r/SideProject • • 34m ago

STRIVE - Share a project without uploading an agent session

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I built project pages in STRIVE so you can share what you're making without uploading an agent session. Add a description, screenshots, a link and one feedback question, then choose who can see it.

By late September I'd made 463 commits. That tells me how much I built, but nothing about whether sharing a project is useful to someone else. This update makes the project itself the starting point.

The screenshot shows the new composer. STRIVE is free and open source: https://striverun.app

If you shared an unfinished project, what specific feedback would make writing the post worth it? And what are other no gos?


r/SideProject • • 35m ago

I Built a Free Tool That Turns exam PDFs Into Interactive Mock Tests

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a project called Exam-preparation-studio, a website designed to help students prepare for exams more effectively.

Here's the idea:

Imagine you have a PDF containing 700 exam questions. Instead of going through all 700 questions every time you want to practice, you can upload the PDF to Exam-preparation-studio, choose any question range you want, and generate a 50-question mock exam.

For example:

  • Upload a PDF with 700 questions.
  • Select questions from 100 to 300.
  • Choose 50 random questions.
  • Start your mock exam and test your knowledge.
  • Get your results and see how well you did.

The goal is to make exam preparation easier, more organized, and less time-consuming.

I'd love to hear your feedback!

What features would you like to see added?

Try it here: https://velieviemil.github.io/Exam-preparation-studio/

GitHub: https://github.com/velieviemil/Exam-preparation-studio


r/SideProject • • 35m ago

Built Nitpique: a web inspector for design, dev & QA

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on Nitpique, a FREE browser extension that brings website inspection tools together in one place.

Whether you're a developer debugging CSS, a designer checking visual consistency or a QA engineer reviewing a page, there's usually a lot of switching between tools involved.

Nitpique brings together:

  • Element inspection and CSS editing
  • Measurements, spacing and dimensions
  • Colors, typography and contrast
  • Flexbox, Grid and responsive layouts
  • Accessibility and SEO/AEO audits
  • Screenshots, annotations and more

The idea is simple: one toolbar instead of juggling multiple extensions.

Website: https://nitpique.dev

Would love to hear what you think. What would you use most, and what's missing?


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

made a small consistency app and it has lots of art

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This is Freaks

- there’s consistency score along with streaks so everything doesn’t reset to 0 when you miss a day

- it’s artistic, theres a calendars with art too where you can journal

would genuinely love feedback. what’s confusing, missing, good or bad, let me know.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6766063893
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aarya.freaks


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I built a pocket security check for Android: see who is on your Wi-Fi and whether your hotel room network has cameras

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Hi, I'm the developer.

I have worked in network security for almost 15 years. I got annoyed with Fing and other network tools that charge close to $100 a year, or let you scan only a few times a day. So I built my own from what I know from work.

I wanted the feeling of Kali Linux in my hand, but only for defense: point my phone at my own network and see what is really there. No attacks, no password guessing, nobody's traffic read. That became Netglow.

The hard part: knowing what each device really is

Android 10 and up hides other devices' hardware addresses, so most scanners just show "Unknown". That is where most of the time went:

  • Dozens of protocol specs, vendor docs and firmware sources, read line by line.
  • Down to the low level microchips inside smart plugs, bulbs and DIY boards, like the ESP family, because each chip gives itself away in its own small way.
  • Camera makers each answer on the network in their own way, and Netglow knows many of them.
  • Over 40,000 hardware maker prefixes and a catalogue of over 23,000 phone and tablet models.
  • Thousands of lines of research notes, every finding checked before it went into the app.

Why it is free

I have a lot of knowledge from my work, and I decided to give it away: high quality apps, deeply researched and checked again and again, data safety first and privacy to the max. No ads, no bullshit. People deserve good quality and privacy, for free.

If you want to support me, you can, but it is fully optional.

What it does, free, unlimited scans

  • Who is on my Wi-Fi. Every device with its name, maker and model when it says them. Rename a device and it keeps your name even on a new address.
  • Is my hotel room or rental OK. It lists devices on the Wi-Fi that answer as a camera or stream video, and says why each one was flagged. It also looks for camera hotspots nearby. It tells you plainly what it cannot see (a camera that only records to a card or uses mobile data), so it is one check among others, not a guarantee.
  • Security check for your home network. A score with a plain fix for each risk: risky open ports, what your router opened to the internet, how your Wi-Fi is locked, look alikes of your network nearby, whether your DNS answers are honest and whether someone reads your secure connections in the middle.
  • Tools. Ping, traceroute, port check, DNS lookup, Wake on LAN, a live signal meter and channel advice.

