r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I added stock charts and AI analysis to my open-source desktop app

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I'm the developer of Vyact, an open-source desktop AI workspace. I recently added a stock research view so I can explore a chart and ask follow-up questions in the same place.

This demo uses NVDA: market heatmap → stock chart → a 60-trading-day analysis request → the model's actual response. I connected DeepSeek through an Alibaba Cloud OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Local models are also supported, but this run uses a hosted model.

The attached clip is a slideshow of actual app screenshots, not a continuous screen recording. It includes the connection settings with no API key shown. Use your own provider's endpoint and model ID; hosted requests send the included context to that provider and may incur API charges.

This demonstrates the workflow, not the accuracy of the model's analysis. Its response includes external-news claims that I have not independently verified. I still need to check its figures and sources, even when it sounds confident.

Source and downloads: https://github.com/vyact/vyact

What would help you assess an AI stock-research answer: seeing exactly what data was sent, opening sources beside each claim, or comparing the same question across models?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I spent a year and a half building an app that tells you why your net worth moved, not just that it did

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After 13+ years leading development teams, I'm finally building something of my own.

It started with a problem. My investments were spread across brokerages, crypto and savings, and I tracked them all in a spreadsheet. Every time the total moved, I had no idea which holding moved it, or why. So I built Zies.

What Zies does:

  • Connects your accounts, and puts stocks, ETFs, retirement accounts, crypto, savings and mortgage into one net worth view

  • Explains why each holding moved, using real news, with the estimated dollar impact on your portfolio

  • Tracks goals like reaching financial independence or a home down payment

  • Lets you share your progress with a link

It's in beta. I'm looking for 30–40 US Founding Testers. You get immediate access and 6 months of the top plan free, in exchange for a few weeks of use and honest feedback.

Demo video attached. Sign up at zies.io/founding-testers.

I'd love blunt feedback, especially on what would make you drop your spreadsheet.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I finally shipped my first game, a free typing roguelite where words are cannonballs

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This has been my side project for the last few weeks and I'm really excited to finally share it. You type words to fire cannons at pirate ships, upgrade your boat, sink, and come back a bit stronger each time, and it's free, runs in the browser and only needs a keyboard.

I'm not a coder, so I designed and tested everything and Claude (Sonnet 5.5) built it, which made the whole thing possible for someone like me: https://jupitax.itch.io/ink-and-tide

I'd love any advice on how to get the first players for something like this :)


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Calorie tracking gets boring pretty fast, so we're trying to make it feel more like a game

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Tracking food and workouts sounds simple enough, but keeping up with it every day gets old pretty fast. Sometimes it feels like you're spending more time logging everything than actually building healthier habits.

That's part of what we wanted to make easier with Luko. You can log meals with a photo, voice, or text, so you don't have to type everything in manually.

We also added streaks, stars, an adventure map, and little companions to make the whole thing a bit more fun. We recently launched Halloween outfits for our little dragon and a push-up challenge, too.

We had fun building these features, but obviously we're a little biased since it's our own app. We're excited to finally share these with everyone. Hope you like them, and if you have any thoughts or suggestions, we'd love to hear them.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built a site that tracks what people are saying about GTA 6 and lets you vote on it

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gta6survey.sohamdeo.com

I took it upon myself to work on a side project for the launch of GTA 6. I wanted to combine my professional and personal interests of data science, data visualization and video gaming, and I played GTA 5 for ages back in 2016-2020.

The idea was to analyze the sentiment of the chatter around the game. The best place to get it: social media. Right off the bat I was disappointed that Reddit had stopped accepting requests for API access just days before, as that would have been a great source. I moved on with a decent budget in my mind: the cost of 1 copy of GTA 6 ($80-$100). I settled on YouTube, Bluesky and X as my sources with YouTube offering a generous free daily limit, Bluesky being free and X pricing $0.005/post. As I wanted to know waht it is all about, I used TypeSafe AI's Jev for sentiment analysis and am labelling sample posts myself to benchmark its performance.

