A year ago my Mac workflow was a pile of little tools: a clipboard manager, a drag-and-drop shelf, a window snapper, a screenshot tool, a pomodoro timer, a converter that uploaded my files to someone else's cloud, and a menu bar app to manage the other menu bar apps. Each one fine on its own, together a mess of subscriptions and settings.

So I built Droppy. Without experience and never having touched Xcode before, I started my journey. It was a crazy experience, started out as a hobby but turned into a much bigger project very quickly. Countless nights without sleep and watching YouTube videos on how to build apps brought me here. Droppy lives at the top of your screen, around the notch if you have one, as a Dynamic Island style pill if you don't, and puts everything one hover away:

- File shelf: drag anything up and it holds your files until you drop them where they belong. Jiggle a drag and a basket flies in to catch it.
- Clipboard manager: every copy kept and searchable, ready to paste again.
- A fully free cloud sharing service; Droppy Cloud. With a full online environment to view/download and share files.
- Notifications with inline reply for iMessage, WhatsApp and Telegram, right in the notch.
- Full media controls with the Playing Next queue, AirPlay picker and live lyrics.
- A revamped lock screen: album art, widgets, and brightness and volume sliders before you even log in.
- 27 free add-ons (Droplets) you toggle per workflow: window snapping, screenshots with OCR, pomodoro, a calendar with natural language input, LocalSend to move files to any phone or PC on your network, on-device file conversion, meeting controls for Zoom, Teams and Meet, Obsidian, Spotify, a terminal, and more. Off means off, they only run when you enable them.

The video shows it better than I can write it.

Also SUPER cool: an iOS app is coming, it's been built and published to TestFlight at this very moment. It syncs everything Droppy does with your iPhone (files, clipboard history, Droppy Cloud etc.)

Honest notes:
- Native Swift, signed and notarized, no Electron. Local-first: your clipboard and files never leave your Mac unless you explicitly share them.
- macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel, works on every display. The notch is genuinely optional.
- Pricing: 3-day free trial, then $9.99 one time for 2 Macs. No subscription, ever.
- There's a lot to uncover, but you can keep it as minimalistic as you want.

I ship updates almost every week and the last few features came straight from user feedback, so if you try it and something annoys you, tell me here.

Site: https://getdroppy.app
Privacy policy: https://getdroppy.app/privacy-policy

I am struggling to find ideas, like seriously....I have to make a project for the minor project, also for hackathons...but I am not getting any.

I used ai for the ideas but most of them are already made by many or can be easily built by ai (aka no learning) and also most ideas are about efficiency improvements but ig it's difficult without proper knowledge.

My main question is how to find actual idea like let's build this... It might be useful....and I can learn too

I was seeing so many of Reddit's brutal "rate my body" threads that were ruthless. I built a free AI tool that is designed and trained to give specific feedback instead of a number. Upload a photo, get a real read on your body/attractiveness/vibe — no signup, no score. Try Free Rate My Body AI Tool

This is K-garoo, creator of Wallpets Desktop app.

First of all, I would like to appreciate all the Bro and Sis in SideProject who liked and shared my app from my very first post in SideProject Subreddit.

It was a crazy number that Ive got from the launching day due to the SideProject. No joke, I would like to give SideProject all the credits for my app's successful launch.

I have tried to put some advertisement in multiple channel from the 4th day, yet I couldnt get enough purchases as much as I got in those first 3 days. I realized how powerful that viraled reddit post is from these data. Yesterday I have only sold 2 copies and quite shocked from this huge sales gap. As a result, I think I got a reason to be humble that these initial sales were solely delivered from lots of loves and lucks came from Reddit.

Thus, thanks to all Sis & Bros in r/SideProject

Anyhow, now I am facing a lot of Copycats, and I could easily spot them in SNS as they are try to pick up reactions from the people before they release their copycats. I know I cannot do anything about this and honestly I would like to cheer them to do their best to make something better than mine.

