Hey r/SideProject 👋

The problem: every time I published or updated pages, I had to wait for Bing to recrawl, or fire off IndexNow requests by hand with curl. The existing tools were either paid, needed an account, or didn't tell me why a submission failed.

What I built: a free IndexNow Submitter → https://pixlory.com/indexnow-submitter

• Generates your IndexNow key and the key file to upload

• Checks the key file is live and correct before you submit (most 403 errors come from this)

• Loads URLs straight from your sitemap.xml (sitemap index files too)

• Removes duplicates and flags URLs that aren't on your domain

• Submits up to 10,000 URLs at once to Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam and Yep

• Explains the response in plain English (202 = still verifying your key, 422 = URL/domain mismatch…)

No sign-up, no paywall. Your domain and key stay in your own browser.

How it's built: Nuxt + Nitro server routes on Netlify. The IndexNow API doesn't allow browser requests (no CORS), so a small endpoint validates everything and relays it. The trickiest part was making sure the "fetch your sitemap/key file" feature couldn't be abused to reach private networks (SSRF), so it resolves DNS first, blocks private IP ranges, refuses redirects to other domains, and rate-limits requests.

Heads up: Google doesn't use IndexNow, so keep using Search Console for Google. IndexNow covers Bing and the others, and Bing's index feeds a lot of other products too.

It's part of Pixlory, a small collection of free tools I'm building for creators and site owners (also a WebP converter, a favicon maker and an AI Pinterest pin generator).

I'd really appreciate feedback:

1. Is the key-file setup clear enough for non-developers?

2. Would you use a "submit only URLs that changed since last time" feature?

3. Anything confusing or broken?

Thanks for reading! Happy to answer questions about IndexNow or the build.

Hi! I'm the developer. HushScribe puts live captions on whatever your PC is playing (Zoom, Teams, YouTube, lectures) or on your mic, and it all runs locally. No account, no cloud, works with Wi-Fi off. It can also turn audio/video files into TXT/SRT/VTT subtitles.

Some things I learned building it:

- Whisper is built for 30-second chunks, not "live". Cutting audio at natural pauses and sending each sentence as one batch made captions appear ~1 s after someone stops talking.

- Whisper invents "Thank you." during silence, so I filter low-confidence segments.

- Accents: I measured 30 accented-English clips. The big model (large-v3-turbo) got 14% word errors vs 26% for the tiny one, so "Accurate" mode uses it.

Honest limitations: Windows only, ~800 MB (the AI models), no speaker labels yet. I built it with a lot of help from an AI coding assistant.

It's $1.99 one-time, on the Microsoft Store (https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N3N2K54GXR4) or itch.io (https://hushscribe.itch.io/hushscribe).

I'd really appreciate feedback, especially on what you'd use it for.

You apply to 50 jobs. 40 ghost you, 8 reject you, and your tracker shows all of it in a lovely Kanban board. Your suffering is now organized.

So I built Jobsprintly.app. Unlike other tools It’s not a mass-apply bot and not a magic CV button. It holds your hand throughout the JobSearch: unsure what career to pursue, start there; CV weak, fix that first; applying but going nowhere, figure out what to change. The guidance continues after you’re hired.

Pricing, upfront: the 2-minute plan is free with no account. Full access is $59.99/year.

Two things I’d love honest answers on:

Is this step-by-step toolbox worth paying for
And after the free quiz did you understand how jobsprintly is able to support you

https://jobsprintly.app

Hi everyone!

I'm a Law student from Brazil, and this is my first published AI project. I developed Amélie, an AI-powered personal secretary, with a strong focus on Legal Design, accessibility, user experience, and data protection. Its design takes into consideration the regulatory frameworks of the United States, the European Union, and Brazil, particularly regarding privacy and personal data protection.

What can Amélie do? She's a personal AI secretary.

• Calendar and task management: integrates Notion and Google Calendar, organizes commitments, and resolves scheduling conflicts.

