#side-project

The Row You Lose Is the Row That Ruins the Wall

I had a second monitor propped up next to my Minecraft window with a flat PNG open on it — a photo I wanted turned into a pixel-art wall —…

I built a training app for people who feel slightly lost in the gym. Want to test it?

GymBuddy is an Android MVP in pilot. I’m looking for a few gym-goers to check one thing: can the very first generated program earn your…

Why I Built “KILL TIME LOL” — A Retro Dot-Art Extension to Cure Desktop Boredom

How my craving for offline mobile games led me to build a retro mini-game hub right inside my Chrome browser.

Delayed 3+ hours on a flight to or from Europe? You might be owed up to €600.

Have you ever landed hours late after a flight to or from Europe, shrugged it off, and just gone home?

After Making a Few Tiny Random Tools, I Realized Small Tools Aren’t Easy Either

A personal note on building WheelPage, and why simple tools often require more restraint than they first appear to.

My English Isn’t Great. I Still Built an English SEO Site From China.

A young Chinese developer’s honest notes on shipping a first English-language project — the language hack, the SEO learning curve, and the…

I Earn ₹25K/Month As a .NET

I dropped out of college. No CS degree, no fancy final-year project, no campus placement story to tell at family functions.

The Quietest Person in the Room Is Often Fighting the Loudest Battle

Not everyone who looks calm is okay.

The Messy Middle: Building a Cloud Automation System as a Side Project

There’s a version of this story that sounds a lot cleaner than what actually happened. In that version, I sketched an architecture on a…

Building an AI-Powered Lakehouse with Apache Iceberg, BigQuery, and Gemini on Google Cloud

Modern data platforms need more than just analytics — they need open storage, interoperability, and built-in AI. In this project, I built…

Vibe Coding 實驗室(二)，任務管理APP-結合 Cloud Firestore & Mobile Modify

在三天端午三天的連假，就來讓上個月做的任務管理APP增加一些進度，這次增加的功能中，也是學習到一些新東西(對我來說)，這次增加的項目。

The Best Product Ideas Start With Your Own Friction

Most indie hackers test market demand before they build. Linus Lee tests cognitive friction. Here’s what that means for your next project.

How to Choose a Side Project

A side project is different from a full-time startup. Many people choose side projects with full-time startup logic: the market should be…

My Second App, and the Simple Thing I Kept Wanting

Building DashLog, a small private route journal for drives, trips, and everywhere in between.

📈 Top Launches on Tiny Startups this week

Some our favourite launches on Tiny Startups from past week…

I Built a Free Passport Photo App After 20 Years of Running a Photo Studio

I Built a Free Passport Photo App After 20 Years of Running a Photo Studio

I Built a Platform in Six Days With No Degree, No Co-Founder, and a Home Server.

Let me tell you about the moment I almost lost everything I had built.

Shipping It Ugly Taught Me I Was Building the Wrong Thing

Two months of evenings. Still not shipped.

Best Free Random Tools Online (2026) | Generate Numbers, Spin Wheels & More

Random tools have become essential in everyday digital tasks. Whether you’re running a giveaway, making decisions, teaching a class, or…

7 Things I Wish I Knew Before Selling My First Digital Product

The lessons that took me weeks to learn — and would have taken you five minutes to read

The Last Thing the World Needed Was Another Weather App

A delayed flight, three years of doubt, and the side project I almost never released.

How to Cache HTTP Requests During Local Development: Approaches, Trade-offs, and What I Learned…

We have all been there. You are writing a feature that integrates with a third-party API. It could be OpenAI generating a complex response…

I Built a Physical Mixtape Card App in One Day with Claude Code. Here’s Exactly How.

A product manager named Priscilla Tina built a working app the night before a conference — photo uploads, physical postcards, real…

Why I Built a Noise Removal App That Stays Offline

My first app, and the small thing that pushed me to make it

Appli d’analyse statistique des courses

J’ai dev une appli d’analyse statistique des courses PMU avec 13 critères. Code, méthode, et résultats publics.

