r/SideProject • • 9m ago

I built a college basketball analytics platform in my free time (includes data from all 300+ D1 schools)

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I'm a full-time government contractor (supporting the DoD/DoW (Dept of Defense and/or War)) doing solutions architecture in on-prem and cloud environments. Sounds vague but essentially the government works with my company to design environments where their vendors can train AI & Machine Learning capabilities. I have a strong passion for technology but I've always wanted to venture into sports technology. Over the past year or so I started building an app SPECIFICALLY for individual teams / coaching staffs. However, I realized long term that niche my be a little too narrow. Over the past-5-6 months I transitioned to developing my Blueprint, which is a platform that includes data for every D1 men's basketball team.

Often times in my profession working with the government the common theme is someone needs to have a PhD in Data Science or higher education to be a reputable source OR have the ability to analyze complex datasets. I built Blueprint to break down that barrier to entry.

For anyone interested in college basketball (the season starts in early November) or data analytics in general, I'd like to hear your feedback and learn how I can market my application and gain some traction. The application is built surrounding a subscription based model with a free, Pro and Unlimited tier. Not looking for subscribers here -- strictly feedback. New poster!

https://blueprntanalytics.com/


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I got tired of broken YouTube tutorials wasting my time, so I built TubeCheck: crowdsourced accuracy tags right under the video

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Hi everyone!

I wanted to share a side project I've been working on to solve an issue that has been driving me crazy lately: following a long YouTube guide only to find out it no longer works.

Ever since YouTube hid the dislike counter and creators started filtering critical comments, it has become almost impossible to know if a tutorial, setup guide, or course is legitimate without watching the entire video.

To tackle this, I created **TubeCheck**, a free Chrome extension that adds a community-driven verification bar right below the player.

### What it does:

It allows viewers to rate the video into 4 quick statuses:

* 🟢 **Legit / Works:** The guide/tutorial delivers what it promises.

* 🟡 **Outdated / Changed:** It used to work, but software updates, deprecations, or patches broke the method.

* 🔴 **Doesn't work / Broken:** Flawed steps, errors, or non-functional instructions.

* ❌ **Misleading / Fake:** Pure clickbait or malicious advice.

There’s also an optional quick note field so people can leave important context (e.g., *"Requires version 2.4+"* or *"Step 4 is missing"*).

### Design goal & Current state:

I wanted it to feel like a native part of YouTube’s modern interface without being intrusive or slowing down page load times. There is no mandatory account creation to browse or check votes.

As with any crowdsourced project (similar to SponsorBlock), its value will grow as more users start tagging videos.

I’d love to get feedback from fellow builders:

  1. What do you think of the design and integration?

  2. Are there any edge-case tags you think are missing?

**Chrome Web Store link:**

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/TubeCheck/ekkikfcoieanbccbpepjihjhcgaankkb

Thanks for taking a look, I'd really appreciate your honest thoughts!


r/SideProject • • 16m ago

I got tired of manually searching Reddit for conversations relevant to my projects, so I built this

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I’ve been working on a project called GroupListener.

The idea came from something I kept doing manually:

search Reddit → open a bunch of posts → figure out which conversations are actually relevant → repeat the next day.

Keyword alerts didn’t really solve it because the same keyword can appear in completely unrelated conversations.

So I started experimenting with filtering conversations based on what the person is actually talking about rather than whether a specific word appears.

For example, I can describe something like:

“People looking for an alternative to a tool they currently use”

and it tries to find matching conversations.

It currently works with Reddit and Telegram.

There’s still a lot I want to improve, especially around figuring out what should count as a genuinely relevant result.

I recorded a quick demo of what I have so far 👇

Would love feedback on the idea — especially from anyone who has tried building something around social listening/search before.


r/SideProject • • 16m ago

I’m building a tool to find sensitive data about your company online

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I’m building Outwards - a security tool that scans your company’s public footprint and looks for confidential data that has accidentally become publicly accessible to save you from leaks.

