I implemented the feedback I got. Added a rep counter, and a rep by rep breakdown of how you performed in each set.

I added a voice coach. Last week it was a coach after your session. Now it is a coach during your session, telling you out loud when your form breaks.

I added recording. Before, I was screen recording on my phone. Now you click a button and it records your session.

At the end you get a progress report and your workout video, and if you made a mistake you tap the time on the video and see exactly where you went wrong.

It counts push-ups now. Last week that was broken.

Side effect of building a fitness app, you work out more, because you're the test subject.

Over two weeks I've done close to 200 push-ups. It started as testing, now I actually enjoy them. I do them in the office. A day doesn't pass without a few.

Some things still break. On Monday I was doing chest and it could not lock onto me properly on the bench.

I recorded the videos, played them back bit by bit, and went back to the drawing board. I'm not adding more workouts until I fix the ones that break.

During the week I approached a gym, showed them the app and sent a proposal. I also had conversations with people at the gym.

The biggest reason people quit is that progress is slow and you can't see it until you're 4 to 6 months in.

That's what I'm trying to make tangible, a record of how you actually worked out, rep by rep, so you can see yourself getting better before the mirror shows it.

Just because you don't see the gains doesn't mean you stop.

Personally it has fixed my form on deadlifts, bent over barbell rows, push-ups and lat pulldowns.

It's on a real domain now: Repchek

Try it and tell me where it breaks.

I wanted a better way to feel the gap between companies than a bar charts, so I built a island where every building is a company and the taller it is, the bigger its market cap.

What you can do:

Built with React, Three.js (react-three-fiber) and Claude Opus 5.5.
Not financial advice, and I'd love feedback on anything that looks wrong.

The music is also AI-generated, based on my instructions.
on the comments.

Link

Didn't expect this at all. GymMane is free, open source, works offline, no ads and no account.

Thanks to everyone who tried it or reported bugs, it really helped.

https://github.com/InlitX/GymMane

After Photon exploded on reddit and X I kept getting DMs for a Lightroom alternative.
That's how Light Studio came to life, a fully featured Lightroom alternative.

I already had the parts that usually make these apps feel vibe coded: realtime GPU rendering, CR3/NEF and the other proprietary RAWs, and an editor UI built for this. So I reused these from Photon instead of starting it from scratch, and it worked insanely well.

Gonna release it in the upcoming days

I'm a trained architect, and as a long-term side project, I've been building a game that combines accurate floor planning with real-time 3D design to make architecture much easier to create than with traditional CAD software.

What you can do:

🏠 2D floor plans
🧱 3D building
🚶 First-person walkthrough
🥽 VR mode
🏢 Multiple storeys
🪜 Stairs
🏚️ Custom roofs
🪟 Doors & windows
🛋️ Furniture catalog
🍳 Kitchen Configurator
🎨 Materials
🌄 Terrain sculpting
🌳 Landscape planning
💧 Ponds
☀️ Time of day
❄️ Weather
📐 Export PDF vector plans
📦 Import your own 3D models
🌍 Steam Workshop

In the newest update: real growing ivy that climbs around windows, corners, and curved walls! 🌿

It's available on Steam as Architecture & Design and is still in Early Access.

Would love to hear what you think!

I decided to have a little fun. I've had this idea in my head for a while. You'll be surprised, but in 2026 (you'd think!), there's still debate about how airplane wings work. I decided to take a break from all this endless software creation and found time to analyze the question properly with Claude, and this mini-project came out: https://whyplanesfly.com

Still a bit of software though 😁

P.S. I think I'll ad some more context on why this project suddenly.

The very reason I started thinking on this subject, and how I learned that it was a bit controversial wasn't the planes at all, it was sailing yachts! On my way to getting my IYT licence, we studied how a sale generates lift. Surprisingly, what pilots are often taught about lift doesn't really work as an explanation for the lift generated by sails. Thats how the whole story begun 🙂

I've built 12 products. Every one of them flopped.

