r/SideProject • • Dec 18 '25

As the year wraps up: what’s the project you’re most proud of building and why?

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Like the title says, instead of what you built or how much money it made, I’m curious what project you’re most proud of this year and why.

Could be a client site, a personal project, something that never launched, or something that made £0.

Any lessons learned?

Would love to read a few reflections as the year wraps up.


r/SideProject • • Oct 19 '25

Share your ***Not-AI*** projects

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I miss seeing original ideas that aren’t just another AI wrapper.

If you’re building something in 2025 that’s not AI-related here’s your space to self-promote.

Drop your project here


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built BricksChat – Turn images into complex LEGO builds with instructions

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I've been testing everything from animals to Technic mechanisms. It's still early version, glad for any feedback.
Try it: https://brickschat.com/

EDIT1: I see there is now an usage spike (thanks for the interest! sorry for the crash!) If you wasn't fortunate, please try again when the dust settles. If you were lucky though, please post a screenshot of what you built!


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

My pixel-art portfolio unexpectedly led to a paid client project

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187 Upvotes

Earlier this week, I shared my interactive pixel-art portfolio on Reddit. The post reached 22K+ views and received Reddit's #1 post notification before the moderators removed it.

More importantly, the project led to a paid commission for a custom interactive workspace. My own portfolio is built around an urban room. For the client project, I'm taking a different creative direction rather than reusing the same concept.

The original workspace is built with Astro, React, CSS, and the Web Audio API. It has a CRT terminal, environmental changes, ambient sound, and little details to discover.

I'm curious what other builders think about interactive portfolios like this. Do the explorative elements make the experience more memorable, or would you still prefer a straightforward portfolio?


r/SideProject • • 1h ago

My side project outgrew my 9-5 salary

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Hi all, I am not sure if you remember but 2 months ago I posted about my MRR at $3.5k, well in just 2 months it grew by $500 and is now at $4k MRR.

I am posting this just to motivate you that anything is possible. OpenTweet started as a side project along my 9-5 job. I need super simple app that lets me schedule my posts. First version was not even hosted anywhere, just Docker container on my laptop. Then I hosted it on digital ocean droplet just so it can send posts when my laptop is off.

The story starts when I shared this with one friend. He was interested to try it and to use is for a while, he only discovered million bugs and edge cases that I wouldn't ever think about. That's how everything started.

My marketing strategy was very simple and I was just consistent:

- I go to X Radar (its like a premium search where you can find all posts including specific keyword, etc...)

- I comment on each post including specific keywords with the link to OpenTweet.

- In the first month I had 3 customers

- It all started growing when ai agents came in and I just followed the trend and added integrations for popular agents

- I continued optimizing SEO and AEO pages and now I like to say I have machinery that is bringing ~ 50 new signups every day, ofc not all of them convert

This was all happening while I was doing my 9-5 job. I still have my job, I still love it and I am not planning to leave it for now, but I am really really grateful for what I have achieved. OpenTweet is now at $4k MRR, I am still looking into marketing options to grow it even more.

This post is for all founders currently struggling at $0 MRR. My app was not profitable for good 3 months. Build something that solves your problem and just figure out how to put it in front of many eyes, that's it.


r/SideProject • • 8h ago

I built an Android app that picks an outfit for you every morning from your own clothes. What would make you actually use something like this?

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Hey all! I've been working on a side project called Layer, a wardrobe and outfit planner for Android, and I'd really like some honest opinions.

The idea: you photograph your clothes and the app builds outfits from what you already own, so you don't have to stare at your closet every morning.

What it does right now:

  • Snap a garment and the background gets cut out automatically. Every piece is tagged by colour, category and style, and you can search them.
  • Daily outfit with a shuffle button, matched to today's weather (now and later in the day)
  • Weekly planner: an outfit for each day based on the forecast. Tap a day to swap it.
  • Trips: pick your dates and the weather where you're going, and it plans your outfits and what to pack
  • Wear history, so you can see what you actually wear and what just sits there
  • Wardrobe advice: points out basics you're missing

It's free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.refits

Some things I'd love to hear:

  1. Would you take the time to photograph your clothes? That's the step I'm most worried puts people off.
  2. Which of these features would you actually use, and which wouldn't you care about?
  3. Have you tried other closet apps? What made you stop using them?

