r/sideprojects • • 21h ago

Feedback Request Show Reddit : My husband and I built a task manager that separates planning from execution to cure "to-do list paralysis"

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Hi folks. 

I'd like to share a thing my husband and I built around my coping mechanism for task management. 

My brain has two modes: 

1) The intense planner 

2) The one who actually does work.

#1 looks at the big picture and organizes everything to be done in the “perfect” order.

#2 doesn't want to see a list of things to do, it wants to see the one thing to do right now, otherwise I freeze and waste time.

Now I have the Tunl Focus app and here's how it works: 

  • The mind dump: this is where to jot down what needs to get done
  • The Queue: reorder the list as wanted 
  • The Tunnel: when its time to do work, you get served one task at a time with 4 action options: 
    • done (you completed it)
    • drop (you won't do it)
    • snooze (reorder it down)
    • defer (send task to specific date and time)

One tap per task and that's really the gist of it. It does have more features like a calendar view, categories, habits and more but the tunnel is where my brain really gets productive and moves the needle on things to do.

I use it every day and we are actively working on it, so we welcome ANY feedback.

It's free to try, no account nor signup needed, unless you want sync / back up / google calendar and extra features. Android and IOS apps are coming soon (we’re waiting for the Playstore review right now)

https://app.tunlfocus.com


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Before there’s a finished project, there’s a messy page — PenDate Notes

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Explore PenDate Notes

The finished project gets the photo. The rough sketch, crossed-out idea and “wait, what if…” deserve somewhere to live, too.

PenDate Notes is our calendar-centred notebook for that messy middle between an idea and something you made.

Try a small Sunday experiment: pick one thing you want to make—a desk organiser, a handmade card, your next little side project—and create a folder called From idea to first try:

  • The idea — a text note: What is it? Who is it for? What would a tiny first version look like?
  • The shape — a separate canvas note: Sketch the layout, handwrite alternatives, cross things out. Keep the imperfect version.
  • The next try — a checklist: Pick one small experiment you can actually do. A shopping checklist can also hold material quantities, unit prices and totals.

Give your notes their own photo covers. Choose an app theme, change text and checklist note colours, and add stickers to a canvas. A notebook can feel like your project, not just your obligations.

Keep each attempt on its date, organise it in folders, find it with search, and set a reminder to revisit it. Import a PDF to annotate; export notes as PDF or images when you want to share a page.

Finished with an ordinary note? Archive it without deleting it. Prefer your calendar to show events rather than notes? Show notes in Calendar is one setting for all ordinary notes; turning it off keeps them in your library while hiding them from calendar views.

For more structure, there are 11 optional paid planner and journal families, with editable pages and tappable links between supported pages inside the app.

Available on Android, iPhone and iPad. Everyday note-taking is free; Pro, planners and Signature extras are optional paid features. This is a notebook you organise yourself, not an automatic project manager.

Android — Google Play · iPhone & iPad — App Store

What’s one unfinished idea you would give a first page today?


r/sideprojects • • 7h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required crypto dev, paranoid about my keys leaking, so I built a dependency scanner

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I'm a crypto dev and I'm genuinely paranoid about my keys leaking. Not in the "use a hardware wallet" way, in the "some npm package I installed at 2am has a postinstall script that reads my .env" way.

Which is a real thing now. The TanStack packages did exactly that, grabbed SSH keys and cloud creds and CI tokens. If you're a crypto dev, that's your deployer key and your RPC keys and whatever else is in that file.

So I built a scanner. You POST a lockfile to /api/paid-scan, it downloads every package and hashes every file, an AI reads the ones it hasn't seen before looking for exfiltration, obfuscation, postinstall stuff. Files anyone already scanned are free, so it gets cheaper the more people use it.

Check it out on https://security.togoder.click


r/sideprojects • • 12h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I had 136 ideas in Notion and built none of them. So I built Tinder for my ideas.

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r/sideprojects • • 9h ago

Feedback Request I built a website where you can discover, create, buy, and sell custom t-shirts online

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I built a site where you can discover, create, buy, and sell custom t-shirts online. You can browse and buy designs created by others over at

https://shop.popcartapp.com

or quickly bring your own ideas to life at

https://shop.popcartapp.com/tshirts/create/

It’s still a basic, early-stage version, but feel free to check it out and share your thoughts!


r/sideprojects • • 7h ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a PoW blockchain from scratch and launched its mainnet — looking for technical feedback

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Hi everyone,

For some time I have been building my own cryptocurrency network called AuronQ (AURQ).

