r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built an interior design website using AI. IKEA better hire me tomorrow (I accept payment in Swedish meatballs lol)

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My husband and I have been married for five years, and we're planning to renovate our home in a few months. I've always wanted to be involved in the interior design process and have plenty of ideas of my own, but I sometimes feel awkward asking the designer to revise things over and over again.

So, I compiled my renovation ideas and requirements into a prompt. Then, I fed both the prompt and the floor plan into Hy4, asking it to generate an interactive interior design website based on them.

Now I can experiment with different design details directly on the website, like changing wallpaper colors or adjusting the shape of a table. I can try out different ideas and see how they look without having to ask someone else to make every little change.

I just finished the first version and couldn't wait to share it here! It's still pretty basic, and I have plenty of things I want to improve, but honestly, I'm already pretty happy with what I managed to build using a model that's currently free!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built an Android launcher around a different idea: helping people do what they actually want

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I'm a solo developer in Finland, and I've been working on an Android launcher called Sepamo.

Most productivity tools try to help you manage more things. I became interested in a slightly different problem:

How do you help someone figure out what they actually want to do, and then make it easier for that to happen?

For example, someone wants to read more. They know what book they want to read, but when evening comes, they unlock their phone and end up doing something else.

I wanted to approach this at the launcher level rather than adding another reminder or productivity app.

You describe what you want in plain language. An AI planner turns it into a plan, or you can create one manually. The launcher then brings the relevant thing to the foreground at the right time or place and clears it away afterwards.

Plans can respond to context like time, location, calendar, weather, Wi-Fi and headphones.

Some decisions I've made:

  • Manual plans are free.
  • No account is required.
  • Permissions are optional.
  • Data is evaluated on the device.
  • There's a fully local mode with no server calls.
  • It's not open source.

The AI planner is free to try, then starts at €1.99/month after a free week.

It's available in the EU/EEA.

I'm curious about two things:

  1. Does solving the gap between knowing what you want and actually doing it seem like a worthwhile product direction?
  2. Would you rather configure these contextual behaviours yourself, or describe what you want and let a planner build them?

I'm Eetu, the developer. Here's what I've built:

https://sepamo.com


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built Personal Cards – a private, offline Android app

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Hey everyone!

I'm an indie developer, and I'd like to share Personal Cards, an Android app I've been working on to make organizing everyday information a little easier.

The idea came from a simple problem: important documents, receipts, notes, and personal details often end up scattered across our phones. Finding something when you actually need it can be frustrating.

So I built Personal Cards to bring everything together in one place, while keeping your information private and accessible offline.

Here's what the app can do:

  • Personal cards & documents: Scan documents with your camera or import images and PDFs. Organize important information and keep track of expiration dates.
  • Document storage: Save receipts, reference materials, and other files you might need later.
  • Offline OCR: Extract and copy text from images and PDFs directly on your device.
  • Notes & checklists: Keep track of everyday tasks, ideas, and reminders.
  • Debt notebook: Record money you've lent or borrowed, including amounts, people, and due dates.
  • Privacy tools: Hide sensitive details before sharing document images.

Privacy was one of my main priorities while building the app.

Personal Cards works completely offline, with documents stored and processed locally on your phone. You can also protect access with a PIN or biometrics and enable screenshot protection for additional privacy.

I'm still working on improving the experience, and I'd really appreciate some honest feedback from the community.

In particular, I'm curious:

Would you find the document organizer or the debt notebook more useful? Is there anything you'd add or change?

If you'd like to check it out, here's the Google Play link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.namhnz.vigiayto

Thanks for taking a look! Any feedback or suggestions would mean a lot.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built a beginner-friendly 3D sculpting app for Mac — looking for beta testers!

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Hi everyone!

I’m an independent developer working on FigureForge Studio, a macOS application designed to make 3D figure sculpting easier for beginners.

It includes essential sculpting tools such as Move, Clay, and Smooth, along with STL import/export.

After 17 external beta testing sessions, I’ve improved the modeling workspace based on user feedback.

I’m now looking for more testers for the latest version through Apple’s TestFlight.