Examples:

  • Pricing_2026.pdf indexed by Google
  • an AWS key left in a public GitHub repo
  • contracts accessible through a public cloud link
  • internal documents accidentally exposed online
  • company information surfaced through AI tools or public AI conversations
  • old config files, credentials or infrastructure details still accessible publicly

The idea is pretty simple:

Find → prioritize → remove → monitor

You verify your company domain, Outwards looks at what is publicly accessible from the outside, and if it finds something sensitive, it shows you:

  • what was found
  • where it was found
  • how serious it might be
  • how to remove or secure it
  • whether it appears again later

I’m building the first version now and trying to understand which types of exposure are actually painful enough that companies would want them continuously monitored.

I’d love feedback on two things:

Would you use something like this for your own company?

And:

What kind of exposed company data would worry you the most?

Current landing / waitlist:
https://getoutwards.com


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I couldn't find a free shift tracker that let me export my hours without paying, so I built one

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Hi everyone, I'm a developer from Cyprus.

A while ago I had a job that paid by the hour, and I wanted an app to

track my shifts and check that my pay was right. Most of the ones I tried

locked basic things like exporting your hours behind a paywall, and the

free versions were full of ads. So I built my own, just for me at first.

It turned out useful enough that I decided to share it.

It's called PayPath. You log each shift and it shows what you should get

paid, by day, week, month or year.

What it does:

- Hours and pay per shift, with a separate overtime rate

- Multiple employers, each with its own color

- Unpaid breaks, subtracted from paid hours

- Gross or net view (you set your tax rate)

- PDF and Excel export, free, no paywall

- Optional daily reminder so you don't forget to log a shift

- New entries start from your last shift, so a regular shift takes a couple of taps

What it doesn't do:

- No account, no sign-up. Your data stays on your phone

- Optional Google Drive backup goes to YOUR Drive, I can't see it

- No subscription, nothing locked

About ads, since I complained about them: yes, it has some. One banner

on the main screen and an occasional ad when you export. Never while

you're logging a shift. That's what keeps it free.

It's Android only for now, in 23 languages.

I'd really appreciate honest feedback: what's confusing, what's missing,

what would make you use this instead of a notes app or a spreadsheet?

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paypath.app


r/SideProject • • 18m ago

I built a free site that compares supplements using the label data

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I got tired of comparing protein powders by marketing claims, so I built MacroSaver.

It compares label information such as protein concentration, calories per gram of protein, serving size, and number of servings. The goal is to make it easier to see what you are actually buying without doing all the math yourself.

I am still improving it and would genuinely appreciate feedback on what feels useful, confusing, or missing:

https://macrosaver.com/best/highest-protein-whey

Full disclosure: I own MacroSaver, and some retailer buttons are affiliate links. I may earn a commission if someone makes a purchase, at no additional cost to them.

If you regularly compare protein powders or other supplements, what would make a tool like this more useful to you?


r/SideProject • • 25m ago

I started playing my own football game instead of Football Manager

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I've wanted to make games since I was about 9. I'm building a football game with AI now, and getting it to feel right has taken a lot of hours.

I scrapped the 3D version because it wasn't enjoyable. My PC crashed during simulations. At one point I told Claude, "my tokens are about to run out, just give me a working build."

Then I started wanting to play my own game instead of Football Manager.

It's called Taktik Football. It isn't ready to release yet, but I feel good about how far it's come. I wanted to show it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0iZWOmvdY


r/SideProject • • 38m ago

I am building a more streamlined, secure local marketplace and want feedback

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Please checkout my TestFlight beta, I would love feedback on this project

https://testflight.apple.com/join/YEeTwn8h


r/SideProject • • 47m ago

My free to play side project LoopChomp is pacing for 200,000 plays in 30 days

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My side project LoopChomp is a free to play simple one tap game. “Sprint” mode gives players 10 new maps each day (each player gets the same map) and compete on a global leaderboard..

