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Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by Insanity »

KineticLensman wrote: post #14

MAL - Make a Lisp [0]. This one has been discussed on HN before - its where I found it. I completed it last year (from Jan to May 2019) and ended up with Lisp-a-like interpreter written in C# that is sophisticated enough to self-host (i.e. it can interpret and run itself). I picked it up again when the lockdown started and I am now using it to re-implement some of the classic AI systems described in Paradigms of AI P…

I recommend giving Godot a look, I really like it and have been using it for small side-projects for about half a year now. I did have no "real" prior experience with unity and unreal though.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by total_plus »

One side project idea I am working on is a web application starter kit that may be up and running in 30 minutes, with more than 10 fundamental features for every web app. I think it can speed up the time to market of other web app based side projects. It is available at https://turbovar.com/turbovar/index.jsp

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by artembugara »

fakedang wrote: post #99
artembugara wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My story. I used to use news API services for my side projects. One day, I realized that I can build my own service that will be both, best quality (like real multilanguage support), and cheap. 8 months into it, it is my full-time job and we are releasing our first paid version (post-beta). We have 600 subscribers (beta-testers) and some people claiming they will become paid clients. It is a huge experience in both,…

Thanks for this. This might be something I'm looking for at the moment.

thx! Do you talk about my kind of philosophy or my product?

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by KineticLensman »

Insanity wrote: post #131
KineticLensman wrote: post #14

MAL - Make a Lisp [0]. This one has been discussed on HN before - its where I found it. I completed it last year (from Jan to May 2019) and ended up with Lisp-a-like interpreter written in C# that is sophisticated enough to self-host (i.e. it can interpret and run itself). I picked it up again when the lockdown started and I am now using it to re-implement some of the classic AI systems described in Paradigms of AI P…

I recommend giving Godot a look, I really like it and have been using it for small side-projects for about half a year now. I did have no "real" prior experience with unity and unreal though.

Yes - Godot looks interesting because it is simpler and seems more stable than Unity now. Coincidentally this was discussed recently on HN [0]. A lot has changed since I used Unity two years ago and it seemed easier to start from scratch with a simpler environment (Godot) rather than figure out all of the things that have changed in Unity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23271973

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by christiansakai »

MattGaiser wrote: post #93
_nckn wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aquarium owner here. Thinking of IoT hardware but turns out the sensor is expensive and error/breaking prone. Thinking to create yet another social media for people to post their aquariums and track the maintenance schedule then I realized I won't have the bandwidth (time and money) to deal with storing massive amounts of pictures, or policing the content to make sure it doesn't go down like social media dumpster fir…

Take the Google Chrome approach and just have the AI randomly ban posts at a high rate.

LMAO!

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by kapep »

rabidrat wrote: post #103
goshx wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love how your points make sense and seem reasonable at the same time that they were completely irrelevant to attract the right audience and feedback from the community. A foreigner does not need a perfect English (or English at all) to create and sell a product in their countries. Please keep in mind this is an international community. Foreigners should not be discouraged because of a broken English.

This is not a "foreigner" or "broken English" problem. I agree with the parent that this was a low-effort post. No details were included, neither emotional nor technical nor interests.

> No details were included, neither emotional nor technical nor interests.

Which worked out great, because otherwise most answers would have been specific to OP's emotions and interests and probably wouldn't be that useful to other people.

Questions like this don't get upvoted because of the effort put into them. They get upvoted because of the answers they attract. I'm fine with that if it means I get to read some interesting answers.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by dgb23 »

mkl wrote: post #32

- Make things that solve problems you have. - Make things that seem interesting/fun to you. Borrowing ideas from other people seems unlikely to be very engaging, and making things just to learn skills has the same problem. Lacking side project ideas seems kind of incomprehensible to me, as I have far more ideas than I could ever put into practice, even if I didn't need to work for a living. Therefore, I suspect you d…

There is an initial phase, where a creative person is just starting out. In this phase ideas are rare and sometimes seem precious.

I don’t quite understand what happens but after a while this phase passes. I think one of the core factors might be just doing stuff out of curiosity, playing, implementing things that are your own, fueled by curiosity.

Then, day after day you get showered in ideas. Good ones, crazy ones, boring ones. All kinds of solutions or new ways of doing things come to mind.

Today I find it much more challenging to filter and evaluate ideas than to get them.

Some important virtues that help in both cases: patience, practice, playfulness. Also respect of other people’s work.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by tomklein »

Silver3 wrote: post #67
srawat1001 wrote: post #24

- I would suggest make a small app with just basic crud operations. It should have a front-end, backend and a database and then work incrementally to the other steps mentioned below. - Use k8s to deploy and run your app. - Add more business logic where you will be needing more tools like elasticsearch, message-queues, etc. Some examples from the top of my head are Stock Ticker app, Ticketing software like Zendesk, Fo…

What are the differences and pros and cons of a Database vs local storage? I'm thinking of creating a site where users can add there own urls and titles and this information should persist after the browser is closed, should I store these strings client side and tie it to there browsers local storage or tie it to some account on a database ran by me? Keep in mind there is no limit to the amount of strings a user coul…

If you either want to do stuff like processing or analyzing it on the backend, or let users access their data from other devices, use a database. If not, use local storage.

Local storage has the benefit of saving you bandwidth and storage cost, no matter how much your users save, and probably more privacy.

Databases on the other hand, allow you to „do stuff“ with the data when the user is offline, share it through cross-device sessions and things like that. However the users can’t be sure what you are doing with it.

Re: Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas

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Post by ezl »

niksmac wrote: post #37
ezl wrote: post #36

Please steal any of my ideas! :) https://www.dailyidea.com/ideas/eric Some software ones that I like: 1. A nicer web viewer for Google Spreadsheets - https://www.dailyidea.com/ideas/d239cea3-7d1b-429f-afd4-ab9d... 2. Airbnb guest guidebook creator - https://www.dailyidea.com/ideas/d239cea3-7d1b-429f-afd4-ab9d... 3. Thai writing trainer - https://www.dailyidea.com/ideas/d239cea3-7d1b-429f-afd4-ab9d... 4. Instagram acc…

I am stealing a few Eric.

Please do!

Some of these I just really want to exist, so let me know when you do execute so I can be your first customer too! :)

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