Side project developers dislike messy, disorganized online forums
43 posts across 18 communities in the last 30 days; 23% from r/SideProject.
“Which ones I'm in are invite only through people I've worked with, so I can't hand out links. Look for the ones tied to whatever stack you build on, runcloud and wordpress communities have a few, and the paid ones are usually the ones worth being in.”
“I genuinely think Tailwind is for people who simply can't bother to learn how to set up (s)css in a modern project properly.”
“Thank you. That's the general idea. Thank you for trying to test it out I will investigate the issue. Thank you for the heads up and thank you again.”
Developers express frustration with the quality of content and organization on existing platforms like Reddit. This suggests a desire for more curated and structured spaces to share side projects and receive feedback.
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“bro are you really advertising your other slop project in this slop post? you're like an unbearable russian doll of side projects, arent you? does this post of mine remind you of another one of your projects you could link here, by chance? [re: I…”
“I disagree. submit the PR; if they want to turn their nose up at a genuinely useful PR, that is on them. Open source means you can fork it and continue development. Don't let someone slop-shape you into closing your development. [re: 10 Things you maybe didn't know you can do with Qwen 3.6 27B right now. (For Noobs)]”
“This community has often allowed people to share free tools and assets but it has always been subjective about where the line crosses regarding self-promotion or showing off a project. We have updated rule 3 to make the following clarification about sharing tools in our community: All of your own tools you share must be free (this is reinforced by rule 6) You must provide discussion or technical takeaways regarding the tool. What unique challenges did you run into when making it? How did you sol”
“This isn't an advertisement, and it's very much local and open - I already don't have enough time to keep up with the existing pull requests and issues... just a fond look back on how much this space has grown and matured in the past year. Shit was the wild west back then. Nowadays I can run qwen3.8 on a mac mini fast enough to drive this at full speed for free using native tool calling all day long. When I first released it, local model tool calling was much more hit or miss. This w”
“Also the llama.cpp PR update posts. They are starting to mention little tiny updates that nobody care. We don't need to see those too. [re: MODS: Please, no more "can I run Strata" posts?]”
“3 Lol. so frustrated that I'm now trying to understand how others get so many stars. I even built a free tool to link each github star surge of a repo to an event (author posted on reddit, HN, product hunt ...) and it's now quite obvious that you need to launch multiple times.”
Yeah tried but failed to get my Jacobsen Eclipse to work for it....
“The hard side of Cozit is probably the reviewers, not the projects. Makers will post for free, but the timeline and insights tab only fill up if someone keeps commenting after the first message. This sub asks the same of posters: "If you are posting, please take the time to test someone else's product as well." Building that into Cozit, say a project only gets shown to others once its maker has left feedback on two, might be what keeps each project looked at instead of skimmed. I m”
“imo it is better to go on specialized sites to build dashboards ect or run it locally, unless you wanna use it within your inner group”
“Sounds like the environment is very stable and doesn't require much infrastructure changes or you are not being proactive and looking for ways to improve it, or maybe a little of both. Our infrastructure team is constantly introducing improvements and handling requests from the dev team.”
“highly recommend Technitium (after myself having used pihole in the past for many years) https://technitium.com”
“Yeah, I tried a couple of different workloads like coding, translation, summarization, etc. There were one or two runs that just barely broke 150, but that's about it.”
“Yep and will add incentives to supporting each other thank u so much appreciate any advice 🫡🫡🫡”
“Ugh, this is one of my next projects to tackle. I currently have the routes via a config file for the containers on other hosts. Thankfully at the moment it is minimal but I'm going to be shuffling services around.”
“I’m sorry to say the only reason I read to the end of your post was I thought you would describe your project, but there’s no payoff. So I guess what I’d gently suggest is: don’t do what you did. 🙂 If your project “[is] well thought out, science backed, and offers something genuinely different” then it should simply stand out on its own. Maybe even just edit this post. Keep the first two paragraphs (which includes your AI use declaration) and then tell us what you’re bringing to the conversatio”
“People who primarily write applications (not devopsy utilities) don't write very many long bash scripts. But might have to write a single bash script when setting up a project (and look up documentation when doing it). And every day they might use bash in their terminal for basic one liners (for example I frequently pipe output into grep). I would probably say I "know" bash on my resume, and would fail the interview same as OP.”
“Exactly what the other commenter said - ok, yes, we get your point, but what are you suggesting is done about it? and the wall of text is going to make 99.9% of people x out before they get past the first paragraph. And yes, people absolutely do need to stop and think before doing, bc damn near anything can be done, and quickly with AI, but should it? Most of the time the answer is no.”
“SES is on the list once volume actually needs it. Right now Workspace is enough and I'm still learning deliverability on one domain before I add another pipe.”
“Your project looks publicly less than 3 months old. Such projects are required to be added to the weekly Megathread pinned to this subreddit. Only in the current “New Project Megathread”, you may post projects that are younger than 3 months (measured by first public presence, e.g. git commit, social media post, etc.) This Week’s Megathread”
“Ditto. I have a repo with one star but I don't consider it successful, it was a reciprocal star. Let us measure success from a sense of accomplishment instead of stars.”