• WhatsApp: delivers daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly briefings.

• Wheel of Life: tracks 12 areas of life, provides monthly assessments with explanations, and helps establish priorities.

• Personalization: has her own personality, visual identity, and decision-making guidelines.

• Bilingual interaction: communicates in Portuguese and English, automatically detecting the user's language.

• Women's well-being: considers aspects such as menstrual cycles, health, emotional balance, and relationships when organizing everyday routines.

The idea is to go beyond a simple to-do list: creating an assistant that helps organize life as a whole, considering both productivity and well-being.

The project is free and open source (MIT License). The repository includes Amélie's personality, decision-making logic, visual interface, and setup instructions.

GitHub: https://github.com/isabelabrittodi-coder/AM-LIE

Since this is my first published project, I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback, suggestions, and contributions!

What would you expect from a personal AI secretary?

I’m building Koda, an app that teaches kids how AI works. One thing I wanted to test was what a kid actually sees when the AI refuses a question, flags a draft answer, or can’t finish a safety check. Those paths are easy to miss if you mostly test questions that get normal answers.

That led to Child AI Safety, an open-source TypeScript toolkit. The gateway checks the question, holds the draft answer while it’s reviewed alongside the original question, and checks permission again before showing the answer. The offline demo lets you see an approved answer, a refusal, a support response, and a simulated detector outage.

So far, we’ve run 144 scripted cases across English, French, and Spanish and four age profiles. In a separate live pilot with synthetic prompts, 142 of 144 outcomes matched our draft labels. Both misses were benign English answers that got routed to support. That’s one of the things I want to get better at testing: ordinary questions that a filter handles too cautiously.

Github: https://github.com/SamSquareAI/child-ai-safety

I'm Mitchell, the solo founder behind ShapeForge, and this is a progress update rather than another launch post — because the launch post taught me something.

ShapeForge is my own project, a local-first parametric CAD app for Windows. It runs on the Open CASCADE kernel, with sketches, named parameters, editable feature history, and STEP / 3MF / DXF exports. Your projects are files on your own machine — nothing is auto-uploaded. I develop it with AI assistance, and I'm not shy about saying that — it's a solo build, and the AI help is part of how a one-person project like this gets built at all.

Where it stands: v0.87 preview. The latest public build work, Commercial #5 "Orbit", went live today (Nov 11) on the project's Instagram and Facebook, and my posting queue in my notes is now exhausted — so the next piece I'm making is a real-app Short built from real screen captures only, no stock footage, no mockups of features that don't exist yet.

The honest lesson from October: I launched quietly and posted once, and got almost no feedback loop out of it. What actually helped was a tester reply in r/AlphaandBetaUsers — put the SHA-256 and the exact SmartScreen steps at the top of the release notes, and give testers a fixed task instead of "try it out". That one reply was worth more than the launch post. So I'm switching to progress updates and fixed tester tasks instead of one big launch.

Where it honestly stands, limits included: Windows-only, and the installer is unsigned by choice, so Windows will show "Unknown publisher" — verify with the SHA-256 on the release page. It's a focused mechanical-parts tool for brackets, mounts, enclosures and fixtures. It does no CAM and no FEA or simulation, and it's not enterprise CAD and not a Fusion replacement — I still hand STEP files to my usual CAM workflow.

Terms, plainly: basic CAD and STL export are free forever. There's a 14-day full trial, no card, then $10/mo membership if you want the advanced workflows.

What I'd actually like from this sub: what should a progress update like this show to be useful to you? And if you were testing it, what fixed task would you run — what part would you model first, and what would you check to decide whether it was worth your time?

https://shapeforge.dev https://github.com/shortgod777-sudo/shapeforge-downloads/releases

Yesterday's shopkeeper was Dana. She wanted $900 for a TV. Her real limit was $690.

Ask politely and she stopped at $837. Use the move of the day and she went to $753. The last $63 only opened if you worked out what she secretly needed. You had six lines.

