Solo Builders Struggle with Completion

“Hi r/SideProject ! A little while ago I shared OpenTodo , a to-do app you run on your own server. It’s a single Go binary with SQLite, the web app is built in, and it installs on your phone as an app that works offline. Since then a lot of you have tried it and opened issues, so here’s what’s changed. New in 0.8: Open Loops (optional) I kept getting asked about GTD, so 0.8 adds a method of its own inspired by it: catch, clarify, place, do, review. It’s off unless you turn it on, and you pick how”

“Hi everyone, I’m Naitik, a full-stack developer starting out in freelancing. I like helping people turn rough ideas into working products. If you’re stuck on something specific in your project, like the backend, auth, performance, or an unfinished landing page, tell me about it in the comments. I’m happy to give honest feedback, and if it turns into real work, great. What’s the one thing slowing your project down right now? submitted by /u/ig_suyas [link] [comments]”

“Thank you so much 🥹 I’ll try to add a feedback section to the app!! [re: I replaced tmux, Warp and Termius with one free, open source terminal multiplexer built in Rust for coding agents]”

“Hello internet! I'm an aspiring indie developer and I felt so inspired by this sub that I want to get started, but I dunno where to really start doi! I have some cool ideas but what I wanna know is what coding engine/software ya'll recommend submitted by /u/Icesprite78 [link] [comments]”

“hey r/SideProject 👋 so for about a month i've been talking to creators who sell UI kits, templates, design systems and coded components, mostly here in india. 50+ conversations so far, mostly on linkedin. one thing i didn't expect was how much the small fees hurt at indian price points. a few of the creators i spoke to sell on gumroad, so i went and did the math: direct sales are 10% plus $0.50, with card processing on top. on a ₹499 template that $0.50 alone is around ₹44, so the cut i”

“Thanks. completely agree on your actionable feedback point. Working towards that as well. I saw PracHub while developing that. It is very good. I already have this platform where I breakdown opensource codebases to see and learn how it works. Now, extending it to help in the interviewing process. [re: Building a system design & architecture interview prep tool — would love your feedback!]”

“I kept seeing Lovable, Cursor and Bolt apps launch with leaked API keys, Supabase tables open to the public, and Stripe webhooks that anyone could fake. So I built RescueMyRepo. You paste a public GitHub repo and get a free check covering secrets, database security settings, auth, payments, rate limits and the basics of launch readiness. There's also a $29 deeper report with an AI review that filters out false alarms, but the free check is the main thing I want feedback on. What would you wa”

“Build in public and Kaspa rock [re: launching my first digital product with 0 users, gonna post updates here]”

“I started on CoinCurrently with less than 1 year of experience. iOS 14 had just come out, SwiftUI was brand new, and Home Screen widgets were one of the new features. I figured I’d try to make a couple of widgets and see what happens. I made a few to track cryptocurrencies and posted about it on Reddit. The post got almost 300 upvotes, which I thought was pretty awesome, so I decided to make a whole app, native for both iOS and Android. Everything I built in the app was for myself — because I wa”

Automatic Chat Organization into Projects

“I've been building Devprentice on the side. If you maintain a repo, you probably have a growing list of bugs, features, and ideas you never quite get around to. Finding people to help is tough, and getting your project noticed in the swamp that is GitHub isn't much easier. The idea behind Devprentice is to help repo owners find developers looking for real-world experience and bring them into structured, internship-style contribution programs. Here's what you get: Your project becomes”

Hey all, I'm Tyreek. I just launched my side project, ShipFix, and I'd like honest feedback before the first customer shows up (there are none yet). The problem: you build something with…

“How would you do it? Honestly curious?If I were to build an editor, I’d want the GUI platform-native so would probably go straight for Xcode and Swift.If I had a strong aversion to Swift, I might consider a hybrid design where the UI is Swift and write a backend in a modern, fast language I prefer (Go/Rust/C# come to mind, but this isn’t a call-to-arms in the language wars). I believe this could be achieved since LSP works well as a backend server supplying IDE-level niceties, so I could keep mo”

“First off thanks for the support for my prior " PDFcraft & Lightcraft " apps, they've been getting a lot of love and I have fdroid merges that have gone through so updating them will be much easier I'm doing a bunch of "Craft" apps for various native android & ios apps. FilmCraft was quite easy since most of the rust engine for filmcraft was already done by storytold devs, but the CapCraft took a bit more time & I wanted to get the UI as close as possible”

