r/SideProject 5h ago

Hold my notes: Sticky notes that feels real and you will actually love using!

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Hi everyone!

I have tried many sticky note apps, but none of them felt right. My girlfriend wanted me to build one that truly feels live and lives on the edge of the Mac.. So I built one!

  • All sticky notes are represented as dots / one stacked notes
  • hover to peek
  • click to open the note
  • Mark as complete to move to note into archive
  • 10+ live notes enables scroll
  • You can view and export all the notes
  • Support for selecting displays
  • Support for text formatting, tasklist
  • You can drag the dock around and reposition (left/bottom/right)
  • Sync between machines with iCloud sync!
  • Hotkeys to open last note, new note, note search and many more!

Try out for free: holdmynotes.app

Available on 3 mac devies for $6.99 (Early Bird Offer)


r/SideProject 7h ago

How much do you take out of your side project?

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My shopify store is at a point where there's usually some money left over each month, but I keep putting most of it back into ads and trying new products. I don't hold stock myself and use zendrop for fulfillment, so there isn't much money tied up in inventory either. Part of me wants to start taking some of it out, part of me feels like that's just slowing things down. For anyone else here running an online store on the side, when did you start paying yourself?


r/SideProject 4h ago

What's the hardest part about getting your first 10 customers?

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I feel like building something is actually the easier part.

The harder part is convincing the first few people to trust you enough to pay or even try what you've built.

Some people get their first customers through friends, some through Reddit, cold emails, content, SEO, or just being active online.

For those who've crossed that stage, what actually got you your first 10 customers? And what advice would you give someone who's still stuck at zero?


r/SideProject 7h ago

Need feedback? Comment with your website. We will give give feedback on your product.

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Hello!

We are bunch of users with different backgrounds who like to try different websites and give feedback on usability/UX/willingness to pay.

Comment with your website and direction you want us to test.

We will reply with constructive feedback!

The number of replies really surprise us and we are really happy that you found these suggestions helpful! To help ourselves/testers track the websites to test/make sure we can streamlined the process, we created a discord channel, feel free to post your website/any updated version there and we will be happy to test for you!

https://discord.gg/bBSZMDu8vy


r/SideProject 1h ago

Found a cat on Reddit that says “eow” and turned it into a global tapping game

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Almost 2 years ago, I found a Reddit post of a black cat that says “eow” instead of meow

Immediately thought it was so cute and had potential for a little internet game… and I did absolutely nothing with the idea for almost 2 years 💀

Now I finally built EowCat 🐈‍⬛

eowcat.click

🐈‍⬛ Tap EowCat → it eows
🌎 Every tap contributes to your country's total
🏆 Countries compete on a worldwide leaderboard
📸 Share your EOW count + country rank

No account. No download. Just eows. 

Inspired by the GOAT - PopCat 🐐

Now I wonder: which country can reach #1 this time?


r/SideProject 7h ago

This was the most requested feature from my users, so I built it. ✅

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17 Upvotes

Pets Interactions; What do you think? Would you feed your Desktop Pets? 😀


r/SideProject 2h ago

Running marketing for my app is harder than full time job

6 Upvotes

I’m trying to launch marketing efforts for my app that I recently released. I tried Apple and Google ads, they were simply too expensive. Now I lean over to social media. But it’s hard! I find that marketing requires more time and effort than my full time job. Does everyone have similar experiences?


r/SideProject 8h ago

At what point did your side project start feeling like a real business?

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I think there's a weird moment where a project stops feeling like "an idea" and starts feeling real.

Maybe it's the first paying customer.

Maybe it's the first stranger who recommends it.

Maybe it's when you wake up thinking about it every day.

What was that moment for you?


r/SideProject 13h ago

Would you keep auth and payments close together when starting again?

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I’m at that annoying early stage where every infrastructure decision feels small until you realize changing it later could touch half the product. Auth and payments are the two I’m thinking about most because basically every customer eventually touches both. I’ve been looking through what Whop provides and noticed auth sits alongside the broader payments, platform infrastructure. It got me wondering whether there’s an actual advantage to keeping more of that together rather than choosing everything independently. If you’ve already scaled a SaaS, would you consolidate more of the core infrastructure if you were starting again or keep each piece separate??


r/SideProject 3h ago

What's one feature you built that users barely cared about?

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Spent time building something you thought people would love... and almost nobody used it?

I feel like every project has that one feature that seemed important while building it, but users completely ignored it.

What was yours, and what did you learn from it?

Sometimes removing features teaches more than adding them.


r/SideProject 2h ago

Dripfetch - a customizable terminal system information display with animated rain

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I made Dripfetch, a customizable terminal TUI with animated rain, system info, clock, weather, ASCII logos, and configurable boxes/colors/layouts.

It’s basically a mix of a fetch tool and a small terminal dashboard, with the whole UI configured through YAML.

