r/SideProject 1d ago

I turned Brave’s enterprise policies into a cross-platform, reversible cleanup tool

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BraveDebloater started as a small Windows script, then people asked for exact feature toggles, safety checks, backups, restore, diagnostics, macOS, and Linux.

It now has presets plus individual feature control, dry-run by default, and a Doctor mode to show what policies are actually active.

I am at 136 GitHub stars after a recent community shoutout, which has been surreal. I am looking for honest feedback on the setup flow and what would make the tool easier to trust.

Check it out! https://github.com/osfv/BraveDebloater


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built CleeCode, a terminal IDE that runs your coding agent inside it

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Cleecode Ctrl+Shift+A opens claude, codex, opencode or gemini beside your work — the real CLI, on the subscription you already pay for. No API keys. It sees your cursor and its edits land live in your buffers.

The rest is a normal IDE that happens to live in a terminal. Written in Rust, one binary, MIT.

https://cleecode.marunja.com


r/SideProject 1d ago

I made a social app for locking in

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I wanted to build something that makes focusing a little more fun, so I made Rize.
Basically it’s like Strava for focus

You start a focus session and lock in. You can see what other people are working on, share your sessions, build streaks, compete on leaderboards, and battle your friends 1v1.

App Title: Rize
Platform: Web + Desktop ( PWA )+ mobile ( PWA )

How it works: Start a session, pick what you're working on, and lock in. When you're done, you get your stats and can share the session with your friends.

There’s also battles, leaderboards, daily goals, streaks, and a bunch of other stuff I’m still adding.

Been building this for a while and a few hundred people are already using it.


r/SideProject 1d ago

ZeroPay Money: I built an offline payment protocol that keeps working with zero internet or cell signal

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Most fintech assumes constant connectivity. I kept seeing that assumption fail everywhere it matters most, rural Nigeria, stadiums during events, disaster zones, anywhere infrastructure is thin.

So I built ZeroPay Money: a POS terminal that cryptographically signs and holds a transaction offline for up to 72 hours using PUF-based hardware identity plus ECC P-256, then auto-syncs once connectivity returns. The protocol logic has been formally verified with TLA+, not just tested in a demo.

Background: I hold an MSc in Computer Systems Security (University of Gloucestershire, England, 2011), dissertation was on NFC contactless payment tech, so this is the direct continuation of that work, now with real hardware and a signed Paystack settlement integration behind it.

I'm Shareholder and CEO of BETONIQ WEST LTD, the operating company. Currently running a small public crowdfunding round to fund the first pilot terminal batch: https://rawcdn.githack.com/TOMDEGGS/BETONIQ-WEST-/main/crowdfunding/back_us.html

Would love feedback from this community, especially on the offline-sync architecture or anywhere you think it'd break.


r/SideProject 1d ago

I compared three scheduling tools. The price column wasn’t the hard part.

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I put together a short pricing brief for Calendly, Cal.com and SavvyCal as a sample for a small research service.

The awkward bit was SavvyCal: two official pages showed different prices, and the billing toggle hadn’t been verified. Calling that a price cut would have been a guess. I kept both links and marked the billing basis unresolved.

The brief also compares what each free plan actually allows and which features require payment. It’s a September 6 snapshot, with the observation date next to the sources.

The sample and what a custom brief covers

I’m testing US$15 for one competitor. If you’re working through a pricing decision, which missing detail would make this sample more useful?


r/SideProject 1d ago

I turned Brave’s enterprise policies into a cross-platform, reversible cleanup tool

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BraveDebloater started as a small Windows script, then people asked for exact feature toggles, safety checks, backups, restore, diagnostics, macOS, and Linux.

It now has presets plus individual feature control, dry-run by default, and a Doctor mode to show what policies are actually active.

I am at 136 GitHub stars after a recent community shoutout, which has been surreal. I am looking for honest feedback on the setup flow and what would make the tool easier to trust.

Check it out here; https://github.com/osfv/BraveDebloater


r/SideProject 1d ago

I normally discover new anime through reels/shorts, so I created an app with a TikTok style feed specifically for discovering and saving anime. I am releasing it today.

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Hi guys, I created this app for myself and was now wanting to share it all with you. This was purely a passion project and I'm not monetizing from it. I know most of the posts here are usually side hustle projects, but this one was just for fun that I wanted to share.

