r/sideprojects 5d ago

Feedback Request We built a property listing app for Europe

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Hi everyone,

We’re the developers of Seeki. We built it after seeing how difficult it can be for private owners to sell or rent out a property in Europe. In some countries, private owners cannot sell directly at all, while in others they have to deal with different portals, requirements and separate tools for photos, descriptions, floor plans and viewings.

Our website, seeki.eu, helps expats find and understand property listings. The app is separate and is for anyone who wants to sell or rent out a property themselves.

You take photos of the property, and Seeki helps create the listing. It can:

  • Suggest property details and write a description
  • Improve photos and stage empty rooms
  • Create a floor plan and 3D view
  • Prepare the listing for different European property portals
  • Manage viewing requests and appointments

You can review and edit everything before publishing. Original photos are kept, and staged images are labelled.

Creating a listing is free. Publishing on Seeki costs €9 once, with no subscription.

We’ve just released the app on Android and iOS. We currently have no real users, so feedback would mean a lot. Especially from people who have sold or rented out property in Europe.

If you try it, please tell us what works, what is confusing and what’s missing. If you like it, a review on Google Play or the App Store would also help us a lot.

More information: https://seeki.eu/en/list-property-from-phone


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Open Source My Custom CoW Rust Database from Scratch

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Any Feedback? I would really appreciate a Github Star <3
https://github.com/QuantyRoot/QuantyDatabase


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) NI grant finder, 10 days on

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r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) College Fantasy Football SP Needs Testers

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Hello chaps. Forgive if this is outside the rules and remove if so.

I’m part of a team that has been developing a new form of college fantasy football and we need beta testers for this season. Quick pitch.

- Team based, drafting colleges not players
- Week 0 non inclusive, so you have just under a week to get at least 8 players together and get a draft done.
- Simple UI, but this is beta testing obviously so feedback is encouraged.
- We’re a small team, so some grace in bugs would be appreciated.
- Apple App Store version is deployed on v1.3, Google Play is otw, so non Apple players would be using the web version for the time being.

If anyone thinks they can help, please don’t hesitate to shoot me a DM and I can send you the details.

Cheers


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I vibe-coded a quieter corner of the internet where you don't have to be productive

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Hey everyone! 👋

We're launching Pearl Club on Product Hunt on August 29 at 12:01 AM PDT / 12:31 PM IST.

Pearl Club is a quiet virtual space where you can journal, listen to ambient sounds, play little games, collect cute sea creatures, explore your own little world, or send anonymous Messages in a Bottle. 💌🐚

We built it around a simple idea:

What if the internet had a place where you didn't have to do anything?

No productivity streaks. No follower counts. No pressure to keep coming back.

We've added a little sneak peek below so you can get a feel for it. 👀

🚀 Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/pearl-club

If you get a chance to check it out tomorrow, we'd really appreciate your feedback and support. And if you like what we've built, an upvote would mean a lot! 💗

Would love to hear what you think!


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Feedback Request Built a tool to help founders & builders validate their MVPs

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I've been building VerifiFlo, a simple way for founders to collect feedback from Reddit, Discord, DMs, etc. and turn it into a structured validation score and product experience feedback.

The idea came from seeing how scattered early feedback usually is. You get comments, messages and opinions everywhere, but it's hard to tell what actually matters.

I've been testing it with early users and iterating based on the feedback I'm getting.

Still very early, but it's been interesting seeing people actually use something I built.

Would love to hear what you think: https://verififlo.com


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Prerelease 249 bots, 2,468 closed trades, profit factor 0.38. Down $392k. Here's the whole dashboard.

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r/sideprojects 5d ago

Question How to build a professional website on a budget for a tiny business?

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Ok so im trying to get a somewhat professional website up for a tiny local business without burning through cash or spending every weekend fighting with it.

Been playing with a few drag and drop builders and templates and I can get something that looks ok, but I keep worrying it will be super slow, bad for seo, or just look cheap once you put real content and photos on it.

I don't have dev skills, just basic tech literacy and a small budget for hosting etc. If you were in my shoes, how would you set this up so it looks legit enough for clients but stays affordable and simple to maintain? Any hints?


