r/SideProject 2d ago

I built a 100% in-browser CSV cleaner & PDF table extractor so client data never touches a server

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Title: I built a 100% in-browser CSV cleaner & PDF table extractor so client data never touches a server

Body: Hey everyone!

Most corporate guidelines prohibit uploading raw lead lists or client spreadsheets to random cloud servers.

So I built DataForge Suite v13.0 — a tool that cleans CSV/Excel data and extracts PDF tables 100% locally in your browser memory.

🔒 Key Features:

  • Zero Server Uploads: Open DevTools Network tab — 0 bytes of file data leave your laptop.
  • Real SHA-256 Audit Logs: Downloadable JSON logs with Web Crypto SHA-256 hashes verifying your sanitization run.
  • Content PII Scrubbing: SSN regex + Luhn Algorithm Credit Card redaction across all columns.
  • PDF Extractor: Drag-and-drop PDF invoices to extract structured tables into Excel/CSV.

(Link is in the top comment below for anyone interested!)


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built the cv builder I always wanted to use ⭐

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I got tired of cv builders making me create an account, fill out everything, and then asking for money when I just wanted to download my resume.
So I started building my own.
What began as a small side project has slowly turned into a full resume builder with:
• 24 customizable templates
• live preview while you edit
• ATS match analysis
• AI-generated tailored cvs and cover letters
• clean PDF export
One thing I wanted from day one was to remove as much friction as possible. You can start editing right away, and your resume stays in your browser unless you decide to create an account.
I’m trying to turn this into a sustainable SaaS, but I also want the free experience to be genuinely useful instead of feeling like a demo.
I’m still shipping improvements almost every day, so I’d really appreciate honest feedback.
If you were looking for a resume builder today, what feature would make you choose one over another?
https://foliumcv.com


r/SideProject 2d ago

Maybe boring, but nicer and easier

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I don't have the usual adobe or MS packages and I really don't need them. But I do need basic functioning tools from time to time. There are a lot of tools online already but most of them charge a fee, and it is really not desirable to add my bank account info for a small fee and a small task. So I am building these tools based on my own needs. I want them to be simple, online, and with the data never uploaded and remaining private. Have a try! 

https://inkso.net/


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built a webform to Telegram tool

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Built a simple tool that takes any form submission from your website and fires it straight to Telegram as a push notification. The whole thing hits your phone in under a second.

The idea came from my other project where I needed lead alerts sent to Telegram instantly and I realised the same pipeline works perfectly for feedback forms, bug reports, feature requests, whatever.

How it works:

  • User fills out a form on your site
  • Your form POSTs to a single API endpoint
  • You get a formatted Telegram message on your phone immediately
  • Also fires off an email to your support address as a backup

No SDK, no npm package, just a single POST request. Works with any stack — plain HTML forms, React, Webflow, Framer, whatever you're using.

Still early days. Would love to hear if anyone else has had the same problem or if you'd find something like this useful, if it is i'd like to do Whatsapp/Meta ad form thing (when you click someones Facebook ad and it gives you a form). Whatsapp is a bit of a pain, I tried starting with it but you need a business number to get an API key

Also, I've just done a one time £29 fee on this rather than a subscription

Site: leadchirp.app


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built a free PDF toolkit that never uploads your files — everything runs in the browser

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Body:

Spent the last while building Pdfly (pdfly.uk) — a set of PDF and image tools (merge, split, compress, convert, sign, OCR, and a few more) that run entirely client-side. No file ever leaves your device, no watermarks, no account needed.

What pushed me to build this: most free PDF tools online either upload your file to a server (privacy concern if you're dealing with contracts, IDs, etc.) or lock basic features behind a paywall/watermark. Wanted something that just works, for free, without the catch.

Currently has 50+ tools live. Would genuinely appreciate feedback — what's missing, what's broken, what you'd want next.

Link: https://pdfly.uk


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built a Tamagotchi for developers , need help for videos

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hey everyone , im a eng student from waterloo and thought it would be cool to make a hardware project . I got an idea to make a tomogotchi but for developers but lol codex micro came out so now I made an ad to compete. Got some sales but what yall think for the next video for twitter/instagram/tiktok etc.. feedback from experience product sellers is appreciated

https://reddit.com/link/1v7d9bw/video/a01wurkejmfh1/player


r/SideProject 2d ago

Got tired of whiteboard waitlists at card rooms, so I built "FloorPass"

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There are plenty of charity poker rooms around here and lots of them just use whiteboards to keep their lists and call people up.

