r/SideProject 41m ago

I've been building an AI product for the last few months — I'd love some honest feedback

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Hey everyone,

I've been working on something for the last few months and I think it's finally at the point where I should start putting it in front of real people.

It's called UnreaX.

The basic idea is an AI platform that lets you create real-time conversational experiences using voice, video and AI avatars.

But the avatar itself isn't really the product.

What I'm trying to build is a system where the AI can have a conversation, perform a specific task, and then turn that interaction into useful, structured information.

For example, you could create an experience for:

  • Candidate interviews
  • Initial candidate screening
  • Employee training
  • Onboarding
  • Customer-service simulations
  • Knowledge assistants
  • Education
  • Sales roleplay
  • Any process that involves repetitive conversations or evaluations

You can define what the experience is supposed to accomplish, configure the conversation, and provide your own documents/knowledge so the AI can work with company-specific information.

Then someone interacts with the avatar through voice and video.

After the conversation, UnreaX can analyze the interaction according to criteria relevant to that particular experience.

Things like:

  • What the person actually answered
  • Quality and consistency of the answers
  • Communication and fluency
  • Assertiveness
  • Conversational behavior
  • Other criteria defined for the specific use case

So the workflow I'm aiming for is basically:

Person → AI conversation → Analysis → Structured results

Rather than:

Person → conversation → transcript → someone manually reviews everything

I'm particularly interested in the idea that the same underlying platform could work across different industries simply by changing the objective, knowledge base, conversation flow and evaluation criteria.

It's currently in Beta / Early Access, and I'm looking for the first people and companies willing to actually test it.

I'm not looking for people to tell me that the idea is cool.

I'd much rather have someone tell me:

That's the kind of feedback I'm looking for right now.

You can try it here:

👉 https://www.unreax.com/

If you're interested in testing it with a real use case, feel free to comment or DM me.

I'm building this from the ground up, so I'm especially interested in hearing what you would actually use something like this for.


r/SideProject 46m ago

Built a validation page before writing a single line of code. Here is what I am testing and why.

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The idea is in the personal finance space. I am deliberately not going into the mechanics of how it works because the solution is not what I want feedback on yet. What I need to know first is whether the problem genuinely frustrates real people or whether I have spent six months caring deeply about something nobody else thinks about.
The page took a weekend. The four survey questions took longer than the rest of it combined because I kept writing them in a way that nudged people toward saying yes. Not sure I fully fixed that.

What I am actually trying to figure out from this community is whether anyone here has gone this route before writing any code and whether the responses you got from a validation page actually predicted how people used the real product when it existed.


r/SideProject 49m ago

I'm building a browser extension for bite-sized lessons on programming languages, frameworks and ready-to-implement projects. Just added a feature that sends an implementation guide for a project, to all of your AI agents

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Hi there devs and builders, as you've read in the title, I'm currently building a sort of aggregator for the most important programming languages, with fun lessons that you can learn to replace having 20+ tabs open when learning coding concepts.

It also features projects to implement from beginner to advanced, and they are specific to some frameworks/languages and technologies, and also explain exactly how you need to build them. I've just implemented a small feature where you can copy the requirements of the sidebar project and drop it into any AI agent you want, and the prompt encourages it to become a teacher that walks you through the implementation, step-by step.

The purpose of this is to be able to always get ideas of what to build, directly from your browser, and the target audience here is mostly CS students, devs that are looking to convert to a new language and want small, focused lessons, or even self-taught builders. People that are extremely passionate can even read research papers on ML and Deep Learning subjects inside it, and summarize them with AI.

If you use extensions regularly, or if you are a dev/student and would use this, I actually want the honest take:

  • Is a side panel the right surface for this project, or should I make it a popup / new-tab?
  • does the copy-to-agent thing feel useful, or is it like just giving the project away for the AI to create, and you learn nothing?
  • what courses or lessons, or even examples would you want here, to actually start learning like this in your browser?

If you liked the concept, learn more here: EdgeCase


r/SideProject 10h ago

Roast my zero-cost hustle idea: A "Ruthless" International Human Alarm Clock.

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I realized that when it's 6 AM in the US, it's the middle of the afternoon for me here in India.

