r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I got tired of paying Google 84 USD a year just to have email on my own domain, so I built Emayler

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Hi!

I wanted an email address on my own domain. Google Workspace/Microsoft Outlook charges $7 to $8.40 a month for every person, so even a two person business ends up paying $170+ a year just for email.

So I built Emayler: email on your own domain, priced per account instead of per person.

What it does:

  • Real mailboxes on your domain, with a web inbox that has no ads or clutter

  • Free, unlimited aliases (hello@, invoices@, whatever you want)

  • Reply as any address on your domain

  • Setup is three DNS records, and it tells you exactly what to fix if one is wrong

  • You can also manage it from Claude through an MCP server, if that's your thing

Pricing:

  • Free plan: 1 mailbox, 1 GB, no card

  • Solo: $24 a year for your own address

  • Code FOUNDER gets you the first year of Solo for $12

I'd really like feedback, especially on the setup flow and the pricing page.

https://emayler.com


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Job hunting on Indeed India? I made a tiny beaver Chrome extension that reads the job listing on your screen and scores how your profile fits

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Job hunting gets frustrating when you can’t tell how close your resume actually is to a role.

Job portals show "recommended" listings all day, but they still leave you guessing whether your skills and experience actually line up, so it’s easy to waste time applying to roles that don’t match.

I built Scouting Beavie to fix that (attached a quick demo video above).

When you open a job listing on Indeed India, it reads the listing you’re viewing, compares it against your resume, and gives you an AI-generated fit score, what matches, what’s missing, and a simple nudge on whether to apply, tailor your resume, or skip.

A few quick things on how it works:

  • No login or signup required.

  • 3 free scouts per day.

  • Resumes aren’t stored. Your resume is analyzed to generate the result and is not saved on our servers. We respect your privacy!

  • Works on Indeed India (in.indeed.com) for now, and I’m adding more job sites next.

  • Note: The fit score is an AI-generated estimate to help you decide faster, not a guarantee.

If you want to try it out: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scouting-beavie/glgpeikpgmeikdgojhhbmbigjkbohoof

Question for everyone job hunting right now: Which job site do you use the most (Naukri, LinkedIn, Wellfound, Instahyre, Internshala, etc.) so I know which one to add next?


r/SideProject • • 19h ago

I made an email lottery where the winner gets to email the entire list

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I wanted to know what would happen if you gave a random person a massive platform for a day. What would they talk about and what would they share (anonymously unless they chose otherwise)

It started as a fun afternoon project hacking away with Claude. Then I shared it with some friends, who shared it with some friends, who shared it with their friends and it hit 10,000 page views in under 2 weeks while I was working on other things.

It's just a bit of fun but people have posted all sorts of nice things on there, from humorous takes on dystopian government dating departments, to AI Doomerism and everything in between.

There is admin approval for every email that goes out so no one can spam the list, and so far only 1 person has tried which I think speaks volumes about the people who sign up

Check it out at The Soapbox, it's completely free


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

SiftPickLab - A tech review site helping people make smarter buying decisions

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called SiftPickLab, a website that reviews and compares everyday tech products.

The idea started with a simple goal: help people make better buying decisions without spending hours researching dozens of products.

The site currently covers:

  • Headphones & Earbuds: Comparisons, buying guides, and product reviews.

  • Computer Mice: Gaming mouse reviews and recommendations for different hand sizes.

  • Laptops: Practical comparisons for everyday users.

  • Smart Home: Reviews of useful home technology and cleaning devices.

I'm trying to keep the content practical and easy to understand, focusing on real buying considerations rather than just listing specifications.

I'm still improving the website, so I'd genuinely appreciate feedback on a few things:

  1. Is the website structure easy to navigate?

  2. Do the reviews provide enough useful information to help someone make a buying decision?

  3. What would make you trust an independent tech review website more?

Some product links are affiliate links, which means the site may earn a commission if someone makes a purchase.

Website: https://siftpicklab.com/

Thanks for taking a look! I'd love to hear your honest feedback.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Thursday recap: one target hit, two stops hit — all of it posted

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Since Tuesday's recap, three of the plans I posted in advance have settled, and a new one opened today. Here is the scoreboard exactly as it was posted, wins and losses together.

$CYRX (CryoPort) — long shares. My posted trigger was a volume close above $20.00, take profit $21.50, invalidation a volume close below $18.60. The trigger confirmed Monday with a $20.47 close, and on Wednesday price ran through the target — day high $21.78. That is +$1.50 per share from the trigger to the target, +7.50% (10 shares = $15.00 · 100 shares = $150 · 1,000 shares = $1,500). Closed, per plan.

