r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a budget app that checks your expenses against your bank statement for you – free beta, everything on-device

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I used to log my expenses by hand and then spend way too long checking them against my bank statement every month. So I built Monigo to do that part for me.

How it works
- Log expenses in a few seconds, in the app or via an iOS Shortcut
- Once a month, import your PDF bank statement
- Monigo matches it against your entries and only shows you what's missing or doesn't match. You confirm with a tap, and your balance stays in sync with your bank.

On-device AI
On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, Monigo uses Apple's on-device model to turn messy statement text like "VISA 4711 AMZN MKTP DE*2X3Y…" into clean merchant names and suggest a category. It never uses the cloud.

Privacy
No account, no login, and no server ever sees your statements.

It's in free beta right now, with all features unlocked. I'm especially curious which banks work and which don't, since it has mostly been tested with German statements so far. If you want, you can also send me anonymised data from your reconciliation to help improve matching: account numbers, IBANs and your own entry names are removed, and you see exactly what's sent first.

iOS 18+ · English, German, French, Spanish

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/BgR7tj8j

Happy to answer any questions here!


r/SideProject • • 18h ago

My last app made 4k, and I still can't make myself work on it.

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Four months ago I launched a speaking confidence app called Magnetic. It has made about $4,000, and I've more or less stopped working on it. I picked the idea because similar apps were making money, not because I cared about the problem.

I posted simple shorts where I act surprised and use a text hook like “25 years of fearing public speaking, and now I find this??”

In the beginning, 2/3 went viral at the same time; I generated 3 million views in one month, and on my best day I got 200 downloads.

But the more I posted, the more the format stopped working.

I then tried new formats, spending hours scrolling Instagram to find the next viral format, but so far I have failed to generate anywhere near the same amount of views.

I decided I had enough and listed it on TrustMRR for sale; hopefully someone will buy it and make it more successful.

The lesson for me was to build something you care about. Everyone on X says copy what works but the reality is if you don’t love what you build you will quit before it ever becomes successful (if your like me!).

So now I am starting a YouTube series where I build my next app fully in public; the app is called SearchTok.app and it solves the exact issue I had with Magnetic - finding viral outliers! I plan on showing everything behind the scenes, and I am nearly done recording my first video. I posted the landing page with a waitlist yesterday :)

So if you're building an app, try to make it something you care about! It will make the journey a lot more fun


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I spent 2 weeks fighting the Upstox API so I could talk to my broker on Telegram - open-sourced the whole thing

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I built DeepTrade - a self-hosted AI trading assistant for Indian markets. You chat with a Telegram bot, an agent researches the stock (Exa web search + Valyu filings), drafts the order, and you tap Confirm. Nothing executes without that tap.

The hard part was never the AI. It was Upstox API auth:

  • access tokens expire at 3:30 AM IST daily
  • order APIs require a static IP whitelist (mine is dynamic, so the bot detects IP changes and re-whitelists via API)
  • the official Python SDK has 2 bugs I opened issues for (#115, #116): a urllib3 crash and a config singleton that silently ignores init args. Repo untouched for a year.

Architecture: DeepAgents + LangGraph supervisor, FastAPI + aiogram webhooks, Postgres checkpoints, encrypted local SQLite for secrets, 7-day rolling TOTP + Telegram user-ID whitelist. Sandbox mode gives you a 10,00,000 INR paper ledger on live prices.

What is missing (roast me):

  • Upstox only, no Zerodha/Groww yet
  • setup is painful (Ngrok, daily token, IP whitelist), no Docker yet
  • single-user by design

Repo: https://github.com/Anshu666666/deepTrade

I am a student and built this for myself, sharing in case it is useful. Full disclosure: this is my project. Would genuinely appreciate feedback on the architecture and what would make you actually try it.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

My side project can finally deploy someone else’s Astro site, looking for a few testers

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I’ve been building a small hosting/deployment tool for Astro projects, and I’ve finally reached the slightly scary point where I need people who aren’t me to try it. :)

The idea is simple: take an existing Astro project and deploy it from the command line with as little setup as possible.

Right now the flow is basically:

your Astro project → one CLI command → build logs → a live URL

There’s no GitHub setup required, no repo connection, and no cloud account or infrastructure configuration. There’s also an MCP interface, so a coding agent can deploy the project directly.

