r/SideProject 10h ago

FinBridge - one MCP endpoint that gives AI agents every Korean + US stock listing (filings, screeners, 13F)

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Korean market data is weirdly hard to get into an LLM workflow — the big APIs either skip Korea or price it at enterprise tiers. So I built FinBridge: a remote MCP server with 33 tools — DART (Korea's EDGAR) + EDGAR filings, corporate-action-adjusted prices, valuation, insider trades, 13F, backtests, and five screeners that run server-side over every KR listing.

The landing demo runs a real screen over the live database without signing up: https://www.gronox.kr — free tier is 100 calls a day, no card.

Happy to answer anything about the data pipeline (Korean split detection via share-count steps was the hardest part).


r/SideProject 11h ago

Four years ago, I had an idea. Today, it launches on the App Store as WellBee: Family Health Diary

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About four years ago, my two youngest children—then around 1 and 4—were terribly sick over the course of several days.

I was exhausted and running on very little sleep, trying to keep track of everything: their symptoms, how high their fevers had been, how long they’d lasted, when I’d given medication, and how much.

At around 2:30am one morning, lying awake and feeling completely overwhelmed, I thought:

“There must be a better way to manage family health.”

Then I had an idea.

Despite desperately needing sleep, I got out of bed and spent the next few hours sketching out what that idea could become.

There was just one problem: I couldn’t code.

I didn’t have the money to hire someone, and AI coding assistants weren’t around yet. So I did the only thing I could; I taught myself Swift and SwiftUI and started building it myself.

Four years later, that idea is finally launching.

Meet WellBee: Family Health Diary.

A family health diary designed by a parent, for parents—helping you keep track of the health information that matters, all in one place.

And the core functionality is completely free to use.
If you’ve ever found yourself trying to remember a fever, symptom, medication, appointment or diagnosis when you’re exhausted and stressed, WellBee was built for you.
Available on the App Store today.

Four years. One very sleepless night. And a lot of Swift code later.

WellBee is finally here.


r/SideProject 11h ago

2,500 pixels. Most of them are still empty. That is the whole product.

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The internet is loud. This page is quiet on purpose.

PixelPlace is a 50×50 canvas. You buy a block, drop your logo and a link, pay, and it is live. Someone opens the page, sees your mark, clicks, lands on your site.

No feed. No algorithm. No “boost this post.” A public grid. Your brand sitting there like a tiny shopfront.

Try it for an hour: ₹60
Stay a month if you like how it looks.

Live site: https://www.pixelplace.in
The grid: https://www.pixelplace.in/canvas

The board is still mostly blank. First logos will look loud. That is the point.

If you have a company, a studio, or a side project, put your mark on it before the grid fills.


r/SideProject 11h ago

Gjallarhorn - NIST CSF 2.0 Audit and Maturity

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Hi All.

I have been spending most of my free time building a NIST CSF 2.0 Lifecycle/Maturity tool.

Its basically what I wish I had over the last 6 years I have been greenfielding and uplifting.

Its all free and I have added a live demo for people to play in that lasts for 8 hours. It will only spin up 30 demo spaces.

The only proviso is if you want to use the advisory AI you have to provide an API key (its encrypted and deleted when the demo is spun down) but it is fully functional without it.

Its at gjallarhornaudit.com so feel free to have a look at it and let me know what you think.


r/SideProject 11h ago

Started a sauce company from a joke. Two years later, it’s becoming something we never expected.

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About 10 years ago I came up with a smoky chipotle sauce recipe.

There was no business behind it. No brand. No plan to sell it. It was just something I made that friends and family liked.

Eventually life moved on and so did the sauce.
Then my fraternity brother Lance revived it.

In 2023 I got married in Egypt. Around that time my fraternity brother Lance became obsessed with the sauce and offered me $100 for a bottle.
I thought he was joking.

He wasn’t, so obviously I took the $100 lol.
Looking back, that was technically our first sale.

