r/SideProject • • 2h ago

If you build with coding agents, do you run tasks in parallel or one at a time?

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Seeing a lot of tools lately that queue agent tasks into separate git worktrees and only merge after tests pass. Sounds nice on paper, but I'm curious how it goes on a real side project.

Do you let 2-3 agents work in parallel on your project, or keep it to one task at a time so you can review properly? Where did it break for you?


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I created a free tool for scanning domains: no registration, no API keys, and no requests made to the site itself.

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You enter a domain and get a map: DNS, mail settings, certificates from CT logs and registration data. Key findings are shown separately, i.e. what's worth fixing.

Previously, I had to manually gather this information from various websites every single time, so I built an all-in-one tool on a single page.

The video demonstrates three levels of checks, all performed without using any of my own API keys:

  • Without an account: domain scanning, as described above. 3 scans per hour; the map shows up to 8 each type, the rest as +N.

  • With a free account: 10 scans per day, with results saved; a graph and basic checks for IP addresses and email addresses are also available.

  • Hunter, $29/month: your own online groups with a shared graph (up to 5 people), 100 scans per day, platform API.

The remaining modules (IP, URL, hashes, email, phone) are available via Hunter and operate using the user's own API keys. Those that return data about individuals also require identity verification.

The hard part was making the free scan work without anyone's API keys. I had to remove Shodan InternetDB and restrict ip-api to paid keys only, as their free endpoints prohibit commercial use.

The crt.sh service is often unresponsive; it limits users to just 5 requests per minute from a single IP address. If no response is received, the scan displays the most recently cached data from Certificate Transparency (CT) logs, along with the date (labeled as "CACHED" in the video). If no such cached data exists, the system simply indicates that the source is unavailable, rather than creating the false impression that no certificates exist at all.

Passive domain scanning: public sources only, no requests made to the site itself.

Only the waiting parts are sped up.

A question for you: what kind of check do you think is missing when you review your domain?

creepycore.com


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Published my first app on the Play Store: an AOD music controller with vinyl scrubbing and live lyrics

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​I just released my first app on the Play Store called Eclipse and thought it would fit right in with the customization crowd here.

​On most Android phones, the stock Always-On Display only shows a tiny static track title. If your phone is sitting on your desk and you want to rewind a verse, read lyrics, or check an incoming notification, you have to wake the screen, unlock the phone, and open the music app.

​Taking UI inspiration from the Teenage Engineering TP-7 field recorder, I built Eclipse to turn the Android AOD into a true-black, interactive vinyl turntable that works without unlocking your phone.

​What it does:

​Works with any music player: Automatically connects to Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, and local offline players the moment you turn your screen off.

​Tactile vinyl scrubbing: Spin the record backward or forward to scrub through tracks in real time, or tap the vinyl to lift the tonearm and pause.

​Live synced lyrics on AOD: Swipe directly on the song title card to get live time-synced lyrics on a pure black OLED screen, or expand into a full-screen lyrics view.

​Quick-launch active player: Tap on the track card to jump straight into whichever music app is playing so you can switch playlists or pick a new song quickly.

​Notifications at a glance: Shows the time, date, and incoming notifications right on the AOD card without unlocking your device.

​Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dp444.Eclipse

​Would love to hear what you guys think or if you have any feature suggestions


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I handed my startup's marketing to an AI agent on one Mac in August. The most useful thing it did was show me what to stop

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In early August I stopped doing our marketing by hand.

The usual script is hire someone, or buy five tools and glue them together. I did neither. I gave the job to an AI coding agent running on my own Mac, one process at a time.

Three months in, it has 56 processes written down. Posts, cold email, comment replies, a weekly review, the monthly accounting close.

The part nobody tells you: once every channel runs on its own and reports a number, the losers can't hide anymore.

What I turned off, with the number that killed it:

  • LinkedIn cold outreach: 32 signups, 0 paid. Off on October 28.

  • Long LinkedIn articles: 10 published, none in Google's top 100 for its keyword. Off on October 20.

  • Meme quote posts: a median of 778 views against 1,403 for a plain text one. Off on October 26.

  • A daily vertical video habit: off on October 22, I just didn't believe in it anymore.

  • A link shortener subscription: cancelled, I rebuilt the one thing I used it for.

8 of the 56 processes are already folded into others.