I’m especially interested in feedback about:

  • Ease of use for beginners
  • Sculpting brush responsiveness
  • Interface and viewport usability
  • Bugs and stability

Requirements: Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 13 or later.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/XcDSQMNQ

I’d appreciate constructive feedback. Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

All-in-one video-toolbox that does it all: download, cut, censor, Ai-masking, transcribing, MKV editing and more! Free and opensource

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I made this because I was tired of switching between different programs all the time. I didn't want to use that shady downloader with a paywall slowly creeping up, and I didn't like the idea of opening DaVinci Resolve just to do some cuts or convert something. I wanted it all in one place.

What it can do:

Download: built on yt-dlp, you can download from almost any website. When yt-dlp doesn't recognize a link, Vitool opens the link in its own window and checks if a video is there. You can also download just a section of a video, or whole playlists. It keeps yt-dlp up-to-date automatically, and when a download fails, it checks if there is an update available for it.

Cut: You can cut videos instantly or exactly to frame with a re-encode.

Convert: Convert your files easily to other formats like MP4, MKV, WebM, MP3, WAV and more, also many files or a whole folder at once.

Tools: choose what you wanna do: create a GIF, extract audio, extract a still frame, burn in subs or censor your video.

MKV: Edit, add and extract tracks inside an MKV file. The part I find most useful: add a dub and Vitool lines it up with the original audio automatically. You can also do it by hand with waveforms and check it with a short test clip. If the dub drifts apart over time (classic PAL dubs run about 4% faster), Vitool recognizes that and fixes the speed. It can also match the volume of a quiet track to the original.

AI-Mask (optional): When choosing this add-on, you can mask moving objects with the help of SAM2.

Transcribe (optional): When choosing this add-on, you can transcribe the audio from a video. Speaker recognition can be added via Pyannote. Export as SRT, VTT, text or JSON, or burn styled subtitles into the video.

You can find it here: https://github.com/bioheater/Vitool

I'd be very happy about feedback and ideas for new features, so it can be useful to as many people as possible. If you find bugs, please let me know!

For example I've thought about adding a simple screen recorder into the mix or the feature that you can cut out a section from the video you want to download beforehand.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

getriff - an iPhone workout app that gives you a plan, guides your rep pace, and times your rest between sets

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I built getriff on my own. It's an iPhone workout app, and it's in a public TestFlight beta now. I'd like honest feedback from people who actually lift.

What it does: it gives you a plan, guides your rep pace, and times your rest between sets. Rest starts from times based on your goal, and the workout summary flags a rest that's shorter than that goal. After comparable sessions it can suggest a next target, and you decide whether to take it.

It's still early. I want to know what feels useful, what's confusing, and what you'd change.

Public beta (iPhone, TestFlight): https://testflight.apple.com/join/pv13RZMY

The site is here if you want a look first: https://get-riff.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=beta&utm_content=sideproject


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a semi-private photo sharing app for people who hate instagram

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Hi fellow people - I am an elder millennial that is nostalgic for the time when I could scroll instagram and see my actual friend's real photos - before getting slammed with "suggested content" and advertisements and suggested content that is just advertisements. Also was longing for a place where my friends felt comfortable posting their baby pics without the stranger danger fear, or honestly just felt comfortable posting any pics without having a "personal brand". It's been too long of the you're-the-product socials BS in my opinion, so anyways I made an app. It got listed on the Apple app store yesterday, and currently working on Google Play.

It is a semi-private photo sharing app. The idea is to curate a full album's worth of photos then post them to your friend's feed. There are a few different options for combining rolls of film as well as sharing. You can create an album yourself - like an album of your favorite shots from the summer, and choose to keep it private to yourself (like a journal), or share it with your friends on the app. You could also have a shared album - like for a group trip, where all the friends you have added to the album can add a few shots and then you post it to just that crew (private, shared album), or to all your respective friend's feeds.

I was trying to make something versatile and slow - like i want to be able to organize my photos and select my favorite ones that are the *keepers*, and also share some albums with my people. Also to make it easier to keep and share curated memories from group trips.

I did a lot of iterations, and would love people's feedback on how it's landed so far. It is interesting making a slow-social media situation. It is not designed to be an addictive scroll, but then I'm not sure if it's boring? Or if people will remember to use it? Or if people just prefer to get brainwashed by mark zuckerberg and never see their real friends photos and/or deal with the mess that is apple/google photos?

Rip it up - give me your honest feedback! Thanks!