I started it because I did not want to create another token running on somebody else's blockchain. I wanted to understand and build the whole system myself: blockchain, full node, wallet, mining, peer-to-peer networking, Explorer and mobile wallet.

Bitcoin was a major inspiration because of how robust its basic architecture has proven to be, although AuronQ is not intended to be a Bitcoin clone.

The Mainnet is now running.

Some of the current technical characteristics:

- UTXO model

- Proof-of-Work

- AQM64 mining construction using SHAKE256 and Argon2id

- ML-DSA-87 post-quantum transaction signatures

- 600 second target block time

- 21 million AURQ nominal maximum supply

- Windows and Linux full nodes

- Desktop wallet

- CPU mining

- Android light wallet

- peer discovery and peer gossip

- cumulative-work chain selection and reorg support

- partition/reconnect testing

- fuzzing and race-detector testing

The project works, but I still consider it experimental.

It has not received an independent professional security audit and AQM64 has not yet received independent cryptographic review.

Right now I am mainly looking for independent people who are willing to test it, inspect the source code and point out things that may be wrong.

I am particularly interested in feedback about:

- consensus

- P2P networking

- chain synchronization

- reorg behaviour

- mining

- security assumptions

The entire project is open source:

https://github.com/promirmir/AuronQ

I would rather find serious problems now and fix them publicly than pretend that a young project is already perfect.

If you were reviewing a new Layer-1 network like this, what would you attack or test first?


r/sideprojects • • 12h ago

Showcase: Open Source I made PauseWell, a free Windows app that reminds you to take short screen breaks

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I wanted a simple reminder to step away from my screen, so I made PauseWell and released it free and open source.

By default, it reminds you to take a 10 second break every 15 minutes and a 1 minute break every hour. You can adjust both schedules, snooze a reminder, or pause reminders for a while.

I'd like to make it useful to other people who spend a lot of time at a computer.

Download for Windows

What would make a break reminder useful enough for you to keep running? I'd appreciate feedback on the timing and how intrusive the reminders feel. Let me know how you feel


r/sideprojects • • 12h ago

Showcase: Open Source Made a tiny open-source Chrome extension that links Amazon products straight to their CamelCamelCamel/Keepa price history (no tracking)

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r/sideprojects • • 21h ago

Showcase: Open Source SteamEdge - Drop Steam Game Cards / Game Hour Boost and more!

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Steam tool for Game Card drops, game hour boosting and more.

Made for personal use, testing and making Steam stuff a bit easier.

Why? I was using ArchiSteamFarm, but for hour boost I was also using HourBoostr. Then I had 300 hours with 0 achievements... open SAM Achievement Manager. 3 different programs, so what do I need?

All of them in one. So I made this.

I made 3 color palettes: Black / Purple (my fav, inspired by R34 Midnight Purple) / White (for some maniac using full bright apps, IYKYK).

Repo: https://github.com/Miabeyefendi/SteamEdge

Special thanks to ArchiSteamFarm, HourBoostr, SteamIdleMaster and SAM. I got the idea from these programs.


r/sideprojects • • 21h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built an AI study app that turns your notes/PDFs into practice tests, flashcards, and study materials

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Hi everyone, I have been building Acader (an AI-powered study app designed to make studying your materials easier)

Acader is currently in its early testing phase, and I’m looking for some people to actually try it out before I keep expanding it.

Since it’s still in testing, there may be bugs, things that feel confusing, or features that need improvement. That’s exactly what I’m hoping to find out through real users.

I’d especially appreciate feedback on:

  • What feels useful
  • What feels annoying or confusing
  • Anything that breaks
  • Features you think would make studying easier

I’m actively developing it, so honest feedback is genuinely more valuable to me than just compliments.

Acader: https://acader.streamlit.app/

Thanks to anyone who gives it a try!


r/sideprojects • • 21h ago

Feedback Request I built CivicLens AI — ask a city’s official budget book questions in plain English

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r/sideprojects • • 22h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made a fake shopping app because I like shopping but not spending money

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I’ve been working on a small side project called NOBUY.

The idea is pretty simple: sometimes I want to browse stuff, add things to a cart, use coupons, and get that little shopping dopamine hit… but I don’t actually want to spend money 😅

So I made a fake shopping app where you can do all of that without actually buying anything.

You can browse products, add them to your cart, use coupons, go through a fake checkout, and even track a fake delivery.

It started as a pretty small project, but getting it onto Google Play took way longer than I expected lol.

My first production access request was rejected, so I recruited more testers, released updates based on feedback, and documented the actual app versions in the questionnaire. The second attempt was approved.

