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by LarryMade2 871 days ago
Some itches that I had scratched in the past - might give you ideas on your own ones to work out:

Text Formatter - paste in copied text with hard returns broken paragraphs, bad characters, etc, clean up text, reform to correct sentences, paragraphs...

Data Parser, take useful but unwieldy raw data and parse it into a readable text, HTML table, PDF pages, etc.

simple event list/tracker input events (name, date/time) and let it be a clock reminder of whats coming up. For next level do global events (event, date, time, country or timezone) and adjust for viewing realtime in local timezone.

One I have thought of but haven't started would be recreate a Commodore C/G telnet BBS in python, where C64s can connect and see it as a Commodore C/G BBS but no limitations of it running on Commodore 8-bit hardware.

Text Adventure Enhancer - that prompts AI creators with descriptions to create enhanced room descriptions and images to enhance an old text adventure...or do a choose your own adventure one where you begin with player adding their picture to use as an image prompt along with the description prompts.

Just try to use something you understand and/or that would be fun for you. so you can concentrate on just figuring out the code instead of having to figure out the subject matter also.

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Thanks for the suggestions! Something that really interests me is both data conversions and AI, I’ll try to find something interesting to work on that is in an intersection for both topics. Alternatively, I got an idea to make a tool for comverting a Minecraft world file into a real time render of the world, and make it look good since there is only 1 tool that exists and is pretty outdated and I’ve seen people wanting a wabsite to do it, not a console application.