Do you have a side project? Talk about it!

Many professional developers have also side projects!

Some have a commercial SaaS software, others an open source npm module ... others a blog!

There are also multiple reasons to have a side project: to update your resume, to make an extra income, to sharpen your coding skills or get new skills, etc.

So...

Do you have a side project?

Talk about it! Tell us where we can find it, what makes it special, what technologies did you use, etc.

If you don't have one yet... would you like to build one?

Comments

[Stefan Breitenstein]

Im working on a chrome extension which list your current gists in a chrome dev panel.
You can modify the code in the panel and copy/execute on the code console.

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...

[Hugo Gresse]

I've 3 😅

• ⭐️ OpenFeedback.io which is a feedback saas for event/meetup/conferences.

  • anonymous constructive vote
  • big admin with user management, can load speakers/talks with an external API, etc
  • using Firebase Functions, Firestore, Mailgun, React/Redux/Formik, OpsGenie
  • repo: github.com/HugoGresse/open-feedback

• Ical2Api which add an API on top of ical feeds. It's missing a lot of UI but it's working and have proper slack support for hours reminders and weekly reminder with upcoming event this week. We use it in Montpellier, France for local meetups on meetup.com.

• FillMySlides which use a Google Slides as a template for generating thumbnails/images.

  • You post your google slides url,
  • give a json with the data
  • and a zip will downloaded at the end.

About me: android engineer, I guess web engineer now too :D, I've left an advertising company to focus on my side project while searching for a ethical job.

[Koushik KM]

Recently I started working on a new project JobTriage. It is a web app to manage your Job search built on Ruby, React and Mongo DB.

This project is in its initial state and there are lot of improvements need to be done. And of course its open source.

You can check it out here jobtriage.netlify.com/

[sensen]

I have one that I'm focusing on for over a year already! It's called Typing Hero, a text expander app for Android platform.

Text expander allows you to set a keyword for word or phrase that you type frequently. For example, you can type "ty" and have it transformed into "Thank you!". You get the idea!

The basic feature is available for free for everyone without any limitation. Subscriptions allows user to enjoy additional feature focusing on convenience and further efficiency.

The app is written in Kotlin, using RxJava, Room, and some services from Firebase.

You can find out more on typinghero.app.

You can get it on play.google.com/store/apps/details....

[Ionel Cristian Lupu]

hey. I am currently working on a Node.js web framework called Typetron | Github

[David Tuite]

My side project is called KubeWise. It's useful to people who install things on Kubernetes clusters with Helm and want to know when apps are installed, upgraded or deleted from the Kubernetes cluster.

It's my first #Go project and my first real coding in a long time.

I made it for two reasons:

1. We implemented something similar in a different context in work and I saw how much the feature was loved by the rest of the company.
2. I wanted to get back in touch with coding.

I'm having a lot of fun working on it and I'm learning new things every day!

[Brian Rinaldi]

I've been running a site that has online meetups and trainings for the past 2.5 years. I whipped up the site pretty quickly using Hugo back when I started it but as the content expanded I had to redesign it and now revise the entire content model. It's allowed me to explore some interesting integrations too with 3rd party APIs using serverless...lots more to come with some upcoming changes I am working on.

Check it out here cfe.dev/

[Srebalaji Thirumalai]

I just hacked a weekend project. srebalaji.github.io/timezone-track/

Timezone Track helps people to track different timezones in one simple page.

[rafapastor]

simple but useful, congratulations

[Panos Dalitsouris]

I also have two. One is called unigym. What is does is a set of tools aiming to help personal trainers and gym owners manage their business.

What you can do

• Manage memberships
• Create events and invite members
• Build and assign workout programs to gym members
• There is a private profile page for each member with access to their workout and meal plans as well as their subscriptions.
• and so much more to come...

It's still in active development it will be launched in August 2020.

The app is built using Laravel, MySQL, Vue.js and RabbitMQ

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Other then that I also maintain a ruby gem active_policy that is meant to be a way to authorize a request before hitting the controller in your rails projects.

[Nicolas Carlier]

Working on side projects is definitely one of my hobbies.
I'm a big consumer of news of many kinds. This is why I've developed my own "technology watch" tools. I am developing readflow.app that is a news reader with some cool features. Automatic classification of articles into categories thanks to a simple rule engine. Offline support, PWA, etc. And to feed this tool I have also developed a modular RSS aggregator: Feedpushr.

Finally, because I like to mix my hobby and my work, I have also developed "Devops" tools such as Webhookd, an HTTP server that exposes shell scripts as remote functions. And APImon, a simple API monitoring tool.

Anyway, I like to develop side projects ;-)