Side project developers lack an audience to show their work
26 posts across 9 communities in the last 30 days; 46% from r/SideProject.
“I'm a music producer and mixing engineer in London. 10 years in, credits with Sony, Universal, Netflix, BBC and the FIFA World Cup. I also build with Claude Code, so I can prototype, but I'm not a proper developer and I won't pretend to be. My bet: in IT, robotics and AI, a…”
“Anyone else have experience making music as a solo dev? (I don't have a playable demo ready yet, but I'm sharing the highs and lows of building this thing over on my YouTube channel if you want to follow along!) https://www.youtube.com/@kaistheox”
“Mood2know- this is a really fun app! No download or signup needed. No bugs found. Matches your mood to a live display of the weather conditions around the world! Looks great! However, I'm wondering if you could somehow add a sharper filter to the aesthetics, some of the colors…”
Developers building side projects often complete them without a clear avenue for sharing or receiving feedback, leading to frustration and a sense of isolation. They want someone to see and critique their creations.
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“Quick context: I'm a musician from Puerto Rico and I genuinely don't own a computer. My iPhone is my whole setup. A while ago I built a little browser studio called Music Remix Studio. You upload a track, mess with the tempo, pitch, EQ, reverb,…”
I'm a hobbyist in Oklahoma. Every weekend I'd juggle a weather app, a radar app and a fishing app just to decide when to go out, so I built one app that…
“Hey everyone! 👋 I've been working on NoksFluxa™ Music Player, a modern, privacy-friendly music player for Android, and I'd love to have some people try it before its public release! The goal is simple: enjoy your music, your way. No ads, no subscriptions, and no unnecessary distractions. Feature List: 🎧 HQ Audio – High-quality playback 🎨 Dynamic Colors – Custom, adaptive UI 🎵 Smart Playlists & Synchronized Lyrics Support 🎚️ Built-in EQ, DSP & SFX – Customize your sound 📊 Li”
“Has anybody built/released a music embedding model trained on a large library of diverse music? submitted by /u/unraveleverything [link] [comments]”
“I made Melodious, an app where you upload a song and get a music video back. I am a solo founder, so this is the honest version of what the build has been like, in case it helps someone else. What it does: you upload a track, describe the idea (or let it suggest one), and it writes a storyboard, makes stills for each shot, and renders the video. The first storyboard is free so you can see the plan before paying anything. After that it is subscription credits, from $19 a month. What went wrong, i”
“Been working on a side project called UIcraft, where I experiment with UI ideas and interactions. It’s just a place to try things out, not a UI library. This is my latest experiment , a bitmap-style weather interface. https://www.uicraft.in/craft/weather-bitmap Would love to hear what you think! submitted by /u/ImmediateChallenge94 [link] [comments]”
Hey I just built a pixel studio app. You could draw the pixel art, animate the sprite. Make the music and compose all into one scene and share it. You guys can…
“https://reddit.com/link/1wzcobv/video/5gtuxbf5swth1/player Hi all! I'm a solo developer in Minnesota. I kept doing the same thing every Thursday: opening a weather app, checking five towns one at a time, and trying to remember which one looked best. So I built WeatherRoam. You drop pins on a map and each one shows its forecast, the drive time, and any weather alerts. The part I use most is Weekend Pick: you choose a drive of 1 to 6 hours and it ranks the towns in range by their weekend forec”
Hey everyone! I'm a solo game developer, and I'm making Desktop Rave, an idle game and desktop companion that reacts to any music you play on Windows. Think Bongo Cat, but reacting…
“I'm a music producer and mixing engineer in London. 10 years in, credits with Sony, Universal, Netflix, BBC and the FIFA World Cup. I also build with Claude Code, so I can prototype, but I'm not a proper developer and I won't pretend to be. My bet: in IT, robotics and AI, a solid music product can sell well. Almost everything in those worlds is silent, generic or annoying to listen to, and nobody owns the sound side. I have a pile of ideas and I want to test them fast with developers”
“Demo: https://hungry-dog-games.itch.io/wastelandfmgame I put a demo on itch and it ends with recording your first track. WastelandFM tries to bridge the gap between music software and game, I'm trying to make it intuitive and fun (which is hard of course!) But I am looking for feedback and would love to hear your thoughts. Thought it might be interesting for my fellow indie devs, since I know a lot of people are in need of good music in their games (All the sounds are made with my music equi”
“Anyone else have experience making music as a solo dev? (I don't have a playable demo ready yet, but I'm sharing the highs and lows of building this thing over on my YouTube channel if you want to follow along!) https://www.youtube.com/@kaistheox submitted by /u/The0xxxxxx [link] [comments]”
I made this tool so I can get current weather, the forecast, adverse weather alerts and even search the internet while I'm out of service - all through text messages. submitted by…
“and yes, it's vibecoded :) https://sonaroids.app https://github.com/neokrasav4ik/sonaroids submitted by /u/daninpapa [link] [comments]”
“Is anyone using the Synthwave Pro theme I’ve developed? I’d love to hear your feedback and requests for new features! Many thanks to everyone. https://github.com/robertobissanti/rbWave submitted by /u/rob-bix [link] [comments]”
“This is my first time ever making music more than just a few sound effects. I personally love it but I would also like some more opinions. submitted by /u/Cheap-Dog3043 [link] [comments]”
“Thanks! It's not that bad. Each datasource is in a database that I query so the data is consistent over time. The data is determined via the Settings where the user turns layers and info on or off so that it queries from the database that way. Aggregation is dynamic and the AI is not really needed other than to provide a briefing over the data that is used. More most users that do not want the AI, the data is simply presented as is in the Info pane, no AI needed.”