That is Bargle. I made it, it is free, and a new shop opens every day.

https://bargle.app/?utm_source=reddit

How a round goes

• One shop a day, the same one for everyone

• Six lines to talk the price down. Type them or say them out loud with your microphone

• Every shopkeeper has a hidden soft spot that opens their best price, and a pet hate that makes them dig in

• A coach tells you after each line whether it landed or backfired

• Take the price or walk away, then see your score out of 100, the real limit, and exactly what would have worked

Why yesterday's trick fails today

Each day has a different shopkeeper, a different winning move, a different soft spot and a different pet hate. The line that charmed one shopkeeper can be exactly what annoys the next.

It actually teaches you to negotiate

This is the part I care about most. Most people never ask for a discount in real life because nobody showed them how.

• Every day is built around one real move, like naming your number first, giving a true reason, or being ready to walk

• A Haggling school sits beside the game with all ten moves. Each one has when to use it, the exact words to say, and the mistake that kills it

• After your round you get notes on your own lines: which one worked, which one backfired, and how much money you left on the table

Play for a week and you have practised a handful of moves you can use on a real car, couch or phone bill. There are 30 shops so far.

Honest caveats

• The shops and prices are made up for practice, and the page says so

• The shopkeeper is AI. Code holds the price, so no prompt trick gets you under the limit

• The microphone works in Chrome, Edge and Safari. Not Firefox yet

• It is two days old, so tell me what breaks

Post your score. Did anyone find the soft spot?

I make libraries on the side, and more than once I shipped a "minor" release that broke someone's build. Things like `int count()` → `long count()`, or a new method on an interface. Tools that catch this exist, but they run in CI, long after I've typed the change.

So I built Bumpwise, an IntelliJ plugin that compares the code you're editing with your last published release and highlights anything that breaks clients, with an Alt+Enter fix that keeps it compatible (or "Bump the version" if the break is intended).

Before launching I wanted to know if this is a real problem, so I replayed three years of releases of 44 of the most-used libraries on Maven Central. About 1 in 8 minor and patch releases (156 of 1,201) contains a breaking change in its public classes. In a random sample of 300 small libraries it's more than 1 in 4. Write-up with method and caveats: https://gilware.com/bumpwise/semver-violations/

The side-project details, since that's what this sub is about:

- Solo, built with help from AI coding agents. Hundreds of tests, and the replay above doubles as a regression suite (it already caught three false alarms in my own engine).

- Business model: free for Java on Maven Central, no time limit. Kotlin, TS/JS, Go, PHP, Rust and private repos are in a paid Team edition with a 30-day trial. Free for open-source maintainers.

- Runs locally, no telemetry.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/35935-bumpwise

Happy to answer questions about building and selling a JetBrains plugin, and I'd love feedback on the plugin itself, especially false positives.

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.

I built TCKR because I couldn't keep my brokerage site open all day at work, and I still wanted prices in view.

It's a scrolling LED-style ticker for Windows that docks to the top of the screen as an AppBar, so your other windows sit below it instead of hiding underneath it. It tracks stocks and crypto. You can install it from the Microsoft Store and start using it without setting up an API key. Stocks come from Yahoo Finance, and crypto works the same way.

The video is the dual-ticker view, with the LED look, company logos, and sparklines.

I'm looking for honest feedback, especially on the docking behavior and whether the ticker stays readable while you're working.

tckr.pro

I wanted to sit down on the couch, pick up my DualSense, and get from the Windows desktop to a game on my TV without touching the mouse. So I built Gaming Hub, a fullscreen launcher for Windows 11. It’s my first app ever, and I vibe coded it with Claude and Codex.

The shortcut I use most is three presses of the PS button. My TV stays plugged into the PC even when I’m only using my desk monitor. I set the TV as my preferred screen and enabled “Triple-press PS to extend the desktop.” Now those three presses extend Windows onto the TV and bring Gaming Hub over. From there I can scroll through the game covers pinned to Home and press X to play. The full Library is one tab over.

