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A Minesweeper game featuring raycasted graphics, showcased on Hacker News.
Kevin Naughton Jr. quit his $350,000 job at Google to build Ferryman, a tool that cross-posts content to multiple platforms, earning only $1,500 per month.
A new Agent Skill that reads git history to show your 'projects graveyard', explains why each side project died, and suggests one worth revisiting.
A user shares an analog watch project on Hacker News, likely a digital clock with analog styling.
Chiptune Radio is a side project by Aleph Void, LLC that streams chiptune music composed for classic sound hardware via a continuous Twitch broadcast.
Homegames is a free, open-source game platform that lets users play, make, and share games in the browser, with a code editor and live multiplayer preview. It has been developed as a side project since 2018.
Built a Mafia/Werewolf game simulator using LLM-powered AI agents with a custom agent-to-agent communication protocol, featuring live streaming where a new game starts every hour.
A blog post about a small web game where you play as the ghost in Pac-Man, with AI-controlled Pac-Man and power pellet mechanics.
A developer details building Catlantean 3D, a first-person shooter using 1993-era graphics techniques (256 colors, 320x240 resolution, hand-crafted assets, no AI) with a planned Steam release, focusing on palette rendering and asset creation.
Lunacy is a Lua 5.1 interpreter written in Rust, implementing Lazy Basic Block Versioning and a Just-in-Time compiler, as detailed in a technical blog post.
A founder built a tool that uses AI to automate manual workflows for early-stage founders, turning repetitive tasks like data entry and CSV reconciliation into automated processes, saving hours per week.
A side project presents a Hebbian architecture AI model that avoids backpropagation and gradients, achieving 50 epochs on CIFAR-10 with emergent behaviors like accuracy dips followed by jumps and recovery after targeted damage.
This article details how to use Codex AI assistant's CLI, Computer Use, and MCP features to develop a text game website similar to NYT Connections, called Daily Word Categories, in one day with zero coding. It also shares the tool stack and operation steps.
Twixt is a daily word puzzle game where players transform one word into another in four moves.
A developer created a website that lets anyone on the internet remotely feed his cat via an automatic feeder, with a live camera and computer vision features to detect cats. The project is going viral despite having no business model.
War Atlas is an interactive cartography of every named war in human history, praised by the author for its UI and as an example of AI enabling niche passion projects.
A personal side project where the author created a deck of Greek alphabet cards for their kids, using visual associations where each object's shape resembles the letter it represents. The process involved filtering a Greek dictionary and using ChatGPT and OpenAI's image generation to find and illustrate candidate objects.
A developer built an unsupervised multi-agent pipeline that lets Claude and GPT-4 autonomously prep and host a podcast, including scouting topics, planning episodes, and conversing for 10 rounds before text-to-speech output.