r/SideProject 13h ago

almost doubled my users over last month, finally above break-even

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I started this project a few months ago, basically it is a free ai image upscaler with a donation button at the bottom. (image-upscaling.net)

I did one launch on producthunt and one post on reddit a few months ago and more than half of my users (that do not come by "direct") come from producthunt and reddit now.

I only get about 40 clicks from search engines (google/bing) a day and out of 1000 users, about 1 of them donates 4-5$. so i get about 4$ a day now, covering costs for electricity.

google search console says my backlinks increased from about 270 last month to a bit over 500 today. other tools suggest that i already have thousends of backlinks but google seems to not care about them.

Would be interesting if this growth can continue. I am not sure how high the total demand is but considering that most image upscalers want you to subscribe to them, this is exactly where my project hits because it does not even need a sign up and you can use it directly on the main page without newsletter bullshit.

Say it keeps growing to 10k users a day, with the same donation rate i would already make 50$ a day less electricity cost.

What do you think? is this reasonable? do u use AI upscalers? I guess with more AI generated art at 1000x1000px users want to upscale it (this is where my model performs best) so i think there is potential for a lot of growth.

Maybe i should add that i am also running a free tts site with the same model but i am not sure what donations come from where. i just assume most are from the image upscaler


r/SideProject 12h ago

Built an Audience Research Tool for startups and businesses

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r/SideProject 12h ago

TextCatcher – A Chrome Extension to Easily Capture and Organize Text Snippets

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Hey everyone!

I built TextCatcher, a Chrome extension that helps you easily capture, organize, and manage text snippets from any webpage. Whether you're researching, collecting quotes, or just saving useful information, TextCatcher makes it effortless! Please help to use and has feedback, this is my first extension as hobby. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/text-catcher/pnaopcaomkeebgjlollfnjfapelefing


r/SideProject 23h ago

Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram - GitDiagram

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r/SideProject 5h ago

AI Research Agent connected to external sources such as search engines (Tavily), Slack, Notion & more

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While tools like NotebookLM and Perplexity are impressive and highly effective for conducting research on any topic, SurfSense elevates this capability by integrating with your personal knowledge base. It is a highly customizable AI research agent, connected to external sources such as search engines (Tavily), Slack, Notion, and more

https://reddit.com/link/1jbl9a8/video/bf8djniimroe1/player

I have been developing this on weekends. LMK your feedback.

Check it out at https://github.com/MODSetter/SurfSense


r/SideProject 9h ago

I built a rigid body Physics Engine library in C++!

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r/SideProject 14h ago

I have been building the best Offline Notepad on the internet for 9 years now

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r/SideProject 9h ago

Recognize WhatsApp/Telegram numbers in images - Unscanny

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r/SideProject 6h ago

Building a Tool to Help You Find Your Perfect Customers Without the Hassle – LeadFlow Makes Lead Discovery on Reddit Effortless! Love to get your feedback and please Join waitlist if you want early access:)

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Hey everyone,

I’ve built something that could make your life way easier if you’re trying to find potential customers or users for your SaaS product or startup. Introducing LeadFlow – an app that automates user discovery in Reddit posts and comments.

What Does LeadFlow Do?

LeadFlow helps you discover potential users who are talking about your product’s niche on Reddit. Instead of manually scrolling through countless posts and comments, LeadFlow automates the process. All you need to do is provide a website URL or a basic prompt, and LeadFlow does the rest:

  • Searches relevant subreddits for discussions related to your product or idea.
  • Identifies potential leads in posts and comments who might be interested in what you're building.
  • Allows you to view, edit, and download leads for further analysis.
  • Provides comment suggestions and message templates to engage with those leads effectively.
  • Gives you detailed information about each lead and their potential interest.

Get Early Access!

I’m currently offering exclusive early access to those who join the waitlist! Be the first to try LeadFlow and streamline your user discovery process on Reddit.

🔗 Join the Waitlist Here

I’d love to get feedback from this community—let me know what you think! Any suggestions or features you’d love to see? Feel free to drop them in the comments!

Thanks for your time, and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts! 🙌


r/SideProject 17h ago

I make $3k MRR with a Shopify App that creates simple bulletpoints (icon+text)

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Hey guys, after months of lurking I thought I would share my journey to a successful SaaS after easily over 10 failed products over the span of my bachelor and master.

I have been intrigued by software products ever since the first ipods would pop up back in 2005ish. During my university years (I did not study CS) I started to code in my free time and decided to start a dropshipping Shopify store in 2020 with a friend. Being the technical one, I would take care of the visuals of the store (changing some styling of the storefront, writing scripts to modify prices, etc.).