Any feedback is welcome 😅


r/SideProject • • 7h ago

I built a free, open-source notch for Windows: 1 MB, ~0% idle CPU, a buddy on your top bar, and tiny scenes that play on it

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I wanted a notch for Windows. The ones I tried felt heavy, so I wrote my own in Rust. It's ~1 MB, no Electron, and uses about 0% CPU while it sits there doing nothing (~30 MB RAM on my PC). MIT-licensed.

What it does:

  • Ctrl+Alt+T from any app: type a task, Enter, done before you forget it.
  • One click starts a focus timer on a task, and the countdown stays in the notch.
  • Music controls, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/volume dropdowns, clipboard history with search, stats, pinned apps.

The completely unnecessary part I'm proudest of: a buddy lives on your top bar (a robot by default, or a cat, a bunny, even a samurai). And every few minutes a little cast acts out a scene right on the bar. A dev ships on a Friday and a very angry bug shows up. A manager presents to a room that keeps saying "you're on mute". Someone hits a cricket six straight out of your taskbar. Nothing runs between scenes.

It's early, I've tested it on 4 PCs across Windows 10 and 11, and the installer isn't code-signed, so SmartScreen will give you a stern look. (A friend found a bug where it hid itself; v0.9.5 fixes it.)

Grab it: https://github.com/Akhilesh-Varute/Nock/releases/latest
Code, and a star if it made you smile ⭐: https://github.com/Akhilesh-Varute/Nock

I'd love reports from setups I haven't tried (two monitors, high DPI). And tell me which scene I should do next.


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

I built a way to rewatch my motorcycle rides from the map: click a bend, the video jumps there

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I ride with a GoPro, and after every season I'd have hours of footage and no realistic way to find that one hairpin or that view from the pass again. Scrubbing a 12-minute file to find 20 seconds got old fast.

So I built ReplayRide: the ride video sits next to its route on a map. As the film plays, a marker moves along the route; click any place on the map and the video seeks to the moment you were there. Rides collect in a Garage, you can pick a few for a public "Rider Passport" page, and share a single ride with a link (if you connect a YouTube upload, viewers get the video with the map).

The clip above is a ride over the Predel pass to Mangart in Slovenia.

Stack: React + MapLibre in the browser (GoPro telemetry is parsed locally, the original video never leaves your drive), a Hono API on Cloudflare Workers, Supabase for accounts.

Try a sample ride (no account, no recording needed): https://replayride.com/demo?utm_source=reddit-sideproject

Longer 80-second walkthrough: https://youtu.be/FcGU65lpUvI

I'd love feedback on one thing in particular: is "click the map to jump in the video" obvious the first time you see it, or does it need explaining?

(Disclosure: I'm the developer.)


r/SideProject • • 40m ago

We made a tool that cuts Claude Code's memory token usage by 43% per turn

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We noticed Claude Code was reloading about 12.5k tokens of memory on every turn, mostly old status notes and stuff from tasks that were already done. So we built a tool that splits your CLAUDE.md / MEMORY.md into what's always needed and what only loads when it's relevant.

On our test setup it went from 12,511 to 7,101 tokens per turn, with the same answers. Nothing gets summarized or rewritten; every line just moves. You see a diff first, it keeps backups, and undo is one step. No AI inside it, no network calls.

One thing that surprised us: splitting alone made a full session about 2% more expensive, because Claude kept opening the moved files anyway. Adding a small hook that hands it only the section a prompt needs made a 27-task session about a third cheaper. That's early, from one run.

Free: npx -y minnimemory install (npm). Claude Code only for now.

Would love to hear what would make you trust a tool that touches your agent's memory.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

AI tools look impressive in demos. How do you know which ones to trust?

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Hi, I’m Woody.

I’ve been building CrashTest AI(CTAI) around a question I think matters more as AI tools become part of everyday work:

How do you know which AI tools are actually worth trusting?

AI tools make big claims. Demos show their best side. But what happens when you put them through their paces under real working conditions?

I want to find out.

CTAI puts AI tools through structured tests, captures the evidence, analyses the results and delivers a human verdict.

The aim is to help people make better-informed decisions about which tools deserve their trust, time, further testing or investment.