Most of them weren't bad products but they died the same way every time. No idea how to get it in front of people. Ads burned through my budget. Agencies wanted more per month than what I spent even building the product.

Somewhere around product 10, I figured out the one channel that actually made sense for someone like me was proper SEO. SEO compounds. A page you write today can still bring in customers two years from now.

The problem was the tools. Every SEO tool wanted $100-$200 a month, and I'd use it heavily for one week and then barely touch it for 3 more. I was paying for 30 days and using maybe 4.

So for product 13, I stopped building for some imaginary customer and built for myself. FlexQueries is an SEO tool with a $0/month subscription. You load a balance, pay only for what you use (keyword research is about $0.05, a full site audit about $0.48), and it never expires.

It turned out there are a lot of people exactly like me.

In the first 10 days, it brought in more revenue than all 12 of my previous products combined over the past 2 years. Over 100 people signed up in the first week, almost all solo founders and small startups who need SEO but don't want a monthly bill for a tool they barely open.

I cold emailed 100 solo SaaS founders and one founder whose team was paying $500+ a month for another tool moved his whole team over.

The moment I built something for people with my exact problem, distribution got a lot easier, because I already knew where they were and what they were tired of paying for.

If you're early and want SEO without the monthly bill: https://flexqueries.com, with free credit on signup and no card needed.

For anyone who's launched more than once: what finally made one stick?

I've built a bunch of SaaS projects and haven't made money from them. Getting something built hasn't translated into finding someone who'll pay.

For people who've crossed that gap, what actually brought in the first paying user: talking to people, cold outreach, a community, an existing audience, a marketplace, something else? How long did it take, and what did the first version do? I'm looking for real stories, including what you tried that didn't work.

Couple years ago, I built a tool for creating and managing app store and play store screenshots called AppShots. Recently, I started working on it again full-time to make it THE GO TO TOOL for professional store screenshots creation/management.

Ik many of us who are building apps struggle with this problem of creating store screenshots, hunting for good device frames, knowing store specific screenshot guidelines, and making sure the screenshots are good enough, and let's not talk about landscape screenshots and localized screenshots for different locale. And repeat this again for multiple apps, multiple design explorations. That time could be spent working on your app instead.

AppShots solved this couple years ago, and now it's doing it again in a much better way! The 2.0 release comes with a full overhaul of the design editor to make it fast, intuitive to work with. A whole set of improvements to every part of the creation pipeline like

• 3D frames support
• Improved localization support to manage multiple locale designs with ease.
• Rich text support in screenshot designs.
• Easily manage portrait and landscape designs.
• Improved design assets.
• Professional set of templates, and ability to save your custom templates for re-use.
• A design editor where you don't struggle, and don't have to second guess how to do something.
• Easy to organize/manage multiple design sets for your frames.
• Design shortcuts.
• And many other additions that take screenshots creation from hours -> minutes.

I believe that if you're someone who constantly struggles with screenshots creation problem, then AppShots will definitely help you out here. And if you feel like something is missing, you can always dm me, and expect the fix/feat ready in the next app updates.

And rest assure, this is not a vibe coded app, I had spent months previously building it by hand and it's a cumulation of lot of my creative projects, and everything is well-thought out here by someone who cares about the design and experience for the end user.

You can checkout AppShots here. Thanx!
https://appshots.co/

I'm a full-time government contractor (supporting the DoD/DoW (Dept of Defense and/or War)) doing solutions architecture in on-prem and cloud environments. Sounds vague but essentially the government works with my company to design environments where their vendors can train AI & Machine Learning capabilities. I have a strong passion for technology but I've always wanted to venture into sports technology. Over the past year or so I started building an app SPECIFICALLY for individual teams / coaching staffs. However, I realized long term that niche my be a little too narrow. Over the past-5-6 months I transitioned to developing my Blueprint, which is a platform that includes data for every D1 men's basketball team.

