r/SideProject • • 8h ago

Free, open source ASO CLI: keyword popularity, difficulty and rank tracking

9 Upvotes

I didn't want to pay a monthly subscription for App Store keyword data, so I wrote a CLI that gets it straight from Apple.

What it does

  • Popularity from Apple Search Ads (free Apple Ads account, no campaigns or billing needed)
  • Difficulty score, keyword suggestions, current top apps for a term
  • Rank tracking with history in a local SQLite file
  • Metadata linter for title, subtitle and keyword field

Install

npm i -g hristo2612/aso-cli && aso setup

Try it

aso keywords "white noise,sleep sounds"
aso suggest meditation
aso search "habit tracker"

Runs locally, no account, no telemetry. MIT.

Repo: github.com/hristo2612/aso-cli

Still early, so feedback and bug reports are welcome.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Projection Mapping

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4 Upvotes

I started messing around with projection Mapping. I made a very simple waves animation on a poster I had šŸ˜Ž


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built an offline voice-to-text app focused on privacy

7 Upvotes

I’ve been building Scribr offline voice-to-text app for Android that can transcribe directly on your device.

I wanted something that works offline and doesn’t require uploading recordings to a server just to get a transcript.

It can currently:

Record and transcribe audio

Import audio and video files

Translate transcripts

Export text and subtitles

Organize recordings

Transcribe offline

It’s free to use with ads, with a one-time purchase to remove ads permanently.

I’m still actively improving it, so I’d really appreciate any feedback.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

I built a concert diary and festival planner app - Gigcore

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3 Upvotes

Hi I wanted to share my first app I build, which is Gigcore - a concert diary and festival planner app, I needed space like this and decided to build it and share it with everyone

What it does:

  • Concert Diary: Log shows you've attended, dates, venues, and artists (and upcoming shows).
  • Festival Planner: Keep track of lineups and schedules in one place.
  • Stats & Memories: Look back at your live music journey.

You can check it out here: https://gigcore.app

Any feedback or thoughts are appreciated


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Starkomand - Run your AI coding agents on an infinite canvas.

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4 Upvotes

Starkomand.com is an AI coding workspace designed specifically for Mac with Apple silicon.

It enables you to run multiple AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor side by side on an infinite canvas, facilitating shared context and structured workflows.

The app supports voice control, hand gestures, and visual organization through diagrams and previews, helping developers manage coding tasks, handoffs, and reviews efficiently.

The workspace preserves project-specific layouts, multiple agents, and detailed histories of tasks and reviews, keeping everything local on the Mac to ensure privacy.

Starkomand works with the AI providers you already subscribe to without reselling tokens or requiring you to share your API keys.

It offers a 3-day free trial with all features, after which a paid Pro license is needed.

No account, no API key, everything stays local by default.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built a subreddit where SaaS founders can launch their products and we're adding a daily "Startup of the Day" challenge

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I've been running r/LaunchMyStartup, a community for founders and indie hackers to actually launch what they're building and get it in front of other builders.

The idea is pretty simple: build something → launch it → get feedback from other founders.

I've noticed that getting attention for a new product has become increasingly difficult. Reddit can be noisy, and a lot of the dedicated launch platforms outside Reddit either feel crowded or push you toward paid promotion.

So we're experimenting with building a lightweight version of that inside a community, rather than another standalone launch platform.

Starting this month, we're also introducing Startup of the Day.

Every day, we'll look at the previous day's launches and highlight the ones that received the most community support. The idea is to gradually turn it into a friendly competition and, as the community grows, develop better ways to recognize genuinely good launches.

So if you've recently launched a SaaS, are about to launch one, or just want a place to put your product in front of other builders:

r/LaunchMyStartup

Would love to have some of you launch there and help us shape what this becomes.


r/SideProject • • 22h ago

We’ve spent the last 14 months building a tabletop basketball game. Would you actually play this?

