24 stories tagged side-project, newest first.
1672 points by sohkamyung | 253 comments
Local Wikipedia is a web app that shows geocoded Wikipedia articles about places within roughly a half-hour walk of a chosen location.
379 points by speckx | 127 comments
Blog post by Charlie Gerard introducing Overgrown, a Chrome extension that grows plants over neglected browser tabs which users must slash away to access them.
195 points by ragswag | 102 comments
A founder's story of designing a nose guard for his pitbull with discoid lupus (DLE) and growing it into a product worn by 500 dogs.
356 points by eduardsik | 103 comments
Catch a Bird is a web app that asks visitors what made them happy today and shows each one-sentence answer as an illustrated bird from around the world.
112 points by Baljhin | 38 comments
A small web tool that generates RSS feeds for a Last.fm user's recent, loved, and top tracks, top artists, and recommended tracks.
372 points by thatxliner | 102 comments
A website that renders the Hacker News front page as a vintage newspaper layout with story headlines, images, and summaries.
912 points by tanelpoder | 546 comments
GitHub repository for STFU, a small single-page HTML web app by Pankaj Tanwar, MIT licensed and hosted at stfu.pankajtanwar.in.
743 points by dreadsword | 140 comments
CreepyLink is a joke URL shortener web tool that turns links into suspicious, sketchy-looking URLs.
363 points by hallak | 99 comments
A blog postmortem by the creator of DrawAFish.com describing a security incident on the site on August 3, 2025.
884 points by risquer | 225 comments
Landing page for Tender, a joke Tinder-style app that shows only photos of the creator's wife and only allows swiping right.
436 points by ph4evers | 164 comments
FluentSubs app page offering Duolingo-style listening exercises built from real-world videos like news, starting with a language selection screen.
727 points by dlazaro | 137 comments
A live-updating version of the Tintin 'What a week, huh?' meme that shows the current day, week, month, or year based on the visitor's timezone.
474 points by momciloo | 113 comments
Landing page for VideoToFlip, a service that converts short videos into printed physical flipbooks, priced at $25 with free worldwide shipping.
472 points by imglorp | 223 comments
An Imgur gallery post recounting how the author made $100K selling a novelty gag gift that mailed bags of penis-shaped candy and confetti.
1750 points by walz | 278 comments
Riley Walz's project showcasing about 5 million unedited YouTube videos with default IMG_XXXX filenames uploaded from iPhones between 2009 and 2012, shown in random order.
341 points by thimabi | 131 comments
Blog post describing building a Rust-powered transit arrival display (on a Kindle) to show upcoming San Francisco train and bus times at home.
397 points by RomanPushkin | 108 comments
Landing page for 1fps.video, a free end-to-end encrypted 1-frame-per-second screen sharing tool run via a Go command, with no registration.
437 points by EndXA | 124 comments
A demo of Doom Captcha, a joke captcha widget where the user must kill four enemies in a Doom-style game to verify they are human.
411 points by wonger_ | 94 comments
Ben Kettle's blog post describing how he automatically generated a printed book series from three years of his iMessage conversation history.
572 points by rpastuszak | 106 comments
A minimal web app by Rafał Pastuszak that lets you set a timer to sit and do nothing for a chosen number of minutes.
1240 points by jakey_bakey | 231 comments
Blog post on Jacob's Tech Tavern describing building an iOS plane radar app for a toddler using SwiftUI, MapKit, and open-source flight APIs.
354 points by YakiSauce | 101 comments
Landing page for DiceRight, a web-based virtual tabletop for playing Dungeons and Dragons online with friends.
489 points by nicbou | 289 comments
Nicolas Bouliane's project page for a 2023 tool that helps people fill out Berlin's Anmeldung address registration form online.
449 points by thunderbong | 275 comments
BGR article about a developer who built a Rotten Tomatoes-style rating site for YouTube videos after YouTube hid public dislike counts.