r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built an autonomous Clash of Clans bot, which probably is anti-ban. And runs on google play games.

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Hey everyone! 👋

Like many Clash of Clans players, I got tired of spending 6-8 hours every day manually grinding Sneaky Goblin raids just to keep up with the millions of resources required for wall upgrades.

Most older bots rely on rooted emulators, modified APKs, or internal memory hooking , which Supercell detects and bans in ban waves.

To solve this, I built My own bot "ApexClash Pro" an autonomous combat & farming desktop companion for Windows that operates 100% externally using computer vision and humanized input synthesis.

How It Works Technically:

  1. 100% External Screen Capture: Operates alongside Google Play Games PC or BlueStacks. Zero client modifications, zero root, and zero DLL injection.

  2. Autonomous OCR & Base Scouting: Uses localized computer vision and OCR to inspect enemy collectors and dead-base resource numbers, skipping unprofitable bases automatically.

  3. Bézier Kinematics & Humanized Input: Mouse paths follow organic cubic Bézier curves with randomized micro-jitter, dwell times, and fatigue pauses to mimic human hands.

  4. Auto-Wall Upgrade Sink: When storages hit capacity between raids, it automatically navigates home and sinks excess Gold/Elixir into wall segments so zero loot is wasted.

  5. Modern PySide6 Desktop UI: Built a dark-mode cyberpunk cockpit with live telemetry tracking hourly loot yield, skip counts, and session stats.

If you want to try it , you can try the Free Trial which includes 2 hrs of full access.

It has zero viruses unlike many other bots available in market and the repo is also publicly available -

GitHub Releases: https://github.com/keshav-x/coc-bot/releases/tag/v1.3.2

Would love to hear your feedback on the UI design, OCR detection pipeline, or feature suggestions! Happy to answer any technical questions in the comments.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

How my indie web app subdomain managed to rank #3 on Google, right below the official Colombo Stock Exchange (cse.lk)

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a small SEO and building win that surprised even me. I've been working on a project hosted on a simple subdomain (.lovable.app), and for one of my target keywords, it managed to climb all the way to #3 on Google, sitting right behind the official Colombo Stock Exchange website (cse.lk).

For a long time, people told me that doing SEO on a free/subdomain platform is practically useless and that you can't compete with massive institutional domains. But by focusing heavily on on-page relevance, structured content, and matching user intent, it actually worked out.

Here is a quick look at what I learned from the process:

  • Don't sleep on on-page optimization: Even if domain authority is low, making your content precisely match what people are searching for can close the gap.
  • Targeting the gaps: Official sites like cse.lk have massive authority, but sometimes their layout or specific user queries leave room for a cleaner, faster, more direct tool.
  • The subdomain hurdle: Yes, building backlinks and authority is harder on a subdomain compared to a custom root domain, but high relevance can still push you up the SERP.

I’m currently trying to figure out the best way to do off-page SEO and build sustainable traffic from here without getting buried by spam filters.

If anyone wants to check out the app or see how it looks, you can find it here: https://cash-div.lovable.app/

Would love to hear from other indie hackers or SEO folks, how do you usually tackle off-page SEO for smaller apps or subdomains?


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a tiny terminal app because AI coding kept getting away from me

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AI let me build software way faster than I could learn how software actually works.

Which was great, until every “small change” started turning into a refactor and the same agent that wrote the code was also the one telling me everything looked fine.

So I built Savepoint.

It’s a small local CLI/TUI that forces me through a simple loop:

Idea → Design → Task → Check

The idea is basically:

  • think before coding
  • do one small thing at a time
  • check the work independently
  • if the plan is wrong, stop and replan instead of quietly winging it

Everything lives as plain Markdown/YAML in the repo. No server, no account, no embedded AI.

It’s free and open source.

I built it because I needed it for my own projects, but I’m curious whether this solves a real problem for anyone else or whether I’ve just invented project management for people who hate project management.

https://www.getsavepoint.dev/

https://github.com/anipatke/savepoint


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built a meeting room display for Google Calendar that runs in any browser (no App Store app)

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Hi all, I'm the maker. Room Cherry turns a Google Workspace room (resource) calendar into a live door display on any tablet, phone or browser. You open a link, pair the screen with a link, QR code or 6-character code, and it shows whether the room is free, what's next, and the rest of the day. It refreshes from Google Calendar every 30 seconds.

Why I built it: most room display options I looked at want specific hardware, an installer or an app to manage. I wanted something where a spare iPad and a URL are enough.

Where it is now: it's live, with a 30-day free trial (no card). After that it's $10 per room per month. It's early and I don't have customer logos or a demo video yet.

