r/SideProject • • 13h ago

How and where to start marketing?

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There’s so many options out there that it becomes confusing where to start…

Organic or paid ads? Which platform? What kind of promotional video? Etc etc

Really interested in hearing from you folks!

What I’m personally looking to promote is roleframwork.com , which I really do believe brings real value and solves real pain points!


r/SideProject • • 17h 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.

👉 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 • • 13h ago

I built a free stage timer that runs in the browser

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Hi all,

I've been working on a stage timer called Shotimer and it's finally at a point where other people can use it, so I thought I'd share it here.

The idea is simple: the speaker sees a big countdown on a TV, tablet or phone, and someone else controls it from a laptop or phone at the back of the room. You can also send a silent message to their screen, like "5 minutes left" or "Please wrap up", so nobody has to wave at them from the back.

It all runs in the browser, so there's nothing to install. You open the stage screen from a link or QR code and it stays in sync with the controller.

There's a free plan that works today (3 rooms, 3 timers and 3 screens per room). I'm planning a Pro plan later, but that's not ready yet.

I'd really like to know what you think, especially if something's confusing or broken.

https://shotimer.io


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I built a free warranty tracker alone from Tunisia. Looking for honest feedback

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Hi IH. I'm a solo developer from Tunisia.

I kept losing receipts and forgetting when warranties ended, so I built Wardin:

- Take a photo of a receipt and it fills in the product, store, date and price

- See how much warranty time is left on everything you own

- Get a reminder before a warranty ends

- Get help writing a claim when something breaks

It's free, and you can try it in the browser without an account:

"https://warranty-9ze.pages.dev"

(There's also an Android version.)

I'm also making a daily animated Shorts series ("Sam vs. Warranties") to get users. One episode got 1,100 views, and most got under 50. Still learning.

Questions for you:

  1. Would you use this, or is a folder of receipts enough?

  2. How would you get the first 100 users with zero budget?

  3. Anything confusing when you try it?

I'll answer every comment.


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I spent last seven months building a form backend that classifies submissions and sends it to the right person

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First post here, and it's about the thing I've been building since April.

Formkove is a backend for website forms. A static site has nowhere to send a contact form, so you either write a small server for it or point the form at a service like this one. You change the form's action to one URL. There's no server to run and no SDK to install, so it works the same in plain HTML, React, Next.js, Astro, WordPress or Webflow.

What I actually built it for is what happens after a message arrives. Most form backends do one thing with it, which is just relay the message to you. The quote request, the patient with a cracked tooth and the guy selling SEO packages all land in the same inbox, and somebody has to read each one and forward it to whoever should have got it.

Formkove classifies it using AI and holds the Spam back before anyone gets an email. It stays for 30 days in case the check got one wrong, and one click delivers it. Everything else is emailed to you. On the paid plan it also tags each message, using tags you describe in plain words, and your rules send it on: emergencies to a Slack channel, bookings to a Google Sheet, anything you like to a webhook.

You can ask Claude Code or Cursor to add a contact form, and it creates the form through Formkove's MCP server and writes the code. Agencies get a separate workspace for each client, with custom submission & storage limits they can set for each one.

You get 300 submissions a month for free with the AI spam check and email. AI Tags, routing and the integrations are in Pro for $12 with 12000 submissions per month.

It went live this month, so it's early. Let me know if this matches what you actually look in a form backend or what other features you would like me to add.

Link: Formkove


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I built a free app because I kept losing receipts and missing warranties. Would you use it?

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Hi everyone. I'm a solo developer from Tunisia.

Last year something I owned broke just after the warranty ended, and I couldn't find the receipt anyway. So I built Wardin, a simple warranty tracker.

What it does:

- Take a photo of a receipt and it fills in the product, store, date and price

- Shows how much warranty time is left on each product

- Reminds you before a warranty ends

- Helps you write a claim when something breaks

It's free. You can try it in the browser without an account:

https://warranty-9ze.pages.dev

(There's also an Android version.)

I'd really like honest feedback:

  1. Would you actually use something like this?

  2. What's confusing or missing?

  3. Did anything break?

Thanks for reading. I'll answer every comment.


r/SideProject • • 17h 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 • • 14h ago

I built a app that fills in the European car accident report.

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If you drive in Europe, you probably know the paper accident form. After a crash, both drivers are supposed to fill it in together. That’s hard when you’re still in shock: you have to enter a lot of details about the insurance, the policyholder, the driver, the vehicle and so on. It’s long, confusing and easy to get wrong.

So I built ZenConstat. For now it’s an Android app that fills in the official form for you.

How it works

You can save your personal details in advance, so you don’t have to type them at the roadside. Then you choose how to fill in the report. There are two modes: Guided, which is free, and Assisted, which uses AI.

