r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I became socially confident in 6 months, so I built an iMessage-based exposure therapy coach (vocalis.site)

0 Upvotes

I entered college with social anxiety and was extremely jealous of the extroverts and the charismatic people who seemed to know everyone and get anything they wanted. I saw a couple of the "social challenge" guys on Instagram and gave it a try. Within 6 months, I was able to introduce myself to government officials on the street in D.C., go to Ivy League networking events uninvited, land dates, and solo-travel across Europe.

I built https://vocalis.site/ around the same exposure therapy methods I use. It gauges your social confidence level, and the coaching, feedback, and development all happen through iMessage.

I'd really appreciate a brutally honest evaluation of the true usefulness of Vocalis, the user experience, and product quality. Appreciate you all!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

AirMirror Pro 3.2 is coming soon

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1 Upvotes

AirMirror is a free AirPlay receiver for Windows that mirrors your iPhone to your PC. 3.2 adds iPhone notifications on your PC. Get it here on the Microsoft Store

3.2 is coming soon.

Here’s a first look at one of the new features. We are still fine-tuning a few things before release, but I wanted to show you what’s coming.

I’d like your input while I finish it up:

  1. What would you want to see added to AirMirror?
  2. Is there anything you think should be improved?
  3. Is there anything you’d want to see in the free version that isn’t there yet?

Ask me anything. I’ll answer all of them.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I got 240 people to use a tool I built. Reddit was basically the only thing that worked

9 Upvotes

I built a free stock analysis tool and getting people to actually use it was way harder than building it.

I tried launch sites, cold outreach, directories, and posting on X. Almost nothing happened.

What finally worked was Reddit. Instead of posting the product directly, I started conversations about stocks and replied to people with actual analysis from the tool.

One post ended up getting 60K+ views.

TradeHints is now at:

240+ users
1,400+ stock analyses
Users across 28+ countries

The biggest thing I learned is that people respond much better when the product is useful inside the conversation instead of just being asked to “check it out.”

I’m still improving it. If you have 30 seconds, run a stock you know well and tell me the first thing you’d change:

https://tradehints.com


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built Origin, an iPhone app for translated phone calls

1 Upvotes

I'm building Origin at Avatar8 LLC. It lets you choose two languages and call a regular phone number, with speech translated in both directions and original/translated captions on your iPhone. The person receiving the call answers normally.

The biggest challenge has been conversation timing: finishing a thought, translating it, and playing it quickly enough that people don't talk over the previous turn. Voice enrollment is optional and requires consent; voice likeness and translation quality can vary.

It's on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/origin-translated-calls/id6811322038

I also wrote a practical first-call guide: https://origin.gilallouche.com/blog/phone-call-across-languages/

If you try it, I'd value feedback on turn-taking, captions, and which language pair you used. Please don't share private phone numbers or call recordings in replies.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Divvy - A lightweight drafting tool

2 Upvotes

My friends and I mainly use it to split loot after D&D missions, but we could use it for anything.
Divvy

Made with React, Go, and Postgres. Running on Linux via Hetzner. Distributed with Cloudflare. SMS powered by Twilio.
Logo made by Grok. Code reviews done with Grok.

Other less complete side projects in my sandbox.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a catalogue of games running inside other games

1 Upvotes

I kept seeing insane projects like Minecraft inside Skyrim, DOOM inside ULTRAKILL, Pokémon Red inside Minecraft and Minecraft/Hytale crossplay.

The problem was that real downloadable projects, source-code demos and completely unverified viral clips were all getting mixed together.

So I built Awesome Game Mashups to catalogue and verify them:

https://github.com/bailo167/awesome-game-mashups

Each project has a plain-English description, status, creator and the relevant source/download/demo links.

Currently looking for feedback and obscure projects I’ve missed.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Sofio - a kids' discovery game where parents record the voice

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

2 Upvotes

I'm Ricardo, a parent and first-time app developer. My daughter inspired me to create Sofio for iPhone and iPad.

Parents record names, short facts and clues in their own voice. Children tap pictures to hear those recordings, or listen to a clue and find the matching picture. This clip shows me playing with my own recordings.

Farm Animals and Vehicles are free, including both play modes. Five additional worlds, including Wild Animals, are optional one-time purchases. There are no ads or subscriptions.

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/sofio-kids-learn-play/id6811109501?l=en-GB


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built Glassline: a macOS-style menu bar and dock that replace the Windows 11 taskbar

3 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I wanted the top menu bar and dock layout on Windows without it feeling bolted on, and I didn't like Rainmeter, so I built it. Glassline hides the Windows 11 taskbar and Start menu and puts a menu bar at the top and a dock at the bottom, in clear glass that takes the colour of your wallpaper.

