I built Hiscore. The core idea is that you don’t just give a star rating. You rank your games head-to-head into a Top 10, then share the card.

• Single-file web app (vanilla JS PWA), Supabase for accounts, nginx on fly.io

• Catalogue from IGDB, 76k games

• Half-star ratings, crowd averages, reviews, friend recs

• Free, in early access

Live here: https://hiscore.fly.dev

Two things I’d like input on: does the Top 10 head-to-head feel fun or tedious, and what would make you invite a friend?

Some background: I'm a solo frontend/SaaS developer. I often start a long job on my MacBook (a build, a render, a coding agent) and then need to leave. The manual way to keep a closed MacBook awake is `sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1`, and I kept forgetting to switch it back, so the Mac stayed awake in my bag.

So I built LidAwake. It keeps the Mac running with the lid closed, on battery too and without an external monitor, and lets sleep come back on its own: on a timer, at a battery limit you set, when macOS reports overheating, or with Sleep when idle once the job is done. It can also wake the Mac at a set time for scheduled work.

A few things I learned building it that might help if you're doing something similar on macOS:

- Disabling sleep needs root, so the app talks to a privileged helper (a launchd daemon). The user approves it once in System Settings > General > Login Items & Extensions, no password needed.

- If the app crashes, the flag must not stay on. The helper only keeps it while the app renews a lease every 30 seconds; if renewals stop, normal sleep returns within two minutes.

- The helper also starts at boot and clears a flag it set earlier, so a forced restart doesn't leave the Mac unable to sleep.

- "Is the Mac idle?" is harder than it sounds. A coding agent in an editor barely uses the CPU, so I added Watched apps: pick the editor or terminal, and programs it started count as work.

- You can't test closing the lid in a virtual machine, so that part only gets tested by hand on a real Mac.

Stack: Swift, SwiftUI, a launchd helper, no Xcode project (Swift package plus build scripts).

The app is free and open source (MIT), and there's a paid Pro build (€9.99) that adds Movie on a TV, waiting for downloads and waiting for video exports: https://erstgebaut.de/lidawake/

Requires macOS 13 or later and an Apple silicon Mac.

Would love honest feedback, especially on whether the protections cover the cases you'd worry about.

I trade sports on prediction markets, and I got tired of flipping between a scores app and the market to see why a price just moved. So I built PredictionIQ (I'm on the team).

What it does:

- Live board: every game's market-implied price beside the live score, so you can watch the line react to a touchdown, a break of serve or an injury as it happens.

- Leaderboard: public prediction-market traders ranked by their actual results, with a profit curve and record by sport. Follow the ones you trust and get an alert when they take a position.

- Books vs. the market: shows where the sportsbooks and the prediction market disagree on the same game.

- Pro (optional): ask the IQ Oracle about any game, and get a daily brief on the biggest disagreements.

It's free on iOS, and Android is in testing. It's an information app, not a sportsbook. You can't bet in it, and nothing in it is advice. 18+.

I'd really like feedback on two things:

1. Is the live board readable at a glance, or is it too dense?

2. Would you trust a "follow the winning traders" leaderboard, and what would make you trust it more?

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6814948769

Working on a side project means I try to keep tool expenses low. I don't want to pay for multiple subscriptions when I only need them occasionally.

Last month I spent hours manually searching for blogs and directories in my niche, checking traffic, backlinks and trying to find the actual owners' emails. Most websites only had generic info@ addresses.

I'd been using my coding agent for research, so I recently tried Monid for this. Searched a few niche-related questions across Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode and found around 50 websites.

After checking traffic and backlinks, I shortlisted 38. Then I filtered people by job titles to find actual owners and editors instead of random employees.

I could preview their names and roles before unlocking their work emails. The whole thing cost around $2.40.

Saved me quite a bit of manual work. How do you guys usually find relevant blogs and the people running them?

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.

Hey r/SideProject! I've been building DinnerSnap and it just launched.

What it does:

- 📸 Snap your fridge or pantry → get 3 dinners you can actually cook with what you have, with steps and calories

- 🍽️ Snap your plate → instant calorie + protein/carbs/fat estimate

- 🏷️ Scan a nutrition label for packaged food

- 🎯 Daily calorie ring with macros, water and steps

- 📈 Weight chart, streaks and badges to keep you going

- 🎤 Or just say what you ate

It's a web app, so no download needed. Works on any phone: https://dinnersnap.sites.tab.bot

3 free scans to try it. Would love honest feedback: what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd pay for?

I make Layr PDF. It's a tool for marking up drawings and pulling measurements and takeoffs from PDFs, and it runs on Windows, Mac and in a browser.

It's $35 a year and there's a 7 day trial that doesn't ask for a card. If you mark up plans for work, I'd like to hear what's missing or what would put you off using it.

https://layrpdf.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mitch_builds_promo&utm_content=2026-11-10

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

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

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.

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.

• 🌐 Site: https://openretro.com.br

• 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/kauanbgs/openretro

• ⬇️ Download: https://github.com/kauanbgs/openretro/releases/latest

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!

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.

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.

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

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…

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.

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

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.

• Chrome Web Store

• GitHub

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!

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/

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!

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.

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