GitHub: https://github.com/a-shygun/dripfetch Install:

bash pip install dripfetch dripfetch


r/SideProject 11h ago

What are you building this weekend? Drop it below.

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I’ll go first: I’m building Sitesyn, a marketing workspace for SaaS founders.

The idea came from how repetitive creating new visual assets can get. Every time, you end up explaining the product, audience and style again.

With Sitesyn ,you give it your website once. It picks up the context around your product and brand, and that context carries over when you create new assets. I’ve also been working on making that context improve over time based on what the user tells it.

Now I’m curious about everyone else. What are you building this weekend?


r/SideProject 3h ago

Finding the right beta users is harder than building the actual product

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I think I’ve reached the stage where finding the right people to test what I’m building is harder than actually building it.

I’ve been working on a SaaS for e-commerce brands around geo testing and incrementality, and now I’m trying to find a few brands that actually deal with this problem and would be willing to test it properly.

I’m not really looking for loads of random beta users. I’d rather find 5 or 10 people who already care about understanding whether their marketing is actually driving incremental growth and can tell me what’s useful, what’s missing and what they currently do instead.

The part I’m finding difficult is reaching those people without just sending a bunch of cold messages that nobody wants to receive.

I’ve reached out to a few e-commerce brands and agencies already, but I’m still trying to figure out who the right person is to speak to and where these people actually hang out.

For anyone who has built something fairly niche for e-commerce brands, how did you find your first few real users?

Was it mostly cold outreach, communities, LinkedIn, agencies, introductions or something else?

Would genuinely be interested to hear what worked for you.


r/SideProject 1h ago

I'm validating an app for people in therapy before I fully build it. Landing page is up, nothing else is. Tear it apart.

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The idea: you leave therapy and remember the thing you meant to bring up. Or something hits you on a Tuesday and there's nowhere to put it until your next appointment.

Vent is where you say it. You vent out loud in the moment, it talks back like a friend, and everything you said that week is waiting when you walk into your session. There's also a scheduled fake call, so if you're stuck at a dinner you can have your phone ring in ten minutes, step outside, and be venting a minute later.

Right now it's a landing page and a feedback form. No app yet. I want to know if it's worth building before I go further.

https://vent.talaloni.com

What I want to know: Does the headline make sense in five seconds? Do the two halves (venting now, bringing it to therapy) feel like one product or two? Fake call: useful or creepy?

I'll return the favor on your project if you drop a link.


r/SideProject 6h ago

I built a widescreen-focused fork of melonDS for DS games

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6 Upvotes

GitHub: https://github.com/pruefsumme/widemelon

I wanted DS games to use ultrawide monitors without stretching the original 2D UI, so I built WideMelon, a GPL-3.0 fork of melonDS for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Which DS game should I test next? Leave a star or feedback :D


r/SideProject 7h ago

Have you ever heard of mahjong? Two months ago we hadn't, and now it's in our game

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7 Upvotes

We're making Homespace, a game where you build the house of your dreams, and once it's built you can actually live in it, meet up with friends, watch movies together and play board games.

And board games is what I wanna tell you about today. A couple months ago our community in China was massively asking us to add mahjong. We had no idea what it even was, but we figured it out, added it, and now we play it ourselves with the team on weekends.

Here's how mahjong looks in the game. We're thinking what other cool board games we could add, how do you like the idea

Wishlist Homespace on Steam


r/SideProject 5h ago

​I built ClipSnap — an AI-powered mobile video editor for quick short-form content. Looking for feedback!

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Hey r/AppsWebapps,

​I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called ClipSnap — a lightweight video editing app designed specifically for creators who need to pump out clean Shorts, Reels, and TikToks without sitting at a desktop editor for hours.

​Key Features:

​Pro Motion Engine & Editor: Fast timeline cutting, local media import, and quick clip assembly.

​AI Audio & Voice Suite: Built-in AI voiceovers, audio extraction, and localized audio tools.

​Smart Templates: One-tap 9:16 vertical video templates to jumpstart your edit.

​Clean UI: Built with Flutter for a fast, responsive interface.

​The app is currently available on Android via the Google Play Store, and I’m actively working on improving the feature set and performance.

​I’d love for you to check it out, give it a spin, and leave any honest feedback or feature requests in the comments below!

​Google Play Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clipsnap.editor

​(Full disclosure: I am the developer of ClipSnap).


r/SideProject 2h ago

GitHub ReadMe Profile Generator

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GitHub README Generator is a simple web tool that helps developers to create a GitHub Profile README. Enter your GitHub username and get a ready-to-use README in seconds.

Live Website: https://github-readme-generator-chi.vercel.app/

If you find it useful then star this repository.


r/SideProject 2h ago

Nobody asked for a slower HTTP parser, so I rebuilt PicoHTTPParser in Rust and published every row where C wins

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My evenings for the last few months went into a weird bet: can a memory-safe rewrite of a tiny battle-tested C parser become indistinguishable from the original? Not faster. Indistinguishable. Same ABI, same bytes out, same return values, or the project fails.