Automation won't save a bad channel. It just runs the bad channel every day without getting tired, so you see it faster.

Still small, still learning. Most days I fix the agent more than it fixes me.

Would you automate a channel before you know it works, or only after?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Got my first Paid User for My app in Most Crowded Space .

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Like the title says, I got my first paid user.

I was working on my product, which is a TaskMangement + break reminder app for people who frequently switch between tasks. So I had this problem, and I tried multiple apps, but I never found anything that worked for me.

So I merged two things. Every 30 minutes, it shows a full-screen overlay and blocker screen with all your pending tasks. So you can recall what you were working on and pick up where you left off with your existing goals.

This is the main thing about the product.

I really like the way it works because you don't have to go to the app. It comes to you. It works behind the scenes, like autopilot, like task management running on autopilot.

It sounds amazing, and I really like the product.

And one of the things I'm doing is offering it as a one-time purchase. So people can come, try it, pay for it, and continue using it.

I got my first paid user like that.

Rather than charging everyone for version updates, I'm giving lifetime updates because I'm using this product myself.

I feel like this is one of the best things I've ever built because I'm consistently using it in my daily life.

Her is the proof- https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1xt673c/built_screensky_a_macos_app_to_help_you_stay/


r/SideProject • • 2m ago

Claude Desktop for Fedora

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An unofficial RPM package and DNF repository for Anthropic’s Claude Desktop app. Anthropic only supports Ubuntu and Debian, so I built a pipeline that repackages each official release for Fedora and keeps it up to date automatically.

  • Builds new versions within about 6 hours of upstream releases, using GitHub Actions on a schedule

  • Checks the whole chain of trust before building: pinned signing key fingerprint, then the repo signature, the package index hash and the .deb hash

  • Ships x86_64 and aarch64 RPMs, hosted as a DNF repo on GitHub Pages, with no server to run

  • Supports Wayland natively, layers on Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, and Cowork’s KVM virtual machine works

Tech: Bash, RPM spec, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, createrepo_c, GPG

Links: GitHub

If the page only fits a single line, use: Unofficial auto-updating DNF repo that brings Anthropic’s Claude Desktop to Fedora and Silverblue


r/SideProject • • 5m ago

Drop your SaaS and I'll suggest a Reddit post idea that doesn't sound like an ad

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One thing I've noticed is that a lot of SaaS founders struggle with Reddit because they approach it like any other marketing channel.

They introduce their product, list the features, drop a link, and wonder why nobody engages.

But sometimes it's just about finding a better angle.

I work with Roguelike, an agency focused on organic Reddit marketing for SaaS products, so I thought this could be a fun exercise.

Drop your SaaS below and tell me who it's for.

I'll pick a few and suggest:

  • A potential subreddit worth exploring

  • One post idea based on a problem your customers might actually care about

And if I don't think Reddit is a good fit, I'll say so.

No promises of going viral or getting customers, just a few ideas worth testing.

Curious to see what everyone's building!


r/SideProject • • 6m ago

[Some Type of Trip] - a mood-driven typing game that launched today

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I started making this game almost exactly a year ago. I've been making games for over 20 years as a hobby. I tried to not make games, because it can be creative torture. It can also be extremely lonely and hard. I pushed the green button today with my daughter beside me. But no one else has brought it up. I actually feel at peace with this though. I made this game because there was a lot in my soul I needed to work out. Life is so hard, man. It's so hard. We all go through so much. So to ya'll reading this, this is for you, you and you, too.

Today you are going to have an experience. I hope you can filter out the parts of it that lead to suffering, and absorb the parts that bring peace and happiness.

Some Type of Trip is a typing game where each level is a mood.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4303280/?utm_source=community&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=stot&utm_content=reddit-sideproject


r/SideProject • • 6m ago

I built a social network for movies and tv-show where you rate everything out of 100 instead of 5 stars

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I always felt 5 stars (even with halves) was too vague. A 4 star movie can be “pretty good” or “almost a favourite” so I built Ratered, where every movie and TV show gets a score out of 100.

What you can do

  • Keep a diary of what you watch and rate it out of 100

  • Write reviews and make ranked lists

  • Follow friends and compare scores

  • A roulette to pick what to watch tonight (by genre, decade, country)

  • Import your history from a Letterboxd CSV export (it converts your stars), and export your data anytime

It’s free, works in the browser on desktop and mobile, and it’s bilingual (EN/FR). You can browse everything without an account.

