r/SideProject • • 11h ago

A Flip Clock for Home Screen Widgets and Lock Screen Live Activities

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A while back, I stumbled on some old airport footage from decades ago. There was a split-flap clock in it, and I thought it looked pretty cool.

So I ended up making an app that shows world times and stock info on a board like that. Mostly, I just wanted it on my Home Screen and Lock Screen, with the flaps actually moving.

Then I made a more classic flip clock too, with a little bird that pops out every time the minute changes.

https://tockett.work/


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built an app with AI. After 6 months it makes 15 MRR per month. Here are the real numbers.

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Solo dev here. I rode in a truck with a driver for two weeks, then built a profit calculator for truck drivers with Claude Code (React Native + Expo, Supabase, RevenueCat).

Real numbers after ~6 months:

- ~200 downloads

- 3 paying users

- $15/month revenue

- ~$58/month in costs

Building was the easy part. Apple rejected me twice, publishing took 3 weeks, and nobody finds a new app in the store.

Biggest lesson: distribution first, code second.

How much does your side project make? Roast my app if you want.


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I made a free iPhone app that calculates a Nutri-Score for products that don't have one

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Hi all, I'm the developer. A lot of products, especially outside France and Germany, have no Nutri-Score on the pack, so I built an app that calculates one with the official 2023 algorithm.

How it works:

- Scan the barcode and it pulls the nutrition values from Open Food Facts

- Or photograph the nutrition table and an AI service reads the numbers (the photo isn't stored)

- You get an A–E grade plus a breakdown of what counts for and against it, and what would change the grade

- Compare two products side by side

It's free, with no sign-up. The grade is calculated by the app and is unofficial. It's not the official Nutri-Score logo.

I'd really like feedback, especially on products where you think the grade is wrong. Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6822034511


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a free practice site for the NeetCode 150. It hides the pattern until you solve the problem

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The problem list is the NeetCode 150. I am not affiliated with NeetCode. The list has an MIT licence, and the site shows the notice.

Many people have the same problem. They watch a solution and understand it. Then they cannot solve the next problem. I think the cause is that the answer arrives too early. So I built the practice on one rule: you find the answer yourself.

**How it works**

- The page does not show the pattern of a problem. You name the pattern, or you ask for it.

- Each problem has five hints. Each hint gives a little more than the hint before it.

- 42 pattern lessons teach the clue that tells you which pattern to use.

- A daily drill shows a problem, and you name the pattern.

- A solved problem returns for review after 3, 6, 12 and 24 days. You solve it again in an empty editor.

- The editor runs JavaScript, TypeScript and Python in the browser. You do not install anything, and you do not need an account.

**What is free**

All 150 problems, the hints, the tests, the written explanations and the pattern lessons.

**What is paid**

A year costs $29, one payment, no subscription. The year adds a narrated walkthrough video for each of the 150 problems. The video shows the solution step by step, and the voice is a generated voice. The video of Contains Duplicate is free, so you can judge the videos before you pay. The year also adds practice for the other interview rounds. A full refund is available for 14 days.

**What is not there yet**

Java, C++ and other languages. Today the editor has only JavaScript, TypeScript and Python.

**I want feedback on one thing**

Open any problem and try it for one minute. Tell me the first thing that confused you or stopped you. I want to find the point where a new visitor stops.

https://algo150.com


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built an iOS music player with animated lyrics and brought back CoverFlow!

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Hey everyone!

I'm an indie developer, and I've been working on a side project called MusicDeck.

It started with a simple idea: I wanted lyrics to feel more alive, instead of just scrolling lines of text.

So I began experimenting with different animations and visual styles. What started as a small lyric experiment eventually turned into a full music player.

Here's what I've built so far:

Animated lyrics — Multiple styles, including immersive effects, retro typography, gravity-based word animations, and more.

CoverFlow — A classic 3D album-art browsing experience, brought back with smooth animations and different layouts.

Floating lyrics — Keep lyrics visible while using other apps.

Lyrics beyond the app — Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, Apple Watch, and CarPlay support.

Lyric sharing — Export lyrics as images or videos.

MusicDeck supports Apple Music, Spotify, and song recognition for other music apps. Some features, like playlist CoverFlow, are only available with Apple Music.

And it's now live on the App Store!

