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Stuck working on ideas for my final project

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u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I don't know the scope of the project, but work on something you are already passionate about. Here are some past examples I've seen: 1. A former wine buyer for a restaurant built a cellar tracking app for restaurants 2. A former professional musician built a machine learning sheet music generator 3. A college student built an iOS game like guitar hero but novel in a few weeks having never know iOS before Some of the projects I built when self-teaching web development: 1. An "auto-voter" website for a reality TV show competition 2. An itinerary generator for Walt Disney World that told you which rides to go to when based on your group, intensity, ride characteristics and wait times, etc... 3. An internship review website 4. An app for assisting you to draft a minor league hockey team (I'm from Canada, this was common lol) I also think Codesmith and Launch Schools projects of making a useful tool for an open source framework but it works magic when you actually care about the framework for real first and aren't just researching a trendy thing to do for your resume. Like if you like Material UI for React, build a new component following their style guidelines. Big tangent something missing in most bootcamps is what open source is all about. It's not about building a project making it public on GitHub. A large open source project is valuable to work on because there is a community of people, norms, processes, etc.... to work on it, and that simulates working on a real team. So if you want to go the open source route, you can look for a large project you are interested in and try to contribute a small feature or significant bug fix to it.