Quick project ideas

Question

I'm interested in making some webapps or small applications that can be completed in an hour or so. I've made an image host, web availability checker and url shortners lately but fancy making another quick wee tool or service.

Any suggestions?

Heres the ongoing list:

• Image hosting website
• URL Shortening Service
• website utilising the Twitter API e.g. Twhoops
• Website availability checker
• Microblogging platform
• Guestbook
• website making use of Yahoo! BOSS e.g. Wallpaper search
• Facebook Puzzles
• Domain name generator from dictionary e.g. bon.net, cyb.org
• Richtext editor
• CSS Minifier
• Photo Cropping tool
• Tag Cloud building tool (based on large text block input)
• File Explorer
• Webpage Image/Link harvester
• Custom YouTube searcher
• Basic Chat client
• MySQL process viewer
• RSS Feed Reader
• Grease Monkey Script to filter out SO questions with uninterested tags completely

Answer 1

Personally, I'd really appreciate a service that lets me browse through Google's cache.

At the moment I can view a single page, but the links on it don't point to the cached version. This sort of thing drives me nuts when a site is down.

Answer 2

http://projecteuler.net/ has some nice ones. A lot of these can be done in an hour of time. Fun if you're into math problems.

Answer 3

One I just did: read a directory full of digital photos, parse the EXIF information using Drew Noakes' Metadata Extractor (or figure out how to parse the EXIF format yourself), and rename them according to the date stamp found in the EXIF info, e.g. 20090403_129392.jpg.

Answer 4

Some of the Facebook puzzles are good 1 hr. projects. As mentioned before, Project Euler is awesome.

Also, I think that the PHP docs have a horrible interface. I'd love to see a better interface for them. Maybe a 1 hr project?

Answer 5

Some ideas:

1. Photo Cropping tool
2. Tag Cloud building tool (based on large text block input)
3. File Explorer
4. Webpage Image/Link harvester
5. Custom YouTube searcher
6. Basic Chat client
7. MySQL process viewer
8. RSS Viewer
9. Something involving Google Charts and the Tag Cloud