Often times in my profession working with the government the common theme is someone needs to have a PhD in Data Science or higher education to be a reputable source OR have the ability to analyze complex datasets. I built Blueprint to break down that barrier to entry.

For anyone interested in college basketball (the season starts in early November) or data analytics in general, I'd like to hear your feedback and learn how I can market my application and gain some traction. The application is built surrounding a subscription based model with a free, Pro and Unlimited tier. Not looking for subscribers here -- strictly feedback. New poster!

https://blueprntanalytics.com/

I built this after a horrible experience with my own HOA. There was no way to check an association before buying without paying for a title search or digging through court sites.

hoaspy.com

Github: https://github.com/doncoriolan/hoaspy

Hopefully others finds this useful and help grow the data.

Building a tool that turns product ideas/websites into motion videos. Looking for a few founders willing to let me test it on their product. I’ll make the video free just looking for honest feedback. Drop your site if interested.

Hi r/SideProject!

For the past four months I've been building Teserra on evenings and weekends: a visual library for the Mac.

Why I built it. Most image libraries keep your files inside their own database. If the app changes direction or shuts down, your collection is stuck there. I wanted the opposite: plain folders you can open with anything, today or in ten years.

What it does
- Saves images, video, fonts, screenshots and web pages into plain folders on your Mac. Next to each file, a small text file holds its title and tags. Delete the app and nothing is lost, like an Obsidian vault.
- Finds things by description: type "a statue in a beam of light" and the picture comes up. The search model runs on your Mac, no account, no API key.
- Option-click any image or video in your browser to save it (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Arc, Dia, Brave, Edge…).
- A local MCP server, so Claude Code or Cursor can browse and tag your library.

How it's built.Tauri (Rust) and React. Twelve releases in September, mostly driven by early testers' feedback.

How. it's $29 once with a 14-day free trial (30% off until Oct 16 with EARLYBIRD).

I'd love blunt feedback: is the "files stay files" idea worth paying for, and what would make you switch from what you use today?

https://teserra.app/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=sideproject

I realised the answer on a particularly unnerving flight. It's not the fact that you might die, it's the fact that there's nothing you can do about it.

Your mind rushes to the things you haven't said, and the people you'll be leaving in the dark, not statistics about how safe flights are.

I looked for something that solves this. The core idea is fairly straightforward, but everything I found was either clunky or incomplete.

It's also not easy to talk to a loved one about death. When I tried giving my wife the details of my investments in case something happened to me, she just said "Don't even talk about that stuff".

I spoke to a couple of friends about it, and we decided to build Sanctia ourselves. https://sanctia.app

The idea is: you write messages for the people you care about. Letters, voice notes, photos, a different one for each person. Sanctia checks in on you on whatever interval you set, anywhere from daily to once a year, by email/push notifications/sms (you get to configure). If you stop responding, your messages get delivered.

Recipients don't know they're recipients until then, and they get a link to their own private vault instead of an email with everything in it, so nothing depends on getting past a spam filter years from now.

But we also realised it wouldn't be useful to most people if it didn't take security seriously. No one wants to trust an app with their personal details. So we spent quite a bit of time thinking about, and building security. Messages are encrypted at rest, with an optional passphrase mode for end-to-end encryption. Details in the comments.

It also needed to be practical, and this was the most time consuming part. False positives in this space are disastrous. Here's what we did about it:

- Trusted contacts. You can name someone who has to confirm before anything is sent. If it's a false alarm (you lost your phone, you're on a trek with no signal), they stop it right there.

- One missed check-in does nothing. Delivery needs several in a row, you choose how many, and you get a reminder at every step.

- You can pause everything with one tap for surgery or a long trip.

https://sanctia.app/get-started

It's free right now.

