Side project creators seek feedback on their apps
17 posts across 3 communities in the last 30 days; 77% from r/SideProject.
“Hi everyone! I'm a solo dev working on PiNctum, an Android app that turns your gallery photos into a map of your memories, using the GPS data already in them. What it does: Your photos never leave your phone. No account, no cloud upload. A map with clusters, plus a timeline by…”
“Side project I've been building: FrameRoam. You 3D-scan a real location with your phone, import it, and then plan all your camera shots inside the scan - positions, moves, full shot sequences - before shoot day. Location scouting from your couch. It's in TestFlight beta now…”
“I've been building a way to freely walk around real-world places right in your browser no downloads, no installs, and no accounts required. It uses 3D Gaussian splatting to stream 11 scanned towns across eight countries directly into a tab, meaning the lighting and streets are…”
Multiple developers are sharing early-stage side projects and actively seeking user testing and feedback. These range from neighborhood mapping tools to photography marketplaces, anonymous chat apps, and typing trainers.
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“Hi everyone! I'm a solo dev working on PiNctum, an Android app that turns your gallery photos into a map of your memories, using the GPS data already in them. What it does: Your photos never leave your phone. No account, no cloud upload. A…”
“Side project I've been building: FrameRoam. You 3D-scan a real location with your phone, import it, and then plan all your camera shots inside the scan - positions, moves, full shot sequences - before shoot day. Location scouting from your couch. It's in TestFlight beta now. Looking for filmmakers, 3D scanning folks, and anyone who'd actually use this. Beta testers get Pro free at launch. FrameRoam Beta submitted by /u/Puzzleheaded-Cake129 [link] [comments]”
“I've been building a way to freely walk around real-world places right in your browser no downloads, no installs, and no accounts required. It uses 3D Gaussian splatting to stream 11 scanned towns across eight countries directly into a tab, meaning the lighting and streets are exactly as they were captured in real life. You can explore on foot or even ride a bike with full collision physics, all running smoothly via WebGPU. If you want to jump in and walk around, you can try it at wascape.co”
“I've been building a way to freely walk around real-world places right in your browser no downloads, no installs, and no accounts required. It uses 3D Gaussian splatting to stream 11 scanned towns across eight countries directly into a tab, meaning the lighting and streets are exactly as they were captured in real life. You can explore on foot or even ride a bike with full collision physics, all running smoothly via WebGPU. If you want to jump in and walk around, you can try it at wascape.co”
Thanks [re: I built an iPhone app that turns your walks into a fog-of-war map]
“I'm Keith, the creator of Orbit, a web app for photographers running paid sessions. The workflow connects client inquiries, mini and full session bookings, contracts, payments, reminders, and client galleries. The goal is to make the work around a session easier to manage in one place. For photographers who have tried different booking or gallery tools, I'd like to hear which handoff causes the most friction: inquiry to booking, booking to paperwork, or session to gallery delivery? You c”
“yeah, The sense of accomplishment from revealing the map grows as you visit more and more places.”
“I’ve been quietly building a camera app called Bitsy Cam. The idea is pretty simple: instead of picking a filter after you shoot, you pop a little lens cartridge onto the live camera and shoot through it. Each cart is an actual 3D object and it changes how the picture looks while you’re still looking at the scene. There’s a density knob if you want chunkier or finer pixels, and you can drag the lens opening around, resize it, or flip it. I just put it on the App Store and, honestly, almost nobod”
“Hey guys. I'm building an iOS app called Locals. Mainstream maps average everything out to 4.3 stars, and travel blogs just push crowded tourist traps. I wanted a space to just see where my friends went and steal their actual recommendations. With Locals, you can: Track all the places and countries you've been to. Create your own spots and become a local guide for your city. See exactly where your friends went and steal their recommendations for your own trips. I built it natively with S”
“I am thinking of letting people backfill their visits to places with old pictures. so for example if you want to create a spot somewhere you have been to before, and you have a picture taken there, you can create it”
“sounds like a reasonable approach keeping it on-device. i've got a mess of burst shots and slight angle variations that i'd rather not sort by hand does the grouping feel too aggressive or is it pretty good at picking actual near-dupes and not just photos taken seconds apart”
“Hey everyone, I work as an architect, which means my camera roll is basically packed with site visits, facade details, and buildings I walk past. Anyone who shoots buildings on an iPhone knows the pain. You tilt the phone up, the vertical lines lean inward. Sure, iOS has that built-in perspective slider in Photos, but after a site visit or a day of checking out architecture, you end up with dozens of photos. Sitting there on your phone, opening them one by one, tapping Edit, and nudging the vert”
“I enjoy photography (and night photography in particular), but planning it often meant comparing several forecasts over multiple apps and sources, darkness times and moon conditions, and somehow still not knowing whether going outside would be worthwhile. So I built Ephemora, an iPhone app that turns those conditions into practical guidance for stars, the Milky Way, the moon and meteors. It shows both what conditions are like right now and whether a better window is coming later. You can inspect”
“good luck with the launch. dual lens is what I'd lead with, nobody else is doing it.”
