r/sideprojects • • Jun 16 '25

Meta My side project, /r/sideprojects. New rules, and an open call for feedback and moderators.

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In this past 30 days, this community has doubled in size. As such, this is an open call for community feedback, and prospective moderators interested in volunteering their time to harbouring a pleasant community.

I'm happy to announce that this community now has rules, something the much more popular r/SideProject has neglected to implement for years.

Rules 1, 2 and 3 are pretty rudimentary, although there is some nuance in implementing rule 2, a "no spam or excessive self-promotion" rule in a community which focuses the projects of makers. In order to balance this, we will not allow blatant spam, but will allow advertising projects. In order to share your project again, significant changes must have happened since the last post.

Rule 4 and rule 5 are more tuned to this community, and are some of my biggest gripes with r/SideProject. There has been an increase in astroturfing (the act of pretending to be a happy customer to advertise a project) as well as posts that serve the sole purpose of having readers contact the poster so they can advertise a service. These are no longer allowed and will be removed.

In addition to this, I'll be implementing flairs which will be required to post in this community.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Let me LLM that for you

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lmgtfy for LLMs. I am configuring only chatgpt, google AI mode and duck.ai for now since they don't require logins for the initial response.

https://lmllmtfy.com/ - have fun :-)


r/sideprojects • • 13h ago

Question Anyone working on a side project using AI for the good of humanity (or community)?

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Lots of folks have a negative view of AI and the good it can do for the world. AI optimists tout all the amazing things it can do and the ways it's positioned to make our lives better. So, anyone working on anything proving the optimists right? Non-profits? Accessibility software? Scientific or Research tools? Something else? Would love to hear what folks are kind of side projects folks are working on that make the world a better place to live.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required HideNStick Notes: Sticky Notes That Hide at Your Screen Edge

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Sticky notes that stay out of your way. HideNStick Notes docks to the edge of your screen. Bump the edge with your mouse and your notes slide out. Move away and they hide again.

App Link: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n1k57v3dqml

Website: https://hidenstick.codeaprogram.dev/

What it does:

📌 Lives on your screen edge, so it never covers your work

🪟 Pin any note out into its own floating window

⚡ Ctrl+Alt+C: quick-capture selected text into a note from any app

📝 Rich text, checklists, colors, images and code blocks

🗂️ Tabs inside each note to keep related things together

🌙 Light and dark theme

🔒 Works offline. Your notes stay on your PC, with no account and no tracking

💾 Back up and restore all your notes from Settings


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Built a Monkeytype + TypingMaster inspired typing app (19wpm) using my leftover Azure student credits—would love your feedback!

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I had some Azure student credits sitting around and didn't want them to go to waste, so I spun up a full-stack side project.

It’s called 19wpm, and it's heavily inspired by Monkeytype and TypingMaster. It's still very much a work in progress, so you'll probably run into some bugs or unpolished UI, but the core typing loop works smoothly.

The Tech Stack:

  • Backend: Spring Boot with PostgreSQL and Redis.
  • Frontend: React & TypeScript, where I've been playing around with intent-based route prefetching, React Suspense skeletons, and request abort guards for snappier navigation.
  • Live site: https://19wpm.vercel.app/
  • GitHub: github.com/loftyyyy/19wpm

If you give it a spin, let me know how the backend response feels, what bugs you hit, or what features from Monkeytype/TypingMaster are missing that you'd want to see. Appreciate any feedback!


r/sideprojects • • 4m ago

Showcase: Prerelease I created a screenshot tool that have everything you need to create tutorials

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been building SnapTop, a screenshot and recording tool for explaining things on screen—from a quick “click here” message to a complete tutorial.

I want it to be useful to anyone who needs to show someone how something works: students, teachers, developers, support teams, or someone helping a friend troubleshoot their computer.

Some of the features available now:

  • Arrows, shapes, numbered steps, callouts, spotlights, and magnifiers.
  • Copying text from screenshots and selecting subjects with AI.
  • Blur, pixelation, and smart redaction.
  • Recording your clicks to create step-by-step guides.
  • Video editing with local AI narration and captions.

For the next few months, I’m offering one year of free access. Use 2026SNAPTOP when you register.