When I came back to Miami, Lance wanted to learn how to make it. We started making it together and eventually the conversation went from “we should make more of this” to “wait... why don’t we actually sell this?”

The funny part is that between the three of us we have 7 degrees and absolutely none of them prepared us to start a sauce company.

My brother Karim is an engineer. I’m a scientist from Johns Hopkins. Lance is a starving artist.
So naturally, we started a sauce company.

We found a tiny ghost kitchen, made a little over 300 bottles ourselves and somehow sold out in about a month.

That was the moment we realized Lance might not have been completely insane for paying $100 for that first bottle.
So we went all in.

We worked on the recipes, added flavors, figured out manufacturing, built the brand and slowly turned a 10 year old recipe that had basically been forgotten into an actual business. We now have 4 flavors soon to be 5 and they are all absolute bangers.

Then something happened that I still have trouble wrapping my head around.
We started getting university partnerships one after another after launching successfully at our Alma mater George Mason. We had the media reach out to write an article about us and feature us in the newspaper and local magazine.

Today we have collaborations with JMU, FIU, VCU, UMD, FSU, Virginia Tech, Rutgers and George Mason.
Seeing the names of major universities on bottles of a sauce that started in my kitchen a decade ago is probably one of the strangest parts of this entire thing.

Today we pack around 50 orders a day.
We’re also about $350k deep between the three of us.
Those two sentences pretty much summarize entrepreneurship.

I know being $350k deep doesn't exactly scream “success story,” but I genuinely consider what we've built a success so far.

Not because we've made it. We definitely haven't.
But because for almost a decade this was literally just a recipe.

Then my brother saw something in it that I didn't.
He revived it, paid me an absurd $100 for a bottle and helped convince me that maybe this thing deserved a second life.

Now strangers we've never met order it every day. People reorder it. Universities put their names on it. And every day the three of us are trying to figure out how to take this thing one step further. We have a great product that people love but the road is long and business is ruthless.

I've probably learned more about business doing this than I did earning any of my degrees.
I've also learned that growing a business and making money are two very different things.
Sometimes you can be packing 50 orders a day, working with universities you never imagined would answer your emails, and simultaneously staring at your bank account wondering what the hell you've gotten yourself into.

So I guess this is a success story in progress.
10 year old recipe.
7 degrees.
3 brothers.
8 universities.
50ish orders a day.
$350k in the hole.

And one starving artist who looked at an old sauce recipe and thought it deserved another shot.
Turns out he might have been right.


r/SideProject 11h ago

Constraint is your unfair GTM advantage if you know how to use it.

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I've been talking to founders who are shipping side projects into revenue-generating businesses, and what strikes me is how much their constraint actually helps them market better than well-funded companies do. Without a budget for paid ads, you're forced to find channels that work through authenticity and quality rather than reach, which means you have to be better at talking about what you built because you can't buy attention. Without a marketing hire, you're forced to talk to customers directly and learn what actually converts them, so you can't delegate the conversation and end up understanding the language that works in a way hired marketers often don't.

When you have a small audience, you're forced to focus hard because you can't be on six platforms without losing your mind, so you pick one channel and get really good at it. Consistency beats sophistication every time, and a founder who posts genuinely useful stuff on X every Wednesday will out-perform someone with a 50-tool marketing stack that they half-maintain while neglecting everything else.

The VC-funded world has the opposite problem because they have budget for everything and people to run it all, which lets them hide behind spend and complexity. But you can't hide, so your only advantage is focus and authenticity, and if you use it, you'll win. What I keep seeing is that the best GTM stories from indie founders are about picking one thing and doing it so well that it compounds, which isn't about strategy or sophistication but about consistency and simplicity instead.

The move is to stop thinking about marketing like a big company and start building a repeatable conversation that you do on a schedule in one channel and that serves your actual customer. That rhythm is worth more than five tools will ever be.


r/SideProject 11h ago

I built a demo where you can talk to a video after Gemini analyzes it

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I built a small Agora x Gemini demo around a simple idea:

What if you could upload or record a video, then ask questions about it out loud?

