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Discussion on: How do you find personal projects to work on?

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Chris Dermody

Actually just wrote a post about how adding a donation method is a great way to stay motivated with a side project. It's really helped me with mydevportfol.io.

dev.to/chipd/adding-a-way-for-your...

One thing that might help you come up with an idea is to figure out what you're repeatedly doing. When I was looking for a dev job, I was opening three different job sites and typing the same search terms in every time. That's annoying so I built a Web app in two days that scrapes the three sites and aggregates the results: jobb.ie.

Do you have a day job? Is there an annoying thing that happens there that you might be able to use technology to fix??

Ideas are everywhere, ya just gotta be curious about stuff. ;)