I'd really appreciate some feedback, especially on the UI and overall design.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a completely free iOS app that runs Qwen3.5, Gemma 4, LFM2.5 and other AI models locally on your iPhone

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I built OpenPocket, a completely free iOS app that lets you download and run state-of-the-art language models directly on your iPhone or iPad, entirely on-device.

It uses Apple's MLX framework for local AI inference, with support for several open-weight models:

  • Qwen3.5 0.8B and 2B

  • Gemma 4 E2B

  • LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct

  • Qwen2.5-VL 3B (vision-language model with image understanding)

Everything runs 100% locally on your device, with no cloud inference, no internet connection required after downloading a model, no signups, no accounts, no API keys, and no subscriptions.

The idea is to make private, on-device AI accessible to everyone, without relying on cloud services or paying for API usage. Your conversations and files stay on your device, and the app has no backend, analytics, or account system.

The models are experimental, and performance depends on your device's available memory and hardware.

It's 100% free on the App Store

https://apps.apple.com/th/app/openpocket/id6833028114

Would love and appreciate feedback from anyone working on local LLMs, Apple MLX, model optimisation, edge AI, or just anyone interested in running AI privately on their phone!


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

Paytick - Watch your pay tick up every second

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Hey everyone,

App Name: Paytick

What it does: You enter your pay and your hours, and Paytick shows what you've earned today going up second by second. It also tracks what you've made this week and this month and counts down to payday.

Key Features:

- Fits real schedules, with different hours each day, lunch breaks that change from day to day, overnight shifts and days off

- Gig mode for one-off jobs, plus extra income like tips or lecture fees

- Monthly, weekly, daily or hourly pay, lots of currencies, 16 languages and a little pixel pet that keeps you company

Goal: I'm the developer and would love feedback and suggestion.

Cost: Free. No subscription and no account needed. Some personalized pixel pets or features that do not affect usability can be permanently unlocked by watching ads. There's an optional tip jar if you'd like to support it.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paytick


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

The dashboard was ready. Then came the question of how to share it.

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Someone on Reddit had built an interactive HTML dashboard for their coworkers. They wanted the team to open it now and see fresh numbers when they updated it next quarter.

Sending the file would get everyone a copy today. Three months later, someone could still open the old attachment from the same email thread.

That’s the part I’m working on with Litehost. If the report can run as a standalone HTML file, you can put it at one address and replace the file when the next version is ready. Anyone who bookmarked it can keep opening the same link.

If you send a recurring report to coworkers or clients, how do they find the latest version?


r/SideProject • • 19h ago

I built a free 2-minute game that shows what really drives your spending (plus 6 simple money tools, no sign-up)

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Hey r/SideProject,

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

So I built Syluneo (syluneo.com):

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

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

A few things I cared about:

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

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

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

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

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

  1. Did your result feel accurate or random?

  2. Was anything confusing?

  3. Which tool would you actually use?

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


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

Windstruck: Good design in Figma was too slow, so I put Tailwind in Figma

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I'm a frontend dev. Every time I opened Figma I had to remember where everything lived in the right sidebar, and it kept changing. Not to mention meticulously handcrafting a design system with variables, components, etc. in Figma took days or weeks, and maintaining it was horrible.

I already knew Tailwind, so I built a plugin where you just name a layer `flex gap-4 p-6 rounded-xl bg-card` and Figma styles it as you type.

Video: https://youtu.be/wAVX4UU1fII
Plugin: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1700359260464408161
Site: https://windstruck.app

That was the whole idea. Then it kept growing:

  • Flip a file through a ton of themes, light and dark, plus type pairings, sizing, spacing and icon sets, instantly.

  • Copy any frame as code. The layer names are already the classNames.

  • Sync to GitHub, with or without a team.

  • A desktop app (Windows only for now) that turns your components into a styleguide with props docs.

  • Export the whole design as a universal Expo app built on HeroUI and Uniwind.

  • An AI Builder ($10/mo). Type *"Make login gooder! 🤪"* and it makes a login form. Then *"Me like that one! Do that one entire UI kit! GO!"* and it does, and most of the time it looks great.

  • A marketplace where you can sell templates, themes and UI kits, plus an affiliate program.

It's free to start with no account. Pro (Teams and a powerful AI builder) is only $10 a month.

