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Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
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Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#32I was frustrated running into seg faults while working on an OS project for my undergrad. I wanted a tool to quickly prototype bitwise operations without having to write and compile C code. I made bspl which is a REPL to do exactly that [https://crates.io/crates/bspl]. Like others have said here, the project usually finds you. And it's up to you to drive it to completion.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#33Sounds cheesy, but I worked on something I actually enjoyed working with it, not thinking if it's a commercial success or anything that sort. I can't think of myself working out of working hours on something I do only for money.
People and their energy levels are different, I guess. I wish I had the willpower and stamina.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#34I started an online clothing company. After sometime, I thought it would be cool to let users try cloths online so this product was born - sensestyles.com/tryroom
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#35As an employee, I saw my past bosses making the same mistakes over and over. The problems stem from the fact that they are usually engineers promoted to a management role, but they get no training whatsoever.
So I did some research, and I'm writing a short book discussing the essentials of day to day management; with a focus on communication.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#36I too solved a problem I faced at work - and privately - that I couldn't get anywhere else. It started with a couple of simple scripts for me, and evolved into a full-fledged SaaS solution [1].
The best things - perhaps the only things to really motivate you - are the ones that scratch your own itch. Otherwise, you'll get demotivated or loose interest. You need to build something for you and hope it appeals to others.
[1] A DNS monitoring & change alerter called DNS Spy; https://dnsspy.io/
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#37Honestly, it was a dumb pun that inspired me. I started working on Chat & Slash (https://www.chatandslash.com/) when the idea of "Slack & Slash" - an RPG on Slack - come to me during a boring meeting.
Obviously, folks at Slack preferred a less-potentially confusing name, but they liked the idea, so I'm still working on it.
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#38I used to hand fill a form to save me couple hundred bucks. I automated it.
Taxes?
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#39I'm building a game wiki/guide platform right now[1]. The idea mainly came from just wanting to re-create a game's interface on the web[2] and it gradually grew to a game guide and now a multi-game guide platform. I tried to learn new tech on the way to keep myself interested. The large parts being LeafletJS/PixiJS, moving onto React, then Firebase, and so on.
A lot of my web project ideas are related to the video game community because I often use and contribute to them and constantly find certain things lacking (wikis, forums, list trackers, news). So this project has nicely grew into something that I can both learn from and enjoy building for the long term. Of course there are the tedious parts (like upgrades and maintenance) but they're overcome gradually; it is just a side project right now.
[1] https://frontiernav.jahed.io/
[2] https://frontiernav.jahed.io/explore/game0/visualisations/ma...
Re: Ask HN: How did you find your great side project idea?
#40I missed turntable.fm and I found the current alternatives lacking so I built a better one: https://www.jqbx.fm if you're interested. IMO there's no shame in working on your own derivation of an existing idea (take FB as one example). Sometimes a tweak here or there can be the difference between a good idea and game-changing one. Also it gives you the chance to 'edit' an existing product which is both a fun and thoug…
this looks awesome!