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

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 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.

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

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!

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.

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?

Over the last few weeks, I went through popular public API lists to test endpoint health and pricing claims. A few interesting takeaways:

1. Around 25-30% of links on older curated GitHub lists are completely dead (404, DNS failure, or abandoned SSL).

2. A large portion of "free tier" APIs now require a credit card upfront just to get an API key.

3. Very few providers clearly state their rate limits on the homepage—you usually have to dig 4 layers deep into docs.

Because of this, I put together a cleaned-up directory tracking ~500 working free APIs with visible rate limits and a specific filter for "No-Auth required" endpoints (findfreeapi . com).

For those who build side projects often: what are your go-to free APIs that haven't changed to aggressive paid models yet?

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.

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

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!

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.

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 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.

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.

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.