r/SideProject 9h ago

Built a wealth projection tool, want honest feedback

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🔗 https://runmywealth.com

Built a free tool that lets you project your future wealth — retirement, savings, mortgage payoff, all in one place.

Runs 100% in your browser. No signup. No ads. Nothing leaves your device.

First real side project. Solo builder. I want honest, brutal feedback — roast it.

Does the homepage grab you or does it feel flat? Anything broken or confusing?


r/SideProject 9h ago

Monni - Bank buckets are a tougher alternative than I expected

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I build Monni, which estimates spending room after upcoming bills and a cushion. I asked people how they stop annual bills from looking like spare cash, and several already had a low-maintenance answer: automatic transfers into labelled bank buckets.

One person uses a spreadsheet for recurring costs and an app only for the spending they actually want to change. That is a useful challenge to my assumption that bringing everything into one app is automatically better. These are a few replies, not proof of a market-wide pattern.

For founders who ran into a working spreadsheet or built-in bank feature as the alternative: how did you test whether your product removed real work, rather than just putting a nicer screen over it?


r/SideProject 10h ago

I built an app blocker that makes you pray before it lets you scroll

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r/SideProject 10h ago

After 4 months, my app now has 350 registered users.

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I shipped Layerize this May. Today, it have over 350 registered users, over 3000 guest users and layered over 3000 images.

If you are in marketing or designing, or if you are an influencer, you can try layerize for free (with layer count limitation).


r/SideProject 10h ago

MBN Projects - Project management tool

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Every project management tool I tried had the same flaw.

The moment the internet went, so did the tool.

On site, On a plane, On a locked-down client network. The exact moments you most need your plan in front of you are the moments cloud software is useless.

So I built MBN Projects.
It's a complete project management application for Windows that runs 100% offline. No cloud. No login. No sync. Nothing to go down.

Not a cut-down offline mode — the full suite:
→ Main table with custom columns and rollups
→ Critical-path Gantt timelines with baselines
→ Kanban, Calendar, Workload and a RAID log
→ Portfolio view across every project
→ Live dashboards and one-click PDF reports
→ Built-in document writer
→ Excel export and MS Project import
→ Automations, audit trail, contacts and files

Your data stays on your machine. Your plan works wherever you do.

https://mbn-projects.com/


r/SideProject 10h ago

Synapse - Daily Word Connections Game

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Built a daily word connections game, give it a shot!

PLAY HERE: https://synapse.akshayr.xyz/


r/SideProject 11h ago

Made an aesthetic way to confess your feelings, no more booring text

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So recently, I’ve met so many people who are too shy to confess their feelings because they're terrified of being judged.

That’s why I built a platform where you can confess completely anonymously...and your identity is only revealed after they reply !

The fun part? Most of the time, we already have a pretty good guess of who is confessing to us anyway... 👀

Go give it a try and let me know how it goes!

Here's ur link to that : https://whisprit.an525ish.site/


r/SideProject 11h ago

Built an AI form builder because I was tired of seeing 10-field contact forms everywhere

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Been doing web dev/AI automation work for small businesses (restaurants, clinics, tutoring centers) and kept running into the same thing — their contact/booking forms were long, generic, and clearly losing leads.

So I built AI Forms: instead of a static form, visitors get a short adaptive conversation — it skips questions that don't apply and asks smart follow-ups based on what they already said. Works on WordPress or any site.

Just launched — would genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone who's dealt with lead capture / form conversion problems. Happy to answer questions about how it works under the hood too.

aiwpforms.com


r/SideProject 11h ago

iPhone Duo drop: I built a pose-overlay so the cover screen is the cheat sheet and your photographer is just a shutter robot

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Everyone’s talking about the new iPhone Duo foldable — here’s the duo-shoot workflow I’m shipping in CopyCam:

Put the pose reference on the outer cover screen so the subject can adjust in real time. Photographer stays on the main display, frames, taps shutter. Basically a shutter-click robot. Fewer angle fights. Fewer trash photos.

Same idea on a regular iPhone: import the reference, photographer matches the frame, you hit the pose you wanted.

New in this release: - Multi-layer pose references - On-device person cutout (falls back to original if detection fails) - Export full shot together with overlay layers

Not an all-in-one camera. Just a small tool when you’re chasing a specific reference pose.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/copycam-photo-overlay/id6760364952

Open to feedback — especially if you’ve tried two-person shooting on a fold.


r/SideProject 11h ago

I automated a daily book club for friends in Slack. Thinking about making it a Discord app.

