r/SideProject • • 2m ago

Looking for 5 small landlords(or anyone realistically) to test a free Excel rental tracker

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I know, thrilling.

I’ve been building a simple Excel spreadsheet for independent landlords managing a few rental properties.
It tracks rental income, expenses, leases, repair reserves, and cash flow without needing a subscription or complicated software.
I’m looking for five landlords willing to test it for about 15–20 minutes and give honest feedback about what works and what doesn’t.
I’ll provide the finished version free to participants. No purchase or public review required.
If you’re interested, comment or send me a message!


r/SideProject • • 2m ago

Yuzuu, an iPhone app that gives you one small step a day toward a big goal (in development)

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I’m the developer. It isn’t released yet, so there’s a waitlist instead of a download.

You describe a goal, answer a few questions, and get a roadmap. After that, the app plans one task each day with a time estimate and a note on why it’s today’s task. The daily plans are written by AI, so some will miss. If you skip days, the next plan gets lighter.

Does one task a day sound useful, or would you want to see more at once?

Waitlist: https://yuzuu.pro/


r/SideProject • • 14m ago

I got tired of generic AI wrappers, so I built a privacy-first AI coach that adapts to your exact cognitive functions (MBTI)

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Hey everyone,

A lot of AI apps right now just slap a generic system prompt on an API and call it a day. I wanted to build something that actually personalizes the AI’s reasoning process based on real psychometrics.

I just launched SoulType, a personality assessment app that replaces static, boring personality reports with an integrated "AI Soul Coach."

How it works under the hood:

Instead of giving the AI a basic persona, the app first assesses your exact MBTI cognitive functions (like Introverted Intuition or Extroverted Thinking). It then uses your specific cognitive stack as the core context for every response. It doesn't feed you generic platitudes; it structures its advice based on how your brain actually processes information.

Privacy-first :

Psychological data is sensitive. I designed it so that all conversation history remains stored locally on your device. I don't want your chat logs.

-Free ("Seeker"): You get the deep cognitive assessment, a standard 3D generative avatar, and 10 daily interactions with the coach.

-Paid ("Awakened"): $15/mo (or $12/mo billed annually) unlocks 50 daily chats, infinite memory/deep context for the AI, a weekly psychological synthesis, and continuous cognitive calibration.

I’d love to get feedback from other devs and makers on the UI, the onboarding flow, or how the AI handles the context window. Happy to answer any questions about the stack or the prompt engineering behind the cognitive calibration.


r/SideProject • • 20m ago

I Made An App to Organize My CDs

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This year I started collecting CDs, but as my collection grew, I needed a better way to keep track of everything instead of relying on a spreadsheet...

I wanted something more visual and easier to organize, so I decided to make my own app! It's called Hakoto, and it lets you catalog albums, organize them into custom crates and virtual shelves, and view statistics about your collection.

Everything is stored locally, and it supports CDs, vinyl, cassettes, and other physical formats. It's been a fun learning experience, especially since this is my first major desktop application.

It's free and open-source, and I'd love to hear any feedback or suggestions. If you find the project interesting, I'd really appreciate a star on GitHub! ❤️

Source: https://github.com/MrTytanic/hakoto
Downloads (Windows & Linux): https://github.com/MrTytanic/hakoto/releases


r/SideProject • • 27m ago

For people who run and lift: race plan, GPS runs and a gym log in one iPhone + Apple Watch app. Free during the launch period

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I run and lift, and for years that meant three apps: one for my race plan, one for GPS runs and a notes app for the gym. Apps that do just one of these usually charge $15 to $20 a month. TrainPilot does all three, and it's free during the launch period, with every feature unlocked.

Running

  • A training plan built around your goal race, your current times and the days you can actually train

  • Spoken cues when you drift off target pace, so the phone can stay in your pocket

  • Apple Watch app: heart rate and running power, and you can start, pause and finish the run from your wrist

Gym

  • It tells you what to load today based on what you actually lifted, and why ("+2.5 kg, you hit 3x5 last time"). Miss your reps and it doesn't add weight.

iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trainpilot/id6788894342
Website: https://trainpilot.pablogarces.dev

On Android? It's in testing. Shoot me a DM with your Google Play email and I'll add you to the testers.

