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As a high school kid, I always used to think about how these day to day apps I am using or the entire world is using is being built although I didn't have much knowledge at that time but after coming to college and learning about full stack development I could actually build and have built a couple of such web apps as my projects and more to go. To be honest, the real reason of me learning new technologies is building my dream projects building which gives me a lot of learning and happiness and satisfaction on its successful deployment.
Also it makes me filled with happiness when my I show them to my peers and they give me some good reviews as well as some valuable feedback!
One wild unfulfilled coding project idea is a fully immersive VR coding environment. It would allow programmers to enter a virtual world, manipulate code as 3D objects, use gestures to write, debug, and collaborate with others globally. This project could revolutionize software development and provide an engaging learning experience. However, it faces technical challenges and requires advanced integration of VR, programming languages, and development tools.
I'd like to make a different kind of calendar app. My mom has a kind of dementia that makes it impossible for her to understand time. A regular calendar doesn't mean anything to her. Nor do any of the dementia calendars out there. So I'm trying to design something that tracks time for a person with no concept of time.
A text adventure game, where you chose your actions among multiple choices, kind of like DnD. Though I wanted it to have a lot of playable characters and endings, and a whole lot of freedom and constantly changing dialog. That is until I realized that putting aside the scale of such a story and complexity of the game mechanics, complete freedom in a game is not fun. As I have read somewhere, players should not have complete freedom, only have the sense of freedom.
Games. I've always loved game dev and literally every aspect of it. I taught myself to code with that in mind and had the worst imposter syndrome but I found I love it. My wildest idea isn't necessarily anything Ground breaking but just the simple thought of being a successful solo dev.
Creating NodeJS bindings for Windows API
One that I've wanted to do for a bit is create an environmental rehabilitation game, like a more realistic and smaller-scale Terra Nil. The sort of thing where you don't have a magic river-digging torpedo, you have shovels.
I've also mostly implemented a queueing system that optimizes for the cost of the time people spend waiting, encouraging honesty by charging people who got served sooner than average and paying people who waited longer. I just need to finish the damn thing.
I've worked on several projects that represent my ambitious dreams (because I couldn't afford to buy/pay for them) to create an
htmlcsstoimagelike the banners made by DEV.to. It was quite expensive for me, so I ended up creating a project called og-image-rest-generator. I'm really satisfied with the results because it can be used by everyone for free without any attribution required.After that, I created REST Screenshoot, which is a free tool for capturing webpage screenshots through a REST API. It offers a simple and user-friendly endpoint URL for generating screenshots, and it's completely free!
That's the freestyle activity I engage in as a Punk/Storyteller and Software Freestyle Engineer. I also founded an organization on GitHub called Street Community Programmer, which serves as a playground for all the Punks and Storytellers worldwide who engage in daily freestyle and improvisation for their projects. We embrace unconventional methods and uniqueness, and I personally enjoy that aspect of it.
I thought about making these "wildest" projects that never was finished to any fruition:
A generic platform which would allow you to catalog collectibles (Legos, Funkos, Vinyl Records, Comics, sports memorbilia, etc), provide value assessments from various sources (ebay/amazon/walmart/etc) and assist you in listing your collectibles when you decide it's time to let them go.
I've found a few niche solutions - like Brick Economy for Legos but haven't come across a quality solution that extends into multiple categories