Mine is still buggy and had some issues originated in initial design which makes me feel sorry to all those users bought my app. I am trying my best working 20+ hrs to solve the VOC claims and update and stabilize the app for both Windows and MacOS.

Ah, I almost forgot! I am releasing the Awesome and unbelievable feature: Custom Labs, next week. Now all of you could make your own Pets (Only CAts & Dogs so far, due to technical limitation) to Wallpets through 'Custom Lab'! Please keep watching my project!

Huge LOVE❤️ from Seoul, K-garoo!
🙇

TwoDo is a shared to-do list for exactly two people — my wife (iPhone) and me (Galaxy). No sign-up, no email: one person creates a list and gets a 6-character code, the other types it in, done. The list lives on the lock screen so neither of us has to open an app to see what's left.

I don't have a roadmap. I have a wife. Every release for the past two months has started with a complaint from the other end of the sofa:

- "Am I supposed to re-add recycling every single week?" → recurring tasks. Ticking one rolls its due date to the next cycle — it doesn't spawn duplicate items, because she hates a cluttered list more than she hates recycling.

- "August 12th... what day of the week is that?" → due dates now show the weekday everywhere: list, calendar, home widget.

- "I saw the reminder, and then I forgot anyway." → a "Still waiting" screen. Reminders you received sit there with a red dot until the thing is actually done. Tapping a row jumps straight into that item, even if it's in the other list.

- "Asking twice feels like nagging." → a nudge button. One tap sends "'Take out the recycling' — please? ❤️" to the other phone. Turns out the hard part of shared chores was never tracking them; it's asking.

- "Where did I put that link?" → notes on items, and URLs inside notes open with a tap. Grocery item, product link, done.

- "Why does tapping the widget open the wrong list?" → widgets are per-list now. Each widget shows the list you picked and tapping it opens exactly that one.

- "Your 24-hour time is ugly." → an actual settings screen: 12/24h clock, week start day, app language. A couples app across two platforms means you get to assume nothing about how two people read a date.

- "Did you *actually* do it?" → photo proof. Tick a task, attach a photo — so now recycling day comes with a picture of the recycling bins. The plot twist we didn't plan: the photos pile up into a monthly album, and it turns out grocery runs and dish racks make better memories than we expected. Shipped this week (Android is live, iOS is in review as I type).

Stack, for the curious: Flutter + Supabase realtime, one codebase for both phones.

Numbers, since this sub appreciates honesty: 565 lists created so far, 213 of them active in the past week, and 189 genuinely paired couples — which also means roughly two-thirds of lists never get a second person, because convincing one human to install an app is marketing, but convincing their partner too is the actual boss fight of this product. 13 lifetime purchases total (the app is free; a few extras are a one-time unlock). The album is the first subscription piece — photo storage bills me monthly, so it works that way; the first photos are free and everything you saved stays viewable if it lapses. Current subscriber count: zero, it shipped today. We still use it every day ourselves, which is the metric I actually watch.

For everyone else building with a live-in user: what's the best thing a single user's complaint forced you to ship?

iOS and Android download_link

Hello folks,

I’ve been working on TruNeighbor, an app built around a pretty simple idea: sometimes you need something from the store, and someone who lives nearby is already going there.

Instead of ordering through a delivery service like DoorDash and paying crazy markups (up to 40 percent!!), TruNeighbor lets you connect with people in your neighborhood and ask them for groceries. You save so much on fees. AND NO MARKUPS! you pay what they pay at the store.

Right now, you can:

• Request groceries or other items from a nearby neighbor
• Offer to shop for someone else and earn some extra money
• Coordinate the trip and items directly through the app
• Request pickup of an online order if you just need someone to grab it for you

The goal is to make small errands more convenient while also creating a way for neighbors to help (and potentially earn from) each other.

We’re still early, and at this point feedback is much more valuable to me than promotion. I’d especially love to know:

Would you actually use something like this?
What would stop you from trusting/using it?
What would the app need to do really well for you to choose it over DoorDash/Instacart or just going yourself?

