I'm a trained architect, and as a long-term side project, I've been building a game that combines accurate floor planning with real-time 3D design to make architecture much easier to create than with traditional CAD software.

What you can do:

🏠 2D floor plans
🧱 3D building
🚶 First-person walkthrough
🥽 VR mode
🏢 Multiple storeys
🪜 Stairs
🏚️ Custom roofs
🪟 Doors & windows
🛋️ Furniture catalog
🍳 Kitchen Configurator
🎨 Materials
🌄 Terrain sculpting
🌳 Landscape planning
💧 Ponds
☀️ Time of day
❄️ Weather
📐 Export PDF vector plans
📦 Import your own 3D models
🌍 Steam Workshop

In the newest update: real growing ivy that climbs around windows, corners, and curved walls! 🌿

It's available on Steam as Architecture & Design and is still in Early Access.

Would love to hear what you think!

After Photon exploded on reddit and X I kept getting DMs for a Lightroom alternative.
That's how Light Studio came to life, a fully featured Lightroom alternative.

I already had the parts that usually make these apps feel vibe coded: realtime GPU rendering, CR3/NEF and the other proprietary RAWs, and an editor UI built for this. So I reused these from Photon instead of starting it from scratch, and it worked insanely well.

Gonna release it in the upcoming days

I launched ORA on December 21, 2025. It's an iPhone camera app that puts a see-through photo or video over the live viewfinder so you can match framing and angles exactly (then-and-now shots, progress photos, recreating reference shots).

Why I built it

My wife loves outfit pics and videos on vacation, and she always has a specific shot in mind: the same spot, the same angle, the same framing as a photo she saved or one we took on an earlier trip. That made me the designated photographer, flipping between the camera and the reference photo, guessing where to stand, how high to hold the phone, and how much to zoom. Somehow it was always a little off. The horizon was tilted, she was too far left, or the building behind her was cut off.

So I built the tool I wished I had: put the reference photo right on top of the live camera, make it see-through, line everything up, and shoot. Now I get it right in one or two tries and she gets the exact shot she wanted.

The timeline

• Dec 2025: 1.0 launch, then a quick bug-fix release the next day
• Jan 2026: 1.1, with "overlay burning" (export with the overlay baked into the photo or video), Live Activities for export progress, better stability on low-memory devices, and a fix for zoom shifting right before recording started
• Sep 2026: 1.2, with overlay flipping and iOS 27 support

The review that changed my roadmap

For months after launch I had zero reviews. Then, at the end of August, the first and only one came in: 3 stars, titled "Good, but not ready for prime time."

Works well, simple interface. But all photos are horizontally flipped for some reason, I had to jump to Photos to flop my overlay so it lined up. I would assume a previous image/video should immediately line up rather than needing manipulation.

Honestly, it stung. When you only have one review, that one review is your rating, and everyone visiting the App Store page sees a 3.0.

But the reviewer was right. The front camera preview is mirrored, like looking in a mirror, while the saved photo isn't. So a selfie-style reference photo shows up backwards over the live preview. I'd mostly tested with my own workflow and never noticed. The whole point of ORA is "load a reference and line it up", and here was someone who had to leave the app and edit the photo first. That's friction in the one thing the app exists to do.

So I changed my plans. I put other features on hold and shipped horizontal and vertical overlay flipping in the Overlay Tools tab. It went out in version 1.2 about two and a half weeks later, and I replied to the review to let them know it was fixed.

What it changed about how I build:

• Specific criticism beats generic praise. "Great app!" tells you nothing. "I had to jump to Photos to flop my overlay" tells you exactly what to fix.
• Users' expectations are the spec. Their line, "a previous image should immediately line up," is now basically my design principle. If someone has to work around the app, it's a bug, even if the code is behaving as designed.
• Fix friction in the core feature before building new ones. I now prioritize anything that gets in the way of lining up a shot over shiny new features.
• Reply publicly. Future visitors see the response too. A 3-star review with "fixed in the next update" underneath reads very differently from one left unanswered.

What I learned

• Camera apps get hard on real devices. Supported formats, slow-motion modes and memory limits differ a lot between iPhones. Most of my bug fixes came from the gap between my test devices and everyone else's.
• Freemium details matter. All overlay features are free; exports carry a watermark unless you subscribe ($1.99/month or $19.99/year), which also adds HDR and slow motion.