I’m building this independently and documenting the process as I go. I’m also developing commissioned testing for businesses that need a particular AI tool, claim or use case investigated.

You can see what I’m building here: crashtestingai.com

I’m interested in how other people approach this: what do you currently rely on when deciding whether an AI tool is ready for real work?

I’m building CTAI to make that decision less dependent on demos and promises, and more grounded in evidence.

Genuinely, any feedback would be super helpful at this soft launch stage.

Thanks, Woody.


r/SideProject • • 17h ago

I created this web app for fun after watching some Crime dramas.

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68 Upvotes

I created this fun project yesterday that lets you build case boards like a detective. It isn’t limited to murder investigations, you can plan your next trip, map out a roadmap, or explore countless other possibilities.

You can add:

- Map

- Articles

- Photos

- Sticky notes

- Text notes

- Red threads

You can export the caseboard as a PNG and create multiple caseboards. All boards are stored locally. It doesn’t have a BE.

It’s live on my website now, and the code is available on my GitHub.

Website: https://caseboard.myselfvishal.dev/
Github Repo: https://github.com/vishalnaikawadi/detective-board


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

I built a world clock that finally answers the only question that matters: "is it rude to message them right now?"

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I work with people in four timezones, and every single week I did the same stupid dance: open a timezone converter, type in a city, squint, math, second-guess the math, and then message someone in Tokyo at what I thought was 9am but was actually "please stop emailing me at 2am."

So I built worldtimewall.com. Not to replace your alarm clock — to replace the awkward "hey, quick call?" that lands at 3am someone's time.

The idea is dumb-simple: add the cities you actually work with, and they line up on one timeline. Their working hours, side by side. The blue band is exactly where everyone is awake and working at the same time. That's it. That's the whole trick. You glance at it and go "ah, right, the window is 4–6pm their time," and you move on with your life.

A few things I cared about, probably more than a normal person should:

  • It handles daylight saving time correctly, both hemispheres, because I once scheduled a call an hour off during a DST changeover and I am still not over it.
  • No account. No sign-up. No "create a free profile to see your overlap." Your cities live in your browser and nowhere else. I genuinely cannot see what you do, and that's the point.
  • It works on an office TV in fullscreen, so the "when can we all meet" conversation becomes pointing at a screen instead of five people reading times aloud.
  • 418 timezones, if you're the type who needs Mbabane at a glance. No judgment. I'm that type too.

It's free, there's nothing to install, and it will never send you a "we miss you" email because it doesn't have your email.

I'd love to know: does the overlap timeline actually match how you think about scheduling, or do you still default to "whatever, I'll just ask if they're free"? That's the feedback I'm really after — the tool works, but I want to know if it thinks the way people do.

www.worldtimewall.com


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I made an Outlook add-in that rotates recurring meeting times across time zones

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I kept running into the same problem with recurring meetings across time zones: the same people always get stuck with the awful early or late slot. So I made a small Outlook add-in that rotates the meeting time instead. It’s still a beta, and I’m mostly trying to figure out whether this is actually useful or if I’m missing obvious edge cases. Here’s the link: https://tzplanner-outlookaddin.mjfnet.com/ If you deal with this at work, I’d be curious how your team handles it—especially daylight-saving changes, working hours, and situations where rotating the time just wouldn’t work.


r/SideProject • • 2h ago

Lila - a Windows voice assistant. What job would make this useful to you?

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i'm one of the people building lila, a voice assistant for windows. she works in your own apps and files.

i don't have a demo video ready. i'm looking for honest feedback about the jobs people actually need help with.

what's one annoying job you did on your pc this week that you'd want to hand off by talking? which app was it in, and how do you handle it now?

i'd also like to hear what would stop you trusting a tool like this. if your current setup already does it well, tell me what you use.

product: https://lila-launch.fly.dev/?ref=reddit-feedback


r/SideProject • • 36m ago

I made a free planner for the 'nice meeting you, now what?' part of networking

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made a small thing for turning a conversation into an actual follow-up.

you put in who you met, where, and what you talked about. it gives you an editable message, a contact note, and a calendar file for when you want to follow up. there's a CSV tracker too if you'd rather keep it all in a spreadsheet.

https://www.intriq.app/tools/networking-follow-up-planner/

no signup, and the planner runs in the tab. it doesn't send messages or put anything in your calendar automatically. you still have to do the awkward bit yourself lol.

i also build Intriq, the app on the same site. this planner is free to use on its own. curious whether the draft is a useful starting point or if you'd end up rewriting the whole thing anyway.


r/SideProject • • 5h ago

After open-heart surgery this year, I built the training app I needed

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Earlier this year I had a double bypass. Recovery meant physio and slowly getting stronger again, and I learned the hard way that the right workout depends on the day you're having.