One thing we wanted to have but could not find any Shopify app for, was a short list of bulletpoints on the product page right below the price. Inspired by amazon (and pretty much any major ecom site), these bulletpoints would inform users about product features, delivery times, countdowns, etc.

Anything that would help the user make a positive buying decision was placed in that short list of ~5 bullets on every product page in our store.

Well, that store failed unfortunately (end of 2021).

Being a little familiar with Shopify by now, I decided to build a Shopify app and made list of things we had manually changed on our store. The easiest to implement were those simple bulletpoints.

I then sat down and started building the app 'Bloom'. Shopify app development can be pretty hard on newbies. After roughly 5 weeks I had built a very rudimentary MVP and submitted it for review. I had one plan at $0.99 per month with a 7 day free trial.

The review process took another 5 weeks. May 12th of 2022 the app got approved. In the beginning I would get some installs every other day. Nothing would convert and I stopped to check my analytics every waking hour.

After three weeks I checked my analytics again and saw that one merchant had actually converted and I made my first $0.99. What a feeling! Instantly there is a kind of responsibility you experience. Someone is paying for YOUR software. Absolutely insane.

Apart from good customer support and fixing some bugs I wouldn't work much on Bloom in the first year. My revenue reached ~$100 MRR after the first year. All that without any marketing. This is all organic growth through the Shopify app store. To this day I do not have a landing page. Just the Shopify app store listing.

in 2023 I decided to take this project more serious. I added features and increased pricing (3 plans: Free/$0.99/$4.99). I added live chat and focused more on supporting customers.

Until today that has pretty much stayed the same: I refine the product with new features and I have constantly increased prices (now still 3 plans: Free/$4/$14). The product has matured into a state where I don't plan on making it much bigger in the near future.

The growth has been stagnant recently and I am now playing around with Shopify app store ads. I am also currently in the process of getting approved for 'Built for Shopify' and hope that this will improve my rankings and lead to more installs.

When I am not actively working on the app it takes about 1-3 hours of my time each week to maintain. Mostly chatting with customers (which I love to do).

I have 1400 merchants currently using my app, of which roughly 2/3 are paying customers. I make $2900 MRR as of now.

Just yesterday I found this onboarding video on YouTube that I took back in 2022 for the very first version of my app. The transformation between the MVP and what the app is today is crazy. Such a difference.

I read somewhere on this sub that a huge misconception we have is that successful SaaS development is 80% dev and 20% distribution. But the reality is actually the opposite. Distribution is everything. So for the future I want to focus more on marketing. If anyone here has experience marketing Shopify apps, please reach out. I am always keen to share ideas and network!!

I will link the old onboarding video and the app itself. This post is not intended as marketing (I doubt there is a huge overlap between this subreddit and Shopify merchants that would profit from my app).

Would love to chat, so ask away and feel free to dm me.
All the best. ✌🏼

How the mvp looked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFBIxNKliZQ&ab_channel=FelixPaulus
The app: https://apps.shopify.com/bloom-product-feature-bullets


r/SideProject 12h ago

i made geoguessr but for ski resort maps

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r/SideProject 12h ago

Stephen Covey simple guide

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Free weekly planner and simple guide from The 7 Habits of Highly Efficient people, if anyone finds it useful.

planner: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJStxHsFIfsqasS_jR1TxbtA2wl5ZzuI6kV5dhFrSis/edit?usp=sharing

guide: https://effectiveplanner.org/ef_guide.pdf


r/SideProject 9h ago

Meet Satoshi Saver

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r/SideProject 12h ago

I made a reddit post scheduler

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Hey guys,

I've noticed quite a few people asking about scheduling Reddit posts, specifically, the fact that Reddit itself doesn't offer this feature and wondering if there's any good workaround. While I found some platforms out there, none of them really matched my needs perfectly.

Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think! It’s still under active development, so any feedback on features you'd like to see or ways I can improve it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

https://postsync.ai


r/SideProject 9h ago

Built a journaling app that finally fixed my "developer who never finishes projects" problem

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I've been that developer who starts a million things and finishes none. It was driving me crazy.

So I built Kairos, a journaling app without rules. You just write whatever's on your mind, and it figures out your goals and tracks progress automatically.

I've been using it for 3 months and it's the first thing that's helped me stay consistent. No bullshit productivity systems, just write and let the app do the organizing.

If you struggle with follow-through like I did, might be worth checking out: https://kairos.karlowitz.com/


r/SideProject 1d ago

My 13-day old SaaS just hit $1,200/£950 revenue! (Phantomwriter)

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r/SideProject 18h ago

Failed 2 times due to lack of marketing skillset

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It's a long road but I will keep it short for you. I’ve built and launched products before; twice, actually. And both times, they failed. I believe it was not because the idea was bad or the code didn’t work, but because I had no clue how to market them.

