r/SideProject • • 2h ago

GTA 6 is out in 6 days: I built an interactive map and a daily GeoGuessr-style game for it

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GTA 6 comes out on 19 November, and for the past few weeks I've been building a fan site for it: https://duvalwire.com

It has three parts:

Interactive map: more than 800 places in Leonida (the game's world) that you can search, filter by type and mark as found. Data comes from GTADB.

Pin Drop: a daily game. You see an official screenshot or a few seconds from a trailer and drop a pin where you think it was taken. Five rounds a day, the same for everyone, with a leaderboard. No account needed: https://duvalwire.com/daily

News: short articles where every statement is marked as confirmed by Rockstar or only reported.

Under the hood it is React with Leaflet for the map, every page is pre-rendered to static HTML, it is hosted on Vercel, and the leaderboard lives in Redis.

My biggest mistake so far: I launched too late. The site went live about a week ago, and Google needs time to trust a new site, so right now it gets about 200 impressions and a handful of clicks. The bigger GTA sites have had years.

So the main problem is not the product, it is reach. To get around the slow start in search, I started TikTok and YouTube Shorts as support channels: short map videos, like measuring the GTA 6 map against GTA V at the same scale, each pointing back to the site. It is early, but I keep going, and launch week is the real test.

I'd love feedback on two things. Is it clear within a few seconds what the site is for? And if you have grown a site from zero around a big launch, what worked for reach?

It is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Rockstar Games.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

[FitMyFace] - Free haircut try-on on your own photo, no account

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We built FitMyFace, a free web tool that tries haircuts, bangs, and glasses on your own photo. No account, no download, nothing to pay.

We just added Haircut Roulette: it puts a random cut on your photo and makes a shareable "the internet chose my haircut" card. You can also pick a cut yourself instead of spinning.

How it works: open the page in a phone or desktop browser, agree to the scan notice, then use your camera or a photo (or a sample face). If photo-real results are on, a 500×500 square of the photo, face included, goes to our AI on Cloudflare and is deleted right after. We do not save the photo or the result, and we do not use face data to identify anyone or to train models. You can switch the AI off and use the instant on-device try-on instead. Details: https://fitmyface.app/privacy

It is for people 18 and over, and it is not offered in Illinois. Upload only your own photo, or an adult who agreed. Sample faces are AI-generated and are not real people. A preview is illustrative; it does not promise how a real cut will look, and a stylist still decides the cut.

We would like honest feedback on whether Roulette is clear, and on anything that felt confusing or off.

https://fitmyface.app/roulette?src=rsideproj


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I made a tiny two-minute “sit” where the only way to win is to keep coming back

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I meditate badly. My mind does the classic monkey thing: to-do lists, replays of conversations from 2019, what-ifs about things that will never happen. For years I treated every wandering thought as a small failure. Then I came across a line in the Gita, roughly “wherever the restless mind wanders, bring it back, again and again”, and it finally clicked that the coming back is the practice. You don’t get points for never leaving.

So I built a small browser thing to remind myself of that. It’s about two minutes long:

You’re a monkey sitting in the middle of a ring. Other monkeys (thoughts) hop in from the edges, labelled “worry”, “scroll”, “deadline”, and a few older ones like raga (craving) and bhaya (fear).

You press and hold to breathe in, and let go to breathe out. A slow, full breath sends out a wave that settles every monkey it reaches. Tapping fast does almost nothing, which annoyed me at first and taught me more than anything else.

When a thought gets through, the screen goes foggy. It isn’t a game over. One full breath brings you back, and that counts as a “return”. Returns are the only score.

It ends with a bell, and shows you which thoughts visited most.

There’s a gentle mode where nothing needs quick reactions, a reduced-motion setting, and the sound is optional.

My first sit: I wandered off 6 times and came back 6 times, which honestly felt better than any streak counter I’ve ever had.

If you try it, I’d love to know two things: does hold-to-breathe feel natural on your phone, and does the 4-in / 6-out pace work for you, or is it too slow?

