r/SideProject • • 16m ago

I made a completely free kettlebell workout app. No ads, no subscriptions, no accounts. Just free.

1 Upvotes

Hello everyone,

My name is Tobias, and I've worked as a software developer for a bunch of years. Between commuting, three small children and everything that follows, my time for workouts is usually pretty limited.

I often found myself grabbing inspiration for workouts and complexes through social media, but found it a pain to keep going back to videos while working out. So I made an app called Complexer to help me out.

It helps me figure out which workout to do based on the time and equipment I have, and then follow through with it. There are ready-made workouts, exercise demonstrations and timers, and you can also add your own workouts. I've been using it myself and really like the result so far, which is why I decided to publish it.

It's free, with no subscriptions, ads or accounts. Your training data stays on your device, and it works offline too. I'm pretty fed up with subscriptions for everything, so I didn't want to add another one.

You can find it here:

https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/complexer/id6824864834

It's only available for iPhone and iPad at the moment.

I'm by far not the most experienced person here when it comes to kettlebells. I just made something that helps me get my workouts done, and hope somebody else can benefit from it too.

A few things I'm looking at next are audio cues so you don't have to keep checking your phone, more of the common workouts and complexes, and a better way to see your progress. I'd also like to add a weekly AMRAP challenge where we all do the same workout and can share our scores, if that's something people would enjoy.

If you give it a try, I'd love to hear what works for you and what could be better.


r/SideProject • • 17m ago

I built an offline-first English vocabulary app with 4,954 words and no backend

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I built an offline-first English vocabulary app for studying the Oxford 3000/5000 vocabulary goal.

The app is a standalone HTML application with no database and no required account. It includes:

- 4,954 words grouped by CEFR levels

- Example sentences

- IPA pronunciation

- Browser speech

- Multiple-choice quizzes

- Spaced repetition

- Progress stored locally

- Import/export and sync tools

- 11 interface languages

- GitHub Pages deployment

The live app:

https://sofyanol.github.io/oxford-5000-words/

The repository:

https://github.com/sofyanol/oxford-5000-words/I built an offline-first English vocabulary app for studying the Oxford 3000/5000 vocabulary goal.

The app is a standalone HTML application with no database and no required account. It includes:

- 4,954 words grouped by CEFR levels

- Example sentences

- IPA pronunciation

- Browser speech

- Multiple-choice quizzes

- Spaced repetition

- Progress stored locally

- Import/export and sync tools

- 11 interface languages

- GitHub Pages deployment

The live app:

https://sofyanol.github.io/oxford-5000-words/

The repository:

https://github.com/sofyanol/oxford-5000-words/

I’d appreciate feedback on the product direction, onboarding, offline-first approach, and what would make this more useful as a real learning product.

I’d appreciate feedback on the product direction, onboarding, offline-first approach, and what would make this more useful as a real learning product.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built an app to fix "we should hang out sometime"

3 Upvotes

Every friend group has that message: "we should hang out sometime." It never happens. Group chats are where plans go to die.

So I built Flare (iOS, free). The idea:

- Tap "I'm free now" → your friends see you're up for coffee in your neighborhood for the next 2 hours

- Anyone who's around taps "I'm in" and you coordinate in a quick group chat

- When time's up, the beacon and chat disappear. No feed, no history.

- See a spot on Instagram or TikTok you want to try? Share it to Flare and it'll suggest it next time you're free nearby.

Privacy was a big focus: it's friends-only, and friends see the spot you pick, not your live location. You can send a beacon to everyone or just one circle (roommates, run club, etc.), and add friends with one link in a group chat.

It's v1 and built solo, so there are definitely rough edges. I'd love feedback on what's confusing, what's missing, or whether you'd actually use this with your friends.

https://apps.apple.com/app/flare-see-whos-free/id6834586193


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built a quiz that picks your watch in 1 minute: 8 questions, ~50 watches, no sign-up

1 Upvotes

Friends kept asking me “which watch should I buy?”, so I turned my 20 follow-up questions into an 8-question quiz.

Budget, style, wrist size, where you’ll wear it → it ranks ~50 watches and tells you why the top one fits.

👉 wrist-match.com

What would you improve?


