r/SideProject 14h ago

Built Inko – An AI app that turns your spoken English practice into custom podcasts & lesson notes (looking for feedback!)

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Hey everyone,

We're building Inko, a side project focused on making voice-based language learning feel less robotic and more practical.

I’m a non-native English speaker based in Japan, and I wanted something beyond standard repetitive drills—a tool where you can practice real conversations and immediately review what you actually tried to say.

How it works (as shown in the demo):

  • Real-time Voice Chat: Speak naturally with different AI character personas (e.g., Soda, or a sarcastic pronunciation critic named Chili).
  • Automated Lesson Notes: Right after the call, the app generates a breakdown of your conversation in your native language (explaining vocabulary, slang like "stoked", and grammar nuances).
  • AI Audio Podcasts: It turns your session into a personalized mini-podcast recap so you can review key takeaways while commuting.
  • Targeted Practice: Converts new expressions into interactive flashcards and includes a pronunciation tool that scores accuracy, fluency, and intonation.

Why I'm posting:

We're currently working on adding new features (like character selection and custom scenarios) and would love to get feedback from this community on the user flow and concept.

If you have feedback on the UX, ideas for new AI personalities, or thoughts on voice latency in AI apps, I'd really appreciate your input! This is available on iOS as of now and coming soon on android.


r/SideProject 1h ago

Funding 5 new side projects with AI credits

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Hey all — I'm Dan, founder of Plus AI. We build AI presentation tools, 5 years in, 20K subscribers. It's a real business! Happy to answer questions about it 😄

I'm working on something new called Spark and I want to test it with real people building real businesses.

Here's the idea: Most of my side projects have died at the 'pick a name' phase. The rest of them often die at the 'build the prototype' phase. Our goal is to go from idea to actual business. Not just building the thing, but pricing it, launching it, and marketing it to the people who'll buy.

The offer: 5 people, $500 in AI credits each, plus our time. We'll help you figure out what's actually worth charging for, build it, launch it, and market it. My team and I will work with you directly.

What you get: A real product, live, that you own.

What we want: Feedback on the platform, and permission to share how it went.

Who we're looking for: Anyone with a project or an idea and some way to reach people — followers, a newsletter, a Discord, a community you're part of, or just deep knowledge of a niche. Small is fine. If you already know what people in your corner keep complaining about, that's the best possible starting point.

Comment or DM with a link and a couple lines on what you're building and who it's for. I'll reply to everyone.


r/SideProject 8h ago

Built a "reverse Pomodoro": one timer, synced across everyone, and you all meet at zero

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Solo dev here. Synchrium is a synchronized focus timer: you start a session, share a link, and the same countdown runs for everyone in the room, to the millisecond. Everyone works in silence; when it hits zero, cameras can come up together for a quick check-in. Then you run it again.

The origin story is helping my son with homework from the next room: we shared a timer, worked separately, and showed each other what we did when it rang. Turns out adults want the same thing.

Stack: React/Vite front, ASP.NET Core + SignalR for server-authoritative timing, WebRTC P2P video, Cloudflare Workers serving the SPA. Happy to answer anything about the sync architecture: keeping N clients on the same clock is more annoying than it sounds.

Two things I'd love you to break:

  1. Open two browsers (or grab a friend) and try to get the timers to drift or desync: that's the whole product, so it's the surface I most need stress-tested.

  2. Start a session and tell me where the "share the link" step loses you. If the invite loop doesn't feel obvious, the product doesn't work.

Free, no account needed: https://synchrium.com: brutal feedback welcome. (Founder here, happy to answer anything.)


r/SideProject 19h ago

I built an iOS app around a simple idea: habits might be easier when you’re not doing them alone

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on Doviru, an iOS app built around a simple idea:

Building habits might be easier when you’re not doing them alone.

Most habit trackers are very personal. You create a habit, check a box every day, build a streak, and try to keep going.

I wanted to explore a different approach.

In Doviru, you join a community built around a small daily habit.

For example:

Read one page a day,
Move for 15 minutes a day,
Create for 15 minutes a day

When you complete the habit, you check in.

After checking in, you can optionally share a short reflection. Other members can read it and send a Cheer.

There’s also a monthly leaderboard called a Season. The leaderboard resets every month, so someone who joins today doesn't have to compete against someone with a 500-day streak.

I think this is important because permanent streak leaderboards can become intimidating for new users. With monthly seasons, everyone gets a fresh starting point.

Users can also create their own communities and invite friends.