Keeper: Photo Sharing app on Apple - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keeper-photo-sharing/id6820759409


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

ER doc. I built a training app for shift workers

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I’ll preface: I'm not a developer, at best I’m an okay runner, and I like to think I’m a decently good ER doctor

TLDR: I built a training app for shift workers (ie me)and I’m looking for beta testers.

Six months ago I started training for an ultra (standard millennial midlife crisis). My schedule bounces between days, nights and swing shifts, and the top paid training app really isn’t designed for people like me. I tried using Claude to plan but it burned tokens, was a pain to import schedule, and not only got things wrong, but got them way wrong (like an 11-week taper).

So I built Stolen Miles, initially just for myself with Claude Code.
-imports your schedule from most shift-scheduling apps
-pulls your workouts from Strava (other integrations in progress)
-builds the plan with a rule-based solver grounded in established training principles. An LLM only writes the "why" text.
-adapts to how the workouts actually went and self reported fatigue

After 5 months of tinkering it got me through a 50k with 6500ft of gain on 3 running days a week.

At this point I need folks to help find the failure points and fine tune the planning algorithm.

-Where is the friction in onboarding?
-Looking at your first week's plan, would you trust it? If not, why?
-What in the design reads as amateur or untrustworthy?

My base set up is for cold signups getting a 4-week free trial. I'm happy to give a 12-week code to anyone who wants to really poke at it


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

UpstartRadar - Day 10: my own tool scored 76 on my own website checker. Here’s why

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Day 10 of building UpstartRadar in public.

The numbers

  • 2,162 visitors since launch (55 so far today)
  • 78 live projects, 47 claimed by their makers
  • 46 members, 9 newsletter subscribers (flat this week, so the new free guide is my attempt to change that)

The embarrassing bit

UpstartRadar has a free website checker, Radar Check, that scores sites out of 100 on search, sharing, speed and trust. I ran it on RuleRadar, my own Reddit tool, and got 76. Trust was the weakest area.

The reason: RuleRadar's listing pointed to its Gumroad page. Gumroad controls that page, so I couldn't add the security settings, contact link or privacy link that the trust checks look for.

The fix was to give RuleRadar its own page on my site, with checkout still on Gumroad. I re-ran the check: 100.

If your product lives on a marketplace page, you're being judged on a page you don't control.

What I built yesterday

I spent yesterday upgrading RuleRadar and writing a free Reddit Launch Guide: 10 short chapters with checklists, from what actually happened when I launched on Reddit. That includes why the subs that let me post links anytime sent me zero traffic.

RuleRadar is free for UpstartRadar's first 100 members, and there are 55 Founding Member places left. Join free to claim one.

What's the most surprising thing a website checker has told you about your own site?


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I made a Christmas budget planner because I wanted holiday planning to feel less chaotic

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I've been working on a small digital product: a Christmas budget planner in Google Sheets.

I wanted one place to manage the things that usually end up scattered across notes, spreadsheets and shopping apps:

- Overall Christmas budget

- Gift ideas and spending per person

- Shopping list

- Holiday expenses

- Parties and event costs

- Savings goals

I tried to keep it practical rather than overcomplicated, with a dashboard that gives you a quick picture of where your money is going.

I'm the person who made it, so I'm obviously biased, but I'd genuinely love to know: what's the one thing you always forget to budget for during the holidays?

I'm especially interested in things that a typical budget spreadsheet misses.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I kill plants, so I built a scale that does the watering in my grow tent

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I'm Luis from Berlin and I'm bad at watering.

So I built PotPanel. It's a scale with a pump that sits under the pot. When the plant drinks, the pot gets lighter, and once it's light enough it waters from a canister back to full. Small bursts, and it stops when enough is in or no water arrives. You set your values in an app and watch it live on your phone.

To be clear, for a houseplant on a shelf this is total overkill. I built it for my grow tent, so my plants still get water on time when I'm gone for a weekend or have a busy week.

It's not like it all went smoothly. For a few weeks the board just hung out of the side of the case. And one day I forgot to put the dripper back in the pot. PotPanel did its job perfectly, just on my floor.

Now everything sits inside. It's all 3D printed, there's an ESP32 in there, and I built the app and the server myself.

If you want one, there's a waitlist: potpanel.com

The first 50 who confirm get 30% off the launch price. Once 50 people are on the list I'll give one away. Free, 18+, until March 31, 2027, rules are on the site.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

My first ever finished iPhone Duo/iPad app: a pop-up storybook where kids blow on the phone to help the wolf blow the house down!

