Most times I find that these projects are either old or badly made (often both). If you’re inspired and you feel like you can make them better, then go for it.
An artist isn’t going to refrain from painting a portrait of a dog if other artists have already painted dog portraits, so why should you?
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A Minecraft rewrite in Rust with a very specific engine and goals certainly hadn’t been done… right?..
https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/hematite
Learning is the main point of taking on a side project. Whether it’s original or not doesn’t matter
If you’re looking for original ideas… I have bad news for you
They come from unique problems
Guess that depends on what your goal is. Are you doing it for fun? Or for money? If it’s the latter it’s all in the marketing.
Steve Jobs said “you don’t have to do it better, just different”.
Yeah Apple’s marketing is incredible
Turns out that fruit doesn’t cure cancer either
Instead, you can try to extend the existing project with new features, possibly improving your code reading skills and discovering new practices
or you realize that the idea fundamentally wouldnt work. i wanted to build a lemmy music recognition bot until i remembered lemmy has no videos lmao
If it sounded cool to do, I do it anyway, and keep it to myself. Never have to clean that shit up. Unfinished? Who gives a fuck, I did it, job sorted.
If it sounded like it needed to exist… thank god, someone else did it for me! Not my problem. git clone, next idea.
Most times I find that these projects are either old or badly made (often both). If you’re inspired and you feel like you can make them better, then go for it.
An artist isn’t going to refrain from painting a portrait of a dog if other artists have already painted dog portraits, so why should you?
Then a while later you go back and look at what you did and realize it’s old and badly made.
Then you pat yourself on the back for inspiring the next dev that comes across your project