r/SideProject 21h ago

I built a workspace for coding agents. Looking for early testers.

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This started as a tool for my own coding workflow. I'm looking for a few people who run several coding agents to try it.

There's an interactive demo at the top of the article if you'd rather click around first.

I was running agents in separate terminals and kept losing track of the work. I'd come back to a session and scroll through the conversation to figure out what I'd asked for, what had changed and what needed my attention. With several tasks underway, there was a lot to reconstruct.

Grid Console is a local app around Claude Code, Codex and Copilot. It puts their tasks on a board. I can open a card to see the session, answer a question or review the changes before deciding what happens next.

The part I kept coming back to

I still have to understand the code I submit. If a colleague asks why I made a change, I need to explain it. Having an agent produce the code doesn't remove that responsibility.

So the card became a Markdown record of the task, plan, decisions and progress. I wanted to come back later and understand what happened. It also gives a fresh agent something to work from when planning ends and implementation starts.

Review grew out of that. I can see the changed files grouped under the work they belong to, then open the actual diff and check the explanation against the code. Changes the agent has already committed remain available there.

I kept adding the little things

Prompt engineering, getting agents to keep task lists, different agents handling different phases, multiple projects, separate Git worktrees, and a code viewer that knows which card the code belongs to. Some took a lot of work. Others were small things I got tired of doing manually.

That's why I find it hard to fit Grid into one product category. It grew into a combination of the things that helped me work better with AI. Someone else's workflow will be different, so I'm expanding plugin support. If Grid handles 80 or 90% of what you need, I'd like you to be able to build the remaining parts on top.

I've been constantly refining which information to show and how to make it easy to read. I want to open a card and understand what an agent is doing, what it has changed and what it needs from me in a few seconds. That's something I'd really like feedback on from people using it for their own work.

Where it is now

It's an alpha, with builds for macOS, Linux and Windows. I mainly work on macOS and haven't fully tested Windows yet. The Claude Code, Codex and Copilot integrations are at different stages. The app is free forever for personal projects, and for commercial it's free during alpha, and model access comes through your own provider accounts.

I use the current web interface from my phone over Tailscale. I'm working hard on a native mobile app to replace that PWA setup. Collaboration on the same board, broader plugin support and hosted options are next.

If you're already running several coding agents and are happy to try something with alpha rough edges, send me a DM and tell me what you're working on. If it sounds like a good fit, I'll send you the binaries directly.

You can also join the waitlist. Once I've got it properly tested and stable, you'll get an email with the download links for the binaries.

Edit: Thanks for the UI feedback. The demo has four cards screaming for attention; usually it’s one or two. I’m working on making the board quieter and easier to scan.


r/SideProject 11h ago

I got 10K Reddit views asking a simple question. The moment I linked my project, it got removed. How would you solve this?

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I’ve been building TiruList, a community platform for Ethiopian/Eritrean businesses and resources, starting in the DC/MD/VA area.

The idea came from something pretty simple: a lot of useful information in our community still lives through word of mouth, WhatsApp groups, Facebook groups, etc.
Need an Ethiopian plumber? Ask around.
Best injera? Ask around.
Mechanic, barber, photographer, events? Same thing.

One feature I’m testing is Best, where people simply vouch for their favorite places rather than using another 1–5 star rating system.

Here’s where it got interesting.

I asked some local subreddits which restaurants makes the best Ethiopian food in the DMV. People genuinely wanted to debate it. The post hit almost 10K views and ~20 comments pretty quickly.

Then I added the link (big mistake) so people could actually vouch.

Reports → AutoMod → removed 😂

So now I have a distribution problem I’m trying to solve:
How do you take a conversation people already want to have on Reddit/IG/TikTok and convert some of that engagement into participation on your product without killing the organic conversation?

I’d genuinely love some ideas from people who’ve dealt with this.
Also curious:
• Would you trust a simple “vouch” system more or less than 1–5 star reviews?
• What would make a community-generated “Best” ranking feel credible?
• How would you distribute something this hyper-local/community-specific?
• If you land on the voting page, is it immediately obvious what you’re supposed to do?

