The way I see it, the biggest opportunities for the foreseeable future are VR and tools that leverage deep learning to enable unskilled people to produce high quality creative works (e.g. neural drawing, neural music making, neural writing, etc). Doing a side project in either of these areas is more likely to lead to something revolutionary, and even if you fail your job prospects will be greatly improved. On the other hand, both of these areas are hard, but in life, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Ask HN: I'm out of ideas for side projects. Help please.
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#12The way I see it, the biggest opportunities for the foreseeable future are VR and tools that leverage deep learning to enable unskilled people to produce high quality creative works (e.g. neural drawing, neural music making, neural writing, etc). Doing a side project in either of these areas is more likely to lead to something revolutionary, and even if you fail your job prospects will be greatly improved. On the oth…
What do you recommend for a VR project?
Re: Ask HN: I'm out of ideas for side projects. Help please.
#13Don't create anything new, find a product that people use (and pay for) but are not 100% satisfied with, and make it better.
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#14I have a couple of ideas that I do not have the skill to create and am happy to share. One I am interested in using if you build it. What's the best way to contact you to share them?
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#15I'm stuck in the same spot. I agree that a lot of niches are already quite saturated.
Are you open to collaborate? Maybe if we put our heads together we could think of something.
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#16The way I see it, the biggest opportunities for the foreseeable future are VR and tools that leverage deep learning to enable unskilled people to produce high quality creative works (e.g. neural drawing, neural music making, neural writing, etc). Doing a side project in either of these areas is more likely to lead to something revolutionary, and even if you fail your job prospects will be greatly improved. On the oth…
This is one of the hype filled and most valley answers I've ever read. You even used the word "revolutionary". Jony is that you?
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#17* Many new jobs exist only to make sure that some robot works correctly. Even heavy equipment are robotized and remote controlled nowaday. Maybe you can create one million jobs thanks to a portal that would enable employers to recruit capacity to monitor through Internet, it would be improved later (two years) with capacity to assess and much later (10 years?) to operate equipments. The employer buy capacity, not a team. The employees bid for the job, but several can work simultaneously. A majority logic helps to verify if they are reliable. There is a reputation system for employees.
Re: Ask HN: I'm out of ideas for side projects. Help please.
#18The way I see it, the biggest opportunities for the foreseeable future are VR and tools that leverage deep learning to enable unskilled people to produce high quality creative works (e.g. neural drawing, neural music making, neural writing, etc). Doing a side project in either of these areas is more likely to lead to something revolutionary, and even if you fail your job prospects will be greatly improved. On the oth…
I agree however, creating something revolutionary in these spaces takes more than just fiddling with a couple of tensorflow tutorials or udacity courses.
For instance I've always wanted to have a music recommendation engine/app that instead of using collaborative filtering uses some kind of machine learning or deep learning algorithm(s) to identify lyric sentiment, complexity and melodic/rhythmic patterns to recommend me music based on that (across different genres). It turns out that something that seemed straightforward (I really thought I could tackle this after playing around with tensorflow and machine learning tutorials & MOCS) actually requires a lot of specialized/intimate knowledge about how these algorithms work and the theory behind them, I would need to spend quite some time studying (and understanding) before I can even begin coding this as a side project for instance.
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#19The way I see it, the biggest opportunities for the foreseeable future are VR and tools that leverage deep learning to enable unskilled people to produce high quality creative works (e.g. neural drawing, neural music making, neural writing, etc). Doing a side project in either of these areas is more likely to lead to something revolutionary, and even if you fail your job prospects will be greatly improved. On the oth…
What do you recommend for a VR project?
A game would be the easiest thing to get started with. I think down the line, virtually exploring places via scene reconstruction from multiple cameras is going to be absolutely epic, but that is a fairly hard problem.
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#20I have a cool project that I started on but didnt have time to finish. Anyone interested PM me, its stack;
.net core
Html
Jquery
.net core / c# is the only requirement