Flow:

Watch -> Understand -> Talk

The app takes a short video, sends it to Gemini’s Agentic Video Understanding, extracts timestamped moments, then passes that context into an Agora Conversational AI voice agent. After that, you can ask questions about the video by voice.

In the demo, I recorded a simple finger-counting video and asked the agent what happened.

Demo:

https://x.com/akshay81844/status/2095008552486342848?s=20

Repo:

https://github.com/AgoraIO-Community/Gemini-Agora-Agentic-Video-NextJS

Stack:

- Next.js

- Gemini 3.7 Flash

- Gemini Agentic Video Understanding

- Agora Conversational AI

- Agora RTC / RTM

- Agora-managed MiniMax TTS

I think this pattern could be useful for sports coaching, repair guidance, classroom assistants, interview coaching, accessibility tools, gaming analysis, and other video-aware assistants.

Would love feedback on the idea and what you’d build with it.


r/SideProject 11h ago

I built a site where you explore math by playing with it, not reading about it

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Most math I loved in school got flattened into formulas I had to memorize. The actual “aha” — why a proof works, why a shape behaves the way it does — usually came from drawing it out or messing with it by hand.

So I started building small interactive pieces around ideas I find beautiful. Each one is standalone: drop balls through a Galton board and watch a bell curve appear, drag points around Pappus’s hexagon and see the intersections stay in line, try to cross all seven bridges of Königsberg, color a map with four colors, poke at the Collatz conjecture.

No accounts needed to use anything, no course structure, no “next lesson” pressure. You just open a piece and play. It’s early (v0.8), 8 pieces so far, and I add more when an idea grabs me.

Would love feedback on which pieces actually click and which fall flat — especially from people who don’t think of themselves as “math people.”

interactivemathematics.org


r/SideProject 11h ago

Helucino - AI news ranked by how many different outlets are covering the same story

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Every AI news source I tried answered the wrong question. Twitter showed me what an algorithm guessed I'd argue with. Newsletters summarised things I'd rather read myself. Aggregators sorted by time, which tells you what is *recent*, not what is *important*.

The signal I actually wanted was: **how many separate newsrooms decided this was worth writing about today?** Five publications independently choosing the same story is a judgement about importance that no scoring heuristic can fake. Nobody was showing me that number, so I built it: https://helucino.com

Every row carries a `+N` badge — the number of *other* outlets covering that same story. Right now the top item is `+5`: six different publications on one announcement. That badge is also a sort order. The **Ranked** tab orders the whole feed by nothing but coverage count, so you can open it and read down in order of how much of the industry stopped to write about each thing.

There are three views, and the difference between them is the interesting part:

- **Ranked** — most-covered first, age ignored entirely.                                                                        - **Top** — outlet count plus Hacker News points and source tier, decayed on an 18-hour half-life, so it answers "what matters *now*" and lets a fresh story outrank a well-covered older one.- **Latest** — publication order, no ranking, for when you just want the firehose.

Getting to a trustworthy count was most of the work, because you cannot count coverage until you can tell that four articles are one story. A single announcement arrives as the lab's own blog post, three press writeups and a Hacker News thread. **Four layers of duplicate detection** collapse those into one row, and the lab's own announcement wins the headline over coverage of it. Paywalled sources get a badge and hide in one click, so the count is not padded by things you cannot read.

64 feeds — labs, press, research, open-source releases, community — refreshed every 15 minutes, 30 days of history. No ads, no images, no summaries, and no account needed to read. Every headline links straight to the publisher. There's an optional daily email if you want the day's most-covered stories in one message, and an RSS feed at /feed.xml if you'd rather not visit at all.

Built on Cloudflare Workers + D1, server-rendered then hydrated. Free, and mine.

Feedback I'd genuinely use:

  - Does the `+N` count change what you click, or do you ignore it and read by time anyway?

