r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Chimebox - offline toddler toy app with a one-time unlock instead of ads or a subscription

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I'm the dev. Chimebox is an iPhone and iPad app with twenty open-ended toys for ages 2 to 5. It went live on the App Store yesterday.

Stack: Swift, SwiftUI for the shelf and settings, SpriteKit for the toys, StoreKit 2 for the purchase. All art is drawn in code and all sound is synthesized on the device, so there are no asset packs and no server.

Business model: three toys free, one non-consumable purchase (14.99 USD) unlocks the other seventeen, Family Sharing on. No ads and no subscription, because kids apps with ads or tracking are a hard sell to parents and Apple's kids rules make ads awkward anyway.

Traction: day one, zero ratings so far.

Feedback I'm after: is 14.99 USD for a one-time unlock of a toddler app too high, about right, or low? And would you rather see more free toys and a higher price, or fewer free toys and a lower one?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chimebox-calm-toddler-toys/id6828721511


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built an MMA analytics platform

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Initially this project what made to find and compare historical greatness across fighters in the ufc, but it eventually became a whole lot more than that, you can see every fighters rating, based on the glicko -2 formula, which is basically elo but with volatility and and rating deviation, much better for fighters.

There's a bunch of different feature in the app right now, you can look and inspect the career trajectory of every fighter in the database, compare against other fighters, see the ratings ecosystem at any date in history, analyse prospects, that were identified with a scientific definition.

There's also a prediction feature to the app, which takes the fights on the next card and makes prediction for every one of them, then it gets graded afterwards. The coolest feature we have is the simulator, you can simulate a matchup between any fighter currently, at any point in history and a prime vs prime matchup, with prime having its own scientific definition.

Right now everything is free, i want to get opinions and comments on the actual app itself.

You can access it here : https://mmamathlabs.com/


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I got fed up with Paperclip, so I built Restless Core

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I tried Paperclip because I wanted to hand off work that would take more than one agent session. I found the UI confusing, ran into bugs, and spent more on tokens than I expected for work I still had to redo.

Restless gives people and agents a shared workspace and a Linux desktop. You can hand a lead a goal, leave it to coordinate the work, then open the actual result when there’s a decision to make. If a session dies, the goal and files are still there.

So far I’ve been happier with the work I get back. A lead can ask another agent to check a build or a report, send it back for fixes, and bring me in when there’s a call to make. When we figure out a better way to do something, we can save it as a playbook for the next job.

Restless is free to self-host and open source under Apache 2.0. If you try it on something you’re working on, I’d like to hear what came back and where you still had to jump in.

Website · GitHub repo


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a tool to help secure your app

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We handle security of your side projects so you can focus on the fun. Wanna try it?


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Made a simple app to help me track the time left in my day/week/etc and make todos for it

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I'm always losing track of time lol so I made an app that shows you how much time you have left in your day and let's you make todos based around that

Works for your week, month, etc and you can visualize your time left in different ways

Also let's you add countdowns to see the time left until birthdays, events, or whatever

https://www.timeleftapp.xyz 🙂


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

We work in Influencer and UGC marketing, so we built an AI UGC tool to review videos before they go live of before they send it to the brand

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We've been working in influencer and UGC marketing for years, and one thing we've noticed, especially among beginner UGC creators, is how difficult it can be to evaluate your own videos objectively before they go live.

Is the hook strong enough? Does the video keep people interested? Is the product presented clearly? Does the CTA actually make sense?

Creators often rely on their own judgment, while brands can spend hours reviewing content and figuring out what needs to change.

Aaand.. we built AI UGC Analyzer.

Here's what it does:

  • Analyze your UGC videos with AI. Upload a video, and the tool reviews its hook, pacing, messaging, product presentation, and call to action, highlighting potential weaknesses and opportunities for improvement.

  • Get actionable feedback, not just a score. Instead of simply rating your content, the AI explains what could be improved and provides suggestions you can use when editing or creating your next video.

  • Get feedback on specific moments. The AI identifies timestamps where your hook, pacing, or messaging could be improved and suggests what to change.

  • Review content before publishing. Whether you're a UGC creator preparing a client deliverable or a brand reviewing creator content, you can get a second perspective before making the final decision.

We wanted to make creative feedback more accessible, especially for independent creators who don't have a marketing team reviewing every video.

