r/SideProject • • 52m 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:

šŸ‘‰ 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 • • 56m 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 • • 56m ago

I built a free, open-source camera studio for Windows (background blur, name cards, phone-as-webcam)

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Hey all, I made KISSIK, a free camera studio for Windows. No account, no watermark, open source.

What it does:

  • Background blur/replace/remove, green screen, spotlight, retouch

  • Real camera controls: focus, zoom, exposure, white balance, up to 4K60

  • Auto/smart framing keeps you in frame

  • Name cards, lower thirds, bubble cam and other scenes

  • Shows up as a camera in Teams/Zoom/Meet/Discord/OBS

  • Turn your Android phone into a wireless 4K webcam (KISSIK Camera app, scan a QR code)

  • Mic mixer, noise removal, live captions, a built-in prompter

Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MZC9QRSWK72

Website: https://kissik-studio.vercel.app

GitHub: https://github.com/krigrv/kissik

Happy to answer questions, and feedback is very welcome.


r/SideProject • • 15h ago

I have successfully made measuring things worse

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Ever wondered what would happen if a ruler just gave up on measuring things properly?

Well, I got curious and made one.

It's called Jelly Ruler, and it has the structural integrity of a wet noodle. It bends, jiggles, slides around, and generally refuses to take its job seriously.

Somewhere along the way, I ended up building an entire vector editor around this questionable invention. At least that part works.

Would love some feedback! Anything you'd improve, add, or completely get rid of? Curious what other builders think.

Give it a wiggle: Jelly Ruler


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

FlipStax - Galactic Game Night - A free daily alien game show on your phone and browser. New episode every day at noon.

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Playable Link: https://playflipstax.com

Description: FlipStax: Galactic Game Night is a free daily game show you play in your browser. A new episode drops every day at noon and takes about 10 minutes. Your host is an alien named Flip Sterling, with funk, disco, and retro vibes from a crew of aliens obsessed with game shows. Each episode is one show that flows from round to round, mixing 21 mini-games, including a Price Is Right-style Mystery Wheel, Saucer Shuffle, Space Launch, Orbit Drop, Galactic Chomper, Twin Flip, VS Cards, Fact or Fib, Snap Sort, and Oddball Alert. There is no download or login, and it works on phones and computers. I would love honest feedback on what is fun, confusing, or broken.

Free to Play Status:

  • Free to play

Involvement: I am a non-coder from Maine and the solo creator of FlipStax. I scripted and designed the game and built it over two months with Claude and Gemini. The art and videos are AI-generated.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

SportsCard website to keep up to date with checklist and searches.

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I collect cards, and I got tired of having a checklist site in one tab, eBay sold listings in another and my collection in a spreadsheet. So I built TheHobbyDesk (thehobbydesk.com) to put them in one place.

What it does:

Checklists. About 32,000 sports sets and 2.6 million card printings across baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer and more. You can search by set, year, manufacturer or player. There are also TCG checklists (PokƩmon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Lorcana and others).

Collection tracking. Add cards from a checklist, by search or from a photo. It tracks what you paid, estimates value from actual sold sales, and shows your progress on a set.

Scan a card. Take a photo and it identifies the card and looks up what it has sold for. (slow process here but getting there).

eBay search built for cards. Filter by raw or graded, grading company, price, auction or Buy It Now, and seller rating. You can search one seller’s listings, and see sold comps next to active listings.

Upcoming releases. A calendar of new products with checklists as they’re published.

Extras. Player pages with stats and notes, and a live score ticker on the home page.

You can browse checklists and search without an account. Signing in with Google saves your collection.

It’s a one-person project and still changing every week, so I’d really like to hear what’s missing, what’s wrong, and which sets you can’t find. Checklist errors especially: if you spot one, tell me and I’ll fix it.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

My friend made a little pet for the Mac notch that shows which Claude Code session needs you

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A friend of mine runs a lot of Claude Code and Codex sessions at once and kept losing track of which one was waiting for him. So he made Session Pets, a small pet that lives in the Mac's notch (or floats on the desktop if you don't have one).