“I know this isn't exactly a game, but I think some people here might still be interested. I've been working on a browser-based DAW called WaveSmith that's designed around the sound hardware in a Super Nintendo. The video is a song I wrote in it, exported as a standalone .sfc ROM and running in an emulator. It uses real BRR samples, 8 voices, ADSR, echo and filters, so what you're hearing is the actual SNES sound hardware, not an approximation of it. If you're making a retro-s”
“I got nostalgic for late-'90s/'00 low-poly graphics, combining with my desire to have offline/no subs software as much as possible, so I decided to try and build this music player for my music on files and to have something always floating on the top-right corner of my screen. The classic deck layout, a ten-band EQ and a playlist as windows that dock together, and behind the album cover a 3D world that moves to the music. Five worlds so far: a synthwave grid, a moonlit forest with real r”
“Mood2know- this is a really fun app! No download or signup needed. No bugs found. Matches your mood to a live display of the weather conditions around the world! Looks great! However, I'm wondering if you could somehow add a sharper filter to the aesthetics, some of the colors appear slightly dull. Not a huge issue. I also think this would work great as a mobile app. Would also be great if the faces had animation. Otherwise, really neat and interactive concept!”
Here's a screen recording of the Android version. Sorry, no live wallpaper on iOS so I couldn't figure out how to port it there. https://reddit.com/link/pbfnrv8/video/s51zdgw2q4rh1/player
“I’m Niels Brinch, building 4i Player. I’m looking for a small group of AI-assisted and independent musicians to try the live publish flow and tell me what should improve. Publish here: https://4i.app/browse/publish Please try publishing one track you control, then share feedback on the upload flow, playback, and discovery in 4i Player for iOS/Windows. A few sentences are enough. AI music is welcome; please disclose AI involvement honestly and upload only material you have rights to. This is a pr”
I made a small web app that recommends Spotify playlists based on the current weather and season. I'm still improving the recommendation system and experimenting with making it adapt to different languages…
👋 I built Silens as a personal side project. I wanted to see how far open-source music models have come compared to closed platforms like Suno or Udio, and whether it was…
“I have been using AI to build Bowcast for a few months. It forecasts when falling rain and low sunlight may line up near you, hour by hour and seven days ahead, and which way to face. The website has been up since July and the iPhone app went on the App Store last week. There is no account system at all, location is only asked for if you tap to use it, and the anonymous sighting reports use coordinates rounded to two decimals to send to me to then calibrate the model depending on the region. Sta”
“Hey everyone, As a solo developer building Earthquake Tracker: Live Radar in Flutter, community feedback is the only way this tool gets better. My goal is to keep it 100% free, dark mode, with tectonic fault line overlays, magnitude haptics, and zero subscription paywalls. If you’ve tried the app and found it useful, taking 10 seconds to leave an honest review on Google Play helps tremendously with visibility and keeps the project going: 📲 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details”
“I’ve always loved slowed + reverb music, especially with rain or ambience in the background, but creating that experience usually meant jumping between different tools. So I built SlowVibeMaker for iPhone. You can import your own audio, slow/pitch/reverb it, fine-tune EQ, layer rain, thunder, waves and other ambience, then export the result as audio or video. It started as something I wanted for myself and has now reached 250 users . Still building it, would genuinely love to know what you’d imp”
“I named it ‘Call the Map’. Now it's done and I've realised I have no idea how to show it to anyone, so I'm hoping this is the right place for it. Methodology's published in full, including a page on what it's bad at. Would genuinely love any feedback, especially where it's wrong. Maybe someone on here finds it useful or interesting, i really put a lot of work into it. Thanks! - Albert submitted by /u/callthemap [link] [comments]”
“Hi everyone: this is my first post, pls give me the noice kindness. My husband has spent so many late nights building Holy Grail Markets , a free website meant to help everyday people feel less lost when they first start learning about investing. He believes reading stock charts should not feel exclusive or impossible to understand. So he created simple, step-by-step guides and tools for people who are busy, new to charts, or simply unsure where to begin. He hates that governments keep printing”