What would make you switch from what you use now, and what's missing?


r/SideProject • • 30m ago

I built a calorie tracker for iOS and Android with no subscriptions and no ads

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Hey everyone!

I just released CalPocket and the idea behind it was pretty simple. I don't think keeping track of what you eat should have to cost a small fortune. Finding recipes and scanning barcodes or counting calories shouldn't mean adding another subscription to your monthly bills.

I wanted to make something useful for people who want to understand their eating habits and work towards a healthier routine at a reasonable one-time price.

Here are some of the things CalPocket can do:

  • Track calories and macros in a food diary

  • Scan barcodes to look up food products

  • Find recipes or save your own

  • Take a photo of a meal to estimate calories and macros

  • Follow your weight and progress over time

  • Set goals that fit you

There are no subscriptions or ads and you don't need an account. Your diary and weight history stay on your phone. You can also back up and export your data.

CalPocket is available on both iPhone and Android:

App Store | Google Play

I will continue to improve both the app and the API behind it and i really want to keep making it even better over time and your feedback helps me decide what to work on next.

If the price puts you off buying it i completely understand but i would still really appreciate any kind of feedback just from looking at the screenshots and app description.

Best regards! 😄


r/SideProject • • 32m ago

I was paying for a recipe app that was slow and full of features I never used so I built a simpler one

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To preface, i know there are already plenty of recipe importer apps. I was using one of the popular ones and it was expensive, laggy, and packed with features I never touched. All I wanted was to save recipes from insta, tiktok and webpages and have them load fast when I'm cooking. So I built my own. It's called Seasnd and it just went live for ios. Currently working on the android version now.

How it works:

- Share a post or page to the app from Instagram, TikTok, Safari, or any other app.

- It reads the caption or page and pulls out the ingredients, amounts and steps into a clean recipe.

- You can also take a photo of a cookbook p and it'll type it out.

- Recipes go into folders, and you can turn list, scaling the servings if you need to.

Tech stack

- App: Expo / React Native

- Share extension: native Swift / SwiftUI. ide iOS share extensions, so that part had to be written natively.

- Backend: Node + Hono on Railway

- Database and auth: Supabase

- Recipe extraction: Claude, using tool use to return structured JSON

- Payments: RevenueCat

For Instagram, the extension reads the post's caption on-device, because servers only get a logged-out page with no caption. For websites, it uses the recipe's structured data (JSON-LD) when the site has it, which makes extraction faster and more accurate.

It's been live for about a week and has 30+ users. It's free for 5 recipes, then a one-time $7.99, with no subscription.

I'd really appreciate feedback:

- Any recipe, reel or site it fails on

- Anything confusing when you first open it

- Anything you'd want it to do that it doesn't

App Store Link


r/SideProject • • 34m ago

I got tired of opening Stripe to check today's sales, so now they're on my iPhone Lock Screen

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I kept opening the Stripe app just to see two things: did anyone pay today, and where's MRR. So I added a Stripe connection to WidgetDash, the iPhone widget app I've been building on my own.

How it works:

- In Stripe you create a restricted key with Read access to Subscriptions, Balance and Customers, and nothing else. A full secret key (sk_) is refused.

- You paste it once in the web dashboard. It's encrypted on the server, never shown again, and deleted when you remove the source.

- The widget shows MRR (an estimate from active and past-due subscriptions), today's revenue, number of payments, new customers today and active subscriptions.

- Today's numbers refresh every 15 minutes and MRR every hour. It works on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. iOS decides exactly when a widget redraws, so it can lag a few minutes.

One limitation: "today" is the UTC day for now, so if you're far from UTC it resets at an odd hour. Your local day is next on my list.

Setup is on the web for now (the iPhone app gets it in the next update). It's free for up to 5 sources: widgetdash.app

Two questions for anyone who watches these numbers:

  1. What would you want on your Lock Screen that isn't here?

  2. Would you paste a read-only restricted key into a third-party app, or is that a dealbreaker?

Setup steps: https://widgetdash.app/guide

Thanks and please share your thoughts


r/SideProject • • 38m ago

Keyboard-driven terminal UI for libvirt/virsh, with vim keys and live graphs

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virsh-tui shows every virtual machine on a libvirt connection with live CPU, memory, disk and network graphs, and lets you start, stop, snapshot, reconfigure and create them from the keyboard. Every action is a virsh (or virt-install) command, and virsh-tui shows you that command before and after it runs, so nothing happens behind your back and you can reuse it in a script.

