Recent posts tagged sideprojects

My job-search tool had five functions whose only purpose was fixing JSON that Claude had just written. cleanjsontext, fixunescapednewlines, fixsinglequotes, stripmarkdownwrapper, extractandparsejson. There was also a sixth, retryjsonfix, which took t...

Since development of unity access has gone so well, I have been able to have most of the basic features built. This means that I was able to begin testing it to see if it would be viable to use in the long run. I did this by building a basic first p...

Every developer knows the drill: you love Python for its speed of development, but when it comes to raw execution power, heavy data processing, or low-latency systems, C++ is king. But what if you could write clean, expressive Python code and insta...

Hey devs! ​A while ago, I started building Astmize, a web tool to transpile Python code into optimized C++. In the first version, I tried building a strict AST parser. Long story short: handling type inference across languages entirely from a mobile ...

Building security tools always sounds more impressive than it really is at the beginning. In my case, PentestScan started as a practical idea: I wanted to build a simple Web & API security scanner that could help developers, small teams, and DevOps ...

On the last post, I mentioned usuage of multiple github models, but made some more modifications, and now 2 new providers are also added to the boardroom. STAGE 1 ARCHITECT CONFERENCE Architect A Mixtral/Groq + Architect B Llama/Groq prop...

When I started building Wizard Ecosystem, I didn’t plan to build an email system. It started as a side idea: “What if users could have AI-managed email inside the same ecosystem as their assistant, files, and agents?” That idea turned into Wizard ...

I play charades at family gatherings. Every time, someone spends 10 minutes writing words on paper slips, someone loses the slips, someone argues about the score, and the phone timer app keeps locking the screen mid-countdown. So I built a browser-ba...

I. Strategy: Finding the "Arbitrage of Mediocrity" 1. The Differentiation Framework The "Goldilocks" Niche: Don’t go so niche that the market doesn’t exist. If there’s zero competition, there’s likely zero money. Aim for "Niche but Scalable." Dim...

If you are building a SaaS, user feedback usually ends up everywhere except the one place where it is actually useful. Some requests arrive through email. Some show up in support chats. A few land in GitHub issues. One power user sends a long DM. Th...

Building side projects is easy. Shipping something people actually use — and maintaining it — is the hard part. In this article, I want to share the story behind PrudentSpend, a personal finance web application I built to help users track spending, ...

We've all been there. You need to quickly compress an image. You Google "free image tool", land on iLoveIMG, upload your file — and boom. "Sign up to continue." You just wanted to resize a photo. Not create another account you'll forget about in 3...

I made your GitHub profile explorable, you can now fly a spaceship through other developers' universes Phase 6 of Stack Universe just shipped and it changes what the product fundamentally is. It started as a visualizer. It is now an explorable mult...

I spent over a year building a safety monitoring app that runs 24/7 on elderly parents' phones. If it gets killed, nobody gets alerted when something goes wrong. That constraint forced me into the deepest, most frustrating corners of Android backgro...

A leaderboard for DumbQuestion.aihttps://dumbquestion.ai/?utmsource=legion sounds simple. Track the most asked questions, display them. Done. Except people never ask the same question the same way twice. I was curious about how creative users of Dum...

Turn your manual consulting tasks into a repeatable, sellable AI-powered workflow. Perfect for indie devs, PMs, and engineers building solo SaaS tools. Steps: • Review 5–10 past client jobs and list the inputs, decisions, and outputs. • Find the 80%...

Get subscription payments working in your side project without building custom checkout flows. Steps: • Embed Stripe's pricing table component with your user's ID as clientreferenceid and their email • Set up checkout.session.completed webhook to ...

Build and validate a one-feature MVP fast. This is for solo devs using AI to move from idea to proof without overbuilding. Steps: • Pick one job story with a clear success metric • Use AI to draft a one-page spec journey, UI, API, tests, not-doing l...