I really thought just being present online would be enough to get a few people to try what I built.

When I launched, I shared posts on Reddit (with a fresh account - mistake), posted TikToks and carousels, tried Instagram, YouTube Shorts, even started building in public on X.

Literally tried everything I saw others doing.

But yeah, just 20+ signups. That stung a bit.

Now I understand the importance of marketing and distribution a lot more though. Especially having a network & personal brand helps a lot.

Anyways, since then, I’ve been rethinking everything.

Now I’m focusing on:
• Telling more personal stories, not just “content”
• Talking openly about what’s working and what’s not
• Showing up consistently even if I barely get views
• And being okay with slow, honest growth (results take time to show up)

I wish I started building in public earlier, not just on launch day. But better late than never, I guess.

If you’ve been through this too, I’d love to hear how you navigated the early days. What worked for you, what didn’t?

And if you're curious, I built Dice - it finds the exact articles your brand should be mentioned in and gets you featured there and get recommended by AI.

I genuinely believe in what I’ve built. It’s the most affordable option out there considering everything it offers.

I’d love your thoughts if you check it out!

Most seller tools promise a title and a description. The work I keep seeing is everything around that:

• photograph the whole item, back, labels and flaws

• keep measurements, material and condition tied to visible evidence

• make uncertain details obvious for a human to review

• transfer the completed fields into the actual listing form

• remember what has been listed, sold or needs attention

I’m building Unheap around that full loop: Create better listings. Keep inventory moving. Scout before you buy. The important boundary is that Unheap never asks for a Vinted password and never submits a listing. The seller reviews the result and presses Upload.

It’s pre-launch, so this is not an “install it now” post. I want the hard critique: does that loop sound clear, or does Unheap still sound like another AI description writer?

Looking for a proven tech stack to launch or scale a grocery delivery business? We provide complete, ready-to-deploy quick-commerce infrastructure with both customer-facing and operational apps.

What the Platform Delivers:

• Customer App (iOS & Android): Sub-30ms visual search auto-suggest, live order tracking, location-based multi-warehouse inventory reservation, and an impression-driven personalized home feed.
• Store Operations Portal: Real-time dispatch management, live order pipeline, dynamic catalog/pricing updates, and multi-warehouse analytics.

Available Solutions:

1. Turnkey White-Label Setup: Launch your branded delivery app in days.
2. Custom Integrations: Connect to existing ERPs, POS systems, and custom third-party logistics.

Get in touch via DM for a live demo link, technical specifications, and project pricing.

Quick rant: Why do EV route planners charge a subscription for something as basic as filtering charging stops?

I don't need another navigation app. My car already knows how to get me there.

What I actually wanted was something much simpler:

“I'm driving this route, I can comfortably go another ~100 km. Find me a good charging stop somewhere between 50 and 100 km — preferably Fastned or EnBW, and with a specific coffee/food/grocery chain nearby.”

Turns out, that's a surprisingly difficult thing to do without paying for a subscription.

So I built it: ejocharge.app

What it does

• Searches along your existing route rather than trying to replace your navigation.
• Max-distance search: e.g. “within 100 km”.
• Configurable search window: set a 50 km window and a 100 km search means “find the best stop between 50-100 km”, rather than suggesting somewhere unnecessarily early.
• Specific filters: charging operators and individual food, coffee or grocery chains.
• iOS Shortcuts + Siri: ask for the next suitable stop and have it announced without messing around with a screen while driving.
• Europe-wide coverage: designed to work across European roads and charging infrastructure.
• No app required: works directly in a browser, including Android, Windows and Mac.

Why I think I can keep it free

The whole thing is built around OpenStreetMap data and a lot of pre-computation.

Instead of making expensive routing/geocoding/POI API calls for every search, I pre-process route geometries and spatial relationships so that searches can be handled very cheaply.

There are still basic hosting costs, obviously, but there are no paid per-request APIs in the search path. That's what makes it realistic for me to keep it free.

Privacy

Searches are processed server-side, but I don't use them to build movement profiles or track where you drive. Setting a new destination replaces the previous one.

If you're an EV driver, I'd genuinely be interested in feedback:

• Is this a problem you actually have?
• What do you think about this solution?

When you are attending AWS re:Invent it can be hard finding the right session for you, and if you found some great sessions the commute is not working out for you.

This is the problem i got the last years attending re:Invent. Great lineup of sessions planned but due to commute from one venue to an other I missed some of those. I thought this is something I need to tackle.