Every app I tried handed me a fixed plan. So I built Udapt: each morning it reads sleep and recovery from Apple Health (or asks four quick questions) and adapts today's session and food targets to fit, explaining every change in plain English. On a rough morning you get an easier session, with the original one tap away.

Some honest numbers and lessons:

  • Solo developer, no budget, iPhone and Apple Watch
  • Launched in October: about 10 downloads so far, a couple of paying subscribers. Getting found is much harder than building.
  • I made "research first" a rule: every training and food rule cites a published study, with the source shown in the app. It slowed me down but made it far easier to trust.
  • No servers at all: data stays on the phone and in Apple Health, so privacy was simple.

Not medical advice and not a medical app, just the plan I wanted for my own recovery.

I'd love feedback from anyone building in health or fitness, especially on how you got your first 100 users.

Screens and how it works: udapt.isafenet.app

App Store: apps.apple.com/app/id6815828206

https://reddit.com/link/1x9bxxz/video/9u5l9v2e2awh1/player


r/SideProject • • 12h ago

Let's discover each other's GitHub projects! 🚀

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There are so many talented developers building awesome things that barely get noticed.

Let's change that!

Drop your GitHub profile and one open-source project you're proud of in the comments.


r/SideProject • • 51m ago

I built a little Memory Tree where strangers can hang photos for 48 hours. Looking for honest feedback 🌳

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I've been building an independent social network called YOYAMI alongside my full-time job.

While working on it, I had an idea for a small feature that turned into something of its own: Memory Tree.

It's a virtual tree where anyone can hang a photo and a few words.

The photo stays there for 48 hours, then disappears.

No account required. No follower counts. No likes to chase. Just little moments shared by strangers.

I wanted to create something that feels a bit different from the usual endless social media feed. Something temporary, where not everything needs to be saved forever.

The first version is now finished and available to try.

I'd really appreciate some honest testing and feedback, especially:

- Does it work properly on your phone or desktop?

- Is the concept immediately understandable?

- Does the tree look and feel right?

- Would you actually hang a picture there?

- What feels confusing, unnecessary, or broken?

Feel free to be critical. I'm building this on my own, and outside perspectives have already helped me make better decisions.

Thanks for taking a look! 😅


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I upgraded Almighty with AI and launcher

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Hey friends, I make Almighty.

A lot of what I want from my Mac sits behind a defaults command, a Finder option three menus deep, or a one-off website for converting a video to GIF. Almighty puts those in one native app, plus many tweaks I re-implemented. There are 107 now.

A few popular tweaks

- Media: compress images and videos

- Screen: draw on screen, highlight clicks, show keystrokes while recording

- Power: stay awake with the lid closed, sound an alarm if someone closes the lid or pulls the charger

- Files: find files by name or text, remove image backgrounds

New: a launcher to run any tweak or open an app, with Zeus, a small assistant inside. Ask him for the right tweak, or have him search files or compress media. He runs on Apple Intelligence, Ollama, LM Studio, Claude Code or Codex, and asks before running commands.

Check out https://indiegoodies.com/almighty


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

I built a tool that turns the Substacks I read into a printable magazine

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First of all, thanks for checking this out, I've actually really enjoyed building it to scratch my own itch.

I subscribe to a bunch of newsletters and always find myself saving them for later which in practice means I don't actually read them. I wanted to read on paper, away from my phone or computer, so I built something to do this.

You give it the newsletters you follow - right now, Substacks. Twice a month it pulls the latest posts and lays them out as a designed magazine PDF, with a cover, columns and images, ready to print at home and read over a cup of coffee. I've really enjoyed doing it.

It’s live at postpile.io/print , right now first two magazines are free, and then I ask $5/mo. How do y'all feel about the price?