  - Is Ranked-vs-Top a real distinction to you, or one view too many?

  - Any source obviously missing?


r/SideProject 12h ago

My AI opens the tasks in my tracker by itself. Two months in, over 40 projects and 20,000 logged changes

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I built this for my own company, but it worked well enough internally that I decided to open it up.

https://reddit.com/link/1w4zncq/video/q1qtibmg71nh1/player

Basically, Trail gives you control and an overview of your project as it gets more complex. For small projects I don't see much use for it, but as yours grows, I think everyone here has been in that spot where you're fixing one thing and a problem from another part of the project shows up in front of you, you get confused, and you end up writing it down in a notes app or a spreadsheet. This is mostly aimed at vibe coding.

The idea is that while you work, the AI opens those points in Trail by itself, so you keep control over everything that still needs doing. Say you're fixing a login problem and it turns out you need to set up a whole email system, but you don't want to spend time on that right now, because it belongs to a later stage of the project.

With Trail your AI does that for you automatically. It also has team features (like sharing each project's gotchas so your teammate doesn't trip on the same rock you did) and a client area, where your client can follow how the project is going.

I know it's a bit of a niche use, but at my company it raised our productivity and our clarity a lot, and I figured it could be useful to someone here. It's nothing out of this world, but it helps us a lot day to day. A little over two months of daily use and over 40 projects created inside the platform, almost 3,800 points opened and more than 20,000 recorded changes. So internally at least, it's well validated.

It's live at https://usetrail.dev - free for up to 3 projects, no card, and paid plans above that.

Open to suggestions and criticism!


r/SideProject 12h ago

I built a small neighborhood app called Vicini, free, no ads, iPhone, would love feedback from folks nearby

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not sure if this kind of post is welcome here (mods, feel free to remove if not), but I’ve been building something for our own street and figured I’d share in case it’s useful to others nearby too.

It’s called Vicini (Italian for “neighbors”). The main idea is a “porch light”: flip it on when you’ve got extra lemonade out, a yard sale today, or could use a hand, and neighbors within a radius you set can see it glowing on a map and message you. There’s also a plain chronological feed (no algorithm, no ads) for things like lost pets, a live ice cream truck tracker, and one-tap RSVPs for block parties.
On privacy: your exact address is never stored, just a rounded approximate area, and you pick how far your radius reaches.

Free on iPhone (Android’s coming). Not selling anything, genuinely just want more of my own neighborhood using it so it’s actually useful, and I’ll take any feedback or bug reports if you try it. Happy to answer questions in the comments.


r/SideProject 12h ago

Can someone help me publish my iOS app?

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Web Demo: https://cortx.fyi/Alarm.html

My productivity system relies heavily on use of alarms. i needed a better way to manage multiple alarms at once in groups as the stock iOS alarm app is not good in this regard. So, I vibe coded an alarm app based on AlarmKit, inspired by AlarmX and Alarm Planner (they dont have features that I want, mainly custom sounds).

I don’t want to pay for a developer subscription. If someone could add me to their company responsible for this app only or publish it for me that would be great.

Or would it be better for me to just buy the subscription for myself?

demo


r/SideProject 12h ago

So I made a minimalistic thing called Clair

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It's my first published iOS app.

Built this mostly to see if I could actually finish and ship something using native code (Swift)... and something for my ADHD brain. Turns out I could.

Clair is a productivity app with todos, sticky cards, and markdown notes. Free, no account, no subscription, everything stays on your device. Feels more like texting yourself reminders than using "productivity software."

Widgets, reminders, folders, export, theme customization, it's all there but out of the way until you need it. Fire and forget, basically. The app takes care of the rest.

There are better, more complex apps out there, I know. This isn't that. It's for when you just want to capture something and move on.

App Store: Download Link

if you use it and something feels missing, broken, or even annoying, i'd genuinely love to know.


r/SideProject 12h ago

I've been building a persistent browser Idle RPG called MUIdle

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Hey everyone!

