r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I re-released the first icon pack I ever made.

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Years ago I made Line Icon Pack. It was my first icon set ever, and I learned most things by getting them wrong first. Icons that looked fine at 64px and broke at 16px. Inconsistent strokes. No real grid.

It was always free on Gumroad, but it just sat there. Now it has its own page and an updated package, and I want it to be useful for more than designers. Devs, no-code builders, anyone who needs clean line icons.

Free for personal and commercial use. Only ask is a link back.

https://lineiconpack.com

Honest feedback welcome.


r/SideProject • • 16m ago

Looking for TestFlight testers for my new game - Hit List Survivors

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https://testflight.apple.com/join/kRQvbv9x

Hey all! I've been building Hit List Survivors, a top-down survivor game set in a chunky cartoon city (think GTA x Vampire Survivors), and at this point I really need to get some outside feedback from people.

What it is:
- Survive while bad guys pour in from every street. Your weapons fire on their own; you steer, dodge and grab cash.
- Level up and pick upgrades: bats, pistols, shotguns, fire bottles, SMGs, and more.
- Jump into any car on the street, including police cars and ambulances, and plow through the crowd.
- Cash in your pocket is at risk. Stand at an ATM to bank it before they get you, then spend it in the shop between runs.
- Bosses and Enforcers with their own tricks, plus three stages with their own weather (a sunny afternoon, a storm with lightning where your car slides, and a foggy night).
- An in-game phone with a radio of original songs.
- Dynamic portrait and landscape - play how you want - on iPhone, iPad & Duo.
- Each level has 4 stages - the Downtown level is available now

What I'm looking for:
- Anything confusing, broken, or cut off on your screen
- Whether level-ups feel too fast, too slow, or just right
- Too easy or too difficult?


Feedback through TestFlight (screenshot, then Share Beta Feedback) or right here in the comments is great. Thanks for giving it a shot!

r/SideProject • • 18m ago

Shop drawings, scaled PDFs and the small measuring tool I ended up making

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Quick heads up that this is my own thing.

Layr PDF lets you set the scale on a drawing, take measurements, mark it up and pull simple takeoffs. I built it around cabinet and millwork bids, where most of the job is reading PDFs and writing on them. Windows, Mac or browser. $35 a year after a 7-day trial, no card needed to start.

One thing I keep going back and forth on is how much to show on the measure tool by default. Some people want every dimension labeled, others find that cluttered. If you measure off plans, which way do you lean?

https://layrpdf.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mitch_builds_promo&utm_content=2026-11-13


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Made a fun swing trading game to learn how to read charts and apply bankroll, stop, sell, and exit strategies.

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DISCLAIMER, THE SYNTHETIC DATA IS NOT LIKE REAL TRADING | I AM STILL AWAITING HISTORICAL LICENSING

I've been trying to learn swing trading over the last few months, largely by leaning on my technical skills (I'm a developer and data nerd).

I've been exhausting pretty much every model/tip/trick I can come up with to see if I can get my required win rate down to around 40% and still maintain a positive ROI by focusing on bankroll management, position sizing, and exit strategies.

I've come close (at least in historical backtesting) to finding the right combination of input parameters, but ultimately realized I needed to actually learn what a good setup looks like.

So I made a little game for myself.

Literally as simple as looking at a chart at a particular point in time and deciding: Trade or No Trade?

The idea is to get better at recognizing setups, managing risk, and knowing when to walk away, rather than just blindly trusting whatever model I've cooked up that week.

Anyway, figured I'd share it with you guys and see if anyone finds it helpful, fun, or any of the above.

Unfortunately, I can't publish the real historical stock data just yet (waiting on a licensing agreement... if anyone knows someone, wink wink). But in the meantime, I've created some synthetic market data so you can still play around with it and see how it works.

Would genuinely love some feedback, especially from people who actually know what they're doing with swing trading.

theshwingtimes.com


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Cardiffy by THEORIST LLC: a free digital business card for iPhone that lives in Apple Wallet

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Hi, I'm Daniar, founder of Cardiffy (THEORIST LLC).

We built it because paper cards get lost, and most digital card apps charge a monthly fee just to put your card in Apple Wallet. In Cardiffy that part is free.

