| 1 | Mar 2, '23 | Announcing roomGPT! Redesign your room in seconds with AI! 100% free and open source. | 71× | 1.5M | 8.3k | 1.3k | 3.8k |
| 2 | Jan 9, '23 | Announcing Face Photo Restorer! Restore any old blurry face photos with AI – 100% free and open source. | 56.6× | 1.2M | 7.4k | 1.3k | 3.3k |
| 3 | Sep 23 | How to train your own Jev for $17 TLDR: We just launched our own Jev-like classifier, together/Tev1-4B-experimental, on top of Qwen3.5 4B. In this blog post we’ll show you how to f | 39.5× | 823k | 2k | 151 | 4.9k |
| 4 | Feb 14, '23 | Announcing AI Commits – a CLI tool that generates your commit message for you with AI. Available on npm today! | 33.5× | 698k | 3.8k | 570 | 1k |
| 5 | Sep 29, '23 | New AI app dropping on Monday! It'll be open source with Next.js app router, auth, storage, and a database. Plus, 100% free. | 29.7× | 619k | 2.5k | 189 | 1.8k |
| 6 | Sep 30, '23 | My coding journey so far: ◆ March 2020: Started learning how to code in the pandemic. Spent 60-70h a week learning & building for a few months. ◆ May 2020: Changed my college major | 29.4× | 613k | 2.5k | 137 | 813 |
| 7 | Aug 29, '23 | My AI side projects this year: ◆ : 2.1 million users ◆ : 400k users ◆ : 200k visitors ◆ : 29k downloads Here's exactly how I approach building AI side projects in 6 steps: 1. Think | 28.9× | 602k | 2.5k | 249 | 3.2k |
| 8 | Aug 2, '24 | Introducing LlamaCoder! An open source Claude Artifacts app that can generate full React apps and components with Llama 3.1 405B. 100% free and open source. | 24.1× | 502k | 3.9k | 567 | 4.9k |
| 9 | Jan 8, '23 | Building an AI web app that helps restore old blurry photos! Dropping tomorrow and as usual, it'll be free and open source. | 23.1× | 481k | 3k | 342 | 1.2k |
| 10 | Nov 12, '24 | Announcing llama-ocr – a free + open source OCR tool! It takes documents (images for now) & outputs markdown, and does really well for complex receipts, PDFs with tables/charts, ec | 21.3× | 444k | 5.2k | 628 | 6.9k |
| 11 | May 23, '25 | New guide: How to do OCR! I go over how to use vision models to do: ◆ Regular OCR (image/doc -> Markdown) ◆ Structured OCR (image/doc -> JSON) ◆ Best practices for OCR w/ vis | 21.2× | 442k | 2.3k | 193 | 4.2k |
| 12 | Feb 16, '23 | My side project hit 200,000 unique users in 40 days! Still can't believe that a project I made on a whim over a weekend has made it this far. | 20.7× | 430k | 1.6k | 45 | 584 |
| 13 | Feb 12, '23 | Built a CLI tool that auto-generates a commit message with AI based on your code changes. Coming tomorrow to a terminal near you! | 19.8× | 412k | 2.1k | 205 | 423 |
| 14 | Mar 24, '25 | Announcing Together Chat! Use DeepSeek R1 & other top open source models to do web search, coding, image generation, & image analysis. Available today for free! | 19× | 396k | 2.4k | 192 | 1.8k |
| 15 | Jan 23, '23 | Next.js developers be like: | 18.9× | 394k | 3.7k | 625 | 322 |
| 16 | Jan 3, '23 | Interview with a JavaScript Engineer in 2023: | 18.8× | 391k | 2.5k | 379 | 560 |
| 17 | Mar 3, '23 | 24h update after launching yesterday: ◆ 42,000 rooms generated ◆ 31,000 unique visitors ◆ 850 GitHub stars ◆ Frontpage of HN My best performing side project so far! More details in | 18.3× | 381k | 1.1k | 53 | 374 |
