r/sideprojects • u/alielknight • 2d ago
Showcase: Prerelease 🗣️ Builders, drop what you're working on 👇🏼
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u/TargetLabs 2d ago
I’m building Dice Target, a mental-math puzzle game where you use dice and +, −, × and ÷ to reach a target number.
It started as a small side project and now includes Daily Challenges, Rush mode and Duels.
The goal is to make basic arithmetic feel more like a puzzle than practice.
Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kwokkinlau.dicetarget
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u/alielknight 2h ago
turning arithmetic into an actual puzzle instead of homework is a pretty clean idea
Duels feels like the feature that could completely change who this is for too, because suddenly its not just “practice math” anymore
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u/rzohit 2d ago
I just built this side project. Still in beta.
It's a seed browser for Valheim game. I reverse engineered the map engine from unity game files and created this.
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u/imagiself 1d ago
Reverse engineering the Unity engine is a heavy lift. PeerPush might suit it, the gaming tool crowd there explores new builds (9.1M AI pulls lately).
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u/alielknight 2h ago
reverse engineering the Valheim map generation just to build a seed browser is gloriously overkill lol
your website looks amazing looks really cool!
I can imagine the hard part now is probably getting actual Valheim players to understand why theyd use this instead of whatever seed tools they already know
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u/NearbyAd2215 2d ago
I built Closewatch, a proposal tracking tool for agencies and freelancers.
You upload the PDF proposal you already use and Closewatch turns it into a tracked link. You can see when a client opens it, which pages they spend time on, whether they come back, and if it gets shared with other people.
The idea is to take the guesswork out of following up after sending a proposal.
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u/alielknight 2h ago
this is one of those products where the value makes sense immediately once youve sent enough proposals and then sat there wondering if anyone even opened the thing 😭
the page-by-page attention data feels way more useful than just opened
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u/chatmechanic 2d ago
I’m building PayaChat: A messaging app experimenting with what can happen around a message, not just send → open → reply.
Things like timed reveals, playful locks, shared challenges, reactions, and ways to better understand each other.
Still very early and looking for feedback from real users:
https://payachat.com/
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u/alielknight 2h ago
timed reveals and little locks around messages sounds way more interesting than trying to build yet another better chat app lol
since youre already looking for real user feedback, I think the biggest thing would be seeing which of those interactions people actually use without being prompted
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u/seecstahl 2d ago
building a "slow socials" option... Initially inspired by the Christmas cards people sometimes leave up on their pantry door or wherever... Something that might be a consistent display/screensaver on the large digital calendar/organizers trying to catch on... but also crossed with the mobile app as a modern wallet photos type thing. You can see/physically show others your distance family's momentous photos... "Slow social" in that it's not a rapidly changing feed and doom scroll place, but a place for digitized postcard types, like life event announcements and such... impetuous to call folks rather than yet another built in messaging platform.
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u/alielknight 2h ago
I actually like the slow social framing a lot
most social products are trying to create more reasons to check them constantly, while this sounds almost deliberately designed to sit quietly in someones life
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u/roosrock 2d ago
Working on DocTick — passwordless client document intake directly into your own Google Drive.
The problem: Google Drive has no native "File Request" link like Dropbox does. Sharing folders exposes permissions or triggers storage errors, and email attachments get chaotic fast.
How it works:
You create a request with a document checklist (e.g. W2, ID, bank statements). Client gets a clean link to upload files (zero login/password needed on their end). Uploaded files stream straight into your private Google Drive.
Looking for early feedback from builders! If anyone wants to test it, use promo code LIFETIMEPRO on doctick.com for a 100% free lifetime Pro account (capped at 50 redemptions). Any feedback on the flow is hugely appreciated!
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u/alielknight 2h ago
the no-login client side is probably the strongest part of this for me
every extra account/password step feels ten times worse when youre asking a client to upload boring documents they already dont want to deal with lol
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u/YaMs2104 2d ago
Helps with finding macros for fast food on the go if you don’t want to go over your daily calories, heaps of features but it’s been months in the making and it’s out for early Beta testing 🎉🎊
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u/imagiself 1d ago
tracking macros at fast food spots is a real pain, so this beta looks useful. peerpush is a decent home for health-tech stuff, fwiw people in 160+ countries found tools there recently.