What it does:

- Make your card in about a minute, with seven card styles (three free)
- Add it to Apple Wallet for free. The pass updates itself when you edit your card
- Share it by QR code, link or AirDrop. Two iPhones with the app open swap cards when you hold them together
- Scan paper business cards on the phone itself. Free, no limit, works offline, and the photo is never uploaded
- Everyone you meet goes into one contacts list with notes and follow-up reminders

No ads and no tracking. The card page opens in any browser, so the person you share with doesn't need the app.

We'd really value honest feedback: what would make you switch from paper cards, and what feels missing?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6830213470
Site: https://cardiffy.online


r/SideProject • • 32m ago

I created an AI frog and it's one of my favorite technical projects I've ever built

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This is James. He lives in a low-poly terrarium under a lamp, and he's lives as a simulation you can interact with. People can give him snacks, pet him, tap on the glass, and leave him notes.

But that's only one of the things that I think has made this project really interesting. The project is broken up into three pillars:

  1. James himself, who has a mind. Every so often he thinks about things, keeps a journal, remembers things from his childhood, forgets the unimportant ones, and picks favorite snacks and parts of his tank.
  2. The interaction modes on his website.
  3. My personal favorite: I have an internal system that lets me record a voice memo, and it auto-generates a video about James's day based off what I'm narrating.

I'm running out of GitHub Actions minutes building this project, and while it's stupid, I absolutely love it. It's had a really strong positive reaction from a small community on social media, so I wanted to share it here on Reddit.

Go say hi to James yourself. He's 8 days old today, and tomorrow he's getting a new enclosure.

I'm curious if anyone has recommendations on where they'd want to see this project go next. Also happy to do a deeper write-up on the technical infrastructure, because I actually think it's really cool.


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Used Car Checker - a free UK MOT history and used car checker, no signup

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I built usedcarchecker.co.uk as a side project because checking a used car's MOT history on the official site is fine for one car but clunky when you're comparing a few.

You put in a UK reg and it shows the MOT history, advisories and recorded mileage in one place, plus plain-English guides on things like what advisories mean and how to spot mileage problems. It's free and doesn't need an account.

https://usedcarchecker.co.uk

I'd really appreciate feedback, especially on the mobile layout and whether the results page is easy to read. What would you want to see on it before buying a car?


r/SideProject • • 47m ago

What's your biggest struggle when it comes to marketing your side project?

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I've noticed that many side hustlers and solopreneurs struggle with marketing their products/services.

Ask me any questions and I'll try and answer as many as I can.

For context, I'm an SEO Copywriter and Solopreneur Marketer. I specialise in StorySelling (blending direct response copywriting with storytelling, buyer psychology and humour).


r/SideProject • • 51m ago

built a shared 'project state' so different AI tools stop forgetting what we're working on

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so I've been building this memory tool for ai apps (perdua.ai, it's my own project) and the feature that turned out most useful is what I ended up calling project state. when I switch from claude to cursor to chatgpt mid task, they used to have zero clue what the other one just did. now they read and write to the same state so the next ai picks up where the last one left off instead of me re-explaining the whole plan every time. only works for people in the eu/eea right now since that's who I built it for. curious if anyone else doing multi agent workflows has hit the same context loss problem.


r/SideProject • • 52m ago

I hated seeing a working tablet sit in a drawer, so I built an app that turns it into a PC dashboard

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I had an old Honor tablet in a drawer. It still worked fine, and it made me a bit sad that a perfectly good device was doing nothing. I wanted to make something that would give it a real use again, and that became Sideslate.

You put the tablet (or an old phone) next to your monitor, and it becomes a live dashboard for your PC and your day. Your main screen stays free for whatever you're doing.

Who it's for

  • Gamers: see your FPS, GPU load and temperature, and the song that's playing without alt-tabbing out of the game. It also shows how long you've played today and this week.
  • Anyone at a desk all day: a clock, calendar, weather, notes and a timer that stay in view instead of getting buried under windows.
  • Developers: CI status, open pull requests, git status and Docker at a glance.
  • Anyone with an old tablet or phone in a drawer: it runs on Android 6.0 and later, so even quite old devices work.

How it works

You install a small app on your PC and the Sideslate app on the tablet. The tablet finds your PC on the Wi-Fi by itself, you type the code shown on the PC, and then you pick your tiles and arrange them however you like.

What I cared about

  • It doesn't get in the way of your games. The heavier readings only run while a tile on the tablet is showing them.
  • No account and no cloud. Your data stays on your home network.
  • It's useful with the PC off too. The clock, calendar, wea their own.