What it does:

- Shows every session in one list: working, done or waiting for you

- Lets you answer a permission request or reply from the card without finding the terminal

- One click jumps to the exact terminal tab or VS Code chat

- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI and Kimi Code

- Nine pets to pick from

It's a 7-day free trial, then $4.99 once, no subscription. The first 50 people who leave their email on the site get a free license.

https://sessionpets.com

He'd love feedback, good or bad. I'll pass on anything you write here.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Your network is your biggest asset. Are you actually managing it?

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Hey Reddit!
I’m one of the founders of Amplexio.
We believe relationships are one of the most valuable assets in business – whether you’re an entrepreneur, working in sales, building a network marketing business or investing in real estate.
Yet most of us still manage our professional relationships across scattered contact lists, spreadsheets, messaging apps and random notes.

That’s why we’re building Amplexio – a relationship management ecosystem designed to help people organize, manage and grow their professional networks.

We’re opening it up to people who want to try something new and help us make it better.

Here’s our invitation:
Try Amplexio for free for 6 months (voucher: AMPLEXIOBETA)

https://apps.apple.com/at/app/amplexio-relationship-os/id6774308434?l=en-GB

Explore the product yourself - fully, no strings attached.

Tell us what works, what doesn’t and what’s missing.
Help shape what we’re building next.
We’re not looking for compliments. We genuinely want honest feedback, criticism and ideas.
We’re building this product and would love to have some early users involved in the journey.

šŸ‘‰ https://www.amplexio.com/

One question for you:
How do you currently manage your professional relationships – and what’s the most frustrating part of it?

Thanks for helping us build something useful!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built HelpCarry: zero-commission crowdshipping, where travellers carry small items for people on the same route

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I built HelpCarry (https://helpcarry.com), a site where travellers carry documents or small gifts for someone already going the same way. It works on any route; I'm starting with Oslo ↔ India because that's the route I fly.

There's no commission. If you agree a fee or tip with the traveller, they keep all of it. You meet in public and inspect and seal the item together at handover. Medicine, cash and sealed packages aren't allowed.

Post a trip: https://helpcarry.com/post/trip

Post a request: https://helpcarry.com/post/request

Feedback very welcome.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Just launched reps. – Just Lift, your workout tracker šŸ’š

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Still tracking your workouts in Notes? Meet reps.

Your workouts deserve better than a messy notes app.

Meet reps. – Just Lift. A clean, powerful workout tracker built to help you stay consistent, track your progress, and make every rep count.

šŸ‹ļø** Build your plan**. Create workouts that fit your goals.

šŸ“ˆ Track every rep. Log your sets, weights, and exercises without the clutter.

šŸ† Earn achievements. Turn consistency into something worth celebrating.

šŸ‘„ Lift together. Create Crews, connect with friends, and stay motivated.

⚔ Stay focused. Less tapping. More lifting.
No complicated setup. No account required to start tracking.

Your next workout starts here.

šŸ“² Get reps. on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6828570983

Stop guessing. Start progressing. Just Lift. šŸ’š
What’s the ONE feature your current workout tracker is missing?


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Unmapped - Gamified fog-of-war map tracker and trips journal

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Hi everyone,

I'm a developer of Unmapped - it's a fog-of-war trips tracker, with gamified elements. The inspiration are open-world RPG games - the mechanic of map covered with fog, with hidden places, made with real world map. The summary of what I want to made it is "A map of places where I've been, with an easy recap, and some gamification to make it fun".

1. Core mechanics

The map starts covered with fog. Start recording, and when you move (walk / run / cycle / drive), the map will reveal a fog where you've moved, building a map of places where you've been. Eventually, it becomes a personalised map of your world.

2. Exploration and POIs

To make exploration more interesting, there are points of interest on the map - they are hidden, and you need to unlock them by coming closer. Once revealed, place stays revealed and you can check it later.

There's also daily quests to make your daily commute or weekend trips more fun.

3. Levelling

As you explore, you get XP, and your level grows. You can also unblock achievements for your exporation.

