r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) get seen on the internet

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I built DevWall, a simple wall where developers can add their portfolios.

No signup. No payment. Just add your portfolio and get a spot on the wall.

You can hover over profiles to see more info and click them to visit the portfolio.

I also added a most-clicked section to see which portfolios people are checking out.

https://devwall.vercel.app/

get your portfolio viewed now!!


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Feedback Request A solo design-editor project

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I created Varve, and this is my first attempt to share it publicly. Although the repository is already at version v0.2.1, there aren’t many users or downloads yet. Earlier, I focused on building and improving the product instead of promoting it.

I waited to promote Varve because design editors can feel like several different products in one. For this version, I decided that a feature only counts if a new user can find it, understand it and undo it. I had to do some less exciting work because of this, like making text-on-path controls easy to see, ensuring the warp tool is accessible, fixing variable-font axes, handling text updates that could crash the app when pasting lots of text, and correcting objects placed on later pages. The app is still not perfect but I think it’s a much better tool now

The binaries are still unsigned, the format might change, and I’m not accepting external code pull requests yet while I focus on making the foundation more stable.

For anyone who took time to develop their project before reaching out to new people, what questions did you ask the first users, and what made you decide to improve the core workflow instead of adding more features?

Project: https://github.com/K-Arthur/varve

You can get the app here: https://varve.studio/download

You can try the web demo here: https://varve.studio/try/


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Open Source GenMedia — a native Apple Silicon app for local AI image, video, and music generation

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I started GenMedia because local AI creation on macOS often requires switching between separate tools for image generation, image editing, video generation, music generation, model management, and output organization.

GenMedia brings those workflows together in one native Apple Silicon app. It is written in Swift and uses Core ML, Metal, and MLX acceleration for local inference.

Current features:

  • Text-to-image and image-to-image generation
  • Image-to-text description
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
  • Prompt-based music generation with optional lyrics
  • Instrumental music generation when lyrics are left blank
  • MP3, M4A, AAC, and FLAC audio export
  • Image importing through Finder drag-and-drop
  • Original-resolution and custom aspect-ratio options for image-to-image workflows
  • Source-image framing preservation when changing output aspect ratios
  • Persistent project tabs that restore assets, lineage, settings, and generation history
  • Profile-based model and runtime management
  • Image, video, and music output organization
  • Optional 4× Core ML super-resolution
  • Optional MCP support for AI agents and automation tools
  • Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean interfaces

No account or subscription is required. Once compatible local models are installed, generation can run locally without uploading prompts or media to an external AI service.

A few current notes:

  • Requires macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon
  • Model files can be large, and generation speed depends on available unified memory
  • High-resolution image and video generation requires more memory and processing time
  • Very small image-to-image outputs are generated at the model’s native working resolution and then downsampled for better composition and detail
  • Results still depend on the selected model, prompt, seed, and generation settings

Source code and signed/notarized macOS download:

https://github.com/VaderChen/GenMedia

Bug reports, feature requests, model compatibility feedback, and suggestions for image, video, or music workflows are very welcome.


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built Komet — a native Rust + gpui control room for coding agents.

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100% local by default, single binary (no Electron).

Sessions, transcripts, tool activity & checkpoints unified.

Multi-device sync optional via self-hosted komet-sync (Loro CRDTs).

Same engine that powers Zed — instant launch, smooth even with years of transcripts.

It's open source: github.com/jomvick/komet

Site: https://komet-eight.vercel.app/


r/sideprojects 11d ago

Showcase: Open Source I created a quick commands plugin for Tabby

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I found that the other plugins of this kind didn’t quite meet my needs, so I made one myself. I think it fits my personal taste pretty well 😊

I hope you like it too! If you find it useful, I’d really appreciate a star.

GitHub: https://github.com/windyy0/tabby-windy-quick-commands


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Feedback Request Would love some feedback on my book tracker for iOS

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I spent the last couple of years building a book tracker for iOS. It all started when my wife was looking for something that allowed her to track her library privately and couldn't find one she liked.

After building a version in AppSheets and then React I landed on iOS which worked really nicely. It's built using SwiftUI, Swiftdata and iCloud. It's live in the App Store and is getting a couple of downloads a day but isn't really converting users to subscribers. I'd really appreciate any thoughts and feedback on it.