| 18 | Mar 13, '23 | 150,000 people created accounts on roomGPT since I required accounts auth 4 days ago 🤯 Here's how I added auth and got the word out about roomGPT: | 17.5× | 365k | 609 | 26 | 525 |
| 19 | Jan 16, '23 | Introducing Twitter Bio Generator! Copy your current twitter bio & get improved variations using AI. 100% free & open source → | 17.5× | 364k | 1.3k | 150 | 616 |
| 20 | Nov 14, '24 | Introducing LogoCreator! An open source logo generator that creates professional logos in seconds using Flux Pro 1.1 on @togethercompute. 100% free and open source. Demo + code: | 16.9× | 352k | 3k | 261 | 4.6k |
| 21 | May 20, '25 | BillSplit – the easiest way to split any restaurant bill – is dropping in 48 hours. Will be 100% free & open source! | 16.8× | 351k | 3.3k | 180 | 2.5k |
| 22 | Jan 31, '23 | My side project hit 100,000 users in 3 weeks! This is officially the most popular thing I've ever created – and it doesn't seem to be slowing down. | 16.3× | 340k | 1.3k | 41 | 280 |
| 23 | Apr 28, '23 | Two months ago, I launched my side project roomGPT. Today, it hit 3 million unique visitors and 1 million registered users! Time to invest more in this project – I'm working on roo | 15.5× | 322k | 1.1k | 49 | 314 |
| 24 | Feb 12, '24 | Announcing notesGPT! Record voice notes and get a transcript, summary, and action items. 100% free and open source. | 15.3× | 319k | 1.2k | 141 | 1.3k |
| 25 | Nov 13, '24 | My free + open source logo generator is dropping in 24h! | 15.2× | 317k | 3.6k | 222 | 3.4k |
| 26 | Jan 16, '23 | Learn how to build AI web apps as a frontend developer! In this video, I explain how I built and give you the starter code to build your own AI apps: | 15.1× | 316k | 1.6k | 198 | 1.4k |
| 27 | Feb 22, '23 | Working on a new side project! You'll be able to upload a picture of your room and generate your dream room in different themes. Launching later this week and as usual, it'll be 10 | 15× | 313k | 1.9k | 128 | 655 |
| 28 | Jan 18, '23 | I built a @tailwindcss color picker chrome extension! It calculates the closest Tailwind color in any website you open it in so you can quickly prototype. Get it today, 100% free → | 14.6× | 305k | 1.5k | 144 | 481 |
| 29 | Feb 7, '23 | I built an AI news summarizer for TechCrunch articles! 1. Go to any TechCrunch article 2. Add "summary" after "techcrunch" in the URL 3. Get your summary 100% free and open source: | 14.5× | 302k | 1.3k | 158 | 531 |
| 30 | Jun 1, '23 | I built Restore Photos in a single weekend 4 months ago and today, it hit 1 million unique visitors! It's also still averaging 260k monthly visits with most of the traffic coming f | 14.2× | 297k | 783 | 45 | 848 |
| 31 | Jul 22, '25 | Introducing Whisper – an open source voice note taking app! Record voice notes and transcribe them into lists, blogs, & more with AI. 100% free & open source. | 13.5× | 281k | 1.8k | 139 | 2.5k |
| 32 | May 11, '25 | My AI side projects this year: ◆ llamacoder.io: 1.5M users ◆ blinkshot.io: 1.4M users ◆ llamatutor.io: 146k users ◆ llamaOCR.com: 91k users Here's my full process for building | 13.3× | 277k | 2.1k | 189 | 3.7k |