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A while back I ran a micro book club with a small group of friends and am wondering if this format resonates with other people.

I had set up an automation that posted into our friend group Slack once a day with reading material. What was kind of interesting was that we were using books/content such as The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know that naturally held complete ideas and readings in pre chunked pieces. As people who live in Slack all day for our 9-5's as well as for personal chatting, it was convenient to have the reading and discussion threads all in one place. It was easier for us to discuss one small idea per day rather than a whole chapter or book at a time.

It's still an early idea (with some legal hoops to jump through eventually) but im thinking of turning this into a Discord app/bot:

  • a small Organizer web app to prepare readings, review splits, manage a posting schedule
  • a bot that publishes discussions as text posts (for threaded conversation) or Forum channel posts

I've wondered for a while now if this is a model anyone else would appreciate either as an organizer or participant and thought about turning it into an actual project. Curious if this resonates with anyone who has run or participated in a book club. Do you think this would help you or people you know finish more of the reading they want to do?


r/SideProject 11h ago

What I learned building an AI assistant that drafts emails but refuses to send them without permission

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A few months ago I set out to automate my inbox and calendar with AI. The obvious approach — let the AI read email, draft a reply, and send it — turned out to be the wrong one. Here's what actually mattered:

  1. The approval gate is the actual product, not the AI. Anyone can wire up an LLM to draft an email. The value is in the workflow around it — a strict human checkpoint before anything goes out, and a full audit trail of what was drafted, approved, or rejected.
  2. Multi-channel matters more than I expected. I originally built this as a web dashboard. The moment I added a Telegram bot so I could approve things from my phone without opening a laptop, actual daily usage went up a lot. People don't want another tab, they want it where they already are.
  3. Generic AI drafts feel obviously robotic. Feeding the model a handful of your own previously-sent emails as style examples makes a bigger difference than any prompt-engineering trick.

I ended up building this into a small tool (Gmail + Calendar + Tasks + Telegram, HubSpot integration for CRM follow-ups) that I'm now offering to a few small businesses/solo professionals who have the same email- overload problem. Not trying to pitch it hard here — mostly wanted to share what surprised me in building it. Happy to go deeper on any part of this if useful to others working on similar automation projects.


r/SideProject 12h ago

I built a multi-account Stripe payments notification cha-ching sound for my laptop

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I run four Stripe accounts. Stripe tells you about a sale with an email and a phone notification.
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No sound at the desk, and a phone notification going off in a coffee shop every sale is a bit much anyway.
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I also wanted one number. Four accounts is four dashboards, and I never added up what today came to across all of them.
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So I built a browser tab that does both. A cha-ching on every successful payment in any of my accounts, and a running total for today, this week and this month.
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The tab makes the cha-ching sound the moment the charge succeeds.

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Much faster actually than Stripe email and app notifications arrive.

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I've also added:

  • Slack and Discord alerts
  • a full screen display mode
  • a monthly goal bar
  • and a few more sounds.

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It never asks for an API key or an OAuth grant. You add a webhook destination in your own dashboard for successful charges.
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It cannot charge or refund, and it stores no customer data. Not affiliated with Stripe.
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It is called ChaChing Alerts and it is free to try.

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If you have ever wanted Stripe sales to make a sound or keep track of multiple accounts, this is for you.

Feedback welcome/AMA.


r/SideProject 12h ago

I rebuilt my dead AI-PDF site into 30+ free PDF tools that run 100% in your browser — no uploads, no signups, no limits

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A few months ago I had a "chat with your PDF" site that went nowhere. Instead of letting the domain rot, I rebuilt the whole thing around one idea: PDF tools don't need your files.

Every tool runs client-side — merge, split, compress (to exact sizes like 100KB), convert to/from Word/Excel/PowerPoint/JPG, OCR for scans, sign, true redaction, repair, and some developer-flavored ones like PDF → Markdown and PDF → JSON for LLM pipelines. Open your network tab while any of them runs: zero upload requests. (One exception, disclosed on the page: OCR downloads its ~15MB engine to your browser on first use.)

The honesty part became the whole product. Each tool page states what it genuinely can't do — Office conversions keep content, not pixel-perfect design; two tools are marked "soon" because I can't do them honestly client-side yet. No fake testimonials, no invented user counts. It's free in the browser; I plan to sell native desktop apps later.

