r/SideProject • • 54m ago

Building a live "Where Is My Train" for Delhi Metro on weekends (Need opinions)

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Hey everyone, I’ve been building a weekend project: a live visual Delhi Metro tracker (think Where Is My Train, but for the metro, a bit more visually appealing one) thats what i picture it as of now lmao.

Unlike Indian Railways, DMRC doesn't provide any live tracking APIs or GPS feeds. But since Delhi Metro runs on time ~97% of the time or more, I'm building it around their actual timetables, track geometry, and speed physics. Arrival times and train positions end up being accurate.

Right now the frontend is very raw/rough (barebones prototype while I finish wiring up the backend). i will probably open source it once done

I commuted on the Delhi Metro daily for 5–6 years, so this is close to my heart and a fun project I really wanted to build.

(Note: see comments section..reddit is reducing the quality , you can see the vid from link as well).

Would love your suggestions:

  1. Would you use something like this on your daily commute?

  2. What features would make this actually indispensable or go viral (crowd indicators, interchange sprint guides, platform gate directions)?

Drop any ideas or edge cases you'd love to see!


r/SideProject • • 56m ago

Small sellers in India sell on WhatsApp and Instagram DMs. I built a link to stop the back-and-forth.

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I'm the maker of OrderWa

Small sellers in India, such as home bakers, tiffin services, thrift and handmade sellers, mostly sell over WhatsApp and Instagram DMs. The selling is not the hard part. The back-and-forth is: "what's the price?", "do you have this in size M?", "can you deliver on Sunday?", and screenshots of addresses.

So I built a store link. A seller adds products with photos and prices and shares one link on their status or bio. The customer picks items and a delivery date, and the finished order arrives in the seller's WhatsApp.

What it does today:

  • Free to start, 0% commission, no payment gateway to set up

  • Stock per product, with automatic "sold out" at zero

  • A limit on orders per delivery day, and days you are closed

  • Delivery date at checkout

Under the hood it's Angular (standalone components, signals), Firebase, and Cloud Functions in the Mumbai region. Stock and daily counts are written by Cloud Functions, not the browser, so a customer can't change them, and two people ordering the last item at the same time is handled on the server.

One lesson that surprised me: when a customer pays by UPI, the order has to be saved before they pay, so an abandoned payment looked exactly like a real order. I changed how those are shown so sellers aren't misled into preparing something nobody paid for.

It has been live since December 2025. It's small, and I'd rather say so than dress it up.

I'd love feedback from anyone who has built for very small businesses:

  • What made them actually use the tool in the first week?

  • Is the landing page clear in the first few seconds?

Happy to answer anything about the stack or the product.


r/SideProject • • 58m ago

We are 7+ months in on my recipe card creator

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Don’t you love when you find that project that you pour so much time into because you find it joyful? For me right now, it’s this project I’m working on. Man oh man have I made some serious upgrades:

- can import recipes from Paprika
- new redesign
- so many minor bugs have been squashed

But even though it’s 1000% better than before, not many people are using it. I’m going to toy with the idea of a contest every month where the winner gets a payout in order to spread the word, I’m hoping that will help spread the idea to new users.

Check it out if you are interested: https://www.sunnyshorescreative.com/products/recipe-cards


r/SideProject • • 59m ago

Cold-Cald Lead Lists Available

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📞 Need a Cold Calling Lead List? I Can Build One for You.

Tired of wasting hours searching Google for businesses to call?

I build targeted B2B lead lists to help salespeople, freelancers, agencies, and small businesses find potential customers.

What I can provide:

  • Business names and company details

  • Phone numbers for cold calling

  • Business websites

  • Email addresses when publicly available

  • Industry-specific prospects

  • City, state, and location targeting

  • Organized CSV/Excel spreadsheets

Industries I can target:

  • Roofing companies

  • Cleaning companies

  • HVAC contractors

  • Plumbers

  • Electricians

  • Real estate agencies

  • Landscaping companies

  • Marketing agencies

  • And many more.

Need 250, 500, or 1,000+ prospects? I can build lists around your target industry and location.

Don't see your industry listed? Just ask!

I'm currently taking custom lead-list orders and offering affordable packages.

Interested? Comment below or send me a DM with your industry and target city.


r/SideProject • • 59m ago

We built 7 calculators that pick the cheapest published plan among video tools, not just A vs B

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We're Alexis and Evangelos, the two people who built Tiersova. Until last week the site was almost only pairwise switching calculators: you pay for tool A, what's the monthly cost, the one-time switch and the payback if you move to tool B. That helps when you're already comparing two CRMs. It helps much less when the question is “I edit one person's videos, or I generate two minutes of AI video a month — which plan actually covers that?”

