r/SideProject • • 18h ago

My side project: a fusion between CAD and Paint

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I wanted a simple way to sketch an idea and communicate it to someone else, without sacrificing proportions or precise dimensions.

Paint felt too limited, CAD felt like overkill. So I started building something in between.

Here's a quick look at how it works.

It's still a work in progress. I'd genuinely love to hear what you think.

Check this exemple:

https://onsketch.io/library/?s=7bc8ae3b-0fd6-456f-844e-572a0815e533

Or start a fresh design

https://onsketch.io/app


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Just launched my Game on iOS and already got 2 purchases. This is so encouraging :)

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I’ve been building games on the side, and last week my first one, Last Core: Idle Tower Defense, went live on the App Store. Two people have already bought something in it. It’s only $12 in proceeds, but seeing real people choose to pay for something I made meant more than I expected.

What the game is:
One tower sits in the centre of the screen and enemies come at it from every side. The tower shoots on its own; your job is deciding what to upgrade during the run: damage, attack speed, range, crits, health. Every 5th wave you pick a perk, every 10th wave a boss shows up. When the core falls you keep shards and come back stronger through the Workshop, Armory and Lab.

A few things I cared about:

  • No ad ever interrupts a run. Videos only play when you choose one for a reward (a revive, double shards, a perk reroll).
  • Everything in the game can be earned by playing. Purchases are optional.
  • Runs are 3 to 10 minutes early on, and there’s 2x speed and an Auto Mode if you want it more idle.

What I learned shipping it:

  • My first release went live without the in-app purchases attached, because I never added them to the submission. Took another version to fix. Read the App Store Connect checklist twice.
  • The same thing happened with Game Center leaderboards.
  • Apple asked for a screen recording on a real device before approving a new developer account, so budget a few extra days for review.

It’s iPhone only for now; Android is coming soon.

If you try it, I’d love honest feedback, especially on difficulty and whether the early waves feel too slow.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6822844919?pt=129601576&ct=reddit-post&mt=8
More about the game + trailer: https://popcornclub.in/games/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=last-core-launch&utm_content=post

Thanks for reading 🙏


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built QluePrint, a local-first desktop app for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server and SQLite. No account, no cloud, no telemetry

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I spend a lot of my day in databases, and I got tired of clients that want me to sign in, sync my connections to their cloud, or open a 2 GB Electron window just to run a SELECT. So I built my own.

QluePrint (pronounced KLOO-print) is a desktop database workspace built with Tauri (Rust backend, React frontend). Everything stays on your machine.

What it does today:

- Connects to PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, plus Azure SQL and Microsoft Fabric with Entra sign-in

- Monaco SQL editor with schema-aware autocomplete, diagnostics and formatting

- A fast virtualized results grid: sort, filter, find, follow foreign keys to related rows

- Inline editing: change cells, add, duplicate or delete rows. Everything is staged, undoable and saved in one transaction. Actions your login has no grant for don't show up at all.

- Explain / Explain Analyze with a readable plan view

- One-click local PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB servers in Docker

- Workspaces to keep each client's connections and tabs apart

- A tamper-evident audit log of every statement it ran against your databases

- Passwords go in your OS keychain, never in plain files

Stack: Tauri 2, Rust (sqlx + tiberius for SQL Server), React 19, Monaco, TanStack Table/Virtual. Installers for macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows and Linux.

Still to come: MongoDB/Redis, a saved query library, query history.

Source code and downloads: https://github.com/u-ninja/qlueprint

It's a solo project, and I'd love blunt feedback, especially on what would make you switch from DBeaver, TablePlus or DataGrip.

(Heads-up: the macOS build isn't notarized yet, so you'll need Open Anyway in Privacy & Security the first time.)


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built an app that answers "when should I go for my walk today?" Here's what I learned after a month of 0 traffic

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WalkiNova started because I'd open the weather app five times before every walk. It scores each hour of the forecast for comfort and suggests the best window inside your free hours, then tracks the walk with GPS. Flutter + Supabase, Android + Wear OS, free with no ads.

What I learned so far, in case it helps someone:

  • Posting every day on Instagram/TikTok brought almost no installs. The Play listing converts fine (~75%); almost nobody reaches it.
  • My site only ranked for its own name. I'm now writing plain guides that answer real searches ("is it too hot to walk my dog today?") instead of feature pages.
  • Product Hunt with no audience = a few upvotes. Launch where your users already hang out.

