[fabianholzer]

> I can't think of anything that hasn't yet solved my problems

You might have several decades ahead where you'll need to search for suitable third-parties and then fill out the necessary forms in JIRA to get the formal blessing to actually make use of them (aka software engineering).

When, if not now, do you think will be the time to do something that tickles your curiosity without having to take economic motives into account?

Go nuts with re-inventing the wheel. Maybe try to not re-invent the square wheel, but if you happen to do, well you've learned something, which makes it useful for at least one person: you.

[Chiff0]

Thanks for the advice. You’re right, I shouldn’t be doing something exclusively for profit. I guess I should just go and make something I think is really cool myself. Thinking about it, I always wanted a universal tool for transforming files feom different formats, I don’t know how complicated something like that would be, guess I’ll have to find out.

[logtempo]

unfortunatly, there is pandoc for that. But you still can dive into it.

At your age, I think best is (1) doing what you enjoy, and (2) applying what you've learned. Because in 6 month, you'll forgot what you don't use.

[Chiff0]

Pandoc runs locally, or there are 2 bad looking websites that run it. I wonder if it would be worth making a good looking UI with pandoc running in the background.

[muzani]

Yup, if wheels are too easy, rebuild the steam engine. Make your own CMS. Make your own bitcoin just from reading the original whitepaper. Do a file system, database, encryption system, LLM, whatever.