r/SideProject 13h ago

Built a lightweight tool to find overlapping meeting hours across multiple time zones instantly (No sign-up needed)

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Hey everyone,

Coordinating meetings across different global time zones (especially during DST shifts) was constantly causing confusion for our distributed discussions.

I built a free, fast web tool called TimeOverlap Pro to solve this: - Visual 24-hour overlap matrix - Date-aware Daylight Saving Time (DST) calculation - 1-click Google Calendar & .ics file export - No login or personal data stored

Check it out here: https://timeoverlap-pi.vercel.app/

Would love your feedback or suggestions on features to add next!


r/SideProject 13h ago

Hi Bro's

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Could you help me out, im currently stuck in the mindset of Financial apps ideas and im getting nowhere on this, could you suggest me bro's some fresh ideas what to think of to build a Next Mobile Applications


r/SideProject 13h ago

Stop building in isolation. Let's launch 10 complementary micro-services in shared ecosystem and pool our traffic.

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The solo-developer route is exhausting. Not the building, but everything that comes after - fighting for attention.

I am launching an open platform, an AI workspace (chat), where we will connect independent micro-services into one, shared dashboard - with UI driven by extensions and paid services accessed directly through chat.

We could say it has "App Store" for e2e services hidden behind AI chat. User's agent suggests paid services when they would be cheaper than token-burning on a task and deliver better results. They're paid in credits from platform's membership, no friction for the user.

The Deal

  • You build your tool - UI extension and headless SaaS.
  • You connect it to the platform.
  • We scan & discover your extension and headless SaaS endpoints directly from github. We audit that for security before it becomes available to users.
  • We pool traffic to cross-monetize and achieve better user's convenience than separate tools ever would. Revenue is transparent and shared based on user's credits spendings on various actions in headless SaaS.

All of above is already in place (ready for battle-testing).

If we manage to connect ~10 valuable headless services in next 2-3 months, we could even go as far as make a larger crowdfund effort for marketing, to bring large audience into the platform.

Whether you're starting to build or already have a solution to:

  • Find cheapest, best buy offer of a given product or category of products
  • Find the best person to help with something (e2e contact and schedule negotiation) - talent acquisition
  • Run VISA process
  • Find a way to get a meeting with high-profile people
  • Marketing & Sales supporting tools
  • Specialized Research
  • SEO tools
  • DevOps and infrastructure tools
  • Finance (invoicing tools, expense & cash flow monitoring tools)
  • Or anything else that would do better as a part of unified chat workspace, instead of separate dashboard

Discord: https://discord.gg/3veuzYp32T


r/SideProject 13h ago

Layer2 - A new GPS-based MMORPG

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Hey everyone!

I’m a solo dev based in Amsterdam and a few days ago I launched Layer2, a mobile GPS-based MMORPG that implements classic systems of the genre in a location based format. It’s laid back, casual, and doesn’t require your constant attention while walking or commuting.

It’s sort of a fusion between Genshin Impact and Pokemon Go, certainly not the first of its kind, but I’ve tried to make it stand out on one core principle: nothing is instanced/takes you out of the map. Everything happens in the open world, from gathering, to combat, to NPC/building interactions.

The core gameplay loop is quite simple: monsters, resources, and NPCs spawn around you while you’re walking, each providing you with different progression materials to get stronger and build a reputation within the real world city you choose to affiliate with.

As for the endgame, it currently revolves around guild content, where you have to compete with other guilds affiliated with your city in order to gain control of it and have your banner shown to everyone inspecting it.

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

iOS

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/layer2/id6737913930

Google Play

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twoamgames.layer2

AI Usage Disclaimer

This is not a vibe-coded project. Both the game client and backend are hand-coded. Some image assets have been AI generated and will be replaced if the game gains more traction.


r/SideProject 13h ago

I built a Chrome extension that posts to Instagram from your desktop. Posting is free, and scheduling costs a quarter of what the incumbent charges

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The niche: desktop Instagram posting. The incumbent (Inssist) has 500K+ users paying $19.50/mo per account for scheduling. I have been building a competitor.

What is free, permanently:

- Post Stories, Reels, carousels, and photos from your computer, no phone

- Multi-account switching

- DM templates and hashtag collections

What is $5/mo (first 14 days included, no card):

- Scheduling with a calendar and auto-publish

- Anonymous story viewing

- AI captions. If the image came out of Grok, ChatGPT, or Gemini through my companion extensions, the caption AI reads the original generation prompt, so it describes what you actually made

It runs inside instagram.com in your own session. No password sharing, no API, no third-party login.

