I have the opposite problem, hah! I’ll try to dump some of my ideas here.
My big fascination these days is decentralization. There are a lot of burgeoning new platforms and technologies with fast-growing ecosystems, that are just waiting for your applications. I often get application ideas while thinking about what problems a particular technology could solve.
Fediverse: an open standard for interoperable social media. There still isn’t a fediverse tinder Fediverse Snapchat might also be a good idea, or maybe a short-form-media platform (like vine / tik-tok / instagram stories / facebook stories). Also it’s quick and easy to build bots for e.g. Mastodon. I especially like bots that post generative art occasionally.
Matrix: This is my jam. It’s a federated protocol for chat (or real-time-communication in general). It’s super extensible and interoperable with other chat media. It would be awesome to see more bridges for different media. Discord and Slack already work fine, but maybe Matrix needs a discourse bridge? What about a tinder bridge? A CUPS bridge? Maybe control your home IoT stuff using a Matrix bot…
IPFS: Hot-shit global content-addressible p2p network with sexy stuff like DNS-type linking, pubsub, browser compatibility, etc. I’ve been wanting to build a music streaming service on IPFS for a while. Maybe it should be a Mopidy backend, for maximum compatibility?
Snapcast: Solution for synchronized multi-room audio streaming. Currently it only streams to unix hosts (it depends on named pipes for some stuff), which is a shame. I want to make it sync to embedded devices (like an esp?) and mobile devices (like android?) as well… A lightweight snapclient library / implementation is kind of missing.
Other technologies that are just waiting for applications include:
Thanks, didn’t even think I would have got a look at, even less 2 replies. It does sort of point at the other half of the problem, just the fact there is so much out there that’s possible, too much it feels sometimes.
But thanks for the support and will definitely have a good look at your ideas. If anything it might kick my brain into frenzied project mode and at the worst I might learn a little something I had no idea existed.
Big thanks . J
Hello, I made a little automation tool using ansible to deploy a minecraft server and backup/restore it too. Thought people might enjoy that But I need permissions to add links to the github page though
So I made a collection of scripts to make it much easier to setup a fairly competent minecraft server using the spigot build (better than what linode does automatically). It’s using ansible for the automation and a little python script to send rcon commands to the minecraft process rather than using screen or some other nonsense. It can do backups and restorations too. Basically it removes 99% of the effort in getting a server up and keeping it running.
The script is targeted towards entry level linux users/admins and a fairly standard minecraft installation with only one world.
Going to write a project of mine (that was in gestation) in Rust to learn the language and work on something lower level than my typical web app stuff for a change.
Devember Challenge is to finally get a domain and proxy my services the right way. I should be able to host my blog on my home server and migrate it way from github pages.
I’m a new forum user, and long time Level1 lurker. In my day job I support development teams. Background in systems engineering. Outside of that I’m I guess I’m a developer hobbyist.
Greetings,
I have decided to make a full stack diary app.
I do software development for a job, but we are mostly big data/ai focused. I used to do web development for fun at University, so I though I would revive that for Devember.
The purpose of my devember project is to create a mqtt application to expose controls of Windows computers from a local non-cloud smarthome environment (cloud is equally possible with this app though). This will allow me to learn c#/windows forms (new language/environment for me). I’ve thus far developed a fully functional app that has been running stable for a few weeks now.
Hey, I’m working on something specific to a niche. A while ago you probably heard buzzwords like Big Data and Hadoop most of that field now is called Data Engineering and lives mostly on relational databases.
Objective:
I’m working on an IDE plugin for one of the first SQL frameworks for data engineering/science if you can call it that.
I work with this stuff as part of my day job and this is more to check out something fun like Rust and develop better dev skills. I hope you guys can help me by checking out my work and giving me some much needed feedback.
Fediverse Snapchat might also be a good idea, or maybe a short-form-media platform (like vine / tik-tok / instagram stories / facebook stories). Also it’s quick and easy to build bots for e.g. Mastodon. I especially like bots that post generative art occasionally.
But I need permissions to add links to the github page though 
