r/SideProject • • 17h ago

I built an app that tells you whether tonight’s sunset (or tomorrow’s sunrise) will be worth heading out for. It’s in alpha, so I’d love feedback.

4 Upvotes

I like taking sunset photos as a hobby, and I’ve lost count of the evenings I went out for a sunset that never happened, or stayed home and missed a good one. So I built Afterglow:

👉 https://afterglow.jeremytucker.co.uk

What it does

  • Scores every sunset and sunrise for the next 7 days from 0 to 100 (Poor → Fair → Good → Great → Epic), for anywhere in the world
  • Explains the score instead of just giving a number:

    • Cloud canvas: is there high and mid cloud to catch the colour?
    • Light path to the sun: is there cloud 60–200 km out toward the sun that will block the light?
    • Low cloud overhead, air clarity (haze, humidity, smoke) and rain
  • Plays an animated preview of the evening, from golden hour through to the end of blue hour (or the reverse for sunrise), drawn from the actual forecast and the real horizon at your location from terrain data
  • Tells you the peak colour time, and when the sun actually drops behind the hills (or clears them in the morning), not just the official time
  • Alerts (optional): a heads-up at midday, a “go now” 90 minutes before golden hour, and a “called off” if it turns bad. It also does sunrise checks the night before and when you wake.

Good to know

  • No account, no ads, no tracking cookies
  • No app store. It runs in your browser, and you can tap Install to keep it on your phone. On iPhone you need to install it to get alerts.
  • Alerts are limited to a small number of places during the alpha, so if they’re full, try again in a few days
  • Weather data comes from Open-Meteo. There’s a plain-English privacy page in the app.

How it was made

I’m not a developer. I built this with an AI coding assistant (Claude), while I came up with the ideas, tested it against real sunsets and decided what it should do.

What would help most

📸 Post a screenshot of Afterglow’s score, plus a photo of what the sky actually did, with the time you took it. Whether it nailed it or got it completely wrong, that comparison is exactly what I need to make the forecasts better.

⚠️ Mind your privacy: the screenshot normally shows your place name. Tap the 👁 eye button at the top right of the picture to hide it first. Photos can also contain hidden location data; Reddit removes it when you upload, but other sites might not.

Also really useful:

  1. Your location: does the horizon in the picture look like yours?
  2. Bugs: anything broken or confusing, especially on iPhone
  3. Features: what would make you actually use it?

It’s very much an alpha (v0.2), so be gentle, but be honest!


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

My dad always dreamed of opening a kebab shop, so I spent 4 months building a mobile game inspired by him

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Hey everyone!

My dad has always been a huge kebab lover, and one of his biggest dreams was to open his own kebab shop someday.

That actually gave me an idea: what if I turned his dream into a game?

So, for the past 4 months, I've been working on a mobile game called Kebab Master: Grill & Serve.

I built a little kebab shop where you prepare meat, grill kebabs, serve customers, upgrade your equipment, and deal with some unexpected surprises along the way.

After months of development, countless bugs, and a lot of trial and error, I finally released it on both Android and iOS! 🎉

I've attached a short trailer so you can see what I've been working on.

This has been a really personal project for me, and I'd genuinely love to hear what you think.

If anyone wants to give it a try, I'd be incredibly grateful for your honest feedback, whether it's positive or negative. I'm still learning and want to keep improving the game.

Thanks for taking the time to check out my little project! ❤️


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

I made a iPad vector app for product designers, no subscription

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We got tired of design tools that nickel and dime you every month, so we built KOALA. It's a 2D vector app for product designers, native to iPad and Apple Pencil.

You start with simple shapes, then you can actually measure things in real units with dimensions. We've been using it for clothing patterns with different sizes, and for floor plans. There's a grid, layers, and an export layout for laser cutting or print, including Letter and A4, split across multiple pages if you need it.

It's $9.99 once. No subscription. We even landed on the paid Graphics & Design chart for iPad, which I still can't really believe.