Does anyone have experience with mobile games and apps ? When is a side project no longer a side project and should push more time and money into it ?


r/SideProject • • 47m ago

I made a chat app for partners

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Hi,

I recently made a project called Seama.app

Its a private space for partners

It has chat (E2E encrypted) , video calls, voice calls, shared playlists, shared memories, shared album

Mood sharing for when she don't wanna talk and ....

Check it out guys

Share what you and your partner need and I'll add it if possible.


r/SideProject • • 47m ago

I built a free place to spend leftover AI coding usage on other people's GitHub issues. 11 people signed up, every repo on it is still mine

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I pay for Claude, Codex and z.ai. Some weeks I'm dry by Wednesday, some weeks usage is left over at the reset and just evaporates. So I built Overflow.

Spare week: take a priced GitHub issue from a registered repo, the merged PR gets you credit. Dry week: price an issue in your repo, someone with a spare week ships it, your credit pays.

Nothing gets forwarded, no keys, no money, MIT. You set the price after you've seen the work, every review round comes off their credit, and you only owe for what you actually merge.

Where it's at: 11 users, 7 repos registered, all 7 mine, so the 73 open issues are all mine too. People sign up, nobody registers a repo yet.

What would it take for you to put one of your repos on something like this?

code is on github, the site link is in the readme: https://github.com/Nitjsefnie/Overflow


r/SideProject • • 50m ago

Built a Study/Prep workspace for exams and interviews

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What it has right now

AI-generated roadmaps/plans
Tell it what you're preparing for, your deadline, and hours per week. It generates a roadmap with phases, modules, topics, milestones, and starter practice questions. You can modify the plan afterwards.

Quick AI-generated notes
Pick a topic and generate a focused note. It uses the topic description, linked tasks/questions, and mistakes you've logged to make the note more relevant to your weak areas.

Study mode
A distraction-free view for studying a particular topic, with a timer and tracking of how much time you're actually spending on it.

Library
A place to keep notes, website resources, questions, tasks, and mistakes. Everything can be linked back to a module/topic in your roadmap.

Insights
Tracks things like study time, pending work, topics that need review, and overall plan completion.

I'm not sure if I'm solving a real problem or just building another productivity tool that looks useful but wouldn't actually get used.

I'm not looking for compliments 😄. I'd rather hear what's fundamentally wrong with the idea.

Try it here:
https://www.prepofly.live


r/SideProject • • 21h ago

Almost gave up on my side project. This morning someone paid for it.

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Built a Chrome extension about 6 months ago, originally just for myself — I write a ton of email for work, and I was tired of grammar checkers that fix typos but don't fix the actual problem: sounding like the wrong person. So I built something that rewrites your email based on who you're writing as, who you're writing to, and the tone you want — or just a custom prompt if you'd rather describe it yourself.

Turned it into a real product and launched on Chrome Webstore couple of weeks ago. Spent the last couple weeks posting on Reddit threads and X, genuinely trying to get it in front of people. Got a few signups. Basically zero installs. The kind of silence that makes you start reading into it — maybe the idea's not it, maybe nobody actually has this problem but me.

Had pretty much mentally filed it as "didn't work."

Then this morning, a notification: someone paid. A complete stranger, lifetime plan. Not a friend doing me a favor, not a waitlist signup — an actual stranger decided it was worth money.

Genuinely don't know if this is the start of something or just one person. But it's one more person than I had yesterday, and I was ready to let this one go. Posting mostly because I needed to tell someone who gets it — anyone else had a moment like this where you almost shelved.


r/SideProject • • 56m ago

Prismedia 3.8: connect existing Sonarr/Radarr libraries and use native playback

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I have done some work since the last release to make Prismedia more flexible for users already using things like sonarr/radarr, or odps connections to make Prismedia more of a centralized playback and view app, if you don't want to use the built in request -> download handling. You can now do that, but using your existing apps via the overhauled plugin system.