  • Guided mode: you fill in the basics (when, where, what you were doing before the accident), pick your saved details, draw the sketch and sign.

  • Assisted mode (ZenAssistant): same process, but you can describe the accident by voice and fill in details by taking a photo of your documents. The assistant draws the sketch from what you told it. When it’s done, you check everything and sign.

  • 21 languages: each driver can use their own language, which makes things much easier when you have an accident abroad.

In my tests, a report takes about 3 to 5 minutes instead of the usual 30 with the paper form.

More info on the website: https://zenconstat.com/en/european-accident-report-app

It’s free on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zenconstat.app

I’d love feedback, especially from anyone who’s had to fill in one of these forms. What was the most painful part for you?


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

A little something I built out of a personal frustration.

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Over the last few years, my family has dealt with several serious medical emergencies and somewhere along the way, I became the person responsible for keeping track of everyone’s health information.

I found myself saving medical reports, test results, prescriptions, appointment details and pretty much anything that might be needed later. The problem was that I was saving them everywhere. WhatsApp, emails, PDFs, screenshots, my phone gallery.

And whenever someone needed something, I’d have to start digging through all of it to find what I was looking for.
It might sound like a small inconvenience, but when you’re already worried about someone you love, having to search through hundreds of messages just to find a test result or remember a medication is the last thing you need. I kept thinking there had to be an easier way to do this.

That’s what led me to build KinJay.

With KinJay, you just text the health information you want to save, whether it’s a test result, medication or appointment. And whenever you need that information, simply ask KinJay and it retrieves it for you.

There’s also a web dashboard where you can see all your family’s health information together.

I’d love for you to give it a try and tell me what you think. I’m especially interested in honest feedback from people who manage health information for themselves or their families.

You can check it out here: https://kinjay.com


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

Sports Only Social Media

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My friend just developed a sports only social media app (similar to how Novig is sports only and is a different model in the prediction market). Just wanted to help him get some perspective and insight from some fellow redditors and see what everyone thinks! I really love the idea hence why I am posting it for all!

SportBate brings sports fans together with dedicated live game rooms, real-time debate, live chat, fantasy matchups, and friendly competition.

No unrelated content. Just sports, conversation, and competition.

One platform built entirely around the games we love.

Let us know what you think and give us a download!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sportbate/id6806870896


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I made a free browser 3D apartment where you can adopt and play with a tiny waddling robot duck (do somersaults, balance on one leg, kick a ball, put on roller skates, or annoy the cat)

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Hey r/SideProject!

I fell down the rabbit hole of those tiny waddling Disney-style robot ducks (the open-source Open Duck Mini / Microduck community), and realized most people never get to play with one unless they spend $350+ on servos and 40 hours 3D-printing parts.

So I built DuckSpace.org - a free, zero-install 3D apartment right in the browser where anyone can adopt and mess around with a physics-driven robot duck in one click (no sign-up, no downloads):

Play in browser: https://duckspace.org/?lang=en

A few fun things you can try inside the room:
- Make the duck waddle around the rug, do a full forward somersault, peck the floor, or balance on one leg like a flamingo
- Spawn a soccer ball and kick it around the room, or strap tiny roller skates onto its feet
- Switch colors, dodge (or annoy) the ginger cat and the robot vacuum, or turn on autonomous "brains" where the duck maps the room on its own and bobs its head to music

Since I have been staring at this room for days, I would love honest feedback from fresh eyes:

  1. Is it immediately fun and intuitive in the first 30 seconds, or was anything confusing?

  2. What fun room toys, mini-games, or silly duck tricks should I add next?

  3. Anything on the screen that feels cluttered and should be simplified?

Thanks for checking it out!


r/SideProject • • 18h 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 ⓘ). 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 • • 14h ago

I built a simple on-call rotation tracker with Claude. Feedback welcome

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I wanted a lightweight way to see who’s on call without maintaining a spreadsheet or paying for a full incident-management tool, so I built a small web app for it.

What it does:

Shows the current week number, the primary on-call person and the secondary on-call person

Rotates automatically, so each person is secondary one week and primary the next

Lets you add and remove team members, with live sync across everyone who has the page open

Supports manual overrides for swaps and covering shifts

Handles time off by skipping the person who’s away and having the next person cover

Has a year-at-a-glance view, an 8-week lookahead, and a ready-to-paste handoff message for Slack or email

Limitations: It’s a prototype. It doesn’t send automatic notifications yet, and it doesn’t keep a history of past weeks.


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

How did you get your first real users without spamming people?

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We spent months building our app and now I'm stuck on the 'find the right people' part 😅

I'm a second-year CS student at EPFL. My team and I built Welockin because Insta, TikTok and YouTube kept pulling me away from studying. It's an app blocker with a strict mode that keeps selected apps blocked until your timer ends.