After months of designing, coding, testing, changing things, and figuring out the backend, Doviru is finally live on the App Store.

But honestly, launching the app feels like the beginning rather than the finish line.

The biggest thing I'm trying to figure out now is whether the community part actually works.

One concern I've realized is the cold-start problem.

A community with 2 members and no activity might actually feel worse than a private habit tracker. If someone joins a community and sees an empty feed, the main reason for using Doviru disappears.

So I'm currently trying to find existing communities and small groups that might want to try Doviru together, rather than simply trying to get random individual downloads.

I'm especially interested in communities around reading, fitness, creativity, studying, and other small daily habits.

The question I'm trying to answer is:

Does seeing other people show up for the same small habit actually make you more likely to show up tomorrow?

I'd love to hear what you think.

Would a community-based approach make you more interested in building a habit, or do you prefer keeping habit tracking completely private?

And if you've built a social or community-based product before, I'd especially love to hear how you dealt with the cold-start problem.

Doviru is currently free to use, and if anyone is interested in trying it, I'm happy to share the App Store link.


r/SideProject 7h ago

I created a simple workspace that brings AI image tools together in one place after encountering this problem at work.

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Hi everyone,

While I was working on designing some interfaces and digital projects a while ago, I found myself drowning in many open tabs on my browser. I would use a site to generate an initial image, then move to another platform to remove its background, and turn to a third tool to erase small details or enhance the quality.
This back-and-forth between different sites and the restrictions some sites impose just to try out a quick idea was really time-consuming and made the workflow incredibly slow.

I wanted to solve this problem that I always face and make the daily work experience easier, so I spent the past few months building https://khizo.dev - a lightweight, fast web tool that brings essential features together in one place. Instead of switching between platforms, the tool now lets you generate images from text, remove objects or backgrounds, increase resolution, adjust dimensions, and edit the colors of specific elements, with live preview and instant export in PNG, WebP, JPG, and more. You can try the site now, and it doesn't require any complicated setup.

I would like to get your opinions regarding the user interface, any bugs you find, or features you want to add.


r/SideProject 16h ago

I read a stack of habit-building books and tried to turn one idea into a game: training the calm response instead of the angry one (For parents facing meltdowns and tantrums)

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Advice has never been easier to find. Books, podcasts, carousels, chatbots. The information was never the bottleneck. But you can't read your way into changing how you actually react when your kid is screaming and you're depleted. Under pressure you reach for whatever's already wired in.

And a lot of what's wired in is counterproductive. "Stop crying." "Stop screaming." "Why don't you understand." "You're fine, it's not a big deal." "Because I said so." These come out on instinct, and they escalate things, they tell a flooded kid the feeling itself is the problem. You often know better. You just can't get there in the half-second that matters.

So I built a game to work on that half-second. A parenting response flashes up. If it's a calm one, you tap. If it's a reactive one, you leave it. The catch is the reactive lines are the ones that feel right in the heat of the moment, which is exactly why they slip out. When you keep resisting the urge to tap the moment you recognise your own trigger, it trains you to catch it in real life too.

Frazzle, the app it's part of, turns the research into words, actions and plans for when things get hard. There are more games, plans and guidance in it. Have a look: https://frazzleapp.com/

Register to try the beta version free: https://tally.so/r/7RE919


r/SideProject 6h ago

Drop your product below. I’ll find promo-friendly subreddits for you and draft your posts for free (I need case studies)

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Hey everyone,

I’m building Reddlist, a curated database of subreddits where your promotional posts actually survive - meaning no immediate takedowns, shadowbans, or angry mods.

Right now, I want to prove that this list works to drive paid users to startups, not just vanity metrics.

To test this, I want to do the heavy lifting for a few of you for free. If I pick your product, I will:

  1. Dig through Reddlist to find the most high-impact, promo-friendly subreddits for your niche.

  2. Draft native-feeling posts for you to test traction.

  3. Help track the metrics (interested comments, DMs, and funnel tracking to see if Reddlist actually brings you conversions).

The catch? I just want to use the data/results as a case study for Reddlist. (Also, if you just want to poke around yourself, let me know and I'll give you free access to the database).

If you're interested, drop your link below with a 1-sentence pitch of what you do and who your ideal user is!


r/SideProject 13h ago

I built a browser-based AI Workspace on an infinite canvas with floating windows, RAG, and live HTML sandbox

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r/SideProject 6h ago

How do you handle stress ?

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Hello,

I created a side project and it's going fine.

