Proud to present my new project, midi.so! Initially designed for personal use to automate the process of managing and announcing feature updates. Now made it a product for everyone. Excited to hear your thoughts!

I mean real users who also give feedback. So that you know how to pivot or whether or not to go ahead with the project.

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How many unfinished side projects do you have? How many finished but never launched side projects do you have? For how long did you tell yourself you were going to release a side project but never did?

I've been there for the past 10 years, but today, this is about to change.

Attempts

As far as I can recall, I've always dreamed of making a living from my own products, so I consistently worked on side projects.

I started an Open Source social network in 2011 during my last year of school, inspired by watching The Social Network (no shame, we all did it). Unfortunately, it remained unfinished.

In 2013, I spent a weekend working on an iPhone app to count the number of cigarettes smoked per day (I don't even smoke–sigh). Surprisingly, I launched it and even got a few sales via in-app purchase.

Then started the dry spell...

I started working on an app to remember the last time you did something with a designer friend in late 2013. Although the app was 100% finished, we never updated the screens for the iPhone 5 that came out in September 2014. Resulting in it being never launched.

In 2015, I started working on an app to split expenses between friends with another designer friend. Unfortunately, it remained unfinished.

In 2017, I re-started my app to remember the last time you did something with the same designer friend. This time it was almost finished, but never launched.

Last year I started working on a note-taking app to take notes without interrupting your flow. This time, I went solo because I didn't want to depend on other people. Even though my friend Denis ended up helping with the design. Finally, it got launched.

At last.

Reasons

They all failed for a variety of reasons:

• Fear of failure (obviously),
• Fear of success (I know it's dumb, but it's true),
• Lack of motivation, especially when you're a team of 2, one is always less motivated than the other.

I know I'm far from being the only one. Some can't find ideas, some never start, some never launch. The end result is the same, we never release anything.

So what changed?

After 10 years of thinking everyday "I will release an app soon", I guess I crossed the line and couldn't take it anymore. "Not this time", I kept thinking when I started working on my last project.

Yet, it almost failed again. I created the MVP in one week, the goal was to release it shortly after. But then, as usual, more features, more fine-stunning, new design, etc.

This time I was determined to launch it though. I desperately wanted to be able to say to myself "I launched a product". A mix of stubbornness, determination, and perseverance.

But the biggest change is probably that I became a father 2 years ago.

It significantly reduced my free time and pushed me to move forward instead of procrastinating. It also made me realize that time passes, and I didn't want to have regrets.

Now it's your turn!

My app may not be a success, but that's ok. The most important thing for me was to launch it, to prove myself I can do it, to break the curse.

I've been working on side projects non-stop for the past 10 years without ever releasing a single one. At one point, it was so ingrained in me that I was convinced I just couldn't do it.

I hope this post inspires and encourages others to work on and publish their side projects. You can do it.

If I, with a 2-year-old kid, could do it, you can too. Just find what drives you.

Show your support

If you want to, you can support me by upvoting the project on Product Hunt, sharing the news on your favorite social network or even (let's go crazy!) by buying the app.

Thanks for reading!

Hi,

Having developed multiple AI based products now and running them in production I run into problems again and again and wonder whether others have a solution for this.

I have multiple prompts that are expect to return a JSON with a given structure. Even now since you can hand the output type to openAI I see no difference in result quality. One has to be very careful in prompt constructing and model choice. A single word differently placed can lead to broken JSON output. Same with switching models eg from 3.5 Turbo preview to 4 with otherwise same inputs can reduce output quality.

And that’s just one issue. With volume I sometimes see random hallucinations in language. Multi language handling is tricky in general.

That lead me to think what’s needed in this early stage of AI building is a rigid testing environment. More than just a playground but rather an environment that can mass test prompts and results on an ongoing basis and monitor results, suggest improvements and so on. Just to bring what’s needed to seriously build business products rather than play use cases for single user Environments.

Does anyone of you know of such tool out there? Anyone else having theses problems with their commercial products?

We created an app that lets you quickly compress, trim and convert any kind of videos to ready-to-share mp4 files

We are a computer graphics company and we share a lot of images and videos to show progress and ask for feedback. We also work on discord, which limits the video formats and sizes you con share.

