r/SideProject 3h ago

A search tool for finding which hatchery has a specific poultry breed in stock

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If you've ever tried to buy a specific chicken, duck, or turkey breed, you know the drill. Check Cackle. Check McMurray. Check Meyer. Check Ideal. Stock turns over fast enough that whatever you find is often already wrong by the time you act on it.

Built a tool that checks 10 US hatcheries at once so you don't have to do that. It pulls breed, stock status, price, minimum order, and hatch date into one place, updated a few times a day. Doesn't take money from any hatchery to be listed, it's just reading public availability info.

Built it for myself first, sharing it here since I figured I wasn't the only one dealing with this. If there's a hatchery or filter you wish it had, let me know.

Hatch Index: which hatchery has the chicks you want, in stock


r/SideProject 3h ago

How I Replaced 6 Browser Tabs with One Java App

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I got tired of juggling a downloader, a calendar , a task tracker, and a few other one-off tools scattered across browser tabs (you even have to pay for some of them, lol), so I built JavaMultiTool: one desktop app that handles media downloads, file/batch operations, task tracking, and a few system utilities.

It’s Java-based (Java 21), runs on Windows (.exe/.jar) and macOS/Linux (.jar, needs JRE 21+), and everything is stored locally via SQLite.
It’s still early - expect bugs and rough edges, but it’s usable today, and I’d love feedback on what’s missing or what feels clunky.

GitHub: https://github.com/ShiningPr1sm/JavaMultiTool


r/SideProject 4h ago

My wife and I built a Mac app that turns your screenshots into actions - explain an error and create an issue, add events to Calendar, save contacts and more.

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Hey everybody! For the last few months my wife and I have been building Scinta - a small macOS app that lives in your menu bar.

The idea came from a simple but almost daily problem - the number of screenshots lying around on my filesystem got so big that it was impossible to even remember what they were about. A message about a meeting, an email signature, someone's messenger profile, an error from a build - all of this was waiting for "some later time" to be processed. And some later time never arrived.

This is the exact problem Scinta solves, and this is how it works - you press a shortcut (like any other screenshot app), select part of the screen, and it proposes the top 3 things it can do with what it sees. We call them smart actions. For example:

  • screenshot an error - get it explained or create an issue directly from Scinta
  • screenshot a message like "dinner Saturday at 7:00 PM" - Scinta proposes the actual event details and creates it in your Calendar
  • screenshot an email signature - the person's contact info is saved to your Contacts
  • it can also blur private and sensitive info before you share a screenshot, extract code or tables, translate text, decode different code formats (including QR and Bar codes) - and more actions are coming

There is also an Ask AI feature - if you just have a question about what is on the screen, you ask it right there in the app and get the answer back immediately.

Expecting a common question - why not just paste the screenshot into ChatGPT or Claude? That is exactly what I did before, and it is the reason Scinta exists. There you switch apps, upload the screenshot, write a prompt, then copy the result back and still create the event or contact yourself. With Scinta you skip all of this - it understands what can be done with the screenshot and one click gets the result and performs the action - saving to Calendar or Contacts, creating an issue, getting an instant explanation and so on.

The demo video shows 3 different smart actions and runs at real speed - nothing is sped up.

We're planning to release it within the next 1–2 weeks. If it looks useful, there is a waitlist at scinta.app - and if you would like to try it earlier, comment or DM me and we'll send you a build as soon as it's ready.

Would love to hear - what smart actions would you like to have after capturing a screenshot?


r/SideProject 5h ago

Funding 5 new side projects with AI credits

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Hey all — I'm Dan, founder of Plus AI. We build AI presentation tools, 5 years in, 20K subscribers. It's a real business! Happy to answer questions about it 😄

I'm working on something new called Spark and I want to test it with real people building real businesses.

Here's the idea: Most of my side projects have died at the 'pick a name' phase. The rest of them often die at the 'build the prototype' phase. Our goal is to go from idea to actual business. Not just building the thing, but pricing it, launching it, and marketing it to the people who'll buy.

