Ask HN: Cool projects to work on?

Hi,

due to unexpected vacations (thanks German bureaucracy), I will be free from tomorrow until the 22nd.

I would like to use this time to hack on a cool project. Maybe something that could go on my github page.

I ask here because I would like to "work" for someone that is in business. So that I can get some feedback and mentorship. I don't have the chance to talk to programmers and people in start ups in my daily life. I thought this might be a chance.

I am an amateur programmer. I work in Finance. I know python, a bit of clojure, and I find C quite cool. I am looking to gain experience in data analysis/visualization, financial/business applications. I hope to live finance one day, you know...

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zackzackzack 14y ago ↗

Do you have a Kinect? Try fiddling with Clojure and Kinect: http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page

bigohms 14y ago ↗

Try merging two or more public data sources and doing analysis on that and publishing the site.

arnejenssen 14y ago ↗

How about scraping financial data from public companies and making them available on a web-service/API. Yahoo finance presents key data freely for the US market, but in Norway you have to pay a 3rd company to get access to data that should be free to investors. Not sure how it is in Germany.