“Over the past year, I've been building Halfstop, a field guide for photographers (and travelers). I come from a development-oriented background but had no experience with working with the Apple or Android developer community. Most of my work has been with client-facing products and services. But if you shoot on the road you know the routine. One app for sunrise and sunset. Another for the moon. A website for the Milky Way. A different one for aurora. Weather somewhere else entirely. And then”
“looks pretty convincing to me, but the backgrounds sometimes feel a bit off. maybe adding more pose options would make it feel more natural.”
“Hi! I’m building a photography project called Grain and I’m looking for around 5 photographers to try the first real beta. Grain is a photography-first platform where you can: upload and preserve your original full-resolution photographs inspect images at 100% see capture data / EXIF create Photo Sets build a free photography portfolio you can share I’m not looking for generic “looks cool” feedback. What I really want to know is: Would you actually put the Grain portfolio link in your bio? If no”
“Make it line-of-sight and contour-aware (view from a hill reveals further than valleys ("vallies"... weird... never wrote that word)”
“ok this is such a good idea lol, taking the clear the fog thing from games and making it your actual neighborhood is genius. does it get thrown off at all in like parking lots or big open areas where gps kinda drifts”
“I've been working from home for the last decade and have been experimenting with building apps that help me get out of the house for the past few years. I'm still hard at work on this one, and noticed the fog of war map post here was pretty popular (it's what got me to get serious about mine), so I wanted to share. Still pre-release, iPhone and iPad (and iPhone Duo when that lands). Landing page with a demo clip and a waitlist: https://exposurepal.com As a bonus for still reading, he”
“Hey all — I'm building Lookspo , a photography marketplace for the NY/NJ area with a twist: instead of just browsing by location and price, clients get matched to photographers based on the visual style of an image they upload. I'm looking for photographers in the NY/NJ metro area to join as founding members while it's still early. A few things worth knowing upfront: -It's genuinely early — you'd be one of the first profiles, not joining an established platform No cost to cre”
“Hi! I'm building an anonymous chat server and client service over the Tor network as a study project in my spare time using Tkinter for the GUI. The idea is to keep the process of creating and searching for rooms simple. The software works mainly by controlling a Tor daemon inside a container to create stateless chat rooms (onion servers) and clients using Tor as a proxy. I was challenged to do something more complex with threads and asynchronous tasks in Python. You can give it a try : http”
“I think faster than I type, but raw dictation is unusable - full of false starts and missing punctuation, so you spend as long editing as you saved. Pithflow does the cleanup as part of the pipeline. Hold a key, talk, and what lands in the field is already edited: false starts cut, grammar fixed, tone matched to context. Windows has been stable a while. Android is days old and I'm the only one who's really used it, which is the blind spot I'm trying to fix. If you're on Android,”
“Hello, I've been working on a productivity application that allows you to create sandboxed interactive files in a "what you see is what you get" editor. You can use sandboxed scripting or "power scripting" to create simple applications in a self contained file. I saw people creating web applications but then not knowing where to host it, so I thought this would help fill that niche. The vision for HVY Galaxy is that you can interface with it over MCP and use it as a prima”