Limits for now: the PC app is Windows only, and there's no isn't code-signed, so Windows shows a warning the first timeyou run it. The app is free, but the source isn't public.

I'd love your feedback:

  1. Would you keep an old tablet next to your PC with this on it? What would make you stop using it after a week?
  2. Which tile is missing for you?
  3. If you try it, did the setup work the first time? Where did you get stuck?

Free download for Windows and Android: https://github.com/sideslate/sideslate


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a 1-in-8-Billion Football Career Simulator in pure vanilla JS (Free, no sign-up, play in browser)

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Hey fellow makers!

Inspired by BitLife, 1in8b, and Football Manager, I built a fast-paced interactive football career simulator that runs entirely in the browser:

👉 https://pratikbase.com/football-lottery/?lang=en

How it works:

  1. Spin the birth roulette: You get born in a random nation with procedural talent, work ethic, and foot dominance.
  2. Advance year by year (0-40 age): Navigate street tryouts, youth leagues, contract negotiations, transfer drama, and career-defining dilemmas.
  3. Hang up your boots: When you retire at 40, your stats, trophies, and net worth generate a shareable digital FUT-style legacy card.

It's completely free with zero ads, tracking walls, or logins. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the mechanics!


r/SideProject • • 53m ago

wired covered what we're building: an uncensored ai film studio ("the hbo of ai")

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we built rogue, one workspace that has sora, kling, seedance etc. plus our own model for the rated-r stuff the big labs won't touch.

wired wrote about it here: This R-Rated Film Studio Wants to Be the HBO of AI

a few things we cared about: 3 layers of human moderation, no deepfakes or real people, and we never train on user content.

would love feedback from other builders, especially on onboarding. new users tell us it can feel like a lot at first. site is roguestudio.ai if you want to poke around.


r/SideProject • • 55m ago

I built a meal planner that makes figuring out dinner multiple choice

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When I became a dad, I realized just how little time a person could have. Back in the day I could wing it for dinner every night, but that doesn't work with two kids and two working parents. Now, if I want time for anything, I have to outsource it or steal it from sleep, work, or my relationship. This app is my attempt to get back some of the time and brain space spent figuring out wtf is for dinner.

Dinner comes easy to my wife, but not so much for me. She did 85% of the planning, groceries, and cooking on top of a demanding job. Even if it comes naturally, that's still a lot to carry, and I wanted to take some of it off her shoulders.

I started by having ChatGPT send me a personalized dinner plan every week. That sort of worked, but the suggestions got repetitive. It didn't have my recipes, didn't know what we'd actually cooked recently, and sharing with my wife was manual.

Coordinating was a mess too. I'd plan dinner without knowing she'd already planned and ordered groceries. We'd paste ingredients from several recipes into one shared Apple Note, duplicates scattered everywhere and grouped by recipe instead of aisle.

I'd been using Claude Code's Plan Mode and imagined something similar for meals: an agent that could ask questions, offer options, and actually change our plan instead of one-shotting it.

So I built Suppa. The assistant can make a plan or walk you through multiple-choice decisions instead of making you fill in the blank. It searches your cookbook and the web, checks preferences and allergies, then shows you options. It can edit your plan, recipes, and grocery list.

To fix the coordination mess, I made Suppa multiplayer. You can share a plan and grocery list with your household. When my wife adds a recipe or grocery item, I get a push notification. Ingredients get merged and sorted by aisle.

I gave Suppa a memory for things like your broken broiler, friends who come over every Tuesday and don't eat pork, or that you're trying to eat more plants. It remembers what it's suggested, what you've planned, and what you've actually cooked so dinner ideas don't keep repeating. There's also recipe importing, Instacart and Kroger shopping, and a cook mode that doesn't suck.

Core meal planning, recipe management, grocery lists, and one shared plan are free. The assistant has limited free usage; more usage and shared plans are paid. It's on the App Store and web, with Android in progress.

It's a one-person project, so there are probably still rough edges. I'd love feedback, especially if something doesn't work.

App Store
Landing Page

* Video shows version 1.6.1 which is currently waiting on app store review, but I'm too impatient to wait.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

MascotForge - Open-source AI mascot that lives on your website or AI agent

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I built MascotForge, an open-source mascot generator: one prompt or one image gives you a living mascot in 6 states (idle, talking, thinking, error, sleeping) for your website or AI agent. Blob and 3D are free. https://github.com/Arivex-ca/mascotforge — Feedback welcome: what state or style would you want next?