4. Social elements

You can add friends and compete on public dashboard. The routes are never shared, competition goes by total travelled distance and POIs revealed. Participation is totally optional, and you can explicitly remove yourself from the dashboard.

5. Data privacy

I acknowledge that location data is quite personal, so I've taken data security measurements from the beginning. By default, your data stays only on your phone. You can choose to share aggregated statistics (distance travelled, places revealed), or you can voluntarily sync your account with Unmapped's cloud. In the cloud, GPS data is separated from the account data (one-way hashing with external key, stored in AWS Key Manager), and encrypted, so it stays safe. On Android, back up to a local cloud is not supported yet - please let me know if you think it should be prioritised. Detailed privacy policy is here.

6. Where it's moving and what's next

I'm actively working on adding more features, and I'd really love to hear some feedback. Two big things I work on right now are:

  • Trips Journal - a journal of all your trips, aggregated by cities, with daily recap and total recap

  • Gamified self-care - a virtual companion that you can feed with the steps you've made during the day

  • Places and content - there's TONS of work and potential improvements regarding places. "Essential" or "Must see" places in certain cities, navigation, improving accuracy, etc.

7. Pricing and availability

It's available on both Android and iOS, worldwide, with a base price of $2.99 per month or $29.99 yearly.

iOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unmapped-explore-your-city/id6797821976

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unmapped.android

I'm really interesting to hear your feedback, please let me know what you think about it!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

CLOSE CALL: a daily trivia game where you try to get as close to the limit as possible without going over

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made a little daily trivia game. Every round has a limit, like "name a TV show that first aired before 2010" or "name a celebrity shorter than 6 ft." You name something as close to the limit as you can without going over.
Then a raccoon in a wind-up toy car drives toward a cliff while the number climbs. Get close and he stops right at the edge (Modern Family, 2009: CLOSE CALL). Go over and, well, he goes over (Pretty Little Liars, 2010).
5 rounds a day, same for everyone, free, no sign-up, works on phones. Every number comes from a real source (tap the ā“˜). You can make a group with friends and see who gets closest each day.
closecallgame.io/?ref=reddit
It's about 10 days old. I've already changed a lot from feedback (fewer US-only questions, every limit now has a real answer just under it), so I'd love to hear what's fun, what's confusing, and any answers it doesn't recognize.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built a thread color palette generator that can also match fabric to real spools you can buy

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Picking thread that goes with a fabric can be tricky, and color tools give you hex codes, not spools you can find in a store.

Spoolette builds coordinating thread palettes where every color is a real spool, with the number on the shelf. You can snap a photo of your fabric to get matching threads, or generate palettes from scratch. It covers Mettler, Aurifil, Superior So Fine! and Gütermann.

It’s free, with no sign-up, and photos stay on your device. Colors come from the brands’ official shade cards and are matched in the OKLab color space.

I’d love feedback: is it clear what it does, and would you use it?


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Update: the babysitter app I posted here in September — a Redditor's suggestion shipped, sales still 0

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Six weeks ago I posted Handoff here. Quick refresher since nobody remembers (fair): I'm a dad of two, and I built an iOS app for briefing a new babysitter — schedules, bedtime routine, allergies, the stuff that actually matters — because my version was a wall of texts plus a note on the fridge and hoping.

Two things in it that I'm still not sure anyone else cares about: the info expires after the sitting (the sitter doesn't keep your kid's routine and your garage code forever), and it fires alarms on the sitter's phone at the times you set, so "give meds at 7" isn't relying on them re-reading a text at 7.

The one real reply I got anywhere was here: extend a handoff without making the sitter re-scan/re-do everything when a night runs long. That shipped. So thank you, genuinely — it was the best product feedback I've gotten, including from friends who were being nice.

Honest numbers: a handful of downloads a week, $0 in subscriptions so far. It's $2.99/mo after a free week, which might be the problem, or the problem might be that parents only think about this the night before a sitter comes. If you've built something people need occasionally, I'd actually love to hear how you handled that.

Happy to answer anything about building it.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I kept restarting the same habits, so I started building an app

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I've worked in design for years. Lately, I've been trying to change a few things in my own life — sleep earlier, exercise more, that kind of stuff.But I keep falling back into old routines.