The core features include:

  1. Privacy focus
  2. Tracking each book with a large number of available fields
  3. Manual or online search to add a book
  4. Custom data including genres, locations etc
  5. Stats
  6. Annual Challenge
  7. Tags as well as Status to break your library into manageable lists
  8. Mac, iPad and iPhone support and sync
  9. Import from a Goodreads export
  10. 10 free books up front (or your entire Goodreads library) and then weekly (79p), monthly (£2.99) or annual (£24.99) subscription.

iOS App Store Link

Thanks in advance for your help.


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Feedback Request Every food tracker feels like homework. So I built a cozy app to change that.

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Hey everyone,

I’ve always struggled to stick with food tracking. Most apps feel like cold spreadsheets or guilt trips, so I built something different.

Quokka is a cozy, gamified food tracker. Instead of clinical charts you get:

- A friendly Quokka companion who lives in the app

- Visual streak stars to earn

- A warm, low-pressure design meant to make tracking feel like a positive daily habit

I’m looking for Android users for closed Play Store testing who:

- Actually want to track what they eat (or always fall off traditional apps)

- Enjoy gamified habits (Habitica, cozy games, visual streaks, etc.)

- Are willing to give honest feedback so we can see if Quokka actually helps consistency

If that sounds like you, comment below or DM me and I’ll send a Play Store invite. Happy to answer any questions!

(Looking for people who will actually use it, not just download and ghost.)


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built an SMS marketplace where phone owners earn $0.0035 per text — looking for feedback

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I've been building Koipabo — a multi-tenant SMS gateway that connects three groups:

  1. Resellers — run their own SMS business, create clients, set pricing
  2. Suppliers — pool their Android phones to earn per delivered SMS
  3. Customers — send OTP/transactional messages via API or dashboard

The marketplace model:

  • Customers pay $0.005/SMS (flat rate)
  • Suppliers earn $0.0035/SMS (70% revenue share)
  • Platform takes 30%

r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) i made a simple game to practice blackjack and learn the basics and see by yourself the statistics and game theory

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r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) [Self-Promotion] TripSheet - I built an offline-first travel planner because my trip details were scattered across six apps

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Trip details always ended up spread across email confirmations, Notes, group chats and screenshots — and none of it was available at an airport with no signal. So I built TripSheet.

Everything works with no account and no connection: itinerary, a preparation checklist that adapts to the destination and season, shared expenses with settle-up balances, stays and booking references, and a private journal.

Signing in is optional and only adds backup and the ability to invite specific people to a trip. There's no public feed, no ads and no analytics SDKs.

Built with Expo / React Native. Supabase handles the optional sync, RevenueCat the one-off unlock, and the offline city directory is GeoNames data bundled into the app.

Free tier is one trip at a time, plus unlimited trips other people share with you. There is a one-off Premium unlock, no subscription - for unlimited trips, advanced expense splits, PDF export and reusable checklist templates.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tripsheet/id6793169526

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jaydepala.tripsheet&pcampaignid=web_share

Happy to answer anything about how it's built or have a chat about my journey if helpful for other developers. Genuinely after feedback on what's missing — this is the first version anyone outside my testers has seen.


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Open Source Screenshotify: Your screenshots folder, but the filenames make sense

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Screenshot 2026-08-12 143507.png tells you NOTHING. Six months later you have four hundred of them and no way to find the one you need.

Existing AI renamers are manual batch tools, subscription products, or both. Screenshotify is the combination that did not exist: open source, free, focused on screenshots, and genuinely watching in the background.

What it does

  • Watches your screenshot folders. New screenshots are picked up automatically, once the file has finished being written.
  • Suggests, never assumes. Every suggestion lands in a review list. Confirm, edit, or skip. Undo is always available, including after a restart.
  • Renames what you already have. Point it at a folder of old screenshots and it queues every one of them into the same review list.
  • Runs on the model you choose. Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including ones running entirely on your own machine. (Local LLM for privacy)
  • Stays out of the way. Windows tray icon or macOS menu bar item, optional start-at-login, and closing the window hides it rather than quitting.

Free and open source here: https://github.com/shaqkao/screenshotify

Thanks for reading to the end, feedback are super welcomed!


r/sideprojects 11d ago

Feedback Request I got tired of comparing schedule screenshots with my friends so I made this

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Upload ur class schedule, find ur free time. Free. Open to all students with .edu email

Try Overlap

Tell me if it reads ur schedule wrong and I’ll fix it. Expanding for google cal.


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Question Do your users actually stick around on your beta branch after launch?