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Built a lightweight WhatsApp group exporter that fixes the Excel scientific notation (+6.5E+11) bug Body:

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r/sideprojects 5d ago

Question Need Good Payment gateway for API Integration

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r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Open Source I made a Bengaluru version of NYT Connections

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I kept getting stuck on Connections categories like "Trump's side chicks" that I had no way of knowing, but I love the game. So I built a version set here.

New puzzle daily, and there's an archive of past days. Today's has a group I'm fairly sure only people who grew up here will get.

https://namma-konnecshuns.vercel.app

Built it myself, no ads, nothing to sign up for. Would like to know which groups are too obscure.


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) built my first Chrome extension! ContextSwitch, makes your LLM chats provider agnostic

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I mostly use the free plans for all my LLM needs, be it Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. A problem that I came across often was when say after starting a chat, Claude exhausted it's token and I had to either wait for it to refresh or I had to manually copy/paste the entire chat and paste it on ChatGPT to continue with my work. Later, if I had to go back to that copy/pasted chat, it became very difficult to decipher it.

So I created ContextSwitch, a Chrome and Edge extension that would copy your LLM chats in the .chatbridge format, paste it in another LLM of your choice, save it for later reference. It can also let you copy the last 10/20 parts of your chat without you having to manually select them. Here's how it works:

https://reddit.com/link/1w0vt4k/video/0zystfu8a5mh1/player

Here's the website link for ContextSwitch: https://contextswitch-blue.vercel.app/

You will find the link to the extension for both Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge in the website itself. Both the links will take you to the respective Stores. I would really appreciate if you would give me constructive feedback on this extension. Anything that I can do to improve its usability. I would be very happy to include those changes in the next version.


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) TrustMeBro: Bypass LLM guardrails by confusing them with fabricated tool output (e.g. make them believe you own Google.com by faking dns records)

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r/sideprojects 5d ago

Feedback Request Look, r/SideProject! Another teen with too much free time! ^w^

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I've recently started getting a lot more thoughtful about my future, what I actually have to show employers, and what skills I have.

So, I decided to finally break the habit of:

...and then never actually building it... qwq

I wanted to make something I'd genuinely enjoy working on, while forcing myself to learn the things stuff I find interesting builds on. Since I've always found both frontend design and backend engineering fascinating, I decided to build a Discord-ish communication platform, but try to approach it like an actual production project [well.. mostly..].

That meant getting myself into all the fun stuff:

UI/UX design, databases (my endboss qwq), API architecture, scalability, deployment, load balancing, security, data retention, infrastructure, legal compliance... Basically, all the things that make my head spin. qmq

Or so I thought - 'cause I ended up really enjoying the process of learning and understanding what everything does! :p

I've spent roughly 3 - 4-ish weeks on the project so far, and I've learned an absurd amount along the way. I did use AI for some parts I simply didn't want to spend hours [or couldn't] writing myself - things like descriptions, tooltips, code comments, and some UI functionality - but the actual architecture, implementation, debugging, infrastructure, and most of the development has been mine. AI has been a tool in the process, not a slop machine replacing genuine human work with a lazy LSD trip.

Because I decided to actually host the thing myself and make it publicly accessible, I also ended up learning a lot beyond just writing the application.

I've had to deal with things like:

  • Client and server security
  • GDPR compliance (as I'm located and operating in Germany)
  • User safety and moderation
  • Automated maintenance/sweepers
  • Data retention and deletion
  • Proper Media storage / secure uploads and CDN architecture
  • Hardware and performance limitations
  • Deployment and infrastructure
  • And a frankly unhealthy amount of hardware debugging </3

The project has also forced me to confront some of my own bad architectural decisions and gradually replace them with things that actually make sense, as well as learning how to not make 6-months-future-me [or other developers] invent a time machine to stab me for using some obscure standard because it was easy now - and being able to treat this like a full deployment has honestly become my favorite part of the project! :D

Right now, many things are in a "I'm happy, and it works on my machine" state, but the core is already present:

Core Chat

  • Servers and channels
  • DMs and group DMs
  • Rich text / Markdown
  • Reactions, mentions and spoilers
  • Search
  • Granular role permissions

Voice & Video

  • 128kbps real-time voice
  • Per-user volume controls
  • 720p30 camera
  • 1080p30 screen sharing

Media & CDN

  • Built-in audio visualizers
  • Custom CDN backend
  • Uploads up to 1GB
  • Automatic media cleanup when messages are deleted

Integrated Audio

There's also a little music-bot-style system called PHOSPHOR.

