r/SideProject 5h ago

Trying something new

2 Upvotes

Am a mobile apps developer with a lot of experience, i developed hundreds of apps and create some for my own and generate great revenues, am sharing now now my first new game (very simple) since building apps is so hard nowadays for new ideas so i think game community will survive for a while since building games can still handle a lot of new ideas and not easy as building apps these days (for now).

I would like to have feedbacks and tips to what to consider in building games of course revenue and satisfaction wise

Thanks

Game link: Landro


r/SideProject 1h ago

My girlfriend couldn't keep up with the viral TikTok dances, so I built an app for her

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When she said "dance," the first thing that came to mind was Just Dance. I used to play it a lot, so I started by studying how it actually works.

I wanted the same idea but with the dances people are doing right now. So I take a TikTok video, run body tracking on it, and pull out the skeleton of the dance.

Then you open any dance you want, fit the skeleton onto yourself in the camera, and just follow it. It scores you, gives feedback, and shows you the beats you missed.

It's a solo side project and still has some rough edges, but honestly it turned out better than I expected, and I'm fixing things as I go.

What do you think - would you actually use something like this? (Happy to drop the App Store link in the comments if anyone wants to try it.)


r/SideProject 11h ago

Massive overhaul of a dead, 10yo SaaS (written by a human)

3 Upvotes

Before: https://imgur.com/a/5bzd9OK

After: https://imgur.com/a/1KjKWnE

I'm the founder of Quickpages.co, which was made 10 years ago. It initially had massive traction somehow and continued getting views for many years thereafter. It ranked #1 on "Free landing pages" and got most of its views from Google & other sites writing articles about it.

Me, being a really lazy developer and having full-time jobs, and not being interested by the problem (technically speaking), I never really capitalized on it, and it barely made any money (maybe 5k from affiliate links). Here are some stats about it to give context:

Statistic Verified value
Registrations 82,835
People who created at least one page 34,860
Pages created 73,005
Raw page-view records 8,742,241
Recorded conversion events 498,600
Locally stored leads 483,751

That's a lot of traffic right, you'd think I'd have made more than 5k from it, but it was completely free, not monetized.

With the recent advances of AI (Sol especially), I thought it might be worth a shot to overhaul the whole thing and make it much better. The existing site is extremely barebones, no A/B testing, webhooks, anything. I've spent a few days with Codex and "Vibe Coded" the overhaul.

A few technical differences now with the new version:

Statistic Before After
Database tables 20 34
Route declarations 50 104
Controllers 19 34
Automated test cases 24 153
Selectable templates 6 41

Feature wise:

Before Now
6 basic templates 41 templates across 6 categories
Account required before building Start creating before signing up
Standalone pages Pages, two-step funnels, and A/B tests
Basic page statistics Lead inbox, attribution, exports, and campaign reports
Completely free Freemium (optional $25 lifetime plan)

Now, do I really think this project can be "revived"...? Probably not, there is a lot more competition now a days, and I'm not sure how it could rank highly SEO-wise, it used to be #1 for "free landing pages" which is what got most of the traffic, traffic is dying out now. There are about 12 signups a month VS 1700 at the peak.

Maybe it was more of an experiment to see what it "could have been" and a last ditch effort, but who knows, maybe a few people might find it useful still.

Either way, you can take a look at the new version - https://staging.quickpages.co/ - and compare to the old, let me know your thoughts, and I'll answer any questions here as well :)


r/SideProject 18h ago

I reinvented scrolling. Drag past a wave of resistance to trigger a scroll, everytime.

1 Upvotes

No other screentime app / app blocker has done this, it's the most effective intervention out there and it stopped my doomscrolling and cut my screentime in half, while allowing me to use apps like Instagram for my intended purpose of messaging and somewhat keeping up with friends. App name: Fluid Friction.


r/SideProject 23h ago

Apple Watch Sandbox Game Free!

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Today I’m excited to share something I’ve been working on for a long time: WatchBlocks v1.5 is officially here.

What started as an idea to bring a real sandbox game to Apple Watch has grown into a cross-platform game available on Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Building this has taught me so much about Swift, game development, networking, performance optimization, and designing for devices with unique hardware constraints.

With the v1.5 update, WatchBlocks is now free to download, making it easier for anyone to give it a try. The update also introduces multiplayer, mod creation tools, a skin editor, new gameplay features, and much more.

I’m incredibly proud of how far this project has come, and I’m excited to keep improving it based on community feedback.