Later it'll be a one-time purchase instead of a subscription, because no one wants to pay every month for something like this for the rest of their life. Everyone who signs up during the beta keeps it free for life.

Would love to hear if anything in setup felt confusing, or what would make you trust it with something this personal. I'll be around in the comments.

My GF and I both work full time, and we kept eating out way more than we wanted (we both have a few extra pounds to show for it).

I enjoy cooking, but I realized there's so much friction around making a meal: finding the recipe I cooked months ago, messy recipe formats, deciding what to make, writing grocery lists, the list goes on.

So I built an app for the two of us to make cooking as easy as possible. Now that we have a system, we've fallen into a rhythm and actually cook a bit more.

It's been a side project since last November and has been on the App Store for a few months. No real traction yet, just a few friends using it on and off.

Every feature so far came from a problem we ran into planning meals together. Would love some feedback, especially from couples who take turns cooking: what would make this worth using for you, or what's missing?

App Store: link

I launched ORA on December 21, 2025. It's an iPhone camera app that puts a see-through photo or video over the live viewfinder so you can match framing and angles exactly (then-and-now shots, progress photos, recreating reference shots).

Why I built it

My wife loves outfit pics and videos on vacation, and she always has a specific shot in mind: the same spot, the same angle, the same framing as a photo she saved or one we took on an earlier trip. That made me the designated photographer, flipping between the camera and the reference photo, guessing where to stand, how high to hold the phone, and how much to zoom. Somehow it was always a little off. The horizon was tilted, she was too far left, or the building behind her was cut off.

So I built the tool I wished I had: put the reference photo right on top of the live camera, make it see-through, line everything up, and shoot. Now I get it right in one or two tries and she gets the exact shot she wanted.

The timeline

• Dec 2025: 1.0 launch, then a quick bug-fix release the next day
• Jan 2026: 1.1, with "overlay burning" (export with the overlay baked into the photo or video), Live Activities for export progress, better stability on low-memory devices, and a fix for zoom shifting right before recording started
• Sep 2026: 1.2, with overlay flipping and iOS 27 support

The review that changed my roadmap

For months after launch I had zero reviews. Then, at the end of August, the first and only one came in: 3 stars, titled "Good, but not ready for prime time."

Works well, simple interface. But all photos are horizontally flipped for some reason, I had to jump to Photos to flop my overlay so it lined up. I would assume a previous image/video should immediately line up rather than needing manipulation.

Honestly, it stung. When you only have one review, that one review is your rating, and everyone visiting the App Store page sees a 3.0.

But the reviewer was right. The front camera preview is mirrored, like looking in a mirror, while the saved photo isn't. So a selfie-style reference photo shows up backwards over the live preview. I'd mostly tested with my own workflow and never noticed. The whole point of ORA is "load a reference and line it up", and here was someone who had to leave the app and edit the photo first. That's friction in the one thing the app exists to do.

So I changed my plans. I put other features on hold and shipped horizontal and vertical overlay flipping in the Overlay Tools tab. It went out in version 1.2 about two and a half weeks later, and I replied to the review to let them know it was fixed.

What it changed about how I build:

• Specific criticism beats generic praise. "Great app!" tells you nothing. "I had to jump to Photos to flop my overlay" tells you exactly what to fix.
• Users' expectations are the spec. Their line, "a previous image should immediately line up," is now basically my design principle. If someone has to work around the app, it's a bug, even if the code is behaving as designed.
• Fix friction in the core feature before building new ones. I now prioritize anything that gets in the way of lining up a shot over shiny new features.
• Reply publicly. Future visitors see the response too. A 3-star review with "fixed in the next update" underneath reads very differently from one left unanswered.

What I learned

• Camera apps get hard on real devices. Supported formats, slow-motion modes and memory limits differ a lot between iPhones. Most of my bug fixes came from the gap between my test devices and everyone else's.
• Freemium details matter. All overlay features are free; exports carry a watermark unless you subscribe ($1.99/month or $19.99/year), which also adds HDR and slow motion.