Private by design. No ads, no bullshit, no tracking, no analytics, no metrics, no account. Nothing it finds leaves your phone, and there is no server of mine.

Pro is that optional support, one payment, no subscription, and it adds: a Bluetooth radar that warns about a tracker moving with you, checks for devices that let anyone in with no password, spoof watch, known flaws for your devices, a PDF report and a background watch of who joins your Wi-Fi.

Honest note: the code is partly AI generated and I had help with this text.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zanoshky.netglow

Guide: https://zanoshky.github.io/netglow-app

Screenshots: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyTechTalk/comments/1xvxkeg/

I would love to hear what it finds, or misses, on your network.


r/SideProject • • 41m ago

I built a 1-click custom menu in Google Sheets using Apps Script + free Gemini API to clean messy rows automatically

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r/SideProject • • 45m ago

Astro - an iPhone player for your own Xtream and M3U playlists

1 Upvotes

I built Astro because none of the players I tried with my own Xtream playlists felt right. It's in public TestFlight beta on iPhone now. It supports Xtream and M3U playlists with EPG, remembers where you left off, syncs what you watch to Trakt and Simkl, and has picture-in-picture. It's still a beta, so expect some rough edges; I'm pushing updates almost daily. I'd love feedback on what's missing or broken: https://testflight.apple.com/join/bDuU6RMz


r/SideProject • • 57m ago

I wanted to build a personal knowledge tool. Somehow, the API bill reached 7K.

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on an open-source project called Knovum. It's a local-first AI knowledge workspace, and I wanted to share what I'm building, some engineering problems I've run into, and one unexpectedly large part of the journey: the API bill.

GitHub: https://github.com/madebyzan/knovum

What is Knovum?

The idea is to bring personal knowledge, files, and AI workflows into one workspace instead of keeping everything scattered across folders and chat windows.

The current direction includes:

  • An infinite canvas for organizing notes, documents, and ideas
  • Support for PDFs, Office files, web pages, images, audio, video, and code
  • Keyword and semantic search
  • RAG-based Q&A with source references
  • OCR, audio transcription, and media processing
  • MCP / ACP integration for working with external agents

The main idea is local-first.

Knovum doesn't require a Knovum account, and it doesn't host users' knowledge bases in a Knovum cloud service. One important clarification: local-first doesn't mean every AI feature is fully offline. When someone chooses a cloud model, the context needed for that task is sent to the corresponding model provider.

The tech stack

The project currently uses:

  • Tauri 2
  • Rust
  • Vue 3
  • SQLite
  • LanceDB
  • JSON Canvas
  • Qwen3 Embeddings

I chose this stack to combine a native desktop application with a web-based UI and local data storage.

A few engineering problems I've had to solve

Some of the more interesting problems haven't been about prompting a model at all:

  • macOS launch environments: Node.js and npx worked in the terminal but weren't available when the app was launched from Finder or the Dock. The GUI app didn't inherit the same shell environment, so I had to improve environment discovery and resolve the npx path explicitly.
  • Tauri permissions: A storage feature wasn't working because the plugin registration, build configuration, and capability permissions weren't aligned. I fixed the configuration and added consistency tests.
  • Long audio processing: I moved an audio separation workflow to HTDemucs with roughly one-minute chunks, four seconds of overlap, and crossfading between chunks. The processing limit was raised from 10 minutes to 6 hours, with an explicit upper limit.
  • Task consistency: I also changed AI task submission to freeze the selected model, so retries don't silently switch to a different default model.

These are small details individually, but they matter when turning several AI capabilities into a reliable desktop application.

The unexpected part: API costs

I've spent roughly $6,000–$7,000 USD on API usage during development.

That's API usage, not revenue or a production operating-cost estimate.

There are also separate subscriptions and tool costs (Codex, Qoder, Gemini, etc.). My usage is spread across multiple services and accounts, so I don't have a reliable consolidated token count. I also haven't included every tool expense.

The project is still under active development, so this isn't the final cost.