“First off thanks for the support for my prior " PDFcraft & Lightcraft " apps, they've been getting a lot of love and I have fdroid merges that have gone through so updating them will be much easier I'm doing a bunch of "Craft" apps for various native android & ios apps. FilmCraft was quite easy since most of the rust engine for filmcraft was already done by storytold devs, but the CapCraft took a bit more time & I wanted to get the UI as close as possible”

“Before i write anything you need to understand the context - I had learned java after javascript in 2018-2019 just a an hobbie, already knew css and html in school and later in college. Create a bunch of failed apps ( lifetime 50 - 300 installs ) between 2019-2020 and moved on to affiliate marketing and blogging full time which were doing great for me financially between 2021-2024. So came up with an app idea somewhere around dec 2025 for a gardening app, but all the coding was rusty for me afte”

“Back in August I shared the early Android beta here. Since then, I've rebuilt the sync architecture and brought it to production across iOS, Android, macOS, and web. The problem I was solving: When juggling multiple repositories and coding sessions, pinned browser tabs, scattered markdown notes, and AI chat histories turn into a mess. You spend 10 minutes every time just trying to reconstruct where you left off and what context matters. What This60 does: - Links directly to your repos and ke”

“Claude code, FlutterFlow, nowa.dev and a server with hetzner. That's it. Also doing freelance stuff and using some other tools for e.g. finance stuff. But for my apps that is it :) [re: Anyone else have more AI subscriptions than actual customers? 😂 I WILL NOT PROMOTE]”

“I'm making this post in the hope it will help someone else turn a piece of e-waste in an actually useful piece of tech. I'm not really a "tutorial guy" so please feel free to correct me anytime. Keep in mind that this tutorial isn't exactly 'non-tech-savvy friendly', so don't be surprised if you turn to your go-to chatbot for a few quick questions to understand what you're doing and if it's correct. I had two git repos that are too big for GitHub (about”

“This project has been my baby for a long time. v1 of the project was also open sourced a few years back. We have over 250 paying users that use the addon every day. Unfortunately, I have been not been able to provide an update on the project for a few months. Due to job searching and the AI wave decimating my freelancing business, I have had no time for the add on. All the code is human written. AI was only used to search, look up documentation and for bouncing off ideas. The next version, as us”

“yes, but need contributor. [re: Exactly one year ago, I shared AltSendme here. Your encouragement helped me take it from 50 to almost 10,000 GitHub stars. Here's what's new.]”

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“Hey everyone! Exactly one year ago, I posted my project here when it was still called AltSendme. It was a small, early-stage project with around 50 GitHub stars. The support and encouragement I received from this community genuinely motivated me to keep building it. Since then, the project has grown to almost 10,000 GitHub stars, and I've renamed it DashBeam. It's been quite a journey, and I wanted to come back and share what's changed. DashBeam is a free, open-source, peer-to-peer f”

“Hey everyone! I'm currently working on a new Android launcher built around a tile-based interface. The idea is to create something different from traditional launchers, with a clean, customizable layout where apps and useful information live together as tiles. I'm experimenting with different tile sizes, dynamic tiles, notifications, and ways to make the home screen more useful without making it cluttered. Still in the early development stage, so I'd really love to hear your thoughts”

“Both are on the roadmap, so keep eye on it. Thank you! [re: Thingport is officially v1.0.0]”

“Thanks bro [re: Looking for Beta Testers to Help Improve My Node.js Developer Tool SHIPSHAPE]”

“I’ll run it against a couple of my half-finished side projects and drop whatever bugs I hit in the issue tracker. [re: Looking for Beta Testers to Help Improve My Node.js Developer Tool SHIPSHAPE]”

“panels is my solution to organization. when i'm building projects, i have my vs code, agents, 20 tabs (half of which i dont need), discord, the terminal, basically everything you can imagine open. panels brings it together in one place: markdown-supported notes, to-dos, browser panels, timers, and everything you need in one app, with everything being one panel to arrange in one drag. intuitive and snappy. quick rundown of features: - rambler style dictation: talk to it in notes and it'll”

“Hey everyone! My name is Enjal, and I'm a student at UC Berkeley studying EECs. I'm really ambitious, and honestly just someone who loves building things and trying to turn ideas into something real. For the past little while, I've been working on an iOS app called Tally , and I'm finally at the point where I'd love to get some real people to try it out. So, what is Tally? I've always been fascinated by how much the people around us influence who we become. If you're”

“Hey all! I'm Nick, a solo developer from Cambridge, UK. For the past year I've been building Luminids alongside working full-time. It's a peaceful little voxel world where you build colonies, explore, farm, fish, craft and look after these tiny creatures that have their own personalities, memories and relationships. I wanted to make something that felt cozy, warm and inviting. Somewhere you could build a home, watch your little community grow and just enjoy being there. It's abou”

hey, I’m building a fitness app. still pre-launch and would love to meet more people making their own stuff. I can give a fresh pair of eyes on your screens or onboarding,…

