Side projects are important for developing skills and creating value for others. But they're often hard to come up with. Below are a few ideas.
| Project | Difficulty | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Make a simple, free upvoting poll | Medium | Like canny.io but no email signup, free, simpler |
| Build a networking reminder tool. Like abcd system | Medium | Like this but no airtable, polished |
| SaaS idea generator | Easy | Toy project. E.g., Uber x Upwork, Netflix x AirBnB |
| A better podcast discovery/search tool. Do for audio what Google did for text | Hard | UI + this + ListenNotes. Like this |
| Build a lip reader from videos | Medium-ish | Don't know if this exists, but it'd be cool. App-ify and decode distant convo? |
| Something to optimize Hacker News posts. | Easy | This+Analytics app, Tips, optimize title |
| Software for latam | Depends | HN |
| Auto Logo generator w/o text | Medium | |
| lex summary newsletter. TLexDR. | Easy | Done here |
| Simple referral app for DS jobs | Hard | Expand on this? |
| Help people pick better profile pics | Hard | Everyone sucks at this according to this paper |
| Ask my book | Easy | Fork |
| Super RSS. Customize idea feeds with your own sources. | Hard depending on sources | |
| dynmaic personalized art. | Hard | analyzes viewer reactions, adapts AV elements in real-time, unique/immersive experience for each person. amazon go like ux |
| Long YouTube video summarizer. | Medium | Like this but sleeker UI, search options, summarize by chapter, and custom summarization prompts. |
| Maps of google searches | Easy | Like this but much higher quality and source citations |
| ChatBots for all content creators | Medium | Make all newsletters, podcasts, essays query-able with ChatGPT. LennyBot |
| What do 1M human voices sound like together? | Easy | |
| Rank scientific claims by their uncertainty | Hard | |
| Simple tool to translate geographic sizes (303 square miles) to meaningful areas (NYC's 5 boroughs) | Medium | Collecting the db will be tedious |
| Hard |