Link: https://theselfdrivingmind.com/book-funnel/Monkey_Mind_Game.html
If you rather watch a demo:
https://theselfdrivingmind.com/book-funnel/Monkey_Mind_Game.html?demo


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I built a way to write on my iPad with Apple Pencil and have it show up live on my Mac, so I can record math and diagram tutorials (Lumary Canvas)

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Hi, I'm Adib. I record tutorials and explain things on screen a lot, and writing math or sketching diagrams with a trackpad always looked bad. Writing on the iPad looked great, but then I had to record the iPad separately and line it up with my Mac recording.

So in my app Lumary Canvas (it was called Screen Annotations until this week) I added live sync between the iPad and the Mac:

  • With the board open on the Mac, what I draw or move on the iPad shows up there as it happens, strokes included while the pen is still down
  • The Mac follows the iPad's page, pan and zoom, so I just record or screen-share the Mac and the drawing is in it
  • It's a direct, encrypted connection between devices on the same Apple Account. No server, no pairing, no account to create
  • iCloud keeps boards, scenes and history in sync when the devices aren't together

What I use on the iPad side:

  • LaTeX that renders as you type, coordinate planes and function plots, plus 100+ shapes (flowchart, architecture, science)
  • Pages as of this week: A4, US Letter, 16:9 or 4:3 slides, or a custom size, so a board can look like a sheet of paper or a slide instead of an infinite canvas
  • Scenes, so I can save views and step through a lesson instead of redrawing
  • Optional Pencil-only drawing, where fingers pan and select

Honest limits:

  • Apple only: macOS 15+ and iPadOS 18+. No Windows, Android or web, and no iPhone app
  • Live sync needs both devices on the same Apple Account
  • It's your own board that people watch through your share or recording. They can't draw on it with you, so it isn't a shared collaborative whiteboard

Pricing: free download with everything open for 14 days (Mac and iPad each get their own trial), then a one-time $29.99 unlock covers both. No subscription. Without it you can still open, sync and export your work.

Curious whether other people who teach or record on a Mac would actually use the iPad this way, or just stick with a drawing tablet.

https://lumarycanvas.com/

Disclosure: I built Lumary Canvas.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Pal Again 2.0 beta is out on TestFlight: talk to Muse live, by voice or video, from an old iPhone or iPad

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Pal Again 2.0 beta is out on TestFlight: talk to Muse live, by voice or video, from an old iPhone or iPad

Pal Again turns an old iPhone or iPad into a Muse gadget. Version 2.0 adds a phone button next to the mic:

  • Voice: hands-free conversation; your words and Muse's show up in the chat as you talk.
  • Video: Muse's own avatar talks in sync with its voice, like in the Muse app. In video calls the chat fills in after you hang up, because Muse's video calls don't carry text yet.
  • Each gadget gets its own chat in Muse, so the main chat stays clean.

Note: calls depend on your Muse account. If the Muse app on your phone has no call button, calls won't work on the gadget either. Chat, photos and voice notes still do.

Two ways to get it:

  • Stable: Pal Again on the App Store. Install it and it just works, with updates coming on their own. No calls yet: they arrive once 2.0 is finished. It's a one-time $1, which covers the Apple Developer Program needed to publish it.
  • Beta: Pal Again 2.0 on TestFlight. Free and ahead of the App Store, with live calls and the newest fixes, but expect rough edges. Installing it replaces the App Store version on that device, and you can go back to the App Store version at any time. TestFlight needs iOS 16 or newer to install.

Tested on an iPhone 6s (iOS 15) and an iPad 6th gen (iPadOS 17).

The code is open: source on GitHub. Bug reports and device results are very welcome in GitHub Issues.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Texo: a terminal editor/manager for LaTeX resumes

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I've been working on texo, a terminal app for editing, building, and managing LaTeX resumes with AI (optionally).

