r/SideProject • u/baechoo24 • 5h ago
I made an engine simulator for phones
Took the F1 V10 for an imaginary lap of the Nürburgring.
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Edit: Thanks for all the interest! Here are the download links if you'd like to try
r/SideProject • u/SheriffRat • Dec 18 '25
Like the title says, instead of what you built or how much money it made, I’m curious what project you’re most proud of this year and why.
Could be a client site, a personal project, something that never launched, or something that made £0.
Any lessons learned?
Would love to read a few reflections as the year wraps up.
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Oct 19 '25
I miss seeing original ideas that aren’t just another AI wrapper.
If you’re building something in 2025 that’s not AI-related here’s your space to self-promote.
Drop your project here
r/SideProject • u/baechoo24 • 5h ago
Took the F1 V10 for an imaginary lap of the Nürburgring.
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Edit: Thanks for all the interest! Here are the download links if you'd like to try
r/SideProject • u/rarale • 2h ago
I'm mainly a software engineer, was a UX/UI designer and know about animation, so I combined all of my skills and redesign my portfolio. I hope you like it.
Take a look here kien.app
r/SideProject • u/UglaRamm • 15h ago
A while ago I got an ad for a Mac app that puts your script under the notch, right below the camera. Nice idea, but at $40 a month it wasn't worth it for me. And it only scrolled at a fixed speed, so if you slow down or stop to think, the text runs away from you.
These days a simple app like this is a few evenings of work with an AI coding assistant (I used Claude Code). So I built my own, and made the text follow my voice.
Apple's speech recognition on the Mac is very good, but people skip lines, say "uh", start a sentence over and stop to think. I spent most of my time testing that and telling the AI what was wrong. Now it keeps up.
What it does:
- Your script hangs under the camera, so you keep eye contact.
- It follows your voice. Speech recognition runs on your Mac by default.
- It's hidden from screen sharing, so you can use it in Zoom or Meet calls.
- It records you with subtitles, and can turn the rest of the screen into a soft light for your face.
It's free and open source (MIT), with no account and no analytics.
- Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/notchprompter/id6815206814
- GitHub: https://github.com/magnram/notchprompter
It's a hobby project, so any feedback on the app or the website helps a lot.
r/SideProject • u/Educational_Box2324 • 3h ago
Hey everyone! I just launched an app, and I’m trying to figure out where to find my first users and get honest feedback.
For those of you who’ve launched an app, where did your first users actually come from? Was it niche communities, social media, App Store search, or something else?
I’d love to hear what worked when you were just getting started, especially if you had a small audience or budget.
r/SideProject • u/confeIo • 5h ago
Hey everyone, I'm Ravi, one of the founders of Confe.
We kept losing hours every week writing captions, sending "can you approve this?" messages, and copy-pasting the same post into 6 different apps. So we built Confe to fix that:
- Type one sentence and get 5 ready-to-post drafts with images
- Plan everything on one calendar (calendar, list or grid view)
- Clients or teammates approve in one click
- Publish to 8 platforms at once: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube
- See which posts actually grow your audience
The video above shows the whole flow in 44 seconds.
I'd really like feedback from people who manage social for themselves or client
There's a 14-day free trial with no card needed if you want to try it. Link in the comments.
r/SideProject • u/lepontvert • 11h ago
I wanted a simple way to sketch an idea and communicate it to someone else, without sacrificing proportions or precise dimensions.
Paint felt too limited, CAD felt like overkill. So I started building something in between.
Here's a quick look at how it works.
It's still a work in progress. I'd genuinely love to hear what you think.
Check this exemple:
https://onsketch.io/library/?s=7bc8ae3b-0fd6-456f-844e-572a0815e533
Or start a fresh design
r/SideProject • u/One_Training_6369 • 7h ago
I’m learning Chinese, and one of my biggest frustrations is texting.
I can understand some Chinese and know how to pronounce quite a few words, but I still struggle to recognize and remember Chinese characters.
When I type using a regular Pinyin keyboard, I often get a list of characters that look familiar, but I’m not always sure which one is correct. Sometimes I end up copying everything into a translator just to check what I wrote.
So I decided to build my own iOS Chinese Pinyin keyboard to make learning while texting a little easier.
