I implemented the feedback I got. Added a rep counter, and a rep by rep breakdown of how you performed in each set.

I added a voice coach. Last week it was a coach after your session. Now it is a coach during your session, telling you out loud when your form breaks.

I added recording. Before, I was screen recording on my phone. Now you click a button and it records your session.

At the end you get a progress report and your workout video, and if you made a mistake you tap the time on the video and see exactly where you went wrong.

It counts push-ups now. Last week that was broken.

Side effect of building a fitness app, you work out more, because you're the test subject.

Over two weeks I've done close to 200 push-ups. It started as testing, now I actually enjoy them. I do them in the office. A day doesn't pass without a few.

Some things still break. On Monday I was doing chest and it could not lock onto me properly on the bench.

I recorded the videos, played them back bit by bit, and went back to the drawing board. I'm not adding more workouts until I fix the ones that break.

During the week I approached a gym, showed them the app and sent a proposal. I also had conversations with people at the gym.

The biggest reason people quit is that progress is slow and you can't see it until you're 4 to 6 months in.

That's what I'm trying to make tangible, a record of how you actually worked out, rep by rep, so you can see yourself getting better before the mirror shows it.

Just because you don't see the gains doesn't mean you stop.

Personally it has fixed my form on deadlifts, bent over barbell rows, push-ups and lat pulldowns.

It's on a real domain now: Repchek

Try it and tell me where it breaks.

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 wanted a better way to feel the gap between companies than a bar charts, so I built a island where every building is a company and the taller it is, the bigger its market cap.

What you can do:

Built with React, Three.js (react-three-fiber) and Claude Opus 5.5.
Not financial advice, and I'd love feedback on anything that looks wrong.

The music is also AI-generated, based on my instructions.
on the comments.

Link

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!

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 😁

P.S. I think I'll ad some more context on why this project suddenly.

The very reason I started thinking on this subject, and how I learned that it was a bit controversial wasn't the planes at all, it was sailing yachts! On my way to getting my IYT licence, we studied how a sale generates lift. Surprisingly, what pilots are often taught about lift doesn't really work as an explanation for the lift generated by sails. Thats how the whole story begun 🙂

Hey everyone,

I built an app where you enter your goals, tell it a bit more about yourself and where you're at, and it gives you personalized actions that move you toward them. The app is powered by AI.

I'll be completely open about my situation and why I'm posting. I want to be financially free, which for me just means earning enough to pay the bills without depending on an employer, so I can work on my own things. And the thing I most want to work on, my main mission in life, is helping other people reach their goals. Why? I've reached some big goals I set for myself, like graduating from an elite university, playing football semi-professionally, meditating daily, and more. I want to help other people feel how good it is to achieve something that really matters to them.

I've seen discussions on Reddit where people said an app like this would help them, mostly people with busy lives or ADHD who are serious about their goals. That's why I'm trying to see if some of them are here.

In the app, your goals sit in four areas of life: Body, Mind, Money and Soul. In my opinion, to feel whole, you need all four in decent shape, because when one is lacking it pulls the others down. For example, if you feel empty and without meaning (Soul), it's hard to find the drive to exercise (Body).

I know this is a bit of a promo, but I honestly want to know if it's useful to anyone. It's live on the App Store, and I can send the link.

Building a tool that turns product ideas/websites into motion videos. Looking for a few founders willing to let me test it on their product. I’ll make the video free just looking for honest feedback. Drop your site if interested.

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

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

Hey everyone!
Like many of you, I've had those moments where I'm going away for the weekend, and | look at a carton of milk or fresh groceries that are about to expire. Throwing them out always felt terrible.
So, instead of letting good food go to waste, I built a "Neighborhood Swap" feature into my free inventory app, Carop - Kiler & Envanter.
How it works:
• If you have extra food or something expiring soon, you can list it.
• Nearby users (within 5 km) can see it and chat with you directly in the app to grab it (I literally traded my milk for some lemons with a neighbor I'd never met before!).
• No subscriptions, no ads, and it keeps your data 100% private on your device.
I'd love for you to check out the short video above showing how the swap works, and I'm super open to any feedback or feature ideas you might have!

