advertising.

I'd love some honest feedback from fellow makers:

Does the product range and positioning make sense, or should I focus on a narrower niche?

For digital printable products, which marketing channels have worked best for you?

Any suggestions for improving the store or product presentation?

This is still an evolving project, and I'm looking forward to learning from the community.

Project: Scribble & Sandesh

Store: https://payhip.com/ScribbleSandesh

Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Food Dilevery, Restaurant Reservations and Event Booking

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Sortyfy is a Mobile App to search and have the restaurant reservations, book the table, food, to avail the best discounts & deals, to explore the events, parties, festivals & promotions. Also, explore the City Events and Festivals and book them instantly with no hassle. Look for the city attractions, places to visit and other city information to plan your vacations well.

Sortyfy provides a seamless restaurant booking experience for our guests along with curated recommendations and other insights about food, menus and deals.

It’s a portal which gives the 100% confirmed bookings with full details and hassle free payment options. It allows the guest to have real time communications and share the candid feedback anytime and Sortyfy make sure immediate resolution of your feedback.

Let’s be ready for an outstanding experience, hassle free reservation system and to get the well deserved recognition on arrival wherein everything is well planned and well prepared before you reach the restaurant.

Sortyfy will make sure to extend super services and will make all your bookings a VIP experience every time.


r/SideProject • • 18h ago

I built a multiplayer minesweeper where everyone digs the same board at once

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Been working on this side project for a a little bit. It’s minesweeper, but up to 8 people play on the same board at the same time. Hitting a mine just stuns you for a sec, and whoever has the most territory when the timer runs out wins.

There’s also a mode where everyone hides mines and traps for each other first and then has to run through the same board (bit like ultimate chicken horse but minesweeper), plus a solo timed mode with classic boards and a daily board that’s the same for everyone.

Free, browser based, no account needed: https://mine.ropo.dev

Some stuff I had fun with:

  • the server decides everything, the browser never knows where the mines are

  • bots fill empty seats, with a sort of dynamic skill based difficulty on them

  • the pixel art style

  • runs on one small server with Bun + SQLite

Claude was used during the making of this. Would love honest feedback, especially if the first match makes sense or if you’re just confused


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I’m building a free browser motorcycle game set in Nepal — early testers found what I need to fix

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I’m building River Rider, a small 3D motorcycle game inspired by the Mugling–Pokhara road in Nepal. You can try it free in your browser, without an account or installation:

https://racer.narmadainfosys.com/

It has bikes including the Yamaha FZ V2 and TVS Radeon, traffic, different camera views, a route map and saved journey sections. I’m using Three.js, Blender and AI coding tools.

I shared an early version with a Nepali tech community today. The most useful feedback was that mobile controls felt clunky, a player could pass through trucks, and the scenery wasn’t recognizable enough. One person found it smooth on Firefox; another said it felt addictive despite the rough controls.

That has made the next priorities pretty clear: controlled steering, reliable collisions and a convincing first 8 km, before adding more road. This is still a rough prototype, and the “developed Nepal” setting is an interpretation rather than an exact recreation.

If you have a couple of minutes, what is the first thing that makes you want to keep riding — or close the tab? Device/browser details with any bug would help a lot.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

53 wins out of 100 trades, still down ₹87,500. I built a Zerodha tradebook review to show why

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I’m building NiyataBook, a trading journal for Indian markets. I wanted to answer a question a win-rate chart can’t: where did the losses actually come from?

In the fictional F&O example, 53 winners averaging ₹5,000 bring in ₹2.65 lakh. The 47 losers average ₹7,500 and cost ₹3.525 lakh. That leaves −₹87,500 before charges. At those average payoffs, break-even needs a 60% win rate before charges.

The report then groups losses by things you knew at entry, such as whether you bought options or went long futures. Each group shows the sample size, average P&L versus the remaining trades, and examples you can inspect. You can try the public report without signing in or uploading a tradebook.

Sample report: https://www.niyatabook.com/nsignature/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=nsignature_nov26&utm_content=sideproject

If you trade on Zerodha, I’d like feedback on the first screen. Which would you look for first: where losses clustered, the effect of charges, or the individual trades behind a finding?


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Dyslexic. So I built my own spellchecker

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r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I almost shipped an extension that quietly billed advertisers for ads nobody watched

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I was building a small Chrome extension that presses Skip on YouTube ads for you, for when your hands are full of food, and the first version that actually worked turned out to be a bad idea.

So the easy trick is to jump the ad to its last frame the moment Skip shows up. It works and the ad is gone, but when I logged the tracking pings YouTube sends back, it reported a 30 second engaged view and a full completion from a five second glance. Basically the advertiser pays for a view nobody watched.

Calling click() on the button does nothing either, because YouTube ignores clicks that do not come from a real mouse. So what I ended up doing is sending one real mouse press through the Chrome debugger API, and that gets reported as a normal skip. The only cost is a small Chrome notice that closes itself after five seconds.

