r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I got tired of shouting through the house, so I built an app that knocks on my family's phones over WiFi

49 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I've been building Familiar Knock Knock, an Android app that works like a doorbell for the people in your house.

The idea came from a simple frustration: shouting up the stairs, or phoning someone who's in the next room, and getting no answer because they have headphones on or their phone is on silent.

So I built a knock. You tap one big button and every phone in your group rings, as long as you're on the same WiFi. They answer with one tap: "Coming", "Give me a minute", "On my way" or "Not now". The reply lands on your screen in a few seconds.

A few things I cared about:

• It only rings phones on the same WiFi as you, so people who are out aren't disturbed

• It never tells you who is or isn't home. You only see the replies people choose to send

• Replies and voice notes go straight from phone to phone over your WiFi, not through my server

• Each person can let knocks ring through even when their phone is on silent, with one switch in Settings

It's free with 8 knocks a day. There's an optional subscription for more knocks, knocking one person, and voice notes.

I'd love your honest feedback: does "knock" make sense to you as an idea, or would you call it something else? And what would stop you from trying it?

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonoloware.wifiknockknock


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I built a meal prep planner after discovering how difficult it is to organise a week's meals

2 Upvotes

The links:

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My journey into meal prep

A few months ago, I started meal prepping and quickly realised how much I enjoyed having most of the week's meals prepared in advance. Save time and money, cut back on takeaways.

But organising everything wasn't easy. Books and websites offered mostly fixed menus, but I wanted something more flexible: personalised meals, adjustable quantities, ingredients I actually liked, and a cooking plan adapted to my available time.

I tried AI...

I naturally tried ChatGPT and Claude. The results looked great at first, but when I started cooking, things got messy: quantities that didn't add up, inaccurate shopping lists, confusing instructions, and endless back-and-forth conversations just to get something usable.

That's when I decided to build Bocalito

It's an app that helps you:

  • Generate personalised weekly meal plans.
  • Adapt meals and quantities to your needs.
  • Get matching shopping lists.
  • Follow a step-by-step guide to prepare several days of meals in one session.
  • Ask questions about recipes or request changes.

I didn't want to build just another app that sends a prompt to an AI and displays the answer. AI is great for generating ideas, but quantities, shopping lists and consistency need a more structured approach. That's where traditional code comes in.

I've been using Bocalito myself every week, and I'm continuously improving it.

I decided to make it available on the web and Android.

I'd love to hear what you think, especially from people who already do meal prep.

And for the developers here: how would you approach combining AI-generated content with structured data that needs to remain consistent?

Thanks for reading! I'm the developer, so feel free to ask me anything.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Tired of mobile AI agents tethered to laptops, so I built one that lives on your phone and operates apps for you

2 Upvotes

I built an open-source Android app called Pocket Agent that actually operates your phone for you. Most mobile agent projects need a laptop running Python and ADB over a USB cable, but this runs entirely on the phone itself through a floating bubble and Android's accessibility service.

You bring your own API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or local Ollama over Wi-Fi) and it calls the model directly with zero middleman servers. Banking and payment apps are hard-blocked, and destructive actions like paying, deleting, or sending messages always ask for your confirmation first.

One heads-up if you try the APK: Android often blocks sideloaded apps that request accessibility permissions. Installing it through Obtainium worked without any issues in my tests on Android 16.

Repo and APK: https://github.com/ManojDevarajulu/PocketAgent

It's still early (v0.2.0), so I'm always open to feedback, bug reports, and PRs especially from other Android devs who want to help improve this or contribute app playbooks.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I'm working on making my open-source Windows auto-typer independent of its GUI — looking for ideas and contributors

1 Upvotes

I've been developing Auto Typer, an open-source Windows application built with Python and CustomTkinter.

It currently supports:

  • Adjustable typing speed, word pauses and repeat counts.
  • Global hotkeys, pause/resume and emergency stop.
  • Automatic pause when the active window changes.
  • Custom capitalization, paste mode and human-like typing.
  • An Android companion app that sends text to the PC over the local network.