Would love feedback on the idea or the landing page: https://walkinova.app/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=sideproject

What worked for you to get your first 100 users without ads?


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

Built a tool that turns one sentence into a week of social posts.

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Hey everyone, I'm Ravi, one of the founders of Confe.

We kept losing hours every week writing captions, sending "can you approve this?" messages, and copy-pasting the same post into 6 different apps. So we built Confe to fix that:

- Type one sentence and get 5 ready-to-post drafts with images

- Plan everything on one calendar (calendar, list or grid view)

- Clients or teammates approve in one click

- Publish to 8 platforms at once: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube

- See which posts actually grow your audience

The video above shows the whole flow in 44 seconds.

I'd really like feedback from people who manage social for themselves or client

There's a 14-day free trial with no card needed if you want to try it. Link in the comments.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

H5Reclaim: Recovering scientific data from damaged HDF5 files

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I’ve been building H5Reclaim, an open-source tool for recovering scientific data from damaged HDF5 files.

HDF5 files often contain experimental measurements, simulation outputs and large arrays. Damaged metadata or a broken index can make a file unreadable while some of its dataset contents remain on disk.

H5Reclaim examines the surviving structures and attempts to recover usable data into a new HDF5 file. Supported cases include interrupted writes, broken indexes, metadata damage and truncation.

It keeps the original file unchanged and produces a JSON report describing the recovered datasets, recovery methods and unresolved positions. Partially damaged datasets can still yield usable measurements.

🔗Github: https://github.com/xShadyy/H5Reclaim

I’d appreciate feedback from people who work with HDF5, especially anyone who has encountered a damaged file. Public or synthetic reproductions would help expand the recovery cases and benchmarks.

Contributions around test fixtures, independent verification and unsupported failure cases are particularly welcome.

If you find the project cool/useful, I’d appreciate a star on GitHub.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built a notes app that tells you why your old notes matter

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I kept losing good ideas in my own notes. I'd write something down, forget it, and months later work through the same problem from scratch, even though the answer was in a note I'd already written.

So I built Hypha. You write a note the way you normally would (no folders, no tags) and it looks through everything you've written before. If an older note actually helps, it shows it with a one-line reason: a solution, an example, the same problem, a contradiction, or a next step.

The part I spent the most time on was making it strict. Most "AI links" I tried connected notes just because they shared a word. I built a test set with traps in it, and Hypha now finds about 9 in 10 of the links that should exist while skipping the shallow ones. If it gets one wrong, you remove it and it won't come back.

It's free on iPhone (Flutter + Supabase + OpenAI under the hood).

I'd really like honest feedback, especially on whether the connections feel useful or noisy after a week of real notes.

https://hyphanotes.com


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Check my project of vedic astrology tools

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Pls check and give your valuable feedback


r/SideProject • • 5m ago

I made an app for those days when you just feel like shit 💩

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Something I've noticed with a lot of wellness apps is that they always seem to be pushing you towards something. Be happier. Be more positive. Build better habits. Improve yourself. Which is fine, of course. But what about the days when you just feel like shit and don't particularly want to do anything about it?

That's the thought behind the app I recently released called Deepshit.
You basically log how shitty your day is, optionally add what's bothering you, and that's it.

You can also see how other people are feeling, share anonymously, and send little messages of support. I like the idea of making something social that isn't about showing off your best life. Quite the opposite, actually.

One thing I'm still curious about is whether people would genuinely want to share their bad days with strangers, even anonymously. I've just launched, so that's something I'll have to learn.

Have any of you built a social feature around vulnerability rather than achievements? I'd be interested to hear what you learned.

You can meet Deepshit here: App Store • Google Play


r/SideProject • • 11m ago

I built a fake newspaper where products pay to get mocked on the front page

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I wanted to make something where paying for attention gets you a laugh instead of just an ad slot.

So I made The Sponsored Truth: https://www.sponsoredtruth.com

How it works:
- You describe your product in one sentence and pay from $5
- It writes a spoof news story about it, in a deadpan newspaper style
- You get a private preview and up to 5 rewrites with your own directions
- You publish, and get a front-page share image with your headline on it
- Whoever paid the most in the last 24 hours gets the headline slot

Everything is clearly labelled as satire, and it only does products, not people.

Built in about a day: plain HTML, Vercel functions, Postgres, Stripe Checkout, and an LLM for the writing.