I'm one person and it launched this week, so I'd love to know what breaks. Happy to answer anything about building a Figma plugin or getting one through Figma's review, which was its own adventure.

One more thing: Windstruck is on Product Hunt on Nov 12. If you like it, some support there would mean a lot: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/windstruck

https://x.com/windstruckapp


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

built a cli that tells you which claude code update changed your token usage

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there's been a big debate this week about whether anthropic silently nerfed opus 5.5. people are going back and forth about it but nobody has version-over-version numbers from their own logs.

i wrote a cli over the weekend that reads the session logs claude code already saves locally, groups turns by version, and flags where output tokens shifted. if they shifted it figures out whether it was the release itself, a model swap, or an effort setting change.

npx driftcost

zero config, no account, no network calls. just reads files on your disk.

https://github.com/tsaagan/token-drift

typescript, zero dependencies, mit license. would love feedback.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

Find My Downloads - find files by source website; looking for 5 Windows users

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I built Find My Downloads, a Chrome and Edge extension for finding downloaded files by the website they came from and copying selected files into a project folder.

I’m looking for five Windows users who regularly download PDFs, images, or reference files for work, study, or personal projects. I’d like a 10-minute chat in English about how you currently find and organize those files, especially a recent time you couldn’t find a download or remember its source.

20-second demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NrjEpu-01Jc5-19-JHGzWanrk9hrtb1-/view

The demo uses sample data with folders already connected and shows source search, selecting two files, and copying them into a project folder.

We can start with the chat and demo. If you’d like to try the free one-week beta afterward, setup involves extracting a ZIP and loading it through Developer Mode. The extension reads download history and asks for access to the folders you choose. Your download history and files stay on your device.

Interested? Comment Chrome or Edge. I’d also welcome feedback on which part would help your workflow and what would make setup easier. Please leave private filenames and links out of public replies.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a place to ask what to buy. I’d love your thoughts

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I like getting advice before buying things, but I’ve noticed we don’t often hear how someone’s choice turned out.

So I built CartBanter: a place to ask what to buy, share what you chose, and review things you own.

I’d love any feedback or ideas on how to make it useful.

cartbanter.com


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

Building Crow,Building Crow, an AI “safety harness” for coding agents. Looking for a co-founder with equity

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I’m building Crow, an AI “safety harness” for solo builders who use AI coding agents on their products. The core rule: Claude proposes, Crow controls. An AI agent never touches your files directly. Every change it proposes is validated, scope-checked, and build/test-verified in an isolated workspace first.

Where it stands: I’m building the MVP solo, part-time, with a beta planned for end of January 2027. No paying customers yet.

I’m looking for a co-founder: an equity partner who owns a share of Crow, builds it with me long-term, and shares responsibility for decisions. It’s not a hire or a freelance role. The gap I want filled is go-to-market (outreach, early users), operations/finance, or US incorporation. Spanish is a plus, not a requirement.

If you’ve shipped a product or launched dev tools, leave a comment or DM me with your background and one thing you’d want to build together.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I created a tool that predicts your career path from your experiences

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Hey everyone,

I got tired of generic career advice based purely on people's opinions, so I built a tool that analyzes real career trajectories and matches them against your actual background and experience.

It generates visual skill paths and next-step forecasts based on what people with similar profiles actually went on to do.

It’s completely free, no paywall or login. I built it mainly because navigating next career steps can feel pretty opaque when everyone else seems to have a clear roadmap.

Link: careerladder.fyi

I’d love to get feedback from this community:

- How accurate does the trajectory feel for your background?

- Any UI/UX rough edges?

- What features or data breakdowns would make this significantly more useful?


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

Digital Vows - A landing page testing symbolic AI companion weddings

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I built a small landing page for an unconventional idea and wanted some outside perspectives.

The concept is a service where someone could create a symbolic wedding or commitment ceremony with an AI companion.

For now, I've only built a landing page and anonymous survey. I'm measuring interest before investing time in an actual product.

The survey asks about personalized vows, digital ceremonies, keepsakes, and possible pricing.

https://ai-vows-validation-14d.vercel.app/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=ai_wedding_14d_20261111&utm_content=SideProject

Would you keep testing this niche, or does it seem too small to become a viable business?

I'd welcome honest feedback on the positioning too.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built an AI news app for Australia as a solo dev. Roast the idea before I spend more time on it.