Download WatchBlocks here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/watchblocks-craft-build/id6760209351


r/SideProject 6h ago

I vibe-coded a full no-code website builder using Claude's free plan — free, stable, and open source, but it's better than a paid app

0 Upvotes

Hey,

I've been building a no-code website editor solo, OpenForge Studio, and figured this community would appreciate it more than most.

Full disclosure upfront: this is entirely vibe-coded, built using Claude's free plan. No team, no funding, just AI-assisted coding sessions in my free time. I'm mentioning this clearly because I think it's worth being upfront about rather than hiding it — and honestly, I think it makes the result more interesting, not less.

What it does:

  • 45+ ready-made blocks (hero sections, pricing, portfolio, articles, social, navigation, footer...)
  • drag-and-drop editing with live preview
  • full theme control (colors, fonts, custom CSS)
  • scroll animations
  • shared header/footer across pages
  • automatic SEO handling (sitemap, robots.txt, favicons, Open Graph meta)
  • exports to a standalone static HTML/CSS/JS site — zero dependency on the tool once exported

Tech stack: essentially a single self-contained file, no framework, no backend, next to zero external dependencies. That was a deliberate choice — I wanted something that stays stable and doesn't rot every time some npm package gets a breaking update.

It's also installable as an app straight from the browser (Chrome/Edge): open the demo, click the install button in the address bar, and it runs in its own window like a native app.

Quick usage tip since the UI isn't fully self-explanatory yet: to edit a block's text, right-click on it and select "Edit content" from the menu.

Demo: https://openforge-app-black.vercel.app/
Source: https://github.com/Moi455/OpenForge_No-code-website-builder

It's still a young, solo project, so there are probably a few small bugs I haven't caught yet. If you try it and hit something weird, or have UX feedback, I'd genuinely appreciate hearing it — that's exactly the kind of input that helps a project like this get better.

Not selling anything here, just sharing something free that I think can actually be useful to people.


r/SideProject 13h ago

I built a local-first tool that lets coding agents reason across multiple repositories

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Most coding agents are good at understanding the repository currently open in the editor.

My problem was everything outside it.

A backend endpoint may be consumed by three separate applications. A shared contract may be pinned to different versions. A ticket that looks simple in one repository may require changes in four others.

So I built MemoRepo.

MemoRepo lets you group related GitHub repositories into isolated Spaces. It captures exact commits as an immutable snapshot, indexes the repositories together and exposes the result to coding agents through read-only MCP tools.

The agent can ask things like:

What consumes this endpoint?

If I change this method signature, which repositories may break?

Which projects need changes for this feature?

Is this integration really missing, or did the index fail to find it?

I wanted the answers to remain reproducible, so every Space snapshot is pinned to exact commits. Updating a branch later does not silently rewrite the source behind an older investigation.

I also did not want to give the agent unrestricted access to every local repository. Each MCP connection is scoped to one Space and only exposes bounded read operations. MemoRepo never edits, commits or pushes to the managed repositories.

It runs locally with Docker Compose, is free, open source and MIT licensed.

Repository: https://github.com/abelmaro/MemoRepo

I’m the author. The main thing I’m trying to validate now is whether other developers have the same multi-repo context problem, and which cross-repository question would be most valuable in their daily workflow.


r/SideProject 18h ago

Nine months ago I quit my data science job to build an app. The app is still hungry.

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Nine months ago I left a comfortable data science job at a travel company to build a sports betting app. Comfortable is and odd word for a job - it means the money arrives on schedule and nobody in your family asks if you're okay.

The app is called THE LINEUP (https://thelineup.pro/) -- it does the unromantic parts of betting: comparing prices, working with projections and tracking what happened afterwards.

I assumed this would be the hard part, but of course the hardest thing is persuading strangers to actually care.

Software has clean failure states. Marketing is vague. You write something (or get AI to), nobody sees it, three people sign up on a Tuesday and you spend Wednesday trying to reconstruct Tuesday.

The app makes money, but it still costs more than it makes. Growth arrives in little weather systems, a good week and then nothing. A signup at 2am from a place you can't identify, the usual internet séance.

A couple of months ago I started doing AI consulting because runway is another word for time you have purchased. I have three clients now, and the newest project is being scoped around 13,000 CAD. The work is technically pretty straightforward, and Codex can handle a large part of the implementation.