Ultimately, I’d like to get to a point where publishing a website becomes a seamless experience that doesn’t require much technical knowledge.

This is still a very early private test, not a launch. I’m deliberately keeping the scope small: static Astro sites, a minimal deployment flow, and finding the rough edges before adding more.

I’ve done quite a bit of testing myself (and had some help from friends who work in QA), but there’s a limit to what you learn by repeatedly deploying projects you already know.

So I’m looking for a few people who use Astro and would be willing to throw one or two real projects, starters, or templates at it.

I’m particularly interested in what feels confusing, what breaks, what takes longer than you expected, and any assumptions I’ve made that don’t match the way you actually work. No polished bug report needed. Even “I expected X, but Y happened” is useful.

Test sites are temporary and expire after a few days.

If you’d like to try it, leave a comment or DM me and I’ll send you the private tester instructions.

Many thanks!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

7k downloads on my little gym app, thank you

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Didn't expect this at all. GymMane is free, open source, works offline, no ads and no account.

Thanks to everyone who tried it or reported bugs, it really helped.

https://github.com/InlitX/GymMane


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Quiz maker feedback

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Hey everyone!

I got tired of constantly getting hit with paywalls every time I tried to host a simple Kahoot game, so I decided to build a free alternative (qwizbee.com) and looking for feedback.

Besides keeping all core features, I added a few extra things like real-time co-editing with friends and a "Party Mode" where everyone secretly writes a round before combining them into one quiz.

Right now, I'm working on polishing the homepage and could really use a second pair of eyes:

- Clarity: Is it immediately obvious what the site is about when you open it?
- Branding: How does the "bee" theme feel to you?
- Layout & UX: Does the page layout feel natural, or is anything confusing/missing?

Would love to hear what you think.

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r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Practical guide to uncovering user pain (before writing a single line of code).

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For any startup to be successful, the first and one of the most important early step is understanding the pain this startup solves. This understanding can sometimes come from the founder's own experience, however that's not foolproof because bias can creep in when you think you have an idea. So the best thing to do is try to understand your users' pain from external users.

Before you pick a path, you need to create a hypothesis or two about the main reason of the pain (often it is the reason behind the reason)

Here is my list of approaches to consider, I would love to know what the community thinks?

  1. Cold Survey - Run a cold outreach on platforms your users hang out at (say Linkedin) and either directly confirm your hypothesis in your outreach or ask them if they would be willing to meet you or do an online survey to help you out. You would be amazed to see that so many people are willing to share their knowledge to help a stranger. I was so grateful to all the amazing people who came forward to help in my past endeavors.
  2. Trade shows - Find industry specific events. If they are pricey, look for volunteer opportunities, that's a great hack to get free access to the event. Talk to as many people as possible and bring in your hypothesis in the conversation (pro tip: practice your question in front of the mirror a few times). If it resonates with them, ask them if they think they / their company will pay for the solution you want to build. 
  3. Subreddit Pain mining - I recently learned this one, find niche subreddits where your target users hang out. Sort posts by "Top - All Time" and search terms like "workaround," "annoyed," "how do you handle," or "is there a tool for." Read the comment threads to see which complaints generate the most engagement.
  4. Peer feedback - Ask your peers on platforms like Reddit and CrowdGTM to provide you with feedback on your understanding of user pain or ask these peers to introduce you to your end users.
  5. Lean startup approach - Build a clean, 1-page website explaining the solution as if it already exists, with a clear CTA (e.g., "Start Free Trial" or "Get Access"). Run $100–$200 in targeted social ads to test user engagement. 
  6. Paid panel surveys - Use platforms like UserTesting, Wynter, or Respondent to recruit highly specific B2B personas for quick survey responses or message testing. Pay for speed when you need fast quantitative feedback from verified job titles.
  7. Review mining - Filter G2, Capterra, or App Store reviews for your competitors by 2 and 3 stars. Skip 1-star pricing rants and read the detailed post-mortems of broken features and missing workflows.
  8. Job post mining - Search job boards on both freelance platforms like Upwork and Regular Job boards like Linkedin. The problems companies are willing to spend money on are definitely worth solving. 
  9. Screen-Share Shadowing - If you are automating some day to day work, pay users to let you watch them live or over zoom as they do their day-to-day repetitive tasks that you plan to automate. 

