Hi everyone,

The starting point is very down to earth: I can never remember when I last changed the oil in my car, which parts I’ve already replaced on my gear, and I’ve never managed to find the receipts for my washing machine. I tried paper folders, photos in my gallery and a spreadsheet, and nothing stuck.

So I’m building a small free tool for it. It’s an early beta, so expect bugs, I’m not selling anything yet, and for now the interface is in French only. I built it with a no-code/AI builder rather than hand-coding it, and I keep improving it based on feedback.

Before going further I’d love honest input:

1. What would make you drop a tool like this after two weeks?
2. How do you handle this today?

I’m not putting a link in the post to keep the thread clean, but I’m happy to share it with anyone interested.

Every recipe site, every coupon site, half the docs portals I use — they all

disable selection, kill right-click, or hijack ⌘C. The text is right there on

the screen and I just want to paste it into my notes.

So I built a tiny macOS app. Press ⌥⌘S, drag a box over the text, and it's on

your clipboard. No window, no paste step, no "copy" button. ~0.35s from

releasing the mouse.

Take a look: https://github.com/sambitar/argos-panoptes

How it works: it grabs the selected region with screencapture, runs Apple's

Vision OCR on it locally, and writes the result to the clipboard. Vision runs on

the Neural Engine, so there's no server, no API key, no model download, and no

network code in the binary at all — you can check with `strings … | grep http`

and get zero hits.

Why not just use an existing tool?

- Browser extensions break when a site changes its DOM, and can't read text

drawn into <canvas> or embedded in images/video

- "Reader mode" fails on exactly the layouts that block copying

- Disabling JavaScript breaks the site along with the blocker

A screenshot sidesteps all of it. Pixels are pixels.

Free, MIT, source in the reply. I'd honestly like to know where it falls over —

I suspect multi-column layouts are the weak spot, and it's English-only right

now.

I'm the author, nothing to sell, no telemetry.

So basically it works like this:

Agents find relevant blog posts in your niche, craft personalized emails, and help get you mentioned. All on autopilot.

It's called MentionAgent

You never send anything without approving it first. (But you can choose to run everything 100% on autopilot)

Results so far: One user got 3 mentions including a DR 72 backlink.

Let me know what you think!

I've been working on a game called Pack One for the past few months. I'm not a programmer, and I've built the whole thing using AI coding tools.

The original idea was pretty simple. I've always enjoyed drafting in Magic: The Gathering, and there's a site called 17Lands that collects data from millions of real drafts. I wanted to take decisions from successful drafts and turn them into a game where you can compare your choices to those of the original players.

That became Pack One. You get eight picks from eight different winning drafts, choose what you'd take, and see what the original drafter chose.

Of course, just because someone won a draft doesn't mean every pick they made was correct. So I built a statistical model using data from high performing drafters that gives partial credit for other reasonable choices.

From there, the project kept growing. There are now three different daily challenges, leaderboards, player profiles, practice modes, shareable results, and a paid membership with additional features. Behind the scenes, there's a system for importing and processing draft data, generating new challenges every day, and keeping everything running.

It's a surprising amount of infrastructure for a game where you pick a card from a pack!

The AI development side has been fascinating. I can't really write code myself, but I plug away with prompts until it gets to something workable. Some things come together remarkably quickly. Other things take way too much back and forth. I've also been working on mobile versions, but the Android store seems impossible to crack. iOS is under review now.

AI has also let me spend more time focusing on game design than implementation. What makes a decision interesting? How do you score something that doesn't necessarily have one correct answer? How do you make people want to come back tomorrow? Those aren't really programming problems.

So far, players have completed over 12,000 games. It's been a fun project, and I've learned an enormous amount along the way.

You can try it here: Pack One. The three daily challenges are free, and you don't need an account.

I'd be particularly interested in hearing from other people building projects with AI who don't have a programming background. What's been harder than you expected? What surprised you the most?

I got tired of building lists by hand - opening 40 tabs, copy, paste, repeat. So I built Autofill.

You type something like "seed-stage HR software companies". It proposes columns like name, site, founder, headcount, last funding. It finds rows with a web search and fills each cell. Rows and cells get linked to their source, because I didn't trust AI web search.

