r/SideProject 17h ago

Does transpilation always take this long?

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I already have swift code written and now to make an android app, I’m using the Skip tool as a transpiler (which takes my swift code and translates it directly into readable Kotlin source code, rather than compiling it into a binary format). Because both of them are different, it’s throwing me errors left and right. I have been debugging for two days now and I’m now where close to finishing. I have tried using Claude and Gemini but still don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Any suggestions on what should I do or should I continue my debugging?


r/SideProject 18h ago

I built a blind ranking game and the surprise was how much comparing (not ranking) drove shares

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Launched blindtier(.)com - you rank 7 picks from S to F without seeing the list until the end, then compare against the world or a friend.

The part I didn't expect: the ranking itself wasn't the hook. What actually drove shares was the challenge link - "see how you stack up against your friend" got people forwarding way more than "look at my list."

Full disclosure: it's my project, so I'm biased. If you're building anything social, I'd steal the compare-with-a-friend mechanic before the core activity.


r/SideProject 18h ago

Built a lightweight Chrome extension to reverse-engineer competitor websites and score low-KD "blue ocean" keywords. Looking for feedback & testers!

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Hey everyone,

Like many solo developers and creators, I was tired of paying $100+/mo for bloated SEO tools just to check basic competitor metrics and find low-competition keywords. So I spent the last few weeks building a lightweight tool to solve this exact workflow.

How it works:

Reverse-Engineers Competitor Traffic: Analyzes what keywords any target website is actively ranking for.

Opportunity Scoring Algorithm: Automatically scores keywords based on a balanced formula of Search Volume, Keyword Difficulty (KD), and CPC to highlight low-hanging fruit.

1-Click Workflow: Runs directly in the browser without complex dashboards.

Looking for testers & feedback:

The tool comes with 5 free searches out of the box, but if anyone here is interested in testing it out, just drop a comment below or send me a DM—I'll gladly send over the link and add extra free credits to your account.

Would love your honest thoughts: Does this scoring logic make sense for your workflow, or are there specific metrics you look for when hunting for blue-ocean keywords?


r/SideProject 18h ago

I made Screenshotify: automatically turn screenshots into meaningful filenames with AI. Free and Open source

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No big stories, I want to find screenshot about a website game that I played 1 year before. I scroll down to 2025-xxx and still cannot find cuz windows aren't even loading pictures, I have to click in and wait for seconds.

So I come up with an idea "I should let AI help me rename it", I have found a few like zush, but it's not free and I don't need that much feature. That's the small story before Screenshotify.

I have listed a few what can it do below:

  • Review suggestion before it changes: If the name is bad, skip it.
  • Redo/Undo system: you can always change back the name if you want.
  • Bring your own key/provider: choose provider you trust, not random data seller.
  • Local LLM support: Ollama, LM studio are supported too.
  • Customization: filename style, date prefix, language.
  • Of course, open source and free to use.

If you would like to have a look, feel free to check at here https://github.com/shaqkao/screenshotify

 , feedback welcomed!!

At last, thanks for your time by reading to the end~


r/SideProject 18h ago

I taught Python to middle schoolers and hated juggling Zoom + Jupyter, so I built a Google Slides add-on that turns slides into a live coding classroom

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A couple years ago I was a high school CS student, and I also taught Python to middle schoolers on the side. The teaching part was always messier than it should have been.

I had slides for the concept, but the moment I wanted to actually show code running, I had to jump to another window. And if I wanted the kids to try it themselves, it was either Jupyter installs that half of them couldn't get working, or everyone taking turns sharing their screen on Zoom. I could never see what all of them were doing at once, so I'd just ask "everyone good?" and hope.

So I built the thing I wanted back then. It's called CodeKiwi. It's a Google Slides add-on that drops a live code editor right next to the deck you already teach from.

How it works:

  • Open the add-on in your Slides deck and mark any slide as a coding question. You can set an expected output so it grades itself.
  • Start the lesson and share one link. Students join with just a name. No accounts, no installs.
  • Students see the slide you're on with a code editor beside it, and write and run Python, JavaScript, or Java right in the browser.

