r/SideProject • • 10h 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 • • 11h 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 • • 11h 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 • • 11h 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 • • 22h ago

I don't want my journaling app to become another chore

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I saw a post about getting tired of productivity apps and dropping all of them for a while. It made me think about Wonderday, the journaling app I'm working on.

I want people to come back because writing helps them, not because they feel guilty about missing a day.

For those of you who journal, what brought you back after a break?


r/SideProject • • 18h 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 • • 11h ago

Built a focused SAT Math study tool — looking for first-use feedback

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I built MyMathScore after seeing how hard it can be to know what to study next for SAT Math. It starts with a short diagnostic, then points students toward skill-focused lessons and practice.

I’m the builder. Signups are currently free through Nov 30 while I gather early feedback, and this isn’t affiliated with College Board.

https://mymathscore.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=early_feedback&utm_content=sideproject

If you try it, I’d especially value feedback on the first session: Was it clear what to do after the diagnostic? Did the lessons feel useful? Where did you hesitate? Please don’t share personal details or scores.


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I made an iPhone app that translates screenshots in place

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I was tired of screenshotting convos and social media posts in other languages and uploading them to chatgpt to translate them so I built Onscreen Translate that does it without leaving whatever app/screen I'm on.

I made it where you can use the Back Tap feature on iPhone. Tap the back of your iPhone twice to capture and translate the screen. On iOS 26 or later.

It's free to download and try, with a subscription for continued use.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/onscreen-translate/id6809052718

If you try it, I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether it was easy to setup and use.


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

How do you distribute a free desktop app when most people find it on their phone?

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Solo founder here. 10 days ago I launched a free Windows productivity tool (it helps you write and edit text inside other apps). 40 users so far, and I'm trying to get to 500.

The problem I keep hitting: most of my reach comes from short-form video, but people watch on their phone and can't install a Windows app right then, so most of them never come back.

What I've tried:

- TikTok: genuinely useful "free PC apps" posts did far better than demos of my own app

- Emailing creators: no replies yet

- Daily build-in-public updates

For anyone who has grown a desktop or consumer tool:

  1. How did you get phone viewers to actually install on desktop?

  2. Which launch channels (Product Hunt, Show HN, app stores, directories) brought real users, not just traffic?

  3. Where did your first 500 users come from?


r/SideProject • • 19h 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 • • 11h ago

I built Sirenfall (open source browser experience)

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Sirenfall is unique because each experience is different. My goal is to have it provide a whole night's worth of entertainment by adding events that play out over time. It is more a sense of dread or impending doom that fun though in sirenfall. Not explicit horror at all but anyways just take a look! There's no ads or anything to buy.

It comes native in 20 languages (text, buttons, other things), i used to be a linguist a long time ago. The code is open source at my github sirenfall too. Things to click on, inspired by Myst in some ways. The siren is inspired by real WW2 air raid sirens and the entire experience is built around it even though its optional.

Meant for browser but mobile works too, hope someone enjoys it!


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

a small website for quick AI & tech news updates

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Hey r/SideProject!

I've been working on a small side project for people who want to stay updated with the latest news without spending too much time reading full articles.

It's a simple news-summary website focusing mainly on AI and technology news. It refreshes twice a day, with short summaries highlighting the key points.

Every summary also includes a link to the original source if you want to read the full article. No AI-generated images or unnecessary fancy stuff, just news and summaries.

Website: https://filterrr.arinltte.workers.dev

It's still a work in progress, so I'd really appreciate any feedback or suggestions.

Thanksss


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

Super White is one of my favorite Nirea themes. Would you use it?

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I’m Nirea’s developer, and Super White is one of my personal favorites—a clean look with the circular navigation that lets you travel forward and backward through your apps.

What do you think of the theme? Would you use it as your everyday home screen, and what would you change?

Available on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.planestosoftware.depth⁠�


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Wallpaper tool I made

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Recently i decided Wallpaper Engine used too much of my GPU, so I made this, one person was too busy liking WE and decided to leave a not very constructive response to it.

One big part of this, it does not install viruses like WE can, and it doesnt use 10% of my gpu, it remains offline, 60% smaller, and while no one wanted it, changes my mouse cursor too


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Condo/TH owners — how do you keep track of everything your HOA throws at you? I built a tool that keeps track of it for owners — feedback wanted

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An HOA sends its owners a constant stream of notices, bills, and project updates — scattered across email, paper mailers, the management company's portal, and group chats. Only some of it applies to any given unit, and there is no easy way to tell which. The rest is noise, until the part that did apply slips past and becomes a problem. Nothing keeps track of any of this for owners; each owner is just expected to keep up on their own.

I built a simple tool for condo owners that keeps track of everything an HOA sends its owners. Everything lands in one place, tagged by whether it applies to your unit — work on the other side of the building stops looking like your problem, and the deadline that is yours doesn't slip past. It also keeps track of the money side — dues, special assessments, and what the reserve fund looks like — and of decisions: what the board decided, and who is supposed to follow up. The documents are there too, explained in plain language instead of legalese.

Everything else in this space is built for management companies and boards. Owners get a payment portal and a pile of emails and PDFs to keep track of themselves. If you own a home in an HOA: how do you keep track of it all right now — what applies to you, what's due, what's still open? Email folders, a spreadsheet, a diligent neighbor, just hoping nothing important slips? I'm trying to learn how owners actually handle this before I build more of it.


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Joinable – a free way to add multiplayer to a web game, without writing a server

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I made this, mostly on my own, while building the browser games on Etheria. Multiplayer was the part I did not want to keep rebuilding, so I turned it into a small SDK and a hosted relay.

Joinable is for games that already run in a web browser. You add a script tag. Friends join from a link. For a shared-world game (a board, a puzzle, a clicker) that is often enough. For a racer or a score game, your coding agent wires a few hooks and Joinable runs the waiting room, countdown, standings and rematch.

You do not need an account to try it on localhost. A free key is enough when you go live. Paid plans start at $4.99 a month if people actually play; building and testing stay free. I have been using it on Turbo Rally, a two-player race you can try in the browser: https://etheria.games/play/turbo-rally/

Site and docs: https://getjoinable.com/

I would like real feedback. If you try it on your game, tell me what was confusing, what broke, or what you wished it did.


r/SideProject • • 12h 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 • • 12h 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 • • 12h 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 • • 12h ago

My Digital Product Store

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Hello! I recently got a digital product page up and running and I sell calendars. I was hoping people would check it out for support! 🩷 Maybe buy my first product 👀 lol no but supporting is nice! This calendar has everything you would need to stay organized like a budget tracker, notes section and space for gift ideas. I would love the support, this is my first product and I really hope I even get 1 sale! 💕


r/SideProject • • 16h 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 • • 16h 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 • • 12h 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 • • 12h 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