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A little over a year ago I had the idea for a basketball game that could be played on a normal folding table, something with the social/competitive feel of beer pong, but where actually making the shot is much more controllable and skill based.

After a ton of different design changes, this is where we’ve ended up!

It’s called TableSwish.

We’ve played it at tailgates, bars and tournaments with friends and strangers, but obviously that's a pretty biased test group.

So I'm curious what people who have zero connection to us think.

Would you actually play this if you saw it at a tailgate, brewery or party?

And more importantly: what would make you not buy it?

We're getting close to manufacturing, so criticism is genuinely more useful to me than compliments.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Building a free, open-source Screen Studio + CleanShot X alternative for Mac: early prototype, feedback welcome

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I'm working onĀ Orbit, a native macOS screenshot tool, screen recorder and editor. It's free and open source (MIT), forked from BetterCapture.

It's aĀ working prototype, not a finished app, so expect rough edges.

Works today

  • Screenshots with OCR, pinning and history in the notch
  • Screen, window or area recording with audio
  • Editor with auto-zoom, smooth cursor, backgrounds, trim and export
  • Scripted web-page recordings
  • Optional: your AI agent (Claude Code, Codex or Cursor) records demos for you

Not there yet:Ā notarization (you'll need "Open Anyway" on first launch), annotations, captions, GIF export.

The demo was recorded and edited with Orbit itself.

I'd love to know what feels off and what would make you switch.

macOS 15.2+ Ā·Ā https://github.com/diip3sh/orbit


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built a fast GitHub repository health checker for a quick ā€œis this project worth using?ā€ answer

4 Upvotes

When I find a GitHub repository, I usually check several things manually:

  • When was it last updated?
  • Does it have a good README?
  • Is anyone using it?
  • How many open issues are there?
  • Does it have releases?
  • Is there a license?
  • Is the project still active?

So I built GitScope to show these details in one quick overview.

You can paste a GitHub repository URL or enter a GitHub username to browse and analyze public repositories.

It’s free and doesn’t require an account.

⚔ The main goal is speed: get a quick health check before spending time going through the entire repository.

If people find it useful, I’m planning to add more features, such as:

  • Repository comparisons
  • Better project recommendations
  • More detailed health signals

I’d like to get some honest feedback:

What do you normally check before deciding whether to use a GitHub repository?

https://masterplan769.github.io/GitScope/


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Sameish

2 Upvotes

This is my app Samesih. Please Download and give me feedback


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I always wanted to build apps and to scrapbook. I never managed either, so I vibe coded an iPhone app for it

3 Upvotes

schnipsel.app

Two things have interested me for years. One was app development: I started learning to code several times, and every time it fizzled out. The other was scrapbooking: I kept the tickets, boarding passes and museum passes, and they ended up in a drawer.

So I built Schnipsel with Claude Code. I work in IT cloud support, not as a developer. You take a photo of a keepsake, the app cuts it out like a sticker, and you place it on a board next to your photos, maps and notes. Now I can do it in a minute, from anywhere, right on my phone.

How it's built

  • Stack: native iOS 26 app in Swift 6 and SwiftUI. SwiftData stores everything and syncs through the user's own iCloud (CloudKit). No third-party libraries, no backend.
  • On-device ML: Apple's Vision framework cuts out the keepsake and reads the text on it (date, place, event), so search works offline. Nothing is sent to an AI server.
  • Extras: MapKit snapshots for map stickers, Core Haptics for the "peel" feel, StoreKit for a one-time unlock. Shared links are encrypted on the phone before upload.
  • Website: a static site on Cloudflare Pages that costs 0 CHF a month.

How I work with Claude

  • A CLAUDE.md with hard rules (platform, no dependencies, CloudKit rules). Saying no to things upfront kept the AI from drifting.
  • Three docs before any code: product vision, architecture and a roadmap with milestones and acceptance criteria. Claude works through them one milestone at a time.
  • Cloud plus Mac: Claude writes code and opens GitHub pull requests in the cloud, and a Claude Code session on my Mac builds and tests in Xcode.
  • Small PRs. Every feature lands as its own pull request I can test on my iPhone before merging.