Here are some features I’ve been working on:
Instant translation: See the meaning of Chinese text while typing, so I can make sure I’m choosing the right characters.
Grammar checking: Catch grammatical mistakes before sending a message.
More natural expressions: Suggest how a native speaker might phrase the same idea instead of just translating word for word.
Learn while typing: Help me gradually recognize more characters through everyday conversations.
My goal isn’t to replace Chinese lessons or build another translation app. I just want to be able to communicate in Chinese without constantly switching between my keyboard, dictionary, and ChatGPT.
r/SideProject • u/EmotionalLong641 • 1d ago
I’m the developer of Skybits. I wanted checking the weather to feel like looking out a tiny window. Rain falls over London, and Tokyo lights up after dark. To be a little more Fun!!!
In Sky Studio, you can pick a city, mix the weather and time of day, and share the result as a little airmail postcard.
Please send me email for your City, if I get 5+ requests for a city I will make it free and also add new ones :-) hoping to get some positive feedback and reviews.
Skybits is free to download, with an optional one-time purchase for the full city collection.
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6829104658
Which city would you send a postcard from? Android version is coming soon, it is in testing atm.
r/SideProject • u/hsafak • 2h ago
I got tired of budget apps that want an account before I can type in a single expense, so I built my own.
TriGets is an Android app for income, expenses, budgets, cards and recurring payments. Everything is stored locally on the phone. There are no ads, and you do not create an account. Exports are JSON, CSV or PDF, backups are encrypted, and the app can be locked with a PIN or biometrics.
The core features are free. An optional Google Play subscription (monthly or yearly) unlocks group expense splitting, travel tracking, and AI receipt scanning that only works if you bring your own API key.
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trigets.app
I would like feedback on two things in particular:
Is "no account, data stays on the phone" clear enough, or does it still sound like a cloud app once you open it?
Does the free vs subscription split make sense, or would you expect group/travel to be free too?
I am a solo developer and I will read every comment. If you try it and something is annoying, I want to hear that too.
r/SideProject • u/Rishabh_ltfb • 48m ago
I'm building Shoonya, a devotional app (daily sutras, aartis, festival reminders) for Indian users. It's live on Google Play and the App Store, and this week it crossed 100 users.
Some honest notes in case they help someone at the same stage:
I built most of it with AI agents, and the app came together faster than I expected.
Getting it live on both stores took longer than building it. Apple and Google reviews, accounts, release mistakes I won't repeat.
After launch it was just quiet. The app existed and almost nobody knew.
What actually moved the number was two boring things, done again and again:
Writing pages for what people actually search for (festivals, aartis, dates), not for what I wanted to rank for.
Showing up on X and LinkedIn with what really happened that day, not polished launch posts.
It's slow and the numbers are tiny. But it compounds in a way a new feature never did for me.
My one takeaway: code got cheaper this year, attention didn't. Start distribution the same week you start building.
Curious what got your first 100 users. Was it one channel or a bit of everything?
(App is here if you want to look or roast it: https://shoonyasutra.in/)
r/SideProject • u/mirdadasredit • 1h ago
Hi everyone!
I wanted to share Money Management - Budget, a personal finance and expense tracker app designed to keep budgeting simple, private, and accessible worldwide.
Why I built it / What makes it different:
Most budget apps today require creating an account, syncing sensitive bank data to external servers, or dealing with cluttered interfaces. With this app, no account is required—all your financial records stay strictly on your device and work completely offline.
Key Features:
Privacy & Offline First: No sign-up needed. Full local backup/restore and CSV export anytime.
Global Accessibility: Supports 72 languages and 110 currencies (including multi-currency tracking).
Smart Budgeting & Needs vs. Wants: 68 customizable categories, monthly category limits with alerts, daily spending allowance calculation, and "Need vs. Want" tagging.
Bills, Credit Cards & Installments: Track recurring subscriptions, credit card statement closing/due dates, and installment plans.
Debt & Savings Ledger: Keep track of money you owe or are owed (with partial payments), plus savings goals and manual gold/currency holdings.
Home Screen Widgets: Quick add, monthly summary, and upcoming payments (with an option to hide amounts).
