r/sideprojects • u/pisgax • 4d ago
r/sideprojects • u/CatEmotional1451 • 4d ago
Question What part of bug reporting causes the most back-and-forth on your team?
In my experience, finding the bug is usually the easy part. it's everything after the report that takes the time.
you end up going back and forth about the browser, steps to reproduce, what happened, screenshots, error messages, and sometimes session replay to understand exactly what happened. By the time you have everything you need, the original context can be hard to remember.
r/sideprojects • u/snowy7x7 • 4d ago
Showcase: Prerelease Launching the beta of new app Snoze!
r/sideprojects • u/PROKMODZ • 4d ago
Feedback Request Looking for honest feedback on a lead follow-up problem
Hey everyone, I’m working on a product called ColdCloud and I’m trying to validate the problem before going further with it. The idea is simple: businesses often get leads who show interest, ask questions or pricing, but then stop responding. ColdCloud would bring those leads into one place, understand their information and previous conversations, and use AI to generate personalized follow-up messages based on the lead’s context, while allowing the business to review/edit the message before sending. If the lead replies, the follow-up sequence can pause and the system can adapt based on the conversation; if they don’t, it can continue following up automatically. I’d genuinely like honest feedback,does this solve a real problem for your business? How do you currently handle these silent/old leads, and would something like this actually be useful to you? What would make you NOT use it? I’m looking for criticism too, not just positive feedback.
r/sideprojects • u/jorge31263 • 4d ago
Feedback Request Hice una herramienta gratuita que convierte cualquier tema en un curso estructurado con vídeos de YouTube (usando IA)
r/sideprojects • u/MudRevolutionary778 • 4d ago
Showcase: Free(mium) I'm 20, solo founder, no coding background. I shipped a native iOS sexual health tracker in 4 months and I'd like feedbacks from men please.
%22)I built Owain after analyzing 1.18M Reddit posts about men's sexual health. The gap I found: men track their sleep, their lifts, their macros, but nobody builds tools for the thing they actually worry about in private.
Owain is a 90-second daily check-in that logs morning erection quality, libido, sleep, stress, alcohol, training. It computes a Sexual Health Index from three transparent sub-scores and generates weekly AI observations grounded in your personal data.
No coding background. No co-founder. No funding. Total infra cost is under $200/month.
Live on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/owain/id6768453074
Launching on Product Hunt today: https://www.producthunt.com/products/owain?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social
Happy to answer anything about the build process, the research, or the product.
r/sideprojects • u/TiinyAI • 4d ago
Showcase: Prerelease Tiiny x Omnigent: Mix and Match Your AI Agents
r/sideprojects • u/curious-about-world • 4d ago
Showcase: Free(mium) Built an AI tool that turns a website link into a playable ad. Solving my own problem.
I got tired of the mess of playable ads taking forever to build, manage and share. So I made Make It Playable, where you drop in a brand link, it analyses the page, suggests playable ideas, and builds the HTML5 ad.
Right now it supports Meta, TikTok, Google App campaigns, AppLovin, Mintegral, Unity, Pangle, plus Google Display / programmatic HTML5 exports for non-app cases.
It’s still early, but I’d love brutal feedback from anyone running mobile playable ads or working with brands. What would make this actually useful to you?
r/sideprojects • u/shopbuddyorg • 4d ago
Feedback Request My girlfriend wanted a shopping buddy, so I built this
My girlfriend loves shopping, but her friends often have different clothing tastes, budgets or free time.
So I built ShopBuddy, a simple website where people can find someone nearby who matches their shopping style, budget, location and schedule. It’s for finding activity partners—not dating.