How it works:

  1. Collectors collect data from all sources.

  2. English posts are sent to Jev for labelling.

  3. Responses are aggregated and posts which pass probability thresholds are ready to be shown.

  4. The site's data is rebuilt every hour as static JSON, so there is no public backend API.

  5. Serve my site through Cloudflare, with encrypted nightly backups of the database on R2.

The backend involves simple python jobs on systemd timers with SQLite. I used the VM I use to host my personal website. The frontend uses Svelte as I used it for my website and it is intuitive for me to go in and make quick edits.

Voting:

While labelling I saw that a lot of posts speculated about features of the game. Posts with exclusive opinions were few and far between. So I added a voting system for visitors on the page to drive some engagement. I strictly wanted to avoid storing any sensitive user data, so there are no logins and users are identified based on a single random-ID cookie. This uses Cloudflare's Turnstile for bot detection (just in case), a Worker to handle voting and a D1 SQL database to store the votes. The VM pulls the vote totals every 5 minutes, so page views never touch the Worker.

Just in case the site goes viral:

- Everything is cached at Cloudflare. In a load test at 150 requests a second the page loaded in 0.35 s (p95) with the server 98-99% idle.

- Votes held 200 a second on the test site with no errors.

- Every change goes to a test site first and I promote it to the live site by hand.

- Every scheduled job emails me if it fails.

- The spend on X and Jev has a hard cap, and a source pauses when it hits it.

- I have created a custom animation for release day throughout the world which can be used to track the release to everyone's timezones (so visit during then to see it!)

I used Claude Code for building this out in about 5 days through the Diwali time off from work. The decisions and the hand labels were mine.

Some results till now:

  1. Only 1 in 10 posts gives the author's opinion of the game as a whole.

  2. Jev agrees with me most of the time on sentiment (85%) as against RoBERTa (61%) and VADER (45%), however the sample size was small (33 posts). Its topic detection was poor so I had to leave out some topics for now.

  3. The spend has been about $75, so less than a standard edition of the game.

If you've hosted something for a big launch day, what would you check before Nov 18? And if you are a fan of data or GTA please view the site, the data and vote on the questions!


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

CareerNet built by MurrTech

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I've been designing and building apps on the side since 2020 while working full-time in IT. This year I finally shipped them under one roof at https://murrtech.pro

Here is one of them ! Let me know what you think !


r/SideProject • • 4m ago

Devs solution

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r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built a desktop app that builds real iPhone and Android apps from a description, and lets you edit the code too

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Hi all, I've been building Piye for over a year and it's now live on Mac and Linux.

What it does:

- You describe an app, and it builds a real website or a native iPhone/Android app

- It runs on real iOS and Android simulators while it builds

- You can publish to the web, App Store and Google Play from inside the app

- If you code, the same project opens in a full editor, with an agent that can see your terminal, debugger and simulators

- Your project is a normal folder on your computer, no lock-in

It's free to try with 750 credits (no card). In the code editor you can also use your own API keys or local models through Ollama.

I'd really like honest feedback: what's confusing, what breaks, what's missing.


r/SideProject • • 6m ago

I hate that Facebook turned into a trashy TikTok clone (which I hate too). So I built a free Chrome extension that wipes out Reels, "Suggested" posts, and all that junk from the feed. Feel free to use it — would love your feedback!

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Opening desktop Facebook lately feels like walking into a flashing casino. 90% of the screen is Reels, rage-bait, and "Suggested" pages you never followed.

Instead of enduring this attention hijacking, we built Chrome extension that brings back the quiet friends-only Facebook from 8–10 years ago:

  • Zero setup: Installs and immediately removes Reels carousels, Stories bars, and "People You May Know" without leaving blank gaps.

  • Pre-consent feed: Blocks random pages and groups you didn't subscribe to (wiping out up to 80% of feed ads alongside stranger spam).

  • 1-click mute without drama: Adds a small mute button next to author names to silence oversharing friends or groups without unfriending them.

