Side Project Showcases

Users share their personal side projects, weekend builds, and indie hacker tools on Hacker News, seeking feedback, launch advice, and promotion for these often SaaS or web app ventures.

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rahimrezgui May 3, 2024 View on HN

Hi HN, I built this very cools project to make the journey of indie hackers more pleasant and productive. I would love to hear from you guys. Cheers

dorena Jan 23, 2020 View on HN

I made this web app as a side-project (besides my main startup kosmosschool) and to learn coding! Hope this helps many founders to find an interesting side gig with great companies and helps them stay afloat with their startup for the time needed. Let me know what you think :)

jaedens Mar 8, 2018 View on HN

everyone has a side project, this is how you help it take off!

PapaSlug Mar 8, 2017 View on HN

Congrats! Can you share any of the saas products/web apps that you're working on? I'm going to start building a little side project this month. Really keen to hear about how you're getting users to these apps as well! Indie Hackers is a great blog for reading up about other self funded services and SAAS products.

derwiki Jan 2, 2014 View on HN

I know this can come off as shameless self promotion and this site is just a landing page and signup form in it's present state. I recently quit my day job to try to work on my own projects, and this time around I'd rather get early feedback before really even building an MVP. That said, I do think this would be a useful service and would be happy to build it, if enough people like the idea and would want to use it. I'll be putting on my tough skin now, if anyone has any feedback

A weekend project, turned into a value saas tool

benjaminasmith Jul 25, 2011 View on HN

Long time HN reader, first time poster.This is my one of my first weekend (it actually took more like a week) side projects.My aim was to create a tool that I'd find useful while learning something new. In this case, I rediscovered Java, learned about servlets and JSON, and I tried out the Google App Engine as a hosting platform.Feedback, advice or criticism for an aspiring micropreneur?I'd be most interested in feedback on the design and execution: what could I do to make this simp

michaeljnovotny May 13, 2020 View on HN

Hi! I am the Maker of Side Project Stack. I launched it to help reduce the time and effort to figure out which no-code tools are best to use to make something.Would love any feedback. Thanks.

malbiniak Jul 3, 2010 View on HN

is this a personal project, or something you're hoping to get a revenue model behind?

kiraken Jan 1, 2016 View on HN

Hello! I appreciate your desire to help people work on their projects! Well i'm a 20 year old freelance web developer. I have This idea i'm passionate about but can't afford to stop work for it. Its inspired from my desire to do good. I want to build first a work news aggregator website, then slowely add features to it like "resume builder", "Tax calculator" and all work relevant tools to help people build a career. Going to be free and open source. Anyways Thi