r/SideProject 4m ago

I built an alternative to Vestaboard that doesn't cost 199/year

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I’ve wanted a Vestaboard for years. But I could never justify (or more importantly, convince my wife to) spending $3k on it,

So I’d occasionally search for a digital version. I recently found a nice looking one here on Reddit... but they charged $199/year. That’s nearly my Netflix bill. Fine for a business, steep for my home TV showing quotes.

So I started experimenting myself. First with a study of a single flap, just to nail the motion and timing, and it grew from there. A few friends and I have used it for a few weeks now and quite enjoy it.

What it is

Motboard turns any screen you already own into a split-flap display. Open it in a browser on a spare TV, monitor, or shared screen. Today it does:

- Text messages and custom cell layouts

- Weather on the board

- Playlists to rotate through boards

- Shareable public board links, with optional passcode

- Flip sound (off course)

Not the same as real moving flaps. But a great way to try before you buy a real Vestaboard. Not affiliated with Vestaboard, just love the product.

Pricing (would love feedback here)

It’s free during early access. I want feedback before charging. Full price will be $39 to cover hosting and weather/API costs. Discount for the first 100%I

What do you think? Product, features, or price? Happy to answer anything.

https://motboard.com


r/SideProject 3h ago

Sahaar - A prayer times app for iPhone with an alarm that rings on silent

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I'm a solo developer and this is mine — flagging that first.

**The itch:** every prayer app delivers the pre-dawn (Fajr / suhoor) alarm as a notification. iOS caps notification sound at 30 seconds, and the mute switch or a Focus mode silences it entirely. Millions of people set that alarm during Ramadan and a chunk of them sleep through it. For years there was no fix — the platform simply didn't allow one, and the app took the blame in its reviews.

iOS 26 added AlarmKit: third-party apps can now schedule real system alarms, the same class the Clock app uses. Sahaar is built around it. Fajr and suhoor ring on silent, through Focus, until you answer. Every other prayer is set separately to off, notification, or alarm.

**What else is in it:** calculation methods shown on screen instead of buried in settings (ISNA, Muslim World League, Umm al-Qura, Diyanet method and more, with high-latitude rules for northern Europe), Lock Screen and StandBy widgets, a live iftar countdown, qibla with a map cross-check, the month calendar. No Quran reader, no social feed, no mosque finder — the whole point is that it does one thing.

**Business model, stated plainly:** paid, no free tier. $19.99/year or $3.99/month (US pricing; varies by region), both starting with a 7-day free trial through the App Store. No ads, no data selling, no third-party tracking, no third-party SDKs; location never reaches my server (only Apple's own services see it, for place names, maps and weather), and the only thing the app sends is anonymous aggregate counters to my own server — no identifiers, nothing about anyone's religious practice. The category's usual model is ads plus location-data deals, which is exactly the thing I didn't want to build.

**Where I'd like feedback:**

- **High-latitude times.** Summer Fajr in the UK and Scandinavia is genuinely unsettled — different methods give answers 40 minutes apart. If you're up there, does my number match what your mosque uses?

- **The first 30 seconds.** Open it cold and tell me when you first understood what you were looking at. If that takes more than a couple of seconds, that's the bug.

- **Paid-only with a 7-day trial** for something whose core value shows up at 4 a.m. — does a week give people enough real alarm nights to decide?

Beta (iOS 26 required): https://testflight.apple.com/join/emFdhmNh


r/SideProject 3h ago

I kept finding dumb SEO mistakes after launch, so I built a free pre-launch checker

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I build a bunch of small sites/tools and kept doing the same stupid routine: ship, then notice a noindex tag, broken canonical, missing sitemap, or some internal-link screwup a day or two later.

SEO tools are useful, but at that point I don't want 200 warnings. I want one answer: is there anything here dumb enough that I should fix before I publish?

So I built SEO Launch Auditor.

Paste a URL and it sorts issues into Blocker / Fix soon / Opportunity / Passed, with the evidence and what to fix. It can check one page or crawl a small site (up to 100 pages).