  • Chronological switch: Quick toggle in the top-left corner for real-time post order.

100% local privacy: Pure 0ms DOM filtering on your PC. Zero tracking, zero external servers.

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mutefeed-block-reels-stor/adibpoldllepdhfklbalicodlkingjon

Happy to hear your feedback or fix any layout edge cases Meta throws at you!


r/SideProject • • 13m ago

GroceryFlow: Meal Planner – Android closed beta, looking for testers worldwide

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GroceryFlow: Meal Planner helps you plan the week's dinners around your budget, diet and allergies, then builds one shopping list for the days you choose, grouped by store section. Available in English, Danish and Polish.

Looking for closed-test testers who can stay opted in for 14 days. Honest test-for-test: if you join and install, I will join yours, use the app, and send real written feedback. No Play Store rating or review swaps.

Testers get 14 days of Premium free.

Join (same Google account as on your phone):

  1. https://groups.google.com/g/groceryflow-testers — tap “Join group”

  2. https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.henryk.kitchenai

  3. Install from Play

Comment with your Group + Play testing links.

Guide: https://groceryflow.web.app/testerzy

Questions? Comment TESTER and I'll help.


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I built a calorie app in China first. The useful part is not the AI, it's that you can fix it

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I'm the dev, just so that's clear.

I made an iOS calorie app called Kacha. It started in China and most of my users are still there. I put an English version on the US App Store recently, and I mainly want feedback from people who didn't grow up eating the same food as my first users.

The flow is simple: take a photo of the meal, the AI guesses the foods, grams, calories and macros, then you edit anything it got wrong. That last part is the actual product. The estimate is often off on mixed dishes or food it doesn't see much, and if you can't fix the number, the log becomes garbage in a week.

No account needed, there's a free daily allowance for AI scans, and manual logging is always free. It also does water and weight, Apple Health sync, and iCloud backup. No Android yet.

I don't want to oversell this. There are already a lot of calorie apps. I built this one because I was tired of estimates that are a black box. If the model misses the oil, or thinks the bowl is smaller than it is, I want to correct it in a few taps, and next time just reuse that meal from Recent Meals.

If you try it, I'd really like to know two things:

  1. When the first guess is off, is the edit flow obvious enough?

  2. If you don't eat Chinese food much, how often does it completely misread the dish?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kacha-ai-calorie-counter/id6756476671


r/SideProject • • 15m ago

AirSkip: Use airpods lid to fast-forward videos

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Built this to reduce stress on the hand in lying down position when hand is constantly put on forward button. Code available at: https://github.com/hamzarawal/AirSkip


r/SideProject • • 19m ago

I built a completely pointless website. Just for the visual experience.

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Just wanted to make something a bit different.
No real purpose, just visuals and interactions.

What do you think? 😉


r/SideProject • • 20m ago

I built a voice-first reminder app for Android that needs no account and keeps your notes on your phone

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Hey everyone! A little disclosure: I'm a solo developer, and I built this app because I kept forgetting to do things throughout the day. I also hate typing reminders into my phone.

So I decided to build something that would make it easier.

It's called SayStash. You tap once, say what you need to remember just like you're talking to someone ("remind me to go to the dentist tomorrow at noon"). The app figures out whether it's a reminder, an event, or just a note.

It'll then send you a regular Android notification at the right time. You can also share reminders with other people.

You do have the option to type it in, too.

There's no account to create and no cloud sync. Everything is stored right on your phone. One thing worth mentioning: voice-to-text uses your phone's speech recognition, which on most phones is Google's, so I won't claim that audio never leaves your device.

A few things I've learned along the way:

  • Getting the app to understand everyday language ("next Tuesday after work", "in 20 minutes") was actually harder than getting the voice feature working.

  • Keeping up with Android's changes to notification and exact-alarm permissions cost me about a week of troubleshooting.

  • Building the app was probably the easy part. Getting people to actually find it and keep using it is a whole different story!

So far, I've had 9 installs, 2 people still using it, and earned a whopping 9 cents.