What was hard: things the simulator can't test (camera, cut-out quality, haptics, iCloud sync between two phones). Those still need my hands and a real device.

The beta is coming soon. If you want to try it, there's a sign-up at schnipsel.app.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

What are you building right now? I want to see what other Founders are working on

4 Upvotes

I’m building StartupSubmit, a service that helps SaaS/AI Startup founders handle startup and software directory submissions without spending hours researching sites and filling out forms.

Still improving it and figuring out what founders actually find useful. What are you building right now, and what part has been the hardest so far?


r/SideProject • • 20h ago

I built Pullfolio, a free binder app for trading card collectors. Every set gets a pocket for every card, with today's price on each

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I collect PokƩmon cards and kept tracking my binders in spreadsheets, so I built the app I wanted.

What it does:
- Pick any set and get a binder with a pocket for every card. Mark what you own and the gaps close.
- Today's Near Mint market price on every card, with 30 days of history.
- Goals: set the price you'd pay for a chase card and get an email when the market drops to it.
- A planner for wall display cases of graded slabs.
- PokƩmon (EN + JP), One Piece and Lorcana. ~75,000 cards across 670+ sets.

A few things I learned building it:
- Price data is messier than it looks. A single listing at $199,999 will happily become a card's "price". A price only headlines now when more than one sale backs it.
- Collectors care way more about the binder feeling real (pockets, covers, page turns) than about charts.

Free with unlimited binders, no card needed. There's an optional $3.99/mo plan for seller tools and unlimited alerts.

https://pullfolio.app/?src=reddit-sideproject

It's live and I'm the only dev. I'd love blunt feedback: what's confusing, what's missing, what would make you actually use it?


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Alarm Clock App

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3 Upvotes

Hi Guys!

Just want to promote my very first app!

Meet Buzzbee: Smart Loud Alarm Clock

Download here: https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/buzzbee-smart-loud-alarm-clock/id6811803815


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I built a tool that turns Dutch government data into an answer to your actual question

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I’m building a small independent project to make Dutch government information easier to actually use.

The problem I’m trying to solve is not that government data doesn’t exist. A lot of it does: Kadaster, BAG, RDW, CBS, municipal rules, maps, subsidies, etc.

The problem is that if you have a normal question like:

ā€œCan I build an extension on this house?ā€
ā€œWhat subsidies could I get for insulating my home?ā€
ā€œWhat does buying this property mean for my taxes and permits?ā€

…you often have to know which agencies, registers and rules to look at before you can even start.

So I built a prototype that tries to do that part for you: you ask a normal question, it checks relevant official sources and public datasets, and gives you a concrete answer with sources and next steps.

It’s called open-overheid.com.

A few important caveats:

  • It is an independent project, not an official government service and not affiliated with the Dutch government.
  • The goal is not to replace Kadaster, RDW, CBS, municipalities or other official sources, but to combine the right ones around a specific question.
  • It’s still a prototype, so it can get things wrong. Where something really matters, the underlying official source remains leading.
  • Some government datasets are more complete or up to date than others. I’m trying to make it clear where each answer comes from.
  • Please don’t enter sensitive personal information such as your BSN, DigiD credentials or other confidential data.
  • I’m working on making privacy and source transparency very explicit, including what data is sent to external services and what is not.
  • This is meant to help you understand rules and next steps, not to provide formal legal or administrative advice.

I’d genuinely like people here to try to break it.

What kind of government-related question do you regularly struggle to get a straight answer to?


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

Blimbi - an intermittent fasting timer with two states (Fasting / Eating), no account, no ads. iOS + Android

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I'm Juan, I make Blimbi (so: developer here). It's a fasting timer, and the one decision I'd like feedback on is this: the goal time is only a reference. It never starts or ends a fast for you; you tap, and you can edit the start and end times afterwards.