It works with qemu:///system, qemu:///session and remote hosts over qemu+ssh://, with the same permissions virsh has.

https://syscallbrain.github.io/virsh-tui/

https://github.com/SyscallBrain/virsh-tui


r/SideProject • • 42m ago

HyperStream

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[HyperStream] — High-performance 128-thread parallel download accelerator and BitTorrent client for Android, powered by a native Rust core.

* GitHub Repo: https://github.com/djsusmith/hyperstream-android

* Live Showcase & APK: https://djsusmith.github.io/hyperstream-android/

* License: GPL-3.0 (100% Free & Open Source, 0 ads, 0 telemetry)

Tech Stack

* Core Engine: Written in Rust using `tokio`, custom work-stealing segment halving down to 12 KB chunks, and `librqbit` for embedded BitTorrent swarm handling.

* Frontend: Kotlin & Jetpack Compose (Modern Obsidian dark theme, reactive telemetry, Material 3).

* Bridge: Zero-copy JNI / C FFI Native Bridge (`libmdm_android.so`).

Key Features

⚡ Up to 128 Parallel Connections:* Real-time socket shedding and dynamic connection pooling that easily saturates high-speed 5G and Wi-Fi 7 connections.

🧲 Native BitTorrent Swarm:* Magnet links, torrent files, sequential downloading (stream while downloading), DHT, and PEX without any third-party daemon.

🎬 Built-in Media Grabber:* Direct 4K YouTube stream extraction and watermark-free video sniffer with multi-stream audio/video muxing.

🔋 Android Background Resiliency:* Foreground service with partial WakeLock and High-Performance Wi-Fi Lock to prevent system Doze throttling.

📂 Safe File Management:* Integrated Android `FileProvider` with 1-tap open and double-confirmation deletion protection.

Context & Why I Built This

Most existing Android download managers are either abandoned or filled with intrusive full-screen ads, tracking SDKs, and paywalled thread limits. I wanted a clean, blazing-fast, genuinely open-source alternative that runs natively on ARM64 without GC pause jitter.

The project is actively maintained (currently on v0.6.0). I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, bug reports, or feature requests! PRs and stars are always welcome.


r/SideProject • • 50m ago

RPG World & Everyday Rooms - Two 2D asset packs with free 40-sprite demos

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I'm JustaDev101, the publisher of two downloadable 2D game asset packs on itch.io.

RPG World covers fantasy inventory items, props, characters and creatures. It has 10,000 static sprites and 1,000 eight-frame animation sequences, with 16/32/48px base-scale exports (larger props occupy 2x2 tiles).

https://justadev101.itch.io/rpg-world-fantasy-sprites

Everyday Rooms focuses on furniture, interiors and daily-life animations. It also has 10,000 static sprites and 1,000 eight-frame sequences, on 128px PNG canvases.

https://justadev101.itch.io/everyday-rooms

Each pack is currently $3.95 USD, sold separately, and each has a free 40-static-sprite demo. The three RPG export sizes are alternate versions, not extra unique sprites; animation frames are counted separately from static sprites.

The downloads include PNGs, atlases and JSON. Engine setup may be needed; RPG World Unity/Godot JSON importer compatibility has not been verified. Production disclosures, licenses and development notes are on the store pages.

I'm sharing these as a small digital-product project. If you try the demos, I'd appreciate feedback on the packaging, download instructions and whether the previews make the contents clear.


r/SideProject • • 56m ago

Chess AI in C++

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I have made a chess AI with minimax and alpha beta pruning, this is my first real project in c++ and im looking for tips.

I have it on GitHub in the link above.

There are a few things missing, however the game is fully playable.

I’m looking for tips and what to improve about my programming in general, since I will probably not come back to this project since it already ate a month of my year. I’m looking forward to starting other projects.


r/SideProject • • 58m ago

I built a small app to stop manually copying events from a website calendar to Eventbrite—now considering expansion to other event platforms and comparing it to similar tools

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I'm friendly with a local business that hosts regular events. Every week, they did the same double-entry dance: update their website's events calendar, then manually copy-paste titles, descriptions, dates, and images into Eventbrite. Then event edits and ticket allotment would be double too.