I'm thinking of starting a very simple service: I will literally spam-call busy professionals on WhatsApp until they wake up and send me a photo of them drinking a glass of water or standing outside their bed.

People easily snooze regular alarms, but they can't snooze a real, persistent human who won't hang up.

Do you guys think people would pay $10/week for this? I want to test this out on 3-4 people for FREE just to see if the model actually works before I try to build a website or anything.

Thoughts? Would love some brutal feedback!


r/SideProject 4h ago

I built a tool that allows to transfer telegram stickers to WhatsApp on IOS

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My girlfriend refused to use telegram because it’s “ a sketchy Russian drug website” and I had so many funny stickers there and not being able to use them made me feel an unfun person and transferring them manually is such a painstaking work so I created an instrument that would solve this problem.

What it does: paste a Telegram sticker pack link → it converts and imports the pack straight into WhatsApp's native sticker format. No bots, no manual WEBP conversion.
Why I built it: half my contacts are on Telegram, half on WhatsApp, and every time a great sticker pack showed up in a Telegram group I had no clean way to actually use it on the WhatsApp side. Turns out this is a pretty common complaint — there's a surprising number of "how to move Telegram stickers to WhatsApp" guides out there, all describing a clunky multi-app workaround.
Stack: React Native / Expo, a native Swift module for the WhatsApp sticker keyboard extension, RevenueCat for the one-time "remove ads" purchase, AdMob for the free tier.
Model: free with a rewarded ad per export, or a one-time $4.99 unlock. No subscription, no account.
Still very early — 26 organic installs so far and I haven't done any marketing yet. Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's tried similar cross-platform sticker tools before.


r/SideProject 58m ago

Open-sourced an agent skill that rebuilds a photo in brass (not a goggle sticker)

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I built a small agent skill for steampunk image restyles and open-sourced it.

The point was to stop the usual "add goggles and call it steampunk" look. Restyle keeps the same composition and subject, rebuilds materials in brass/copper/iron, and locks in one readable mechanism. There is also an avatar mode that survives a circular crop, and a poster mode for Victorian engineering plates.

Install: npx skills add tutao0123/steampunk-image-skill Repo: https://github.com/tutao0123/steampunk-image-skill

Happy to hear where the fidelity contract still fails.


r/SideProject 1h ago

Erask — See history happen, in place and time

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Main features

  1. Timed Sync

Pick any year. The globe fills with everything that started, ended, was founded, or was already underway that year.

(Try 1492 or 1815 — Waterloo, Congress of Vienna, Tambora eruption, New Orleans… all at once.)

  1. Rabbit Hole

Open any place or Wikipedia article → see every other place it mentions, grouped by section. Then jump again. History becomes a spatial trail instead of a list of links.

  1. Curated stories

22 hand-checked timelines that play out on the globe (Out of Africa, Marco Polo, American Civil War, Black Death, nuclear tests…). Press play and watch the events light up in order.

  1. Make your own story (the part I’m most proud of)

You can build a story by hand or just paste a prompt into ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini.

In about a minute you get a link.

That link is the story.

No account. No upload. No database. Nothing stored on a server.

Whoever opens the link sees the full sequence play on the globe.

Lose the link and the story is gone. Copy it early.

This is the feature I care about most: history you can send in a chat, drop in a classroom site, or embed anywhere — and it just works.


r/SideProject 1h ago

Calorie Tracker: Food Scan - iPhone app that estimates calories/macros from a meal photo

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I built an iPhone app for people who want to track food but hate searching databases or typing ingredients.

You take a photo of a meal, and it estimates calories, protein, carbs, and fat. You can also type something like “two eggs and toast.”

It supports English, Russian, and Uzbek, has no ads, and includes a 3-day free trial. The estimates are meant as guidance, not medical advice or lab-accurate measurement.

I’m looking for honest feedback on the onboarding, App Store page, and whether the “photo-to-macros” promise is clear enough.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calorie-tracker-food-scan/id6794673157


r/SideProject 1h ago

I made a tiny tool that turns any words you type into a GitHub contribution graph

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I really like the visual language of GitHub’s contribution calendar, so I made a tool that lets you use it beyond GitHub.