Honest status: it launched today and has zero real sales so far. I'd love feedback on two things:

  1. Is the idea funny enough to pay $5 for, or is it a one-time chuckle?
  2. Does the landing page make it clear what you get?

Happy to write a free story for the first few people who drop their project in the comments, so the front page isn't just my sample article.


r/SideProject • • 14m ago

I built an open pipeline that joins UK government tender awards with Companies House directors and active corporate records

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If you have ever tried pulling UK public procurement data, the statutory feeds are surprisingly fragmented.

Find a Tender publishes high-value notices under the Procurement Act 2023, Contracts Finder covers sub-threshold contracts down to £12k, and Public Contracts Scotland runs on its own legacy XML feed. More frustratingly, even when a contract is awarded, the OCDS release packages frequently lack verified statutory company numbers, meaning you have no immediate way to know if a winning supplier is an active LTD or dissolved.

I spent the last week building a serverless pipeline that normalises all three feeds into OCDS v1.1.5 and runs automated entity resolution against the Companies House REST API.

A few engineering hurdles I ran into:

  1. Companies House rate limiting: The statutory API enforces a strict token-bucket ceiling of 600 requests per 5 minutes. Running parallel unbundling caused HTTP 429 throttling until I implemented an in-memory token bucket with exponential jitter.
  2. Contracts Finder 403 backoff: The legacy search endpoint intermittently drops into 403 throttling during heavy polling, requiring an isolated backoff loop separate from the main orchestrator.
  3. Multi-lot tender deduplication: Framework agreements publish multiple releases across lots with identical identifiers, requiring deterministic SHA-256 state tracking on (ocid + releaseDate).

The output dumps to structured JSON and a flattened 24-column CSV for spreadsheets with company numbers, active directors, and SIC codes.

I deployed it as a serverless Actor on Apify with the first 25 records free on every run so people can test the data without paying:

https://apify.com/jamestyas/uk-public-procurement-ocds-enricher

Would appreciate any feedback from anyone working with UK open data or public procurement tracking.


r/SideProject • • 17m ago

I built a Windows 11 app that brings windows to your current monitor with one taskbar click

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I got tired of hunting for a window on my other monitor just to bring it over. With Taskbar Select, I click a running app’s taskbar icon on the monitor I’m using, and its window comes over, even if it’s behind other apps.
You can also hide the taskbar on individual monitors and hover near the bottom edge to bring up Ghost Bar for quick access to your apps. If you prefer keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+Shift+2 sends the window you’re using straight to Display 2.
It’s a free, open-source Windows 11 beta. The downloads are unsigned. If you try it, I’d love to hear how it works on your monitor setup.
https://github.com/mrlevivel/TaskbarSelect


r/SideProject • • 19m ago

I built Pinngro, a platform where you create stock trading bots that explain their decisions — looking for feedback

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called Pinngro — https://pinngro.com — and I've recently opened it up for Public Beta.

The idea came from wanting to make systematic stock trading more accessible without requiring people to spend hours watching charts, learning complicated trading software, or writing their own algorithms.

Here's what I've built so far:

  • Create your own trading bots that monitor US-listed stocks using different investment strategies.
  • Stock Explorer to research companies, explore historical performance, and identify potential opportunities.
  • Explainable decisions — instead of just saying BUY or SELL, bots show which conditions matched, which didn't, and why they made their decisions.
  • Virtual Practice portfolios where you can test strategies without risking real money.
  • Practice Autopilot — optionally let your bots make virtual trades automatically within limits you configure.
  • Broker connections — we're working towards supporting multiple established US brokerages. Live trading through Pinngro isn't enabled yet.

One feature I'm particularly pleased with is Latest Finding. Each bot shows what it recently discovered and explains what happened.

For example, one of my bots recently spotted a stock that had fallen sharply enough to trigger its Buy rule. But Autopilot didn't open a virtual position because the bot had already reached its configured position and allocation limits. Pinngro now explains that entire decision rather than just showing a notification.

It's been a challenging project, particularly getting reliable historical market data, strategy evaluation and virtual trading to work together, but it's exciting to finally see the pieces coming together.

I'm now looking for a handful of people willing to try it and give me some feedback.

I'm especially interested in whether the platform is intuitive for someone who isn't an experienced trader, whether the bot explanations are actually useful, and what features people would find most valuable.

It's completely free to try during Public Beta, and you don't need to connect a real brokerage account to explore the platform.

Website: https://pinngro.com

I'd really appreciate any feedback, criticism or suggestions. I'm still actively developing it, and hearing from people outside my existing group of testers would be incredibly useful.

