A weekend on Google App Engine; I need an idea

inklesspen · on May 10, 2008

A tinyurl clone that randomly has a 20% chance of rickrolling you.

babul · on May 10, 2008

Also, regardless of what you finally decide to do, can you publish your code so the rest of us can save some time in learning App Engine and also see what can be done in a weekend :) Thanks.

bootload · on May 10, 2008

"... I'm going to make an application on Google App Engine this weekend. Do you have a good idea? ..."

Something I want is "best of hackernews: by category" something that lists best by category, re: ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184766

- login using openid for hackerid users

- hn users submit link for best story of the week/day

- assign to category

- user can vote 1 up/down story of day/week

- extra points for RSS/Atom feed of outcome

With a feed it should give 10x effect for efforts like the one listed to extract useful info.

babul · on May 10, 2008

Everyone seems to be making Twitter clients that adds something Twitter does not have. How about one of those.

superchink · on May 12, 2008

How did this turn out. Did you actually get to building anything?