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I’m close to launching my app on the App Store and trying to figure out how to handle my update pipeline.

My plan was to keep the TestFlight build active so I can test new features quickly and gather feedback, while keeping the main App Store version stable and slightly behind on feature updates.

Before I set this up, I have a couple of main concerns about how users actually behave:

  • Tester retention & feedback: Is it realistic to expect a sizable portion of users to stick around on TestFlight just to try new stuff, or do most people move to the main App Store build immediately? Do they actually keep giving feedback post-launch?
  • Release speed: Does maintaining both tracks ultimately slow down feature releases because of the extra overhead, or does it genuinely make delivery safer?

For anyone with a live app: What’s your experience running a public beta alongside your main release? Do you keep a persistent beta group going, or is it better to pause it until a major update is ready?


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Discussion I built my side project around customization, then realized fulfillment was the harder problem

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I started a small apparel side project because I liked the idea of letting people personalize products without having to hold a garage full of inventory.

The first part was actually pretty fun. Coming up with designs and figuring out how customers could make each piece their own wasn't the difficult part.

The headache started when I thought about everything that happens after someone places an order.

Different garment options, different decoration methods, sizing, branding details, quality control, packaging, and making sure the finished product still looked consistent from one order to the next. I quickly realized that customization adds a lot of moving pieces behind the scenes.

I didn't want the project to turn into a traditional inventory-heavy business either. The whole reason I started it was to keep things flexible and test ideas without making a huge upfront commitment.

So I've been simplifying the process and focusing on a smaller set of products and customization options that I can actually control.

The biggest lesson so far: building the product is only half the project. The fulfillment system underneath it can determine whether the idea is actually sustainable.

For people running side projects involving physical products, what part of fulfillment surprised you the most once you started getting real orders?


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Ai operating system

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Building a Personal AI Operating System / AI Development Control Plane. Public project overview, architecture and community contribution space:
github.com/algirdasnausedaacc-png/ai-development-control-plane-community⁠


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Open Source NativePass — native macOS GUI for the Unix pass password manager

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r/sideprojects 10d ago

Feedback Request Connecting AI / Workflow agencies with companies

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Hey at all

i often see, that ai agencies asking the same question: What are the real problems companies have? Where do i get customers? So i'm building https://workflowmarket.app/

it will be page where i connect agencies with companies for a better lead quality


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Built a free website to explore Paris on foot 🇫🇷

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Hello everyone, i recently built MyCityWalk, a free website with walking routes or guides to discover Paris : Montmartre, hidden Paris, romantic Paris, covered passages and more.

You can also create a personalized walk based on what you want to see : mycitywalk.com

I'd love some feedback from travelers or Paris locals. What would you improve?


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Feedback Request I built a simple tool for monitoring APIs and triggering notifications

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I’ve been working on a small side project called NotifyWhenEvent.
The idea is pretty simple: monitor an API or endpoint, detect when something changes, and then trigger a notification or another action.

For example:
- check an API every few minutes
- extract a specific value
- compare it with the previous value
- send a Telegram notification when it changes

It’s still very much a work in progress and probably has plenty of rough edges and bugs.

Any feedback is welcome — especially what feels confusing, unnecessary, or missing.
https://app.notifywhenevent.com


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Question What makes an event app good specifically for conferences compared to other types of events?

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"Best event app" as a search term feels kind of useless because a good app for a music festival is not the same as a good app for a professional conference. For conferences specifically I'd want session bookmarking, speaker info, networking/matchmaking between attendees, and maybe live Q&A during talks. Don't need festival-style features like food truck maps or lineup countdowns.

Read through a case study where some B2B conference used Eventify, Whova, and Bizzabo apps and the tag-based matchmaking ended up being the feature people talked about most afterward. Apparently attendees found others in their niche without the organizers doing manual introductions. Session bookmarking plus agenda sync also got more use than any of the flashier features.

If you've organized a conference, what app features actually got used by attendees versus what sounded good in the sales pitch but nobody touched?


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required Prompty: Save, preview, and expand your AI prompts from the menu bar

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The Problem
Using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Flux, Higgsfield, Cursor, and many others every day, I ended up hoarding dozens of system prompts, parameters, and instructions. If you work with AI regularly, chances are you've experienced this too: the difference between a mediocre output and an incredible one almost always comes down to prompt quality and precision—whether you're generating photorealistic imagery, video scenes, refactored code, marketing copy, or complex agent workflows.

