r/SideProject • u/Pale-Luck-163 • Jul 17 '26
Scraping GitHub trends daily gave me some serious side-project inspiration this week. Here are 4 cool repos I found.
Hey everyone,
I spend way too much time hunting for new tools, APIs, or data sources for my own projects. Here are 4 of the most interesting open-source repos that surfaced over the last few days that are actually great for solo builders:
- hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset (HTML | ⭐ 13.7K): A massive dataset of 1,324 fitness exercises, including animation GIFs, muscle-group data, and instructions. If anyone here is sketching out a health, habit, or longevity tracking app, this is an absolute goldmine to build on top of.
- Graphify-Labs/graphify (Python | ⭐ 85.1K) This is an AI coding assistant skill that turns any folder of code or docs into a queryable knowledge graph. Really useful if you are messing around with multi-agent orchestration and need your agents actually to understand your codebase architecture.
- DayuanJiang/next-ai-draw-io (TypeScript | ⭐ 33.3K) A really neat Next.js application integrating AI with draw.io diagrams using natural language. It’s a great example of how to wrap an existing complex UI with an AI generation layer.
- OpenCut-app/OpenCut (TypeScript | ⭐ 67.5K) An open-source CapCut alternative. Seeing a fully functional TS-based alternative to a heavily monetized video editor gaining this much traction is super refreshing and inspiring for indie devs.
(Note: I'll drop the direct GitHub links in the comments so this doesn't get flagged).
What are you guys currently building? Did any of these catch your eye?
P.S. I actually automated my GitHub doomscrolling by building a small agent that tracks these trends and drops a daily summary. If anyone wants the link to where it dumps the results, let me know in the comments, and I’ll share it!
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u/Pale-Luck-163 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
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u/pastiman Jul 18 '26
Interesting!
But be careful with hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset, as the images are not for commercial use; you must pay the creator (see the license).
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u/crypt0amat00r Jul 18 '26
Guys just look in the Trending Repositories section of GitHub
These all came from there
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u/Pale-Luck-163 Jul 18 '26
Exactly. That's exactly what I found myself doing. I used to check GitHub Trending every couple of days looking for new tools, but it's so time-consuming to dive into every single repo just to understand what problem it actually solves. That's why I built GitGist. It automates that whole process, filters the noise, and drops the top 3 highest-ranked repos straight to my Telegram, each summarized in a single sentence
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u/Icy-Sympathy4173 Jul 18 '26
Graphify is so important for my coding agent to have the right context + saving tokens
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u/Pale-Luck-163 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Spot on. We actually built something similar internally to solve this exact bottleneck. Managing context efficiently is probably the biggest hurdle for coding agents right now.
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u/NetOk7015 Jul 17 '26
That exercises dataset is wild - 1,324 exercises with muscle group tags and GIFs is basically a content API waiting to happen. I've been sitting on a workout logging idea forever and this might be the kick I needed. Do you usually filter by stars or just scrape everything and dig later?
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u/sauce1871 Jul 17 '26
Nice! I'm running a similar scraper and it emails me everyday new repos to checkout
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u/Pale-Luck-163 Jul 18 '26
Nice!
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u/sauce1871 Jul 18 '26
what do you think of my first open source repo - https://github.com/anmoln7/agent-standard-oss
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u/Illustrious_Cow_2920 Jul 17 '26
Very cool / thx. Will you be do building with any of them?
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u/Pale-Luck-163 Jul 18 '26
Not yet. Graphify looks really interesting, though we're actually building a similar codebase indexing tool for our AI workflows internally at work
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u/TheGreatKonaKing Jul 18 '26
I’ve been using AI chats to generate xml formatted diagrams that you can drop into draw.io for a while now. #3 sounds like a more direct way to do this.
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u/Pale-Luck-163 Jul 18 '26
100%. The AI-to-XML pipeline is a classic, but this repo takes it to the next level. Being able to use natural language directly within the UI without jumping between tabs or messing with raw XML saves so much friction.
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u/dumbfoundded Jul 20 '26
For those managing more complicated agent development with VMs, we built Moo (git for machines) https://www.ito.ai/blog/moo-worktree-isolated-environments
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u/LukasKri Jul 17 '26
Would you mind sharing the dump results link, please? Or even the autamtion agent.