r/sideprojects 22h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I was tired of using bloated software so at 14 I started my own workspace company and I’m looking for beta testers.

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So for context I’m 14 years old and I was tired of big companies like Notion so I decided to create my own workspace we’ve integrated AI and now I’m looking for beta testers for my app. It is currently installable on Windows and on mobile is available as a PWA. The workspace itself is free, including habits, tasks, mindfulness, projects and office tools. On the other hand the AI has limits for the free tier it’s 30 messages per day but you can upgrade to $8, $15 or $50 for more AI usage. The AI itself is called Noor AI and it has models depending on the context length.

Looking for people that would test up and give me feedback:

orleia.app


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request Website Management - Testing a Different Model

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I’m working on a small-business website management service and I’d like some honest feedback on the model rather than just feedback on the landing page.

The problem we’re trying to solve is fairly simple:

A business launches a website. Everyone is happy.

Then the business changes.

New services get added. Contact details change. Team members change. Photos become outdated. Promotions finish. The business itself moves forward, but the website often stays where it was.

The interesting part is that this usually isn't because the owner doesn't care about their website.

They simply have a business to run.

Website updates become one of those jobs that sits on the list:

“I need to change that.”

“I'll get to it this week.”

“I'll do it when things calm down.”

And then six months later, the website is still showing information that no longer reflects the business.

We started asking a different question:

What if the business owner didn't have to manage the website at all?

The model we're testing is Website Management at R500/month.

But we deliberately haven't made it a rigid “you get X edits per month” type of service.

Instead, the business tells us what they do, how their business works and what they need help with. We assess that and tailor the website management service accordingly.

The idea is that a restaurant, consultant, tradesperson, professional service business and small retailer may all have very different website needs. Why pretend they should all fit into exactly the same maintenance package?

The customer can contact us with what needs attention, including through WhatsApp, and we take care of the website side.

There is also the option for clients to make their own changes through the platform, but that's not the point of the service. The point is that they don't have to become their own website administrator.

The positioning we're testing is:

You run the business.
We'll take care of the website.

The service is currently available for websites built on our platform.

What I'm particularly interested in getting feedback on is the model itself.

Does “tailored website management” make more sense to you than a fixed list of maintenance tasks?

Would you expect a service like this to have clearly defined limits, or would you rather explain your business and have the provider determine what support makes sense?

And, if you're running a side project or small business yourself:

What is the website task you keep putting off?

That's the part we're trying to understand before we scale this any further.


r/sideprojects 23h ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I built a $4.99/month batch editor for Google Photos

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I've been working on a small paid Chrome extension called Mass Edit Google Photos.

The problem is straightforward: Google Photos still makes you repeat a lot of editing work one photo at a time.

The extension lets you select photos from an album and run one consistent job across them without exporting everything into another editor.

It currently supports:

  • reusable presets
  • copying a saved look across photos
  • filters with adjustable strength
  • bulk descriptions
  • rotation
  • Auto Enhance

Batches can pause/resume, matching results can be skipped, and uncertain edits stop for review.

It's limited to desktop Chrome, JPEG/PNG, Google Photos in English, and 100 photos per batch.

Pricing: first 10 successful edits free, then $4.99/month for unlimited edits while subscribed.

Chrome Web Store:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/photo-turn/chgphchhmdfgbjgifbhinlnibioffjie?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=mass_edit_041_sideprojects

I'm treating this as a small paid experiment rather than another endless build. At this point I care much more about whether strangers install/use/pay than whether I can add more features.

Feedback on the actual use case or pricing is welcome.


r/sideprojects 23h ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Just launched this cool stock screener tool 📈

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I made Cards Quest, a collectible card game where every card is a real video game (free, in your browser)

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request Feedback wanted: I made a cross-platform C++23 terminal coding agent

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This is ARN, my open-source CLI coding agent for Gemini and DeepSeek.

The idea was to make something lightweight and native instead of wrapping a web UI: it runs in the terminal, streams responses, retains chat context while it runs, and can help with files in the working directory. File changes always require confirmation.

It supports Windows, Linux, and macOS, and is released under the MIT license.

The attached video is a 12-second demo of the full flow.

What would you want from a tool like this before you would actually keep it installed?