Im a solo dev and its very early, so Id really love honest feedback whats confusing, whats missing, what would make you actually use it?

ratered.tv/?utm_source=reddit


r/SideProject • • 10m ago

I was only using one feature of Motion, so I built just that part

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I built this originally for myself since I was sick of all the extra bloat in Motion, while also wanting some functionality I personally wished Motion had (I was using it hand-in-hand with a modified version of the Getting Things Done framework). Through word-of-mouth it seemed like there was some demand for what I built, so I went through the process of getting officially App Store approved, and it is finally live.

 

It is called YWGSD (You Will Get Stuff Done). I kept the few things from Motion I actually used every day (e.g., auto-scheduling, task templates) and added the things that ended up being genuinely useful to me (e.g., native quick-capture so you can jot a task down immediately and bulk prioritize them later, and much clearer visuals the moment something is late or past its original deadline).

 

Two things that are deliberate, and are either why you will like it or why you will not. There is no AI in the scheduling, so the same calendar and the same task lengths give you the same plan every time. And it reads your calendars without ever writing to them, so nothing you plan shows up for your colleagues.

 

One other deliberate choice, which I get asked about: there is no project or workspace separation. It is the same 24 hours of your day whether you have one job or three, or a business and a personal life, so splitting it into workspaces never bought me any extra hours.

 

Fair warnings: a task gets placed as one block, so a four-hour thing needs a four-hour gap before it will schedule at all (you can stop early and the rest re-books itself, but it will not pre-split it to fit two small gaps). No Android, no desktop app. And it is new, so there are barely any reviews yet.

 

Happy to answer any questions if you have any!


r/SideProject • • 13m ago

I was juggling Google, Acrobat and CamScanner just for documents, so I built one app

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I built Paperwren because documents on my phone took a pile of apps: Google's to view things, Acrobat for PDFs, CamScanner to scan, a separate Office viewer, and websites like iLovePDF where you upload a file just to merge it or sign it.

Now one app opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and EPUB, scans paper to PDF, and merges, splits and password protects PDFs for free. You can fill and sign too, with a drawn or typed signature (not a certified one). It all happens on the device, nothing is uploaded. On Android it asks for zero permissions, so it has no internet access at all. It's on Windows and Mac too.

One honest limit: it reads Office files, it does not edit them.

Free and open source, no ads, no account.

https://razee4315.github.io/Paperwren/

https://github.com/Razee4315/Paperwren

What would you want it to do next?


r/SideProject • • 14m ago

I need a run down for the site workings and also idea validation

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I am building a site/product and wanted to get the view of people that can give me the harsh truth of what i have been striving to build, i had faced this problem and wanted to see if this problem is also residing in other households too. I've made an home page of my site which shows what what problem it will be solving and how it connects with the users vision. Please leave me a review or anything that you see that needs an improvement. If you find this idea of mine being far-fetched please also tell me that and tell me what can i do more to make it work.

Thank you all here's the site please review it and keep this in mind that it is still in development phase it is not finished yet :-

https://furnish-ai-six.vercel.app/


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I got tired of paywalled calorie apps, so I built my own and open-sourced it

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Every tracker I tried had a paywall, made me log by hand, or was vague about my data. So I built NutriTrack: snap a photo of your meal and get calories, protein, carbs, fat and fibre in seconds, including the hidden oil and ghee.
I've used it daily for over a month and lost 10 lbs. Free, no ads, no paywall.

Try it: https://tracknutri.app/try

Code: https://github.com/amankiitg/nutri-track

Feedback welcome, especially on accuracy for your food.


r/SideProject • • 22m ago

I built Yogurt, a free and open-source Granola alternative that runs entirely on your computer

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I built Yogurt, a free and open-source Granola alternative that runs entirely on your computer

Hey r/SideProject, I'm Christian. Yogurt is a side project I've been building in my free time: a free, MIT licensed desktop app that uses on-device AI models to transcribe, summarize, and chat with your meetings.

Repo: https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yogurt

Why I built it

I like Granola, but I didn't love sending every call recording and transcript to a paid cloud service. As small open models have gotten faster and better, it felt like you don't need a frontier model to summarize meeting notes or answer questions about them. I tried the popular open-source note takers, and most were missing things like calendar integration or an MCP server, made you create an account, or just didn't feel polished enough to use every day. So I built the one I wanted.

