How to come up with a good idea for your next project

RiversideRocks · March 15, 2021, 10:59pm

I often struggle to come up with good ideas for new projects, so I’m making this post to help others.

Create a project with an API

Why not create a nice UI to your favorite website’s API?

Here are some nice lists of APIs on GitHub:

Here are some of the easiest to use and best APIs:

AbuseIPDB: IP reputation database:
https://docs.abuseipdb.com/

Discourse: Data from popular forum software
https://docs.discourse.org

Gofile.io: Free file uploading:
Gofile - File sharing platform, anonymous and free

Invidious: YouTube API without API keys

github.com

iv-org/documentation/blob/master/API.md

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### Language

All endpoints that return a JSON body support `&hl=LANGUAGE` for translating fields into the desired language. A list of languages are provided in [List of URL parameters](./List-of-URL-parameters).

### Pretty

All endpoints that return a JSON body support `&pretty=1` for printing the response as formatted JSON.

### Fields

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DuckDuckGo: Get instant answers from popular search engine DuckDuckGo

Dangerous Discord Database: Discord user threat database (Disclaimer: I made this)

https://discord.riverside.rocks/docs/index.php

How can you make a change?

What would make your life easier? More fun? How can you help others? Create a project to do just that.

Ask a friend

Ask a friend or two what they think would be a neat web app. Additionaly, you can think bigger and ask the internet on social media.

Check out Google Trends

trends.google.com allows you to see whats trending on the most popular website on the internet. Check out this page to view trending searches in the in the last 24 hours for some inspiration.

hello-smile6 · March 15, 2021, 11:23pm

@RiversideRocks Can you create a base API access client for users to fork?

RiversideRocks · March 15, 2021, 11:23pm

For Dangerous Database?

hello-smile6 · March 15, 2021, 11:24pm

No, for any API.

aboutDavid · March 15, 2021, 11:28pm

All APIs are different, so it’s impossible to do so (unless you want to use something like GraphQL client, then sure??, but even all GraphQL APIs are different)

hello-smile6 · March 15, 2021, 11:44pm

I’m thinking something like NASA Open APIs client, where you declare the URL and format of the API server-side by setting up a file which generates data in process.env to use and, if possible, writes the setup to a file.