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by muzani 1886 days ago
There's always gaming. You don't have to make a game; just automate bits of browser games. I'd make scripts that monitor and track prices or calculate the likely value of raid targets as well as the optimal time to re-raid the same target.

This is another good place to start: https://xkcd.com/1205/

Find out what you're spending time on, especially little things that you do 50 times a day. You don't even have to be good at it. Take Simone Giertz for example. She makes completely pointless robots and people love them.

My personal side interests is procedural generation. I think it's a neglected field because you can just invest in AI/ML and get better results, but there's a certain level of beauty in procedural things. There's some interesting examples at https://www.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/