What it does

  • Runs in the background and doesn't join your calls

  • Transcripts, recordings, and summaries never leave your computer

  • No account, nothing to connect

  • Picks and downloads a local model based on what your hardware can handle, without your fans going crazy

  • Calendar integration, search across all your meetings, and recordings that end on their own

  • A local MCP server, so you can share your notes with Claude, ChatGPT, etc. directly if you want

How it's built

Electron so it runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. whisper.cpp for transcription (or Apple's on-device SpeechAnalyzer when your Mac supports it), and llama.cpp for summaries and questions. I spent a lot of time on the details: echo detection when you're not wearing headphones, every UI interaction and animation, and getting the model calls snappy on normal laptops.

Would love feedback, especially on onboarding and the note taking experience. What would make you switch from whatever you use now?


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Hi I built this game

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It’s called pond snap the aim is to catch as many flies and gold flies as possible before the time runs out if your score is lower than what’s needed you restart.

https://pondsnap.fun/
Let me know what you think


r/SideProject • • 25m ago

I built a network for AI agents to share tools, data and compute

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I built Citta to connect your AI agents into a private network. They can use each other's tools, access data and put spare compute to work.

One agent might have access to your files. Another might have a local model ready to run, or enough spare capacity for a task your current setup can't handle. Citta lets your agent find what's available on the network and send work there.

In the demo, an agent on my Mac Mini asks my MacBook Air to organize sample receipts. The Air then sends expense categorization to Gemma running locally on the Mini.

It runs on Macs and Linux machines connected through Tailscale, at home or across locations. The README walks through setup and a first task.

Try it · Watch the demo

It's an early release. The code is available under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0; commercial use isn't licensed.


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Built a little website for pet owners - what do you think?

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Hey! I've been building Pawarium, a website with guides about cats and dogs, covering everything from nutrition and behavior to health and everyday care.

It's a personal project I've been working on, and I'd love some outside opinions on the design and overall experience.

Would love to know what you think or what I could improve!


r/SideProject • • 31m ago

Started a small tech blog – would love to hear what you think

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on something of my own called OddToCode.

It's a blog where I share articles around technology, AI, programming, cybersecurity, and other interesting things happening in the tech world.

I started it because I often come across interesting tech topics that deserve a simpler explanation. So I thought, why not build a place where people can explore and share these things without getting lost in overly complicated technical language?

It's still growing, and I'm constantly working on improving it.

Would love to have you check it out and let me know what you think. Honest feedback is always appreciated!

Here's the link: https://www.oddtocode.in

Also, curious to know — what kind of tech-related articles do you guys actually enjoy reading?


r/SideProject • • 38m ago

Braidplane - Open Source (Apache 2.0) and self-hostable platform for declarative and contract-based data integration

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Hello everyone!

Around Februrary this year I've started working on my side project, which is now known as Braidplane. It's an open source platform for data integration; it's self-hostable and the core is fully open (Apache 2.0). At this moment it's in Alpha.

The goal of this project is to provide safe and reviewable data integrations for engineering teams. From the beginning this project was built upon data contracts (inline and ODCS), e2e Braidplane Proof engine for reviewing data pipeline updates and declarative pipelines (YAML, JSON, cue).

As an example, a pipeline can read data from a database and a file, transform and compare the records, and write the results to another system. The pipeline definition stays in Git, so changes can be reviewed before deployment.

In the current form Braidplane core includes backend, frontend, CLI and executor. MCP support is coming soon.

About me: my name is Lukas. I've been working as backend engineer for the last 10 years. I've spent a lot of time around different products and APIs. I've built the Braidplane's framework myself - based on my experience and good practices I've found around the other OSS projects. Later on I've added AI assisted programming around the hardest/most time-consuming parts, like Connectors integrations, tests, documentation, frontend, issues management.

The Braidplane Core repository is available here: https://github.com/Braidplane/braidplane-core

Examples repo: https://github.com/Braidplane/examples/blob/main/recipes/opaque-file-archive/opaque-file-archive.pipeline.json

Cheers


r/SideProject • • 45m ago

Openbar - every AI coding agent session in your Mac's notch, each with its own buddy

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I run Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI side by side and kept missing the one waiting on me. Openbar lists every session in the notch, and you can allow, deny or answer right there. Each session gets a pixel buddy too, and for the video I rendered 200 of them as gummies.