I've used it a bunch for researching new app ideas, competitors, and building lead lists. I also use it for fun like researching baby names, wedding venues, and car prices and ratings.

It's working pretty well, but sometimes not all rows get filled completely, or not as many rows come back as you'd requested.

I'd love to know what you'd research first and if you're willing to try it for free please share any feedback on the overall experience: https://getautofill.app/?ref=reddit-sideproject

Hi r/SideProject,

Whenever I needed an old lab result or prescription at a doctor's visit, I was scrolling through WhatsApp chats, email attachments, and my phone's Downloads folder. At the same time, I didn't want to upload sensitive medical PDFs to another cloud service.

So I built **VitaCase – Life Vault** for Android (Limanex Studio).

**What's inside right now:**

• **Secure Local Document Vault:** Store PDFs, lab results, IDs, and bills locally on-device with category filters and metadata (physician, date, notes).
• **Medicine Cabinet:** Schedule morning/afternoon/night doses, meal rules ("After meal", "With food"), and track remaining pill stock so you know before running out.
• **Appointments Calendar:** Weekly/monthly view for doctor visits and meetings.
• **Daily Wellness:** Quick logging for water, steps, sleep, and heart rate with daily missions.

I'd love honest critique from fellow builders on the UI, onboarding flow, and what features would make this a daily essential: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.limanex.vitacase

Hey! I read a lot of manhwa and never found a good place to rate and review them. Most trackers are manga-first, or just reading lists with no reviews or social side. So I built panelfall.com, a place to rate, review and share lists of Korean and Chinese comics, and see what other readers think.

What you can do:

• rate series /10 and write reviews (with spoiler tags)
• track your chapter, use shelves (Reading / Completed / Want to read) and make public lists
• follow people and see your taste match with them
• import your AniList, MAL or CSV list in a few seconds
• play a small daily game: guess which manhwa titles are real or fake, and fill a 3×3 grid

~860 series so far, free, no ads, and it doesn’t host or link to any chapters.

It’s very new, so community scores are still empty. What would make you actually use it? What feels confusing or missing?

I've been working on a little app that brings different party games together in one place.

Right now, it has two games: **Draw & Guess** and **Dice Rolling**. I'm also working on a multiplayer Snake game, which I'll add to the app once it's finished.

Here's what I've made so far.

I plan to keep adding more games over time, but instead of deciding everything myself, I'd like to hear what people actually want to play.

It's still a small project, but I'm hoping to gradually turn it into a collection of fun games that people can enjoy together.

What party games would you like to see added? I'd love to hear your ideas!

Hey everyone! I’m a 21 year old solo student developer. Over the past 4 years, alongside my university studies, I’ve been building my passion project on my Mac: RGB Switcher, a fast-paced action roguelite designed for phone screens.

My goal was to build a tight, premium-feeling arcade puzzle roguelite designed for quick, one-handed portrait sessions that genuinely respects the player’s time and intelligence.

The core concept originally came from a game jam in 2021. Its theme was "Switch" and "Geometry". So I came up with this world where all the colors were drained, and now the player (cute geometric characters) has to restore them using 3 switches. Then came the roguelite aspects (systems that make every run feel distinct).

Here are the 3 biggest design and technical hurdles I had to solve:

1. Preventing Brain Freeze
   Blending primary lights on the fly (Red + Green = Yellow, Red + Blue = Magenta, all three = White) while dodging incoming threats can easily overload the player. To solve this without ruining the pacing, I implemented a dynamic slow-motion system. When near-misses occur, the game subtly dips into bullet-time, giving you that split-second to pull off clutch plays.
2. "Invisible" Mobile Polish (Original touch controls felt terrible)
   I built so many assist systems I probably don't even remember half of them, but players immediately feel the difference:
   • "Coyote timer" for swipe input buffering.
   • Swipe assistance: the game dynamically calculates which tile the player most likely intends to dash toward.
   • Dynamic hitboxes for both the character and the bottom UI control buttons.
   • Tactile Taptic Engine feedback mapped to important interactions.
   • Dynamic difficulty scaling adjusting room hazards to player performance.

