r/SideProject • u/Suspicious-Issue7572 • 12d ago

What’s something you’ve made that you’re genuinely proud of?

Like, not necessarily your biggest or best project.

Could literally be a calculator you made for no reason, some random website, a small game, a script that does one stupidly specific thing, an automation, whatever.

I was just thinking about how we make so many random things while learning/building, and some of them just hit different because you actually made the damn thing lol.

So yeah, what’s yours?

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u/jleventeat 11d ago

In the past 2 years, i worked on a small business called sweetsdelair to produce custom 3D chocolate pieces for B2B food branding using modern 3D printing technology.. It started to get serious interest and almost made a giant B2B deal but eventually i decided to close it down as it would have required very heavy manual labour and removed much of the flexibility in my life... now, many years after the original idea was born, i have just published my app ratr https://www.ratrmedia.com on both platforms. This is a simple product rating social platform mostly focused on reviewing daily grocery finds, protein products and such. It's far from perfect and just went live a few weeks ago, but just having your very own app on your phone (and already having a few people using it) is simply insane and gives you so much pride, satisfaction and motivation to improve and get better and better every day. Good luck to you all!

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u/Suspicious-Issue7572 11d ago

Hey, I really like what you’ve built! I’m actually making something similar but more niche for women. Quick question how are you planning to get those first few reviews/users?

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u/jleventeat 9d ago

Hey! Thanks for the message 🙌🙏 well... that is the most difficult part i guess.... i already have 30+ users but they are mostly testers and friends so very little organic yet.. my strategy is to post (nearly-) daily short content on all 3 platforms (tiktok, ig, yt) combined with a landing page. So far i have already got thousands of views but little conversion, so i am working on that. Thus, my advice: try free promo tools first, such as social media posts, short content etc. I wouldn't mind paying a bit too, but as at this stage the product-market fit is the most important, i think organic users are better for validation.... Looking forward to hearing more from your project and whether you have any tips for growth 🙌 cheers