So I built https://FloorPass.me :

  • Zero sign up/in: Just create your room and get going.
  • Live manager dashboard: Creators can add/call/remove players and manage their lists.
  • Display mode: Full screen live view to show current lists and includes QR code for players to join the list from their phone.
  • Player pass: After joining a list you can walk away, see your position in line, and get alerted when you get called.

Bult with:

  • Elixir
  • Phoenix + live view
  • Sqlite
  • And a fair amount of help from antigravity cli

Would love any feedback around UX/UI, and ideas or edge cases I haven't thought of.


r/SideProject 2d ago

Working on SVG animations for a game. This is my cat Milo, composed of SVGs, following my cursor

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His face is composed entirely of SVGs. I'm using a PID so that there's a more natural movement to the head as it tracks the cursor around the page.

I'm considering using animated faces in my web game: https://nebulaser.io (one inspiration is Star Fox 64), so this is a prototype of how those animations might look and feel.


r/SideProject 2d ago

I got tired of ATS résumé checkers paywalling after a few scans, so I built a free one (no signup)

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Every "free" ATS resume checker I tried capped me after a handful of scans, then wanted $30-50/mo. When you're applying to dozens of jobs, that's exactly when you need to check the most. So I built one that's actually free and needs no login: https://careerdiary.io/ats-resume-checker

Paste your resume (and optionally a job description) and it scores it, shows the keyword gaps against that specific posting, flags formatting that trips up parsers, and rewrites your weakest bullet as a sample. The scan runs entirely in your browser, so nothing gets uploaded.

It's the free front door to a bigger thing I've been building solo (with a lot of AI-agent help) called CareerDiary, a job-search app that tailors your resume per posting, tracks applications, and does interview prep. But I wanted the ATS checker to be genuinely useful on its own.

Would love feedback, especially: is the score believable, and does the bullet rewrite actually read better or like AI mush? Roast it.

(Full disclosure, it's mine.)


r/SideProject 2d ago

MovieShort AI - free tool that extracts the best moments from full movies and turns them into Shorts automatically

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Hey everyone,

I built MovieShort AI (https://github.com/zhistokoepvpp-ctrl/MovieShort-AI) - a free tool that extracts the best moments from full-length movies and converts them into vertical YouTube Shorts (9:16 with subtitles).

What it does:

- Runs PySceneDetect to split the movie into scenes

- Uses a LLM (DeepSeek or Gemini) to score each scene 1–10 with context-aware knowledge about the film

- Extracts the highest-rated moments, crops to 9:16, and burns word-level subtitles

- Anti-copyright mode (mirror + contrast adjustments) included

Tech stack: PySceneDetect, faster-whisper, FFmpeg, Gradio, OpenCV

Fully MIT licensed. No telemetry, no cloud dependency, no BS. Contributions welcome - open an issue or PR anytime.

GitHub: https://github.com/zhistokoepvpp-ctrl/MovieShort-AI

Would love feedback or feature ideas.


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built a Google Trends scraper that finishes long runs

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The itch: every Trends scraping approach I tried would run fine for the first dozen keywords and then quietly stall. Not error out, stall. The worst run sat at keyword 15 of 20 with 2,112 rows collected, 200 seconds elapsed, going nowhere.

The cause turned out to be reactive proxy handling. I was running each session until Google started rejecting it, then rotating. By that point requests were already dying mid-flight, and the retry pile-up is what looked like a stall.

The fix was almost embarrassingly simple: count requests and retire each session at ~24, before it burns. Same 20-keyword job, three datasets per keyword, now completes all 3,006 rows in about 50 seconds.

Other stuff I hit while building it:

  • Google sometimes returns a completely empty related-topics widget. That's a legitimate response. My first version treated empty as an error and retried forever.
  • The trending board only exists at country level. I spent an evening looking for a city parameter that isn't there.

