This is a list of all the project ideas I’ve had over the years. Some vague, some not even worth doing and some cool stuff I never got around to do.

Ideas I’ve in green are things I (xetera) have personally done. The ones in blue are things I’d really like someone else to do and message me about so I can use it and tell others too.

I’m currently working at https://querydoctor.com building db optimization tools for developers.

💡= genuine product ideas that could theoretically even make money

💩= shitty idea / shitpost

💡Wireshark for file formats. A nice hex viewer that color codes bytes based on the spec and what they mean, and not values. Bonus points for a pleasant TUI experience similar to hexyl

Difficulty

⭐ The biggest problem here is coming up with the data structures that lets you both parse and associate bytes with their meanings. Second biggest problem would be making a good TUI

💡An app that lets you doomscroll on popular social media posts of the target language/culture and you get tasks trying to learn new words by breaking down real comments people have written

Difficulty

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Data collection is going to be a big hurdle. Not to mention having to actually make a language learning app itself. Many problems to tackle here.

💡A mobile app that lets you turn images into physical albums, lay them all out the way you want it, print it and ship them to the user. Could do subscriptions and ship people a ‘gallery wrapped’ at the end of the year or something.

Difficulty

⭐⭐⭐ The biggest challenge here will probably be reaching out to local print shops/photographers to get the photos printed. Quite a lot of manual labor involved, the tech is actually fairly simple.

Crossplay proxy. Implement crossplay for games between otherwise-incompatible clients. For example, you can’t play stardew valley on a switch with PC users. But a translation layer may make that possible