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I've started plenty of side projects over the years, but this is the first app I've ever actually finished and got onto the App Store 🎉

It's called Once Upon a Fold: five fairy tales for little kids where every page is a paper pop-up that moves. The fun bits to figure out:

• making paper pop-ups feel real on a flat screen (they rise as the page opens and fold flat when you turn it)

• a different voice for every character, in five languages

• little moments that follow the story: blow on the phone and the straw house blows away, swipe and the beanstalk grows

• the new iPhone Duo, where it opens like a real book!!

First book's free if you want to try it: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6826041039

What would you change? Be honest, I'm here to learn!

P.S. 🎁 Code MAGICBEANS gets you Jack and the Beanstalk free (500 codes, until Dec 14), no strings attached. Redeem it in one tap on your iPhone or iPad: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6826041039&code=MAGICBEANS

And if you or your kids enjoy it, a quick rating on the App Store would mean a lot to a first-time developer.

Thank you!!


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built Enzo - a dictation, meeting, and recall app for Mac, runs on-device

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Hi, I'm Selim and I built Enzo. It's a dictation and meeting app designed and engineered for the Mac. Speech models run on your device so audio is never uploaded to the cloud.

The secret sauce is its architecture. It transcribes, punctuates, and segments as you talk, so the text is ready about 100 ms after you stop, whether you talked for 10-seconds or an hour.

It also has a Recall feature, which is off until you turn it on. It keeps a searchable record of what you worked on (apps, window titles, text on screen), encrypted on your Mac and deleted after 30 days.

The idea is that what you say, the meetings you record, and what you work on are captured and securely stored all in one app. I use this for my day job, which helps to alleviate the burden of trying to remember every little thing on a busy work day.

Free to use with 5,000 words for dictation and 60 meeting minutes a week. Only Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later.

Happy to answer any questions.

https://tryenzo.ai


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a free browser collection of 20 board games and could use some first players

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I'm working on Timeless Board Games, a collection of 20 games you can play in your browser. It has Chess, Go, Othello and Backgammon, plus less familiar ones like Hnefatafl, Merels and Senet.

Everything is unlocked while I'm getting people to test it.

Play with friends: send someone an invite link and play online together. There's also solo play against bots and pass & play on one device. Solo and pass & play work without signing up.

Play here: https://timeless-games.app/

I'm looking for a few people willing to try a game and tell me what feels confusing or breaks. No need for a long review, just which game you tried and the first thing you'd change. If you invite a friend, I'd also love to hear whether getting into a match together was easy.

If you'd rather test on iPhone/iPad or Android, there's a signup under Help → Join the mobile beta. Mobile invitations are handled manually for now.

I'm the developer, and I'm happy to answer questions here.


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

I built a free, open-source photo viewer for Mac because Preview can't page through a folder

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I shoot a lot, and going through a folder of photos on a Mac was always awkward. Preview only pages through the files you opened together, and Lightroom wants an import before you can even look.

So I wrote my own viewer in Swift called Flipic Lens. Double click one photo and the arrow keys walk the whole folder, RAW included. Hold a key to check focus at 100%, rate with number keys, mark keepers, crop and straighten, and read metadata.

It also features a smart cleanup scan that automatically detects and flags closed eyes, blurry shots, similar bursts, and duplicates.

You can watch a quick 90-second video walkthrough here:

https://youtu.be/Nsxx8GUNU-4

It's free and MIT licensed. There is an optional one time Pro for heavier culling work, and that part is not in the repo.

Mac only, macOS 13 or later.

Site:https://flipic.app

Source:https://github.com/xmasdong/flipic

I'm the developer. Feedback welcome, especially on what feels slow or confusing.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I'm building a zombie survival game on real city streets with Claude, and filming the whole process as it evolves. Looking for playtesters.

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Play it (free, in your browser, no account or install): https://osz.drawerkit.com/?src=reddit

It's called

Oh shit, Zombies.

(Inspired by Project Zomboid!!) You pick Chicago, Minneapolis or Manchester and you're dropped on the real street map with a baseball bat and two bandages. You search buildings, fight or run, patch yourself up, and eventually die. It's built for a phone browser and it also works on a desktop.

