DAIS (Data/AI Shell) - Side Project Idea for Solo Developers
The Problem (Pain Level: 4/10) Developers experience friction when navigating large directories and files in the terminal: Basic ls command is useless with thousands of files Finding the right file requires combining find and grep File content preview is cumbersome Understanding dataset structure is difficult A niche pain point, but a real problem for power users. Target Market Global CLI Power Users - Estimated TAM $200M Developers who work terminal-first Data scientists, ML engineers DevOps/SRE engineers Linux/Mac power users What is DAIS (Data/AI Shell)? A CLI tool that adds AI-powered file analysis and intelligent navigation to the existing ls command. ...