Our CTO were pushing really hard to use FFMPEG, but most of the ppl working with us would rather share a 100 MB mov or upload stuff to youtube rather than opening the terminal and write the FFMPEG scripts we gave to them.

Because of that we created an desktop all to compress, trim and convert videos to mp4. Additionally, we added a discord mode that automatically set the final size video to 25 MB or less. We gave this tool to our team and they are all using it now, it's so pleasent. We also published the tool for free and the reception was great!

Are you also writing your own tools when facing these scenarios?

My 1st app was about programming books that cover almost 40 languages and a total of 400+ programming books (free + paid).
My 2nd app is about car maintenance tracking where you keep track of your car inspections, add details about your car, calculate key metrics like mileage, horse power and trip cost.
I would love everyone to check it out and give your recommendations on what can I improve on? As I recently started to learn programming, releasing 2 apps within a month is big big achievement for me. Your support would really mean a lot and will boost my confidence.

Google Trends are useful, but it's not show real search volume, all data is range 0~100. Sometimes it will lead big trouble.

So I made an app that show real search volume and tendency of each search keywords on Google.

You can download it here: https://gotrends.app?c=1129redditsp

For example：

The Google Trends of ChatGPT in last 5 years, the largest volume is 100：

chatpgt‘s google trends

However, in GoTrends, you could see the real search volume of the keywords as well as the competition and CPC price range. The keyword chatgpt actually have over 150 Million searches every month:

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TLDR;

I am an Android developer with 5 years of experience in the field and this is my very first app that I have created in my free time and published to public. Swifto: Ingredient Recipes is available only on Android for now. The focus of Swifto is to solve the everyday problem of "What to cook for dinner?", but with a unique approach - it uses live camera-feed to automatically detect ingredients you have at hand. The main concept is to use ingredients you already have, but the app allows to find recipes based on simple search queries as well. It also offers filtering by diet, prep time and meal type.

P.S. It's completely free with no ads! 🙌

Why I built Swifto

While I've had extensive Android development experience during these years, I have never felt a real drive to code my own application. Last year I decided to travel through Europe for 10 months and while hopping from one country to another, I encountered an every-day problem - coming back home and deciding what to cook. I wanted something quick, healthy and preferably cheap, but most importantly - something new. Surprisingly enough, I realized that for me it wasn't the cooking process, but the thinking part of what to cook again that drove me nuts. Not laziness. Creativity. I started working on the wireframes, UI/UX, model training in May, 2023. It took me 6 months to get where we are today.

I wanted to find a mobile app that had a simple UI and easy to follow recipes, but what I found was that most popular apps offer a lot more. And I mean - "a lot more"... To the point where finding and deciding what I will eat turns into a nightmare and I end up buying a frozen pizza instead. If one app had beautiful UI and UX, then it was missing simple filter or the recipes were great, but UI terrible. And what if you want to find recipes based on a list of ingredients (I found exactly 3 apps that did that, but each one was missing something)?

So I decided to come up with a somewhat simple design, remove all the fancy functions that other apps offer (that were about anything else, but the recipes and finding them) and spice it up with a object detection solution that uses camera live-feed to automatically detect vegetables you already have. Now... While it works good in most cases, it is far from perfect and I do plan to improve it. 🤓

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What's the end goal?

Now and then I've heard critiques saying "I can write the name of ingredients, what's the point?". Speed. While this is the very first iteration of the app, at the later stages, it will be able to detect 5+ vegetables simultaneously and precisely - and have a list of all the ingredients you have in the fridge within a few seconds. A few button clicks, no keyboard (writing) interaction required and you're presented with hundreds of easy to follow recipes.

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I need your help...

While the app did help and solved my previously stated problems, I want to understand if this is something that other people are also seeking (and finding helpful). Any feedback - good or bad is highly appreciated, weather it is about the idea itself or app. I'm also eager to hear any future ideas you have regarding Swifto if it made you at least little bit excited. If you do enjoy the app, please leave a review - it does help tremendously. 👨‍🍳👨‍🍳👨‍🍳

P.S. Happy to answer technical questions :)

Hello r/SideProject! For the past month, I've been working on an open-source ambient sound generator called Moodist (moodist.app). Currently, it has 35 sounds from a wide range of categories, from nature to urban ambience. It's 100% FREE and doesn't require any account registration.