| 33 | Oct 23, '25 | Building an agent that can generate an entire interactive course from a PDF/textbook 🤯 The way it works: I have pre-built components (Q&A, drag & match, flowchart, info bubble, ec | 13.2× | 276k | 2.4k | 173 | 3.1k |
| 34 | Aug 1, '24 | My open source Claude Artifacts app using Llama 3.1 405B is dropping in 24 hours! Free & fully open source. | 13.1× | 274k | 2.4k | 220 | 2.4k |
| 35 | Jan 15, '25 | Announcing Agent Recipes! A site to learn about agent/workflow recipes with code examples that you can easily copy & paste into your own AI apps. I'm gonna make this the go-to | 12.3× | 256k | 3k | 325 | 4.6k |
| 36 | Sep 22, '23 | Introducing QrGPT – generate beautiful QR Codes with AI in 1 click. Built with @kevinhou22. 100% free and open source → | 11.3× | 236k | 958 | 122 | 568 |
| 37 | Mar 24, '23 | I added pricing to roomGPT, making it the first side project I've ever charged for. Also hit a cool milestone: 1.5 million unique visitors! Here's why I added pricing and exactly h | 11.1× | 232k | 597 | 21 | 329 |
| 38 | Oct 4, '24 | Announcing ! An open source real-time AI image generator. Type a prompt and images will generate as you type. 100% free and open source. | 10.9× | 227k | 2.3k | 330 | 2.4k |
| 39 | Jan 24, '23 | Learn how to build GPT-3 AI apps with @OpenAI and @Vercel edge functions. In this video, I explain how I built and how you can build your own GPT-3 powered apps: | 10.7× | 222k | 1.1k | 121 | 930 |
| 40 | Sep 27, '23 | Learn how I approach my side projects! In 4 mins, I discuss: ◆ How I come up with side project ideas ◆ How I approach my side projects ◆ Advice for being a great builder Shoutout t | 10.1× | 211k | 1.2k | 124 | 591 |
| 41 | Jan 19, '23 | I just made a YouTube channel and dropped my first video! Lots of web dev & AI tutorials coming soon. Would mean a lot if you all subscribed! | 9.7× | 203k | 1k | 114 | 471 |
| 42 | Oct 13, '24 | My AI side projects this year: ◆ : 338k users ◆ : 75k users ◆ : 70k users ◆ : 67k users Here's exactly how I approach building AI side projects in 7 steps: 1. Think of an idea that | 9.6× | 200k | 1.5k | 128 | 2.6k |
| 43 | Jan 23, '24 | Announcing PDFToChat! Chat with your PDFs (blogs, textbooks, papers) with AI! 100% free and open source. | 9.2× | 193k | 953 | 114 | 1.1k |
| 44 | Jan 28, '22 | Beginner React tutorials be like: | 9.0× | 0 | 5k | 728 | 333 |
| 45 | Apr 3, '25 | Announcing self.so! Create a personal site in 30 seconds from your resume/linkedIn. 100% free and open source. | 9.0× | 187k | 1.8k | 132 | 1.7k |
| 46 | Sep 25, '24 | Announcing ! An open source wireframe to app tool powered by Llama 3.2 vision. Upload a screenshot of a simple site/design & get code. 100% free and open source. | 9.0× | 187k | 2.2k | 265 | 2.6k |
| 47 | Jan 30, '23 | When dev influencers make programming tutorials: | 8.3× | 173k | 1.1k | 79 | 107 |
| 48 | Jan 8, '25 | Working on something new based on Anthropic's great agent article! | 8.2× | 170k | 1.8k | 112 | 2.3k |
| 49 | Nov 21, '24 | I built a menu visualizer app that can take a restaurant menu pic and generate nice images for each dish! 100% free and open source. Dropping in 24 hours. | 8.0× | 166k | 1.5k | 102 | 1.4k |
| 50 | Aug 18, '25 | Got a blood test recently and wanted to better understand my results… so I’m building an app for it. Free. Open source. Coming soon. | 7.7× | 160k | 1.4k | 37 | 1.1k |