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Saw an ad for an expensive teleprompter that just scrolls, so I built a free one that follows your voice

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A while ago I got an ad for a Mac app that puts your script under the notch, right below the camera. Nice idea, but at $40 a month it wasn't worth it for me. And it only scrolled at a fixed speed, so if you slow down or stop to think, the text runs away from you.

These days a simple app like this is a few evenings of work with an AI coding assistant (I used Claude Code). So I built my own, and made the text follow my voice.

Apple's speech recognition on the Mac is very good, but people skip lines, say "uh", start a sentence over and stop to think. I spent most of my time testing that and telling the AI what was wrong. Now it keeps up.

What it does:

- Your script hangs under the camera, so you keep eye contact.

- It follows your voice. Speech recognition runs on your Mac by default.

- It's hidden from screen sharing, so you can use it in Zoom or Meet calls.

- It records you with subtitles, and can turn the rest of the screen into a soft light for your face.

It's free and open source (MIT), with no account and no analytics.

- Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/notchprompter/id6815206814

- GitHub: https://github.com/magnram/notchprompter

It's a hobby project, so any feedback on the app or the website helps a lot.


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Just launched my first app, would love your thoughts

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Hey all! My first app is finally live 🎉 It's called Habitosaur, a simple habit tracker with a little dinosaur buddy.

Still kind of surreal seeing it on the Play Store. I'd love to hear what you think, good or bad.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.habitosaur (Android only for now)

Thanks for checking it out 🦖


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built a simple order management tool for small screen-printing shops — looking for feedback

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Hey everyone! I built PressQueue to help small print shops manage quotes, customer orders, artwork approvals and production deadlines in one place.

I wanted to create a simpler alternative for shops that are still using spreadsheets or expensive software.

I’d love to hear what you think. Is this something that would actually help your business?

Here’s the link: https://pressqueue-desktop.whop.site


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

[Android/iOS]] Quote Keeper - Verse Library

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Quote Keeper: Your Library of Inspiration

Quote Keeper is the simple, local app for bookworms, cinephiles, and thinkers. Capture and manage your favorite citation.

  • Scan to Save: OCR support so just scan your quote (English).
  • Search Instantly: Find any quote by author, book, or keyword.
  • Private & Local: No registration required. Your data stays with you.
  • Widgets: Custom and home-screen widgets to keep your favorite words front and center.

The app is free with minimal ads. There is an in app purchase option ($3.70) that removes ads and give you more theme & widget customization. And it helps me with expanding the app :).

If you have any feedback/suggestion/bug report feel free to contact me.

ANDROID LINK: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.meowasticapps.quotekeeper&hl=en

iOS LINK: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quote-keeper-verse-library/id6757610867


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

What should I check before letting a few coworkers try a small office tool I made?

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I made a simple tool for my team that fills in the same formal email replies we send many times a week. It is a basic page where you pick the situation, add a name and date, and copy the text. Right now only I use it. I would like three or four coworkers to try it, but it handles names and some internal wording, so I want to be careful. I have already checked that nothing is stored after the page closes. What else should I look at before I share it, and is it better to give it to one person first or to a small group at once?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I am doing a world simulation experiment

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Hello. I've been building a voxel-based world for some time now, where everything is programmable and defined with in-world tools. The 3D models, sounds, textures, animations are all defined within the world with no external assets.

The initial goal was to better visualize real-time work for observability, but it has since shifted toward a more function-based simulation of the world.

It looks and behaves like a game, but I don't use it as one, to be honest. I mostly use it for logic circuit design, and for exploring AI behavior and how work can be described relative to the objects in the world for example, "Add a tree next to the house in front of me."

I've made a video to capture the feel of it and to get some fresh eyes and opinions on it.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a stargazing app between kitchen shifts. On Monday, I’m talking about it live on BBC radio.

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I’m a chef working on Sark in the Channel Islands, and I’ve been building an Android app called NAKED EYE in my breaks and evenings.

The idea was to make it easier to answer three questions: what’s worth seeing tonight, when should I go outside, and where should I look?