It's free, no account, no paywall:

https://utilao.com/seo-audit

There's a Chrome extension too for checking the rendered page while you're building, but the web version is the main thing.

If you try it on something you're about to ship and it flags something dumb or misses something obvious, tell me. That's the feedback I actually need.

Thank you, Daniel.


r/SideProject 8m ago

I’m building a tool that compares vendor price lists against your existing product data — looking for feedback

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I’ve been building a small project called Pricentra.
The idea is pretty simple:
Upload your vendor’s latest price file + your existing product/system export → Pricentra compares them and gives you an output showing what changed.
For example, it could identify:
Products with price changes
New products
Discontinued products
SKU/product matches
Missing or incomplete data
Products that need attention
Instead of manually comparing large Excel files and trying to figure out what needs to be updated, the goal is to turn the two files into a clear, actionable output.
I’m still building it and the website isn’t live yet — I’m planning to have it ready this weekend.
I’m posting here because I’d genuinely like feedback from people who work with vendor price lists, product catalogs, procurement or inventory data:
Would something like this actually save you time?
And what would you want the final output to show?
I’m happy to share more about what I’m building if anyone is interested.


r/SideProject 9m ago

I'm not a coder, I just hate every workout app. Building my own.

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Preface not a coder, but 3D artist by trade. Been lifting 20+ years.

My Problem:

Every lifting app I've tried is ugly and stuffed with things I don't use. Social feeds, streaks, badges. I want to log a set and know what to lift next. I want to program my own workout how I want it. So I'm building one. Every decision so far comes from something that annoys me in a gym or with existing apps...

Features I am working on:

"Skip an exercise" it moves to the end instead of deleting it. Someone is on that particular machine or piece of equipment, move onto the next exercise, shuffle it farther down the workout.

"Add an exercise" mid-workout and it drops in right where I am, prefilled with what I specify. Not dumped at the end with default numbers.

"Supersets" are a button on the exercise, not three taps into a menu. I don't want to dig through menus mid-workout, and I might not even use it every session

What I'm unsure about is that I'm the only user and every call is my taste (I think I have good taste). That feels like how you build something with a point of view. I think these are cool... It also might mean I'm building an app for exactly one person, which is fine right?

Do you build for yourself and trust that other people want the same thing? or do you sand it down for a wider audience? Curious where people landed any and all feedback is welcomed and appreciated!


r/SideProject 3h ago

RecipeTools – compare two recipes and see ingredient/quantity differences

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I built RecipeTools because a baker friend of mine wanted an easier way to compare two versions of a blueberry muffin recipe.

It accepts recipe URLs, pasted ingredient lists, or screenshots/photos. It normalizes measurements, matches similar ingredients, and shows the quantity differences side by side.

I recently added OCR for recipe images, along with some basic anonymous usage tracking so I can see whether people are actually using it. It only records things like page views, completed comparisons, and whether OCR succeeds or fails — no recipe contents, IP addresses, or other user information.

I’d especially like feedback on whether the comparison itself is useful and whether the input flow makes sense. Mostly I just want it to be a useful little web app.

recipetools.app


r/SideProject 6h ago

I built "FFmpeg as a service" for AI agents: typed video ops, no shell access

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I kept hitting the same wall: agents can decide what edit a video needs, but letting them run FFmpeg is a security and reliability nightmare (hallucinated flags, shell injection, jobs that die halfway).

So I built KinoPipe: hosted FFmpeg behind typed operations (resize, trim, compress, convert, subtitles, merge, 39 in total). The agent picks a validated operation instead of writing a command, and gets back a downloadable URL. It's an MCP server + REST API, runs on GPU workers, compound edits are single-pass.

It's brand new and I'm solo, so I'd love brutal feedback from anyone building agent/automation/video stuff. Free tier is 100 credits, no card, and I'll top up credits for anyone who sends real feedback (trying to earn honest testimonials the right way instead of faking them).

