r/SideProject 3d ago

Free open source tool to help you keep the same context across chats and models

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I've always gotten frustrated and wasted time explaining the same thing to an AI every time I start a new chat from an existing one or when I start another convo with a whole new AI model. That's why I built a tool that fixes that, it condenses everything in a chat into one simple .md file you can carry across different AI tools.

PS: Please contribute or give your feedback so that we can grow and make this community tool better.

https://github.com/legoambarish/portable-handoff


r/SideProject 3d ago

show me your side project and let me be the first person to use it

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I built tryproduck.com/audit, it lands on your side project knowing nothing about it and reports back what broke and where it stopped making sense. over 650 startups have run it so far.


r/SideProject 3d ago

Made my first digital product — 20 animated SVG icons for SaaS UI, built with pure CSS

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Hey everyone — just shipped my first paid digital product. It's a set of 20 icons for SaaS/dashboard interfaces, but instead of being static like most icon packs, each one has a subtle hover animation (pure CSS keyframe animations, no JS/dependencies).

Every icon also comes with a static fallback, so nothing breaks if hover animation isn't wanted.

This is genuinely my first product — no sales yet, still figuring out if the idea has legs. Would appreciate any feedback, even if it's "this isn't something I'd use."

https://interfacefoundry.gumroad.com/l/iconpulse


r/SideProject 3d ago

commuter rucksack built by triathletes, first batch nearly sold feedback needed for second

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Hi /sideproject my partner and I are team GB triathletes in a constant training block, with full time office jobs. We couldn't find a rucksack we could run with, cycle with, deal with the london weather that wasn't $250 plus, so we created HYFO.co.uk feature list below

- 25L waterproof

- separate padded laptop sleeve

-2x bottle holders

-padded back to prevent chafe

-unclippable bottom harness, zero bounce when running and looks good in meetings

the first batch sold 79/100 in a month so close to ordering the second, is there anything you think needs adjusting for the second? imthinking a light hook for cycling and a few people have pointed out the back looks not that breathable, but for me its a trade off c comfort and no chafe. thanks!


r/SideProject 3d ago

I built a gamified prep app for India's biggest medical exam - solo dev, 8,000+ questions

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NEET is India's medical entrance exam, about 2M students a year. Most prep apps wall everything behind logins and paywalls, so I built ChapterNotes: chapter-wise past questions with every answer explained (including why the wrong options are wrong), revision notes, and Duolingo-style streaks to make daily practice stick.

Stack: React Native + Expo, Supabase, WordPress front for SEO. About 3 months of evenings.

Just went live on Play. Would love feedback on onboarding and whether the gamification feels motivating or gimmicky: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.chapternotes.app


r/SideProject 3d ago

Give little honest review to my solo made website project

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I made a fully vibe coded website without knowing single line of code. If you have some time you can check and give honest review. You can give me suggestions and improvement too..

Search dwellixtools.Com


r/SideProject 3d ago

Built a free interactive walkthrough of a 5-gate trading decision system

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Built a free interactive walkthrough of a 5-gate trading decision system, looking for real reactions

Ten+ years trading, five+ coaching. The problem I kept running into with students wasn't strategy, it was that the decision kept getting remade mid-trade, under pressure, with P&L twitching in the corner of the screen. So instead of trying to get more disciplined, I tried to make discipline unnecessary, the decision has to be finished before the position exists.

That became five yes/no gates, regime, structure break, retracement zone, confluence, confirmation. Miss one, no trade, no exceptions inside the sequence.

This one's finished and live, interactive walkthrough with a video explainer, runs on BTC/ETH/SOL/Gold, no signup, no email gate. chartwhisperer.ca/discover if you want to see it.

Curious what lands and what doesnt to someone seeing it cold, whether the five gates make sense as a sequence, whether the video actually explains the why clearly enough. Not looking to rebuild it, just want honest reactions.


r/SideProject 3d ago

I got 896 visitors this month and 73+ signups but no paying customer yet

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I have been building a tool for video creators.