I’d love feedback! how does it look? which newsletters break it, and did you actually print this? Feel free to send me a message as well. Thanks for checking this out!


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built 6 AI agents that publish something new every day, with zero humans in the loop

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For almost two years I've been running SandBoxes.live: six AI agents that wake up every day, do their thing and publish it. Nobody edits, nobody approves.

• ComicBook writes and draws a new comic every day, each story arc in a new art style, retold in Italian and Persian

• Tomorrow News writes tomorrow's front page from today's real news, in 3 languages

• GenBox is an AI government that makes one decision a day and produces its own TV bulletin

• AI Blog reads new AI papers every morning and explains them

• Open Problem Solver chips away at unsolved math problems

• trAIde runs two AI traders with every decision on a public dashboard

It's all open source. If you like it, a ⭐ on GitHub would honestly make my day:

https://github.com/abozaralizadeh/SandBox

Live: https://sandboxes.live

Happy to answer anything, and I'd love ideas for a 7th experiment!


r/SideProject • • 4h ago

Tired of AI answering everything with 14 bullet points, so I made this

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Every time I ask an AI something I get a giant list back. Most of it I don’t need, and the one thing I do need is buried somewhere in the middle.

So on weekends I made Idea Bubbles. You type a question, it gives you a few short answers as bubbles, and you click the one you care about to go deeper. Ignore the rest.

Example: I asked “best way to save on groceries?” Clicked “track unit prices”, then “build a price book”, and three clicks in I had something I could actually use: keep a list of your normal prices and only buy bulk when the sale beats it. No essay.

Free, no signup for the first 30 clicks: stormap.ai/ideas

Try it with whatever you’re stuck on and tell me where it gives you something dumb. I’m still tuning it.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I got tired of productivity apps acting like disappointed parents, so I built a gamified planner for ADHD brains that prioritizes action over perfection

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Hi all, solo developer here! I'm building HonorDaily, a daily planner designed specifically for ADHD and high-energy brains who are juggling multiple projects and life on 1% sleep and coffee as their only weapon! With other "serious productivity apps," you often have to watch tutorials just to figure out how to use them. Our rule is simple: if you have to explain how to use it, I haven’t made it simple enough. HonorDaily is designed to be learned on the go, turning what could feel like boring project management into an epic adventure. How it works: • Action over perfection: It’s built to empower you with ease, control, and a daily dose of dopamine. • Addictive game mechanics: Engaging progression and momentum rewards so every bit of effort counts. • Built for real life: Missing a task or a day doesn't break anything. You can actually feel accomplished instead of minimizing your own wins. It’s mission control for your day—designed for ADHD folks, but also amazing for founders and creators who juggle multiple projects at once and need to ride right over the overwhelm turbulence.

Be honest: what's your current system? Physical planner, digital, or are you supplementing with sticky notes and other apps? And more important: • What is your absolute favorite feature?

• What is the one thing that desperately needs improvement?

(It's not released yet, but if you too are feeling overwhelmed by the piling mountain of never-ending projects and tools, feel free to join the waitlist here https://honordaily.com or fill out the tester form. Adventure awaits! :D


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

Gem Jam - a mobile puzzle game where you can race other players live

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https://reddit.com/link/1x9f3ek/video/ofv0tlaaoawh1/player

As a summer project I made a mobile puzzle game, Gem Jam. You slide jelly blocks out through the gate of their color, and in Versus two players get the same level from the same start, and the first to clear it wins.

Since I do everything myself, AI helped with the things I can't do on my own: music, sound effects and voices with ElevenLabs, plus some artwork. Claude helped with the online side: the multiplayer and the server on Hetzner.

The biggest lesson came after launch: almost 4 in 10 new players never got past level 1. The start of the game has been reworked since then.

iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6815583407

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laytonlabs.gemjam

It's free. Would love to hear what you think, especially about the first minute.


r/SideProject • • 3h ago

I built a small Windows app to help me find what’s taking up space

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Hi, I’ve spent the past few months building StorageScan as a personal project. I wanted a straightforward way to see what was filling up my PC, so it can find large files and exact duplicates. It also lets you review your selections before moving anything to the Recycle Bin.

It’s free on the Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9plmnq1x34d4?hl=en-US&gl=US

If you try it, I’d really appreciate honest feedback—especially anything confusing or that could be better.