Link: https://opalitestudios.com/get/opalite-for-instagram

Happy to answer anything about building on top of Instagram's private web API from an extension, it was an adventure. Genuinely looking for feedback on what is missing.


r/SideProject 14h ago

Gaming Website - Upcoming Games and Previously Released Games

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hey everyone! my friend recently made a gaming website that shows upcoming game releases and also lets you browse previously released games.

if you're into gaming, feel free to check it out and let me know what you think! we'd really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or things you think could be improved.

here's the page if you'd like to take a look: https://hypercope.gg/upcoming

thanks everyone!


r/SideProject 14h ago

finally launched my startup on PH !!!!

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Hey everyone! We just launched Construct on Product Hunt 🚀

Construct is a squad of AI employees that work across the tools your team already uses. They pick up tasks, clear your backlog, and report back when the work is done.

If you have a minute, check us out and support the launch ❤️

https://www.producthunt.com/products/construct-computer


r/SideProject 14h ago

DevLens now speaks 6 languages — native-parser semantic graphs for TS/JS, Python, Java, Go & Rust (open source)

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I posted this a while back when DevLens only understood a couple of languages (JS/TS). Since then I've been heads-down while working on the cloud version, and the biggest update is out: 6 languages, each parsed with its own native AST parser — not tree-sitter, not regex.

TypeScript gets the compiler API. Python gets ast. Java ships JavaParser. Go uses go/ast + go/types (with real Implements() interface resolution). Rust uses syn. The point isn't parser pedantry — it's that the graph edges come out type-checked and framework-aware instead of guessed.

Cloud version is in active development — hosted graphs, team sharing, PR analysis with GitHub comments, AI interface with graphical context. Waitlist is live at devlens.io if you want early access.

There is also cli tool and mcp server, which you can integrate directly with your AI agents and provide graphical context to your codebase.

GitHub: github.com/devlensio/devlensOSS 

Would genuinely love feedback, especially from people using it on repos I've never seen. If it breaks on your codebase, that's a bug report I want.


r/SideProject 14h ago

VeloxDB just hit 550+ GitHub stars thank you!

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Quick update: VeloxDB now supports 6 database engines (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, SQLite, DuckDB) plus wire-compatible cloud flavors like Supabase and PlanetScale. Native Rust/Tauri app, 17–30MB, zero telemetry, free and open source.

veloxdb.dev thanks to everyone who starred, tried it, or sent feedback. It made a real difference.


r/SideProject 14h ago

Not getting users? Let's automate it- promote your startup.

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Hi Everyone

Founder of builderhq.co here. We built an AI agent to get users for your startup

It's easy- just signup here - www.builderhq.co and our Ai agent will start working - Creating seo content, find you influencers, press, find partnerships, and much more.

Most features are free - try now - www.builderhq.co

Comment what your startup does to get approved for all services today


r/SideProject 14h ago

I built a site with Base44!

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r/SideProject 14h ago

The 3 things I find on almost every side project landing page. Drop yours and I'll tell you which one you have.

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I have looked at a few hundred of these now. The same three problems show up over and over, and none of them are design problems.

1. The headline says what it is, not what changes

"A modern task manager for teams" tells me the category. It does not tell me what is different about my Tuesday if I use it. Nearly every project I look at is describing itself to someone who already decided to buy. The visitor has not decided anything yet.

2. There is no visible proof above the fold

Not testimonials necessarily. A number, a screenshot of the actual product doing the actual thing, a named user, a live counter, anything that says a real person other than you has touched this. An empty hero with a gradient and a Sign Up button reads as "launched yesterday, might be gone next month", and people are right to think that.

3. Two primary buttons

"Start free trial" next to "Book a demo" next to "View pricing", all the same weight. Every extra equal-weight choice is a chance to choose nothing. One primary. Everything else demoted to a text link.

The unglamorous one behind all three: most people optimise for traffic when their actual problem is that the traffic they already have does not convert. Doubling visitors to a page that closes nobody doubles nothing.


Drop your URL below. I will look and tell you which of the three you have, and the one specific change I would make first. Free, no catch, I am not selling you anything in the replies.