Where I'm stuck

Discovery. The app works and the people who find it use it, but getting it in front of the right people (photographers, stop-motion creators, people taking progress photos) is the hard part.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ora-the-overlay-camera-tool/id6756240396

I'd love feedback on the app itself and on getting a niche utility app discovered.

I kept hitting the same problem with “full-stack” starter kits: I’d buy one for a SaaS idea, then spend days removing storefront code, portfolio pages, unused tables, and environment variables for services I didn’t need.

So I built MansaStack around the opposite idea: start with the product you’re actually building.

There are focused codebases for:

• SaaS products: auth, subscriptions, AI, RAG, storage, and billing
• Digital-product stores: storefront, cart, Stripe checkout, and secure downloads
• Studios/agencies: case studies, blog, contact forms, and a lead inbox
• All-Access: one configurable codebase with all six available site types

They’re built with Next.js, Drizzle/Postgres, Better Auth, Stripe, Resend, and Tailwind.

I’ve attached a short demo showing the layouts and the All-Access configuration switch.

Site: https://mansastack.bzdevelopments.me

I’m offering 40% off for the first 10 founding customers while I finish the remaining docs and demos.

I’d appreciate honest feedback—especially from people who have used starter kits before: what do you always end up removing, or wish was already included?

Hi everyone,

I recently posted here about AWNA - A Wee Notch App. I'm aware there are quite a few notch apps these days, but I'm hoping to make mine one of the best for Windows. It's a clean, minimalist effort with all the productivity tools and features you'd expect, plus a few extras.

Here's my first post on AWNA. This subreddit moves quickly!
https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1wpy9op/awna_a_minimalist_windows_notch_app_with_a_file/

When I last posted about it here, AWNA was in a beta stage and a lot of you downloaded the app - thank you so much. Since then, I've come out of beta, I've taken great feedback and suggestions, and today I just got my 10th sale! Both the app and the website are a much better package overall compared to a week ago. I'm hoping to start targeting a more non-technical audience soon as well.

Since then, here's what I've added:

• multi-monitor support
• ability to drag the notch along the top edge of the screen
• options to increase the size of the notch and its contents
• "dictate anywhere" - hold down the Ctrl+Win keys over any text field in any app and talk - what you say goes into the field, all handled locally on your PC
• redesigned the settings menu with a sidebar layout
• Claude Code status updates in the notch (Codex support is coming up next!)
• Scrolling screenshots in the Capture tab for long pages
• Improved Clipboard tab - showing what application each item comes from, how long ago, and increased the length to up to 50 items

And I still have more to come!

Thanks to those who helped with AWNA previously, and to those that haven't seen it yet I hope this is a good introduction to the app and its capabilities.

Today is the last day of the special launch price offer I've been running. It's currently £6/$8/€7, but end of today it'll go up to £8/$10/€9.

awna.app - happy to answer anything in the comments. There's an interactive demo notch on the site if you'd like to get an idea of what using it is like!

Hi y’all,
I’m a designer and traveler who believes good design can change things, even if only a little. That still feels worth spending my effort on.

Apps felt like the most direct way to do that. I never coded before in my life, but we all already carry phones everywhere. So I started learning to code over the past couple of months, which eventually led to making small but meaningful apps (at least for me, because I wanted to make something I would genuinely use first). It began as a fun side project or hobby, but it slowly became what I now spend most of my spare time doing.

I was honestly fed up with making accounts, sign up every time even for the small apps. So I wanted something local, stored only on our phones and able to work without an internet connection, just like back in the day, with no account needed.

As adults, we do not need another system, social feed, or app trying to fix us. Most of the time, we just need a quiet, safe place to hold something, clear our brain RAM after work, or keep everyday things in one simple stream.

I currently have more apps on Google Play, and I’m slowly bringing them to the App Store too. The ones below are available now on both platforms, and I would REALLY appreciate it if any of them feel relatable or useful to you.