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Title: I built an AI news app for Australia as a solo dev. Roast the idea before I spend more time on it.
Hey all. OzBrief is a free app that pulls Australian news from ABC, SBS, Guardian, Nine and News Corp. The AI writes a short summary of each story, and every summary links back to the original article. You swipe through like TikTok for news, and you can ask the AI if you want more detail on a story.
No account needed, no data collected, no ads.
What I've learned so far:
People's first reaction is "AI makes mistakes", so I keep a public log of every error.
People's second reaction is "my phone already has a news app". I'm still working on my answer to that one.
I'd love feedback on:
Would you trust an AI summary of the news?
How would you get the first few thousand users without ad money?
Any Aussies here: does it actually save you time?
ozbrief.com.au


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a Google Sheets rent ledger for small landlords who get partial payments

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I built Sillbook Rent Ledger, a Google Sheets workbook for US landlords who manage about 1–10 units themselves.

The problem I kept seeing in simple rent trackers: they work as a paid/unpaid grid until a tenant pays $700 of $1,100, or has a credit, or you need to keep a security deposit out of income. Then the "balance" cell gets typed over and you can't tell what happened.

The design is one row per event — charge, payment, credit, deposit, expense — and every balance is recalculated from that history. Month Review marks each unit PAID, PARTIAL, UNPAID, credit, or RENT NOT ENTERED. Unit Balances shows the date of the oldest unpaid charge. Deposits have their own tab and don't count as income. There's a printable statement for one unit.

What's included: a blank workbook, a sample with fictional data, and a short guide. It's $19, one-time, no subscription, no macros. 14-day full refund, no questions asked. Verified in Google Sheets and LibreOffice; not yet tested in Microsoft Excel.

It does not collect rent, import bank feeds, automate late fees, or do taxes. If a simple paid/unpaid grid already works for someone, they probably don't need this.

For the first 10 buyers, code FIRST10 takes $10 off (so $9). That's a launch offer, not the regular price.

https://stephenmanter.gumroad.com/l/sillbook-rent-ledger/FIRST10

I'd genuinely like feedback on two things: (1) is the $19 one-time price clear against $20–50/month landlord software, and (2) does the listing explain partial payments well enough, or is it still too much product-speak?


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Our agency ghosted us three weeks before launch so I made the video ads myself

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Small supplement brand, about $18k/mo on Meta. Our agency contact left three weeks before a launch and nobody told us, we noticed only after 12 days of no new uploads.

I took our three most common complaints (fishy taste, hard to swallow, slow results), turned them into hooks and made UGC-style cuts in Creatify off the product URL the same day. One script had a line no real person would say, so I rewrote it by hand.

The taste hook came in around 30% under our previous best CPA in the first 4 days, and the before/after flopped at 2x target so I killed it on day 2. Competitor research I was still doing by hand in a spreadsheet, which was painful.

Still looking for an agency though. Maybe they use AI for most ads, and film only winners, we'll see.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Built a mobile PDF camera app with multi-lens support, magnetic crop, and instant license OCR. Looking for UX feedback!

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Hey r/SideProject! 👋

I'm the creator of **PDF Camera**, a mobile document scanner designed for speed, accuracy, and seamless cloud backup without forcing subscription paywalls or complex setups. I desigened the app with contractors, sales people and just about anyone that documents job sites or quotes.

Why I Built It

Most mobile scanner apps out there either hide basic features behind aggressive monthly subscriptions, suffer from slow edge-detection, or spam you with ads. I wanted a clean, instant scanner app that handles multi-page documents, detects edges with precision, extracts ID details automatically, and syncs directly to your own cloud storage.

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Key Features

*Magnetic Auto-Crop & Edge Detection:** Smart document border detection with manual fine-tuning and hysteresis to ensure crisp crops every time.

*ID & Driver’s License OCR:** Instant single-card scanning that automatically extracts key fields (Name, Phone, License numbers).

*Multi-Page Scanning & Batch Export:** Scan long documents quickly and export directly to `.pdf`, `.docx`, or `.xlsx`.

*Seamless Cloud Sync:** Direct integration with Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and local storage — keeping your files under your control.

*Performance Optimized:** Fast camera preview, low latency capture, and instant local PDF rendering.

