Reading up on side-projects
7 deep · digging since dec 19, 25
- Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
Using coding assistance tools like Cursor can help developers overcome project abandonment by lowering the barrier to resuming unfinished side projects.
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
Monthly Ask HN thread where developers share side projects, including a Rust iCloud downloader, a logic-puzzle site with 90 subscribers, and an A2A agent registry built on Docker.
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
Hacker News users share their current side projects and new ideas in the monthly 'Ask HN' thread.
- Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
Hacker News users share their side projects that generate roughly $500 or more per month in 2025, from AI tools and Etsy shops to software and books.
Takes
I got sick of wasting time trying to find single word domain names for side projects so I built a command line TUI to search them it worked well and I got swipe.md and some other decent ones but the speed at which good ones get registered is crazy
@iannuttall
I'm selling one of my projects. I abandoned it but it still gets 30 signups per month, 90% from Google search.
@mddanishyusuf
Tinkering furiously to simplify/automate all the back-office tedium of building side projects: https://t.co/EyRI0PunJp
@brian_lovin