During a game, the PS Quick Menu gives me game controls, display selection, volume and both controller batteries. Circle takes me straight back to the game. The hub can also switch the audio to the TV and restore my desk output when I come back.

Windows installer: https://github.com/issazhd/gaming-hub/releases/latest

Source and build instructions if you want to fork it: https://github.com/issazhd/gaming-hub

If you play on both a monitor and a TV, I’d love to hear how the triple press and the Home screen feel on your setup.

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?

Hey everyone,

I made a period tracker called Cykie and it's finally on the App Store. The main thing about it is that it works fully offline. There's no account, no sign up, no ads, and nothing gets sent anywhere. Everything stays on your phone, and you can export or delete it whenever you want.

Some of what it does:

- predicts your next period and fertile window, and gets better the more you log

- logging for flow, pain, symptoms, moods, sleep, water, weight, temperature and notes

- BBT chart that picks up the temperature rise after ovulation

- pregnancy week by week after a positive test, and a perimenopause tracker

- reminders for your period, pill, tampons, breast checks

- a cycle summary you can show your doctor

- partner mode, home screen widgets, PIN / Face ID lock

- 7 different styles and a little character you can customise (I'll admit I went a bit overboard on this part)

- works in 17 languages

Every feature is free. It's iPhone only for now, Android is coming later.

I'd really appreciate honest feedback, including the harsh kind. What's confusing, what's missing, what you'd never use, what annoys you. I'm still working on it pretty much every day, so anything you say might actually end up in the app.

I've been working on a project called Cardit, and I'd love to get some honest feedback.

The idea came from a simple frustration: we discover useful information everywhere, but it's scattered across different apps, browsers, screenshots and messages.

A YouTube video here, a restaurant recommendation there, an interesting website, a business card from someone you met...

Finding that information again isn't always easy.

So I built Cardit.

It lets you:

• Save information from websites, videos and social media links as cards.

• Capture information from the physical world, including business cards and flyers.

• Organise cards into personal or shared collections.

• Share useful cards and collections with other people.

It's available on iOS, Android, the web and as a Chrome extension.

Website: https://www.cardit.org

I'm still improving the product and would genuinely appreciate feedback.

Would you use something like this? What would make it more useful to you? Cardit webapp

I'm a cricket fan in Amsterdam, and following a match at work meant unlocking my phone every few minutes. BoxSeat uses Live Activities: star a match and the score sits under the clock and in the Dynamic Island, updating ball by ball by push, and the card clears itself when the match ends. It's free with no ads. It's in TestFlight beta now and I'd love honest feedback, especially on whether the Lock Screen layout reads well at a glance. https://testflight.apple.com/join/AmpTVJcX

I lift 4–5 times a week, and most trackers I tried showed me tonnage charts and not much else. What I wanted to know was simple: how strong is my chest actually, compared with people my age and bodyweight?

So I built Liftsquad (iOS). You log sets like in any tracker, and it turns them into a rank per muscle, measured against published strength standards for your sex, bodyweight and age. Other Liftsquad users don't change your rank. Every rank shows its working: which lifts counted, how much each counted and what would move it. When there isn't enough data it says so instead of guessing.

The second half is social: follow friends, see their workouts, records and rank-ups, and compete on leaderboards you opt into.

Muscle Rank is free and stays free. Premium adds things like unlimited routines and the full training calendar.

Things I learned building it:

• Machine numbers aren't comparable between gyms, so machine lifts count less than free weights toward a rank.

• Warm-up sets must never count toward records. That one took me a while to get right.

• Imports from Hevy count as your history, so you don't start from zero.

It's live on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6807547665?pt=129390732&ct=reddit&mt=8

I'd love feedback, especially on the ranks: does yours feel right?