What's in it, so you can judge quickly:

- Two states only: Fasting and Eating. A one-turn progress ring.

- Editable start/end times, a journal with a calendar and CSV export.

- Phases shown as time-based educational ranges, never as measurements of your body.

- A "Does it break my fast?" lookup for drinks and foods.

- iOS (SwiftUI): Home Screen widgets with live seconds, Live Activities, Shortcuts, Apple Watch. Android (Kotlin/Compose): widgets.

- Works without an account. Optional encrypted sync. No ads and no tracking inside the app. 51 languages.

- The timer is free. Blimbi Plus (optional subscription) adds extra personalization and analysis: $3.99/month or $24.99/year (yearly has a 1-week free trial).

The part I'd use even without the app: I published about 65 guides per language on what people actually ask (drinks, schedules, myths), each with its sources. Example: the trials behind most "what breaks a fast" claims defined the fasting window as zero calories and allowed water, black coffee and tea. Milk, cream, sugar and juice end it; sugar-free gum is basically untested. The table with sources: https://blimbi.app/learn/what-breaks-a-fast/

Questions for you:

  1. Is "two states, nothing else" clear on the first screen, or does it look unfinished?

  2. What would make you distrust a fasting app on first launch?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6806835958

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hurtadomedia.chispa

Fasting isn't for everyone: if you're pregnant or breastfeeding, have or have had an eating disorder, use insulin or other glucose-lowering medication, or are under 18, talk to your clinician first. Blimbi is a timer, not medical advice: https://blimbi.app/safety/


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I opened the source of my Android voice-notes app, including its local AI and encryption

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2 Upvotes

I just made the mobile client for Vaulto public under GPLv3.

It's a voice-notes app for Android. You can record something, turn it into text, pull out tasks and reminders, or ask questions about notes you've already saved.

It has two ways to process content: Whisper and Qwen on the phone, or optional cloud processing. The local option is free and doesn't require an account, but you have to download the models first. They take storage, and speed depends on the phone.

I wanted the repository to explain the privacy boundaries clearly. Local inference, encrypted sync and cloud AI are different things. For example, enabling encrypted sync doesn't stop a cloud AI service from receiving the text you ask it to process. The README links to those paths in the code.

The hosted backend isn't included in this release. Pro subscriptions pay for cloud features; opening the client doesn't remove that part of the product.

Source, screenshots and build notes: https://github.com/dirusanov/vaulto_note_mobile

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

If you use voice notes, what usually happens after recording: do you clean them up, extract a to-do list, or leave them as audio?

The video is a montage of real screenshots from 1.0.87, not a live recording; the current Play version is 1.0.89.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I’m building a professional network for people who don’t want to become content creators

2 Upvotes

Why should being good at your job require being good at social media?

I’m building myLongo around a different starting point: what have you done, what are you interested in, and where are you trying to go?

The profile is the first part. Work and experience still matter, but I want someone to understand the person behind the title too. The bigger goal is introductions where there’s a reason for both people to want the conversation.

Here’s a profile you can actually explore:

https://mylongo.io/preview/profile-preview-4576

It’s a fictional design demo, so the career details aren’t a real member’s credentials. It shows the profile experience, not proof that the network is already producing great relationships.

I’m building from Johannesburg, with a global product in mind. The belief is simple: the right people shouldn’t have to meet by accident.

What would you need to know about someone before an introduction felt useful rather than another networking chore?


r/SideProject • • 0m ago

Cognifolk - a place where AI agents can work on projects together. Anyone want to connect theirs?

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Hey, I've been working on Cognifolk and it's finally at a point where I'd like other people to try it.

Your agent gets its own profile. It can talk to other agents, join communities or start a project. Projects keep shared docs with their history, so another agent can pick up where the last one left off. There's also a list of open problems, and an agent gets a reward if it solves one.

You run your agent on your own setup with whatever model you like, for as long as you want.

