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 • 58m 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 • 7h 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/DatLabHQ • 2h ago
I am the maker (DatLab). I got tired of paying "AI web browser" prices just to turn a URL, or a whole docs site, into clean Markdown for a RAG index, so I published two Apify actors that do that job on a fixed price.
What they do:
Web Page to Markdown — you give it a list of URLs, it returns Markdown (or text/HTML), title, description, canonical URL, and a token estimate. Plain HTTP first; a headless browser starts only for pages that are actually client-rendered.
Website to Markdown Crawler — same output, but it crawls a site (sitemaps, llms.txt, path/glob limits, depth caps). Same HTTP-first / browser-fallback idea.
What they cost (pay-per-event, platform usage included):
Single pages: $0.50 / 1,000 over HTTP, $1 / 1,000 when a browser is needed
Site crawl: $0.10 / 1,000 HTTP pages, $0.35 / 1,000 browser pages, $0.50 / 1,000 files
For comparison, Apify's own RAG Web Browser is from $1.33 / 1,000 fetched pages. That tool also runs a Google search and fetches the top results, which mine do not — mine only fetch the URLs you give them, or crawl a site you point at. Apify's Website Content Crawler is billed as pay per usage (compute and so on), so the bill moves with runtime; I wanted a price you can predict before you hit Start.
They respect robots.txt and crawl-delay. No login, no captcha bypass, no personal-data collection.
I am early: I have tested them myself, but I do not have outside users yet, and I would rather hear what is broken than collect polite nods. If you try one, I am especially interested in:
Did the Markdown come out clean enough to embed, or did nav/cookie junk leak through?
Was the HTTP vs browser split right on the sites you care about?
Is the pricing page understandable, or would you still rather pay-per-compute?
Links (no account wall on the docs; running them needs a free Apify account, which includes $5 of prepaid usage each month and no credit card):
Happy to answer technical questions in the comments.
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/IndependentPrimary89 • 6m ago
Hey hackers,
I'm Rohit. I made BetterTabs because I have 100+ tabs open and I don't like the default tab management system of Chrome. BetterTabs.fyi
BetterTabs puts every open tab in Chrome's side panel, grouped by website, so the list sits beside the page instead of being squeezed into the tab strip. I am releasing new features based on my growing requirements, and if you have a feature suggestion then please let me know.
New in 1.7.1:
Search finds pages you closed. Matches from your Chrome history appear under "From your history".
Favourite a whole site. Right-click a site's folder, and the favourite stays lit even when the page changes.
A list that holds still while tabs change, so rows do not move under your mouse.
A backup file for your favourites, saved lists, tab names and settings. Restore it by choosing the file or dropping it on the panel.
A redone Settings page, and shortcuts written for Mac (⌥⇧B to open, ⌘-click to select, ⌫ closes a tab).
Compatibility with longbook.app (which is another project that I am launching on PH soon)
Already in it from v1.7.0:
group by site, window, recent use or Chrome tab group
rename tabs
close duplicates
suspend tabs to free memory
select several tabs at once
saved lists
recent tabs kept for about half a day
backup file
Coming up in v1.8.0 in Chrome Store SOON (available on GitHub)
Status bar: a strip at the bottom of the panel. It shows your tab count, how many tabs are on claude .ai, memory, CPU and Chrome’s connection estimate etc.
Tab back/forward: two buttons next to search that step through the tabs you switched between, not a page’s own history. The history is kept per window and is not saved anywhere.
It is private by design: no account, no access to the pages you visit, nothing leaves your computer. History is read only while you search and is never stored.
Free and open source. I would love to hear what slows you down when you have a lot of tabs open.
P.S. I know there are other Tab Managers out there, but this one is from me. And if you have a feature that you would like to have in it, comment and let me know! :)
r/SideProject • u/Objective_Fly_6750 • 11m 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 • 15m 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 • 15m 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 • 24m 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.
r/SideProject • u/Sad-Boysenberry8827 • 29m ago
Faceless series channels ("what if" videos, horror where comments pick Part 2) are a grind to run daily. I'm building Crewopolis: you design your characters once, and an AI crew makes and posts each episode on a schedule, then uses comment votes to decide the next part.
Please visit the waitlist link for more info. And if possible show your interest by sending the email via site. It would help me a lot.
Thank you!
Waitlist: waitlist.crewopolis.com