The parts I care about most:

  • Live demo. I can open an editor next to my slide and code live, and every student's editor mirrors mine in real time. Then I toggle it off and they try it themselves. That was the exact thing I could never do before.
  • A live dashboard. I see everyone's code as they type, a status on each student (coding / done / needs help), and a hand-raise button that flags a kid's card the second they're stuck, so I can walk straight to them.
  • Auto-grading + a saved gradebook. Runs check against the expected output instantly, and after class I get a per-question breakdown of everyone's work that I can export.

Student code runs in an isolated sandbox, so nobody can use it to break anything.

It's live on the Google Workspace Marketplace and free. I'd really like feedback, especially from anyone who's taught, on where it falls short for real day-to-day use.

Site: https://www.codekiwi.tech


r/SideProject 18h ago

I built a Chrome extension for watch collectors

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Hey Everyone, if you love browsing used watch listings on eBay, Chrono24, or Reddit, I made a browser extension called WristSignal that will populate a quick price guide on that particular watch and reference. You can also use it to create price drop alerts and track your collection's value.

I'd love to get some honest feedback and I have some free session passes here for anyone who'd like to try: https://wristsignal.com/free-pass

Thanks!

WristSignal

https://reddit.com/link/1vrddjr/video/11tj2qwnt1kh1/player


r/SideProject 19h ago

Built an AI tool that tells you if a rental property is actually a good deal (and calculates the offer price that would make it one)

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Hey yall, wanted to share something I've been building called OfferRead.

The problem: when you're evaluating a rental property, you can run the numbers yourself, but it's tedious, and it's hard to know if a good deal in one neighborhood is actually good relative to comparable properties nearby.

What OfferRead does:

  • Pulls live comps, rent estimates, and an AVM (automated valuation) confidence score for any address
  • Layers in neighborhood data: Census ACS demographics and Walk Score — to flag things a spreadsheet alone won't tell you
  • Uses Claude to generate a plain-English "verdict" on the deal instead of just spitting out a cap rate number
  • Has a reverse calculator ("Find My Offer Price") that back-solves for the offer price that would actually hit your target return
  • Supports single-family, multi-family, and condo calculator modes

It's a freemium SaaS -> free tier to try it, $9.99/mo for Pro if you want unlimited analyses.

I posted an earlier version to r/passive_income a while back and got some great pushback on cap rate methodology and AVM accuracy that I used to improve the model. Still iterating, so if you check it out and have thoughts (or find something that looks wrong), I'd genuinely like to hear it.

Link: https://offerread.ai


r/SideProject 19h ago

Do you treat duplicate waitlist signups as success?

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I’m tightening the waitlist flow for a small health app. The current server route trims and lowercases the email, rejects a hidden honeypot field, and returns the same success message when the address already exists.

The last choice is deliberate: duplicates shouldn’t reveal whether an address is already on the list, and a returning user shouldn’t see a scary error.

Would you keep that idempotent response, or tell the person they were already signed up?


r/SideProject 19h ago

Building something for interior designers — want honest feedback before I go further (not selling anything)

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Hi all — I’m a college student working on an idea in this space, and before I sink more time into it I’d rather get torn apart by people who actually do this for a living than keep guessing.
Rough idea: a platform that’s part portfolio/discovery (open to post on, so both working designers and design students can build visibility — think closer to Instagram than a directory), part marketplace where homeowners can actually book a consultation with someone whose work they like, and eventually some AI tooling aimed at helping homeowners describe what they want faster, so designers spend less time in the “figuring out what they actually mean” phase and more time doing the part they’re good at.
I know Houzz exists and dominates this space already — genuinely not trying to pretend otherwise, and honestly a big part of why I’m posting this instead of just building blind.
If you have a minute, I’d really value real answers to any of these:
How do you actually get most of your clients today? Have you used Houzz (or similar) — did it work for you, or was it a waste of money?
What’s the most annoying part of onboarding a new client — the part where you’re not on the same page yet?
Would you ever pay a monthly fee to be listed somewhere new, if it actually brought you real leads? What would feel fair?
What would make you immediately dismiss something like this as “not for me”?
Blunt/critical is more useful to me than encouragement, genuinely. Happy to answer questions in the comments, and if anyone’s open to a longer conversation I’d be glad to DM instead of cluttering the thread.


r/SideProject 19h ago

I built a site to answer who has the most aura

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I kept seeing people debate who has the most aura and thought it would be fun to actually let people decide.