“Yeah, just read about it (and many other disastrous announcements) on r/modnews and r/redditdev . I'm seriously considering spinning up a server somewhere and revert back to the old days of forums or go modern and have a federated platform like Mastodon or Bluesky.”
“It's fine in well-moderated subs, but I wonder if this (and many others like it) have been abandoned, and they've turned into a free-for-all. I plan to write a [Meta] post about it at some point...”
“Thanks for sitting with this, genuinely useful. On the seeds: it's a mix, some are seed posts from me to get the feed started, others are real users already. On field experts: the identity cachet isn't the draw here, and that's by design. This is actually a place for an expert to prove their competency and judgment blind, with no name or reputation to lean on, just the quality of the feedback itself. That's a different kind of proof than a portfolio or a title, and it's one m”
“yeah getting buried on page 30 of directories is painfully real, the visual approach makes way more sense”
“This looks good! I hope you keep up the good work. I like how it functions. You captured what I want in a task manager. :D Some initial observations: Easier way to delete project besides deleting them in the folder structure. Hopefully, you can also be able to modify the position in dashboard itself or maybe specific views.”
❤️ Feel free to shit-talk me whenever you feel that changes.
“Right now just what you describe, the idea and audience. It doesn't know where you've already posted. Thanks for pointing it out, that's a real gap. If someone already tried three subreddits and got nothing, the tool should weight that instead of suggesting the same ones again. Not built yet, going on the list.”
“I see a lot of issues, rather than me listing them, you pasting them into an LLM, and then later on running into the same issues; I would use this - Ensure you have a proper design system in place and ask your agent to audit your design with the skills enabled. The difference will be night and day. I'm not asking you to blindly trust me; I'm assuming you use GitHub so feel free to roll back if you don't like it!”
“Your post/comment has been determined to be a low-effort post or comment. This includes title-only posts, easily searchable questions, vague/open-ended discussion prompts, LLM generated posts or comments, and posts/comments that do not provide enough context for meaningful replies or discussion.”
“Your post/comment has been determined to be a low-effort post or comment. This includes title-only posts, easily searchable questions, vague/open-ended discussion prompts, LLM generated posts or comments, and posts/comments that do not provide enough context for meaningful replies or discussion.”
“I have! But again i was against the wall and worked fast, expected bugs its ok it will be fixed at the end”
“Anytime! I tend not to look at usernames most of the time myself and I'd wager most folks are the same. I don't think (in this instance) you were downvoted as they perceived you speaking as an authority. I think you were downvoted simply because you *correctly speak against Agile being Project Management. It's such a cult that I've honest to god seen people be terminated outright for not drinking the kool-aid. It happens on any corporate sub when someone points out the glaring pr”
“Did I ask for a one man army? No. I asked for you to link your linkedin on your website. Git? really? Why wouldn't you just snapshot for release? You said you are busy... Nvm lol I'm not doing this. Wish you the best! I still stand by my statement. No-one on here should be using your software until you offer trust signals”
“Honestly, I like the idea. The community voting mechanism could be interesting to prototype.”
Are we allowed to keep pitching ideas? I'm bored too on a road trip
Here we go again. Let me guess you built the consensus website
“Idk if this was discussed before im jsut rageposting/ranting but I think im done with public devlogging. It used to be great for getting feedback and building a community. Now youre literally just handing your project to assholes on a silver platter. People just are running scrapers on every devlog, YT video, dlscord servers, tweets etc. The second you post a cool mechnaic or art style.. they scrape it. Feed it into AI tools, clone it, and drop a copy on itch or steam or whatever the fuck mobi”
“Yep! Self promotion in a Reddit where self promotion isn’t wanted! Glad you unblocked me, must have been bothering you”
NIce. Already enjoying using it. Super easy to use so far.
“Which ones I'm in are invite only through people I've worked with, so I can't hand out links. Look for the ones tied to whatever stack you build on, runcloud and wordpress communities have a few, and the paid ones are usually the ones worth being in.”
“People love shitting on some projects without even running them in recommended settings and understanding what's the target demographic for the project xD I agree it's not completely lobotimized, but it's not perfect either. Still usable, and still a notch above similar model footprints.”
“No worries, they are your projects so you get to do with them what you want. I could do next to none of this.”
“sounds awesome, but you overestimate my abilities :) i'll keep it in mind though, for when i get better at this”
“This inspired me to work on it today, so it will at least be improved today, just not perfect yet :)”
“It is dead. That's why I created plain flamelens.dev to really get a testing community going.”
“The parking lot part I'm not sure about. This one only exists because I had a bunch of other projects going. I had no idea it would be the one that worked, it was the least serious thing I'd built. If I'd picked one thing to focus on a year ago I'd have picked something else and I'd still be polishing it. Maybe focus once something is actually pulling. Before that I think the pile is doing the work.”