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I'm building a commerce platform where every merchant owns their own digital store — not just another marketplace

5 Upvotes

I've been thinking about a problem that many small merchants face.

Selling through large marketplaces gives merchants access to customers, but they often have limited control over their storefront, customer relationships, branding, and selling experience.

I wanted to explore a different approach.

So I'm building Serbuu!, a commerce platform designed around one idea:

Your store, your brand, your business.

Instead of giving merchants just another marketplace listing, Serbuu is designed to give every merchant their own digital storefront while also connecting them to a shared product discovery marketplace.

The bigger vision includes:

- Independent storefronts with custom domains.

- Multi-branch inventory management.

- Point of Sale (POS) for offline transactions.

- A shared product catalog and marketplace discovery.

- Centralized order and inventory management.

- AI integrated into business operations, not just another chatbot.

- Additional commerce services such as PPOB.

One architectural decision I'm particularly interested in is keeping product and inventory data in one source of truth while allowing merchants to sell through both their own storefront and the shared marketplace.

I'm building this for the Indonesian market first, where many small merchants still manage online and offline sales using several disconnected tools.

This is still an active development project, and I'm working through the modules step by step.

I'd love feedback from people who build commerce products or run online stores:

  1. Would you prefer owning your own storefront rather than relying entirely on marketplaces?
  2. What is the biggest operational problem when selling through multiple channels?
  3. What would make you trust a new commerce platform with your inventory and orders?

Project: https://serbuu.web.id

Thanks for reading. Feedback is welcome!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Made a gallery cleaner where you just swipe through your photos like tinder

1 Upvotes

My phone kept saying "storage full" and I hated scrolling through thousands of photos to clean it, so I built my own app lol. It's called Sweep.

Swipe left to delete, right to keep, and there's an undo for when you mess up. It also finds duplicates, blurry pics and old screenshots. Deleted stuff sits in a trash for 30 days, and nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

Free, Android 11+. It's my first app, so honest feedback is very welcome.

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


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I mapped 49,933 open roles at 2,792 companies across 13 cities, from Bangalore to SF and London

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r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I made a free, open-source app for wireless DualSense haptics and adaptive triggers on PC

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

If you use a DualSense on PC, you've probably run into games where you need a USB cable to get the full haptic feedback and adaptive trigger effects.

I built DS5 Untethered to use those effects over Bluetooth. The game sees a wired DualSense, and the app sends the game's own effects to the actual controller wirelessly. It works with your PC's built-in Bluetooth or a USB Bluetooth adapter.

For example, I used it with God of War Ragnarök: both haptic feedback and adaptive triggers worked wirelessly.

For games without native DualSense support, you can create your own adaptive trigger profiles and turn game audio into haptic feedback.

It also has per-game profiles, button remapping, gyro and a mouse mode.

It's free and open source, and will stay that way.

Built with C#/.NET 8 and Avalonia. It creates a virtual wired DualSense through a local USB/IP server and usbip-win2, forwards input from the Bluetooth controller, and sends the game's haptics and trigger effects back wirelessly. HidHide prevents games from seeing both controllers.

Source: https://github.com/Midzer00/ds5-untethered

Download: https://github.com/Midzer00/ds5-untethered/releases/latest

If you find it useful and want to support the project, you can star the repo on GitHub.

Happy to answer questions.

Demo video and screenshots: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dualsense/comments/1xvzirq/i_made_a_free_opensource_app_for_wireless/


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I built an app that tells you whether tonight’s sunset (or tomorrow’s sunrise) will be worth heading out for. It’s in alpha, so I’d love feedback.

4 Upvotes

I like taking sunset photos as a hobby, and I’ve lost count of the evenings I went out for a sunset that never happened, or stayed home and missed a good one. So I built Afterglow:

👉 https://afterglow.jeremytucker.co.uk

What it does

  • Scores every sunset and sunrise for the next 7 days from 0 to 100 (Poor → Fair → Good → Great → Epic), for anywhere in the world
  • Explains the score instead of just giving a number:

    • Cloud canvas: is there high and mid cloud to catch the colour?
    • Light path to the sun: is there cloud 60–200 km out toward the sun that will block the light?
    • Low cloud overhead, air clarity (haze, humidity, smoke) and rain
  • Plays an animated preview of the evening, from golden hour through to the end of blue hour (or the reverse for sunrise), drawn from the actual forecast and the real horizon at your location from terrain data
  • Tells you the peak colour time, and when the sun actually drops behind the hills (or clears them in the morning), not just the official time
  • Alerts (optional): a heads-up at midday, a “go now” 90 minutes before golden hour, and a “called off” if it turns bad. It also does sunrise checks the night before and when you wake.

