Building A Personal Metrics Dashboard With Vanilla JS And CSS Grid
Why I Wanted A Stupidly Simple Dashboard I like metrics. Steps, sleep, HRV, code sessions, pitches thrown at practice, deep work blocks. If I do not s…
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How I built an Ad-Free Anime Dashboard using the AniList API
Hello everyone! 👋 As a web development student, I wanted to build a portfolio project that solves a real problem I face: annoying pop-up ads on stream…
Building a Legal Document Analyzer in typescript with NodeJS
Legal documents are notoriously complex, filled with specialized terminology, hidden risks, and critical obligations. Lawyers and legal professionals …
[Dev Log][Node.js] Feedly Classic is gone, so I built my own FeedFlow (Part 1)
Introduction: Since Feedly's redesign, I haven't been able to get used to the interface. I especially miss the high-density, single-column, no-nonsens…
My marketing docs kept lying, so I put them in CI
My side project lans.cloud has 100 free browser tools. For three weeks, everything I posted about it — the launch article, the directory listings, the…
Show DEV: NotchTune v1.2 - a Tiny Notch App to Control Spotify Web
Hey DEV community! 👋 A few days ago I shared NotchTune here — a tiny native macOS app that turns your MacBook's notch into a live Spotify Web controll…
How lazy I was to study discordgo and I wrote my own library
So, as it was said in the title, I was too lazy to study discordgo for developing a bot on go. Why? Well.. I just sat down to study go and didn't have…
I Built an AI App. Eight Months Later, It Became a Skill
When I first wrote about NutriAgent in November 2025, it was a full application. It had a Python backend, a web interface, a Telegram bot, user accoun…
I Built a 44-Page Calculator Site With Next.js ISR — Here's the Architecture That Actually Ranks
Most calculator sites are a graveyard of orphan pages: 50 tools, no structure, everything competing against everything. I rebuilt mine — seecalc.com —…
Building a Home Maintenance Scheduler Agent in typescript with HazelJS
Home maintenance is one of those tasks that everyone knows they should do regularly, but few actually manage to keep up with. Between changing HVAC fi…
I Built a Freelance Rate Calculator With AI, Shipped It, and Walked Away
Last month I shipped RateForge , a free freelance rate calculator that generates AI-powered, shareable client reports. Total build time: a weekend. On…
Building KunciMasuk, a Privacy-First SSH Launcher
Hi Everyone. Approximately a month ago, I developed a Bash script to streamline server access for myself and my colleagues. The feedback was construct…
Introducing Soterios: An Open‑Source Windows Security/Maintenance Suite (Contributors Welcome)
For the past few weeks, I have been building Soterios , an open-source, local-first security and system maintenance suite for Windows. The idea starte…
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I'm 17. I built a bare-metal ASI cognitive substrate on a Redmi 9 phone. C11 + Common Lisp + Nim. Zero dependencies. Seeking collaborators. Started th…
I solved an annoying issue by building my own real-time audio Chrome extension
Hey guys, this is my first ever post in DEV Community and I think even posting at all. Ok, except few photos on Instagram. As many of you I'm somewher…
What I learned building an AI video background changer
Hey DEV community, I recently launched bgchanger.video , an AI video background changer for removing or replacing video backgrounds directly in the br…
We built 126 browser tools with zero uploads. Here is what broke along the way
We are two friends building Pageonaut , a collection of 126 free browser tools (converters, calculators, PDF and image utilities, dev helpers). Early …
Fresh one, I Built a Free Browser-Based Toolkit for Images, PDFs, Text, and Developers
I recently built JohnShine Tools, a collection of free online utilities designed to handle common image, PDF, text, network, and security tasks direct…
💎 How I Built a Premium 38,000+ Manga Reader with Next.js 14, GSAP & a Privacy-First Architecture
Most manga websites are overloaded with ads, outdated UI, slow performance, and intrusive tracking. I wanted to build something that felt like a premi…
I set out to clone a diagram editor. The real problem showed up later.
A while back I started building MermaidCreator , pretty openly a clone of other known apps: a Mermaid editor with a visual canvas, a code editor, and …
Adding a Live Generate Button: Why Synchronous Beat a Job Queue
The dashboard could display drafts. It could not create them. You watched the queue and waited for a cron job to fire, or you SSH'd into the server an…
I built one iOS app that controls four different Hisense smart-TV platforms — here's how each protocol works
The problem My Hisense remote died last year and I went down a small rabbit hole trying to find a single iOS app that worked across all the Hisense sm…
Why I Built Ravn: The Real Cost of Python Error Monitoring
Half a year ago, I started building a side project. Nothing super special, a simple Flask API with a database and a frontend. Early on, I wanted to se…
Why I Built a Free Image Tools Site (And How Free Can Actually Work)
I saw the "I built 184 free browser tools" post on HN last week — 88 points, solid discussion. A lot of comments were asking the same questions: "How …
I Built a Free Credit Card Statement Decoder — Here's How It Works (and Why DRI*ADOBE Is Not a Scam)
markdown title: "I Built a Free Credit Card Statement Decoder — Here's How It Works (and Why DRI*ADOBE Is Not a Scam)" published: true tags: programmi…
I'm a high-school student and I built a free app to stop forgetting everything over the summer
Hey everyone, The school year is almost over, and every summer I hit the same problem: by September I've forgotten most of what I learned. It happens …
I'm a high-school student and I built a free app to stop forgetting everything over the summer
Hey everyone, The school year is almost over, and every summer I hit the same problem: by September I've forgotten most of what I learned. It happens …
How I Built an ATS Resume Builder App for Android (And What I Learned)
After months of watching friends get rejected by job applications they were qualified for, I discovered the real culprit: Applicant Tracking Systems (…
Overwhelmed by Overengineering in Project Tracking Tools. The Result? I Built a Lightweight, Local-First Project Tracker.
Hey everyone 👋 I want to give a massive shoutout to AI — it has injected a whole new level of passion and joy into coding for a non-tech guy like me. …
A Meal Planner & Grocery Shopping Agent in Typescript with HazelJS
In this post, we'll build a practical AI-powered meal planning agent using HazelJS. This agent helps users create personalized meal plans, discover re…