A fast, text-based website listing all the public cultural contests, grants, etc (for all the arts in Brazil) in a centralized and organized fashion, displaying essential information such as deadlines, requirements, cash value, etc.

News globe website thing. Think google maps/earth but instead of it showing a bunch of shops and streetview, it would show news stories from different countries. It wouldn't even need to be fully featured as a directory/way to consume the content or anything, just a higher level view of the big events would suffice for a curious visitor.

Time slider on the bottom (i looked into this part and made a 2d thing in mapbox a year or two back) so you can scrub through some more historic stuff, although that starts to become a lot of work with the scraping and whatnot.

I've had this idea bouncing around in my head for 5-6 years at this point just silently hoping someone will beat me to it so i can just play around with it. But every now and then when i get a motivation burst I try to work on a different peice of the puzzle, which most recently was trying to see if I could write a parser to "pull out locations" from articles based on a huge dataset but all I could manage was a super slow false positive machine c: My next attempt at this is probably going to follow the basic idea of; go through text and identify proper nouns > google each noun and see what the internet says. So I'm keeping my eye out for api's and idly looking into the whole natural language programming side of things.

Recently I've been thinking about ways to randomly generate a co-ordinate inside of specified country. Having 100s of stories in a single stack in the center of mass seems a bit counter intuitive for the 'broad overview' feel of the site, and if the randomized pins are a different colour then it would simply be inaccurate instead of misleading. Perhaps a traffic light system of sorts where it starts out roughly placed, and viewers can drag and drop them to form a more accurate consensus (but again that becomes a lot of work, very fast)

I'm convinced that it'd be a cute little website but also a very disproportionate amount of work for the somewhat specific version I have in my head. I'm happy even if it never comes to fruition though because it's been a good source of personal challenges where there's no proper ways to do it, so it doesn't matter how hacky my implementation is as long as I'm learning and making progress.

FYI: I have next to no web dev experience. I can barely even program a basic webpage using PHP and MySQL. Constructing any of the below ideas are well below my skillset.

Few ideas I had bouncing in my head lately.

1) A decentralised social network similar to Reddit, Facebook, etc that uses technologies like WebTorrent to save on hosting costs/infrastructure. Not only is a social network pretty challenging to make as-is, but I can imagine this being a nightmare to moderate or police.

2) A website that allows writers and aspiring authors to upload, publish and share their work. Sites like Fanfiction.net and Wattpad already exist, but this would be a bit different. It would have a partner program which would offer advertisement revenue sharing with popular users, plus the ability for premium subscribers to download any stories on the site and read offline via PDF, EPUB or other e-reader formats, or even allow the sale of paperback/hardback versions of work on a print-on-demand basis.

I can see this being very challenging from a copyright perspective due to how much work it would take to purge infringing content off the site.

3) User written news site with revenue-sharing, similar to Newsvine. Newsvine was shut down four years ago by MSNBC. I think the problem that eventually led to its downfall was the fact that it was bought out by a big news network.

I've wanted to make a website which aggregates RSS feeds from personal websites and you can essentially just full-text search through it or filter by tag. It doesn't sound very hard to make.

This is inspired by this post.

A decentralized TikTok.

it would assign a universal ID for every book, not every edition like ISBN... and it would have series info, plots, language selection, an open API, etc. :)

Try out distributed trust, i.e. a website for, say reviews, where you can mark reviews/users you agree with/trust. ML/Stats behind the scenes works out which reviews you should trust, kind of like collaborative filtering.

Say goodbye to (a) review sites run by orgs with a conflict of interest (sellers, e.g.) and say goodbye to sellers shilling on independent sites.

A site like Tildes/Reddit, but instead of writing out a comment you speak it. Would be a slower form of Clubhouse.

Is there a specific aspect of website building you want to be challenged on? The 2 ideas I would try if I could program (and had all the free time in the world lol) are:

1: A website where you write some text and the site tells you for how long that word has had (one of?) it's current meaning or existed. I wouldn't choose to display this via multiple <details> looking clickable areas with the time period labeled on them where the words highlighted would not be the same in that time period, so do that so it's "not offered the way that you want".

2: You basically look for historical footage of (in my mind political but realistically there's lots of sports footage where people do similar things) speeches where the audience at some point cheers or claps in unison and you basically try to sort them (in whatever way you prefer), let people hear random ones or automatically generate ones based on what you already have.

However, a lot of the challenge here would be finding the data for words and speeches, not the websites, so I'm not sure if these are viable suggestions.

A website similar to Justwatch.com but for comic books and manga where you can make a pull list, and see what services have what books available.

A Start to Crate database, with perhaps different way to prove the StC time (screenshot, video, ... basically it's a niche speedrun category).