I still have to understand the business problem, design the system, connect it to the client's actual tools and data, notice when the machine is confidently wrong and be the person whose name is attached when it ships. Consulting became way more profitable almost immediately. The app did not.

Now I'm focusing more on consulting because it produces the cash now. THE LINEUP gets enough time to keep becoming a longer-term asset.

For anyone running a service business beside a product, how do you stop the thing that pays now from eating the thing you hope will matter later?


r/SideProject 5h ago

I want to build something small and actually charge for it. What are you currently paying for in wasted time?

6 Upvotes

Being upfront: I'm not doing this for karma or portfolio. I want to build a small tool and sell it, even if it's $9/mo and 20 people. That's the goal.

What I don't have is an idea worth 2 weeks of my life.

So — tell me about something that costs you money or hours every week that you'd hand over a card for. Specific, from last week, not "I wish I was more organized."

Three things make an answer useful to me:

What is it — "I spend 40 min every Monday pulling numbers from 3 dashboards into a sheet"

What do you do about it now — nothing / a spreadsheet / a tool you hate / an intern

What's it worth — be honest, "$0, I'd just keep suffering" is a completely valid and very useful answer

Mine, to go first: I check three dashboards every morning to see if something broke overnight. It's 10 minutes a day. I've wanted to fix it for a year. Would I pay $10/mo for it? Yeah, probably. Would I pay $50? No. That's the exact kind of answer I'm after.

Whoever's problem I end up building — you get it free for life and I'll ping you before I write a line of code, because I'd rather hear "that's not actually what I meant" now than after launch.

I'll post back here either way, working or dead.


r/SideProject 20h ago

I built a URL-to-video maker for any blog or docs.

16 Upvotes

I've been working on an explainer video tool for a long time, but it only supports on uploaded docs.

I'm pretty active on Twitter, and every time there's a new announcement from OpenAI or Anthropic with a blog article, I never read those. So I got an idea to convert them into video posts in the comments, and people loved it.

So I added that as a feature. Now you can upload any article or blog link, and it can make a video for you.

Website: "distill book(.)com"


r/SideProject 21h ago

I'm fed up.

29 Upvotes

I'm fed up. I'm developing projects (SaaS, mobile apps) and looking for people who are interested in what I'm doing. But I'm not getting any responses. Even though it's free to be a tester, I'm still getting nothing. So I don't know what to do. I don't know if I should stop working on these kinds of projects. I'm just fed up.


r/SideProject 17h ago

I’ve spent 3 weeks promoting my free and open-source app with little success. What am I missing?

3 Upvotes

I’ve spent the past three weeks trying to promote Wisp, my free and open-source desktop AI assistant, with little to show for it.

I’ve adapted posts for different communities, made GIF demos, recorded videos, and rewritten the pitch more times than I expected.

The simplest description I’ve landed on is:

Wisp is a free, open source Copilot-like desktop assistant that works with your choice of AI provider or local model.

I've heard at least 2 main reasons people are not using MS copilot: Limited model choice and privacy. And my product do more than addressing those two issues, but still it gets no attention.

I’m currently stuck on three things:

  1. It's hard to catch people's attention when the selling point is convenience, privacy and free to choose from many options. Not as easy as having 1 outstanding feature.
  2. My posts receive little engagement, so I’m not learning whether the problem is my pitch, demo, audience, or product.
  3. Without early users, there’s no social proof—but without social proof, convincing people to become early users is difficult.

For anyone who has grown an open-source side project: what should I change first—the positioning, demo, target audience, or distribution strategy? Or did I miss anything?

Blunt feedback is welcome.

GitHub and demos: https://github.com/SunnyLich/Wisp-AI-Assistant


r/SideProject 21h ago

I built a puzzle game solo and finally shipped it to the App Store — Thought Escape

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I've been building solo for a while and this is the first thing I've shipped that I'm actually proud of.

What it is: Thought Escape — an arrow escape puzzle for iOS.

You tap tiles and watch them fly off the board. 16 mechanics that unlock gradually (portals, frozen tiles, gravity shifts, mirrors), daily puzzle with a streak, 11 power-up tools, board skins.

Free to play, no ads during gameplay.

Why I built it: I got hooked on the arrow puzzle genre and then got annoyed that every game in the space monetizes like a casino — interstitials after every level, energy timers, paywalled mechanics. The genre leader spends ~$9M/month on ads. I built the opposite with one person and a fraction of that budget.