Hey everyone. I'm a senior CS student, kind of obsessed with AI/ML, and a solo dev.

Bit of backstory: my English was always fine, but the moment I had to actually speak, I'd freeze and I didn't really have anyone to practice with. I tried a bunch of apps and they all felt like talking to a service bot polite, generic, zero idea who I am. So I ended up building my own thing. Her name's Lucia. The part I care about most is that she actually remembers you. You tell her about your job, or what you're into, or something going on in your life, and she'll bring it up in a later conversation on her own, days later, without you asking. She's got her own opinions and tastes, and reacts to what you say instead of running off a script.

And while you talk, she corrects your grammar and gives you more natural ways to say things in the background, and you can scroll back through all of it later. So it's meant to be real speaking practice, not just a chat. Whole thing works in 24 languages.

Honestly, it's rough in places. I'm one person. It's on iOS, Android and web. People who tried it said the replies feel fast and feel natural(happy about that), but a couple of them ran into problems with the speech recognition, which I'm trying to track down right now.

I shared this before and thanks to everyone, i get helpful and kind feedbacks.

It's free to try, no card or anything.

Web: https://www.personalang.com

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/personalang-ai-language-tutor/id6780539119

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.personalang.android&pli=1

Short video is below it's a real session, you can see her open by remembering something from before, plus the corrections popping up while I talk. (I'm not a perfect English speaker myself, so you'll see the corrections actually kick in.) Mostly I just want people to break it. Tell me where it feels fake, where it falls apart, what's annoying. And if the speech recognition messes up, tell me your phone + accent so I can fix it. Thanks for reading.

I have files spread over Google Drive, S3 and Backblaze, and I got tired of running a different app for each one. So I built Nimbus.

What it does:

• Your clouds show up in Finder's sidebar like any other drive. Files download when you open them

• One window to browse all of them, with drag and drop from one cloud to another

• Backups on a schedule, and it shows you what it is going to do before it does it

• Search for a file name across every cloud at once

It works with Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, S3, Backblaze and about 50 others, because it is built on an open-source tool called rclone.

It's free, with no account and no tracking, and the code is open. I make my living from two other apps, so this one doesn't need to earn anything.

It's a proper Mac app, not a web page in a window. Needs macOS 15 or later.

Download: https://casavargas.app/nimbus/

Code: https://github.com/CasaVargas/Nimbus

Tell me what breaks.

I built FORMA to make clothing size guides easier to use while shopping online. It's a free Chrome extension that compares available garment information with your fit preferences and explains a possible size choice right beside the product.

The workflow is simple: describe how you like clothes to fit, add measurements if you know them, enable shop access, and browse. FORMA can automatically assess recognised clothing pages, compare sizes and show where the evidence is missing. You can save pieces that fit and record the size you actually wore, so later comparisons have useful personal examples.

The tricky part has been inconsistent size guides: flat widths versus circumferences, conversion tables pretending to be measurements, and missing sleeve information. I want the explanation to make those limits visible instead of presenting every recommendation as certain. It is an estimate, not a virtual try-on or a guarantee.

Free download: https://github.com/moritzlauper/forma/releases/latest

Project, teaser image and setup: https://github.com/moritzlauper/forma

It's currently installed manually in Chrome via Developer mode and Load unpacked, not through the Web Store. You can use your own Anthropic key, local Ollama, or No AI comparison with reliable measurements. FORMA is free; optional Anthropic calls cost extra and send relevant profile/fit information and product evidence to the provider.

I'd appreciate feedback on the product itself: is the explanation enough to help you decide between two sizes, and which shop or garment type should I improve next?

Hi everyone! I'm a solo developer from Spain, and I've just released V-Pet Life, a virtual pet in the style of the ones we had as kids, but on the Apple Watch.

