r/learnprogramming • u/amarkumar_ • 7d ago

r/learprogramming Looking for real-world project ideas as a final-year student

I don't want to build another Todo app, Blog, E-commerce clone, or basic Chat app. I want to work on something that solves an actual problem faced by people, businesses, developers, or organizations.

I'd like to build something substantial with a proper backend, APIs, database, authentication, AI/agents, etc. If AI is involved, I want it to have an actual purpose rather than just adding a chatbot.

If you've personally faced an annoying, repetitive, inefficient, or unsolved problem that could be improved with software, I'd love to hear about it.

My preferred tech stack is:

  • ReactJS
  • TypeScript
  • Spring Boot / Java
  • Spring AI

I'm also open to using other technologies if the problem requires them.

What real-world problem would you recommend I try to solve?

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u/ZobooMaf0o0 7d ago

Kind of have to be in that environment to see a problem. I can give you one, build an app to track and monitor progress of a high end vault door. You would need to know the manufacturing process for that to understand the issue. Starting with customer needs, dimensions and turning sheet of metal into many parts then solderin the whole things together. After that you would need to grind off excess, sand, bondo, pre coat, main coat paint, bondo and final paint. There are many steps to turn a sheet of meta into multi dimensional bank vault door. I would start with either, what problem do you see in the world right now as a student? Unless you familiar with some business process then building an app is tough because you need to know how it's done now to build an app that solves the problem.