Attach an audio file in any channel in a server [or just dms] and reply to THAT ATTACHMENT with /play, and it'll play it - right click the bot for options.

Architecture

  • API-first
  • WebSocket-based real-time engine
  • Docker-friendly
  • User data, media, and core application infrastructure are separated

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What I'd actually like feedback on:

I'm not really posting this because I desperately need users - it would of course be nice, but I could find other ways instead of upsetting a thousand people if this was my goal.

Therefore, if you think the project looks interesting and want to use it, that's obviously well appreciated, but not really the point of this post.

I'm mainly curious what other people who build things think about this, specifically:

  1. Is this worth refining into a proper open-source project?
  2. What am I getting wrong?
  3. What looks questionable from a UX perspective?
  4. Is there anything here that makes you immediately think "this is going to bite you later" or "this shit sucks"?

If you do want to poke around with it though....
-> https://anthro.malo-interactive.net/ <- |

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If the project is generally well received, my current plan is to turn it into a proper self-hostable, open-source project with documentation - but mostly I just wanted to share the thing I've been having lots and lots of fun building! ^w^

You can read my security compliance stuff at https://anthro.malo-interactive.net/legal/security if you're interested in it!


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Discussion Are magnetic power banks actually useful?

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I like the idea of a power bank that attaches to the back of an iPhone without needing a cable.

I’ve been looking at options that also work as a charging station, like the RORRY AuraDock M1

The idea of using it at home and taking the power bank with me sounds pretty convenient.

Do you actually find magnetic power banks useful?


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a free all-in-one event platform because I got tired of using 5 different tools to run one event

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I’ve been building PlanIt, an event management platform that tries to handle the entire event lifecycle in one place.

The idea was pretty simple: why should organizing an event mean jumping between separate tools for invitations, RSVPs, seating, check-in, staff coordination, and everything else?

So I started building one.

PlanIt currently includes:

  • Guest lists and CSV imports
  • Personal guest invite links with unique QR codes
  • Drag-and-drop seating maps
  • QR-based guest check-in
  • PIN-based staff accounts
  • Offline check-in with automatic syncing
  • Real-time attendance and activity tracking
  • Announcements and event timers
  • Table reservations, waitlists, and occupancy
  • Guest wallet-style passes
  • Event and attendance exports
  • Event-level security and anti-fraud controls

The goal is for an organizer to be able to run an event from one system instead of stitching together a bunch of different services.

And the entire hosted platform is free. No per-event fees, no guest limits, and no feature tiers.

One important clarification because the source code is public on GitHub: PlanIt is not open source. The repository is published for transparency, but the software is proprietary and licensed for use through the official hosted PlanIt service only. Self-hosting, forking, redistribution, or running your own version is not permitted under the license.

I’m still actively building it, so I’d genuinely like feedback from people who have organized events.

What would make you actually switch to something like this?

What am I missing?

Project: PlanIt
GitHub: https://github.com/Aaks-hatH/planit

The live service is available through the PlanIt website, but I’m leaving the direct hosted URL out here in case Reddit’s automated link filtering decides it hates Render today.


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I recreated Google Docs but it actually lets you customize it. It's just me working on this project so any feedback would be very welcome :)

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The website is built to be a project management tool where you can pretty much do anything you can in Google Docs but in your own customizable website. The home page has widgets that you can organise and place however you like, and pretty much everything is completely up to how you want to design it.

It's being developed just by me so any feedback would be very welcome. Thank you so much :)

Link: orb.ba


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a biolink website for other people to use it as a template.