I used Zapier, but the nuance I wanted I didn't trust myself to make bulletproof, so I didn't spend much time with it. So made a small web app (using Hono) that curls from the source calendar, and tracks updates. It handles publishing and updating, on Eventbrite via scheduled tasks.

It's stable now, generating sales, though not open to the public. I’m looking for ways to grow this app and would appreciate input from anyone who has done something similar, either as a dev or an events manager.

Are there dedicated apps already doing two-way or state-tracked calendar-to-ticketing sync? I'd love to see how others handle it, and hope to avoid reinventing the well.

Beyond Eventbrite, are there other ticketing or promotion platforms that you rely on? (I see BandsInTown, Meetup, Facebook Events, Luma, Dice, AllEvents...)

Thank you 😺


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Shipped a WordPress plugin for my social scheduler, here's how it works both ways

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Refract started because I wrote one post about our WordPress theme business and then rewrote it five times, once per network. Now Refract writes those versions for you and you approve each one.

This week the WordPress plugin went live in the directory. It works in both directions:

Blog to social: publish a post, Refract gets it as a note, writes a version per network in your voice, crops images, and you approve in the WP editor or in Refract. Each version tracks its clicks back to the post.

Social to blog: your site becomes a Refract account, so you can publish to WordPress from Refract like any other network.

Hardest part was permissions. It can only touch posts it created, so it can't mess with anything else on the site.

Happy to answer anything about building it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/refract


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

LOUPE - guess the movie from one cropped frame

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we made a movie guessing game because apparently recognising a whole film wasn't hard enough. now you get a tiny crop of one frame.

https://www.playloupe.fun

you can zoom out, but it costs points. 5 frames a day, free, no login needed.

would love a fresh pair of eyes on it. is it obvious how to play, and does the difficulty feel fair?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I made a free, offline ambient sound and breathing app with no ads and no data collection

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Hi everyone! I’m an indie developer from Slovakia, and I recently released a small Android app called Ewer Relax. I wanted something simple for winding down. Most apps I tried were full of ads, subscriptions or account sign-ups, so I built my own.

What it does:

  • 6 ambient sounds: ocean waves, rain, wind breeze, plus brown, pink and white noise (generated in real time, so they loop seamlessly)

  • Box breathing exercise (4-4-4-2) with a simple visual guide

  • “Seaweed”, a quiet visual relaxation mode

  • Sleep timer with smooth fade-out, or all-night play

  • Low battery protection (stops playback below 15%)

  • Dark, distraction-free design

  • 40+ languages

What it doesn’t do:

  • No ads

  • No data collection

  • No internet needed, it works 100% offline

  • No subscription

It’s a small project, so I’d really appreciate honest feedback: which sounds are missing, what would make the breathing exercise better, and whether the UI feels right.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ewer.relax

Thanks for reading, and I’m happy to answer any questions!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Are you a 4-star abuser or a harsh critic? I built a site that reads your Letterboxd ratings on your own scale. Looking for a few testers

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Hey, James here. Film and stats nerd, and I’ve been building this on my own for months. No AI, just a statistical model.

Rated your way. Read on one scale.

A 3.5 from someone who rarely goes above 3 is a rave. A 3.5 from a 4-star abuser is lukewarm. The site reads every rating in the terms of the person who gave it, so every way of rating can be compared. Your ratings stay exactly as you gave them.

Bring your Letterboxd or IMDb export and see what kind of rater you are, film by film and genre by genre: the films you defend, the ones you demand more from, and where you break from the crowd.

What I’m looking for: a few people with a decent rating history who’d import their export and tell me honestly what works and what’s boring.

Honest limits: it runs on the MovieLens research dataset for now, so films after 2023 aren’t in it yet. It’s a personal, non-commercial project, not affiliated with Letterboxd, IMDb or GroupLens/MovieLens.

If you’re up for it, comment here and I’ll message you a personal access code. If Reddit DMs are a pain, there’s a contact form on the site linked in my profile.


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Day One, Day Off – a leave request generator for GTA VI launch day

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I built a small tool that turns “I want to play GTA VI on launch day” into a leave request you could actually send. You can pick a tone for the request, and there’s a parody page where the Deny button runs away from your boss.