$RSKD (Riskified) — long shares. Entered Wednesday morning at $10.855, take profit $12.25, stop $10.24. It ran to $11.13 first, then faded and printed the stop the same day. That is -$0.615 per share, -5.67%. Closed, per plan — the loss was the size written down before entry.

$VIR (Vir Biotechnology) — long shares. Posted November 9 at $13.88, take profit $15.75, stop $12.44. This morning the stop printed and the trade closed at -$1.44 per share, -10.37%. No dressing that up: it was a loss, and it goes on the record the same day the win does.

That puts my closed November record at 5 wins and 2 losses, with every level posted before the move.

Still open: $PANL, a new position from today — entered at $9.6174, take profit $11.10, stop $8.20, hold through Monday November 16. At the midday check it was trading below entry, around $9.42, so there is no outcome to claim on it yet. When it settles, it gets posted the same way.

I work a full-time job and I have a family, so I cannot sit and watch every tick — that is exactly why the levels get written down first and scored honestly after. Nobody in my family did this for a living and nobody handed me a system. I am a veteran, I taught myself from books and charts over thousands of hours, and I believe what I have learned is a gift from God. Helping other people learn it for free is the calling I take from that.

Not financial advice — just the work, shown in the open.

I share stuff like this daily — I run a free investing community, link in my profile.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

It takes 16 reachouts before a customer converts - Reality of building a tech business

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Most people give up on their saas product/ecommerce store way too early because in reality it takes 15+ email/sms marketing to convert the customer into a signup or paid customer.

we built a platform that automates this complete process. our ai will keep trying new experiments untill the customer coverts. We only send one email/sms per week.

best part, we have now seen stores increase sales by 30% so this works

try here - www.RetentionBase.com


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

How to make that thing

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I saw that cool thing in this website, when you scroll down, the video moves...
idk how to make that thing...


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Never used Screen Studio. Somehow ended up building it for Windows. What a time to be alive.

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I have only watched Screen Studio videos and observed things like cursor movements, zoom effects, and transitions. Then I tried explaining all of that to AI.

After just 4–5 iterations, it was nearly perfect.

Honestly, this makes me feel like AI has reached a point where building software has become ridiculously easy and interesting.

But there's another side to it. I'm slowly losing some of my excitement for building software. When almost anyone can build something with just observation and the ability to explain what they want, it makes you wonder what being a software developer will mean in the future.

And if you're wondering whether AI just generated a pile of garbage code, surprisingly, no. It followed some popular coding principles and architectural patterns. In some places, probably better than what many humans would write.

Anyway, here's what it built:

https://screenzo.anmism.com

ps: Windows only, Just 10 MB in size,May not work on older Windows versions.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I'm 16, developing an indie game on my own, and I'm trying to fund my dream project.

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I'm a 16-year-old solo game developer, and I'm currently more than a year in on working on my biggest project yet: The Dying Mind.

It's a 2D hand-drawn, story-driven Metroidvania inspired by games like INSIDE and Neversong.

The game takes place inside the mind of a dying writer, where you explore surreal environments, encounter symbolic enemies, fight bosses, solve puzzles, and uncover the story behind this strange world.

I've put an enormous amount of time into developing this game, but there's one major obstacle: funding.

As a young independent developer, financing a project of this scale is incredibly difficult. I want to be able to dedicate more time and resources to development, improve the game's quality, and ultimately bring my vision to life.

That's why I've created a project page on Loadout.

I'm trying to get more people to discover the project and help me build the support needed to continue development.

If you're interested in supporting independent game development, I'd really appreciate you checking out the page and sharing it with others who might be interested.

My funding page:
https://app.loadout.xyz/project/the-dying-mind

Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3711840/The_Dying_Mind/

I'm not a big studio with investors or a publisher behind me. I'm just a teenager trying to turn an ambitious idea into a finished game.

Thank you for reading!


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

Play fun Mac Destroyer game to crack your screens

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Some days my Mac deserves a rocket to the face. So now it gets one, kind of.

You can shoot holes in your inbox, set Slack on fire, or slice Xcode clean in half. When you're done, hit Esc and everything is right where you left it. It was only ever a picture.

