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Ask HN: Programming Project Ideas?

by ciniglio on 12/9/12, 6:39 PM with 6 comments

Do you have any project ideas for medium (say a few kloc) programs that would be good for learning? I want to work on something for a few weeks to just focus on programming (i.e. not trying to build a product). Examples I've heard previously are a BitTorrent client or IRC client, but something not networking focused would be cool too. I'm especially looking to work on something where I can learn a lot from the design (code, not UI) phase. Thanks!

  • by anujkk on 12/11/12, 5:49 AM

    "Data hosting/sharing service" or "Data Marketplace(buy/sell data)". Allow users to upload data on your website and make it available to others for use in various formats such as csv,xls,xml,sql,json or expose data to be used through REST API.

    You can later extend it by allowing users to share js/php/etc code snippets that does some operation on data or that handles presentation of data. Widgetize it so that it can be embedded on web pages.

  • by sagacityhappens on 12/21/12, 12:04 AM

    http://www.health2con.com/devchallenge/allscripts-open-app-c...

    I am looking to team up.

    Also, have a second project that i need to access a health insurers API.

    Email me at Founder@betterpointment.com

  • by eduardordm on 12/10/12, 4:38 PM

    A lightweight RVDS compiler-compatible (ARM) rest client.

  • by frou_dh on 12/10/12, 4:24 AM

    Better than JSON

    Design your own general purpose textual data format and write an encoder and/or decoder for it.