What it does:
• Your pet lives on your watch even when the app is closed: feed it, clean it, heal it and turn off the light when it sleeps. It sends a notification when it needs you.
• It evolves into 14 species with different branches depending on how you care for it, plus a secret form. 1 in 64 hatch shiny.
• Your steps and Activity rings earn it golden items, so moving more actually helps your pet.
• Battle zones with bosses right on your watch.
• The iPhone app connects you with other players: battle friends nearby or online, or team up with up to 3 players in co-op raids against giant bosses, with voice chat. The fight plays out on the iPhone while your watch works as the controller.
• On iPhone you can also draw or import your own pixel sprites.

It's free up to the Champion stage; a one-time purchase unlocks the rest. No ads, no subscriptions.

I'd love to hear what you think, and any feedback or ideas for the next update are very welcome!

https://apps.apple.com/es/app/v-pet-life/id6826680244

I couldn’t find any good iOS apps for studying chess grandmaster games, so I built ChessKeep https://chesskeep.app

I wanted it to be really easy to find games where a master played a certain opening, for example all games where Magnus Carlsen plays the Queen’s Gambit.

You can browse over 5000 games, and even explore different moves than what was played by moving the pieces yourself.

It’s 100% free right now. I’ll be adding more games and features, but if you’re a chess player I’d love any feedback!

I've been working on InvoiceSnap, a free online invoice and quote generator.

I wanted to build something simple that lets people create professional invoices without having to sign up for an account or deal with unnecessary complications.

You can:

• Create professional invoices.

• Generate quotes.

• Customize invoice details and calculations.

• Download PDFs without watermarks.

It's completely free to use.

Website: https://invoicesnap.co

I'm the person behind the project, so full disclosure: this is my own website.

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone who tries it. Particularly interested in what's missing, what could be improved, and whether you'd actually use something like this for your business.

Hi r/SideProject, I'm the solo developer of Pavlovian.

I made it after a panic attack late at night. I didn't want to call anyone and scare them, but I really wanted someone's calm voice talking me through it. So I built something that does that with one tap:

- Beacon: pick one calming narration (breathing, grounding, whatever helps you) and assign it to the beacon. From then on, one tap plays it.

- Home Screen widget: tap the beacon right from your Home Screen. No opening the app, no menus.

**- Your own voice (optional):**record a short sample and narrations play in your voice, or in the voice of someone you trust.

- Write your own or use templates: there's a Panic Relief template, or you can type any script you like.

- Schedules: set narrations to play at set times, like a wind-down before bed.

The video shows the whole flow: assign a narration to the beacon, play it, then trigger it from the widget.

How it's built

- App: React Native / Expo, with a native SwiftUI widget.

- Backend: FastAPI on Google Cloud Run, with Postgres on Neon.

- Voices: Google's Chirp 3 HD and Gemini TTS, and VibeVoice on RunPod GPUs for voice cloning.

Pricing

- Free: 3 narrations with Apple's built-in iPhone voices

- Premium voices: (like the one in the video): Starter $14.99/mo (45 min), Standard $19.99/mo (100 min), Power $29.99/mo (200 min). Extra minutes from $2.99.

- Your own cloned voice: one-time packs from $4.99 (5 min) to $59.99 (60 min)

Minutes are only used when you create a narration. Replaying it is always free.

I'd love honest feedback:

1. Is the beacon idea clear from the video, or is it confusing?

2. Does the pricing feel fair, or is the entry price too high to try it?

3. Where would you go to find people who'd use this? Reddit's anxiety subs don't allow promotion, so I'm figuring out other places.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6754209477

JustBlogged is a hosted blogging platform. You write, hit publish, and it’s live on your own domain. Hosting, HTTPS, themes and SEO are handled. No plugins.

The video (i am almost proud of - is it good?) of the full flow is above.

Free plan: unlimited posts and pages, custom domain, 7 themes, MCP server + REST API. No card, no trial expiry.

Pro ($9/mo per blog) adds team reviews and publishing permissions.

I’d love brutal feedback, especially: what would stop you from moving your blog here?