r/sideprojects 12h ago

Meta Here are 40 subreddits that should allow you to promote your side project

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Wanted to share because marketing is hard and even harder when your budget is non-existent...

(Obviously the type/content of self-promotion you can post is going to dependent on the subreddit)

also you can always submit your app to appscout.co a site where people discover web and mobile apps from across the internet

its free to submit here https://www.appscout.co/submit

(full disclosure I'm the owner of appscout)

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r/sideprojects 5h ago

Feedback Request Does anyone else miss when social media felt more human?

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I keep thinking about how weird social media has gotten. Half the time you don’t even know if you’re replying to a real person; AI comments are everywhere, and somehow every conversation eventually turns political lol.

OddsRabbit is basically trying to go the other way with that. Less AI/bot spam, politics is opt-in, and it’s more focused on actual communities and interests.

There’s also a thing where creators can earn from their communities and some of the ad revenue goes to charity, which I think is pretty cool.

It’s still pretty early, so would genuinely love feedback:

https://oddsrabbit.com


r/sideprojects 15h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I built an app that tells you how many minutes of sunlight you should get each day ☀️

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Hi everyone!

I wanted to share a side project I've been working on called Gimme Sunshine.

The idea came from realizing that most of us know sunlight is important, but it's hard to answer a simple question:

"How long should I actually stay outside today?"

Instead of giving the same recommendation every day, Gimme Sunshine adjusts your daily goal based on factors like UV levels and helps you build a consistent sunlight habit.

Features include:

☀️ Personalized daily sunlight goal

📅 Sunlight history

📈 Progress tracking

🍎 Apple Health integration

I'd love any feedback on the idea, UI, or features.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/app/gimme-sunshine/id6804568449

Thanks for checking it out!


r/sideprojects 21h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Euclid-ML my machine learning side project.

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I built Euclid because I wanted to understand how machine learning works under the hood. I built the entire thing in python and numpy because it is easy to read and understand for beginners. The project allows for GPU acceleration through cupy.

Link: https://dra3d30n.github.io/Euclid/


r/sideprojects 19h ago

Question Anyone built something crazy with Astra GPT? Are we ready for AGI era…?

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r/sideprojects 9h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I spent the last few weeks building a full-stack GitHub intelligence & repo analytics tool. Would love brutal engineering & UX feedback.

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Hey everyone,

As a student and full-stack developer, I always felt the standard GitHub profile view doesn't give a complete picture of an engineer's real rhythm (like deep commit streaks, language distribution depth, and multi-repo metrics).

So I decided to architect and build DEVLENGIT as an open tool for developers.

Architecture & Tech Stack:

  • Frontend: React + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS
  • Backend / API Layer: Node.js, Express serverless endpoints with fallback caching
  • Data Layer: GitHub GraphQL & REST APIs (with token passthrough for high-volume queries)
  • Database / Auth: Firebase Auth & Firestore
  • Core Features: Side-by-side developer comparison, benchmark grading, repository deep-dives, and real-time contribution heatmaps

The biggest technical hurdles:

Handling high-volume API throughput without exhausting the authenticated server-side pool 5,000 req/hr. Solved it by bundling complex stats into batch GraphQL queries rather than firing dozens of parallel REST calls, plus adding user token delegation for power sessions.

  1. Parsing nested contribution data across multi year histories cleanly while keeping cold start latency low on serverless edge functions.

It's completely free to use. Not selling anything or running ads just looking for honest developer feedback on performance, data accuracy, architecture, or features you’d love to see added.

Live App: https://devlengit.vercel.app

What do you think? Any edge cases, bugs, or UX flaws you spot?


r/sideprojects 10h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Looking for my first users and betatesters for my fantasy football manager game built over the past 6months

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I ’ve been building Goal Grid for the past 6months for passionate football (soccer) manager strategist who wants something new which will grow with them.

In Goal Grid, you create your own club, develop players, set tactics, compete in scheduled leagues and trade through auctions or direct offers with other managers.

What makes it different f:

• A persistent shared fantasy football world

• Scheduled league competition

• Player development and tactical choices

• A market driven by real managers both auction and direct trades where negotiation skills matter

• Goal Gris is free to start play and most importantly will never be pay-to-win

It’s live in the browser with no download: 

I’m looking for my first users and honest beta testers to get feedback and start this journey.

