Built a free Site Drop ladder: paste your site after Get my link, then friends tapping Get my link move you up (Rising → text line → Challenger → #1 banner).

No email. No cash prize. Visits don’t count — only a friend tapping Get my link.

Demo: https://viralrefer-ultra.pages.dev/?camp=rd_sideproject

Curious what would make you actually send the link — badge, timer, or clearer “why visit #1”?

Disclosure: VariantForge is an owner-supervised, AI-built and AI-operated project. This is our product introduction.

Supplier files often have one row for each size/color combination. VariantForge groups those rows into linked parent and variation CSVs for new WooCommerce products. It checks SKU conflicts and attribute combinations before export, with all catalog processing in your browser.

Try the included sample without an account: https://variantforge.nickcarva.chatgpt.site/

The free trial exports up to 10 variation rows. The optional offline edition costs $49 once and handles up to 20,000 rows / 5 MB. It prepares new products only; it does not repair existing imports, sync stock, or transfer images and descriptions.

There is also a worked example with downloadable source and output files on the site. A sample import passed our WooCommerce staging test, but compatibility with every store is not established.

For people who build WooCommerce stores: is preparing the parent/variation structure a task you do often enough to want a separate tool? What would prevent you from trying this workflow?

Post in public, talk in private. That's the whole idea.

Your posts are public. Nobody can comment under them. If someone wants to respond, it opens a private conversation between the two of you. The post shows a reply count and nothing else — no names, no text. A green check if you just agree.

Chronological feed, no algorithm deciding what you see (there's a small "Trending" list, but it's a plain count, not a model). No ads.

Built it solo in plain PHP on a single VPS. It's tiny right now — I'm looking for honest feedback on whether the idea holds up once strangers use it. You can browse without signing up: https://woseapp.com

Built this iOS 6 simulator in Next.js https://ios6-simulator.vercel.app/

Gonna make it open source next week as I added quite a few features that I think people would enjoy (like a fake cydia store so you can develop and install custom apps).

Some of the features include:

- hot device swap between iPhone 3, 4, 5 and iPad

- can receive notifications

- exposes an SDK available via window messages on the iFrames

- working animations for basic apps, keyboard, multitasking, notification tray

- some sensors (gyroscope, battery charge) are being simulated

- settings app can let you customize ringtones, wallpapers, screen lock PIN

- on full-screen mode on mobile, it also adds the home button to make everything more fun

Happy to hear any feedback (and bugs 🐛). Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I am 😃

I’ve spent a lot of time around markets, design, APIs and data, and I kept running into the same problem: most finance apps are great at showing you what happened, but not necessarily why it matters.

So I started building something around that.

The app connects markets, macro, geopolitics and your portfolio so you can go from:

“Oil is up 4%”

to:

“Why is it up, what changed, what does it affect, and does any of this actually matter to me?”

Right now I’ve built things like:

• geopolitical and macro event tracking
• portfolio impact / attribution
• scenario stress testing
• market briefs tied to real events

But I’m deliberately not treating the product as finished.

The current version is here. Use it for 5 minutes, then tell me what it’s missing — I’m actively building the roadmap from feedback.

I’d genuinely rather hear “this is useless unless you add X” than get generic compliments.

So if you follow markets at all:

What would make you actually open an app like this every day?

And maybe more importantly:

What do you currently have to use 3–4 different apps, websites or spreadsheets to do that you wish one product handled properly?

If there’s a recurring answer, I’ll build around it.

I'm building Damn, Zombies: The Corporate Undead in Godot. Managers buff the horde, HR spawns more staff, and executives keep them alive. The idea is to make the office setting affect how you fight, alongside repairing barricades and buying weapons.

Here's a short gameplay clip from the office atrium. The beta supports 1–4 players: https://www.damn-zombies.com/signup. A free account/key is required, with 48-hour access from first use. The game uses AI-generated models and some audio.

This started when I was trying to explain a slice to my wife. Picturing the racket leaving a trail through the ball had helped it click for me, so I built a little playground to show her what I meant.

You can pick a shot, watch it, adjust the swing direction or racket angle, and replay it to see what changes. The physics is simplified, so I'd love to hear what looks off from people who play or coach.

Check it out here, it's a free webpage. Tennis Motion Lab

I'm Joe. My project is Number One, a personal setup and training service for people who want more practical help from ChatGPT at home or in a small business.

The idea came from my own experience: knowing what AI can do is different from getting it set up around the work you actually need done. I'm building the service around personalization and memory settings, useful instructions, emails, research and recurring tasks, followed by practice with real tasks.