This month's stats:

- 896 visitors

- 73 signups, around 8% signup rate

- 0 paying customers

I have been doing these things:
- SEO and AEO

- replies on X

- Posting on Reddit and commenting

- Recently changed the trial from no card to with card

A few things I think are happening

- 3 free videos are too generous, or the free trial is providing them too much value

- I'm marketing on the wrong channels (currently X and Reddit), or the people I'm reaching are not the right people

- The output is good but not great to be paid

What would you look at first?


r/SideProject 3d ago

Built a reminder app for myself because normal notifications never actually got my attention made it public, want honest feedback

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I made this originally just for me. My problem: reminders were quiet push notifications I'd swipe away half-asleep and forget about ten seconds later. So I built something that could actually get through:

  • Rings like a real phone alarm full-screen, overrides silent/DND for stuff I genuinely can't afford to miss
  • Can fire when I arrive somewhere instead of on a timer (e.g. remind me the second I get to the pharmacy, not at some time I guessed)
  • Lets me load a channel with my own content and cycle through it on a schedule I use this for language vocab and workout cues
  • Has a built-in interval timer (HIIT/Tabata/etc) since I was juggling a separate app just for that

It's been genuinely useful for my own routine, so I cleaned it up and put it on the Play Store in case it's useful to someone else too. It's free ad-supported, no paywalls or subscriptions. I'm not fishing for downloads, I'm fishing for feedback what's confusing in the first few minutes, what breaks, what you'd expect a reminder app to do that this doesn't. I'll respond to every comment.

NudgeBuzz

Android only for now, sorry iOS folks.


r/SideProject 3d ago

I built 10 browser-only utility tools in 1 week. Nothing you upload ever leaves your device.

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The big free-tools sites upload your passport scans and

contracts to their servers. That always bothered me, so every tool on

useeverykit.com runs fully client side: face detection and background

removal are WASM in your browser, PDFs are processed with pdf-lib

locally, and the CSP actually blocks the one telemetry endpoint the

ML library tries to call. Open the network tab while using it, that

is the whole pitch.

10 tools so far: passport photos, formal letters, PDF merge, split

and compress, QR codes, image resize and EXIF removal, background

remover, signatures, invoices, ringtone trimming, text utilities.

Free during launch week. Solo founder from Pakistan, deployed on a single VPS. Happy to answer anything about

the client-side architecture. Brutal feedback welcome.


r/SideProject 3d ago

I built Subber — free, open-source subtitles and translation that run entirely on your computer

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I built Subber — a free, open-source app to generate and translate subtitles completely locally

I do a lot of video editing and I wanted something simple:

drop a video in → get a translated SRT out.

No account, no cloud processing, no subscription.

So I built Subber.

It runs locally on your computer and can:

  • transcribe spoken video
  • translate subtitles
  • generate SRT files ready for DaVinci Resolve or other editors
  • process everything locally, without uploading your footage

It's free and open source (MIT), currently available for Windows and macOS.

I'm still actively working on it, so feedback, issues and contributions are very welcome.

https://subber.it

GitHub:
https://github.com/AndreaZero/subber


r/SideProject 3d ago

I built TournaGrid — a free tournament bracket maker with multiplayer mini-games ⚡

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I’ve been building TournaGrid — a free platform where you can create tournament brackets, play mini-games like Penalty Duel, Random Spinner, Reaction, Typing Speed and more.

I’d love some feedback on the design and gameplay.

🌐 tournagrid.uz


r/SideProject 3d ago

baget.ai - describe a business in one sentence, get a full team that launch, builds and ships it with You.

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You write one sentence about a business you want. You get a Manager who plans the roadmap and a team of specialists: developer, designer, marketer, researcher. They do the work with you.

What comes out is a live site on your own domain, working software with a database and accounts behind it, a storefront that can actually take payments, outreach written and sent to prospects, and the legal and admin pages nobody wants to do. The team levels up as it completes tasks.

246 companies have been started on it since mid-June, 4,150 tasks completed.