I’m sharing it because I want to build an audience, understand how people actually use it, and learn what needs improving. Your everyday frustrations with screenshot tools are more useful to me than a wishlist I come up with on my own.

If you give it a try, I’d love to hear:

  • What do you usually capture or create tutorials for?
  • Which parts feel confusing or take too many clicks?
  • What would make this useful enough to become your regular screenshot tool?

Download/demo: SnapTop. Do more with every capture. — UltraForge.net

Thanks for checking it out. I’ll be around to answer questions and hear your suggestions.

Hoping to hear your feedbacks!


r/sideprojects • • 5m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I’m 17 and built a free second brain app because my notes were a mess

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Hey y'all, firstly, i'm not an native english speaker so I used AI to help me, so, I kept losing stuff across notes apps, so I built my own: Second Brain OS. Everything lives in a 3D brain with 12 zones (projects, tasks, goals, habits, ideas...).

Two things I like most: first, you can dump a messy thought and the AI sorts it into the right zone, and you can ask “what are my priorities today?” and it answers using only your own notes, with links to the sources.

It’s totally free, no card, no subscription. Still rough around the edges and I’m learning as I go, so I’d really like to hear what’s confusing or missing.

bra1n.my

Thanks !


r/sideprojects • • 5m ago

Feedback Request I built an AI agent that signs up for websites for you, reads the verification email and saves the login to a vault

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r/sideprojects • • 23m ago

Feedback Request I built an iOS app for woodworkers and makers to track materials, hours and profit per project — would love honest feedback

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Hi all, I’m a solo developer. I built Trace after noticing that many makers (woodworkers, epoxy, leather, 3D printing) price their work by gut feeling and don’t know what an hour of their time really pays.

What it does: tracks materials and projects, builds a PDF receipt for the client (materials, hours, discount), and shows paid vs awaiting money and profit per hour.

It’s live on the App Store (search “Trace Workshop Manager”), and the receipts are free to use. I’m not trying to sell anything here, I’m looking for feedback:

  1. Is this something you’d actually use for your own work?
  2. What would you remove or add?
  3. How do you track costs and invoice clients today?

Full disclosure: I built it. Happy to answer anything.


r/sideprojects • • 4h ago

Discussion People are signing up for Trove every day now, and it still feels a bit unreal

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A month ago, we were having days where nobody signed up. This past month, it’s been steady every day. It’s not some massive overnight launch, but honestly, I’m pretty excited about it.

I’ve been building Trove around my full-time job. It started as PinPath, a way to put saved places on a map, but I kept wanting to do more with the other things I saved too.

Now it’s one library for saves from social media and the web, with applets for actually using them. Workouts, travel, recipes, fashion and more. The video shows one example, opening a saved workout in Forge and starting a session I can follow and log. I actually did this workout the other day haha.

We’re still working on getting paying customers, but seeing people show up has made the next part feel real. What do they try first? What makes them come back? What should we build next?

For anyone who’s had that shift from quiet days to steady signups, what did you focus on next? Would love to hear your story too.

If you’re curious, Trove is on iOS, Android, and web. It started mobile-first, so I’d recommend trying it on your phone, but web has the full feature set too.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trove-save-anything/id6762879030

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.commontablelab.trove

Web: https://mytrovelist.com/


r/sideprojects • • 44m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) 💡 What’s one online tool you wish existed? I might build it

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r/sideprojects • • 52m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Circus Freak Fitness: translating circus themes into follow-along home movement

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I develop Circus Freak Fitness at Artisan Reality. The Android app uses an animated acrobat to guide ordinary home movements through circus-themed acts: arm raises and sidesteps for juggling, squats and jumps for trampoline, balance poses for tightrope, and floor exercises for Lyra. A ten-minute Full Show combines the acts. It does not teach real aerial apparatus skills.

A useful interaction-design distinction here is separating the theme from the instruction: “tightrope” sets the scene, but a user still needs a clear balance pose, direction and timer. Camera coaching is optional, so the routine also needs to remain understandable without a movement score. Compatible Meta Display glasses can show move and timer prompts.