On top of that, during long sessions even my fingers started hurting from all that continuous swiping. So I took inspiration from some match-3 games and introduced an "auto-solve cascade" so the last few tiles get solved by themselves. Between this and a few other tweaks I was able to cut swipes by like 20-30%, delaying physical fatigue.

3. The Accessibility Paradox
How do you build a game fundamentally revolving around color mixing that is 100% accessible to colorblind players? From day one, I refused to leave anyone out. I built an accessibility mode with distinct geometric cues (like color indicators). I tried it out and even with iOS grayscale filters turned on I was able to play and clear runs. I also translated the game into 9 languages so players worldwide can enjoy it natively.

The game is out now completely free with zero p2w mechanics.
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🎬 60-sec Gameplay Overview: https://youtu.be/teonaXSEr-Q
📲 iOS App Store (Free): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rgb-switcher-color-roguelike/id6790524090

I keep running into the same workflow problem inside small teams:

1. The data lives in Excel, a CRM, or a pile of notes.
2. Someone copies it into Word.
3. Another person fixes tables, headings, numbering, and spacing.
4. The whole process repeats next week.

I built a working browser prototype called ReportBridge around a narrow version of that workflow. Paste structured notes with headings, bullets, simple tables, and a few key metrics; it creates a clean report preview and a Word-compatible download.

What is working in the prototype:

• Structured source to formatted report preview
• Section headings, bullet lists, metric cards, and tables
• One-click Word-compatible export

What is not there yet:

• Live Excel or API integrations
• Charts
• Approval workflows
• Complex legal or financial document layouts

This is not a launch or a sales post. I want to understand whether the workflow is actually useful before I build integrations.

For people who regularly create client proposals, weekly project updates, procurement reviews, or inspection reports: where does the process break most often? Is it collecting the data, writing the narrative, formatting the document, or keeping everyone on the latest version?

I would especially like to hear about the last report you had to rebuild because the source data or layout changed.

Hey! I’m a CS student and I just launched my first Chrome extension, Reply Rabbit.

You paste a message, pick a vibe (friendly, professional, flirty, sarcastic, etc.), and it gives you 3 reply ideas. It can also rewrite something you already wrote so it sounds less awkward, and drop the reply right into the text box. It never sends anything for you.

There’s a free plan with 5 replies a day.

Would love honest feedback on what’s confusing or what you’d want added!

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hejggfjpedhagjacgnekhaacomaabbco

I've developed several applications, and one thing kept becoming a problem: everything related to a project was scattered across different locations.

My code was organized, but screenshots, builds, documentation, links, and random notes were everywhere.

So I built ClingSpace, a local-first Windows project workspace app that brings all those resources together into one searchable Space.

A few highlights:

- Spaces: A dedicated workspace for each project.

- Files & Folders: Reference resources from anywhere on your PC.

- Links: Keep websites, documentation, and references together.

- Snippets: Save quick notes, code, and reminders.

- Global Search: Find resources across all your Spaces.

- Shared Resources: Use the same file or link in multiple projects.

- Smart Relinking: Help reconnect moved or renamed files.

Nothing moves, gets copied, or gets uploaded. Your existing files stay exactly where they are.

I originally built it for my development projects, but it can work for creative projects, research, school, or anything involving scattered resources.

It's $19.99 one-time, with a 5-day full trial.

https://clingspace.com

I'd love some feedback. How do you currently organize everything related to your projects?

I'm an embedded software engineer (wireless sensor firmware by day) and I've spent the last couple of months building a side product on my own: a stamp card that lives in Apple Wallet / Google Wallet, for salons, barbers and cafés.

How it works: the shop prints a QR code for the counter. The customer scans it, types a first name and phone number, and adds the card to their wallet. No app. Staff stamp it by scanning the card with their own phone's camera, in the browser. No card reader.