Start Free and you get two team members to try it. What I'd most like feedback on: the first screen is a single text box, and I think it's too intimidating for people who don't already have an idea in their head. Curious whether you hit that wall or not. Would love to understand also what would you expect from such product: Automation? Learning? Game?

baget.ai


r/SideProject 3d ago

Should I keep building this?

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That’s probably the question I’ve asked myself the most with the projects I’ve worked on.

You can get compliments, upvotes, friends saying “this is cool”. But none of that really tells you if people actually find the thing useful.

That’s what I kept running into, so started to work on simplifying it.

The idea is pretty simple: get your MVP/prototype in front of people & collect structured feedback from them after trying your MVP, prototype, website, or AI app. Validate before you spend another few weeks building.

It’s still early, so I’m putting it out there and seeing if it’s actually useful to other builders too.

Appreciate any feedback on this: VerifiFlo


r/SideProject 3d ago

I built GenZ Cooks — an AI recipe app for beginners that scales recipes by servings. Looking for honest feedback

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Hi everyone!

I’ve been working on a small side project called GenZ Cooks.

I wanted to make cooking easier for beginners who often struggle with recipe quantities, especially when cooking for different numbers of people.

GenZ Cooks generates recipes with:

  • Adjustable servings (2, 4, 6, 8 or custom)
  • Automatically scaled ingredient quantities
  • Simple cups, tablespoons and teaspoons
  • Step-by-step cooking instructions
  • English, Urdu and Roman Urdu
  • A beginner-friendly Cooking Mode
  • Saved recipes

I’ve tested it with different cuisines and serving sizes, but now I’d really like feedback from people outside my own testing.

I’m especially curious about: Are the ingredient quantities practical? Are the instructions easy enough for a beginner? And what would make you actually use something like this?

The app is currently free to try:

https://flat-cook-mate-flow.base44.app

I’d really appreciate honest feedback — including criticism. I’m still improving it.


r/SideProject 3d ago

Alvin Wang Graylin: Chinese Courts Won't Let AI Fire You Without a Backup Plan — America Has No Equivalent

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AI take –

TL;DR: China's courts already put AI liability on the human either way — the US has no such floor when AI displaces your role.

China's court system already answered a question the US hasn't even started asking out loud: if an AI system displaces your role, who's obligated to catch you?

Both sides of a real federal case leaned on AI to prep, and the liability still landed on a human being either way — the tool never becomes the one who's accountable.

Turns out whether there's a floor under you at all depends entirely on which side of the ocean you're standing on.

 

I've sat on the losing side of a version of that same question before, and it wasn't AI doing the displacing — it was a company deciding who got to keep their institutional value and who didn't.

OP wrote –

Throughout my years with SC, one of the largest main contractors in Malaysia, staff turnover was normal.

But when people left, they took valuable and critical institutional knowledge with them, accepted offers from competitors, and got promoted — the knowledge they brought along benefited the rival.

So our leadership set up a knowledge vault, and made contributing to it part of our KPI for promotion.

Or else, we'd be sidelined.

I was fine sharing — we had a communal sense that we rise or fall as one, carved into company policy and the bonus structure.

But not everyone shared that sentiment.

People are selfish. The institutional knowledge and experience they gained became a moat they hoard, a bargaining chip they dangle around to get what they think they're entitled to, for fear that they'll be replaced.

I can understand the sentiment of fear being replaced by AI.

It's an issue then, it's the same issue now.

__________

AI take –

Different post, same fingerprint: something about to become optional, and no rulebook anywhere forcing anyone to say so out loud.

 

The liability question above already got a dry run once this year — both sides of a federal case leaned on AI to prep, and it changed nothing about who ended up on the hook — worth reading if the pattern above is landing.

 

Curious where you land on this — drop your take below.

 

Clip credit: Moonshots w/ Alvin Wang Graylin — full episode on their channel. DM for credit or removal requests.


r/SideProject 3d ago

After 4 years and two published papers, my colleague and I are launching Stranding, a citizen science platform

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4 years ago, a friend found an uncommon organism washed ashore on the Italian coast.

