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Discussion on: My girlfriend likes to travel, I like to know how much it's gonna cost. Vue, node and some APIs later, I give you tripcoster.com

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morgana

As one who struggles coming up with project ideas, I think this is a brilliant example of how to come up with an idea - "I do this thing pretty frequently, can I build something to help with it?". It gets the cogs moving in my head.

Nice job and thanks for sharing!

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Chris Dermody • Edited

Absolutely. ya just gotta keep your eyes open for problems to solve. Only thing is you'll see lots of problems and soon be buried in ideas. But then the fun part of picking the right one starts.

When I was looking for a job I got tired of opening multiple job sites, so I built jobb.ie - a job aggregator for Ireland

When I was getting requests from other people to help them build their developer portfolio, I built mydevportfol.io to help them build their own.

When I wanted a nice container for my instagram posts/vidoes, I built instadev.chrisdermody.com so that I could iframe in a site and record my screen or take a screenshot (this is a WIP).

And that's just the recent ones. ;)

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Yassin Mokni

This is golden advice, man
thanks for the inspiration.

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Chris Dermody

Of course. It's nice to see an old Post of mine still get some readers 😊