A bunch of inspirations for programmers

About this post

I've seen a lot of people ask "What projects should I make next?". A lot of people are in need of inspiration and I want to help them to find it fast.

The most popular post on DEV of all time shows 8 frontend projects that someone can build. That shows how much people need inspiration on what to build.

I want you to share any ideas of great project that programmers should build. I want this post to be a reference to others out of inspiration where they can come back and just build the first project that comes to them.

If you have an idea (or some ideas) of a great project that a developer should make, post it in the comments and I will the project you suggested and your name in this post.

Projects

Frontend Projects & Ideas

• Personal Portfolio
• Chatroom UI/UX
• Create a new website skin/theme for https://userstyles.org/
• Landing Page UI
• Survey Form

Tools: HTML/CSS/JS, React, Redux, Jquery, Bootstrap, Angular, Tailwind CSS, FontAwesome, Google Fonts, VueJS, etc.

Fullstack Projects & Ideas

• Image Uploader
• Unsplash Clone
• Coding Website (Codepen clone)
• Website simillar to Dev.to
• Project sharing site
• Social Media Site
• facebook/twitter/reddit clone
• e-commerce site
• Voting/Polling app
• Authentication App
• Hackathon Hosting Site
• Slack/Discord clone
• Domain Name Registrar
• Code teaching site (like codecademy or freecodecamp)
• Email site (like Gmail, Yahoo, Protonmail, etc)

Tools: See frontend tools above, SQL, NodeJS, Flask, Django, Go, etc.

Game development Ideas

• Tower Defense
• Platformer
• First Person Shooter
• RPG
• Sniper game

Tools: HTML/CSS/JS, P5.js, PhaserJS, Zim, WEBGL, ThreeJS, BabylonJS, UnityWebGL, etc.

Algorithms

• Search autocomplete engine
• Palindrome Checker
• Cipher / Secret Code Encryptor
• Morse Code translator
• Weight Converter
• Calculator
• Currency Converter
• Text Adventure / RPG
• Markdown Previewer
• Javascript Editor
• HTML/CSS/JS Editor & output

Tools: Javascript, Python, C/C#/C++, etc.

Data Science & Machine Learning

• Image Classifier
• Trend Tracking Device
• Weather App

Tools: Python, SQL, Tableu, R, etc.

Misc

• New programming language

Tools: any

Contributors / Credits

If you come up with an idea and I add it to this post, you will be listed here

• @miguelmj

Cover Image from Unsplash

Comments

[MiguelMJ]

Some projects that I have implemented and some that I haven't yet but I want to.

Productivity

• A bot to set reminders with the Telegram API.
• A side-project tracking application.
• A template engine (like Jinja). You can use it in other projects like:
• A bot to digest the feed of you social media accounts (use several APIs and RSS feeds).

Games

• Pathfinding algorithms in grid based worlds (Dijkstra, A*)
• A random generator of characters, maps or plots.
• The Game of Life.
• Chess.

Other

• A visualizer of data structures/algorithms.
• A sound/music table application (great if you host RP campaigns).

[Conner Ow]

Great! I'll add these!