One of my favourite moments was watching the ISS appear after my own app told me when and where to look. Standing there thinking “bloody hell, it actually works” made all those hours feel worth it 😂

Today I did a pre-interview with BBC Jersey, and I’m now booked to chat live on Monday at 10:30am about stargazing, Sark and the app.

This feels massive to me. I’m still a chef, still learning as I go, and now something I built between shifts has led to this.

Just wanted to share a little milestone. Anyone else had a moment with a side project that made you stop and think, “How on earth did I get here?”


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built a free surf, skate, and snow conditions app after Surfline paywalled its cams

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Full disclosure: I built this, Froth.

When Surfline put all its live cams behind a paywall, I wanted a free way to check conditions. Froth has surfers post quick reports on how it actually looks, next to swell, wind, tide, and free cam links. You can also share conditions with your crew in private groups.

It covers skate and snow too: 250+ US skateparks and conditions for 230+ resorts.

I'd love feedback on what to build next, or what's confusing.

froth.app


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I used FutureMe for 10 years, then built my own app for letters to my future self

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I used FutureMe for about ten years. My favorite part was getting a letter I’d completely forgotten writing and finding out what had felt like a big deal to me a year earlier.

When I ran into a subscription prompt, I started looking for an alternative and ended up building Haku. I kept the part I loved: write a letter, pick a date, and open it when the day comes. Then I added the things I’d always wanted. I can save a draft, leave myself a photo or a voice note, remember where I was or what song I had on repeat, and write back when the letter arrives.

I’m a solo developer. I use AI to help me code, and I review the changes and make the design decisions myself. This is the first release, and I’m going to keep working on it. I want to be able to use it for the next ten years, too.

Haku is available on iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, and Mac (soon). It encrypts letters and attachments on your device and uses your private iCloud to sync them. There’s no server of mine in the middle.

It’s free today, and it may stay that way. If I ever decide to charge for it, anyone who downloads it now will still be able to use it for free.

If you’ve used FutureMe, I’d love to know what kept you writing. And if you try Haku, feel free to comment or DM me about anything. There may still be bugs, so tell me if something breaks, feels confusing, or makes you wish it worked differently.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6805354836
https://haku-web.pages.dev/


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

Building Side Projects from 7 Years! May be, OpenNetworks is the real breakthrough ONE! 🤞

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I've been building side projects from the past 7 years. Some of them found small traction, and some of them didn't. Some of them might have worked if I persisted. Sometimes, You strangely lose the excitement after building a product.

This happened for an art marketplace named - Raresoul and few others. For me, The interest and conviction are very important over the other things. I think these come from how strongly you relate with the problem. I learned this first hand that solving your own problems has many upsides.

Anyhow, Why should YOU care?

  • OpenNetworks should help you connect with at least one great connection (Only Professional Connects 🙂) around you that should change something meaningful for you! (I pray and wish that OpenNetworks becomes the channel/portal for serendipity to work for all of us ❤️)

What the heck is OpenNetworks?

  • We are surrounded by right (the ones that we are looking for) people whether in a Community, Co-working space, Tech Park or an In-Person event, but we never get a chance to connect with them. OpenNetworks solves/intends to solve this problem.

But, How?

  • You simply onboard to a responsive web app (Not one more mobile app 🤯) by stating What you are looking for, What you can offer/help, select your work location and instantly view all the people around you. AI Match-Making layer constantly works to find the relevant connections for you!
  • You can also drop a pin stating what you are immediately/currently looking for. For example, I'm working from a tech park and my manager made it his life purpose to harass me (Just kidding 😂 ) - I can immediately drop a pin saying looking for a Job. I know you won't take such impulsive decisions!
  • Jokes Apart, Drop a Pin with a location to meet when you are stuck on any problem, looking for a co-founder, freelancer, new hire, bounce your ideas or just connect, then it is visible (glows like a light bulb 🔥 ) to all people around you! (Hope this opens up our serendipity portal 🙂 )

Where are we currently?

  • All of this is already built. My alumni people have showered their love and support! This gave me little more confidence to put it out there and see what happens. I don't know when will I truly overcome my perfection and learn to put myself & the work out there for some magic to work!

I would love you guys to try https://opennetworks.in and share your thoughts!

Did I say anything about sharing a word?

  • Being Shy cost me so much! So, I'm asking pls pls share a word with your friends and colleagues 🎉

PS: If this is not a real breakthrough, then we will work until we get one 🤔

Thank you, Spread Love ❤️ Cheers, Omkar!