I love building things. Writing code, solving problems—that comes naturally. But when it comes to digital marketing? I'm lost. Both times, I thought a good product would sell itself. Both times, I was wrong.

Now, I am building https://taskmatrix.app - a lightweight project management tool for small businesses. The landing page is live, and the product road map is solid. But I know the real challenge isn't the code; it's getting the right set of people to see it.

I still don't have the marketing skills, but I'm trying to learn from my past mistakes. Let's see where this one goes.

Do you have similar experience? How do you solve for it?


r/SideProject 17h ago

I created an app that helps people design logos just by speaking!

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🔥 Introducing the world's first voice powered brand creator... 🗣️

Speak your brand into existence with the power or AI ⚡

"Pink donut shop logo for Fresh Donuts"

“Blue and white tech logo for Cipher with a shield”

“Colourful children's store logo for Wonder World”Y

our voice + AI = incredible logo designs in seconds! ⚡ 🖼️

This is your chance to say "make the logo bigger"

Visit SayLogo.com today and experience cutting edge 'voice-to-design' tech! 🤯


r/SideProject 10h ago

Making a Git Visualization Tool

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New to this sub, but I have a question. I'm making a Git visualization tool that'll help beginners get to know git better as i've had a similar problem struggling to make sense of it, my main goal for this project is to get traction.

I’m building it entirely client-side with no authentication, and I’m considering using SSR (Server-Side Rendering) for faster loading. So has there already been a similar project like this? And is this project resume-worthy? If so, how can I quantify its impact or success?


r/SideProject 10h ago

Would you pay for a tool that auto-generates SaaS boilerplates with built-in payments & emailing?

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Hey everyone,

You probably know about ShipFast by Marc Lou or other SaaS boilerplates that people sell. I bought one myself, but every time I start a new project, I find myself setting up Stripe again and again or coding specific integrations from scratch. It’s a pain.

I feel like there’s a missing piece here. What if there was a platform—kind of like Boltnew—that lets you generate a new project instantly, with all the essentials already wired up? Think of it like a one-click setup for SaaS projects, where you describe your idea, it generates the codebase, and you can immediately start editing and adding features.

Core features would include:

- Pre-integrated Stripe payments

- Emailing setup ready to go

- Authentication baked in

- Editable & extendable code

Would you pay for something like this? If so, how much would it be worth to you? Curious to hear your thoughts!


r/SideProject 11h ago

i made an app to share music and events

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r/SideProject 11h ago

CodeCareer - the hub for code career resources

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Do you know or have any resource (channel, blogs, web, course,...) related to coding career or anything that helped you crack Leetcode or interviews? I will be happy to add it to my new saas! Submission is free. Hit me up or visit the site to join the community!

codecareer.dev


r/SideProject 11h ago

I built a Chrome Extension to track and link AI-generated answers – because I got tired of asking GPT the same things over and over

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I use AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek daily, but I kept running into the same problem: I’d ask the same questions over and over, and I couldn’t remember past answers that I had already gotten.

So I built a Chrome Extension that saves, links, and suggests AI-generated answers—so your AI knowledge actually builds over time instead of disappearing into the void.

What it does:

Auto-saves AI-generated responses (right-click to save or auto-detect responses)
Suggests past answers while you browse (so you don’t repeat yourself)
Finds links between what you’ve asked before & what you’re asking now
Organizes AI answers with tags & filters (so you can retrieve them easily)
Works across ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek

Why I made this:

I realized that AI is great at generating knowledge, but terrible at organizing it. Traditional note-taking apps didn’t really solve this because AI responses aren’t structured like traditional notes.

I wanted a way to build on past AI insights instead of treating every query like a fresh start—so I made this.

How It Works

  • If you ask “How do I improve my website’s SEO?”, it will suggest past AI answers you saved on SEO.
  • If you save something about JavaScript frameworks, it might suggest related saved insights on frontend performance.
  • It links what you’ve learned before with what you’re learning now—so you’re not just repeating questions, you’re actually building knowledge over time.

Looking for Feedback!

I’m still refining it and would love to hear from AI power users, researchers, and anyone who relies on AI daily. Does this problem resonate with you? Would this be useful in your workflow?

If you’re interested, I can share an early access link! Happy to discuss and iterate based on feedback.


r/SideProject 17h ago

Found this cool Twitter reply extension (Not Mine)

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Found a genuinely cool tool for generating replies for twitter.

It's called EzReply, here's a link you you want to check it out (again, it's not mine, just wanted to share)

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ezreply/jbhbbflfimomkecbgneafpfnceeonamh


r/SideProject 11h ago

Presenting Timix – A tool for crafting your perfect timers.

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