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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by boonhet@lemm.ee to c/casualconversation@lemm.ee

I think many of us have noticed the trend that modern tech just... Doesn't make things better. There's little to be excited about, because anything even remotely innovative is going to be filled with tracking, ads, etc.

Let's say you had a bored software engineer or 2 at your disposal and the goal was to improve something you do often, by creating an application or website that isn't owned and enshittified by a megacorp looking to extract maximum short term value - what would your project be? Is it something you'd be willing to pay for, maybe with a free tier available?

The reason I'm asking is that I'm a software engineer and in the current hard-ass market, while I'm lucky enough to have a stable job, I know that experience alone isn't cutting it anymore in the recruitment process. You need to be able to show side projects too. Plus I have an unemployed software engineer friend who also has no interesting projects to show. So if we make any money out of it, that's awesome. If we don't, it's just something for our github accounts. Probably the latter.

PS: Yes, I know this is not a tech community - I want ideas from regular, non-techy people too.

PPS: This doesn't have to be something in your personal life, it could also be something that would help you at work if you had it.

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[-] bappity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

university

I missed opening week and was assigned to the wrong year of courses for 3 fucking months because they fucked up their systems AND one character in my password somehow completely fucking broke their system which makes me think they store them in plaintext.

paying 9 grand a year for a shit show atm

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Yikes

Those systems are often in-house so not always the best maintained tbh

[-] bappity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

oh definitely

though ironically my course is computer science, you'd think they'd be good at these things 😭

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Ha maybe it was a student project

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