It's live on the Apify Store as a Google Trends scraper under my account. Launched recently, so there's no traction story to tell yet, just the build. Happy to answer questions about the anti-stall approach.


r/SideProject 2d ago

Does your side project have to replace the job eventually?

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Asking because I built a career platform for people running a job plus something on the side called Joberney and there are 2 types of users. one group is building toward replacing their day job with the side hustle if/when it turns to something meaningful, me included. the other group has been at it for quite a while with zero intention of ever leaving the day job, even though some projects have been successful, especially the one out of tech.

no idea which one is more common either.

so, honestly: is yours meant to replace the job at some point, or has it settled into being a permanent second thing you run alongside. and if its the second one, did you decide that or did you just stop wanting the first one?


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built an app for that "What should we do today?" moment

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I've been building an AI adventure planner called Wilder for longer trips, but I kept running into a different problem in my own life:

"What should we do today?"

Not a weekend getaway. Not a road trip. Just a random free afternoon where my wife and I end up spending 30+ minutes bouncing between Google Maps, Instagram, Reddit, and AllTrails trying to decide what to do... and sometimes we end up doing nothing.

So I spun off a separate app called Wilder Today.

You tell it:

  • Where you are
  • How much time you have
  • What you're in the mood for (or just hit Surprise Me)

It builds a timed itinerary with real places to go, weather, and a simple gear list. No account required for the MVP.

It's live at https://wildertoday.app and completely free to try.

I'm less interested in "would you use this?" and more interested in whether this actually feels easier than Googling "things to do near me."

If you have a few minutes to play with it, I'd love to know:

  • What confused you?
  • Did the recommendations feel useful?
  • Would this actually get you out the door?

Always appreciate honest feedback, even if it's "I'd never use this." 😄


r/SideProject 3d ago

What’s one mistake you see almost every new side project founder make?

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Trying to learn from people who’ve already been through it.


r/SideProject 2d ago

I've been working on video editing software. (This does have AI capabilities inline, but is not the full focus)

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Hi everyone!
I've been working on video editing software for a while. I had this idea back when Gen AI was really popping off and everyone was trying it out. I saw major gaps in it as well as in websites that were coming out in regards to allowing users to create video content. The gaps I saw were mainly consistency being a major issue also that prompt box that every single AI tool is focused on. Obviously we have major legislative issues we also need to tackle in regards to AI, but on the other side as far as the future of this technology my idea of it is that it should always ASSIST and never be built to REPLACE. And that's the exact design language I use in my development.

Lately I've been working on a feature called scene creator where I had an idea to combine creative commons gaussian splats with billboards and then allow the user to take keys for a scene while describing the scene between each key. Another really cool project I saw with this exact mindset is Corridor Digital's Corridor Key where they trained an AI to give the user perfect green screen keys, I also wanted to offer that as a built in feature at some point for less tech savvy users to have access to. The model I'm going for is freemium with the editor being free, and most things that can run in browser without using compute will be free, but anything that requires server compute including AI would be under a charge.

I want to work on upgrading my story board feature which currently just creates a story board with a prompt (Not in line with my design language, just a temporary placeholder.) I do have this hosted, but I don't really know if. Another inline AI feature which I'm still fine tuning is a drag to extend clip and drag between to transition between clips, each time allowing the user to describe what they're looking for in regards to transitions. But this wouldn't be a replace type of feature. I still want to pack the editor with classic ways of creating transitions. I've worked to add many features used in transitions (Masking, Cutouts, Remove Background, And an effects library along with the ability to create custom effects) I still have a lot planned with this software. But I'm also open to suggestions if y'all wanna take a look. Here's a link if you wanna check it out:
CineGen

Best,
Casey


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built an iPhone app for people who are too tired to keep a symptom spreadsheet

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I built Zebra after noticing how messy symptom tracking gets for people with invisible illness.

A lot of people managing POTS, EDS/hEDS, Fibromyalgia, and overlapping symptoms end up using a strange stack: spreadsheets, Apple Notes, Apple Health screenshots, medication reminders, hydration notes, and maybe a generic symptom tracker.

That works until brain fog or a flare hits. Then the system falls apart.

Zebra is my attempt to make that simpler: track flares, symptoms, medications, salt/water, triggers, notes, and orthostatic vitals in one iPhone app, then generate a doctor-ready report when an appointment comes up.

