Ideas

[Script47]

I need some ideas for some things to make in JS, not too complex. Any ideas welcome.

[Jackolantern]

Ideas for what? Small projects to learn JS? Game ideas?

[Script47]

Oooooo, sorry forget to be clear. Erm game ideas.

[Xaleph]

Why not stick with what you`ve already got? Like the paint tool? i read your post the other day and liked the concept. I actually did something similiar a year or so ago.

Here`s a crucial tip for you, don`t re apply the event listeners. You only need to attach it once, use a boolean to check whether mouse is down or not. And to loose the whitespace in the middle, use the context.lineTo() functions. It helps you smoothen the lines.

Here`s a challenge, unify the code, wrap it in a namespace and objectify the code. Create seperation of concerns. Finish it and you`ll have a damn nice paint tool.

[Xaos]

I second improve what you have, really rewarding seeing something that small get awesome. Also, go with stuff like rock paper scissors, magic 8 ball, dice game, poker. All of those employ different elements that are very useful.

[kaos78414]

So I have an idea for a fun app that I haven't seen anything like. I'm pretty certain it's possible, though I haven't seen anything like it, and you may need to have a pretty solid understanding of image manipulation in whatever language you decide to write the server for it in. Anyway, I'm never going to do it, so I thought I'd share it and maybe someone else can roll with it:

**it should be noted I'm somewhat intoxicated atm, so I apologize ahead of time if anything seems off haha

Basically it's a style/fashion app, very simple idea at its core: User takes a picture, uploads it, and the app tells them if the outfit is good or not. With canvas or webgl, this may be possible with nothing but javascript. Take the image, analyze it, look for contrasting colors, hard edges, etc, make some calculations, allow for a certain margin of error, return a score between 1 and 10. All you show the user initially is a thumbs up or a thumbs down and a silly message (thumbs down example: "You should probably change before you wear that in public...", thumbs up: "DANG GURL U FINE"), with a button that says "Details". The detailed view would show some analyzation details, RGB (similar to: http://huddle.github.io/Resemble.js/), whatever else you want to include. Include some options to tweet/facebook/share and voila! You've got yourself a marketable app.

EDIT: I have an absolute crap-ton of (possibly) commercially viable app ideas. Anyone who thinks ideas are worth anything and shouldn't be shared without an NDA haven't been a part of the start-up world for very long - if at all. Ideas are easy to come by, good implementations are not. Just an extra thought I wanted to throw in there

EDIT2: Just realized you said not too complex. Myyyy bad! Consider me drunk.

[Script47]

Hahahaha I loved that reply, and it's quite a good idea, buuuuuuut I just don't thing I would be able to pull that off!

Edit:

I decided to stick with the Paint idea and hopefully will be adding/editing more things to it soon.

Thanks for the ideas.

[Jackolantern]

You could, once you have the basic painting down with your app, eventually expand it, make it multiplayer and essentially have an online Pictionary, where one person secretly get a word, starts drawing and the other person tries to guess the word. Getting it to that point would involve really getting a handle on canvas drawing, websockets, node, and then possibly Facebook integration to make it social. That is a nice array of topics to learn right there, all starting from your one app

[hallsofvallhalla]

**it should be noted I'm somewhat intoxicated atm, so I apologize ahead of time if anything seems off haha

Thank goodness that I am not the only one that gets wasted and posts.....I do that and then play online games wasted and just mess with people. Kind of my steam releaser.

[kaos78414]

**it should be noted I'm somewhat intoxicated atm, so I apologize ahead of time if anything seems off haha

Thank goodness that I am not the only one that gets wasted and posts.....I do that and then play online games wasted and just mess with people. Kind of my steam releaser.

Yup for some reason soon after posting this I offended some people on Facebook through private messages. Always a good time.