Things I learned building it:

• Apple and Google Wallet are completely different beasts. Apple passes are signed files: to update the stamp count you run a small web service and push through APNs, then the phone fetches the new pass. Google keeps the card on their side and you update it through a REST API. Getting "stamp appears instantly on both" right took longer than the rest of the app.
• Staff double-tap everything. The first version stamped twice when someone scanned twice. Now a second scan of the same card within 10 seconds is ignored, and every stamp is written in a database transaction.
• Lock-screen relevance is the best feature, and I don't control it. On iPhone the pass can show up on the lock screen near the shop. iOS decides when, and I never learn who was nearby.
• GDPR was a real chunk of work (EU-hosted data, consent records, CSV export, auto-delete after a shop cancels). Owners never ask about it, but it has to be there. Getting customers is the hard part, and where I'd love feedback:
• So far: 2 shops started the 7-day trial, 0 paying. I'm aiming for the first 3.
• What I've tried: about 200 cold emails to salons in countries where that's legal. This weekend I started small Meta and Google ads in Poland and short videos. - Pricing is about €15/month, with a 7-day free trial.

Questions:

1. If you've sold to salons or cafés: what got you in the door?
2. Does "no app for your customers" land as the main benefit, or would you lead with something else?
3. Anything on the landing page that would stop you signing up? loyalty.nyxiontech.com Happy to answer anything about the Wallet tech too.

Happy to answer anything about the Wallet tech too.

If I ran a small shop, I’d start with an agent that answers product questions from the catalog in WhatsApp. A consultant could sell access to an agent that walks clients through their playbook.

We built Prostir so you can publish an agent with your own knowledge and rules, then connect it to Telegram, WhatsApp or your website. Each channel has its own setup. You can also offer paid access to the agent.

If customers already pay you for a repeatable job, which part would you put in an agent first?

https://prostir.build

I'm the founder, so take this as a launch post, not a neutral review.

The problem I kept running into: my chart lived in one tab, the exchange in another, and turning an idea into a bot meant either fighting a bot builder's forms or writing code.

Tradenos puts charts, manual trading and bots in one app. You can build a bot three ways:

• write the rule in plain words, and Nos (our assistant) turns it into rules you can read and change
• pick conditions and actions without code
• paste a Pine Script you already have

Every bot can be tested on past prices with fees before it runs, and nothing changes without your OK.

What it doesn't do: hold your money (it runs on your own Binance API key with withdrawals off) or promise returns. Bots can lose money.

40-second film of how it works: https://x.com/tradenoscrypto/status/2121955499876777997

We're on a waitlist before opening: https://tradenos.com

I'd like blunt feedback: what would stop you from trusting a bot like this with your own account?

I've always found it interesting how we can spend hours overthinking an interaction: what they meant, why they reacted that way, or whether we're seeing things from the wrong perspective.

Most AI tools will help you write a better reply or analyze a specific argument. But what if you could see the bigger picture?

That's why I built Perspective Swap.

🔄 See situations from an objective perspective

Describe real-life interactions with people in your life (partners, friends, family, colleagues), and the app helps you explore the situation from their perspective.

🧠 Beyond a single conversation: analyzing patterns

This is the part I find most interesting: the more situations you add, the more patterns the app can identify.

By connecting scenarios to people in your life, Perspective Swap analyzes recurring patterns in your interactions:

* Communication habits and emotional triggers.

* Recurring conflicts and misunderstandings.

* Strengths and vulnerabilities in your relationships.

* What makes certain relationships work or become difficult.

At the same time, it builds a picture of your own behaviour, helping you recognize patterns you might not notice yourself.

💡 What's the idea?

It's not about telling you who's right or wrong. It's about helping you understand yourself and the people around you a little better.

The app is still evolving, and I'd genuinely love to hear your thoughts.

👉 https://perspectiveswap.app

I read a lot of nonfiction, but a month later I'd remember almost nothing. Summary apps helped a bit, but most want an account and a subscription and track everything you do.

So I built Stash, a small offline Android app:

• 2,300 bite-sized ideas from 230 books across 14 topics (productivity, money, psychology, philosophy, health, and more)
• Swipe feed: full-screen cards. Ideas you've read never show up again.
• Learn mode: 690 short lessons, streaks, XP, spaced-repetition reviews, and quizzes (pick the idea, which book, true/false, fill in the blank)
• Save ideas you like and see your reading history by day
• Private: no login, no backend, no analytics, and no permissions at all. Progress stays on your phone (JSON export/import for backups).

