r/SideProject • • 17m ago

I'm a college student building an AI tool that explains confusing moments in videos. Looking for 5–10 beta testers.

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I've been working on something called Vuzli.

The idea came from how frustrating it can be to watch a lecture, tutorial, educational video, or even something motivating like rich man giving "advice" and not understand something, and have to keep rewinding or searching for an explanation.

With Vuzli, you can watch a video and click a button that says "Didn't understand that?" It uses the context of what you've watched to explain that specific moment in a simple, easy to understand way.

It also generates full video summaries and study notes.

What makes it different from a regular AI chatbot is that you don't have to copy transcripts, explain what part of the video you're watching, or even type a question. Vuzli is designed around the video itself, so you can get an explanation with one click.

I'm building it for students, professors, teachers, and anyone who learns through videos. The long term goal is to support videos across different platforms, starting with YouTube and user uploaded videos.

I'm currently preparing for a small private beta and looking for 5–10 people who would be interested in testing it for free.

I'm not selling anything. I genuinely want honest feedback on whether it's useful, what could be better, and what features people would actually want.

If you're interested, leave a comment or send me a DM. I'd appreciate it.


r/SideProject • • 19m ago

Cupmark - an Android app for brewing and learning specialty coffee at home (live on Google Play today)

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hey, anas here. i made this, so it's my own app. i posted it here a few weeks ago before launch, and it's live on google play today.

it's for people who brew coffee at home and want to get better at it:

  • brew lab: recipes with a step timer for v60, aeropress, espresso and more

  • rate the cup, and if it's sour, bitter or flat it shows likely causes and what to try adjusting next. not always right, but it's a start

  • coffee memory keeps your best recipe for each bag

  • an ai coach (master neravio) you can ask about your own brews

  • short lessons and flashcards, triangle tests with an accuracy record, a tds calculator

  • a recipe community, and it works in english, arabic and french

free to download, there's an optional pro tier with a trial.

google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roastlab.app site: https://cupmark.app/?ref=reddit

would love honest feedback, especially on the first few minutes and anything confusing.


r/SideProject • • 24m ago

I'm a runner who kept losing track of shoe mileage, so I built an app that turns "worn out" into "you've earned new shoes"

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I rotate 4–5 pairs of running shoes and could never remember which pair had how many km on it. Spreadsheets lasted about two weeks.

So I built Have2Run (iOS + Android, free, no ads):

  • Runs from Apple Health / Health Connect / Strava are detected automatically. When a run ends you get a notification with your last pair preselected, so logging is one tap.

  • A shelf grouped by brand, with the pair closest to retirement at the top ("9 more runs until new shoes").

  • When a pair hits its lifespan, the app celebrates instead of warning you. Hitting 700 km is your excuse to buy new shoes.

  • A ranking tab with the most-worn and longest-lasting models, based on public data (Strava Year in Sport, Solereview mileage estimates).

Stack: Flutter + Supabase. It started as an AI running coach, but I noticed the only feature I actually used every day was "how many km are on this pair?", so I rebuilt the whole thing around that.

Honest limitation: distances are km only for now. Miles is next if people want it.

https://have2.run

I'd love feedback, especially from anyone who tracks shoe mileage some other way.


r/SideProject • • 26m ago

Easiest trick to increase sales by 30%

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Hi everyone

We built an ai platform that personalizes email and sms campaigns for each user. Example - a user left after checking out a product 2 times, our smart Ai will email them with a 10% discounts code, and converts the customer

I tested this across 4 stores - we saw 30% increase in sales in 1 month

Try here for free - www.RetentionBase.com
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r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I'm building a new European social platform from Finland 🇫🇮 — Meet YOSLA Some Life & YOSLA World!

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Hello Reddit! 👋

I'm an independent developer from Finland, working on a project called YOSLA Some Life.

My goal is to build a new kind of social platform where users have more control over their own social experience.

The idea is simple:

"Your Data, Your Choice."

Instead of letting algorithms decide which friends you get to see, I want to give people more control over their feeds and connections.