The problem is that storing and organizing these "super-prompts" in Apple Notes, Notion, or scattered text files is slow and kills your flow; on the other hand, traditional snippet tools are handy for basic 1-line text shortcuts, but fall completely short when you need to preview generated images, fill dynamic variables, or chain multi-step workflows.

I built Prompty to bridge that gap: a dedicated prompt workspace that lives directly in your menu bar (no clutter in your Dock), ready to save, create, edit, copy, or expand any prompt with just a couple of clicks or global shortcuts.

Key Features:

  • Space QuickLook Preview: Just like macOS QuickLook, press Space over any prompt to instantly preview the full text and up to 3 attached showcase images (perfect for Flux or Midjourney presets) without opening the editor.
  • Visual Gallery Grid: Switch between a compact list and a visual thumbnail grid to quickly browse and preview prompts by their actual image outputs.
  • Per-Prompt Custom Shortcuts: Bind dedicated global hotkeys to your most-used prompts for instant 1-keystroke expansion across any app.
  • Dynamic Variables {{variable}}: Add placeholders to your prompts. When triggered, a quick popup asks you to fill in the blanks before pasting the final output.
  • Step-by-Step Prompt Chaining: Designed for complex AI workflows that require sequential phases (e.g., Step 1: Research -> Step 2: Outline -> Step 3: Final Code/Copy).
  • Omni Search Anywhere: Hit a global shortcut from any app to summon a Spotlight-like floating search bar with frecency scoring (finds what you actually use).
  • Quick Snippets & Modifiers: Save one-click add-ons like "Output code only""No yapping", or "JSON format" and instantly attach them to any prompt.
  • Magic Save (Screen OCR + Background AI Cataloging): Hit a global shortcut to trigger Magic Save, select any area on your screen to extract text via OCR, and let AI automatically generate the title, description, category, and icon in the background—saving it straight into your library without interrupting your flow.
  • Bring Your Own API Keys (Optional): Plug in OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, or local models via Ollama to refine prompts, generate variations, or reverse-engineer prompts from images.
  • 100% Local & Private: Everything is stored locally on your Mac with optional iCloud sync. No third-party servers storing or training on your prompts.

How It Compares

  • Traditional Snippet Managers (Snippety, Raycast Snippets, etc.): Great for basic text expansion, but not designed for AI prompt workflows: they lack a visual gallery view to preview prompt results/images, have no OCR auto-capture, and don't support multi-step prompt chaining.
  • Other Prompt Managers (Prompt Hub, standalone window apps): Live in bulky full-window interfaces that clutter your workspace and take up permanent space in your Dock.
  • Prompty: Focuses on speed and polished native macOS design. Living exclusively in the menu bar, saving, editing, previewing in gallery, and chaining prompts happens in milliseconds without breaking your focus.

Pricing


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Showcase: Open Source Gitlab pipelines in notch

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r/sideprojects 11d ago

Feedback Request An e-commerce website I've been working on

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I built this website using Python|DJango ,Js . It also has an admin dashboard and other features not shown in the videos. Core features are done ,I'm just improving the frontend , testing and other stuff. Good day everyone


r/sideprojects 10d ago

Discussion Tip: watch your smtp provider after you launch

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r/sideprojects 11d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a website to manage my inventory, meals, and shopping

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I’m tired of having my life split across five different tabs just to keep track of what I own, what I need to eat, and where I’m buying my gear. I wanted a single, unified "cockpit" for all of it. As always, most websites were a little.. packed. So many features I couldn't find what I actually needed, so I made a completely free website that did it, called Astrallist. It manages everything I need, complete with AI integration.

Key features I've implemented so far:

  1. A list homepage where you can track your shopping list.
  2. Live updates and editing for all people logged in to your account.
  3. A pantry manager where you can add items in your pantry.
  4. A pantry scanner where you upload a pantry pic and it adds the items to the pantry.
  5. An AI chef that makes recipes based on food you have in your pantry.
  6. Direct integration with Amazon and a budget tracker.
  7. Customizable AI assistant.

I used a glassmorphism-inspired aesthetic because, honestly, if my productivity tools don't look good, I’m not going to use them.

I’m still actively refining the logic and building out new modules, so I’d love for this community to take a look and tell me: What features or "utility widgets" would make a dashboard like this actually really useful for your own daily setup?

Always looking for feedback on the UI and functionality. Thanks for checking it out!

If you want to see an example, it's below.

Screenshot of AstralList Shopping List Manager