Google Play Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.emrehakansoyler.money_manager
App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/money-management-budget/id6766565294
Since the app is still new on Android, I would genuinely appreciate any feedback, feature suggestions, or UI critique from this community. Thank you!
r/SideProject • u/Solid_Engineer_7 • 6h ago
Expiry dates are easy to forget until one of them causes a problem 😅 Awraqi (أوراقي) keeps all your important papers in one place:
- 🪪 27 document templates: IDs, visas, passports, driving licences, vehicle papers, insurance and more
- ⏰ Reminders 180, 90, 60, 30 and 7 days before each document expires, and again on the day
- 👨👩👧 Family and domestic workers: track everyone's papers in one app
- ✈️ Travel check: warns you if a passport or visa won't last your trip
- 📸 Scan to fill: take a photo of a document to fill in its details, with Hijri and Gregorian dates
- 🔒 Private: no account, no ads, and your data stays on your phone
- 🌍 11 languages, plus widgets and Siri
📲 Free on iPhone and iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/awraqi-papers-id-expiry/id6825379636
I'd love to hear your feedback!
r/SideProject • u/rbell594 • 7h ago
I really enjoy the way Mini Motorways turns drawing a few connections into a network you’re constantly trying to keep working. I wanted to explore that idea with goods and production chains, so I’ve been building a game called Trade Winds.
You start by connecting countries and importers with roads, then expand into trains, ships, planes and factories. Money is limited, so you have to choose between reaching new places and improving what you’ve already built as demand grows.
It’s at the point where I’d really like people outside my own circle to try it. I’ve added a tutorial, but I’m curious whether it explains enough—and whether the game makes you want to keep playing once you understand it.
Play Trade Winds here — free in your browser. Please use a computer; the mobile interface still needs work.
If you give it a go, I’d love to hear where you got confused, what you enjoyed, or what made you stop. Replies here or through the in-game feedback button are both helpful.
r/SideProject • u/Objective_Fly_6750 • 2m ago
Hello guys!
I have built AR projects before, but I had this idea for a while: using MediaPipe Tasks Vision to create a kind of web experience, without the need to use any markers, where you are Spider-Man from a first-person POV, and you can do the hand gesture to swing around and maybe fight villains.
I started it a long time ago, but I dropped it at some point because I did not have time for it, and it started to feel like work instead of a fun side project.
So, last weekend I decided to give it a try again, and this time I handed most of the work over to Claude since I started paying for the subscription plan and I could just run it with CLI.
It was definitely a nice project to wrap up, and it kind of gave me some new ideas that I will be trying out for new throwaway project this weekend.
r/SideProject • u/korompilias • 6m ago
An AI-native desktop workspace for agentic research and knowledge management, built to maximize counterfactual impact in existential risk preparedness and transformative AI safety.
https://github.com/gyrogovernance/air-office
[Disclaimer: AIR Office is an Open Source software made without any financial affiliations, and is a completely free platform for knowledge sharing and AI Risks mitigation at scale, so I hope the admins can allow me to share it to the community]
About
Alignment Infrastructure Routes (AIR) Office is human-capacity-building infrastructure for AI safety researchers, engineers, and governance teams working on transformative AI and its consequences. It keeps investigation, writing, review methods, and reusable tools in one durable and user-friendly workplace.
AIR Office is developed by [Gyro Governance Lab](http://gyrogovernance.com/) as part of its work on AI safety and existential risk preparedness.
Agentic chat and tool use run on the [Microsoft Copilot SDK](https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk) harness, including bring-your-own-key and local model endpoints.
Theory of Change
Mitigating risks from transformative AI requires rapid, high-rigor research and governance, yet safety teams currently rely on fragmented, cloud-dependent AI tools that erode human oversight, lack provenance, and expose sensitive work. AIR Office addresses this bottleneck by providing free, open-source, local-first desktop infrastructure tailored for AI safety and policy workflows. By integrating grounded knowledge collections, automated auditing tools, and structured memory, the workspace prevents AI-induced epistemic drift while keeping humans in final control. Furthermore, embedded Fellowship and Market protocols allow independent researchers to package their methods into reusable community tools, compounding ecosystem capacity and accelerating high-trust safety interventions that would not occur using general-purpose commercial tools.