✻ Moodist: moodist.app

✻ Source Code: github.com/remvze/moodist

I'd be grateful to receive your feedback and hear your thoughts and ideas!

Hello,

I originally posted in r/Unity3D but was pointed here for help:

I developed software that creates live content similar to the Ai Spongebob project from YouTube months ago (but not SpongeBob). I developed it over a couple of months and streamed it a bit

The project is basically an AI-powered content creator that can interact with a live chat. It uses Unity and utilizes chatgpt as well as some text to speech libraries. I think it's neat, but I'm not really here to show it off

My issue is: I have someone interested in purchasing the project/code from me to use as their own, but I have no idea how to price it. Most pricing guides for software recommend comparing it to its competition but I'm not sure what to compare it to here. I've also seen people recommend selling project based on how long the project took to make

I've been looking at how much people ask to develop websites, for instance. Where simple websites with a few pages go for around $1.5k, and sites with more complex features going from $6k to others well over $10k+

I've tried getting the client to name a price but they seem to be waiting for me to name a price first. I'm too scared to say a number either too low or high ball

Can anyone help me with this? To throw out the number I was thinking to get the conversation going, I was thinking of around $10k? Sometimes that sounds too low but others too high

Thanks

Hey all, I am building a NextJS SaaS boilerplate - shipappsfast.com and here are my last 30 days stats

2012 Unique Visitors
5 sales
100.48 $ Revenue
0$ spent

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Hey guys,

I'm excited to share a project close to my heart – Lucra. As a contractor, I've always struggled to find a tool that simplifies accounting, from managing invoices to tracking expenses and understanding my tax liabilities. So, I decided to build one!

- Create and track expenses: You can see how much you're spending, automatically create subscriptions , as well as get reminders on upcoming expenses so you can save a bit of money.

- Custom simple invoices: Make it very simple to get paid, create and link and invoice to a client, send them an email directly from the app, get notified when the client views your invoice.

- [Releasing soon] Comprehensive dashboard: See how much you are making, how much you are spending, taxable income, as well as an approximate tax amount.

- [Releasing soon] Vault: Store all client relevant files in one place, from contracts, proposals, expenses and invoices. So you never lose anything again.

I'd love some feedback and to hear what you think.

Thanks a lot guys.

Hey fellow Redditors! 🌍✨ Have you ever wondered why English spelling is so confusing or how translations can sometimes be tricky? Join me on a linguistic journey as we unravel the mysteries of the English language!

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Lost in Translation: Ever tried translating a sentence from English to another language only to end up with a head-scratcher? Let's swap stories about hilarious or confusing translation mishaps. I once tried to order a coffee in Paris and ended up with a croissant – true story!

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Im a founder of iOS and Android apps called: "AI Grammar & Translate"

Hi everyone,

Recently I launched my latest app, My Cart which is a meal planning app. The app provides dozens of recipes and their respective ingredients. You can select all of the ingredients you need and then the app will show you price comparisons among several grocery stores (Currently Walmart, Kroger, HEB, Aldi. Whole Foods and Target are next on the list to add). You can also use the generate feature which adds 1000s of additional recipes, their ingredients, and how to make them. You can also add individual items to your shopping list if you want to just shop for groceries that way and you can check out with any of the stores listed above. You then would schedule curbside pickup or delivery with the store.

Key features of the app include:

• Dozens of in-house recipes + thousands you can search up
• Price comparisons of recipes/items by store
• No added costs or surcharges (we don't add fees to the checkout price or take any %)
• Saving time from conventional in-store shopping
• Cheaper than other Meal-provider apps (Hello fresh, Factor, Uber Eats, etc)
• Easy Cancellation and the subscription occurs through Apple/Google so you don't provide payment info to us

Having launched (we have yet to post to Product Hunt or Indie Hackers), I am wondering if the price point is at the right spot. The app costs $4.99/Mo to use and looking at our install and conversion metrics, this seems to be a huge wall for most new users who download the app. When you first open the app, it walks you through the entire app and lays out the benefits of costs and time savings before it prompts you to sign up. I was hoping to get some feedback on the app and the price point and see what other people thought the app was worth a month.

Link iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/my-cart/id6450795988

Link Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dxt.mealstogo

This is the story of my first side project and how it failed and what I learned from it.