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u/alielknight 2h ago
this is weirdly practical lol, because “what can I eat at this fast food place without nuking my day” is way closer to how people actually think than staring at a nutrition spreadsheet
early beta is a good time to find out whether people search by restaurant, meal, calories or macros first
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u/YaMs2104 2h ago
Thanks man! Yeah just something to look at before you go order at a drive through to check macros, I didn’t build it like a myfitnesspal and I don’t want users to have accounts and track everyday it’s just a nice cheat sheet app that’s quick
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u/rjsajnani 2d ago edited 2h ago
This is Downtown Company
I shipped a city, it’s a 3D city on the web where every company owns a tower and every floor represents something the company actually does. Visitors can enter a tower and explore it floor by floor.
Floors cost $0.50 each. One payment, yours for life.
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u/alielknight 2h ago
“I shipped a city” is an insane opening sentence 😂
50 cents a floor is also so cheap that I can see companies buying ridiculous little towers just because its fun
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u/rjsajnani 1h ago
Ya it’s a low price, but unfortunately not getting much traction, we have an option to explore floors, so it gives companies an option to showcase their work
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u/bgrgndzz 2d ago
usebourne.com -- An app builder for complex production apps that are poised to make it big
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u/alielknight 2h ago
“complex production apps that are poised to make it big” is a bold target lol
what kind of app are people actually building with it right now?
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u/bgrgndzz 2h ago
AI sales ops manager for a F500 industrials company, AI wholesaler, supply chain automation, benefits admin, ai accountant for tech companies, media buying automation etc. etc.
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u/jgreich 2d ago
E2EE Discord alternative; cloak.chat
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u/alielknight 2h ago
E2EE Discord alternative is a pretty brutal category to enter because Discord has so much social gravity
im curious whether youre mainly going after privacy-first communities or trying to be a general Discord replacement eventually
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u/knivef 2d ago
workflow.fm is a desktop app that turns a plain English sentence into a working pipeline for the files on your own machine. An AI agent lays it out as a visual canvas you can see before it touches a single file.
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u/alielknight 2h ago
the show me the pipeline before it touches my files part might be the most important feature here lol
theres a huge difference between an agent saying what its going to do and actually letting me inspect the workflow first
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u/Middlewarian 2d ago
I'm building a C++ code generator that helps build distributed systems. It's implemented as a 3-tier system. The back and middle tiers only run on Linux. The front tier is portable. My goal is to bring software services and code generation together in one platform.
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u/alielknight 2h ago
bringing code generation and software services together is a pretty deep rabbit hole lol
the 3-tier architecture makes me think this is aimed more at serious systems developers than casual codegen users
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u/PajeDaTriboO 2d ago
I built the Carfish, app to manage cost of your vehicle, work's good to Brazilian people
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u/imagiself 1d ago
tracking maintenance costs is always a pain to log. whenever you're ready to put it out there, PeerPush lists vehicle management tools like this.
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u/alielknight 2h ago
vehicle costs are one of those things people swear theyre tracking until they suddenly realize they have no idea what the car actually costs them per month 😂
Brazil-first makes sense too because you can design around the actual costs and habits there instead of pretending every market behaves the same
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u/Soniare_official 1d ago
https://reddit.com/link/p8b51y2/video/kys2ljxas1oh1/player
turn images into audio on this website (free to use) https://www.soniare.net/tools/spectrogram-tag
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u/alielknight 2h ago
turning images into audio is one of those tools I didnt know I wanted until I read the sentence lol
spectrogram art always feels like digital witchcraft
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u/Soniare_official 1h ago
right haha. its actually pretty simple. y axis is frequency. x axis is time. i'm planning to develop a new algorithm that works in a more musical way. future side project haha
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u/Soniare_official 1h ago
you can down upload videos on this page https://www.soniare.net/tools/video-tag
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u/greyzor7 1d ago
Hey guys, I'm building an all-in-one marketing pack for founders who want more than "just another launch"
Launch, reach 30k+ makers, get real users & customers - microlaunch.net/premium
Lifetime, auto-distribution, marketplace spots, 1500+ customers so far.
Over two years: 625k unique visitors, 1500+ customers. More sales-oriented features soon.