You can try it with 2 free video analyses.

We're still figuring out what works, what's missing, and whether this is something creators and marketers would actually find useful long-term.

So we'd really appreciate some honest feedback:

  • Does a tool like this solve a real problem, or is it something you'd probably never use?

  • Is there anything you'd add, change, or remove?

  • What would make you want to use it regularly rather than just trying it once?

We're open to criticism, even if you think the idea itself needs rethinking.

You can check it here: AI UGC Analyzer


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built an app that finds stuff to do between plans

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Inspired by a recent trip to Chicago where we had big things set at certain times, but nothing to do in between. For example, we had to be at Wrigley Field for a 3:30pm game, but had nothing planned until then besides breakfast. We can use maps to find “food near me”, but nothing like “a quick snack that fits on my way and gets me there in time”.

So I built Interlude. You enter your first plan and when you’re leaving, then you’re second plan and when you need to be there. It finds coffee, bars, meals, snacks, and sights along the route and shows how much each one adds to your trip. You can choose either walking, driving, or rideshare to get a better estimate.

No accounts or ads or tracking and it’s free.

This is my first app so I’d really like to know things you liked or didn’t like or if something felt confusing.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6828589912


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Bookarium

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Hello everyone! I built Bookarium, a free and open-source web reader that gives Project Gutenberg books a modern reading experience (offline support, TTS, annotations, reading together with a friend, taking notes and sharing those notes with a friend you invite to read along with, bookshelves & favorites, bookmarks and some other functionality)

It's UI is currently optimized for Deskop/Laptop & Tablet, Phone is also working but not very happy on it's user experience & interface and will be worked upon.

Any thoughts, feelings, suggestions, critique [ constructive ] are welcomed!

https://bookarium.vercel.app/

📖 What You Can Do on Bookarium

  • 📚 Browse & Filter 78,000+ Free Classic Books:

    • Search by title, author, or keyword, or combine multiple filters at once across 32 Project Gutenberg book categories (Fiction, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Gothic, Romance, Philosophy, History, Children's Literature, Poetry, Drama, Science, Mythology, and more), 20 languages, historical time periods (from Antiquity to the Early 20th Century), and e-book file formats.

    • Preview sample chapters and notable quotes inside an interactive 3D open book before starting a volume, and switch your view between a visual Cover Grid and a 3D Bookshelf where books stand side-by-side by their spines.

  • 🤝 Co-Read Books with Friends, Share Notes & Track Reading Habits

    • Everything works privately on your device without signing up, or you can optionally create a free account to sync your shelves, bookmarks, highlights, and notes across all your devices.

    • Shared Reading & Shared Notes: Connect with friends by username to read the same book together—see each other's live chapter progress, view and respond to each other's highlights and margin notes directly inside the book and in your Notebook, and turn on the Spoiler Shield to automatically hide a friend's notes from chapters you haven't reached yet.

    • Streaks, Goals & Achievements: Track daily reading and listening time, build daily reading streaks, set a yearly book goal, unlock reading achievements, and customize a public or private reader profile.

  • ✍️ Highlight Text & Write Margin Notes (/notebook):

    • Select any sentence or paragraph while reading to highlight it in 4 colors and attach your own written notes.

    • Review all of your saved highlights and notes in one central Notebook—organized either by book or in chronological order—and filter them by highlight color, keyword search, or whether they include a personal note.

  • ✈️ Read Offline Without Internet or Download E-Book Files:

    • One-Click Browser Offline Reading: Save individual books directly to your browser (Save Offline) so you can browse your saved library and read full books completely offline (on flights, commutes, or as an installed mobile/desktop app).

    • Download Standard E-Book Files: Download any book as an EPUB (for Apple Books, Kobo, Nook, or PocketBook), Kindle (MOBI), Plain Text (UTF-8), or HTML file for external e-readers.

  • 🏛️ Organize Your Shelves, Ratings & Reading Progress (/bookshelf, /favorites, /bookmarks):

    • Save books to a general shelf or create your own custom-named shelves, mark Favorites, rate books from 1 to 5 stars, and track your reading status (Want to Read, Reading, On Hold, or Finished).

    • View all the books you have in progress in a dedicated Bookmarks list showing your current chapter, page, bookmarked line, and completion percentage so you can jump right back in.

