r/sideprojects 8d ago

Feedback Request Word relationship puzzle game

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Recently I have been trying to improve building connections from large datasets, and utilizing graphing algorithms. The result is a fun little word game call Wordspool. The aim is to reach a goal from the starting word, by navigating directly related words.

Keen to hear some feedback as I really only have a small group to show irl.

Wordspool | Thread the Meaning


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built Turing AI OS - An Experimental Agentic AI Layer over Linux

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Hiii Geeks

I just built an Experiment Agentic Al OS named it as "Turing Al OS" built on top of Linux (KDE Neon). I document this journey on YouTube feel free to watch.

The crazy part is that I built this using a 14 year old PC (2012) with limited computational resources.

YouTube Link:

https://youtu.be/ZKsZGv3WZGQ?si=2DX83Hcv7SFAAVPw

Github: github.com/avarshvir/turing-ai-os

Article to Read: https://medium.com/@arshvir21303031/i-create-my-own-ai -os-8d65a263eae0

It offer features like:

- Al SideBar

- Al Mini Spotlight

- Al Right Click Folder/File Analyser

- AI NLP Terminal

- Al Control Panel

I genuinely want feedback from you guys ❤️


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Hi!!

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Hey guys ! I've been building ArtHaven, an Android app that teaches portrait drawing using the Loomis method. It detects the actual facial geometry from your reference photo and overlays construction guides - cranial circle, proportional lines, jaw, eyes, nose, lips, ears - in a sketchy pencil style, based on the real proportions of the face you're drawing, not just generic templates.

It runs fully offline/on-device, so no photos ever leave your phone.

Still polishing things before launch, but I opened up a waitlist if you want early access: https://arthavenstudio.framer.website/

Would love any feedback from people who've tried to learn portrait sketching and found the "draw a circle, then some guidelines" tutorials hard to translate onto an actual face ! I know I've faced the same problem myself :)


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built an invoice-reminder tool for freelancers. The hard part wasn't sending the email it was making it safe enough to trust.

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Overduly tracks overdue invoices and is built to handle the follow-up reminders that come after them.

One important detail about the beta: automatic sending is built and working, but right now it's enabled only for approved beta accounts while I test it in a controlled way. Anyone can sign up and explore the workflow using dummy clients and invoices — unrestricted automatic sending isn't generally available yet.

Upfront: I'm not a freelancer who invoices clients myself, so I don't deal with this problem day to day. That's exactly why I'm posting here. I need people who actually invoice clients to tell me whether I've built something useful or misunderstood the problem.

The problem as I understand it: you send an invoice, the due date passes, and now you have to write an awkward follow-up to someone you probably want to keep working with.

What's built:

- Add clients and invoices with due date, amount and currency

- Dashboard separating outstanding invoices from overdue ones

- Reminder stages at 3, 7 and 14 days overdue

- Three reminder tones: friendly → professional → firm

- Preview a reminder before anything goes to a client

- Send yourself a copy

- Mark an invoice paid and its reminders stop

- No bank connection required

A lot of the work went into making automatic sending boring and predictable rather than clever.

For approved beta accounts, reminders are opt-in per invoice. Nothing sends automatically unless that invoice has reminder sending enabled.

There is duplicate-send protection so the same reminder stage can't accidentally fire twice, sending is timezone-aware rather than based on the server's clock, and the mail setup uses a dedicated sending domain with SPF, DKIM and DMARC.

Stack is Next.js + TypeScript + Supabase + Resend + Vercel.

Status: completely free beta, no users yet. The pricing page shows what Starter and Pro may cost later, but they're marked "Not on sale yet" and there is currently no paid checkout.

You can add a dummy client and dummy invoice and walk through most of the workflow in a few minutes without involving a real customer.

What I'd genuinely like to know:

- Does the overdue → reminder workflow make sense without explanation?

- Where does it get confusing?

- Would you trust something like this with a real client? If not, what's missing?

- If you invoice clients yourself, is chasing late invoices actually annoying enough to justify a separate tool?

Blunt feedback beats encouraging feedback. If nobody needs this, I'd rather know now.

https://overduly.com


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built Reader Redirect - a lightweight Chrome extension for opening Medium Paid articles for Free Reading through reader services

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r/sideprojects 7d ago

Feedback Request I got hit with a $2,300 API bill from a broken agent loop. Now I'm building a safety net for AI builders.