| 51 | Sep 23, '23 | My year so far: ◆ 10 AI projects launched (all open source) ◆ 8 million unique visitors across all projects ◆ 20k GitHub stars & 25k @X followers gained It's been a good year s | 7.0× | 145k | 846 | 38 | 269 |
| 52 | Jan 14, '25 | My agent recipes site is launching tomorrow! | 6.7× | 140k | 1.6k | 95 | 1.8k |
| 53 | Nov 8, '24 | Dropping next week! Free + open source logo generator | 6.6× | 138k | 1.7k | 120 | 1.8k |
| 54 | Sep 8, '25 | Building an app to help people track their finances! It'll take in any receipts you have, extract the total $, and categorize it for you (dining, groceries, utilities, ect). Launch | 6.6× | 138k | 1.4k | 80 | 1.2k |
| 55 | Jan 28, '25 | Announcing loras[.]dev! An open source AI image generator that can create beautiful images from specific styles (Flux LoRAs). 100% free and open source – and available today! | 6.5× | 135k | 1.3k | 105 | 1.7k |
| 56 | Nov 18, '24 | 60 second tutorial on Chrome extensions! ✨ ICYMI, learn how to build a Chrome extension with only 15 lines of code! | 6.5× | 134k | 981 | 87 | 1k |
| 57 | Jul 23, '24 | Introducing LlamaTutor! An AI personal tutor who can explain any subject at any education level using up-to-date sources. 100% free and open source. | 6.3× | 131k | 1.3k | 224 | 1.5k |
| 58 | Aug 11, '23 | I'm going to build and open source an AI app every month for the rest of the year. First one is launching September 1st! It'll be complete with auth, a database, and state of the a | 6.3× | 130k | 753 | 31 | 168 |
| 59 | Oct 12, '24 | Launched 9 AI apps this year with 500k+ users combined. The best part? They're all free + open source 😁 | 6.1× | 127k | 676 | 48 | 705 |
| 60 | Jul 11, '25 | Building an app that can generate an entire interactive course from any materials 🤯 It's pretty insane what you can do with AI now. | 5.9× | 123k | 1.1k | 33 | 1.3k |
| 61 | Jun 30, '25 | Announcing EasyEdit – the easiest way to edit images. 100% free and open source. | 5.8× | 122k | 1.1k | 88 | 1.2k |
| 62 | Nov 19, '24 | Working on a new app! | 5.8× | 122k | 1.1k | 43 | 724 |
| 63 | Feb 23, '23 | I built a Chrome extension to deploy any GitHub repo to Vercel in one click. Watch me deploy a Svelte app in 20 seconds! Download the extension here: | 5.8× | 121k | 591 | 61 | 194 |
| 64 | Oct 11, '23 | Spoke at my biggest ever conference today! The talk was on how to build AI projects on weekends that can scale to millions of users. Gonna post the full talk when it's out! | 5.6× | 116k | 762 | 24 | 71 |
| 65 | Jul 30, '24 | Working on an open source claude artifacts app that can generate full React apps with Llama 3.1 405B! Coming soon. | 5.4× | 112k | 1.1k | 56 | 613 |
| 66 | Feb 8, '24 | Free & open source AI app dropping on Monday. ◆ @nextjs app router with tailwind ◆ @MixtralAI w/ JSON mode for the LLM ◆ @convex for database, storage & functions ◆ @togeth | 5.3× | 110k | 719 | 56 | 791 |
| 67 | May 31, '24 | Announcing TurboSeek – an AI search engine that's 100% free and open source! | 5.2× | 109k | 667 | 78 | 649 |
| 68 | Apr 2, '25 | I built an app that can take your resume/linkedIn and create a personal website for you in 1 min! 100% free and open source. Dropping in 24 hours. | 5.2× | 108k | 1.3k | 81 | 1.1k |