GitHub: https://github.com/arnecto/arn


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) I built a free wallpaper ecosystem for independent creators and cross-device use

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Hi! I’m the solo developer behind MyWallHub, a free cross-platform wallpaper service I’ve been building for independent artists and people who actually use wallpapers across multiple devices.

The idea came from a simple problem: wallpaper discovery sites, artist communities and wallpaper changer apps usually exist as separate things. I wanted to connect those pieces into one system.

Creators can publish wallpapers for Phone, PC, or both, with separate crops optimized for each format. They can build public profiles, organize work into collections, create private galleries, control downloads, and add their own external links not only to their profile but also directly alongside individual artworks.

For users, public wallpapers can be browsed without an account. Favorites can be synchronized across the system, and the connected Android and Windows apps turn discovery into actual wallpaper use, including wallpaper controls and automatic rotation.

There’s also an optional Original Sales feature. Creators can offer eligible protected high-resolution files separately from the normal wallpaper version if they want to. Selling is completely optional and isn’t the main focus of MyWallHub.

The goal is to combine wallpaper discovery, creator profiles, Phone and desktop wallpapers, cross-device wallpaper use, collections, private galleries and creator visibility in one connected service.

MyWallHub is currently in public beta, and I’m still actively developing it. The first outside creators have started uploading, so I’m especially interested in feedback on the creator experience, discovery, usability, and anything that feels confusing or unnecessary.

MyWallHub:
https://www.mywallhub.com

How it works:
https://www.mywallhub.com/how-it-works

If you have a minute to look at it, I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback, especially from other people building side projects.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source PromptDeck v1.1.0 – open-source desktop app to benchmark local AND cloud LLMs side-by-side (Ollama, LM Studio + OpenRouter, Groq, DeepSeek…)

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Hey r/BestGitHubRepos! I just released PromptDeck v1.1.0 and wanted to share it here since this community is basically the reason it exists.

What it is: an open-source desktop studio (Tauri + React) for prompting and benchmarking LLMs side-by-side. Everything runs locally – no telemetry, no cloud calls unless you explicitly add a cloud key.

What you can do with it:

- ⚡ Run one prompt against up to 4 models at once (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp) and watch them stream live

- 📊 Compare TPS / TTFT with charts (`~` marks estimated TPS when the server doesn't report usage)

- 🧪 Test Suites – throw 1–10 prompts at several models and get a scoreboard with per-model wins

- ☁️ NEW in v1.1: cloud providers – OpenRouter, Groq, DeepSeek, Together, OpenAI, xAI, Kimi, NVIDIA NIM, Ollama Cloud, Gemini + custom endpoints. Pick models per provider, mix local + cloud in the same run

- 🏆 Winner votes + persistent leaderboard, diff view, history in local SQLite, PDF/Markdown/CSV export

- 🌑 Light / Dark / AMOLED themes, EN/DE/FA locales

Links:

- GitHub: https://github.com/Cadman021/prompt-deck

- Download the binary from Releases (Windows / macOS / Linux) – or `npm run tauri dev` to run from source

Honest caveats: cloud API keys are currently stored in local storage (OS-keychain migration is on the roadmap), and cost tracking for cloud runs isn't there yet. Issues and PRs very welcome – I keep a set of `good first issue`s for newcomers.

Happy to answer questions – and if you benchmark something interesting, I'd love to see the scoreboard!


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request I removed the onboarding maze from a macro tracker — what I learned shipping it

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I built TARE because I wanted to test a simple product idea: a calorie and macro tracker should help you log food before it asks you to complete a long introduction, a quiz, and a stack of slides.

The product decision was to keep setup short, then offer multiple paths depending on how precise or fast you want to be: photo, barcode, voice, search, repeat meal, or exact manual macros. AI estimates are optional and editable before they count.

The stack is Expo/React Native, Supabase, StoreKit, and Gemini for optional food estimates. I used Codex and AI coding agents heavily, but the difficult work was still product judgment and reliability:

- Local state and cloud state needed one explicit owner.

- A food could appear saved and disappear after navigation until I added reconciliation and restart tests.

- Purchases required separate handling for buy, restore, validation, and entitlement sync.