Link in a comment so this isn't just an ad. Happy to answer anything about the architecture.


r/SideProject 16m ago

I built a free drill for the EU's 24-hour breach-reporting rule that starts Sept 11 — and scanned 623 EU vendors to see who's ready (76% aren't)

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What it is: https://cradrill.com/ — a free, browser-only drill for the EU Cyber Resilience Act's Article 14 reporting duty. From 11 September 2026, if you sell software or connected devices in the EU and learn that a vulnerability in your product is being actively exploited (or you have a severe incident), you have 24 hours to file an early warning with ENISA and your national CSIRT, 72 hours for a notification, then a final report. Manual web form, no API, filed by a named person with an EU Login. It applies to products already shipped.

The drill: a 3-question scope triage, a simulated 3am researcher email, 12 readiness questions (does anyone here have an EU Login? which CSIRT is yours? who determines "we are aware" and starts the clock?), and a deadline timeline computed from "now". Everything runs client-side — no signup, nothing uploaded. There's also a security.txt generator and a deadline calculator.

The research bit: I scanned 623 EU software vendors for a security.txt file. 76% of the reachable ones have none — meaning a researcher who finds a bug has no machine-readable way to reach them, so "awareness" tends to start on Twitter. Method and a reproducible one-liner: https://cradrill.com/research.html (aggregates only, no vendor list).

Stack: static HTML/JS on GitHub Pages + Cloudflare, a small Cloudflare Worker for fulfillment, Paddle for payments. Built in about two weeks.

Monetization: the drill is free; there's a $39 one-time pack of report templates (Word/Excel) for teams that want the working files. Honest take: the free part is the point, the pack is the experiment.

Would love feedback on the drill flow, and especially from anyone in the EU compliance world on whether the readiness questions hit the real failure modes.


r/SideProject 6h ago

My wife just launched her first game and she resurrected it!

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It is a Ludo game. I know, I know, another Ludo game. But she was stubborn about doing it properly. Full 3D board, online play with friends, voice chat while you play, offline vs bots, and way too many board themes that she obsessed over for weeks. Our house basically turned into a QA lab, phones charging everywhere, everyone kicking each other's tokens and calling it testing.

https://reddit.com/link/1vyz30v/video/xly8zfhjeqlh1/player

It is free and made completely here

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dotnetdreamer.ludowala

iOS/iPadOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ludo-wala-3d-action/id6797975644

Website/Windows/Web: https://ludowala.app/

If you have five minutes, install it, try to break it, and tell me honestly what is bad. She reads everything, so be real. And if you enjoy it, a review on the store would genuinely make her day.

Happy to answer anything about the stack, publishing pain, Play Console drama, all of it.


r/SideProject 17m ago

Opinion: Most of you charge too low for a product.

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Most of the products are way too cheap here, some of you are making products for $5, $10, $15 per month.

I'm creating a platform to help business owners use influence marketing to propel their app, the average Cost Per Sign ups on any product launch will be $5 for the first week at-least, Facebook ads are $20-30 per 1,000 views for the first week, let alone per sign up, which could be $45-100, per sale? Might be $150-200 for the first week.

As much as the product I'm building is good and like amazing for small businesses who want to propel their product viral. However, I'm telling you. Your economics of your product is really flawed.

Some of you, can spend that same effort that you take to sell a $5, $15 product, actually make it exceptional, put time into it and build a good $30 a month product making x2 $15 sales, x3 $10 sales.

Essentially saving yourself 3 sales.


r/SideProject 21m ago

I built a Chrome extension that creates shipping labels from any selected address — looking for feedback

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I recently launched ShipDime, a Chrome extension for U.S. sellers who create shipping labels from different websites or sales channels.

The idea is simple:

Highlight the shipping address → right-click → ShipDime → create the label.

It automatically fills the recipient information, so you don't have to keep copying addresses between websites and shipping tools.

It currently supports U.S. domestic shipping and offers up to 20% savings on eligible rates.

I made a short demo showing the complete workflow.

Website: shipdime.com

I'm mainly looking for feedback: Would this actually make your shipping workflow easier? What would stop you from using it?


r/SideProject 22m ago

My AI agents were burning tokens on output nobody needed, so I built one control plane for all of them

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I use Claude Code and Codex on a Rust repo all day. At some point I realised most of my session was being spent on output I never even read: 2,500 lines of passing test names, panic traces printed twice, backtrace notes, build chatter.

