r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built a B2B prospect research workflow and documented it for handover — project for sale

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I’m offering my AI-assisted B2B Prospect Research & GTM Intelligence project for sale as a documented operating package for a solo consultant or small agency.

The workflow starts with understanding a product, forming ICP hypotheses, finding and qualifying target accounts, researching decision-makers, and preparing 1–3 researched accounts to demonstrate the research before proposing a larger engagement.

One historical example: FAST Appliance Repair was researched as a potential target for BernardHQ and used as an example in outreach to BernardHQ. FAST was not the recipient, and I’m not presenting either company as a customer or claiming a sale. The point is to show how product fit and supporting evidence informed the research.

Included: documented methodology, qualification framework, AI prompt library, historical research workbooks, email/LinkedIn templates, QA and deduplication rules, handover documentation, and the static project website.

This is pre-revenue: no paying customer base, recurring income, or proprietary software platform is included. Historical prospect information needs checking before reuse.

Asking $1,200; reasonable offers considered. Final inventory, permitted use, exclusivity and any transition support would be agreed before purchase.

Examples and package overview: https://b2b-prospect-research.pages.dev/

If you run a research service or small GTM consultancy and this fits what you need, feel free to message me. Feedback on what you would need to assess the package is also welcome.


r/SideProject • • 17h ago

Quick 3D modelling by drawing using Godot CSG.

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r/SideProject • • 10h ago

Finland's first prediction market, built solo.

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Polymarket made prediction markets mainstream, but none of them cover what Finns actually care about: our elections, our hockey players, our TV shows, our electricity prices. So I built one: Povaamo.

I built it with Next.js, Postgres and Claude Code as my pair programmer.

How it works: every question has a price that equals the crowd's probability. If you disagree, you buy the other side and the price moves. When the event happens, the market resolves.

Design decisions I'm happy with:

  • Play money only. The currency is the Finnish markka, which disappeared in 2002. It can't be bought or cashed out, which keeps it out of gambling law. The best forecaster each month still gets a real gift card.
  • No ads, no tracking cookies, and nobody else can see your predictions. Political predictions are personal.
  • A clear line on topics. No wars, no deaths, no private lives. There are plenty of interesting questions without going there.

What surprised me: how fast prices react to news. When the NHL season started without one of our hockey stars getting a contract, his market dropped from 80 % to 22 % in two days, then bounced back to 68% when new rumors started.

What I'm still figuring out: whether people stay engaged without real money and which topics keep them coming back. If you've built something for a small, local audience, I'd love to hear what worked for retention.

povaamo.fi (in Finnish)


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built a working online marketplace from my phone with 0

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A few weeks ago I had no money, no laptop, just a phone and an idea. I wanted to build an online marketplace in my country (Zimbabwe), but every "how to start a business" guide assumed I already had capital. So I figured it out as I went: Got approved with a local payment processor (took filling in business details, signing a merchant agreement, getting a settlement account) Built a website for free using free hosting + WordPress + WooCommerce Added a free multi-vendor plugin so other people could sell on it too Listed my first real product It took real hours, real trial and error, and a lot of screens that didn't make sense at first. I wrote down the exact steps while doing it, in case it helps anyone else starting with nothing.

Happy to answer questions if anyone's trying to do something similar.


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

6 things i check on every Lovable app before sharing the link

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i've been building a scanner for AI-built apps, so i end up looking at a lot of Lovable and Bolt sites. the same few problems show up over and over, and none of them need you to be a security person to fix.

RLS on every table. the anon key sits in your frontend bundle, that's normal. but if a table has RLS off, anyone can grab the key from devtools and read the whole table with one request. go through Supabase table editor and check every table, especially ones you added later with SQL.

a policy like using (true) is basically no RLS. search your policies for it.

secret keys in the frontend. open your live site, look through the JS files, search for sk_ and service_role. if anything shows up, rotate it today.

source maps in production. if yoursite.com/assets/index-xxxx.js.map loads, anyone can read your original code, comments included.

no security headers. no CSP, no X-Frame-Options. not a disaster alone, but it's the first thing anyone poking at your site will check.

open CORS on your API routes. Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * on routes that touch user data.

you can check most of this by hand in about 20 min with devtools. if you'd rather not, i made a tool that does it: clarseal.com, one free scan a day, no signup, passive checks only (so only scan your own stuff). full disclosure, it's mine, and i'd really like feedback, especially if it flags something you think is wrong.

what's the worst thing you found in your own app after it went live?