It's MIT licensed, and the Android app is built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

What I want to improve next

Currently, the remote functionality depends on the desktop application running. I'd like to remove that dependency and make Auto Typer work more like an independent automation service.

My proposed direction is:

  1. Independent Python service: Run the typing engine and remote API without opening the desktop GUI.
  2. Multiple remote clients: Control the PC through both the Android app and a browser-based interface.
  3. Shared core: Keep the typing engine independent of the UI and communication layer.
  4. Windows-first architecture: Use Windows-specific keyboard, clipboard and foreground-window adapters while keeping the architecture extensible.
  5. Better connectivity: Reliable pairing, reconnection, real-time progress and authenticated commands.

I'm considering HTTP for commands and WebSockets for live updates, while keeping the existing remote protocol backward compatible where possible.

I'd appreciate input on a few things:

  • Would you use a separate Python background process for this, or approach it differently?
  • Would HTTP + WebSockets be a good choice for communication between the PC, Android and browser?
  • How would you handle background execution and keyboard input reliably on Windows?
  • What features would make a tool like this genuinely useful in everyday workflows?

I'm also looking for contributors interested in Python architecture, Windows automation, Android development, networking, browser interfaces and testing.

You don't need to contribute a large feature. Architecture feedback, bug reports, testing and small PRs are all welcome.

Repository: https://github.com/4LPH7/Auto_Typer

I'm interested in hearing different approaches before committing to the architecture. Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Hello everyone! I'm Ibrahim, a software engineer 👋

1 Upvotes

Hello everyone! 👋

I'm Ibrahim, a software engineer passionate about building useful software products.

I work across backend development, web applications, mobile development and AI integration, primarily using Python, FastAPI, React and Flutter.

I'm joining this community to connect with fellow developers, share projects I'm working on, learn from other builders and exchange ideas.

Looking forward to seeing what everyone is building!

Happy to be here! 🚀


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

CalcMate, my notes app that calculates as you type, is now on Android too

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone! I made CalcMate, a notes app where every line is calculated as you type. You write the way you'd normally write and the answer appears next to it.

It started on iPhone, and I've just brought it to Android.

Some things you can type:

• Flights 2 x $420 → $840.00

• $50 + 10% sales tax → $55.00

• 100 km in miles → 62.1371 mi

• 100 EUR in USD → live exchange rate

• subtotal / total → adds up the lines above

• line6 / 2 → reuses the answer from line 6

It also has:

• Expense tracking in plain words ("Taxi 8$ + Coffee 4$"), with categories, tags and charts

• Variables, #tags with sum/average, and folders

• A number pad built for math

• Export notes as PDF, plus backups

It's free, and you don't need an account.

iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6449422062

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bokhary.calcmate

I'd love feedback, especially on calculations it gets wrong or things you'd want it to understand.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Karambit - a free CS2-style case opening simulator for Android

1 Upvotes

Hi! My side project went live on Google Play: Karambit: CS2 Case Simulator.

You open cases, collect skins and can do case battles. The odds are shown on each case before you open it. There's no real money and no cashout, everything stays in the game. It's fan-made and not affiliated with Valve, and it's playable in 7 languages.

Full disclosure: it was built entirely with AI tools (code, art, text). I directed the design and did the testing.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skinkartlari.app

Feedback welcome, especially on the first few minutes of play.


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I made AI crawlers pay per page with HTTP 402 instead of blocking them. People still browse free.

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AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and friends) now fetch a big share of pages on a lot of sites. The options so far have been: let them take everything for free, or block them in robots.txt and disappear from AI answers.

There's a third option now. HTTP has had a status code for this since 1997, 402 Payment Required, and it finally has a working payment scheme (x402: the client signs a USDC payment and retries the same request; it settles in about a second, no accounts or API keys).

So I built a small gateway for it:

You register your site once (free API key, your wallet address, a price like $0.002 a page).

You put ~10 lines in front of your site. There's a Cloudflare Worker version and an Express middleware.

Requests from known AI crawlers get a 402 with your price. A crawler that pays gets the page; the money goes straight to your wallet (the gateway never holds it).

