Here's a summary of what's currently on **r/SideProject** (as of July 20, 2026): --- ## About the Subreddit r/SideProject is a community for sharing and receiving constructive feedback on side projects. It has **~707,000 members** and is highly discussion-oriented. ## Current Hot Posts **Announcements / Stickied:** 1. **"As the year wraps up: what's the project you're most proud of building and why?"** — 599 comments 2. **"Share your ***Not-AI*** projects"** — 1,798 comments **Recent Posts (past few hours):** 3. **"I built this"** (video) — 3h ago 4. **"Can we please stop with all these 'I got tired of' posts!"** — discussion about post quality, 12h ago 5. **"The Iran situation kicked off, so my one-person OSINT desk had its biggest night"** — beat CENTCOM announcement by 3 hours, 14h ago 6. **"Twitch, but for running"** (video) — 14 min ago 7. **"I built a Mac app that turns a screen recording into a written guide"** — 8h ago 8. **"Got my first ever paying customer one day after launch!"** — 2h ago 9. **"I Built a Mac AI Workspace that lives in your Mac Notch"** — one-time payment, no subscription, 3h ago 10. **"What's a project you're building that you'd genuinely use yourself?"** — 42 min ago 11. **"How do you market your project?"** — 5h ago 12. **"I got tired of news apps... so I built one where you explore what you don't know as a star map"** — 4h ago 13. **"I built a GeoGuessr-style game, but it uses maps instead of Street View"** — 5h ago 14. **"NetLens - Augmented Reality WiFi Visualizer"** — 2h ago 15. **"Day 63 of building in public"** — 34 min ago 16. **"Learning Rust by rebuilding Linux utilities (no AI)"** — 35 min ago 17. **"I made an app that pays to walk"** — 15h ago, 45 comments 18. **"What is your current side project and what inspired you to make it?"** — 16h ago 19. **"Underestimated how difficult marketing and distribution is for a product"** — 10h ago 20. **"I built a Chrome extension to scroll through tabs with the mouse wheel"** — 1h ago 21. **"I built an app that gives you a valued inventory of everything you own"** — disaster recovery focused, 3h ago 22. **"I'm a blind developer from Brazil — I built a pure-logic JS game library"** — 1h ago 23. **"Six months into my photo booth rental side hustle"** — 7h ago 24. **"I built an iPad game for cats"** — 20h ago 25. **"My little transcription app... sharing it free"** — 4h ago ## Key Themes - **AI tools** (Mac AI workspace, transcription apps) - **Gaming / interactive** (GeoGuessr-style, cat game, AR WiFi visualizer) - **Developer tools** (Chrome extension, Rust utilities, JS game library) - **Health & fitness** (running app, app that pays you to walk) - **Marketing struggles** — a recurring discussion topic - **Building in public** — devs sharing daily progress - **First customers / validation** — celebration posts The community is very active with new posts every few minutes, covering everything from AI-powered tools to hardware projects, with a strong emphasis on getting feedback and sharing lessons learned.