So let's say you have ideas, but don't have the time or energy to see them through, I'm sure there are a lot of folks in the opposite camp!
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Here's an evergreen project:
Highly specialized search engine/filterable directory. Something that could be more valuable than Google in one specific category. Ideally one that doesn't have a lot of existing commercial appeal. So, for example, there are a lot of search engines for real estate listings— because there is obvious money in that. But there are probably fewer search engines for, say, Abbot and Costello movies.
Pick a super niche hobby or passion you are interested in and combine it with your coding skills to come up with something super neat to a small group of people. As a Simpsons fan, frinkiac comes to mind as a great example.
This is the kind of project which is hard for "the big guy" to compete directly, even if it's Google, just because specialization affords opportunity to perfect certain nuances.
It's nice to have projects which don't require "initial users" to be worthwhile. This is the kind of thing where the information is already out there, but it's up to you to figure out how to structure the information in a way that makes this tool uniquely valuable.
If this seems like highly specific advice, I'll say that I already built something like this for comic book characters. I essentially took information available in existing databases and presented it in a way that was delightful and approachable. The UX was better than the old sites I found the info on. I had real daily visitors and people liked it. I was working on this around the same time I was hacking away on DEV, so DEV kind of took over and I let the other thing die.
Happy coding ❤️
I remember doing a search engine for youtube video metadata as a takehome project once. That project was perhaps my first exposure to inverted indexes, and made me a believer in project-based learning. Turns out inverted indexes are like real indexes but for words; you'll develop super human intuition on database indexes by doing a project like this. Also I found the project, if you're curious
github.com/richytong/yvmt
That's exactly what I thought, when I was creating search engine for dance events! I noticed that I could analyze descriptions for keywords and add some meta information for google and build some useful filters on top. I am planning to do same thing for dance videos, meanwhile trying to find developers to form an outsource community for dancers.
That’s a fantastic piece of advice! I instantly had a light bulb. We order hardware at work from a Siemens, a very very large industrial company. They sell so many different things to so many different types of customers, the user experience isn’t even a consideration. Also, their primary language is German and things get lost in translation often for us. I call it a bit of a miracle that the information is even there - but it’s not for the faint of heart. People at my work come to me any time they need a data sheet from them, typically a few times a week. I may explore building something like that for the types of hardware we use. I’ve had some new stacks I’ve been itching to try out. :)
I've always wanted to learn more about any given culture by exploring the lyrics of their mainstream/non-mainstream bands. Just sayin', if Bangladesh, Belize, or Brazil has a Mandolin Orange dropping tracks about something as important/complicated as immigration reform or the birth of a nation, I'd want to learn about it.
This is a short list of some of my ideas:
Your twitter for devs already exists! dwitter.net/
I don't know about a good side project but something that I am working on is the
Dev.To Self Blog...
About It
It is the simple react app, which will let user insert there user name and it will generate a copy of your blogs and hosted on NetlifySomething you can add to your Portfolio, half of the work is done by me
Look here: hemant-blog.netlify.app/
I will call it poor CSS Application...
I am unable to complete the CSS, because of less time and other works and poor CSS😼,
If someone would live to contribute by making a Interactive Desgin, can contribute to my github. Would really Appreciate the help🙏🙏🙏;
The App is built In React with React-Redux;
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And I belive this is a good project idea, a dev.to static blog generator with Netlify hosting.
Thank you🙏😼❤️;
Please contribute with your Awesome CSS❤️❤️
Hi! I would like to help :)
DM on Twitter ir you like @elseraa
I usually go for "Solve your own problems".
What's your hobby? Maybe photography? Try writing a light meter with the sensors API.
Or mountain biking? Track and visualize the height profile of your route.
Movie buff? I'd love to have an X Ray app. Snap a picture of the screen and get the actors' name and bio.
I was actually just discussing with someone building an activism app. With the everything about the world right now it's hard to keep track of active initiatives and petitions and protests and rallies and all of the amazing educational content being produced and conversations happening. I thought it could be cool to utilize some government API and maybe some web-scraping to put together an app to organize local info. So you can plug in your location and get all the contact info for your local representatives, petitions appropriate for your location, and information about protests and events in your area, with links to relevant resources like articles about each situation or movement.
Yup, this is a really good idea. I think what's critical with stuff like this is to avoid the urge to have to "capture the moment" and build for the long haul, because it can take a while to get software working just right, or hitting enough adoption to make ongoing work worthwhile. If you try to rush things, it's easy for those involved to be demotivated.
I love this idea!
As a non web dev I like to make various API wrappers with Go and Python. (I have one for DEV too 😎).
I wrote up how to find ideas a while back :) dev.to/samjarman/finding-ideas-for...
An auto poster for dev to post changelists on open source projects, I would be very interested in that. Any takers?
This is a great idea. Would this be posted as a sort of "bot" account? I'm interested in making this an officially allowed concept, but where the accounts are explicitly labelled as such.
The way the feed works, this would mostly show up for folks who follow these accounts, so it's not like bots would gum up other folks' feeds.
Well I think you might have filled in the detail. I know that didi would certainly benifit from didi bot. Taking in commits and somehow releasing the highlights based on commit rules I suspect that sort of thing, maybe some new account options. Absolutely a whitelist bot account would work. Would I need to setup an organization?
I really like this idea as well. I had done some work on a github action awhile back for automatic posting from a markdown file to dev.to. (github.com/tylerauerbeck/publish-t...) that you might even be able to lean on . I realize this is a bit github specific at this point, but in the end it’s just a python script so you can just pull that and plug it into source control of choice. So from that point it’s just publish changelog as .md and then push to the DEV.to API.
Fantastic this should give someone a leg up, I wish I had time to do it.
Could specific tags be targeted towards bots? or require
-botin the tag name.Ex.
#github-botShopping scheduler that reminds me, say every week, to get bread and milk, every month to get toothpaste, etc and then learns by when/what I actually buy (scan receipts or something) what my actual schedule is for these items and remind me when it thinks I’m running low (or better still, hook it up to an actual supermarket API and order in the shopping at the right time, if that’s a thing!!)
Great idea, it is definitely a thing.
I'm thinking for me it will be for my prepaid electricity, I recently moved to a house where the electricity is prepaid and still trying to figure out my average usage so that I know when to reorder before I run out.
Sounds great! Keeping the scope more focussed will likely result in a better product too :) If you build this I'd love to see it :)
Dev post scheduler 💛
Dev auto updater. If a post was published from RSS then updated later it updates on dev.
Oh thanks, nice trick 🤘👏