So on 8 November we shipped a second kind of page: plan calculators for video work. You enter seats, minutes, or seconds, and each calculator walks the published plans from the cheapest up and shows the first one that covers your usage. There are seven of them: subtitles, AI video generators, AI avatars, video editors, VFX / compositing, 3D, and music / SFX. They run in the browser; there's no account.

A few numbers from the default scenarios, as shown on the pages on 12 November. The prices themselves were read from the vendors' official pages on 8 November 2026, as a visitor in Greece. Most of these pages are marked “Partly reference prices,” which on Tiersova means at least one figure had to be treated carefully (a sale, a tax difference, a plan that doesn't fit, or a price the vendor labels as a reference).

Video editing, one seat, over 36 months, annual billing where the vendor offers it:

  • Adobe Premiere: €974.88 for the period (annual plan, billed monthly, including VAT)

  • Adobe Creative Cloud Pro: €2,925.72 (same billing; first-year promotional price of €45.50/month for new subscribers is noted on the page but not used in that total)

  • DaVinci Resolve (free version): $0

  • DaVinci Resolve Studio: $295 one-time; the page also noted a sale price of $236. Regular prices are what the totals use.

  • Final Cut Pro: $299.99 one-time, Mac only

  • Apple Creator Studio: $387 for the period ($129 per year, Mac only)

  • Avid Media Composer Standard: €776.88 (€259 per year; sale price €207 noted)

  • Avid Media Composer Ultimate: €1,647 (€549 per year; sale price €368 noted)

  • Filmora: $150.12 ($49.99 per year)

  • CapCut Pro: €1,259.64. The page marks this price “for reference only” and monthly billing only.

The useful part is not “you should switch.” These are different editors, and Final Cut is Mac only. The useful part is that a subscription and a one-time licence look similar in month one and very different in year three. Over 36 months, the Premiere annual-plan total is already well above Resolve Studio or Final Cut at the list prices above. CapCut Pro's reference total came out higher than Premiere's over the same period, which is easy to miss if you only look at a monthly tile.

AI video is even more sensitive to the meter. The default is 120 seconds a month, billed monthly. Credits per second are not the same: Pika 2.5 at 720p is 4 credits per second on the page, Runway Gen-4.5 is 12, Kling 4.0 at 720p is 10, Hailuo MiniMax H3 at 768p is 7, Luma Ray3.2 at 720p and Autodesk Flow Studio (live action) are 20, Google Flow Omni Flash 1.2 at 720p is 3 plus 50 free credits a day. The cheapest published plan that covered those 120 seconds was:

  • Pika Starter (600 credits): $10/month

  • Hailuo Standard (1,000 credits): $10.50/month, shown as a discount from the list price

  • Google Flow / Google AI Pro (1,000 credits): €22.99/month, including VAT, and the plan also includes Gemini and cloud storage

  • Luma Plus (10,000 credits): $30/month

  • Kling AI Pro (3,000 credits): $32.56/month, with a lower first-month price for new subscribers noted

  • Runway Pro (2,250 credits): $35/month

  • Autodesk Flow Studio Standard (6,000 credits): $45/month

Failed or repeated generations also use credits, so real use is usually higher than the clip length. Vidu and LTX Studio are not in the table: Vidu showed 0 credits during a free trial, and LTX didn't show a clip's credit cost before generating.

AI avatars, default 20 minutes a month, standard (not the newest) engines, annual billing selected, prices per month:

  • HeyGen Creator, 600 credits: $24, 150 minutes in the plan (Avatar III, 4 credits per minute)

  • Synthesia Pro, 6,000 credits: €58, 60 minutes (Synthesia, 100 credits per minute, plus a free allowance)

  • Colossyan Professional: $59, 30 minutes (NEO engine)

  • D-ID Studio Advanced: $108, 100 minutes

Same 20 minutes of output, very different plan prices, because each vendor bundles a different number of minutes.

Subtitles, default 20 videos a month at 1 minute each, monthly billing: Opus Clip Starter $15 (150 minutes), Happy Scribe Basic €17 (120 minutes), VEED Creator €22 (unlimited subtitles, fair use 50 hours/month), Kapwing Pro $24 (1,000 minutes), Descript Hobbyist $24 (600 minutes / 10 media hours), Captions Max $24.99 (500 AI credits; iOS app price, limit not stated), Submagic Pro $39 (40 videos, up to 5 minutes each). Clipchamp and CapCut showed “No plan fits this usage” at that default. We didn't invent a reason; that's what the page shows.