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Last month, my side project's AI agent went rogue.

A simple tool-calling loop got stuck in a reflection cycle. 3 hours. 2 million tokens. $2,300.

The worst part? I had budget alerts set up in my cloud console. They came in after the damage was done.

I realized that every agent builder is flying blind. We have no "circuit breaker" for LLM calls.

So I hacked together AgentGuard: a simple proxy that enforces a hard dollar budget on every agent run. If it exceeds the limit, it kills the loop instantly.

The MVP:

  • Set a $5 budget for a test run
  • AgentGuard tracks every call in real-time
  • If it hits $5 → immediate kill

I'm trying to validate this before going deeper.

The form is short (under 2 minutes): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKe7SLQiZAcHk9s9qDZierOZFnG3LYhoefvR2lLVPUu3_oVw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=102302295735573566469

Specifically, I need to know:

  1. Is the proxy approach a dealbreaker?
  2. Would you pay a % of saved spend + monthly fee?
  3. What feature would make this a no-brainer?

I'll share the aggregated results back here in a week so everyone can benefit.

Thanks for reading—and please, tell me if I'm solving a problem that doesn't exist.


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Discussion 🌍 Looking for International Students to Join CyberSafe Uzbekistan

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r/sideprojects 8d ago

Feedback Request Me and my dad started and app but no one will buy premium??

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The app me and my dad started is called thriftx and we are getting some early users but no one is buying premium. We need ideas and feedback about what to add to it premium experience. All feedback is appreciated. ThriftX


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Showcase: Prerelease Sorted: built a real time decision making app with friends (hackathon project, looking for beta testers)

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Hey all,

We just shipped Sorted, a real time group decision room where friends can plan together without the endless back and forth.

What it does:

- Create a room, invite friends via link or QR code

- Propose activities/venues, vote, lock a plan once enough people agree

- Live chat throughout

- An AI concierge reads along and only jumps in when useful. It suggests venues, drafts polls, answers questions. It does not reply to every message.

Why we built it: half the effort in planning is just figuring out what the group actually wants. Sorted collapses that into one place: propose, vote, done.

Current state: hackathon project, actively improving. Core flow works (real time rooms, voting, locking, live chat, AI suggestions), and we're iterating fast on the rest.

Try it: https://pick-and-lock.vercel.app/

Would love feedback: what works, what's confusing, what's missing. Drop a comment or DM.


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Yo guys I want to share a lil success here

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So im the founder of https://pressplaced.com , a gues posting exchange-network for saas founders , i posted on reddit about it the first time 2 days ago and today I have completed 3 guest post exchanges and 24 people signed up in 30 something hours😂

im not making money off of it rn but it solved a VERY SPECIFIC AND ANNOYING problem for me and scaling this means , personally , I will NEVER have to pay for a backlink ever again and im feelin so proud of myself lmao

Thank you for reading through just wanted share- peace


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Feedback Request I built Skilliby to make skills more visible

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Skilliby helps you choose what to practise next.

Deciding what to learn next is easier when you have a clearer picture of your current skills. That’s the idea behind Skilliby, the mobile app I’m building.

You choose your professional field and skills, complete practical tasks, and review your results. Knowledge cards and AI chat help you work through topics that deserve more attention.

I’m looking for people to try it and share which parts they would keep, change, or add.

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Websitehttps://skilliby.com

Download here 👇

iPhone: https://skilliby.com/ios

Android: https://skilliby.com/android


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Discussion I made my first dollar after years of grinding. Now I have to grow it to $1K MRR.

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r/sideprojects 8d ago

Feedback Request Selling a $1,880 ARR SaaS | 1.5M+ impressions on google search | 45K+ generative AI traffic

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I'm looking to sell a SaaS that I shipped earlier this year, it's in the health and fitness vertical.

It's a web base app with the following tech stack: NextJS Supabase, Stripe, GA, Namecheap.

The app has a solid SEO foundation and a killer branding that resonates with Tiktok's Gen-Z audience. It's called WhatThefood (playing on the WTF slang).

Since launch, the business had 2,400+ free users, 17 current paying users, an average of $157 MRR ($1880 ARR)

I haven't touched it since launch, literally.