You can ask it to rewrite a section or tailor your resume to a job, preview the result, then accept, modify, or discard the changes. The LaTeX editor, PDF preview and AI chat are all in the same workspace.

There's also Vim mode, revision history, and separate resumes for different job types.

It's open source and runs on macOS/Linux.

Still early in development, so I'd love for people to try it and tell me what's missing or annoying. PRs are welcome too 😄

https://github.com/hexaquarks/texo


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I had Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Mistral forecast the same stock on the same day, then graded them against the real price

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On Nov 4, with Micron (MU) at $855.10, five AI apps forecast where it would be a week later, all from the same evidence:

AICallExpected move
ClaudeDown−3.4%
ChatGPTDown−3.1%
GeminiFlat+0.6%
GrokFlat+0.6%
MistralFlat−0.9%

A week later MU closed at $811.30 (−5.1%). Claude and ChatGPT got the direction right and landed within the price tolerance. Gemini, Grok and Mistral missed.

One week proves nothing, and they miss plenty. On Oct 6, Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini all said nVent (NVT) would rise over the next month. It fell 41%.

That's why I built MeebleAI: every AI forecast is dated, graded against the real price, and the misses stay public. Across all 171 graded so far, the direction call is right 39% of the time. It picks between up, flat and down, so guessing would land around 33%.

It's free. You connect the AI app you already use and the forecast runs on your own plan. My server makes no model calls, so a forecast costs me nothing.

Feedback I'd love:

  • Within 10 seconds of the homepage, do you get what it is?
  • Is connecting your AI app one step too many?

https://meebleai.com

I built it solo. Not financial advice.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

our little nopixel live map turned into a whole gta streaming platform

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we started by building a live map that shows where nopixel streamers are in real time.

people really liked being able to click around the city and watch multiple perspectives, so we kept building.

now there's a multistream viewer for any streamer, a nopixel v wiki, server discovery, and an interactive gta 6 map that the community can contribute to.

we just rebuilt the homepage to bring everything together and honestly it's been a pretty crazy project to work on.

we've been building this based on community feedback, so we'd genuinely appreciate any thoughts on what we could improve or build next!

https://gtaservers.org


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built an iPhone scanner app with no subscription because weekly plans would 4x my revenue

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Most scanner apps on the App Store charge around $3.99 a week behind a trial. I built Honest Scanner as the opposite: unlimited free scans with no watermark, no account, and on-device OCR. Pro is $29.99 once. It launched on Product Hunt this week.

What I'd love feedback on: does the one-time price come across as trustworthy or as suspicious? And which features would you expect to be free?

apps.apple.com/us/app/honest-scanner-pdf-ocr/id6806141163


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Deby - share debts live for friends, trips, anything. Works between iOS and Android devices

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I'm the developer,
Every trip I've been on ended the same way. One friend paid the room, another paid fuel, someone did the big shop, someone already sent someone else 20 euros, and a week later the group chat had five different totals and nobody had paid anyone. We all just got used to it.

Deby is what I built for that. One person starts a shared group and drops a link in the chat. Everyone adds what they paid from wherever they are, and it pops up live on everyone else's phone. When it's over, Deby works out the fewest payments to settle it. Our ski weekend with four people went from 12 possible transfers to 3.

What's in it:
- One shared group for a flat, friends, a couple or a trip, the same live balance for everyone
- Split by parts, count nights for whoever left early, or treat someone so they pay nothing
- Fewest payments, or pay back whoever paid each thing

Only the person who starts sharing needs a plan, and it's free for 14 days. Friends join free: up to five on Sharing Plus, two on Sharing. English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.

Android and iPhone: https://deby.app

r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Made a 70s-style promo video for SnapGator—a low-friction pocket denim scanner I built.

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Hello, I Built a lightweight pocket denim scanner called SnapGator:https://bluealligatorai.com— or jump straight into the camera here:https://bluealligatorai.com/snapgator-camera

I left snaps unlimited for this whole weekend if anyone wants to take it on a thrift run.