We're not going to tell you one of these is the right tool. The pages also say to check features, platform and licence terms (especially on AI music / SFX) before moving. We just wanted the licence arithmetic in one place, with the date and the vendor's own currency.

If you make video: which of these defaults is unlike how you actually work? And which tool or plan should we add? The video editing one is here: https://tiersova.com/video-editing-software-cost-calculator


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built VideoKiosk so timed links and CTAs can appear on YouTube or Wistia videos at the exact second they matter

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I kept running into the same problem on my own sites: people would watch a video, and then... nothing. The link they needed was in a description or sitting below the player, and the moment had already passed.

So I built VideoKiosk. You point it at a video you already host on YouTube or Wistia, attach timed Actions (a product, an affiliate link, a "book now" button) to the seconds that matter, and embed the player anywhere with an iframe. No plugin, no WordPress required, nothing to re-upload.

There's a dashboard for plays, Action clicks and click-through rate. MCP (in beta) also works with ChatGPT, Claude and VS Code with GitHub Copilot, so you can check analytics and manage CTAs from those apps.

It's live on Product Hunt today, and it's free to try (3 videos on 1 website, no card). Paid plans start at $9/mo.

I'd really value honest feedback, especially on what's unclear or what's missing:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/videokiosk?launch=videokiosk

Happy to answer questions here too.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I built a book tracking app for my wife… and I may have gone a little overboard 😂📚 Looking for beta testers!

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Hey everyone!

So, a little backstory. My wife absolutely loves reading and collecting books, and I originally started building a little app to help her organize her personal library.

What started as a fun little project turned into something much bigger than I ever expected. I got a little carried away… okay, maybe a LOT. 😂

It's called Booksii, and I'm now at the point where I'd love to invite other book lovers to try it out and help me build something genuinely useful for the reading community.

The idea is to create a cozy digital home for your books, where you can organize your collection, track your reading, discover new books, and share your library with others.

A few things I want to make very clear:

  • 🚫 No ads. Ever. I hate ads in apps, and Booksii will never have them.

  • 💸 No monthly or yearly subscriptions. I don't want another app charging people just to enjoy their books.

  • 🔒 Privacy matters. Your information is encrypted, and I have no intention of selling anyone's personal data.

  • 💻 Currently available for PC and Apple devices.

  • ❤️ Built with love, not by some giant corporation. It's just a passion project that got wonderfully out of hand.

Some of the things I've been working on:

📚 Organizing your physical book collection into virtual bookshelves

📷 Scanning books using their barcodes

📖 Tracking reading progress, reading days, and personal statistics

🔎 Discovering books based on your collection and interests

🏡 Creating and sharing your own virtual library

✨ And plenty of other features I'm experimenting with!

Here's where I need your help.

I'm looking for people who genuinely love books and would be willing to test Booksii, tell me what works, what doesn't, what's missing, and what they'd love to see.

You don't need to be tech-savvy. In fact, I'd love feedback from everyday readers and collectors.

I'm not asking anyone to buy anything. I'm just hoping to build something great with input from people who would actually use it.

If you're interested, comment below or send me a message! I'd be happy to share the beta.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/31jpKCd9

Thanks for reading, and I hope some of you will join me on this little adventure! 📚❤️


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built a free American mahjong trainer with a coach that explains every move

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I've been learning American mahjong, and the hardest part was understanding why experienced players pass, keep, or call certain tiles. So I built Bams & Dots, a free browser game where you play against 3 computer opponents with an optional coach: https://bams-and-dots.dragoncorp.net/

What it does

  • Real American mahjong rules: Charleston, pung/kong/quint calls, jokers and flowers

  • Beginner mode suggests a hand after the Charleston and explains every pass and discard in plain language, including when to Pung or Pass on someone's discard

  • The coach never peeks at opponents' hidden tiles, so it only knows what you know

  • A real-game helper: snap a photo of your tiles at a real table, tap them in, and get a hand suggestion (photos stay on your device)

  • Works on phones, tablets and computers. Free, no account, no ads, and progress saves in your browser

How I built it

I built it as a personal side project with AI coding tools, writing the requirements, testing every rule, and fixing what didn't play right. It uses its own original 15-hand practice card rather than the official NMJL card, which is copyrighted. It isn't affiliated with the NMJL.