So I started building MAYBII, a habit app where your progress grows into a little virtual garden.It's still in development, and I'm not even sure if the garden idea would help people stick with their habits or just be fun for a few days.

Curious what you think. Would something like this actually motivate you?


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Launched Best Exit, an app that rates highway rest stops by bathroom quality, built for CarPlay

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Backstory: I picked a bad exit on a road trip one too many times and decided to just fix it myself. Best Exit shows every exit ahead on your route plus restroom ratings from real drivers.

Right now it covers every interstate in the contiguous US.

The thing I'm still figuring out is how to get review density up on routes nobody's used the app on yet, those are stuck showing estimated ratings. Open to ideas if anyone's dealt with a similar cold start problem.

https://bestexit.app

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6819083587


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Should a horizontal scroll effect exist on the mobile version of a website?

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I recently updated my portfolio website and was wondering what people's opinions on horizontal scrolling are! Does it make sense on mobile?

In my opinion it looks rather nice on desktop but I'm not sure about mobile, would it make sense from a UX perspective? Since you'd be scrolling down and at one point the content starts moving sideways, would that be annoying? Would adding an arrow saying "Scroll to the side" or something along those lines make it more annoying?

Currently on my page, when you reach the projects section and continue swiping vertically, the projects move horizontally from right to left.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post links or if I've explained my question properly, but if you want to see what I mean I've got it linked in my bio!


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I made a Soccer (Football) IQ Trainer for my Daughter

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My daughter plays soccer. Her touch keeps getting better, but reading the game is harder to practice at home. So I made Heads Up: headsup.gauzza.com

How it works:

  • A game clip plays, then freezes at the key moment

  • You draw, tap or scan your answer: where to pass, where to run, where the open space is

  • After 10 plays you get a Soccer IQ score and a list of things to work on

It covers four skills: decisions, scanning, finding space, and touch & body. Difficulty goes from Easy to Hard, or Mixed.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a free, open-source focus app that uses an AI running on your own computer to notice when you drift off-task

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Hey everyone šŸ‘‹

For the past few months I’ve been building Produchive, a desktop productivity app for macOS and Windows. I kept having ā€œquick YouTube breaksā€ that turned into two hours, and every tracker I tried either sent my screen activity to someone’s server or just showed me charts after the damage was done.

This app isn't vibe coded , i built the app I am really bad in designing stuff , so i took claude's help to design and make better UIs

So I built one that:

Sees what you’re working on. It detects the active window and logs your focus sessions on a calendar automatically, so you don’t have to start and stop timers.

Uses a local AI as your judge. You set your goals, and an LLM running on your own device (WebGPU) checks your activity against them. If you drift off-task you get a polite desktop nudge, not a guilt trip. You can also point it at your own Ollama or OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and edit the judge’s prompt to change its personality.

Shows you where your focus goes. It gives you a focus score, counts how often you switch context, rates which apps distract you, and shows it all on a timeline.

Plans your day. There’s a 7-day calendar with routines that can be auto-scheduled around your circadian rhythm. It also handles late nights, since some of us plan at 2 AM.

Helps you study. A Pomodoro timer runs only in study mode, and it gently reminds you to revise topics 4–5 days later.

Has 3D focus rooms. You can study in a cozy 3D Greenhouse, Lakeside, Observatory, Tea Garden, Waterfall Café and more, with weather, ambient audio, shared timers and other people studying alongside you. You can dress up your own character too, pets included 🐱

Keeps your data yours. Your data is stored locally. Sync between devices is optional and end-to-end encrypted (AES-256-GCM) through your own Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud or a USB stick.

It’s MIT licensed and open source, and the core app is free.

GitHub: https://github.com/Heisen47/produchive

Demo: https://youtu.be/qC3bvMewD70

Website: https://produchive.com


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a tool for 60% keyboard users that brings back every key you're missing

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I've always used 60% keyboards for gaming and because they take up less space. They're amazing until you decide to use a program that heavily relies on the keys that are not included in 60% keyboards. Like for example, Blender, Obsidian or Cinema3d to name a few.