Type any words you like, your name, username, a phrase, a tagline, literally whatever, and it generates it as a contribution-graph-style visual that you can download.

Thought it could be a nice little detail for developer portfolios, personal websites, READMEs, etc.

Made it for fun. Curious to see what people make with it.

Try it here


r/SideProject 1h ago

Help needed : 12 testers for play store.

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Hey everyone! I just finished my first Android game, Rivertown Tycoon a laid-back idle/tycoon game where you get a job, build businesses, and take over the city. Now I need 12 testers to clear Google's closed-testing requirement.

It's quick: opt in via the link, install once, and keep it installed for the 14 days. That's it - no need to play much.

I'll gladly test yours back - just drop your app link too.

Comment or DM your Gmail and I'll add you, then send the opt-in link.

Thanks a ton!


r/SideProject 1h ago

Advertising is backwards. Companies pay to distract you, so I'm trying the opposite.

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every ad business has basically the same incentive

get someone's attention, keep it for as long as possible, then sell access to it

which is kind of insane when you think about how many products are now being built to help us undo exactly that

so i've been building something with the incentive flipped around

instead of a company paying to interrupt you, they pay you to go away and focus.

you choose something you want to work on, start a focus session, and your distracting apps get blocked.

a sponsor backs the session.

finish it and you get a small reward. right now i'm testing €0.10 for 25 minutes.

the sponsor isn't sitting on the screen for those 25 minutes. you see who backed the session before you start, then again when you're done.

basically:

normal advertising:

“stop what you're doing and look at us”

what i'm testing:

“go do what you were supposed to do. this one's on us.”

i have no idea yet if the economics actually work.

there's a pretty obvious problem on the user side: is 10-20 cents enough to change someone's behavior, or is it just pointless?

then there's the other side: is being associated with someone's productive time actually valuable enough that a company would pay for it?

and of course the moment money is involved you have to deal with people trying to farm it.

but i think that's why i want to test it instead of just building another subscription focus app.

i've got the app mostly working now and i've started talking to a few SaaS founders about sponsoring the first sessions.

curious what people here think, especially from the sponsor side.

if you ran a SaaS for developers/students/creators, would you ever pay to sponsor their focus sessions instead of buying another ad impression?

i'm building it here: offscreenapp.com


r/SideProject 1h ago

Build my first Cyber Security Tool for non-technical people!

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Hello guys!

I would like to introduce my project that I named Nerva IR (Incident Response). The idea behind this project came from a specific thought "I would like to help people when they are under pressure, when they have done a mistake or prevent them from doing it".

You know, when you are under pressure, usually, you do not think properly, so, you can provide information, make payments and so on, but then, what?

There are several tools that can tell you something is malicious but not helping you once you have done the mistake.

The big companies have the Security Teams/SOC Teams telling them what to do but what about small teams or regular people? They are not prepared to face this types of scenarios.

Then, I decided to build the platform nervair.one, where you can find in one place processes to analyze text, URLs or screenshots (I will implement the analysis of files and emails). Also, you can use the platform in case you have made any mistake already and you do not know what to do. The platform will help you, preparing a task list based on your case.

I have also integrated different functions like (some of them are for the "pro" version):

- Email breach monitoring.

- General Security Assessment, to check your security posture.

- Threat feed, where you can see the latest phishing trends.

- Academy, where you will get a Security fact everyday and a weekly quiz, and resolving it, will allow you participate on a global ranking based on your strikes and how many questions you get right.

- Open guides for everyone.

- Weekly newsletter with a weekly summary.

Despite having the "pro" version, I did not miss the main idea, and that is to offer to non-technical people a place that they can use in case of an incident using one free account.

Any feedback is welcome.

All the best!


r/SideProject 1h ago

VidPare - I built a calculator for the part of AI video pricing nobody puts in the headline

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I thought AI video pricing was a spreadsheet problem.

Then I tried to answer one stupidly simple question:

“What will this finished clip actually cost?”

That question got weird fast.