“so I’ve spent the last few weeks building this thing called Formix, mostly at night after work. I have literally no dev background, just kept asking AI “how do I do X” over and over until stuff worked. feels kind of surreal that it’s actually live now. the part I’m happiest with is a typing speed test: https://formix.site/games/typing-test you type a random sentence, it shows your WPM and accuracy as you go, nothing gets sent anywhere unless you choose to submit your score to the leaderboard (wh”

“I’ve applied to use Lemon Squeezy for a new project I’m looking to go live with as soon as possible, it’s dev complete but I’m now in a weird loop with someone from them where I’m being asked to give answers to questions that I’ve already answered at least twice. “What’s your pricing”, “Can we have videos of the functionality”, “What are your socials?”. I’ve answered all of these in the first email reply, is it just them slow rolling a “No, we can’t help you” or standard practice? submitte”

“yo, I've been wanting someone to make something like this for over 10 years. is it active? [re: Solo dev launching tomorrow, built a real-money 1v1 typing platform in 6 weeks, terrified nobody will play]”

“Been building runtime.school for a while and finally got the SQL side into a state I’m happy with. The main idea was to keep lessons, practice, projects, and tools on the same datasets so it all feels connected instead of jumping between random examples. I’ve got a bunch of other topics planned next too, so eventually I want it to be one place to learn and practice everything. Would love some feedback if anyone wants to try it and let me know if anything confusing, annoying, missing, or just bad”

“I've been working hard over the past month to build something I would genuinely appreciate using myself. I'm currently talking to 30+ beta users, but I'd love to hear your feedback and thoughts on it. You can check it out at borel.one it's pretty self-explanatory! Thanks!!! submitted by /u/ResponseNo1259 [link] [comments]”

“I turned my Vue 3 game into a devvit app, that can be played directly on Reddit. PixReveal is a pixel art guessing game. A pixel drawing gets revealed pixel by pixel. The faster you guess, the more points you earn. The devvit version is more compact, focussing on quick rounds with 5 drawings to guess and a percentile showing "You are better than x% of players". submitted by /u/Triggerscore [link] [comments]”

“Hey Everyone, Ive been lurking on this subreddit for years, mostly reading advice, finding resources, and watching other peoples post mortems. For the past two years, Ive been working solo on Guiltwood: a turn based 2D survival RPG with Slavic folklore and psychological horror elements. Im planning to write a couple of technical posts over the next few days to share what I learned building the systems, but first I wanted to introduce the project and how I ended up here. My journey with games sta”

“ENGLISH · WORK IN PROGRESS / ESPAÑOL MÁS ABAJO The website and product are not finished yet. This is an invitation-only pilot; public signup and payments remain closed. I'm building Vektro, a Spanish-first library for learning to apply AI to practical tasks. The catalogue contains 210 GitHub resources across websites, agents, automation, avatars, video, documents and data, with short explanations and links to the original authors. I'm adding guides and exercises, and testing MCP access f”

“Hey everyone! I’m Iviko, a software developer based in Malta and the solo founder of Spirkz. The idea started with a question: could the habit of scrolling through short videos become a way to discover something worth learning? I started working on Spirkz in May and built it myself. It’s an educational short-video platform where people can explore different subjects through a familiar scrolling feed. Creators can also publish their own courses, giving users a way to go deeper into a topic. Spirk”

“npx codecity Every file is a building, folders are districts, and height is the file’s length (or imports/exports). Files keep their place as the repo changes, so you actually learn the layout. What it does: • Colour by what changed lately, age, churn, file type or author • Click a file to see what it imports and what imports it • See what your last git pull changed • Live mode: files light up as they’re saved (handy for watching a coding agent) • Replay the whole history and save it as a video”

“Hey guys, I’m a full-time firefighter with a background in the trades, and over the past several months I’ve been building something on the side called SteelHand. It’s a mobile app designed for solo contractors, handymen, and people running smaller jobs. The idea came from a pretty simple problem: contractors do extra work, make little changes on jobs, and sometimes struggle to keep track of everything they should be billing for. I wanted to build something that makes estimating, tracking jobs,”

Thanks! It was 100% a small problem, and was only half solved by existing tools, so I finished it and found a great product from that. [re: I built a ticketing app…

“Looking for free workflow projects to practice — I'll build yours for free!”

“Ha, thanks for having our back. It’s very much a work in progress, and the feedback has been a big help. [re: I built a little interactive globe for my two boys. Somehow, they became my entire dev team.]”