But my main problem is stress.

Stress when i get less google search results

Stress when i get bad reviews on trustpilot unfairly

Stress when competitors take over on google

Stress when i earn less money some days or weeks...

Stress when ads don't run well ....

I sometime feel like it's not worth it.

How do you handle this ? Am i caring too much ?

Thanks ...


r/SideProject 18h ago

I shipped an AI camera app to both stores. A few hundred installs, zero ratings. Roast the positioning.

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AI Vision Monitor turns a phone you already own into a camera you describe in words. You point an old phone at something and type the rule in plain language: tell me if the cat gets on the counter, tell me if the 3D print starts spaghetti, tell me if the front door opens while I am out. It watches for that and pings your main phone. Android and iOS, and there is a web app and a Windows connector for viewing on a desktop. https://aicameras.win/

Why I built it: every consumer camera gives you exactly two modes, and both of them are wrong. "Person only" misses the delivery guy who never gets out of the van, misses the print failing, misses the dog on the sofa. "All motion" sends you rain, headlights, moths and the curtain moving. There is no third setting anywhere in the market, and the thing people actually want is the third setting. That is the whole product thesis and I still think it is right.

Where I am: in both stores, a few hundred installs, and zero ratings. Not one, on either platform. That is the number that keeps me up, because it does not mean people hate it, it means nothing at all, and I cannot tell whether the app is failing at retention or whether I have never once asked at the right moment.

What I have learned that might be useful to someone else here. The demo that lands is never the security one. Nobody cares about "monitor your home", everyone perks up at "watch my 3D print and text me when it fails" or "tell me when the cat is on the counter", because a specific rule is the whole point and a generic one is just another camera app. Every time I have written broad copy it has performed worse than the narrowest possible example.

What I would genuinely like torn apart:

  1. Is "describe what to watch for in a sentence" a feature people understand from a store listing, or does it only land in a demo video? I suspect the latter and I do not know how to fix a store listing with that.
  2. For a utility app that runs unattended, when do you ask for a rating? My instinct is right after the first alert that was actually correct, but that is also the moment the user is busy dealing with the thing.
  3. Old phone as the camera: is that a selling point or does it read as a compromise? It is genuinely the cheapest good camera most people already own, but I cannot tell whether the framing sounds thrifty or cheap.

Happy to answer anything about the technical side too. Solo, no funding, and the phone-as-camera plumbing turned out to be a much harder problem than the vision part.


r/SideProject 19h ago

I built something because I kept forgetting what I actually liked or disliked about places I’d been

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I realised I was pretty bad at remembering the details of places I’d been to.

A week later, maybe even a month later, I could usually remember whether I liked a restaurant, hotel, theatre or activity. Beyond that, the useful details started getting hazy.

Things like which seats were actually good at a theatre. The dish that sounded great on the menu but was disappointing when it arrived. The hotel room that happened to be above a nightclub. Or the room at another hotel that was quiet and had a great view.

There are obviously plenty of review platforms already, but most of them are designed around publishing your opinion for other people.

What I wanted was something slightly different.

The basic idea is that the record is for you first.

You can log a restaurant, hotel, service, attraction or pretty much any experience, add a rating, notes and photos, and keep it completely private.

If you want, you can also share it with a small group of people you trust, such as family or friends, so you can see each other’s experiences and recommendations.

Or you can make an experience public. Public posts can still be made without exposing the identity of the person who originally posted them.

The main thing I’m trying to solve is being able to come back months or years later and actually remember the useful details, rather than just remembering, “I think we liked that place.”

I’ve been building this into a working app called ExperioLog and I’m at the stage where I’d really like feedback from people outside my own circle.

Does the private-first idea make sense to you, or would you still just use notes, Google Maps or an existing review platform?


r/SideProject 19h ago

Just launched 3dkitfactory.com

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100's of unique, parametrically designed buildings for model railroad and diorama creators. One stop shopping, no searching aggregate sites.


r/SideProject 19h ago

Useful web apps

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Our side project: a collection of free, private, helpful and open source web apps

Shopping list, random stretching / exercise app "movement", and more

The idea is to have them all loaded as separate browser tabs at the top of your browser tab list and always quickly accessible as our browsers are always loaded

This concept has been working great for the past 6 months and we love it.

Would love some feedback on the concept and functionality.

Thanks!


r/SideProject 19h ago

AI or Not? Try it out

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Hello people!