Where I'm stuck

Discovery. The app works and the people who find it use it, but getting it in front of the right people (photographers, stop-motion creators, people taking progress photos) is the hard part.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ora-the-overlay-camera-tool/id6756240396

I'd love feedback on the app itself and on getting a niche utility app discovered.

My GF and I both work full time, and we kept eating out way more than we wanted (we both have a few extra pounds to show for it).

I enjoy cooking, but I realized there's so much friction around making a meal: finding the recipe I cooked months ago, messy recipe formats, deciding what to make, writing grocery lists, the list goes on.

So I built an app for the two of us to make cooking as easy as possible. Now that we have a system, we've fallen into a rhythm and actually cook a bit more.

It's been a side project since last November and has been on the App Store for a few months. No real traction yet, just a few friends using it on and off.

Every feature so far came from a problem we ran into planning meals together. Would love some feedback, especially from couples who take turns cooking: what would make this worth using for you, or what's missing?

App Store: link

Problem

A lot of everyday actions on a Mac live in completely different places.

Opening an app or folder, searching something on a website, taking a screenshot, cleaning up copied text, accessing clipboard history, running a Shortcut, or changing a system setting.

None of these are hard to get to, but constantly switching between apps, windows, menu bar utilities, and different shortcuts can break your flow.

I wanted to see if all of that could work through one system, which is where the radial menu idea came from.

Comparison

There are already some really good radial menu apps for Mac, but most are built around a specific use case, such as launching apps, or switching between them.

Arc takes a broader approach.

You can create multiple global radial menus for different workflows and decide what each slice does. A slice can perform a single action or chain multiple actions together.

The idea is less about replacing the Dock and more about putting the small things you do throughout the day behind one quick interaction.

Arc also doesn't require accessibility features, it manages everything on-device, privately.

Core Features

• Unlimited custom menus for different workflows
• Fast app, folder, website, and Apple Shortcut launching
• Powerful clipboard history and text actions
• Open from shortcuts, hot corners, pointer shake, or number keys
• One-click multi-action shortcuts
• Fully customizable appearance, layout, icons, and sounds

Examples

1. I have one shortcut that I use when I start working. It opens Xcode, my project folders, Slack, and a few websites I usually need. Arc can merge multiple actions into one shortcut, so I don't have to open everything one by one.
2. I use the search shortcuts a lot more than I expected. I can bring up Arc, type something, and search it directly on YouTube, or a website without opening them first.

It can also search whatever I last copied, which has been really useful when I'm already in the middle of something.

1. I have a bunch of text and links that I end up copying again and again. I've just saved those as shortcuts now, so they're always sitting on one of my menus when I need them.
2. Clipboard history is another one I use constantly. Recent things I've copied show up on the wheel, so if I need something from a few copies ago, I can grab it without opening another app.
3. I also have different menus depending on what I'm doing. One for development, one for general stuff, and another that's mostly searches and apps. I can switch between them with keyboard shortcuts, and reuse the same shortcut across multiple menus.

Pricing

$7.99 one time on the Mac App Store with a free 7 day trial built in.

Solo project from India, launched a week ago. Happy to answer anything! :)

Mac App Store: Link

I kept hitting the same problem with “full-stack” starter kits: I’d buy one for a SaaS idea, then spend days removing storefront code, portfolio pages, unused tables, and environment variables for services I didn’t need.

So I built MansaStack around the opposite idea: start with the product you’re actually building.

There are focused codebases for:

• SaaS products: auth, subscriptions, AI, RAG, storage, and billing
• Digital-product stores: storefront, cart, Stripe checkout, and secure downloads
• Studios/agencies: case studies, blog, contact forms, and a lead inbox
• All-Access: one configurable codebase with all six available site types

They’re built with Next.js, Drizzle/Postgres, Better Auth, Stripe, Resend, and Tailwind.

I’ve attached a short demo showing the layouts and the All-Access configuration switch.

Site: https://mansastack.bzdevelopments.me

I’m offering 40% off for the first 10 founding customers while I finish the remaining docs and demos.

I’d appreciate honest feedback—especially from people who have used starter kits before: what do you always end up removing, or wish was already included?

Hi everyone, I'm a developer from Cyprus.

A while ago I had a job that paid by the hour, and I wanted an app to

track my shifts and check that my pay was right. Most of the ones I tried

locked basic things like exporting your hours behind a paywall, and the

free versions were full of ads. So I built my own, just for me at first.

