| Huh, I can't believe there haven't been _any_ replies on this. Sorry about that. Here are a few ideas: * Improve/extend the shoutcast server in Joe's book "Programming Erlang" (1st edition; I haven't read the 2nd edition) * Make a simple dropbox tool to sync folders across machines * Make a simple map/reduce tool to learn about that paradigm * Build a chat server with web interface (this one is fairly common) * Interested in VOIP? Try making something that can allow you to make VOIP calls between computers in your house * Build a web server (also common enough to find lots of examples and tutorials) * Twitter clone * Log aggregator * BitTorrent client * Distributed hash table or NoSQL database * Something to stream data (logs, newsfeeds, analytics) to or from multiple clients * .... I hope this helps :) [ Edit: formatting is really hard on HN... :( ] |