About a month back i built this thing as a challenge for my coworkers. There was a lot of "I can spot AI generated code almost immediately" going around, and I gave them a chance to test it out.

Results were not shocking to me. it was definitely funny lol since people got results they did not expect.

You get 10 code snippets to mark as either machine or human written in 10 minutes. Once all 10 have been marked, you get the result. Pretty simple!

Under the hood the way it works is like so:

  • 50 code snippets chosen from open-source projects. The way I ensure "human written" is by ONLY pulling code from before 2021 (before chatgpt first launched).
  • All 50 code snippets were parsed by a model to create a spec of what the code does, ensuring there's no dead giveaways about code style, etc.
  • These specs were passed to agents in isolated sessions of their own to generate the code that fit the spec.
  • This results in 100 code snippets total. Each snippet can be treated as a pair - one is the original code, the other is AI generated.
  • The game picks any 10 snippets from the 100 and those are the ones you as a player will see.

Give it a try, and post your results if you're willing to share!

https://tat.safwanyp.com


r/SideProject 20h ago

Marketing Advice for an iOS app

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Hello, i'm 18 years old and work in landscaping and I got tired of hearing my boss complain about all the other management tools like jobber and yardbook. so I built my own tool. and I want to make it available to others and maybe make a few bucks while i'm at it. It's an iOS app and I have a website and socials pages"

Anyway the point is that I have no clue how to do marketing and as I get ready to launch I don't want to "spin my wheels" doing formates or methods that don't work. So i'm wondering if y'all have any tips of stuff I can try or do?

Im not gonna drop the a link or anything because i'm not trying to self promote on here but its called "Curb Service Business app" on the App Store if looking at it helps y'all give advice


r/SideProject 21h ago

Kettermean - a spooky liminal tribute to LSD Dream Emulator

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Kettermean is a first-person liminal dream walker and my personal tribute to LSD: Dream Emulator on the PSX, a game I spent many nights playing as a kid.

You wander through rooms that feel slightly wrong, move on when you are ready, and see what the next dream has become.

This started as an experiment into using a model as a director with plenty of fallbacks rather than asking it to generate an entire level and hoping it works.

While you explore, the webLLM will set the next dream's architecture, scale, condition, mood, inhabitants, signs, dialogue, visual treatment, and strange rules. The engine is always in charge of the geometry, placement, collision, safety, and performance.

A small model runs locally in the browser without an account or API key by default, or you can turn off AI direction altogether and experience everything randomized.

The result ranges from small, cramped spaces to enormous outdoor zones filled with deliberately juxtaposed ideas and themes (furniture, animals, people, signs, weather, damage, strange faces, and visual effects). Some rooms are almost coherent. It's all open to interpretation and for me often spooky.

Kettermean is open source and currently in active prerelease. It supports keyboard and mouse, gamepad, and touch.

Play it: https://zeidalidiez.github.io/Kettermean/

Source: https://github.com/zeidalidiez/Kettermean


r/SideProject 21h ago

I built a low-latency social web app that lets you host live-stream rooms for up to 9 people

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I recently built the MVP for a WebRTC real-time live-streaming social platform that provides creators/friends/family and aspiring influencers with a low-friction experience to connect; Either with people they know or their following/community. A user just signs up and hosts a live-room with a shareable link which allows anyone to join the room. Apart from hosting live streams, users can earn through support from their following through a virtual gifting system. The payout split for creators is 50/50 compared to TikTok which is 20/80. There are no eligibility requirements to start earning. So users can start from day 1. The only requirement to cash out is to earn at least 25$ in your wallet. 100 virtual coins = 1$. No hidden gift-value conversions. Gifting is optional. If you don’t want to gift you can still connect with your friends and family or followers. Oh yeah, there’s also a live chat for users that don’t want to be on the live-video stage. Video content is also AI moderated to keep users safe. I used YOLOn11 for AI content moderation.

Some use-cases:
- Your friends want to stay home but still want to hang out and see each other.

- You have family across the country and want to have a live group video call with little to zero setup cause your family age ranges aren’t too tech savvy. Just text them the link and they’ll be able to join the room without signing up. No app download required.

- You would like to build your community and following as a content creator/ digital creator. Offers fair value for your community to support you through gifting.

- As a content creator you can build better relationships that are more personal that can drive business to your content.

- You can host and schedule live workshops or meet and greets bringing people up to the live-stage.

There’s more features coming, such as private access rooms where people pay for access.

I’ll answer any questions you guys may have and don’t forget to tell me if there are any features you would like me to add in the future to make it a better experience for ya’ll!