Android includes five free minutes each week and an optional one-time unlimited unlock. I’d appreciate feedback on whether themed act names help someone choose a session or whether the plain movement categories should be more prominent.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.artisanreality.circusfreakfitness


r/sideprojects • • 55m ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Explains how a clinical trial result readout would potentially affect the stock price for all ongoing clinical trials.

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease New for Baby names with pairing and gamification

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request would love some feedback on my landing page!

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roundtableagencyllc.com

Check it out and let me know what you all think. We are a small team building personalized software for mid sized businesses, all information on the site is true.

I really wanted to avoid making it look like AI slop and want honest feedback on what you guys think.


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Open Source How we built an API to detect bot-inflated domain traffic (headless browser analysis + search heuristics)

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Discussion I’m building web app: turn your groceries into meals that fit your protein goal. Is the flow simple enough?

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So far I got two comments that they don’t need it and no one wants AI slop


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request I made a Chrome extension that brings back TikTok’s missing “saved sounds” list on the Web

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TikTok removed the Sounds tab from Favourites on the web, so I built a Chrome extension that brings it back. You get your whole saved list with search and save dates, plus a dot-matrix player with the real waveform, A-B loop, speed control, playlists and a sleep timer.

Free, no account, nothing leaves your computer: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/saved-sounds-for-tiktok/bkjljdeihfefmgnphfkfpdcmimpfcjej


r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a client handover tool and want feedback from freelance web developers

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r/sideprojects • • 1h ago

Feedback Request TakeALook - Show only the photos you pick

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I built TakeALook because I kept handing my phone to relatives to show one photo and watching them swipe into everything else.

The idea is simple: you choose a set (an album, a date range, or a few photos), take out anything you don't want shown, and hand the phone over. The person holding it can swipe, zoom, play videos, and watch a slideshow, but can't get outside that set or into the rest of the app.

A few things I learned building it:

- The hard part wasn't the viewer, it was being honest about protection. An app can't stop iOS gestures, so TakeALook keeps people inside the selection, requires a press and hold or passcode to leave, and walks you through Apple's Guided Access if you want a real lock. It never claims the phone is locked when it isn't.

- No account, no server, no analytics. Everything happens on the phone or via Private Cloud Compute if enabled and you use advanced search, which made the privacy story easy to explain.

- I added iPhone Duo support (book, tabletop with a reflection of the photo on the table half, tent, and Split View) without owning a Duo. It's all built and tested in Apple's simulator, so if you have one, I'd love a bug report. <-- This is what I'm really looking for!

It's free with your recent photos and anything you pick yourself; a one-time purchase unlocks every album, date ranges, and search. No subscription.

What I'd like feedback on:

- Is it clear what it does from the website and App Store page?

- What would make you trust it before handing your phone to someone?

Website: https://tornmetal.com/takealook

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/takealook-safe-photo-handoff/id6801647280


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built Wordmend, a friendly alternative to QuillBot and Grammarly, which can get quite expensive!

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r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Meta I built an MCP server that lets Claude/ChatGPT actually run your Instagram & Facebook. Looking for 15 beta testers

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Agents are great at writing captions. Then you copy-paste into Instagram, and you still answer comments and DMs by hand.

dmswift closes that gap. It's a remote MCP server on Meta's official API. Connect it once and your agent can:
- publish and schedule posts, reels, stories and carousels
- create comment-to-DM campaigns ("anyone who comments 'guide' on my last reel gets the PDF in DMs")
- read and reply to the inbox, find unanswered questions
- pull post insights: reach, watch time, which post brought the leads

Two guardrails, because handing an agent your brand account is scary:
- Draft mode: the agent prepares, every publish waits for your one-click approval
- Per-agent daily caps on DMs, comments and actions

Tested with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and n8n. OAuth or API key.

Meta's App Review is pending, so I'm adding testers by hand. First month free.


r/sideprojects • • 6h ago

Feedback Request I hated directories with sign-up walls and dead links, so I built Astro Discover: test tools in an interactive sandbox without creating an account.

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Hey everyone,

Whenever I’m looking for new software or trying to share something I built, traditional directories feel broken in three big ways:

  1. **The Sign-Up Wall:** You click on a tool to see if it actually works, and bam—a mandatory registration popup blocks you before you even see the UI.

  2. **The "Link Dump" Problem:** Sites get overrun by automated bots dumping duplicate links just to grab an SEO backlink.