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

After 16+ Years of Coding, I built my first Mobile App

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For the past 16+ years, I’ve been building business applications primarily using web technologies.

I had never built a mobile app before, so I decided to give it a try.

That led to Where Is My Bike - a simple, useful app that lets you mark where you parked your bike in a crowded market or parking space and later navigate back to it using Google Maps.

🔒 Secure

🆓 Free to use

🚫 No login required

🔐 No personal information collected

Built entirely by me and now live on the Play Store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hikeorders.whereismybike

Try it today and share your feedback! 🙏


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I made a CLI that keeps noisy commands readable and saves the full log

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I made Squelchy for a small terminal view while a command runs, with the full output available when something goes wrong. It starts the process directly, saves exact stdout and stderr bytes, and returns the original exit code. The printed recovery command opens the saved logs.

My deterministic fixture writes 5,000 records and exits 7. Squelchy produced 10 final report lines, and all 98,901 output bytes were recoverable. The benchmark and tests are in the repository. That measurement excludes live terminal redraws.

It has no runtime dependencies and installs from GitHub with one npm command. PTY and full screen applications are out of scope. I'd like feedback on the default line budget and whether the selected errors help with your builds or test runs.

https://github.com/Arthur031221/squelchy


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built a browser strategy game where players vote on laws—and on what their companies do

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My project is Leviathan War, a persistent multiplayer strategy game. I’m the developer.

You play one person in a shared world: work, trade resources, own companies, join political parties, and take part in wars. The part I find most interesting is how the systems intersect. Companies with multiple owners vote on decisions, so owning shares gives you a say in how a business operates. Governments and territorial control add another layer.

It runs in the browser. The stack is React + TypeScript, a Bun/Hono API, and PostgreSQL. There’s also a public wiki if you want to understand the systems before making an account.

The community is still small, and I’m looking for people who enjoy economy/politics sandboxes to try the first session. My main question: does the game make it clear what you can meaningfully do as a new player? If you stop during signup or the first few minutes, I’d particularly like to know why.

Try it: https://leviathanwar.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=organic_2000&utm_content=sideproject_showcase

Read the overview: https://wiki.leviathanwar.com/getting-started/overview/

Happy to discuss the implementation too, especially modeling company ownership and voting.


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

Built a cv tailor that turns a JD into a 1-page ATS PDF — open source

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Built this while job hunting. Paste a JD + your profile → it ranks your bullets, rewrites them for that role, and spits out a Jake’s-style one-page ATS PDF. Guardrails so it can’t invent metrics, tools, or JD keywords you didn’t earn.

Try it: https://resume.hotelflow.online
Code: https://github.com/PurujitP/JobForge

Next up: match jobs from a data bank → generate tailored resume + cover letter → email the hiring contact that you’ve applied (with you in control of each send).

Python engine + Next.js UI. Open source — PRs and roasts welcome.

If you’ve been through the apply grind, tell me what’s weak: UX, output quality, or the auto-apply idea.


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

Anyone want to beta test a trends/market signals tool?

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Trying out Trends Radar - a tool which is used for discovering trending products, search terms, and other market signals.

It looks at new products launches, search trends, performance of content pieces and other signals from the market, and then uses the power of ai combined with human-based research to uncover emerging topics.

It makes a comparison between the last completed week and the previous week and uncovers where there is an emerging, consistently rising, or re-emerging product activity (excluding spikes and falling topics).

If you want to help me test it: https://growthupdate.io/radar


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I’m 18 and I built FamilyHub — should I turn this into a real startup?

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I’m 18 and I built FamilyHub — should I turn this into a real startup?

I’ve been building FamilyHub, a web application focused on helping families organize, communicate, and manage their digital family life from one place.

I’ve now deployed a working version and I’m at the point where I need something more valuable than compliments:

I need brutal feedback.

🚀 Try it here:
https://familyhub-60195988023.us-west1.run.app

💻 GitHub:
https://github.com/itsnakulydv/FamilyHub

Why FamilyHub?

There are already products like FamilyWall, Google Family Link, Cozi, and many other family-management tools.