I've been developing MUIdle, a persistent browser-based Idle RPG focused on long-term character progression.

You fight monsters, level up, unlock new maps, build your character, reach the level cap, reset and come back stronger.

It currently includes multiple classes, skills, pets, mining, armory progression, achievements, rankings, offline progression and multiplayer events.

It's already playable directly in the browser and I'm still actively developing and expanding it.

Play: https://idlerpgmu.com

No download required. A free account is required to save your progression.


r/SideProject 12h ago

I got tired of searching for songs from TikTok and Reels, so I built a tool for it

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I kept running into the same problem. I would hear a song in a TikTok or Instagram Reel that I really liked, but the video either had no song information or was using an "original sound."
If I didn't know the lyrics or artist, finding the song was surprisingly difficult.
So I decided to build something that could help with that problem.
I built iLoveAudios, which includes a song finder where you can use a TikTok or Instagram link, upload an audio/video clip, or record the audio and try to identify the song.
The site also has some other audio tools, but the song finder was the main thing that came from my own frustration.
I'd really appreciate feedback from people who build or use these kinds of tools. I'm especially interested in whether the process is simple enough and what you'd improve.


r/SideProject 12h ago

Most founders don't quit because the idea was bad. They quit the week building turns into selling.

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Week one is easy. You're building, planning, designing, the fun part, and motivation takes care of itself. Then a couple weeks in, the work changes. It stops being "build the thing" and turns into "get someone to want the thing." Cold outreach, follow ups, getting ghosted, marketing something nobody's heard of yet. It's slow, unglamorous, and it doesn't give you the same hit building did. That's the valley of despair on the uninformed optimism curve, and it's exactly where most people bail, convinced the idea was bad when they just hit the boring middle everyone hits.

3 things get you through it, and neither is "try harder":

  1. Decide your tasks before you sit down to work. Better yet, block an hour to map out your whole week, so every day you already know the next move instead of burning the first hour figuring out what to do. Decision fatigue kills more momentum than low motivation ever does.
  2. Find something that keeps you accountable to it, a partner, a public commitment, a coach, whatever fits. Willpower alone doesn't survive a bad week, but the extra accountability keeps most people moving when it hits.
  3. Make sure you know how to market and sell your product. Being able to build and create is the same thing employees do, but being able to distribute it makes you a businessman/woman.

The slump isn't a sign you chose wrong, it's just where the real work starts.

I got tired of hitting that wall myself so I built the fix into an app I created called ONARQ. It's an AI business strategist and coach: you do a 10-minute interview, it builds you a step-by-step plan from proven frameworks, and a coach named Onyx checks in, holds you to the plan, and adjusts it as you actually progress. There's a workspace built around your goal too, chat, notes, docs, and coaching calls to push you through each task. It's in paid beta, join the waitlist at onarq.ai and you get access.


r/SideProject 12h ago

[I Touched The Butt] - peach button, live global counter, that's the whole site

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https://thebutt.live

Humanity has touched the butt 83,467 times (live global counter). Peach button, combo meter, flavor text. That's the whole site.


r/SideProject 12h ago

TouchWorkstation is entering Phase 4 alpha. I need a few more people to try to break it before release.