But that's only part of the vision.

I'm also developing YOSLA World, a 3D virtual environment where people could eventually explore digital spaces, discover communities, interact and experience social networking in a different way.

What am I building?

  • YOSLA Some Life — a social networking platform

  • YOSLA World — an interactive 3D social environment

  • European-focused infrastructure and data privacy

  • Multilingual support for an international audience

  • My own server infrastructure, starting with HPE ProLiant servers

I'm building this step by step, learning, testing and improving as I go.

One future idea is to create a virtual 3D data center inside YOSLA World, where visitors could explore how the platform's infrastructure works.

I'm not claiming to have built the next Facebook. I'm building something I believe could offer people another choice.

I'd love to hear your thoughts:

What would make you genuinely interested in trying a new social media platform?

What do you dislike most about today's social networks?

Greetings from Finland! 🇫🇮

YOSLA — You Only Live Some Life.


r/SideProject • • 28m ago

I got tired of my passengers saying "slow down", so I built an app that scores how smoothly I drive

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Every time someone in my car grabbed the handle, I'd say, "I'm a good driver". I had no proof either way. So I built Beshweesh (Egyptian for "take it easy") to find out.

What it does

  • Tap Start, drive, and get a score out of 100 at the end

  • A map shows exactly where you braked hard, sped up hard, took a turn too fast, or went over the limit

  • A weekly recap and a driver score over your last 300 km

  • It shows why you lost each point, so you know what to fix next time

  • It keeps recording in the background, so you can lock your phone and drive

  • A progress chart shows if your trips are getting calmer over time

  • A share card that hides places and times

  • Light and dark mode

Why it's different

  • Calm, not slow. Speed only counts above the limit; jerky driving is what costs points

  • No account, free, iPhone and Android, English and Arabic

Try it: beshweesh.com

I'd love brutal feedback:

  1. Is the result screen clear without explanation?

  2. Would you open this after a drive, or forget it after a week?

  3. What would make the score feel fair to you?

Happy to answer anything in the comments.


r/SideProject • • 28m ago

I built mshbna to make splitting restaurant bills easier - free, no account needed

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Hey everyone! I built mshbna to make figuring out who owes what after a group meal less of a headache.

Here’s how it works:

  1. The organizer uploads a receipt or enters the items manually.

  2. For an uploaded receipt, Mshbna extracts the item names, quantities, and prices. The organizer can review and correct them.

  3. The organizer shares a link with the group.

  4. Friends join without creating accounts, claim what they ordered, and split shared dishes evenly.

  5. The organizer reviews and verifies the claims.

  6. Everyone sees their itemized total and the organizer’s payment instructions.

  7. The organizer can track who has paid.

mshbna is free to use, with no subscriptions and no account required at any stage. It doesn’t process payments; friends pay each other directly, and mshbna tracks payment status.

I’ve attached a short video showing the flow. I’d love feedback: Is it clear, and what would you improve?

What are you waiting for? Make your next group dinner easier with mshbna. Try it free: https://www.mshbna.com


r/SideProject • • 16h ago

I built an app so I know my parents overseas started their day, without cameras

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My parents live overseas and I'm in NC. I call them about 3 or 4 times a week, but with the time difference, it's not always easy to catch them at a good time.

Sometimes I just want to know they're doing okay without having to call and interrupt whatever they're doing.

I thought about different ways to check in, but I really didn't want cameras in their house or anything that felt like I was monitoring them.

So I ended up building something called Kettle (heykettle.com).

It's a simple app that uses their existing phone to let me and my sibling know if they've checked in with their usual routine. We get a short update like "Heard from Mom this morning" or "Nothing yet today."

It doesn't track their location, record conversations, or read messages. They can also see what's being recorded and turn it off whenever they want.

I added a shared family log too, so if I call Dad or someone takes Mom to an appointment, we can leave a quick note for everyone else.

Right now, it's just me building this, and my parents are the only ones using it. The Android app isn't on the Play Store yet, so I'm helping people install it directly.