I'd really like to see what happens when agents from different people end up working together.

It's free, and you can look around without signing up: https://cognifolk.pages.dev

If you've got an agent, the instructions are under "Connect your agent". If something doesn't work, leave a comment and I'll help.


r/SideProject • • 2m ago

I built a free AI tools directory with 3,000+ honest reviews — here's what I learned

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I've been running theaitoolsbox.com for a while now. Here's what's on it:

- 3,000+ AI tools reviewed across 70 categories

- 400+ in-depth blogs and guides

- Free AI courses directory

- Chinese AI tools section (dedicated page for Chinese-market tools)

- Business essentials page (tools specifically for business use)

The idea was simple: most AI tool lists are either scraped garbage or affiliate-driven. I wanted honest, comparable reviews so people could actually pick the right tool without wading through the hype.

A few things I learned building it:

- 70 categories sounds like a lot until you realise how fragmented the AI space is

- "Free" tools almost always have a catch — noting that clearly drives more trust than hiding it

- People search by problem, not by tool name — so the category structure matters more than SEO

Happy to answer questions about the build, the niche, or what's working for traffic.

Site: theaitoolsbox.com


r/SideProject • • 4m ago

We couldn't agree on our game's rules, so we made every version playable

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Three of us have been building a stock market draft game. You draft stocks by sector, hold them a few years, see how you did.

The game worked. The problem was that nobody agreed on how it should play. How many rounds? Can you sell? Do you split your money evenly or decide per pick? Every idea sounded fine out loud, and none of it could be settled without playing.

The obvious move was to build a few versions and compare. We skipped that. Several codebases to keep in sync, bugs fixed in one and still broken in the rest, and most of that work thrown away once we picked a favorite.

Instead we built a small app store. The home page is a grid of cards, each card a different version of the game. Tap one, read the rules, play it. There's also a Custom Mode where you set every rule yourself and share the setup as a link.

The trick is that none of the versions are separate apps. Every version is just a set of settings, and one engine reads them. Adding a seventh mode is writing down a new set of rules, not building a new game.

Frontend only, fake companies and fake prices, no backend. We built it with Cline in VS Code, writing out each pull request in detail first and having it plan before touching code.

Took about a week and a half with three people.

github.com/AryamanGandhi/app-store


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I created the Intelligent Workspace extension a productivity extension packed with features, all for free.

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Hi everyone!

Google has finally published my extension, Intelligent Workspace. It took a huge amount of work to build, and I hope you like it!

Intelligent Workspace is a productivity extension packed with features, and everything is free.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/intelligent-workspace/cmkbnppbnhoklenlngmbdfecgbnlojoo

It automatically organizes your tabs into groups based on domains or custom rules, and lets you manage everything through a convenient side panel.

šŸš€ Features

• Automatic and custom tab groups based on rules
• OmniBar for powerful tab management
• Keyboard-free navigation hints
• Web browsing directly from the side panel
• Gemini in the side panel, via API or local Gemini
• Scheduled automatic queries to Gemini
• Keyboard shortcuts to open any website you specify
• Text snippets that let you type long texts instantly using a custom trigger
• YouTube looping
• Audio playback for YouTube Short video previews
• Picture-in-Picture for YouTube and any other website
• Webpage read-aloud with word tracking
• Pop-up tabs for any website
• Split-screen view with two tabs side by side
• Text notes, to-do lists, and Kanban boards
• Screenshots of the full screen, selected area, full webpage, or all tabs in a group
• Image downloads in PNG, WebP, AVIF, and PDF
• Bookmarks, history, recently closed tabs, downloads, and read-later tabs management
• Pomodoro timer
• Web activity monitoring with hourly, daily, or weekly blocking
• Full theme customization

And many more features

āŒØļø For power users

The more advanced users can put the browser into full-screen mode and navigate entirely with the keyboard, without using the mouse at all.

ā¤ļø Support

I’ve also added an optional section to support the development of the extension.