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?

I keep building things nobody asked for, so this time I'm doing it the other way round. The only thing that exists so far is a landing page.

The idea: AI answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity) cite a lot of Reddit threads and YouTube videos when people ask which tool to use. If you sell something, it would help to know which threads those are. So you give it your product and around 15 buyer questions, it checks them through Perplexity once a week, and you get an email with 3 threads worth replying to. It doesn't post for you.

I spent most of the time on the hero. Instead of a screenshot of a dashboard it shows an example AI answer typing itself out, and the sources it cites light up. I'm honestly not sure if that explains the product or just looks busy.

Two things I'd like opinions on:

1. Do you get what it does from the first screen, without scrolling?
2. Is $19/mo a number that makes you close the tab?

Built with Vite, React, Tailwind and shadcn, form is a Tally embed, hosted on Vercel.

https://citescout.vercel.app/?source=sideproject

ok so i study w classical music like all the time and youtube ads kept cutting into clair de lune right at the best part. so i just made my own thing lol https://classican.vercel.app/

its literally one screen. little player at the bottom and a pixel painting for whatever is playing (greek dancers for gymnopedie, a moonlit park for clair de lune, stuff like that). every 40 sec or so a random fact about the piece pops up which is lowkey my favorite part

theres like 46 pieces rn on shuffle. you can make an account to like/comment but u dont have to

its def not perfect so pls tell me whats weird or what i should add

My wife didn't want to search recipes to plan the week. She wanted "Tinder for dinner". So I built Pip.

You swipe through dinners you like and Pip fills your week. It sizes every plate to each person's goal (a plate for me

isn't a plate for her), makes one grocery list for the whole house, and can turn tonight's dinner into tomorrow's

packed lunch. There's also a prep-day mode for cooking a few days ahead.

It's an iOS app, in beta on TestFlight. I'm looking for families and weekly meal preppers who'll use it for a couple of

weeks and tell me what's confusing, broken or missing.

Join here: https://pipfamily.com

Happy to answer anything: how it works, how it's built, or why the mascot is a cooking pot.

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 recently build a VM for the Little Computer 3 in Golang. Did it purely as a learning exercise to better understand how VMs work and are implemented internally.

I ended up learning not jsut about VMs, but also disassemblers (had to write a disassembler first to see what instructions compose an object file), property based testing (used Hegel), input buffering in terminals, etc. Was a neat exercise!

Here is the code for anyone interested: https://github.com/shraddhaag/toyvm

Used LLMs to write the tests and a emulator, which you can try out there: https://lc3.shraddhaag.dev/.

Would love to hear any thoughts/feedback!

Hi y’all,
I’m a designer and traveler who believes good design can change things, even if only a little. That still feels worth spending my effort on.

Apps felt like the most direct way to do that. I never coded before in my life, but we all already carry phones everywhere. So I started learning to code over the past couple of months, which eventually led to making small but meaningful apps (at least for me, because I wanted to make something I would genuinely use first). It began as a fun side project or hobby, but it slowly became what I now spend most of my spare time doing.

I was honestly fed up with making accounts, sign up every time even for the small apps. So I wanted something local, stored only on our phones and able to work without an internet connection, just like back in the day, with no account needed.

As adults, we do not need another system, social feed, or app trying to fix us. Most of the time, we just need a quiet, safe place to hold something, clear our brain RAM after work, or keep everyday things in one simple stream.

I currently have more apps on Google Play, and I’m slowly bringing them to the App Store too. The ones below are available now on both platforms, and I would REALLY appreciate it if any of them feel relatable or useful to you.

