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CleanUpTxt

Dec 11 '25

From Text Cleaner to Full Toolkit: Building 30+ Free Browser Tools

#webdev #javascript #sideprojects #productivity

3 min read

Valentin

Dec 10 '25

How to find beta users for your SaaS?

#saas #webdev #tutorial #sideprojects

4 min read

Dec 14 '25

I Built an Open-Source Gamma Alternative After Hitting Presentation Limits in College

#opensource #ai #webdev #sideprojects

2 min read

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

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

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

Jeannie

Dec 13 '25

☁️ How to Host Your Side Projects for $0: The Ultimate GCP Free Tier Guide

#cloud #free #gcp #sideprojects

4 min read

Aryan Choudhary

Dec 29 '25

What Building Small, Personal Tools Taught Me This Year

#productivity #sideprojects #devjournal #learning

4 min read

Farhad Rahimi Klie

Jan 1

Understanding Strings in C: From Basics to Best Practices

#c #programming #learning #sideprojects

2 min read

bzddbz

Nov 28 '25

My fun christmas project for this year

#ai #sideprojects #automation #webdev

3 min read

Dec 28 '25

I built my own S3 for $5/mo Shared Hosting (because no one else did)

#aws #php #sideprojects #testing

2 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

Nov 26 '25

Building Two SQL Dashboards: E-commerce Analytics + Student Performance Reporting

#postgressql #sideprojects #database

5 min read

Prakash

Dec 16 '25

Building A Metro Route Planner Website For Indian Cities

#webdev #javascript #publictransport #sideprojects

2 min read

Dec 27 '25

Why this piece lives on Medium

#writing #sideprojects #personalgrowth #work

1 min read

Annabelle

Nov 21 '25

Lessons learned and Retrospective from my first 100 signups on HomePageAgain

#showdev #webdev #community #sideprojects

4 min read

Nov 19 '25

🍹 Introducing Happy Hour API — A Simple Way to Add Local Drink Deals to Your App

#webdev #opensource #sideprojects #api

1 min read

Kristijan

Nov 19 '25

I Built TabClock — A Simple Chrome Extension That Shows How Long You Spend on Each Website

#productivity #chromeextension #javascript #sideprojects

2 min read

Ivan G.

Dec 2 '25

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

#opensource #github #webdev #sideprojects

3 min read

Aryan Choudhary

Dec 20 '25

I Built a Tool Because I Was Tired of Overthinking Comments

#productivity #nextjs #sideprojects #api

5 min read

Dec 22 '25

Paging the data

#rust #database #sideprojects

11 min read

Dec 22 '25

So I decided to write a database system

#rust #database #sideprojects

4 min read

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