If you’re looking for original ideas… I have bad news for you
They come from unique problems
or you realize that the idea fundamentally wouldnt work. i wanted to build a lemmy music recognition bot until i remembered lemmy has no videos lmao
Guess that depends on what your goal is. Are you doing it for fun? Or for money? If it’s the latter it’s all in the marketing.
Steve Jobs said “you don’t have to do it better, just different”.
Turns out that fruit doesn’t cure cancer either
Yeah Apple’s marketing is incredible
A Minecraft rewrite in Rust with a very specific engine and goals certainly hadn’t been done… right?..
Most times I find that these projects are either old or badly made (often both). If you’re inspired and you feel like you can make them better, then go for it.
An artist isn’t going to refrain from painting a portrait of a dog if other artists have already painted dog portraits, so why should you?
Then a while later you go back and look at what you did and realize it’s old and badly made.
Then you pat yourself on the back for inspiring the next dev that comes across your project
That doesn’t stop the Javascript frameworks.
For me it usually stops when I mentally calculate how much work it requires, and I realize I’d rather just play video games.
Instead, you can try to extend the existing project with new features, possibly improving your code reading skills and discovering new practices
If it sounded cool to do, I do it anyway, and keep it to myself. Never have to clean that shit up. Unfinished? Who gives a fuck, I did it, job sorted.
If it sounded like it needed to exist… thank god, someone else did it for me! Not my problem. git clone, next idea.
I’ve got some bad news for you about Google and chatgpt
A project doesn’t have to be unique as a whole. You can always take an already existing idea and add your own twist to it (new UI, new feature, better optimisation, etc). What’s important is actually doing something instead of being stuck in an infinite loop of brainstorming idea.
when i created a side project, someone else already did it but they had a flaw in their design, so i created my version to fix the flaw
Learning is the main point of taking on a side project. Whether it’s original or not doesn’t matter
I came up with idea where instead of typing stuff like “5/6” “6*9” into the terminal, you could have gui interface.
Yeah don’t let this stop you! If you do the side project for fun and/or learning, just go ahead and build stuff. Don’t look at other projects too soon so you give space to your own creativity. But perhaps compare stuff in a later stage.