In December 2020 I started to work on figmabox.com, a design resource website for Figma files. The business plan was to get sponsors and add affiliate links when the traffic increases.

I bought the domain name and started to develop the website. After a few days, I launched it.

3 years from the lunch day, here are the lessons I learned.

Things won't work out as you thought

Before I started to work on the project,

I did competitors and keyword research. And I estimate that My website will receive around 100,000 visitors each month within the first year.

I was a little over-optimistic!

After 3 years, my website receives 400 visitors per month. Many times lower than I estimated.

when you are working on your projects, you tend to be optimistic and overconfident. And you think everything will work according to the plan. But that's a big mistake!

Planning is different than reality.

Know when to quit

The goal of the website was to test if I could make money from it in 1 year. And if not, move to another project.

But I was attached and this is the biggest lesson.

Although, I saw the sign of failure from the first year when I saw the low traffic. I ignored it and I convinced myself that things might change over time.

It needs more time...

Another year and my website will become successful I said to myself.

So I kept working on it for another year.

But I was over-optimistic again!

In the second year, I started to get offers to include affiliate links. Yay, finally I will make some money!

Nope!

The affiliate provider uses PayPal and Paypal does not support my country. Even if the Paypal issue didn’t exist the traffic is low anyway. And I won't be able to make much.

Here...

You will think that I will stop working on this website after all these problems. And move to something else, right?

I kept working on it, I refused to let 2 and half years of my efforts wasted.

I kept things this way, until...

I saw my personal website get more traffic than my side project. And this was an awakening moment. Because it let me finally see that my side project has failed. Whatever I do things won’t change, I need to move on with my life.

Know when to quit and move on with your life when you see the signs.

What’s next?

After this experience, I started to work on a new side project called Reechly. It’s a Chrome extension that helps you generate a personalized LinkedIn message.

You can join the wailing list here https://reechly.com/

Thanks for reading!

I created this site where you can create your own custom meal plans. Think of it like your personal meal planner that hits your inbox when you need it – weekly, monthly... Plus, you get just the right number of meals you're looking for, along with a grocery list to make shopping easy. Curious?

You can check it out here:
https://personalmealrecipeplan.com/

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Hey guys! 👋

Super excited to share what I've been working on – it's a unique mix of animation and business insights that i called hornshacks and you can watch it on YT )

I've combined my passion for startups and entrepreneurship with creative animation. It's been a wild ride, and I can't wait for you all to see it.

Check it out and let me know your thoughts. Your support means everything!

Catch you there!

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Hi everyone!

I'm excited to share that I've recently launched an AI Tools Directory website as a side project. I've been fascinated by the rapid development of AI tools over the past few years, and I wanted to create a resource that would make it easier for people to discover and learn about these tools.

The website is called AI Tools Directory: https://pixeloons.com/. It features a searchable directory of AI tools, along with detailed descriptions, user reviews, and links to the tool's website. I'm constantly adding new tools to the directory, and I'm also working on adding some new features, such as the ability to filter tools by category and use case.

I'm still working on developing the site, but I'm excited to share it with you all and get your feedback. I hope you find it useful!

Link: AI Tools Directory: https://pixeloons.com/

What are your favorite AI tools? Share them in the comments below!

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My friends hired a website designer. I think it looks bland, please leave any feedback good or bad. Much appreciated thank you :)

I'm currently working on a B2B SaaS project and I'm eager to tap into the power of LinkedIn for customer acquisition.

The industry I target is quite active on Linkedin, or at least I can easily find people from this industry.

I would love to hear your insights, experiences, and strategies for making the most out of LinkedIn.

Hello everyone!
I have a project and I'm looking for a partner to help me create this company, which has the potential to be valued at several million dollars.
In concrete terms, and without giving too much away about the business model, I want to create a competitor to Shadow (in the cloud computing sector). I'm French and 20 years old, and I'm very good at UI design, so I'm looking for a CTO who could take care of the technical side of the SaaS product.
I'm willing to sell shares in my company to anyone who can help me with the issues I'm facing.

This is my email address: hershelbusiness@gmail.com

See you soon and look forward to reading your answers if you have any serious advice.

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If you have any suggestions or thoughts on what widgets would be helpful for you, I would love to hear them. Thanks!

link: https://dashy.io

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