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Going off Reddit has helped validate my project

I’ve posted about my weather game occasionally here on Reddit over the last month, and almost universally it’s been ignored or downvoted. A few honest and helpful feedback reviews have come through, but by and large it’s not been a great experience. I have a pretty decent LinkedIn connection pool from my 20+ years of being in technology, so I figured I’d try there to get some early feedback and users from there. It’s been so refreshing! And it’s not just “friends and family” on there. I’ve ...
I built ChromiumFish: Chrome + native AI agent for Playwright
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I built ChromiumFish: Chrome + native AI agent for Playwright

Hey r/SideProject, I built ChromiumFish , a fingerprint-hardened Chrome with drop-in Playwright support for Python and Node, and built-in AI Agent support at the C++ level. I know most of you are gonna smell the chromium, but rest assured, this fork tries its best to pretend like a Chrome running on a Windows machine. The reason I built this is that when you are running your browser on a Linux machine, there are lots of telltale signs that it's a Chrome running on Linux. That's what I tri...
Grass mowing game prototype
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Grass mowing game prototype

Made this small prototype with Godot + GDScript in 1 evening. Everything is generated procedurally (bcause I'm suck at 3D modeling). Took some graphical decisions from my previous project (like colors and "effects").
I built a Claude Code skill called /brag that turns your side project into a launch video
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I built a Claude Code skill called /brag that turns your side project into a launch video

People around me keep telling me about cool stuff they built but it often ends at that, so I built /brag, a skill that helps people actually show what they made. /brag lets you brag about what you built by simply telling Claude "hey, let's /brag about this." Under the hood it uses HyperFrames (HeyGen's open-source HTML-to-video engine) to render a short, ~20-second launch video, complete with music and sound effects, that's easy to share. It's free and open source, has several styl...
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I built a free site to connect missing-person records with unidentified bodies in India

In India, when someone goes missing, the police record is in one place. When an unidentified body is found, that record is in another place. These two lists never meet. They sit in different states, different police systems, none of them connected. So a family looking for their missing person has nowhere to check if an unidentified body somewhere else could be them. A match that should happen, just... doesn't. I made JSKMU to connect these two sides. A family adds their missing person. T...
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Show me a side project that deserves more users

One of my favorite things about this subreddit is seeing projects that deserve more attention than they get. Recently I’ve been learning how to create short-form video content and experimenting with ways to explain products quickly and clearly. If you have a side project, app, tool, or website, drop it below. I’m looking for a few interesting projects to use as examples while testing different content formats and documenting what works. [link...
I built an AI tool that watches your tennis match and tells you what happened (open beta)
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I built an AI tool that watches your tennis match and tells you what happened (open beta)

Quick background: I play tennis [a very little bit], and the thing that always bugged me is you finish a match with a feeling but no information. The good rally, the footwork that fell apart in the third set, all gone. Pros have analysts. The rest of us have memory. So my co-founder and I built Wingball. You record your session the normal way and upload the clip to our webapp. It tracks every shot, cuts an auto highlight reel, and gives you a court heatmap plus stats like distance covered, to...
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I built my first website around the way my ADHD brain follows curiosity trails

Hi everyone! I just launched my first website/side project and would love some honest feedback. I have pretty bad ADHD, and I’ve always had this pattern where one simple thought turns into a whole trail of connected topics. I might start with a movie, a weird historical fact, or a random question, and somehow end up reading about mythology, philosophy, psychology, or theoretical physics. Traditional advanced learning never clicked very well for me, but curiosity-based learning always did. ...
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I built a CLI tool that analyzes BigQuery tables and explains what the data means using AI

Been a data engineer for 4 years. Every time I join a new project, I waste hours understanding what tables actually mean. Built a CLI tool that analyzes BigQuery tables and explains the business context using AI. Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/af3409be37fa4692bb38b63b9f4a58cc Happy to share the GitHub link in comments.
I built one of Android's early photo-alarm apps back in 2016 - I just spent months rebuilding the whole engine by hand for modern Android
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I built one of Android's early photo-alarm apps back in 2016 - I just spent months rebuilding the whole engine by hand for modern Android

Back in 2016, waking up to your own photos basically wasn't a thing on Android - so I built it. A photo-based alarm clock, one of the early ones on the platform. It picked up around 10,000 downloads and a bunch of reviews from people who loved waking up to their own pictures instead of a stock ringtone. Then life happened - burnout, a day job - and in 2021 I unpublished it and walked away. It nagged at me for years, so a few months ago I opened the old project. It did NOT survive the decade:...
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I created AI CBT journal app

https://dialectic.neonflume.com/ A lot of journaling apps either feel like blank documents or try to act like therapists. I wanted something in between. Instead of simply asking "How was your day?", it actively engages with your thoughts using guided questioning inspired by CBT and Socratic dialogue. For example, if you write: "I messed up a presentation today. I'm terrible at my job." It won't just store the entry. It may ask questions like: What evidence su...
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I'm testing a "one tiny thing a day" before building anything

