I built VerbaGPT - an intuitive way to interrogate SQL, Azure, Postgres, Snowflake etc. using natural language
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I built VerbaGPT - an intuitive way to interrogate SQL, Azure, Postgres, Snowflake etc. using natural language

There are several other apps that do something similar, like Databricks (genie), Azure (something?), Snowflake (cortex), Claude Desktop if you set it up - but they are either very limited in feature sets, require users to be fairly technical, and are all generally incredibly expensive. I had a 20 plus year career where I worked with large datasets, predictive modeling, etc. I wanted to build something that can be the best at data analysis, analytics, and data science given current state of art...
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Are we wasting AI video credits on shots we already know are bad?

While testing full-MV workflows in MusVideo Ai, we kept running into one embarrassingly simple problem. We’d generate a scene, animate it, hate the result, and blame the video generation. Then we started checking the scene image first. Wrong face. Weird framing. Clothing already drifting. The video wasn’t creating the problem — we were literally paying it to animate a mistake lol. So now we don’t move a scene into video unless we’d actually be happy keeping the still frame. It adds a little more...
I built a Chrome extension that interrupts you at checkout and asks "do you actually need this?" - would love feedback!
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I built a Chrome extension that interrupts you at checkout and asks "do you actually need this?" - would love feedback!

Hey everyone! I've been working on this for a while and finally launched it today, so excited (and a little nervous) to share it here. It's called Mull — a free Chrome extension that sits on 40+ shopping and travel sites. When you're about to check out and click add to cart, a popup appears, gently pauses you and connects the purchase to a financial goal you're saving toward. You get three options: skip it and save the money toward your goal, "mull it over" (get a reminder in 24 ho...
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I bought a domain because I liked the idea behind it. Now I have no idea what to build

I bought a domain a while back that I really like, but honestly have no clear idea what to do with it. The name is PeopleOverPrompts .com The idea in my head was that as AI gets better, prompts, software and even intelligence itself are becoming more commoditized. Maybe the interesting thing is to build something that puts people first instead. I dont want to just keep renewing the domain forever lol. So if you heard the phrase People Over Prompts , what would you build around it? An...
I built a calendar you can actually customize
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I built a calendar you can actually customize

Hey r/SideProject ! Four months ago I started building my first product I actually monetize now. It's called Hibi: a customizable digital planner for iPhone and iPad. Every day is its own paper-like page that you can draw on, decorate, and arrange however you like. I'm the developer. You can choose the paper, ruling, and color, move the date and weather around, draw with your finger or Apple Pencil, add text, and turn photos into stickers or Washi tape. It also integrates with Apple Calen...
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My Chrome extension went from 60 to 3,500 users in 4 days (and I got a bit lucky)

I shipped a Chrome extension called UIDrop. One click on any site, it reads the live design system (colors, type, spacing, components) and drops a brief + screenshot into Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini /Lovable / Manus / Cursor. For a while it was sitting at ~60 users. Fine. I was proud it even existed. Then Rammcodes — some guy on Facebook who posts open-source tools — randomly found it and talked about it. I got lucky. That one day was ~1,500 new users. In four days it went 60 → 3,500. And gu...
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I made a free site that checks if a file is actually vector or if it's a bitmap

Customers often times send logos as pdf or svg and half the time it’s just a photo or png stuck inside. We can’t print it big and someone has to email them about it every day. So I made https://www.vecpath.com/ Drop a file in and it tells you straight up if it’s real vector or not. :)
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Built an AI weekly planner after doing it manually in Claude for 8 months — would love brutally honest feedback

At the start of 2026, I was tired of falling short of my goals every year and decided something needed to change. I've been running my weekly planning through Claude by hand since January — uploading my goals, connecting my calendar, and having it walk me through the same three questions every Sunday (what happened last week, where my goals actually stand, what next week should look like). Eight months in, I've hit about 80% of this year's goals, which is more than any year-list I've ever a...
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Side project: game discovery via pairwise combining and embeddings

The stack is catalog embeddings, midpoint lookup, and guards so you don't just get sequences of your inputs. Concretely: 146,288 games, each embedded as a 1024-dim vector from its genres, top 20 user tags and store description. The title is excluded deliberately, since including it just clustered franchises together. A combine is the arithmetic midpoint (A + B) / 2, resolved to the nearest real game, scored so it must be close to both inputs. Frontend is a drag-and-drop board. Combining is f...
I built my first mobile app – a real-world bird collection game
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I built my first mobile app – a real-world bird collection game

Over the past months, I’ve been building and recently launched my first mobile app: BirdySnap . The idea is simple: turn discovering birds in the real world into a collection game. You can identify birds by photo or sound, add them to your collection, earn XP, unlock badges and progress over time. There are also community features that help make the experience more social. BirdySnap currently includes 208 species and, for now, is playable in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . What st...
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How do you know if you're not about to waste months building something nobody wants?

