Summer is in full swing! For many of us, this time comes with a slightly slower work pace and a few days off. It’s often the perfect moment to dive into those famous “side projects” that have been lingering on our to‑do lists for months.
Whether you’re experimenting with new tech, setting up infrastructure for personal use, or coding the next groundbreaking project, we’re curious to know what you do in your free time with your OVHcloud products!
What’s running on your servers this summer?
Hosting & Web: A revamp of your personal blog or the launch of a new portfolio?
Self‑hosting & Labs: Deploying open‑source tools to break free from the GAFAMs (Nextcloud, Bitwarden, photo‑management tools…) ?
Gaming: Setting up a multiplayer server for evenings with friends (using our new Game Panel, for example ) ?
Development & AI: Automation scripts, Discord bots, or experiments with new frameworks?
Share your projects in a reply to this thread!
Feel free to detail your tech stack, add links to your GitHub repos, or even share blockers where the community can help. It’s the perfect chance to inspire each other and discover new use cases.
Personally, I'm closing most of my contracts and preparing my transition to caregiver
Otherwise, I did some tests unintentionally on astro.build + github + pagescms + cloudflare worker for a small showcase/blog site... These little tools are awesome...
Indeed @FabL! Summer is the perfect time for that, to disconnect from day‑to‑day life, find that focus that sometimes gets lost in the routine, and finally get to those “side projects” we’ve been postponing for months.
Since I’m also a musician besides being a developer, I started a small personal project a while ago that’s a professional search engine for events. My initial stack was:
I used this stack because I had already built other applications with it and it was very comfortable for me, but over time and as the idea matured I gave it a different focus and wanted to create something basic, functional and minimalist (Google style) and I’m migrating everything to this stack:
The main idea has been to prioritize vertical efficiency over horizontal complexity. A single Go binary with SQLite on an NVMe disk behind Traefik provides response times under 2 ms with extremely high stability and minimal hosting costs.
I don’t have it in production yet, but for now the container with the whole app uses only 13 Mb
Note: I use the ncruces/go-sqlite3 SQLite driver because it is (Wasm / CGO‑Free), i.e., I compile with CGO_ENABLED=0, which lets me build 100 % static binaries and do instant cross‑compilation without installing toolchains or C dependencies in the build environments, especially for Docker. Unlike projects that transpile C to Go, this library compiles the official SQLite source code to WebAssembly and runs it via a Wasm engine in pure Go.
For me it's winter but I still always have things to do.
I've almost finished an application for managing software licenses in Django/Python with Claude's help to hunt down bugs.
And now I'm going to start working on an MCP server developed in Python to allow an AI agent to explain to its user how to use a software. The MCP server accesses part of the application's source code and can therefore know how it works and help the user use it. The AI agent will be integrated as an assistant in the application. In the end, it will certainly be a private AI that will be used to replace Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT/... It's a concept I already use locally for open‑source software; Claude has the source code at hand, so I ask it to explain to me how to use the particular open‑source software with the source code.
I'm also preparing reinforcement to monitor an auction‑management application for September, with a replication of the application on two servers. The app is used to display screens at the auction venue. I already have the server under managed services, but now this is additional help for one of the hosted sites.
Between lines of code, I taste wine and wander in the desert.
Hosting & Web: A revamp of your personal blog or the launch of a new portfolio?
Self‑hosting & Labs: Deploying open‑source tools to break free from the GAFAMs (Nextcloud, Bitwarden, photo‑management tools…) ?
Gaming: Setting up a multiplayer server for evenings with friends (using our new Game Panel, for example 
) ?
Development & AI: Automation scripts, Discord bots, or experiments with new frameworks?
and I’m migrating everything to this stack:
Note: I use the ncruces/go-sqlite3 SQLite driver because it is (Wasm / CGO‑Free), i.e., I compile with CGO_ENABLED=0, which lets me build 100 % static binaries and do instant cross‑compilation without installing toolchains or C dependencies in the build environments, especially for Docker. Unlike projects that transpile C to Go, this library compiles the official SQLite source code to WebAssembly and runs it via a Wasm engine in pure Go.