5 Reasons Your First Digital Product Isn’t Selling (And How to Fix Each One)

Created by the author using AI

I Built ProtectedShare Because My Notes Were Never Where I Needed Them

For most of my professional life, I never thought much about note-taking software.

Now is the Best Time to be a Duct Tape Engineer

I have two small kids, which means my free time is largely governed by school schedules. The gaps I actually get to think about code…

Braindump#7

Here is list for the braindump#7, this week:

I Made a Diamond Painting Pattern Generator Because I Got Hooked on the Hobby

A personal side project born from Temu kits and a childhood memory

I Built a Free EPUB Maker That Runs in Your Browser — Here’s Where It Stands

A solo dev log for EPUBMaker.org

When three sharp wallets agree: what consensus signals on Polymarket actually mean

A few weeks into watching specific wallets on Polymarket, I noticed a pattern. Most of the time, a sharp wallet making a trade is one…

AnI Buddy (An Insight Buddy): A Smart Solution for MSMEs to Turn Mountains of Documents into…

Based on data from the Indonesian Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs, Indonesia is home to over 65 million Micro, Small, and Medium…

Building an on-chain alerts bot in Python without any blockchain library

PolySignal — my Telegram bot that watches Polymarket — has a small subsystem called chain_watcher. It does one thing: cross-check every…

How I track Polymarket smart money

The interesting thing about prediction markets

My Web Scraping Projects

Book renewal notice; Dow Jones index alert, …; Side projects may benefit others and yourself

我用 AI 做了 5 個 Side Project，完全不會寫程式

我的正職是獵頭顧問。人力資源管理研究所畢業，做過企業人資，後來轉做中高階獵才。每天的工作就是看履歷、面試、媒合人才。跟程式碼完全沒有交集。

Richfolio, three months in: AI architecture in production

From v1.0 to v1.6 — what I rebuilt, what I borrowed, and what’s running in production for $0/month

I Built a DAW and a DJ Tool in the Browser Because My English Teacher Asked

My English teacher is a musician. The other day he was showing me some of his compositions and said something like “I wish I could just…

I Tracked 100 Amazon Products for 90 Days. Here Is What I Found.

The data behind Amazon’s pricing strategy — and what it means for your wallet

[佈署]不懂 AWS 的工程師，怎麼把 side project 部署上線？Railway 實測

對不熟AWS部署的工程師上手成本高

I Knew State Management Was a Mess. I Shipped It Anyway.

What I learned from going ‘cloud-optional’ with my side projects.

My AI is local, my code is hand-rolled: Why I’m falling in love with building small again

Turning Productivity into a Social Quest

A few weeks ago, I found myself in a deep productivity slump. I had some goals in mind, but I did not feel like doing them. So, like any…

The Journey to GACHAGO!

A side project diary: AI tools, VTuber traffic, and exceeding Vercel’s free tier before launch

Bir Çalışma Kartından Bir Siteye: YDS Hazırlığım Nasıl Side Project’e Dönüştü

Kendi öğrenme aracımı yaparken ortaya bir ürün çıktı.

How a One-File HTML Joke Became My Most Educational Side Project

A while ago, I built a tiny HTML page for one simple reason: our daily standups had become painfully repetitive.The page did exactly one…

A Brief Introduction to Snake-Kind

Snakes are among the most intriguing creatures on our planet. Their unique physiology, behaviours, and roles in ecosystems contribute to…

Building a Gantt Chart Plugin for kintone’s North American Market — A Weekend Battle with…

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Tarayıcında farklı bir masaüstü oluştur: masaustum.com

20 sene önce masaustum.com’u almıştım ve yıllardır vakit bulup da hayata geçirememiştim. Kızım “baba, burada istediğim radyolar yok, benim…