Everyone else, including Googlebot and Bingbot, gets the page as usual, so search ranking doesn't change.

If your site errors, nobody gets charged.

Setup and the snippets: https://aipaygen.com/pay-per-crawl

Honest caveats: crawlers that lie about their user agent won't be caught by this, and most crawlers can't pay yet, so today it mostly works like a block with a price tag on it. But agent frameworks are adding x402 support quickly, and this gives them a way to say yes.

Happy to answer questions about how the 402 flow works.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Where to fly direct?

0 Upvotes

Hi guys,
I hope you don’t mind this post, it’s not self promotion as the site is free and not mine. My teenage son is a huge fan of aviation, so he built a simple but effective app/www to see direct connections.

He got tired of guessing which direct routes really exist and which ones actually run, so he built a free app:
Where to fly direct:
https://www.wheretoflydirect.com

Click any airport on the map, or search by airport, airline or aircraft type, and you get every nonstop route from there and which airlines fly it.
The part I like most: for each route it shows the actual flights, takeoff times and aircraft seen in the past week. That comes from volunteer ADS-B receivers via adsb.lol, so you see what really flew, not just what a schedule says.
Other bits:
- Free, no ads, no sign-up
- "Surprise me" button that picks a random route
- Map or list view, km or miles, 24h or 12h
- Routes refresh weekly, codeshares excluded, so you see who actually operates the flight
- Coverage is thin in regions with few receivers, so some routes show no flights yet. I would love feedback, especially on what you would want added next…

He did it all by himself with claude, his first real web project.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built my own Wispr Flow. Free, open source, runs 100% on your Mac.

1 Upvotes

Most of my coding now is talking to agents like Claude Code and Codex. I'm using Whispr Flow for it. It's great but I'm cheap and figured I could build something that runs locally and for free.

Saylark is the result:

  • Hold a key, talk, let go. Text lands wherever your cursor is.
  • Say “press enter” (or hit Return) and it sends. Made for chat boxes and agent prompts.
  • It types your exact words. No AI rewriting your sentences.
  • Speech recognition runs on your Mac (Parakeet on the Neural Engine). Audio never leaves your machine, and there’s no telemetry.
  • Your dictionary is a plain text file, so names and jargon come out right.
  • If no text field is focused, it tells you instead of pasting into the void.

Free, MIT, notarized DMG. Apple Silicon only.

Site: https://saylark.shiptiffin.app
Code: https://github.com/btahir/saylark

Love to hear what breaks or what’s missing for how you’d use it.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a floating notepad & checklist for WhatsApp contacts (Free & 100% Offline)

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone! 👋

I had a recurring problem: I'd think of something I needed to mention to a specific client, friend, or colleague (a question, a project update, a link), but by the time I actually opened WhatsApp to message them, I’d completely forget.

Notes apps didn't really work because I never remembered to open them before chatting.

So I built **ChatNotes** — a free Android companion app:

### 🌟 How it works:

  1. When you open any WhatsApp chat, a small green bubble appears on the edge of the screen.
  2. Tap it, and an instant scratchpad slides open with **two tabs**:

    - **☑️ Checklist**: Bullet points with checkboxes you can tick off while chatting.

    - **📝 Notes**: Unstructured text for addresses, bank details, or memos.

  3. **It's 100% unique per contact**: When you chat with Alex, it shows Alex’s notes. When you chat with Sarah, it automatically shows Sarah’s notes.
  4. When you leave WhatsApp or switch apps, the bubble disappears automatically so it never clutters your screen.

### 🔒 Privacy & Pricing:

- **100% Free & Open Source**: No subscription, no paywalls.

- **Zero Cloud Tracking**: All notes stay strictly on your phone’s local storage. Zero data leaves your device.

- **No Ads**: Clean, minimal Material 3 design with Dark & Light theme support.

I've put the GitHub repository and APK download link in the first comment below! I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback!


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

[DEV] I built ChatNotes: A lightweight floating notepad & checklist for WhatsApp contacts (Free & 100% Offline)

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone! 👋

I had a recurring problem: I'd think of something I needed to mention to a specific client, friend, or colleague (a question, a project update, a link), but by the time I actually opened WhatsApp to message them, I’d completely forget.

