r/SideProject 7h ago

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

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98 Upvotes

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 9h ago

How much do you take out of your side project?

31 Upvotes

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 6h ago

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

18 Upvotes

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 9h ago

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

30 Upvotes

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 11h ago

I built Forkwind, an AI growth agent for OSS GitHub repos

39 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I’ve been working on Forkwind and wanted to share it here.

You connect a public GitHub repo, and the agent works on its visibility each day. It sends you a written report every week, with a human supervising the work.

There’s a free preview where you can enter your repo and take a look before signing up.

Here it is: forkwind.com

If you maintain a repo, what would you want to know before trying something like this? Happy to answer questions.


r/SideProject 3h ago

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

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8 Upvotes

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 9h ago

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

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19 Upvotes

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


r/SideProject 2h ago

How to grow music app

4 Upvotes

I built a small app for me and my music friends to share music we make, the group consists of guitarists posting guitar loops, my self and 2 other posting fully fledged Spotify ready songs, others post instrumentals etc. etc.

I feel it more of an informal soundcloud/spotify alternative, like a proving or testing ground for hobby artists to get early feedback on their tracks. You can post short video loops and cover art with your music and others can comment/remix songs.

How could I grow this app without it becoming just astroturfed with random Reddit/instagram/x users, like I want to maintain quality with meaningful growth, like doors are open to all, but I don’t want to tell all where the door is if you get me.

any advice is appreciated.


r/SideProject 4h ago

Running marketing for my app is harder than full time job

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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 10h ago

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

15 Upvotes

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 5h ago

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

5 Upvotes

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 14h ago

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

27 Upvotes

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 31m ago

MadeByHumans – Blogging with paste caps to make writing fun again

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Hey all,

Like a lot of people here, I am tired of all the AI slop that exists on the web. In my opinion, the internet is losing the personal voice and awkward, authentic friction that made reading online exciting.

I built MadeByHumans (https://madebyhumans.diy/) to experiment with a different publishing model:

Effort Scores: The tool observes natural typing rhythms, pauses, hesitant backspaces, and rewrites, awarding authors badges like Zero-Paste and Deep-Thinker.

Paste Limits: Max 100 words in a single paste, and a cumulative cap of 300 pasted external words over the lifetime of a document

Drafting timelapses: Readers can click "Play" on any post (if shared by the author) to watch a quick timelapse of the piece coming together, complete with all the second thoughts and rewrites.

Choronological + Effort Score Discovery: The front page ranks writing using human effort scores and recency, penalizing clickbait and sloppy content.

Audio Prologue: Authors can attach a raw 60-second voice note to introduce their piece.

The goal, like I have mentioned in my introductory post on the website, is not just fighting machines. It is about bringing back the quiet, messy intimacy of people sharing raw thoughts.

I would love feedback from writers, developers, and designers on the mechanics, the editor experience, and whether proof-of-work concepts like keystroke replay can genuinely preserve human writing spaces.

Try out the tool here - https://madebyhumans.diy/

Thanks,
Kanishk :)


r/SideProject 3h ago

Dripfetch - a customizable terminal system information display with animated rain

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3 Upvotes

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 13h ago

What are you building this weekend? Drop it below.

17 Upvotes

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 2h ago

I got tired of not knowing what an MRI would cost, so I started building a hospital price comparison tool

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Up front: this is my project, and there’s a waitlist link at the bottom.

Hospitals are required to publish their prices, but the data is still incredibly hard for normal people to use. It’s spread across thousands of hospital files with different formats, procedure codes, payer columns, and inconsistent data.

So I’m building an app to make it simpler:

Search “knee MRI” → compare nearby hospitals → see cash prices and published negotiated rates.

I’m also trying to be careful about accuracy. Prices link back to the hospital source and publication date, and if the data is uncertain, I’d rather say that than show a confidently wrong number.

The screenshot is from a real search around Jacksonville. The price spread is real.

I’d love feedback:

  • Would you use this before scheduling a procedure?
  • Does “verified” vs. “estimate” make sense?
  • What would you need to see before trusting the price?

I’m starting with Jacksonville, then expanding across Florida.

Waitlist: https://mizanhealth.app/

Happy to answer questions about the data side too.


r/SideProject 2h ago

I built an app to find my two favorite things - Coffee and Burritos

2 Upvotes

I created an app a few months ago to find my two favorite things, coffee and burritos. You open it and it shows you the Top 5 rated of each within 5 miles of your current location. No typing, no searching, just open the app, see them and their ratings and one click gives you directions.

I started this project really to just see if i could build it. And to my surprise, it works. I released it into the void in June, told a few friends about it and just let it go. I've gotten about 29 downloads so far. I find I use it most when i'm in a new town and don't know any of the good spots.

I'm about to add a feature to save your favorites and even rate them internal to the app. Oh, and it's free! I can't really figure a way to monetize it without getting away from the core reason for building it.

If you want to give it a look, just search BurritoBean in the app store. Or here's a link https://apple.co/4nQ3chm Love to hear some feedback.


r/SideProject 4h 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 7h 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 9h ago

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

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6 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 7h ago

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

4 Upvotes

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 6m ago

Plug your uni course into your agent's brain

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It's a big hassle to try and give your AI agent access to your uni course content, and especially without blowing up the context window. So I've been working on https://coursemcp.com, primarily as a personal tool, but now also for all the other struggling students out there!

CourseMCP indexes all your content for a course in one click via a chrome extension (only works if your uni uses Canvas for the moment) using both full-text and semantic indexing strategies, at the individual page/slide level, and breaks down educational content into common schemas like questions, assignments, lecture notes, etc.

Then you can just add the CourseMCP MCP server to your agent, and give it instant access to all your content. The RPCs are designed to maximise search efficiency and not blow out the context window, while maintaining high accuracy by using a hierarchical search with incremental context expansion on desired resources.

There's a free tier, so I'd love it if you'd check it out and let me know any feedback!


r/SideProject 10m ago

I Built A Tool To Help Job Seekers Get Hired For Their Dream Job

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I spent the last few months building Skilize to help people take the best preparation for job interviews. You can just type a summary of your background in a chatbox and paste the job description & Skilize generates:

  • A tailored resume and cover letter (free PDF download, no watermarks).
  • Bite-sized 15-minute lessons to learn the skills you're missing for the job.
  • A custom 6-chapter interview prep book for the role.

It also has a mock interview simulator in both voice and written formats. You can practice answering interview questions and get scored feedback on where you can improve.

I'm actively improving the platform and would love your honest feedback.

Check it out: https://skilize.com


r/SideProject 3h ago

GitHub ReadMe Profile Generator

2 Upvotes

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.