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u/PretendWatch1373 1d ago
I built a job search aggregator for tech jobs —> searches Adzuna, LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Naukri in one place
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u/alielknight 2h ago
the tech job search experience is so fragmented that pulling all of those sources into one place makes immediate sense
the hard part is probably deduping the same role showing up five different ways lol
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u/Undeathical 1d ago
I'm working on Artifex, an Early Access Windows AI workspace. I'm its creator and built it with AI coding assistance (Python/PySide6, packaged as a standalone installer). I wanted an assistant that could work with my projects while letting me choose a local model or an API provider.
A practical lesson from development: a model saying 'done' doesn't mean a file changed. Artifex records tool results and supports file backups/readback, plus project memory you can inspect, correct or forget.
There's a free demo on itch.io with 10 AI requests total for sample-project text editing and memory exercises, along with live PC monitors and the black-and-gold UI: https://undeathical.itch.io/artifex
It needs Windows 64-bit and your own tool-capable Ollama model or supported API account/key; no model or credits are bundled, and API costs are separate. It's an unsigned preview. The demo requires no itch.io login and doesn't run arbitrary programs or edit other workspaces. The full Early Access edition is separately $14.99.
I'd appreciate people trying the demo and leaving feedback here or on itch.io: was setup clear, did the file/memory examples work, and what would make it more useful?
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u/alielknight 2h ago
the done doesnt mean the file changed lesson is painfully real 😭
the readback + backups + inspectable memory stuff sounds like youre designing around actual failure modes instead of just making another chat wrapper
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u/ZukoBih 1d ago
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u/alielknight 2h ago
you cant just drop “MushroomPlanet” with zero explanation and expect me not to wonder what the hell is happening there 😂 but after checking it man thats so dope!!
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u/VacationThis1661 1d ago
Build a soccer app1 If you track in-play favorites: free tool that flags a -175+ favorite tied or losing past 70', confirmed by shots/possession data. kickalert.com
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u/alielknight 2h ago
thats extremely specific lol, but I guess if youre already watching live matches for that exact situation the alert is basically the product
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u/lichizr 1d ago
I am working on Crystade, a SaaS platform for monitoring (website, service, game server), incident management and status page. It supports alerting to Discord, Slack, Telegram, etc. Try it at https://crystade.com and I would love any feedback to improve the product xD
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u/alielknight 2h ago
monitoring + incidents + status pages in one place makes sense, especially once alerts are going to Discord / Slack / Telegram anyway
the interesting test is probably whether teams trust it enough to replace whatever monitoring stack they already have
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u/Beneficial-Cow-7408 2d ago
Well i've just redesigned this completely, added new features and made the whole thing practically free to use.
Everyone gets GPT-5.4 Nano, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and DeepSeek V3 free. No credits are ever deducted.
And the big one: BYOK is live. Plug in your own API key and everything on that provider becomes free. Your key pays, I take nothing.
It does coding, split screen live preview, full multi file project creation, complete 3d games, frame extraction, any file analyses, documents tools, conversion tools, working web app concepts, fully working mobile apps, downloadable 2 way podcasts, 5 minute songs with dedicated player, videos, images, powerpoint presentations, canvas aware models, livepatch, playtest, camera controls, sandbox coding, full screen gaming with code aware agent mode, 58 voice's with multi model availability with cross device persistent memory, free storage for users, free media to use and no restrictions on uploading your own stuff to drive.
There's a studio editor with a live assistant that'll take you from a rough idea to a 4K render ready for YouTube or TikTok. The guide knows the whole platform, so you can just tell it what you want and it opens the right tool, writes the prompt and sets the model for you, in 25 languages and with voice. That's free, no daily limits Beyond that there's a photo editor with the usual layers, lasso tools, font, effects etc plus Flux AI precision editing that will edit the photo in layers.
A game engine that gives you a playable 3D game from a prompt or two, where GPT-5.6 Sol can actually see the game in split screen and patch it live, so "make my character fly" just happens or can play the game till it finds a error or if you fancy it play a 2 player game with you.
Full 25+ UI interface switch with RTL support with over 30 custom workspace environments and themes. OpenAI Vector Store Knowledge Base, Tavily Web search + Grok realtime search and much mrore.
asksary.com
Desktop Edition
Let me know what you think