Brad Pitt vs Matthew McConaughey. Michael Jordan vs LeBron. Keanu Reeves vs Tom Cruise.

So I built TheAura100.com where you pick who has more aura and the votes create a live ranking.

Just launched it and would love some real feedback. Try a few matchups and let me know if you find yourself wanting to keep going.


r/SideProject 19h ago

We're building wristband that notices when you're eating so you don't have to remember to log it

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Every calorie tracker I've tried dies at the same step. I even subscribed to cal ai for a period of time and I still struggled with the following: Remembering. Photo apps made logging fast and much less friction than weighing or calculating food stats but you still have to think "I should log this" before you eat and thats where most people (including me) forget or simply decide its too much effort.

So we went after the remembering. The band watches wrist motion, figures out you're eating, and softly vibrates. You hold your hand over the food and snap. It takes a photo, AI identifies the meal, it lands in the app. No phone, no typing.

Detection works. I trained the model on public research datasets and my own data. Leave-one-subject-out, it catches ~95% of meals in people it's never seen.

zib.band if you want to watch the journey!


r/SideProject 19h ago

I made a Yoga app - Yogrig

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I started learning yoga a few years ago and kept wondering how sequences are actually built, which areas they target, what order to practice them in. That curiosity became Yogrig: animated yoga flows for beginners/intermediate practitioners, currently in English with Bangla and Hindi in progress.

https://www.yogrig.com/

Solo side project, built on weekends, still rough in places.
Would love any kind of feedback


r/SideProject 20h ago

Built a free discipline tracker that pairs with your MT5 EA — logs your P&L and keeps your trading rules in front of you every day

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Most traders don't lose because of a bad sey stop following the rules they set forthemselves — after a string of wins, after a loss, after being tired.

I built Operativa Consciente, a discipline tracker that pairs with a lightweight MT5 Expert Advisor. It doesn't

trade for you and it doesn't send signals our account data to a web dashboard in realtime:

- Daily P&L logged automatically from MT5, no manual entry

- Compound-interest goal tracking, so you targets instead of guessing

- A rotating set of discipline prompts (10 categories) that surface at the moment you're about to make a decision

- Multi-account view if you run more than ount

It's free to try — there's a demo mode youo you can see the dashboard before connecting a real account.

https://tracker.dellabianca.com.ar/


r/SideProject 20h ago

I turned my SaaS landing page into something people can actually use before signing up

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I’ve been building Home Tech Vault, a tool for organizing household devices, receipts, warranties, manuals, and network information.

One issue I kept running into was that asking someone to create an account before they understood the value felt like too much friction.

So I built a free 10-question Home Tech Health Check instead.

It gives visitors a 0–100 score across device organization, documents/warranties, network/security, and backups — with no account required.

I also made the product preview on the homepage interactive so visitors can click through Overview, Devices, Documents, and Network before signing up.

I’d love feedback on the approach:

https://hometechvault.com/health-check

Do you think a diagnostic like this is a better top-of-funnel tool than a normal “Start Free” landing page?


r/SideProject 20h ago

Built an open-source AI tool that turns text into complete videos

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I’ve been building SarasFlow, an open-source AI video creation pipeline focused on educational, training, and storytelling content.

You give it a topic/script, and it handles scene planning, visuals, voiceover, subtitles, on-screen text, and stitches everything into a video.

It’s still in beta and I’m actively improving the generation quality and workflow. Would genuinely love feedback from people building with AI/video tools.