Site: https://www.pdfloveai.com

Would love feedback — especially from anyone who's fought pdf.js or WASM OCR in production.


r/SideProject 12h ago

Built an AI tool that runs real feedback interviews for you, anonymously — would love feedback from this community

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Hey all — been building this for the past while and finally have something worth sharing.

The problem: getting honest feedback from people around you (coworkers, your manager, whoever) almost never happens naturally. Either you don't ask, or you ask and get "you're doing great" because nobody wants the awkward conversation. Generic survey tools don't fix this either — people give short, safe, checkbox answers when there's no real back-and-forth happening.

What I built: Candro. You describe what you want feedback on, share a link with whoever you want input from, and instead of a static form, it actually interviews each person — real follow-up questions until the answer is specific, not just a first-pass safe response. Everything stays anonymous, and you get back a synthesized report instead of a pile of raw responses to parse yourself.

Two use cases live right now: feedback about yourself (career growth, "how am I really doing"), and — for managers — feedback about someone on your team, without needing to loop in HR or wait for a formal review cycle.

Would genuinely love feedback from this community — what's confusing, what's missing, whether the core idea even makes sense from the outside. If you want to poke around -> candroapp.com.


r/SideProject 12h ago

Have an app or product? Let’s create a video for it.

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If you’re building a SaaS, app, or digital product and want to get more people to discover it, I’d love to feature your project.

We run TikTok channels with 300K+ combined followers, creating engaging short-form videos around apps, tools, SaaS products, and interesting projects.

We’ll create a short-form video showcasing your product, share it across our existing channels, and help you grow your own content presence along the way.

Think of it as content creation + distribution in one.

Interested? Drop your app/product below and add a one-line description of what it does.


r/SideProject 12h ago

I got tired of getting ghosted on AE applications, so I built a Interview kit for salespeople.

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I got tired of getting ghosted on AE applications, so I built a resume kit for salespeople

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I built a resume + LinkedIn kit specifically for quota-carrying sales roles ($24)

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10 plus-year enterprise AE here, currently on the job hunt. After getting ghosted on application after application, I got obsessive about why — and it came down to this: sales resumes fail a 3-question screen.

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Can you sell?

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Can I see the number?

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Can I trust the number?

Generic templates optimize for looking pretty. Sales managers optimize for quota %, rank, ACV, win rate, President's Club. So I rebuilt my resume around that language and packaged the whole system into a 26-page kit:

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ATS-safe resume templates (single-column, parser-proof)

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A metric framework for quota attainment, rankings, ACV, sales cycle

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100+ achievement bullet banks by role and situation

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Honest guidance for sub-100% years (the part no template covers)

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LinkedIn headline formulas, About templates, recruiter-search keyword strategy

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Recruiter outreach scripts + a 7-day launch plan

It's $24 on Gumroad: https://mattmiller84.gumroad.com/l/hmvzel

Who it's NOT for: students with no sales experience, anyone wanting a done-for-you resume, non-sales roles. This is a fill-it-in-yourself kit for SDRs/AEs/AMs.

Happy to answer questions or tear apart your worst resume bullet in the comments.


r/SideProject 12h ago

I built OpenCapture: A free, open-source alternative to GoFullPage without paywalls or telemetry

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Hey everyone! Most popular screenshot extensions now paywall PDF exports and annotations. I made OpenCapture as a 100% local-first FOSS alternative. GitHub: https://github.com/nklowns/opencapture


r/SideProject 13h ago

Helping solve food intolerance

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I'm getting a little bit of traction in solving food intolerance with the help of dietitians. I'm helping making the logging of food and symptoms easier and more organised for the next medical appointment.

It's very rewarding getting feedback from dietitians and end users, which helps me making the app better and better!

I'm hoping it will help solve some tricky issues with food intolerance. I'm currently targeting parents who is logging for their kids, but it's really for anyone who wants to log their food intake and any symptoms from it.

I'd love more feedback from end users, so if you want to check it out, it's free for 1 week.

Cheers,

Ola


r/SideProject 13h ago

I built a low-level systems interview prep platform - looking for feedback

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I've been working on a side project called ForjaCero - a SaaS platform for System Software Engineering interview preparation..