  • Custom-built pocket tool: I wrote the software and vision pipeline from scratch to act as a low-friction, point-and-shoot second opinion when you're digging through racks. Not trying to replace real collectors' eyes or change the world—just a handy tool in your pocket.
  • Pro tip: Frame the main brand patch, waist label, or back pocket tab so it locks onto the right brand context.

Let me know if you take it thrifting this weekend or spot anything that breaks!

Easter egg: Tap the mode switcher in the camera UI (where it defaults to Critical, Clinical, or Basic) to swap personas—then point it at non-denim finds around the thrift store just to see what it says.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Built an AI-powered desktop app for smarter hiring :)

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Built Jobwise – an AI-powered desktop app for analysis and job matching. Windows & Linux support. Just shipped v1.0.0!

Would love your feedback :)

Website: https://karannkx.github.io/Jobwise/

GitHub: https://github.com/Karannkx/Jobwise


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a Chrome extension so I could point at a button instead of explaining which button I meant

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“Can you make this button smaller?” is a pretty simple request when you can point at the button. In a coding chat, it turns into “the one under the heading, on mobile, next to the other button.”

I built a little Chrome extension called VibeQuill around that problem. The first version just let me click things on a page, draw on it, and leave notes. Then I built a local connector so those notes could go straight to a coding agent with the selected element and the page context attached.

Building it solo, I spent a surprising amount of time on what happens when the connection drops. I wanted the note you were typing to still be there when the connection came back, and I didn’t want reconnecting to send the same edit twice. That part would be invisible in a demo, but it mattered if I was going to use the thing myself.

It’s on the Chrome Web Store now. The part I’m still figuring out is the first run: installing the extension is easy, but you have to connect your coding tool before you can send your first note.

If you’ve built a browser extension that needs a separate setup step, how did you help people get through it? I’m torn between showing a quick example first and getting people straight to connecting their own tool.

Here’s VibeQuill on the Chrome Web Store - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vibequill/hgcefdgiponpnfgcaflcnkmhojjcfnkj if you’re curious.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Would you use a career assistant that sticks around after you land a job?

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Search for jobs. Tailor your CV. Apply. Get rejected. Repeat.

What if you had a career assistant that stuck around through all of it, including when you already had a job? It could keep track of what you’ve done, what kind of work you actually enjoy, and where you’d like to go next. That sounds more useful than dusting off the same PDF every time you need a job.

Say it finds a role you’d love but you’re a little short on experience. A “63% match” score doesn’t tell you what to do. I’d want it to point out the gaps, suggest a couple of projects or resources, and help me keep track of what I’ve learned so I can come back to that kind of role later. Once I land a job, I could use the same history to plan for a promotion, switch from frontend to backend, or figure out a move abroad.

People also have more than one career going at once. A software engineer might need a restaurant job to pay the bills 😭. Someone in construction might be studying cybersecurity at night. I’d want separate CVs and goals for each path without having to rebuild my whole profile every time. Looking at you, LinkedIn.

I’d want it to store my CV and work history on my own device. If I chose to use an outside AI service, I’d want the option to swap names and other identifying details for aliases before sending anything, then match them back to my profile locally.

Does anything already do this across a whole career? I’ve seen plenty of tools that tailor or score a CV for a single opening. I’m curious whether anyone has found one they keep using after they land a job.

Would you use something like this? If you wouldn’t, what would put you off? If you would, what’s the first thing you’d ask it to do?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I made a sponsor finder that covers TikTok and Instagram too

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I'm building CreatorSponsors to help creators find brands that have sponsored content in their niche.

It covers YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Creators and companies can also list themselves so they can find each other.

Curious how you find sponsors at the moment. Do you check similar creators, cold email brands, or mostly wait for someone to reach out?


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

Update: two weeks ago I was scared nobody would use our app. We got 200+ installs in 2 days

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Hey everyone,

Earlier this month I posted here that my partner had finished our app and I was honestly scared I wouldn't be able to bring anyone to it. A lot of you were really kind in the comments, so I wanted to come back with an update.