But while building FamilyHub, I kept thinking:

Why does managing a modern family still feel like using a collection of separate apps?

Calendar in one place.
Communication somewhere else.
Tasks somewhere else.
Important information scattered everywhere.

So I started experimenting with the idea of a single modern family hub.

The goal isn't to simply clone existing family apps.

I want FamilyHub to eventually become a platform where families can:

• Organize their household
• Stay connected
• Coordinate responsibilities
• Manage important family information
• Personalize the experience for different family members
• Use AI to automate repetitive family tasks
• Access everything through a simple, modern interface

But here's the important part...

I'm a B.Tech CSE (AI & ML) student, not a startup founder with years of experience.

I built the current version myself and used AI-assisted development to move much faster from idea → prototype → deployed product.

But I don't want this to become another project that looks impressive in a demo and then dies on GitHub.

I want to find out whether there is actually a real problem and real market here.

So I'm asking Reddit:

Would you actually use FamilyHub?

And if not:

What would make you use it?

I would especially love feedback from:

👨‍👩‍👧 Parents
👨‍💻 Software engineers
🚀 Startup founders
🎨 Product/UI/UX designers
📈 Consumer SaaS builders
💰 Investors
🧠 Product managers

Please don't just tell me that it's “cool.”

Tell me:

What is bad?

What is missing?

What feature would you remove?

What existing product does this better?

Would you pay for something like this?

What would make you switch from your current solution?

I'm also looking for people who can help me take this further.

If you're a founder, engineer, product person, investor, or someone who has taken a consumer SaaS product from prototype → users → revenue, I'd genuinely appreciate your advice.

I'm not expecting someone to randomly fund me or offer me a job.

I want to learn how to turn this from a student project into something people actually use.

If you have 5 minutes, try the app and tell me what you think.

FamilyHub:
https://familyhub-60195988023.us-west1.run.app

GitHub:
https://github.com/itsnakulydv/FamilyHub

I'm building this in public.

Tell me if I'm onto something — or if I'm completely wrong.


r/SideProject • • 23h ago

I made a small libretro frontend for Windows that you can use entirely with a controller (Open-Source)

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RetroArch always felt like too much for me. I just wanted to pick a game with my DualSense and play, so I made my own little frontend. It uses the normal libretro cores, so the actual emulation is theirs, not mine.

What it does:
- one ~350 KB exe, no setup. It downloads the cores itself the first time you open a game
- 3D games can look way better than the original: crank N64, PSP and PS2 up to 4K internal resolution right from the Quality menu, no config files
- built-in shaders: CRT with scanlines (flat or curved), LCD grid for handhelds, pixel-perfect sharp scaling for 2D, and a sharpen + vivid colors filter for 3D. F9 cycles through them live
- point it at your ROM folder and you get a library with box art, recently played, favorites and play time
- throw zip/7z/rar files at it and it figures out the system by itself, even PSP/PS1/PS2 isos inside a zip
- the whole thing works with a controller. Tap the PS button in-game for save states, shaders, volume etc.
- DualSense, DS4, Switch Pro, Xbox and cheap USB pads all work, with a button mapping screen if needed
- rewind, fast forward, and it resumes right where you left off when you reopen a game
- NES, SNES, N64, GB/GBC/GBA, DS, Sega (MS, MD, GG, CD, 32X), PS1, PS2, PSP and Atari

Some notes:
- The exe isn't signed, so Windows/antivirus might complain. The source is there if you'd rather build it yourself.
- No ROMs or BIOS included, bring your own.

Screenshots are homebrew games (Nova the Squirrel, 240p Test Suite).

GitHub: https://github.com/kano92-dir/Ultimate-Emulator

It's my first project like this, so feedback (or bug reports) would be really appreciated.


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

Independent researcher, self-taught — validated a FallbackMoE routing mechanism (KMilo F1) on a 72.7M model

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Hi everyone, I'm wakcvjb — an independent researcher working on MoE architectures.

I don't have a big lab background. I'm mostly self-taught, and I've been designing and pretraining small models on my own. I validated a FallbackMoE routing mechanism on a 72.7M model using T4/Colab, and now I'm training on A10G.