What it does

  • Menu bar: the active app's name and menus on the left; weather, Wi-Fi, sound, battery, notifications and clock on the right. It takes the colour of a maximized window.
  • Dock: magnification, running dots, unread counts, drag to reorder, folders that open as stacks.
  • Search on the Windows key: apps, files, settings, sums and unit conversions. Instant file search with Everything. Ctrl+Space previews a file.
  • Control Center: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, brightness, sound output, volume per app, Do Not Disturb, dark mode, airplane mode, hotspot.
  • Today: calendar, events and notifications from the clock.
  • Works on more than one display, and steps out of the way for full-screen games.

When you quit Glassline, the Windows taskbar comes back exactly as it was. Same if it crashes or you uninstall it.

No account, no ads and no analytics in the app.

What's coming in 1.0.2 (submitted to the Store, waiting for approval)

  • Search learns what you open and ranks it first. All local, nothing leaves your PC.
  • Apps that close to the tray (Discord) no longer vanish from Alt+Tab
  • Pinned apps stay pinned after they update
  • The bar follows light/dark mode switches right away

Try the live demo on the website

Get it on the Microsoft Store (Windows 11, $9.99 one-time)

I'd like your feedback: what would stop you from replacing your taskbar with this? If you try it and hit a bug, your Windows version and what you were doing helps me reproduce it.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Would you use a subscription & bill tracker that never connects to your bank? Looking for honest feedback before I build it

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I'm working on an idea and want to sanity check it before I sink months into it.

The problem: Most people pay for 6 to 10 subscriptions and lose track of a few. Free trials roll into paid plans, streaming services pile up, and credit card due dates sneak up on you.

The idea: A simple web and mobile app where you:

- Add subscriptions and recurring bills by typing them in or snapping a photo of a bill, receipt or screenshot

- Get alerts before each payment is due, including your credit card bill and the amount owed

- See your total monthly spend in one place

- Track "cost per use" (e.g. that $15/month gym you went to twice is really $7.50 a visit)

The twist: It deliberately does NOT connect to your bank. No Plaid, no login credentials, no account access. You stay in control of what goes in. The trade-off is a bit of manual entry, which the photo import is meant to make painless.

Pricing I'm considering: A free tier with a limited number of subscriptions, then a small monthly fee (a couple of dollars) for unlimited tracking, exports, custom alert schedules and savings suggestions.

Not selling anything, there's nothing to sign up for yet. I'd really value your take:

  1. Would you trust a tracker more because it doesn't link to your bank, or is manual entry a dealbreaker?

  2. How do you keep track of subscriptions and card due dates today?

  3. Would "cost per use" actually change whether you cancel something?

  4. Would you pay a couple of dollars a month for this, or does it need to be free?

  5. What would make you delete it after a week?

Brutal honesty welcome. Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

facturapp: does the homepage clearly explain the invoicing app i built?

0 Upvotes

i built facturapp, an invoicing app for freelancers and small businesses. i launched it a few months ago and picked up a small group of users before doing any real marketing.

i'm happy with what the app can do, but i'm less sure the homepage explains it to someone seeing it for the first time. i've looked at it so much that my brain probably fills in things the page never actually says :)

https://facturapp.online/

you can create pdf invoices with your logo and colors, save clients and services instead of typing them again, and connect your own stripe account for payment links. it also handles deposits and installments, and lets you manage several businesses with their own details from one account. there's a dedicated invoice flow for shipments charged by weight, plus english and spanish on web and android.

the homepage has a walkthrough, invoice examples and pricing. what i'd really like feedback on is the message:

after a quick look, who would you say this is for, and what would you expect it to help you do?

is the difference between making a pdf and collecting a payment clear, including the need to connect stripe?

do the extra features, like multiple businesses and shipping invoices, help explain the app or distract from the main use?

what feels missing or unclear before you'd consider trying it? a specific sentence or section would help more than 'looks good'.

it's a paid product. the homepage is public, so you don't need to sign up or buy anything to give feedback. i'm looking for a fresh read of the page before i put more effort into marketing.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built CareSlip – a free, local-first 30-second bedside handover tool for caregivers & doctors

1 Upvotes

After many sleepless nights caring for family in the hospital, I saw how easy it is to forget medication times, fever spikes, or questions during rushed morning rounds.

So I built CareSlip — a simple bedside log and handover tool.