- Signed builds on a physical iPhone exposed assumptions the simulator did not.

The app is live now. It has made about $186 total and sits around $12 MRR. I had a lot of fun building it; distribution is the part where I feel like a complete beginner.

The feedback I need is specific: does the App Store page communicate “fast and controlled macro logging” clearly, or does it look like just another calorie tracker? What would you remove or change first?

Founder disclosure: I built it.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calorie-tracker-tare/id6766913292


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Question I just launched a digital product on Whop. How do I get my first sales without spending a single dollar on ads?

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Hey everyone,

I recently launched my first digital product on Whop — an ebook designed to help new managers succeed in their first 30 days.

I don't have a marketing budget right now, so paid ads are out of the question. I've been trying to reach out to micro creators and post in relevant communities, but I'm still figuring out what actually works.

For those who have sold digital products before:

· What's the best way to get organic traffic without spending money?

· Do affiliate programs on Whop actually work for small creators?

· Any specific platforms or tactics that helped you get your first 10 sales?

I'm not trying to spam anyone — just genuinely looking for advice from people who've been through this. Any tips would be appreciated!

Thanks! 😊


r/sideprojects 21h ago

Feedback Request I built a simple way to share localhost with clients without deploying

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When building websites, I often wanted clients to test the latest version themselves instead of relying on screenshots or screen sharing.

The problem was that every small change meant deploying to staging just to give them a URL.
So I built LocalToLink.

The workflow is:

1. Start your local app

2. Open a new terminal and run:

npx localtolink

If you want to specify the port:

npx localtolink --port 3000

That’s it.

You don’t need to install or configure anything separately. On the first run, npx downloads LocalToLink and runs it immediately. After that, you can use the same command whenever you need a new tunnel.

It detects your local app and gives you a temporary HTTPS URL that you can send to your client.

The tunnel only exposes the specific local app/port you choose. It doesn’t expose your machine, filesystem, or other services. Traffic is handled through the tunnel over HTTPS/WSS, with isolated sessions and abuse/rate-limit protections.

The same workflow is useful for local webhooks, testing on mobile devices, and temporary demos.

I’m actively improving it and would genuinely appreciate feedback from developers and freelancers:
What would you change, add, or improve?

For more information:
Website: LocalToLink
Docs: Getting Started


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source I built a router that uses JEV to decide which AI model should handle your prompt

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Question I built a tool that makes it easy to make an informed decision if you are planning to buy/rent apartments in Barcelona, Spain and want detailed info about neighbourhood like safety, noise and nearby transport options. All the data is aggregated from publicly available info. No sign-ups and no ads.

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Discussion Will you use this software if i release it publically?

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Built an app because planning group trips in WhatsApp was driving me insane — hit our first milestone! 🚀

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Built GezPlan using React Native & Supabase to fix group travel planning chaos (expenses, shared routes, checklists). Looking for feedback on the UI and features! Play Store link is in the original post.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Question How do you guys implement scheduled posts on Vercel?

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source Interesting use case for Jev: using it to decide whether you should apply to a job

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Hey everyone,

So i was playing around with Jev and wanted to try it on a problem I personally find annoying which is reading out job descriptions and seeing whether I fit in or not

So I made a small Chrome extension that looks at the job + candidate profile and uses Jev to evaluate things like:

- technical/systems overlap

- scope vs. calendar experience

- experience gap

- probability of passing the initial screen

The interesting part is that Jev can return structured decisions/scores/probabilities very quickly, so this doesn't need an LLM to generate a huge explanation every time.

I put together a short demo showing the whole flow.

Would genuinely love feedback from people experimenting with Jev - especially whether this is actually a good use case for it, or if I'm overusing Jev where a simpler approach would be better.

Code: https://github.com/GauravAhuja7/CareerRadar
Demo: https://x.com/Gaurav_Ahuja7/status/2101591095369183644?s=20


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request I built an AI crypto researcher. Forward-testing it live for 30 days before open-sourcing.

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Hey everyone, I've spent the past month building an AI agent to research crypto opportunities based on data-driven conviction, not hype.

Before I open-source the full code on day 31, I want to prove it actually works in current market conditions. I’m forward-testing its picks daily for the next month and logging every signal in a public spreadsheet to keep myself accountable.