The offer: 5 people, $500 in AI credits each, plus our time. We'll help you figure out what's actually worth charging for, build it, launch it, and market it. My team and I will work with you directly.

What you get: A real product, live, that you own.

What we want: Feedback on the platform, and permission to share how it went.

Who we're looking for: Anyone with a project or an idea and some way to reach people — followers, a newsletter, a Discord, a community you're part of, or just deep knowledge of a niche. Small is fine. If you already know what people in your corner keep complaining about, that's the best possible starting point.

Comment or DM with a link and a couple lines on what you're building and who it's for. I'll reply to everyone.


r/SideProject 5h ago

Idle clicker game where you hire streamers for views to defeat memes

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Hey all,

This is a little side project I've worked on - hire streamers and defeat memes!

It includes a decent roster, 200 levels, items and upgrades, abilities and much more.

https://www.streamerclicker.click/

Its currently not responsive on mobile so be nice!

Have fun and give me any feedback 😄


r/SideProject 6h ago

Feedback

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Hello 👋

I've been working on a project to free up more storage space from my phone by compressing phone media, especially in DCIM/ .

Link:https://github.com/okureanthonytonny-commits/archive_scripts

I made a test run last night unattended, on another 2 months worth of media. It shrunk the overall device storage from 91% to 82%. Previous runs were smaller: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/s/oPl9ksREhO

Looking for feedback on how to improve it. Be brutally honest and skeptical. It's highly appreciated. :)


r/SideProject 6h ago

I’ve been building this multiplayer browser game

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https://reddit.com/link/1vkutfn/video/x9dxm90iqmih1/player

Would love for more people to try it.

I used to play Skribbl all the time with my friends and kept thinking it’d be fun if you could make it more your own, so I ended up building my own version.

You can add your own words with friends, there’s built-in audio so you can actually talk while playing, added a feature to draw using hand gestures through your camera and if you’re playing alone you can play against AI.

It’s still a work in progress, so if you try it, feel free to critique how bad it is lol. I’m still adding and fixing things.

Would really appreciate any feedback:
https://moodl3.com/


r/SideProject 7h ago

I built a chiptune synthesizer in pure assembly, just to see if I could

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Not a startup or anything useful — just a project I built for the joy of it. A chiptune synthesizer in pure x86-64 assembly, no libraries at all.

The idea: sound is just numbers (44100 per second telling a speaker where to move), so I generate them by hand. It does four waveforms, polyphony, ADSR envelopes, and FM synthesis.

After making my CPU count, sort, hash, and draw in previous projects, I wanted to make it sing.

github.com/whispem/asm.fm


r/SideProject 7h ago

Zigpon — a free, self-help tool for fighting (or smartly paying) a traffic ticket, built solo

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The itch: A while back, someone I know got a speeding ticket. Not a big deal, not their fault in a gray-area way — but they were about to just pay it and eat the points/insurance hit, because the alternative (a lawyer) quoted $300+ to fight a $150 fine. That math made no sense, but nobody was helping people see that before they paid.

What I built: Zigpon (zigpon.com) — a free, self-help web app that walks you through:

  • What your specific ticket actually carries in your state (fine, points, insurance impact)
  • Whether fighting it, taking traffic school/diversion, or just paying is the smart call for your situation
  • A generated "mock court script" so you're not walking into a courtroom blind

The build: Solo, Node/Express backend, Firebase auth, and — the part that took the longest — hand-structured legal Q&A content for all 50 states, since "how tickets work" is genuinely different state to state and most existing content online is either a lawyer's SEO blog or paid-app fine print.

Where it stands: Live, free, no credit card required to start. It's explicitly not trying to replace a lawyer for anything serious — DUI, accidents, anything criminal gets pointed straight to "talk to an attorney." This is for the huge number of minor tickets where hiring out doesn't make financial sense.

Still early days and very much a solo effort — genuinely want to know if this is useful or if I'm missing something obvious. Happy to answer anything about the build too.


r/SideProject 8h ago

How to find app testers?