“This is my first public project. Even tho I only published this publicly a few months ago, ive actually been working on it for quite some time. This isnt vibe coded slop "build a wysiwyg, make no mistakes". Thank you for the sincere questions. [re: Obsidian, served with butter (WYSIWYG editor showcase)]”

“I hope my project is not to simple for this reddit, but I am very glad for any feedback at all (like any other person here). Maybe I will find someone for my silly idea. So basically I created the puzzle game "1010box" for iOS and the USP is that i want to end this corporate greed of the big companies for such a simple game mechanic. Such games helped me relax a lot in the past, but they became unplayable with ads, power up etc. So the core principle is - and will be forever - no ads w”

“hey everyone, so we've been building something called opennmind for a while now, and we're finally getting close to releasing it. the idea is pretty simple, what if you could learn, build stuff, test your ideas, and have your own team of ai agents helping you out, all in one place? that's basically what we're trying to make. we're building a workspace where you can take an idea, research it, validate it, plan things out, and actually work on it. the fun part is the ai agents,”

“That's a really practical suggestion! I like the idea of building something around a real user's workflow instead of just making another demo project. Thanks for sharing this! 🙌 [re: Student developer looking for advice from SaaS founders — what real problems should I learn to solve?]”

“Hello, I'm Aarav, a 16 year old open source developer. For the past few months I've been building Morrow, a desktop app for notes, databases and ideas, and today I'm releasing it! I wanted one app that could do everything a modern workspace does, without an account, a subscription, ads, AI or a cloud server. So I made it. Your notes are yours. Every page is a plain Markdown file in a folder you pick. You can open them in any editor, back them up however you like, and keep them foreve”

“I'm RN developer in South Korea, i built this on my own. Non-native speaker, sorry for my English.- Sometimes it is very hard to decide something.- So I made simple service for get decisions from "Three Old Awesome philosophers’ vote".- No sign-up needed.- Using Jev(Probabilistic Classification Model) to calculate philosophers’ emotion and decision. These result are based on their written philosophy.- While typing your question, philosophers show their emotion through their faces(simply created”

“Mine is still in development, but if you don't mind, here it is : https://dev.kanagate.com https://preview.redd.it/psyljvbihsvh1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=55d2857ee6313678dd753b8c147e317975e02fb0 KanaGate is an Android active-recall screen gatekeeper and language acquisition application. It intercepts smartphone unlock impulses, distracting app launches, and periodic screen intervals with mandatory JLPT Japanese quiz challenges, transforming reflexive phone habit loop”

“There are a lot of people here working on projects of some sort - side projects, startups, podcasts, blogs, etc. If you've got something you'd like to show off or get feedback, this is the place to do it. Standards still need to remain high, so there are a few guidelines: Don't just drop a link in here. Give some context This should be some sort of creative product that would be of interest to a community that is focused on product management There should be some sort of free version”

“I’ve been working on a freebie website called Fweebies that collects genuinely free stuff like samples, birthday freebies, pet stuff, museum passes, etc. This is simply a passion project of mine since I love finding freebies. I’m not a web developer, so I’ve been using Claude Code to help me build it. I know AI-built sites can sometimes have a certain look, so I’m curious if anything about mine feels too AI-made or generic. I still want it to feel colorful and a little playful because that’s mor”

“Do you take donations lol, I've spent like 4 minutes with this plugin and I already like it [re: Integrated Task Manager Plugin has almost reached the finish line.]”

“I've converted a few of my custom GPTs to plugins and have submitted two of them to be shared publicly, as a test before I submit the remaining of my 40+ GPTs that I want to be public. It's taken about 13 days for the status to finally change. It says "checks passed" in the skills section yet the review status still says "changes required." The problem is, it doesn't say what those required changes are! Has anybody been through this process and figured out what ha”

“Howdy all, I'm the solo developer behind StonkHub, a market research platform that aggregates public government and market data (congressional stock trades, lobbying, federal contracts, SEC filings, options positioning) into one dashboard. It started as a tool I built for my own research. Friends wanted access, then their friends did, and at some point I had to decide whether this was a side project or a product. I went with product, and wanted to share some of the decisions along the way: F”

“Looking for people who make product demos or onboarding videos to try it and tell me what breaks. You write the clicks once with one narration line per step, and it records your app with auto-zoom, a cursor and a voiceover. UI changed? Run it again. https://github.com/DixitRam/Demo-Forge Tested mostly on Linux, so Mac and Windows feedback is extra welcome. submitted by /u/deegit_00 [link] [comments]”