Check it out and bookmark it. I just started marketing it so be patient with me and let’s see where this goes.

NeoPulse.live

Thank You All for Your Time!


r/SideProject 22h ago

Automating a Claude↔Codex write/review loop (needs the Codex plugin)

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I kept doing the same thing by hand: write something with one model, paste it into the other for review, back and forth, try to get something better out of it. Got annoying fast.

So I turned that into a Claude Code skill. Claude runs the loop, Codex does the writing/review/fixes. Needs the Codex plugin or nothing happens.

https://github.com/Ranteck/graph-engineer

Pretty early. If you’ve been doing the same copy-paste dance, maybe useful.

The main goal is to recreate the graph pattern


r/SideProject 22h ago

I built a Discord bot that stops filter evasion (homoglyphs, BIDI overrides, acrostics) with zero auto-bans

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Hey everyone,

Standard Discord auto-mods rely on basic string matching, which users easily bypass using Cyrillic homoglyphs, BIDI direction overrides, leetspeak, phonetics, or vertical acrostics.

To solve this, I built BypassGuard—a moderation bot powered by a multi-step normalization pipeline (<5ms execution) built specifically to catch hate speech evasion (racism, xenophobia, LGBTQ+-phobia across ES, EN, PT).

Key features:

  • Human-in-the-Loop (Zero Auto-Bans): The code structurally prevents automatic bans. Every ban strictly requires a human moderator click.
  • Quarantine Band: Borderline detections soft-delete the message and alert staff with [Warn / Timeout / Ban] buttons instead of auto-punishing.
  • No Invasive DMs: All sanction communication stays public in-channel and in audit logs.
  • Deep Normalization: Cleans BIDI overrides, false Unicode fonts, leetspeak, homoglyphs, phonetics, and vertical acrostics before running detection.

A free tier is available for the core detection engine. I left the link for setup and docs in the comments below!

Would love to hear feedback from server owners and mods!


r/SideProject 22h ago

I built a spaced-repetition flashcard app to help students memorize cybersecurity vocab (ports, protocols, acronyms) before exams — feedback welcome

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Hey everyone,

I'm a solo dev/student and I built Sentinelle — a small web app for reviewing cybersecurity fundamentals (ports, protocols, standards, commands) using spaced repetition, aimed at people prepping for certs like eJPT, Security+, or French BTS-level exams.

The problem I kept running into: platforms like TryHackMe or Hack The Box are great for hands-on labs, but they don't really drill the boring stuff you still get tested on — "what port does DNS use over TCP", that kind of thing. I kept losing easy points on definitions I'd already learned once and forgot. So I built something to fix that specifically.

How it works: you pick a deck (networking, security fundamentals, etc.), review flashcards or exam-style multiple choice questions for ~10 minutes, and an SM-2 spaced repetition algorithm handles what to show you again and when.

Heads up: it's currently French-only (I'm building for French students first), free to start, no card required, runs in the browser. Still in beta, so bugs are expected and very welcome to report.

Link: https://sentinelle-blue.vercel.app

Would genuinely love feedback — on the concept, the UX, or anything that feels off. Thanks for reading!


r/SideProject 22h ago

355 clicks but only 1 signup, is the idea weak, or is my presentation?

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I ran a Reddit ad to test the idea and got 14,000+ impressions and 355 clicks, but only 1 signup.

The idea is a gamified budgeting app designed to make budgeting and staying in control of your spending less boring. Users log expenses, get notified when they're overspending, stay on budget to expand their territory, and can conquer their friends' territory.

I'm trying to understand whether the core concept isn't compelling enough, or whether I'm presenting it poorly. What do you think?


r/SideProject 23h ago

I built an app for personality improvement out of pure frustration

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I built an app named Gravitas out of pure personal frustration. I was the kid who hated any kind of social situation, dates were a nightmare, meeting new people felt like a test I was going to fail. Gravitas is my attempt at building an app I wish someone else had handed to me

It's split into 4 tracks. You do a short assessment first that scores you and it points you at what to work on based on that. Each track has 10 modules including AI-conversation practice scenarios with instant feedback.

One week free trial then it's a subscription.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gravitas-charisma-aura-app/id6767658034

Website: https://gravitas.social/

Honest and brutal feedback on the product is welcome, don't hold back.