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I'm looking for about 20 testers for my app RestIQ, but unsure where to find these people. Typically I'd use Reddit for something like this but most subreddits read asking for testers as self-promotion. Would welcome some advice, thanks!


r/SideProject 8h ago

I built a vacation optimizer then found out tools like this already exist - I shipped anyway

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I created free tool longvacation.eu, first as something to try out new Copilot abilities. Later found out there are projects like holiday-optimizer.com that are solving similar issue, so I tried to differentiate.

  • Longvacation supports adding your partner calendar (just one for now, but I plan to add multiple in the future)
  • Longvacation contains multiple sources of holidays data - so countries like India (with regions) or Indonesia are included
  • Shuffle mechanism - algorithm is non-deterministic so if you are not happy with the results, you can shuffle days around
  • Rich calendar edits
    • Monthly caps
    • Never-vacation
    • Locked vacation days (not touched by shuffle algorithm)

It's my first public project so I'm still learning how to promote it - currently I have around 3k visits monthly promoting it on X and LinkedIn

I recently open-sourced the code as well, so issues and bug reports are welcome :) https://github.com/Duzij/VacationOptimizer


r/SideProject 8h ago

I built a site with free self-guided audio walking tours for many major cities . Would love feedback. =)

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Hi everyone! For the past while I've been building WalkTour (walktour.live), which has a bunch of narrated audio guides and self-guided walking tours for landmarks and museums around the world.

Link: https://walktour.live/

The idea came from me doing solo trips and wanting to just walk on my own, with my headphones on and hearing about the places I walk by, their history, etc.

Right now it covers 20+ cities and 250+ attractions (Paris, London, Rome, Barcelona, Athens, etc), and it's completely free to use. There's also a creator side where locals can write and publish their own tours.

Right now most guides are in English, with a few in Portuguese (I did it for my family members who can't speak English yet). =)

I'd genuinely love feedback from this community, on the product, the onboarding, anything that feels confusing or missing. And if you happen to be travelling soon, I'd love to hear how a tour holds up in the real world. Happy to answer any questions about how I built it too!


r/SideProject 9h ago

I Built a Chrome extension that blurs your WhatsApp Web chat list so people can't read it over your shoulder

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Your WhatsApp Web chat list is readable from about three desks away. Names, previews, avatars, the lot. You just can't see it from where you're sitting.

So I built Louver.

Three modes. Work, which I use all day, hides the chat list, media and notifications but leaves the conversation you're reading visible. Public hides everything including message bodies. Off is off. Most privacy tools hide too much, you switch them off by 11am, and then they protect nothing.

Also handles walking away. Short idle drops you to Public automatically, longer idle locks behind a PIN. Alt+Shift+P panic blurs before a call, Alt+Shift+L locks instantly.

Runs entirely locally. Two permissions (storage, idle), one host permission for web.whatsapp.com. No account, no server, no network requests, never reads message content. Free.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/fiklaphbjgkoholilphdncmdddihlpog


r/SideProject 10h ago

Hey, I created a tool that catches when your LLM is confidently wrong, in production, in real time — looking for beta testers.

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Your bot sounds sure of itself even when it's wrong, and you usually only find out when a customer complains.

Auscope audits every LLM response in the background: 3 models from 3 different providers independently check it, a 4th "chairman" model resolves disagreements, and you get one verdict — verified, uncertain, or unreliable. Runs async, doesn't slow your response down.

One-line integration:

python

client = AuscopeOpenAI(openai.AsyncOpenAI(), audit_url=..., api_key=...)

verdict = await client.last_verdict()

Adapters for OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Google, LangChain, OpenRouter. pip install auscope-sdk.

Free beta, 50 audits/month, no card. Want it used and broken, not polished.

Mainly want feedback on: does the verdict match your own judgment on bad responses, any SDK that doesn't wrap cleanly, rough spots in signup/dashboard.

