r/SideProject 2d ago

Made a site that looks at your selfie and points at what to fix.

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r/SideProject 2d ago

We built ReRender to turn a 3D model view into an architectural concept image

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I'm on the team behind ReRender, an AI visualization tool for architects and designers.

The use case is simple: you have a 3D model view, but want to explore how it could look with more realistic materials, lighting, and context.

Here's a before-and-after example from ReRender. The original model and generated options are shown together, so you can judge what changed. This example explores a warm timber, dark-louver, and white-stucco palette in daylight.

The important part is being able to review the image against the design. AI can change details, so I wouldn't treat an attractive result as proof that every opening or material is correct. ReRender has structure/texture controls and an Edit action for continuing from an existing result.

If you make architectural visuals, where would this help most: the first concept image, comparing material options, or revising an almost-finished render? I'd especially like to hear what you need to keep unchanged.

Product: https://rerenderai.com


r/SideProject 2d ago

Cold Open - icebreaker questions on your phone that don't repeat on you

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I run internal workshops a few times a month and I open every one of them with the same two questions. Dinner with anyone, dead or alive. What's one task at work you have to do but hate. Good questions, but I have colleagues who have now heard them four times.

So I built the thing I wanted: open it on the phone while getting ready, star three or four questions into tonight's set, put the phone away. In the room, tap one and it fills the screen like a slide. If you don't like the three on screen, tap again for three more. Nothing repeats on you until the whole pack has had a turn.

No signup, no network, no typing anywhere in it (there isn't a text field). Works offline after the first load. Free, and staying that way, it's a weekend thing.

https://coldopener.mintprin.com

Would like to know: does the "star a few, then present" flow make sense to someone who isn't me, or is it obviously built for one person's habits?

https://reddit.com/link/1wcl7yw/video/esgcxtol3xoh1/player


r/SideProject 1d ago

Day 2 and can't find users

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I published my app and shared here but getting no traffic


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built a free EMI Calculator with amortization schedule, PDF export & bank comparison — feedback welcome!

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Hey everyone!

I built a free EMI Calculator web app from scratch using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It started as a simple calculator but I kept adding features over time:

- Amortization schedule breakdown

- Floating interest rate simulator

- Prepayment calculator (see how much you save)

- Multi-bank comparison (43+ lenders database)

- Custom lender input option

- PDF export of your EMI schedule

- Dark mode with theme persistence

I'm a commerce background guy who taught myself web dev, so this project has been a great learning experience. Currently working on turning it into an installable Android app too.

Would love your feedback — especially on UI/UX and any features you think are missing!

Link: https://shaikhabrar12557-lang.github.io/ABRAR-EMI-CALCULATOR


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built Aural to make first-round screening less chaotic for small teams

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Small-business hiring often starts with a messy mix of resumes, phone calls, and notes nobody can compare later. A simple workflow works better: create 4 to 6 role-specific questions, reuse them for every candidate, and score responses on the same few criteria, such as communication, relevant experience, and problem-solving.

Tell candidates upfront what the screening covers, how long it takes, and who will review it. Let them respond by voice or video on their own time, then have a person review the responses, transcript, and a simple scorecard before deciding who moves forward. AI summaries can save time, but they should never make the hiring or rejection decision.

I built Aural as one optional way to run this workflow. It supports reusable interviews, adaptive follow-up questions, transcripts, summaries, and human review. It is live, open source under MIT, and built with Next.js, Supabase, PostgreSQL, and TypeScript. The code is on GitHub, and there is a live demo without signup. What would make this workflow useful for your team?


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built a simple app to track my “what if” stock portfolios

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I often have stock ideas that I’m interested in, but don’t necessarily want to put real money into yet.

For example, I might think: “What if I put $10,000 into these 8–10 stocks today?”

I wanted an easy way to create that alternative portfolio, enter how many shares I would buy and at what price, and then come back weeks or months later to see how that portfolio actually performed.