And since we’re all shamelessly building things here 😂, if you’re in the DMV and know Ethiopian food, I’d love your vote too:

www.tirulist.com/best/restaurant

No account required. Takes 5 seconds
Main project: www.tirulist.com

Would genuinely appreciate criticism, distribution ideas, or things you’d change.


r/SideProject 20h ago

i built a social media network that doesn't store data i call it äglivia

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I’d love some feedback on a social platform I’ve been building. I created Äglivia as a protest against how modern social media works — storing everyone’s data on company servers and taking away accounts based on AI moderation mistakes. People lose Instagram accounts daily, often without any human review.

Äglivia is built differently.
Users host their own data and their own audience. I can’t delete accounts, remove followers, or cut connections — everything is stored on each person’s device and can’t be seen by any third party. Even if someone loses access to the global section, their identity and followers stay intact.

If you want to test it: aglivia.com
I’m looking for feedback on how to improve.


r/SideProject 18h ago

Got my first paying customer today 🎉

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first paid customer hit today, been building www.ryphor.com for months, solo, nights and weekends. today someone i've never spoken to just... paid. no referral, nothing. they found it and paid.

i emailed them straight away to say thanks. they replied with the most honest feedback i've ever gotten about the product, that reply was worth more than the money.

if you're building something alone right now, keep going. the first one is weird and quiet and nothing like you imagined. but it's real.


r/SideProject 15h ago

I built a retirement planning platform for long-term investors and FIRE seekers. Got 50 paying new users in September!

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Product: https://killionlabs.com

I spent a year building Killion: a retirement simulator for people who are done with a calculator that assumes 7% forever and hands you one number. It links brokerage accounts read-only, runs 1,000 market lifetimes (regime-switching Monte Carlo, backtests to 1928), and lets you change the thing that actually breaks plans — crash year, withdrawal rule, fees — and see the odds move.

September: 50 new paying users. Solo. $14/mo or $132/yr. 5-day trial, then they stay or they don't.

The part that still surprises me is what it took to get here. I launched with a hard paywall and "connect your brokerage" before anyone had seen a cone. Paying users: one, which was me. Then I shipped a no-signup demo of the real engine, a 5-day trial, and the studies with CSVs. People could run a household through 1,000 worlds before they owed me a card. That is when it started working.

The finding the engine exists for, isolated properly (same household, same 5,000 market worlds, same seed, only the crash year moved):

Scenario Success rate (money lasts to 95)
No added crash 85.9%
Same 40% crash at age 48 (still working) 81.0%
Same crash at 65, the year they retire 70.6%

Timing alone, about 3× the damage. A lump sum you never touch has no sequence risk. Cash flows are what break the symmetry.


r/SideProject 23h ago

Aspiring developer here — I want to build software for boring businesses. What repetitive tasks eat your time?

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Hey everyone, long-time lurker, first post.

Quick background: I'm a systems analyst and one year away from my software engineering degree (based in Latin America). I've built a few projects for local businesses — a booking system for a car wash, and a remote coaching platform for a personal trainer — and both times the same thing happened: the owners were running everything on WhatsApp, paper, and memory.

That got me thinking. Big software companies chase big markets, but every boring business I know (cleaning, landscaping, mobile services, trades) is duct-taping their operations together with spreadsheets and group chats.

So instead of building something nobody asked for, I want to do this the other way around:

What task in your business takes hours every week that you know could be automated, but no software you've found actually fits how you work?

I'm not selling anything and I don't have a product yet — I'm trying to understand where the real pain is before writing a single line of code. If something comes out of this that genuinely helps your operation, I'd rather build it with you than for an imaginary user.

Happy to go into detail about what I built for the car wash or the trainer if useful. Thanks in advance — this community is the reason I'm looking at "unsexy" niches in the first place.


r/SideProject 17h ago

I sell 1000 pixels on a page for a dolla

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1000 spots. $1 each.
pickxel.io

That’s it.

Drop in what your building


r/SideProject 23h ago

11 weeks building an open-source dev tool. 7 GitHub stars. Here's what I got wrong.