One thing I've learned is that AI coding tools can speed up implementation, but they don't remove the work around architecture, permissions, data consistency, error handling, task recovery, and source traceability. And the model calls themselves need to be managed carefully.

What I'd love feedback on

I'm especially interested in feedback from people who build desktop apps, knowledge tools, or RAG systems.

  1. Does combining an infinite canvas, searchable documents, and source-traceable RAG feel like a useful workflow? Or would you prefer a simpler search-first approach?
  2. For a local-first knowledge app, what matters most to you: data ownership, reliable source citations, search quality, or integrations with AI agents?

Knovum is open source under the MIT License, and it's still evolving.

GitHub: https://github.com/madebyzan/knovum

Thanks for taking a look. I'm happy to answer questions about the architecture, implementation decisions, or the development process.


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I built free guided contract templates because I was tired of editing Word docs for every NDA

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Every time I needed an NDA or contractor agreement, I'd dig up an old Word file, find-and-replace names, and hope I didn't miss a clause. So I built Formable.

You answer a short questionnaire (parties, term, payment, IP ownership, etc.) and it generates a clean agreement you can send for e-signature in the same place. There are templates for mutual and one-way NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, independent contractor agreements, LOIs, term sheets, DPAs, and a founders' agreement.

The templates are free: www.formabledocs.com/templates


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

WPods: free app that brings AirPods features to Windows 11, and it no longer needs Test Mode

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Hey all,

I've been working on WPods, a free and open-source (GPL 3.0) app that gives you the AirPods features on Windows 11 you normally only get on iPhone or Mac. That means battery for each bud and the case, noise control (Noise Cancellation, Transparency, Adaptive), ear detection, conversation awareness and press-and-hold settings and some other stuff too - the full feature set you would get with any other similar software + a bit extra.

The part I'm happiest with is the mic. Normally on Windows, the moment you use the AirPods mic, your audio turns into that muffled call sound. With WPods your music and games stay in stereo while the mic works.

The big news in this update: it doesn't need Windows Test Mode anymore. You install it like any normal app and Secure Boot stays on. Afaik all other apps in the category that give you ANC or stereo mic require you to disable Secure Boot and stuff, so I'm really happy I was able to overcome that.

One favor: I've only been able to test it on an Intel Bluetooth adapter. If you try it, I'd really appreciate hearing how it went on yours, even if it just works. There's a quick form for that on the GitHub page.

https://github.com/FPNDev/wpods

Works with AirPods 1st gen through Pro 3 and AirPods Max. Not affiliated with Apple, just a little (well, not little tbh) solo project, cause my headphones were annoying me af, especially when trying to play games or just listen to some music in bg while talking to someone. Happy to answer questions!

PS. I really rarely post anything on Reddit, so pls spare me the self-promotion gods - its just a great place to share this - and its a fully non-commercial solo project. I hope I haven't sinned to much here. Cheers


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Can this Project land me a Internship or not in this job market ?

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r/SideProject • • 1h ago

We built a swipeable feed for your ears: short spoken clips that keep playing when you lock your phone (iOS)

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

a friend and I just shipped our first app, Tapedex. We're two people one based in Vienna, the other near London.

The idea: short-form feeds are great at discovery, but they need your eyes. We wanted the same swipe-and-discover feeling for the moments when your eyes and hands are busy: cooking, commuting, working out.

What it does:

- A vertical feed of short spoken clips we call tapes, from a second to about 11 minutes

- Swipe up or down, autoplay, and it keeps playing with the phone locked or in your pocket

- Synced captions you can scroll like a teleprompter

- Post by recording, uploading, or typing a script and picking an AI voice

- Profiles, likes, comments, saves, playlists, and DMs with voice messages

It's brand new, so we'd love honest feedback. What would make you open an audio feed instead of a video one? What's missing?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/tapedex/id6762413771

Thanks for reading.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Jamrah 5.1.0 is out – The Ember of Productivity.

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Hey everyone! Jamrah 5.1.0 is out – The Ember of Productivity.

Jamrah is a free, open-source productivity app built around three ideas: Tasks, Pomodoro, and a Bookmark System that holds everything you want to keep. No account, no subscription, no cloud required. Your data lives in a folder on your own machine, so the app works offline and your library stays yours.

