| The way I find side project ideas easily (and get swamped by them) is by: 1. Getting involved in multiple activities - I am part of a choir, I play board games with my friends, I read a lot of books, I take photos of the night sky and I like to do my own statistical research on various topics (e.g. politics). 2. Figure out the problems you face in all of these activities - I have found plenty, such as choir members who can't read music, lack of strategy analysis for various board games, lack of pretty astronomical software, lack of graphical representations of ideas presented in books and vast lack of graphics representing the effect of political policies. 3. Figure out which of the problems can be solved with software. 4. Pick the languages/frameworks/tools you want to learn to use and that will help you with the project. 5. Build an MVP. 6. Invest more into the project, or otherwise repeat 1-5. You can see some of my projects on http://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk to get a gist of the weird things I end up doing. Edit - wth is up with the formatting here |