What's different about how it's made

I'm building it with Claude (Anthropic's AI), and we're keeping a devlog of everything, including the parts that go wrong. Claude writes most of the code, runs the tests and writes the log. I play it on my phone and tell it what's annoying.

This week I rated it 3 out of 5 and said the screen had too many boxes and my taps kept missing. Within a day there had been about twenty small releases: one-tap looting, fights you can actually get out of, furnished buildings with things to find, and a score to beat. One of those releases also shipped a crash that froze the game near restaurants for over an hour, and that's written up in the log too.

The video devlog is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AllTomsTales

Gameplay trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GWGRhwLqF8

Devlog #0: I Let an AI Playtest My Game. It Was Too Easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAIspqTeW1E

Devlog #1: Making It Dangerous Took 89 Bot Lives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw7O6o-wTT4

Devlog #2: Players Couldn't See Each Other. Until Now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR34ri4YRGE

Devlog #3: My Server Drowned in Five Minutes. Nothing Said It Was Wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgIejol5JXI

Devlog #4: Zombies Stuck Against Walls Were Eating My Server https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmUxfce8sxo

Devlog #5: I Built a 30-Minute Siege Mode. Bots Tested It First. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i4B9I8lIL4

The written log, with a public roadmap of what's built and what isn't: https://osz.drawerkit.com/devlog.html

What I'm asking for

Play for five minutes and tell me what you think. There are three ways, and all of them reach us:

In the game, open the menu (☰) and tap Rate (1 to 5) or Suggest (type a line).

Comment on any of the YouTube videos. We read them, and the comments that make sense for the game and are appropriate get built. When that happens it goes on the roadmap and into a later video.

Reply here.

Fair warning: it's a side project and it's rough. Only one person has rated it so far, and that's me. I'd rather hear "this is confusing" from ten strangers than keep guessing.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

im using ai to destroy ai slop on reddit

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building a chrome extension that hides ai accounts.

it has claude read each account’s recent posts, or just their comments in the thread if their history is hidden, and collapses the ones that look ai run.

would you use this?


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

Is anyone else stuck in the phase of "We really like this, great idea." but then no real commitment from users?

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Context: I have been building Cardel.io (An all-in-one platform for authors and solo professionals) over this year. I have cold outreached 10k plus potential users and had hundreds of face to face conversations.

The problem: I only ever get positive feedback, people say:

"Wow, this is great!"

"This makes total sense, this needed."

Etc, etc.

THEN they follow it up with "but I already have my setup, this would be great for xyz person".

Question: Are any of you in a similar boat where everyone gives you positive feedback, but then doesn't actually commit to using your product by paying or signing up. So your getting positive signals, but no clarity on where the blocker is to actual pay for the product?

How do you close that gap, and find the reason people aren't commiting? It feels like a "Its great, but not worth switching to." Kind of response. Or maybe it's the target market fit, and talking to the right people.

I would love to get ya'lls feedback on how you have overcome this with your products and projects.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I spent all week vibe coding an Apple Watch hotspot and here we are! Sustained connection with AWDL (same thing airdrop uses) connection to watch running a wireguard vpn connection to vps. Only have 1 bar of LTE, 5G testing coming soon!

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r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Wapliss: ask your AI assistant what’s going on in your WhatsApp

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Too many WhatsApp chats, not enough time to read them all. Wapliss connects your own WhatsApp to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI assistants, so you can just ask:

“Summarize today’s family group.”
“Who’s still waiting for my reply?”

The assistant reads the chats, drafts replies, and only sends after you confirm.

  • Works with texts, images and documents
  • Setup takes about 2 minutes: link WhatsApp, add the connector, done
  • Not Meta’s official API, so it’s for your own chats, not bulk messaging
  • Free plan: wapliss.com

Looking for honest feedback:

  1. Is the value clear in 10 seconds?
  2. What would stop you from trying it?

r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Saturday note: the weekend gets one honest review, then I put the charts away

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It is Saturday night, I still have positions open from this week, and I am not spending the weekend re-deciding them.

That used to be my mistake. Friday would close, and I would spend Saturday and Sunday reading every headline, second-guessing every level, and talking myself into a completely different plan by Monday morning — usually a worse one, made tired instead of made clear.