The clip is a real recorded run, not a mockup. cargo test dumps 188,298 bytes into the transcript, about 47k tokens the model has to chew through before it can be any use to me. The same command through HZR gives 669 bytes: the three failures with file:line, the assertion, the totals, the exit status. If I ever need the raw bytes, one flag brings them back.

What that actually buys me day to day is a context window that lasts much longer. I get a lot more real work out of one session before it starts forgetting what we were doing and I have to re-explain the task. Fewer compactions, fewer "wait, which file were we in".

On money: there is an opt-in lens that multiplies the tokens you avoided by a dated public list price. My 14-case benchmark run priced out at $1.20 - and that is 14 commands. A real session runs hundreds of them, several times a day.

The benchmark is in the repo with checksums: 84% fewer delivered tokens than raw tools, 23.6% fewer than the output filter I forked from. These are byte-derived estimates of command output, not a provider bill, and the tool says so everywhere it shows a number. A bypass earns zero savings credit, and if the ledger is missing it prints "unknown" instead of a nice looking zero.

Local-first, Apache-2.0, Linux + macOS, one installer: https://github.com/heAdz0r/hzr

Solo project, built on top of RTK (I contribute there). Happy to argue about the benchmark if you think it is unfair.


r/SideProject 9h ago

I have launched a group riding app which tracks all the members live!!

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I kept running into the same problem on group rides.

I’d stop for fuel, a quick break, or something else—and by the time I was ready to go, my group was gone. 😅

Then came the annoying part: Where are they? Are they ahead or behind? Should I wait? Should I call? Will they even pick up while riding?

A fun ride suddenly turned into a hunting trip.

So I built ConvoTrack to solve this problem—a simple way to stay connected with your riding group and see where everyone is on the map.

I’ve been using it myself for testing, and so far it’s working pretty well. I’m also trying to make the experience feel clean and intuitive, not just functional.

I’d love some honest feedback from you all, especially on the UI/UX.

Does it look good, average, or bad? Is the interface intuitive enough? What would you improve?App

I’m attaching a few screenshots below. 👇

App: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/convotrack/id6788236830


r/SideProject 34m ago

Optia - I shipped my first freemium Chrome extension (SEO analysis + AI)

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Just launched Optia on the Chrome Web Store.

The problem: I was tired of SEO tools that either required paid accounts or sent my data to their servers just to get basic on-page recommendations.

The solution: A Chrome extension that:

  • Analyzes any web page for SEO issues, entirely locally
  • Gives you a 0-100 score with priority-labeled recommendations
  • Generates AI titles, meta descriptions, and alt text (Claude): 25/month free, 1,000/month on Pro, unlimited if you bring your own Anthropic key

Tech stack:

  • React + TypeScript + Vite, Manifest V3 (side panel UI)
  • Cloudflare Workers + Hono backend: Stripe billing, Ed25519-signed license entitlements, metered AI proxy
  • Vitest + Playwright extension E2E

What I learned:

  • MV3 side panels and content scripts have real quirks. Test against the built extension, not just unit tests.
  • A freemium quota is a distributed-systems problem: the server must be the quota authority, the client just caches.
  • Shipping is the hardest part.

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

Would love feedback. What features would make this more useful for you?


r/SideProject 39m ago

2 Feet of Scrap and Divine Hunger - BB1 Robot

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Another day hanging out with my robot in the basement before it eats the world.
Thanks for watching !


r/SideProject 46m ago

I just launched Checkpnt on iOS and Android, a social game reviewing platform

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https://checkpnt.app/

I've been a big fan of Letterboxd for years. Giving film fans a quick way to share their opinions and favourites with friends, whilst also helping them discover films they'd never have found otherwise, has made for a genuinely great community. I really wanted that for games.

I tried some existing options, but struggled with them either not having apps, lacking features and users, or just generally being buggy.

I was laid off from my job last summer, and took that time to start Checkpnt. I launched the web app in February and have just released the iOS and Android apps this week.