​ This has probably been one of the hardest parts of building apps for me. Coming up with an idea is easy but deciding if that idea deserves weeks, months or years of development is much harder which makes pain in the a** if no one wants it. I've been working on a small Android app around this problem. It searches for potential app ideas, helps validate your own ideas against audience/source signals, scores them and lets you keep a shortlist of the ones worth exploring. The goal i...
I gave up on my keyboard app because I couldn't build swipe typing. This summer I finally finished it
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I gave up on my keyboard app because I couldn't build swipe typing. This summer I finally finished it

Four years ago I moved from Android to iOS, and typing in my language (Estonian) instantly got worse. The stock keyboard had no swipe typing and no real suggestions, and its long-press accents were stuffed with letters Estonian never uses while missing the symbols I actually typed daily. SwiftKey existed on iOS, but as a shadow of its Android version, and every few months an update would leave it crashing on launch. There was a second itch: keyboards see everything you type, and researchers ha...
Built a Game of Life Engine in Java that runs smoothly on my dookie ideapad 3
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Built a Game of Life Engine in Java that runs smoothly on my dookie ideapad 3

LINK: https://github.com/datnamedoo/GameOfLifeJava So I've been learning Java here recently, and I figured a Game of Life clone would be a good idea considering I have previously made it in Python as well. Well I kinda got carried away lol. Ended up making a lot more stuff than I intended, but optimizing it was pretty fun. The grid uses 64 bit longs to represent sections of a row, and delegates a certain number of rows to a given thread pool to update the entire grid. Honestly there are defi...
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I had 400 voice memos I never listened to, so I built something that writes them up and files them

My Apple Voice Memos list was four hundred recordings called "New Recording 312". I'd record an idea while walking, feel productive, and never open it again. The recording wasn't the problem — the filing was. Echo records, transcribes on the phone, then writes the note up, titles it, summarizes it and drops it into a category. Nothing to name, nothing to tag. If it files something wrong you move it and it files closer to your judgement next time. The design constraint I set myself ...
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280 users into my SaaS. Here’s what worked and what didn’t

Crossed 280 users recently and a few things are becoming pretty clear. What worked: Reddit has been my best acquisition channel. Talking to users beats guessing. Doing things manually first helped me understand what was worth automating. What didn’t: More traffic doesn’t automatically mean more customers. More features don’t automatically mean more value. Repeating the same Reddit post eventually stops working. My biggest lesson so far: Getting attention is only one p...
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Would you use an app to borrow/rent stuff or skills from people nearby for a few hours? Sanity-checking an idea.

Been sitting on an idea and want outside opinions before I sink more time into it. The problem: I keep running into situations where I need something for a short window a specific tool, a piece of equipment, someone who knows how to fix a thing, a quick favor and buying it outright doesn't make sense, but there's no easy way to find someone nearby who already has it and would lend/help for a bit of cash or a trade. Craigslist/OLX-style listings feel too slow and impersonal for this. Nextdoor...
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Emoji Calendar - Made a calendar where every day gets an emoji

A calendar where every day gets an emoji and a short description why. Built it mostly to have an excuse to dig into weird historical trivia. Still adding entries. You can upvote entries you like, and save your favorites to your own calendar. Check it out and let me know what you think. emojical.org
I built a 100% local, private AI agent that runs out of a local folder and actually automates ongoing work
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I built a 100% local, private AI agent that runs out of a local folder and actually automates ongoing work

I've been building Ash because I wanted something completely different from a normal, cloud-hosted AI chatbot. Instead of asking an AI what I should do and then copying/pasting everything myself, Ash is a fully local workspace. She uses local tools to actually work with files, email, browser tasks, calendars, and ongoing goals. The biggest difference? Zero cloud data leakage. You download and extract Ash as a local folder. Everything—your context, your files, your history—stays 100% on you...
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NarrationOS - Local Audiobook Generator Update

It has been 2 weeks since I launched my app, NarrationOS. Unlike other reddit posts of launch success, I know my 11 app sales isn't impressive as you can see in the screenshot, BUT I am super proud of selling even a copy. Cuz initially I only built it for myself. So if you are one of the 11 buyers, I can't thank you enough. I still use this app, so you can keep expecting updates. NarrationOS is an OFFLINE app, that turns any book or any text into a performed audiobook, generated entirely on yo...
I finally finished the demo for FrogPop, my first game!
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I finally finished the demo for FrogPop, my first game!