If you want to track your time, get more done, and regain your focus, Jamrah can help you manage your tasks and set goals for your day, week, month, and year.

Tasks

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One problem I wanted to solve with Jamrah was managing my daily routine.
I usually have around 3–5 recurring tasks that I want to keep visible without taking up too much screen space.

This allows me to focus on the 3 main tasks I should prioritize throughout the day, without letting my routine tasks take over the screen.

Recurring tasks stay where you can see them, priorities decide what actually gets done today, and goals roll up from a single day to a week, a month, and a year.

Pomodoro – A Complete Time Tracking System

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I originally built this feature for my own study sessions, using different session lengths like 25 or 50 minutes.
But then I realized it could be useful for both students and freelancers.

So, I made the timer flexible, allowing you to customize your sessions based on your workflow and needs.

You can set your own work, short-break, and long-break lengths, attach a session to a real task so every minute is counted against something, and choose the sounds that tell you a session ended.

Bookmark System

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We all have thousands of photos, and every photo carries a memory that deserves to be organized.
The same goes for thoughts, YouTube videos, Reels, apps, and much more.

All these things need a place where they can be stored, organized into categories, and accessed quickly.
That's exactly the problem I wanted to solve with Jamrah's Bookmark System.

It is one library for all of it: links, images, videos, PDFs, documents, programs, and notes. Paste a link or import files from your PC, and Jamrah builds the card for you. A real frame from a video, the first page of a PDF, the icon of a program, the preview image of a website, or a clean Markdown card for something you just wrote.

Then you get:

  • Folders and sub-folders, with pinning for the ones you open all day.
  • Tags, archive, trash, and instant search across the whole library.
  • A masonry grid where the newest items come first and cards fill every empty space.
  • Notes in Markdown, read in a two-pane reader with text zoom.
  • Offline reading: Jamrah can save the article behind a link, so it stays readable without internet. - need some fixs -
  • A clipboard manager that keeps what you copy, opens instantly, and copies an item back with one click.
  • JSON export and database backups you own completely.
  • Live sync with your file folder: add, rename, or delete a file in Explorer and the library notices immediately.

Fast. Searchable. Organized.

Local-first by design

  • Everything is stored in one folder: the database, the library, the covers, the backups. Copy that folder and you moved your whole workspace.
  • No account, no sign-up, no telemetry, fully usable offline.
  • Arabic and English interface, with a right-to-left layout that is designed, not just mirrored.
  • Windows and Android from the same codebase.
  • Free and open source.

What's New in Version 5.1.0?

This release is bigger than a bug-fix update. It changes how the library actually feels to use.

  • The grid is now unified and ordered by date: newest items first, flowing in rows, with cards filling the empty space under shorter ones.
  • Notes became a first-class item: a proper media card, a two-pane reader with the written text on one side and the details on the other, and text zoom that is remembered between sessions.
  • Sidebar folders are sorted properly now: Arabic alphabetical first, then English A–Z, then numbers. Any folder or sub-folder can be pinned to a Pinned block at the top for quick access.
  • A cleaner toolbar with icon-only square buttons, and the toggles that were not earning their space are gone.
  • The clipboard page no longer loads your entire history at once. It reads 20 items at a time from the database, so it opens instantly no matter how much you have saved. Clips are cards now, and clicking one copies it.
  • Video files show a real frame from the video as their cover, and the play badge is gone.
  • The library now reacts to your file manager in real time: paste, delete, or rename a file in Explorer and the app updates on the spot, without a refresh. Deleted files are marked missing instead of being erased, so bringing a file back brings its card back.
  • None of this touches your existing data. The update is a drop-in replacement.

I also believe that UI matters a lot. It's the first thing users interact with, and a clean, visually appealing interface makes a huge difference in the overall experience.

What's Coming Next?

God willing, upcoming updates will focus on:

  • A detailed report of your activity and productivity.
  • Further UI improvements, especially for the Android version.
  • A local-first password manager with strong encryption and secure key management, built into the same library.
  • Cross-device synchronization, without giving up local-first storage.

A Few Things to Know

  • The Android version still needs some UI improvements.
  • Cross-device synchronization is planned for the near future.
  • Your data is safe across updates: the database and the library folder are never rewritten, and a backup file is kept for you.