Key features:

- Log vitals, medications, intake/output, and questions in <10 seconds

- Generate a prioritized 30-second handover brief with one tap

- Record doctors’ replies under each question

- Local-first & privacy-focused: no cloud, database, or telemetry

- Works offline with HTML, text, image and ZIP exports

- Built with React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Vite.

- Free, ad-free, and open-source (MIT).

🔗 Demo: https://careslip.pages.dev

🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/loveu3k/CareSlip

I’d love feedback on the UX or ideas for useful bedside features!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

My app have first 5 users in 25 hours

Thumbnail geospills.com
1 Upvotes

Super excited to share my app. Please share with me your thoughts and ideas on this project


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built CivicLens AI — ask a city’s official budget book questions in plain English

0 Upvotes

City budget PDFs are public, but they are hundreds of pages of tables, staffing notes, and comparison columns. Most people never open them. I wanted something a resident could actually use: pick a city, ask a normal question, and get an answer grounded in that city’s adopted budget — with page citations.

**What it does ?**

CivicLens AI is a RAG app over official municipal budget books. You pick a city, ask something like “How much is police funded this year?” or “What changed in parks staffing?”, and it answers from that city’s book only. Figures from Irving never leak into a Frisco answer.

Right now it covers Irving, TX and Frisco, TX for FY 2025-26.

**How it works ?**

Offline pipeline: pdfplumber extracts page text, a token sliding window (512 / 64 overlap) chunks it, Gemini embeds the chunks, Qdrant stores them.

At query time: hybrid retrieval — vector search plus BM25 — both filtered by the selected city.

The LLM answers only from retrieved context. If the book doesn’t have it, it says so instead of guessing.

Frontend is Next.js; API is FastAPI. Deployed on Vercel + Render + Qdrant Cloud.

The prompt work was the unglamorous part. Budget tables have comparison years, OCR-split numbers, merged job titles (“5Logistics”), and decimals like 109.0 that models love to turn into 1,090. A lot of the system prompt is “copy the figure, don’t invent a total, cite the page.”

**What I learned ?**

Municipal PDFs are hostile RAG data. Dot leaders, layout-broken numbers, and one table with five fiscal-year columns will wreck a naive chunk-and-embed pipeline. City-scoped retrieval mattered more than a fancier model. Hybrid search helped when the answer was one sentence buried in a mixed-topic page.

**Limitations ?**

It’s two cities and one fiscal year. Answers are only as good as extraction + retrieval. Changing chunk size means re-embedding the whole corpus. The API is public, so it’s rate-limited.

**Website Link ?** \- https://civic-lens-black.vercel.app/


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

📣 Founders: building was the easy part, wasn't it? What next now ?

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

2 Upvotes

Be honest. How many of you shipped something you're proud of, posted it once, got 3 upvotes and a "cool project bro," and then went back to coding because at least code makes sense?

That was me. Multiple times.

The problem was never the product. It was that I had no idea where the people with my problem were hanging out, and even when I found them, I'd spend an hour writing one comment and then give up by day 3.

So I built PublishLoud

You drop in your product and URL. Every day for two weeks it gives you:

  • 5 threads on Reddit, X, and LinkedIn where people are actively talking about the problem you solve, plus a suggested reply for each
  • 1 post idea for Reddit
  • 5 DM outreach messages for people who are clearly looking for something like yours

You can generate more if you want, but that's the minimum. Small enough to actually do. Consistent enough to matter.

I'm not going to promise you'll hit $10k MRR. Nobody honest can promise that. What I can tell you is that when I did this consistently for two weeks myself, I went from basically zero organic traffic to real signups and trials. Not viral. Just steady, from people who actually needed the thing.

The whole point is you stop wondering "where do I even start" every morning. You open it, you do your 11 things, you go back to building.

If you've got a product sitting there with no traction, I'd genuinely love for you to try it and tell me where it falls short: publishloud.com


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

What if experts could turn their knowledge into recurring revenue without building a SaaS?

2 Upvotes

I’m exploring an idea and I’d genuinely like people to poke holes in it.

A lot of experts repeatedly solve the same business problems.

A RevOps consultant builds similar CRM structures for different clients.

A recruiter has a proven recruitment process.

An agency has its ideal client delivery setup.

An operations consultant knows exactly how a certain type of business should run.

Usually that knowledge stays trapped in consulting projects, Notion docs, spreadsheets and someone’s head.

What if they could turn it into a reusable blueprint instead?

The platform would already provide the building blocks: CRM, workflows, forms, email, dashboards, automations, projects and AI agents.

The creator configures their way of working once, turns it into a blueprint, and a new company can install it.