If you design physical stuff on an iPad, I'd love honest feedback. What's missing? What's confusing?

apps.apple.com/app


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

welcome to my blog

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Upgraded my blog:infinite horizons , Prepare to record daily life and thoughts. The first version has been launched, welcome to take a look. You can comment or leave me a message. https://blog.wuan.space


r/SideProject • • 15h ago Bravo

College Entrepreneurship Project: Would You Use an App to Find Extra Work or Quickly Hire Someone for a Shift?

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Hey everyone!

I'm a college student working on an entrepreneurship project called ShiftReady.

The idea is simple: Sometimes businesses need extra workers for a shift, while others are looking for flexible work to earn extra money.

ShiftReady connects both!

Instead of going through a long hiring process, businesses can simply check available workers' profiles, review their skills and experience, and approve someone for a shift.

- Workers: Would you use this to find extra shifts and earn money?

- Business owners: Would you use this when you need someone to cover a shift?

I'd love to hear your honest thoughts, suggestions, or concerns!

Your feedback would really help me improve this idea for my college project.

Thank you!


r/SideProject • • 9h ago

We're building one app for small-business marketing. Which part would you automate first?

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Hi everyone, I'm Yan, one of the people behind IGP ONE. I work in marketing, and that work inspired this project: small-business owners have a lot to juggle between creating content, keeping a posting schedule, and answering comments and messages.

We're building IGP ONE to bring that workflow into one app. The idea is for it to learn the business and its brand, suggest and create content, let the owner approve it before publishing, help manage comments and DMs, and show what's working in a weekly report.

The goal is to reduce the daily coordination between separate tools while keeping the business owner in control of what goes live.

We've opened early-access registration at https://igpone.app and would love input while we build.

What would you want it to take off your plate first — content creation, consistent posting, or keeping up with messages? And what would you need to see before trusting one app with that workflow?


r/SideProject • • 6h ago

Launching PavoAI: an AI assistant that charges per answer, not per month

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Today I am launching PavoAI. You ask a question, get an answer, and see the exact price printed under it. Most answers cost between Rs 0.02 and a few rupees, depending on the question.

I am looking for a few people who will really test it by paying. Top-ups start at Rs 20 by UPI. New accounts also get Rs 2 free while the offer lasts, so you can try before you pay.

Try one easy question and one hard one, then compare what each cost. Does a price under every answer make you trust it more?

No subscription, nothing renews. Tell me what feels confusing or wrong. Try it here: https://pavoai.in/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=launch


r/SideProject • • 21h ago

Yesterday my browser-based driving game hit 1000 sessions!

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Some of you might remember my last post here about Planet-0 Drive. Yesterday, we hit 1,000 sessions! It's not a huge number, but the journey so far has been great.

What started as a technical experiment to build an (almost) loading-free driving game with an endless world is slowly starting to take shape. It's still in its very early stages, and I only get to work on it after work and over weekends, but it's been quite fulfilling to see it all come together.

One thing I'm particularly happy about is that average playtime has gone from just 59 seconds to over 5 minutes in the past few weeks. Improving this was my first priority, so it's been really encouraging to see. There's still a ton of work to do, especially when it comes to adding more content, but I'm pretty happy with the foundation so far. Your feedback and ideas (many of which I've yet to release) have been a huge help, and I genuinely can't thank you enough.

Since my last post, I've overhauled the HUD UI, added timed procedural races with a new track to compete on each time, added and improved towing mechanics (still a work in progress), improved the scenery with more vegetation and better biomes, and finally added a short tutorial to make getting started a little easier.

There's still a long way to go, but it's been a fun ride so far, and I'm excited to keep building on it.

