If you have no idea, why do you want to have a side project? You are taking it backwards, a project is the expected solution to a problem you face. You need to find something to solve, then what can be a project will be obvious.
Ask HN: Looking for side project ideas
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#92Build things for other people you like or care about.
That is easy way to lose friends :) when you get annoyed with feature requests. It is easier to build stuff for people you don't like because usually you want to cut amount of features.
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#93The best products happen at the intersection of an existing niche you are some level of expert in already and a technology that has not yet been adopted in that niche. I've found one approach work very well with my mentees: - Figure out which "special interest groups" you are part of beyond software engineering. That can be "aquarium owner", "coffee lover", "morning person", "diligent grandson" — the less technical,…
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.
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#94Find something that you repeatedly do and try to automate it. Create things that save time.
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#95Check out https://trends.co/
They release their research on upcoming trends. Some articles are awesome and lots of people seem to start side projects based on it. In addition, the community and FB group are solid. You can meet lots of makers if you have questions about a specific industry.
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#96For me it was just looking for a procedure that annoyed me so much that I just had to build a tool to fix this. Why do we still have to open our calendars, look through endless event notes to copy and paste a link into a browser that then launches the native meeting app? That's why I built an app called Meeter [0] for that. [0] https://apps.apple.com/de/app/meeter-fast-call-initiation/id...
This is awesome.
Do you have a website with a list of features?
Does it support outlook and chime?
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#97a simple search engine in 200 lines - https://gist.github.com/selimslab/7d63349e4e247fbcf7ff9dd01c...
a simple blockchain in 100 lines - https://gist.github.com/selimslab/4ea8e87792dec4e23ecedfd435...
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#98I don't want you to take this personally, but your post seems very low effort. How can we devote time to helping you if you only put 10 seconds into making this post without reviewing it? For one, writing skills are important. You will have a hard time selling your project to anyone on its merits if you write incomplete sentences with lackluster English. Second, you haven't taken the time to list out what your streng…
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.
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#991. Write down the apps on your phone or computer that you use the most. If you want to bootstrap a profitable business, I recommend listing the apps you use for work. 2. Write down the one feature for each app that you use the most within that app. 3. Write down what slightly annoys you about that one feature 4. Build the product around the one feature you feel you can cook up quickly and that will benefit your workf…
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.
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#100If your goal is to 'make skillset strong', then I assume your want to learn. It's hard for us to guess what your interests are, so the most straightforward advice would be to join an open-source project that uses the desired technologies (language, framework, etc.) and go from there.
There's usually an issue-tracker and mailing list for the project to get some contact with other devs.
Pick an issue that has attention and which you feel you can understand. Replicate it, then try to solve it.
It's impossible __not__ to aquire new professional knowledge in such process.
It's also ok, to drop it and try to find another project, perhaps, more up to your present skill level.
The more you try, the more you'll learn...about yourself.