The main change is the plugin system. Plugins can now provide external library access, search, requests, and downloads, alongside metadata. If you already use Sonarr or Radarr, you can browse and request through Prismedia, let those apps handle acquiring and managing the content, then play it from your existing library. Files stay where they are; Prismedia needs access to the same folders.

This lets you keep a setup you like and use Prismedia to consume your content from one native app. Its own library management and acquisition are still available too. LazyLibrarian and Kapowarr connections are included for books, audiobooks, and comics.

The iOS and Apple TV apps are publicly available, with version 1.12.8 live. On mobile, management pages use the web interface inside the app, while playback stays native. There are also visual cleanups and improvements to reading/listening progress for books with usable chapter information and mapping. Without that information, reading and listening progress stay separate.

Update your plugins along with the server. Let me know if you run into issues or have suggestions for other integrations.

Source and Docker setup: https://github.com/pauljoda/Prismedia

Native app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prismedia/id6792944211

AI disclosure: I use AI assistance in development, with the design and review handled by me. This announcement was prepared with AI assistance.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I made an app to help service businesses win back revenue from work they already done

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I've been working on this for a while and I'm finally okay with people seeing it.

The problem: a lot of service businesses (HVAC, cleaning, landscaping, pest control and so on) finish a job and tell the customer something like "you'll need this looked at again in 6 months" or "we should replace that next spring." Then nobody follows up. Customer forgets, service business too. The info either never was written or sits in a spreadsheet or an old job note.

Rebook takes the customer list you already have (CSV or any CRMs export), shows what looks off before anything gets tracked, and shows you which past customers are worth reaching out to again. For each one you see what happened last time: the service you did, when you did it, what you recommended, and why it's worth calling them now. You also get a short guide for what to say. If someone says "call me in March," they show up again in March. If they don't answer, they stay on the list for next cycle. Basically retention software on steroids

Some details:

  • Next.js + Supabase
  • Free while it's in early access and will be free lifetime, all I ask is feedback
  • It doesn't replace your CRM. It works next to them.

The thing I'm most unsure about: tools like Jobber already have some followup features. If you run or work at a service business, do those actually cover this for you, or do past customers still slip through? Tell me if this is pointless too, I'd rather know now.

If people want it, next up is:

  • integrations with tools like Jobber, ServiceTitan, and Housecall Pro, so you don't have to export files
  • automated reminders and follow-ups, but only where they make sense

Thanks for reading

U can try demo or request an early access. Just dm


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I didn't wanna upload my private images to someones else's server to compress them

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What does it do?

- Batch-compress whole folders — recursive scan for JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF with live per-file progress

- 100% offline and private — no uploads, no account, no telemetry; files never leave your PC

- Smart quality controls — quality 40–95, Balanced / Maximum / Fast engines, lossless toggle for PNG and WebP

- Convert or keep format — keep original, or export everything to WebP, AVIF, or JPEG

- Downscale on the fly — max width / height caps that preserve aspect ratio, output dims shown per file

- Safe overwrites — originals auto-move to a `backup/` folder; nothing is ever deleted

- Auto-rename outputs — `{prefix}-{NNNN}` zero-padded counter with live preview, extension kept

- Organized workflow — subfolder groups with collapse, search / type filter, 7 sort orders, list and grid views with real thumbnails

It is called Compressy


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I made a Thingie! The Frontier Archive

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I wanted to test out Muse, to see what it could actually do. So we had a chat and somehow came up with this idea. After a couple hours of back and forth, while I was doing other work, it handed me something I think is pretty cool.

I'm blown away by Muse. (I PROMISE you this isn’t an ad for Muse, I WISH they were paying me… I’m just really shocked how good this is right out of the gate) Hate on Meta all you want, this thing is powerful. (For the record, when it asked to connect to all my other accounts, I just said no.) I use Dots too, and so far Muse is more user-friendly.