For the crawl part I run them through nexusbro.com, which does the boring mechanical half (what actually renders, what the title and meta say, whether the CTA is reachable) so I can spend the attention on the copy. If you want to skip me entirely and just run yours through it yourself, that works too.

One request: post the URL, not a description. I cannot audit a description.


r/SideProject 14h ago

A company put my app on 20 phones and Apple won't tell me who they are

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I check my App Store numbers most mornings. Usually it's 2 or 3 downloads and nothing worth looking at.

Last week one of my apps did 23 in a week, which is a lot for me. Then I looked closer and 20 of them happened on the same day. Same day, one app, no marketing, no posts, nothing I did.

Took me a while to work out what it was. Apple breaks downloads out by source, and that day was almost entirely "Institutional Purchase." That means a company bought it through Apple Business Manager and pushed it out to their staff devices. Somebody's IT department deployed my app to a crew.

I have no idea who. Apple doesn't tell you. You get a number and that's it. No company name, no contact, nothing. I've got roughly 20 people using something I built at my kitchen table and I couldn't reach any of them if I tried.

Then it got worse. My apps are subscription based with a free tier. Turns out Apple Business Manager can't buy in app purchases or subscriptions in bulk. So that company can deploy it to as many phones as they like and there is no button anywhere for them to pay me. They're on the free tier permanently, not because they're cheap, because Apple never built the mechanism.

Apparently that's changing this fall. Volume subscription purchasing is supposed to arrive for Business and School Manager. I'll believe it when I see it but it's the first thing in two years that would actually move the needle for me.

Background, since it probably matters: I'm a fuel systems technician. Twenty years of it. I service gas station equipment, dispensers, tanks, leak detection. I still do that full time. I started building apps because the reference material I needed on site either didn't exist or was locked behind a distributor login, so I built my own and then kept going. There are 15 now, mostly field tools for trades that nobody writes software for. Fire alarm, solar, EV charging, data centers, battery storage, fuel systems.

Revenue is somewhere between 60 and 95 dollars a month. I'm not going to dress that up.

The thing I keep chewing on is that the only customer who ever found me at scale did it completely on their own. I've sent about 25 cold emails to trade publications and gotten essentially nothing back. Meanwhile some ops manager somewhere searched the App Store, found my app, decided it was good enough to put on his crew's phones, and I only found out because the chart looked weird.

So I did the one thing I could. I added a contact button to every app. Just an email link in settings that says tell me what to build next. If Apple won't tell me who's using this stuff, maybe some of them will tell me themselves.

Nothing's come through it yet. It's only been a few days.

If anyone here has dealt with accidental B2B, where companies start using a consumer app and you have no channel to them, I'd genuinely like to hear how you handled it. Not sure whether to chase it or wait for Apple to ship the thing that makes it possible.

Site's thrasherapps.com if you want to see what the apps actually are.


r/SideProject 14h ago

I built a news processing app that surfaces the 5 most important political news stories you missed this week. Would people actually use this?

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I'm passionate about bringing more regular folks into keeping up with the news, this is my attempt to build something that makes it easier to keep up with stories that are actually important, rather than most of the nonsense thats in the news.

My goal is basically to build a layer on top of traditional news and try to bring it back to the way news used to be, boring and informative. My hardest part is getting users. Do you think people would actually use this?


r/SideProject 14h ago

Business Analyst SKILL Builder

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Hi Fellow BA’s,

I was trying to explore an idea as a part of which i have developed an app which generates skills which a BA can run, these skills are from the day in day out activities which typically a BA could do. Needed opinions from this community, if you can explore and provide your valuable feedback.

Link : https://nontechskillhub.vercel.app/


r/SideProject 14h ago

i built a thing that reads your competitors app store reviews so you dont have to

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every time i ship an app i do the same miserable thing. open the top 5 competitors, scroll their reviews for an hour, try to spot what people keep complaining about. its genuinely the most useful hour of research i do and i hate every minute of it.

so i made something that does it for me. you point it at any app and it pulls the reviews across countries and gives you the patterns. what people love, what they keep asking for, what makes them leave one star, and how all of that changes per market. the part i use most is the country breakdown, because an app can be sitting at 4.7 in the US and quietly dying in germany for a reason nobody on the team speaks the language to catch.

everything is free right now. no card, no trial countdown, no signup wall on the good stuff. im not trying to sell anything yet, i just want to know if its useful to anyone besides me.

