Side Project Idea Generator
Choose your stack, how much time you have and what you care about; get five concrete project ideas with features and a stretch goal, from a curated bank of over 80 ideas.
Pomodoro with commit hooks
A timer that only lets a break start after you commit something.
- 25/5 timer
- Watches git for a new commit
- Daily streak
Stretch: Shared rooms so two people run the same timer.
Post it on DEVAE and find a teammate →Freelancer rate calculator
Turn your target income, days off and expenses into an hourly rate.
- Inputs with defaults
- Rate breakdown
- Share card
Stretch: Compare against public rate surveys by country.
Post it on DEVAE and find a teammate →Wordle for HTTP status codes
Guess the status code from a description in six tries.
- Daily seed
- Hint system
- Streaks
Stretch: Modes for git commands and Linux flags.
Post it on DEVAE and find a teammate →Ask-me-anything queue
A queue for live Q&A sessions with upvotes and a presenter view.
- Anonymous questions
- Upvotes
- Presenter mode
Stretch: Export the answered list as a markdown FAQ.
Post it on DEVAE and find a teammate →City air-quality dashboard
Pull open AQI data for your city and show trends and alerts.
- Public API ingest
- Daily chart
- Threshold alerts
Stretch: Compare neighbourhoods on a map.
Post it on DEVAE and find a teammate →How it works
The idea bank is hand-written: each idea has a real problem, a feature list you can finish, and a stretch goal.
Ideas are filtered by the stack tags they suit, the time they realistically take, and the interest area you pick.
Shuffle to draw a different five from the matches. Nothing is generated by a model, so ideas do not hallucinate APIs that do not exist.
When you start one, post it on DEVAE to find a teammate or get feedback while you build.
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Sign up freeFrequently asked questions
They are practical, not novel. A good portfolio project is one you finish and can explain; these are scoped so a solo developer can ship them in the stated time.
A clear user, a working deploy, one feature done well, and a README that explains the decisions. Interviewers care more about depth than novelty.
Yes. Set the time budget to “weekend” and the difficulty to medium; those ideas are sized for 24–48 hour events.
Post the idea on DEVAE with the stack tags, or open a live room and pair with whoever joins. The find-teammates page lists open requests.