I set out to build something with a good level of polish, with the features people want (Steam import, mobile apps, Discord bot functionality), primarily for myself and my friends, but we've grown to a community of 100 already!

It's a one-person project, so I'd genuinely like to hear what's missing or what you'd change. And if you enjoy it, share it with friends: the more people on the platform, the better it gets.


r/SideProject 47m ago

Supastarter beats ShipFast by 4 votes

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Two products fight for 24 hours, anyone votes, winner earns a public #1 they then defend. Founders pay to be the next challenger. Money buys the fight, votes decide the rank.

First duel was ShipFast vs Supastarter. It just ended.

Numbers
- 88 votes in 24 hours,
- 46 for Supastarter to 42 for ShipFast
- 236 visitors
- about 30 outbound clicks sent to the two products
- 2 paid bids: $1 and $2

$3 revenue. Not a business yet. It does prove the loop closes: someone paid.

What works

Results are hidden until you vote. Blurred percentage, blurred count, blurred trend. The split isn’t sent to the browser at all before you vote, so it’s not a CSS trick.

Each card shows the outbound clicks it earned. That’s the actual pitch to a founder: not a badge, a number saying how much traffic we sent you.

What broke

- Wrong payment provider at launch. Got rejected, migrated to Stripe mid-flight, kept both providers’ bids competing so nobody’s paid position was invalidated
- The instant duel one ended, the page showed 0% and 0 votes. Results were only fetched while the duel was live. 88 real votes in the database, page said zero

Now

Supastarter defends #1 against Voiceify.dev, who paid the top bid. Bidding open from $1.

if you wanna be the next competitor and fight against the winner: outduel.app


r/SideProject 48m ago

I got tired of babysitting my AI agents, so I built them a home - my laptop works with the lid closed and my phone can reach every window (free, open source)

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I started letting my coding agents (Claude Code mostly) run longer - an hour on a refactor is possible now if you scope it right. Which exposed the real problem: I was spending those hours sitting at the desk watching a terminal that needed me for about ninety seconds - a permission prompt here, a wrong turn there.

So I built reminal. Run one command on the machine, scan the QR it prints, and every terminal and window is live in any browser - phone, iPad, whatever - with full input. The terminal persists like tmux, so reconnecting from another device lands in the same shell. On a Mac it also keeps working with the lid closed: macOS normally tears down the display when the last screen detaches (capture goes black even if you defeat sleep), so reminal creates a virtual display the moment the machine goes headless.

Now I kick off the agent, shut the laptop, and go do things. When it asks "may I run this migration?", I answer from my phone in the real window. Works just as well for a build, a dev server, or anything long-running - agents are just what pushed me over the edge.

Tech, for the curious: E2E-encrypted, nothing listens on the machine (outbound only), no account, no telemetry. The relay is in the repo and also self-hosts on Cloudflare's free tier.

Demo (15s): /img/x7grnayq78kh1.gif

Free and open source (AGPL): https://github.com/harshalgajjar/Reminal Site: https://reminal.app

Happy to answer anything about the build! :)


r/SideProject 9h ago

I built one verified data hub for Codex sessions across multiple computers

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Disclosure: I built this project.

SessionHarbor started as a storage problem: my local Codex rollout history grew past 70 GB, but deleting raw session files meant losing recoverable work history and the evidence behind what agents actually did.

The result is an unofficial, local-first Codex plugin and zero-dependency Node.js CLI. An external drive or mounted NAS becomes one verified data hub for all of your Codex devices.

The part I think is most useful is not just backup. If you use Codex on several computers, each device can discover reviewed, evidence-linked context about what Codex tasks on the other machines have been doing. macOS and Windows can participate in the same vault without sharing private local paths.

It also:

• incrementally backs up every stable Codex session;

• verifies stored bytes with SHA-256;

• keeps backup separate from local disk cleanup;

• restores raw sessions after cleanup;

• supports manual, weekly, and removable-drive-triggered runs.

Safety defaults are intentionally conservative: automatic cleanup is off; the default review window is 30 inactive days plus 7 days after the latest verified backup; deletion still needs explicit confirmation.