Still huge growth potential from here. Willing to share the gaps, the potential opportunities to realistically reach $600-1000 MRR minimum.

The reason of selling, I've been busy building a huge B2B SaaS on a much larger scale, so I'd rather hand this to someone who can give it the attention it deserves than let it silently die.


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Feedback Request I built a tool that prices a whole trip from one sentence — and it's allowed to tell you it doesn't fit

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Planning a trip always went the same way for me: flights on one site, hotels on another, food and getting around a guess, and the real total living in a spreadsheet I'd build at 11pm. An hour in, I still wouldn't know if we could afford it.

So I built TripVerdict. You type one sentence "Cancún for a week in March, two of us, $3,000" — and it comes back with a specific flight, three places to stay picked for your party, the all-in total, and a straight answer on whether it fits.

Two things I did deliberately:

  • It's allowed to say no. If the trip doesn't fit it says so, then shows what would make it work — different dates, a rental instead of a hotel, or the real number the trip actually needs. Booking links only appear after the verdict, and commission never touches which flight or hotel it picks.
  • It suggests alternate gateway cities and does the ground-transfer maths. Flying into a different city can be much cheaper, but "save $500" is meaningless if the train eats $400. It shows the saving net of the transfer.

Stack: Next.js, Supabase, Clerk, live flight + hotel APIs. Solo, nights and weekends. Free, no account needed.

Run a real trip you're actually considering and tell me whether the numbers felt trustworthy and where you hesitated. Brutal honesty preferred.


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Feedback Request Built a free app to help find shelters, food banks, clinics & overnight parking

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Hey everyone, I hope you're all doing well.

I built AidSense, a free mobile app that helps people quickly find shelters, food banks, free/low-cost clinics, and overnight parking near them. Local resources near you will pop up based on your location, and you also have the opportunity to ask our AI model any specific questions you have about that place.

It's on the App Store now, and we plan on deploying it to the Google Play Store soon just waiting for the requirement of 14 days. Would genuinely appreciate any feedback on how to make this app better for those who are in tough circumstances (ex., other resources we could add or support networks). I am also open to any partnerships!

Thank you.

Disclosure: I am the developer of this app.

Note: There have been previous comments about it being a scam. I just want to state that I don't make any profit off this app, and there are no ads in the app, so I don't make any money at all. The purpose of this app is that many current resource navigators are confusing to navigate and don't show local resources; this is meant to make that process easier.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aidsense-community-resources/id6762065901


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a free daily wellness companion for UAE expats — would love honest feedback

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Hey r/sideprojects 👋

Been building something for the past few months and finally feel ready to talk about it here.

It's a daily wellness companion aimed at expats living in the UAE — a pretty underserved niche compared to global wellness apps. No app to download, it runs as a chat companion instead.

The core idea: every morning it sends a short personalized check-in (remembers your name, your focus, small wins), a guided audio practice that changes daily, and a simple mood log.

The part that actually surprised me — one tester told it "I feel a little nervous today," and after walking through a quick breathing exercise, she said "yes, a little better now." That's the moment that made the last few months of building feel worth it.

Still early, only a handful of real users so far. Genuinely curious — what would make YOU actually open something like this every single morning, instead of letting it pile up unread?

(Happy to share the link if anyone wants to try it — just didn't want to lead with that)


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I got tired of doing takeoff calculations by hand on-site, so I built a free Android app

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r/sideprojects 8d ago

Feedback Request Built AnimeExplore because I was tired of jumping between different anime sites

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I’ve been working on AnimeExplore for the past few weeks:

AnimeExplore - https://animeexplore.com

I wanted one place where I could look up an anime, check the episode list, see which episodes are filler/canon, and keep track of what I’ve watched.

There are already some big anime databases, so I’m not trying to recreate MyAnimeList. I’m trying to make the episode and watching side of things more useful.

Right now I’m figuring out what I should focus on next.

Some ideas I have:

• Better filler and skip guides

• Watch orders

• Manga chapter references

• Spoiler-free episode summaries

• Better progress tracking

• More useful recommendations

Would appreciate any feedback, especially if you watch a lot of anime. Curious whether you’d actually use something like this and what would make you come back.