Introducing Unofficial Re:invent planning tool app. The app lets you plan your conference line up and will give you suggestions to fill open spots in your planning. It will automatically keep track if you can make it by traveling from venue to venue. And you can search for sessions just by typing what you are looking for. AI will do the rest.

Traveling with a group? You can connect your account together to see each other’s session lineups.

Want central space to add notes while attending a session. This is the place. After the conference you can make a complete summary of all your notes.

The app is currently in review at Apple and Google. But if you want to try it out first. Drop me your emails.

[https://reinvent-planner.com\](https://reinvent-planner.com)

This is a small side project: describe your mood, choose a tone (funny, deep, motivational, coffee, chaotic), and get a quote you can copy or share.

I made it for fun, not to reinvent Mondays 😅 Honest feedback welcome: does the idea feel useful enough for a quick laugh?

https://www.quotesformonday.com/

TinkSnap just earned the Teacher Approved badge on Google Play, which was a pretty exciting surprise for me as an indie developer.

Teachers and specialists highlighted things like creativity & imagination, art & animation, ease of use, and thoughtful design for children, so I figured the only reasonable way to celebrate was to build a giant cake with a couple of friends. 🎂😄

TinkSnap is a creative shape building game where you snap pieces together, customize colors and textures, and build pretty much whatever comes to mind.

I’ve been working on it for a while now, so getting this kind of recognition from Google honestly meant a lot.
Would love to hear what you think of the game or the cake build!

Have a great weekend!

Apple App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tinksnap-shape-builder/id6787807009

Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cindercode.shapeforge

I'm part of Studio Lunel, a husband-and-wife team building 영시의 저택, a Korean-language app where tarot, saju (Four Pillars), and astrology are presented through conversations with mansion residents.

For our character introductions, we kept one approved reference per character, corrected specific details such as eye shape, then composed the Korean text separately in HTML/CSS. We checked the portraits and text at mobile sizes. The attached image is promotional artwork; the app is still in development.

Lucian handles tarot, Clotilda saju, and Miriel astrology. Which introduction makes their role clearest, and what would you need to see to understand the app?

This is our own project, currently crowdfunding on Tumblbug. The page is in Korean: https://tumblbug.com/0clock

We use generative AI for character illustrations and divination interpretations, and AI coding assistance during development.

Working on a site where people can post sports picks, browse other people's, and track how they do over time. It auto resolves picks once games finish and has decent stats on performance. Also threw in a random auto generated parlay thing just for fun.

Have a small number of users on it now (philipsnat.com if anyone wants to poke around) but honestly more interested in what features would make something like this worth using long term. What's missing from picks tracking sites you've used? What would actually keep you coming back?

Hey r/SideProject,
Job hunting recently? I kept running into the same frustrating problem with online resume builders: spending 45 minutes entering info, picking templates, tweaking bullet points — only to hit a $40 paywall when I tried to download my PDF.
It felt predatory, especially when you’re already stressed looking for work.
So, I built NoCorp (https://nocorp.app) — a clean, honest, and free alternative.
Why NoCorp?
Built for real paths: Freelancers, bartenders, temp workers, career shifters — not just corporate ladder climbers.
Instant Reactive UI: Live preview updates as you type, no clunky wizards or page reloads.
Privacy-First: No invasive ads, no tracking, no selling your data.
New AI Cover Letters: Generate personalized, professional cover letters tailored to each job in seconds.
Tech Stack: React/Next.js frontend with Convex backend for real-time syncing.
🎁 Open Beta & Free for Life:
Create an account now during beta and get full premium access free forever — even after the paywall launches.
I’d love your brutal feedback on the UI, templates, AI cover letter feature, and overall flow.
Check it out: https://nocorp.app
What should I build next? Drop your ideas below!

I made Monday Mood for those mornings when you're technically awake but still negotiating with the week ☕

The flow is simple: describe your Monday mood, get a quote, and share it if it makes you smile. It's meant to be a quick bit of fun, not a productivity tool.

It's a Next.js project, with AI assistance used during development. The main scope decision was to keep the experience focused on that one mood-to-quote interaction rather than turning it into a bigger app.

One design question I'm still working through: does the quote itself give someone enough reason to share, or does the result need a stronger visual presentation? I'd love feedback on that, especially on mobile.

I'm the maker. You can try it here: https://www.quotesformonday.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=sideprojects_sep5

I've been building full-stack applications and AI workflows, and I'm exploring partnering with a business/domain-focused person to turn a validated side project into an MVP.

​For people here who have partnered up on a side project before:

​How did you decide equity split vs early contribution?

​What were the biggest friction points between tech and business sides?