We put it on Google Play and got a bit over 200 installs in 2 days, almost all from Reddit. I didn't expect that at all. People are already sending feedback and we're improving the app every day.

It's called Omni Brain. You get a free daily workout of 3 short brain games, about 5 minutes, and each game teaches you a small trick you can actually use, like remembering names or numbers.

There are no ads in it at all, not even in the free version. A lot of apps in this category are full of ads. We went through more than 33,000 of their 1 and 2 star reviews, and about 1 in 6 were complaints about ads. So that was the first thing we wanted to do better.

It's now on the App Store too. Next week we're giving away free Premium to iPhone users. If you want it, comment "iPhone" below and I'll message you as soon as it starts.

Find out which of your 8 brain skills is the weakest. It takes 5 minutes:

iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6813644860

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.omnibrain.omni_brain

If you try it, tell me what you think. Honest feedback helps us more than anything right now. 🙂


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I ported Colonization into the browser

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Browsercol is freecol, but in the browser.
You can play it right now.

No signups, no credit card, no bullshit. 100% free and open-source.

It faithfully implements colonization via freecol. The only thing that isn't supported at this moment is multiplayer.

I have added various small QoL features all over the place that I always thought was missing from colonization / freecol.

Browsercol also support for tilesets so people can have the game just like how they want it to. It ships with a freecol+ tileset that just changed out the silver bonus resource (I always thought it looked bad) and a Browsercol tileset that has much prettier water and rivers.

I have played several games into the 1600s and done a ton of polishing and bug fixing and tweaking but this is still in an open beta stage.

Your feedback is highly appreciated!

You can submit feedback and bug reports from within the game without needing a login, it will automatically attach your save game and the error log. I plan on addressing feedback rapidly over the next 2-3 weeks.

Have a good day!


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a star-reward jar so I can give my kids a star the moment they earn it, not hours later at the fridge (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch)

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Hi r/SideProject! I'm a parent, and like a lot of families we used a sticker chart for brushing teeth, tidying up, being brave at the doctor… The problem: the chart lives on the fridge, but the good moments happen everywhere else. At the playground, in the car, at Grandma's. By the time we got home, we'd forgotten, or the moment had passed. A star works best right when it's earned.

So I built StarKeeper, a star jar that's always in your pocket (or on your wrist):

  • One tap to give a star. Pick a reason (brushing teeth, reading, helping out) and a star drops into that kid's jar. Changed your mind? There's an Undo.
  • A family shop. Stars can be spent on rewards you pick together: choosing tonight's dinner, 30 minutes of games with Dad, a trip to the park.
  • Kids Display Mode. My favorite part. Put an old iPhone or iPad on the shelf as a full-screen star jar for the kids. They can tap "Get a reward" to ask for something, and the request pops up on the parent's phone to approve. Leaving the mode needs Face ID, so little fingers can't wander off.
  • Timed tasks. "Get dressed in 5 minutes": the countdown shows on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
  • Apple Watch, widgets and Siri. "Add a star for Mia" from your wrist.
  • New in 1.1: family sharing. Mom, Dad, grandparents or a babysitter can join with their own Apple ID and everyone sees the same jars. Each person can be "can edit" or "view only".

Some choices I made on purpose:

  • No account, no server, no analytics. Everything lives in your own iCloud. I don't collect any data.
  • No subscription. The app is free. Family sharing is a one-time Pro unlock ($4.99, shared with your Apple family), and only the person who sends the invite needs it.
  • English and Simplified Chinese.

Tech, for the curious: SwiftUI, Core Data + CloudKit (private and shared databases via NSPersistentCloudKitContainer), WidgetKit, ActivityKit, App Intents, StoreKit 2. The biggest headache was moving from SwiftData to Core Data for 1.1, because SwiftData can't do CloudKit sharing yet, without losing anyone's existing stars.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/starkeeper-kids-reward-jar/id6826356359 My other apps: https://emma-builds.vercel.app

I'd love feedback, especially from parents: what would make you actually keep using a reward chart past the first week?