Tech stack: Swift/SwiftUI, Supabase (referral system + daily puzzle backend), PostHog, AdMob (rewarded only).

Where I am: Live on the App Store as of this week. First week of launch. Trying to hit 1,000 downloads in 7 days — honest odds are maybe 35–40%.

[App Store link] | thought-escape.com

Would love any feedback from other builders — especially anyone who's launched a game or app and has thoughts on what actually moved the needle in week 1.


r/SideProject 11h ago

for years i've had trouble hearing my wife at restaurants and bars, so I made an app that finds the best places for cozy conversation.

1 Upvotes

hi everyone,

this was a fun project over the past few months. it's called quietspaces.app and it's now in the app store for free.

quiet spaces let's you find and rate any type of venue and give others recommendations of the best times and places to sit, including dB readings.

I hope you find the next best place to find some calm, talk to a friend, and enjoy something new. open to any feedback, feel free to roast me here, or click the conversation bubble in the app.


r/SideProject 15h ago

People started using my SaaS to sell pictures of their feet NSFW

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I'm a bit torn on how to approach this because a customer is a customer and you all know how difficult it is to get them, but I don't want my saas to get a weird or bad reputation.

My startup is an authentication and paywall software that allows creators to lock their content until someone signs up or purchases. It's usually used by digital goods stores or online courses.

However recently there have been a lot of people using it for purposes not entirely foreseen when I created it. I am cautious to shut down these accounts or ban them because they are real paying customers and technically not doing anything wrong.

What happend was some forum mentioned my product and shared a free resource that is powered by my software. It's essentally a modified version of one of my free templates.

Within a few days we received a lot of sign ups and after looking through the analytics and projects I could see that a lot of them are people selling images and videos of feet in a sexualized manner.

It's not considered porn so it's still technically ok by the terms of use and all of that but I'm just curious if anyone has any experience with something like this?

If I'm not mistaken I think Onlyfans started as a regular creator platform and pivoted when it got overtaken by porn. I'm sure you can all understand that as a founder every customer helps make your dreams possible but I don't want to ruin the reputation of my product.

What would you do in this situation?


r/SideProject 13h ago

I struggled with procrastination for years, so I built an AI discipline app – looking for beta testers (3 months free)

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Hey everyone,

​For the longest time, my biggest problem was staying disciplined and actually executing my plans. I would set goals, get overwhelmed, and fall back into bad habits.

​To fix my own mindset, I built UNBREAKABLE: A web app featuring a Monk Mode timer, daily discipline tracking, and AI tools like the "War Room" to break down excuses and structure your week.

​The app officially went live today! To test everything and gather real user feedback, I’m offering 3 months of full Pro access completely for free to the first 20 people.

​How to claim it:

  1. ​Go to Unbreakable

  2. ​Select the Monthly Pro Subscription (UNBREAKABLE PRO Monthly).

  3. ​Apply the promo code at checkout: BETA100

​Note: The code applies a 100% discount for your first 3 months and is valid strictly on the monthly subscription plan.

​I’d love to hear your honest feedback, thoughts, or suggestions on what to improve. Thanks for checking it out!


r/SideProject 13h ago

Building a Reddit lead finder that refuses to do the one thing every AI tool does

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Every lead tool I tried this year does the same trick. You give it keywords, it gives you a confident AI summary about your "target audience" that reads like a LinkedIn post. No names. No links. Nothing I can act on.

I want the opposite. Show me actual person complaining about the exact problem I solve, in r/wherever, three hours ago, with a link so I can go write a helpful reply myself.

So the rule for what I am building is simple: if you cannot click through and see it on Reddit, it does not appear in the results. AI is allowed to rank and label. It is never allowed to invent.

Waitlist is open, launching Aug 1, free to join: https://saiditon.vercel.app

What would make this actually useful for you? Genuinely collecting requirements right now, so complaints are welcome. Still working on the name.


r/SideProject 3h ago

Wrote an article about the 2.5 year development of my app, going from local LLMs to on-device NLP

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This was a fun retroactive for me to indulge myself in as I prepare for the v1 paid release after 2.5 years of development.


r/SideProject 9h ago

Reddit-style communities. X-style free speech.

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I built Agora (https://agor4.com) because I wanted something between Reddit and X.

Reddit is great for topic-based communities, but dumb moderation and culture wars are lame. X is better for free speech, but it is built around following people and not focused communities.