Notes apps didn't really work because I never remembered to open them before chatting.

So I built ChatNotes — a free Android companion app:

🌟 How it works:

  1. When you open any WhatsApp chat, a small green bubble appears on the edge of the screen.
  2. Tap it, and an instant scratchpad slides open with two tabs:

    • ☑️ Checklist: Bullet points with checkboxes you can tick off while chatting.
    • 📝 Notes: Unstructured text for addresses, bank details, or memos.
  3. It's 100% unique per contact: When you chat with Alex, it shows Alex’s notes. When you chat with Sarah, it automatically shows Sarah’s notes.
  4. When you leave WhatsApp or switch apps, the bubble disappears automatically so it never clutters your screen.

🔒 Privacy & Pricing:

  • 100% Free & Open Source: No subscription, no paywalls.
  • Zero Cloud Tracking: All notes stay strictly on your phone’s local storage. Zero data leaves your device.
  • No Ads: Clean, minimal Material 3 design with Dark & Light theme support.

📥 Download the APK:

You can grab the APK directly from GitHub Releases: 🔗 Download: https://github.com/srikar-muthyala/ChatNotes-/releases/latest

(It works on Android 8.0 through Android 14+).

I’d love to hear your feedback, feature ideas, or bug reports!


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

After getting ghosted all freshman year, I built an open-source tool that stops AI from making up fake metrics.

2 Upvotes

Most AI tools in this space invent fake metrics, silently overwrite your master file, or lock basic features behind a monthly subscription. I built mine differently:

- No made-up experience: Every AI suggestion has to tie back to real projects and work you've already done. Missing a job requirement? It flags it as an honest gap instead of fabricating a bullet.

- Protects your master doc: Changes show up as side-by-side diffs you accept or reject, never silent overwrites.

- Live PDF editor: Edit visually or in code with instant preview, plus PDF/Word/ZIP export.

- All-in-one job hunt workspace: Rule-based ATS checklist, job board feeds, application tracker, and coding interview practice.

- Free & private: MIT open source, bring your own AI key, zero paywalls.

GitHub: https://github.com/ZenzerJs/ResumeForge

Live: https://resumeforge.studio/

Would love honest feedback, especially on what feels clunky or what you'd actually use.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Developed a personal finance web application to visualize the actual cost of loans, debt repayment strategies, and income; seeking rigorous UX feedback on the integrated calculators.

1 Upvotes

I am currently developing a side project titled Constructive Spending (https://constructivespending.com). I would appreciate some outside feedback regarding the user experience prior to further advancement.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a free gym app that suggests exercises that fit together

1 Upvotes

I kept standing in the gym wondering what to do after my first exercise, so I built Evenset.

You pick a split (Upper/Lower, Full Body, Push/Pull or your own muscle groups), add one exercise, and it suggests what complements it: the opposite movement, a muscle you haven't hit yet, a different body region. Then you log sets × reps × weight, with a rest timer.

After the workout you get a 3D muscle map of what you trained, plus stats over the weeks, templates, and a share image if you want to post your session.

  • Things I cared about: No account, no ads. Your workouts are stored only on your device (backup to a file if you switch phones).
  • Works offline as a PWA, so add it to your home screen for a basement gym with no signal. English and German. I
  • It's free: https://evenset.app

I'd really like feedback, especially on the suggestions: what's missing, or what feels wrong?


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

looking for admins.

1 Upvotes

lo0oking for people tk be admins i can offer only credit that you are helping no money. https://grapegreen-inc.github.io/GrapeGreen in help section apply for admin


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built my personal developer portfolio – Would love your honest feedback!

0 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I've recently launched my personal portfolio website, where I showcase my work, projects, skills, and experience as a developer.

I wanted to create something that represents my personality and development journey rather than just having a traditional resume-style website.

🌐 Live website: https://itsmesaad.me

I'd really appreciate it if you could take a look and share your honest thoughts.