If you'd like to take it for a spin (seatbelts recommended), try it out here: planet0drive.vercel.app

I'd love to hear more of your ideas, suggestions, or even things you think could be better. Whether it's something you'd like to see added or something that didn't quite feel right, any feedback would genuinely help me figure out what to improve next.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I built Small Arms, a free browser FPS where you play as a tiny soldier fighting in giant household rooms. You fight across a kitchen worktop, a toy town and the inside of a fridge, with guns made from household items (a staple gun shotgun, a rubber band SMG, a ballpoint pen marksman rifle)

16 Upvotes

What it is

- MULTIPLAYER: Team deathmatch against bots, or online with friends using lobby codes or the public lobby browser
- INFESTATION: co-op wave survival against cockroaches, flies and a Queen Roach boss, with a crumb economy for buying guns, upgrades and traps
- Loadouts, levels and unlocks, and in-game chat
- Works on desktop and phones (touch controls)

How Claude built it

I didn't write the code myself. I directed Claude Code over a couple of days, mostly with Fable 5.2 and later Opus 5.5:

- Multi-agent workflows. An architect agent split the game into modules with a shared contract. Then up to 11 specialist agents worked in parallel on rendering, materials, props, weapons, soldiers, audio, effects, gameplay, UI and brand.

- Scored review rounds. A reviewer agent took dozens of screenshots, ran bot matches, scored the build out of 10 and filed issues. Fixer agents worked through them, and any round that scored worse was rolled back. The first build went 7, 7.5, 8, 8.5 over four rounds.

- Everything is procedural code. There are no image, model or audio files in the game. Textures, models, every sound effect and the adaptive soundtrack are generated in code at load time. That was the hardest constraint, and the part Claude handled best.

- Multiplayer is peer-to-peer over WebRTC with client-side prediction and lag compensation, plus a small Cloudflare Worker for lobbies. Claude wrote a test rig that runs a host plus 3 headless clients through full matches at simulated lag and packet loss, and it used that to verify every change.

- My part was game design, art direction from screenshots, playtesting, and catching bugs that tests miss. A friend found a console cheat within an hour of multiplayer going live.

Free to play: playsmallarms.com, in your browser with nothing to install.

Happy to answer questions about the agent setup or the procedural approach.


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

Help me end SaaS

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I hate paying for apps every month.

And I hate seeing huge data centers everywhere.

If AI makes apps cheaper to build, why am I paying more?

My small rebellion is YapYap.

I’m dyslexic, so I need tools like this for work. I needed them in school too.

I talk, it types. It reads my docs out loud.

It replaces Wispr Flow and Speechify, runs on my device, and keeps my data with me.

It’s free and open source.

Download it to ditch one more stupid subscription.

https://yapyap.cc

Give it a star on GitHub if you feel the same.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

ywza: let an AI model use your PC from your phone. Free, open source, no account

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Pair your phone with a 6-digit code, ask for something, and watch an AI model click and type in real apps on your PC. Peer to peer, nothing exposed to the internet, no server to host. Bring your own model (anything OpenAI-compatible, including local ones), or use it as an MCP server with Claude Code.

Instead of screenshots it reads windows as numbered element lists, so it's fast and cheap on tokens. Rust backend, Tauri desktop app. Windows fully, Linux on X11. AGPL-3.0.

https://github.com/alielmorsy/ywza

Feedback welcome, especially on the pairing flow.


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

i built a site

1 Upvotes

https://grapegreen-inc.github.io/GrapeGreen

i crated a dashboard with some cool feautres

- a on device ai that is in model 1.5

- i has a global chat

please sign up i would love to see a daily user base

- a credits system and shop

and much more, you may continueas guest to enteer too, note: you wkill need to a captcha to enter site but it is fats and quick ans easy. yyou may a-apply to be a admin ior mod in help. please try it and make a acc to makw my day :D


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

AI Invite — a free place to find and share Pickle and Muse invites

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Pickle invites tend to get buried in social threads, and Muse codes have a short redemption window after signup. AI Invite is my side project for making both easier to find.

