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Simple Christmas Gift Ideas Using Your Skills

Joe Hobot on November 09, 2018

Some of you might go and buy gift cards, some of you might go and buy shirts or some present that SO would love. Well what if you could use your sk...
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Pierre Bouillon

That's a wonderful idea !
I was wondering what kind of "gift" I can build an easily deploy using GitHub page for example. As a student, most of my teaching lessons include theory and sometimes more practice, but no one ever taught me how to easily and efficiently deploy my work.. I'm looking forward all kind of ideas !

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jappe999

This is awesome! I built a website for someones birthday once. Not a functional one, but one that said "Happy Birthday" and had fireworks in the background.

It's still online. The text is in Dutch, but you get the message. rosa.webdrawings.nl

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Ben Halpern

I think people have a special reverence for native mobile apps. Since there's a higher barrier than websites, they feel pretty special. But building a simple native app is pretty easy and there are ample open source apps you can clone and tweak.

So on that note I feel like a custom built "couple" app that does something simple, maybe a shared photo album with some personal touch that you couldn't get on a non-customized product.

My 2 cents

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Joe Hobot • Edited

Like for example pull imgs via API from Instagram,Google Photos and Flickr and then display imgs by doing just one search and all in one place :) MyPhotosAreEverywhereHowCanISearchThemAllAtOnce.com

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Ben Halpern

Yes. Do this. Package it as a native app.

Coding for two possible users is also so much easier than arbitrary users. Hardcode all the things.

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Todd Stark II

For father's day a few years ago, I built my dad a simple website to store and display all his dad jokes. He loves it, and still uses it to this day. He still says it was one of the best father's day gifts I've ever gotten him.

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Joe Hobot

Beautiful!

Btw is your dad's name Tony by any chance? ;)

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Vesi Staneva

Great post! We got inspired by your ideas and decided to spin it up including a special bonus that will help people "materialize" them faster and easier. :) Here is for those who are interested in taking up on a small X-mas project: dev.to/sashido/coding-skills-turne...

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Tiago Soares

Sometimes simple things to us is awesome to non-tech people.

I made an simple app to my father that shows all of his favorites news sites, separated by types. All in one place.

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Vitor Amaral

Hey guys just leaving a codepen created by my brother. A animated christmas tree made only with CSS. Share and give your feedback. Thanks! Codepen: codepen.io/flavio_amaral/pen/QJqbpQ