One platform counts credits. Another counts seconds. Another changes the rate with resolution. Then there are retries, reference images, audio, aspect ratio, plan limits, and the small detail that “24 outputs” does not always mean 24 usable outputs.

At some point I realized I wasn’t comparing prices anymore. I was comparing different definitions of “video.”

So I built VidPare: https://www.vidpare.com/video-cost-calculator

It turns a workflow into an estimate for a usable, platform-ready video. You choose the workflow and constraints, and it keeps the messy parts visible: retries, resolution, aspect ratio, audio, commercial-use rules, and whether the public source actually confirms the relevant price field.

The least exciting feature is the one I trust most: if a source doesn’t clearly expose a price, VidPare doesn’t fill in the blank and pretend it knows. It flags the uncertainty.

I’m not trying to build another 1–5 star AI video leaderboard. I wanted an answer to:

“If I need 24 usable outputs at 10 seconds, 720p, 9:16, what should I budget before I press generate?”

If you make AI video, which input keeps ambushing your budget — credits, retries, audio, reference images, resolution, or something else?

The ugly edge cases are probably more useful than another ranking.


r/SideProject 1h ago

I built InitProjectBuilder because I wanted a better starting point for AI-built projects

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I've been playing around with AI coding tools for a while, and there's something I've noticed.

Tools like Replit, Emergent, Hostinger Horizons, etc. are getting really good at taking an idea and turning it into an actual app. That's honestly pretty cool.

But I kept wondering — what if I don't want the tool to build the whole thing?

Sometimes I just want to go from:

"I have this idea" → "Okay, here's a clean starting repo, now I'll take it from here."

So I started building InitProjectBuilder.

It takes an idea and creates an initial repository that you can download and continue working on yourself. But the part I'm most interested in is making the output easy for AI coding agents to pick up and continue.

Basically, I don't want the repo to be a dead-end generated project. I want to be able to take it into another coding agent and say "here, continue building this" without the agent spending half its time figuring out what the project is supposed to be.

So the idea is less:

Idea → AI builds everything

and more:

Idea → InitProjectBuilder → agent-friendly repo → build it wherever you want

It's still pretty early, but I'm curious what you guys think.

Would you actually find a tool like this useful, or do you prefer the all-in-one approach where the same platform builds the entire app?

https://initprojectbuilder.vercel.app/


r/SideProject 1h ago

I got sick of checking eBay sold comps manually in thrift stores, so I built a real-time computer vision app to do it in seconds. Roast my MVP.

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​Hey everyone,

​I do a lot of thrift store sourcing and flipping, and wasting time typing descriptions or digging through eBay sold comps manually in crowded aisles was driving me insane.

​So, I built Spadas AI—a web/mobile app built with React/TypeScript that uses computer vision and OCR to instantly scan items, query live eBay AU sold comps, account for postage/fees, and calculate your exact net profit and ROI on the spot. It also handles 1-tap draft publishing to eBay and tracks your active hauls.

​Here’s a quick 22-second clip of it running live in the wild: [

​It’s live right now at spadas-tech.vercel.app. Drop your feedback, tear my UI apart, or let me know what edge-case items break the OCR parser!


r/SideProject 1h ago

My shell knows me better than my mom

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I built Deja a zsh autosuggestion alternative that learns from the commands I use everyday.

It simply creates sequences based on your history. Everything local without the need of AI, signup or cloud.

I built it for myself since I was tired of typing same commands. 

Currently at more than +700 stars on GitHub: https://github.com/Giammarco-Ferranti/deja


r/SideProject 1h ago

I built minimo — a free, open-source video compressor for iOS & Android

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I wanted a simple way to shrink videos before sending or storing them without uploading private footage to a server.

So I built minimo.

It's a free, open-source video compressor that runs completely on-device on both Android and iOS.

Features:

  • On-device compression
  • Batch compression with per-video progress
  • Resolution, bitrate and FPS controls
  • H.264 / HEVC
  • Audio controls
  • Before/after comparison
  • Automatic cleanup when compression doesn't actually save meaningful space
  • No account, uploads or subscription

The project is open source because I wanted the implementation to be inspectable rather than having to trust a black-box service.

I'm especially interested in feedback on UX and compression quality. What would you change or add?

