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Hello, I have some questions to all the people who are building their side projects, - What tech stack are you using the most? NodeJS/PostgreSQL? - Where are you hosting your project? Versel/SelfHost?

TLDR: Find the the project that makes you want to persevere Hi guys long time lurker here, I've been deliberating on posting for a long time now but I thought this was a good time as any to get something out there. I have been working my mobile app for about a year now. Mostly because, as is usual, the scope balloons beyond what would have probably been the absolute minimum. I'm a software engineer by trade, so my coding graveyard is numerous and filled with projects that I start, furiou...

Hey r/SideProject 👋 I do a lot of my growth on X and Threads through replies, but staring at a blank reply box 50 times a day was burning me out. And most AI reply tools I tried felt like bots generic "Great point!" replies everyone can smell. So I built Cue. It lives inside X and Threads. You click one button on a post and get 3 on-topic replies written in your voice (you paste a few of your own posts once, and it mirrors your style). It also writes full original posts fr...

Hey I manage several WordPress sites and got tired of juggling WPScan, Lighthouse, and various SEO tools just to get a full picture of what's going on with a site. So I built Pulse WP, a free tool that runs a complete audit in under a minute: security vulnerabilities (CVE database updated every 12h), performance, accessibility, and SEO. Would love feedback from people who actually maintain WP sites. Plugin with more features and better experience is on the way. Scan your WordPress 👉 ...

Spent the last while building this. The idea came from watching people (me included) take a job for the title and the money, then realize a few months in that the way the team actually operates is what drives you up the wall. It scores a company's culture across a handful of dimensions, and after a short quiz on how you like to work, it shows how you'd personally fit. You see your result for free with no signup wall (literally shipped that change this morning). Link if you want to try it: h...

I’m building a website that will eventually become a collection of useful browser-based tools, similar to iLovePDF but covering many different categories. The goal is simple: No downloads No accounts Fast and mobile-friendly Free to use I’m researching what people actually need before building more tools. What’s a small utility, calculator, converter, formatter, generator, or productivity tool you use regularly but wish had a better version? Examples: Land measurement calculators P...

I kept seeing people ask "how do I set my hourly rate" and the answer was always "divide your income goal by 2,080 hours." That number is wrong, it ignores taxes, non-billable time, and overhead. So I built something that does it properly. You put in your take-home target, tax rate, business expenses, and what percentage of your hours are actually billable. It spits out: - Survival Rate: your absolute floor - Growth Rate: what to charge to also save and reinvest - Per...

I just won a hackathon. The task was to make something creative, so I made this fun little character that interacts with your page. Aimed at giving younger audiences a fun way to interact with AI. - Has context of the page that you can chat with - Pomodoro timer and clock - Blacklist websites to avoid distractions - Follows you across websites and makes sure you’re doing your work Took less than an hour to spin up using Codex. I encourage everyone to find an hour and make cool stuff! &...

It brings together Köppen climate zones, land cover, population density, democracy index, submarine cables, flight traffic, nighttime lights, and satellite imagery in a single interactive map. https://rwmqx7dwb5-arch.github.io/IntMap/

Hey everyone, For the past few months I have been building a side project that came out of pure curiosity. I study non-duality, Advaita and Shakta philosophy, and I kept running into a problem, the answers I wanted were scattered across many scriptures and no single text or search gave me what I needed. So I used Claude Code to build a RAG system over scriptures that are copyright free or raw source texts. It does hybrid search, vector plus keyword, reranks the results, and returns the actua...

When I started in December 2024, I thought the hard part would be building the product. I was wrong. The hard part was figuring out what traders actually care about and then getting those people to discover you. Today, PolyAlertHub covers: • Price alerts • Whale alerts • Wallet tracking • Wallet consensus alerts • Market alerts On the analytics side: • Wallet analytics • Whale analytics • Insider analytics • Market analytics We've also added: • Paper trading • A t...

I got fed up looking for a decent home inventory app. The ones on the App Store either want your credit card before you've added anything, cap your items to push you onto a paid plan, or look like they haven't been updated since iOS 6. None of them feel like real iPhone apps. So I started building one that did, mostly because I wanted it for myself. My whole house is in it now and I use it every day. additem.to lets you track what you own and where it is. Photos, serial numbers, locations, c...

Last time I did this, way more founders replied than I expected. So I’m doing another round, but this time you can drop more than just a URL. Drop your: startup URL app idea ICP niche or the problem you want to solve I’ll check whether Reddit has useful signal for it. Not just “are there subreddits”. I’ll look for whether people are already talking about the pain, asking for tools, comparing alternatives, or showing any kind of buying intent. I’ll reply with a short pub...

Hi everyone, I’ve been thinking about an app idea for a long time and recently started turning it into a small prototype. The general idea is a platform for people who are at the very early stage of starting something, like an idea, project, small brand, or community, and want to see if others would be interested in giving feedback or getting involved. I’m not sharing all the details publicly yet, but I’m trying to understand whether the basic concept feels clear and useful from the outsid...

started it as a side project 4 months ago because i kept seeing speciality coffee shops post hiring notices in random facebook groups with no central place to find them. Built it in a weekend, posted about it in a few coffee industry groups, and it slowly started getting traffic at 800 monthly visitors now, mostly organic (no paid acquisition at all) The problem is i built the product but not the business around it. no monetisation, no way to contact the visitors who are coming. Coffee shops...