20-second YouTube Short. The background music was made with Gemini.

Try the free leave request generator

I’d love feedback on the first screen. Is it clear where to start writing a request?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

I built a hub of small daily word and puzzle games. Would love feedback from this sub

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Hey r/SideProject. I’ve been building Froobaloo.com on nights and weekends for a little while. It’s a hub of little daily browser-based games and experiences (no apps/downloads at present). Very much a work-in-progress/labor of love!

All games are designed and hand-curated by me, coded by Claude.

What’s on it right now:

  • Wordsummit: trace letters across a 5x5 grid to find the day’s top-scoring word in five tries. It mashes up Boggle paths, Scrabble scoring, and Wordle-style hints.

  • Caseboard: follow the clues to find eight hidden words, like a "daily Codenames game" that I curate.

  • The Movie League: a daily "Family Feud" styled movie theme. Suggest a film, bet your chips on which titles make the top five, and climb a leaderboard.

  • Sourceword: make words from the letters of a 'source' word, find all the bonuses!

  • Cryptadoodle: a daily cryptogram game, but where you get points for guessing the hardest-to-find letters first.

also in early prototype is a project I've been brainstorming for 10+ years:

  • The Goat: a head-to-head ranking experience. Two items from a category face off, you pick the better one, and the winner stays on to face the next.

Where I’d love feedback:

  • How's the experience look & feel? Does it seem inviting and playable or daunting/unapproachable?

  • Which game would you try first?

  • Did you love ANY of the games?

  • What would make you share any one of the games with a friend?

Happy to chat/compare notes with anyone doing similar pursuits!


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Spent years fighting a low-end PC, so I built the Windows optimizer I wish I had back then

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Back when I had a bad PC I tried every FPS booster going. They were all a big button and a made-up score, and you never knew what they changed.

So I built Framecalm. One button looks at your hardware and builds a plan, with a reason for every line. Or you pick from 87 tweaks yourself. It makes a restore point first, and every change can be undone.

Free, no account, no ads, open source.

Website: https://framecalm.krezio.xyz

Code: https://github.com/krezio/framecalm

Would love feedback on the home screen especially. I redid it about four times. Does it make sense straight away?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Simple app that creates videos based on your speech or generate speech + video based on prompt

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r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Building a non-feed "slow socials" app around Christmas card meets digital "wallet photos." How would you seed the first circle?

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I'm building a private, non-feed online space for people who share a past: a school, a team, a neighborhood, a workplace, etc. The model is the Christmas card or Save-the-Date photo postcard crosses with a digital version of wallet photo like some reminder to think/pray/carry family and friends in your heart and mind. It's meant to prompt a text or a call, not an emoji reaction so success actually looks like people leaving the app to reconnect deeply, rather than sucked into social media all the time.

The design choice I'm most committed to is consent-based joining. You can invite someone, and you can nudge them in person toward a circle, but nobody can add anyone else to a group. Only you can add yourself. I'm betting that protection from Nextdoor-style dynamics belongs in the architecture rather than in moderation.

The cost is the cold start. With no feed to pull people back and no way to add anyone, the first circle depends entirely on people who already know each other. It's early, with nothing public yet.

How would you seed it? Or if you think consent-only joining breaks growth, what would you change first?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

Credit card required for free trials: will that stop you?

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I started an email provider, faivelo, and we made it so easy to set up "@yourdomain.com" mailboxes, that people are doing it from their phones in 2 clicks (auto DNS, complete white glove config). Our onboarding process is near perfection.

Our funnel is interesting: 40% of registered users end up create a mailbox, and of those, 60% convert to paid plans (they're $6 for unlimited mailboxes - they are saving a ton of dough usually). The issue is that so many people just leave their DNS pointing to our mail servers and never subscribe - meaning at the end of their trial, they their mail is arriving, but they have access to it - if they subscribe again, its waiting for them to open, but they never check.

My partner is saying we should require credit cards up front during registration so its seamless and users never abandon their mail like this. I've had people who I send reminder emails every week that they are getting incoming mail, and after months they write to me "OH Shit!" and subscribe.

I'm against requiring a card, but the current outcome is making me look like I'm wrong. Most of our customers are serial builders, multiple projects, agencies, so I thought I'd ask here:

What do I do here?