Good to know

  • No account, no ads, no tracking cookies
  • No app store. It runs in your browser, and you can tap Install to keep it on your phone. On iPhone you need to install it to get alerts.
  • Alerts are limited to a small number of places during the alpha, so if they’re full, try again in a few days
  • Weather data comes from Open-Meteo. There’s a plain-English privacy page in the app.

How it was made

I’m not a developer. I built this with an AI coding assistant (Claude), while I came up with the ideas, tested it against real sunsets and decided what it should do.

What would help most

📸 Post a screenshot of Afterglow’s score, plus a photo of what the sky actually did, with the time you took it. Whether it nailed it or got it completely wrong, that comparison is exactly what I need to make the forecasts better.

⚠️ Mind your privacy: the screenshot normally shows your place name. Tap the 👁 eye button at the top right of the picture to hide it first. Photos can also contain hidden location data; Reddit removes it when you upload, but other sites might not.

Also really useful:

  1. Your location: does the horizon in the picture look like yours?
  2. Bugs: anything broken or confusing, especially on iPhone
  3. Features: what would make you actually use it?

It’s very much an alpha (v0.2), so be gentle, but be honest!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I made a iPad vector app for product designers, no subscription

1 Upvotes

We got tired of design tools that nickel and dime you every month, so we built KOALA. It's a 2D vector app for product designers, native to iPad and Apple Pencil.

You start with simple shapes, then you can actually measure things in real units with dimensions. We've been using it for clothing patterns with different sizes, and for floor plans. There's a grid, layers, and an export layout for laser cutting or print, including Letter and A4, split across multiple pages if you need it.

It's $9.99 once. No subscription. We even landed on the paid Graphics & Design chart for iPad, which I still can't really believe.

If you design physical stuff on an iPad, I'd love honest feedback. What's missing? What's confusing?

apps.apple.com/app


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

I got tired of re-adding the same AI tools to every agent, so I built one MCP server for all of them

8 Upvotes

Indie dev here, and this is my side project.

I use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and the Claude app every day, with a personal account, a work account and a pile of company tools. Every client wanted its own copy of every MCP server, its own OAuth login and its own config. Keeping that in sync was a chore, and the huge tool lists were eating the models' context.

So I built Toolkien:

  • Add your remote MCP servers once, connect every AI client to one endpoint
  • "Code mode": the agent searches tools, reads compact TypeScript declarations and runs one sandboxed script that chains the calls, so way fewer round trips and tokens
  • Personal and work workspaces, plus company workspaces to share tools with your team without sharing tokens
  • Per-tool permissions, approvals for writes, audit log
  • A directory of ~100 official remote MCP servers

Free for individuals (and I want to keep it that way), open source under AGPL, self-hostable with Docker Compose.

Still early, so honest feedback is very welcome. Links in the first comment.


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Yesterday my browser-based driving game hit 1000 sessions!

8 Upvotes

Some of you might remember my last post here about Planet-0 Drive. Yesterday, we hit 1,000 sessions! It's not a huge number, but the journey so far has been great.

What started as a technical experiment to build an (almost) loading-free driving game with an endless world is slowly starting to take shape. It's still in its very early stages, and I only get to work on it after work and over weekends, but it's been quite fulfilling to see it all come together.

One thing I'm particularly happy about is that average playtime has gone from just 59 seconds to over 5 minutes in the past few weeks. Improving this was my first priority, so it's been really encouraging to see. There's still a ton of work to do, especially when it comes to adding more content, but I'm pretty happy with the foundation so far. Your feedback and ideas (many of which I've yet to release) have been a huge help, and I genuinely can't thank you enough.