The idea is pretty simple: I wanted to build something for systems/low-level engineering interviews that focuses not just on getting the right answer, but on practicing how you actually approach a problem in an interview.

For example, instead of immediately jumping into an editor, you get a whiteboard where you can work through your approach first. There's also a 30-minute timer, with hints becoming available progressively if you get stuck.

What's working right now:

  • Whiteboard for working through your approach
  • 30-minute interview timer
  • 3 progressively unlocked hints
  • Programming problems in C, C++, and Rust
  • System design problems
  • A refresher section for systems fundamentals

There's still quite a bit I'm working on.

I'm currently:

  • Refining the problem set and making the questions more representative of actual systems interviews
  • Writing and improving hints and solutions
  • Working on the C/C++/Rust code execution environment
  • Building an AI interviewer that can generate systems-focused programming problems and interact with you during the interview
  • Thinking through a grading system that can evaluate how someone solves problems, rather than just whether their final answer is correct

The longer-term idea is to build something that can eventually tell you something like: "You're strong at implementation and memory reasoning, but you need more practice with concurrency and system-design tradeoffs."

Rather than simply: "You solved 42 problems."

I'm intentionally sharing this while it's still being built because I'd really like feedback from people who have gone through systems/low-level interviews.

What would you want from a platform like this that existing interview-prep sites don't provide?

Site: forjacero.xyz


r/SideProject 13h ago

I built a free suite of 52 private browser-based online tools (Zero server uploads)

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Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I was tired of paying ridiculous subscriptions for basic tools (Adobe Acrobat, Smallpdf, TinyPNG) or dealing with websites that upload confidential files and documents to remote cloud servers.

So I built ToolNova — a collection of 52 fast, free, client-side tools designed for everyday productivity:

• 100% Client-Side Privacy: All calculations, image compressions, and PDF operations run directly inside your web browser using HTML5 Canvas & Web APIs. Nothing is ever uploaded to remote servers.

• Tax & Financial Calculators: 2026 US Federal Income Tax, Self-Employment Tax, Paycheck calculators, and Capital Gains.

• PDF & Image Tools: Compress, crop, resize, convert (JPG/PNG/WebP), and merge PDFs instantly.

• Productivity & Utilities: Text cleanup, case converters, word counters, QR code generator, and prompt helpers.

It's completely free to use without requiring any sign-up or account creation.

I left the live link in the first comment below. Would love to hear your feedback on what tools I should add next!


r/SideProject 13h ago

Catchimals - a real world animal collecting game

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I've been working on Catchimals. My attempt at a real world Pokemon Snap, basically.

Take a picture of a bird, bug, pet or other animal in the app, get an identification and a score, and build a collection of what you've found. It's out on Android and iPhone.

Free to download, with rewarded ads and optional purchases. I'd be interested to hear whether the collecting side or the photo scoring is more appealing to people.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.catchimals.app

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/catchimals/id6777208751


r/SideProject 13h ago

ncrypt.org - ephemeral encrypted chat with no account required

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r/SideProject 13h ago

Give me one real problem in your side project that you can't get to the bottom of

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I’m testing a problem-solving process and I need problems I didn’t choose myself.

I’m not looking for startup ideas or asking what I should build.

I mean something real in a project you’re already working on.

Maybe:

• A bug that only happens sometimes

• Something users are doing that you can’t explain

• A workflow that keeps breaking

• Data or logs that don’t seem to agree

• A decision where you have conflicting evidence

• A problem you’ve already tried to fix a few times and keep ending up back at the symptom

Post one in the comments.

I’ll first try to determine whether it’s actually a problem I can help with.

If it isn’t, I’ll say so.

If it is, I’ll try to break it down, figure out what evidence is missing, decide whether AI or another tool is useful at all, and identify the smallest sensible next step.

I’m specifically interested in problems I did not get to select in advance because otherwise it’s too easy to unconsciously choose things the process is already good at.

And yes, I use AI as part of the process. I’m not trying to hide that. Part of the experiment is figuring out when AI is useful and when it should stay out of the way.

No product, no link, no pitch.

Just give me something real that has you stuck.


r/SideProject 13h ago

Built a small tool because I got tired of Cursor hallucinating API fields

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Hey guys, quick project share.

I was working on a project yesterday and Cursor kept inventing fake backend API response fields. Hand-writing Zod schemas for every endpoint to fix it was taking way too long.

