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addyosmani edited this page Jan 8, 2013 · 6 revisions

Here are some ideas for sample projects you could create with a framework (or library) to demonstrate how they approach solving specific problems.

  • GitHub API client
  • Twitter client
  • Calendar app
  • Photo sharing app
  • Reminders app
  • YouTube API/search client
  • Instagram kind of client That lets you share some pics and add effects to them using canvas and then save to file-system or upload to cloud. Also sorting.
  • Code search
    • Group duplicates?
    • Improve project discovery
    • A lot of devs I know used Google Code search to see how to use an undocumented method in popular frameworks, and lib authors used it to see if a method they wanted to change/deprecate was heavily used and how.
  • Note taking app
    • Could use the SimpleNote API
    • Live saving in localStorage
  • What’s near me? (Google Maps API)
  • Cloud audio player
    • A seamless interface to SoundCloud, Grooveshark, and other web based players
  • Collaborative Etherpad Lite like Markdown editor
  • News reader (e.g RSS reader)
  • Beautiful simple Analytics app Gives you just an overview of what’s going on with your site without puking numbers on you. Something like this app, only for the web: http://analytiksapp.com
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