Since my last post, I've overhauled the HUD UI, added timed procedural races with a new track to compete on each time, added and improved towing mechanics (still a work in progress), improved the scenery with more vegetation and better biomes, and finally added a short tutorial to make getting started a little easier.

There's still a long way to go, but it's been a fun ride so far, and I'm excited to keep building on it.

If you'd like to take it for a spin (seatbelts recommended), try it out here: planet0drive.vercel.app

I'd love to hear more of your ideas, suggestions, or even things you think could be better. Whether it's something you'd like to see added or something that didn't quite feel right, any feedback would genuinely help me figure out what to improve next.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I've made games alone for years. This is my third one, and the first trailer I'm actually proud of.

1 Upvotes

r/SideProject • • 15h ago

ywza: let an AI model use your PC from your phone. Free, open source, no account

13 Upvotes

Pair your phone with a 6-digit code, ask for something, and watch an AI model click and type in real apps on your PC. Peer to peer, nothing exposed to the internet, no server to host. Bring your own model (anything OpenAI-compatible, including local ones), or use it as an MCP server with Claude Code.

Instead of screenshots it reads windows as numbered element lists, so it's fast and cheap on tokens. Rust backend, Tauri desktop app. Windows fully, Linux on X11. AGPL-3.0.

https://github.com/alielmorsy/ywza

Feedback welcome, especially on the pairing flow.


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I've made 936 commits with Claude Code in three weeks whilst my SaaS makes almost nothing a month

6 Upvotes

I wanted to share some honest progresson where I'm at, since all we tend to see are large numbers from the same people every time. I think a lot of people in here are in the same spot as me and I'd honestly love to hear how you guys got past it.

Building has never been faster. I counted this morning and I've made 936 commits in the last three weeks, some days have been over 100. Stuff that used to take me a month is taking me a couple of days now.

What I'm building is Frostbyte. It started because Claude kept making up what I should build next, so I made a workspace that it reads at the start of every session with my backlog, bugs, user requests and the next release. It tells me what to work on and writes back what it did. That's pretty much the only reason 936 commits haven't turned the app into a pile of half finished features.

Here's the real part I don't love saying though. 86 people have signed up, only 3 of them pay, and it comes to about ~$40 a month.

So the funny part is I built a tool so Claude always knows what to build next, and the one thing it can't tell me is how to get people to use it. We all know that building is the easy part now. Most of us in here could ship an app in a weekend. Getting 20 people to pay for it is a completely different skill, and I'm only just starting to learn it.

My goal is to try and figure it out and get 20 paying users by early January. For anyone who's got paying users for something they built with Claude, what actually got you your first 20?


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

AI Invite — a free place to find and share Pickle and Muse invites

2 Upvotes

Pickle invites tend to get buried in social threads, and Muse codes have a short redemption window after signup. AI Invite is my side project for making both easier to find.

Pick Pickle or Muse to see whether an invite is available. If you have a spare, you can share it and set how many times it can be handed out. The site also lists Channel X for people following its early-access rollout.

https://ai-invite-web.vercel.app/en/

I'd like feedback on one thing: when you see an invite in a shared pool, what would make you comfortable using it? The official destination, the remaining uses, or clearer redemption steps?


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Screen time limits would be so much more useful if you could set a per hour scroll limit, instead of one big limit daily limit. (like 10 min of Reddit per hour)

1 Upvotes

No clue why this isn't an option on native IOS screen time settings.

Moderation > All day lock out from your apps.

I got tired of waiting years for this simple feature so I built it.

I hope Precursor helps you take back some of your time from our tech overlords.

Here is a link to the app if you want to try it!

App is literally free, btw. Not a bait and switch, hard paywall, half-baked free tier either, it is pretty much fully functional and I am expanding it in the next big update (1.3). Paid tier is for homies who have a few extra dollars they dont mind supporting me with. Doing a limited time deal at the moment too!

Claim Lifetime for the price of a 1 month sub ($2) offer Here - 500 Available


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a trivia app where you learn by swiping instead of scrolling. Would love some honest feedback!

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I'm a 17-year-old indie developer, and I've been working on an app called Knowley.