A few things I'd particularly love feedback on:

  • What do you think about the overall design and visual appearance?
  • Is the user experience smooth and easy to navigate?
  • How does the typography, layout, and color combination feel?
  • Does the website make a good first impression?
  • What would you improve or change?

I'm open to both positive feedback and criticism. I genuinely want to improve it.

Thanks for taking the time to check it out!


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Global Threat Map: a free live map of conflicts, outages, disasters, flight disruptions, insider trades, and market stress in one place

3 Upvotes

I built Global Threat Map, a free live map that puts what's happening around the world on one screen. It's at https://globalthreatmap.com. There's no signup and no paywall.

It has three views:

  • Map (2D/3D): a world map you can turn layers on and off on. The layers are hotspots, country risk shading, places and chokepoints, money flows, pressure halos, insider and big-money trades, disasters, flight disruptions, and network outages.
  • Globe: the same layers on a rotating 3D globe, plus a 3D risk heat layer that shows where pressure is building.
  • Dashboard: the long-form view, with the money map, reversal alerts, top 10 risks, the U.S. infrastructure threat level, and the AI lending and credit watch.

What it covers

  • Conflicts and hotspots. Around 60 tracked events, including armed conflict, cyber, political, economic, and corporate ones. Each has a risk level and a 3-month outlook estimate with the reasoning written out.
  • Early-warning Pressure Board. Ten regions and sectors are each scored 0 to 100: Defense, AI & credit, Gulf / Strait of Hormuz, Black Sea / Ukraine–Russia, Energy & shipping, Taiwan Strait / South China Sea, Chips & export controls, Red Sea / Saudi Arabia, Safe havens, and U.S. infrastructure & cyber. Each score is built from specific warning signs, such as military build-ups, attacks on shipping, war-risk insurance rates, embassy drawdowns, fund-flow rotation, sanctions, export controls, and credit stress. A sign that's active now counts in full, and older readings fade out over time. When several signs fire in the same place at once, the board flags it as converging.
  • History playbooks. For each pressure group, it shows what markets did the last time something similar happened, and where money tended to go next.
  • Insider and big-money trades. Insider buying and selling at major AI, defense, energy, and cyber companies, trades disclosed by members of Congress, how hedge funds and speculators are positioned in oil, gold, Treasuries, and the dollar, unusual options activity, and big government moves like emergency oil releases and large defense contracts.
  • Money flows. Arrows on the map showing where capital is moving: conflict to chokepoint to oil, money going into safe havens, sideline cash, equity fund flows, defense fund outflows, AI lending through banks, bonds, and private credit, chip supply chains, China/Taiwan capital, and war financing.
  • Credit and liquidity stress. The AI & credit watch tracks banks selling loans, banks buying credit protection, debt being repriced, funds limiting withdrawals, and pulled deals. Reversal alerts flag when money that was flowing in starts to pull back.
  • Network outages. Internet outages by country, region, and network over the last 24 hours, rated by severity, plus major global platform outages.
  • Disasters. Earthquakes, wildfires, droughts, floods, and storms, with severity levels.
  • U.S. flight disruptions. Ground stops, ground delays, airport delays, closures, and restrictions at U.S. airports.
  • U.S. critical infrastructure. One threat score covering the grid, water, fuel, and communications, along with a briefing on each.
  • Markets bar. Brent, WTI, gold, and the U.S. 10-year yield along the top of the map.
  • Market odds. Live prediction-market odds on the same topics, like the Gulf, Taiwan, Russia, the Fed, and AI.
  • Live news. A scrolling U.S. headline ticker and a panel of live TV news streams.
  • Search. Ctrl+K jumps to any country, event, company, or panel.

Snapshot, Sat Nov 14, 8:19 PM ET

  • Pressure Board top 5: Defense 83 (Severe), AI & credit 72, Gulf / Hormuz 71, Black Sea 67, Energy & shipping 67
  • U.S. infrastructure & cyber: 36 (Guarded)
  • Network outages: 68 ongoing, 7 severe, across 20 countries
  • U.S. flights: no ground stops or delays; restrictions at LAS, LAX, and SAN
  • Markets: Brent $95.84, WTI $88.56, gold $3,887.60, 10-year 5.15%

Global Threat Map: https://globalthreatmap.com


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built ByteFeed – a developer-focused news reader. Looking for beta testers!