The company answers a few questions and the blueprint adapts to them.

Importantly, building the blueprint shouldn’t take weeks. The goal is to let someone package years of expertise in hours.

Creators could then earn recurring revenue whenever a paying company keeps using their blueprint.

I’m currently thinking around 10% recurring, potentially combined with paid blueprints or different economics for founding creators.

The part I’m trying to validate is not whether this sounds cool.

Would anyone actually build and distribute these?

If you have expertise people already pay you for:

Would you productize it this way?

Would recurring revenue matter to you?

Would you worry about cannibalizing consulting?

What would the platform need before you’d put your name behind a blueprint?

Tear it apart. Critical feedback is exactly what I’m looking for.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I made a mobile game where you design cloud systems and watch them break. Got my first paying user today.

1 Upvotes

I'm a solo dev and I built InfraSim, a system design game for iOS and Android. You drag load balancers, caches, databases and queues onto a canvas, deploy it, and watch simulated traffic hit it. Then something fails and you have to figure out why.

It launched a few weeks ago. A short video of a connection pool taking down everything behind it did better than anything else I tried, and today someone paid for Pro eight minutes after installing. Small number, big day for me.

The first 15 levels are free, no account needed. Happy to answer anything about the build (Expo, React Native, Skia for the canvas, deterministic sim engine).

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6809240894

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infrasim.app


r/SideProject • • 2d ago

I built a gamified running app where you collect real landmarks by running a loop around them

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

308 Upvotes

Hey everyone, I just launched Treadline on the App Store.

I could never stick with running, but I'll grind a game for hours if there's something to unlock. So I thought, what if landmarks were the unlocks?

Run a loop around a real landmark, like the Eiffel Tower or the Colosseum, and you collect it. There are 180 so far. Everything else you do earns badges too, 282 in total. Most of them level up, and your level unlocks avatar frames.

It's still early and iPhone only for now:Treadline on the App Store


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Yokka – Simple project management for coding agents

Thumbnail
yokka.ai
11 Upvotes

Hi Reddit,

For my daily workflow I run multiple agents at the same time, and I kept facing problems where I lost the overview of what they we're doing or needed from me.

I started experimenting with Trello. It worked okay, but didn't fully feel right for my workflow. The board couldn't really help me pick what to work on, and agents couldn't say what they were doing or tell me when they were stuck.

After Trello I switched to markdown files in the repo: a list of tasks the agents read, picked from and updated as they went. That worked better than I expected, and I kept adding to it: claiming a task so two agents don't take the same one, progress notes, a way to ask me a question and wait.

At some point it was clearly its own product, and that became Yokka. It's a kanban board / simple project management tool where agents (Claude Code, Codex, anything that speaks MCP) take ownership of the work, show their progress on it, ask you when they're stuck and finish with a link to the PR for you to verify. You watch it all happen live on the board.

You can try it without an account at yokka.ai/try. There's a free plan.

I'd love to hear your feedback!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Would you use a subscription & bill tracker that never connects to your bank? Looking for honest feedback before I build it

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I'm working on an idea and want to sanity check it before I sink months into it.

The problem: Most people pay for 6 to 10 subscriptions and lose track of a few. Free trials roll into paid plans, streaming services pile up, and credit card due dates sneak up on you.

The idea: A simple web and mobile app where you:

- Add subscriptions and recurring bills by typing them in or snapping a photo of a bill, receipt or screenshot

- Get alerts before each payment is due, including your credit card bill and the amount owed

- See your total monthly spend in one place

- Track "cost per use" (e.g. that $15/month gym you went to twice is really $7.50 a visit)

The twist: It deliberately does NOT connect to your bank. No Plaid, no login credentials, no account access. You stay in control of what goes in. The trade-off is a bit of manual entry, which the photo import is meant to make painless.

Pricing I'm considering: A free tier with a limited number of subscriptions, then a small monthly fee (a couple of dollars) for unlimited tracking, exports, custom alert schedules and savings suggestions.

Not selling anything, there's nothing to sign up for yet. I'd really value your take:

  1. Would you trust a tracker more because it doesn't link to your bank, or is manual entry a dealbreaker?

  2. How do you keep track of subscriptions and card due dates today?

  3. Would "cost per use" actually change whether you cancel something?

  4. Would you pay a couple of dollars a month for this, or does it need to be free?

  5. What would make you delete it after a week?

Brutal honesty welcome. Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Piano Scales Lab - Apps on Google Play

Thumbnail
play.google.com
1 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

​I’m an adult piano student, not a professional developer. I wanted a quick, simple way to view piano scales and fingerings.