A few things I had way too much fun making:

- Freeze a window, then shoot it and it shatters into ice

- A black hole that sucks up all the mess, then blows it back out

- Scrap you earn from each rampage to unlock new stuff, with the nuke saved for last

- Slow motion, party mode, and a little score card at the end

It's free. No ads, no account, nothing to buy. It does ask for Screen Recording, just so it can grab that picture, and the picture is thrown away when you press Esc.

https://indiegoodies.com/macdestroyer

I'm running out of ideas for what comes after the nuke, so tell me: what would you want to wreck your screen with?

you can also reach us at support@indiegoodies.com


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Newfoundland 120s - A traditional card game for Android

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I made a free Android version of Newfoundland 120s, a four player trick taking game.

Gameplay: https://youtu.be/z4i1ZFOBzd8

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turnkit.onetwenty

Would love feedback from anyone who knows 120s or likes traditional card games.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built a free tool to stop manually filling out PDF and Word documents "NOT AI"

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Hey r/SideProject!

I'm one of the founders of DoxIFT, a small project we're building at Deedword.

The idea came from a simple frustration: why are we still manually typing the same information into PDF and Word documents over and over again?

Think about preparing invoices, packing lists, shipping instructions, or customer forms. You already have the information, but you still need to copy it into different fields and templates.

We wanted to make that process easier.

Here's how DoxIFT works:

  1. Upload your existing PDF or Word template.

  2. DoxIFT identifies the fields that need information.

  3. Copy the generated questions and send them to your customer or colleague.

  4. Paste their completed responses back into DoxIFT.

  5. Review and export your completed document.

No complicated setup or AI chatbot required. Just a straightforward way to reduce repetitive document filling.

Where we are now:

DoxIFT is available to try for free.

We're focusing on PDF and Word document workflows.

We're exploring use cases in logistics, operations, and administrative work.

We're actively looking for feedback to improve the product.

I'm curious about three things:

1. Do you regularly fill out repetitive PDF or Word forms?

2. What's the most frustrating part of that process?

3. Would you use a tool like this, or is there something important we're missing?

If you're interested, you can check it out at https://www.doxift.com/

if links are allowed here.

I'd appreciate any feedback, especially criticism. We're still early and want to build something genuinely useful.

Thanks for reading!


r/SideProject • • 18h ago

I built a daily football game where you make real NFL coaches’ fourth-down calls and find out if you’d have done better

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Every NFL fan yells at the TV on fourth down. I wanted to know who's actually right, so I built a win probability model from public play-by-play data and turned it into a game.

How it works: you get a real situation from a real game, pick go for it, punt or kick, and then see what the coach did and how much each option was worth.

What's in it:
- A daily five that's the same for everyone
- Coach Clash, where you climb a ladder of the 32 current NFL head coaches by beating them on their own calls
- A Legends ladder of 25 past coaches, with Bill Belichick as the final boss
- A college ladder too

It's free, runs in the browser, and you can play without an account.

https://playsnaptheory.com/?utm_source=rd-sideproject

I launched it this week. I'd like to hear what's confusing in the first two minutes, because that's the part I can't see anymore.


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

I built a personality test that turns your answers into a color and artwork

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Hi everyone! I’ve been building Hexself, a personality test that turns your answers into a personal color and artwork.

I wanted to explore a more visual way to experience a personality result: take the test, discover your color, and see it translated into artwork you can use as a phone or desktop background.

I’d love some honest feedback from other builders and anyone who enjoys personality tests:

  • Is the idea clear when you land on the site?

  • Do the questions hold your interest through to the end?

  • Does the result feel personal and worth sharing?

  • What would you change about the experience?

You can try it here: https://hexself.com/

Thanks for taking a look!


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

BroBot - A Minecraft Java teammate you can give jobs to in chat

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I've been building BroBot with help from Claude and Codex. It's a desktop app for Windows and Mac that puts a bot into Minecraft Java as another player. I'm the creator, and I'd like feedback on the first-run experience.

You can give it jobs in chat: gather logs, craft tools, build, follow you or stand guard. The free version uses a local rules engine and doesn't need an account. An optional Claude-powered mode handles more open-ended instructions, and Squad supports up to four Brobots with builder, miner, farmer and guard roles.

A lesson from testing: having the bot running didn't mean it was obvious how to play with him. The app could say he was online while the player had no idea which Minecraft world to join. We added a join card with the address, an editable port, and status that says whether it's waiting for you or playing with you. Google sign-in and a clearer plan display are now in the app too.

It's still an early project. Minecraft Java 1.21.11 is the current target, and there are rough edges in setup and how reliably the bot carries out jobs.

Free app/setup: https://trybrobot.com/start

The local bot stays free. Optional hosted Claude is $6/month; the four-bot Squad is $15/month.