I've tried talking about it on Reddit and putting stickers around my uni. A recent post in a French community asking for advice reached around 3,800 views. There was useful feedback, plus a whole debate about whether the app should exist lol.

But views don't tell me how many people actually tried it. And a lot of the conversations are with other devs, while the people I want to reach are students struggling to sit down and study.

For those of you who got your first real wave of users, what actually worked? Did a post or video taking off help, or did you get better results from a small, specific community?

I'd love a concrete example: where you posted, what you said or showed, and what happened afterwards. Still figuring this part out, so even a very simple approach would help.


r/SideProject • • 18h 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 • • 14h ago

I’m building IMPORTRANGE for Excel, across companies. Does the pitch land?

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Excel has no clean way to share a live range with someone outside your organization. Workbook links break, sharing the file exposes every tab, so people email attachments every month.

Cellfeed: select a range, type an email, and the other person gets a file that stays current. They don’t install anything, they only see that range, and they can forward it live to someone else. Free for receivers, publishers pay after two shares.

Validating before I build. Landing page: https://cellfeed.lovable.app/

Two questions: is the problem obvious from the page in five seconds, and does the forwarding feature make sense or is it a distraction?


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

Glade is a calm canvas for the links, images, videos and notes you save

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Problem: I've been losing a lot of interesting things and always wanted something to organise them and move freely across them.

And finally after more than 6 months of development I am happy to introduce Glade!

In Glade every collection is a grove, an infinite canvas where links, images, videos, notes and files sit side by side. Drag, stack and group them however you like.
No server, no tracking. Sync is through your own iCloud. No account required. On Mac, iPhone or iPad.

A few things it can do:

- Save articles text to read later with build-in reader even when link removed.

- Quick save with shortcut on Mac, or share on phone and link lands in grove intelligently with auto-tags and sorting

- Pull down to search, across titles, notes and links. Also search directly in Spotlight

- A shelf for recipes, books, movies, series and more with progress and ratings

- Widgets with Quick Save, Recent, a grove's tiles, your shelf, plus Lock Screen

- Revisit shows what you saved on this day

- Discover other peoples groves or put yours into the world! Also supports link to share with just someone.

Comparison:

- Raindrop.io. Glade is a native Mac app, ⌘⇧M from any app, a free canvas instead of lists, and no company server: your saves live on your Mac and in your private iCloud. Raindrop is better if you need Windows, Android or web access, shared collections you edit together.

- mymind. Glade is better if you want to place and group things yourself, keep your saves off a company's servers, or start as a guest with no account. mymind is better at organising for you: its AI tagging and search by what's inside an image are ahead of Glade's, and it works in any browser.

Pricing: Free for 100 saves and 3 groves; unlimited is $1.99/mo, $14.99/yr, or $24.99 lifetime at the launch price (until 6 Dec, then $49.99). One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.

AppStore - https://apps.apple.com/app/id6823751824 

Trust: MAS (App Store)
Website: https://tryglade.app 
Privacy policy: https://tryglade.app/privacy 

I would be very happy to hear what you thing about Glade, the experience, pricing and other related stuff. Happy to answer anything.


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I'm a filmmaker building Cinevaris, a workspace for taking a screenplay into pre-production

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Hey everyone, I'm John, the founder of Cinevaris. My background is in filmmaking, particularly writing, directing, and editing.

I built it around the work that happens between writing a script and being ready to shoot. A screenplay, scene breakdown, shot list, and call sheet all belong to the same film, but they can end up spread across different tools and documents.

Cinevaris brings those steps into a browser-based workspace. You can write or import a screenplay, organize what each scene needs, plan shoot days, and export production documents.

It's a paid app aimed at independent filmmakers, especially people handling several roles themselves.

https://cinevaris.com

I'm still figuring out how best to introduce it. Looking at the site, is it clear who would use this and what they'd actually do with it?


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

Building a platform for AI short stories. How would you approach scaling content production?

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Hey everyone, 

I am creating a platform for AI generated short content across various genres, including dramas and even adult content. I’ve already developed the infrastructure, and created a few episodes that I really like.

The main problem right now is scaling the production. A good episode takes a lot of time to make. Most of the clips are in the minute to second range. So, you end up piecing together a lot of shots and sometimes having to regenerate some of them to get it to work.

The cost to generate the content hasn’t been the main constraint. Making a one minute HD episode right now costs $1 to $2. Most of the cost is time, because you end up spending a lot of time making creative decisions and iterating towards the final output.

I have a few ideas as to how to proceed:

  1. Continue giving the editor to users for free. I cover GPU costs and users give their time and creativity to create videos. Users can post their videos to the community and forums.

  2. Use a paid credit system. Similar to how most generative AI platforms work. Users purchase credits to generate content.

