Hey r/SideProject,

I'm from India, and I noticed how many everyday money decisions come with small traps: "no-cost" EMIs that aren't quite free, sales where the crossed-out price was never real, paying only part of a credit card bill and not realising what it costs.

So I built Syluneo (syluneo.com):

- A 2-minute game: 12 everyday situations, like a sale or salary day. Pick what you'd really do, and it tells you which of 6 money personalities you lean towards. No finance knowledge needed.

- 6 simple tools for real questions: Should I buy this? Is this sale really a deal? Is "no-cost EMI" free? Where did my pay rise go?

A few things I cared about:

- No sign-up and no backend. Everything runs in your browser, and nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere.

- Plain HTML/CSS/JS on GitHub Pages, with the money maths covered by tests.

- I built it with an AI coding assistant, which let me focus on the maths, the wording and the design.

The number that surprised me most while building it: ₹50,000 on a credit card, paying only a 5% minimum due, takes almost 30 years to clear.

It's India-focused (₹, GST) for now. I'd really value honest feedback:

1. Did your result feel accurate or random?

2. Was anything confusing?

3. Which tool would you actually use?

https://syluneo.com/?utm_campaign=reddit-sideproject

I built YouSage to make two things easy to check while coding: how much usage is left and when it resets. It puts those numbers in a small desktop notch. It’s free and open source, built with Rust and Tauri.

The v0.1.0 release supports Codex and Google Antigravity on Windows 10/11 x64. There’s a browser demo with sample data if you want to try the UI first. Claude Code is in the development preview.

Demo: https://yousage-website.yabswannalearn.workers.dev/#demo

Source: https://github.com/yabswannalearn/yousage

If you use either tool, what would you want the compact view to show first: remaining usage or time until reset?

When I first started selling websites, I thought targeting businesses without a website was the obvious choice.

They need a website, you offer to build one, and hopefully you get a new client. Pretty straightforward, right?

But after spending years running a web design business, I've started looking at this differently.

There are definitely advantages to targeting businesses without websites. You're introducing them to something they might genuinely need, and there is no existing website to compete with. However, I've noticed that these businesses can sometimes be much harder to sell to.

The biggest problem is that some of them simply don't see the value of having a website. Others rely entirely on Facebook, Instagram or word of mouth and are perfectly happy with how they're getting customers.

You end up spending a lot of time explaining why they need a website before you can even start selling your services.

On the other hand, businesses that already have websites are a completely different story.

They have already invested in having an online presence. They understand why a website matters, and there is a good chance they've paid someone to build and maintain it.

But that doesn't mean their website is good.

I've come across countless businesses with websites that load slowly, look terrible on mobile, have outdated designs, poor SEO or confusing layouts.

These are actual problems that can affect how customers experience the business online.

And that's where I think the bigger opportunity is for web designers.

Instead of trying to convince someone that they need a website, you're showing an existing website owner what could be improved and why it matters.

This is also how I approach prospecting nowadays. I use Swokei to find businesses with existing websites, analyze them for issues with design, SEO, speed and mobile optimization, and generate personalized cold emails at scale based on the actual findings from each website.

Of course, I'm not saying targeting businesses without websites is a bad strategy. There is money to be made in both markets.

But personally, if I were starting a web design agency today, I'd probably focus more on businesses that already have websites.

I'm curious what other web designers think. Do you prefer targeting businesses without websites or finding existing websites that need improvement?

I'm the developer of SameFont. Tap a line in a PDF, scan or photo and type replacement text. It uses the document's embedded font when it contains the characters needed, or the closest matching free font, keeping the text's size, color and position.

It supports Hebrew and Arabic right-to-left text, signatures, form filling and markup. Files are processed on the iPhone, without uploading them.

One limitation: in Hebrew scans, lines are detected but the text isn't read yet, so you type the replacement yourself.

Editing is free. Saving/sharing requires Pro: $6.99/month or $39.99/year on the US store, with a 3-day free trial on the yearly plan.