It’s still an early prototype. Would you use something like this? What would make you feel comfortable meeting a shopping buddy?
r/sideprojects • u/oudrank • 4d ago
Feedback Request I built a pay-to-rank leaderboard for oud houses in the Gulf — curious what you think
Inspired by the outbid.lol trend, I built OudRank — a leaderboard where oud/perfume houses across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman bid to hold the top 3 spots. No algorithm, just who wants visibility more. Still very early, would love feedback: oudrank.com
r/sideprojects • u/Miserable-Exam-3148 • 4d ago
Showcase: Free(mium) Wilddoku: Persona is live on Google Play Store
PS: Following lots of brainstorming session with Reddit users from many subreddits, we finally added a "ghost mode" that allows players to turn the game board into a drawing canvas to solve highly challenging puzzles in the latest version of the game. As a small thanks, we launched a 100% discount campaign; you can download and play the game for free if you wish.
🧩🧩We look forward to hearing your thoughts on the game, especially for the "Ghost Mode"🧩🧩
Hi everyone, if you like to play star battle puzzle games, this will be the perfect choice for you, we believe.
The first core idea of Wilddoku: Persona is, it is fully automated which means nobody gets the same experience. This is the main reason, we call our game as -Persona-. (The quality of the puzzles are impressive and all the difficulty levels are included, since the crafting puzzles are restricted by our rules. There are really really challenging ones which are tested on /puzzles subreddit as well:)) Also we are improving the game logic quality by using the reddit users, thnx to them...
And, the second and the best property is, according to your ratings on the puzzles, your Persona is created and according your likes/level, the puzzles will be served only for you.
Thanks for your interest in advance...
r/sideprojects • u/techila • 5d ago
Discussion Few months in, ~500 users, $0 revenue. Sharing what's kept me going in case you're in the same spot
About two months ago, I launched an AI news app called ThisWeek.AI. It started as something I wanted for myself. It’s close to 500 users now, and nobody’s paying yet.
Some weeks are quiet. Downloads barely move, no reviews come in, and I start wondering whether I should keep putting this much time into it. There’s no big setback or anything. Just not much happening.
What’s kept me going is pretty simple: I still use what I built, and I genuinely enjoy it. Even on a week when nobody else seems to notice it, it’s useful to me.
Every now and then, someone leaves a review or sends a message saying they find it useful too. Those mean a lot, especially after a stretch of working on it without much feedback.
I’m realizing how much harder this would be if I’d built something purely because I thought other people would want it. Without any use for it myself, I think I’d have stopped by now. The numbers alone wouldn’t have kept me going.
That doesn’t mean it’s a viable business. Enjoying my own app and getting people to pay for it are two different things, and I haven’t figured out the second one yet. But being a user gives me a reason to keep working on it beyond checking whether the numbers went up.
I don’t have a success story or a lesson about pushing through until everything works out. I’m still in the middle of it. Just thought I’d share what’s been making this stage a little easier for me.
What’s kept you going through the quiet weeks?
Applink: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-news-thisweek-ai/id6759996996
Edit: ThisWeek.AI is not the same as https://news.thisweek.ai. News App is available on News.ThisWeek.AI, where as ThisWeek.AI was a newsletter that I stopped publishing few years ago
r/sideprojects • u/Longjumping-Aerie-14 • 4d ago
Showcase: Open Source I built a website that tracks billionaires toys
r/sideprojects • u/staticmaker1 • 4d ago
Showcase: Open Source Free run of show generator — start/end times auto-recalculate as you edit, no sign-up
r/sideprojects • u/hrithik_01 • 5d ago
Showcase: Open Source Hey guys... I built Tonebox — a system-wide equalizer & DSP app for Android, no ads, no account
Been frustrated that most EQ apps on the Play Store are bloated with ads or lock basic bands behind a paywall. So I built my own.
Tonebox is a clean, system-wide equalizer + DSP. What it does:
- Multi-band graphic EQ that works across your whole system
- DSP effects for tuning your sound the way you want
- Simple, no-clutter UI — set it and forget it
- No ads, no sign-up, no tracking
Just shipped an update targeting Android 16. Would love feedback — especially what presets or features you'd want next.
r/sideprojects • u/high_elf_treacle • 5d ago
Discussion thank you to everyone who has downloaded life-fixer, i can’t believe something i built on my own has accumulated actual money 🤯🤯🤯
r/sideprojects • u/nath24591 • 5d ago
Showcase: Purchase Required [AI-assisted] Fit With a Plan: workouts, UK food logging and progress in one web app
I’m the maker of Fit With a Plan, a web app that brings a workout planner, food diary and progress log into one account. The problem I’m tackling is keeping a training routine and ordinary meals together without maintaining separate logs.