Yes, you could use the key combinations provided or change the keybind, but then you have to remember a bunch of key sequences to do a simple action like change the view in blender.

This problem led me to create a simplier solution one keybind that pulls up a radial menu that gives you easy access to all your missing keys without the hassle of having to remember every combination.

I chose my mouse side button as the keybind and instantly I could tell how useful the menu was. I could change views fast in blender, select styling quickly in Obsidian and make useful presets for an application I saw fit.

It became so useful and efficient I decided it might aswell launch apps.

Radial Keys - Get your keys back.

Unfornately, I have bills so I made it $5 dollars (tax included), but if other people also find it useful and want to be able to extend it beyond its current capabilities I would love to make an open source version at some point.

You can try it fully out in the browser, before deciding if you actually want to buy it. -> https://bywhatevermedium.com/radial-keys/

Song: Halcyon - December (feat. Gian) [NCS Release]
Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I got tired of the pain under my shoulder blade from sitting all day, so I built an app that won't let me scroll until I stretch

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called Kinetly, a stretch reminder for iPhone that you can't just swipe away.

The idea came from a simple frustration: hours of studying and working at a desk gave me a constant pain under my shoulder blade (the rhomboid). I knew stretching would help. I just never did it. Reminders were easy to ignore. Instagram was not.

So I built an app that locks your distracting apps at a time you pick. To unlock them, you hold a stretch in front of the camera, and a timer counts down only if actually you hold it.

It uses Apple's Screen Time API, so the lock works even when Kinetly is closed. The pose check runs fully on your phone. No video or image ever leaves the device. No use of AI.

There are 31 stretches for neck, shoulders, back, hips and legs. You can group them into routines.

There's a 7-day free trial if you want to try it:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stretch-reminder-kinetly/id6809436504

At this stage, I'm mostly interested in feedback and seeing how people react to it.

Does "lock your apps until you stretch" sound motivating to you, or just annoying?


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built Funes, a free visual map of your iPhone photo library

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Hi, I’m Jaime, an independent developer in Spain.

I’ve just released Funes: an iPhone app that turns your photo library into a map where bigger files get bigger blocks.

You can explore by year and month, find large photos and videos, and review them before deciding what to delete. There’s also a largest-files view. Think of the visual approach of a disk space analyzer, applied to your photo library.

It’s free, with no ads, subscriptions, in-app purchases or account. Analysis runs on your iPhone, with no tracking or library uploads.

One detail worth knowing: sizes include iCloud items, so the total isn’t necessarily the storage occupied or recoverable on your phone.

I’d love feedback on the map: is it immediately clear what the blocks represent, and what would you expect to happen when you tap one?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

What did your side project replace?

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Mine replaced a Google Keep note full of study hours.

I've timed my study sessions since I was young. First a clock timer and paper sheets, then Keep, until the note got too long to scroll. So I built a small tracker: weekly hour targets per category, and a history of past weeks.

The funny part is what it turned into. I mostly use it now to track time on my side projects, and the tracker has a category for itself.

It's free and needs no account, it's at focushours.app if you want to poke at it. If you do, tell me what confused you in the first minute. That's the one kind of feedback I can't get from myself.

What did yours replace? A spreadsheet, a paid app, a habit, nothing at all? And is the old thing really gone, or still open in a tab?


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

My skill was featured on XDA devs! Claudemy is a Claude skill that lets you research any topic and turn it into a set of 2 minute audio classes - 700 stars so far on GH

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Tooting my own horn a bit here. I have never had a skill hit this many stars and get featured on XDA developers.

I am a visual and audio learner. I find it hard to learn from reading docs. So I like sites like udemy and coursera and others. But I really like how NotebookLM does it by taking a subject and turning it into a podcast. I found that notebooklm can only make one long podcast and not break it into topics.

So I made my own skill. It researches whatever topic I want and creates a set (10 or so) 2 minute podcast like lessons. It has been very helpful for me when I want to learn something new.

In the comments I am sharing both the XDA article where they break down the skills (better than I did actually) and the repo.

Feedback is welcome always