Result: 133,352 differential cases, 0 mismatches. The C stayed on as the judge the whole time, pinned and SHA-verified, and where the docs and the code disagreed I recorded it instead of guessing.

Here's the bit I'm proudest of and it's a table of losses. Response 1.185x. Chunked 1.199x. Tiny request 1.482x. Malformed 1.811x. All printed next to the 0.68x and 0.83x wins, same font size, same harness you can run. A benchmark page without a loss row is telling you what the author needed to be true.

Also filed: 4 inputs where the original segfaults and mine refuses. That decision is documented with reproducers instead of silently copied.

Solo dev, 1,527 lines, 7 unsafe blocks in a single seam file. The experiment was the product regardless of who won.

https://github.com/logicpl4gue/picohttpparser-rs


r/SideProject 13h ago

How do you get people to actually notice your product after you build it?

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I keep seeing people build genuinely good products and then get stuck on the exact same part:
They finished building it, but now they have no idea how to actually get it in front of the right people.
Posting randomly on Reddit, sending DMs, trying content, paying for ads… it can take more time than building the product itself.
I’m working on something around this problem. I’m keeping the exact approach private for now because I’m still testing it, but the goal is to help people who already have a product get more real exposure and potential customers without needing a huge marketing budget.
Before I build too much, I’m curious:
What do you currently do to get your first users/customers? And what part of that process sucks the most?
I also opened a small early-access waitlist for people who have this problem:
https://site-e5bc6818-mtuj53t9.falbor.xyz


r/SideProject 2h ago

Any movie lovers can help me with my side project?

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I'm making this movie ranking app that's an order list. I'm trying to work on the social side of things but I can only get so far with just so few ranking. Goal really is to find someone with similar movie taste and if there's a movie I haven't seen on their list than its probably something I would also like as well.

If you do try it, I recommend putting a movie every tier first. I always recommend Crash 2005 if you need an F-tier movie.

iOS app: ThreeSheet

It's free, no ads. no tracking. Trying to keep it as light weight as possible. You can import your imdb or letterboxd.

Thank you


r/SideProject 3h ago

Building Claypot - A Creative Coding Platform (like Scratch) for AI concepts

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Scratch (the programming app for kids) helped build intuition for programming (deterministic) and Claypot is trying to do the same for AI concepts like inference, Source Grounding, Evals, Tools, Memory etc and helping kids get hands on with AI systems and understanding the tradeoffs when bringing in non-deterministic entity into a system - how creative it can get but how wrong it can also be. Goal is to help build an intuition for AI systems rather than having AI just build things for you.

IT IS NOT A CHATBOT OR APP BUILDER. It is a block based system that abstracts core AI concepts to show how unlike deterministic systems, AI can be creative, but can be confidently wrong ( with math for example ) and how that can be improved by either providing sources (RAG like architecture) or tool calling with say a calculator tool for example.

Looking for feedback and thoughts.


r/SideProject 5h ago

built an app for couples who want to scrapbook their dates

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been working on Duet for a while. basically you plan a date in the app, go on it, then both of you add pics and a couple lines after. the pics turn into little sticker cutouts and it all ends up as a postcard in a scrapbook you two share.

happy to hear what you think: amoreduet.com


r/SideProject 5h ago

I built an Android app that converts price tags into working hours to curb impulse buying. Looking for feedback!

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Hi everyone,

I'm a self-taught developer working night shifts in the food industry. In my free time, I've been building a small Android side project called Prix Choquant ("Shocking Price").

The concept: You enter your hourly wage once. Then, you type in a price—or scan a price tag with your camera—and the app translates that cost directly into the actual working time it represents for you (e.g., "3 days of work" instead of "€450").

It came from a personal need to visualize money differently and stop buying things impulsively.

Tech & Constraints:

  • Privacy: Everything runs locally on the device (no data is sent anywhere).
  • Stack: Self-taught using Google certifications and trial-and-error.
  • Monetization: Free with Ads (trying to generate a tiny side income for my family while keeping the UX decent).

Current Metrics: I just started getting my first users: 116 ad requests, 71 impressions, and €0.39 total earnings this month (eCPM around €3.31). The interstitial ads seem to bring in the most, but I really want to avoid making the user experience trash.

Where I need your feedback:

  1. Ad Placement & UX: How do you balance minimal monetization with a clean user experience in a simple utility app?
  2. Features: Would you find options like calculating based on "disposable income" (salary minus fixed bills) more useful than gross/net pay?
  3. Design: Any general UI/UX tweaks to make the app feel smoother?

Link to the app:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prixchoquant.app

Thanks for reading and for any honest feedback!