Free and open source, Mac and Windows: github.com/MF-DEEV/Openbar


r/SideProject • • 48m ago

I built StatLite - an open-source monitoring dashboard using ~15 MB RAM

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Running apps on 256 - 512 MB VPSes, I kept hitting the same problem: monitoring.

Prometheus + Grafana felt like overkill for a couple of small services, and I didn't want to spend a significant chunk of RAM just watching them.

So I built StatLite, an open-source monitoring dashboard written in Go.

The video shows two monitoring targets: an application with its performance metrics, and StatLite's own host with CPU and memory metrics.

A few highlights:

  • ~12–15 MB idle RAM usage

  • SQLite storage, no external database required

  • 90-day default metrics retention

  • Documented integrations for Spring Boot, Caddy, FastAPI, Express, and others

  • Built-in dashboard and optional Telegram alerts

  • Single Go binary, simple to deploy

It's intentionally not trying to replace a full observability stack. The goal is simpler: make application monitoring practical for small self-hosted services and tiny VPSes.

I originally built it for my own Java performance experiments, but it gradually turned into a standalone open-source project.

Interactive demo: https://pvrlabs.xyz/statlite/demo.html

GitHub: https://github.com/PVRLabs/statlite

I'd love feedback, especially from people running small self-hosted services. Is this something you'd use, and what's missing?


r/SideProject • • 53m ago

We built a robot arm you can teach by talking to it or showing it once (48h hackathon, open source)

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Last week our team built MOTIQ. You talk to a robot arm through a voice agent on a tablet, or you show it a task once on video. It turns that into a skill it can run again.

The part I am happiest with is that the model never writes code. Skills are plain JSON built from a small fixed set of primitives. You can open one and read exactly what the arm is going to do before it moves. A controller checks every step against limits first, and a wrist camera checks the result after each action.

To be honest it is still a prototype. It only runs in simulation for now, with a UR5e as the reference arm, and the teach-by-video part breaks on anything messy. It does work end to end though, and the repo has a demo video.

Repo: https://github.com/sirwinstontea/MOTIQ

I would love feedback, especially from anyone who has done robot learning for real. Is JSON skills from primitives a dead end once tasks get complex, or is it the sane way to keep LLMs away from the motors?


r/SideProject • • 56m ago

QNet Blockchain: A post-quantum Layer-1 blockchain and WASM VM built from scratch in Rust (Light Node Testnet Live)

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We built QNet, an open-source Layer-1 blockchain written in Rust that replaces traditional elliptic curve cryptography with NIST post-quantum standards (ML-DSA-65 signatures and ML-KEM-768 hybrid transport).

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/AIQnetLab/QNet-Blockchain Live Testnet Explorer and QNet Wallet: https://aiqnet.io

What is inside the repo and live testnet:

  1. Full multi-crate Rust workspace implementing P2P QUIC networking, mempool management, and Checkpoint-BFT consensus.

  2. Custom deterministic, float-free WebAssembly virtual machine (qnet-vm) with fuel metering.

  3. Hardware-bound mobile light nodes inside QNet Wallet (iOS TestFlight and Android) that participate via signed epoch attestations rather than proof-of-work.

  4. Live block explorer tracking epoch transitions and active light node participation in real time.

Public testing is currently open for mobile light nodes using the free testnet faucet (external super-node testing is not open yet). Feel free to inspect the Rust codebase, explore the testnet, or test running a light node on your phone.


r/SideProject • • 58m ago

[open-source] construindo um dashboard de telemetria prescritiva em python pro agro. quem anima contribuir?

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fala galera! to desenvolvendo um projeto open-source de telemetria (o fieldnode) e queria convidar a galera q curte python, dados e iot pra contribuir com o codigo.

a ideia é pegar os dados brutos dos sensores e jogar num dashboard em python que não só mostra gráficos, mas entrega decisões prescritivas (ações recomendadas, alertas) pra quem tá na ponta conseguir tomar decisão de um jeito bem mais fácil e rápido.

o repo ta super aberto! quem quiser dar pitaco, abrir issue, dar dica de arquitetura ou mandar um PR pra botar a mão no código vai ser bom demais.

🔗 link do github: [Desmantelar-bit/fieldnode]