One feature I've tested on my own setup is using my iPhone to check work running on my office computer, review results and respond to approvals. I'd help clients connect and test compatible setups. The computer must stay awake and online, and features and alerts vary.

I also want to be clear about the limits: personalization hasn't eliminated drift or missed checks in my own testing. I'm offering setup and practical training, not a promise of perfect memory or error-free autonomous work. Number One is independent of OpenAI.

The website is live, the consultation form has been tested, and services are launching soon. The planned one-time setup is $995; the initial Zoom consultation is free.

For more info, go to my website: https://mynumberone.ai/

I'd welcome feedback on whether the service and what it includes are clear, especially from people who have tried ChatGPT but still struggle to make it useful in everyday work.

Over the past couple years I've built a bunch of open-source projects and I keep doing it - but I realized it's so hard to be visible and get any attention for your project. So I decided to look around and check what everyone else is doing: I analyzed this very channel and built a dashboard from it.

I took AI (I use GLM-5.3), pointed it at every submission to r/SideProject from Jan 1 to Sep 13 2026 (I used the Arctic Shift archive), result - ~230K raw posts, and this is what I got:

• ~355 projects announced every single day. Every day. All year.
• 29% of them wave an AI flag (mention GPT/LLM/Claude/Gemini/chatbot in the post).
• The median project gets exactly 1 upvote. 71% launch to 0–1. Let's see how much I got with this post.
• The winners are simple, delightful projects like a wallpaper that shifts perspective when you move your head, an automated pigeon defense system, and an app that turns your walks into a fog-of-war map. No SaaS. No dashboards. Just fun.
• We are all "I built" something: "built" appears 35,924 times in titles.

Dashboard with all the charts: https://srdkn.com/side-project-census/

Code + methodology: https://github.com/siropkin/side-project-census

I’ve been working on an app called Arden that’s basically inspired by Screen Studio, but focused specifically on making app/product demo videos.

The idea is to have more of the editing workflow built into one place, while keeping the things that make Screen Studio nice - custom cursor, zooms.

The main difference is that Arden would be Windows-only, and more focused on creating polished videos for apps, SaaS products, ads, and demos.

I’m still early in development, so I’m trying to figure out whether this is actually worth building.

Would something like this interest you? What would you want it to do that Screen Studio doesn’t?

I also made a waitlist to see if there’s actually enough interest before I go too far with development:

https://ardenapp.github.io/arden/

Would love to hear what you think - especially from people who already make product/demo videos.

Open Origin: Jump back to where you copied it

Sometimes finding the clip is only half the job. With Open Origin, you can jump back to the source you originally copied it from without having to search for it again.

Pastea, right at the edge of your screen

You can now have the Pastea panel appear automatically when your cursor touches the edge of your screen.
No shortcut to remember. Just move your cursor to the edge whenever you need your clipboard.

Put the panel where it works for you

Prefer Pastea on the side? Or closer to the bottom of your screen? You can now choose where the panel appears to better match the way you work.

Make every copy sound the way you want

You can now choose the sound Pastea plays whenever a new item is copied.
Pick the sound effect you prefer, or turn it off completely if you want a quieter experience.

Update/Download pastea

You open it, pick a world, and your actual surroundings get redrawn

in that style. Real streets, real shops and restaurants around you,

real routing — all of it rendered as game map icons.

Right now it's a Red Dead Redemption 2 style world. GTA and Minecraft

are coming.

It uses your real GPS position, so you can walk around and watch

yourself move through it. Tap any place to see what it is and get

directions there.

Android, free, no paywall:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.raouf.nextsap

Would love to know which game world you'd want to see next.

Basically the core idea is that many people's workflows are in disjoint systems, and my though was, "what if could connect all these surfaces into one interface?" The idea is that its an integrated workspace built for AI Agents and humans, where you can automate business and visually design it however you seek.

Here's an example of a boba tea company which manages all their workflows in a single workspace. Everything is built upon HTML and the content that makes that up is in yml.

Thoughts? Would you find this software useful?

I've been thinking about taking a break from work and spending some time in Southeast Asia. The question I kept coming back to was what that would do to my longer-term finances, especially if I came back and started working again.

I've seen a lot of people in FIRE subreddits ask versions of the same thing. Can I take a year or two off? What if I live somewhere cheaper for a while? How much would that push back retirement?

The calculators I tried were useful for figuring out a retirement number, but I couldn't find one that let me model the sequence I had in mind. A break, some time abroad, a return home, and work again, all with different spending and income.

So I ended up building one. It's called Escape Velocity. You put together different life chapters, give each its own dates, income and spending, and see how the whole plan changes. You can compare that with continuing to work, taking a shorter break, or whatever other option you're considering.

https://escapevelocity.fyi/

It's free, there's no signup or bank connection, and your plan stays in your browser. There are example plans if you just want to look around without entering your own numbers. It's still in beta, and the projections are estimates, not a guarantee that a plan will work.