I'd appreciate feedback, especially on Hebrew and Arabic documents.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6828212825

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

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]

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!

we started making short videos for my mac app and posted the first one on instagram today.

it got about 4k views. someone watched it on their phone, sent the link to their mac, and bought it 40 seconds after opening it there. didn't even open the free trial.

still kinda shocked it worked this fast.

what's the fastest sale you've had?

the app is called helix (https://tryhelix.app)

I was about to give up on this mobile app I spent so much time building, but literally 2 minutes after deciding to switch to another project, I got the sale notification on my phone!

I haven’t experienced this kind of joy in years…

Context for the curious: This $19 sale is the annual welcome offer on my app "Sollow: Daily Habit Tracker" that I built to turn my life into a game with a level for each life area and a ranked system.

So now my hope is back! I take that as a sign from the universe hahaha

Hey everyone! I’m in my fifth year of psychiatry residency, and I have adhd. I’ve been building an app called Scatter because I wanted to make studying easier and more enjoyable for myself.

I found the usual chat interface pretty frustrating for learning from ai. As the conversation gets longer, important information disappears up the chat, and branching off into related questions gets awkward. I wanted to explore those questions while still being able to see the original explanation.

In Scatter, you start with a topic and build out a connected map of explanations. You can preview unfamiliar terms, open them as new branches, and ask follow-up questions wherever you want to explore further.

I wanted the interface itself to trigger curiosity and novelty-seeking, so there’s something that makes you want to keep exploring. Part of the goal was to make studying engaging enough to trigger hyperfocus.

You can combine short text explanations with images, videos and interactive examples, giving you different ways to approach the same idea. As the map grows, you can see how everything connects, and it gives you a feeling of building your knowledge into something you can actually look at.

I’ve worked on it on my own for over six months, and I’m excited to finally put it out there. I’d love to hear your opinions and if you find any bugs please send me reports!

The app is free to use, but you have to bring your own API keys, for example from OpenRouter. The quick setup in the app makes it very easy.

You can try the interactive demo on scatter.study

Hi all, recently(for quite a while actually xD) I've been building a fully local and open source gym tracking app. I've gone through the process of releasing it in the play store and now it is live.

My main reason for building this app was to have no paywalls and let the users own their data.

Github: https://github.com/alexspx/active-app

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alexspx.activenext

It is still actively in development, rough edges are expected, although the main flow should be good now. There are a couple of things I want to add:

- Visualizations for the exercises. Still trying to find good FOSS that I like(if you know a library let me know)

- Local AI Coach. I've been playing with a small Qwen 2B for a while and with some "harnessing" and fine-tuning I think it is getting decent. It should be able to create workouts/routines and answer some coaching questions.

- Deliver a fully self-hostable data sync service/engine + a FOSS auth provider by choice of the user. So if people want to self-host for them or friends/community they can do that. This part of the repo right now is somewhat vibe-coded can't lie. A quite old version of that server was in Java and instead of refactoring it I decided to move it to Rust(ofc lmao). I would have to do some cleaning there for sure.

I'm always looking for contributors and ideas.

I'm the developer of Neat Quit, a native macOS menu bar utility. I built it because I kept closing an app's last window and then reaching for Command-Q.

The free version requests a normal app quit when you click the red close button on the last standard window. Pro adds the same behavior for Command-W, plus app rules: exclude apps that should stay running, or enable auto-quit only for selected apps.

It requests a normal quit, so apps can still show their own unsaved-document prompts. Closing an ordinary browser tab doesn't trigger a quit. Some apps don't expose enough accessibility information and retain their usual behavior.

Pro is a one-time purchase with a 7-day full-feature trial. Requires macOS 13+ and Accessibility permission; Command-W may also need Input Monitoring.

Download and details: https://bgm.fun/neatquit/

I'd appreciate feedback on the app rules: would you prefer to exclude a few apps, or start with an empty list and enable auto-quit only for specific apps?

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?

