I think coding is interesting. I've dabbled in it since the days of QBasic for DOS, learned C, C++, HTML. VB.net...
But I find it hard to get motivated to actually code anything serious. Aside from making a website, I can't think of any program to write, that someone would actually want or use. Games are out the question for me, since I suck at art. I don't want to make some shitty web browser, or image editing program, or document editor, since all those markets are taken over. I really dont want to make some shitty social media cancer either.
Is there anything worth coding?
Justin Stewart
>Is there anything worth coding? scratch your own itch.
Jayden Jackson
embedded c
have fun writing the universe from scratch
Jace Howard
oh yeah also i think you're depressed on the inside so coding won't help.
try something completely different
Michael White
This tbqh. Right now I'm writing a language for PSG-like music generation. I don't expect anyone else to use it, and in a few months I probably won't care about it anymore, but it's fun.
Evan Myers
the codemonkey struggle
Isaac Kelly
Make something related to a hobby, or something that interests you.
Gabriel Rivera
It sounds like you are depressed. Head on to /adv/
Gabriel Moore
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Asher Torres
Contribute to existing projects that you want to succeed like a linux distro (I'd personally choose solus) or indeed netrunner.
Andrew Gutierrez
Find the most useless language that intrests you and just have fun.
Aiden Brooks
>since all those markets are taken over if this is all you ever think about, you've already lost. A great program, even if it's in the domain of a much more popular program, will always look great on your resume.
There's also a great amount of proprietary programs for which there's demand for a free (as in freedom) alternative that hasn't been made yet. This is how Krita and Blender got so popular. It's short sighted to think that everything has been made already.
Austin Morales
>all those markets are taken over Are you joking? All the web browsers, image editors, and document editors out there are all shit. And the OSes are shit. Most websites and games are shit too. I'm learning to become a programmer because I feel like everyone else is doing a garbage job.
Christian Miller
Think of a friend or relative who's really into something, the weirder and more interesting the better, but it could be just a workaholic, it's ok. Now spend lots of time with him. You will soon realize how much time he wastes doing stressful, repetitive, even hazardous things that could be automated. He will never in a million years imagine this and won't believe anything you say, so just code whatever he need to improve his workflow. He will think you are sme sort of demigod. Depression and burnout solved.
Austin Green
its been over 50 years since people starting programming software. most of the essential programs have been done to death and its all free now so theres little money to be made on stand alone applications. If you want money you have to look into SaaS.
Otherwise i am guessing people code just as a hobby ,they're working on a side project outside their fulltime job and not looking to get rewarded or anything.
Jordan Walker
>have too many ideas to code >not enough time or motivation to code them.
Anthony White
This. Most of my projects start out as scripts I make for myself, or just cool ideas.
Code what you want, not what you think you should. Good apps come from passion, focus on enjoying it and something will stick eventually
Easton Hall
I think not what you said, OP, but I hope this is useful for someone
David Reyes
>I think it's not
Brody Cox
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Colton Kelly
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Levi Cox
I made a small program to sort the tags and folder structure of music I downloaded.
Now I'm making a game to play poker with other players, across the net, and then an AI for it.
Maybe if you follow programming related blogs etc you'll get some inspiration
Samuel Bailey
Bonus: Make something to manage these challenges, where you can tick the ones you've finished or something like that. Hard mode: Use OCR to input the challenges to your system. Categorize it by theme and/or difficulty.
Ian Perez
How can I find such blogs?
Gavin Morgan
Holy shit this is good advice.
Hunter Walker
Well a good starting point is hacker news, as autistic as some of the people there are, cool projects are linked there quite often.
Jackson Watson
Create a viable FOSS alternative to Solidworks.
Chase Cooper
Code a UI for Linux that doesn't suck dick.
Chase Thomas
>Everything that can be invented, has been invented. - Charles Duell, 1899.
The coding part is easy. Getting a good idea is hard.
Joshua Richardson
>Games are out the question for me, since I suck at art. Why would that matter?
Daniel Sanchez
Javascript for full stack web apps It's the future dawg
David Mitchell
but dorf fort is a minimal artistic masterpiece
Leo Wright
That myth system and world generation can be considered art. Still no multithreading tho.
Luke Sanders
OP Your post signifies exactly why I didn't stick with programming myself, I had the exact same thoughts.
You're not alone.
Liam Wood
I thought Sup Forums hated scratch.
Carson Morales
Fix that poorly coded emulator.
Xavier Ramirez
Yep know this feel, by the time I was 30 I told myself I'd be working on my own projects full time. I'm now 31 and still just tinkering on my own time while I build more CRUD apps for the man.
I think half the problem is I see most people trying to build the next Uber for Pets dot com and I wonder if all the excitement has gone out of software dev.
Wyatt Evans
get involved politically work on FOSS projects help everybody get control over their computing achieve full software justice
Matthew Perez
There are dozens of programs people use only because there is no good alternative for them, how can you use computer enough to learn programing and still ask question like this?
Ian Watson
Sounds like a typical case of "I only know the software industry". There are millions of interesting problems out there to be solved but the cool software blogs and news don't talk about them so they don't exist
Ian Adams
That's a really good advice. If you don't have the idea of the century, just write free software that's better than the proprietary (not hard in a lot of domains). You'll have created something actually useful.
I've always thought that the "software industry" itself is boring as fuck, circlejerking on the silicon valley and on how to solve everyone's problems by creating another fucking chat app.
Go find a job in something only tangentially related to software. An actually useful and interesting industry in need of programmers.
Ian Brown
>GNU/Lawyers buttraping Applel
Only if. But they actively phasing out as much GPLd software from OSX as they can and make/invest in permissive license shit like LLVM so it's the dum goyim who works for the FOR FREE.
Xavier Edwards
I like making bots and trainers for online and offline games. It's fun and you will actually have a use for it. Just run it yourself and get ingame-rich. Other people would have a lot of use for it too, but whether you want to release it is a moral problem. You'll be responsible for the bots/"hacks" and when the company takes action you will probably get banned yourself. But anyway, automating stuff in general is pretty fun and useful.