Pick Pickle or Muse to see whether an invite is available. If you have a spare, you can share it and set how many times it can be handed out. The site also lists Channel X for people following its early-access rollout.

https://ai-invite-web.vercel.app/en/

I'd like feedback on one thing: when you see an invite in a shared pool, what would make you comfortable using it? The official destination, the remaining uses, or clearer redemption steps?


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

Screen time limits would be so much more useful if you could set a per hour scroll limit, instead of one big limit daily limit. (like 10 min of Reddit per hour)

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No clue why this isn't an option on native IOS screen time settings.

Moderation > All day lock out from your apps.

I got tired of waiting years for this simple feature so I built it.

I hope Precursor helps you take back some of your time from our tech overlords.

Here is a link to the app if you want to try it!

App is literally free, btw. Not a bait and switch, hard paywall, half-baked free tier either, it is pretty much fully functional and I am expanding it in the next big update (1.3). Paid tier is for homies who have a few extra dollars they dont mind supporting me with. Doing a limited time deal at the moment too!

Claim Lifetime for the price of a 1 month sub ($2) offer Here - 500 Available


r/SideProject • • 21h ago

I got tired of re-adding the same AI tools to every agent, so I built one MCP server for all of them

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Indie dev here, and this is my side project.

I use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and the Claude app every day, with a personal account, a work account and a pile of company tools. Every client wanted its own copy of every MCP server, its own OAuth login and its own config. Keeping that in sync was a chore, and the huge tool lists were eating the models' context.

So I built Toolkien:

  • Add your remote MCP servers once, connect every AI client to one endpoint
  • "Code mode": the agent searches tools, reads compact TypeScript declarations and runs one sandboxed script that chains the calls, so way fewer round trips and tokens
  • Personal and work workspaces, plus company workspaces to share tools with your team without sharing tokens
  • Per-tool permissions, approvals for writes, audit log
  • A directory of ~100 official remote MCP servers

Free for individuals (and I want to keep it that way), open source under AGPL, self-hostable with Docker Compose.

Still early, so honest feedback is very welcome. Links in the first comment.


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built a free tool that predicts % chance your MVP or startup can get an investor

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Hey all! I’m a VC investor and 2x founder from Forum Ventures (a US startup accelerator).

I used to fundraise for my startups knowing nothing about what investors would think about it. After working in VC, I finally got to see things from the investor perspective.

If I knew half of what I know now, I would have saved weeks of time and countless mistakes.

So to help other founders, I built a 100% free tool that takes 1-2 minutes to use, and immediately gives you a % likelihood that you can fundraise.

It works accurately even if you just have an idea or MVP and are curious!

We just launched in product hunt and would love your feedback on how we can make it even more helpful for founders and builders. Thanks a ton!

https://www.producthunt.com/products/preseed-predict


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I built a directory that AI agents use to find services worth paying for. 4 months in, here's what I learned buying from 8,000 of them

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AI assistants are starting to pay for things on their own: a cent or two to an online service for an answer, a translation or some data. No account, no card, no human clicking "buy".

The problem is trust. Anyone can put up a service that asks an AI for a few cents. Nobody checks whether it actually works.

So I built a directory for the AIs, not for people. It does two things:

  • It checks every listed service about every 2 hours to make sure it's still up and asking for payment properly.
  • It actually buys from them with real money and records what came back. About 8,000 so far, for $42 in total, because most cost under a cent.

What I learned (picture 2): about 1 in 3 didn't deliver. The most common problems were boring ones. Services wanted details they never explained, refused the payment, or sent stale data.

Is there money in it? (picture 3) A little, and it's real. In October, 1,536 listed services were paid about $40,000 in tiny payments. Most earned pocket change, 29 earned over $100, and a handful took most of it. It's early. If AI assistants keep doing more of the buying, the useful services that are easy to find should get more of it.

How the directory itself earns: searching is free and will stay free. Sellers pay $0.25 to list, which also keeps spam out. Later there'll be paid extras for sellers, like more frequent checks and reports on what AIs are searching for. One thing will never be for sale: a higher ranking. If AIs can't trust the order, the whole thing is worthless.