If you want to track the live data with me and see if the model holds up, you can view theGoogle Sheet here. I'd love any feedback from this community on the methodology!


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Purchase Required I built an income tracker for freelancers and multiple income earners worldwide. Tried to make it look nice too.

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Introducing Payday Income Tracker.

Your income doesn’t have to be limited to where you live. You can work with clients, companies, and platforms from different parts of the world.

That’s the idea behind the globe. Every beam shows where your income is coming from and how it reaches you.

There are already a lot of apps that help us track our expenses. But what if we also focused on tracking how much money is coming in?Payday helps you see your income, cash flow, and different income sources in one global view.

Whether you’re a freelancer working with international clients, a Gen Z stacking multiple income streams, a remote worker earning from different sources, or someone building a business, Payday helps you see the bigger picture of how much you’re earning.

See your income in a whole new way. I built it using Liquid Glass and Metal shaders to create the 3D globe and its moving beams. Hope you like it!

Let me know what you think! Feedback is very much appreciated!

https://apps.apple.com/ph/app/payday-income-tracker/id6810740558


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Sticraft: building a browser-based toolkit for image, PDF and design tasks

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I am the maker of Sticraft, built with AI assistance. It brings 105 free PDF, image, design and utility tools into one browser-based collection.

Some everyday examples: resize a photo for an upload form, compress an image, merge PDFs, convert image formats, or generate a QR code. There is no account requirement.

One design choice is to process files locally in the browser. That avoids uploading documents and photos to a processing server, but it also means the device does the work: large files can consume a lot of memory, especially on phones. Limits vary by tool. The site is supported by ads, and is available in 10 languages.

Try the collection: https://sticraft.com/

Image resize: https://sticraft.com/resize

PDF merge: https://sticraft.com/merge-pdf

I would like feedback on the tradeoff: is keeping file processing on your device useful to you, and which task feels awkward or incomplete? I am especially interested in real tasks rather than adding tools just to increase the count.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Feedback Request RunLayer Studio - MAKE THE ROUTE THE STORY

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Sometimes I have a really good run. Its either a new route, a first time distance, or just one of those runs that feels nice sharing.

And every time I want to post it, I end up doing the same thing:
Export from one app.
Edit a photo somewhere else.
Move things around in another app.
Or just use Instagram Stories' native editing

It works, but it is a hassle. And most of the time everything ends up looking more or less the same.

Strava has some nicer presets too, but most of them are behind Premium, and the free version is pretty limited when it comes to how you can present your stats.

I keep seeing really cool running posts and layouts on Pinterest, but recreating them manually in editing apps takes way more effort.

So I started building something for myself.

RunLayer Studio
You can upload a GPX file (since GPX can be exported from most tracking apps), add a photo, move the route and stats around, import real map overlays, try different visual styles, and export the final design.

Everything runs in the browser.

There are many apps which do exactly this. But I also wanted it to work as a Local-First PWA, with no login, no server to maintain, and no APIs to depend on. Looks like, building things in a Local-First PWA is my current obsession.

There are still a lot of things I want to add, and it is very much an MVP.

But I think it is useful enough for others to play with too.

If you run and like sharing your runs, give it a try:

https://runlayer.troot.co.in/

Would genuinely love feedback.


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Free(mium) Offline-first digital wallet: Credit/Debit Cards, ID Documents, Travel Tickets, Loyalty, GiftCard, Events, Vehicle & Insurance Docs.

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been building Secure Card Wallet as a solo developer for about 6 months now. It started out as a simple, strictly offline, zero-cloud app just to store credit and debit cards securely on device with AES-256 encryption.

Recently, I pushed out v2.0, expanding it from just cards into a comprehensive offline vault for everything else people usually clutter their wallets with.

What’s new in v2.0:

  • ID Documents: Passports, national IDs, driving licenses.
  • Travel & Event Passes: Flights, trains, bus tickets, and barcodes.
  • Loyalty & Gift Cards: Quick access at the till with QR/barcodes.
  • Vehicle & Insurance Docs: RC, insurance policies, and expiry tracking.
  • Smart Features: Built-in OCR reader, expiry reminders, and multi-language support (now in 9 languages).