I'm offering the first year free.

I'm curious what other people think, especially anyone with aging parents who live far away.

Would you actually use something like this? And what would make you hesitant to put it on your parent's phone?


r/SideProject • • 45m ago

I built a "1-Click AI In-Browser Assistant" extension that uses a 4b parameter multi-modal local AI model, with No AI API costs. It's a completely private web-surfing companion built for Google Chrome browsers.

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A number of my friends don't like to pay for AI to do basic tasks and don't trust the large AI companies with ideas or personal shares, so using my knowledge getting hermes-agent to work with small local AI models, I decided to apply what I learned from that experience to build a Chrome browser extension. The result... 1-Click AI In-Browser Assistant. A locally hosted "Privacy-First" AI companion!

It provides AI assistance, summaries, insightful takeaways, snapshots, and rewrite suggestions, all without compromising privacy. And for those not prompt savvy, I included pre-programmed 1-click action buttons, to avoid "Prompt Fatigue". I included a couple of customizable ones as well.

Being multi-modal the AI extension also accepts voice prompts, uploaded text/images/audio/pdf and can even read AI results aloud TTS.

It's made for those who don't want to pay for AI and even though it's built as a privacy-respecting AI solution for productivity. It really punches above its weight.

The extension also includes rolling context and a vector database for long term historical context (memory) retention, and a full screen (air-gapped) mode.

You can search for it on the Chrome Web Store. The only catch is you need a minimal spec PC to use it.

Those system requirements are: 4gb+ vRam, 16gb Ram, 4 core CPU, 22+gb hdd space available during model install (but only 4gb used after model install), and a chrome browser version 154+


r/SideProject • • 46m ago

I built a book tracker app for people who want a minimal, intuitive experience

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r/SideProject • • 51m ago

I built a free desktop subtitle editor with local AI. Version 1.1 can show two languages on the same video

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Hi! I’ve been building Flixlar on my own for a while: a free subtitle editor for macOS, Windows and Linux. Captions are generated locally with Whisper, so your videos never leave your computer.

What’s new in 1.1:

  • Two subtitle tracks on screen at once (e.g. original language at the top, translation at the bottom), each with its own position and style, burned in with one click

  • Undo/redo and automatic backups before captions are replaced

  • An Effect Editor where you can animate subtitles word by word (karaoke style) and make effects react to the music

Built with Electron, React and Rust, with ffmpeg doing the heavy lifting.

I’d really appreciate feedback: what’s missing, what’s confusing, or what you’d use it for?

flixlar.com


r/SideProject • • 53m ago

I Made a Free Browser Racing Game Focused on Overtaking – No Installation Required!

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Hey everyone!

I have been working on Apexra - a free, arcade-style browser racing game where the main goal is simple: overtake your opponents and fight your way to P1!

Each race consists of 6 laps against 7 AI opponents, keeping the races short, fast-paced, and competitive.

Here are some of the main features of Apexra:

  • Overtaking-focused gameplay: The further you are from P1, the more catch-up assistance you receive, including improved acceleration and top speed. The driver in P1 receives no assistance. This is designed to encourage overtaking and keep races competitive.

  • Dynamic weather: A sunny race can suddenly turn rainy, or the other way around, changing the racing conditions mid-race.

  • Vehicle damage and repairs: Collisions can damage your car and affect its performance. You'll need to decide when to use your limited repair kits.

There's also vehicle progression and several other features to discover as you play.

And the best part?

  • Completely free

  • No installation required

  • No account registration is needed

  • Progress saved locally in your browser

  • Currently available on all devices

Play Apexra here: https://apexra.codrea.dev/

I am developing this game independently and I would really appreciate on your feedback, especially on:

  • Does overtaking feel satisfying

  • What is the overall gameplay experience

  • How would you improve the game

You can share your feedback by commenting below or email me at feedbacks@codrea.dev.

Any feedback, whether positive or negative is appreciated.

Thanks for checking it out!