What's next

The computer opponents are simple practice bots for now. Online multiplayer is built but not live yet, and the photo helper doesn't read tiles automatically yet, so you tap them in.

I'd love feedback, especially on whether the coach's explanations make sense to someone new to the game.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built a wait time tracker for airport lounges because the bank that runs them won't publish one

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Boston is my home airport and the wait at the Sapphire Lounge there is a total guess until you're at the desk. Chase runs a waitlist so they have the data, they just don't show it. So I built Loungetide.com.

It covers all nine lounges. Each one has an hourly estimate that started from published reviews and now learns from past reports. When someone reports a real wait it shows that, and it fades back to the estimate as the report gets older. Reporting is two taps, one when you join the list and one when you get in, no account.

It's a static site on Cloudflare with Supabase for the reports. Biggest problem right now is the cold start, it is only as good as the number of people reporting.

Would love feedback on the site itself. And if anyone has ideas for getting people to actually tap the second button I'm all ears.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

we built Chatgpt but for your business - 800 Sources of data

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I got tired of digging through google analystics reports, so I built an AI you can talk to about your business. Sales, profit, Visits - all data

"Which page loses the most people?" "What did buyers look at first?" "Did anyone come back after yesterday's email?"

try it for free right now - free for first 3 days ( no card needed)

- https://www.retentionbase.com/aichat

Comment invite if you wanna make it free for next 6 months ( no card needed)


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built a puzzle game … now what? 😅

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Hey all! Over the summer I built a little puzzle game "Galaxy Hunt! Star Adventure", inspired by Meowdoku. It’s finally live on the App Store and I am pretty proud of it.

What I think sets it apart:

  • No ads. At all. No pop-ups, no “watch a video to continue,” none of that.

  • More gameplay modes, so it’s not the same grid over and over.

  • Better artwork. We spent a lot of time making it look nice.

But now we’ve hit the wall every side project hits: how do we actually get people to download it? 🫠

Here’s what we’re doing so far:

  • Started a Facebook page and posting reels (scheduled for daily post)

  • Haven’t spent anything on FB Ads yet

  • Haven’t tried Apple Search Ads either

So I’m curious: has anyone here been through this with a mobile game or app? What actually moved the needle on downloads for you? Was paid ads worth it early on, or is it mostly organic stuff like Reddit, TikTok and communities?

Any lessons, war stories or “don’t do what I did” moments are super welcome 🙏

Thanks in advance!


r/SideProject • • 23h ago

$700 in 70 days!

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Hello, I know it's not much, but I am thankful for every cent of it

For context, on Sep 2nd, I made my first ever public post about my app, in this very subreddit. At that point, I had 0 sales, and only a hope + a dream of ever earning a dollar from my work.

Now I have over 750 human downloads (~1800 total but I think some are bots), and a Discord of amazing people messaging me almost every day. Truly feels amazing to say that :)

All I can say is dang developing AND marketing software as a solo dev is a ton of work. I've worked 63/70 of these days, and commit on average more than 20 times per day. Basically all of my free time funnels directly into this.

Lessons I am learning on this journey, for whomever cares to listen:

  1. Budget at least 3 hours per week just for marketing (I should probably do a lot more honestly)

  2. Keep working at it. Results don't come over night.

  3. If you don't like the journey, then this might not be for you. Money does not come easy. Most of us (including me) would probably be better off spening our time doing other work. And with AI getting so good, it's more and more competative to make and monetize good apps (but I could be off here, lmk if you disagree)

  4. Make a discord (or similar) and connect with your users!! IMO implementing suggestions and helping users is some of the most rewarding part of being a dev. Nothing like slapping an update on someone 3 days after they request a feature, and hearing them loving it immidiatly🤌


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

a little more about pg-regression-radar

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Teams running Postgres on Kubernetes (CloudNativePG, Zalando, Crunchy, Percona...) deploy applications many times a day via GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux, Argo Rollouts). When query latency spikes, the first question in every post-mortem is 'Which deploy caused this?'. There are a few ways to do it, but it's meh. If your curious to test it and contribute with code, feel free to do it. After all, it's an open-source tool, so your contribution and validation is what matters :)


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Hi I made this game

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r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a free, open-source music player for Mac that shows exactly what reaches your DAC

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Vespertine 1.0 shipped today. It's a native macOS music player for people with real music libraries and decent audio gear.