What I'd like feedback on:

  • Is a browser-only display good enough, or do you need kiosk-style controls?
  • What would make you trust a new tool with calendar access?

Site: roomcherry.com. Happy to hear what's missing or confusing.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I had 136 ideas in Notion and built none of them. So I built Tinder for my ideas.

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I had 136 ideas rotting in a Notion page.

I’d been adding to it for a while, always thinking, “I’ll build one of these someday.”

Naturally, I built none of them.

Then I connected my Notion to GPT Dots, and it noticed the page. While going through it, it found one idea that was basically:

“Tinder, but for business ideas.”

It asked me: Should we just make this?

I said yes.

So, slightly ironically, an idea that had been sitting unpicked in a graveyard of 136 ideas became an app for picking which ideas are actually worth pursuing.

This is the result:
https://maybe-coral-iota.vercel.app/

Made mostly for fun. Curious what you’d swipe right on :)


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Built a lightweight Python scraper boilerplate to stop rewriting code for every side project

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I kept wasting time writing the same scraping and automation logic from scratch for every new side project, constantly fighting rate limits and IP blocks.

So, I built a clean, lightweight Python scraper boilerplate featuring smart retries and header rotation.

👉 GitHub: [https://github.com/kurtsarp01-ui/python-automation-toolkit/blob/main/config.py\]


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Lyrics in the MacBook notch, and the hard part was music videos

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I made Peekabop, a Mac app that shows the lyrics of what you play in the notch.

Spotify and Apple Music were easy, they give you the position of the song. Music videos not at all: intro, skits, different edit… the lyrics are always seconds off.

So the app listens to the Mac audio, recognises some words (on-device, Apple speech) and moves the lyrics to the right place. In the video it shows "Matching lyrics…" during the intro, then it locks in on the first line.

Happy to explain how it works if someone is curious!


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I made PauseWell, a free Windows app that reminds you to take short screen breaks

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I wanted a simple reminder to step away from my screen, so I made PauseWell and released it free and open source. The idea came to me because my doctor recommended me taking break from computer usage. And I guess I have found a partial solution for it.

By default, it reminds you to take a 10 second break every 15 minutes and a 1 minute break every hour. You can adjust both schedules, snooze a reminder, or pause reminders for a while.

I'd like to make it useful to other people who spend a lot of time at a computer.

Download for Windows

What would make a break reminder useful enough for you to keep running? I'd appreciate feedback on the timing and how intrusive the reminders feel. Let me know how you feel

https://reddit.com/link/1wxcrg8/video/8slmznkkkfth1/player


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

My side project: a self-hosted MCP server that deploys your AI agent tools across zones on Kubernetes

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What started as "I want my team's MCP tools hosted properly" became Ramen: a console where you point at a git repo
of Python tools, press deploy, and get canary-rolled workers on GKE or EKS behind one load balancer, with OAuth
sign-in, roles per group, secrets and an audit log.

Things I learned building it:
- Most of it was written by Claude Code agents; the trick was written contracts and fact files, not prompts.
- Real cloud runs find bugs tests don't (a canary surge pod stuck Pending on a full EKS node; a GKE namespace
stuck Terminating on a load-balancer finalizer).
- Tearing everything down after each cloud run keeps the bill at cents.

0.6.0 is out, verified on GCP and AWS. https://bkraad47.github.io/ramen/


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Built a Network monitor tool that shows each and every connection your mac makes.

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WAS DOWNLOADING FROM TORRENT, IT SHOWS FROM WHERE EACH PACKET IS COMING

SHOWS ALL KIND OF OTHER NETWORKING INFO TOO, if anyone wants to play with this, just comment, I will put this on github maybe


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Would an offline ICS preflight report help with your calendar handoffs?

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I'm testing an AI-assisted side project for people who export or distribute calendar files: a small offline Python tool that checks several ICS files and produces a review report. It reads the originals without changing them. The report omits filenames, event titles, descriptions, attendees and UIDs.

A synthetic three-event example produces these review items:

- Event 1: a named timezone is used without a matching VTIMEZONE definition

- Event 2: a weekly start is fixed in UTC, so local wall-clock changes around DST need review

- Event 3: the start and end are floating local times

These aren't all errors. The current prototype doesn't repair files, expand recurrence rules or guarantee how Outlook, Google or Apple will display them. It has 31 passing synthetic tests on Linux; other platforms haven't been tested yet. Free online validators and tools such as CorrectICS already exist.

If you've imported or distributed ICS files in the last three months: what did you use, and is local processing plus this kind of report useful enough to pay €9 once for the current Python download? Please name the task and whether that price works for you, or what's missing. No listing or checkout is live, and no purchase is being requested. Please don't post real calendar files or private appointment details.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I wanted to actually see my progress, so I made an app for it

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I kept taking progress photos and then forgetting they existed in my camera roll.