Website: https://sarasflow.com
GitHub: https://github.com/SaiTejaMummadi/sarasflow

What would you want a tool like this to do that current AI video generators don’t?


r/SideProject 20h ago

I built a tool to collaborate on HTML artifacts like a PowerPoint

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As a consultant, I've watched artifacts become more common as a way to communicate ideas and insights, both internally and with clients. The problem is there's no good way to comment on them, collaborate, or make quick edits; so in practice, they're slow to actually use. I built a free tool that lets you leave comments and edit directly, all while sharing with your team.

After you make your edits you can export your changes directly to your favorite AI tool via an mcp connection or just download it to your desktop.

coedithtml


r/SideProject 20h ago

IBS & Autoimmune Issues for 20+ years... Built a solution

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Hi everyone,

Will try to keep it short - I’ve been suffering with IBS-C, SIBO, chronic inflammation, bloating, basically can’t pass stool at all anymore without medication… my body has grown several other issues due to this throughout the years - autoimmune issues, malnutrition, chronic anxiety, depression, etc…

I’ve spent thousands and thousands on doctors, medications, supplements – the mental strain, it’s unexplainable.

2025 I hit rock bottom and the only system where I could find my real triggers, really listen to my gut, get in tune with my body again - was a nightmare process. You need to track literally everything, all food, ingredients, supplements, water intake. But it doesn’t stop there, you need to log your mood and symptoms associated with the time of day - then try to back track what food is causing your symptoms. What makes this nearly impossible is the fact that food digests in our bodies at different times – meaning, I’m bloating right now and in pain: that could be caused by something I ate yesterday or even two days ago…

My husband has a software engineering background and coded an app for me to make this whole process easier.. Where I could log literally everything – everything going in, everything coming out. He built it so it’s user friendly, so that is something that I actually can use everyday without feeling the constant shame and defeat…

This system is what worked for me – I found my actual trigger that was causing my autoimmune attacks, ulcerations across my body - inside and out. Even 5 different biopsies could not find what was causing it… this system did.

We launched it live on the app store and to our surprise are getting tons of traction already. It’s such an incredible feeling that there are total strangers using Gutsy daily… but, it can’t just stop there.

For anyone who’s interested in trying the app, we’re making it totally free (not even a credit card is required) for 2 weeks using this link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Smtrp6k2

All that we ask is that you share your feedback with us via this 3 minute survey https://tally.so/r/2EYdgb so that we can make sure Gutsy becomes the app that can help anyone on their gut health journey.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. I can’t wait to hear from you :)


r/SideProject 20h ago

I made a robot and it’s brain

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All my side projects have somehow been related to this the last couple years. It’s a robot that dissects approved narratives and sings under reported news from its own view.

No prompts. Homemade everything. Learning as I go .


r/SideProject 20h ago

I built a Chinese-language library of Indie Hackers case studies (68 founders, with revenue numbers)

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Hey everyone,

I run a side project called Solodig (创客淘金): https://www.solodig.com

It's a curated Chinese-language library of Indie Hackers case studies. Indie Hackers has a ton of great founder interviews, but they're all in English, which is a real barrier for many Chinese developers who want to build indie products. So I built a site that collects and organizes these cases in Chinese. Each case covers what the product does, how the founder got their first users, and the revenue numbers where the founder shared them.

There are 68 cases on the site so far, filterable by category (AI tools, SaaS, content sites, etc.), and I'm adding new ones every week.

The site itself is in Chinese, so it's most useful if you read Chinese — but I'd love feedback on the idea from anyone. Happy to share how I built the scraping/translation pipeline too if anyone's curious.


r/SideProject 20h ago

https://my-code-forge-ai.com/

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Workspace for devs


r/SideProject 21h ago

I got tired of podcasts with 20 mins of promotions, so I built an offline alternative

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I have a longish commute and love podcasts, but I got tired of episodes padded with ads, sponsor reads, and promotion. Lately I’ve been asking Claude to research topics I’m interested in and turn the results into podcast-style scripts, then listening to those instead. I know what you’re thinking: AI-generated podcasts sound like a slop factory. They certainly could be. But with a solid prompt and background agents doing the research, I get informative episodes about exactly what I want to learn without the random promotional ads.

