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Discussion on: Where do you get ideas for side projects?

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Markus

I've always loved the line from Robots movie, "See a need, fill a need". So you can start by trying to solve a problem that you yourself face.

In the past, I've also arranged for meetings with my clients and asked them what are their pain-points in their day to day work. Perhaps they work a lot in tedious spreadsheets which could be automated or made easier through building a simple app.

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Ido Shamun

Love the phrase! I used to follow this moto as well but sometimes I really want to play with new tech but I'm not aware of any needs.

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Markus

Then you might want to have a browse around on /r/AppIdeas <-- heaps of cool app ideas that you can get some inspiration from :)