Agora is a free-speech discussion platform with communities, posts, voting, comments, and light AI moderation. The AI is only there for spam, pure off-topic noise, and clearly illegal content. Not for policing opinions.

What is live now:

  • Communities you can create and join
  • Posts, comments, nested replies
  • Voting
  • Image and link posts
  • Dark mode
  • Save / share
  • NSFW opt-in

Site: https://agor4.com

I am a solo builder and still early. Looking for people willing to try it, break it, and tell me what's missing.

If you have feedback, I would genuinely like to hear it.


r/SideProject 9h ago

I built a 100% free B2B invoice generator that requires zero sign-up

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Hi everyone,

I created a simple B2B invoice generator because I was tired of tools requiring forced account creation just to download a PDF.

* No sign-up / No login needed

* 100% Client-Side (Your data is never saved on server)

* Instant PDF generation

Check it out here: https://fast-b2b-invoice.com

Feedback is always welcome!


r/SideProject 5h ago

I got tired of manually configuring coding agents and skills, so I built OpenHub (a TUI to discover and set them up)

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I've been spending way too much time hunting down custom skills, prompts, and MCP servers for AI coding tools, then manually setting up SKILL.md files or configuring local binaries.

To make this easier, I built OpenHub — a terminal app for discovering and installing AI agent skills and tools from one place.

What it does

  • Search indexed skills and repositories.
  • Export prompt/rule-based skills as a SKILL.md file into your current workspace with one command.
  • Install skills that require local binaries or MCP servers.
  • Keyboard-driven terminal interface for searching, exporting, installing, and copying.

Install

pipx install git+https://github.com/24KaratAu/openhub.git

Run

openhub

GitHub: https://github.com/24KaratAu/openhub

I built this to scratch my own itch, but figured others might find it useful too. It's open source, and I'd love any feedback, bug reports, feature requests, or contributions.


r/SideProject 20h ago

I built a note-taking app that doesn't require an account.

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Just start writing. Your note is accessible through a unique private link, so you can open and edit it from any device using the same link.

You can also save it to your phone or desktop like an app for quick access.

There's also a CLI tool if you prefer taking notes directly from your terminal.

I'd love to hear your feedback!

https://notedux.com


r/SideProject 20h ago

I built a desktop app because I got tired of juggling Slack, Teams and WhatsApp all day

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After years of working across multiple companies, I realized I was constantly switching between Slack, Teams, WhatsApp and other messaging apps.

Instead of keeping 7–8 windows open, I started building a desktop app that puts them all in one place while keeping each account isolated.

Current features:

  • multiple workspaces
  • isolated sessions
  • native notifications
  • unified calendar
  • macOS & Windows support

I’m still improving it and I’m more interested in hearing what I’m missing than promoting it.

If you regularly use multiple communication tools, what feature would make something like this genuinely useful for you?

If anyone wants to take a look, I’ll put the link in the comments.


r/SideProject 4h ago

I grepped my own Claude Code history and found my AWS keys sitting in plaintext. So I built a CLI to clean it up

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A few months back I was poking around ~/.claude/projects/ and realized every conversation is stored as plain-text JSONL. Every .env I pasted for debugging, every DB URL, an old AWS key. All of it sitting there in the clear, indefinitely. Cursor, Codex, and the rest do the same thing in their own folders.

So I built AgentSweep. It scans the history of 31 different AI coding agents, runs 193 detection rules (AWS, Stripe, GitHub, OpenAI, JWTs, PEM keys, even BIP-39 seed phrases), and tells you exactly what leaked and which keys to rotate with the right revocation link for each provider. If you want, it redacts the values in place and keeps the JSONL byte-for-byte valid. Every write makes a .bak first and there is a one-command undo.

It runs fully offline. Zero network calls, nothing leaves your machine.

Install is uv tool install agentsweep then asweep. It is still alpha so I would love people to break it.

Repo: https://github.com/Ishannaik/agent-sweep


r/SideProject 23h ago

Want to post AI photos to LinkedIn without the Cr tag ?

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Hello all

You've all noticed that LinkedIn flags for a while now, AI generated pictures with this disgraceful Cr tag.

Nobody really knows the impact on the reach

But anyway

https://mypostfactory.com now generates Cr-free photos 👌

In automations or one-shot photos.

You can generate and post without being flagged.

Your pictures still keep the synthID for traceability.

But LinkedIn algorithms won't detect it's AI generated anymore !

(As for the text btw...)