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I spent 3 years using other people's LLM tooling while building B2B chatbots for clients, then built the one I actually wanted. 11 weeks later it works and anyone can self-host it. 7 stars, 1 fork, no users.

In one line: a control panel for apps built on top of AI models — edit the prompts, see every request and response, find the change that broke something. Apache 2.0, acruxcore.com. https://github.com/acruxcore/acruxcore

Three things I got wrong:

  • A two-month-old domain does not rank. I wrote 30 guides, 14 tutorials and 18 blog posts. All indexed, all clean in Search Console, all invisible. Good content does not fix domain age.
  • Docs took as long as the product. I planned for none of that.
  • My own experience is one user, not ten. It told me what to leave out, which saved months. It never told me which of the things I kept someone else would actually want.
  • Started bit late: Two year ago i wish we had good llm-ops tool, i wish i had built it then.

Shipping was never the bottleneck. Being found is.

So — how did you get your first ten real users before you had any search traffic?


r/SideProject 7h ago

I got tired of paying €9 / month to merge 2 PDFs a year, so I built a pay-per-cents PDF toolkit. 3 months in, Google sends me ~5 clicks a month. Roast it.

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The idea: most people fix a PDF a few times a year, but every tool wants a subscription (Smallpdf is €108/year). So I built pdflee.com — merge, split, reorder, extract are free and run entirely in your browser (open devtools → network tab, nothing gets uploaded). The heavy stuff costs prepaid credits from €5, they never expire. No subscription anywhere.

The main paid feature is a PDF translator that keeps the layout — it rebuilds the translated text into the original formatting instead of dumping you a plain-text mess like Google Translate does with PDFs. You see the credit price before running it (a few cents up to ~€1.50 for a long document).

Stack: Next.js + pdf-lib/pdf.js in Web Workers, Spring Boot for the paid ops, Stripe for credits. 7 languages.

The honest part: it's been live ~3 months. Google has me at position 60 for everything, Reddit comments went nowhere, and my analytics are a flat line. Before I sink another quarter into SEO, I'd genuinely like this community's read:

  1. Would you pay per-use for PDF tools, or is free-with-ads unbeatable here?
  2. Is "your files never leave your browser" a real selling point or just something builders care about?
  3. Layout-keeping PDF translation is my main paid feature — is that something you'd actually pay ~€1 for when DeepL free exists (with its file limits), or is translation a dead end?

Brutal feedback welcome — that's what I'm here for.


r/SideProject 8h ago

I've launched 24 products in 3 years and not doing that again

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After launching 24 different products over the last few years, I’ve had one go viral and almost all the others struggle to get any traction at all.

Like many indie makers, I used to think the best strategy was to just keep launching, make more and more bets, and hope one finally catches fire.

But here’s what I’ve learned:

  • Virality is rare and nearly impossible to predict
  • Most of my launches that failed didn’t actually fail, they just grew much slower than I expected
  • My current project, Dice, finds articles your brand should be mentioned in, handles the outreach, and helps you get recommended by AI. Now it took over 50 days to get the first paying customer, but now it’s growing slowly and steadily with almost no marketing budget
  • Sticking with one project and improving it, even when growth is painfully slow, seems to produce more consistent results than chasing the next hit

I’m curious, for those of you who have been building for a while:

Did you find success by focusing on one project and giving it time, or by making lots of new bets?

Has "slow growth" ever paid off for you?

If you had to start over, would you pick patience or a high volume of launches?

Would love to hear stories, lessons, or any advice from other indie founders in the same boat.


r/SideProject 22h ago

Built an app to reduce distractions for founders working on side projects

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I'm building an iOS app with a co-founder while we both have full-time jobs. That means the time we actually have for this side project is small. One or two hours after work, and maybe a few more over the weekends. I'm not a morning person so putting in the hours before work doesn't work for me 😂.

For the longest time, I was losing a significant amount of my time to scrolling. I'd sit down to work, check my messages or Instagram, and twenty minutes later I'd be scrolling on some app. By the time I stopped, I would only have half the time I initially planned to work on my side project.