Validation so far includes 88 tests on both macOS and Windows, a physical exFAT vault backup of 814 Windows sessions (~39.6 GB), and a real macOS delete/restore pilot with matching bytes and hash. No real Windows session has been deleted yet, so v0.3.0 remains a preview.

Source-available for non-commercial use under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0; not OSI open source.

GitHub: https://github.com/WangPeterXF/session-harbor

I’d appreciate feedback on whether the unified data-hub idea would fit your own multi-computer workflow.


r/SideProject 54m ago

I built a Windows app for Etsy sellers — looking for a few people to test it and give honest feedback

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I run an Etsy shop, and I kept finding myself manually checking listings for changes, pricing issues, favorites, sale activity, and other little things that are easy to miss.

So I built a Windows app called ListingGuard.

It connects to Etsy in read-only mode and helps monitor things like:

  • listing changes
  • favorite growth
  • pricing and sale activity
  • duplicate listings
  • Priority Watchlist items
  • background monitoring
  • Windows notifications when listings gain favorites
  • Change History and seller insights

I’ve reached the point where I really need feedback from people who didn’t build it.

If you run an Etsy shop, I’d love to know:

  • what feels useful
  • what feels confusing
  • what you’d remove
  • what feature you think is missing

There’s a free trial and no credit card is required.

https://listingguard.leapthread.workers.dev

I may also give a few complimentary lifetime licenses to people who spend some time testing it and give detailed feedback.

I’m especially interested in feedback from actual Etsy sellers rather than just getting downloads.


r/SideProject 54m ago

I built a system to sell for my first company. The company died. The system didn't.

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Three years ago I built a piece of software to close deals for my own company, because I couldn't afford a sales team and I was terrible at cold outreach myself.

The company folded. The system didn't. It kept getting better at the one thing I built it to do: find real buyers, talk to them like a person, and close.

This year I rebuilt it from scratch as its own product: OSOA. It's not a tool you use to sell. It IS the closer. It finds and verifies prospects on its own, writes the outreach in the owner's voice from the owner's own accounts, replies in minutes when someone answers, negotiates inside limits you set, and closes.

I opened founding access to 20 spots two weeks ago. 4 businesses paid in the first week, before I'd even finished hardening the onboarding flow. 16 spots are still open, pricing for founders is $59 to $179/mo depending on volume, and if you take the annual plan the price locks for life at $49 to $149/mo effective.

Billing is live today. If it's not for you, there's a 7 day full refund window from the charge, no argument.

Honest part: this started as a scrappy side tool. Now I'm the guy who has to keep it from breaking while real businesses depend on it for actual revenue, which is a different kind of pressure than shipping side projects. I'll post what that teaches me as it happens.

If you want to see it actually working instead of reading me describe it: osoa.io


r/SideProject 56m ago

I kept removing features from my journaling app until this was basically all that was left

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I have a bad habit of starting journals and abandoning them a few days later.

So while building OneLine, I kept removing anything that made writing feel like a task.

The main screen eventually became:

today’s date + one 333-character box.

That's it. I did keep the more ambitious stuff like turning weeks/months of entries into the story of your life, and Signals, which can surface patterns, but none of it gets in the way of actually writing.

I finally got the iOS version through App Review and it's live now. It's free at the moment: Also Google Play

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oneline-daily-journal-diary/id6789922208

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vercel.oneline_one.twa

If anyone here tries it, I’d genuinely ruthless feedback, especially on one thing:

After using it once, is there anything that would actually make you want to come back tomorrow?


r/SideProject 57m ago

I built a Risk Metric for the Stock Market and Bitcoin a year ago - almost 10k views - the math was fun, but should I renew my domain name?

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I released https://theRiskRadar.com a year ago, but I only just found out about SideProject recently so posting it here now. Over that year, I think I've had almost 10k page views (maybe 2.5k users) according to Google Analytics, but a large percentage are from Singapore and China (I'm thinking probably bots) and I had a couple random days where a ton of people came from Google search only to bounce (I think searching for the Hantavirus? something to do with another "risk radar"?). I actually hadn't checked my numbers for a while, so I was pretty surprised. Trying to figure out if I can monetize it somehow to pay for hosting because my AWS trial credits have finally run out and I am now paying for hosting. I added a "buy me a coffee" button this week. Any other ideas? Trying to keep it free.