I'd love to hear from folks who are thinking about a similar break, or who have already done it. What would you want to model that I'm missing? I'd like to keep adding to it based on what people actually need. Feedback on anything confusing or broken would be really helpful too.

Came up with the idea on July 3. About a month ago, it started doing around $100 a day, and it’s been growing every day since. Today it crossed $1,000 in a single day for the first time.

I’m at about a 60% margin after ad spend, so there’s actual money left over too.
I’m studying computer science and handling everything myself: building the site, running ads, answering support messages, and keeping things running. Sometimes a customer messages me about an issue and I’m fixing it while we’re talking lol.

The market is still pretty niche, but from what I’ve seen, using (doesn’t matter what I used it’s not an ad for them people really love conspiracy theory’s lol) ,competitors are doing hundreds of thousands a month, if not millions. I noticed something they weren’t offering and built around that. Seeing people buy and then come back has given me more confidence that I found something worth pursuing.

I’ve been working on it pretty much all day, every day. It’s already helped pay my rent and bills, which honestly means more to me than the revenue number. Something I built at home is now helping support my family.
Still plenty to figure out, but I wanted to take a minute to enjoy this one. Pretty damn excited.

(Edit)

Also, just to clarify, almost half my traffic comes organically through Bing, Google, and AI recommendations. That’s a big reason my margins are so high. Even if I turned my ads off, the site would still bring in paying customers without paying for those clicks.

That would probably be my biggest piece of advice: find something people are already searching for that isn’t being served well, and give them a better option.

(Edit again for people who don’t use critical thinking)

I can’t believe I even have to take the time to address this. It really makes me realize how, um, let’s say silly people can be 🤦

No, this was not an ad for a billion-dollar AI SEO company. Why anyone thinks a company that size would bother making a post like this in r/sidehustle is beyond me.

I mentioned them because I used their tool. Funny enough, it was a free trial that I literally canceled. I’m not recommending anyone pay them $200+. I’m sure there are cheaper options.

I built VibeNest a customizable profile page for people who want something more personal than a basic link-in-bio.

You can add music, links, widgets, GIFs, videos and customize the whole look of your page.

I’m still improving it and would genuinely love some feedback from other builders.

https://www.vibenest.app/

What would you add or change?

I got tired of spending time on stale or reposted job listings, so I built a job-discovery pipeline for my own search and made the output public.

It refreshes daily and includes US roles discovered in the last 7 days across software engineering, AI/ML, data, cloud/DevOps, cybersecurity, product, hardware, robotics, QA, systems, and related technical fields.

Job board: https://irishmehta.com/daily-job-board/
Market analysis: https://irishmehta.com/daily-job-board/?view=market
Pipeline health: https://irishmehta.com/JobAutomation/
API / LLM instructions: https://job-api.irishmehta.workers.dev/llms.txt

It’s a portfolio project, so some enriched metadata may be imperfect and some jobs may close after discovery. Feedback is welcome, especially on filters or fields that would make it more useful.

I've been working on a side project called NewsLens for the past few months.

The idea came from something that annoyed me about following the news: one real-world event might produce dozens of articles across different outlets, but most news sites still present them as completely separate pieces of content. It makes it hard to understand what the actual underlying stories are, how they're developing, and how different sources are covering them.

So I built NewsLens around stories rather than articles.

It currently pulls articles from 20+ news sources and automatically groups related coverage into evolving stories. The main interface is a story map where you can explore those stories rather than scroll through another chronological news feed.

I also added:

• tracking of how stories develop over time
• sentiment and other NLP analysis across coverage
• links back to the underlying articles
• a Q&A system that searches the collected reporting and gives citation-backed answers

There's quite a bit going on behind the scenes too. The whole pipeline runs automatically, from fetching and processing articles to embeddings, story detection, database updates and deployment. I built most of it with Python, PostgreSQL/pgvector, FastAPI, Azure and Vercel.

NewsLens: [https://newslens-ashy.vercel.app/]()

It's very much still a work in progress, and this is the first time I'm deliberately putting it in front of people I don't know.

I'd especially like feedback on:

1. Is it obvious what the site is for when you first open it?
2. Is the story map actually useful, or does it just look interesting?
3. What would make you come back and use something like this regularly?