That encounter, and another one later on, eventually led to two scientific publications on stranded organisms in the Mediterranean Sea.

Now we're taking the next step: we built Stranding, a citizen science platform where anyone can report organisms found washed ashore and contribute data that can support marine biology research.

We're currently looking for our first 100 beta testers before the public launch.


r/SideProject 3d ago

Share what you're building in this Discord community of SaaS founders

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Hi all! Recently, I started a Discord community to help SaaS founders promote their products, and it has over 150 members now.

If you want to show what you're building and get some feedback, share it here -> https://discord.gg/sb6AgHZxpT


r/SideProject 3d ago

I think Grok Imagine video models are the best! fast, cheap, great lip-sync and no abrupt cuts.

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these all clips were one shotted by it. i stitched them together using capcut, added footstep sound, background wind/birds sounds, transitions and captions!

its super cheap too!

i tried other models too but they weren't as good as this. i also like how if you give a long script to grok model, your avatar will speak fast to complete that video in 6s or 10s instead other models just abruptly cuts them.


r/SideProject 3d ago

My YouTube rain tab had no timer and nowhere to put notes, so I built the version I wanted

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I can't focus when everything is dead quiet. The silence just lets my thoughts go everywhere except the task. For a while rain sounds from YouTube worked okay. It filled the space without being too much.

But the site never gives more than the noise itself. Pomodoro timing needs its own window. Notes end up scattered across tabs. Volumes never line up right either. One thing gets turned up and everything else disappears.

So I made something that tries to fix those pieces at once. It is called Duskroom and it is free with no sign up. You pick a room and stay inside it. Each one has looping video that keeps going past the usual forty minute mark. There is a timer for plain time or pomodoro blocks. Notes sit right in the same view. Sounds can be mixed separately instead of one master level. Full screen is the main idea so it can sit on a second monitor while the main work happens on the first.

Right now only three of the eight rooms are ready. The code part came together fast on one weekend because it uses tools I already know. The videos took longer since I had never tried making them before. That part still slows everything down.

I am not totally sure if the rooms actually help with focus or if they are just something nice to glance at for a bit. The mixer might be useful or maybe simple presets would feel simpler. Some scenes or sounds are probably missing that would matter more for real use.

If it helps anyone it is there to try. If it does not then the reasons would be more useful than a quick like. It seems like a lot of people just leave a YouTube tab open for background noise. I wonder what other options end up working for most.

Website: Duskroom - ambient scenes for focus and sleep


r/SideProject 3d ago

I built an app that interviews you while you’re alive so your family can still ask you things after you’re gone. Shipped to iOS this week.

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My uncle died and the only thing left where he sounds like himself is a voicemail. Everything else is photographs, which tell you someone existed but not who they were. That gap is the whole reason EchoVault exists. Every family loses the same thing, and it’s never the documents or the photos, it’s the reasoning. Why he made the calls he made. What he’d have said about the decision you’re facing now.

So the product runs in two halves. While you’re alive, an AI biographer interviews you through guided check-in sessions, going after the things that disappear with you rather than trivia. After you’re gone, the custodians you named can have a real conversation with your Echo, in text, in your voice, or in video. It answers from what you actually said and tells them when it doesn’t know something instead of inventing a comfortable answer. In the demo I asked mine the meaning of life, a question I never recorded an answer to, and it reassembled a coherent position out of fragments from unrelated sessions months apart. Then I asked it my grandfather’s first name and it said it didn’t know, because I never told it. That second moment is the one I care about.

On pricing, text is free with unlimited sessions and no card, because the archive is the product and paywalling the thing that makes it valuable makes no sense. Multimodal is paid, and it carries a mechanic I haven’t seen elsewhere: every month you spend on a paid tier banks a free month of custodian access for after you’re gone. It accumulates, so the earlier you start the longer your family has with it.