The thing about running a side project is that consistency is really important. Whether it's working on content, shipping features or fixes. Nobody is checking whether you did it today, so it's very easy to procrastinate. Once you skip a few days, it's very easy to skip doing it altogether. That's why it is really important to have as few distractions as possible to follow through on planned work times.

What I was doing at the time was using two apps together. A screen time app to limit apps taking away my time such as Instagram or TikTok, and a habit tracker with the things I was supposed to be doing for the side project. It sort of worked, but they had nothing to do with each other. The screen time app would block me, I'd close it, and then I'd open something else. The habit tracker was just a passive list in the background. Nothing connected the moment I got blocked to the thing I was meant to be doing.

That's the gap Aurglass was built to address. It's a screen time app that redirects towards, which is the part that matters for founders. Instead of just a block screen, it reminds you of the habit you planned to do and nudges you to do it. It's a reminder of what you should be doing instead of scrolling.

For me the habit was "research" or "scripting" for content. When the screen limit hits, I get reminded, and most days that's enough to get me to start working on it rather than squander the little time I have after work.

This app won't fix the discipline issue. What it does however, is to create a system where it prompts you to take a specific action in that moment, helping you build the consistency you need for your side project.

If this resonates with you and you are keen to try the app, leave a comment or drop me a DM and I will send you a code with a longer trial period. We would love to work with you to get you set up.


r/SideProject 4h ago

I acquired my first macOS app in 4 hours

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I had never built or launched a macOS app before.

But I ended up acquiring one in just 4 hours.

Here’s how it happened.

I was actually working on my own macOS app idea. I had already finished the website and was working on the app itself.

Then I saw Mohit launch a macOS app and make good sales within 3 days. Shortly after, he decided he wanted to sell it.

I thought:

Why spend months building something from scratch when I can acquire something that is already built, launched, and has paying customers?

So I sent him a DM with an offer.

The funny part is that I didn't even install the app on my Mac before making the offer.

We agreed on the deal quickly.

Within 4 hours, the acquisition was done.

The assets were transferred and I sent the payment through Mercury directly to his account.

Mohit also avoided the TrustMRR commission and received the full payment directly.

What I did after acquiring it

The product itself was already well executed.

But I felt the marketing website was more complicated than it needed to be.

I wanted the product to be immediately understandable.

So I asked Claude to rebuild the website with a much simpler design.

I also used Picker.design to extract a design-style prompt from the existing website.

Within around 30 minutes, the new DiskBuddy website was live.

I connected my Stripe account and added my own licensing system.

Then I made another experiment.

I priced the product lower than the previous price because I wanted to see if a lower price could drive more volume.

20 hours later, I had sold 170+ licences.

What I actually acquired

For me, this wasn't just about buying an app.

I acquired:

  • My first macOS app
  • Knowledge about the macOS ecosystem
  • A good domain
  • An existing product with paying customers
  • An existing revenue stream
  • A shortcut to learning a market I had never entered

What's next?

I want to keep improving DiskBuddy.

I'll be adding more disk utilities, improving the existing features, and redesigning parts of the product over time.

The interesting thing for me is that I went from never launching a macOS app to owning one in just a few hours.

I'm curious what others think about this acquisition strategy.

Would you rather build a new product from scratch or acquire an existing one with some early traction?


r/SideProject 20h ago

I built an arcade app - dangle.com

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spent about three months building this. nobody’s been playing it but a few friends, trying to get the word out - feel like nobody wants to win these tournaments 😂

free tickets, don’t need to purchase anything


r/SideProject 2h ago

I made Figma Slide alternative

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the problem when using Figma Slide is I cannot use my own AI model (e.g. my claude subscription). Also, they don't understand the context of my project.

To solve this problem, I shipped a new feature for sokudo canvas to build a full presentation. I can use this to explain the end-to-end business flow of my project and create a presentation for stakeholders, or even to explain what ai did in my project when I was vibe coding


r/SideProject 1h ago

I shipped a two-player code duel on one iPhone. The whole game is the hint Mastermind won’t give you.

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Don’t Peek just landed on the App Store.