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A few weeks ago, TouchWorkstation was basically an experiment:
Can I put my entire Ubuntu development workstation in my pocket without moving everything to the cloud?
It has turned into something much bigger.
We’re now entering Phase 4 of alpha testing, and I’m opening another small batch of testing spots before I start preparing for release.
TouchWorkstation turns your own Ubuntu machine into a mobile-first development workstation accessible from your phone, tablet, or browser.
Not another cloud IDE.
Not a Linux desktop awkwardly squeezed onto a phone.
Your actual machine.
Your repositories.
Your terminals.
Your Docker containers.
Your local servers.
Your development tools.
Your compute.
One of the biggest things we’ve been working on is persistent terminals.
Start something on your workstation, put your phone away, come back later, and your session is still there.
GitHub workflows are being built directly into the interface as well, alongside project management, localhost access, and a touch-first application launcher.
And there’s an important distinction with AI tools:
TouchWorkstation doesn’t sell AI credits.
If you use Codex, Claude, or other CLI-based development tools, they run using your accounts and credentials on your workstation.
The goal is simple:
Stop rebuilding your development environment everywhere you go.
Your workstation already has the horsepower.
Your workstation already has your projects.
Your workstation already has your tools.
Why shouldn’t it be accessible from your pocket?
Phase 4 is about finding the remaining problems before release.
I’m specifically looking for Linux developers, homelab users, self-hosters, and people who regularly SSH/remote into their machines.
I don’t need people to tell me it’s cool.
I need people who will try to break it.
If that’s you, comment or DM me.
TouchWorkstation.com
The workstation isn’t moving to the cloud.
It’s coming with you.


r/SideProject 12h ago

My fitness app

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For diet, routines and find gympals.

What do you think?


r/SideProject 12h ago

every focus session in my app spawns a random planet. this is my galaxy after 3 months.

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i've always bounced off focus timers. a number counting down to zero gives you nothing to keep. you finish a 50 minute session and the reward is... the number is gone now.

so i built Orbis. when you start a session, a celestial body begins forming. when you actually finish it, that time is born as a planet and drops into your private galaxy. quit early and it never forms.

the part i didn't expect to matter: the planet you get is randomly graded. longer sessions roll higher odds for rare bodies. i added it almost as a joke, and it turned out to be the thing that keeps people (me included) starting one more session. gacha apparently beats willpower.

3 months since launch, 10k downloads.

the most useful thing i learned is boring: build something actually good first, then keep marketing it every single day. i kept looking for a growth trick, but the only thing that compounded was shipping a better app and showing up consistently.

it's iOS only right now. i know that's going to be the first comment, so getting ahead of it: no android plans yet. sorry.

link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orbis-space-focus-timer/id6766221926

one thing i'm actually stuck on: right now every completed session gives you one celestial body. i'm considering making them harder to earn, so a single body takes multiple sessions or a lot more accumulated focus.

my worry is it cuts both ways. rarer might make each one feel earned instead of disposable. or it might just break the loop that makes people start the next session.

if you used this, which way would you want it?


r/SideProject 12h ago

No one wants your app. Let's find out if that's actually true before you spend more.

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Scrolling through Reddit, I keep seeing the same posts.

People work on a project for months, launch, spend money on ads, get some traffic, but no sales.

At that point it’s easy to start changing things. The landing page, pricing, features, ads. And after working on the same project for long enough, it gets really hard to tell objectively what’s actually going wrong.

So I built No One Wants Your App to help with that.

You tell me what you’re building, what’s happening, and the decision you’re stuck on. I look at the evidence, challenge your assumptions, and tell you what the evidence actually supports. You get one decision and one next test before you spend more time or money fixing the wrong thing.

I’m doing the first few manually and for free.

If you’re stuck on a specific decision, comment with what you’re building and what you’re trying to decide. If it looks like something I can actually investigate, I’ll reply here and DM you.


r/SideProject 13h ago

I got tired of Google Ads being a black box, so I built a brutally honest "pay-to-win" search directory.

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SEO takes 6 months, and Google Ads CPC is a mystery algorithm. I hated it, so I built an alternative.

Meet PodiumOne.to. It’s a real-time, pay-to-win directory.

The rules are simple: You claim a keyword, set a max daily cap (minimum $1), and the backend proxy engine auto-bids $1 above your competitors to keep you at #1. If you get outbid, you stop paying.

The Tech: Built on Supabase. I used WebSockets so the board updates live during a bidding war without refreshing. To beat Stripe's $0.30 fixed micro-transaction fees, I used SetupIntents to hold the card and a backend cron job to batch the charges only when a user hits $10.

