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What r/SideProject is talking about this week

r/SideProject has 899,845 members and more than 100 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 17 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

899,845members
100+posts in the last 24 hours, newest 2 min ago
17comments an hour right now, newest 5 h ago
6,148points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/SideProject this week

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Top threads this week

  1. I made a desktop wallpaper that adapts to your icon layout

    No matter how good your wallpaper looks, once your desktop fills up with files, the icons blend into the background and everything starts to look cluttered. My desktop often has a lot of files on...

    6,148 points299 comments3 d ago
  2. I built a site that shows every satellite that passed over your location, plus the actual images they took

    I'm a satellite nerd and as a cool project I built Watched. Type in any place on Earth and it will: find every imaging, weather, radar and crewed satellite whose field of view crossed it in the...

    863 points101 comments3 d ago
  3. I developed my architecture dream game and published it on Steam

    I'm a trained architect, and as a long-term side project, I developed my architecture dream game, combining accurate floor planning with real-time 3D design to make architecture much easier to...

    502 points60 comments2 d ago
  4. I got tired of scrolling through iPhone alarms, so I built a 24-hour alarm clock instead

    Hey everyone! I've been working on a little side project called Daybezel, an alternative alarm clock for iPhone. The idea came from a simple frustration: I always found the standard list of alarms...

    340 points146 comments4 d ago
  5. Reverie: a music player that feels like hardware. Out now

    I've been working on a music player app as a side project. It's inspired by the Teenage Engineering TP-7, which I've wanted forever, and by the fact that I like messing with the music I download,...

    308 points94 comments5 d ago
  6. Please ban u/Investigatormarker: an AI bot advertising ThreadFox in every thread

    Hey mods and everyone, u Investigatormarker is posting AI-written "feedback" on posts here, then ending with an ad for its own product. It follows a template: generic advice about the project,...

    261 points56 comments4 d ago
  7. I’m statistically halfway through my life, so I built an app for the second half

    I’m a 40-year-old iOS developer from Croatia. Statistically, I’m in the middle of my life: about 2,080 weeks behind me, and if I’m lucky, about as many in front. My oldest is 8. Somewhere around...

    240 points107 comments16 h ago
  8. I’m a student building an under-pillow speaker for people who fall asleep to podcasts. Would you use this?

    I always fall asleep listening to something, but earbuds hurt on my side, and my partner hates the phone speaker. So I’m designing Dozr: a slim pad that goes under your normal pillow, plays...

    240 points303 comments3 d ago
  9. I built the white "Construct" room from Matrix except instead of guns it summons 8000 real-scale 3D amazon products. "We need ... lots of chairs"

    It’s honestly wild what you can throw together with AI in a single evening nowadays. Remember the "Construct" from The Matrix? That infinite white room where Neo says "We need guns. Lots of guns"...

    186 points42 comments2 d ago
  10. I open sourced a 15 MB, Netflix-inspired app for my home server. 600 stars and 4,4K+ Docker pulls in 1 day

    HolyArrs started because i wanted my home server to feel like a streaming service. you browse it like netflix, with top 10s, new & popular and rows picked from what you already have, hover a...

    175 points43 comments22 h ago

Newest posts

  1. Windstruck: Good design in Figma was too slow, so I put Tailwind in Figma
    1 points0 comments2 min ago
  2. I'm letting an AI make one change to a browser game every day, in public. It's on day 6
    1 points0 comments2 min ago
  3. Find My Downloads - find files by source website; looking for 5 Windows users
    1 points0 comments5 min ago
  4. I built a place to ask what to buy. I’d love your thoughts
    1 points0 comments7 min ago
  5. I created a tool that predicts your career path from your experiences
    1 points0 comments10 min ago
  6. Digital Vows - A landing page testing symbolic AI companion weddings
    1 points0 comments10 min ago
  7. I built an AI news app for Australia as a solo dev. Roast the idea before I spend more time on it.
    1 points0 comments11 min ago
  8. Our agency ghosted us three weeks before launch so I made the video ads myself
    1 points0 comments18 min ago
  9. Built a mobile PDF camera app with multi-lens support, magnetic crop, and instant license OCR. Looking for UX feedback!
    1 points0 comments21 min ago
  10. Your iPhone Found Its Other Half. Did You? 😭
    1 points0 comments26 min ago
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