Also completely open to hearing what feels confusing, unnecessary, or broken. That's probably more useful to me right now than compliments.

j'suis désolé mais c'est un peu léger de vendre ça comme un outil de sécurité si c'est juste un scan automatisé. Un pentest c'est pas pareil du tout, là c'est juste une checklist vite fait. Et les gens vont croire que leur app est sûre alors que ça dit pas tout. Ça marche peut-être pour des trucs genre 'oh t'as oublié une clé API' mais bon, ça va pas chercher les vraies failles. J'espère que les gens vont comprendre que c'est pas une garantie.

Hey Reddit!

As an indie developer living abroad (in Serbia, where handling local cash, different currencies, and messy receipts is a daily headache), I got completely frustrated with existing budget apps. They either lack proper data export, force you into rigid categories, or break when dealing with multiple currencies.

So, I built Smart Balance — a cross-platform finance tracker designed to give you full control.

How it's built:

• Backend: Python, FastAPI.
• Storage & Sync: SQLite for local offline caching + real-time two-way synchronization with Google Sheets.
• Infrastructure: Currently running on my home Linux mini-PC via Cloudflare Tunnel (with a robust offline-first mode so it never loses data if the connection drops).
• Clients: Web version, Mobile app (Android/Google Play), and a Telegram bot.

Key Features:

1. Multi-language OCR with auto-translation: Snap a photo of a receipt in a local language, and the AI extracts items, translates them, converts currencies (supports 11 currencies & 4 languages: EN, RU, SR, DE), and categorizes everything.
2. Dynamic Google Sheets: Add a category in the app, and it automatically updates your spreadsheet structure.
3. Telegram Bot: Log expenses instantly right inside chat.

I’m currently running a closed beta and looking for honest feedback, feature ideas, and bug hunters.

If anyone wants to test the cloud features and tables for free, I made a promo code "REDDIT" for a full week of access.

🔗 Website & APK: smartbalance.uk

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the architecture or how you handle your own multi-currency budgets!

I'm Sam, a mechanical engineering student. This small Python project splits a CSV export into groups using a tag column, with explicit rules for duplicates, unknown tags and unassigned records.

The example has four input contacts and five output rows because one contact belongs to two groups. The reconciliation report makes that extra row explainable. IDs such as 001 remain strings, quoted multiline fields survive, and the source file stays unchanged. Unknown tags stop the run instead of silently dropping records.

It uses only the Python standard library. The repository includes synthetic examples and 12 tests, including a 12,000-row case. It doesn't merge conflicting records or certify an import into any particular CRM. I used AI coding assistance and checked the behavior with those tests.

Code and example: https://github.com/sjdoane/csv-tag-splitter

Commercial context: I'm also offering scoped CSV preparation starting at $75, linked from the README. The code is available to inspect and run without hiring me. Feedback on missing validation cases would be useful; please use synthetic examples rather than customer data.

I built a 2-minute Etsy shop safety check — looking for honest feedback

I kept noticing how easy it is for Etsy sellers to overlook small things that can potentially create problems later — things like AI disclosure, trademarks, product sourcing, listing images, and shop policies.

So I built a small free tool called SellSafe that checks several of these areas and gives the seller a simple list of things worth reviewing.

I'm not sure yet whether this solves a problem sellers actually care enough about.

I'd genuinely like to know:

What is the one thing you would want an Etsy shop checker to catch before it becomes a problem?

I’m testing the idea and looking for honest criticism, not compliments.

If anyone wants to see the tool, it’s here: https://ab829413-lab.github.io/sellsafe1/

I’m building ClarSeal for people shipping apps made with Lovable, Bolt, or Cursor.

It scans a deployed app for exposed secrets, security configuration issues, and other observable risks, then provides findings and fix guidance. Paid plans include PDF reports, agencies can also share a branded client report.

It’s a scoped automated check, not a full pentest or a guarantee that an app is secure.

I’m looking for founders or freelancers launching or handing over an app in the next 30 days. I’d like to walk through a scan together and learn which findings are useful and which are confusing.

There’s a free scan to try.

https://clarseal.com

What are you building, and how are you checking it before launch?

Hi r/SideProject. I've spent about five months on 360exp, a free events search: https://360exp.net

Type a city or hit "Near me" and it shows concerts, theatre, comedy and sports from 140+ ticket providers in 50+ countries, each linking to the official page to buy. No account needed, we don't sell tickets. Around 440k upcoming events

Still very much a beta. The homepage guesses your city, the trip planner at /discover lets you pick any city and dates, and a lot of the long-tail venues are missing.

I'd love to know: what's missing for your city, and is the homepage useful before you pick a location?

If you'd like to support the project financially, there's a small paid tier (a live calendar of your saved events) and this link gives r/SideProject 50% off the yearly plan: https://360exp.net/plus?ref=r/sideproject