[HN Gopher] Tell HN: I Need Project Ideas
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Tell HN: I Need Project Ideas
Hello everyone, I am Computer Science student which enthusiast
about programming, software development techniques, project
management and system design. I always read a lot of blog posts,
cool stuff or techniques. Though, i can not find the way how to
practise them. Sometimes i find an idea that i may accomplish.
Afterwards next i'm thinking about the idea and i realize the idea
is not fullfilled or not useful for humanity, community, at least
for me. And i am here to discuss my issue. Every comment is
welcome. Note: This is my first post on HN so if i violated some
rules by (or the way) posting this i am so sorry. And also sorry
for that i am not fluent in english.
Author : eballci
Score : 33 points
Date : 2022-03-16 18:43 UTC (4 hours ago)
| glouwbug wrote:
| Write your own programming language and then go solve a bunch of
| leetcode with it
| roschdal wrote:
| Make an AI which can automate accounting.
| bmcahren wrote:
| https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
| willcipriano wrote:
| Why does the thing you build need to be useful? All of my side
| projects are essentially useless. Its more fun that way.
| newlisp wrote:
| Usefulness makes it more interesting and motivating.
| willcipriano wrote:
| I work on useful stuff all day, my side projects are way more
| interesting.
|
| To say useless doesn't mean it doesn't work for it's intended
| purpose. Just that the purpose isn't trying to change the
| world.
|
| Origami is pointless but would you really get more
| fulfillment making paper plates?
| rodolphoarruda wrote:
| I have an idea log on my website. The content is in Portuguese,
| but I think you can use a web translator to get readable text. In
| case you find something of your interest and want to discuss it
| on detail, let me know.
|
| https://rodolphoarruda.pro.br/ideias/
| E-Reverance wrote:
| Have you considered making camera path mods?
|
| A lot of games don't natively support campaths so modders make
| their own to make videos like this https://youtu.be/ptPtpr6g1n8
| leobg wrote:
| I think you should add some form of contact info in your profile.
| In case somebody wants to connect with you directly.
| chaps wrote:
| Submit FOIA requests for data of your local government. You'll
| find it way more interesting than it sounds, I promise.
| danudey wrote:
| > the idea is not fullfilled or not useful for humanity,
| community, at least for me
|
| Facebook, for all its faults, didn't start out as a social
| network to connect people and collaborate; it started out as some
| sexist objectifying bullshit to rank women based on their
| appearances.
|
| If you ranked every project from most beneficial to humanity to
| least, Zuckerberg's original project was near the bottom, but the
| potential that Facebook had before it started destroying
| democracy for engagement metrics was near the top.
|
| If a site that started out as just sexist trash could somehow
| morph into a giant, world-spanning social network connecting
| people with each other across the globe, then please don't think
| that your projects need to be fantastic right out of the gate.
| cinntaile wrote:
| It's more fun to read about idea's instead of actually turning
| them into reality, it sounds like a discipline issue. Then again
| it's not like you need to spend time doing something you don't
| really want to do anyway, you'll learn plenty in school. If you
| really want to learn more you can always do the bonus assignments
| that some classes have.
| emerged wrote:
| Write down all of your strongest interests and skills in rank
| order. Think up project ideas which combine the most of those
| interests and skills. This is your sweet spot where you have
| something special to offer the world just as a matter of sheer
| statistics.
| abathur wrote:
| I'd recommend easing yourself into an existing technical
| community organized around something you use or find interesting.
| (This will probably be software/hardware, but it could honestly
| be any field of knowledge you find interesting--there are
| inevitably anthropologists, biologists, painters, photographers,
| etc. out in the world who wish they had some tool they don't know
| how to build.)
|
| To start, just explore, learn, and help others. (If you find this
| boring, it's a good sign to pick another community.) Sooner or
| later, you'll bump into real bugs and missing features/tools, and
| you'll have an excuse to start learning how to implement them. If
| you feel like you are understanding very well (perhaps you're
| able to regularly help people from memory) and no good
| opportunities have presented themselves, you could also start
| asking around. I would focus on people who are visibly working on
| their own projects; ask for any standalone projects on their todo
| lists that they don't have time/energy for.
|
| ---
|
| As an aside, the right project probably depends on what motivates
| you. Not what motivated you to post this--but what motivates you
| to keep waking up on this side of the dirt each day. I.e.:
|
| - If you are motivated by learning more than building, you may be
| able to get away with picking something at random.
|
| - If you are more motivated by building things (a good test--does
| leaving things unfinished weigh heavily on you?), you'll probably
| do best if you can find something that will scratch an itch of
| your own. When you're scratching your own itch, it's easier to
| avoid analysis-paralysis over the needs of users that you don't
| have yet. Unfortunately, there's a chicken/egg problem here. It's
| easier to find itches when you're already working on some kind of
| project (of your own, or with others). I regularly bump into
| little things that could make a good project.
|
| - If you are indeed more motivated by helping other people, it's
| good to start preparing now for the possibility that you are in
| for a rough ride. There are a lot of missing little tools out in
| the world that would be useful for other developers or the
| general public--but there's also a vast sea of interesting little
| tools that've already been built that have somewhere between 0
| and 100 users. You will not only have to solve the problem, but
| to help others you'll probably have to promote your own work.