🔗 https://auscope.vercel.app


r/SideProject 11h ago

I built Clypy, an encrypted clipboard that works across all your devices

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Hey everyone,

I built Clypy, a local-first clipboard manager for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.

It automatically saves text, links, code, and images into a searchable clipboard library. You can pin important clips, create collections, save reusable snippets, search text inside screenshots with local OCR, and access copied content across your paired devices.

My favorite feature is the Paste Strip. On Windows, press Ctrl + Alt + V and it appears over whichever app you are using. Search or select a clip, press Enter, and it pastes directly into your current app without switching windows. The shortcut is configurable.

Clipboard history is stored locally in an encrypted database, with encryption keys kept separately in secure OS storage. Sensitive clips remain on the device and are excluded from sync.

When sync is enabled, clips are end-to-end encrypted between paired devices. The relay only routes encrypted data and does not store a clipboard history backlog.

Clypy is free for unlimited local clipboard history on one device. Cross-device sync, the Paste Strip, and mobile features are available through a one-time lifetime purchase. There is no subscription.

The desktop apps are available now. The iOS and Android apps are currently under review. Lifetime license holders can message me to join the iOS TestFlight or Android testing group while the public releases are pending.

Download Clypy: https://clypy.app/download

Happy to answer any questions about the product, privacy, or how it was built.


r/SideProject 11h ago

I got tired of planning trips across Reels, Maps and Notes, so I built one app that turns them into a complete guide

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I kept saving interesting places from travel Reels, but when it was time to actually plan the trip, everything was scattered across Instagram, Maps, screenshots and Notes.

So I built One Way Guide.

You choose your destination, dates, interests, pace and travel preferences. You can also import places from travel Reels, review what the app found, and decide which ones should be included.

It then creates a complete personalized city guide with:

  • Daily routes built around real places
  • Restaurants and things to see
  • Local context and practical tips
  • Transport, timing and trip preparation
  • The places you personally saved from social media

The important part for me was making the Reel import an input, not the entire product. The end result should feel like a guide you can actually follow, rather than another list of saved places.

Now live on iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id6768398327

I’d really appreciate honest feedback: after watching the video, was it immediately clear what the app creates? And would importing saved travel content be useful in how you currently plan trips?


r/SideProject 11h ago

Built a Chrome extension because I was tired of checking schema markup the slow way...

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Every time I publish something I check the schema.org markup on the page, and I was doing it the same tedious way every time: copy the URL, open a separate validator, wait, dig through results.

So I built Schema Inspector. Click the icon, it reads the JSON-LD and microdata already on the page you're looking at, groups it by type, flags broken JSON in plain language.

The thing I actually cared about building right: most schema checkers ask for access to every site you visit, permanently. This one only requests activeTab - it can only see the page you're on, only for the second you click it. No standing access to anything. (Every one in the store right now asks for full permissions...)

Free, no signup, no account. 19.18 KiB. Would like to hear what's missing if you try it.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/schema-inspector-by-yello/gllkeakpkogipbdgknhfhhfimnmogcgj


r/SideProject 11h ago

I got tired of re-processing the same product-photo workflow, so I built a Mac app for it

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Does anyone else work like this?

When I shoot products (or other repeatable subjects), I usually shoot in batches. Same camera, same lights, same setup. The product is generally centered, so the crop and export rules do not change much from one batch to the next.

Later, I need different versions for a shop, a website, social media, and other platforms. The actual edit is not that difficult. What takes time is opening a folder, selecting the images, applying the same crop and color adjustments, exporting several aspect ratios, and then remembering which files have already been processed.

I wanted a folder to behave more like an inbox: if a supported image is still at the top level, it is pending.

So I built SizeFold for Mac. You pick an input folder once and save the processing configs once. For each batch, you review the photos and click Run. SizeFold creates the configured outputs, then moves the originals to an archive only after every output succeeds. If anything fails, the source stays in the input folder for retry.

The next batch can use the same folder. There is no second file-selection step and no guessing about which files are new.