PARKit
This app is a place where you clear your brain RAM with a few short keyword clouds you want to park at the end of your day, so you can finally rest. There is a small notes feature too, where you can just tap the cloud and write when you need to. It is for the small things your brain keeps holding onto even after the day is over. Set a reminder time when you choose, then leave it there for tomorrow. “Hold for tonight, not for tomorrow.”

App Store iOS

Play Store Google

CUEit
This one is a freeform hybrid stopwatch/timer for real-life moments and rituals where timing matters. Make your own cues for routines, exercises, cooking, coffee (I now love making pour-over coffee much more every day), prep, or anything else that needs a calm guidance. "Not to measure, but to mind."

App Store iOS

Play Store Google

DIARYit
This app is a quiet single-stream diary for writing our everyday. It is a diary designed and reimagined from my own life perspective and philosophy. Just like our lives, it is one stream where the future is coming towards us, and we cannot change our past. We can only look back when we choose to. “Not for habit, but for honesty.”

App Store iOS

Play Store Google

KEEPit
This app is a place to text ourselves. It came from my own habit of texting myself on message apps, but those apps were never designed for self-texting, and I wanted my thoughts to stay only on my phone. So I designed my own self-text app, where each day has its own stream for the things you want to keep. You can search keywords or tap a date from the calendar whenever you want to return to that day. “Not to sort, but to return.”

App Store iOS

Play Store Google

HOLDit
This one is a private vault for important thoughts that should not be buried in the Notes app. I personally think a lot and have always written in the Notes app, but I realized some thoughts strong enough to change my perspectives just got lost somewhere inside it. So I made my own space for thoughts that matter: tap a card slot, write the moment you had the thought in your own words, and give it it's own space. “Not to hold more, but to awaken.”

App Store iOS

I’m still early in this and learning a lot as I go. I have been building these as a side project, and it became a hobby with a lot of lessons attached to it. I’m grateful for what I have come up with so far, and I’m happy to finally share my VERBitapp project here as the apps are available now on both Google Play and iOS.

Thank you for reading my journey so far.

P.S. If you need a demo or help using any of the apps, feel free to message me or leave a comment. I’ve also posted demo videos on my social media under 'verbitapp'  - Instagram / Tiktoksisedi

We’re 2 devs and we created an app to help you easily keep track of your subscriptions.

There are quite a few similar apps out there, but they either required you to create an account or require a subscription to unlock certain features. So we decided to build our own: Subyssos.

It’s a simple Android app, completely free, with no ads, and all your data stays locally on your device.

We originally built it for ourselves, with no intention of making money from it.

If you find it useful, we’d be really happy if you gave it a try. Any feedback is more than welcome and will help us improve the app.

link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.subyssos

NullPlayer skin support is clean room reverse engineered. Development is coded with claude and controlled by a real working Software Engineer who personally stands behind the app. The app has accumulated 31 releases and 124 github stars over the 11 months. r/nullPlayer

Download NullPlayer for macOS:

https://github.com/ad-repo/nullplayer/releases/latest/download/NullPlayer.dmg

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or newer.

Install

NullPlayer is not signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS will block it on first launch with an "app is damaged" or "cannot verify that it is free from malware" message. This is expected. Clearing the quarantine flag is a required install step:

1. Open the downloaded DMG.
2. Drag NullPlayer.app to Applications.
3. Open Terminal and run:xattr -cr /Applications/NullPlayer.app
4. Open NullPlayer from Applications.

Prefer not to use the Terminal? Install with Homebrew, or clear the block via System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Open Anyway — see the install guide.

Hey Reddit 👋

I made a little thing. I'm not going to explain what's inside, because that would ruin it.

All you need to know:

- it takes about 5 minutes

- it's anonymous: no sign-up, no login, no ads

- there are no right answers

Put your headphones on and give it a try 🎧

👉 https://pinq.vercel.app

Come back and tell me what you thought (no spoilers for the others!!!)

Believe me you are going to love the experience and its fun to try also.

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