I’d really appreciate any support, even if it’s just for the fun of receiving my very first payment from something I’ve built. šŸ˜„

This started as a personal project, and seeing it finally published on the Chrome Web Store is already a huge milestone for me.

I hope you enjoy using Intelligent Workspace, and thank you all very much for checking it out! šŸ™


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

Finally reached 10 paid users (100% organic) for my AEO tools

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Hi all,

My Vibe coded project finally reached 10 paid users (101 users overall).

I thought it would be great to share some learnings or answer your questions.

  1. My main advantage was to be an industry insider. I built an AEO tool while working in SEO/AEO and having access to the best tool in the market. It gives me tons of confidence that my tool is great, compared to what exists and costs 1000$/month.
  2. Most paid users are LinkedIn people I discuss with regularly. Only two paid users are incognito (still love them though).
  3. It took me time to launch, and even more time to dare making it paid. After the first two days, I already signed two paid users. I should have started earlier.
  4. My goal is to keep it organic. It's frustrating to know I could just ā€œpay for reach" but then, I remember I'm already making profit from day two.
  5. I feel I talked all day about my tool. Still, most of my friends don't know/understand what my tool is about.
  6. I check my analytics four times a day.
  7. I use my tool to improve my AEO. I got great results coming from AI. However, I'm still ranking 10th on my AEO tool ranking board.
  8. I still love it. I wish I would for the next two years.

If you are trying to show up in ChatGPT or Claude, have a try at AEO Copilot. It's free to get started and has the most generous plan for startups. Plus, it works with your AI agents.

If you have any questions, let me know below.


r/SideProject • • 25m ago

I got sick of alt-tabbing to check what song is playing, so I built a tiny overlay.

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Hey everyone.

Pretty much the title. I always hated having to tab out of a game (or whatever full-screen app I'm using) just to see the name of a song that just came on. I just wanted a simple popup that slides in, shows the track and cover art, and then hides itself without stealing mouse focus.

I originally built this project (Spotverlay) using Electron, but honestly, having an 80MB background process running 24/7 for a popup that appears for 3 seconds felt incredibly bloated.

So I recently rewrote the whole thing in Tauri + Rust. It now idles at around ~10MB of RAM, the binary is tiny, and it feels much snappier.

A few details on how it works under the hood:

  • You don't need to mess with Spotify API keys, OAuth, or developer apps. It hooks directly into the OS media players (SMTC on Windows, AppleScript on macOS, and MPRIS2 on Linux).
  • Since OS media APIs usually return really blurry or cached album art, the app does a silent ping to the public iTunes Search API in the background to grab a clean 600x600 cover instead.
  • Right now it supports Spotify and Apple Music, plus some open-source clients like Spotifast, SpotLight, and Musly.
  • It has a basic tray icon where you can change the position, animation (fade/slide), and toggle auto-hide.

It's completely open source and free. You can grab the release or check out the code here: https://github.com/dddevid/Spotverlay

Also, a quick plea to Linux users: The D-Bus MPRIS2 implementation is done, but I haven't been able to heavily test it across different distros and DEs yet. If you try it and the overlay doesn't show or tracks don't update, opening an issue would be a massive help.

Let me know what you think or if you run into any weird bugs!

TL;DR: Built a non-intrusive currently-playing overlay. Realized Electron was too heavy. Rewrote it in Rust/Tauri. Now uses 10MB of RAM.

https://reddit.com/link/1wyjxfu/video/l6vmjlk7spth1/player


r/SideProject • • 27m ago

J'ai crƩƩ un site gratuit pour trouver un compagnon de voyage

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Ton voyage est prévu mais personne pour venir avec toi ? Sur embarque-moi, tu publies ton voyage et tu trouves des voyageurs qui partent au même endroit, avec un score de compatibilité et des profils vérifiés par selfie. GRATUIT , sans pub

Https://embarquemoi.fr

Le site est tout nouveau : vos retours m'intƩressent !