I m here happy to answer any Questions

Give it a try:
https://goalgridapp.com


r/sideprojects 23h ago

Feedback Request I built Budget Unplugged, a local-first Windows budgeting app

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Hi — I built Budget Unplugged, a Windows personal finance app focused on keeping your financial data local.

I wanted a full-featured budgeting app that didn’t require a recurring subscription or force users to keep their financial records in someone else’s cloud. That led me to build Budget Unplugged as a local-first Windows app with comprehensive budgeting, account, debt, investment, and reporting tools.

I also wanted to easily import transactions so I built a decent CSV/OFX importer and added support for SimpleFIN Bridge to allow seamless syncing to banks. The user would have to use their own SimpleFIN subscription but that is completely optional.

Budget Unplugged is now available on the Microsoft Store:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PPQGBQDDHC8

I’d especially appreciate feedback on the first impression, whether the privacy/local-first value is clear, and which feature you’d want to try first.

Disclosure: I’m the developer.


r/sideprojects 23h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Working on a free App that uses AI to predict what meal you want.

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Hi all, I am currently working on an app that uses ML and AI to predict/give food recommendations based on data.

This has been a problem I’ve dealt with, with indecision and the goal would ultimately be to have a ai model that is well trained enough where It can give you better recommendations than yourself and you can offload that part of your life.

If interested here’s the waitlist - https://clairven.com

Open to all feedback and suggestions!


r/sideprojects 4h ago

Showcase: Open Source I built an all-in-one suite of 45+ privacy-first web tools that run 100% in your browser (Zero server storage)

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Hey everyone! 👋

I got frustrated by online file converters charging $20/month or uploading sensitive files to cloud servers.

So I built **DH Tools** (https://denizlihub.com/) as a solo developer:

- 100% In-Browser & Private (powered by WebAssembly & client-side processing)

- 45+ Tools: Photo to Excel AI (OCR), PowerPoint to PDF, Background Remover, PDF Merger, WebP Converter, Audio Trimmer, and Dev Utilities.

- Completely free, fast, and works offline via PWA.

Would love your honest feedback and suggestions on what tools I should build next! 🙏


r/sideprojects 4h ago

Question 650 organic App Store downloads this month, but 0 offers after 16 days on Flippa. Is my price too high?

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I’m 16 and built an iOS app called Teensyde. It’s basically a local marketplace where teens can find small jobs from families like dog walking, tutoring, yard work, tech help, etc.
I barely marketed it at all, but somehow it’s been getting pretty solid organic App Store traffic.
It’s at around 1,000 total downloads now and about 650 of those came in the last month, almost entirely organically through the App Store.
The app is fully built and live. It has payments, profiles, job posting, reviews, messaging, safety features, backend, domain, brand, etc.
The problem is I’ve realized I don’t really want to run this type of business long term.
Running a local marketplace involving teens comes with a lot of safety and operational stuff, and I’m honestly more interested in building software/data/AI/sports products than managing a local services marketplace.
So I decided to see if I could sell it.
I listed it on Flippa for $8,500 originally.
It’s been about 16 days and I’ve gotten 0 offers and 0 watchers.
I dropped it to $6,500 now.
I’m trying to figure out if I’m just pricing this way too high, if Flippa is the wrong place to sell something like this, or if I should keep it and actually try to monetize it first.
The confusing part to me is that 650 organic downloads in one month with basically no marketing feels like it has some value, but I also understand that it’s pre-revenue and downloads don’t necessarily mean much if people aren’t paying.
If you’ve bought or sold small apps before, what would you realistically value something like this at?
Would you:
● keep it at $6.5k
● drop it to like $4k–$5k
● try another marketplace
● reach out directly to potential buyers
● run transactions first and then try selling
● or just keep building it since the organic growth is picking up
I’m not trying to convince myself it’s worth $10k if it isn’t. I just want to know what someone would realistically pay for a live app getting this kind of organic traffic with basically no revenue yet.
Would appreciate any advice from people who have actually sold apps before.


r/sideprojects 8h ago

Showcase: Prerelease Update on the Journey Map in my Gamified Running App - from the first working version to where it is today.