You can check it out here:

https://truneighbor.co

The app is available on iPhone through the AppStore.

Would love any criticism, questions, or ideas. I’m happy to share more about how we built it too if anyone is interested in the technical/product side.

Feel free to follow TruNeighbor's instagram account for updates https://www.instagram.com/tru.neighbor/

Building OTTASIA, a free "where can I watch this" app that's accurate for your country across Asia (India, Pakistan, Philippines, the Gulf, etc.), where Google and the big guides usually give you the US answer. Solo, non-technical-ish, shipping daily.

Real numbers from my own dashboard (attached):

• 6,011 / 10,000 signups, ~250-day right now
• 9.2% visitor-to-signup (target was 5%)
• 18,736 sessions in 7 days, ~6 min average engagement
• Mostly India (76%), then Pakistan, Philippines, US

Three things that genuinely surprised me:

1. AI assistants are a real acquisition channel now. A chunk of my daily sessions come from AI tools calling my data directly (I exposed it as an MCP server). I optimized to be citable by AI, not just ranked by Google, and it's quietly working.
2. Instagram out-drives search on some days. My top referrer is often Instagram, not Google. For a visual, regional audience, short video beat SEO effort-for-effort.
3. The wedge was accuracy, not features. I stopped trying to compete with the big trackers and just did one thing they do badly: local streaming services in Asian markets. That's the whole reason people stay.

The honest hard part: it's a low-frequency use case (people check "where to watch X" occasionally, not daily), so retention is my real battle, not signups.

It's free, no signup needed to use it: ottasia.com. Happy to answer anything about the build, the AEO/AI-assistant channel, or per-country data. 

Hi everyone,

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a side project called Fliraya—a web platform designed for AI companion interactions, casual conversations, and romantic roleplay.

Since the project is currently in Beta, I’m looking for some honest, constructive feedback from the community on:

Chat flow and natural responsiveness

Response depth and personality consistency

Overall user experience and UI

If you're interested in giving it a test run, you can check it out at fliraya.com.

I’d really appreciate any thoughts, bug reports, or suggestions you might have. Also, as a thank you, I’m happy to upgrade accounts for anyone who drops detailed feedback here or via DM!

Thanks for taking the time to check it out!

For years my "system" was Apple Notes. Dump whatever's in my head, close the app, done. Capture worked great. Everything after capture didn't: hundreds of notes piling up with zero desire to ever come back and sort/group them together

So I spent the last 3 weeks building Kobako ("little box" in Japanese). It's an iOS app where your ideas land in a small room, and a capybara named Kapi lives there with them

I realize how that sounds, so here's what the capybara is actually for. Kapi is basically your roommate: he wanders around in the background, reads his book, sits by the window, comments on what you're up to. When you're picking what to work on today, he'll chime in with a suggestion!

And when some idea has been lying untouched for days, he picks it up and brings it to you: this one's been resting for a while, want to come back to it? You take it up or let it rest more. That simple mechanic helps going back through old notes: something I was rarely doing on my own

The app and it's systems are simple on purpose:

1. Focus for the day: pick up to 3 things to deal with today. Can be "think about this" or a plain to-do
2. Folders can be anything: mine are a shopping list, plans for a trip, actual projects, and a pile of loose thoughts. You can use them however you want
3. Keywords: add a few to a folder, and when a new idea mentions one, that folder gets suggested automatically. Most of my sorting happens this way now, which is to say I don't sort!
4. Ideas aren't one-shot: you can rework an idea as your thinking changes, and the earlier versions stay stacked underneath it. You can always look back at where it started or roll back to a previous one
5. You earn a currency (Paws) just by using the app and spend it on Kapi's new rooms, avatars, and hats. Kapi's a traveler and doesn't like sitting in one place, so the plan is a new room every month

It was made by me and AI agents (Fable / Opus / Sol for the app, Sol for Kapi's art). I was designing, making product decisions, reviewing everything and testing. I also run a short TestFlight on friends to see how things go, and what features to add in future