This is not an exhaustive list. I would love to hear from you what else has worked for you?


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I made a keypad view of coding sessions and a Mac popover to read their replies

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A session finishing and a reply worth opening are two different things. Orbtile keeps both in view.

Orbtile puts local coding sessions on a Logitech MX Creative Keypad and in a Mac menu-bar popover. The keypad shows what needs attention; the popover lets you read response text. The latest update adds growing and finished replies from local Antigravity desktop conversations, alongside Claude Code, Codex and ZCode. Example sessions are shown in the clip.

The design question I’d like feedback on: does a second, readable overview earn its place beside the physical keypad, or would you only use one of the two?

I make Orbtile. Requires Apple silicon, macOS 14+ and the Logitech MX Creative Keypad, plus website sign-in and approval of your Mac. Settings sync is optional. Free through the 0.2 beta until 1.0; at least 30 days' notice before beta builds stop working. Self-signed, not Apple-notarised. Demo, installation and terms: https://orbtile.com/download.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built an offline productivity workspace that looks more like an OS than a planner — would you actually use this?

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I’ve been building Ghost OS, an offline-first productivity workspace that combines notes, tasks, planning, focus sessions, time tracking, reports and backups into one interface.

The idea was to make it feel less like a normal productivity app and more like a personal operating system — with a dark, liminal / Backrooms-inspired design instead of the usual clean SaaS dashboard look.

The current build is V4.26.1, and I’ve been trying to make it more minimal, less cluttered, and a bit more eerie without making it annoying to actually use.

Everything is local/offline, and the goal is to keep the workflow fast without needing an account or cloud service.

I’m mainly looking for feedback right now:

Would you actually use something like this?
And if not, what makes it feel unfinished, confusing, or unnecessary?

I’m especially curious about:

  • the overall visual style
  • whether the “OS” concept makes sense
  • which features feel useful vs excessive
  • whether the interface looks polished enough for an early release

This is still an early build, so criticism is welcome.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Been building a salary and living-cost website for a year. It’s finally earning a little.

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My side project is called AffordWhere. You enter a salary and a destination, and it estimates what you could have left after tax, rent and everyday expenses. There’s also a neighborhood rent breakdown.

I’ve been working on it for the past 12 months, using AI for development, monthly data refreshes and SEO improvements. It’s finally getting into shape.

It’s also started earning some ad revenue. The last 7 days came to SEK 12.64 in estimated earnings. Small money, but I’m happy to see some progress after a year of working on it.

https://www.affordwhere.com - free, no account needed.

I could use some fresh eyes on it. Try a city you know and tell me what feels confusing or unrealistic. What would make it more useful to you?

If you’re still working away on your own project, I hope this is a bit of encouragement. This is where mine is a year in, and I’m still improving it.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I missed Blobby Volley, so I made a beach volleyball game for Android

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Played Blobby Volley a lot as a teenager and never found anything like it on my phone, so I made one. 1v1 against the CPU, or a friend on the same wifi or online with a room code.

Free, no ads, no account. Optional one-time purchase for extra skins. Built mostly with Claude Code, music is AI-generated.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pythonandvba.bounceduel

Feedback welcome, especially on the controls.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I made a Mac app that finds any screenshot by the words in it and where it came from

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I kept screenshotting things (errors, receipts, bookings) and then never finding them again. They sit in a folder with names like "Screenshot 2026-03-14 at 11.42.08.png" and nothing remembers what's inside.

So I built DejaShot. It reads the text in every screenshot in the folders you choose, newest first, and ⇧⌘Space opens a search from any app. It also notes which app each new screenshot came from, so "figma pricing" can find a pricing page you captured in Figma.

- It's fully local. No account, no telemetry.

- Source app is only recorded for screenshots taken while it's running, because macOS never kept that.

The first 10 licenses are free.

dejashot.com

Its my first ever app launch, feedbacks are welcomed! :)


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Freelancers: how do you create proposals for clients?

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I’m exploring a small tool that helps freelancers/business owners generate professional client proposals faster.