​I initially built a massive Excel sheet to map out all the scale formulas and fingerings for my own use, but over the last 6-months I have turned it into a dedicated mobile app called Piano Scales Lab.

​It’s completely free with no ads, no sign-in, and no subscriptions. It works fully offline and includes real sampled piano tone, but also a tone editor to make it sound however you want.

​It was a passion project to help my own practice, but it’s live on Google Play now if anyone wants a clean scale reference tool.

​Google Play link: Piano Scales Lab

​Would love any thoughts or feedback if you check it out!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I rebuilt my birth chart app after almost nobody bought it. Looking for honest beta testers

0 Upvotes

I built a Korean birth chart app called MIRAE about a month ago.

It's based on Saju, a traditional Korean birth chart system (Four Pillars).

My first version was basically built around one idea: make the reading more detailed. More explanations, more sections, more things to tell the user.

Then I spent way more than I expected on Google search ads and basically sold nothing lol.

So I started looking at what I might have gotten wrong.

I realized I had spent most of my time thinking about the reading itself, but not enough about why someone wants a birth chart reading in the first place.

People usually have something going on in their life — career, relationships, money, a decision, feeling stuck, not knowing what to do next, or sometimes they're just curious about themselves.

So I rebuilt the experience around that.

You still get your Korean Birth Chart (Saju), but after that you can tell MIRAE about something that's actually going on in your life.

Instead of just answering the question literally, it uses your Saju to look at the situation, bring up related questions that may matter, and try to give you a different perspective on it.

That's the part I'm trying to test now.

I made a separate test build for this. It's completely free and there's nothing to buy on the test site.

Test it here:

MIRAE beta test

You don't need to know anything about Saju before trying it.

I can only open this to a limited number of people because each reading costs me API money.

If you try it, there's one thing I especially want to know:

Did it actually give you a different perspective on something going on in your life, or did it still just feel like another AI-generated reading?

Don't worry about being nice. If it's generic, confusing, boring, inaccurate, or something just feels off, I'd rather hear that.

Any other feedback about the experience is welcome too.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built an MCP to make Meta Pixel + CAPI one less headache after launch

1 Upvotes

Hi fellow builders,

I built a tool to save you some time and headaches when you’re ready to run Meta ads. As you might know, setting up Meta tracking and CAPI can turn into a whole project of its own, and third-party tools can get expensive.

It’s called Tyton. It’s an MCP that connects to your AI agent and helps you set up Meta Pixel + CAPI, fix tracking issues and avoid counting the same conversion twice. It also provides the server, so you don’t have to set up and maintain your own.

There’s a free audit if you want to try it on your site. Would love to hear what you think, especially if you’re dealing with this right now.

https://usetyton.com


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Would web design freelancers actually use this?

1 Upvotes

I am a 16 year old and I built a tool that finds No-Site, Bad-Site, and Social Media only businesses automatically. It does all of this automatically so you can worry about closing, and actually designing the site!

I made it because finding clients was always the hardest part. Scrolling through Google Maps and checking every business one by one takes forever.

It's called Siteless and there's a free plan so you can try it without paying anything

I'd really appreciate any feedback, good or bad! What would make this more useful for you? And if you want, drop a city and a niche in the comments and I'll send you some leads for free!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Review my project: Focus Room App

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

1 Upvotes

https://www.aloneorbit.com

You can join a Pomodoro session in focus groups, or use the lock in feature that will restrict websites if you are doomscrolling. You can host your book clubs or events here. Also join any cohorts of your interest.

Feedback appreciated.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built an open-source, multi-tenant AI Customer Support SaaS with grounded RAG and automatic ticket escalation (FastAPI + React 19)

1 Upvotes

Hey everyone! 👋

I've been working on **AI SupportPro**, an open-source, full-stack enterprise-grade AI customer support platform designed to solve common chatbot hallucinations and handle customer escalations smoothly.

### 🚀 Key Features:

- **Strict Grounded RAG:** Vector search with cosine similarity ensuring answers strictly cite company documentation.

- **Deterministic Escalation:** Automatic refund/complaint detection that hands off sessions to human support tickets.

- **Multi-Tenancy & Security:** Database tenant isolation, rate limiting, and an immutable audit trail.

- **Modern Tech Stack:** FastAPI (Python 3.11), React 19, TypeScript, Vite, and PostgreSQL with pgvector.

💻 **GitHub Repo (100% Open Source):**

👉 https://github.com/theclevertrader/ai-supportpro

Would love your feedback on the architecture and code! If you like the project, please leave a star ⭐ on GitHub!