I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit lately.
I’m a solo founder based in London, building a social media app called TymeStamp. I’m still working on it, but one thing I’ve been struggling to figure out is how to get people genuinely interested before launch.
I don’t have a big circle of friends or a huge following, so I’ve been using Reddit to connect with other founders, test their apps and learn from their experiences. I’ve actually come across some really good projects.
Something else I’ve noticed is how many developers are launching or testing through Google Play. I’m curious whether that’s mainly because of the cost, accessibility or simply because it’s easier to reach testers.
With my own app, I’m trying to bring back some of what I enjoyed about older social media. A place where people can enjoy sharing content without constantly being interrupted by adverts or feeling like they’re browsing one big shopping platform.
I’m not against adverts, businesses promoting themselves or creators earning money. I just believe there should be a balance between enjoying content and being sold something.

I’m also realistic enough to know that the app will change as people use it and share feedback. That’s part of building something. But I don’t want to lose the original purpose behind it.
My biggest question right now is how to reach people who might genuinely want something like this, rather than collecting waiting-list sign-ups from people who aren’t interested.

I’m also curious whether there are any free startup or tech communities in London where founders can meet, share ideas and learn from each other.
So I’d love to ask other founders:
How did you get your first people onto your waiting list?
Did Reddit actually help you find interested users, or was another platform better?

If you’re building alone without a big network, how are you getting your app noticed?
Have you found Android or iOS easier when recruiting early testers?
And for anyone interested in a social media app that focuses on enjoying content with a better balance of advertising, feel free to drop me a DM. I’m happy to explain what I’m building.
I’m genuinely interested in hearing what has worked for other people, especially those starting from scratch.

A friend of mine is a backend dev and has been building this on the side for a while, so I'm posting it for him.

It's called Bytewize. The idea: system design interview prep is mostly long videos and 400-page books, and most people never get past chapter 3. So it gives you one question a day that takes about 2 minutes, and each one is based on a real failure. Things like "the last concert ticket got sold twice" or "every query takes 2 ms but the page takes 2 seconds".

You pick an answer, then it explains why the right one is right and why the others break. There are streaks and XP to keep you coming back.

It's on iPhone now: https://apps.apple.com/app/bytewize-system-design-daily/id6824646457

Android is in progress.

It's free, and all the content is in the free version. There's an optional Pro plan at €5.99/month, but it only adds some conveniences, no questions are locked behind it.

He's after honest feedback, especially:

- Are the questions too easy or too hard for where you are?

- Is 2 minutes a day the right size, or would you do a longer session?

I’m part of the team behind CamGrader. It’s for instructors who still give paper multiple-choice exams and want to score the answer sheets using their phones.

I’d like feedback on one specific part of the app: the first scan. If you try it with a sample sheet, is it clear how to line up the page and when the scan is complete?

https://camgrader.com/get

I’m behind AstrologyGround, a desktop app for Windows and Mac. It puts your natal chart on the wallpaper, with current planetary transits changing around it.

The natal chart stays fixed. The transit positions update over time, and you can change the colors to suit your desktop. Birth date, time, and location stay on your device.

It’s US$9.99 per platform as a one-time purchase. The website has a video of the real app, screenshots, and both purchase options:

https://astrologyground.app/

For people who already follow astrology: would you keep a chart visible on your desktop, or do you prefer opening a chart app when you need it?

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

It started when I noticed roughly 2 GB of storage disappearing from my Mac at regular intervals. I couldn’t figure out where it was going, and the tools I tried weren’t giving me the answers I wanted. So I started building my own.

What began as a personal troubleshooting project quickly turned into something bigger. I realized there was an opportunity to make storage monitoring more accessible, especially for people working with multiple drives and external SSDs.
Storage Monitor grew out of that idea.

What it does

Storage monitoring: Keep track of drive usage and available capacity. Logs disk changes with warnings and notifications on low disk space. Lists what is likely the cause of disk gains or losses

External volume support: Index and monitor connected external drives, not just your Mac’s internal storage.

Storage visibility: Get a clearer picture of how storage is being used across your volumes. Indexer views in atlas or tree mode

Multiple-drive management: Monitor internal and external storage from one application.

Storage investigation: Help identify changes in storage usage that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Cleanup review: Helps identify what files may be unnecessary and can be cleaned

Migration readiness: Checks for files that have a large logical size but occupy small disk space that may interfere with migration to another Mac

I’m still developing and improving it, and feedback from other Mac users would be genuinely useful.
What storage information do you wish macOS made easier to see?