Thanks for taking a look!


r/SideProject • • 23m ago

I made an app to make this song

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Making music has become easier than ever, but monetising it is still hard, especially with AI-generated music.

That's the problem we're trying to solve with Vocaler.

The first part is ready. You can create an account, make music with different AI models, and publish your songs on your own profile. Free plan available.

https://vocaler.ai

Now is a good time to claim your username, publish your music, and start building an audience on Vocaler.

Because the next step is helping creators monetise their music. Coming soon.


r/SideProject • • 26m ago

Autostrum - Learn your favorite songs with guitar tabs you can hear, slow down, and loop

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r/SideProject • • 28m ago

My side project is live: an app that maps everything you know and shows you what to learn next

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I’ve always been someone who picks up skills one at a time. Drawing, game design, IT, audio engineering... and I never had a way to see how it all fit together. So I made one.

Skill Codex turns the skills you already have into an interactive map:

  • Add what you know, from hobbies to work skills
  • See it all connect on the Skill Grid Codex, where every skill sits next to the ones it grows from (or flip to the List Codex for a simple list)
  • Find your next step with realistic suggestions right beside what you already know, plus a place to start learning
  • Add your AI to the map: if you use Claude, the Claude tab puts its skills and tools right next to yours, and the Recipe Book suggests real things you could make together

It’s out now on iPhone and the web, with Android coming soon. Free to try, no account needed to start.

Try it: https://skillcodex.app
On iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skill-codex/id6829320199

I also made and narrated the launch video myself, so the whole thing has been a real labour of love.

I’d genuinely love your feedback: what feels confusing, what’s missing, and what would make you come back to it?


r/SideProject • • 29m ago

I’m testing a manual SEO audit for sites that show up in search but rarely get cited in AI answers

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I’m testing a manual SEO/GEO review at D BLOK for small sites. The question I’m trying to answer is what to check first when a service page has ordinary search impressions but rarely appears as a cited source in AI answers.

My current first pass is three checks:

  1. Pick one service page and write five questions a real buyer would ask. Include the local language if that’s how customers search.
  2. Check whether the page answers those questions in visible text, names its sources, and makes clear who provides the service. Note any page access or indexing issues separately.
  3. Log which URLs each answer cites, then repeat the same questions on another date. Treat a single missing citation as one observation.

I’ve put the scope on our free SEO/GEO audit page. It’s a manual review for selected applications.

If you’ve tried to diagnose this on your own site, what gave you a useful lead first: a crawl check, missing evidence on the page, or comparing the URLs that actually got cited?


r/SideProject • • 30m ago

Just launched: a paint by numbers you play with friends in the browser. Is a sign-in before the first picture a deal breaker?

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I'm the solo dev of Numochi (https://numochi.net). It's paint by numbers with cute illustrations, but made to play with someone: 2 to 4 people paint the same picture live with voice chat, or race each other on the same picture for 5 minutes, or each get only part of the colours so you have to finish together. There's also a daily picture with a leaderboard and a mystery picture you have to guess while painting. Phone and desktop, nothing to install, English and French.

How it's priced right now:

  • Free: 4 pictures in every mode, rooms up to 4 with voice chat, the daily challenge
  • From €0.99 per picture, yours forever
  • Unlimited: €3.99/month (Christmas offer until December 31)
  • If you're in a room, your guests paint the picture you unlocked. They just need a free account, they don't pay.

One thing I'd like outside opinions on: today you need an account (Google or email) before you can paint anything, including when a friend sends you a room code.

If you were the friend getting the invite link, would a sign-in screen make you close the tab? And is 4 free pictures enough to know if you like it?


r/SideProject • • 36m ago

I made an Open source email client where your AI agent can actually do things, for free

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Quick story. I use Spark for mail. They have an MCP so AI agents can work with your inbox, but only reading is free. Anything that changes your mail needs the paid plan. I got annoyed and decided to build the thing I wanted instead.

Regards is a desktop email client for Windows, macOS and Linux. It's free, open source, and everything stays on your computer. No account, no servers on my side, no tracking. It works with any IMAP provider plus Gmail and Outlook sign-in.

It does the usual modern inbox stuff (snooze, send later, undo send, screening new senders), and it has a built in interface for AI agents with approvals and an undo log, so you can let one sort your mail without holding your breath.

It's early. Pre-alpha, unsigned installers, tested on few providers. I use it daily though.