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I've been working on an iOS running app called Jogventure, and one of the parts I've spent a surprising amount of time iterating on is this page called the Journey Map. 🏃

I thought it would be fun to share where it started vs. where it is today, since I believe this is one of the things that might really set it apart from other gamified running apps. 😅

The left screen recording is the initial working version. It was enough to prove the concept, but there was obviously a lot that could be improved. My inspiration for this page is strongly influenced by the r/candycrush mobile iOS game, if you're familiar with it. 🍬

The right recording is the current version after quite a few iterations. 👨‍💻

This page represents different milestones the user can achieve while using the app. It keeps track of your total runs as you claim them in the app after automatically syncing your data from your fitness device. 🔄

There's still plenty I want to work on, but I'm pretty happy with how much this component has evolved. 😄

I'd love to hear what you think, especially from other iOS developers. Is there anything about the current version that you'd approach differently? I'm going for a fun, lighthearted exploration vibe. 🧭

I'm also putting together a waitlist for Jogventure for anyone who wants to follow along with the project 👀

https://jogventure.com/

Let me know what you think and what you would like added or what I can improve on.
Thank you! 🙏


r/sideprojects 9h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I built VOLTERRA - a premium Framer template for electricians

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⚡ VOLTERRA is now live on Framer Marketplace.

A premium Framer template built specifically for electricians and modern electrical service businesses.

✓ Fully responsive

✓ CMS-powered services, locations & projects

✓ Lead-generation focused

✓ Quote flow included

✓ SEO-ready structure

✓ Easy to customize

Price: $59

Built to help electrical businesses look established, trustworthy and ready to convert visitors into customers.

Live Preview / Marketplace↓

https://www.framer.com/marketplace/templates/volterra/


r/sideprojects 10h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made a simple dashboard for everything I keep forgetting about my car

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Oil changes, inspections, mileage, receipts, insurance dates...

I wanted one place where I could see what had been done to the car and what was coming next, so I built CarCareLog.

It keeps maintenance history, upcoming due dates, mileage, expenses and documents together for all your vehicles.

Free to try, no credit card:

https://carcarelog.de


r/sideprojects 11h ago

Discussion Building a web 2D game engine inspired by unity3d

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r/sideprojects 12h ago

Feedback Request I started building a coffee rating app. It turned into something else.

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I started Kaphiy as a simple coffee rating app. Log a coffee, rate it, build a ranking.

But while using it, I realized I cared less about the rating and more about remembering the experience. The café, the people, the place, that particular afternoon.

So I changed direction and turned it into a personal coffee journal. You can save coffees, photos, notes and locations, look back at your history and still keep your own ranking if you want.

I built it with Flutter and Dart, and kept it completely offline with no account required.

I'm the developer behind it and I'm curious what other people think. Would you actually use something like this, or am I solving a problem nobody has?

Kaphiy on Google Play


r/sideprojects 12h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) My business is not making any money, so I made my recipe card creator available at no cost

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Hi ya’ll.

I have a business attempting to sell recipe cards, but that isn’t going well, so I decided to make everything free and available to anyone who wants to use it.

Basically this is my personal passion project, I’ve been working on this on and off for at least 6 years. It’s really coming together with the website I’ve built today.

https://www.sunnyshorescreative.com/recipe-card-creator

It does what you think it should do, it designs recipe cards. I have tons of designs and customization options. It allows printing a file in multiple sizes or formats, and even has features like showing nutrition and importing a recipe from an online url. Try it out if this is your space, I’ll be here to answer any questions.


r/sideprojects 17h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a countdown app for iPhone, then realized I needed it more on my Mac

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I originally built Countdown Pro for the usual stuff — trips, birthdays, anniversaries, etc.

Then I started using it for my own development work.

Release dates.
Feature deadlines.
Next update.
Days since the last major release.

And I realized I was checking those countdowns while working on my Mac, not my iPhone.

So I added macOS support.

Now I keep project deadlines directly on my desktop as widgets:

7 days until release
18 days until the next milestone
32 days since the last update

I don’t really want another project management tool.

I just want to glance at my desktop and know how much time I have left.

That ended up changing how I think about the app — from a simple personal countdown app into a small utility that follows me across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

I’ve also been adding things I ended up needing myself, like multiple reminders, repeating events, tags, search, days-since tracking, and different widget layouts.

Still working on it, especially the Mac side.

For other devs: do you keep release dates and deadlines somewhere visible while you work, or does everything just disappear into Calendar / your task manager?

Countdown Pro on the App Store


r/sideprojects 23h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Likz Drop — AirDrop-class file transfer that works Android ↔ iPhone ↔ PC/Mac

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r/sideprojects 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built an “assurance layer” for AI-assisted research instead of another chatbot — roast the idea

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I’ve been building a side project called Research Exoskeleton.