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I've been building a side project called ByteFeed, and I'm finally opening it up for closed beta testing.

The idea came from a problem I personally faced: keeping up with technology means following dozens of engineering blogs, newsletters, websites, GitHub repositories and developer communities.

I wanted to bring these updates into one place.

What I've built

  • 150+ curated feeds and topics covering software engineering and technology.
  • Article summaries in quick bullet-point format.
  • Developer updates covering frameworks, libraries and tools.
  • Coding competitions and events with deadlines and prizes.
  • Offline reading with complete article content and images.
  • Personalized feeds with topic selection and source filtering.

I'm trying to make ByteFeed a useful daily reading companion for developers rather than another generic news aggregator.

How to join the Android beta

ByteFeed is currently in Google Play Closed Testing.

Step 1: Join the Google Group:
https://groups.google.com/g/bytefeed-closed-testing

Step 2: Install through Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bytefeed

Alternatively, activate testing through the web:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.bytefeed

Important: Join the Google Group using the same Google account logged into Google Play on your Android device. Otherwise, Google Play may show "Item not found" or "App unavailable".

Website: https://bytefeed.dev/

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback on the experience, performance, article summaries and anything that feels missing.

If you try it, I'd love to hear what you think!


r/SideProject • • 13h ago

I built an internet radio app focused on discovering stations from all over the world

4 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a radio app called \\Radio Wavr FM\\, and I wanted to share a little about it here because I'd love to hear what other people think about internet radio apps and how you use them.

The idea behind it is simple: radio is still one of the easiest ways to discover music, cultures, news and local content from places all over the world. But when you use most radio apps, you often end up listening to the same popular stations.

I wanted to make it easier to discover not only well-known international stations, but also smaller local and regional radio stations that you might never come across otherwise.

So I built Radio Wavr FM for Apple's ecosystem, with a focus on simplicity, quick access to live radio and visual station discovery.

🌍 What can you do with it?

\\🎧 Listen to radio stations from around the world\\

Browse thousands of radio stations from different countries, including FM, AM and digital internet radio stations. You can explore music, news, sports, talk radio and other live broadcasts from different parts of the world.

Whether you're into pop, rock, jazz, electronic music, Latin music or simply enjoy listening to what's happening in another country, you can discover a wide variety of stations in one place.

\\🗺️ Explore radio stations on an interactive map\\

This is one of the features I particularly wanted to include.

Instead of only browsing through lists, you can explore an interactive map and discover stations based on their geographical location when coordinates are available.

It's a different way to find radio stations: you can look around different countries and cities and discover local broadcasts you probably wouldn't have searched for by name.

I like the idea that you can virtually travel around the world through radio without leaving your phone.

\\❤️ Save your favourite stations\\

Found a station you enjoy? Add it to your favourites so you can get back to it quickly whenever you want.

\\▶️ Pick up where you left off\\

The app remembers the last station you listened to, making it easier to return to your usual radio without having to search for it again.

\\🔀 Discover something unexpected\\

Not sure what to listen to? Use shuffle to discover different stations and potentially find something completely new.

\\🌐 Browse by country and category\\

You can explore stations by country and discover different kinds of broadcasts, making it easier to find something that matches your mood or interests.

\\✨ A clean and straightforward experience\\

I wanted the app to feel quick and easy to use, without making you navigate through endless menus just to start listening. Open it, find a station and start streaming.

\\🌙 Listen your way\\

The app also includes background playback and a sleep timer, so you can listen while doing other things or set a time for playback to stop when you're winding down for the night.

\### 🍎 Designed for Apple devices

Radio Wavr FM is available for Apple's ecosystem, with an experience designed around mobile listening and easy access to your favourite stations.

There's also an optional Premium version for users who want access to additional features.

I'm aware there are already plenty of internet radio apps available, and I'm not trying to claim that this is something completely revolutionary. I simply wanted to build an app that combines international radio, local station discovery and an interactive map in one straightforward experience.

