side_projects.md

Ideas for side programming projects:

• A habit tracker to track how often you work out / meditate / get wasted
• A simple story generator (see @MagicRealismBot)
• A text adventure
• A text adventure that's played with a Telegram or Kik bot, where you tell the bot what to do and the bot tells you what it sees
• An app that saves all the little insights into life you ever had ("99% of the time people are behaving weird around you it has nothing to do with you. You're not that important!") and sends you an old one per mail every day
• A Twitter bot that replies "Don't you mean DRUMPF?" whenever somebody mentions Donald Trump
• A tamagotchi in your command line
• A twitter bot that will say "nomnomnom" when users "feed" it food emojis (🌭, 🍏, ...)
• An alarm clock that will play a random song (or youtube video) that contains the lyrics "Get up" or "wake up" every morning
• A Haiku generator
• A Raspberry Pi with a laser pointer mounted on a servo that draws random patterns on the floor at random times of the day to keep your cat busy
• A chatbot that is like ELIZA... but drunk as fuck.
• A script that takes expressions like "every 3 days", or "mondays and thursdays" and generates datetime objects (so you can schedule events in natural language)
• A script that emails your partner / flat mates / ... you won't be home for dinner if you're still logged in to a campus computer at 7pm
• Rock, Paper, Scissors game
• An app that reads your WhatsApp, iMessage, eMail... and tells you how long you haven't talked to your Mom (or any other person)
• An app that uses AWS Mechanical Turk to give you crowdsourced compliments about your looks when you upload a photo. (bonus points: take photos with webcam at random intervals and make compliments pop up as notifications)
• A twitter bot that will post movie spoilers when people are mentioning a movie
• A dating algorithm based on your public spotify / soundsplaylists