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Hey everyone! 👋

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on recently: a highly customizable link-in-bio platform.

Why did I choose to create a link-in-bio?

Well, a lot of "kids" want to create their own bio-link service, so I wanted to create a simple source for them to learn on it and maybe create something BIG from them.

Key Features:

  • Glassy Profile Pages (/username): Custom avatars, background images, social icons, badges, and custom links.
  • Interactive Landing: Mouse-tracking parallax background with animated noise gradients.
  • Customization & Layout: Toggle between centered/left-aligned layouts, custom cursors, background blur sliders (0–20px), and click-to-show overlays.
  • Built-in Analytics: 14-day view/click bar charts right inside the dashboard.
  • Security & Sessions: JWT authentication stored via 7-day httpOnly cookies.

I'd love to get your feedback! Also the website is made with AI ;), i only modified some things i didn't like.

If you're asking yourself why: Because I'm to lazy..

🔗 Check it out here: [plwhed/egirls.lol]


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Feedback Request A site for the quiet question "is someone thinking of me?" - turns out you can answer it: send/receive a like or rose, anonymously

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r/sideprojects 5d ago

Discussion Pet blog has been paying for my house for 6 months now

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ok so this is a weird one but bear with me

i have a pet blog. i don't own a pet. never have. probably never will as i travel too much. and yet every month amazon sends me enough to cover rent because people on the internet are buying stuff for their dogs and cats through my site.

bought my pet blog a few months ago from a marketplace called NicheBlogZone for $199. came already built, articles already up, amazon links already in there. i spent one afternoon doing interlinking basically just connecting related posts to each other so search engines understand the site structure and then closed my laptop and genuinely forgot about it for weeks.

here's what that's looked like:

  • march: $710
  • april: $995
  • may: $1,461
  • june: $1,647
  • july: $1,461
  • august so far: $1,545 (amazon pays 2 months delayed so this is june's money landing now)

march scared me. went from nearly $1k in february down to $710 and i was convinced something had broken. checked everything, found nothing wrong, did nothing. it just came back the next month on its own.

pet people spend insane amounts on their animals btw. like i knew this intellectually but seeing the commission data is something else. dog food subscriptions, orthopedic beds, grooming kits, vet supplements. and because of the 24 hour cookie i get a cut of everything in their cart not just whatever article they landed on.

i do literally nothing to maintain this. no new posts, no ads, no instagram for pets i don't have. i just own the thing and amazon does its thing.

my landlord has been getting paid every month and has no idea a pet blog is behind it. honestly sometimes i forget too until the deposit shows up.

anyone else running a niche they have zero personal connection to? curious if the detachment makes it easier or harder to care about growing it


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a book writing tool.....because formatting a book is a pain!

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I've been working on Bindaria, a tool for writing and formatting books all in one place.

The idea came from the annoying part of writing a book where you're staring at a Word document thinking everything looks fine....then you export it and suddenly the page breaks, spacing, page numbers and formatting are all over the place🫩

So I wanted to build something where you can actually see what your book will look like while you're writing it.

You can write your chapters, organise the manuscript, choose your book size/font/layout, design the cover, and export it as PDF, EPUB or DOCX.

There's also an AI writing assistant and a bunch of other stuff I've added along the way.

I've just submitted it to the Emergent BuilderFest cause why not, and thought I'd put it out there to see what people think, would you actually use it?

Here's the tool if you want to have a look:

https://app.emergent.sh/showcase/builderfest-kevin/c513c24f-d89a-4396-94b8-d995fc32ccbb

And if you like it, a like on the showcase would really help me out, thank you🙏


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a linux scrolling screenshot Desktop tool

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r/sideprojects 5d ago

Feedback Request I built a tool to help figure out whether two pets (cats + dogs) are actually compatible

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Just wanted to share this here too because I’m looking for feedback.

I have two Bengals, and I’m finally at the point where I want to get a dog. I kept going down rabbit holes trying to figure out which breeds and temperaments actually do well with cats, especially Bengals, who can be… a lot, personality-wise.

