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Re: Ask HN: Give me some PHP project or web app ideas

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Post by aoloe »

nathancahill wrote: post #29
aoloe wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PHP is wells suited for software that you want the users to install on "their" server without requiring any server configuration skills. Two simple projects I'm needing: - A Tumblr like app where I can post / tag / search the link s I stumbled upon in my daily browsing (with screenshots?). - A secure but simple commenting engine that I can attach to any of my pages (spam / attacks detection; confirm / delete from lin…

1. Check out clippy.in ( http://clippy.in/ ) 2. Why not Disqus?

As said above, PHP is good when you want something on your own webserver and you don't want your system administrator skills to be challenged.

In both cases, I want the software to run on my own server.

Re: Ask HN: Give me some PHP project or web app ideas

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Post by jpatapoff »

I find that it's better to work on a project related to something you're passionate about. Otherwise a couple weeks will go by and you'll have a hard time continuing to work on it.

If you want to do something audio related, you can use an API that I built out http://audiour.com/api There are a couple things I want to rework before officially releasing it into the wild, but you can start using it now if you're interested.

Re: Ask HN: Give me some PHP project or web app ideas

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Post by adamzerner »

A web app that plays music (could just be youtube videos), and makes smart ratings and playlists for you based on how long you listen to your songs. The idea is that if you listen to a song for 20 seconds, you don't like it as much as if you listen to it for 2:30. From this data on how much you like songs, you could even get into better predicting of which songs you should try (like Pandora does).

Re: Ask HN: Give me some PHP project or web app ideas

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Post by RyanZAG »

puppetmaster3 wrote: post #34

One project would be to learn another programming lang so you know something other that PHP. Same advice I would give to Java or others.

Great. Now he knows two different languages and still has no ideas on what to use them on.

Terrible advice.

The correct time to learn a new language is when your current one isn't meeting your needs or when you've completed enough projects to have learned as much as possible from your current language and can start bringing in ideas from others. Endlessly learning new languages and never using them is completely backwards.

Re: Ask HN: Give me some PHP project or web app ideas

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Post by Keyframe »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #18
krapp wrote: post #7

PHP forum scripts are mostly horrible, out of date and bug-ridden messes. Make something simpler and better that's not a service.

If this is actually a problem you currently have, I've heard great things about FluxBB[0], it's built on Laravel and also powers the Laravel forums. [0] http://fluxbb.org/ EDIT: Its alpha 2.0 is built on Laravel and is a complete rebuild.

It's still an old forum-like idea. I built an almost feature complete reddit clone (with some HN ideas along the way) in Laravel over the last month or so. I did it so that I can extend it into direction I need it down the road. We're launching in a week or so and my hope is that we will open source it for others to use as well.

Re: Ask HN: Give me some PHP project or web app ideas

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

dylz wrote: post #30
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this is actually a problem you currently have, I've heard great things about FluxBB[0], it's built on Laravel and also powers the Laravel forums. [0] http://fluxbb.org/ EDIT: Its alpha 2.0 is built on Laravel and is a complete rebuild.

I don't see a single hint to laravel in the download[0]? [0] http://fluxbb.org/download/releases/1.5.5/fluxbb-1.5.5.zip

http://fluxbb.org/about/future.html

Sorry, I guess I was mistaken - the currently alpha FluxBB 2.0 is Laravel, the current one (1.55) is a fork of something else.

Re: Ask HN: Give me some PHP project or web app ideas

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Post by neil_s »

sz0ka wrote: post #28

Write a service for people who got the same issue like you: A web(app|page), where people can submit their computer problems like "I need an application, that scans my calendar from and alerts me in my browser ten minutes before the event comes up". Programmers than could just pick a task from it and post the solution. The whole thing can be expanded to the maximum like payed work, featured idea's, collaboration / te…

I wanted to do this, the most similar thing I've found so far is Assembly Made (https://assemblymade.com/). It's like Quirky but for software.

Re: Ask HN: Give me some PHP project or web app ideas

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Post by paromi »

adamzerner wrote: post #35

A web app that plays music (could just be youtube videos), and makes smart ratings and playlists for you based on how long you listen to your songs. The idea is that if you listen to a song for 20 seconds, you don't like it as much as if you listen to it for 2:30. From this data on how much you like songs, you could even get into better predicting of which songs you should try (like Pandora does).

a nice music site, but without the ratings www.groovevibe.com
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