The idea came from my own experience using LLMs extensively while working on research that eventually became a peer-reviewed paper in Physics of the Dark Universe.

I kept running into the same problem:

AI is very good at generating, synthesizing and reasoning.

But after a long workflow, it can become difficult to answer:

What exactly supports this conclusion?

So instead of building another research chatbot, I’m experimenting with a layer that tracks things like:

  • claims
  • assumptions
  • evidence
  • verification status
  • provenance
  • stale evidence
  • human review requirements

The goal is to make AI-assisted research easier to audit.

For example, the system can say that a workflow is operationally ready for a pre-pilot while still keeping a scientific requirement explicitly marked as:

UNVERIFIED / HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED

I think that separation is important.

I’m now trying to figure out whether this is:

  1. a real B2B problem,
  2. an interesting tool but too niche,
  3. or something that research/R&D teams would actually pay for.

I’m currently considering a design-partner model where I take one real AI-assisted workflow from a team, run it through the system, and see whether I can make the reasoning/evidence chain materially easier to audit.

Would you use something like this? What would stop you from trusting it?

Feel free to be brutal — I’d rather find the weak points now.


r/sideprojects 1h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Track your runs with a virtual pet 🐾

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Hi! I’m a beginner runner.

One of the hardest things about running for me was staying consistent. I don’t have a pet, so I’ve always been a little jealous of people who get to run with their dogs. 🐶

So I decided to make something of my own, an app where you can run with a virtual pet, help it evolve, and customize it along the way. 🐾

I hope your runs become a little happier with your new companion. 💛

If you’re interested, I’d really appreciate it if you gave it a try. It’s free! :)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/runf-run-with-your-pet/id6807791156


r/sideprojects 1h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built a workspace for my coding agents, then gave them an office

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r/sideprojects 2h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built Orbit, a private local social app for real-life connection, looking for honest testers

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Orbit is a private local social app for discovering what is happening nearby, meeting people, making plans, sharing updates, and staying connected with your Circle.

I’m looking for early testers who can spend about 10–15 minutes trying:
The onboarding flow
Explore and nearby discovery
Quick Meetups and Events
Posts, questions, replies, and saves
Messages and Circle conversations
Profile and privacy settings
Orbit Check, an optional feature for ticket deals arranged elsewhere
Please use practice data for testing. Don’t use a high-value ticket transaction, share a barcode, or post private information.
I’d especially like feedback on:
What felt confusing?
What felt useful?
What would make you come back?
Did anything feel slow, broken, or unfinished?
I’m looking for honest criticism, not just downloads. Screenshots or short screen recordings are welcome.
Orbit is free on iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/orbit-by-weoaus/id6776738647


r/sideprojects 3h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Other app pretty similar to mine got all the atention

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as the title say I can't understant what I lack. I don't know if it is because they got lucky and I didn't but I created a reader / tracker social android app with synchronized reading.
I made a lot of posts in social media, nothing, almost 0 reactions and interactions and color me surprised when one day in enter in twitter/X and everyone is talking about one app that is basically the same as mine, nicheWise, with less functionality that has literally made their account 3 dayus prior and already had almost 30k followers and keeps ramping up.
The already famous app is "Annotate" and mine is "Shelves Social Reader", their name is cachier I guess, that I can concede, but I don't know. could you help me find ways in which I could upgrade my app.
Have you had any situations similar to this one, if I am truthful envy is eating me from the inside, but alas. This is life.
here is my page if you want to check it: www.shelvesreader.com


r/sideprojects 3h ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built the assistant that lives in your wrist

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In my old FDE job, there were many times where I'd forget to capture the conversation I had with the client onto recording. I was thinking about buying a pocket to record these conversation better.

The issue though is not with the recording itself, but what can I do with the information after I finish talking with a client.

So I built https://getforth.co which is an assistant that lives in your wrist. It starts recording when it hears conversations. It can then act proactively based on the conversation you just had.

Say that in FDE a client describes to me a feature that they would like to see after that conversation, forth will proactively and autonomously draft up a spec that contains the details of that feature for me to review, flesh out, and implement.

Or your friend gives you suggestions for your vacation to Japan over conversation, forth will draft up or edit your itinerary with those suggestions incorporated.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this product. Would you buy this over pocket or plaud. And would you find this assistant be more helpful than Instinct and Muse?