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Cover image for One month after shipping my Chrome extension: 116 users and real lessons learned

Jan 14

One month after shipping my Chrome extension: 116 users and real lessons learned

#buildinpublic #sideprojects #productivity #career

1 min read

Cover image for How to build a $5,000/Month AI System with ChatGPT + Gumroad

Jan 13

How to build a $5,000/Month AI System with ChatGPT + Gumroad

#ai #chatgpt #digitalworkplace #sideprojects

4 min read

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Messin

Dec 9 '25

🚦 Adaptive IoT Traffic Lights: Building a Smarter Traffic System with ESP32

#esp32 #iot #diy #sideprojects

3 min read

ACStory

Dec 7 '25

I built a simple desktop media downloader with a clean UI — Flucto (open-source, cross-platform)

#webdev #sideprojects #programming

1 min read

핫구사

Dec 7 '25

Building a deal aggregator: Lessons from crawling Korean e-commerce sites

#webdev #crawling #sideprojects #korea

1 min read

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Ivan G.

Dec 8 '25

How I decided to revive my project that was stale for 5 years... Part 2

#opensource #github #webdev #sideprojects

9 min read

Resumly

Dec 7 '25

My First DEV.to Post: Sharing Something I’ve Been Building Solo

#ai #sideprojects #saas #career

2 min read

Cover image for Side Projects? I don't have time for that!

Jan 8

Side Projects? I don't have time for that!

#ai #agents #mcp #sideprojects

7 min read

Cover image for 🎮 Why Simple Web Games Still Work (and What I Learned Building One)

Jan 7

🎮 Why Simple Web Games Still Work (and What I Learned Building One)

#webdev #gamedev #sideprojects #react

2 min read

Cover image for Built a lightweight client sign-off tool sharing the tech stack and design decisions (beta)

sudarshan161219

Jan 5

Built a lightweight client sign-off tool sharing the tech stack and design decisions (beta)

#webdev #sideprojects #portfolio #react

1 min read

Cover image for What Building Small, Personal Tools Taught Me This Year

Aryan Choudhary

Dec 29 '25

What Building Small, Personal Tools Taught Me This Year

#productivity #sideprojects #devjournal #learning

4 min read

Cover image for Understanding Strings in C: From Basics to Best Practices

Farhad Rahimi Klie

Jan 1

Understanding Strings in C: From Basics to Best Practices

#c #programming #learning #sideprojects

2 min read

Cover image for I spent a week working on regression tests & metadata guarantees on the YINI config/settings parser

Dec 31 '25

I spent a week working on regression tests & metadata guarantees on the YINI config/settings parser

#sideprojects #opensource #node #programming

2 min read

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bzddbz

Nov 28 '25

My fun christmas project for this year

#ai #sideprojects #automation #webdev

3 min read

Andy Yaro

Nov 27 '25

WIP student project: multi-account AWS “Secure Data Hub” (would love feedback!)

#aws #devops #sideprojects #security

1 min read

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