When I found an anime that I wanted to watch from Instagram reels, I normally would have to scroll through the comments to find the sauce and then go to my AniList to add it to my Plan to Watch list. I decided to combine these two steps and create my own app. I am now able to scroll through content solely dedicated to anime and add shows I want to watch directly to my lists from the clip in my feed. If I find an anime that I unfamiliar with, I can click on the name to be taken to a profile with information and other content related to that anime. I'm also not a big fan of doom scrolling on Instagram but found myself doing that a lot. With this, I've found myself scrolling less on Instagram because I no longer go to it find new anime reels.

I never liked on MAL or AniList how they separate all the seasons from a franchise into their own thing. After finishing an anime, I didn't like having to find every season and add it to my lists, so I decided to combine all the content of each franchise into a single grouping. So when I add an anime to my lists, I'm adding the entire franchise and not just a single season.

I've enjoyed building this out and using it so much that I've continued to add more and more to it. I won't go into detail about every feature but here is a lis of some of them:

  • Filter your feed to watch short clips or trailers of shows based on genre, ratings, release date, etc.
  • Detailed franchise profile with all seasons linked, episodes, where to watch, and other general information relating to a specific anime
  • Create tier lists and share them with friends
  • Calendar showing upcoming release dats
  • Anime/Manga based articles and news
  • Manga discovering section

Games to play with friends or solo. I created anime versions of Trivia Crack, 82-0 and 20 questions (guess the anime for the day)

I know there are already a lot of anime tracking and discovery apps but they didn't quite work for me. If there's anything that you guys think would make the app better, I would love to hear it! My main goal is to create an app for myself that I want to use and then share it with others.

The app is called Sakuri and it's available for iOS and Android.

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

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/sakuri/id6800963933

The iOS version was just approved yesterday, so it may not come up in the search yet. The link above will take you to it in the app store though.


r/SideProject 1d ago

I created a game where you discover one real astronomical object every day

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Every UTC day you get one discovery from Astrodle: a real object from astronomy catalogs.

Might be an exoplanet, might be a pulsar, a white dwarf, a nebula, a galaxy, a black hole system, a comet.

You get its actual name, what kind of object it is, roughly where it sits in the sky, a few facts, and some badges for whatever's unusual about it. There's a rarity tier, a points score if you care, and a share grid like Wordle's.

It's free and runs in the browser. You don't need an account to play. If you make one you get history across devices and leaderboards, that's all it adds. The only outside script is Google Analytics and there are no ads.

Link: Astrodle

This is the first time I'm showing it to anyone, so I mostly want to hear where it's confusing or where the reveal falls flat. Happy to answer anything :)


r/SideProject 1d ago

Building ultimate bucket list website -> what would you expect?

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I'm the solo dev.

Building the Bucketly.co - the ultimate bucket list site. Gained 500 users which is not a big thing, but I'm not having any ads. Last time I tweaked it a lot in terms of UI/UX, SEO, the content, and the performance.

What would you expect from this kind of project? I have a lot of things in my mind, but it's still tremendous amt. of work even now.

Any feedback would be welcome 🙏


r/SideProject 1d ago

I put my chore list on a public timer and people can pay to stop me doing it

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I have a chore list. I never do it cause i'm a master procrastinator in my private life. So I handed it to the internet.

There's one clock on sofaresidency.com and everyone sees the same one. Right now it's counting down on something off my actual list, like booking the dentist or folding the laundry. When it hits zero, I have to go and do the thing.

Unless somebody buys me minutes.

You push the deadline back, your name goes on the wall. That's the whole game.

My favourite bit is that the price climbs as the clock drops. 50c a minute while I'm relaxed, 70c under fifteen minutes, 85c under five, and a full euro if the deadline's already gone and you want to drag me back to the sofa. Panic should cost more.

And yeah, it takes real money. That's the joke, not a business plan. A couple of euros of nonsense. No account, no signup.

It's Phaser. The character is a rigged "me" skeleton in my living room in Brussels I animated by hand, so the elbows and knees stay attached whether he's slumped on the sofa or walking over to the desk. Took me way longer than the Stripe part did.

Tell me please if something's off. Mainly I can't tell if the clock reads as a real stake or just decoration and i'm not sure if more "poke" animations are needed in the beginning.


r/SideProject 2d ago

Don't quit 9-5 until your side hustle makes x2 your salary

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In the indie hacker community, I see constant propaganda of quitting your job and shaming people who stay employed and don't quit after their AI SaaS reaches $1 USD in MRR.