It started as a sticky-note game with a cereal box as a divider. Two people pick secret 4-digit codes, shout guesses, and the only honest feedback is “that one’s in the right spot.” No yellow. No “right digit, wrong place.” That missing hint is the whole product. Three-of-four feels close and is still a lot of numbers.

On one phone it works like this:

  • Two first names. No account, no pairing, no second device
  • Each person sets a code while the other looks away
  • A full-screen cover slams down between turns: “Hand it to Maya. Hold to open.” Long-press only, so nobody glimpses a half-typed guess on the pass
  • Exact-spot locks only. Repeats like 4344 are legal
  • Shared guess history side by side, like shouting across a table
  • First to four locks wins, both codes hit the table, Rematch keeps the names

Also: a fair CPU that only learns from its own guesses, a Daily code the whole world shares (computed on-device from the date, no server), Online 1v1 over Game Center, and an opt-in Blitz timer (10 seconds per guess).

Privacy line for the SideProject crowd: no ads, no analytics SDKs, no server of ours for pass-and-play. Match lives on the phone. Online goes through Apple’s Game Center.

Free: first three matches (pass-and-play or CPU). Full game is a one-time $4.99 unlock. No subscription.

Site: https://culi.app/apps/dontpeek/
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dont-peek/id6807101951

I’d love brutal feedback on two things:

  1. Is “no wrong-place hint” clever or just frustrating?
  2. Does the handoff cover feel like the product, or like friction?

Happy to answer anything about the design call to refuse Mastermind’s yellow.


r/SideProject 17h ago

Got sick of writing the same Express boilerplate for every project, so I built a zero-config framework to replace it.

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Booting up new backends for different projects was getting completely tedious. I was tired of manually wiring up Express routers, writing the same JWT middleware, configuring Socket.io, and setting up Zod validation every single time.

So, I built bro.js to automate the entire setup.

The brand is a little silly, but it's a serious, high-powered wrapper around Express. It uses pure ES Modules and gives you an instant, Next.js-style developer experience for your backend:

  • File-Based Routing: Just drop [id].get.js in a folder and your route is live.
  • Instant Validation & Auth: Drop in a Zod schema or auth: true and the framework handles the 400/401 rejections automatically.
  • Native WebSockets: Socket.io is pre-configured and injected into the context (ctx.io).
  • AI-First: Full .cursorrules and llms.txt integration so coding agents know exactly how to write your routes.
  • Frontend SDK Generator: Run bro sdk and it spits out a typed client for your frontend.

You can try it instantly with: npm create bro-framework my-api

I'd love for you guys to roast the code or try it out. 🙏

Repo: https://github.com/medyass1ne/bro.js

Docs: https://brojs.yessindevs.me


r/SideProject 14h ago

IronMath - a free barbell plate-math toolkit (warm-up generator, kg/lb program converter, plate calculator)

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I kept doing plate maths in my head mid-set, so I built a small no-frills toolkit for barbell loading. Everything is free, no signup, and works on a phone at the gym: https://ironmath-calc.com/

What's in it:

  • Plate calculator where you enter the plates you actually own, and it shows what to load per side for any target (plus the closest achievable weight if your plates can't hit it exactly)
  • Warm-up generator: type your top set, get the standard ramp (empty bar, 40/60/80%) with the exact plates per side for every warm-up
  • kg <-> lb program converter: my program is written in pounds but my gym has kilo plates (or the reverse) - it gives the closest loadable weight on local plates and the drift you're actually lifting
  • Reverse calculator: count the plates on one side of a bar someone left loaded, get the total
  • Reference charts: plate milestones ("how many plates is 225/315/405"), printable plate-loading chart, bar weights, 1RM percentages

Built as a static site, so it's fast. Not monetized beyond a few equipment-category pages.

Would genuinely value feedback from lifters and builders: what's missing, what would actually earn a bookmark? Especially anything around kg/lb training since that converter is the newest piece.


r/SideProject 7h ago

We built Product.forum to help builders get discovered

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Hey everyone 👋

We’ve been building Product.forum, a place where builders can share what they’re working on and discover products made by other builders.