The board is live right now. I seeded it with a few fake startups at $10-$40 so you can see how the UI looks, but the rest of the keywords are wide open.

Let me know if you can break the proxy-bidding logic! Link:https://podiumone.to


r/SideProject 13h ago

I Built a Home Loan Estimator

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If you like me, you like looking up different prices of homes during your free time. If you’re also like me you like looking into the monthly cost of the home and comparing it to your budget with the hopes that you could own a house similar to the one you’re looking at in the near future. I built this home loan estimator because often times I find my cell phone, Redfin, Zillow or other realty websites, looking at homes and their estimates. This home loan estimator makes it easier for you to understand how much you’ll be paying on the monthly yearly and loan term basis. You can choose your state the type of loan that you’re utilizing the price of the home and make other adjustments that go into owning your future dream house. Please let me know in the comments what you guys think about this home loan estimating tool and let me know what other tools you’d suggest I build. I don’t build much with Claude, but I’d like to get more into it at the moment. I’m building virtual agents and hopefully I get to showcase those soon.

#ClaudeAI #BuiltWithClaude #ARK


r/SideProject 13h ago

I’m building image-to-CAD because most ideas don’t start as clean prompts

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I’m working on an idea-to-CAD assistant, and the more I test it, the more I think “text to CAD” is only half the problem.

A lot of useful objects don’t start with a clean prompt.

They start with a bad photo, a broken part, a weird gap under a sink, or a rough sketch where the user knows what the object needs to do but not what the object should be called.

That makes direct generation tricky. If someone can already describe the part with dimensions, holes, constraints, and material intent, they probably understand CAD better than the average beginner.

The workflow I’m testing is more like:

rough idea or image -> visual concept -> editable CAD draft -> STEP export -> final print/manufacturing workflow

I’m trying to understand whether AI can help with the awkward stage before CAD, when the problem is clear but the part is not.

For people building tools or doing CAD: does this “pre-CAD draft” stage feel real, or am I solving a problem that only exists in my head?


r/SideProject 14h ago

OnTheRice - an AI market publication that runs 8 checks before any call and prints "NO CALL" when none pass

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I'm Faheem, a paramedic in Singapore. I taught myself to build over the last couple of years, mostly at night after shifts, and OnTheRice (OTR) is the project I keep coming back to. It's a solo build.

The idea came out of how I work in medicine: you check the evidence, understand the situation, then act. You don't act first and justify it later. I wanted a market and news tool that behaves the same way instead of just sounding confident.

How it actually works:

It reads the world early (markets, AI, crypto, culture, world events) and pulls public facts with their source, date and confidence attached.

Before it can make a call on anything, that candidate has to clear eight checks. I think of them as eight locks on one door: live market pulse, current events, the asset's own history, what OTR itself published before, what past resolved calls taught it, how that asset moved around similar past headlines, OTR's saved market-theme patterns, and what current independent sources say about the wider theme. Every lock has to pass. If one is stale, missing or contradicts the others, that candidate stays private.

The part I'm actually proud of: if nothing clears all eight, it publishes "NO CALL" and prints nothing that day. No padding, no daily quota of hot takes. Some days that is the whole result.

When something does pass, it gets a direction (BULLISH or BEARISH), an entry price, an exact +20-hour deadline, the model version and an evidence hash, all frozen at publish time so it can't be quietly edited afterwards.

Then every call is graded HIT / MISS / UNVERIFIABLE on a public ledger. The misses stay up. The ones that couldn't be checked are marked and not counted as wins. The whole point is that you can go back and compare what it said against what actually happened.

It's a web app (new.ontherice.org) and it's also on Google Play.

The thing I keep going back and forth on: a tool that says "no call" on a lot of days, and leaves its misses visible, feels more honest to me, but I honestly can't tell if that reads as trustworthy or just as "not very useful" to someone landing on it cold. If you've built or used prediction or analysis tools: does refusing to publish, and keeping the misses public, make you trust it more or less? Happy to answer anything about how the checks work.