Frontend developer, love building side projects

Every year I write my year-end reflection. Reflecting on the year is to look back and note down the highs and lows, the things I liked, the moments I experienced, and the lessons I learned. And I felt really good after reviewing my year. So I thought why not create something that will make this process break into small and simple steps.You can reflect on your year's journey with a simple guided process in minutes.

My year in review

I write blogs regularly. And every time I was writing one, I had to create a new blog cover for it. I mean I love creating creative cover images but sometimes I feel I spend too much time designing them. I thought I need something minimal so that creating those cover images won't be any hassle.<ul><li>With overview, Create awesome cover images for your blogs quickly and easily.</li><li>Easy to use. Add different fonts, colors, icons and patterns.</li><li>Choose from multiple themes.</li><li>Cover size based on blogging platform (i.e hashnode and dev)</li><li>Unsplash integration</li></ul>The project is open sourced and has around 500+ stars on Github. I launched it on Product hunt and it was #1 Product of the day on Apr 24, 2022

Coverview

Most of us come up with half-baked ideas but don't have the tools, resources, or time to build them. What if we could just share the ideas with the world and let others make it?After participating in multiple hackathons, at some point, we are running out of ideas. What if there was a place we could get some ideas from?And so I decided to build an app where we can share our half-baked ideas and vote for them. it's like bringing the internet's best half-baked ideas into one place.<ul><li>Users can share their half-baked ideas. I know it's hard to come up with ideas, so added a few tips on the side.</li><li>I considered two ways to validate the half-baked ideas. If someone builds a product out of this half-baked idea, would you use it? or would you pay for it to use? This way makers can get validated ideas and won't end up building something no one would use.</li><li>You can sort ideas based on the ✨ latest, 🙋 I would use it and 💸 take my money. Also, You can filter by different categories like social, productivity, health, etc.</li><li>You can see all the half-baked ideas shared by a user on their profile.</li></ul>The simple idea of sharing half-baked ideas got a great response from the internet. I shared it on Reddit, Twitter and launched it on Product hunt. It was #2 Product of the day on Product hunt and has more than 300+ cool half baked ideas.

Half baked ideas

The idea was quite simple. All I wanted was a bunch of productivity tools like a Pomodoro clock, a to-do list, and sticky notes altogether. Nothing fancy and complicated.I wanted to have all these tools somewhere I can see all day. And I thought what's better than a browser's new tab?<ul><li>I wanted it to be a new tab chrome extension without losing the default feature of adding shortcuts in chrome. So you can add shortcuts to your favorite sites.</li><li>Can I call it a productivity app without a to-do list? No way. Get things done by managing your daily tasks. Drag and drop, sort your tasks.</li><li>A pomodoro clock to boost your productivity</li><li>Sticky notes to keep your brainstorming ideas and important stuff.</li><li>Search and access your bookmarks.</li><li>block distracting sites</li><li>and yes it does have a dark mode too.</li></ul>I launched it on Product Hunt and it was #5 Product of the day on 22nd jan 2021. It was also featured on remote tools as and #2 Product of the week.It has around 2k+ installs on both Chrome and Firefox combined. Also, I was among the top 5 winners of the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="https://townhall.hashnode.com/hashnode-christmas-hackathon-winners">Christmas Hackathon</a>.

Tabwave

I worked on building our developer students club website <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="https://dscsit.netlify.app">https://dscsit.netlify.app</a>Hosted our first live session on getting started with web development <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="https://youtu.be/IEp_ZTrNR9M">https://youtu.be/IEp_ZTrNR9M</a>

Web dev Lead

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng)

I worked on building the user interface of the Twimbit platform. Also contributed to building new features in a chrome extension for the researcher's team that could save notes and highlights from anywhere on the web.testing

JavaScript

chrome extension

Software Developer Intern

NextJS

TailwindCSS

ReactJS

Frontend Engineer

Frontend developer, love building side projects. 

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Most of us come up with half-baked ideas but don't have the tools, resources, or time to build them. What if we could just share the ideas with the world and let others make it? so I decided to build an app where we can share our half-baked ideas and vote for them.I built this project in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="https://blog.rutikwankhade.dev/i-built-an-app-to-crowdsource-internets-best-side-project-ideas">Planetscale X Hashnode hackathon</a><h3 class="rich-heading">💡 Sharing ideas</h3>Users can share their half-baked ideas. It can be anything. A website, an extension , a tool or something else.<h3 class="rich-heading">🙋 Upvoting ideas</h3>I considered two ways to validate the half-baked ideas. If someone builds a product out of this half-baked idea, would you use it? or would you pay for it to use? This way makers can get validated ideas and won't end up building something no one would use.<h3 class="rich-heading">✨ Filter and sort ideas</h3>You can sort ideas based on the ✨ latest, 🙋 I would use it and 💸 take my money. Also, You can filter by different categories like social, productivity, health, etc.What are you waiting for? Go visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="text-green-text rich-link break-all link-break" href="http://halfbakedideas.app">halfbakedideas.app</a> and check out cool half-baked ideas shared by the internet. And if you have one, don't forget to share it with the world.

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Frontend developer, love building side projects.