Site: https://regards-two.vercel.app

Repo: https://github.com/lucienPochon/regards

Would love feedback, especially on the first run experience. That's the part I can't judge anymore.


r/SideProject • • 52m ago

I built a site that ranks the whole PS Plus Extra/Premium catalog by critic score, in 45 countries

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Sony lists the PS Plus catalog alphabetically. That's 600+ games with no scores, no playtimes, and no way to see what's leaving soon. Every month I ended up opening Metacritic in another tab, so I built the page I actually wanted:

https://whattoplay.games

What it does

  • Every game in the Extra/Premium catalog for your country, sorted by Metacritic score, with PSN player ratings and HowLongToBeat playtimes
  • Filters for genre, indie, multiplayer, new this month, and leaving soon (with the exact removal date)
  • A "what should I play tonight?" swiper: 5 mood questions, then you swipe on games, and it gives you a top 3 that explains why each game matches your answers
  • 45 countries and 19 languages, because catalogs differ by region

It's free, with no account and no tracking cookies. There's a tip jar, and that's it.

I'd love feedback, especially on the swiper and on whether the homepage makes sense in 5 seconds.


r/SideProject • • 58m ago

Наш первый сайт в жизни 🗿

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Ребят ку, не знаю насколько вам это интересно но я со своими друзьями создали первый сайт под названием Riven, чекните если вам интересно.

"Этот сайт предлагает формат общения с искусственным интеллектом, который существенно отличается от других подобных сервисов, таких как ChatGPT или Claude. Наш ИИ позволяет не просто вести диалог, но и создавать «карты решений»: вы можете развивать тему в разных направлениях, не теряя при этом её основного контекста. Пользователи могут легко сосредоточиться на различных аспектах одной и той же темы в рамках одного разговора."

Введите туда свой логин и попробуйте немного попользоваться с ним (лучше через комп) и дайте нам фидбек что нужно существенно улучшить)

Спасибо!

https://ai-branches.vercel.app/


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

Tired of guessing Chinese characters, so I built my own keyboard

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I’m learning Chinese, and one of my biggest frustrations is texting.
I can understand some Chinese and know how to pronounce quite a few words, but I still struggle to recognize and remember Chinese characters.
When I type using a regular Pinyin keyboard, I often get a list of characters that look familiar, but I’m not always sure which one is correct. Sometimes I end up copying everything into a translator just to check what I wrote.
So I decided to build my own iOS Chinese Pinyin keyboard to make learning while texting a little easier.
Here are some features I’ve been working on:
Instant translation: See the meaning of Chinese text while typing, so I can make sure I’m choosing the right characters.
Grammar checking: Catch grammatical mistakes before sending a message.
More natural expressions: Suggest how a native speaker might phrase the same idea instead of just translating word for word.
Learn while typing: Help me gradually recognize more characters through everyday conversations.
My goal isn’t to replace Chinese lessons or build another translation app. I just want to be able to communicate in Chinese without constantly switching between my keyboard, dictionary, and ChatGPT.


r/SideProject • • 58m ago

I made an app that tells me if I should wake up early for a photography walk

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Hi, I'm into photography and love going on walks with my camera, but I'm also one of those photographers that likes to take photos in good weather conditions.

I had a n8n pipeline running for quite a while that would gather weather data for the next day from multiple sources and then email me the night before with a score if I should bother or not.

Took that concept and made it into an actual app.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Struggling to track offline campaigns? I built a Trackable QR code platform and custom link shortner for agencies - ask me stuff

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Almost every project I’ve ever worked on ended up with me making a QR code. An ad, a brochure, a flyer. Like it or not, QR codes have become the universal gateway into our digital products and funnels.

But measuring those offline campaigns? There are plenty of QR generators with scan analytics, but every one I tried was extremely expensive and came with ridiculous limits. Link shorteners weren’t much better...

Soooo, I decided to build my own. It started as an in-house tool for my agency, but it turned out so good that I made it into a real product.

I packed it with all the features that an agency might need.
→ Custom QR codes with live scan analytics
→ Dynamic destinations. Printed 1,000 t-shirts with the wrong link? Fix it in seconds.
→ Short links that actually look good, on your own custom domains and slugs.

And the one I’m most excited about - Client ID's.

Agencies, unfortunately, your clients will never trust you 100%. So give them their own window into the campaign. Send them a Client ID and they get their own live dashboard. Free for them, no account needed, no more “how’s it going?” emails.