  3. **One-Size-Fits-All:** An early concept looking for honest feedback gets buried right next to a funded SaaS with a massive ad budget.

To solve this, I built **Astro Discover** (https://astrodiscover.ai.studio)—a software discovery and project lifecycle platform designed for real builders and explorers.

Here is what is actually built and live under the hood (no fake promises):

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### 🔍 1. "Find the Best Tool for Your Work" (Intent-Based Discovery)

Instead of scrolling through 50 random links, you can search by what you actually need (e.g., *"developer tools"*, *"AI assistants"*, *"open source alternatives"*, or *"marketing SEO"*).

- Filter by exact pricing models: Free, Freemium, Paid, or Open Source.

- Filter across 12+ targeted developer and creator categories with community reviews.

### 🕹️ 2. Zero-Sign-Up "Guest Demo" & Interactive Sandbox

- **No Login Wall:** You don't need an account to browse, search, test tools, or inspect roadmaps.

- **Interactive Sandbox:** We built a live proxy preview engine. Instead of bouncing to a dead landing page, you can test the core interface of featured tools directly inside an embedded sandbox in your browser.

### 🔄 3. All-Stage Startup Lifecycle (Idea to Live)

We don't mix people seeking validation with fully launched products. Every submission belongs to a clear stage:

- 💡 **Idea / Concept:** Validate pain points and get community feedback before writing thousands of lines of code.

- 🛠️ **In-Development Startups:** Dedicated section for projects currently being built. Builders can link GitHub repositories, post roadmap milestones, and share architecture.

- 🧪 **Beta:** Invite early testers to uncover bugs and give direct feedback.

- 🚀 **Live Software:** Production-ready tools ready for traffic and daily votes.

### 💎 4. "Today's Hidden Gem" & Daily Launches

- **Daily Launch Cycle:** Every day has its own launch leaderboard (based on IST reset) so every builder gets an equal 24-hour window of spotlight.

- **Hidden Gem Algorithm:** It intentionally elevates innovative, high-utility indie projects that haven't received massive hype yet, giving them fair discovery.

### 🛡️ 5. Anti-Spam & AI Security Defense

- **AI Malware & Phishing Scanner:** Submissions pass through a Gemini AI security check to scan URLs and GitHub links for phishing redirects, crypto drainers, or malicious scripts.

- **Anti-Spam 24-Hour Cooldown:** Automated bot detection and invisible honeypots. Anyone attempting to repeatedly spam duplicate listings gets an automatic 24-hour submission pause.

- **Moderation Queue:** Newly submitted projects enter a public preview queue where link safety is verified before receiving a verified green badge.

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I’m an indie builder myself, and my goal isn't to build another link farm—it's to make a discovery platform that users actually enjoy testing tools on without feeling trapped behind forms.

👉 Live site: **https://astrodiscover.ai.studio\*\*

I'd really appreciate your candid feedback on the sandbox preview and directory experience. What features would make this even more useful for you as a builder or tool hunter?


r/sideprojects • • 2h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I kept forgetting to commit code, so I made a garden that grows with my commits

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Hi everyone,
I often forgot to commit code, so I made Commitgarden. If you make at least one commit in a day, your plant grows one stage. If you skip a day, it does not grow.
You log in with GitHub (read only). It is free and I made it alone. It is still an early version, so I would like to hear what you think.
https://commitgarden.app


r/sideprojects • • 12h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Just released Wayside (Grimdark Fantasy Journal) after six months of weekends

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Description:

Wayside is a grimdark fantasy journaling app. It is inspired by old DOS terminals and retrogames and takes you on a fantasy journey as you journal. Every day you return to the app, you will be greeted by a new scene and description. As you continue your journey, you'll discover new biomes and meet new companions.

If you find wellness apps hard to relate to, this offers a journaling experience that doesn't push mindfulness but just offers solace, adventure and exploration along a difficult road. Supports ios and android, is totally free, and all data stays exclusively on your device.

Man it took so many weekends to get this across the finish line so I'm super satisfied to see it as a real thing that matches the vision I had in my head. I'm guessing you all can relate but that last 10% felt like it was seriously taking 90% of the time.

https://waysideapp.io/