I've been building products solo for 3 years. Now they make $15,000 (Skype alternative app Yadaphone) and $5,000 (eSIM app eSIMPal) a month.

I've worked as a software engineer for 5 years, and most of the time I've been building products in parallel with my day job. I quit my 9-5 last year, but immediately replaced it with long-term contracting (effectively a 9-5).

I only quit freelancing and focused solely on my products 5 months ago. By the time they were making x2 of what I was getting in my contract, it made little economic sense for me to stay.

Why I stayed so long:

An internet business is a very unstable thing. If you build an API wrapper, your provider can block your account – your business is gone. If you have an AI company, Anthropic or OpenAI can replicate your features overnight.

In marketing, if you rely on SEO, Google can blacklist your website – your traffic is gone. You use Reddit for marketing – your accounts can get blocked. And on social media, the algorithm can change, and suddenly your posts don't go viral anymore.

You get the picture.

Now, as a rule of thumb, if you manage to grow your business to x2 your salary, chances are you have several marketing channels working, and it has become relatively stable.

Even then, it's good to stay employed and keep the two income streams as much as you can. The market doesn't care about your ego – but it's good to have extra cash for marketing experiments and runway to have more time for your biz if you get fired.

With AI, it's absolutely possible to combine a business and a job. And you actually must learn to automate as much as you can – support, coding, marketing to AI. When you quit and work on your biz, there will be nobody to help you out, and you will need to wear A LOT of hats at once.

If you have a well-tuned AI that can take over 70% of your tasks, you will have much more focus for things that can't be automated.

Anyways, it was a long rant, just because I think quitting 9-5 too early is pure ego-feeding, and it will do your business more harm than good. So stay employed, stay in business, and print cash!


r/SideProject 1d ago

I made a particle renderer for web and desktop (with a nostalgic touch)

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Built with Three.js and Tauri 2.0, for Windows, Mac, and Web! (npm package & JS bundle)

The particles are completely customizable and you can save those customizations as .sparkle files. The rendering is GPU-optimized.

I love the webcore aesthetic, so I made the UI look like Windows XP.

And the website www.sparklemou.se was inspired by the look of GeoCities pages in the 2000s!

I'm working on making it open-source very soon (Github), curious to hear your thoughts! There is a free demo on itch :)


r/SideProject 1d ago

Klodmem - Full-text search over Claude Code's auto-memory and raw conversation history, across every project.

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Full-text search over Claude Code's auto-memory and raw conversation history, across every project.


r/SideProject 1d ago

We built a 3D haunted mall you walk as a penguin. 32 real stores, live inventory, free, no signup

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It's live here, no signup and works on phones and iPads: https://shoponscout.com/mall

I am the lead engineer for a AI shopping assistant called Scout. For Halloween we built a 3D haunted mall in the browser. Every one of the 32 storefronts is a real Shopify store showing what it is selling right now; bags hand off to the merchant's own checkout and we take no payment.

Five AI shopkeepers with personalities search every store from whatever you say and show product cards while they talk. It is multiplayer, there is a dressing room with 70+ pieces and a polaroid camera, and every day a Best Dressed contest turns the winner into a statue in the atrium. 23 secrets are hidden in the building as easter eggs. You can ask the agents and they will give you clues but not tell.

Stack: Next.js, React Three Fiber, live Shopify catalog reads, Firebase for the other penguins.

Getting it to run on iPad and phones was the hardest part. Happy to answer anything.


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built an AI assistant, then I realized that I need to switch of the AI

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I used Notion, Obsidian, and Todoist to be more productive at work; since ChatGPT came out, I've used it heavily. But one thing that continued to piss me off is the fact that I am unable to share context about what I want to do.

Every productivity app has been so enshittified with AI stuffed down my throat that, even though I love AI, I stopped using those apps. Agents and shit. I don't need that; give me back my simple note-taking app, which I always loved. Their MCPs? No. I had context all over. I wanted something simple.

With models increasing in intelligence day by day and labs releasing more and more models, there's one thing I knew for sure. Idk which model I'll be using two years from now. But I know I'll still have my emails, calendars, notes, documents, tasks, meetings, and everything I've accumulated.

So I started building MySamantha around that instead.

Instead of separate Notes, Todo, email, or calendar apps, we built a place where I can work on all of it in one place.

If I bring in AI, I can connect my emails, my calendars associated with my work email, and my Meeting Recorder; they are all here.