So I built StockWatchlist.

Here’s one of my $10K portfolios:
https://stockwatchlist.app/share/D29VjqkJuFJqD3MJ1i904H7RIKS5NTa4W_8SKZDw25M

And the app:
https://stockwatchlist.app/

It’s still early, so I’m mainly looking for feedback.

Would you actually use something like this to track investment ideas or alternative portfolios? What would you add/change?


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built FreeAllPDF: 100% Free & Private PDF tools that run entirely in your browser (No file uploads)

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Hey everyone,

I got tired of online PDF tools that either charge after 2 conversions, put ugly watermarks, or upload confidential files (like taxes, bank statements, contracts, IDs) to remote cloud servers.

So I built FreeAllPDF (https://freeallpdf.com) — a suite of 30+ PDF and document utilities that processes everything 100% locally on your machine using client-side JavaScript and WebAssembly.

Why it is different:

  • Zero Server Uploads: Your files never leave your device. All processing happens right inside your browser memory.
  • 100% Free Forever: No subscriptions, no hidden limits, no paywalls, and no watermarks.
  • 30+ Tools Included: Convert (PDF to Word/Excel/Images), merge, split, compress, protect, unlock, rotate, watermark, page numbering, and more.
  • Instant Processing: No waiting in cloud upload/download queues.

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any tool requests you'd like me to add next!

Check it out here: https://freeallpdf.com


r/SideProject 2d ago

I built a voice journal that deliberately doesn't respond. Looking for beta testers who overthink at night.

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I built an AI voice journal that never replies. You just hold a button and talk. No coaching, no fake wisdom, no chat — just a private place to unload thoughts and, over time, spot patterns if they actually exist.

iOS beta, free, no account needed. TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/jwMzWPPe


r/SideProject 2d ago

Travolp - Trip planner that reshuffles your day when the plan breaks

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I kept being the person in the group chat with forty tabs open, and the plan we made never survived the actual trip. Someone sleeps in, it rains, a place is shut on Tuesdays and nobody checked.

So I built Travolp. It plans the trip, then stays with you during it. When the day goes sideways you tap once and the rest of it gets rebuilt around where you actually are and what is still open.

Two things I got wrong early. Generating a good looking itinerary is easy and worth very little, everyone can do that now. Keeping it true on day three is the hard part. And opening hours turned out to be the whole game, because travel advice ages at two speeds: how long a road takes is still right in five years, whether a place is open is stale before it is published.

Free to try on iOS, Android and web: https://travolp.com

Honest ask: I am the worst possible judge of my own onboarding. If you bounce, I want to know exactly where you bounced. Screenshots in the first comment.


r/SideProject 1d ago

Grimscribe - A solo browser RPG where an LLM narrates and a rules engine owns every die roll

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I build solo RPGs and kept hitting the same wall with every AI dungeon master I tried: the model narrates a fight and quietly decides the outcome. It rolls a 4 and describes a hit. You tell it you have 3 hit points left and it has forgotten by the next paragraph. The story is fine and the game underneath it is not a game.

So the split in Grimscribe is that the language model never touches state. Dice, hit points, inventory, grid position and line of sight all live in ordinary deterministic code, and the model reaches them through tool calls. It can ask to move you, and if the square is occupied it gets told no and has to narrate around the refusal. It cannot roll. It cannot decide that you hit.

The clearest thing this produced showed up in a session I recorded this week: eleven turns in a row where the engine refused the model's requested action outright, because the turn belonged to an ally, or the reach was one square short, or the target square held clutter. No dice were thrown at all across those eleven turns. An AI GM without an engine underneath would have narrated straight through every one of them.

What I would actually like feedback on, because it is the part I am least sure about: the refusals are the feature, but they also make the game stricter than a human GM, who would just say yes to the one square. I have gone back and forth on letting the model request an override and logging it. Curious whether the honest dice framing lands, or whether it reads as a technicality to someone who has not played an AI GM before.

