Software Ideas

[krwell]

Hey what are some good ideas of software applications to build? I have some free time and want to put it to good use. So give me some ideas.

 

[beach2nd]

Doom 4

 

[ivan2]

a doom 3 mod will be more realistic =P

 

[Titan]

seriously, if there is any good idea for a piece of software (sounds like you mean a small one) then it's been done. It may be hard to find, but it has been done. If there is any software idea that hasn't been done yet, it's because no one thinks it is a "good" idea. If you can really think ahead of your time maybe you can think of something, but that's exceedingly hard to do. My advice: if you have free time to burn programming, contribute to some open source project, preferrably one where you will learn a lot.

BTW, 99.9% of software in industry is just writing code to keep up to standards, IE, getting a C compiler to work on hardware platform X. Most of it is reinventing the wheel, sadly.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: tkotitan2
seriously, if there is any good idea for a piece of software (sounds like you mean a small one) then it's been done. It may be hard to find, but it has been done. If there is any software idea that hasn't been done yet, it's because no one thinks it is a "good" idea. If you can really think ahead of your time maybe you can think of something, but that's exceedingly hard to do. My advice: if you have free time to burn programming, contribute to some open source project, preferrably one where you will learn a lot.

BTW, 99.9% of software in industry is just writing code to keep up to standards, IE, getting a C compiler to work on hardware platform X. Most of it is reinventing the wheel, sadly.

Depends on your field I guess. I write lots of new code in mine (Astrodynamics & space systems) and have ideas for plenty more if I had the time.

 

[madthumbs]

A program to analyze and fix the most common networking problems. The program could facilitate rebuilding the TCP/IP stack (already been done, but could be integrated with this). Would notify the user in layman's terms what could be wrong (reason for IP starting with 169). This program could be used to rule out connection problems to the internet before calling an ISP for help.

 

[krwell]

that sounds like fun