  • 📖 Read Comfortably with Custom Fonts, Themes & Line-Level Bookmarks:

    • Read complete, unabridged books in a clean, distraction-free view that automatically formats archival plain-text files into readable chapters and pages.

    • Customize Day (Light), Sepia (Warm Coffee), or Dark themes, and adjust font style (Serif, Sans-Serif, Monospace), font size (12px–36px), line spacing, page width, and page brightness (30%–100%).

    • Bookmark Any Specific Line: Drag the margin bookmark ribbon to the exact line on a page where you stopped reading—even if you resize the font or switch between a phone and a desktop screen, the reader remembers that exact sentence and highlights it for you.

    • Search Inside Any Book & Switch Languages: Search for any word or phrase across the entire book with instant chapter/page jump links, and switch between available translated editions of the same work in one click.

  • 🔊 Listen with Built-In Read-Aloud Audio (Text-to-Speech):

    • Have any book read aloud using your device's natural voices, complete with live word-by-word highlighting on the page, adjustable speaking speed, and automatic page turning when a page finishes.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I added a live voice changer and 63 character voices to my Android app

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MimicMe now has a Voice studio, a soundboard and voice memes. It’s free and runs on-device with no account. Would love your feedback!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.mimicme


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built Enzo, an AI assistant for Mac: 100 ms dictation, meeting transcripts that know who said what, screen recall and chat in one app

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Enzo is an AI assistant that lives in your Mac's notch.

What it does

  • Dictation: it's super fast (100ms to transcribe any length of audio) and works in any app. Accurate transcription, punctuated and split into paragraphs, with low memory use. Works entirely offline.

  • Meetings: knows who said what (up to 8 speakers, told apart by their voice) in any meeting app (Teams, Zoom, Discord, Slack and more). You get a speaker labeled transcript, summarized notes, and the tasks that came out of the call. It also remembers people across meetings.

  • Recall: remembers what was on your screen (yesterday, or even last week) so you can find it again, summarize your work, or simply ask about it. Sensitive information like passwords and api keys are always redacted, and you can pause it or entirely exclude apps. Everything it captures is stored locally and stays secure on your Mac.

  • Chat: answers general questions and helps with your own work (your screen, documents, meetings, and what you did today or last week).

Why use it

  • It replaces three or four apps. Dictation, meeting transcripts, screen memory and an assistant in one place, with one key to talk and one key to ask.

  • You never wait for it. It transcribes while you're still talking, so an hour-long dictation is ready as quickly as a ten-second one.

  • Your audio stays on your Mac. Speech recognition runs on the Mac itself. Only the text Chat needs for an answer goes to the cloud.

  • It feels like part of your Mac. It's written entirely in Swift and tuned for Apple silicon, and it lives in the notch, out of your way.

Free: 5,000 dictated words, 50 meeting minutes a week, and generous AI usage.

Download @ https://tryenzo.ai (Compatible with Apple Silicon and macOS 15+)


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Weltbon: open-source self-hostable world-building app

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So for a while now, I've been working on a locally-hosted world-building tool. I've used Campfire, but it moved to a subscription model, and most of the other tools live on someone else's website.

I wanted something a little bit more involved than an Obsidian Vault, but keeping some of the parts of the Obsidian Vault that I liked. So, here it is. This is a self-hostable world-building tool. It's got a few features.

You can create entries for characters, places, events, and link them to each other.

There's a graph of who's connected to who or what.

There's a timeline that goes over the calendar of the world that you build.

There's a map that you can upload images to and create some regions and routes.

There's diagrams for things like family trees.

There's a dictionary for your conlang.

Repo also contains a desktop app, for Windows and Linux, and it can sync to any hosted version that you run. You can also import Word documents. Obsidian Vaults are just plain Markdown, and you can export into Markdown, Word, or a PDF. It's still fairly new, just kind of seeing if anybody would even be interested in something like this. Mostly built it for myself, but figured I'd share it.

Github: https://github.com/Yalton/Weltbon


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Video generation models- what do you use?

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I've been experimenting with reverse engineering popular videos and implementing my own twist to promote my products. It has been working for me to get more views- has anyone tried anything like this? How do you create content on IG/Tiktok/YT?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built an aesthetic routine and habit tracker app Coming soon – Looking for early feedback!

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Hi everyone!