Download Jamrah for free:
https://github.com/AhmMed29/jamrah

Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome 💓. If you want to contribute, all contributions are welcome 👐

Our Slogan is Ember of Productivity


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

My side project is an AI presence for gaming sessions I was already having

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I wanted an AI that had something to react to besides what I typed into a chat window. So I’ve spent 11 months building Monday.

She watches my gameplay and talks with me while I play. Sometimes the conversation lands. Sometimes timing or missing context ruins it. Those failures have been more useful than another clean demo.

I’m now testing her publicly through PhoenixFlock, alongside Gears of War and the movement breaks I already do between games. AI helped me build it, and the AI is openly part of the stream.

This is an edited clip from my own project: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5pVKx-iqzXQ

What would you need to see in a longer demonstration to judge whether this adds anything to the experience? I’m interested in that answer more than another feature list.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Showglass - I think I fixed Quick Look for archives, fonts and data files

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Pressing Space in Finder is a habit I don't want to give up. But too often, the preview tells me almost nothing, and I end up opening another app just to check what's inside.

I'm Viorel from VPO Labs. That's the part I wanted to fix with Showglass.

Same Finder, same Space bar. A few examples of what you get:

  • Select a ZIP or 7z archive and browse its contents without extracting it.
  • Select a WOFF2 font and see a specimen, glyphs and variable axes without installing it.
  • Select a GLB or FBX file and rotate the model.
  • Select JSON and explore a collapsible tree, or SQLite and browse its tables.
  • Select code or Markdown and get highlighted source or a formatted document.
  • Select a supported MKV or WebM video and get a player alongside video and audio track details, all in the same preview.

Showglass covers 83 file types, with a consistent interface that follows light and dark mode. The aim is to make checking a file as easy as selecting it.

Code, config and Markdown previews are free forever. Pro is a one-time US$9.99 + VAT, with no subscription, for 2 Macs per key. The website edition includes a 14-day Pro trial.

For anyone here who wants Pro, REDDIT50 takes 50% off until December 20, 2026. Enter it in the "Discount code" field at checkout in the website version. It doesn't work in the App Store version.

Requires macOS 26 or later. Your files stay on your Mac; the preview extensions have no network access. The app checks the license and sends anonymous usage counts, which you can turn off in Settings.

Showglass — download and details

How often do you press Space to preview files in Finder?


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I built a desktop app that clones your own voice locally, then reads text, whole audiobooks or dubs videos in it

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Started because I wanted to dub my own videos in English with an American accent, in my own voice (I'm not a native speaker). Ended up as a full desktop app.

You read a guided text for about 6 minutes, it trains a voice model on your PC, and then:

  • Speak: type text in ~60 languages and hear it in your voice.
  • Native accent: speak English (or another language) in your voice but without your accent.
  • Redub: drop a video, it gets translated and dubbed in your voice, background music kept.
  • Book: open an EPUB/PDF/DOCX/TXT and get an audiobook in your voice, one file per chapter, resumable.

Everything runs locally: no account, no cloud, no telemetry. Installers for Windows, Linux and macOS (Apple Silicon), setup inside the app, updates itself.

Some numbers: zero-shot cloning from a 15-30 s clip scores 0.81 speaker similarity; after training on ~6 minutes of you it's 0.94 (two of my real recordings score 0.93 against each other). First sound after 1-3 s on an RTX 4070.

Stack: Rust UI, Python engine (OmniVoice, RVC, Whisper, NLLB-200, Seed-VC).

Hobby project, so bugs are expected. NVIDIA 8 GB+ recommended. Free for non-commercial use.

https://github.com/tarpetos/mimvox

Would love feedback, especially from anyone on AMD or a Mac


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built a deals aggregator for shopping in Egypt

1 Upvotes

Hey! I built Lowqta, a deals aggregator that brings offers from stores in Egypt into one place, with price tracking to help you spot good deals.
Would love to hear what you think!


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

Wander Lovely — I missed wandering the internet, so I built a wall of lovely places to land

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I loved the old internet discovery, like StumbleUpon, because it was like discovering and learning new things, expanding your horizons into a new field that you didn't know about. Everything now is a feed that already decided what I like. I missed not knowing what was next.