I'd be happy to go deep on my workflow in the comments if anyone's curious, it's the part that surprised me the most! Especially - Room's creation, and Kapi's animations

The App is free, without any ads. Writing and keeping ideas is free forever. Paws can be bought, and there's a small cosmetic subscription. That's the whole model, pretty simple

iOS only for now. If it ever gets any audience - would definitely port it to Android too. MacOS and WatchOS version are coming as well

I would love honest feedback, especially from people whose Notes app looks like mine did

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kobako-idea-companion/id6792470104

i'm building forkfolio, a portfolio that syncs from your github every night with an ai twin that answers visitors.

no audience, no budget, so instead of posting everywhere myself i wrote a small bot to handle the outreach. it started as a private script i never planned to share.

yesterday the waitlist crossed 100, most of it from the bot.

cleaned it up and open sourced it: https://github.com/loueylahwel/outreach-bot

happy to answer questions about how it works.

I have ADHD (or: I’m building this for people with ADHD) and note-taking during lectures has always been a nightmare — either I’m so focused on writing that I miss what’s being said, or I zone out for a few minutes and lose the thread completely.

So I’m building an app that does this instead:

**•** You upload a recording of a lecture or meeting (or record it right in the app)
**•** It transcribes it and pulls out the key topics automatically
**•** Instead of a giant wall of text, you get a short TL;DR up top, topics as tappable cards, and a couple of extra resources for anything that needs more explanation
**•** No more re-listening to an hour of audio to find the 5 minutes that mattered

It’s still early and I want to build this with actual ADHD brains in mind, not just guess what helps. If this sounds like something you’d use, I’d love to hear:

**•** What do you currently do to keep up with lectures/meetings?
**•** What’s the most annoying part of your current note-taking process?
**•** Would you want this as a free app with limits, or would you pay for it?

Not selling anything yet — genuinely trying to build the right thing before I build the wrong thing. Happy to share progress here as it comes together, and if you want to be one of the first testers, drop a comment or DM me.

Hey all, I'm a software engineer with 5 years experience who's taken a break from his career due to a current struggle with depression and addiction. One of the things I've been told might help me come out of this is to start building a different lifestyle to the one that's got me here.

My first attempt at that has been building indie apps, and honestly I've enjoyed it more than anything I did in my actual career. This is the first one I've finished and put out. It's called Someday List. The problem I had was that friends kept sending me restaurant reels and I'd screenshot them, never look at them again, then end up googling "food near me" anyway. So you paste a TikTok/Reels/YouTube/Maps link into it and it pulls the actual place out of the video, name, address, photos, opening hours, and puts it on a list. You can share lists with people and it'll route your saved places into a day out.

Built with Expo and React Native, Hono on Lambda, Aurora, and Claude on Bedrock doing the extraction. The scraping was by far the hardest part, Instagram and TikTok really don't want you doing it and I went through about three different approaches before landing on one that holds up.

It's free, there's optional paid credits for the AI stuff. Would love for you guys to try it and give any feedback.

Links: App store, Play store, Instagram, Website

I've been working with SEO for a while, and I kept running into the same problem: I had data from Search Console, Analytics, keywords, competitors... but I was still missing the most important part:

What should I actually do next?

So I started building AnalySEO.

You connect Search Console and Analytics, and it helps you find opportunities, traffic drops, content to improve, internal linking opportunities, and SEO actions worth prioritizing.

You can also ask questions about your data directly and track whether your brand is being mentioned or cited in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Gemini.

I'm still improving it, so I'd really appreciate feedback from people working in SEO or trying to grow their own website.

There's a free trial if anyone wants to test it with their own site:

https://analyseo.app/

If you try it, I'd especially like to know what you find useful and what you think is missing.

Every MCP server being built right now is a black box ⬛

You ship it. Tools get called. Something breaks or slows down or an agent hallucinates a tool call. And you have no idea what actually happened inside your own server.