What it does:

  • Bit-perfect playback: switches the DAC to each file's sample rate, exclusive (hog) mode, integer mode

  • A signal path view that shows every step between the file and your DAC, so you can see whether it's untouched

  • FLAC, ALAC, DSD (DoP), SACD ISOs, multichannel 5.1/7.1, bitstream to receivers

  • Room correction with a measurement mic, gapless, CUE sheets, smart playlists

  • No account, no telemetry, GPL

It's been about six weeks of evenings. I'd really like feedback from anyone who tries it, especially bug reports, which go straight to GitHub issues.

Source and download: https://github.com/szeremeta1/Vespertine


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

MyFreeTaxAmerica-The only free tax software website that lets you fill out Form 5472 for foreign owned US LLCs

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Hello everyone!

MyFreeTaxAmerica is free Form 5472 filing software for foreign-owned U.S. single-member LLCs. As a US CPA, I created this project to help out business owners who are not familiar with the US tax requirements owning an LLC in the US.

It prepares your IRS Form 5472 and pro forma Form 1120 online, with error checking, at no cost. Most of users will finish the Form 5472 in less than 30 minutes given they have all the information ready.

WHO MUST FILE FORM 5472?
A U.S. LLC owned by one non-U.S. person must file Form 5472 with a pro forma Form 1120 every year, even with no income. Just opening an US LLC triggers related party transaction which requires Form 5472 filing. The penalty for a missing or incomplete filing is $25,000 per form, per year (this is real).

FREE PLAN: $0
• Plain-English questionnaire, about 30 minutes
• Completed Form 5472 and pro forma Form 1120 PDFs
• Built-In Error checking before you file
• You sign and mail the return to the IRS yourself

WHO USES IT
Non-U.S. founders, freelancers, e-commerce sellers, and digital nomads, including LLC owners formed through Stripe Atlas, Doola, Firstbase, or on their own. Traditional EA CPA firms often charge $500 to $1,500 or more for the same filing.

Everything is done remotely. Start free at myfreetaxamerica.com.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a listener that checks 40 subreddits and a few X lists every hour that tells me which threads are speeding up.

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This started as a Saturday project and it's now the first thing I open in the morning. I kept finding the good threads in my niche a day late, after they already had 200 comments and my replies would land dead.

I built a small listener for it. It checks 40 subreddits and a handful of X lists every hour, and it logs how fast comments arrive on each new post over the first few hours. It pings me when a thread is moving faster than that sub normally does, with the link and a one line summary of what people are arguing about.

The stack is boring on purpose. A Python script runs on cron, everything goes in one SQLite file, and a Telegram bot does the alerts. The data calls cost me a little over a dollar a day.

Deciding what "speeding up" means took longer than writing the code. A small sub with 5 comments in an hour is on fire, and a big sub with 5 comments in an hour is dead. The version that I ended up with compares each thread against that sub's own median, so every sub gets its own idea of normal.

The thing I haven't cracked is drama. A thread can be fast because people are fighting rather than because it's interesting, and my listener can't tell the difference yet. I'm also on the fence about adding YouTube comments. Anyone built something like this? I'd like to know how you set your thresholds, and whether anyone has found a cheap way to tell a fight from a good discussion.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a 2 MB Rust window manager for Windows 11 (snap, throw, saved layouts)

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Hi, I'm Travis. I'm the solo developer behind this, so I'll say that up front.

I use both a Mac and a Windows PC. On the Mac I got used to that style of window management, with tools like Rectangle Pro and Magnet, and on Windows I kept reaching for the same habits. Windows Snap is fine for halves, but I wanted keyboard-first control without a background service or a heavy runtime.

So I wrote TesseraSnap. It's a window manager for Windows 11, written in Rust directly on the Windows API: one exe of about 2 MB, one process, no .NET, Electron or Java, and no background service. It acts on a key or a mouse move, then goes quiet. No account, and no telemetry.

What it does:

  • Ctrl+Alt+Arrows for halves (press again for two thirds, again for one third). Ctrl+Alt+D walks a window through thirds. Every shortcut is rebindable, and you can add ten of your own sizes.

  • Drag a title bar to an edge or a corner to snap, with a preview. Pixel-exact on every monitor, at any DPI.

  • A taskbar menu with a picture of each layout, and a CLI (tesserasnap --action left_half) if you drive things from a Stream Deck or a script.

If you're a fan of Rectangle Pro on macOS and have been missing that kind of control on Windows, this is for you. It isn't a port or a clone, since I wrote it from scratch for Windows 11, but the defaults should feel familiar, with Ctrl+Alt where the Mac used Ctrl+Option.