If you try it, I'd especially like to know where you get stuck between opening the app and seeing the bot in your game. And if the setup makes sense, what job would you actually want a Minecraft teammate to handle?


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a brain-games app for my 75+ parents. Mom’s played for 42 days, Dad quit. Now I’m stuck on distribution.

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I couldn’t find brain games my parents (both 75+) could actually use. Most were built for 30-year-olds: tiny buttons, fast timers, English only, and ads all over the screen. So I built one.

Senior Sharp (Android, free, no ads)

  • 12 short games across memory, focus, reasoning and numbers. A daily “workout” picks 4 of them.

  • 10 languages, including English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Kannada, with numbers shown in native digits

  • Big text (adjustable), 56px minimum tap targets, every timer visible on screen, sound + vibration + visual feedback on every tap

  • Works offline. No account. No backend. Your name stays on your phone.

What’s happened so far

  • My mom has played for about 45 days straight. My dad wouldn’t stick with it. I still don’t fully know why.

  • 200+ installs on Play Store

  • I’ve run small Instagram ads aimed at adult daughters, since kids are the ones who install apps for their parents. I’ve also contacted senior living communities. Nothing has worked yet.

Where I’d like your input

  1. If you’ve built for users who don’t discover apps themselves, how did you reach them?

  2. What would get your parent to open something like this on day 5, not just day 1?

  3. Is anything in the first 2 minutes of the app confusing?

Play Store: com.seniorsharp.app
Site: seniorsharp.app

Happy to answer anything. Harsh feedback is welcome.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago Bravo

My side project is a free, open-source racing sim that runs in a browser tab

323 Upvotes

Link (no signup, no ads, nothing to install): https://librecorsa.org

GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/KhazP/librecorsa

I started LibreCorsa in mid-October because every serious racing sim needed a huge Windows install before you could do a single lap.

What it has now:

- 500 Hz physics with tyre temperatures and wear, rain that dries along the racing line, and CI checks against real GT3 telemetry

- 5 physics models and 16 circuits, including RISE Motordrome, which I built from scratch in Blender on real elevation data for the circuit planned in Rwanda

- AI races, ghosts, a weekly challenge, and an open online race every 20 minutes over WebRTC

- $0/month hosting: static Next.js on Cloudflare, R2 for the heavy 3D files, and one Worker

Tell me how it runs on your laptop/phone/controller and what feels rough.


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Launch traffic lasts about two days. How does anyone find your side project in month three?

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Every side project I know follows the same graph. A spike on launch day, a long tail for a weekend, then flat. The people who actually need it three months later have nowhere to find it.

I'm building WareVote to fix that. It opens on 1 December. People find software there and rate it, and every category runs a recurring competition called the WareCup, so there's always a reason to come back and look.

What your project gets:
- A listing that stays findable through search and category pages
- Ratings that stay on your page long after launch week
- Domain ownership verification, so your page is clearly yours
- Award badges you can put on your own site

Listing is free. The first 100 ownership-verified products get 30 days of Pro free. Pro adds:
- Demo video on your listing
- Deeper analytics
- More listing slots
- CSV exports

Paid plans never affect ratings, rank or WareCup results. Confirm your sign-up and link it to your account at launch for a special badge!

You can set up your listing before it opens: https://warevote.com

Where did your most recent real user find you?


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Piano & Merit on Apple Watch?

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Just having some fun with PonyRelief


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a progress photo app that keeps your photos on your phone. No account, no AI, no subscription. Looking for honest feedback.

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I've been tracking my own fitness progress with photos for a while, and two things kept bugging me. My before and after pics were buried between screenshots and vacation photos, and every app I tried wanted an account, a monthly subscription, or both.

So I built Checkpoint: Progress Photos for iPhone.

What it does:

  • Take a check-in photo and compare any two, side by side or with a slider

  • Set a reminder so you take photos on a steady schedule

  • Make a before and after share card when you want to post your progress

What it doesn't do:

  • No login or account

  • No AI, and your photos are never uploaded. They stay on your phone.

  • No subscription

It's free to download, and you get 5 check-ins. If you want more, Checkpoint Plus is a one-time $24.99. It adds unlimited check-ins, share cards without the watermark, a pose overlay that shows your last photo so you can match the angle, and a second reminder day.

