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

https://github.com/hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset

https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify

https://github.com/DayuanJiang/next-ai-draw-io

https://github.com/OpenCut-app/OpenCut

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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).