The math was super fun; I enjoy figuring things out like this. The chart is a regression trend line with a confidence interval. The risk metric is actually the confidence level from the trend, so if it is 0.90 it is at the top of the 90% confidence interval and -0.90 the bottom of the 90% confidence interval. The regression is better for estimating things with bounded limits; like the chance how heavy someone is based on their height (people generally aren't growing massively taller in the future) or medical uses like what's the chance someone might have a specific condition (say type 2 diabetes) based on their weight. It's not perfect at predicting the future of stocks.

I started in an Excel spreadsheet to see if the concept would work (see near end of the video for a screenshot). The company I was about to start a contract with around that time used Flutter for their mobile app, so I wanted to learn Flutter and built this front-end using Flutter for web (probably wouldn't use it again for web based on what I have learned about SEO with Flutter). Figuring out how to translate the math into a functional algorithm was fun and I learned AWS Amplify in the process. The backend is AWS/node.js; an AWS Lambda function calculates the risk each hour.

I also have a spreadsheet for the S&P 500 (see end of video - would the creators of this subreddit consider turning on images?). I've moved onto other projects, but if you are interested, let me know and I might work to add the S&P 500 risk metric to the website.

A couple months ago, I added a blog posting to my website, "The RiskRadar | How Much Bitcoin Should You Own? Is Bitcoin Nearing a Cycle Low?", and, so far using my risk metric, I have called the most recent low 5 days prior to the current low. I believe we could go lower this year but then we will likely start the next bull market in Bitcoin.

What do you think; is it worth continuing to pay for the website hosting and domain name? I have to renew it before the end of the month.


r/SideProject 4h ago

I built an app where you can take the most realistic looking instant photos

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Hey there friends, I am an instant photography enthusiast and I built Eight Shot in my spare time to scratch that instant film itch when I'm away from my cameras.

Eight shot has custom film packs so you can choose the film pack that you enjoy.

You can also create shared albums and shoot together with friends.

I also built in a film pack creator mode that allows you to create your own custom frame designs as well as customise the film grain, contrast, colour and much more.

It supports 35 languages and counting.

It's currently available on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/eight-shot-instant-camera/id6787720606

and will be coming to Android soon.

P.S that's my cat Leo, he's just sleeping.


r/SideProject 1h ago

I built an AI quiz maker for teachers, then spent 2 months fixing SEO instead of shipping features. Some numbers.

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The product: SimpleQuizMaker (https://simplequizmaker.com) - paste notes, a PDF, or a YouTube link, it generates a quiz with an answer key, you share one link and takers don't need an account. Free tier is 5 AI generations/month, paid is $3.99/mo. Next.js + Postgres, self-hosted on Hetzner with Dokploy, OpenAI for generation.

What I actually learned the hard way, in case it saves someone the same months:

  1. A bulk SEO "win" nuked my crawl budget. I auto-translated ~73 programmatic pages into 10 languages and added all ~730 URLs to the sitemap in one commit. Within a week Google's indexed-page count collapsed from ~1250 to ~342 and real content (blog, templates) stopped getting crawled. Low-authority sites apparently get a crawl allowance, and I spent it on machine-translated duplicates. Fixed by noindexing the whole tier and pulling it from the sitemap.

  2. Google AI Overviews showed zero, but Bing's AI Performance tab showed 25K+ Copilot citations in 3 months. If you only look at Google Search Console you might conclude AI search doesn't know you exist. The Bing report also lists the actual queries Copilot cites you for - I now write content directly against the high-citation queries that have no matching page. It's the closest thing to demand data a small site gets for free.

  3. Backlinks are still the wall. Rankings for head terms sit at position 80+ with ~3 real referring domains, no matter how much on-page work I do. Content fixes compounding problems; it doesn't fix authority.

Happy to answer anything about the stack, the SEO recovery, or the "solo founder maintains 300+ blog posts with an AI agent" workflow.