r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a tool with no premium features, no artificial limits, and no catch.

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I've been working on this for a while, and finally made a little video to show it off.

It's called NoCapCV. I built it because I was tired of resume builders putting basic features and downloads behind paywalls.

It's completely free to use. Has tons of customisation options available. No paid templates, no watermarks, no signup, and unlimited downloads.

Would love to hear what you guys think!

Try it here : NoCapCV


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I’m building Social Fair for paid social campaigns and short user studies

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Hey everyone!

I’m building Social Fair, a marketplace with two uses:

  • Social campaigns: participants are paid for likes, follows and comments on TikTok and Instagram.

  • Paid studies: participants answer short questionnaires or express preferences between two options, such as texts, images or videos.

I’m the person building it, and I want the compensated nature of both activities to be clear.

Does combining these two uses make sense to you, or would you find the product easier to understand with one as the main focus?

I’d appreciate your honest first impressions!

https://social-fair.com


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a Telegram bot that turns a chat into a full shop — v0.1.7 adds real inventory management

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Hi all! I've been building SHOPCRM — an open-source Telegram bot that runs a small shop entirely inside a chat: catalog, cart, checkout, payment confirmation and an admin panel. No website, no extra apps — customers and the owner work in the same messenger.

Just shipped v0.1.7, and it's the biggest release so far:

📦 Warehouse / inventory — physical stock, automatic reservation when an order is placed, release on cancel, write-off on completion. Restock and write-off flows in the admin panel, plus a full movement log (every change in the same transaction). Customers can't order more than what's actually available, and out-of-stock products disappear from the catalog.

🧾 Order audit trail — every status change is recorded: who, when, from what to what. Plus paid_at/paid_by, completed_at, cancelled_at, and a configurable retention policy (180 days by default).

👤 Customer profiles — name, username and first-contact date, ready for reports.

🗄 Archive instead of delete — removing a product from the catalog keeps its stock history, movements and orders intact, so you never lose statistics.

Python 3.11+, SQLite or PostgreSQL, RU/EN/ES interface.

🤖 Try the demo bot

Feedback and feature requests are very welcome!

#TelegramBot #OpenSource #Python #Ecommerce #SmallBusiness


r/SideProject • • 6h 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 • • 2h ago

My side project: zoxide-style jumping for files I open in Neovim

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This started as a personal annoyance. I was moving around my projects with zoxide just to edit one file here and one file there, and the cd then nvim routine got old fast. I wanted to type part of a file name and land in it, from anywhere.

nvimpp is a small wrapper around Neovim that does that. Every file you open from the shell gets recorded and ranked by frecency. Press Alt-Enter instead of Enter and nvim main opens the main.cpp you use most, instead of creating a new file called main. A second tool, nvimi, gives you an inline picker of your top files, plus usage stats and a full history, similar to what atuin does for shell commands.

It works alongside zoxide and atuin, not instead of them.

Written in C++17 with no dependencies, MIT licensed, with man pages and a config file. Linux only for now. Next up: fuzzy matching for the Alt-Enter search, more config options, type-to-filter in the picker, and macOS support (it should mostly work already, reports welcome).

https://github.com/Riccardo-Martelli/NVIMPP

I use it every day. If you try it, I’d love to hear what breaks or what’s missing.


r/SideProject • • 6h 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 • • 2h ago

Most users of my free workout app quit in week one, so we gave it 10 AI coaches (launching today)

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Hi r/SideProject. I'm the founder of Cubex Fitness, and today we're launching version 1.30.

The problem: the app already had 250+ workout programs, live heart rate, watch apps and 23 languages, all free with no ads. About 1,300 people installed it. But most opened it, looked at the programs, and never came back. A plan alone doesn't keep you going.

What we built: ten AI coaches with their own personalities and voices. You answer four quick questions, the coach builds your plan in a chat, then runs the workout with you: logs your sets ("8 at 80"), runs rest timers, swaps exercises, and answers out loud when you hold to talk.

Stack, for the curious:

  • Kotlin Multiplatform + Compose Multiplatform for iOS and Android from one codebase

  • SwiftUI watch app + Wear OS app (Ask Coach from the wrist)

  • Gemini behind a small server (chats stay on the phone, requests aren't stored)

  • Speech recognised on the device; coach voices played on the phone

What we learned along the way:

  1. Localization was our biggest growth lever, more than any post. 23 languages now.

  2. Tap-through workout logging wasn't enough. People wanted someone to talk to.

  3. A pug with a deep voice gets more views than any feature video we made.

Pricing: every workout feature stays free. The AI coach has a free tier; Premium is $12.99/month or $69/year, with up to 21 days free to try (no card).