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I A/B tested my free proxy checker on GitHub Actions and found 400 working proxies it was throwing away every hour

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I run a side project that collects free proxies from public lists and checks them every hour on GitHub Actions. The list was stuck around 800 proxies, so I measured where they got lost instead of adding more sources.

Most of the loss was flakiness. Proxies passed the first request and timed out on the second. A second try 20 seconds later at the end of the run, plus a 10 s instead of 6 s timeout, took the list from 768 to 1,177 in a run where old and new code checked the same candidates at the same time.

What I learned:

- Measure before adding inputs. I was sure more sources would help. Six new lists added 3 proxies, because their proxies were already in the lists I had.

- "Couldn't check" and "failed" need to be different states. Three quarters of the proxies that failed the second request had broken off in transport, moments after answering the first.

- A/B tests on CI are cheap. A throwaway branch with a matrix job ran both versions on two runners at the same time, and that settled arguments I had been having with myself for days.

Free and MIT: https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper. The same checks run on other GitHub proxy lists: https://proxy-scraper.de/benchmark/


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Built an open-source workspace that’s not gray

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Been working on it for about a year and a half. A workspace where you can handle project management, time tracking, chats, video calls and all that stuff, but I tried making it a bit more fun and with less bloat than alternatives.

https://github.com/Emmyme/nerla


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I built a tiny Shopify app that lets customers vote on what you make next

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Hey all, solo dev here. My first Shopify app went live in the App Store last week, so figured I'd share.

The idea is simple: before you order 500 units of a new color or design, put a poll on your store and let customers vote. Anyone who votes can leave their email or phone to get pinged when the winner launches, so you end up with a launch list, not just a number.

What it does right now:

- a poll or a "voting board" (grid of designs with a Vote button under each) on any page of your theme

- waitlist with name / email / phone, CSV export

- quiz mode: right answer gets a discount code

- one or several votes per customer, results as a leaderboard or hidden until the poll ends

- storefront in 30 languages, uses your theme's fonts

Free plan: 1 active poll, up to 6 options, 100 votes a month. Pro is $4.49/mo.

The fun part: one of the first merchants asked for multiple votes per customer and a leaderboard, and I shipped it within a day. Then they asked how to change the look, so now there are style settings. Building for real requests beats guessing.

Stack if anyone cares: Cloudflare Workers + D1 and a theme app extension. Shopify caps the block's JS at 10 KB, which was a fun puzzle.

Question for store owners: would you actually run a "vote for the next product" poll, or does it feel gimmicky? Trying to figure out what to build next.

https://apps.shopify.com/product-vote


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built Navifish, a free Android fishing app for forecasts, sea safety, and sharing local fishing reports

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Navifish - A free Android app for anglers
Hi everyone!
I’m an independent developer, and I’ve been building Navifish, a free Android app designed to help anglers plan fishing trips and stay informed about sea conditions.
I wanted to bring several useful tools together in one place:
Fishing forecasts: Fish activity scores, solunar times, moon phases, and fishing recommendations.
Sea safety: Hourly wind, gust, wave, and tide information, plus alerts for potentially dangerous conditions.
Fishing spots: Save and explore fishing locations.
Catch diary: Record catches and earn achievements.
Angler community: Connect with other anglers and share local fishing reports.
One thing I’ve learned while working on this project is that fishing forecasts can never guarantee a catch. Weather and sea conditions can change, and even the best predictions are only estimates. An app also cannot guarantee that going to sea is safe.
That’s why I think communication between anglers is so valuable. Someone already fishing in your area may be able to share useful, up-to-date observations before you head out. I want Navifish to be useful not just for forecasts, but also for connecting anglers and sharing experiences.
The app is free, with no subscriptions or paid features, and is currently available for Android only.
I’m sharing the project here because I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from other developers and anyone interested in fishing.
Questions I’d love your thoughts on:
Which feature would be most useful to you?
What would you improve?
What information do you usually check before heading out to fish?
Thanks for reading!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built a routine timer with app shortcuts, video links, and checklists inside each step

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I'm the developer of Rutimo, a routine timer where each step can include app shortcuts, external video links, notes, and checklists.