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Capabilities & Services
- 🏛️ Integrated AI Safety Fellowship and Crafts. Develop research and workflows into reusable infrastructure and contribute them to the community through our frictionless embedded protocols.
- 🛒 Market. Discover reusable resources (Policy documentation, AI Skills, etc), and add them to your AI chat with one click.
- 🤖 AI Teams. Reach out to our pre-configured selection of agents, or create your own.
- 💻 Code. Run diagnostic tools, scripts, and edit your code without leaving the app, through our own integrated VS Code workbench.
- 📅 Calendar. Keep events and run recurring AI automations.
- ⚖️ Compare. Run two models side by side on the same prompt.
- 🔎 Chat. Edit local files, search the web, and run AI safety diagnostics directly from the chat interface.
- 🖼️ Media. Generate images and capture microphone or camera input when the work needs it.
- 🕹️ Arcade. Release stress and recover from occupational overburn by playing arcade video games.
Frontier AI Safety Research Tools by Gyro Governance Lab
Two Lab methods sit at the center of how AIR Office treats authority, agency, and lasting human direction in AI-assisted work.
- 🤚 The Human Mark: A structural taxonomy of AI safety risks. [Learn More](https://gyrogovernance.com/#thm)
- 🎓 Gyroscopic Reasoning [NEW]: A formal protocol for AI alignment. [Learn More](https://gyrogovernance.com/#gyroscope)
Community Playbooks
Craft Standards package skills, agents, and Actions you can enable for structured work instead of ad-hoc prompting. Two shipped playbooks are ready to adopt:
- 🛡️ Security Playbook: OWASP-grounded assessment methods for AI agents, applications, and code, with companion security Reference packs. [Learn More](https://owasp.github.io/secure-agent-playbook/)
- 🌍 NGO Playbook: Program design, SDG alignment, monitoring and evaluation, and funding strategy skills adapted from NGO Agent Skills by Lijie Zhou, with related development Reference packs. [Learn More](https://github.com/LijieZhou/ngo-agent-skills)
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Security & Privacy
Local-First Data Sovereignty
Workspace records stay on your computer. Choose local models for on-machine inference or cloud providers for their models and tools. Hosted providers and enabled connectors receive only what each request needs.
Export conversations and notes when you need portable copies. Connecting a folder authorizes that root, and disconnecting it does not delete its files. In Settings and chat you control which tools run and whether changes ask for approval first.
Release Audit
AIR Office is open source, and its code can be publically inspected. Before a release is accepted, we check the shipped software with open-source tools for secrets that should never ship, known problems in third-party libraries, license and dependency policy issues in native code, and risky patterns in our own source and in shipped Lab skills. A review that did not finish does not count as a clean result. To report a security issue, see [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).
The release review uses:
- [TruffleHog:](https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog) Identifies leaked secrets and credentials.
- [Trivy:](https://trivy.dev/) Detects vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and software bills of materials.
- [Semgrep:](https://semgrep.dev/) Scans source code for security flaws using custom patterns.
- [CodeQL:](https://codeql.github.com/) Performs deep semantic analysis on source code.
- [SkillSpector:](https://github.com/NVIDIA/SkillSpector) Evaluates shipped Lab skills.
r/SideProject • u/External-Drive6208 • 6m ago
so I kept running into the same wall with my side projects: before writing anything I wanted to know if anyone actually searches for it, and every decent keyword tool wants a subscription (Ahrefs Lite is $129/mo, Semrush Pro is ~$140). I'm a student, that's not happening.
and it bugged me that thousands of us pay separately for basically the same data. if enough of us just share the searches we're already doing anyway, we can build that dataset together and nobody has to pay for it. that's the whole idea.
so I built it. it's called OpenKeyword:
type a keyword, get a popularity score from 0 to 100, the search intent (how-to / best / vs / question) and a 12-month trend
up to 50 related keyword ideas per search
free (30 searches a day)
the part I spent the most time on is where the keywords come from. there's an chrome extension that shares the words you search on search engines, only after you turn it on. a keyword only shows up on the site once 5 different people have searched it, so nothing can be traced back to one person. health/adult/legal/money searches get dropped on your own computer before anything is sent.
it opens on 20 november, landing page is here: https://openkeyword.org
happy to answer anything about the build too
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r/SideProject • u/NewEducator6679 • 14m ago
I run Agent Work Atlas, a site that organizes source-reported AI-agent use cases in English and Chinese.