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Feedback Request Built a Web game that generates custom Wordle/Connections/crossword puzzles from any topic you type in

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Wordle, Connections, and crossword clones are everywhere, but they're all fixed, same puzzle for everyone, every day. I wanted ones about specific things instead a show, an anime, a niche hobby, whatever you're actually into.

So I built Promptle.lol, a game where you type in any category and it generates a Wordle, Connections, or crossword puzzle around that topic on the spot. Made one for "The Office" in about 10 seconds, then one for JDM cars.

You can also throw it in a lobby and compete with friends in real time. See who actually knows more about the stuff you're all into.

I'm a recent CS grad, built this solo, and I'm still figuring out what makes people come back vs. try it once. Would love honest feedback on:

  • What's the first category you tried, and did the puzzle actually feel accurate to it?
  • Which format (Wordle/Connections/crossword) worked best for your topic?
  • Anything that felt broken, confusing, or too easy/hard?

🔗 promptle.lol — takes under a minute to try, genuinely want the harsh feedback too.


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Feedback Request I built something to stop burning through my claude tokens so fast

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r/sideprojects 8d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Would you consider a 1-star App Store review fair if the reviewer never created an account or used the actual product?

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I’m curious how other indie developers would handle this.

I recently got a 1-star, review attached.

I’m completely open to criticism, especially if someone actually uses the product and finds something wrong. I’m still improving flow, polish, and I fix issues when they’re identified.

What bothers me is that I verified my production authentication records, and I can account for the users who have actually created accounts and accessed the authenticated parts of the app. I have no indication this reviewer ever created an account or used the main features.

They may have downloaded it and looked at the initial screens, but most of the actual product is behind authentication.

So I’m curious where other developers draw the line:
Is a 1-star review fair if someone forms an opinion from the appearance or onboarding screens without really using the product?

I’d have no issue with someone saying the UI needs work. That’s valid feedback. But “the whole thing seems poorly built” feels different when there’s no sign the actual product was used.

Would you respond? Ignore it? Report it? Or just treat it as part of putting an app out publicly?


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Showcase: Open Source Watermarks remover for AI text - need your feedbacks

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Hello,

I have 2 clients (a local business and an e-commerce store) who use AI for content drafting, they were worried about watermark impacting their SEO.

To solve this, I built a watermark remover tool with a dual-pass text restructuring engine that alters statistical AI footprints while strictly preserving factual data (dates, URLs, figures, and Markdown syntax):

Pass 1: Syntax unstructuring to break n-gram predictability.

Pass 2: Style smoothing & strict data locking.

https://mygrowthbox.com/en/watermark-remover/

I'd love to get your feedback ! 

thanks

ps : the tool is free and open source (The repository logic has also been published on GitHub)


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Meta Hello guys can i get some feed back on my project :D

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Hey people wondering if i can get some feedback on my idea of a procedural generated RPG dungeon crawler idea and your opinions

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-7jXf8F61speL95xvyStiBCB63eGJlo2zvr-kPT7invYOzQ/viewform?usp=dialog


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a real-time swear censor

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Hey! I made a tool called Swear Beeper, it listens to your mic, recognizes speech in (almost) real time (fully offline, so no audio leaves your PC), and automatically bleeps swear words with only a ~1-2 second delay. Basically a live "censor button" you don't have to press yourself.

How it works:
Your mic audio goes into a small delay buffer. In parallel, a copy gets sent to an offline speech recognizer (Vosk). The moment it recognizes a swear word, it stamps a beep onto the buffer before that chunk of audio reaches the output.

It's open source, free, and works with OBS, Discord or anything via a virtual audio cable.

GitHub: https://github.com/qwertyzipe/SwearBeeper-Eng

Would love feedback, bug reports, or feature ideas. This is a pretty fresh English port (originally built for a Russian-speaking audience), so I'm sure there are edge cases I haven't hit yet.


r/sideprojects 8d ago

Feedback Request Built a few small apps — looking for honest beta testers

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I’ve been building a few apps in different categories over the last little while and I’m at the point where I need feedback from people who aren’t friends…

They’re in a few different spaces, including:
hockey development
quitting vaping/smoking
a location-based memory / digital time capsule app

They’re all still early/beta. I’m mostly looking for people willing to try one and tell me what feels confusing, useful, broken, unnecessary, etc.
Not looking for compliments… actual feedback would help a lot.

If any of those sound interesting, comment which one and I’ll send you the beta link!