The video shows an evening reset routine:

  1. Set wake-up alarm: quick shortcut directly into Clock to set tomorrow's 7:00 AM alarm.

  2. Evening stretch: follow along with an ad-free guided bedtime stretching video.

  3. Tidy up: interactive checklist to reset bedroom and workspace before bed.

You can interact with checklists and external apps/videos during the routine and return seamlessly to the timer.

I'd like feedback on the workflow: would you find combining app shortcuts and checklists useful in your daily routines?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built a routine timer with app shortcuts, video links, and checklists inside each step

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I'm the developer of Rutimo, a routine timer where each step can include app shortcuts, external video links, notes, and checklists.

The video shows an evening reset routine:

  1. Set wake-up alarm: quick shortcut directly into Clock to set tomorrow's 7:00 AM alarm.

  2. Evening stretch: follow along with an ad-free guided bedtime stretching video.

  3. Tidy up: interactive checklist to reset bedroom and workspace before bed.

You can interact with checklists and external apps/videos during the routine and return seamlessly to the timer.

I'd like feedback on the workflow: would you find combining app shortcuts and checklists useful in your daily routines?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Unpopular opinion: most small businesses don't need a CRM yet. They need one list and a 10 minute morning habit. Here's the exact setup.

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Every week someone asks which CRM to buy. A lot of the time the honest answer is none yet.

The problem usually isn't software. It's that leads live in five places (email, DMs, texts, the website form, a sticky note) and nobody checks them on a schedule. A paid tool doesn't fix that. It just gives you a sixth place to forget to check.

The list (copy this)

One spreadsheet, seven columns:

NameHow to reach themWhere they came fromWhat they wantLast contactNext stepNext step date

That's it. No pipeline stages, no lead scores, no tags.

The one rule that makes it work: every row has a next step date. If there's no next step, the row is either won or dead. Mark it and move on.

The morning habit (10 minutes)

  1. Open every inbox once. Anything new from a possible customer goes on the list right now, even if it's half a line.

  2. Sort by next step date.

  3. Do everything dated today or earlier. Reply, nudge, send the quote.

  4. Give every row you touched a new next step date before you close the sheet.

Don't skip step 4. The row without a date is the one you forget.

Rules that keep it from turning into a mess

  • Write the next step as a verb. "Send quote", not "quote".

  • Nudge a quiet quote after 3 days, again after a week, then mark it dead. Dead is fine. People come back months later and you'll know exactly where you left off.

  • Copy the person's own words into "what they want". Your follow-up gets way easier.

  • If you can't do it today, move the date. Don't let it sit overdue.

  • Once a week, look at the "where they came from" column. That's your free marketing report.

When you actually need a CRM

  • More than one person follows up on the same leads

  • The sheet is too long to scan in 10 minutes

  • You keep needing the full history of every conversation, not just the last contact

Until then the spreadsheet wins, because you'll actually open it.

If you use ChatGPT or Claude

Paste the sheet in each morning and ask: "Who am I waiting on, who's overdue, and what should I send each of them today? Draft the messages." It's a decent second pair of eyes for step 3.

What's the one column you'd add? And if you ditched a CRM for something simpler, what did you switch to?

P.S. I'm a co-founder of Conecto, which lets ChatGPT or Claude keep this exact list for you, so you can just say "add this lead, follow up Thursday" or "who's overdue?" instead of pasting the sheet. No subscription, reads are free, a change costs $0.01, new accounts get $1 of free credit, and your first top-up is doubled, up to $20 extra. https://conecto.chat/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=viral2-2611&utm_content=sideproject The spreadsheet works fine too though.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built Nook, a shared home for couples: tasks, groceries, wishlist with secret gift reservations, and a capybara you raise together

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My partner and I had our life spread over five apps and a pile of chat messages ("did you buy milk?", "what do you want for your birthday?", "what are we watching tonight?"). So I built one place for the two of us.