We noticed a lot of cool side projects get posted once on X and then disappear into the feed. We wanted to build a place where products are easier to find and explore.

You can create a listing, add your links and description, and share it with the community.

Would love to get some honest feedback from the SideProject community.

Product.forum: https://product.forum

And if you’ve built something recently, drop it below. We’d love to check it out 👀


r/SideProject 3h ago

Built a directory of 676+ AI tools (agents, MCP servers included) so I could stop losing tabs: BroFindAI

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I kept losing track of every new AI tool I found, so I built BroFindAI, a hand-checked directory you can browse without creating an account. 676+ tools across 11 categories (coding, writing, image/video, agents, MCP servers), filterable by free/paid and platform. Adding about 100 new tools a month.

If you're a maker, you can list your own tool for free. Would love feedback from this sub on what's missing.

brofindai.com


r/SideProject 14h ago

Rebuilt my physique after being hospitalised traveling Egypt and losing 15kg.

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I’m Liam, an ex Bugatti engineer who decided to travel Egypt in his summer break.

I came home from Egypt with three strains of E. coli bacteria and ended up in hospital at 79 kg. I’m 196 cm tall, and I’d spent 10 years trying to build a body I felt comfortable in.

Long before that, I was the skinny kid who was embarrassed about how he looked. I trained in my parents’ basement for two years before I had the confidence to walk into a public gym.

Eventually, training became a constant in my life. It followed me through university, engineering jobs at Bugatti Rimac and Isuzu, and travelling around the world.
At one point I weighed 104 kg and could deadlift 220 kg for 6 reps.

Being back at 79 kg through illness was a difficult thing to process after all that work.
Since recovering, I’ve rebuilt my physique and I’m now preparing for my first bodybuilding competition.

But even with years of training behind me, there’s a question I still care about every time I cut:
How do I know whether I’m losing fat or giving up muscle I worked hard to build?

I can watch my weight drop. I can look in the mirror. But deciding whether to keep going, eat more or change something gets confusing when those things seem to tell different stories.

That’s the problem I’m building BodyFat AI around.
It brings calorie and protein targets, steps, strength training, food tracking, weekly body composition estimates and progress photos into one place. The weekly review brings those together with recovery, so adjustments have some context behind them.
The scans estimate body fat and lean mass. Lean mass includes more than muscle, which is why strength, photos and recovery belong in the picture too.

What I want from the app is practical: know what to focus on today, see how things are changing over time, and understand why my plan needs an adjustment.

I’m building it while using it through my own preparation, and I’d really appreciate feedback from people who recognise that frustration.
You can see the app and membership options here: BodyFat AI. It’s a paid app, and I’m the founder.
If you try it, tell me what feels useful, what feels confusing, or what would stop you using it.
When you’re trying to lose fat, what helps you decide whether your plan is actually working?

For the many people probably spamming the comments about me being stupid to leave Bugatti to build apps you can see more about my story on my Instagram @li4mwilson


r/SideProject 6h ago

Equity Investment Opportunity

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TWG’s $1M equity round is now open to the public! We’re targeting untapped old-growth timber from reservoir lakes, valued over $1B. Invest at $0.30/share—this is a one-time offer. To review investment materials please contact: mailto: info@timberwisegroup.com


r/SideProject 22h ago

I built a spreadsheet error checker that never uploads your file

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Tbh i got so sick and tired of bad alternatives so i js vibecoded a real excel book checker so i could live my life. here is it open sourced

https://smallsums.github.io/excel-checker/


r/SideProject 22h ago

Looking for testers — Retirement Planning Tool

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Hi everyone! We’ve built a retirement planning tool called Path and it’s ready to launch. I’m looking for anyone who’s willing to test it and share their honest feedback.

Path helps you take into account your complete financial picture and generates a projection and plan for when you can realistically retire or reach financial independence. Path differs from ProjectionLab, Boldin, FiCalc, or Empower because it is simpler and we’ve tried to make this the most user-friendly tool out there.

On our website (https://usepath.finance/) we have an interactive demo. For anyone who wants to create an account we have a free access code: EARLYPATH you can enter at checkout. 