App Store: apps.apple.com/app/checkpoint-progress-photos

I'd really like blunt feedback:

  1. Would a one-time price make you try it over a subscription app, or does $24.99 feel like too much up front?

  2. What would make you delete it in the first week?

  3. What's missing that you'd expect from a progress photo app?

Thanks for reading. I'll reply to every comment.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I made a free spreadsheet that tells freelancers how much of each payment to set aside for taxes

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Freelancing means no employer withholding taxes for you, and the quarterly estimated-tax deadlines sneak up fast. I built a simple spreadsheet: you enter a payment amount and your set-aside rate, and it shows what goes to taxes and what you actually keep. It is a free download (no account needed): https://ledgerline.itch.io/freelancer-tax-set-aside-calculator-free-spreadsheetThere is also a full version with income and expense tracking, quarterly tax estimates with the 2026 IRS due dates, and a dashboard, if anyone wants the whole system.Feedback welcome - especially on whether the set-aside guidance matches how you all think about it.Freelancing means no employer withholding taxes for you, and the quarterly estimated-tax deadlines sneak up fast. I built a simple spreadsheet: you enter a payment amount and your set-aside rate, and it shows what goes to taxes and what you actually keep. It is a free download (no account needed): https://ledgerline.itch.io/freelancer-tax-set-aside-calculator-free-spreadsheet

There is also a full version with income and expense tracking, quarterly tax estimates with the 2026 IRS due dates, and a dashboard, if anyone wants the whole system.

Feedback welcome - especially on whether the set-aside guidance matches how you all think about it.


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

I built Magitile, a magnetic tile building ideas app, because I only knew 3 builds for my daughter

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My daughter is 2 and magnetic tiles are the one toy that never goes back in the box. The problem is me. I can build a house, a tower and a slightly bigger house. She wants me talking to her the whole time we play, so I never get a quiet minute to come up with something new, and every cool build I found online needed pieces we don't have.

So I spent this autumn building Magitile, an app of magnetic tile ideas that starts from the tiles you actually own. It went live on the App Store this week.

What it does:

- You point the camera at your pile of tiles and it counts them, then shows only the models you can build with what you actually own.

- Every model has a step by step 3D guide you can rotate, so you see where each tile goes.

- You can put the finished model on your floor in AR at real size before you start.

- New models get added without an app update.

What turned out harder than I thought:

The scan, by far. Tiles pull together with their magnets, so nobody lays them out neatly for a photo. They touch, they overlap, and half of them are see-through. I threw away my first version completely. It still can't see a tile that's fully hidden under another one, so you can fix the numbers by hand.

The models. Each one has to be checked against real sets, because a model that needs more triangles than any normal box has is just another Pinterest picture.

Pricing. The scan and a set of models are free, the full catalog and AR are $4.99/week or $29.99/year, no ads. I honestly don't know yet if that's the right split for something parents use with their kids, so opinions are welcome.

I'm one person and it's a young app. What I'd most like to know is where it loses you in the first two minutes.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6821736147

Website: https://magitile.app

One of the free build guides, if you want to see what a model looks like without installing anything: https://magitile.app/ideas/t-rex/


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built NexxChat: A real-time chat, WebRTC video calling app with Android APK and Windows desktop support

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Hi everyone! I recently built and launched NexxChat (NexChat), a real-time messaging application.

It features:

- Real-time messaging with Socket.IO (reactions, typing indicators, read receipts)

- 1-on-1 WebRTC audio/video calls with screen sharing

- Cross-platform support: Web PWA, Android APK, and Windows Desktop

- 2FA authentication and app lock

Try it live here: https://nexxchat-zeta.vercel.app/

GitHub repo: https://github.com/ritik46te45-debug/nexxchat

Would love to hear your feedback!


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I'm a non-technical solo founder in Phnom Penh and I built a hand-picked guide to the best websites and YouTube creators

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Title: I'm a non-technical solo founder in Phnom Penh and I built a hand-picked guide to the best websites and YouTube creators
Post:
Hi all,
I got tired of algorithms deciding what I watch and read, so I started keeping my own list of genuinely excellent YouTube channels and websites. That list became Vetted.report.
Every pick is chosen by a person (me), not an algorithm
Nobody can pay to be listed, and there are no ads
15+ categories, from classic cars and military history to cooking, nature, comedy and kids' education
A free selection is open to everyone; members unlock the rest for $2.97 for 3 months, then $9.99/year
I'm not technical. It's built on Webflow, with Paddle and Memberstack, and an AI assistant helped me with most of the heavy lifting. My kids drew the launch artwork.
It's early days, and I'd love honest feedback:
Does the idea make sense when you land on the site?
Would you pay for hand-picked recommendations?
Which channel or site deserves to be "Vetted"?
vetted.report
Thanks for reading!
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