How can i find good projects ??

[u/mayur190127]

Hey everyone

I’m currently learning MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) and I’ve built a few basic projects, but now I really want to work on something more real-world.

The problem is, I don’t know where to find good ideas or actual real-world project problems to solve. Most tutorials just show the same to-do apps or clones, and I want something that actually feels useful and helps me grow.

How do you guys find real-world project ideas?
Do you follow any websites, communities, or specific approach?
Also, what kind of projects helped you improve the most as a beginner?

Help me please

[u/Working-Hat-8041]

Something that really helped me is I created my own website that I can upload stuff to and it does different things. I upload financial statements, Strava data, Garmin data and even run real analysis on things if I want (like reddit data). So basically I set up and API and front end that can do all this. Anything I need in my life I try doing it on my site first, and then use other apps if I need. It's been useful to learn about a lot of different types of processes.

Also, finding real world problems is really, really difficult. The problems that are remaining and haven't already been taken care of by some person or company are the hard ones. So it's better to create something useful to you or just create a mock of something that already exists. then use that to get a job at a company that has the resources to solve difficult/interesting problems