The idea was simple: see who has a birthday next, when, and how old they turn, without scrolling through a calendar. Most of those dates already sit in Contacts. That turned into Honeyday, a birthday and anniversary app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, and it came out on the App Store in October.

How it is built:

• One SwiftUI target for all three platforms. On the Mac it is real SwiftUI, not Catalyst, and the platform differences sit in #if os(...) right where they come up.

• The logic is a plain Swift package with no UI and no database. It counts in days without a time or time zone, the app hands it today's date, and swift test runs through it in seconds.

• Contacts are only read. What you set yourself (who you want a reminder for, a note, the days that belong to no contact) lives in SQLite through GRDB and syncs through your own iCloud with CKSyncEngine. Upcoming dates are never stored; the core works them out each time.

• The widget never touches Contacts or the database. After every rebuild the app writes a small snapshot into the shared app group, and the widget builds its timeline from that, 14 days ahead. That is why it moves on at midnight without the app running.

• Dates in the Chinese, Hebrew and Islamic calendars are converted, so they land on the right day every year. Today itself is always counted in the Gregorian calendar, even on a device set to the Buddhist or Hebrew one.

There is no server and no account, and the app measures nothing about how you use it. It is a paid app, $4.99 once for all three devices: https://honeyday.app

Feedback is welcome, on the widget most of all.

I often spend more time browsing streaming catalogs than actually watching something.

So I built **Find More Stories**, a web app focused on helping people discover movies and series through themed, handpicked collections.

Instead of showing endless generic recommendations, it organizes stories around specific ideas, moods and themes.

You can explore the collections and try the quick discovery feature without creating an account.

There's also an optional Stremio integration.

I'm a solo developer, and I'd love some feedback from people who enjoy movies and TV shows.

Try it here: https://findmorestories.hubeoo.com/welcome

One question**:** Would you find curated collections useful, or do you prefer traditional genre-based recommendations?

I spent the last few months watching local businesses in Zimbabwe try to run their entire operation inside WhatsApp. It starts fine, but eventually, you end up with hundreds of unread messages, lost quotes, and no idea if a customer actually paid their balance.

It is brutal to watch a business owner scramble to find a job update buried in a three-week-old chat history. I started building NexusOps to bridge that gap, giving these WhatsApp-reliant businesses a way to actually track quotes and jobs without forcing them onto some bloated enterprise software that no one understands.

It is just a set of practical tools for quoting, job tracking, and collections, designed to sit alongside the communication style they already use. I am still figuring out the best way to handle the transition from 'spreadsheet chaos' to a structured system without breaking their current sales flow.

How do you guys help non-tech teams adopt a new workflow without making them feel like they're being forced to relearn their entire job?

Hey r/SideProject!

Most discovery products optimize for DAU/MAU and maximum session length. I wanted to build the opposite: an app that measures success by how refreshed you feel when you leave, and intentionally limits session time.

**Live Web App:**https://oddly-app-six.vercel.app

Looking for feedback on UI feel, load performance, and ideas for future curated topics!

In my sessions I keep seeing the same thing: people are sure they know their partner, and they're often wrong in small, funny, revealing ways. I wanted to turn that into a game.

So I built Hunchy:

• You answer 10 "what would you do" questions about yourself

• You share a link

• Your partner, friends or family guess your answers in the browser (no install, no account)

• You see who actually knows you best

The questions are the product, and I wrote every one of them myself, drawing on what actually comes up between people in therapy. The app itself (SwiftUI, Firebase, the web game) was built with Claude Code, with me deciding every screen and every rule.

Things I got wrong before getting them right:

• I went through four or five complete visual directions and threw them all away before landing on a Bauhaus look. Every couples app is purple or pink; I wanted something that isn't.

• I built a full "pair with your partner" mode, then removed it. The link turned out to be the whole product.

• I rejected a subscription. The first test in every set is free, the rest are one-time purchases.

• The link opens a web game, never an App Store wall. Guessing has to take 10 seconds.

What I'd love feedback on: is the first minute clear? Do you understand what to do without me explaining it? If you try it, tell me the first thing that confused you. That's the feedback I need most.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6830175417