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Discussion on: Where do you get ideas for side projects?

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Marc Jerome

Most of the time, ideas just pop up in my head when there are problems that I can see which can be solved by automation.

For example, in my experience at school, we wait for almost 3-5 hours just to get our college fees so I developed a student fee management system.

My other source of idea is freelance websites. There's a lot of posts there asking for developers to build something for them. It's a good place of inspiration for side projects since projects there are connected to the industry/market.

Free website templates or software ui designs was also one of my sources of side project ideas. In my last project, I saw a design for a recruitment website at Facebook so I downloaded a template for it. Now to make the side project more inspiring to develop, I thought of the features of the framework that I used (which is django) which I have no experience of implementing it.