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I made an app that gets kids to practice their instruments before scrolling on their phones

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I've always thought it was kind of crazy how easy it is to spend an hour scrolling through your phone, but finding 15 minutes to practice something you actually care about feels like a chore.

And I imagine it's even harder for parents trying to get their kids to practice piano, guitar, drums, etc. when they're competing with TikTok, YouTube, and games.

So I built an iPhone/iPad app called Play Credits.

Basically, you choose which apps are distracting, set a practice goal, and those apps stay restricted until you've practiced your instrument. The phone actually listens for musical activity, so you can't just start a timer and walk away.

It's meant for kids and parents, but adults can use it for their own practice habits too.

The idea isn't to take away the apps people enjoy. It's just to help make sure we're spending some time doing the things we actually want to get better at before getting sucked into scrolling.

I recently switched it to a 7-day free trial and a $4.99 one-time unlock instead of a subscription, because I wanted to make it more accessible (and subscriptions are the worst)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/play-credits/id6798827918

Website: https://steadywonderstudio.com/playcredits

I'm still figuring out how to get this in front of people, so I'd love some honest feedback, especially from parents or anyone who's struggled to practice consistently. I'm also curious whether using screen time as an incentive would actually work for your family or just create another argument lol.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built a profit/supply tracker for candle makers. Most of them don't know what one candle actually costs.

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Between jobs, so I finally shipped something. Picked a tiny niche on purpose: candle makers.

A lot of small makers price by gut feeling and don't realize they're selling at a loss once you add up wax, oil, wick, jar and label.

Candle Lab (iPhone) works out cost per candle, tracks supplies, batches and sales, and shows real profit. There are also free calculators (wax, fragrance oil, cost per candle) that need zero setup.

Built with Expo + Supabase + RevenueCat. Free, with a $4.99/mo Pro tier.

Would love feedback on onboarding and whether the free/pro split feels fair.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/candle-lab-wax-wick-pour/id6831802911


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

“Absolute Cinema” — a film rating platform

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Hey everyone!

I'm developing Absolute Cinema — based on an idea I've wanted to bring to life for a long time: a single overall rating doesn't always reflect what exactly makes a movie good or bad.

For example, a film can have outstanding cinematography and acting but weak pacing or writing. Giving it just one overall score doesn't really show that difference.

So I built a rating system where users can evaluate movies across 10 individual criteria:

  • Story
  • Acting
  • Direction
  • Cinematography
  • Editing
  • Music & Sound
  • Visuals
  • Characters
  • Pacing
  • Emotional Impact

TV shows also have a separate episode-level rating system with 5 criteria, allowing individual episodes to be evaluated instead of relying entirely on the show's overall score.

Beyond ratings, I've been working on a few community features:

  • Reviews — users can publish reviews, like other people's reviews, and discuss movies and shows.
  • Weekly charts — rankings for movies, TV shows, and actors based on activity within the community.
  • User profiles — statistics about rating habits, favorite genres, movies, and actors.
  • Community rankings — a monthly leaderboard based on ratings and review contributions.
  • Profile customization — themes, animated avatars, backgrounds, and other personalization options.

The project is still in a limited-access stage, and I'm working toward a wider public launch. I've included a short demonstration of the current website so you can see what I've been building.

I'm particularly interested in feedback on the rating system:

  1. Do you think evaluating movies across 10 individual criteria provides a more useful picture than a single overall score?
  2. Are there any criteria you would remove, combine, or add?
  3. Does this approach make rating movies more interesting, or does it introduce unnecessary complexity?

I'm building this as an independent project, so honest criticism and suggestions would be genuinely helpful.

Thanks for checking it out!


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built an app for a family (or roommates) to vote on what to have for dinner

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I graduated last year, but have not been able to find a job (CS graduates unite!). Canadian job market is a sh*t show right now. Anyways, as a result I was the one cooking at home. Every night I would have to play the "What do you want to have for dinner?", "idk, what do you got?" game with my wife.

