Ask HN: Ideas for a CS Senior Project?

[Igglyboo]

So I've just started my senior project class at my university, I'm a computer science major but my curriculum has been more software development than CS.

My teacher wants us to come up with something that will fix a new problem or change a new industry, something "disruptive". Made me think of startups so I thought this would be the perfect place to ask.

Any ideas are welcome really, he would like us to do a mobile/web app but if our idea is good enough we can do anything (dev tools, commandline/desktop app or whatever). We have a team of 4 with 3 months to do it, we're supposed to put in about 500 man hours of work into the project.

[angersock]

How about this:

Do something distributed, something that requires no central point of control or authority. Think Bittorrent or bitcoin or whatever.

The really cool technologies are distributist in nature.

[ajizzle]

If you really want to blow his mind. Pick up on a REAL open source project that is already solving a REAL problem. Nothing you do in this class will matter. If the four of you can really contribute to a real world problem in three months, that'd certainly be worth an A+.

[yunyeng]

You could think this is real simple, but I would like to say do something about Online Education! Courseware system, book sharing, student social media with profiles integrated with classes and courses. That is perfect fit for both Web and Mobile app I think.

[walterbell]

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