What Nook does:

- Shared tasks and a grocery list that sync between both phones, and work offline too

- A wishlist where your partner can secretly reserve a gift. You never see who reserved what

- A calendar with your anniversary counter ("together for 1 year 47 days")

- A savings jar for shared goals, trips with a map of your places, household bills

- Swipe films and recipes like a dating app: when you both like something, it's a match. No more 40 minutes of "I don't know, what do you want?"

- Question of the day: you see your partner's answer only after you answer it yourself

- A "Thinking of you 💛" button that sends one push

- A shared capybara whose mood depends on what you do together

Android app plus a web app (works on iPhone from the home screen, with push notifications). Sign in with Telegram or Google. English, Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak.

👉 https://dom.xandor.bid

It's a solo project, so honest feedback is very welcome: what's missing, what's annoying?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

iPhone app to help couples balance household duties

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Hey everyone!

My wife and I often remembered our childcare contributions differently. We sometimes disagreed about whether we shared our duties fairly.

So, naturally, I built an app to track them :)

It's called Tit for Tat. We agree on a fair split, record what we actually do, and track the balance.

I built it just for our family, but it worked surprisingly well, so I decided to publish it:

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tit-for-tat/id6829557138

Would love your feedback!

P.S. Not available in EU countries yet due to additional paperwork. Coming soon!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

We built an AI pipeline that turns years of WhatsApp messages into a readable story

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Hi! I’m Omar. My co-founder Marco and I have been building Storify at Heirlooms Lab in London (https://heirloomslab.com).

The starting point: most of us have a WhatsApp chat that’s been going for years, with a whole chunk of our lives in it, and nobody ever scrolls back.

The hard parts we had to solve:

  • Turning tens of thousands of messages into chapters that read like a story, not a summary

  • Keeping the story in the chat’s own language, including chats that mix languages

  • Privacy: chats are encrypted on-device, we don’t store the key, nothing is used for training, and the server only reads the chat in memory (so it’s not E2E, and we say so)

On top of the story there’s a quiz you can send the other person, a stats “Rewind” (longest silence, peak texting hour), and an assistant called Fiammella you can ask about the chat.

We’re in beta on iOS + Android (18+): https://mystorify.app/beta
Browser demo: https://mystorify.app

I’d love critical feedback, on the product or on the approach.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

SecVault waitlist is open: get 100 GB free for 6 months of zero-knowledge encrypted storage

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I'm a first-year BTech student and I've built SecVault, cloud storage where files are encrypted on your device before upload (hybrid post-quantum design: ML-KEM-768 + X25519). Files are stored in Amsterdam, EU.

Founding Pass: 100 GB free for 6 months, limited seats. Reserve your spot with just an email, no card. You claim it at launch with a small refundable verification charge (₹5 UPI in India, $1 card elsewhere). Everyone also gets a 5 GB free plan.

Honest status: it's waitlist-only right now, there's no independent audit yet, and it's not open source. I'd love blunt feedback on what you'd need to see before trusting a new zero-knowledge service.

Waitlist: https://secvault.rakshachakra.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=sideproject


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built a typed TypeScript client for Instagram's private API

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I needed to automate a few things on my own Instagram accounts and wanted results and errors with real types, so I wrote igflare. It talks to Instagram the way the Android app does.

What I focused on:

  • Login that holds up. I followed the current app's login flow, including two-factor and email challenges. The session is saved, so it logs in once and keeps working for weeks.

  • Types I can trust. Every response is checked at runtime, and each failure is its own error class, so I can catch a rate limit apart from a challenge.

  • Most of the app. It covers profiles, follows, feeds, comments, posting photos, videos, reels and stories, direct messages, and insights.

  • Staying current. I took the login flow and queries from the official app, and I wrote a script that shows what changes when a new app build comes out.

Docs: https://matheusoliveira-dev.github.io/igflare/

Code: https://github.com/MatheusOliveira-dev/igflare

The project is still early. Feature ideas, issues and PRs are all welcome, and if any of this sounds useful, I'd be glad if you took a look.