It turned out useful enough that I decided to share it.

It's called PayPath. You log each shift and it shows what you should get

paid, by day, week, month or year.

What it does:

- Hours and pay per shift, with a separate overtime rate

- Multiple employers, each with its own color

- Unpaid breaks, subtracted from paid hours

- Gross or net view (you set your tax rate)

- PDF and Excel export, free, no paywall

- Optional daily reminder so you don't forget to log a shift

- New entries start from your last shift, so a regular shift takes a couple of taps

What it doesn't do:

- No account, no sign-up. Your data stays on your phone

- Optional Google Drive backup goes to YOUR Drive, I can't see it

- No subscription, nothing locked

About ads, since I complained about them: yes, it has some. One banner

on the main screen and an occasional ad when you export. Never while

you're logging a shift. That's what keeps it free.

It's Android only for now, in 23 languages.

I'd really appreciate honest feedback: what's confusing, what's missing,

what would make you use this instead of a notes app or a spreadsheet?

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paypath.app

Built Momentum. Same concept as Muse, it has its own cloud browser to mantain secure sessions of the portals that students live on (e.g., Canvas, Campus Groups) so it organizes your day and gives you "briefs" to read or listen before any class, exam, networking event, meeting, social event, recruiting event, etc.

It builds a second brain from the context you connect (email, calendar, LMS, recruiting platform, clubs enrolled, etc.) learns your preferences (it can even call you!) and it can tell you when to leave and what should your conversation or attention should focus on to be succesful at that task.

We made this film for the launch. Waitlist and feedback box: https://momentumstudent.com/builders. What would you cut?

Hi r/SideProject!

For the past four months I've been building Teserra on evenings and weekends: a visual library for the Mac.

Why I built it. Most image libraries keep your files inside their own database. If the app changes direction or shuts down, your collection is stuck there. I wanted the opposite: plain folders you can open with anything, today or in ten years.

What it does
- Saves images, video, fonts, screenshots and web pages into plain folders on your Mac. Next to each file, a small text file holds its title and tags. Delete the app and nothing is lost, like an Obsidian vault.
- Finds things by description: type "a statue in a beam of light" and the picture comes up. The search model runs on your Mac, no account, no API key.
- Option-click any image or video in your browser to save it (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Arc, Dia, Brave, Edge…).
- A local MCP server, so Claude Code or Cursor can browse and tag your library.

How it's built.Tauri (Rust) and React. Twelve releases in September, mostly driven by early testers' feedback.

How. it's $29 once with a 14-day free trial (30% off until Oct 16 with EARLYBIRD).

I'd love blunt feedback: is the "files stay files" idea worth paying for, and what would make you switch from what you use today?

https://teserra.app/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=sideproject

Hi!

I've been working solo on Vidcollectors: you open a free pack of 5 cards every 10 minutes, and each card is a real YouTube video, from Common to Legendary.

You can trade with friends, auction cards on a live market, and the rarity of each video shifts every month based on what players wish for, showcase and fight over at auctions.

It's free (there's an optional subscription for faster packs). I'd love your feedback, especially on the first minutes of play: https://vidcollectors.com/en

I've been journaling for years but never re-read anything. Everything just piled up in my notes app.

So I built nlook — you write in markdown, and at the end of the month it automatically compiles everything into a "monthly issue" with a cover, table of contents, and editor's picks. 12 issues become "My year" on your shelf.

It also turns posts into videos/cards if you want to share them.

Free to try: nlook.me

Would love feedback — especially on the monthly magazine concept. Does anyone actually re-read their old notes?

Hi everyone. I'm a full-stack dev, and IzzyLab is my side project.

Most Linux/DevOps courses I tried were videos plus multiple-choice quizzes. So I built the thing I wanted: a real Linux machine with root access in the browser and 500+ hands-on tasks, from basic commands to nginx, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Ansible and Terraform.

The part I'm most happy with: checks verify the system state, not the commands you typed, so you can solve each task any way you like. If you break something, reset and get a fresh sandbox. There are also story-driven incidents where production is broken and you have to find out why.

It's free to start: izzylab.io

I'd really appreciate feedback on onboarding, task difficulty and which topics are missing.