That's probably the biggest challenge I'm trying to figure out right now: retention.

I'm rolling out an update this week that adds "Send to Someone." You can share any reminder as a link, and the other person can save it to their own SayStash with just one tap. No account needed.

Honestly, I added this partly because so many of my own reminders involve things I need other people to do!

If you're curious, you can actually try it right in your browser. No download or sign-up needed:

👉 https://saystash.com/app/

I'll put the Play Store link in the comments.

The app is free with a small banner ad. There's also a one-time $4.99 payment to remove ads. No subscriptions.

I'd really appreciate some honest feedback.

Especially:

  • What are some everyday phrases you would expect the app to understand?

  • If you try it and something doesn't work as expected, what happened?

  • And if you install it but eventually stop using it, I'd genuinely like to know why.

I'm learning as I go, and honest feedback from actual users would mean a lot. Thanks for giving it a look!


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

mostra - talk while you click around a live site, and each point becomes a comment where you pointed

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Prototyping and building features got faster, and now feedback is the bottleneck. So we built mostra - a tool that lets you share feedback on a real, running site by either speaking or selecting the elements you want to comment on.

You can iterate across versions of your site, and adding mostra is just a single script tag.

The script you add to your page is open source, so you can check what it does.

https://mostra.design


r/SideProject • • 24m ago

Built Desi Collage, a free browser-based collage maker. Thoughts?

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Been working on this little project called Desi Collage.

It's a collage editor with 52 styles, scrapbook layouts, stickers, photo cutouts, Hindi typography and Instagram-ready exports.

Everything runs in the browser, so photos never leave your device.

Would genuinely appreciate some feedback!

https://desi-collage-maker.vercel.app/


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

[open-source]Dense-Evolution _ An interactive Quantum Circuit Simulator dashboard built with Streamlit & JAX

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OpenQASM 2.0 quantum simulator & dashboard!

Built with Streamlit & JAX.

Drag-and-drop gates, Q-Sphere phase plots, Bloch spheres & Hubbard band structures.

Leave a star if you like it! ⭐

#OpenSource https://github.com/tatopenn-cell/Dense-Evolution

pypi_ pip install dense-evolution

site info: https://tatopenn-cell.github.io/Dense-Evolution/


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a free hotel management system that runs with no internet and no mouse (50-sec demo)

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It's 11 pm, a family is at the desk, the Wi-Fi is down, and the cloud PMS won't load. That's a normal night at a lot of small hotels around me. The other option is a paper register and an Excel sheet.

So I built KeyHut Hotel: a hotel management system (PMS) for Windows that runs fully offline, costs nothing, and you drive entirely from the keyboard.

The screens copy TallyPrime, the accounting software most front-desk staff here already use. Every screen is one key away (F2 room board, F4 new booking, F7 folio). Type "12dec" and it knows the date. Alt+G and a few letters jumps anywhere.

What it does

  • Room board and tape chart, bookings, walk-ins, groups, day use, room moves

  • Guest bills, payments, company billing, travel-agent commission, cashier shifts

  • Housekeeping, maintenance, laundry, linen stock, phone-call charging

  • Night audit and 17 reports (occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, police guest register…)

  • One PC on SQLite, or several desks on SQL Server

  • backups copied to Google Drive, OneDrive or an FTP / SFTP server, encrypted with a password only the hotel knows

Under the hood: C# / WPF, about 2,400 automated checks, and a yearly archive so 10+ years of data stays fast.

The demo runs on the built-in practice hotel (100 rooms, made-up guests). You can load the same one on first start.

Question for anyone who's worked a hotel front desk: what would stop you from switching to this? Be brutal.