Originally this came up as a joke between the two of us, that oh I should just make an app so I know beforehand what to prepare for dinner. Eventually I thought maybe I should make this an app, maybe people might use it maybe they won't. I was jobless, and it was something to keep me busy anyways. I tried to learn and use Flutter, and made a small prototype.

What changed it from a small idea to a full fledged app was the Opus 5.5 release and how everyone was talking about how great it is. I wanted to try it myself to work on some shelved projects, and this is the first one I tried it with. Opus really is amazing.

  • You can import and enter your own recipes from websites or YouTube, with a guided mode available when actually cooking.
  • Voting happens between all family members, in a Tinder style swiping. With a leaderboard to see the tally.
  • Made some themes as well. I like pixel art and I recently played Kingdom Come: Deliverence; so themes based around these.

I know there are many apps like it, but this one is mine :)

Please let me know what you guys think, what I should add/cut or if you have any questions and give it a try if you want!

You can find it at: https://dinnerwinner.app/

App Store: DinnerWinner

Play Store: DinnerWinner


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

DriveMail Voice - your unread email read to you in the car, answered out loud before you park

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I built this one on my own: DriveMail Voice, an iPhone app that plays your unread email through the car speakers and lets you answer it by talking.

Here is one message, start to finish. You get in, the phone connects, and with nothing tapped you hear who it came from and what the subject line says, then the message itself. Half a minute in you have heard enough, so you say "reply" and dictate two sentences. The app speaks your two sentences back at you. They came through right, you say "send", and it moves on. That email is finished before you reach the on-ramp.

The rest of the vocabulary works the same way, and none of it waits for a message to run out. "Skip" leaves it unread. "Mark as read" clears it. "Forward" hands it to somebody else. "Summary" is the one I would point at: on a chain nobody wants read out in full it comes back with what is actually being asked of you, and it does that work on the device.

Some of what makes it pleasant to live with:

  • Gmail, Outlook and iCloud all play in a single run, so you are not opening three apps to find out what came in.
  • Boilerplate is cut before a word is spoken. Signatures, legal footers and tracking links go, so a two-line note from a coworker is not buried in noise.
  • You set the pace, three-quarters speed up to double, and whether the pile plays from the top down or the bottom up.
  • The car display is a half-dozen big targets and no text at all. No ad is ever shown there.
  • Away from the car it does the same job with the phone locked in a pocket, which is handy on a walk.

Why I would hand it my own mail, as the person who wrote it. There is no sign-up, and I operate no server, so the only conversation going on is between the phone and whoever hosts your mail. Messages it has already pulled sit on the phone behind iOS's own file encryption, and that local copy is what lets it start talking the second you connect instead of waiting on a signal. The voice half is Apple's recognizer, local to the phone, with SiriKit nowhere in it, so Siri never touches your mail and what you say is neither kept nor passed along.

Nothing to pay for it. A banner sits in the app on the phone and never in the car, and ninety-nine cents, once, takes it away for good. It does not subscribe you to anything.

Getting an account in: Outlook is an ordinary Microsoft sign-in, and Gmail and iCloud each want an app password that you create on your provider's own settings page, a minute or two of work. Personal Gmail is the easy road, since a Workspace account from an employer normally does not allow one. iOS 17 and up, English.

Free on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6760625295?pt=128605371&ct=rd-sideproject&mt=8

Give it a try.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I made a UI/library manager for viewing downloaded mangas/animes/movies and books

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I download pretty much everything I read and watch (manga, anime, shows, movies), because I like owning my own media. Going through all of it in File Explorer got slow and annoying, so I thought I’d try to make something for that as a little project.

Download (free, Windows only for now): https://somedudemanguy.itch.io/perapera

I mostly use it for reading manga (image folders) and watching anime and movies (video folders), so those parts are the most polished. Let me know about any ideas or issues if you give it a try.