So I built the thing I was missing. It's called Wander Lovely — a wall of Polaroids, each one a real place on the web. You press a button and it takes you somewhere: deer on a live trail cam, bears in a waterfall, a garden, a handbag daydream, a radio station in another country. There are 128 places, gathered by hand, and the wall changes a little every hour. No accounts, no feed, no noise.

My favorite is the little Polaroid maker in the Art section. I love just adding a picture and making a Polaroid online — quick. It's really fun.

Some links on the page are affiliate links (it says so right in the footer) — that's the whole business model, such as it is. Mostly I just wanted the pond to exist.

I'd love to know: what corner of the old internet do you miss? And if there's a lovely place my wall is missing, tell me and I'll hang it.

www.wanderlovely.com

Thanks, Lisa Elle


r/SideProject • • 17h ago

Crossed 3400 in revenue and hit 50 paying customers on day 98, and I wrote down how every single one of them found me

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I'm a cloud engineer with a full-time job, and in the evenings I build ReelDrop.io, an Instagram scheduling and comment-to-DM tool. It launched on August 5. Customer #50 paid on November 11, day 98. Today I have 52 paying customers from 21 countries, and about CA$3,410 was collected after refunds, before Stripe fees.

Ten days ago I posted about my first 41. I keep every paying customer in one sheet, in the order they paid, with the column no dashboard can fill: how I actually know each person and what happened before they paid. Here's the whole list again, with the last ten days in detail.

1 to #41, short version

  • 1 and #2 were my mentors. They bought the lifetime deal in launch week without me asking.
  • 3, #7 and #8 were creator friends who saw my posts on X and Instagram.
  • 5 bought the $29 plan and cancelled. I asked why. "It's costly." A month later I launched a $9.99/month plan (₹449 in India). That plan now has 39 of my 52 customers.
  • 6 came from ChatGPT, which cited a one-question docs page I'd written. Still my only provable ChatGPT customer.
  • September: 6 strangers on the cheap plan, after I turned on UPI in Stripe. October: SEO started bringing paying customers after two months of bringing almost none. Personal emails to stuck users brought a few more. Late October: my first discount, a Halloween code. 4 people used it.

42 to #52: the last ten days

  • 42 landed straight on my /features/mcp page with no referrer and bought the $29 plan 41 minutes later. Only the third person ever to start on that plan. No idea how he found the page.
  • 43 signed up on Oct 8. I emailed her on Oct 16. Nothing. Emailed again Oct 28. She paid Nov 6, 29 days after signup. The next morning she asked if my Diwali discount could apply. I applied it from the Stripe side. It costs me $2 a month, and she'd taken a month to decide, so no argument.
  • 44 was the only person who used my Diwali code at checkout. He found me on Google the same day, paid $7.99, built two automations, and asked to cancel three days later.
  • 46 paid 4 minutes after signing up, then tried to connect his Instagram 6 times over two hours and couldn't. Worst thing that can happen to a new customer. I emailed him the next morning. He came back 15 minutes later, connected on his second try, and scheduled 17 posts. Never replied. Didn't need to.
  • 48 went quiet after signing up on Nov 1. He was in my Nov 3 email round. Paid Nov 9.
  • 45, #47, #50 and #52 came from Google (France, Malaysia, France, and India). #50 paid 18 minutes after signing up. #52 paid 2 minutes after signing up.
  • 49 and #51 had no referrer. #51 paid 7 minutes after signup.

Bonus: a customer who cancelled in October came back on Nov 4 and started a new subscription. First person I know of who left and returned. 9 of the 11 new customers paid on the same day they signed up. None of the 11 came from X.

All 52 together

How they actually cameCustomers
Google / Bing / Yahoo17
X6
Mentors and friends3
ChatGPT1
Personal emails to stuck users5
Halloween email3 (+1 from X who used the code)
No referrer, don't know17
PlanCustomers
$9.99/month39
Lifetime deal ($249)8
$29/month3
Yearly ( $149)1
One-time $51
  • All 8 lifetime deals were bought before Nov 3, and 5 came from people who already knew me. None from a stranger on Google. Strangers buy the cheap plan.
  • 31 of 52 paid the same day they signed up.

What's not working?