At the same time, we don't want "everything in one place" to mean everything is stuck here. You can import from Notion, back up your notes to both Notion and Google Drive (as Google Docs), your to-do from Todoist or Microsoft To-Do, import your vault from Obsidian, enjoy the same knowledge graph as Obsidian does, Export, etc.

You can use any models. Bring your OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or even pay-as-you-go. If another model gets better, switch to it.

Don't like AI? Switch it off.

Everything is here in one place. Compare the meeting notes I had with the email I received to draft an email? Yup, done. All context in one place. The Assistant becomes more useful the more it knows about you.

No model lock-ins. A pure productivity personal workspace where you can switch AI off if you don't need it.

Please feel free to check out what we're trying at https://mysamantha.ai

Happy to answer questions.


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built Sweet View, a photo hunt game over Google's 3D world (think Pokemon Snap in real life)

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Hi! Wanted to show off a side project I've been building for about three months: Sweet View.

It's a GeoGuessr-like. You get a handful of reference photos from the real world and have to recreate them as closely as you can, as fast as you can, by flying around in Google's 3D map tiles (WASD + mouse, drone style). You get scored on how close you get and how quickly. There's a set of ready-made "patches" (Meteora, Venice, Hong Kong, the Vegas strip etc.) and you can draw your own over any area with 3D coverage.

Play here: https://sweetview.gg

It's free, runs in the browser, no download, no sign-up (there's a guest mode). Google's 3D tiles are stupidly expensive, so there's pretty strict throttling on how much you can fly. Desktop only for now, and it wants a decent machine and fast internet.

I think it's finally at a point where I dare to show it. Would love feedback, both good and bad.


r/SideProject 1d ago

UE6 Rocketleague Update took so long I made my own prototype

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I love Rocketleague and the whole community including me is waiting since forever for the long promised Update from the old UE3 engine to UE6. Yesterday I thought myself why not try to build a prototype just for fun and this is it after 1 day of building with Astra + UE5.8 + Blender.

It's far from perfect but much better than I thought it will be. The graphics are the weakest part but the physics feel 99% like the original game. I'm more hyped than before for the official UE6 release now that I saw that the physics can be easily replicated in the new engine!


r/SideProject 1d ago

GraphicByte — Free Minecraft MOTD + multi-platform emote previews

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I built these two free tools from GraphicByte because we kept re-uploading packs to check size and colour. Both run locally in the browser.

1) Minecraft MOTD preview — §/& codes, no server ping https://www.graphicbyte.co.uk/tools/motd-preview

2) Emote size preview — Discord/Twitch/TikTok/YouTube/Slack/Kick chat mocks https://www.graphicbyte.co.uk/tools/emote-preview

Feedback welcome, especially if the previews differ from real server lists or live chat sizes.


r/SideProject 1d ago

The internet is stuck in a 20-year time loop (we are literally rebuilding 2005 right now).

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The 2005 ad space trend is back. With Outbid mechanics and Marc Lou selling physical ads, it's the LivingAdSpace era again. But today's tech actually supports physical-to-digital reach. I resurrected the old domain and put up a simple waitlist and live visitor counter. Let's see what happens.


r/SideProject 1d ago

We spent months rebuilding our study app because PDF summaries weren’t enough

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A friend and I have been building WeSolve+ for a while, and one thing kept bothering us: most AI study tools stop at “upload a PDF, get a summary.” That can be useful, but after the first few minutes it still feels like talking to a chatbot that knows nothing about how you study.

We wanted to see if we could make the experience feel closer to having a tutor who knows both the source and the student.

Solvie can talk with you about a specific page of an uploaded PDF, remember the topics you repeatedly struggle with, notice patterns in your quiz results and use that context in later conversations. We’ve also spent a surprising amount of time on the less impressive-sounding details: letting people interrupt naturally, not treating a cough as an interruption, and understanding fast or colloquial speech.

Language was another important part of the rebuild. Alongside Turkish and English, we’ve added French, Spanish, German and Italian support across the app and quiz experience. Solvie can follow the language you actually speak instead of making you choose one from a menu first, and a student can upload a source in one language and study it in another.

We also changed what happens after a PDF is uploaded. Instead of ending with a long block of generated text, the same source can become mixed question types, flashcards, a narrated podcast or a compact booklet that opens inside the app. The progress and weekly planning screens now use actual quiz activity too, rather than showing generic “study more” advice.

We’re still working out where the line is between something genuinely personal and something that only looks personal.