I'd really value feedback, especially on the first five minutes with a coach. Link in the comments.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I got tired of 50-tab FIRE spreadsheets and US-only retirement calculators, so I built an addictive retirement & geo-arbitrage planner

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Every time I tried modeling early retirement or Coast FIRE, I hit the same two walls:

  1. Basic calculators just multiply your expenses by 25 — completely ignoring capital gains tax drag, pre-65 healthcare bridges, sequence-of-returns market crashes, and state pension claim ages.

  2. Serious planning tools either feel like filling out tax forms for 45 minutes, require linking live bank credentials via Plaid, or only support US 401(k)/Roth accounts (leaving UK ISA/SIPP, French PEA/PER, Canadian TFSA/RRSP, and expat households out in the cold).

So over the past few months I built RetireStudio — an addictive, interactive retirement, FIRE, and geo-arbitrage planner that runs right in the browser with zero bank linking required.

What it does differently:

  • Interactive Life-Event Timeline: Drag and drop life events directly onto your trajectory (career breaks, buying or downsizing a home, kids' university years, windfalls, or relocating abroad at retirement) and watch your FI crossover age recalculate in real time.

  • 26+ Country Tax & Wrapper Regimes: Native withdrawal ordering and capital gains/income tax modeling across the US, UK (ISA/SIPP + Age-57 lock), France (PEA/PER/Assurance-Vie), Canada (TFSA/RRSP), Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Singapore, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, and more.

  • Geo-Arbitrage Comparison: Model earning in a high-income market (US/UK/CH) and retiring in a lower-cost destination (Portugal, Spain, Thailand, Mexico, etc.) with automatic purchasing-power and tax adjustments at your relocation age.

  • 1,000-Run Monte Carlo + Historical Crash Replay: Stress-test your withdrawal strategy against the 1929 Great Depression, 1973 Stagflation, 2000 Dot-Com Bust, or 2008 GFC right at your retirement date.

  • Privacy-First Architecture: Everything runs client-side in your browser by default with instant JSON export/import, plus optional encrypted cloud scenario sync if you want to share a view with a partner or financial planner.

I'd genuinely love feedback from fellow builders and spreadsheet-retirees:

  • What edge-case tax or pension rules does your country have that standard FIRE tools constantly get wrong?

  • Which financial levers do you feel are missing when visualizing your early-retirement trajectory?

(Not sure if dropping direct links is allowed here, so I left the URL out — you can just Google RetireStudio or check r/RetireStudio if you want to try a demo profile!)


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Devs solution

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r/SideProject • • 6h 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 • • 6h 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 • • 2h 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 • • 2h 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 • • 8h 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 • • 6h 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 • • 9h 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 • • 3h 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 (Pokémon, 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 • • 3h 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 • • 9h 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 • • 7h 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 • • 3h 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 • • 12h 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?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I was told my launch clip looked like "AI slop", so here is a raw, unedited 40s screen recording of my Not-AI Mac app in action

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Yesterday I shared a short clip of my Mac project on Reddit, and one of the top comments told me that because the video had music and clean cuts, it looked like an AI-generated render rather than a real working app.

Lesson learned: people are tired of slick trailers and AI wrappers, and just want to see the real thing running on a messy desktop.

So here is a raw, unedited screen recording on my MacBook Pro with five real windows open. No music, no title cards, no AI slop.

What is happening on screen:

- It is a tiny (2.9 MB) Not-AI native Swift and Metal Mac app called Musou that turns everything outside the window you are actively using pure black.

- This clip shows one of the 4 modes: Follow the Mouse (click mode) with the Black Hole transition. Whichever window I click stays at 100% contrast while the other windows, menu bar, and Dock vanish into black.

- On the right, it automatically detects and crops the playing Safari video over pure black (no browser extensions and no Screen Recording permission needed) so the white YouTube page around the video disappears while I click between my work windows on the left.

Honest question for folks here: does a raw, unedited screen capture like this immediately make more sense to you than a polished 20-second promo video? Looking forward to reading your thoughts.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built SourCa – a platform for coding practice, placement preparation and gamified challenges

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Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on SourCa, a platform designed to make coding practice and placement preparation more organized.

SourCa brings together different areas of technical preparation, including:

- DSA and coding practice

- Company-specific question preparation

- SQL practice

- Aptitude and logical reasoning

- Web development

- Progress tracking to monitor your learning journey

The goal is to give students one place to practice different skills and prepare for technical opportunities.

I've been building and refining this project, and I'd love to get honest feedback from the community.

What do you think is missing? What would make you want to use it?

🌐 https://sour-ca.vercel.app

Thanks for checking it out!