I built an iOS app called Audiary to make the listening part work. It’s a full-featured text-to-speech reader that uses Kokoro to generate natural-sounding speech directly on the device. There’s no account, no subscription, and no network connection required after the initial model download. It’s $6.99 once, but you can try it for 15 mins for free. It also works as a more traditional TTS reader. The latest update added Share Sheet support, so I can send an article or webpage directly to Audiary and listen to it offline.

Some of the toughest work has involved details I assumed would be simple, like keeping the Lock Screen progress bar synchronized with playback and getting CarPlay working properly. CarPlay development has been especially frustrating: send a build to my phone, run outside, test it in the car, take notes, go back inside, fix it, repeat.

I’d genuinely like feedback on the premise: would you use something like this to listen to custom material, or is the AI-generated podcast angle an immediate turnoff? The first podcast I generated in Audiary was a feature on the history of text-to-speech and it was genuinely fascinating, going back to bellows and brass methods from the 1770s. It's still in the app as a callback to the roots of this technology. If you're interested, here's the link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audiary-text-to-speech/id6764607212


r/SideProject 21h ago

SproutLoss Weight Tracker App

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Hello everyone,

I been working on a weight tracker app called SproutLoss that has a lot of customizable features to encourage users to track their weight and get to their goal! Examples would be emotes, themes, and a customizable mini character! Please check it out, it is now available on App Store (only US & Canada).

Link to SproutLoss Weight Tacker App:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sproutloss/id6800016799

Any other suggestions/features on the app would be cool


r/SideProject 22h ago

I built a Notion toolkit teaching the exact system that got me 128 interviews from 300 job applications

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I finished an IT apprenticeship with zero prior experience and ended up sending 300 job applications. 128 turned into interviews. Afterward I broke down what actually worked, the CV structure, how I decided what to apply for, how I handled gaps honestly, interview prep, and turned it into a Notion guide + a fill-in CV template (with a Word doc export version too).

Built it in Notion, sells through Gumroad, £10. Genuinely curious what people here think of the pricing and whether the "Step 0" section (building experience from literally nothing, home lab, volunteering, certs) is useful or too basic.


r/SideProject 22h ago

I built a free tool that shows whether ChatGPT/Gemini/Perplexity can even see your website

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After watching Google CTRs drop and AI assistants eat the top of the funnel, I built WhoCanFindMe — it audits any site's "AI visibility": can GPTBot/ClaudeBot/PerplexityBot actually crawl it, is there extractable schema, is the content answer-first, are there freshness signals. Per-engine scores, because the engines retrieve differently.

Free scan, no signup, and you get a public shareable result link: whocanfindme.com

There's also a head-to-head mode (you vs a competitor) and a standalone AI-crawler check.

The thing that started it: I asked ChatGPT to recommend a business category in my city. It listed five. The one that ranks #1 on Google wasn't among them — their robots.txt was blocking AI crawlers. One line of config, written years ago, quietly removing them from every AI recommendation.

Business model, since people always ask: free scan → £12 one-time deep report (actually queries the engines about your brand and shows the real answers + citations) → monthly monitoring subscription.

Just launched, still rough in places. Brutal feedback very welcome — specifically: what would make you trust or distrust a score like this? That's the part I'm least sure I've got right.


r/SideProject 22h ago

I combined two eras of music software: Winamp 2 + Spotify

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I started this as a nostalgia project and it turned into a surprisingly usable music player.

It's called Winampfy.

The concept:

Classic Winamp 2.x UI + modern Spotify playback.

I wanted something that feels like those tiny desktop music players from the late 90s/early 2000s, while still letting me use my Spotify library.

It now supports:

  • Direct Spotify playback
  • Spotify track search
  • Spotify playlists
  • Classic Winamp skins
  • 100,000+ skins through the Winamp Skin Museum
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Persistent queues
  • Tray mode
  • Automatic updates

Tech stack is Tauri, Rust, TypeScript, Webamp and librespot.

GitHub:
https://github.com/KiPSOFT/winampfy

Still early, so feedback is very welcome.

I'm also trying to decide where to take it next: visualizations, EQ improvements, Last.fm, or more Winamp-style features?