Website: https://minimo-video.vercel.app
GitHub: https://github.com/minimo-pro/minimo_video


r/SideProject 1h ago

I built Finzo — a loan tracker that goes beyond just calculating EMI

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🚀 I built Finzo — a loan tracker that goes beyond just calculating EMI

Finzo Play Store link: Click here

A lot of EMI calculators let you enter a loan amount, interest rate and tenure, show you the EMI, and that's it.

I wanted to build something more useful for people who already have loans.

Finzo is an Android app where you can add your actual loan details and then use that information to track, understand and plan your repayment.

What makes it different:

🏦 Add your actual loan details
Enter your loan amount, interest rate, tenure, EMI, start date and other details so Finzo can work with your actual loan, rather than just calculating a hypothetical one.

💰 Prepayment simulator
Ever wondered, “If I make an extra payment next month, how much could I save?”
Finzo lets you simulate prepayments and see the estimated impact on your remaining balance, interest and repayment timeline.

🎯 Plan your payoff
Set repayment goals and explore different ways to potentially pay your loan off sooner.

📊 Track your actual payments
Record EMI payments and maintain your payment history so you can see how your loan is progressing over time.

🔄 Dynamic loan tracking
When you add or update payments, Finzo recalculates the estimated loan position instead of leaving you stuck with the original calculation.

🧮 More than an EMI calculator
Finzo also includes EMI, SIP, FD, GST and other financial calculators for everyday financial planning.

🔐 Your financial data stays on your device
This was one of the most important principles behind Finzo. Your loan details, payment history, balances, notes and other financial records don't leave your device.

Finzo doesn't require you to upload your financial information to a cloud database just to track your loans. Sensitive credentials are also protected using secure device storage.

Your financial information should belong to you.

📄 Export your loan information
Generate a PDF when you want to keep or share your loan information and payment history.

🔔 Reminders + Dark Mode + Rewards
Payment reminders help you stay on top of EMIs, while dark mode and rewards make the experience a little nicer to use.

The idea behind Finzo wasn't to build another generic budgeting app.

It's a simple personal tool for people who want to understand their loans, track what they've paid, and plan what they want to do next.

📱 Finzo is now available on Android.

If you find it useful, please support the project by giving Finzo a try and leaving an honest review on Google Play. 🙏

Even a small review or piece of feedback would mean a lot as an independent project and would help me understand what to improve next.

I'd especially love to hear from people who currently have a home loan, car loan, personal loan, education loan, or any other EMI-based loan.

What feature would you want in a loan-tracking app that most existing apps don't get right?


r/SideProject 2h ago

I made an automatic golf tracker app

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Hey everyone, ive made an automatic golf swing + putt tracker for apple watch over the past 2 years. Completely from my own data to solve my own problems. Its free so if you are a golfer would love some feedback!
https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/cndr/id6757384204


r/SideProject 2h ago

Bloxme AI - Turn a selfie or Avatar reference into a blocky creator image

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r/SideProject 8h ago

I built a sketch-to-3D tool using Astra. Would love some honest feedback.

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I used to work in Gametech many years ago. I’ve been building Hajimete3D using Astra, and I’d love feedback from people outside my own bubble.

You can start with a sketch, upload an image, or describe a character. The app can generate artwork and turn it into a textured 3D model you can rotate and download. We’ve also added an API and a local MCP connector.

There’s a real example you can rotate on the homepage without generating anything:

https://hajimete3d.com/

I’m trying to understand what people would actually use this for. Character exploration? Simple props for a prototype? Something else?

Generation is paid, and models may need cleanup - they aren’t guaranteed rigged or game-ready. You can DM me for promo code.

What feels useful, what’s confusing, and what would stop you from trying it?


r/SideProject 2h ago

I built a CLI that turns any real repo into a clean, runnable notebook so you can actually use free Kaggle/Colab GPUs

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Free GPUs on Kaggle and Colab are excellent. Turning a real research or production-style repo into something that actually runs on them is still a pain.

You either:

- Manually copy-paste files into cells

- Clone the repo inside the notebook and immediately hit missing imports, broken paths, indentation issues, etc.

