Jason Shen

I Dare You To Build - Side project ideas to launch in 2016

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Jason Shen
Happy Friday! We put together a little random idea generator for side projects just for fun. And while these ideas are mostly silly ones, what Amanda and I *do* believe is that doing side projects is so important to the career of a modern technology professional. We've each done numerous side projects to develop skills, gain opportunities to demonstrate leadership, and win recognition in our fields. So if you *are* serious about doing a side project, we invite you to apply to our six week side project accelerator called Ship Your Side Project (http://shipyoursideproject.com). In any case, have fun with the site! Would love to get any suggestions for new "things" or "purposes" to generate side project ideas for. =)
Freddy
@jasonshen I think what you're doing is great. More an more jobs count side projects as development experience, rather than just the traditional work or educational experience.
Joe Hobot
How are 'dares' added ? or is it just some generator ?
Jason Shen
@joehobot just post them here! I'll add them into the mix
Elizabeth
Probably a nice place to browse during a creative block on a problem. If you accidently find & build a unicorn, hope IDYTB is cool with you keeping the capital B Billions. @jasonshen
Jason Shen
@elizabethhunker pretty sure we'd have no case in court if we tried to pull a Winklevoss ... not that we would anyway. I'm a startup founder who tried to take on one of the most obvious ideas in the world - ridesharing - so I'm not one to say that just having the idea means squat.
Itamar Kestenbaum
I must say - I was expecting something a little more actionable, a little less non-sensical/auto-generated. Like a more modern Internet Wishlist. But shipyoursideproject seems cool!
bryan s arnold
Amazingly enough, I'm gonna use one of the ideas! Well done!
John Meese
This is excellent! A great way to inspire people to take on a side-project, with a ton of ideas to spark the imagination.
Adrian Rubin
Love this idea, look forward to see how it grows over time!
Itai Regev
cool idea
irelandesign
it would be cool if it used some sort of AI that would generate ideas based on your online activity
Dimitry Alhambra
@jasonshen, hey guys your idareyoutobuild.com domain is down? :S