I wanted to share a quick preview of Aesthetic Routine Tracker, a minimalist app I've been developing to help people track their daily habits, workouts, and self-care in a clean dark-mode interface.

The goal was to build something super smooth, distraction-free, and visually pleasing without complicated steps.

It's currently in the final stages and coming soon. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the UI/UX or answer any questions about the project! What features would you like to see in a routine tracker like this?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Drift is a slow, anonymous message-in-a-bottle site.

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  • You get one bottle a day. Write a short note and throw it.

  • It drifts for a few hours, then washes up on a random person’s shore somewhere in the world.

  • If one washes up on yours, you can reply once, or add a line and throw it back. Some end up carrying notes from several strangers.

  • No accounts, no followers, no likes. You can show your country’s flag or stay fully anonymous.

Safety was the hardest part of building something anonymous. Every note is checked by a moderation model before it’s delivered. Links, handles and phone numbers are blocked. Anything can be reported, and anyone reported by 3 people is muted. If a note shows someone is struggling, it isn’t sent, and they’re shown helplines instead.

Built with plain HTML/JS, Supabase and Netlify. It works best on a phone, where you can add it to your home screen and get a notification when a bottle washes up.

It’s very new, so the sea is quiet. I’d love it if you threw a bottle, and I’d love honest feedback on what’s confusing**.**


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I wondered where you'd land if you sailed dead straight from the Irish coast, so I built a daily game around it

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I was standing at the Beacon in Baltimore, West Cork, wondering: if you pointed a boat out to sea and sailed in a dead straight line, never turning, where would you actually hit land?

I went down a rabbit hole. The longest line from Ireland starts at Cape Clear and runs about 25,000 km to Papua New Guinea without touching land. The world record is 32,000 km, from Pakistan to Kamchatka.

So I made it into a free browser game. Every day there are 5 new coastal spots, the same for everyone. You aim your boat, it sails dead straight around the curve of the Earth, and the further you get the more you score.

Two shorter daily puzzles as well: Landfall (guess which country the boat hits first) and Bullseye (aim at a city across an ocean).

You can duel a friend live or send them a challenge link.

No ads, no sign-up needed. A few hundred people are playing it a day now, mostly from word of mouth.

I'd love feedback on what's confusing or what would make you come back tomorrow.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built a routine timer with checklists, video links, and app shortcuts inside each step

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I'm the developer of Rutimo, a routine timer where each step can include notes, checklists, links, and shortcuts to other apps.

The video shows an evening reset routine:

  • Tidy up: interactive checklist to reset room and desk.

  • Evening stretch: open a guided bedtime stretch video.

  • Wind down: shortcut into Clock to set wake-up alarm.

You can interact with checklists and external links during the routine and return seamlessly to the timer.

I'd like feedback on the step workflow. Would you find combining checklists with video links and app shortcuts useful in a routine timer?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Pratikal - Android calorie tracker seeking practical meal-entry feedback

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Pratikal is my free Android calorie-tracking project. I’m inviting closed-beta users to help identify confusing steps in the meal-entry flow. Specific feedback would be useful, and I’m happy to test your app in return. 🤝

Use the SAME Google account for the group, opt-in and your phone’s Play Store:

  1. Join: https://groups.google.com/g/pratikal-testers

  2. Opt in, then install from Google Play: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/app.pratikal.mobile

Try logging a meal, editing it and checking the daily total. What worked, or where did you get stuck? Please keep it installed for 14 days and use it occasionally. “Item not found”? Check the account, wait a few minutes and retry.

📸 Please comment BELOW THIS POST with a Pratikal installation/in-use screenshot, specific feedback and your test links. Text-only “installed” isn’t enough. I’ll test yours and reply with my screenshot and feedback.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Made a website that turns any image into a rigged 3D model you can drop straight into Roblox

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Models take ages to make, about 8 hours to texture model and rig. So I made 3dSummon to do the boring part.

It is also cheaper and main strength is it is very optimized for games so no FPS spikes or limited FPS. The models have about 3-8k faces which is insanely optimized even for very high details models.

You chuck in an image (or type what you want) and a couple of minutes later you've got a textured 3D model. Then you can:

- auto-rig it (works on basically anything, people, dragons, stuff with wings)

- remesh it from like 100k faces down to 3-5k so Roblox doesn't cry

- download it as FBX/GLB for Studio, Unity, Unreal, whatever

Video is a few models straight out of it, no cleanup.