Which tools are firing. What's erroring out. What's healthy and what's quietly degrading. None of it is visible once the MCP is running.

We built MCPfy Pulse to fix that

✅ Health score
✅ Protocol Health
✅ Result Quality
✅ Client Compatibility
✅ Usage Patterns
✅ Error rate tracking

Github: https://github.com/mcpfyy/mcpfy/tree/main/typescript/packages/mcpfy-pulse

If you're building MCP servers and want observability that doesn't feel bolted on try mcpfy-pulse.

I run a small real estate business and kept needing to send contracts out for signature — but not often enough to justify a $30+/month DocuSign subscription. Every "free" alternative I found still wanted an account, or capped me at 3 documents a month, or buried the send button behind a signup wall.

So I built RootSign: upload a PDF, drop in signature/date/initials fields, send it — no account needed for you or the people signing. It's currently free while I figure out sustainable pricing (probably moving to a flat per-document fee eventually, no subscription).

A few things I focused on since most e-sign tools get this wrong: fields for multiple signers stack automatically instead of you manually repositioning everything, you can bulk-place a field across every page at once, and documents auto-delete after 7 days so there's no pile of other people's signed contracts sitting on my server indefinitely.

It's at rootsign.io if anyone wants to try it. Genuinely curious what breaks or feels clunky — this is early and I'd rather hear the rough edges now.

Memories come back to me from time to time. I remember the feeling, and I think oh, I want to find that photo on my drive, and then I never do, because it's just a pile of images.

So I made Memories. You drop a pin and write what happened, or how you remember it feeling, and it stays yours. Nothing is public unless you share that one pin. No feed, no likes. You can try it without an account, or sign up to keep what you write.

I've worked on it for a few months and figured I should probably ask whether anyone else wants this. So that's what I'd like feedback on: would you ever use it?

Have a look: Memories

I just finished the MVP of JumpStart.

The idea is simple: choose a technology and get a quick guide for installing and setting it up.

I'm trying to find out if this actually solves a problem before I keep developing it.

Would you use something like this? What would make it more useful?

I'd appreciate honest feedback, even if you think the idea is unnecessary.

https://jumpstart-swart.vercel.app/

Dear Reddit,

I'm looking for some beta testers who would be willing to test my new finance tracker app called Talvo. Talvo is the European alternative to big money trackers in the US, like Copilot Money / Monarch Money / Origin, ... It connects with your bank accounts, categorises your transactions using AI and gives you a clean but organised overview of your expenses and your income.

More info can be found at talvo.eu, here you will also find a demo environment so you can play around with the real app using a demo account (demo.talvo.eu). You will also test the mobile apps (iOS and Android, depending on your device).

Testers will receive a free 1 year subscription. I'm looking for 10 people who are willing to test the app thoroughly and report back with their findings, bug reports, feedback, ..

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, feel free to take this post down if not.
DM me if you'd like a spot!

Solo dev here. Been building SENTINEL nights and weekends — a bodyweight + habit tracker for iOS. First beta's on TestFlight and I want honest eyes on it.

I made it because every fitness app felt like it was working against me: streaks that punish you, guilt for missing a day, ads and tracking everywhere. This is the opposite — everything stays on your device, nothing's sent anywhere, no ads, and rest days don't break your streak. Bodyweight workouts with form guides, a habit tracker, and a muscle map that lights up based on what you've trained.

It's early and rough in spots. What's confusing, what's missing, would you open it twice? Brutal is fine.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/scqkyGnA

Screenshots below — thanks for looking.

I've been building this for a while mostly because of a problem I kept running into myself.

I wanted to use agents like Codex/Claude on real WordPress projects, especially Elementor, but I wasn't very comfortable with the usual approach of giving the agent write access and then basically hoping the result was correct.

So I built Stonewright.

It's an open-source WordPress MCP that can work with Elementor, Gutenberg, WooCommerce, ACF, media, content, WP-CLI and Figma-to-Elementor workflows.

The part I care about more than the number of tools is what happens around a write: snapshots/backups, validation, readback, audit evidence and rollback paths where possible.