| 69 | Oct 21, '24 | Working on a free & open source next.js starter kit! The goal is to enable devs to build full-stack AI apps & Saas apps as fast as possible | 5.1× | 105k | 1.3k | 62 | 892 |
| 70 | Jan 15, '23 | Building a Twitter bio generator! Copy your current twitter bio & it will generate a few improved variations using AI. Launching in 2 days and as usual, it'll be free and open | 5.0× | 104k | 649 | 33 | 189 |
| 71 | Dec 31, '22 | My goals for 2023: ◆ Spend 15h/week coding side projects ◆ Go to the gym 4x/week and lose 20 pounds ◆ Publish 2 videos and 1 blog post per month ◆ Develop a consistent sleep schedu | 4.6× | 95k | 594 | 38 | 145 |
| 72 | Nov 26, '24 | New post: How to build an interactive AI tutor from scratch! I go over how I built LlamaTutor (90k users), an OSS AI tutor, with Next.js + Together AI: | 4.5× | 95k | 726 | 80 | 1.3k |
| 73 | Dec 3, '24 | My PDF summarizer app is coming soon! 100% free and open source. | 4.5× | 95k | 1.2k | 84 | 938 |
| 74 | Apr 28, '25 | My PDF summarizer app is launching this week! 100% free and open source. | 4.5× | 94k | 1.2k | 60 | 990 |
| 75 | Apr 10, '25 | Announcing napkins.dev 2.0! An open source wireframe to app tool powered by Llama 4. Upload a screenshot of a simple site/design & get code. 100% free and open source. | 4.5× | 93k | 1.1k | 159 | 1.3k |
| 76 | Jul 1, '23 | Turned 25 today! 🎉 24 was great – it was the year I learned AI and got over 2 million users combined for my AI side projects. Also got to meet some great devs, founders, & VCs | 4.1× | 86k | 608 | 3 | 30 |
| 77 | Jan 2, '25 | My favorite 2025 tech stack for building AI apps: ◆ Framework: @nextjs ◆ Database: @neondatabase + @prisma ◆ AI API: @togethercompute ◆ Search API: @serperapi ◆ Language: @typescri | 4.1× | 85k | 838 | 86 | 1.3k |
| 78 | Oct 14, '24 | Gave a talk on how build AI apps in a weekend that go viral and scale to millions last year. AMA! Thanks for having me @aiDotEngineer! | 4.0× | 83k | 940 | 76 | 1.4k |
| 79 | May 7, '25 | Announcing SmartPDFs! Summarize any PDF into beautiful sections. 100% free and open source. smartpdfs.ai | 3.9× | 80k | 957 | 87 | 1k |
| 80 | Nov 22, '24 | Announcing PicMenu – a free & open source menu visualizer! It takes a restaurant menu picture and generates nice images for each dish, and works great for lots of non-english m | 3.7× | 77k | 766 | 76 | 706 |
| 81 | Jul 21, '25 | Built a voice note taking app! You can take notes with your voice, then transform them into emails, lists, blogs, & more. 100% free and open source. Launching in 24 hours. | 3.5× | 73k | 880 | 42 | 746 |
| 82 | May 16, '25 | y'all are not ready for this quiz app | 3.4× | 71k | 668 | 30 | 611 |
| 83 | Oct 29, '24 | New post: How to build an AI search engine from scratch! I go over how I built TurboSeek (19k users), an OSS Perplexity clone, with Next.js + Together AI: | 3.1× | 65k | 655 | 58 | 910 |
| 84 | Nov 15, '20 | Time management from a dying professor. When Randy Pausch, a renowned Computer Science professor, got cancer, he decided to give one last lecture on time management before he died. | 2.9× | 0 | 1k | 212 | 532 |
| 85 | Jun 25, '24 | Just got married! | 2.9× | 60k | 710 | 2 | 17 |