| (Pay attention to whether this sounds boring, exciting, or
| horrifying. You can overcome boring/horrifying if you are really
| committed, but it may be a grind if you aren't...)
| danudey wrote:
| A few random ideas:
|
| The world could use an open-source project to manage restaurants;
| content management backend, let people add in all of their menu
| items with photos, descriptions, etc. and then surface that to
| the website (or not). Mobile app support, iPad- or web-based
| ordering (for servers or customers), Skip/DoorDash/UberEats
| integration, or self-managed delivery could all be potential for-
| profit addons, as well as hosting and consulting. This is
| something that I could potentially see people liking and using,
| and could also turn into a potentially profitable business.
|
| I play D&D a lot; it would be nice if there were an e.g.
| AndroidTV or AppleTV app that could display maps, including with
| fog-of-war, etc. I tried to do stuff like this with existing
| tools and had a really hard time lining up the existing grids on
| battlemaps with what the software understood to be the grids in
| the software (used for calculations). This one would require a GM
| interface to show/hide areas, active stuff, whatever. No idea if
| it would be fun to build (maybe use computer vision to detect
| battlemap grids?) but it's a thought.
| Barrera wrote:
| > I always read a lot of blog posts, cool stuff or techniques.
|
| You might try _writing_ a blog post. If you 're not used to
| thinking through writing, the results may surprise you.
|
| Pick a topic you know well, or at least think you know well. Then
| write about it. You'll soon realize cracks in your understanding
| you never knew existed. Those cracks contain project ideas.
|
| > Afterwards next i'm thinking about the idea and i realize the
| idea is not fullfilled or not useful for humanity, community, at
| least for me.
|
| You can talk yourself out of any project idea. One way to deal
| with this problem is README-driven development.[1] You don't want
| to commit to a project because you don't know if it's worthwhile.
| You won't know if it's worthwhile until you spend _some_ time on
| it. How to spend just the right amount of time? Write the README
| first.
|
| [1] https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-
| deve...
| TheHideout wrote:
| I personally like to make small video games, and I use the game
| as an excuse to learn some other technology by incorporating it.
| I've been doing this to learn Rust [0].
|
| If you want to do something similar, I have a huge list of video
| game ideas you can pull from [1].
|
| [0] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/rust-mini-
| games/tree/main/2d-gam...
|
| [1] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/four-emoji-concepts
| sagarjs wrote:
| Look for problems. There's a lot out there.
|
| Then see if you can solve the problem or part of it with your
| skills and knowledge.
|
| This is the approach I've followed.
|
| I'm currently working on an app that helps visually impaired
| people be more independent. Reach out if tou want to join this
| project.
| colpabar wrote:
| > Sometimes i find an idea that i may accomplish. Afterwards next
| i'm thinking about the idea and i realize the idea is not
| fullfilled or not useful for humanity, community, at least for me
|
| So what? There are plenty of really cool projects that aren't
| actually "useful" to anyone. The important part is actually
| accomplishing something that you can show to others. Just build
| things that you're interested in - you'll gain skills that way
| and build up a portfolio of work that you can show employers down
| the road. If you want to contribute to something that actually
| provides value to people, consider contributing to open source
| projects.
| livinglist wrote:
| depends on what kinda specialization you are interested in, at
| least for me it's mobile app development. I have been making apps
| since college, I was interested in Japanese language so I made a
| kanji learning app [0], then because I'm a bodybuilder, I made a
| workout log app [1], recently because I started reading hacker
| news, I made a Hacker News reader [2]. I learnt a lot from the
| process, from architecture, design pattern to code quality
| control. I would say learning is the key, usefulness is
| secondary.
|
| [0] https://github.com/Livinglist/Manji [1]
| https://github.com/Livinglist/Dumbbell [2]
| https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki
| mamcx wrote:
| "I always read a lot of blog posts, cool stuff or techniques."
|
| There, your problem.
|
| Jump around everything shinny and Wonderfull, and jump again when
| something else steal the focus.
|
| ---
|
| I have not cure for this, I'm the same. But after years I
| _regret_ badly how much jumping around shinny delay the joy of
| actually do something.
|
| So, read. Is fun.
|
| But pick one major thing you wanna do, and the thing that,
| hopefully, you wanna do FOR LIFE (or a big chunk of it).
|
| And focus on that.
|
| P.D: I always tough on build a FoxPro/Access hybrid but never
| start it, then start it and get distracted or busy. Only lately
| putting actual focus.
|
| This was 20 years ago!
| malux85 wrote:
| While you're a student your job is to learn and practice,
| humanity will do just fine without your immediate efforts, so
| sharpen up your skills first.
|
| Start by making a store and get payment processing working, this
| will teach you heaps about abstraction, interfaces, integrating
| third party APIs, error handling, logging, debugging and
| deployments.
|
| You don't have to finish it (but you should try, discipline is
| important) and you'll likely find other areas of interest as you
| go along. Make notes, just Text files organised in folders is
| fine to start
|
| It's really important that you just start something, it doesn't
| matter what, but you need practice and stuff to talk about and
| SHOW employers, don't get analysis paralysis.
| danielmarkbruce wrote:
| Tom Brady is probably practicing throwing a ball right now. Is it
| useful to society?
| musicale wrote:
| I need a way to sort through the many dozens of project ideas I
| have and commit to one or two that are actually worth doing. ;-/
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