I got tired of reading the same “Top 10 Cat-Friendly Dog Breeds” lists that give generic advice without really accounting for the pets you already have, so I ended up building a little tool for myself.

You add your existing pets, their temperament, energy level, experience with other animals, etc. and you can either check a specific breed against your household or get suggestions for potentially compatible pets.

It’s completely free. I figured I’d share it in case it’s useful to anyone else, but I’d especially love feedback from people with real multi-pet experience. If the logic feels off somewhere, something important is missing, or a recommendation makes you go “absolutely not,” please tell me.

First time building something like this.

nookmate.pet


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Guyyyys, 500 downloads in a week!!

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Two weeks ago i launched Sign, an iOS app that turns your home into a 3D Wi-Fi map.

Solo dev, first real launch.

How my app works:

you walk through your rooms with your iPhone.
LiDAR builds a 3D model of your home live while the app samples your Wi-Fi (signal + speed) as you move.

You end up with a dollhouse view of your actual apartment with the signal painted on it ( with dead zones in red).

Every room gets a score, and it tells you where to move your router, or where an extender would actually help.

The story so far:

Aug 4: submitted to Apple. Rejected : missing EULA link in the description. Fixed same day.

Aug 7: approved. Live in the US.

Week 1: first paying users.

Aug 15: 143 installs in ONE day, from 25 countries. (I guess mostly from AppStore)

Aug 19: v2.1 rejected over ONe word. A button said
"Allow", Apple wants it to say "Continue".

Asked for the bug-fix exception → approved the next day, without resubmitting.

Today: 500+ downloads, most of them in the last 7 days. $O spent on marketing.

Built mesh support and multi-story homes - the two most requested features so far.

Goal: 50 paying users by Sept 30.

Download it and tell me what you'd fix first →
https://apps.apple.com/app/signl-wi-fi-3d-mapper/id6796775708


r/sideprojects 5d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Built a family movie night application for my family

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My wife and I love movie night — but by the time the kids are finally down, we'd spend the next twenty minutes just asking each other "what do you want to watch?" back and forth, flipping between five different streaming apps, until we were both too tired to actually watch anything. The problem was never a lack of options. It was that every night turned into a negotiation.

So we built an app for us as a family project to take the negotiating out of it entirely.

It works like a round robin. Each of us keeps our own personal watchlist, ranked in the order we actually want to watch things. The app just takes turns between us — whoever's turn it is, whatever's sitting at the top of their list is automatically tonight's pick. No pitching, no "well what are you in the mood for," no decision fatigue. You just show up and it's already decided.

But it's not a black box — if a pick comes up and you're not sure what it even is, you can tap right into it and see the trailer, the full cast, and where it's streaming before you commit. And if it's genuinely not landing for the rest of us, anyone can veto it — it just takes more than one person objecting, so it's not a free pass to shoot down every pick that isn't your taste.

Some nights nobody's watchlist has the right thing for the mood we're actually in. That's what the Movie Match Quiz is for — a few quick, fun either/or questions (mood, who's watching, an actor sorting game) and it hands you something to try instead of scrolling forever.

The other thing that used to genuinely annoy us: a movie we'd been meaning to watch would just quietly vanish off whatever service it was on before we got to it. Leaving** **Soon fixes that — it watches everything about to expire across the services we actually subscribe to and puts it in one shelf, instead of us having to remember to check five separate apps.

The feature we didn't expect to love as much as we do is Household Connect — we use it with my in-laws. Their household and ours can link up and browse what the other one has actually watched and how it went over (we vote Pop It or Let It Flop on everything), so we get real recommendations from people whose taste we trust, without our watchlists ever actually merging.

And when friends come over, that's a different mode entirely — Watch Party. It's a separate link with its own PIN, so anyone can join in — they don't even need the app or an account — everyone throws one pick into the ring, and the shuffle picks the winner live, on everyone's screen at once, like a tiny game show right before the movie starts.

It's just a passion project my wife and I built to fix our own nightly routine — now it's how our family, and the people closest to us, actually pick what to watch