Sidegent is a hands-on learning platform for AI agents. The Sidegent Coder writes and runs real code with you in your browser, so you learn by building, from fundamentals to frameworks (Google ADK, LangGraph, OpenAI). Every lesson auto-graded. Made in Malaysia. Start free.
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Farhan, the maker of Sidegent.
I built this because keeping up with AI agents is exhausting. Everything you need is scattered: a framework doc here, a YouTube video there, a Twitter thread, a half-broken notebook, a Discord message you'll never find again. By the time you've stitched it together, the tooling has already moved on. So most people end up reading about agents instead of building them.
Sidegent puts it in one place and makes you build. It's a hands-on platform where every lesson drops you into a real agent in the browser. You configure it, chat with it, break it, then hit "Check my work" and get auto-graded on what you actually shipped. No passive video watching.
A few things it covers:
- The frameworks people are actually hiring for: LangGraph, Google ADK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, plus the core building blocks like tools, subagents, memory, knowledge bases, and MCP. - A path from zero to production. Start with fundamentals if you're new, or skip to production patterns if you build for a living. - A built-in tutor. Stuck on a line in a lesson? Highlight it and ask, and it answers in the context of exactly where you are.
The first module is free, free 3 spin up machine labs, no card needed, so you can see if it clicks before paying anything.
Quick context: Sidegent already has 70+ paying members building agents on it. We started in Malaysia (the platform is fully bilingual, English and Bahasa Melayu), and this launch is about opening it up to builders everywhere. I read every piece of feedback, so tell me what's confusing, what felt too easy or hard, and which course you'd want next. Try it and tell me what breaks.
Question on the auto-grading: there are loads of valid ways to build an agent, so are you grading the behaviour or one expected solution? Asking because I've hired a lot of engineers, and the thing that'd make this worth it is something a learner can actually show a hiring manager, not just a course completion.
The "learn by actually building" angle really clicks for me. So many AI agent courses are just slides and theory, and you forget everything by Friday. Building something real that you keep is way stickier. Curious how you handle the messy debugging part, like when an agent loops or calls the wrong tool.
The Coder writing and running real code with you in the browser and auto-grading it is the part that separates this from another scattered pile of framework docs, since the feedback is on code that actually executed. When I am doing the ADK or LangGraph lessons, does the Coder run in a hosted sandbox with model calls proxied through Sidegent, or can I drop in my own OpenAI/provider keys and hit the real APIs? And does the code I build in a lesson come out as a project I can clone and keep running in my own editor, or does it stay locked to the browser environment once the lesson ends?
Congrats on the launch! 🚀
I really like the "learn by building" approach. Reading documentation only gets you so far actually debugging and fixing an agent is where the real learning happens.
I'm curious: as frameworks evolve so quickly, how do you keep lessons and projects up to date without learners running into outdated examples?
Love this @muhammad_farhan24 ! The built-in tutor feature is such a good idea. We ran into something similar building @Grass — keeping persistent VMs alive and reliable is way harder than it looks 😅
About Sidegent on Product Hunt
“Learn to build AI agents by actually building them”
Sidegent launched on Product Hunt on June 25th, 2026 and earned 83 upvotes and 10 comments, placing #22 on the daily leaderboard. Sidegent is a hands-on learning platform for AI agents. The Sidegent Coder writes and runs real code with you in your browser, so you learn by building, from fundamentals to frameworks (Google ADK, LangGraph, OpenAI). Every lesson auto-graded. Made in Malaysia. Start free.
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Farhan Helmy
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Farhan, the maker of Sidegent.
I built this because keeping up with AI agents is exhausting. Everything you need is scattered: a framework doc here, a YouTube video there, a Twitter thread, a half-broken notebook, a Discord message you'll never find again. By the time you've stitched it together, the tooling has already moved on. So most people end up reading about agents instead of building them.
Sidegent puts it in one place and makes you build. It's a hands-on platform where every lesson drops you into a real agent in the browser. You configure it, chat with it, break it, then hit "Check my work" and get auto-graded on what you actually shipped. No passive video watching.
A few things it covers:
- The frameworks people are actually hiring for: LangGraph, Google ADK, the OpenAI Agents SDK, plus the core building blocks like tools, subagents, memory, knowledge bases, and MCP.
- A path from zero to production. Start with fundamentals if you're new, or skip to production patterns if you build for a living.
- A built-in tutor. Stuck on a line in a lesson? Highlight it and ask, and it answers in the context of exactly where you are.
The first module is free, free 3 spin up machine labs, no card needed, so you can see if it clicks before paying anything.
Quick context: Sidegent already has 70+ paying members building agents on it. We started in Malaysia (the platform is fully bilingual, English and Bahasa Melayu), and this launch is about opening it up to builders everywhere. I read every piece of feedback, so tell me what's confusing, what felt too easy or hard, and which course you'd want next. Try it and tell me what breaks.