Sample app ideas

Here are some ideas for sample projects you could create with a framework (or library) to demonstrate how they approach solving specific problems.

• Calendar app
• Calorie Counter (Weight loss) app
• Gift app (find gifts for friends)
• Photo sharing app
• Reminders app
• Gallery or Portfolio app
• Recipes app
• Quiz/trivia app
• YouTube API/search client
• GitHub API client
• Twitter client
• Travel / day out app
• Movies / IMDB search
• Employee manager
• Wine cellar (wine manager)
• Simple game (e.g cards or LetterPress)
• Tunes / Music finder / player
• Dashboard
• Instagram client That lets you share some pics and add effects to them using canvas and then save to file-system or upload to cloud. Also sorting.
• Code search
  • Group duplicates?
  • Improve project discovery
  • A lot of devs I know used Google Code search to see how to use an undocumented method in popular frameworks, and lib authors used it to see if a method they wanted to change/deprecate was heavily used and how.
• Note taking app
  • Could use the SimpleNote API
  • Live saving in localStorage
• What’s near me? (Google Maps API)
• Cloud audio player
  • A seamless interface to SoundCloud, Grooveshark, and other web based players
• Collaborative Etherpad Lite like Markdown editor
• News reader (e.g RSS reader)
• Book search
• Weather app
• Fantasy football
• Snap and share client (Camera app, share to Drive)
• Beautiful simple Analytics app Gives you just an overview of what’s going on with your site without puking numbers on you. Something like this app, only for the web: http://analytiksapp.com