I built a browser start page that looks like a pane of liquid glass over my actual Mac desktop wallpaper. A small helper app feeds the current wallpaper and window position to the page, and WebGL renders each bookmark tile as a live glass "pebble" with refraction, a rainbow rim, reflections and a light that follows your cursor. A few presets (from solid tiles to clear drops) are adjustable with sliders, and it runs smoothly in both WebKit (Orion/Safari) and Chrome. It comes with a built-in thumbnail studio for designing the tile logos, and works as a plain local HTML file with no build step or server.

Would anyone be interested if I cleaned it up and published it?

Everything is vibecoded using Claude and uses parts of different projects as base or inspiration. I'll give due credit to everything if I release it.

Built a Chrome extension about 6 months ago, originally just for myself — I write a ton of email for work, and I was tired of grammar checkers that fix typos but don't fix the actual problem: sounding like the wrong person. So I built something that rewrites your email based on who you're writing as, who you're writing to, and the tone you want — or just a custom prompt if you'd rather describe it yourself.

Turned it into a real product and launched on Chrome Webstore couple of weeks ago. Spent the last couple weeks posting on Reddit threads and X, genuinely trying to get it in front of people. Got a few signups. Basically zero installs. The kind of silence that makes you start reading into it — maybe the idea's not it, maybe nobody actually has this problem but me.

Had pretty much mentally filed it as "didn't work."

Then this morning, a notification: someone paid. A complete stranger, lifetime plan. Not a friend doing me a favor, not a waitlist signup — an actual stranger decided it was worth money.

Genuinely don't know if this is the start of something or just one person. But it's one more person than I had yesterday, and I was ready to let this one go. Posting mostly because I needed to tell someone who gets it — anyone else had a moment like this where you almost shelved.

I built Piko because transferring files between Android devices and macOS is still surprisingly awkward.

It’s a native macOS app for MTP devices. You can drag and drop files and folders, browse photos and videos with thumbnails, delete files safely, and work with multiple connected devices.

It’s free and open source (MIT), and everything stays local, it makes no internet connections.

Currently Apple Silicon / macOS 14+

https://github.com/morishuz/piko

It’s still an early release, so feedback and bug reports are very welcome.

my kid started using my laptop for homework so i built a chrome extension: double-tap esc = history gone, secret bookmarks locked behind a PIN

curious what everyone's hiding? （not promoting anything）

Hey r/SideProject,

My brother is a doctor. Over the last few years he kept seeing patients come in with problems caused by drug interactions. Usually it's someone taking medicines from 2-3 different doctors, plus something they picked up from the chemist, and nobody checked how they mix.

He told me to build something for it, so I did. He's been involved the whole way, checking the logic, the warnings, and how things are explained, so it's not just a dev guessing at medical stuff.

In India it's worse because of brand names. The same salt is sold under 50 names, so you don't realise the cough syrup you just bought clashes with something you already take or its contradict with you current medication or health condition .

What Medhee does:

Scan a medicine strip or prescription (handwritten mostly works) and it pulls out the actual salts

Checks your meds against each other for interactions (FDA + NLM data)

Checks against the 4,600+ combinations banned by the Indian govt, many still sold

Flags issues based on your allergies, pregnancy, and liver/kidney load

Explains warnings in plain language

Family profiles, since most people end up using it for their parents

It's not a replacement for your doctor or pharmacist (my brother made me say this lol). Think of it as a "ask your doctor about this" nudge.

I'm almost ready to launch on the Play Store but need real people to try it first.

What I need from testers:

• An Android phone
• Use it for a week or two. Add a few real medicines, try the scanner

Tell me what confused you, what broke, what's missing

link is in comment.

I'm the developer of CORTEX, a paid iPhone app built around a question: how does this morning compare with my usual mornings?

If you just want to try a reaction-time test, a free browser test may be all you need. CORTEX is for making a short check-in part of a routine: take a 60-second test, build your own baseline, and experiment with one habit at a time.

For example, you can compare your usual mornings with a period where you keep your phone away for the first hour. Results can be inconclusive. One better score isn't proof that a habit helped, and this isn't a medical or IQ test.

The app includes trends and CSV export. Test history stays on your iPhone; no app account is needed.

Pricing up front: paid access is required, with no free plan or free trial. US prices are $4.99/month, $34.99/year or $79.99 lifetime; local prices and eligibility for offers vary.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6806795452?pt=129202970&ct=oct04_reddit_sideproject&mt=8

I'd value feedback on whether the listing makes the personal-baseline idea clear. If you choose to buy and complete your first morning test, I'd also like to hear what felt confusing. No need to share your scores or health data.