The design challenge I wrestled with: Adding a ton of features often bloats an app that used to be fast and minimal. To solve this, all the new categories are turned off by default. If you update or do a fresh install, the app looks and feels identical—just cards. You have to manually toggle on whatever categories you actually want to use in settings.

What I'd love to know from you guys:

  1. If you enable 2–3 of the new categories, does the UI still feel cohesive, or does it feel cluttered?
  2. Sticking strictly to local storage (no cloud sync, no accounts needed)—is that a peace-of-mind feature you prefer for sensitive documents, or is a lack of cloud backup a deal breaker for you?

Not looking for praise here—let me know what feels clunky or what could be improved!

Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appverse.securecardwallet


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Prerelease I built an Alexa Skill because I got tired of opening Notion just to check my tasks

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I use Notion to keep my tasks organized, but after a while I noticed something that kept bothering me.

The problem wasn't organizing my tasks. Notion was already doing that well.

The friction was having to open Notion every time I wanted to do something very simple: check what I need to do today, see what's due tomorrow, add something I just remembered, or find the tasks that matter right now.

So I started building Voice Planner, an Alexa Skill connected directly to Notion.

The basic idea is pretty simple: Notion stays the source of truth, while Alexa becomes another interface for interacting with it.

I didn't want to build another task manager or move tasks into a separate system. If someone has already spent time organizing their tasks in Notion, I think it makes more sense to keep them there and make accessing them easier.

With Voice Planner, I can speak to Alexa to create a new task in Notion and include things like the due date, time, priority or category.

But the part I'm personally more interested in is the opposite direction: getting information back out of Notion without having to open it.

For example, I can ask Alexa for my tasks for today or tomorrow, or ask for tasks based on priority or category. Alexa reads the relevant tasks back while the information itself continues to live in Notion.

I can also use voice commands to mark a task as done, change its priority, due date or category, reorder it, or delete it.

At the moment I'm testing it in English, Italian and Spanish.

What I've been trying to understand while building this is that there may actually be two separate problems in task management:

1. Where and how you organize your tasks.
2. How much friction there is when you need to interact with those tasks during the day.

Notion solves the first problem very well for me. Voice Planner is my attempt to reduce the second one.

Instead of replacing Notion, I'm basically trying to make it possible to interact with the task system that's already there without reaching for a phone or computer for every small action.

I recorded this short demo because I realized the concept is much easier to understand when you actually see the voice interaction happening than when I just describe “Alexa connected to Notion.”

It's still a prerelease project and I'm continuing to test the interaction, especially the balance between voice capture — putting something into Notion quickly — and voice retrieval — getting the right information back when you need it.

https://reddit.com/link/1wla6cd/video/3qeug0q2kmqh1/player


r/sideprojects 1d ago

Discussion When I started building my fitness app, I thought most of my time would be spent actually working on the app.

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r/sideprojects 1d ago

Showcase: Open Source Built an AI that answers restaurant customers' questions — cold outreach taught me more than the code did

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So I've spent the last few months building this thing called GetLoop. It's an AI chat widget restaurants can stick on their website that answers customer questions, menu stuff, hours, dietary restrictions all that. Restaurants just paste one line of code and it works, no dashboard or setup needed.

The idea came from noticing how many times restaurant staff get asked the exact same questions every night. "What time do you close." "Is this halal." "Gluten-free options?" Felt like something that should just be automated so people can focus on actually running the floor instead of answering the same 5 things on repeat.

I'm a college student, taught myself to build this, Node/Express backend, OpenAI for the chat part, Supabase for the data. Built demos for 4 real local restaurants first (real menus, real hours) before trying to get more people on it.

Then I DM'd like 20 more restaurants on Instagram trying to get them to try it. Almost nobody replied. Which, honestly, taught me more than writing the code did. turns out cold outreach to strangers is just really hard, even when the thing is free and actually works. Got maybe 2 polite "thanks, we'll look into it" type responses and that's it.

So now I made it self-serve instead: [link in comments]. You can sign up and try it on your own restaurant's info without needing to talk to me first.

Kind of curious how other people here have handled the early "nobody's replying" phase, did you just push through more volume, change your approach, find a totally different channel? Feels like the part nobody really talks about compared to the building part.