For me, I would be interested in writing an app to help people run pop-up shops and market stalls in a way that could sync up to any commerse platform. What would you love to create but will never get around to?
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If I had all the time in the world, I'd focus on computing solutions to modelling and synthesising proteins, to combat age and age related diseases such as cancer, alzheimers etc.
Lots of useless little projects that would be of no interest to anyone but me.
Good on you 😁
Certain types of volunteer work. If I had an enormous amount of time (and some other resources, obviously) to work with I (and hopefully many others) would implement Pubwan, which is to say, amassing large nonproprietary datasets populated and curated by volunteers and placed in the public domain. Salary transparency projects are the most interesting thing I've already seen done. I also have an interest in any type of empirical, actionable economic data, such as transaction data from the retail point of sale, or the big daddy, parsed representations of contractual catches in consumer financial products such as credit cards and insurance policies. Do for data what open source was supposed to do for software. That is my dream, really.
I'd build an app that can display estimated game time remaining for console games and the like.
I was asking myself a similar question for quite awhile. With a young child, I don't have a lot of time so it limits the type of product I can build. So I tried to reverse the question: With the time that I do have, what could I build?
The answer so far is a journaling product. It's simple. Use your phone's text message capabilities to write in a journal. The text messages get saved to the database. Your journal is always in your pocket. It sends you a daily prompt with a different thought provoking question each day.
My hope is it will require minimal support when I launch it. And it's something I can build slowly.
With side projects, it's easy to get into a bad habit of always rushing and pushing yourself to get more done. It took me a long time to realize building at your own pace is an acceptable thing to do. It's amazing what you can build with an hour every day if you're consistent. And if you don't have time to work on your product for a few days, that's fine too.
I'm not a dev, but if I had the skills I'd love to make a platform that would give folks the ability to play music online in real time together.
A game engine along with learning the mess of maths that goes with that. I think game development is a really interesting part of computer science due to all the systems it has to deal with. I've got into the basics of OpenGL but would love to invest enough time to create a small game in it with a small engine. Maybe even creating a multiplier game would be cool too!
I would dig deeper in machine learning, iot, arduino, computer vision, web development, app development, cloud development, contribute to open source projects and build a lot of stuff.
As I am learning in a university (via online), I would say it is more about energy and brain power, rather than time When I found something too hard for me, I most likely procrastinate forever.
So, I would first learn how to learn, balancing energy, brain power and time. I have already found a potential how-to, actually.
After that, I would learn skills to either start an NGO, or join the government. Also, to recruit people, if needed. Might be about public health or well being. I concern most about equity and accessibility.
After that, I would probably pursue computer science and applied maths, to solve hard problems; and provide a UI for them.
More time.