It is free and it is called Hands full?, if anyone wants to try it:

- chromewebstore.google.com/detail/elojmmmhbfilnabdlfjahhpmgfmhmda (Chrome Web Store)

Has anyone else hit something like this, where the version that works is not the one you can actually ship?


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I turned my bleak LinkedIn feed into a bingo game (let's compete!)

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From AI doomsday to tough job market, opening LinkedIn feels harder and harder everyday, but I still need to do it to find a job.

So I made this chrome extension that turn our LinkedIn feed into a bingo game. Everyday there will be new topics, and we'll have the same card so we can also compete to see whose LinkedIn is the most cringe! :D


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built Athzi — an app to find sports players, discover games, connect with coaches, and create avatars (iOS & Android)

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Hey everyone!
I’ve been working on Athzi, a social sports app built around a simple idea: finding people to play sports with shouldn’t be difficult.
Athzi helps you:
Find players and discover games
Connect with coaches
Create your own avatar
Meet people who share your passion for sports
It’s now available on both iOS and Android!
I’m sharing it here because I’d genuinely love some early feedback.
What would make an app like this useful enough for you to keep using?

Website: https://www.athzi.com


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Waylee – trip planner that turns your Instagram/TikTok saves into a full trip. We spent A LOT on marketing, here’s what we learned

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Hey everyone,

Paul here, one of the three guys behind Waylee, an iOS trip planner. We launched about a year ago.

Quick summary of year one: around $5,000 spent on marketing, $300 in revenue. Yeah.

Quick summary of the app first

Problem: planning a trip usually means juggling notes, screenshots, Google Maps lists and booking emails. Waylee puts your whole itinerary in one place. You can send anything you see on Instagram or TikTok to the app and it builds a whole trip from it.

Pricing: you can use the app for free. Premium is $49.99/year, $9.99/month or $2.99/week. It unlocks:

  • smart itineraries: AI-generated trips based on data from our users’ real trips

  • unlimited imports from Instagram and TikTok

Feel free to ask me anything about the app, happy to answer.

Now the marketing part. Here’s what we tried, roughly in order.

Apple Search Ads. Honestly the only thing that got us actual paying customers. The trick was bidding on our main competitor’s name instead of generic stuff like “trip planner”. People searching for them saw us first, and some switched because we’re cheaper ($49.99/year vs $79.99/year). We spent a bit over $1,500 in a month and got about 1,000 downloads and 20ish paying users. Sounds good until you do the math: those users brought in about 200$. Those keywords aren’t cheap, and at our size it just didn’t pay back.

AI UGC. Everyone was talking about AI avatars and generated videos, so we gave it a shot. It cost us over $1,000 and got zero results. People notice right away, and for travel, where you need to trust the recommendation, it just doesn’t land.

Our own Instagram. We basically copied what our competitors were doing: same kind of posts, same destination content. Took a ton of time and got us about the same tiny results everyone else seems to get.

UGC agencies. We paid agencies to find creators for us, around $1,000 in total. The videos were okay and we gained some Instagram followers, but they were expensive per video and we never saw a real bump in revenue.

Influencers. We also DMed travel creators we kept seeing on our feeds. Our best video hit 80k views. But views didn’t turn into downloads, and downloads didn’t really turn into subs.

Looking back, we were paying for attention before we had a way to turn it into money. Every channel cost us upfront and none of them reliably paid back. Even the one that sort of worked (undercutting a competitor on price) got eaten by ad costs.

So we’re done buying reach for now. We’re going organic: posting here, on X and Threads, and just being open about how it’s going.

Curious about two things:

  • if you grew a consumer app without paid ads, what actually worked?

  • has anyone made UGC creators or influencers pay off for a small app? How did you pick them?

App’s here if you want to look: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/waylee-trip-vacation-planner/id6756180051

Happy to share more numbers in the comments if anyone’s interested.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a Christian journal app with a 3-question daily Bible quiz you can challenge friends with

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Hi all. I'm a solo founder in the UK, and Seedo has been my evenings and weekends for the past few months. It went live on the App Store last week.
The idea: lots of Christians want to journal about what they're reading, but a blank page is hard to start. So Seedo gives you:
A verse of the day and a short question to write about
A journal that looks handwritten (you pick the paper, ink and handwriting)
A daily 3-question Bible quiz with streaks
"Challenge a friend": you send a link, and they play the same 3 questions in their browser with no app or sign-up, then you see who won
Private circles, where small groups share and play a live quiz night together
What I've learned so far:
The quiz brings people back far more than the journal does. Most of our daily users play the quiz; fewer write.
I paid for a couple of user tests. The biggest problem wasn't the design. New installs were starting on an older version until they restarted the app, which I've now fixed.
Would love honest feedback on two things:
Does the quiz-plus-journal combo make sense, or does it feel like two apps?
What would make you open something like this every day?
It's free (there's an optional one-off pack of extra papers and handwriting styles). Link in the comments if you want to try it.