We built Cate, an open-source canvas IDE for agentic workflows. It started from a simple problem: most IDEs were built for writing code by hand. Terminal's were displayed via tabs or in a stack (VSCode) Cate lets you place editors, terminals, browsers, docs, Git worktrees on one infinite canvas organised in workspaces. Since the first version, we’ve been improving: performance, worktrees, terminal behavior, command palette, and agent workflows. GitHub: https://github.com/0-AI-UG/cate ...

Hey everyone, I've always been a massive fan of 2048, but I really wanted to see what the mechanic would look like if it were turned into a structured, level-based puzzle game with actual progression. So, I spent the last few months building Gridlocks . Instead of just an endless grid, I wanted to create something that forces you to think three steps ahead. Here is what I added to the classic formula: Campaign Mode: 22 hand-crafted levels across 5 stages. Each stage introduces unique ...

Hey r/SideProject , This started as a personal problem. I was running 2-3 peptides at once, each on a different schedule, different doses, and some in a "loading" phase at higher frequency with lower dosage. I kept losing track of what to take when, and worse, what that dose actually was in syringe units. Redoing the reconstitution math half-asleep before a morning injection is exactly how people mess up a dose. And injecting yourself is genuinely scary the first few times. Get th...

Switching between ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, etc. means losing context and repeating yourself. I'm building Donkey to solve exactly that. The video shows the workflow. Just call @donkey anywhere and it saves or retrieves whatever is needed Waitlist: donkey Feedback welcome. Especially from people using multiple AI tools every day.

So yeah, I’ve been using Duolingo on and off for years, and my cycle is pretty much always the same. I study for a while, then I miss a few days, then I lose my streak, feel bad about it, and eventually stop using the app altogether. At some point, I realized I wasn’t quitting because learning the language was hard. I was quitting because the pressure of keeping a streak made it feel more like a duty than a hobby. So recently, I’ve been building a small language-learning prototype on weekend...

A US based company has posted about their requirement as they are hiring for a social media strategist. Now i am running an experiment where I don't have the experience into the same field, but i have zeal to do this brand strategy for them. Handling their Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn and making them viral, I still believe that marketing is not about the qualification its about execution. So what i did was send them a quirky pitch deck that I will bring to the table with the reference of mem...

Technology has changed the way students learn science, mathematics, engineering, and computer science. A decade ago, most STEM students depended on textbooks, calculators, and expensive licensed softw

Every Monday I’d tell myself this would be the week I finally lock in. By Wednesday, I’d be back to old habits. I wasn’t lazy. I just didn’t have a system. So over the last several months I built Get Rich App — an app focused on goals, accountability, streaks, reminders, vision boards, and an AI business coach designed to keep entrepreneurs executing consistently. The app finally launched on the App Store this week. I’m not posting this to sell anything. I’m genuinely curious: What’...

I kept starting things and never finishing them. Not because the ideas were bad. I'd just slowly stop showing up. Miss a deadline, feel bad, miss another, feel worse, close the laptop. Three projects in a row died that way. Tried accountability partners. Felt awkward asking someone to chase me. Tried Notion trackers. Stopped opening them after two weeks. So I built Grillr. You put in your business idea. It breaks it down into a task plan with real deadlines. When you miss one, you su...

Hey r/SideProject , For the past few years I’ve been struggling with sugar addiction. I’d start a “no sugar” streak, feel great for a week, then cave in after seeing desserts or stressed snacking. I tried journals and regular habit apps, but nothing really clicked for sugar-specific tracking. So a few months ago I decided to build my own tool: No Sugar Tracker — Quit Sugar . What it does: Daily streaks & longest streak history (the dopamine hit when you see the number grow is r...

I’ve been building a small collection of macOS apps under QuietWare , and I just launched my fourth one: File Fetch . It’s a simple menu bar app that shows your newest and recently edited files right away, with a small clipboard section for saving useful bits of text. The whole thing came from a tiny annoyance I kept running into: downloading or saving something, then immediately having to go look for it. Since launching my little QuietWare collection, the stats are honestly better than ...

I've been on OpenRouter for a side project for a few months and it's solid for prototyping, but the streaming latency and the pricing markup on models I could call directly started bugging me enough to look around. Curious what other people running real production traffic have settled on.

Picture this familiar scenario: you're working on a new feature that requires a new database column. You open your local database client, write an ALTER TABLE statement, and execute it. Your code work

Hi, I'm Julius, a computer science major from Sweden. I had this really simple idea that I've never seen on the internet before. The concept for the website is: each week you share one song recommendation and a text about what it means to you, like a personal story or just your thoughts on the track. And in return, you get five back. I've noticed that when a song recommendation has a story, it immediately becomes much more interesting and moving to listen to. And so far, the texts people wri...

When I was evaluating job offers, I got frustrated with how misleading startup equity can be. The big “X% equity” or “$Y options at $Z valuation” sounds amazing on paper, but after dilution, liquidation preferences, vesting, taxes, and the reality that most startups don’t exit for unicorn money.. the actual take-home is often way lower. So I built Cliff - an interactive equity decision toolkit that models realistic outcomes. What it does: • Turns your offer letter or cap table numbers into a...