OK, so, I made this resolution to try building things using the 100:10:1 pattern. So here is a list of one hundred ideas of things I could build out. Note that throughout this post, I could easily replace the words "web site" with "app" and vice versa. The things listed below have no promise of being good ideas, just ideas.
- A web site for promoting building things in two month stints, ala Strip Search
- A web site for sharing project ideas to inspire people
- Another TODO website
- An RSS reader focused on giving you five articles a day that you have to read
- A meal planning and sharing site
- A Sinatra-esque task queue
- A service focused on making it easy for people to create and host static sites
- A Javascript story game, kind of like something telltale would make
- An OKR website
- An online dictionary that imitates the ease of access of a normal dictionary
- A project idea generator
- A site that teaches you one random thing a day
- A slack bot that shares all of the blog posts and tweets and photos members of a slack make
- An alarm clock that doesn't try too hard to wake you up
- A website for sharing playlists
- A Heroku clone
- Given a Soundcloud playlist, generate a Youtube video
- A game that teaches you math through text messages
- Add more languages to hound.ci
- A Starfox shooter clone with dubstep
- A script that mirrors your entire twitter history into a git repo
- A go clone of jrnl.sh
- An android client for DayOne
- A site that recommends what book to read next based on your to-read list and what book you finished recently on Goodreads
- A go IRC bot
- A tool for coordinating D&D campaigns
- A site that scrapes all of your social media and gives you a historical look at what you did on a day by day basis
- A simple monitoring app that takes a list of URLs and starts monitoring them over time.
- A lock server built on top of the block chain
- A good voice recorder for Android
- A web indexer and crawler
- A personal internet archive
- A mail box flood website. Give us money and an address, and we'll send them mail with exponentially more mail over time until the mail runs out.
- Give an address and $2, get a generated piece of art in the mail
- Poetry generator
- College admission essay generator
- Implement NTP client in Javascript
- Code review tool with genius.com type annotating
- A version of hound.ci that sends pull requests to fix issues
- A bot net that joins IRC channels and starts having discussions arguing about politics and religion at the level of drunk high school students
- A site that acts as a virus to share all episodes ever published of essential mix
- A dating app with no pictures or demographic information
- A matrix type message board that is completely anonymous
- Reimplement the anxiety box http://gimletmedia.com/episode/the-anxiety-box/
- Generate random city maps
- Progress bar game, the online website
- Pandora for Youtube
- Open source iTunes clone
- Open source Dropbox
- Raspberry pi mesh network for sharing files
- Android app for mapping WiFi access points
- Build some sort of social bot http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/sunday-review/i-flirt-and-tweet-follow-me-at-socialbot.html
- A video game about a mech-warrior road trip
- A video game about Gandalf in Tokyo
- A video game of Neuromancer meets Zelda
- Some sort of ARG around delivering packages to people using mobile phones and BLE
- Somehow mix something like the listening post (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD36IajCz6A) and gameplay
- A map of the world that uses a fog of war and foursquare check-ins to show you where you have been and where you haven't
- A site that summarizes movies by the colors they use
- Porn + Twilio translation API = comedy?
- A book sharing website. Like a library but online
- A site for sharing timelines
- An app for chronicling all of the friends in your life. The book from Hunger Games + https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends
- Some sort of twitter bot based off of scraping the internet (inspired by https://medium.com/@derekarnold/remote-viewing-5cb161cdef4a)
- A 3D Javascript rendering of one of those wooden dolls used for modeling and sketching
- A drum machine
- A site that generates random road trips
- A site that gives you a coffee shop to walk to based on your past foursquare check-ins and how much time you have
- An app that reminds you to take a walk today
- A Kickstarter recommendation engine
- An app that draws pictures with intersecting circles
- An app that plays a different 10 second piano ditty when you open it
- An advertising platform for RC
- An elevator simulator
- An essential mix database
- A gif library app
- A clone of @modernheadlines using https://github.com/icco/betteridges as a dataset
- A clone of @archillect using mood.natwelch.com as a dataset
- A site that shows rent prices by subway stops in NY
- A clone of genius.com to store personal highlights of websites
- A site for analyzing highlights in kindle books
- Some sort of digital dead-drop WiFi thing
- Rebuild pgp.io
- Javascript library that adds generic commenting like Medium has to any page
- Create a number station that sends messages with colors
- Some sort of Tamagotchi clone that uses AR
- A site for sharing good wandering plans for cities
- Build a slat clock out of a raspberry pi
- Build a site that shows a view of faraway places
- A media recommendation engine to recommend new shows based off of trakt.tv usage
- A Vanguard fund recommendation engine
- A SimCity AI
- A SimTower AI
- An alternate reality video game focused on the secret lives of squirrels
- A telephone based AI
- A dynamically generated MUD
- A text-message based MUD
- Turn cowsay into a MMS service (generate a cute picture and quote and text it to people once a day)
- Due some sort of cool art project with https://stats.wikimedia.org/
- Build a couch surfing application for RC
- Build a version of Harajuku Fun Madness from Little Brother
OK! 101 ideas. Now the next step is to prune them all and figure out what I want. I'm gonna compare notes with @ifosteve on Saturday and see what's up.
/Nat