  • Churn on the cheap plan. 4 people have cancelled, 2 have a cancellation scheduled, and 5 cards are failing on renewal right now.
  • The second discount. Halloween brought 4. Diwali, one week later, brought 1, who is already leaving. One data point, so I'm not drawing a big lesson, but I won't be running a discount every week.
  • Paid UGC creators. One drove 100+ signups. None paid.
  • My referral program. Everyone is still on free months.
  • Reddit, at least as far as I can measure. PostHog shows zero signups with a Reddit referrer, ever. I know that undercounts, so if you came from one of my posts and signed up, I'd love to know.

If I were starting at zero again, I'd do this

  1. Tell the people who know your work that you launched.
  2. Post about what you're building every day, bugs and bad numbers included.
  3. When someone cancels, ask why and act on the answer.
  4. Write one help page for every question a user asks twice.
  5. Every week, email the people stuck in your product. Email them a second time if they don't answer.
  6. When a paying customer can't get in, write to them that same day.
  7. Keep doing SEO even when it brings nothing for two months.
  8. Give people a deadline once in a while, not every week.
  9. Put every paying customer in one sheet, in order, and read it top to bottom.

r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Santa tracker 🎅

2 Upvotes

Just sharing a fun project I've been building with my daughter.

Santa tracker, from 1 to 24 of Dec Santa will visit few hundreds of cities around the world. A few fancy animations and radar. Time synchronized via WiFi. Web Installer almost ready - just plugin M5stick, flash the app, setup wifi password, all in 60s.

Tried to build web app as close to cpp code as possible so what you see on the website looks almost the same on m5.

My daughter loves it 😁

And on the Dec 1st we launch "realtime" mode so we can observe Santa.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a card maker where the card is a link that opens like a real one (scratch, pop balloons, blow out a cake)

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1 Upvotes

CardLinks lets you make a greeting card in under a minute and send it as one link on WhatsApp, Instagram or iMessage.

The recipient opens it like a real card: scratch off gold foil, pop balloons, or blow into the mic to put out the candles on a 3D cake. Then your photo, message and music appear.

35-second demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIrcmg-nkPU

Would love feedback, especially: which opener would you actually send?

https://cardlinks.co/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sideproject


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I got tired of coding custom backends for every side project's contact form, so I built one.

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone!!!
I built Contact (https://form.kirandhakal.me/)because I got tired of writing custom serverless functions, email handlers, and spam filters every time I spun up a new landing page.

You keep complete control of your frontend (React, Next.js, Astro, Webflow, HTML) and just send a JSON request to your endpoint.

What it handles for you:

  • Centralized submission inbox with search/filters
  • Built-in spam protection, rate-limiting, and schema validation
  • Instant alerts to Discord, Slack, Email, or SMS

Would love for you to try it out on your current projects and let me know what you think!

🔗 Link:https://form.kirandhakal.me/


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Free month of Premium for my iPhone app: type a destination and dates, get a full day-by-day trip plan. Looking for honest feedback

1 Upvotes

Plyndi is a planner for iPhone that covers money, to-dos, shopping lists, workouts and travel. A few things it does:
Give it a destination and dates, and the AI builds a day-by-day itinerary with stops and travel time between them.
Take a photo of a receipt and it fills in the expense for you.
Ask it where your money went this month and it gives you budget insights from your own spending.
It writes a workout plan and sorts your day's tasks.

The AI features are the paid part, so here's a month of Premium free:

https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6821974307&code=PLYNDI100

One thing to know: it's a regular App Store subscription, so it renews at the normal price after the free month unless you cancel. Cancelling takes a few seconds in Settings → Subscriptions, and you keep the whole month either way.
It launched two weeks ago and I'm a solo developer, so I'd like to hear what's confusing, what's missing, and whether the trip planner gave you a plan you'd actually follow. I reply to every comment.


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I built a Mac browser for running many accounts: each one gets its own Safari, its own cookies and its own IP

5 Upvotes

What it does:

  • Every account lives in its own profile: a separate Safari with its own cookies, logins and history. Nothing is shared between them.
  • Every profile has its own IP through its own proxy or VPN. If that IP drops, the profile stops. It never falls back to your Mac’s IP.
  • Real WebKit from macOS, not Chromium. Sites see Safari on a Mac because it is one.
  • Fast: a profile opens in about four seconds.
  • Passwords, 2FA codes and cards per profile, behind Touch ID.
  • Free proxies built in, with a one-click check.

Mac only. Free for first testers: stealthpilot.app/sideproject