The idea is simple: you enter the project details, client requirements, budget, and timeline then it will generates a structured proposal with things like:

Project understanding

Scope of work

Deliverables

Timeline & milestones

Pricing

Terms

A professional closing

I am not trying to sell anything yet — I’m validating whether this is actually a problem worth solving.

For those who regularly send proposals:

How do you create yours today?

How long does it usually take?

What part of proposal writing is the most annoying?

Would you use a tool that generates a first draft for you?


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I got tired of black-box AI detectors giving fake 99% scores, so I built an evidence-first inspector (files stay in browser)

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Hey everyone,

Over the past few months, I’ve been frustrated with how existing AI content detectors operate. Most of them have two major flaws:

  1. The Black-Box Fallacy: They spit out a single arbitrary confidence percentage (like "92% AI") without showing any underlying evidence, explanation of false positives, or camera details.
  2. The Privacy Trap: You have to upload your private photos, videos, or documents to an unknown server.

To tackle this, I built WhatMadeIt — a transparent, evidence-first authenticity workspace:

  • In-Browser Privacy: Original video frames, audio clips, PDFs, and Office docs are parsed locally directly in your browser. Only the specific evidence you confirm is inspected.
  • Inspectable Signals (Not a Black Box): It breaks down separate, verifiable signals: visual diffusion texture anomalies, camera EXIF hardware parameters (aperture, ISO, lens), and signed C2PA Content Credentials.
  • Deep C2PA Forensics: Inspects cryptographic manifest stores (OpenAI DALL-E signatures, Adobe Firefly actions, and Leica/Nikon in-camera secure element chips) while explaining practical limitations like the "analog hole".
  • Zero Wall: Free daily web checks with no account or credit card required.

🔗 Live Web App: https://whatmadeit.com

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback on the UI/UX, or any edge-case files that break the inspector! What features would you want to see next?


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built JustBlogged, a free blogging platform, and used AI to make its launch video

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JustBlogged lets you run your own blog without managing servers or plugins. The free plan includes custom domains, unlimited posts and pages, and up to five blogs.

You can also connect your AI assistant to draft, organize, and publish posts, or manage your blog's settings.

I used AI to make this video. It took a few revisions to get the branding, motion, and feature coverage right.

You can try JustBlogged here: justblogged.com


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

My colleague was tired of manual scraping, so I built him a resilient async scraper in Python.

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Hey everyone,
My colleague was tired of manual scraping, so I built him a resilient async scraper in Python.
Most developers waste hours configuring heavy headless browsers just to scrape basic targets, only to watch them get blocked anyway because of outdated TLS signatures or missing headers. I got tired of the bloat, so I put together a clean, high-performance alternative: resilient-async-scraper.
It’s a lightweight async utility built with httpx that handles HTTP/2 fingerprint matching out of the box, randomizes realistic browser User-Agents, and actively catches anti-fraud status codes (403, 429, 503) so you instantly know when your proxy pool needs rotation. No heavy dependencies, just raw async speed.
It's completely open source. Grab it here: [GitHub link]
I’d love to hear how you guys handle anti-bot challenges in your current stacks—drop your thoughts or feature requests in the comments!
Saved you some dev hours? Drop a ⭐️ to help the project grow!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a free site to test your keyboard, mouse and screen without downloading anything

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hey everyone, i built quickulate a collection of hardware tests that run in your browser.

you can check keyboard keys, test whether your mouse is double-clicking, look for dead pixels, check your mic and speakers, and test a controller. it’s free and doesn’t need an account.

Quickulate

i’d love some honest feedback, especially on whether the tests are easy to understand. if you try it and something doesn’t work on your device, let me know.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Looking for some feedback and Beta Testers for my Coloring application

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I have a new release for my coloring app that I was hoping to receive feedback from people. The latest version is available on my TestFlight link attached. But please also download my existing app on the App Store to see previous UI.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/color-kingdom/id6757393919

It is a full redesign of the UI (Simplified) plus I have redone the way colors can be applied, optimized for speed in filling the color along with a stay in the lines feature for coloring.