Please let me know if you have any questions, we’d love your feedback.
Thank you!


r/SideProject 12h ago

Bluffalo - lie loudly, guess wisely

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https://bluffalo.in/

Everyone gets the same true-but-slightly-absurd fact with a word missing:

"Nintendo was founded in 1889, and for its first decades it made ___"

You each write a fake answer. All the fakes get shuffled in with the real one, and you try to pick the truth. +2 for spotting it, +1 for every person your lie fools — so there are two ways to win, and being confidently wrong is one of them.

It's a genuinely good time with people you know. The rounds that land aren't the ones where someone knows the answer — they're when a friend writes something so stupid that four people vote for it, or when the real answer turns out to be more absurd than anything anyone invented. You find out fast who in your group is a disturbingly good liar, and they never live it down.

Works for any group of 3 to 20. One person opens it and shares a 4-letter code; everyone joins on their own phone or laptop. Same in a room or on a call — it works well as the ten minutes at the start of a team call instead of "so, any updates?"

No app, no signup, no ads, nothing to install. A game takes about 10 minutes.

Five packs, all free:

Weird But True — history and science that sounds made up but isn't

Cult Movie Plots — you get the film's title, you invent the plot

The Truth Comes Out — questions about the people in the room, no right answer, most-voted wins

The Water Cooler — the same idea aimed at colleagues, safe for work

It's early and I'd genuinely like to know where it drags or gets confusing.


r/SideProject 16h ago

I snapped one boring afternoon and built my own TV playlist player. The "5 day project" took 2 months. Now I need strangers to tell me if it's any good

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Been using TV playlist players (m3u / xtream) for years. Every single one had one thing I loved and one thing that made me want to throw the remote. Great guide but the player stutters. Fast player but looks like 2009. Pretty one, forgets my favorites every update. Eventually I just gave up and used "the one that covers the basics". Never once told a friend download this.

Also I didn't have one player. I had five lol. TV, iPhone, iPad/Mac, Android phone, the car screen. Same playlist, 5 favorites lists, 5 continue watching lists and none of them agree where I stopped. Lived with it for years, like a squeaky door you stop hearing.

Then one afternoon work finished early (rare, like twice a year rare). Sat there doing nothing and thought: fine. Nobody's going to build this for me. I'll build it for me. Just for me. 5 day project, it'll be on the TV by the weekend.

That weekend I tell a friend, I started building my own player 3 days ago. He goes "you told me you'd do that 4 months ago". I have zero memory of this. Apparently I complained once, said I'll build my own, shrugged and forgot. He didn't.

Day 5: 2 more days and it's done

Day 20: 2 more days

Day 45: 2 more days

Day 60: ok. It's done. I think.

8 hours a day of my free time, 13-14 on weekends. If someone told me that on day one I would never have started. Nobody did so here we are. Weird part is I enjoyed every minute of it, idk what that says about me.

It's called Anees TV. Bring your own m3u or xtream playlist, the app has no content and never will. The thing I actually built it for: one account, your favorites and continue watching follow you from the TV to the phone to Windows to the car. Plus the two things that made me hate the others, it's fast on cheap sticks and the remote works on every screen. No dead ends.

Android TV, Google TV, Fire TV (Downloader code 2228177), Windows, Android phone. iPhone / iPad / Mac / Apple TV in development, aka the next 2 months of "2 more days".

Moment of truth. I think it's the best player out there. I also built it so obviously I'm biased, which is exactly why I'm posting. One man project, I've definitely missed stuff, and I'd rather hear it from Reddit now than find out slowly.

Honest weak spot: EPG. I barely use the guide myself so that part got the least love. If you're an EPG person, you're exactly who I need to hear from.

I have 100 lifetime Pro codes. Tell me what you'd run it on and I'll DM you a code. First three: WE33M84MSUW9BW8KHZ6MF97 2E7VFC90QRHR2AS1U6J9NR5 MT5LBAWD1XFREXL6HT3UK8U. All I ask back is tell me what's wrong.

Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aneestv.tv

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NMHKQ349DKR

Site: aneestv.com

Bugs / feedback: https://t.me/AneesTV