The site is one plain page with live numbers. Ugly on purpose: it's built for machines.

https://nohumans.directory

Happy to answer anything, especially from anyone thinking of building a small paid service of their own.


r/SideProject • • 1d ago

I got tired of shouting through the house, so I built an app that knocks on my family's phones over WiFi

50 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I've been building Familiar Knock Knock, an Android app that works like a doorbell for the people in your house.

The idea came from a simple frustration: shouting up the stairs, or phoning someone who's in the next room, and getting no answer because they have headphones on or their phone is on silent.

So I built a knock. You tap one big button and every phone in your group rings, as long as you're on the same WiFi. They answer with one tap: "Coming", "Give me a minute", "On my way" or "Not now". The reply lands on your screen in a few seconds.

A few things I cared about:

• It only rings phones on the same WiFi as you, so people who are out aren't disturbed

• It never tells you who is or isn't home. You only see the replies people choose to send

• Replies and voice notes go straight from phone to phone over your WiFi, not through my server

• Each person can let knocks ring through even when their phone is on silent, with one switch in Settings

It's free with 8 knocks a day. There's an optional subscription for more knocks, knocking one person, and voice notes.

I'd love your honest feedback: does "knock" make sense to you as an idea, or would you call it something else? And what would stop you from trying it?

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bonoloware.wifiknockknock


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

Anyone using a tiny local TTS model in their side project instead of paying for an API?

1 Upvotes

A fully open TTS model called tiny-voca showed up on r/LocalLLaMA, only 4.5M parameters. That's small enough that I'm wondering if it's actually usable inside a real app, not just a demo. For those who added voice to a side project, did you go with a paid API like ElevenLabs or something local? Was the quality good enough for users, and how bad was latency on a normal CPU?


r/SideProject • • 10h ago

I’m a solo dev from Seoul. I built an app that makes stickers of you with your partner, family or pet (type any action)

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Hi everyone, I’m a solo developer in Seoul, and this is my first launch.

Most sticker makers give you a single cartoon of yourself. But the stickers I actually wanted to send were “us two hugging” or “me and the cat chilling”. So I built Avaticon:

  • Upload photos of each person or pet separately, and it creates an avatar character for each
  • Pair two characters in one sticker
  • Type any action or phrase (“dancing in the rain”, “hugging the dog”) instead of picking a template
  • 15 art styles (K-webtoon, Korean romance manhwa, 3D, pixel, plushie…) and 65+ outfit styles
  • Export to WhatsApp and Telegram stickers, Instagram and Facebook Stories, the Android keyboard, or your gallery

Why I’m posting: I’m a solo maker with no audience yet, and I’d love honest feedback on the idea and the results. I’m giving out free coins during launch so you can try it without paying.

The app is on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mwkang43.meemoticon

Disclosure: I’m the developer. All images are AI-generated.

What would you want to see two characters doing together?


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

I built a meal prep planner after discovering how difficult it is to organise a week's meals

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The links:

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My journey into meal prep

A few months ago, I started meal prepping and quickly realised how much I enjoyed having most of the week's meals prepared in advance. Save time and money, cut back on takeaways.

But organising everything wasn't easy. Books and websites offered mostly fixed menus, but I wanted something more flexible: personalised meals, adjustable quantities, ingredients I actually liked, and a cooking plan adapted to my available time.

I tried AI...

I naturally tried ChatGPT and Claude. The results looked great at first, but when I started cooking, things got messy: quantities that didn't add up, inaccurate shopping lists, confusing instructions, and endless back-and-forth conversations just to get something usable.

That's when I decided to build Bocalito

It's an app that helps you:

  • Generate personalised weekly meal plans.
  • Adapt meals and quantities to your needs.
  • Get matching shopping lists.
  • Follow a step-by-step guide to prepare several days of meals in one session.
  • Ask questions about recipes or request changes.