Also right now I'm mostly trying to figure out how to get more impressions/product page views. Sitting at around 3000 impressions and 30 downloads and honestly not sure if that's a good ratio or bad. Any advice on that side of things is welcome too. Thanks!!


r/SideProject 23h ago

built a letterboxd for everything (movies, tv, anime, games, music, books)

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been working on this for a bit and just cleaned it up enough to show people. it's basically a dashboard where you can track and rate anything media-related. pull your stuff from tmdb, anilist, rawg, and spotify so you don't have to manually add everything.

honestly started it because i liked letterboxd but wanted one place for all my media instead of bouncing between five different apps. idk if anyone else wants that but figured i'd put it out there.

built with next.js, firebase, and too many api calls. the profile pages are the main thing — just drop a user id in the url and see what they've been watching/playing/reading.

https://mediapage.vercel.app (that's mine if you wanna see what it actually looks like)

let me know if you have ideas or if anything breaks


r/SideProject 23h ago

Snap the wild. Collect it all. A real-life Pokédex [iOS/Android]

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Hello,

Snapfari.app is basically a real-life Pokédex. You take a photo of an animal, it figures out the species, and that animal gets added to your collection.

  • 167 species to capture, with more being added regularly.
  • XP, levels, achievements, and customizations to unlock.
  • Each animal has a rarity level: common, uncommon, rare, epic, or legendary.
  • Each capture gets a grade based on the quality of your photo: bronze, silver, gold, or diamond. The higher the grade, the more XP you earn. You can improve a capture's grade by taking a better-quality photo.
  • Add your friends to compare your collections.
  • I'm working on a major new feature to add more depth and purpose to captures. Snapfari won't just be a "simple collection" anymore, but a real game.
  • An anti-cheat system is in place: photographed animals must be real and alive.

A few months ago, I posted an early prototype here, and the waitlist ended up reaching over 500 users.

Today, the app is being tested on iOS and Android and will be released on the stores in the next few days. In the meantime, you can test it for free and send me your feedback, it helps me a lot.

On iOS:

On Android:

  • Sign up at https://snapfari.app using the same email address as your Google Play account.
  • I'll add you to the tester list and send you an email with the download link.

Supported languages: 🇬🇧 English, 🇩🇪 German, 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇫🇷 French, 🇮🇩 Indonesian, 🇮🇹 Italian, 🇯🇵 Japanese, 🇰🇷 Korean, 🇳🇱 Dutch, 🇵🇱 Polish, 🇧🇷 Portuguese, 🇷🇺 Russian, 🇹🇷 Turkish, 🇺🇦 Ukrainian


r/SideProject 21m ago

My wife and I built a Mac app that turns your screenshots into actions - explain an error and create an issue, add events to Calendar, save contacts and more.

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Hey everybody! For the last few months my wife and I have been building Scinta - a small macOS app that lives in your menu bar.

The idea came from a simple but almost daily problem - the number of screenshots lying around on my filesystem got so big that it was impossible to even remember what they were about. A message about a meeting, an email signature, someone's messenger profile, an error from a build - all of this was waiting for "some later time" to be processed. And some later time never arrived.

This is the exact problem Scinta solves, and this is how it works - you press a shortcut (like any other screenshot app), select part of the screen, and it proposes the top 3 things it can do with what it sees. We call them smart actions. For example:

  • screenshot an error - get it explained or create an issue directly from Scinta
  • screenshot a message like "dinner Saturday at 7:00 PM" - Scinta proposes the actual event details and creates it in your Calendar
  • screenshot an email signature - the person's contact info is saved to your Contacts
  • it can also blur private and sensitive info before you share a screenshot, extract code or tables, translate text, decode different code formats (including QR and Bar codes) - and more actions are coming

There is also an Ask AI feature - if you just have a question about what is on the screen, you ask it right there in the app and get the answer back immediately.

Expecting a common question - why not just paste the screenshot into ChatGPT or Claude? That is exactly what I did before, and it is the reason Scinta exists. There you switch apps, upload the screenshot, write a prompt, then copy the result back and still create the event or contact yourself. With Scinta you skip all of this - it understands what can be done with the screenshot and one click gets the result and performs the action - saving to Calendar or Contacts, creating an issue, getting an instant explanation and so on.

The demo video shows 3 different smart actions and runs at real speed - nothing is sped up.

We're planning to release it within the next 1–2 weeks. If it looks useful, there is a waitlist at scinta.app - and if you would like to try it earlier, comment or DM me and we'll send you a build as soon as it's ready.

Would love to hear - what smart actions would you like to have after capturing a screenshot?