The best projects are ones that solve real problems for real people. If you and your group can brainstorm and think of some small problems you have in your daily life and build something that solves that problem, that would be a great option.
This is an excellent way to come up with all your portfolio projects and potentially side-hustles as well. Start writing down every time you notice a problem you run into or anytime someone says they have one, something like "wouldn't it be cool if..."
A few that I can think of at the moment:
My wife is a photographer and mentioned to me the other day that it would be nice if she had an app that would allow her to save favorite shoot spots. She could take a few pictures with her phone, name the place, and plug in her current location, or manually plot out a spot on the map.
The other day I was making dinner and was thinking how cool it would be if there was a meal planning app that allowed me to enter my own custom recipes, with ingredient lists, then plot out which days I was going to eat those things, and would automatically make me a grocery list for the week based on those recipes.
I read a lot and have always wanted a way to easily organize and keep track of the information I read, sort it by topic and category, and have it automatically remind me of certain things I've read every day, so I don't forget things. Basically, an app designed to make a commonplace book: ryanholiday.net/how-and-why-to-kee...
Hopefully, those are somewhat helpful, get into that problem-solving mindset, ask your friends and loved ones what things in their lives annoy them, and you won't be able to stop coming up with ideas!
The best projects are ones that solve real problems for real people. If you and your group can brainstorm and think of some small problems you have in your daily life and build something that solves that problem, that would be a great option.
This is an excellent way to come up with all your portfolio projects and potentially side-hustles as well. Start writing down every time you notice a problem you run into or anytime someone says they have one, something like "wouldn't it be cool if..."
A few that I can think of at the moment:
My wife is a photographer and mentioned to me the other day that it would be nice if she had an app that would allow her to save favorite shoot spots. She could take a few pictures with her phone, name the place, and plug in her current location, or manually plot out a spot on the map.
The other day I was making dinner and was thinking how cool it would be if there was a meal planning app that allowed me to enter my own custom recipes, with ingredient lists, then plot out which days I was going to eat those things, and would automatically make me a grocery list for the week based on those recipes.
I read a lot and have always wanted a way to easily organize and keep track of the information I read, sort it by topic and category, and have it automatically remind me of certain things I've read every day, so I don't forget things. Basically, an app designed to make a commonplace book: ryanholiday.net/how-and-why-to-kee...
Hopefully, those are somewhat helpful, get into that problem-solving mindset, ask your friends and loved ones what things in their lives annoy them, and you won't be able to stop coming up with ideas!
Actually, photos taken on a phone typically have GPS coordinates embedded into the metadata.
You can dump the metadata of most images using software like ExifTool:
exiftool.org/
And then use the dumped information in your application to group photos by location.