📜 List of projects that I want to build
This is a common problem that I come up with some cool ideas, but don't have time to build them. But when I finally have some time or my friend/colleague asks for some ideas she can build I can't think of any of the top of my head 😭
To solve this I'll keep the list of my ideas and small descriptions of them here.
These are the projects I haven't started working on
Self-hosted AB-testing tool, that cares about your conversion. Most of the A/B testing tools(Optimizely, VWO) are really bloated and hard to use. But from developers point of view you just need to know a test you're running and what variation to show. Also, without proper setup they can kill your conversions by leading to a losing variation.
Example React pseudocode:
const test = YZ.getTest('123');
const variation = test.variation; // Can contain some data, or just a `variation.id` can be used to decide what to render
render() {
return (
<button
onClick={()=>{
// do some real stuff
test.reportSuccess(); // test knows what variation was used
}}
>
{variation.text}
</button>
);
}Similar projects:
Public database of Corporations misdeeds (and virtues).
A lot of big companies were caught doing some shady business(panama papers, paradise papers, etc.) but it's quite hard to track what companies were actually involved and how bad it was. This database will aggregate all news articles about big companies(and maybe famous people) and provide overall KARMA score.
Social network/notebook for things that you don't want to do again(your fuckups or unpleasant experiences).
This is basically the opposite of life hacking. Stories can be saved privately, shared with your friends, or with everyone.
Create lists of things(food, places, artists, whatever) and tell what your rating scale is. Is it from 1 to 5 from 0 to 10? Maybe x to y? Is it ⭐️, 👍, % or ❤️ or maybe 💩?
List can be private or public, so you can share it with the world.
Inspired by Gossip protocol and Scuttlebutt
Chat where each client is also a server.
- No centralized servers
- First device you start using it with is a "master" by default
- New devices ask master for permissions to access logs/history and to act on your behalf
- Master can promote other devices to master level(so ideally you should have at least 2 masters in case of device loss, etc.)
- Every message is encrypted
- Offline delivery (in case recipient is offline) can be done through friends of friends or exchange hubs
- 2 types of non-human servers (can be combined):
- Exchange hubs: to simplify offline message delivery
- Discovery hubs: to simplify user search
NOTE: Berty seems to be what I want.
Facemash for emojis, to find emoji number 1! Also, comparing same emoji between different providers (google/apple) etc...
Service to link news(events) that happened at different times, but share same situation, actors, companies, etc. This can be helpful to follow up on events(e.g. you know about Equifax fiasco, but don't know how the way situation developed, how it started and what were the latest news)
Similar to timeline
These are the projects that I've started but haven't finished
Everyday photo diary. Works for just one(but very important) person right now.
App where you can exchange photos with a stranger. You can keep this photo dialogue until somebody stops to reply.
also known as
lodhommey
Website crawler that uses a headless browser and finds errors and broken links on your website and reports it to you.
readhacker.news email subscription
Allow hackernewsbot to handle email subscriptions.
Self-hosted analytics with server-side and simple client code and nice admin ui.
- should allow to track pageviews and custom events (like
ga('send', 'pageview', location.pathname);) - combine events into sessions
- have a nice viewer for sessions
Similar projects:
These are the projects that I've wanted to build, but I won't for different reasons
Inspired by Firefox Send
Simple service to share files for the given amount of time or downloads, using Backblaze B2 as a file hosting.
Firefox Send is now much better, and also there is a nice cli ffsend