- Zip and upload as a dataset (solves the clone problem but not the config/iteration problem)

- End up with a notebook history that is pure garbage because the project was never meant to live as a notebook

None of this is hard. It’s just tedious and eats an evening for no good reason.

So I built repo2nb.

It’s a small tool that converts a normal repo into a clean, self-contained, runnable notebook automatically. It detects imports and dependencies, structures everything correctly, supports two-way sync with the source repo, and is designed so you can point the result at Kaggle or Colab and just run.

The CLI is the core... I built that part myself. No shortcuts. That’s the engine.

On top of it there’s a simple web UI for people who don’t want to touch a terminal for a one-off conversion. I’m not a web dev, so I vibe-coded the UI and just directed the feature set. It runs offline once you open it (caches via WebAssembly / service workers), and no code leaves your machine until you decide to upload the finished notebook to Kaggle.

It’s a niche problem, but it already solved real friction for people at my college.

Currently sitting at ~18 stars. I’d genuinely like more eyes on it, both “does this actually solve the problem for you?” and “here’s what’s broken / ugly / missing” on either the CLI or the web side.

Repo (CLI is the main thing): https://github.com/repo2nb/repo2nb-cli

Web App: https://repo2nb.vercel.app/

If you try it on a repo you actually care about, I’d love to hear what breaks or what would make it more useful.


r/SideProject 2h ago

I built a private, no-signup hotel profit-leak scorecard that runs entirely in the browser

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I'm building Arkonis as a founder-led consultancy for independent hotels and small regional hotel groups. One recurring problem is that the PMS, POS, channel manager, finance system, payroll, and spreadsheets can all produce plausible but conflicting answers.

I built a five-minute scorecard to make that problem easier to inspect before anyone buys another dashboard.

- 15 statements across five dimensions: revenue decisions, staffing and operations, purchasing and cost control, reporting reliability, and decision ownership

- Equal-weight scoring with the calculation and limitations published on the page

- Answers stay in the browser; the tool makes no external API calls

- No signup or lead capture

- It deliberately does not claim to calculate actual lost profit

Tool: https://arkonis.ai/tools/hotel-profit-leak-scorecard/

I'd value feedback on the model and the privacy approach. Is there a dimension you would split or weight differently?


r/SideProject 2h ago

I turned my “save this to Notion later” habit into a native Mac Share Extension

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I was saving more than 20 articles a week and repeating the same loop: copy the URL, switch to Notion, find the database, paste, add properties, return to the original app.

I built NotionShare to turn that into a native Mac action. It saves links, clean full articles, images, screenshots, exported email files, and contacts into a Notion page or database you choose. Direct Save is free; Pro Forms remember a destination and map extracted content into properties.

The hardest product decision was keeping quick capture simple while still supporting structured workflows. I landed on free direct saving and optional $4.99/month Forms.

I would value feedback on the boundary: does “quick save vs. reusable workflow” make sense without seeing a feature table?

https://reddit.com/link/1wak7ry/video/lx9orabbt9oh1/player

https://intrapixel.com/notionshare/


r/SideProject 2h ago

I built Moviender because choosing what to watch was taking longer than actually watching something

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Hey r/SideProject!

I recently launched Moviender, a movie & TV discovery app I built around a problem I kept running into: opening a streaming service, scrolling forever, and still having no idea what to watch.

Instead of another huge catalog, Moviender turns discovery into simple decisions:
→ Swipe right — Interested
← Swipe left — Pass
↑ Swipe up — Watch Later
↓ Swipe down — Watched

There are also two discovery modes:
Find Something lets you narrow things down by genre, rating, release date, country, language and more.

Surprise Me is for when you don’t even want to make those choices — just start swiping and see what catches your attention.

I built the app with React Native + Expo + TypeScript, with Trakt powering the movie and TV data. It’s currently available on iOS.

This is the first public version, so I’d genuinely appreciate feedback — especially on the discovery/swipe concept and anything that feels confusing or unnecessary.

Website: moviender.yigitcicekci.com

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moviender-movie-tv-finder/id6806766492?l=us

Thanks for checking out my side project! 🍿