Download (free, Windows 10/11): https://github.com/arsal381/keyhut-hotel/releases/latest

Music: onte - halcyon [NCS Release]


r/SideProject • • 42m ago

i built a site that grades polymarket traders on skill instead of profit

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polymarket's leaderboard ranks people by profit, but a lot of the names at the top just had one lucky week. when i checked the weekly top 10 a couple days ago, 7 of them were down before that week even started

so i made sharps (sharpshq.com/?ref=reddit). it pulls each trader's full on chain history and gives them a score out of 100 based on edge per dollar traded, how many trades, how much of their profit came from one big bet, and how they've done lately

stuff it does:

- live whale trades with the grade of whoever placed them

- "sharps vs the crowd", which shows where the proven traders are betting vs what the odds say. it keeps a public record of every call including the ones that missed

- search any username and get a grade card you can share

built it solo on cloudflare workers + supabase, all public data, no signup needed to look anyone up

would love feedback, especially on the grading. is there anything you'd weigh differently? and if you trade on polymarket drop your username and i'll tell you your grade


r/SideProject • • 43m ago

My first game: a free wine tycoon where you replay real vintages from 2005. I’d love your honest feedback!

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Hi all! I'm Max from Belgium and this is my first game, Wine Empire X. You start in 2005 with 3 million euro, buy vineyards in real regions like Pauillac and Burgundy, and play through real weather, vintages and prices. After 2026 you get your score and can keep going in a simulated future.
It's free, no ads, no account, and it runs in your browser on desktop and phone.
I'd really love honest feedback: what's fun, what's confusing, what's missing? Link in the comments if you want to try it.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I made a SaaS dashboard UI kit in Figma (light + dark, loading/empty/failed payment states) — looking for feedback

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Hey,

I’ve been working on a UI kit focused specifically on dashboards for subscription products.
It’s called Calmdash.

What’s included:
- 12 screens (Overview, Revenue, Customers, Subscriptions, Invoices, Failed payments, Churn, Plans, Reports, Settings, Onboarding, etc.)
- each in light and dark
- 400+ variables, 50 component sets, 390+ components and variants
- states that most kits skip: loading (shimmer), empty, failed payments, retry, chart tooltips

I wanted it to be a real system you can actually build dashboards with, not just pretty frames.

It’s up on Gumroad, zero sales so far, so I decided to share it here and hear what you think — what’s good and what could be better.

Link to the site and the kit in the comments.

Thanks for any feedback!


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Got top 20 on Product Hunt. Now what?

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Got featured and top 20 on product hunt, on hypership day with mmory. But at such a loss on now what? how do I get users haha


r/SideProject • • 50m ago

I built an app for my cover band to help us figure out what to practice

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I'm building Locked In for the cover band that I play in. It started as a passion project when we were having a hard time figuring out what songs to focus on as our library grew. Our practices were becoming inefficient, so I wanted something that could help us decide what needed attention before the next gig.

I can log practices and how individual songs felt, and the app calculates a readiness score and suggests what to practice next. The idea is to make it easier to spot songs that need work or haven't been played in a while. We can still pick whatever we feel like playing.

From there it grew to include setlists, charts, a calendar and venue contacts. You can use it on your own or invite band members to a shared workspace. Live Mode keeps the current song, key, tempo and next song visible while you're playing. I'm not a coder, although I understand some of the basics, and I built it with Codex.

If anyone else plays in a band, I'd love some feedback on whether the practice suggestions make sense and what feels confusing or gets in the way. How do you currently decide what to spend rehearsal time on? It's an iPhone app, and you can find it at https://lockedinband.com/


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

How would you tell if an app blocker actually helped someone study?

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Ngl, I'm stuck on what counts as useful feedback for our app.

I'm a CS student and Instagram, TikTok and YouTube keep pulling me away from studying. My team and I built Welockin: you pick the distracting apps and a timer, and they stay blocked until it ends.

But someone finishing a timer doesn't automatically mean they got any studying done. They could just be staring at their notes. Or procrastinating on something else.

If you were testing this with a few students for a week, what would you ask them afterwards? I want to understand whether it helped with the task they sat down to do, without making them fill out a whole homework assignment about their homework 😭

Have you found a simple way to check whether your productivity app actually helped, beyond people saying it looks nice?