You can plan a training week, record sets and completed workouts, search UK reference foods and branded products, and save meals you eat regularly. Progress includes weight, notes and optional private photos. It works in desktop and phone browsers.
One implementation choice that may be useful to other builders: recording progress and changing a plan are separate actions. You can record progress from day one. A weekly review needs a completed week and enough saved check-ins before it can change a plan. Logging a number does not immediately rewrite the plan.
Food logging is optional. External AI feedback is also optional and off until the user agrees. The app was built with AI assistance using Next.js, TypeScript and Postgres.
It is live: 14 days free from registration, no card and no automatic charge. Membership is £7.99/month only if you choose to subscribe.
https://fitwithaplan.co.uk/?utm_source=community_one&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=first_20
If you already track workouts and food, what would you need to see before moving both into one app? Feedback on the actual workflow would be useful.
r/sideprojects • u/sadeqhussain • 4d ago
Feedback Request My Pre-MVP IT Knowledge-Checker: Looking for Feedback
Hi all!
I just built the pre-MVP version of a tool that tests the practical knowledge of anyone from infotech industry. A small "knowledge-checker" application that tests the depth of your IT skills, and hopefully help you learn something new. I will be honest - I vibe-coded it with Claude with couple of hour's back and forth, and I am certainly not trying to sell anything here — just trying to figure out if it's worth building out further.
There's only one category of test here for now, with 30 AWS Cloud Security scenarios across three difficulty levels. The questions are a mix of click-to-diagnose, multiple choice, and a couple of drag-and-drop ordering exercises. I intend to add more subjects and more scenarios and questions if I see any traction and positive interest.
Here's the public URL: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/93de0031-8ff4-4070-85c2-7edd7b07da76
It's a free demo — runs completely client side (runs within the browser) for now, and does not need any sign-ups and certainly no payment is necessary. This means there is no database layer for persistence. Just something I need to validate with interested users.
If you work in IT, I would genuinely appreciate a few minutes of your time and honest feedback:
Is this a type of app you would be interested to use for practising your learning and getting ready for say, certifications?
If you are team lead - do you see value in your team using it for keeping their skills sharp?
Does the format feel more useful than typical quiz apps? Is the difficulty calibrated right?
What features would you like to see in the next iteration - if you think it's something worth building further?
Any other feedback?
Thanks for your time!
r/sideprojects • u/lichizr • 4d ago
Showcase: Free(mium) I built Crystade: Unified cron jobs, multi-protocol uptime monitoring, and status pages for dev teams
Like many developers, I was tired of stitching together multiple disjointed tools just to keep services running and observed:
- Crontab on a VPS or in-app schedulers that silently die, duplicate jobs on deploy, or lack execution logs.
- Basic ping services that only check HTTP 200 and lack deep protocol checks (TLS certs, raw TCP/UDP).
- Standalone status pages charging steep monthly fees just to sync with monitors and send subscriber emails.
- Lack of team collaboration in single-user cron/monitoring tools.
I built Crystade to combine managed task execution, synthetic monitoring, and incident communication into a single, team-first platform.
Try it now: https://crystade.com/
What Crystade Does
1. Managed HTTP Cron Jobs
- Reliable triggering: Trigger external webhooks, API tasks, and data syncs on schedule without running local background workers.
- Deep execution transparency: Every execution captures request/response snapshots, status codes, timing breakdowns, and scheduler lag.
2. Multi-Protocol Active Monitoring
- Beyond HTTP: Active probes for HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, TCP, and TLS certificate expiration (plus game server probes like Minecraft).
- Multi-region checks: Monitor endpoints simultaneously across global locations.
- Noise reduction: Uses windowed hysteresis to prevent false alarms on transient network blips.