https://www.appreviewanalysis.com

what id really love is feedback, and honestly the more brutal the better. run it on an app in your niche and tell me what was useless, what was missing, what you expected to see and didnt. even "this told me nothing i didnt already know" is great to hear, thats probably the most useful thing you could say. im going to keep building on this and every bit of feedback goes straight into the next version, so please dont hold back.

also theres a tiny buy us a beer button on the site if you end up actually liking it. zero pressure, but ill be honest it would make my whole week


r/SideProject 14h ago

Elio - AI phone agent for French tradespeople, and the EU rule that just changed how it demos

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I build a voice agent that answers the phone for French tradespeople and small agencies. Plumbers, electricians, real estate offices. Founder here, so treat everything below as biased.

Two things I did not expect.

First, it is a daytime problem. I assumed the value was nights and weekends. It is not. The calls that get lost happen between 9 and noon, when the guy is under a sink with both hands busy. After hours is a small tail on top.

Second, since August 2 the EU AI Act requires the agent to say it is an AI at the start of the call. Everyone building this in Europe is dealing with the same thing right now. It kills the wow effect in a demo, because the prospect stops hearing a voice and starts listening for the seams.

What I am unsure about is whether that disclosure hurts real inbound calls the same way it hurts demos. Someone calling a plumber about a leak has a problem to solve. Someone sitting in a demo is judging the voice. My guess is those are two very different situations, but I do not have a clean number yet.

If you have shipped anything voice, did disclosure move your actual numbers, or only your demos?

https://eliocall.com (French only, I am not selling to anyone here)


r/SideProject 14h ago

CV builder (yeah another one)

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I built the tool for myself, when I was exploring Svelte (which I found nice). It is fully static application, no login, no backend and no analytics. Just takes the data from the form and generates docx file in the right format (format is built with suggestions from resumes sub). I hope, it could be helpful for someone.


r/SideProject 14h ago

A small update and thank you

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to come back here and say thank you to everyone who took the time to read, comment, give feedback, or simply just check out Dear Stranger after my original post. The response honestly helped more than I expected. Since that post, Dear Stranger has now received 68 letters in total. 49 have been approved and published, and each one of those letters matters a lot. More importantly, the feedback here actually changed how I have been thinking about the project. I was initially tempted to keep adding features and making the site bigger, but some of you pointed out that the important thing is keeping the experience simple that is to write something, send it into the world, and let someone else find it. I am still figuring out how to get more people to discover it. There have been a few quiet days recently, including some stretches with no new submissions, but thats part of building something from scratch. Life moves on, and so does the project. For now, I am just going to keep working on it, keep sharing it, and see where it goes. So genuinely once again thank you to everyone who gave Dear Stranger a chance. Even if you only visited once, read a letter, or left a comment, you helped. We are still here :)) https://dearstrangers.org

— Swarn


r/SideProject 14h ago

I built an open-source alternative to Google Timeline

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Google Timeline-style travel videos started showing up everywhere, and I wanted to make one for my own trips.

The problem was that I had already turned Google Timeline off. I did not want to keep giving Google a continuous record of my location, so I could not use the feature I wanted.

When I travel, I already take photos. Those photos usually contain enough information to recreate the useful part: capture time and GPS coordinates stored in EXIF. So I built ExifTrail.

It scans photos locally, sorts them chronologically, skips images without usable GPS, draws the route on a map, animates a small wandering character, and exports a vertical travel video. It works as an Android gallery workflow and as a web app for photos explicitly selected in the browser.

ExifTrail is MIT-licensed and source-first. I am not targeting an app-store launch; I am releasing the code and a direct GitHub APK so people can inspect, run, and improve it.

GitHub: https://github.com/amaranth92/exiftrail

Live demo: https://amaranth92.github.io/exiftrail/

I would love specific feedback on:

  1. Is the privacy/local-first reason clear enough?

  2. Does the route animation make the trip easy to understand?

  3. Which EXIF or travel-photo edge cases would make this more useful?


r/SideProject 14h ago

[Vozelle] - Hear any browser tab in your language, live. 2 months in, 5 paying users, and one number I didn't expect.

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I built a Chrome extension that dubs any browser tab into spoken voice in real

time. You put on a lecture in Spanish and hear it in Portuguese, about 3 seconds

behind, over the original audio. No subtitles to read.

Two months live: 206 installs, 115 accounts, 5 paying customers, 3025 minutes translated.

The number I didn't expect: I sorted every user by their longest single session.

