The latest articles on DEV Community by Tanmay Singh (@tanmay_singh_1e0c5f77da9d). https://dev.to/tanmay_singh_1e0c5f77da9d https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4156448%2Fb9df3f10-c726-4298-bfd2-81c85d374a6b.png https://dev.to/tanmay_singh_1e0c5f77da9d en Tanmay Singh Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:34:16 +0000 https://dev.to/tanmay_singh_1e0c5f77da9d/top-leite-web3-mern-ai-project-44if https://dev.to/tanmay_singh_1e0c5f77da9d/top-leite-web3-mern-ai-project-44if <h1> SideGig AI — Turn Your Skills Into a Side Hustle </h1> <p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p><strong>SideGig AI is an open-source AI-powered business assistant that helps freelancers and students turn their skills into realistic side hustles.</strong></p> <p>Many students know how to code, design websites, edit videos, or create content, but struggle to find paying clients and figure out what services to offer.</p> <p>SideGig AI helps users:</p> <ul> <li>Discover potential side hustles based on their existing skills.</li> <li>Generate service packages with suggested pricing.</li> <li>Create personalized proposals for potential clients.</li> <li>Draft professional outreach messages.</li> <li>Build a simple action plan to land their first customer.</li> </ul> <p>The target audience is students, beginner freelancers, indie hackers, and people looking to earn extra income without investing heavily in expensive software.</p> <p><strong>The business model:</strong> A free self-hostable version for individuals, with a potential paid cloud-hosted version for freelancers who want saved projects, proposal templates, and advanced workflows.</p> <p>The goal is simple: help people spend less time planning and more time finding customers.</p> <h2> Demo </h2> <p><strong>Live demo:</strong> [Insert your deployed demo URL]</p> <p>The demo will showcase a user entering their skills, receiving three personalized side-hustle ideas, selecting one, and generating a client proposal.</p> <h2> Code </h2> <p><strong>GitHub repository:</strong> [Insert your public GitHub repository URL]</p> <p>The project is intended to be open source so developers can inspect the implementation, contribute new capabilities, and deploy their own instance.</p> <h2> How I Built It </h2> <p>SideGig AI is designed around open-source AI rather than depending entirely on a proprietary AI API.</p> <p><strong>Proposed technology stack:</strong></p> <ul> <li> <strong>Frontend:</strong> React and Tailwind CSS</li> <li> <strong>Backend:</strong> Node.js and Express</li> <li> <strong>AI model:</strong> Qwen or Llama-family open-weight instruction model</li> <li> <strong>Inference:</strong> Ollama for local development</li> <li> <strong>Data storage:</strong> MongoDB</li> <li> <strong>Deployment:</strong> Docker, with a cloud deployment for the demo</li> </ul> <p>The application takes structured user input, sends it to the selected model, and converts the model's output into organized side-hustle ideas, service packages, and outreach drafts.</p> <p>I designed the workflow to separate AI-generated suggestions from user decisions. Users can edit the pricing, rewrite proposals, and choose which recommendations to pursue.</p> <p>The model and inference layer are intended to be replaceable, allowing developers to experiment with different open-weight models without rebuilding the application.</p> <h2> Why Does Open Innovation Matter? </h2> <p>Open innovation makes AI more accessible to developers who cannot afford expensive API usage while experimenting with a new product.</p> <p>For SideGig AI, open-weight models offer three important advantages:</p> <p><strong>1. Greater control:</strong> Developers can choose where inference runs and keep sensitive business information on their own infrastructure when configured appropriately.</p> <p><strong>2. Freedom to experiment:</strong> Different models can be evaluated for proposal quality, response speed, and resource requirements.</p> <p><strong>3. Community-driven development:</strong> Contributors can add new business workflows, improve prompts, test models, and adapt the application for different languages and markets.</p> <p>A closed API could also power this product, but an open architecture gives developers more control over deployment and model selection.</p> <p>My goal is to build something that beginners can use and that other developers can learn from, extend, and self-host.</p> <h2> My Agent Session </h2> <p>[Insert your actual DevRelay agent session link, if available.]</p> <p>The session can demonstrate how the application was developed, how the model was integrated, and how the implementation evolved through testing and debugging.</p> <h2> Prize Categories </h2> <p>[Add the applicable partner categories from the official challenge rules after verifying eligibility.]</p> <p><em>SideGig AI is an example of how open-source AI can become a practical tool for people trying to build their first independent income stream.</em></p> devchallenge hf26challenge Tanmay Singh Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:39:16 +0000 https://dev.to/tanmay_singh_1e0c5f77da9d/most-elite-mern-web-3-startup-4m5 https://dev.to/tanmay_singh_1e0c5f77da9d/most-elite-mern-web-3-startup-4m5 <p>MOST ELITE MERN +WEB 3 STARTUP</p> Tanmay Singh Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:21:48 +0000 https://dev.to/tanmay_singh_1e0c5f77da9d/open-source-elite-project-8g9 https://dev.to/tanmay_singh_1e0c5f77da9d/open-source-elite-project-8g9 <p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <h2> Demo </h2> <h2> Code </h2> <h2> How I Built It </h2> <h2> Why Does Open Innovation Matter? </h2> <h2> My Agent Session </h2> <h2> Prize Categories </h2> devchallenge hf26challenge Tanmay Singh Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:37:56 +0000 https://dev.to/tanmay_singh_1e0c5f77da9d/developer-peaks-1h1m https://dev.to/tanmay_singh_1e0c5f77da9d/developer-peaks-1h1m <p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-weekend-2026-10-01">Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <h2> Demo </h2> <h2> Code </h2> <h2> How I Built It </h2> <h2> Why Does Open Innovation Matter? </h2> <h2> My Agent Session </h2> <h2> Prize Categories </h2> devchallenge weekendchallenge hf26challenge