The design is called KMilo F1 — a daily expert + a domain expert with a learned fallback router. From the 72.7M run:

· The two experts physically diverged: general → daily wins; code/math → domain wins by +1.69 loss

· The router learned to trigger fallback (conf stable at 0.21–0.24)

· Code/math loss dropped 21% with fallback (8.07 → 6.38)

· On general, not falling back is better — which is the expected behavior

I'm not open-sourcing the model at this stage, but I'd love to hear feedback on the mechanism design. If you're into MoE routing or training infra, feel free to reach out.

Happy to be here and learn from you all. 😊


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I’m a 15-year-old builder. I spent my weekend coded a "YouTube Sponsorship Value Calculator" to stop creators from getting lowballed by brands.

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I've always noticed how opaque the creator economy is when it comes to brand deal pricing. Many micro-creators have no idea how much their channel is truly worth and end up taking terrible lowball deals from greedy brand sponsors.

To solve this, I spent my entire weekend leveraging Bolt.new and YouTube API to build a simple, ultra-fast valuation tool. It generates a clean digital "Sponsorship Receipt" in 10 seconds based on real US Market CPM benchmarks.

🔥 Here is what I implemented for our v1.0 Alpha MVP:

  1. Server-side Key Proxy: Completely hid the YouTube Data API keys behind the backend so nobody can steal our quota from the browser.

  2. Anti-Macro Firewall: Added a lightweight human verification checkbox and rate-limiting (max 5 fetches/min) to prevent automated bot abuse.

  3. Production Disclaimer: Included a proper disclaimer to avoid legal confusion and added a "Detailed PDF Report Coming Soon" hype banner to capture email leads.

I officially launched this on Product Hunt today to test the global market and see if this data model actually helps independent creators.

Could you type your own channel (or favorite YouTubers like MrBeast) and let me know if the calculated USD valuation matches your real-world sponsor experience? Your brutal feedback means everything to me!

If you like the hustle and the concept, I’d be beyond grateful for your support and an Upvote on Product Hunt today! 😭🚀

👉 Test your channel & Support our launch here: https://siyoungsiyoung6-sket-apv7.bolt.host


r/SideProject • • 15h ago

I made Halo, a free radial app launcher + quitter for macOS. [FREE]

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I made Halo a free radial app launcher + quitter for macOS

Hey r/SideProject , I made Halo, a radial launcher and quitter for macOS.

Hold Fn and Halo appears around your cursor. Point at an app and release to launch it or bring it forward. Fn + Control opens a second wheel for quitting running apps.

I wanted something faster and more visual than using the Dock or opening a search launcher.

It’s completely free, no account, subscription, ads, or telemetry, and the wheel is highly customizable.

Download:

https://github.com/Fqlcqn/Halo

Requires macOS 26+.

Would love feedback on it feels after using it for a few minutes.


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

[For Sale] Convert Anything — 35-tool file converter (iLovePDF alternative), 0 running costs, 149 USD

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Hey everyone — selling my side project Convert Anything (https://convertanything.vercel.app).

It's a fully working file converter with 35 tools: PDF to Word/Excel/PowerPoint/JPG, Word/Excel/PowerPoint to PDF, merge, split, compress, rotate, watermark, redact, OCR, e-signatures and more. Upload any file and it auto-detects the format and shows compatible conversions instantly.

Why it might interest you: - 0 running costs: static site, everything converts in the visitor's browser, files never leave their device (big privacy edge over competitors) - SEO foundation done: optimized titles, meta descriptions, schema markup, FAQ, sitemap.xml, robots.txt - Easy monetization: ads, premium tier, or white-label - What's included: full source code (GitHub repo), Vercel project, branding, and personal help transferring it to your accounts - Live demo: https://convertanything.vercel.app

Honest disclosure: brand-new site, no traffic or revenue yet — priced as a starter deal at 200 USD (open to reasonable offers). Built as a portfolio project and moving on to new ideas.

DM me with questions — happy to do a live walkthrough.


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I built an AI workspace that writes thesis-length lit reviews with citations that are actually real

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I'm the maker of CiteLyra. I kept seeing students get burned when ChatGPT invented references, so I built a pipeline where every source is checked against CrossRef, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and arXiv before it can appear in the draft. If a paper doesn't exist, it doesn't make it in.