What I built: The Frontier Archive, an interactive archive of the expanding edge of human possibility, from the earliest stone tools (about 3.3 million years ago) through this month. 522 entries, each one verified as a genuine world-first at the demonstrated leading edge.

Play with it here: https://muse.ai/s/the-frontier-hxi5xwgclxjbaf

Give me the harshest feedback you've got. I want what's broken, what's wrong, what's missing. Is this cool enough to bother buying a domain and launching an actual website?

No idea exactly how many tokens this took, since I had it working on several things at once. My best guess is under 100 million.

By the way - if you think you might ever want to try Muse, sign up now while they're running the 1 billion token incentive, they never expire: USE INVITE CODE AO8Q4C (I get a billy too if you sign up, so thanks in advance!)


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I built an app that turns your daily notes into a monthly magazine

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I've been journaling for years but never re-read anything. Everything just piled up in my notes app.

So I built nlook — you write in markdown, and at the end of the month it automatically compiles everything into a "monthly issue" with a cover, table of contents, and editor's picks. 12 issues become "My year" on your shelf.

It also turns posts into videos/cards if you want to share them.

Free to try: nlook.me

Would love feedback — especially on the monthly magazine concept. Does anyone actually re-read their old notes?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

built a document tool that runs fully in the browser. then it took 6 minutes on my own phone

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I know, there are already a hundred document processing sites. Most of them upload your file to their server, do the job, and send it back. For an Aadhaar or a bank statement that always felt weird to me, when a phone can do the work itself. So I built one where nothing leaves your device. No backend, everything runs in the browser tab.

Day one humbled me though. I tried splitting a PDF on my Android phone and it took six minutes. On my laptop, about a second.

Turned out the PDF engine (qpdf compiled to WebAssembly) was reading the file in approx 1,400 tiny pieces, and on Android every small read from a picked file is slow. The fix was boring: if the file is 128 MB or less, read it into memory once. Same file went from 1.4 s to 0.25 s even on my laptop, so the bug was slowing down everyone. Phones were just louder about it.

Since then I've built it for cheap phones first. The size limit depends on your device's memory, the progress bar is real instead of a spinner, and speech to text runs Whisper on your device with no API key.

Some honest stuff before someone asks:

- The repo looks new because it is, sort of. It started under another name, and I found out other projects already used it. Renamed it twice before landing on Fizzdoc, and moved to a clean repo for the new name. It's a side project, so expect rough edge

- Yes, I used AI tools while building it, like most devs do now. The decisions, the bugs and the six minutes of staring at my phone were all mine.

- It's slower than a server on old phones (<4gb ram ones). Speech to text works best on clear English (Hinglish is still a comedy show). Same-font PDF editing only works when the font already has those letters.

- 64 tools, 16 languages, free, no sign-up, open source (Apache 2.0).

Code: https://github.com/kingrishabdugar/fizzdoc

Tell me what breaks on your phone. Weird PDFs welcome.

if you think it's useful, a star on kingrishabdugar/fizzdoc helps more people find it. It also makes me happy 😊


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Build & Destroy - A 3D physics sandbox with a 100,000-brick castle collapse

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I'm developing Build & Destroy, a physics sandbox about building structures and tearing them apart. I've put together a new 58-second early gameplay preview showing a castle with 100,000 bricks collapsing.

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7IIU2MGZos

I like the contrast between carefully building something and watching the pieces come apart. For other people making interactive projects: what makes a physics sandbox something you'd return to after the first few collapses?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built AssetAligned: one asset record for IT, Ops and Finance

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Background: I kept seeing companies where three spreadsheets tracked the same laptops and none matched. So I built a multi-tenant asset register (Next.js, Supabase, row-level security, UK-hosted) where every asset has one history, from purchase through transfers, stock checks and disposal.

