bnb/ideas

Ideas for projects

A repo of ideas for projects that I have. Feel free to use them in any way you want.

Node.js App Ideas to Learn From

Pay with a post

Pay with a post mentioning the product on one or more social networks.

Beta invitation drop-in module

Signup with a beta invite, generated, sent, and validated by the module.

GitHub/Twitter Inactive Username Checker

Checks for GitHub/Twitter usernames, optionally matching a given term, that are inactive. While this doesn't really help on Twitter yet (they've got a policy that they don't reassign or delete inactive accounts), you can possibly get a good GitHub username with it.

Avatar selector on GH-pages (Gravatar alternative)

A Node script to build a site that allows the user to select an avatar from a GitHub Pages URL via Query String. I want my main avatar? I can link or go to bnb.github.io/avatars/index.html?avatar=1. There could be multiple linking paths (?avatar=1, ?avatar=main, ?avatar=current, ?avatar=first, ?a=1, etc.) and other features.

Anchorify anything

Add an anchor link to any element on a website, via anchorify as a proxy, to link directly to that specific element.

Link it forward

Link it forward allows the HTML author to link to pages that don't currently exist, but will exist in the future. There will be a visual representation of the link that tells the reader if the link currently exists or not. Based off the idea of linking to the next post in a series of blog posts before it's published, so readers in the future can go to the next post without the author needing to edit the original.

1-click npm installs from README.md

No idea if this is even possible. Develop a button for OSS projects to put in their README.md files that either 1-click copies the install command or just installs the package. This could be plain HTML (piggybacking off the C&P from the GitHub sidebar?) or a browser extension.

Pastebin-style site


...with beautify and uglify scripts, linters, markdown editing, and whatever else you think of.

GitHub API to HTML render of projects for a portfolio display


Render an embedible piece with your repositories/statistics/whatever else from the GitHub API that can be dropped into a personal site, either as an entire page, or as a small section.

WebPush


Either an OSS self-hosted project or a hosted project, this is a Node/Express site that hooks into popular site's APIs and sends push notifications to the desktop via the Notifications API.

Note to Self (nts.me?)


Leave a note to yourself, set to send a notification via a variety of media. It could send a tweet, email, sms, etc. to alert you given the parameters you specified.

Humans.json, an API for humans that contributed.

Based off of the me-api, Humans.json is Humans.txt as an API. Essentially, a collection of me-api elements, as well as organizational-specific features. I have humansjson.com in the event that someone wants to use it.

Scaffolding.json

A command line tool that builds the scaffolding of programming projects in plain English. Returns a json file to reference.

Desktop Website Builder with Metalsmith and Electron

An Electron App with a GUI to build Metalsmith (metalsmith.io) websites.

Team Fortress 2

Resume.tf


Resumes for Team Fortress 2 competitive players

School

HP 302/IS 124


For my Honors Project, perhaps I could set up an agreement with the professor where the students can exchange time spent on OSS/pull requests sent on GitHub to C++ projects for 0.5% final grade score, for a max of 3-4%.

Random

Quote Engine

Searchable quotes with community aspect. Search by type, site, person, etc. Made for fans.