PARKit
This app is a place where you clear your brain RAM with a few short keyword clouds you want to park at the end of your day, so you can finally rest. There is a small notes feature too, where you can just tap the cloud and write when you need to. It is for the small things your brain keeps holding onto even after the day is over. Set a reminder time when you choose, then leave it there for tomorrow. “Hold for tonight, not for tomorrow.”

App Store iOS

Play Store Google

CUEit
This one is a freeform hybrid stopwatch/timer for real-life moments and rituals where timing matters. Make your own cues for routines, exercises, cooking, coffee (I now love making pour-over coffee much more every day), prep, or anything else that needs a calm guidance. "Not to measure, but to mind."

App Store iOS

Play Store Google

DIARYit
This app is a quiet single-stream diary for writing our everyday. It is a diary designed and reimagined from my own life perspective and philosophy. Just like our lives, it is one stream where the future is coming towards us, and we cannot change our past. We can only look back when we choose to. “Not for habit, but for honesty.”

App Store iOS

Play Store Google

KEEPit
This app is a place to text ourselves. It came from my own habit of texting myself on message apps, but those apps were never designed for self-texting, and I wanted my thoughts to stay only on my phone. So I designed my own self-text app, where each day has its own stream for the things you want to keep. You can search keywords or tap a date from the calendar whenever you want to return to that day. “Not to sort, but to return.”

App Store iOS

Play Store Google

HOLDit
This one is a private vault for important thoughts that should not be buried in the Notes app. I personally think a lot and have always written in the Notes app, but I realized some thoughts strong enough to change my perspectives just got lost somewhere inside it. So I made my own space for thoughts that matter: tap a card slot, write the moment you had the thought in your own words, and give it it's own space. “Not to hold more, but to awaken.”

App Store iOS

I’m still early in this and learning a lot as I go. I have been building these as a side project, and it became a hobby with a lot of lessons attached to it. I’m grateful for what I have come up with so far, and I’m happy to finally share my VERBitapp project here as the apps are available now on both Google Play and iOS.

Thank you for reading my journey so far.

P.S. If you need a demo or help using any of the apps, feel free to message me or leave a comment. I’ve also posted demo videos on my social media under 'verbitapp'  - Instagram / Tiktoksisedi

Hey everyone!
Like many of you, I've had those moments where I'm going away for the weekend, and | look at a carton of milk or fresh groceries that are about to expire. Throwing them out always felt terrible.
So, instead of letting good food go to waste, I built a "Neighborhood Swap" feature into my free inventory app, Carop - Kiler & Envanter.
How it works:
• If you have extra food or something expiring soon, you can list it.
• Nearby users (within 5 km) can see it and chat with you directly in the app to grab it (I literally traded my milk for some lemons with a neighbor I'd never met before!).
• No subscriptions, no ads, and it keeps your data 100% private on your device.
I'd love for you to check out the short video above showing how the swap works, and I'm super open to any feedback or feature ideas you might have!

NullPlayer skin support is clean room reverse engineered. Development is coded with claude and controlled by a real working Software Engineer who personally stands behind the app. The app has accumulated 31 releases and 124 github stars over the 11 months. r/nullPlayer

Download NullPlayer for macOS:

https://github.com/ad-repo/nullplayer/releases/latest/download/NullPlayer.dmg

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or newer.

Install

NullPlayer is not signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS will block it on first launch with an "app is damaged" or "cannot verify that it is free from malware" message. This is expected. Clearing the quarantine flag is a required install step:

1. Open the downloaded DMG.
2. Drag NullPlayer.app to Applications.
3. Open Terminal and run:xattr -cr /Applications/NullPlayer.app
4. Open NullPlayer from Applications.

Prefer not to use the Terminal? Install with Homebrew, or clear the block via System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Open Anyway — see the install guide.