Project Ideas

Planted 02023-05-24

I keep an Apple Note titled “Projects” to list things that might be fun to build.

Horizontal History JS

• A JS library to create Horizontal History charts on the web
• JSON structure
  • Name
  • Key
  • Meta
    • description
    • url
    • start_date
    • end_date
  • Classification (tags)
    • belongs_to
    • involves
• JSON validator
• Configure
  • Date scale
    • days, months, years, decades, centuries
  • axis: dates, overlap levels
• Render DOM

CMS

See /cms/

Web Utils

• Tables
• Math
  • Percentage difference
• Time
  • Current
    • ISO 8601
    • …
• Text
  • Counter
    • Character/Word/sentence
  • Convert
    • Case
    • JS eval (mutate JS objects/arrays)
• Code
  • GitHub Gists
  • Repos

Physical digital albums

• In a toys-to-life kinda way
• Because Friction can be good
• Have something physical to play digital albums

HTML visualizer

• Input: URL
• Output:
  • HTML headers
  • Word count in sections
  • Paragraph count in sections
  • Image count in sections
  • Link count in sections

Problem bank

• Open problems
• Open challenges
• Stakes
• Do it because you want to

Gifts

I have an Apple Note titled “Gifts” that spawned /gifts/.

• Sites
• Products
• Tags
• People
• Views
  • TikTok view
  • Tinder view
• Track shipments?