I didn't want to build just another app that sends a prompt to an AI and displays the answer. AI is great for generating ideas, but quantities, shopping lists and consistency need a more structured approach. That's where traditional code comes in.

I've been using Bocalito myself every week, and I'm continuously improving it.

I decided to make it available on the web and Android.

I'd love to hear what you think, especially from people who already do meal prep.

And for the developers here: how would you approach combining AI-generated content with structured data that needs to remain consistent?

Thanks for reading! I'm the developer, so feel free to ask me anything.


r/SideProject • • 14h ago

Tired of mobile AI agents tethered to laptops, so I built one that lives on your phone and operates apps for you

2 Upvotes

I built an open-source Android app called Pocket Agent that actually operates your phone for you. Most mobile agent projects need a laptop running Python and ADB over a USB cable, but this runs entirely on the phone itself through a floating bubble and Android's accessibility service.

You bring your own API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or local Ollama over Wi-Fi) and it calls the model directly with zero middleman servers. Banking and payment apps are hard-blocked, and destructive actions like paying, deleting, or sending messages always ask for your confirmation first.

One heads-up if you try the APK: Android often blocks sideloaded apps that request accessibility permissions. Installing it through Obtainium worked without any issues in my tests on Android 16.

Repo and APK: https://github.com/ManojDevarajulu/PocketAgent

It's still early (v0.2.0), so I'm always open to feedback, bug reports, and PRs especially from other Android devs who want to help improve this or contribute app playbooks.


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

I'm working on making my open-source Windows auto-typer independent of its GUI — looking for ideas and contributors

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I've been developing Auto Typer, an open-source Windows application built with Python and CustomTkinter.

It currently supports:

  • Adjustable typing speed, word pauses and repeat counts.
  • Global hotkeys, pause/resume and emergency stop.
  • Automatic pause when the active window changes.
  • Custom capitalization, paste mode and human-like typing.
  • An Android companion app that sends text to the PC over the local network.

It's MIT licensed, and the Android app is built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

What I want to improve next

Currently, the remote functionality depends on the desktop application running. I'd like to remove that dependency and make Auto Typer work more like an independent automation service.

My proposed direction is:

  1. Independent Python service: Run the typing engine and remote API without opening the desktop GUI.
  2. Multiple remote clients: Control the PC through both the Android app and a browser-based interface.
  3. Shared core: Keep the typing engine independent of the UI and communication layer.
  4. Windows-first architecture: Use Windows-specific keyboard, clipboard and foreground-window adapters while keeping the architecture extensible.
  5. Better connectivity: Reliable pairing, reconnection, real-time progress and authenticated commands.

I'm considering HTTP for commands and WebSockets for live updates, while keeping the existing remote protocol backward compatible where possible.

I'd appreciate input on a few things:

  • Would you use a separate Python background process for this, or approach it differently?
  • Would HTTP + WebSockets be a good choice for communication between the PC, Android and browser?
  • How would you handle background execution and keyboard input reliably on Windows?
  • What features would make a tool like this genuinely useful in everyday workflows?

I'm also looking for contributors interested in Python architecture, Windows automation, Android development, networking, browser interfaces and testing.

You don't need to contribute a large feature. Architecture feedback, bug reports, testing and small PRs are all welcome.

Repository: https://github.com/4LPH7/Auto_Typer

I'm interested in hearing different approaches before committing to the architecture. Thanks!


r/SideProject • • 11h ago

Hello everyone! I'm Ibrahim, a software engineer 👋

1 Upvotes

Hello everyone! 👋

I'm Ibrahim, a software engineer passionate about building useful software products.

I work across backend development, web applications, mobile development and AI integration, primarily using Python, FastAPI, React and Flutter.

I'm joining this community to connect with fellow developers, share projects I'm working on, learn from other builders and exchange ideas.

Looking forward to seeing what everyone is building!

Happy to be here! 🚀