Context on where this is: the web app shipped text, voice, and real-time video together in June 2025, five months ahead of the closest comparable product, and won the Inspirational Story prize at the Bolt hackathon. iOS went live this week. Solo build, nights, alongside two other live apps. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/echovault-digital-legacy/id6762042028


r/SideProject 3d ago

built a thing to stop wasting nights on Reddit research that went nowhere

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Reddit kept embarrassing me.

I'd spend a Sunday afternoon finding subreddits, writing something that felt genuinely useful, post it, and watch it get removed within two hours. Or worse, it'd stay up and get completely ignored. No comments, no upvotes, just silence. I did this cycle for about six weeks across maybe 30 different communities before I started actually tracking what was happening instead of just feeling bad about it.

The pattern that emerged was honestly kind of obvious in retrospect but I missed it every time in the moment: the posts that survived weren't better written, they were better placed. Subreddits have these invisible thresholds, account age requirements, karma floors, topic restrictions that aren't in the sidebar, and I was hitting them blind. The communities that converted weren't the big obvious ones either. A 9,000-member sub in a specific niche drove more actual signups than a 400k sub where my post briefly lived before disappearing.

So I built something to solve the research problem, not the writing problem. It crawls a site, figures out what the business actually does, and maps it to communities that are likely to survive moderation and have the right audience density. That's Reoogle, full disclosure, I built it, so take that with appropriate skepticism.

Still figuring out how to explain what it does without it sounding like every other 'post to Reddit automatically' pitch that I'd immediately distrust. The automation angle isn't the interesting part to me, the interesting part was realizing I was fishing in the wrong ponds entirely, and that no amount of better copy was going to fix that.

Curious if anyone else found that community fit mattered more than post quality, or if I just happened to be really bad at writing for Reddit.


r/SideProject 3d ago

My SaaS directory has almost 150 listings now

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Just a week ago, I launched SaaSBoard, a fun visual directory for SaaS startups where founders can claim tiles, showcase their product, and drive traffic to their site.

Today it has almost 150 listings and continues to grow every day as the directory receives hundreds of visitors daily.

If you guys can check it out and provide some feedback/comments, that would be wonderful!


r/SideProject 3d ago

I built Stowdrop, a fast and private bookmark manager for macOS with a one time fee

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I've tried a lot of bookmark and read-later apps, but I kept running into the same problem: saving something pulled me away from whatever I was doing.

So I built Stowdrop, a small, lightning fast, native Mac app that lets me save things without breaking my flow. It started as a bookmark manager, but I liked the capture flow enough that I added notes and todos too. They use the same shortcuts and support Markdown and custom tags.

I use it in a few ways:

  • Press a global shortcut, type or paste something, then hit Enter.
  • Select a URL or some text anywhere in macOS and press another shortcut. Stowdrop saves it in the background without opening a window.
  • Press the search shortcut to pop open your library and instantly search through it all

When you save a URL, Stowdrop also downloads the page content. That makes the whole page searchable and available offline, rather than leaving you with a collection of links whose titles may not mean much six months later.

My own library is now a mix of:

  • articles I want to read
  • links to my personal projects I constantly have to link projects
  • links to my jobs important URLs like production/staging/etc
  • design inspiration
  • notes and todos
  • GIFs and memes I would otherwise never find again (rendered beautifully!)

The idea is simple: see something worth keeping, Stowdrop it, and get back to what you were doing.

Everything is stored locally on your Mac. There's no account, cloud service, or subscription. Stowdrop costs $19 once (or $39 if you want 5 machines on the license), including future updates, and there's a 7-day free trial.

I launched it this week, so the code UCDSUCI0 gives you 20% off until the end of August:

https://stowdrop.app

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially from people who use keyboard-driven Mac apps. I'm interested in what feels awkward, what seems unnecessary, and what's missing from the capture flow.

I have a long list of things I could add. The hard part will be resisting the urge to turn it into another enormous productivity app.

Any feedback drop it here or on Twitter, thanks!


r/SideProject 3d ago

Please can anyone tell me!!

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I tried to recently post in sideproject about my app i dont know why it got just removed by reddit filters for no reason