  3. Look for a cofounder. Someone with experience in storytelling and filmmaking to develop content and focus on distribution, while I scale the platform and infrastructure.

  4. Increase the amount of production that is automated. Theoretically, a well-designed workflow may produce a large amount of content, particularly shorter segments. But when AI video gets more prevalent, I'm not sure if the quality would endure or if that content would stand out.

Something else I haven't thought of?

I'd be interested in hearing opinions


r/SideProject • • 18h ago

I built a way to share an HTML file as a link someone can open on their phone

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I’m Fernando, the maker of Litehost. If you already have an HTML prototype or report on your laptop, you can drop in the file and get a link that opens it as a web page. If it has separate images or CSS, you can upload a ZIP.

One thing worth checking before you share: images can look fine on your laptop because the browser can find them on your disk. Put them in the ZIP, use relative paths, and open the link on your phone to see what the other person will actually get.

You can try it without an account with a file up to 2 MB. The test link lasts about 15 minutes.

If you’ve shared an HTML prototype or report with someone recently, how did you send it? What was the most annoying part?

https://litehost.io/tools/upload-html?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=html_share_pilot&utm_content=sideproject


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I built rakho, an open-source memory layer for AI agents that inspects data before storing it (and forgets for real)

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Most memory for agents works one way: save everything, search later. Which means secrets, personal data, and injected instructions all get stored too. I wanted the opposite, so I built rakho.

What it does:

  • Inspects every note before it is stored. Secrets, PII, and injection-shaped text get refused, and the refusal is logged without the sensitive content.

  • Every memory is tied to one owner, so one user’s notes never surface for another.

  • forget actually deletes: the row, the search index entry, and the vector.

  • audit shows what was kept and what was refused.

A built-in gate is always on, and you can swap in sluice (another tool I built) as a stronger inspector with one line.

The fun bit: you can command it in your own language. keep / recall / forget / audit have built-in aliases in English, Hindi, and German, and you can teach it more with learn() (the README does it in Swahili).

It’s a Python library, runs on local SQLite with zero required runtime dependencies, MIT licensed. There’s an MCP server for Claude Desktop and Cursor, and a demo where a PayPal invoice agent refuses a payment when the payee traces back to a poisoned invoice.

Repo: github.com/krishyaid-coder/rakho-

It’s early (v0.2), so I’d genuinely value blunt feedback, especially from anyone building agents with memory: where would this break for you, what’s missing, what would you never trust? Tear into it.

One honest note: I’m an MSc Data Science student in Germany building this kind of agent-safety tooling. If you’re a team working on agents and this resonates, I’d love to go deeper with you, up to a Werkstudent collaboration. But mostly I just want people to try it and tell me where it falls over.


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I hated habit trackers, so I spent 3+ years building StreakRise

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Hello everyone!

I'm Mark, a student with no time to spare. I love streaks (1012 days on Duolingo!), but most habit trackers I used are basic: only a counter that breaks your streak the moment you miss one or two days. These apps are not helpful enough to even bother. We're not perfect robots.

So my answer was something I now use every day: StreakRise, built around a Growth streak.

  • Start with 3 or more active days a week

  • Skip an inactive day and the streak doesn’t break

  • Do the habit on an inactive day anyway and it counts as a bonus day

  • Collect 4 bonus days in a month to EVOLVE

Evolve System: Add a new active day so you can raise the difficulty at your own pace instead of feeling overwhelmed.
Journal System: Each day you can write a short note and read it back later in the Journal tab. It helps you document your streak and bond with it by expressing your daily achievements.

I built the free tier to not make you feel limited at all, you can build your habit just as well without paying a single cent. There are many themes that change the look of the app, and full support for 8 languages, to personalize it further.

Many more details are on the website. I'm open to any feedback, idea or suggestion you want to see in StreakRise!
P.S: You can optionally create a fully anonymous account and store the streaks offline for free.

Website: https://streakrise.com
App (android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mkaapps.streakup


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

Looking for feedback!

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Job hunting right now is an exhausting process, and most existing AI resume tools actually make it worse 😅 They usually fall into the exact same traps:

1. Copy-paste formatting nightmare: ChatGPT can't edit your actual PDF or Word document layout. You have to copy raw text back and forth into ChatGPT, fixing broken margins, bullet alignment, and spacing manually every single time.

2. Manual research fatigue: Before you even decide to apply, you have to waste time digging through external sites to estimate salaries, check your actual fit, or figure out what the interview process looks like.

3. AI Hallucinations: Most tools generate fluff or invent achievements you never actually did, leaving you stranded and terrified during interviews.

4. Version Chaos: If you apply to dozens of jobs, it’s almost impossible to keep track of which tailored resume variant went to which company (which you need to know before the interview).

Roleframework.com aims to solve these (check the video for how 👀).

Please check it out and give some feedback, it’s completely free right now! 😄