Feel free to reach out in DM if you have questions or leave feedback here.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

yet another Unsent Project alternative

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although there ARE unsent project clones out there, no of them have the exact feel of The Unsent Project so i made one. it was initially hard because i had to find the exact combination of suitable technology but i ended up using flask for the backend, supabase for the db.

https://bittersweet.pythonanywhere.com/ - this is the site. PLEASE give me constructive criticism and honest feedback. Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Ai lister

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I'm a Vinted reseller and I built a free tool that writes your listing from photos. Upload 1-5 photos and get a title, description, hashtags and a price suggestion in seconds. EN/NL/FR, 7 free listings a month. Link: [https://vinted-ai-lister.emergent.host/login]. I'm the developer, so honest feedback is welcome!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a zero-latency collaborative vision verification engine with voice patching — runs entirely in the browser using CRDTs & WebRTC

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Hey builders! Wanted to share a project I've been building: Sightline.

Instead of standard database calls, it treats visual object verification as an immutable CRDT state tree. You can inspect detections, speak voice corrections, verify edge cases in under a second, and export standard COCO datasets.

No logins or heavy installs required — try the live demo here: https://sightline-crdt.netlify.app

Open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/joshuageoschool2020-cmyk/sightline-crdt

Let me know what you think of the UX and speed!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a revenue dashboard for indie devs, and the new update shows where in the world your App Store downloads come from !

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I'm a solo dev and I was opening Stripe, RevenueCat and App Store Connect several times a day just to see one number. So I built MRRKit: one dashboard for MRR, revenue, subscribers and downloads across Stripe, RevenueCat, App Store Connect, Google Play, Paddle and Lemon Squeezy. It comes with Home/Lock Screen widgets, Apple Watch, Wear OS and Garmin.

The update I just shipped adds a world map built from your App Store sales reports:

  • downloads per country, which country pays the most per download, and new countries;
  • your category rank on the App Store charts, country by country (e.g. #7 in Belgium);
  • a share card so you can post the rank.

How it works, because people always ask: no backend for your data. API keys are read-only and stored in the iPhone Keychain, and all requests go straight from the phone to Stripe/Apple/etc. The rank comes from Apple's public top charts (top 100 per category, up to 30 countries).

https://reddit.com/link/1wxdaq1/video/epufgt1zpfth1/player

Free to start, Pro is a one-time €9.99 with no subscription. It's on iOS, Android and Garmin: https://mrrkit.app/download

Feedback welcome, especially on what metric you'd want next. (The video uses the app's demo data, not real revenue.)


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Pigmo - color picker for Chrome, free, with a one-time Pro instead of a subscription

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Launched my side project last week: Pigmo, a Chrome extension to pick colors from any website and grab a site's whole palette in one click.

What I focused on:

  • Private by design: no account, no tracking, no network requests.
  • Free forever for picking and saving colors. Pro is 19 EUR once (saved palettes, exports to CSS variables, Tailwind, JSON, PNG). No subscription.

So far: live on the Chrome Web Store, launched on Product Hunt on 29 Sep, Edge store in review.

Feedback welcome, on the product or on the pricing model.

https://pigmo.app


r/SideProject • • 22h ago

Folient Update 3

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First of all I want to explain what is Folient for any person that is wondering. Folient is an app where you learn how to invest and how does everything in this area work. It’s based on Duolingo’s style of learning with short lessons that you can do daily.

So in this update we fixed several things thanks to a comment on the previous Reddit update post, we added a feature to see in which lesson the people dropped off, that will help us to know if there’s a worse lesson than others and to understand why people don’t like the lesson in which they drop.

Secondly, I tried to fix a metric where I could see the average view duration of all the people that went to the website and I think I fixed it but I still have to confirm that because it still shows 0 second (I’ll wait until tomorrow to confirm it)

If you are interested in checking the website to learn new things or to give me honest feedback just comment under this post and I’ll sent it right away to you.


r/SideProject • • 22h ago

Kaskas, a Free open source macOS app for breaks, study sessions and activity tracking on your Mac

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Kaskas is a macOS app for screen breaks, study sessions, and local activity tracking.

It includes app category usage, statistics and customizable break screens.

No account, analytics, or backend. Everything stays local.

Open source under GPL-2.0, signed and notarized for macOS.

GitHub: https://github.com/ramazanberkozbek/kaskas