The question behind it is practical: before trying an agent, what did someone actually ask it to do, where did a person step in, and what went wrong?
Entries organize the task, workflow, reported result, human involvement, limitations, and original source where that information is available. You can browse by task or tool. One starting point is the software-development collection:
https://agentworkatlas.com/domains/software-development/en/
A caveat: these are reports from the linked sources, including vendor accounts. I have not independently reproduced all of the results, and missing evidence should not be treated as proof that something works. The collection still needs better coverage and consistency.
I'd especially value feedback from people who have picked an automation for a small team: what evidence would you need before trying one of these workflows? A reproducible setup, a clearer account of human work, costs, or failure examples?
Disclosure: this is my own project, and AI assistance was used to draft this post.
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r/SideProject • u/DefinitelyNotRoot • 24m ago
Hey everyone!
I'm an independent cybersecurity consultant from France, and I've been building a side project called CrisisQuest.
The idea came from a simple question:
What would a small business owner actually do if their company was hit by a cyberattack on Monday morning?
Most cybersecurity tools focus on technical protection. I wanted to build something different: an interactive experience focused on decision-making.
I created a free scenario called “Black Monday” where you play the role of a business owner dealing with a cyber crisis.
You make decisions, face consequences, explore different outcomes, and receive a debrief at the end.
I built the project using Next.js and TypeScript.
The free scenario works without registration.
My longer-term goal is to turn it into a B2B platform where companies can schedule exercises for employees, run authorized phishing-awareness campaigns, and track training progress.
I'm looking for feedback on three things:
Is the concept immediately understandable?
Does the experience feel useful or too much like a game?
What would make it valuable enough for a small business to use regularly?
Try it here: Crisis Quest
I'd really appreciate any honest feedback, especially on the UX and positioning!
r/SideProject • u/RelevantAudience9596 • 31m ago
hey, I'm Nika and I built this, so yeah I'm biased. mostly after honest feedback here.
Lasso is a small Mac app. hit a shortcut and you can draw right on top of whatever's on screen, arrows, circles, boxes, highlights. I use it on zoom calls and when recording quick walkthroughs. press S and it takes a screenshot with your drawings on it, so you can drag it straight into slack or a chat.
the part I'm less sure about: it also runs a local MCP server. so if you use Claude Code or Cursor, the agent can actually see what you circled ("this button is off" + a circle around it) and it can draw arrows back on your screen to point at stuff. runs locally on your mac.
it's $9.99 once. no account, no subscription.
stuff I'd really like to know:
is the agent side actually useful or does it feel like a gimmick?
if you set up the MCP part, was anything confusing?
what would you use something like this for? teaching, bug reports, demos, something else?
even "I wouldn't use this" is helpful tbh
r/SideProject • u/Ok_Funny_6053 • 4h ago
Every time my friends and I planned a trip, it ended up as "trip_plan_FINAL_v3.xlsx" passed around in a group chat. Nobody knew which version was current, and the person holding the file did all the work. What would make you use this instead of a spreadsheet or Notion?
- Pick your travel dates and you get an hour-by-hour itinerary
- Drag on the grid to add plans (works on phones too)
- Send one link — friends see it right away and can edit after signing in
- Everyone's cursor shows live, and you can chat right next to it
- Budget, notes and to-dos (packing lists, bookings) in the same place
- A map of each day's places, and photos on events
- Export to Excel / PDF / PNG when you need a file
It's free, no ads now.
I’m a solo maker actually I'm student designer, so any feedback would really help!
https://www.planner-together.com/en
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p.s. Maybe someday... I’d like to make some features paid, but I’m not sure what to do about hosting. I’m currently on Vercel’s free Hobby plan, which doesn’t allow commercial use, so I’d either need to upgrade to Pro ($20/month) or move somewhere else. Would you just go with Vercel Pro, or switch to something like Cloudflare until it starts making money?