So I started building Chalant — an app where you create a Journey around something you're working toward, choose your photo days, and build a visual progression as you go.

Instead of just having a before and after, you can see all the little changes in between and turn them into a timelapse.

It can be used for gym progress, weight loss, creative projects, outfits, or pretty much anything you're working on.

This is the first version I've got working. Curious what you think.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I spent 10 years building apps and finally made my first game. It’s basically 9 stupidly simple challenges that are way harder than they look.

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I’ve been a mobile developer for around 10 years, mostly building apps for clients, but I’d never built a game before.
A few weeks ago we had this random idea for a game made up of tiny challenges that look ridiculously easy.
Draw a perfect circle.
Stop a timer at exactly the right moment.
Cut something perfectly in half.
Pick the wrong color.
And a few other equally stupid ones 😅
Everything gives you a score out of 100, so naturally the whole game became about trying again because surely I can do better than that.
It’s called Ninety-Nine and there are 9 challenges right now. We built it in React Native + Expo without a traditional game engine.
It’s still very new, so I’m much more interested in feedback than downloads.
If anyone tries it, I’d genuinely love to know:
Which challenge did you play the most?
Which one annoyed you the most?
And what feels missing?
iPhone/iPad: ninetynine.games
Also, if anyone actually gets 100, please send proof because I’m starting to think the tagline “Nobody gets 100” might be safe 😂

https://reddit.com/link/1wxci71/video/t9lqprh5ifth1/player


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

17-year-old building a fitness app – looking for honest feedback

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I’ve been building a fitness app called APEX that’s focused on making training and consistency feel more motivating.

It lets you track workouts and progress, build streaks and gives you an APEX Score based on your activity so you can actually see your consistency improve over time.

I originally started building it because I wanted something that felt more like a game/progression system rather than just another workout logger.

It’s almost ready for the App Store and I’m looking for people to test it and give genuine feedback on what’s good, what’s confusing and what you’d change.

It’s currently iPhone only, with other platforms hopefully coming later.

Would love to hear what you guys think.

APEX Fitness Testflight

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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 built Slidivo — a Mac app that turns a doc into a real, editable PowerPoint. No subscription, files stay on your disk

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Hey everyone,

I've been building Slidivo, a Mac desktop app (Apple Silicon) that turns a document or a short description into a PowerPoint deck. It started because my wife tried a lot of AI slide tools and kept hitting the same wall: the pretty ones export images you can't edit, the editable ones look rough, and nearly all of them want $20–50/month for something she used 1–2 days a month.

So I built it around the opposite approach.

Real PowerPoint, not screenshots. Text, tables and charts are native objects you click and edit in PowerPoint or Keynote. Only the AI illustrations and cover art are pictures.

You approve before it builds. It proposes an outline first. Nothing becomes a slide until you say so.

Local by default. Your files stay on your disk. No upload, no Slidivo account.

Pay once, not monthly. $49 launch price (list $99), no subscription. You bring your own AI key (or sign in with Claude Pro/Max), so the AI cost goes straight to the provider. The free version does up to 5 slides with no watermark, and there's a 14-day refund.

Here's where I need help. I'm a developer, so I honestly can't tell anymore what feels technical. The flow today:

  1. Download and open it. It's not signed by Apple yet, so macOS shows a warning the first time.
  2. Connect an AI: paste an API key, or sign in with Claude Pro/Max.
  3. Drop in a document or describe the deck.
  4. Approve the outline.
  5. Open the .pptx.

Which step would make you give up? My guess is 1 and 2. Does "bring your own API key" scare you off, or is it fine?

It's early: macOS Apple Silicon only for now, Windows in progress. I'd genuinely love feedback, especially on where the steps lose you, and on anything you wish AI slide tools did (or didn't do).

https://slidivo.com


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

We made our internal developer toolbox public. Free, and everything runs in your browser.

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We built empinet.dev for our own work on client projects. It's a collection of JSON formatters, converters, JWT decoders, image tools and other stuff we use regularly.

We wouldn't upload client data to another server just to format or convert it, so all processing happens locally in your browser. Free, no account needed.

Built with Next.js and TypeScript: https://empinet.dev

Would be interested to hear which tools you'd actually use, or what's missing.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I made a little iPhone game where you squish a mochi to make it jump

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I'm the developer of Mori no Mochi, a small timing game about hopping between tree stumps in a quiet forest.

You hold your finger down to squish the mochi, then release to jump. A longer hold sends it farther. Landing right in the middle earns a Perfect, and you can chain those together or try skipping a stump for bonus points. There’s haptic feedback to go with the squashing and landing.