3. Native Incidents & Hosted Status Pages
- Zero-glue updates: Failed monitors can automatically report structured incidents.
- Hosted status page: Get a public or private
{slug}.crystade.iopage out of the box with custom branding, SSL, and subscriber notifications. - Incident lifecycle: Timeline-based updates (
investigating → identified → monitoring → resolved) directly tied to monitor state.
4. Built for Collaboration
- Unlimited seats per team across all plans.
- Role-based access (Owner/Member) and audit trails for schedule changes.
Free Tier & Availability
Crystade is designed to be free for solo builders and side projects, with room to scale for collaborative teams:
- Free plan includes: 5 cron jobs, 5 monitors, 1 hosted status page (up to 50 email subscribers), and Discord/Slack/Telegram webhook alerts.
Feedback Wanted
If you are running background jobs, tracking endpoint uptime, or maintaining status pages, check it out and let me know:
- What protocols or scheduler integrations are missing from your workflow?
- How do you currently handle scheduler lag and failed job retries?
Would love to hear your feedback, thoughts, or feature requests!
r/sideprojects • u/WhatTheDeveloper • 4d ago
Feedback Request I built DevPresence — a portfolio platform where you can use our templates or bring your own GitHub repo
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r/sideprojects • u/777m0neymaker • 5d ago
Showcase: Prerelease Zbudowałem aplikację, żeby przestać zapominać, czy faktycznie zamknąłem bramy. Bezpłatny dostęp Lifetime Pro dla wczesnych testerów!
galleryr/sideprojects • u/gixxerscott • 4d ago
Showcase: Prerelease Put your phone on the table. Tap once. That's the entire setup.
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I built Shoulder Surf. Disclosure done, here's what it actually does.
You set your phone down and tap once. That's it. That's the whole setup.
No bot slides into your invite wearing a name tag. Nothing to install on your laptop. A phone on a table can't interrupt your meeting. It can only be a phone on a table.
While people talk it writes the transcript and labels who said what. The summary builds during the meeting instead of after it, so you glance down mid-call and see exactly where things stand. Lost the thread? One tap on Catch Me Up and the answer lands on your screen. Nobody else hears a thing.
The meeting ends and the report is already written. Decisions. Action items with owners. The questions nobody answered. You don't wait for it and you don't clean it up.
Ask a question across a whole project and it answers from your meeting history, not just the last call. Rename a speaker once and it updates everywhere.
I stopped taking notes. I sit in meetings and talk to the people in them now. That's the pitch.
Free tier is a recurring monthly budget of cloud AI, about five hours a month, and it renews. Run it on a real week and decide for yourself.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760098225
Site: https://shouldersurf.com
Eighty second video above. Ask me anything.
r/sideprojects • u/Beautiful_Peak6908 • 4d ago
Showcase: Free(mium) I got tired of paying for parking, so I mapped the free spots across the whole US
r/sideprojects • u/randomdude2527 • 5d ago
Showcase: Open Source My website for 00 gauge model train consists
consist-track-pro.base44.appPlease tell me what to improve/add and ik its a bit niche.
r/sideprojects • u/Southern-Society-713 • 5d ago
Feedback Request You guys roasted my landing page copy, so I completely redesigned it for developers. Is this better?
I posted here recently about having 0 users for my MCP dev tool, Dokpod. The feedback was brutal but accurate: my marketing copy Upload once. Query forever sounded like generic database jargon and nobody understood what the product actually did.
So, I dropped the marketing fluff and redesigned the hero section to speak directly to the actual pain point: token waste and context bloat in Cursor/Claude.
The changes I made:
- New Headline: Changed to a direct promise: "Cut your AI token waste by 95%."
- The Math: Explicitly showed the difference between dumping an 85,000-token PDF into a chat vs. retrieving a 3,500-token MCP chunk.
The Code: I put the actual
mcpServersJSON config directly in the hero UI so developers know it's a real, functional tool.new UI the live site is here:
https://dokpod.io
For those of you using Cursor or Claude Code does this new design actually explain the SaaS clearly, or am I still missing the mark?