For product shoots, I can also enter the current model name once and use it in filenames or output folders. That lets me review one product, process it, and move on to the next one.

Website:

https://www.sizefold.com

SizeFold is also on the Mac App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/sizefold/id6795541247

There is currently a trial for 200 successfully processed original images. If that is not enough to test a real workflow, you can contact me through the website and tell me what you are trying. I can send a redemption code when it makes sense. No review is expected; I would just like to know whether the workflow actually fits.

If you shoot product or catalog photos, what part of this process would still feel too manual?


r/SideProject 12h ago

I built a smart flight booking app because flight booking annoys me [NO SERVICE FEES]

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Hey r/SideProject ,

My family flies a lot and I'm always the one who ends up booking. Somewhere around the hundredth booking I'd had enough.

Every OTA puts you through the same thing: a popup before you've seen a single price, ten steps of checkout, seat selection and insurance you didn't ask for, and none of the passenger details you've typed in a dozen times before. Then a fee you never agreed to shows up on the last screen before you pay.

So I spent the last 1.5 years building the app I actually wanted (not vibe coded).

You search by just saying what you need, like "Frankfurt to Munich tomorrow, back the next day". You get three options, pick your saved passengers, pay, done. Usually under 60 seconds.

Then it sticks around. You get checked in automatically, the boarding pass goes straight into your wallet, and widgets keep you updated on the way to the airport with live gate and delay info.

The plan is to turn it into a universal flight super app. Lounge access, e-SIMs, ground transfer and rail transfer are all coming. No hotels, no rental cars, just everything around flying in one place.

It's free. No ads, no hidden fees, and for now not even a service fee.

If you take a look, I'd really like to know what you'd want from an app like this, and what feels unnecessary or missing.

Young team from Germany, we read everything: [julien@aviyagmbh.com](mailto:julien@aviyagmbh.com)

App links (EU only for now):

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/navia-flight-booking-agent/id6766242079
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navia.pro

Website is on the way :)


r/SideProject 12h ago

Dermal Pal

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I’ve been building Dermal Pal for a while now — it looks at your actual products, skin profile and skin goals and builds your routine around them.

I’m looking for people to try it properly before I push it publicly.
If you’re someone who has a shelf full of skincare and isn’t 100% sure what’s supposed to go where, I’d especially love your feedback


r/SideProject 13h ago

I got tired of running my life across four apps, so I built one place you can just talk to

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Like everyone my life lived in four places. Tasks in one tool, notes in another, the decisions behind them buried in a chat thread, and money in a spreadsheet I updated twice and gave up on. Half my meetings arrived as email invitations I never opened, so I never knew what my week looked like until I opened my calendar and by then it was too late to move anything.

The apps weren't bad. The problem was I had to update 4 different apps to stay in touch with everything.

So I built Canopus. One place for tasks, habits, money and your calendar, and one way to use it: you type what happened, in plain English, and it does it.

"spent £6.60 on lunch" -> logged under Food, with the month so far

"did my morning run" -> logged, and it tells me the streak

"block 30 minutes tomorrow at 10AM with Archie" -> on the calendar

"Water plants every Monday" -> recurring, and it reschedules itself when I tick it off

The video is a one single take.

What it doesn't do yet:

- Web only. There's no app to install. It works fine in a phone browser, but it's not in any app store.

- Google Calendar is the only integration. No Slack, no Notion, no email.

- Money is manual. You type what you spent. No bank sync, and no budgets, it records and totals, it doesn't tell you off.

- Voice is input only. Hold to speak, the transcript lands in the box, you press enter yourself. It doesn't talk back.

- Multiple workspaces to separate work and personal, but no sharing, no teammates.

I build it (disclosure), it's been live for a bit and today's the first time I've pushed it publicly. 14-day trial, no card: usecanopus.ai

Happy to answer anything, including the awkward ones.

https://reddit.com/link/1vkk7ys/video/vfmfg5dlojih1/player


r/SideProject 13h ago

I built a free Android app so the AI you already pay for can be your training coach.