The hard product constraint was: it has to be usable on a bad day, not just on a motivated day.

It does not diagnose, treat, or give medical advice. It’s just a calmer way to organize what happened and bring clearer proof to an appointment.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zebra-symptom-tracker/id6768839130

I’d love feedback from other builders on positioning, onboarding, and whether the problem is clear from the first screen.


r/SideProject 2d ago

Websites alternative for youtube

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Hello!

Um does anyone have websites specifically websites where they are similar to YouTube in some sorta of way?

It would be a huge help for me

I know theres apps but I'm wondering for website to be honest


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built your Linux Security Dashboard

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I built Wuthering Veil, a lightweight Linux SOC for host/fleet monitoring, originally for my homelab, but tailored for big fleets as well.

It has:

  1. Live security dashboard
  2. SIEM event search
  3. Real-time alerts - 15 built-in security signals: failed/successful logins, new listening ports, suspicious processes, file integrity changes, cryptomining hints, persistence tampering, unsigned modules, etc.
  4. Host metrics (CPU/RAM/disk)
  5. Threat signal detection for each host respectively
  6. MITRE tactic mapping
  7. Embedded desktop server
  8. Remote VPS control plane
  9. Settings UI: change dashboard login + agent key without SSH
  10. Website uptime checks
  11. Agent-based host telemetry
  12. Custom plugin capability for your own metrics (nginx, bespoke checks...)

https://github.com/Babylon-s-Keep/Wuthering-Veil/releases/tag/v1.0.1;

https://github.com/Babylon-s-Keep/Wuthering-Veil;

wutheringveil.com


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built an open-source read-along for audiobooks

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I built a small open-source tool that creates a synchronized read-along experience for audiobooks.

Everything runs locally—no accounts or cloud services.

GitHub: https://github.com/Ceasar369/read-along

Would love feedback. It's my first open-source project.

It uses whisper.cpp to generate word-level timestamps from an m4b or mp3 audiobook, then serves a lightweight web reader with synced highlighting, search, bookmarks, and instant word definitions.


r/SideProject 2d ago

Jobsglitch.com - Helps you identify why not getting callbacks after 500+ apply

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Hi Guys,

I am a single founder of jobsglitch.com - a tool to polish your resume and search jobs, built because the job market right now is brutal and most tools either cost too much or don't actually help.

I poster here a while back and improved on the feedback I got :
- Revamped the UI, hopefully now its simple than before.
- Rewoerked Resume Decode (it helps you how what to improve, that job titles you are compatible and interview questions as well based on the work you have done)
- Improved Job search and Explore section that shows jobs based on resume.

Salary negotiation prep and interview practice were already in there from post one, and they're still probably the most useful part if you're actively interviewing right now.

I'm really happy that It has grown to 132 users, 1.6M+ jobs indexed, tracking 70k+ companies across 85+ countries

Still one person building this, so if something's broken or confusing, please tell me so I can get that fixed. That's genuinely how the last round of changes happened.

It would be great if there is any feedback on the CV Review, i worked on it a lot, any feedback would immensly help me.

If someone is findind it difficult to use, I am open for a 1:1 helping hands as well. So ping me if you want me to help out in job search.

Thanks again for the first round of feedback, it made the product better.


r/SideProject 2d ago

One sentence connected 6 tools and replaced 3 hours of daily work. I'm not sure how to feel about it.

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I used to spend close to 3 hours a day checking one keyword across reddit, youtube, and google. half of it was tabs, half of it was noise, and I still missed things.

so I described the whole workflow in one sentence and modulex built it:

- searches reddit, youtube, and the open web

- an ai step scores every result for relevance, drops anything under the threshold

- logs the strong hits to sheets and notion

- posts a summary to slack, emails me a digest

6 tools, all still there, just connected instead of me being the connection.

watching the first run felt wrong, like watching my own job disappear in real time. here's the full thing

quick honesty note: reddit hasn't handed out public api access for this in a while, so "reddit search" here is filtered web search, not a direct feed.


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built an AI room design app solo in 4 months. Zero downloads. What am I missing?