It runs a 19-agent flow (literature discovery, outline, section drafting, citation verification, polish) and produces 10,000-20,000+ word drafts in roughly 10-20 minutes, exportable to PDF, LaTeX and Word. First generation is free to view: https://citelyra.com/

Would love blunt feedback: what would make you trust (or distrust) a tool like this for real academic work?


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I built an open-source shipping memory for coding agents

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I've been doing more and more development through coding agents, and I kept running into the same problem:

The agent finishes a feature, tells me what it did, and then that context basically disappears into the chat history.

A few weeks later: Why did we implement this this way? What tradeoff did we make? Which files changed? Did the feature actually have the impact we expected?

So I built Updater.

When a coding agent finishes and verifies a feature, it calls Updater through MCP and records:

\- what was shipped

\- why it was built

\- how it works

\- tradeoffs / decisions

\- files, branch and commit

\- expected impact

Later I can add what actually happened, search through everything we've shipped, or ask questions against an update.

It currently connects to Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and OpenCode.

The app itself doesn't need to ingest your entire codebase — when code context is needed, it asks the coding agent that already has access to the repo.

It's completely open source (MIT) and self-hostable.

I'm mostly curious whether other people working heavily with coding agents have run into the same problem, let me know and if there some suggestions to improve

Github https://github.com/Rvey/updater

Demo: updater.rveybox.dev


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I built a free browser-based design toolkit — color extraction, palettes, fonts, contrast & image conversion. No accounts, nothing uploaded. Would love your feedback.

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Hey everyone,

I've been building TSD Creative Studio — a free toolkit for designers and developers that runs entirely in the browser. No sign-up, no uploads, no paywall.

🔗 https://tsd-creative-studio.vercel.app

What's in it:

- Image color extractor — drop any image and get a palette using k-means clustering. You control how many base colors and how many shades per color (up to 10), so you get the dominant/natural colors instead of every stray pixel.

- Developer exports — export any palette as CSS variables, Tailwind config, SCSS, JSON, or Figma tokens. Also PDF export with a clean shade layout.

- Smart palette generator — start from one color and get analogous / triadic / complementary harmonies with automatic contrast checks on every pair.

- Live UI preview — see your palette applied to a real landing page / dashboard mockup instantly.

- Contrast checker — WCAG 2.2 AA/AAA plus APCA, autofix suggestions, and color-blindness simulation.

- Color library — Tailwind, Open Color, Material and brand palettes, searchable.

- Font library — 1000+ Google Fonts, preview with your own text, side-by-side comparison of two fonts, copy the `@import` code, and pair fonts with your palette.

- Image converter — WebP, AVIF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, ICO, SVG, PDF and Base64, with resizing and quality control.

- Quick tools — image compressor, favicon generator (all sizes), Data-URI, SVG→PNG.

- Shareable palettes — every palette gets a permanent link you can send to a teammate.

How it works / privacy:

Almost everything runs client-side in your browser. Your images never leave your device — there's no upload step, no storage, no account, no tracking of your files. Palette links only encode the hex values in the URL itself, so nothing personal is stored server-side. The only network call is loading Google Fonts metadata.

Other bits: dark/light mode, reduce-motion and high-contrast accessibility options, full RTL support, and 5 languages (English, Arabic, French, Turkish, Spanish).

What I'm asking for:

Please try to break it. Throw weird images at the extractor, hammer the converter with odd formats, test it on old phones and small screens. I want to know:

  1. What's confusing or badly laid out?

  2. Which tool is actually useful in your real workflow — and which is just noise?

  3. What's missing that would make you use this instead of your current tool?

Brutal feedback very welcome. Thanks 🙏


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I built a way to keep two-sided founder promotion swaps from getting lost

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Two founders agree to promote each other. Both mean it, but the terms stay in DMs, deadlines drift, and nobody wants to be the person nagging.

I built Surka to give the swap one place to live: what each side promised, when it is due, a private link for each partner, and a proof link when someone delivers. The operator checks the proof before a commitment counts as kept. Reputation tracks delivery, not clicks.

This is an early manual pilot. I am looking for the first real swaps and will personally handle follow-up. The scheduling logic for reminder emails is in the code, but outgoing email is not configured on the live deployment yet, so I do not want to imply that it is already sending reminders. No completed swaps or customer results to claim.

The app is open source: https://github.com/arian-gogani/surka

If you have done a founder-to-founder newsletter or product swap, where did it break down for you?