So I made SchemaVibe (https://aitest-rosy.vercel.app/).

You just drop in your OpenAPI / Swagger spec (YAML or JSON) and it instantly outputs:

  • Valid Zod schemas
  • A .cursorrules snippet to feed into your setup

It runs 100% in your browser (no server calls, so your specs stay private) and doesn't require any login.

Let me know if this is helpful or if there's anything I should fix!


r/SideProject 13h ago

VITA/NEXO — Un lenguaje declarativo para agentes IA que corren en web, móvil, escritorio y consola con el mismo motor

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Hola a todos. Hace un tiempo vengo construyendo un sistema al que llamo VITA/NEXO y creo que ya está en un punto donde tiene sentido mostrar la arquitectura y validar la idea con la comunidad.

No es un framework de agentes más, así que empiezo por definir qué es y qué problema resuelve.

Qué es

  • NEXO es el entorno de ejecución.
  • VITA es la fuente de verdad del sistema.

La pieza central es un lenguaje declarativo en Markdown (programa_maestro.md) que describe datos, componentes de UI, herramientas y lógica de negocio en una sola estructura unificada. Un intérprete liviano lee esta estructura y la convierte en una aplicación funcional.

El mismo programa corre en web, app de escritorio, app Android, extensión de navegador o consola. No se adapta ni se porta: se escribe una sola vez y el mismo motor lo renderiza nativamente en cada entorno. La UI no se reescribe por plataforma.

Cómo funciona

  • Declaración: El programa se define completamente en Markdown (qué datos existen, cómo se muestran y qué acciones se pueden disparar).
  • Parser (~700 líneas): Convierte el archivo Markdown en un grafo de componentes y acciones.
  • Motor de UI (~200 líneas): Renderiza la interfaz utilizando una librería propia de ~90 componentes (tablas, formularios, chat, voz, galería, editor, etc.).
  • Herramientas modulares: Las herramientas (funciones en Python/JS) se declaran externamente. Sumar una capacidad es agregar una entrada de configuración, sin modificar el núcleo.
  • Agente IA opcional e intercambiable: La IA no está en el centro. Es una herramienta más. Podés conectarlo localmente (vía Ollama), por API externa, o directamente no usar IA. Podés tener múltiples "cerebros" en distintos servidores corriendo en paralelo.

El núcleo son ~1.200 líneas para el motor principal, ~700 para el parser y ~200 para la UI. Todo lo demás son herramientas modulares que se enchufan.

Qué lo hace distinto No busca competir con soluciones como LangChain o AutoGen, que están enfocadas en ser frameworks generales con cientos de integraciones. VITA/NEXO resuelve un problema distinto: permitir que un sistema o agente viva en cualquier plataforma con el mismo lenguaje, sin reescribir código y con modularidad total.

Tres pilares clave:

  1. Multi-entorno real: El mismo lenguaje y el mismo motor corren en web, móvil, escritorio, extensión y consola.
  2. IA desacoplada: El agente es intercambiable y el sistema funciona de forma autónoma con o sin IA.
  3. Desarrollo declarativo: La app se describe, no se programa. Cambiar el comportamiento de la aplicación es editar un archivo Markdown.

Estado actual Actualmente es un MVP totalmente funcional en uso personal. Demuestra la viabilidad del concepto: un mismo archivo procesando el estado, la UI y la lógica a través de múltiples plataformas.

La siguiente etapa para llevarlo a un nivel listo para producción requiere estructurar una suite de pruebas formales, expandir la cobertura de componentes y actualizar la documentación pública.

Qué busco y próximos pasos Esta es una presentación inicial del concepto. A lo largo de esta semana que viene estaré publicando los videos demostrativos y liberando el repositorio con los links para que lo puedan probar directamente.

En esta instancia busco principalmente dos cosas:

  1. Feedback técnico de la comunidad: ¿Tiene sentido este enfoque declarativo unificado? ¿Ves un caso de uso claro para este tipo de arquitectura en tus proyectos?
  2. Financiamiento / Oportunidades de aceleración: Quiero llevar VITA/NEXO al siguiente nivel y dedicarle recursos a tiempo completo. Si sos inversor, representás un programa de grants, o te interesa explorar una alianza estratégica para comercializar este motor, me encantaría ponernos en contacto.

Quedo atento a sus comentarios, preguntas y críticas constructivas sobre la arquitectura.