I’m excited to finally share FrogPop, the first game I’ve made. You play as a frog popping bouncing bubbles with your tongue. It started simple, but I kept adding ideas until it turned into a roguelite with upgrades and bosses. The free demo has ten waves and two bosses, and you can play it in your browser or download it for Windows: https://blion247.itch.io/frogpop-demo I’d love some feedback, especially on the controls and difficulty. If you want to follow the game: https://stor...
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I built a tiny Windows tray app that force-closes the active process

Window Assassin is a small utility I made for apps that freeze and ignore the normal close button. Press Ctrl+Alt+End while the target window is focused and it force-terminates that process. It also has an NSIS installer, optional autostart, and a portable build. It’s deliberately simple, but destructive by design: unsaved work in the target app will be lost. Free / pay what you want: https://b2kdaman.itch.io/window-assassin I’d appreciate feedback on the hotkey, installer flow, and wh...
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I built an AI photo coach that tells you how to reshoot, not just how to edit

Hi everyone! I've spent the last months building BonCadre — a mobile app that analyzes your photos and coaches you to shoot better, solo (with plenty of help from AI coding tools, which made this possible as a one-person project). What it does: you upload a photo, and it scores it on composition, lighting, color harmony, depth, and subject separation. For each aspect you get what works, what doesn't, and concrete things to try on your next shot — the focus is improving at the moment of shoot...
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a web portal for my film club that's become my go-to way to find movies to watch

hi everyone! half a year ago my friend and I started a pretty simple movie community called Return by 9 just to discuss film/things we watched/share memes/discover new stuff. I happened to be in the middle of learning python at the time so I put together a discord bot to keep us organized and it's grown massively in scope. What it is now: a website that works as a 2-part tool to help discover and watch movies. One part works to incetivize watching movies through commitment and digital rewards...
i built a claude code harness that makes launch day videos. example below, i will make you one for free
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i built a claude code harness that makes launch day videos. example below, i will make you one for free

the video is for 49agents, an open source agent ide. 36 seconds, no sound, first frame is the same as the last so it loops forever. the harness is not a prompt. claude code writes the beats and builds the motion as dom and svg on one timeline. drop your url in the comments and i will try to make you one for free . i read what your product does, build the film, send you the mp4 at 1920x1080. yours, use it wherever you want. no card, no quote after. the harness is new. i want to know if it ...
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First paying customer after 20 nights-and-weekends

I have been building FormsReach in leftover hours. It is a form API / contact form backend. Point your website form at it. Instantly live. No style changes, no extra backend. Submissions can leave through email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Google Sheets, or a webhook. Midway through, Zeno Rocha (CEO of Resend) posted that if he started again he would pick a boring infra problem, because lazy giants have leftover SDKs and confusing docs, and that is the whole product in an agent's eyes. ...
Make every keystroke visible while you teach, demo, or stream
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Make every keystroke visible while you teach, demo, or stream

If you’re recording a tutorial, demo, or stream, it’s often useful for viewers to see exactly what you’re pressing without breaking their focus. That’s why I built Keyty - free, open-source native macOS app that displays your keyboard and mouse input directly on screen. A few things it supports now: - keyboard overlays with different themes and layouts - mouse button and click visualization - customizable size, position, and appearance It’s built in Swift, runs locally, and is completel...
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Built a live countdown to the day the US oil reserve runs dry. Hit 3k upvotes on r/dataisbeautiful, then the mods removed it on a technicality

The site: https://strategicallyempty.com I kept seeing headlines about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and couldn't find a straight answer to "how much oil is actually left." So I built the answer: live countdown, official EIA weekly data, every chart explained, deliberately naive math with the formula published. Launch story so far, for anyone who likes the numbers: - Posted to r/dataisbeautiful . Top of Rising in 40 minutes, 3k upvotes, 96.2% upvote ratio, 400 shares - The...
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How do you get the first few users for your project?

The thing I built is for a fairly niche audience. It is ready enough to be useful to someone, however I struggle to get anyone to actually test it. So far everyone that creates an account has just finished the instruction panels at best. Where do you go to get the first few beta users on your app?
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Start your day watching the sunrise without leaving the house

I just finished building this today. It's a website that shows you real sunrises 24/7 from a variety of cameras around the world. All live. No looping or recordings. This is a 100% passion project. Not a business. So it's just for the vibes. https://www.livesunrise.io/ FYI, this is a sister site to a similar one for sunsets that I posted here a few months ago if anyone remembers. Somehow sunrises are a bit nicer
Made a mosaic generator for my wife's anniversary, nobody wanted it as a SaaS, then stumbled into the real use cas
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Made a mosaic generator for my wife's anniversary, nobody wanted it as a SaaS, then stumbled into the real use cas

So this one took a weird path. I started it as an anniversary gift. Pulled together years of photos of me and my wife — us, the kids, holidays, even the dog — and turned them into one big mosaic image. Posted it to my WhatsApp status and a bunch of people were like "wait I want one of these." Cool, I thought, there's a product here. Built it out properly. Subscriptions, everything rendering in the browser canvas so it was fast. Launched it. Crickets. Not one signup. Made it fre...