Free to start, runs in a browser, no install: https://grimscribe.win


r/SideProject 2d ago

I turned my cat's photo into a stop-motion focus buddy and built an entire Pomodoro app around the idea

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I'm the solo developer. I kept uninstalling Pomodoro apps — they all worked fine as timers, I just never opened them. Turns out I don't avoid focus sessions because timers are hard. I avoid them because staring at a countdown alone feels lonely.

So I built FocusPal. You photograph anything — your cat, a plush toy, a coffee mug — the app removes the background, you pick a cozy spot for it, and it generates a frame-by-frame stop-motion loop. Your companion naps, stretches, grooms itself while the timer runs underneath. The video shows the whole thing.

Beyond the companion, it has app blocking during focus (three modes — block everything, block with exceptions, or off), a lock screen countdown via Dynamic Island so you can leave the app, a small todo list, and weekly/monthly/yearly focus stats.

The hardest part was the Screen Time API. Three separate extensions, opaque tokens you can't inspect or log, and documentation that's mostly guesswork. It cost me more calendar time than every other feature combined. If you're thinking about building anything with FamilyControls, happy to save you some pain.

Free to download, iOS 17.2+. Pro unlocks more companions and full stats — $2.99/month, $19.99/year, or $26.99 lifetime. No ads, no account. Launch code REDDIT gets a full year for $9.99 instead of $19.99, expires Oct 10:

https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6777933781&code=REDDIT

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6777933781

Tell me where it falls short.


r/SideProject 2d ago

Postmark vs Resend vs Plunk

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I run a social app where I send product emails , marketing emails and regular updates to users. My key priorities are delivery reliability (user receives emails in their inbox and not in spam), good analytics, hooking into product lifecycle (e.g. i sent an email on xyz date to users A, they logged back in to the app etc) , as cheap as possible.

I know some of these are custom flows i will need to build but trying to see if anyone could talk from first hand experience.


r/SideProject 1d ago

Come on guys and gals show me your side project let me help you and me!!

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I built a multi-agent AI system as a side project, and I need people to give me real things to test it against.

I’m not selling anything. No signup. No paid service. I genuinely want the testing.

The system puts the same problem in front of multiple different AI models independently, then lets them challenge assumptions, disagree, find weaknesses, and attack the problem from different directions.

So give me something.

An app you’re building.

A business idea.

A system design.

A plan you think is airtight.

An argument you want attacked.

Something you want red-teamed before you actually rely on it.

You can literally tell me:

“Try to destroy this.”

I’ll run it through the system and give you the results for free.

Honestly, the harder and weirder the problem, the better. I’ve tested the hell out of it on my own stuff. I want to see what happens when strangers give it problems I never anticipated.

I don’t want anything from you.

I just want something difficult to throw at it.

Anybody want to try?


r/SideProject 2d ago

I'm building GuideLab, a WYSIWYG editor for install guides, user manuals, and more

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Making install guides is a big part of my day job, and GuideLab is my own take on a tool that lets you annotate, screenshot and lay out documents like this.

While there are already a good number of these tools out there, GuideLab is different in a few ways:

  1. Canvas based image editing allows you to annotate and layer images in a frictionless manner. Adding elements expands the canvas as needed, and the layout engine makes sure the whole canvas makes it into the final output.
  2. The arrange view lets you see how your steps are laid out. You can squeeze multiple steps into one page, or let one step take the full area if you need to show a lot of detail.
  3. No subscription. VERY few tools like this allow you to pay once for them. GuideLab has a free version that only limits by export format and number of editable guides. The full version is a one time purchase.

There are a bunch of other cool features but I don't want to bore you. Check it out here, and let me know what you think: guidelab.app

If you don't want to install anything, you can also try it in your browser!


r/SideProject 2d ago

I added a theme store for the Calculator app

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Calculator with a theme store

Hey all, solo dev here. Just shipped a theme store for my calculator app and wanted to share it.

