AI & ML

My wife convinced me to finally ship the app we’ve been using for years

My wife and I have been using a shopping list app I built for ourselves for a few years now. Not because I'm a genius product designer. Not because I …

Our Attention Span Is Now Shorter Than a Goldfish's. So I Built a Chrome Extension

Every Site Blocker Uses a Static List. So I Built One That Doesn't. Every site blocker on the Chrome Web Store works the same way: you create a blockl…

I Built Windows Desktop Apps to Fix My Own Annoying Workflows

I didn’t plan to build an app catalog. I just wanted to fix one annoying problem: my C: drive kept filling up at the worst possible time (usually duri…

I Built an AI Brand Name Generator — Here's What I Learned

I Built an AI Brand Name Generator in 48 Hours — And Got My First Paying Customer One months ago, I had an idea for a brand name. I spent three hours …

Hangout Planner - fighting cognitive atrophy and full process of making app

In the rising era of artificial intelligence and information processing speeding up everywhere, I needed to slow down to force myself to deliberately …

Why Better Resource Monitor is worth a look if you want a calmer Mac menu bar monitor

If you want a Mac menu bar monitor that stays lightweight, readable, and easy to trust, Better Resource Monitor is worth a look. It is built by Alex P…

I Built a Suite of 6 Financial Tools in My Browser Stack — Here's the Architecture

I Built a Suite of 6 Financial Tools in My Browser Stack — Here's the Architecture KashVector is live. Six free, client-side financial tools at kashve…

Bridging the Gap in Election Education with DemocracyEdu! 🗳️

I’ve been working on a project to simplify the complex world of election processes, and I’m excited to share DemocracyEdu . * DemocracyEdu * is an int…

Showing my Notion onboarding flow; would love feedback

Quick context; We've been building TimeKnot, a native time tracker for Notion. It originally launched as a Clockify integration, but users kept asking…

BillForge — A Lightweight Invoice Generator with PDF Export & Google Sheets Sync

🚀 I built a lightweight Invoice Generator using HTML, CSS & JavaScript Most invoice tools I’ve used are either: Too heavy Require login/signup Or …

Election Assistant

Most people don’t understand how elections actually work. Not because it’s complicated — but because it’s explained in the most boring, static way pos…

LuxTorrent – a simple and lightweight torrent client 🟢

I made a lightweight torrent client with a focus on simplicity and a clean interface. It started as a personal tool to replace existing clients that f…

What Building a Snoring Exercise App Taught Me About Habit UX

Most health apps have the same problem. The feature is not the hard part. The hard part is getting someone to come back tomorrow. That was the big les…

The Case for .Vegas as Your Next Project Domain

Every developer I know has had the same moment. You finally come up with a project name you actually like. You type it into a registrar. It's taken. Y…

I pushed my Android app to production. Then Android and the OEMs spent two weeks tearing it apart.

I build a safety-critical Android app that monitors elderly people living alone. It watches the phone 24/7 — motion, GPS, screen activity — and emails…

ListenCircle: A Digital Talking Circle for Real Human Connection

We built ListenCircle to bring the ancient practice of the Talking Circle into the digital world. It’s a space where every human being can speak and b…

I got tired of shady PDF sites, so I built a fully client-side "Bureaucracy Survival Kit"

Whenever I needed to resize a passport photo to an exact KB limit, or add a signature to a form, I ended up on sketch websites that felt like massive …

Why I Built BudgetWise AI: Navigating Finances with an AI Companion 💰🤖 Tags: # windows11 # coding # microsoftstore # programming The Problem: Traditional Budgeting is Tedious Let’s be honest—most budgeting apps feel like homework. You’re either manually

Built "Socionn", Now Live with Real Users (Going Open Source Soon)

Hey everyone 👋 I’ve been working on Socionn , and I’m excited to share that it’s now live and already being used by real users . 💡 What is Socionn? So…

I Ported a C Audio Effects Engine to JavaScript So You Can Generate Weird Noises in Your Browser

There's something oddly satisfying about generating noise. Not random MP3s — actual algorithmic noise. White noise with a flanger. Distorted static. A…

A MIDI Player That Shows You the Sheet Music and Lets You Play Along on a Virtual Piano

Most MIDI players are just glorified MP3 players with a progress bar. You hit play, you hear music, and that's it. But what if you actually want to se…

We Built an AI Comic Generator in 3 Sprints — Here's What Actually Worked

We Built an AI Comic Generator in 3 Sprints — Here's What Actually Worked A month ago, my project partner Qingyang and I set out to build something th…

I got tired of my GitHub profile card 429ing, so I built an alternative

If you've used github-readme-stats on your profile (the Anurag Hazra one with 70k+ stars) you've probably seen this at least once: Mine broke last mon…

AI Arcade, a Raspberry Pi arcade box that generates tiny games with a joystick

I built a little thing I call AI Arcade. It runs on a Raspberry Pi, boots straight into a local Node.js web app, and lets you generate a new arcade-st…

TypeOrm Unit Of Work

Small TypeOrm Persist Thread implement unit of work like a lot of modern ORMs for type-orm. Benefits : It optimize the persist flow by grouping orders…

My web dev diary - day 108

The main goal for the day was to finish the module on core React State concepts (like single source of truth principle, scoping state, and other stuff…

Week 4,5,6 - Learning K8s

Weekly Recap Unfortunately I have ran into some problems with my primary hosts. Since this is all in my homelab environment I am using some minipcs th…

Visualize Function Call Graphs Interactively in VS Code — Call Graph Navi (Personal Project)

Introduction I built a VS Code extension that lets you interactively visualize function calls. It is not just a graph renderer; I focused especially o…

What if an AI agent tracked your carbon footprint and reminded you daily to do better? Built EcoAgents for Earth Day.

EcoAgents — I built an AI agent that knows your carbon footprint and never lets you forget it DEV Weekend Challenge: Earth Day Navin Kumar R Navin Kum…

Why Do I Keep Killing My Side Projects?

I recently shut down Bloudme. It was my second personal project, which started as an RSS reader and quietly died. Before that, there was Podiscover — …