I'm a builder, 15 years in product + tech. I know what I should do, I just can't start, and the evening disappears into scrolling. The idea: once a day you get one tiny nudge to do a small thing, small enough that starting is basically impossible to fail. Stand outside two minutes. Open the task you've been avoiding. Put one mug away. You reply DONE or SKIP. This is anti social media and usual dopamine addiction, there will never be a friend system, no streak, no scrolling behaviour. Before ...
I got tired of "gamified" coding sites just being basic progress bars, so I built a raw React/Canvas tower defense engine from scratch to teach algorithms.
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I got tired of "gamified" coding sites just being basic progress bars, so I built a raw React/Canvas tower defense engine from scratch to teach algorithms.

Hey r/SideProject , I wanted a coding platform where the game mechanics were actually tied to the code logic and optimization, not just arbitrary XP points. So over the last 18 months, I’ve been solo-developing CodeGrind.online . The Tech & Build: Instead of using a heavy game engine like Godot or Unity, I built the entire thing using standard React and a raw HTML5 Canvas engine . It’s completely vanilla JS (no TypeScript for this one, keeping the canvas rendering pipeline as stre...
Made a Tamagotchi that runs on your AI coding tokens (free, runs locally)
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Made a Tamagotchi that runs on your AI coding tokens (free, runs locally)

I use Claude Code all day, and the only thing that ever comes out of all those tokens is a number going up in a billing dashboard. Felt like a waste of a perfectly good signal, so I made something fun with it. It's called Tokengotchi, basically a Tamagotchi that eats your tokens. You run one command, it reads your local usage logs (same files ccusage reads, nothing leaves your machine), and a tiny hero turns that usage into "energy" and auto-battles through an idle dungeon while yo...
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I built a suite of 100% client-side utility tools because I got tired of paywalls and uploading sensitive files to random servers

​Hey everyone, ​I’m a self-employed electronics and communications technician. I've been building this project out because I got sick of the current state of web utilities. Every time I needed a basic digital tool like stripping audio from a video, downsizing an image, or changing file types and formats, I kept hitting forced logins, hidden monthly subscriptions, or the realization that my data was being processed on someone else's backend. ​So I built Riyo Studio to solve my own problem. ...
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Can someone explain residential proxies vs datacenter proxies to me like I am five? I'm so confused.

All right, I’ve read ten articles on this and I still don’t think I understand it. I have a small project to scrape product prices from some sites. Nothing crazy, just e-commerce stuff. someone told me i need residential proxies but they're like 5x the price of datacenter and i don't understand why i would need them for something this basic Like, what actually happens if i just use datacenter? Will I be blocked right away or is it fine for most normal sites? And what the hell is an ISP proxy? ...
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Built a tools website with some free AI credits and joblessness, need brutal feedback

So as the title says, i built one and i need brutal and honest feedback as the AI always says things like "It is awesome", "it is very good as your first website" and all this shit. ​ Website is: ​ nutoolz.com ​ It is a generic website doing generic shit and I want to earn some pennies with it.
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I built a tool because I couldn't stop overthinking every decision

I tend to spend hours comparing options before making a choice — jobs, purchases, projects, moving, almost everything. So I built a simple tool that forces me to structure the decision instead of endlessly going back and forth in my head. Helped me personally so I figured I'd share it. Has anyone else struggled with decision paralysis? How do you deal with it? Name : JustPickr
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I Built An App to Make Someone’s Day

So I wanted to focus on making a product that would bring positivity to the world. I’ve always enjoyed writing personal birthday cards for friends and family and felt that with new AI tools that we have today we now have the power to make really personal and special web pages for the people we love. It started out as an idea to create funny, personal pages for Father’s Day, and everyone in my family loved it. I’ve added birthdays, graduations, anniversaries now. It’s called https://pizzazz.ap...
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I built a skin care app that rates your skin and designed to make you reach your full potential (in terms of skin)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/facet-ai-skin-scan-coach/id6778689288 And no, this is not something I vibecoded in a few days. I genuinely put a lot of effort into this and was an opportunity for me to learn about on boarding ASO and shipping (and now trying to learn marketing lol). It started as a simple exercise for me to try out as I was getting into swift but then became a fully deployed app after I realised this could be a useful app for most people. You can get your face scored and you wi...
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NEO-LIB - Privacy launcher ideal for NSFW games

Why I made it. After having lots of portable games cluttering my desktop aswell as too many NSFW games my kids and family probably wouldnt like to see, i decided to create a launcher that can sort games into categories, and put a PIN code on categories so that games stays invisible until PIN is entered. Also support mixed bag of games — some Steam, some Epic, GOG, and many more. The ability to import all games from other launcher into NEO-LIB. Nothing on the market did all three: -Hide ...
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Built a chrome extension that detects Conflict of Interest Statements on articles.