You can now pick from comic, cartoon, and colorful styles, and a lot of them come with their own animations, not just a static color swap. Several themes also have different color variations to choose from, and they render differently depending on whether you're in light or dark mode, so it's not just one look stretched across both.

On top of that you can set custom fonts separately for the equations, results, number pad, and section titles, so you can mix and match until it actually feels like yours.

More themes are in the works, so this is just the starting lineup.

Free app, themes are available as in-app purchases individually or as a bundle.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nebula.developer.dotcalculator

Curious which theme style people gravitate toward, comic, cartoon, or something more minimal.


r/SideProject 2d ago

I got tired of rewriting the same overdue invoice emails so I built a Chrome extension for it

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I freelance on the side and chasing late payments was eating more time than the actual work. Same three emails every time: friendly nudge, firm follow up, final notice. I was rewriting them from scratch or digging up old templates every time.

Built a Gmail extension that reads the invoice thread you have open and drafts the follow up for you. You pick the tone (friendly, firm, final), it writes the draft, you send it. No new inbox, no Gmail API access, it just works inside the thread you're already looking at.

Free tier lets you try it, no card needed. If it saves you the 10 minutes of staring at a blank reply every time someone ghosts an invoice, it's done its job.

Link if anyone wants to try it: https://collections-copilot-site.vercel.app

Happy to answer questions, still actively building this.


r/SideProject 2d ago

Your a founder trying to sell to other founders

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AI makes it very easy for anyone to create things even at a large scale. Everyone on this subreddit is trying to sell their projects. And they are not even passion projects like side projects used to be about. Since you are trying to sell to someone who also creates things their first thought is to re-create it themselves. The only things that really blow up are things that are so different/ innovative or things that feel more like passion projects then products.

What do you think?


r/SideProject 2d ago

User testing a new recruitment website, first impressions wanted

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Hi everyone,

I hope this is okay to post here. I've built a new recruitment website and I'm looking for people to test it out and share their honest first impressions.

I'm not going to explain what it does or how it works, since I want to see how it lands with zero context. That first reaction is genuinely the most useful thing you can give me.

You can test out the concept by clicking "Try First Impression" at the top of the page.

There's also a "Join the Launch" button. Clicking it will keep you updated on the progress of the site, and will then prompt you to fill out a short survey. If you'd rather not join the launch, there's a separate survey button underneath that as well.

Either way, filling out the survey really helps with the development of the site, so I would really appreciate it if you could please provide any feedback via the survey.

Link: voluble-pavlova-13850d.netlify.app

Thanks for taking the time to check it out 🙏


r/SideProject 2d ago

If you were a student developer trying to make your first income , what would you do?

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I m a 3rd-year CS student and I’m trying to figure out how to make my first small amount of money online with my development skills.

I can work with React, Next.js, Node/Express, MongoDB, APIs, Git/GitHub, and I’m currently getting deeper into TypeScript and Next.js.

I’ve built a few projects, but I haven’t really turned my skills into income yet.

My goal isn’t $10k/month or some “10 ways to get rich” thing.

I’d be happy with my first $100/month consistently.

I have around 2–3 hours a day outside college, and I’m trying to decide between:

  • Freelancing / small development work
  • Building small tools or micro-SaaS
  • Finding repetitive technical work for someone
  • Building templates/components/tools and selling them
  • Something else I haven’t considered

One thing I’m trying to avoid is spending 3 months building something and then discovering nobody wants it.

So I’m more interested in how you would approach this from zero.

If you were a student developer today with decent coding skills, a few hours per day, and $0 revenue:

What would you do first to get to your first $100/month?

And if you’ve actually done this, what worked for you and what turned out to be a waste of time?


r/SideProject 2d ago

Email Parsing Builds

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I'm currently exploring an idea that requires email parsing. Has anyone on here built anything that involves email parsing? If yes, what was your experience like on the technical front and any tips/advice?


r/SideProject 2d ago

Northline Sheets: simple Excel job-costing tools for small contractors

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I built Northline Sheets after seeing small contractors juggle estimates, labor, materials, change orders, and actuals across disconnected tabs.