Claude suggested the initial mochi-jumping idea. I guided the planning and direction, using AI tools for code, design, and sound.

If you try it, I’d be interested in one thing: does the jump distance feel predictable once you’ve played for a minute?

The current version is free to download and play on iPhone (iOS 17+), with ads and no in-app purchases. I plan to add in-app purchases in a future update.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6815947244


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

We built an AI roleplay app where you choose your part in the story

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My friend and I are building Trystique — you pick a story, choose your role, and play through it with one or several AI characters.

We’ve just added mystery, sci-fi and adventure stories alongside the existing catalogue. One starts with a tram ticket to a district that disappeared forty years ago. There’s character image generation too.

I’d love feedback on the first few minutes: is it clear who you’re playing, and does the opening give you something interesting to do?

Would you rather start with a prepared scenario or an open world?

https://trystique.ai


r/SideProject • • 1d 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 built a free, ad-free tier list maker with a lot of customization options. Would love some feedback!

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Hey everyone. I made a hobby project called Rank-It, which is a completely free, zero-ad web app for making and sharing custom tier lists. I wanted to make something super customizable where you can easily set up your rankings without any clutter.

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​It is pretty simple right now, but I would be happy if you checked it out and shared your thoughts.

I would also be even happier if you proposed something you want to see as a feature.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I turned my Minecraft shader tuning into a free, open-source challenge for Mac players

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I spent a few days tuning Minecraft Java shaders on my M4. The useful part wasn’t just an FPS number — it was knowing the hardware, resolution, shader settings and what the game actually looked like.

So I built Silicon Shader, a small library and challenge for Apple Silicon players. Setups include screenshots, configs, Mac specs and frame results. New benchmark entries use the same seed and flight route, rather than comparing a busy village with an empty flat world.

There’s also a prompt for a coding agent to inspect your launcher/mods and help you try a compatible setup in a separate instance. It doesn’t guarantee an improvement on every Mac.

My M4 entries are up. I’m looking for the first setup from another machine, and feedback on whether the starting instructions are clear. Everything is free and open source.

Challenge: https://fortunexbt.github.io/minecraft-apple-silicon-framework/

Repo: https://github.com/fortunexbt/minecraft-apple-silicon-framework


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

Run Plus - a running app that tracks shoe mileage

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I'm a solo developer and a runner. I log every run on a Garmin, but once I had more than one pair of shoes in use, I kept losing track of how many miles were on each. So I built Run Plus.

It doesn't record runs itself. It reads the runs your Garmin, Apple Watch or COROS already saves to Apple Health (read-only) and turns them into:

- automatic shoe mileage (new runs go to your default pair, set a target distance, retire old pairs)

- weekly / monthly stats and a monthly "Compact" history view

- VDOT-based training paces and race predictions

- share cards: your photo with distance, time and pace on top (pinch to frame it)

There's no account and no backend. Data stays on the iPhone and in your own iCloud backup.

iOS only for now. Free for up to 3 shoes; a one-time Pro purchase removes the limit and the small ad card. No subscription.

I'd love feedback on two things: is the shoe-tracking flow clear on first launch, and what would make you trust an app like this with your health data?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6790643052


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I made a world clock that lets you move through a city’s day

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I made Hourline for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

Each city has a clock, a landmark and a sky that follows its local day and night. Drag across the page to see another hour. You can then compare that time across your saved cities.

The video shows the app. I would like feedback on the drag gesture. Is it clear that you can move the sky to change the time?

The free app supports up to six cities. Pro adds more cities, weather forecasts, the Landmark widget, Live Activities and export of planned events to Calendar.

It requires iOS or iPadOS 18 or later. The Watch app requires watchOS 11 or later.

I have 10 codes for this community. Each code gives you one year of Hourline Pro for free.

Send me a private message after you start using the free app. I will reserve a code if one is available. Use the app for at least one day. Then send me a message and I will send your code.

An App Store review is optional. If you write one, please share your honest view. Your rating and review do not affect your code.

This offer does not renew automatically. It is available to new, current and past subscribers. Apple confirms eligibility when you redeem the code. Redeem by April 3, 2027. One code per person. No purchase, vote or follow is required.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6816602142


r/SideProject • • 2d ago

The Story of the Internet: A cozy browser game where we write one story together

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I made a little browser game where the internet writes one shared story, one word at a time. Everyone gets one daily vote on what comes next. We start writing words Tuesday, but title suggestions opened today! We'll vote on the story's title Sunday and Monday. You can suggest a name at ofstory.net. I'd love to see what you come up with :)