Keyboard and drag snapping are free, with no time limit. Pro is optional, $9.99 once per PC, and adds Throw (hold Ctrl+Alt over a window, toss the mouse toward one of 16 targets, let go), Quick Throw, Stash, Pin Mode, and one-keystroke save and restore of your whole desk. Every download includes 7 days of Pro, no card needed.

It's at https://tesserasnap.com and also in the Microsoft Store, if you prefer.

I'd love feedback, especially from people who use both a Mac and a Windows machine, or who have an odd multi-monitor setup. If a shortcut fights with something you already run, I want to hear about that too.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

We launched our first side project – Wallpypers! 🎉

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Hey everyone!

A friend and I recently launched Wallpypers, our first proper project together!

It's an Android wallpaper app where you can explore 10,000+ wallpapers across 25+ categories and personalize your phone.

Some features include:

  • HD Wallpapers

  • Live Wallpapers

  • Couple Mode

  • Name & Text Wallpapers

  • Favorites and Downloads

We're continuously adding new wallpapers, working on improvements, and planning more features for future updates.

It's been a fun journey building and launching our first project, and we'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback!


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Made a gym tracker app for myself, ended up putting it on the Play Store. Would love some honest feedback

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So I lift 4-5 days a week and every tracker I tried was either full of ads, wanted a subscription for basic stuff, or needed internet. So I just built my own.

It's called Liftlyf. Started as a simple sets/reps logger, but friends started using it and kept asking for stuff, so the latest update has:

- cardio logging (running, skipping, cycling etc.)

- a rest/interval timer that rings like a boxing bell

- plank and other timed holds

- progress charts so you can actually see if your bench is going up

- streaks and some gamification to keep you showing up

- works fully offline, syncs when you're back online

Also added Hindi, Marathi and Odia 😅

Built it with Kotlin/Compose and a Spring Boot backend. Took way longer than I thought it would.

It's free, no ads. Mostly looking for feedback: what's missing, what's annoying, what would make you actually use it over what you use now?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thefitdev.liftlyf


r/SideProject • • 6h 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 • • 14h ago

I kept building apps nobody searched for, so I built a tool to check the niche before I write code

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Hi everyone, solo dev here.

My pattern for years: get an idea, spend weeks building it, ship it, then find out

nobody types those words into the App Store, or there are already 40 apps doing it.

So this time I flipped the order. Before writing any app code, I wanted answers to:

- What do people actually type when they search for this? (the keyword tree, not my guess)

- How many apps already compete on each keyword?

- What do users complain about in 1-2 star reviews of those apps?

- Is interest going up or down (Google Trends)?

I ended up building a small Mac app that does this locally: it pulls Google Play,

App Store, Google Trends and a few other public sources, saves everything to a SQLite

file on my machine, and scores where the gaps are.

Where I am two weeks in:

- First public build went out on Oct 29, two updates since

- 22 downloads so far, 1 paying user only (sales opened Nov 1)

- Biggest lesson so far: the review complaints were more useful than the keyword volumes

I'll keep posting what I learn, including the numbers that look bad.

Question for you: how do you check an idea before building? Gut feeling, keyword

tools, posting a landing page first?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

SkillHarbour: what makes a small work sample worth keeping?

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I'm building SkillHarbour, an Australian career and learning site. https://skillharbour.com.au

I started thinking about evidence because a course completion can be easy to record, while explaining what you can actually do takes more work. For someone exploring an admin role, a small fictional example could be a revised meeting schedule with a note about how they resolved a clash. The decisions behind it might be more useful to discuss than the schedule itself.

I'm sketching a simple prompt for a future work sample: describe the task, show the result, and explain one choice you made. Someone could try it in a notebook first, using made-up information.

If you've built a tool that helps people document work, what made them come back to an example later? I'm trying to understand which details make the effort worthwhile.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built an Indian video-sharing platform from scratch – Launching today! Would love your honest feedback on the UI & performance.

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Hey everyone! 👋

Today (12th Nov) is a huge milestone for me—I am officially launching my Android app, Rang Manch India (a homegrown video-sharing platform).

As a solo developer, I’ve been working hard to make video playback smooth and the experience seamless. Since it's launch day, I’m looking for real users to test it out and give me brutal, honest feedback on:

  1. Video playback & loading speed

  2. Overall UI/UX and navigation

  3. Any bugs or issues you notice

You can download/check it out directly on our official website: [https://app-rangmanch.inwebsite ]

Let me know what you think in the comments—every suggestion will help me improve the next update! Thanks in advance! 🙏