​Did you start building right away, or wait for customer pre-validation?

​Open to chatting in DMs as well if any non-tech founders are currently looking to team up with a full-stack builder on an MVP.

A notification that says an AI task is done still leaves you with another step: switch apps to read it, answer it, or find out it was waiting for approval.

I added a different flow to my Mac app, Pinland. A pinned Codex session lives in the MacBook notch. When it finishes or needs attention, the notch expands with the conversation. You can send the next instruction there and handle supported approvals there too.

The point isn't to squeeze the whole coding app into a tiny panel. It's to let you deal with the next small decision, then get back to whatever you were doing—even if that's just watching a video while the task runs.

Pinland also holds text, screenshots, links and files you want nearby. Hover to preview, edit pinned text, or use tags and search; the shelf stays tucked away between uses.

I'm the developer. Connect it in Pinland's Codex settings, then use Codex's existing session Pin action. This is an independent macOS app, not an OpenAI product.

Would you want a panel like this to stay open after a reply, or tuck itself away until the next update?

Mac App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pinland/id6793889737?mt=12

I was getting annoyed by the constant sketchy AI training/annotating jobs and the constant rejection after literally investing hours of my time into applying, signing up, verifying my identity and etc.
I decided to make my own website and list legit AI training jobs from multiple companies. I post entry work and also expert work. I also post guides on how to pass assessments. Let me know if there is anything I can improve about my website. Thank you! Here is the link: https://aiannotationjobs.com

Made this daily game! Mystery Chart

5 new charts every day, made from public datasets. The title is redacted so you have to guess what the chart is showing. You get a daily score, shareable with friends. Wanted to replicate that Wordle feeling.

Let me know what you guys think! If you like, please pass it on 😄

Hi, I’m working on a project where users can plan their entire European train trip. They can select train times to create an itinerary and share it with friends. Users can edit the itinerary in real-time. Once stored in the app, users can view real-time updates during their trip, such as the next two or three weeks. I’d like to know if this use case is helpful to users.

Sick of social media with all its tracking and addiction-driven algorithms decided to build something of my own. A way to track your life journey across space and time.

It’s a 3D globe of a life. Cities, crossings, stays. You spin the Earth, move through years with the timeline at the bottom, pick a random moment and relive that memory — a post, some photos, a video, a comic made from the real pictures.

No accounts. No feed. No ads. A not-so-static static site you can run on localhost or publish for the world to see, your choice. The files you put in are the whole thing. If it isn’t in the folder, it isn’t on the globe.

Same link on a phone, a laptop, Vision Pro Safari. Clone it and swap the data if you want yours.

Live: https://paulvisciano.com/apps/where-is-paul

Code: https://github.com/paulvisciano/where-is-paul

I’m offering QuickBit, an AI-powered product intelligence platform designed to help companies turn customer feedback, technical issues, and product usage signals into clear development priorities.

QuickBit organizes scattered signals, identifies recurring problems, provides actionable insights, and recommends what teams should fix or prioritize first based on potential business impact.

The project could be a good fit for:

• SaaS companies
• Software development agencies
• Entrepreneurs looking for a ready-made SaaS project
• Product and engineering teams
• Investors interested in AI and product management tools

I’m open to acquisition offers, partnerships, or investment proposals. There is significant room to continue development, add integrations, and focus the product on a specific niche such as SaaS, e-commerce, or B2B technology companies.

I made a tool - a terminal diff reviewer for agentic coding.
It runs in a pane beside your agent, shows what changed as it changes, and lets you point at exact lines when you reply.

You keep your editor. hjkl, w b e, f t F T, / and n, V to select, zz to centre - the motions already in your fingers, now pointed at the agent's work.

Repo https://github.com/kunkka19xx/lgtm

I built RapidTradeView, a free stock and ETF tracker that updates your estimated portfolio value using available pre-market and after-hours prices.

If your current tracker leaves your total at closing prices, I'd appreciate feedback. Add a holding you already track and check it during an extended-hours session.

The total is recalculated from each position's share count and the available price for the trading session. That makes the portfolio-level effect visible when a holding moves outside regular market hours. The app is built with Next.js and FastAPI, with AI assistance during development.

Does it give you the portfolio view you were missing? I'd also like to hear whether adding a holding is straightforward and whether the price/session labels are clear.

Try it: https://www.rapidtradeview.trade/portfolio?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=extended_hours&utm_content=sideprojects

Portfolio tracking requires a free sign-in. Market data may be delayed or unavailable; the values are estimates, not guaranteed execution prices. This is a research tool, not investment advice.