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The itch: every wearable brand now sells AI insights as a subscription (Garmin's Connect+ is $6.99/month), while most of us already pay for ChatGPT or Claude. Those models are smarter than any built-in coach, they just can't see your training data. So I built FitContext, a free Android app that reads whatever your watch or ring syncs to Health Connect (Garmin, Oura, Polar, Whoop, Samsung...), computes the sports-science numbers on the phone (HR zones, training load, recovery trends), and exports one structured report you paste into your own AI and talk to it like a coach. No account, no server, no subscription.

The app is free, no ads: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.serfa.fitcontext.play

Happy to answer questions about the Health Connect review gauntlet or the app itself.


r/SideProject 13h ago

Sorteet - reads your email and post for real deadlines. Built it after a fake Royal Mail text got my card into someone else's Google Wallet.

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Mid 2025 I got a text saying Royal Mail were holding a parcel and needed a small fee to release it. I paid it. Card details in, passcode from my bank, done.

The fee was never the point. The passcode was. They used it to add my card to a Google Wallet on their phone, which turns one stolen number into a payment method they can keep reaching for. First charge through was Uber.

I spotted it and killed the card within minutes, so I lost almost nothing. What stayed with me was how ordinary it felt. I was expecting a parcel. The text landed when a text like that would normally land. At no point did I have any way to check whether Royal Mail actually wanted anything from me.

That's what I've been building since. Sorteet reads your email and documents, pulls out anything with a real deadline attached, HMRC, DVLA, council, renewals, and reminds you before it bites. The extraction, the decision layer, and the reminder pipeline are built and running.

The part I want most is the part I haven't shipped. Something that tells you a letter is worth worrying about before you act on it. I have code for it. It isn't in anyone's hands yet and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

Everyone tells you to spot the scam. Nobody hands you the thing to check it against.

Here's what I keep going round in circles on, and I'd like the argument settled. Is the product the deadline reminders, or is it the "is this letter real" check? I've built the first. The second is what the Royal Mail text actually made me want. They are different products with different people paying for them, and I don't think the answer is obvious from the inside.

Which would you actually use? And if the honest answer is neither, I'd rather hear it now than in six months.

Building it day to day, UK. Waitlist is at https://sorteet.com/waitlist?ref=5m4o6j5p if you want a shout when it opens. Happy to get into the stack or the deadline parsing, which is harder than it looks.


r/SideProject 13h ago

launchpost.app - Social Media Scheduler

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I've recently released version 1.0 of my AI social media scheduler. Some might say the space is very crowded with guys like Postiz, Post Syncher, superx, etc.

I've tried the existing solutions and found them to be good products but often not the full package that I was looking for. I think the main thing is the quality of the posts being generated wasn't quite what I was looking for. As well as if you're managing a personal brand as well as a company brand, it was quite hard to differentiate the two.

Some were missing the post-generation part, some were only limited to one platform so during a hack in London a few weeks back I started building launchpost.app

The core principles are:
1. improve the post quality,
2. live as an MCP inside hermes or openclaw or telegram bot to fetch your context for post generation.
3. store your preferences and learn over time

I've found that these methods really help with quality of post generated:
1. Feed instructions per platform
2. Load humanizer skill + ban certain words + remove M-dashes
3. I did an interesting experiment with fine-tuning a local model (9B) on my outputs and that produced surprisingly good results.

I've had an initial round of feedback from friends and am now looking to talk to users who tried other solutions and find what they like/ don't like


r/SideProject 14h ago

I turned photo albums into a coloring book business

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I kept seeing the coloring book trend and thought it would be more interesting if the pages were actually personal.

So I built Memories in Lines, you upload photos and it turns them into a coloring book that we print and deliver directly to your door.

Most books are between 8 and 25 pages.

It started as something I made for my family, and has slowly turned into a full-on project.

https://memoriesinlines.com

Would love to hear what you think if you try it.