Ask HN: Which side project do you plan to do in 2019? |
Ask HN: Which side project do you plan to do in 2019? |
1. Uber for private tutoring/students. I live in a university town and there's plenty of college kids wanting to teach schoolkids.
2. Random story/character generator based off tropes.
3. Punch card for babysitting, especially for the late night tiers that babysitters are reluctant to charge extra on.
4. Recipe app, focused on instant things like bread makers and pressure cookers.
5. Github but for recipes (this is really just an excuse to make fork puns)
6. A chat with anonymous strangers community, similar to Omegle, except you post something similar to a tweet, and people can chat with you based on it. So you could make a post complaining about your boss, or how happy you are to get a job, then someone can chat with you about it. My main worry is that this could degrade into 4chan and it would be an uphill battle to moderate it.
7. Gamification productivity app. Probably just a checklist, ala Habitica, or it could be integrated with Pomodoro Technique.
If anyone wants to use these ideas, feel free to. Maybe we could even work on something together.
If this exercise is strictly to learn and expand your skillset, great!
But if you're actually trying to build something of value, no need to put an artificial time limit of a month. #1 might be decent business. Spend the time required to properly validate if there's demand for the project and build it for real, don't half ass it.
But it's very hard to tell which will succeed and which wouldn't. I've been building "properly" the last 3 years and nothing came out of it.
The artificial time limit is there to force myself to focus on what really matters, prevent scope creep. E.g. the big problem with #1 is that people wanted scheduling, but I'm not entirely sure it's necessary so early on. It might just work as a matchmaking site.
An acquaintance is working this, released a couple years ago, assume still going.
like the uber for tutoring idea.
Any tips on learning statistics particularly for doing data analysis and understanding ML models?
I have been stalled a little with a new baby, but I hope to restart soon.