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Ideas for Software that People Would Actually Use

Every time I have an idea, I write it down. These are a collection of my top software ideas -- problems I think enough people have that don't have solutions. I expect you can reach a decent userbase if marketed correctly, as I am surely not the only one with these problems.

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Inspired by

Feel free to use these for a hackathon, side project, or hacklodge project -- I'd love to see them get built! If…

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Open-source Keybr Clone with More Statistics

Bounty Prompt: Make an open source keybr clone with more statistics, like seperating lowercase/capital letters, and…

SoundSwipe

Bounty Prompt: A tinder for songs -- plays the most commented 10 seconds of a song on SoundCloud and adds it to a…

Website Link: SoundSwipe

Auto-LaTeX Equations

Bounty Prompt: A way to use LaTeX equations in Google Docs Completed by: Aayush Gupta (me) Website:

Press: Nature

Spotify Playlist Cleanify

Bounty Prompt: A program that takes your spotify playlist and converts it to a clean version with the same songs and…

Github Link: https://github.com/code-arman/Cleanify

Windows Automatic Unzipper

Bounty Prompt: When something is downloaded, unzip it to its own folder then delete the original zip file Completed…

Website Link: https://autounzipper.com/

All Software >Health

Resulting graphic should look like this:

All Software >Programming Tools

DONE: This is done at

All Software >Edtech/Research/School

“Suggestion mode” for OverLeaf/Slate: Imagine if there was a way to collaboratively have LaTeX notes and have anyone…

a faster open-source overleaf. We think adding a suggestion mode to this would be super high impact and an interesting experiment for open education, to foster a collaborative environment to improve the notes.

All Software >Text Processing/NLP

Inspired by

All Software >Fun/Tools

DONE: See contributors.md, site at

All Software >Crypto ($400 each)

Build Elons Vision of X Payments: Allow anyone to comment tip "tip $6 @tipbot", then turn on email notifications on…

from his biography.

Truly random NFT drops The problem is that you can predict randomness and mint the best NFTs by simulating the chain.…

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Artist Royalties for Using Their AI Voice: Prove via zk-email on Spotify confirmation emails and EZKL proof of voi e…

Bitcoin on Chain: [Not my ideas, but still excellent] The four ideas at the bottom of

have not been created yet and are technically feasible as an intermediate-level project, and could be the first trustless applications of Bitcoin on Ethereum! They haven't been built yet because this was only possible a few months ago and isn't marketed very widely. Would likely quality for…

Onboard to Crypto via Your Brain: Imagine a private data marketplace over moves in on-chain games (imagine

or any other MUD game, but with faster payouts and less bottability). If a new user to the chain has no funds, they can prove that they know some move costs x and gains y points, and make a zk proof of knowledge of that transaction (can be via an axiom proof or any zkevm proof). They need to…

ZK Email Applications: Using our SDK linked to from

build any one of the applications listed on our organization readme! Most useful for getting off-chain data on chain, or sending assets to people off-chain in a trustless manner via email.

Edit: Just discovered

existed for 2+ years, and is open source. This bounty is no longer offered!

Add a nice frontend to

and build a proof-of-concept anonymous group posting app powered by zero-knowledge proofs.

Edit: Done by

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Awesome Engineering Team Management

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👔 How to transition from software development to engineering management

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Awesome Billing

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💰 Billing & Payments knowledge for cloud platforms

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Awesome Developer-First

agamm/awesome-developer-first

A curated list of awesome developer-first tools products.

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Awesome Job Boards

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A curated list of awesome job boards

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awesome-seo

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Google SEO Research and Web Traffic Monetization

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Places To Post Your Startup

mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup

Compiled list of links from "Ask HN: Where can I post my startup to get beta users?"

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