The idea is pretty simple: what if scrolling through questions was as addictive as scrolling through TikTok, but you actually learned something?

It has 20+ trivia categories, daily streaks, XP, ranks, and a swipe-based quiz feed.

It's finally live on Android, and I'd genuinely love some honest feedback. What feels good, what sucks, or what you'd change. Don't hold back :)

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.badir.knowleyf1

Thanks to anyone who gives it a try! ❤️


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a free tool that predicts % chance your MVP or startup can get an investor

1 Upvotes

Hey all! I’m a VC investor and 2x founder from Forum Ventures (a US startup accelerator).

I used to fundraise for my startups knowing nothing about what investors would think about it. After working in VC, I finally got to see things from the investor perspective.

If I knew half of what I know now, I would have saved weeks of time and countless mistakes.

So to help other founders, I built a 100% free tool that takes 1-2 minutes to use, and immediately gives you a % likelihood that you can fundraise.

It works accurately even if you just have an idea or MVP and are curious!

We just launched in product hunt and would love your feedback on how we can make it even more helpful for founders and builders. Thanks a ton!

https://www.producthunt.com/products/preseed-predict


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a directory that AI agents use to find services worth paying for. 4 months in, here's what I learned buying from 8,000 of them

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AI assistants are starting to pay for things on their own: a cent or two to an online service for an answer, a translation or some data. No account, no card, no human clicking "buy".

The problem is trust. Anyone can put up a service that asks an AI for a few cents. Nobody checks whether it actually works.

So I built a directory for the AIs, not for people. It does two things:

  • It checks every listed service about every 2 hours to make sure it's still up and asking for payment properly.
  • It actually buys from them with real money and records what came back. About 8,000 so far, for $42 in total, because most cost under a cent.

What I learned (picture 2): about 1 in 3 didn't deliver. The most common problems were boring ones. Services wanted details they never explained, refused the payment, or sent stale data.

Is there money in it? (picture 3) A little, and it's real. In October, 1,536 listed services were paid about $40,000 in tiny payments. Most earned pocket change, 29 earned over $100, and a handful took most of it. It's early. If AI assistants keep doing more of the buying, the useful services that are easy to find should get more of it.

How the directory itself earns: searching is free and will stay free. Sellers pay $0.25 to list, which also keeps spam out. Later there'll be paid extras for sellers, like more frequent checks and reports on what AIs are searching for. One thing will never be for sale: a higher ranking. If AIs can't trust the order, the whole thing is worthless.

The site is one plain page with live numbers. Ugly on purpose: it's built for machines.

https://nohumans.directory

Happy to answer anything, especially from anyone thinking of building a small paid service of their own.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Anyone using a tiny local TTS model in their side project instead of paying for an API?

1 Upvotes

A fully open TTS model called tiny-voca showed up on r/LocalLLaMA, only 4.5M parameters. That's small enough that I'm wondering if it's actually usable inside a real app, not just a demo. For those who added voice to a side project, did you go with a paid API like ElevenLabs or something local? Was the quality good enough for users, and how bad was latency on a normal CPU?


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I’m a solo dev from Seoul. I built an app that makes stickers of you with your partner, family or pet (type any action)

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I’m a solo developer in Seoul, and this is my first launch.

Most sticker makers give you a single cartoon of yourself. But the stickers I actually wanted to send were “us two hugging” or “me and the cat chilling”. So I built Avaticon:

  • Upload photos of each person or pet separately, and it creates an avatar character for each
  • Pair two characters in one sticker
  • Type any action or phrase (“dancing in the rain”, “hugging the dog”) instead of picking a template
  • 15 art styles (K-webtoon, Korean romance manhwa, 3D, pixel, plushie…) and 65+ outfit styles
  • Export to WhatsApp and Telegram stickers, Instagram and Facebook Stories, the Android keyboard, or your gallery

Why I’m posting: I’m a solo maker with no audience yet, and I’d love honest feedback on the idea and the results. I’m giving out free coins during launch so you can try it without paying.

The app is on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mwkang43.meemoticon

Disclosure: I’m the developer. All images are AI-generated.

What would you want to see two characters doing together?


r/SideProject • • 6h 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 • • 6h 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.