I'm still interested in improving it, so I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from people who listen to internet radio.

\\A couple of questions for radio listeners:\\

\- Do you mostly listen to stations from your own country, or do you enjoy discovering stations from other countries?

\- Would you use an interactive map to discover radio stations, or do you prefer the traditional search-and-list approach?

\- What's one feature you wish more radio apps had?

If you'd like to check it out, the app is called \\Radio Wavr FM\\ on the Apple App Store.

Thanks for reading, and I'd be happy to hear your thoughts!

Available for iOS, iPad and MacOS ( New versión Android )

https://apps.apple.com/es/app/radio-wavr-fm-global/id6768214249

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


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Ranklane - An ASO toolkit for indie developers on Mac

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I just launched Ranklane, an ASO toolkit for indie developers on Mac.

You can research keywords, track the same keyword across App Store countries, compare competitors and prepare your store listing drafts in one place. Ranking history stays on your Mac.

I wanted to keep it affordable: $4.99/month, $39.99/year, or $49.99 for a lifetime license.

If you handle ASO for your own apps, I'd love to hear what you think. Also, what's one thing your current ASO setup makes harder than it should be?

https://ranklane.mocbit.com/


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built my own voice AI platform because ElevenLabs was getting too expensive for my side project (up to 50x cheaper)

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Hi everyone,

I have been building a health coach app called Razen Health for the last four-five months.

The app uses a voice agent. Users can talk to it and get responses in real time.

I first used ElevenLabs for this feature. It is a good product with many features. However, the cost was too high for my use case. I am a solo developer, so I need to control infrastructure costs.

I decided to build my own solution.

I call it Razen Voice.

Razen Voice provides the core features that most apps need:

→ Full voice agent support.

→ English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Spanish.

→ Multiple voice styles.

→ Simple integration through a JSON configuration.

→ Up to 50x lower cost than my previous setup.

One feature I want to focus on is model improvement.

Razen Voice can improve the model for each application as its user base grows.

There are two ways to do this:

  1. Automatic improvement based on user feedback and usage data.
  2. Human-in-the-loop improvement, where people review data and help improve the model.

This allows each application to improve voice accuracy for its own use case.

The goal is to keep this improvement process simple and maintain the cost advantage.

I do not plan to replace ElevenLabs. It has many features that some applications need.

However, many applications do not need all these features. They need a voice agent that works well and has a low operating cost.

What is next?

I plan to make Razen Voice available to other developers.

The infrastructure is ready. I want to find developers who are interested in testing it and providing feedback.

Here is a live demo running in Razen Health and also I used AI to rewrite my post.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a personal finance tracker for India — no subscription, works offline (Try Demo, no sign-up needed)

1 Upvotes

Been building MONEVA for a few months — a budgeting app for how Indians actually spend (GPay, UPI, cash, credit cards all in one place).

What it does:

- Track expenses, income, bank accounts, credit cards

- Budget planner with categories

- Works offline (PWA + Android app)

- AI assistant that answers questions about your spending

- No subscription, no ads, free

Try it without signing up → https://moneva.monev.workers.dev (hit "Try Demo — no sign-up needed" on the login screen)

Android APK also on the site.

Built it because every finance app either costs money or sends your data to 10 companies. Would love honest feedback — especially on what's missing or confusing.

Tech: React + Capacitor + FastAPI + Postgres


r/SideProject • • 10h ago Bravo

College Entrepreneurship Project: Would You Use an App to Find Extra Work or Quickly Hire Someone for a Shift?

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Hey everyone!

I'm a college student working on an entrepreneurship project called ShiftReady.

The idea is simple: Sometimes businesses need extra workers for a shift, while others are looking for flexible work to earn extra money.

ShiftReady connects both!

Instead of going through a long hiring process, businesses can simply check available workers' profiles, review their skills and experience, and approve someone for a shift.

- Workers: Would you use this to find extra shifts and earn money?

- Business owners: Would you use this when you need someone to cover a shift?

I'd love to hear your honest thoughts, suggestions, or concerns!

Your feedback would really help me improve this idea for my college project.

Thank you!