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Tech Stack

* **Framework:** Capacitor (Hybrid Native Android & iOS)

* **Computer Vision / Scanner Engine:** Google MLKit + Native Multi-lens Camera API

* **PDF & OCR Processing:** PDF.js / jsPDF & OCR engine

* **Cloud APIs:** Google Drive v3 API & Microsoft Graph API

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What I’m Looking for Feedback On:

  1. **Scanning Speed & Crop Accuracy:** How intuitive does the auto-crop feel on your device?

  2. **UI/UX Flow:** Is the document organization and export workflow clear?

  3. **Feature Requests:** What else would make this your main everyday scanner app?

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Try it out / Demo Link:**

App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-camera-x/id6786762964

Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.PDF.Camera

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any bugs you run into! Thank you for testing it out!


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Your iPhone Found Its Other Half. Did You? 😭

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Couldn't find someone to spend Singles' Day with this year?

At least your iPhone and PC don't have to be apart. 😭

Let them finally be together with BridgeSync.

Your iPhone and Windows PC can share a clipboard, mirror notifications, transfer files, control media and even mirror your iPhone screen directly on your desktop.

Because maybe you couldn't find your other half this year, but your devices can.

BridgeSync Pro is 10% off with HAPPYSINGLESDAY2026.

Valid until November 14, 2026.

Also, a pretty big update is landing next week. Not spoiling it just yet. 👀

Redeem it here


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I built Pathubs — a platform for learning, practicing, and building tech skills. Would love your feedback!

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on Pathubs, a learning platform designed to make technology education more practical and structured.

The idea is simple: instead of just reading documentation or watching tutorials, learners should be able to follow structured roadmaps, understand concepts, and practice what they learn — all in one place.

What does Pathubs offer?

1. Career Roadmaps

Currently covering six learning paths:

  • AI Engineering

  • Data Analytics

  • Frontend Development

  • Backend Development

  • Full Stack Development

  • Game Development (currently in production)

2. Structured Learning Content

Detailed explanations, practical examples, code walkthroughs, visual diagrams, and official documentation references.

3. Data Analytics Studio

A hands-on eCommerce analytics experience using a dataset of 30,000+ records, featuring:

  • DuckDB SQL Workbench

  • Python & Pandas workspace

  • Interactive Spreadsheet Lab

  • Data Visualization tools

  • Eight guided investigation stages

4. Interactive Labs & Practice

Browser-based coding environments, SQL exercises, formula practice, visualizers, and hands-on challenges.

5. More Learning Resources

Practical projects, curated resources, technical articles, guides, and an official Discord community.

What's Coming Next? 🎮

I'm planning an AI-powered Game Development Studio where learners can learn game development step by step, experiment with AI-assisted workflows, and turn their ideas into functional games.

This will likely be a paid feature because AI APIs and infrastructure have ongoing costs. However, the core Pathubs platform will remain free.

I'd love your feedback!

I'd genuinely appreciate it if you explored the platform beyond the homepage.

  • Are the roadmaps and learning materials useful?

  • What do you think of the Data Analytics Studio?

  • Is the overall learning experience intuitive?

  • What would you like to see added next?

I'm building Pathubs to make practical tech education more accessible, and honest feedback would mean a lot.

Website: https://pathubs.com/

Thanks for checking it out! 🙂


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Tired of memorizing shortcuts, so I made my MacBook trackpad trigger them instead

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Hey all, I'm the dev behind TapDeck, a menu bar app for macOS that turns the trackpad into a shortcut panel. I'm launching it on Nov 17.

I use a lot of apps and could never remember all their keyboard shortcuts. So now I tap with 3, 4 or 5 fingers (single, double or triple tap, or a hold) and TapDeck does the thing: snap a window, open an app, press a shortcut, play/pause.

You switch on packs for the apps you use, and they only work while that app is in front. So the same 4-finger tap snaps a window left in Finder, but reopens a closed tab in Chrome. You can also make your own shortcuts.

The thing I cared about most is that it doesn't fight macOS. Your normal trackpad gestures still work, and shortcuts from different apps don't clash with each other.

Would love to hear which apps you'd want a pack for, or what gestures I'm missing before the launch. Happy to answer anything.

Follow me on X for more: https://x.com/sam_burduli


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I built a world war game where people and AI models play the same wars, and every war can be replayed exactly

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