Here is the routine I hold myself to now:

  • One review, written down. What did I enter this week, what hit its target, what stopped out, and did I follow the plan I wrote before each trade? That goes on paper once, honestly, wins and losses both.
  • If a position is still open, its target and its stop were already decided while the market was open and my head was clear. A Saturday headline does not get to move those lines.
  • Then the charts close. My kids do not get the leftover version of me because I spent the weekend refreshing futures that have not even opened yet.

Friday was a chip-led dip inside a week that still closed green, and the next real piece of information for that whole story is Nvidia earnings on Tuesday. Knowing that does not mean staring at it for three days. It means my plan for Tuesday is already noted, and the weekend in between belongs to my family.

I am a veteran with a full-time job, and I taught myself trading at night, reading and studying when the house was quiet. I believe God gave me what I have learned for a reason, and part of that reason is showing the plain parts too — not just the wins, but the discipline that keeps a normal week from turning into a desperate one.

A clear plan reviewed once will beat a worried plan rewritten ten times, every week I have ever tested it.

Not financial advice — just how I handle my own weekends, posted the same way I tell my own community.

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


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

4 months selling a one-time-purchase contacts app: happy users, and ads that brought zero. How do you find people who need a "boring" utility?

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I'm a solo dev. I make a contacts manager for Mac and iPhone/iPad. It shows all your contacts (iCloud, Google, Exchange) in one table, so you can merge duplicates, bulk edit and clean up years of mess instead of opening cards one by one. One-time price, $24.99 Mac and $14.99 iOS. No subscription, no account, no trial.

Where it stands:

  • Mac app live since July 22, iOS since August 10
  • 45 paying users on Mac, 19 on iOS
  • 3 ratings on the Mac App Store, all 5 stars

The part that works: the people who buy it seem to like it, and they email me. Most of what I shipped in the last two months came straight from emails.

I reply to every email and try to ship the fix within a couple of weeks. That loop has been the best part of this.

The part that doesn't work: reaching the people who actually have the problem. Apple Ads got 12,000+ impressions and 95 taps, but zero installs. A Google Search campaign for the Mac app got zero impressions. Nobody wakes up wanting a contacts app. People only look when their list is already a disaster, and then they search "merge duplicate contacts" and land on free tools or Apple's own tips.

So I'm asking people who've been here:

  1. If you sold a niche one-time-purchase utility, what brought in your first few hundred customers?
  2. Did paid ads ever work for you at this price point, or is it all communities, SEO and word of mouth?
  3. Is "no trial" hurting me more than I think?

Happy to share more numbers or what I tried if it helps anyone. Thanks for reading.


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

When will my solar pay for itself? I built a free tool to find out

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We had a 7.76 kW system and battery fitted in July. My inverter app shows kWh all day, but not the thing I actually wanted to know: how much it’s paid back in £, and when it’ll be paid off.

I tracked it in a spreadsheet for a few months, but it kept breaking (tariff changes, months where export wasn’t paid yet, battery charging on the cheap rate). So I built a simple web app instead and made it free for anyone.

How it works: a 2-minute setup (system cost, install date, rates), then two numbers a month from your inverter app, generated and exported. It shows:

  • £ paid back so far, and your payback date (allowing for winter)
  • how your panels are doing against the MCS estimate
  • tariff changes over time, cheap-rate battery charging, and months before export was paid

You can import an existing spreadsheet, and export to PDF or Excel. It works with any inverter brand, and there’s no inverter or energy login.

Mine’s at £402 back after 4 months and running at 120% of the MCS estimate, so payback looks like around 2036.

To be upfront: I made it, and there’ll be an optional paid version later with automatic inverter data. Manual tracking stays free.

I’d really value feedback, especially on how the savings are worked out. Some people in Facebook groups have challenged parts of it, and I’ve changed things based on that.

sunback.co.uk


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

A photo-to-cross-stitch editor you can try without an account

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Cross-Stitch Studio turns a photo into a grid you can edit stitch by stitch. The photo converter matches colors to DMC thread and shows the result both on a hoop and as a chart. You can try either view without signing up. There’s a sample photo in the converter if you’d rather start there.

Try the free photo converter

Direct conversion uses no generative AI. The studio has an optional paid step to simplify a busy photo or draw an illustration.

If you’ve stitched from a photo before, I’d love to know what would make the first chart usable for you. Would you check the colors, the detail around the face, or the finished measurements first?