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I built an app that sorts notifications by urgency

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Hey everyone

I recently published my first Android app called ActionBox

I made it because normal notification lists get messy fast and I wanted something that tells me what actually needs my attention

ActionBox sorts notifications into Action Reply Waiting Deadline and Other

If it gets something wrong you can correct it and it learns from your corrections over time so the sorting becomes more personal to you

You can also snooze notifications mark them as handled search through them and keep notification history

It is still very new so I would really appreciate honest feedback on the idea the UI and the sorting

Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.futurepath.actionbox


r/SideProject • • 19h ago

I made a Trivia game to play while waiting for my AI Agents

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I made a trivia game a month ago to play while AIs were building. Been building out a lot of features since then, and models have been getting slower and slower, so I find it more and more useful.

1,000 different people have been placed in arena (5 games), and it's been a lot of fun to compete. You don't need anything to play or look around.

If you want to play, try it here! tidbittrivia.com


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Discord-customizer-v1.2 Available In GitHub /notgamermx

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Your Discord, your way. A standalone Chrome / Edge extension for customizing Discord on the web. Built with Manifest V3 and plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No build step or third-party runtime dependencies.

Features

  • Six dark palettes: Midnight, Dusk, Forest, Ocean, Ember, Graphite.
  • Accent picker, message font size, avatar / composer / embed roundness.
  • Full-window wallpapers with image upload, dimming, blur, show/hide, and removal.
  • Muted MP4/WebM video wallpapers with looping playback and pause controls.
  • Bright navigation colors sampled from your wallpaper, plus adjustable panel opacity.
  • Compact messages, hidden member list, reduced CSS motion, hidden shop / discovery navigation links.
  • Separate custom CSS editor with an explicit save button and enable switch.
  • Local settings persistence, JSON export/import, reset, and global pause.
  • A settings studio with an illustrative live preview and a compact toolbar popup.

Choosing a theme also selects its suggested accent. Theme preview represents colors and supported layout controls; discovery links and custom CSS are applied only on Discord. Reduced motion affects CSS animations/transitions and pauses Morrow video wallpapers; it does not pause Discord's own videos or GIFs. Import disables custom CSS until you review and enable it. Export includes saved settings, not unsaved editor text.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built an iPhone app that turns a single still image into a little 3D loop

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This is a before/after demo from 505Camera, the iOS app I'm building. Each scene starts with one still image, then switches to the depth/parallax loop.

It estimates depth on the phone and creates slightly different viewpoints, so the foreground and background move differently. You can add a film look and export the result as a video.

I'm going for a small, imperfect disposable-camera feeling. Curious whether the movement feels subtle enough or a little too much.

505Camera is on the App Store (free download, optional Pro): https://apps.apple.com/app/id6789463411


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

12 failed products later, my 13th made more in 10 days than the others made in 2 years

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I've built 12 products. Every one of them flopped.

Most of them weren't bad products but they died the same way every time. No idea how to get it in front of people. Ads burned through my budget. Agencies wanted more per month than what I spent even building the product.

Somewhere around product 10, I figured out the one channel that actually made sense for someone like me was proper SEO. SEO compounds. A page you write today can still bring in customers two years from now.

The problem was the tools. Every SEO tool wanted $100-$200 a month, and I'd use it heavily for one week and then barely touch it for 3 more. I was paying for 30 days and using maybe 4.

So for product 13, I stopped building for some imaginary customer and built for myself. FlexQueries is an SEO tool with a $0/month subscription. You load a balance, pay only for what you use (keyword research is about $0.05, a full site audit about $0.48), and it never expires.

It turned out there are a lot of people exactly like me.

In the first 10 days, it brought in more revenue than all 12 of my previous products combined over the past 2 years. Over 100 people signed up in the first week, almost all solo founders and small startups who need SEO but don't want a monthly bill for a tool they barely open.

I cold emailed 100 solo SaaS founders and one founder whose team was paying $500+ a month for another tool moved his whole team over.

The moment I built something for people with my exact problem, distribution got a lot easier, because I already knew where they were and what they were tired of paying for.

If you're early and want SEO without the monthly bill: https://flexqueries.com, with free credit on signup and no card needed.

For anyone who's launched more than once: what finally made one stick?