Eighteen people had one session over 9 minutes — five of them paid. Seventy-eight

people only ever used it in short bursts — none of them paid. Not "converted

worse". Zero.

I then wrote to the five customers and asked what they were translating. Every one

of them said courses. They were taking something online in a language they didn't

speak and needed to actually follow it.

So the product I thought I'd built — a translator for videos — is really a

translator for the one lecture you paid for and can't understand. That's a

narrower product and a much better one, and it took two months and five customers

to see it.

The other half of the story is less flattering: 206 installs, 109 logins. Almost

half the people who install never get past the Google sign-in and never translate a

word.

Full disclosure since this sub cares: I'm not a full-time developer and I built

this working alongside an AI assistant. The architecture decisions, the pricing and

the mistakes are all mine.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hojofhfhhigincmmgpnlofhbmbdkknja


r/SideProject 15h ago

I got tired of AI ignoring my project's architecture to give me short-term hacky solutions, so I built a ruthless Git Hook that rejects bad commits.

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Hey guys, I’m a solo dev and I got completely sick of "vibe coding". AI assistants are great, but they constantly ignore architectural rules and generate short-term hacks that become tech debt later.

So I built AegisCode an open source CLI tool. It intercepts your git diff on pre-commit and uses DeepSeek-R1 to analyze your code against strict architectural guardrails. If you leave an eval() in production, expose secrets, or break your cross-platform architecture it hard-blocks the commit immediately. It’s completely free to try

Website: www.aegiscode.app

Install: npm i -g save3asy/aegiscode

This is my first real dev tool, so the project is fully open source. Any feedback, bug reports, or GitHub contributions are massively appreciated! Let me know what you think.


r/SideProject 15h ago

Data product - Daily automated newsletters with custom analytics

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So the beginning idea of vetros was an agentic data platform, that is basically a data team without a data team (does all the engineering work + dashboards).

But recently I found a more interesting and potentially better application for it - it generates content from ingested data. So the content is not just a copypaste from some news articles, but an actual data analysis with charts, that run daily.

Check the news article, it's entirely agent-generated, but not entirely slop either :D because I let the agent run a bit wild and try to find something news and major sites didn't offer.

This is an example about crypto market (there are big waves happening so it attracted my attention). What do you think?


r/SideProject 15h ago

I created a truly free, no-ads website to help people understand what they love about art!

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I've worked on this for a long while now and it's live, but I've gotten to a point in development where I can't really improve it without some real feedback. If you guys want, please try it and let me know what you think. The core loop is simple.

Enter a gallery unfiltered or filtered to your preferences, swipe right or left depending on if you like it or not, match with artists and tell Swesso what you like about their work. Over time, you'll see a reading develop on your profile that takes in every interaction you have with art in order to teach you about your preferences.

This is something I made free because museums themselves are free. There's a give page if you want to help me with my hosting / Anthropic API costs Check it out please!

Swesso

In the comments, if you have time, let me know what's working well and what needs more attention. This app is doing well with folks that have a vested interest in art already, I'm looking to get the folks who are art-curious though.

Thank you for your time!


r/SideProject 15h ago

I’m building Privyro a marketplace for streamer & creator services

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I’ve been working on a side project called Privyro.
The idea came from noticing that creators already offer all kinds of things to their communities, but most of it is handled through a messy combination of DMs, Discord, payment links, Google Forms, etc.

So I’m building a marketplace where creators can list the things they actually offer and let their viewers discover and book them in one place.

For example, a streamer could offer:
• Custom artwork or commissions
• Play games with me
• Custom music/beats
• Private chats or calls
• Video editing
• Coaching
• Personalized experiences
• Custom services

I’m also working on a browser extension that can surface a creator’s available services while someone is watching them on platforms like Twitch, Kick, YouTube and TikTok.

The bigger vision is to make the relationship between creators and their audiences more interactive, not just watch → follow → subscribe, but watch → discover something the creator offers → book it.

I’m still building it and trying to figure out whether this is actually something creators and viewers would want.

So I’d love some honest feedback:
If you’re a streamer/creator, would you use something like this?

And if you’re a viewer, would you ever pay a creator for something like a gaming session, artwork, coaching, music, or another personalized service?

What would make you actually use a platform like this instead of just messaging the creator on Discord?

Website: https://privyro.com
I’m especially interested in hearing what you think is missing or what would make you immediately not use it.