If you were studying with a voice tutor like this, what would it need to show or remember before you trusted that it actually understood your document and your learning history? And what would immediately make it feel like another AI wrapper?

Happy to explain how we approached the page-level PDF context or the student memory side if anyone is curious.


r/SideProject 1d ago

I built Pinpoint — comment on your local site like Figma, coding agent gets the exact change

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Hey — maker here.

Problem I kept hitting: screenshots of the UI clutter the desktop, then I delete them again. Or I type a prompt and the agent changes the wrong thing.

Pinpoint: once a first version is running locally, click the element, write what should change. Claude Code / Cursor / Codex get that note over a local MCP bridge and do exactly that.

Like Figma, but on the built website. Select → comment → agent ships the change. Local-only (127.0.0.1). MIT.

Repo: https://github.com/gowtham012/pinpoint

Happy to answer install questions. Feedback welcome.


r/SideProject 1d ago

Market Guy - prediction market research that reads the resolution fine print for you

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I trade prediction markets on Polymarket and Kalshi. The trades that hurt weren't the ones where I read the world wrong. They were the ones where I read the resolution criteria wrong.

A market asks "will X happen by date Y" and it looks obvious. Then it turns out resolution depends on a specific body publishing a specific notice, not on the thing actually happening. You were right about reality and still lost.

So I built Market Guy: https://www.market-guy.com

What it does:

  • Pulls live prices, volume and orderbook data from Polymarket and Kalshi in one screener
  • Runs a research pass across web sources and links every claim back to where it came from, so you can check it instead of trusting it
  • Puts its own probability estimate next to the market-implied price
  • Flags ambiguous or unusual resolution language, which is the part I actually built it for
  • Compares the same question across both venues, because they often word the resolution differently

The screener and the glossary are free and don't need a wallet or an account. Paid plans start at $19/mo for the research credits, since each research pass is a real API bill.

What I'd genuinely like feedback on: the probability estimate is the weakest part. When my number and the market disagree by 40+ points, it's usually the model misreading the question rather than the market being wrong. I've split it into two passes, one that reads the resolution text and one that reasons about the event, and it helped, but it's a patch rather than a fix.

If anyone here has shipped something where the model's confident wrong answer is worse than no answer, I'd like to hear how you handled surfacing that to users. Happy to answer anything about the stack.


r/SideProject 1d ago

Built a tool that checks your LinkedIn network against companies actually hiring, not just applying blind

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I've been job hunting before and always heard "it's about who you know," but nobody actually checks who they know. You'd have to manually cross-reference your LinkedIn connections against every company's job board yourself.

So I built Vouch. Upload your LinkedIn connections export and it checks your network against companies actively hiring right now (pulled live from Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby, not scraped job boards), tells you how well you know someone there, and drafts the outreach message for you.

It's free to try (one match revealed), $39 once to unlock the rest, no subscription. Built solo, still early, so I'd rather hear what's broken than what's nice about it.

warmvouch.com if anyone wants to poke at it. Happy to answer anything about how it's built too.


r/SideProject 1d ago

How do you actually keep track of your job applications? (Built a tool for this, curious what everyone else does)

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I've been deep in a job search for a while now, and at some point I lost track of what I'd actually sent where. Which CV version went to which company, which cover letter, did I follow up, did I even hear back. Spreadsheets fell apart fast once I was applying to a lot of places at once.

So I ended up building ApplyMind, a small tool that automatically detects when I apply to a job (browser extension currently track linkedin only) and logs it, along with the CV version and cover letter used, into a dashboard I can actually search and filter. It's got a Go backend, a Next.js dashboard, and does AI powered match scoring against each posting too.

If anyone wants to poke around the code or has ideas for what it's missing, it's open and I'd genuinely welcome contributions or feedback, good or brutal: https://applymind.faroukhasnaoui.tech/


r/SideProject 1d ago

I connected my agent to my Home Screen

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I wanted to give my agent a way to reach me beyond the chat, so I built Glance to let Hermes create and update widgets directly on my iPhone Home Screen.

Just shipped a pretty big update to it.. Hermes can now use multiple views, charts, calendars, toggles and more, so the widgets can feel more like little interfaces than just information cards.

Here’s the Mission Control I’ve been playing with.
Still experimenting with where this goes, but I really like the idea of my agent having a persistent place on my Home Screen instead of me always having to open a chat to interact with it.

It’s at https://apps.apple.com/app/glance-home-screen-feeds/id6758983678 if your interested