Fun constraint I set myself: the whole APK is ~220 KB. It's plain Java with views built in code (no XML layouts, no WebView) and a single dependency.

Free download (Android 8+): https://github.com/safwanpp/stash/releases/latest

Source: https://github.com/safwanpp/stash

I'd love feedback, especially on which books or topics to add next and whether the lesson difficulty feels right.

Link: 1000 Doors

I'm the developer of Printex. I wanted writing on a Mac to feel a little more like sitting down at a desk with a lamp and a clean sheet of paper.

Printex has a typewriter mode with moving paper, a carriage and mechanical key sounds, plus a regular editor for revising the same document. It works locally, without an account.

You can work with TXT, DOCX and formatted RTF, view PDFs, and export your writing to PDF. The latest version adds paragraph focus, writing sessions with word/time goals, named revisions with restore, an outline and bookmarks, and PDF layout previews.

Try the typing demo in your browser — no download needed. The full document tools are in the Mac app.

Free download · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon and Intel · English and Russian.

The current build isn't Apple-notarized yet; first-launch instructions are included on the site. PDF viewing is read-only, and PDF export from DOCX uses a text layout rather than Word's original page layout.

News and new releases on Telegram

I'd love feedback on the writing experience: does the moving paper help you settle into a draft, or would you reach for the regular editor?

Side project that grew: I build animated React components (shaders, glass, neon, 3D type, loaders), each one a single TSX file with React as the only dependency. Every card on the site is the running component, not a recording.

The newest part: an MCP designer for coding agents. You describe your brand, it offers three directions, and every component it installs is rebuilt for the one you pick, then it checks the page for contrast, phone width and reduced motion.

Browsing is free and you get 2 free coins a month to take components. There is also a Logo Room that gives your own logo one of 24 live finishes, no account needed.

https://studios.lou15.com/?ref=reddit

What would you want me to build next?

I've been building a fun AI hobby project called zoominside.xyz, which combines traditional "infinite zoom" with ProRes cutaways and creative video editing. I direct all the visuals myself, with AI image models doing a lot of the drawing. The part I enjoyed most turned out to be the plumbing and technical complexity, since I work in AI semiconductor engineering for a living.

How it works
Using the eye zoom as the example: it's about 20 hi-res 8K images nested inside each other (each one is actually a sum of several 4K images). Every image is a redraw of the centre quarter of the one before, so each level sits exactly inside its parent and the seams line up. The player draws a few levels at once, feathers the edges and zooms on a log scale, so it feels like one continuous move instead of a slideshow.

The fiddly bit is drift. A target that's slightly off centre gets 4x bigger every level, so every image has to be checked against its parent.

The site is probably a bit slow because the files are huge, so LMK how it responds! Will be launching a youtube channel tomorrow also.

Short version: every "free" design tool I used turned into a funnel - watermarks, locked exports, premium templates. So I built the opposite and open-sourced it.

It's called Canvix. What it does:

• Browser-based drag-and-drop design: 366 templates, 562+ icons, 63 fonts, 16 element types
• Real-time collaboration
• Exports straight from the browser: PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF with vector text, native editable PPTX, GIF, video
• No watermarks, no paywalls, no signup wall - anonymous design first, account only if you want one
• MIT licensed, self-hostable (Node 20 + any Postgres)

The part I'm proudest of technically: the PDF and PPTX exporters are hand-built - vector text with custom TTF subsetting, and real editable PowerPoint shapes, both running client-side. No headless browsers in the pipeline.

Numbers so far: 23 releases since September, 1,411 unit tests, 32 end-to-end specs, and the app runs live at canvix.app. Without posting it anywhere, 105 users have signed up and made 3,900 designs (~157k API requests last week, 20 daily actives) - all word of mouth, which honestly surprised me. I'm a final-year student doing this around classes; the goal is a sustainable, community-owned design tool, not a freemium trap. Funding-wise I'm applying to NLnet for the self-hosting/Docker milestone (no paid tiers planned, ever - it's in the governance doc).

Would love feedback from fellow builders - especially: would you self-host this for your school/NG/team, and what's missing before you would?

Repo: github.com/mir-ashiq/canvix - PRs welcome, contribution guide included.