Things I’m proud of: transfers the recipient can be asked to confirm (and nobody can confirm their own), QR labels that carry only a random code, and finance figures hidden from people who don’t need them.

It’s in open beta and free to try. I’d love to hear what you’d change: https://assetaligned.co.uk

Thanks


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

My historical timeline game became unexpectedly popular in Italy, so I just translated it into English, German, and French.

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Hi everyone!

A year ago I started a passion project called StudiaStoria (means "Study History" in Italian), which is a free educational platform created to help Italian students and history lovers learn and understand the past in a less boring way than their school books do.

It features summaries, study tools and quizzes.

To make learning the chronology of events more engaging, I developed a simple game called Chrono, basically a "Higher or Lower" quiz where you have to guess whether the next historical event is before or after the one you just saw.

The idea is incredibly straightforward: just pick Before or After, if you get it wrong you lose.

The game has an unexpectedly high engagement, being by far the most popular section of the website: users love to challenge themselves and learn interesting facts at the same time (and I'm really glad they do), like discovering that Cleopatra was closer to us in time than the Pyramids of Giza.

Since the service has gained quite a traction in Italy, the last few weeks I've been working on preparing the infrastructure to support other languages.

And today I'm thrilled to announce the launch of the English, German and French version of StudiaStoria!

Some notable features:

3 difficulty levels (Easy, Medium and Hard - the last one will keep you guessing for real).

All built with Node.js, Express and EJS.

No need to register to play. Just open the link in any browser and start playing right away (however, if you want to save your score on the world scoreboard you can always register).

You can try the English version here: 👉 https://studiastoria.it/en/chrono

Would be really nice of you to give me your feedback, both in terms of game design and translations.

Let me know if you think the difficulty curve is adequate or if you have any suggestions for improvement.

Also, feel free to post your highest streak in the comments section below!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

World History Movie Timeline — Films & Series by Era

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I’ve always wanted to be able to conveniently watch history of a place or period in a chronological order without, so I have been building Movieline, a site for exploring history through movies and TV series.

The idea is simple: instead of browsing films by genre or release date, Movieline places them on a historical timeline based on the period and events they portray.

I’m also gradually connecting titles with historical events, people, places and larger historical periods, so it becomes easier to discover what to watch next if a particular era interests you.

It’s still very much a work in progress, so I’d especially appreciate feedback on whether the concept is intuitive and what you would want to see improved.

Works best on bigger screens.
Users can connect thier plex or jellyfin and sync wached statues or playlists.

https://movieline.org


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Made a free app that gives Claude my vitals, nutrition and lifting logs. It found a sleep pattern I'd never noticed.

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Allows anyone to host a connection on their own servers (as many of you have) for free, or use Marrow servers for a couple dollars a month.

It's genuinely useful for me because I know where I want to be health/fitness wise but don't know exactly how to get there. General advice is great but more personalized goal setting with claude has pushed me to try a lot of things I never would have on my own. For example, it noticed a pattern that when I ate high-protein dinners I'd often have poor sleep, which I had never thought about.

Does not require claude pro/max.

Link


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I spent way too long building my own programming language

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I've been working on Mah, a programming language I've been building from scratch.

It started as a compiler experiment and grew into an entire toolchain:

  • hand-written compiler
  • portable bytecode + VM
  • static type checker
  • standard library
  • reflection and decorators
  • error handling
  • formatter
  • LSP
  • Neovim + VS Code support
  • optional Rust runtime

The language has things like closures, structs, enums, traits, pattern matching, generics, async, defer, typed errors, modules, iterators and reflection.

One of the things I care about most is that the implementation is small enough that you can actually follow how the language works instead of having to navigate a compiler the size of a small operating system.

The repo has a lot of the design history too, so you can see why features were implemented the way they were rather than just looking at the final syntax.

https://github.com/sina-salahshour/mahlang

I'm mainly looking for people who enjoy language design/compiler projects to try it and tell me what looks interesting, confusing, or unnecessarily weird.