I'm 16 and I built this extension to highlight financial awareness in communities and it works by scraping articles and then normalizing them to send them to an LLM which then detects the statements and highlights the statements on the page and when the reader clicks on them it shows an explanation. Would really love to get some users and get this tool to way more people thank you! Also here is my GitHub repo and this was NOT AI CODED. https://github.com/ishaang100-pixel/Conflict-of-Interest-De...
[First post] I made a tiny floating browser for macOS — because YouTube shouldn't need to take up half your screen
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[First post] I made a tiny floating browser for macOS — because YouTube shouldn't need to take up half your screen

First time posting here, so go easy on me — but I'm genuinely excited to share this. Hey r/SideProject I've been building a side project called Sliver, and it just went live on the App Store today. What it does: Sliver turns any website into a slim, always-on-top floating window. Think Picture-in-Picture, but for the whole web. Each little window is called a "Sliver." What makes it actually useful: 🔖 Bookmarks with hotkeys — assign ⌥0~⌥9 to your favorite sites. P...
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I am stuck on a problem, like how do you actually build a knowledge system that compounds?

I keep running into this: every founder I know reads a lot but can't explain what they have learned. The reading doesn't compound into actual understanding or decision- making ability. i have tried: taking better notes (still disconnected) reading more intentionally (still forgotten) discussing with others (helps but doesn't scale) But i think the real issue is the infrastructure. we read in isolation. nobody sees what we are reading. we never get feedback. our reading list never bec...
Open-source net worth & salary tracker with on-device encryption and no login
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Open-source net worth & salary tracker with on-device encryption and no login

Hi everyone, I tracked my net worth and salary history in a Google Sheet for years. It worked, but it never did everything I wanted, so I built a website to do it properly. I know plenty of other tools exist, but I couldn't find one that fit what I was after. I've been using it daily and figured I'd share it with the community. It's fully open source. All data is encrypted on your device — everything on the server is just encrypted blobs I can't read. And if you'd rather not trust me with ...
I made a browser video tool that puts text behind people in your shot, no green screen or rotoscoping
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I made a browser video tool that puts text behind people in your shot, no green screen or rotoscoping

I'm not trying to go head to head with Premiere or Resolve. Those are great at full editing and I'd lose that fight. V8eo does a smaller set of specific things that are weirdly painful in the big editors, and it does them free in the browser. The feature people react to most is placing text behind a person or object in your video. It masks the subject automatically, frame by frame, so no rotoscoping and no green screen. You just click whatever you want the text to sit behind and it figures out...
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I built an iOS app that turns my kid into the hero of their own bedtime story, and I want to be honest about the AI part

Bedtime in our house hit a wall. My kid wanted a new story every night, and "the one about the dragon, but different" is a tough brief at 8pm when you are exhausted. So I built the thing I wished existed. What it does: - You make a profile for your child (age, the stuff they love, a pet, a best friend) and they become the main character. - You get a fresh personalized bedtime story in a few seconds, tuned to their age. - You can steer it: set the theme, and just as importantly,...
My girlfriend hated me (kind of) so I made an app last weekend to fix it
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My girlfriend hated me (kind of) so I made an app last weekend to fix it

My girlfriend hated when I made her pick places to go out. And I don't really know too many places around the city (me dev. outside bad 🙂‍↔️). So I built this last weekend. Spots scrapes popular review channels on TikTok and displays the results all in one place. You can save a spot, make a list of all the places you've been to with notes and reviews, and you can see what other people have said about places. And the best part is that you don't have to be on TikTok to find cool places ...
I built an offline screenshot search app because I didn't trust the ones that upload your photos to the cloud
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I built an offline screenshot search app because I didn't trust the ones that upload your photos to the cloud

quick background: I screenshot everything to "check later" and never do, so it piles up by the hundreds and I can never find anything. I just wanted to search the text inside my screenshots. the apps that already do this mostly run the OCR in the cloud, so your photos get uploaded somewhere you don't control. I didn't want that, so I made the whole thing run on-device. the OCR and search are fully offline, no tracking or analytics SDKs, crash reporting off by default. the only backen...
i built a fake break room where the strangers are real
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i built a fake break room where the strangers are real

had this stupid idea stuck in my head: a place to clock out of a job you don't have. so i built it. you tap a punch clock, it ka-chunks, and you get a 3 minute break in a sad little corporate room with whoever else is currently on break. you can drop one anonymous line on the wall. then you leave with a canvas "receipt of nothing": 0 tasks completed, 3:00 of nothing reclaimed, no managers notified. the one part i cared about getting right: the live people count is real. no bots, no...