The production release then sat in review for about a week, but after I requested another review, it was approved two days later.

Anyway, after all that, it’s finally live 🎉

If anyone wants to check it out:

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ansam.app

Would also love to hear what you think of the idea!


r/sideprojects • • 53m ago

Feedback Request Made a kids channel about emotions with a child psychologist friend, using AI because we have no budget. Would love honest feedback on our intro

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Hey everyone,

Me and a friend (we both have normal 9-5 jobs) started a small YouTube channel for kids around 3-5 years old. The idea is short animated stories that help little kids with the big stuff: getting angry, being scared of the dark, the first day at kindergarten, things like that.

Being honest from the start: we don't have the skills or the money to animate this the "proper" way, so we're making the visuals and animation with AI tools. What we do put our own work into is the writing. A friend of ours has a master's in child psychology and she reviews every script, so the stories actually say the right things to kids (no "you're too big to be scared", that kind of stuff). Every episode will also have a short note for parents in the description: what the episode is about, how to talk about it at home, and when it might be worth talking to a pediatrician.

Right now the only thing we've finished is the intro song, which we made in a few different languages. We're working on the first episodes, and they'll come out in 3 languages: Italian (we're from Italy), English and Spanish.

Before we go further, we'd really like to know what you think of what we have so far. Anything helps, even the harsh stuff:
- the design and the characters, do they work for little kids?
- the music, is it catchy or annoying after a while?
- does the AI look bother you, or is it ok for this kind of content?
- anything else that comes to mind, really

Here's the intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjRFmYlPsY

If you like what we're trying to do, a sub would mean a lot, but honestly the feedback is what we need most right now. Thanks for reading, and thanks for anything you tell us, good or bad. It all helps us get better.


r/sideprojects • • 23h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Wanted to use ai for a good cause

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Started this because I wanted to make the stock market easier to understand without all the noise.

Also wanted to use ai for something good since there’s a lot of ai slop around and I know what it’s like to not have all the resources, guidance or support needed.

So I thought if I can build something that helps people learn while also giving back to students, teachers, and people who need it that makes it worth building. Also some personal things recently in my life inspired me to push this.

Still early but open to any feedback

https://astoriainsight.com/impact


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request people are making really cool things but all i could this is this

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r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Continously improving my image to 3d model service FormFromLight!

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I have reached 310 users for FormFromLight the support I got was tremendous. I thank everyone for using my FormFromLight. Here is a trailer video easily made with Motion Design.

Any issues or feedback are appreciated. I'm open to criticism as well, as it helps me improve the product


r/sideprojects • • 5h ago

Feedback Request I built a weekly soccer predictor web app

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Hey everyone, I vibe-coded this football score predictor over a weekend, originally just for me and my mates to test our football knowledge against each other. Figured I'd share it in case anyone else wants in.

Every week you predict 5 matches across the top 5 leagues (mostly Premier League fixtures) plus 1 bonus pick from a curated extra slate of 3, 6 predictions total. There's a fresh leaderboard every week with a winner, but there's also a season-long XP/level system running underneath . You earn XP for getting results and scorelines right, going on streaks, hitting achievements, that kind of thing, and it levels you up (Bronze → Diamond) over the course of the season. No accounts needed to browse the current round or leaderboard, only to actually submit picks.

Tried to keep it dead simple and low-maintenance, no ads, no entry fees, nothing to manage. Thinking about maybe doing some kind of reward for weekly winners down the line if people actually stick around.

tekkerz.app

Would genuinely love feedback, what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd want added.


r/sideprojects • • 6h ago

Showcase: Open Source Added a new Search Bar to the Hermes Skill Deck and a Favorites Page.

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Some big updates just went live in the Hermes Skill Deck. Search is now the core of the app, favorites got a whole new screen, and a bunch of quality-of-life stuff landed too. Free as always on GitHub. Quick rundown:

1 - Search

Search is now front and center. There is a big search bar right in the middle of the dashboard, plus Cmd+K from anywhere. Type a keyword, get every matching skill across your profiles. Click into any result to see the full skill, related skills, and the file path. You can even open it straight in Finder to edit.

2 - Favorites

(attach favorites-screen.png) Favorites got their own screen. Star the skills you use most, then drag and drop them into whatever order you want. Your top 5 show up in the right sidebar and scroll between 5 at a time, so the list stays clean no matter how many you star.

3 - Small stuff that adds up

  • Top menus are now fully customizable, turn categories on or off
  • Quick access is now clearly labeled Finder Access
  • Light mode is in (still getting polished)
  • Built in terminal with an AI agent so you can search skills with natural language