| 86 | Sep 30, '24 | Thinking of open sourcing my personal next.js starter kit (complete with storage, auth, UI skeletons, SEO optimization, ect). I've slowly built this starter kit over time by shippi | 2.9× | 59k | 739 | 14 | 319 |
| 87 | Jan 26, '22 | Next.js developers be like: | 2.8× | 0 | 1.7k | 255 | 101 |
| 88 | Apr 21, '23 | I took the last month off from coding to focus on work and Ramadan. Now that Ramadan is over, I'm gonna start building again. More open source AI Apps and tutorials coming soon! Al | 2.8× | 57k | 675 | 11 | 11 |
| 89 | Sep 22, '22 | I built a @tailwindcss color picker chrome extension! It will calculate the closest Tailwind color in any website you open it in so you can quickly prototype. | 2.7× | 0 | 1.5k | 122 | 292 |
| 90 | Sep 20, '22 | My favorite tech stack for building web apps in 2022: ◆ Framework: @nextjs ◆ Language: @typescript ◆ DB: Postgres (@railway) ◆ ORM: @prisma ◆ Hosting: @vercel ◆ Styling: @tailwindc | 2.5× | 0 | 1k | 121 | 489 |
| 91 | Jun 2, '25 | Super excited to announce I got promoted at work today to Director of Developer Relations! 🎉 | 2.5× | 53k | 879 | 9 | 19 |
| 92 | Jul 26, '22 | 📣 Announcing , a resource for developer advocacy! Read to learn about: ◆ How to get a job in DevRel ◆ The three types of DevRel ◆ DevRel advice and resources | 2.2× | 0 | 799 | 179 | 331 |
| 93 | Aug 1, '22 | I'm so excited to announce that I got promoted at work today to Senior Developer Advocate! 🎉 | 2.2× | 0 | 1.6k | 29 | 5 |
| 94 | Jan 19, '22 | It still blows my mind how much we can do using just JavaScript 🤯 ◆ Full-stack web apps (Next.js) ◆ Backends and APIs (Express) ◆ Mobile apps (React Native) ◆ ML Models (Tensorflo | 1.9× | 0 | 949 | 146 | 201 |
| 95 | Dec 23, '24 | 2024 Wrapped: ◆ Got married ◆ Got a new job in the AI space ◆ Shipped 13 apps (1M+ users overall) ◆ Created ~10 tutorials (blogs + vids) ◆ Moved to New York ◆ Became a manager Than | 1.7× | 36k | 617 | 11 | 93 |
| 96 | Mar 11, '22 | I built a Chrome extension to deploy any GitHub repo to Vercel in one click. Watch me deploy a Svelte app in 20 seconds 🤯 | 1.5× | 0 | 758 | 84 | 147 |
| 97 | Aug 1, '21 | My plan for the next 2 years is to master the PERN stack (Postgres, Express, React, Node). With it, I can build: - Full-stack web apps (any idea I have) - Desktop apps with electro | 1.4× | 0 | 782 | 50 | 165 |
| 98 | Jun 13, '22 | The best career advice I've ever gotten from senior engineers is: 1. Have a "breakable toy" (real app) to try and test new tech instead of just reading about it 2. Build projects a | 1.3× | 0 | 650 | 91 | 132 |
| 99 | Jul 1, '22 | Turned 24 today! 🎉 23 was great: ◆ Shipped 15 side projects ◆ Spoke at 6 conferences ◆ Posted 6 twitter videos ◆ Ran 3 in-person meetups ◆ Joined the talented @vercel team ◆ Met a | 1.0× | 0 | 645 | 10 | 54 |
| 100 | Jul 1, '21 | Turned 23 today! 🎉 22 was great: - Sold my startup - Started my blog - Freelanced for other startups - Spoke at my first podcasts/conf - Became part of dev communities - Met some | 0.9× | 0 | 611 | 30 | 29 |
| 101 | Jun 13, '21 | Just graduated with a B.S in computer engineering! 🎉 | 0.9× | 0 | 622 | 6 | 4 |
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