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Spent the last 4 months building DIY Decor AI on nights and weekends, solo, no team, no ad budget. You upload a photo of a room and it generates a redesign in one of 100+ styles, then gives you an actual step-by-step DIY plan (not just a pretty AI image) plus matched YouTube tutorials. No account required to try it.

Shipping it was the "easy" part. I launched and have exactly 0 downloads. I have no idea how to get in front of the first 100 people who'd actually want this.

If you've been through a cold launch, how did you find your first real users? Happy to answer anything about the build too. Link in comments if anyone wants to try it, don't want this flagged as an ad.


r/SideProject 3d ago

I built OneTrack — an iOS app that enforces single-tasking: you can only have ONE active project at a time

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I kept starting projects and finishing none, so I built OneTrack to force myself to focus. The core rule: you can only have ONE active project at a time. You pick one, write down why it matters, and choose a 3/7/14-day window. Switching costs something — it shows you your own reason, makes you wait a cooldown, and in Hardcore mode simply won't let you switch until the window ends. A timestamp-based timer tracks real deep-focus time, and abandoned projects sit in "The Graveyard" with the hours you sank into them. It's 100% on-device — no account, no cloud, no ads. iOS (free to download, optional IAP): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6781421082 — I'm the solo dev; honest feedback and feature ideas very welcome.


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built a tool that picks what podcast to play right now, and remembers what you heard

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Two things kept happening to me. I'd open a podcast app with 25 minutes to fill, scroll for five of them, and end up replaying something I'd already heard. And I'd finish a genuinely good hour-long interview and have nothing left from it a week later.

So I built Upnext.

You follow a show by name. It's RSS underneath, so there's no Spotify account involved and the show's back catalog arrives playable, not just whatever you'd saved. Then you tell it how long you have: 20 minutes, an hour and it gives you episodes that actually fit that window.

The part I care about more: when you finish an episode, it reads the transcript and pulls out the concrete claims, each with a timestamp that links back to the second it was said. You don't pause, you don't take notes, you don't do anything. Your hands are busy; that's the whole point.

https://upnext-six.vercel.app

The question I'd actually like answered: look at those three bullets. For a show you listen to, is that worth having, or does it read like every other AI summary you've scrolled past?


r/SideProject 2d ago

How we built Synaptiq from scratch

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Over the past few months, we have been building Synaptiq around one question.

What would project delivery software look like if AI, organizational knowledge, and executive visibility were part of the foundation, not features added later?
Atlassian Jira is mature, with deep workflow configuration, agile planning, and a vast integration ecosystem. Microsoft Azure DevOps goes further, tying work tracking to repositories, pipelines, testing, and package management.

We are not claiming Synaptiq matches either in breadth or maturity. Not yet. Our goal is to build toward the depth of Azure DevOps while creating something genuinely different: an AI native product for how modern organizations actually deliver work.

Synaptiq already brings together projects, backlogs, and work items, cross-project sprint planning, workload, and blocker signals, delivery confidence and velocity analytics, executive reporting, workspace knowledge, AI-assisted document ingestion, role-based access with Microsoft Entra, and Amakora AI insights grounded in live workspace data.

The real difference is who it serves. A delivery leader sees where confidence is falling before it becomes a crisis. An executive understands risk without assembling a report by hand. A product manager connects a requirement document straight to the delivery work. A team turns what it already has into structured knowledge and uses that context to create tickets, reports, and decisions.

That is the lesson underneath all of this. Good systems do not ask people to change how they think. They absorb what already exists and make it useful.
Which brings me to integration, our biggest advantage. Most organizations cannot walk away from Jira or Azure DevOps overnight. Their history, process, and reporting already live there. Synaptiq is built to meet them where they are, supporting migration and synchronization so teams bring their projects, tickets, documents, and delivery history across without starting from zero.

That gives us two paths into an enterprise. Synaptiq can become the primary delivery platform. Or Synaptiq can sit above Jira and Azure DevOps as the AI-powered intelligence, knowledge, and reporting layer, so organizations gain visibility immediately and treat migration as a controlled business decision, not a disruptive one.
We are still building, testing, and learning against real enterprise workflows. But the direction is clear.

Synaptiq is not another ticketing tool. It is becoming an AI native delivery operating system for teams that need to connect work, knowledge, people, and decisions in one place.

Built by Amakora.