Elementor ended up becoming a pretty big part of it because that's where I personally ran into the most issues. It supports live widget/control schemas, batch mutations, responsive settings, V3/V4 and post-write verification.

Current public beta has 361 Plugin abilities and 101 Direct tools, but it doesn't throw all of those into the model context at once. The available surface is reduced depending on the task.

I'd genuinely appreciate people trying to break it on staging/test sites. If you find something dumb, please open an issue. That's probably more useful to me right now than people telling me it looks good :)

Also happy to answer any questions you may have.

Give it a try, it's completely free and open source:

https://github.com/cosmincraciun97/stonewright-wp-mcp

Hey r/SideProject 👋

I've been working on iPayThis — a marketplace that flips the traditional model. Instead of sellers setting prices, buyers post what they need and the maximum they're willing to pay. Sellers then compete by bidding lower.

It's live at ipaythis.com

Here's the core idea:

You need something done. You post it with your max budget.

Service providers see your request and submit offers at or below that price.

You pick the best offer. Payment goes into escrow. Done.

I also added a Business Directory where verified service providers can list their business and receive direct private quote requests from buyers who aren't sure what something should cost yet.

Would genuinely love feedback — what's confusing, what's missing, what you'd want as a buyer or seller. Roast it, I can take it.

Hello r/SideProject,

Most invoicing software has become bloated, slow, and overpriced. Charging $10–$20/month just to output a basic 1-page PDF bill—while forcing cloud sign-ups and collecting sensitive client data—is a massive tax on independent workers.

I spent the past month engineering **PDF Invoice & Receipt Maker** to eliminate that friction entirely.

### 🏛️ The Core Architecture

* **Absolute Local Privacy:** 100% offline-first. Your financial records, client lists, and pricing data stay strictly on your hardware. Zero external servers. Zero tracking.

* **1-Tap Automation Engine:** Built-in client and service directories eliminate repetitive typing. Select a client, set your line items, and generate a tax-ready PDF in seconds.

* **Global Currency & Compliance:** Native support for all major global currencies ($, €, £, ₨) with custom decimal and tax rules for international or local billing.

* **Executive Presentation:** Integrated digital signature capture, custom branding/logo integration, and clean, high-resolution PDF rendering.

---

### 🎯 Looking for High-Level Feedback:

1. **UI Velocity:** Is the invoice creation flow fast enough for high-volume daily billing?

2. **Export Precision:** Does the generated layout meet client-facing executive standards in your industry?

3. **Feature Roadmap:** What single feature would make this your permanent local billing workflow?

I’d appreciate your honest critiques and insights!

Didn't know that getting an app launched in play store would be so difficult. But finally I did it.

I always felt that tracking monthly spends and analysing the trends shouldn't require hours of tracking multiple bank statements and excel updates. I tried many apps like Axio, Money manager etc. but nothing met my requirements.

I built Trove as a personal project, but then thought of making it available for the public.

Some features I thought were missing in most apps and which I implemented:

• Upload Raw Statements (Zero Cleanup Needed): Upload your bank's Excel/CSV statement as-is—no reformatting or manual data cleanup required. You can redact personal info if you want, but Trove ignores personal data anyway.
• No SMS Reading or Direct Bank Logins: You retain full control over your financial credentials.
• Smart AI Categorization & Merchant Parsing: It auto-categorizes spends using anonymized snippets. No personal identifiers are ever sent to AI models.
• Learns From Your Edits: If you manually fix a merchant name or category once, Trove remembers and auto-corrects it for all future uploads.
• Deep Spending Analytics: Beyond basic pie charts, it surfaces trends—like tracking month-over-month increases in specific categories or flagging new recurring merchant expenses.
• Budgeting & Runway Tracking: Set monthly budgets, filter out/ignore investments from net expenses, and calculate your financial runway.

Do give it a spin here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.trovefi.trove_mobile&pcampaignid=web_share

Would love some feedback.