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title: "Side Projects"
source: "https://sebastien.morel.me/side-projects.md"
description: "Startups, personal ventures and experiments built outside the day job."
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# Side Projects

Startups, personal ventures and experiments built outside the day job.

## Side Projects

### Endless Chess
*Founder · Spring 2026* · https://endless-chess.com

Gamification layer for chess that turns the games you already play on Chess.com and Lichess into daily quests, streaks, XP, and rivalries. Connect your handle — no password, no game runs through it — and Endless Chess reads your public archives to score five fresh challenges each day (openings to try, tactics to spot, endgames to convert), plus friends races, club leaderboards, and quarterly World seasons with permanent titles. Free to play.

- Turns the Chess.com and Lichess games you already play into daily quests, streaks, and XP
- Deterministic, code-based evaluators read your public game archives — openings, tactics, endgames, accuracy
- Social layer with friends races, club scoreboards, and permanent titles from quarterly World seasons

**Tech:** Cloudflare, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Chess.com API, Lichess API, Plausible Analytics
**Metrics:** 5 new quests daily, 25 weekly, 75 monthly, Works with Chess.com & Lichess, Free to play

### Color Conquest
*Founder · Spring 2026* · https://color-conquest.com

Browser-based, location-aware PvP game where players claim a permanent color identity and stake a real-world location, then battle for territory — winning absorbs an opponent's colors while losing drains your own. A three-stat (Glow, Spark, Heat) rock-paper-scissors combat system, PvE bots for progression, and a daily "counterforce" mechanic keep any single player from dominating forever.

- Location-based PvP — your real-world position sets a 500 km matchmaking arena
- Rock-paper-scissors combat across three stats: Glow, Spark, and Heat
- Self-balancing "counterforce" system drains foreign colors back to your origin every 24h

**Tech:** Cloudflare, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Plausible Analytics
**Metrics:** 16.7M+ unique color identities, MVP

### Shipwire
*Founder · March 2026* · https://shipwire.dev

AI-powered tool that monitors GitHub repositories and delivers concise, automated digests of code changes to teams via Slack or Telegram on a customizable schedule.

- Automated monitoring of GitHub repository changes
- AI-generated concise digests of code changes
- Delivery via Slack or Telegram on customizable schedules

**Tech:** Cloudflare, Hobo JS, GitHub API, Slack API, Telegram Bot API, Better Auth
**Metrics:** 100% asynchronous, MVP, Positive early feedback from users

### Time Capsule
*Co-Founder with my brothers. · Christmas 2025* · https://time-capsule.io

Digital time capsule platform that lets you lock messages, photos, and videos in the present to be revealed to yourself or loved ones at a chosen moment in the future.

- Compose capsules with images, videos, and words for personal, family, or professional use
- AI moderation pipeline to ensure safe, and positive content
- Use cases from birthday gifts to wedding memories to collective legacy

**Tech:** Hono JS, Custom React Island Frontend using Vite plugins, Cloudflare, Better Auth, Stripe
**Metrics:** 1.5M+ sealed hours, > 400 users

### Miape
*Co-Founder with my wife and two teacher friends. · Summer 2025* · https://miape.fr

Educational AI platform created by teachers for teachers, helping educators prepare teaching sequences, implement pedagogical differentiation, and strengthen student learning outcomes. Miape.fr is an improved version of Ok-Wallace focused on all the pedagogical use cases that teachers need, with a more intuitive interface and a better content generation engine for assignments and everything else: flashcards, lesson plans, diagrams, reading, writing, quoting etc.

- Interactive exercise creation from existing teaching materials
- Compliant with official French educational recommendations
- Tools for pedagogical differentiation and inclusive learning

**Tech:** Next.js, OpenAI API, MongoDB, Fly.io
**Metrics:** more than 20 AI tools

### Ok Wallace
*Co-Founder with my French teacher wife. · November 2023, right after OpenAI released the first version of Assistant API.* · https://ok-wallace.com

AI-powered educational platform that enables teachers to effortlessly create tailored and engaging assignments adapted to individual student learning styles and paces.

- AI-driven generation of customized exercises with real-time feedback
- Track student progression and educational milestones
- Partnered with Lycée Français de San Francisco

**Tech:** Remix Run, OpenAI API, MongoDB, Fly.io, Vector search
**Metrics:** > 1000 users, > 300 teachers, > 6000 submitted exercises