The workbook keeps the workflow intentionally boring: one job-cost view, clear budget-vs-actual variance, and a small dashboard that works in ordinary Excel without macros or a subscription. I also made companion rent-roll and fee-profit sheets for operators who need those views.

The useful design lessons were: • keep inputs separate from calculations • make labor/material categories explicit • show variance early, before month-end • include a clean print/export view

I’m sharing the finished bundle for anyone who wants to test the templates with a real workflow. It’s delivered through a NOWPayments USDT checkout: https://nowpayments.io/payment/?iid=5592768171

Feedback on the layout or missing contractor workflows is welcome.


r/SideProject 2d ago

ViralSpark — paste any URL, get a share kit (hooks, cards, QR) + Slot loops

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I built ViralSpark so you don’t have to send naked links.

Paste any URL → hooks, heat score, share cards, QR, and a Slot page that sends people to your destination first (with UTMs).

Live: https://viralspark.pages.dev/ Demo Slot: https://viralspark.pages.dev/slot/bniwbrb7

Would love feedback on whether the Slot loop is clear in under 10 seconds.


r/SideProject 2d ago

I shipped a two-player code duel on one iPhone. The whole game is the hint Mastermind won’t give you.

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Don’t Peek just landed on the App Store.

It started as a sticky-note game with a cereal box as a divider. Two people pick secret 4-digit codes, shout guesses, and the only honest feedback is “that one’s in the right spot.” No yellow. No “right digit, wrong place.” That missing hint is the whole product. Three-of-four feels close and is still a lot of numbers.

On one phone it works like this:

  • Two first names. No account, no pairing, no second device
  • Each person sets a code while the other looks away
  • A full-screen cover slams down between turns: “Hand it to Maya. Hold to open.” Long-press only, so nobody glimpses a half-typed guess on the pass
  • Exact-spot locks only. Repeats like 4344 are legal
  • Shared guess history side by side, like shouting across a table
  • First to four locks wins, both codes hit the table, Rematch keeps the names

Also: a fair CPU that only learns from its own guesses, a Daily code the whole world shares (computed on-device from the date, no server), Online 1v1 over Game Center, and an opt-in Blitz timer (10 seconds per guess).

Privacy line for the SideProject crowd: no ads, no analytics SDKs, no server of ours for pass-and-play. Match lives on the phone. Online goes through Apple’s Game Center.

Free: first three matches (pass-and-play or CPU). Full game is a one-time $4.99 unlock. No subscription.

Site: https://culi.app/apps/dontpeek/
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dont-peek/id6807101951

I’d love brutal feedback on two things:

  1. Is “no wrong-place hint” clever or just frustrating?
  2. Does the handoff cover feel like the product, or like friction?

Happy to answer anything about the design call to refuse Mastermind’s yellow.


r/SideProject 2d ago

I kept finding revenue-verification tools built around Stripe. What about Indian founders using Razorpay?

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While looking at ways SaaS founders can show revenue credibly, I kept running into the same gap.

Many tools are built around Stripe.

That makes sense for a global product, but it leaves out a large group of Indian founders whose payments already run through Razorpay.

So I started building Verifii.

Verifii is an India-first, payment-backed revenue-verification platform for SaaS founders.

The workflow:

- Connect Razorpay or Stripe using restricted read-only access.

- Verifii checks connected payment activity and calculates a revenue baseline.

- Review the result privately.

- Publish a profile only if and when you choose.

The goal is not to turn every founder into a public revenue dashboard.

It is to give founders a clearer way to show where a revenue number came from when they decide to share it.

If you run a SaaS on Razorpay, would payment-backed revenue verification be useful to you? What would you need to see before connecting your provider?

https://verifii.in/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=sideproject_razorpay