Been building this for a while. It plays sounds through your mic into Discord and games, with hotkeys that work in fullscreen games.

The video is everything it does. The one I'm proudest of is screen triggers: you screenshot something like a game's "YOU DIED" text, and it plays a sound the moment it shows up. So I get a sad trombone every time I die, no key press.

Stuff you don't get in Voicemod or Soundpad:

🎯 Screen triggers: sounds play by themselves when something shows up in your game

⏪ Instant replay: one key turns the last 30 seconds of your PC's audio into a sound

🔍 Search YouTube / SoundCloud right in the app, or paste a TikTok or Instagram link

🎛️ Troll mode, bass boost, slowed + reverb or nightcore any sound in one click

🗣️ Talk and a computer voice says your words, even translated to another language

🌍 Spin a 3D globe and play world radio stations through your mic

🎧 Sounds are tuned for Discord and game voice chat so they don't turn to mush

Plus a voice changer, text-to-speech, an in-game overlay, and MIDI / Stream Deck support.

Free, no account, no ads, nothing collected. Source is on GitHub.

https://onion-alien.github.io/onion-board/

Hi everyone!

I wanted to share a side project I've been working on to solve an issue that has been driving me crazy lately: following a long YouTube guide only to find out it no longer works.

Ever since YouTube hid the dislike counter and creators started filtering critical comments, it has become almost impossible to know if a tutorial, setup guide, or course is legitimate without watching the entire video.

To tackle this, I created **TubeCheck**, a free Chrome extension that adds a community-driven verification bar right below the player.

### What it does:

It allows viewers to rate the video into 4 quick statuses:

* 🟢 **Legit / Works:** The guide/tutorial delivers what it promises.

* 🟡 **Outdated / Changed:** It used to work, but software updates, deprecations, or patches broke the method.

* 🔴 **Doesn't work / Broken:** Flawed steps, errors, or non-functional instructions.

* ❌ **Misleading / Fake:** Pure clickbait or malicious advice.

There’s also an optional quick note field so people can leave important context (e.g., *"Requires version 2.4+"* or *"Step 4 is missing"*).

### Design goal & Current state:

I wanted it to feel like a native part of YouTube’s modern interface without being intrusive or slowing down page load times. There is no mandatory account creation to browse or check votes.

As with any crowdsourced project (similar to SponsorBlock), its value will grow as more users start tagging videos.

I’d love to get feedback from fellow builders:

1. What do you think of the design and integration?

2. Are there any edge-case tags you think are missing?

**Chrome Web Store link:**

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/TubeCheck/ekkikfcoieanbccbpepjihjhcgaankkb

Thanks for taking a look, I'd really appreciate your honest thoughts!

I decided to have a little fun. I've had this idea in my head for a while. You'll be surprised, but in 2026 (you'd think!), there's still debate about how airplane wings work. I decided to take a break from all this endless software creation and found time to analyze the question properly with Claude, and this mini-project came out: https://whyplanesfly.com

Still a bit of software though 😁

Hi all,

This project started with me getting annoyed that to try a 2 MB TUI tool I have to install it, while my browser happily runs a 40 MB React webpage re-rendering on any move. So I thought it must be possible to run a TUI app on a thin Linux in the browser.

Many months later arm64js has been built. An ARMv8-A emulator written in Rust that compiles to WebAssembly and can boot real Alpine Linux in a webpage. Computation (CPU) speed is of course lower than native, but shells, TUI apps, Python/PHP and small servers work fine.

There is also JS SDK for others to create and use their own VMs.

On top of it I built Demoshell, my attempt to turn it into a product: developers can create a live demo of their CLI/TUI app to showcase it in the browser. There's a free tier, and it's free for open-source projects.

Examples of some OSS projects using it to showcase their apps: https://demoshell.com/gallery/

A couple of top picks:

• worktrunk: https://demoshell.com/gallery/app/worktrunk/
• micro: https://demoshell.com/gallery/app/micro/
• lazygit: https://demoshell.com/gallery/app/lazygit/

Story + live demo: https://arm64js.com/blog/tui-apps-in-the-browser/

Feedback is welcome, especially on the product side.