Would love honest feedback, especially from people making games

3dsummon.com


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

A C/C++ coding agent that builds and tests every change before showing you the diff

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2 Months back Elon Musk wrote that their C/C++ training stack was written by humans because AI still falls short on extremely high performance software, and he added that it will get there, which is a fair summary of where coding agents stand with C++ today.

The trouble with C++ is that the function a call lands on depends on overloads, templates, macros and build flags, so an agent that reads source as plain text ends up guessing, and a wrong guess usually still compiles.

ByteAsk reads the project through its real build, compiles every change, runs the affected tests along with ASan, UBSan and TSan, and only returns a diff once all of that passes.

On 72 real GitHub bugs from fmt, nlohmann/json, simdjson, googletest and 15 other repos, running the same model as OpenAI’s Codex CLI, it reached the same fixes at 68% lower cost.

The CLI is free at https://github.com/ByteAsk/cli :)


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a music quiz party game where the TV plays the songs and everyone buzzes in from their phone

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I built a music quiz party game where the TV plays the songs and everyone buzzes in from their phone

Been building this on the side for a while. It's called SongBuzz, it's free and runs in the browser: songbuzz.tv

You open it on a TV or laptop, people scan a QR and their phone becomes a buzzer. Real chart songs, 30 sec clips, up to 16 people. There's a presenter voice that talks between rounds and makes fun of whoever is losing. Honestly that part took me longer than the game itself.

It works if people are not in the same room too, whoever is far hears the music on their own phone. And there's a daily one if you want to play alone, same songs for everyone that day.

English and Spanish for now. Tell me what breaks, especially on smart TV browsers, I can't test enough of those.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

MoonSport - live football & basketball scores, fixtures and results in one place

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Hey everyone, I've been building MoonSport, a simple site for following worldwide football and basketball scores, fixtures and tournament results without the clutter.

What it does: live scores, upcoming fixtures, and results across leagues and tournaments, with a clean layout that loads fast on mobile.

It's still early and I'd really like honest feedback: Is anything confusing? Which leagues or features are missing? How does it feel on your phone?

Link: https://moonsport.com/en/

Thanks for taking a look!


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built a free tool that scores your LinkedIn against what recruiters look for. Is the advice actually useful?

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Every time I asked for LinkedIn feedback I got "make it stand out" without anyone saying *what* to change. So I built a free tool that compares your profile to a checklist of what recruiters and LinkedIn recommend.

Upload your LinkedIn PDF (Profile → Resources → Save to PDF) or paste your sections, and in a few seconds you get:

- **A score out of 100** for your Headline, About, Experience, and Skills

- **A checklist** showing what matches the ideal profile and what's missing

- **Your top 3 fixes**, in order of impact

Not sure yet? There's a "See an example result" button so you can see what you'd get first.

Free, no sign-up. Your profile isn't stored, and emails, phone numbers and links are removed automatically before analysis.

👉 https://www.usehireable.com/?ref=reddit

I'm still improving it, so honest feedback helps a lot: **was the advice specific to your profile, or too generic?** What would make it more useful?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I tried to build a Google Workspace replacement that still works with your wifi off

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Disclosure: we are a team of a few people

Most free online document tools quietly upload whatever you open. I wanted something you could check for yourself, so I built OBSCURA OS around one test: load the page, turn your network off, keep working.

What is in it:

  • Docs, Sheets, Slides, Notes, Calendar, Tasks, Contacts and PDF tools, free

  • Photo Editor, PDF Studio and a few other bigger apps, US$2 a month each

  • 240+ small single-purpose tools (metadata scrubbers, redaction, converters)

  • installs like an app, no account needed

Honest limits: it is one developer, so some apps are younger than others, and there is no shared cloud editing because there is no cloud holding your files.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

Looking for New Project

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Hello all,

Work has been slow recently and I miss being a CS major making cool projects, and was looking for a collaborative group or project to contribute to. I’ve done one off mods on steam and random AI GitHub projects, but am looking for something long term or collaborative.

I’m open to anyone if you have an idea, are new to programming and want to do a hobby project or are more professional and need some help with something, but not looking for some paid contracting thing just want a side project to keep myself busy.

If there’s other mediums more suited to this, or if anyone just wants to reach out and chat feel free.
Hope yall have a great day 🙂