37 App Ideas for Bootcamp Students & Code Newbies
Tags: beginners, javascript, webdev, react
Published: 2019-12-01 04:47:19

I was recently told that every time we make a *to-do list app* or a *weather app*, a koala dies somewhere. **Let's stop this together!** 

Below are some app ideas that loosely came to my mind. I added emojis to make it easier for you to identify the apps that could become your next passion projects:
💕 helping others / more friends
🌍 sustainable world
👩‍⚖️ social justice
🧞‍♂️ everyday practical
🎁 misc

**1. Metro locator** 👩‍⚖️ 🧞‍♂️ 💕
- an app locating the closest subway stop that has an elevator 

**2.Food-sharing app** 🌍 💕
- share food you won’t eat
- *bonus:* maybe an option for restaurants to join and a separate UI? 

**3. Social gatherings** 💕 
- an app that helps you engage strangers in random impromptu games/challenges/conversations -- it could use geolocation to see whether another app user is in proximity

**4. Brain teasers**  🧞‍♂️ 
- an app for bored people that sends fun activities, brain teasers or goofy challenges

**5. Teamwork is Dreamwork** 🧞‍♂️ 💕 
- pair-programming app that helps you set up fruitful collaboration 
- *bonus:* accountability check

**6. Hands-free game** 🎁 
- a hands-free game like this one: <https://duckhunt-handsfree.glitch.me>

**7. Text generator**  🎁 
- a lorem ipsum generator like <https://www.affirmations.madewithtech.com/>

**8. Coding quiz** 🧞‍♂️ 💕 
- a quiz-based site that challenges you to transform functions to arrow functions, to use destructuring or translate methods between js and ruby

**9. Sentiment-based news site** 🧞‍♂️ 
- a news site that uses [IBM Watson](https://developer.ibm.com/technologies/artificial-intelligence/) to determine if a given news piece feels angry, etc.

**10. Money counting app** 🧞‍♂️ 👩‍⚖️ 💕 
- an app that helps people with dyscalculia to determine how much money they have in the wallet

**11. Art generator** 🎁 
- a page that generates a [Yayoi Kusama](https://www.thatsmags.com/image/view/201903/Yayoyi-Kusama-PRAYING-FOR-WORLD-PEACE-IN-THE-SUNLIGHT-2016-1-.jpg) random painting. Or [Alma Thomas](https://www.phillipscollection.org/sites/default/files/styles/feature_extra_large_no_crop_1200_/public/2021-08/Alma%20Thomas_Pansies%20in%20Washington_1969.jpg?itok=fpu54kWi). Or [Piet Mondrian](https://image.shutterstock.com/image-vector/checkered-piet-mondrian-style-emulation-260nw-1469229920.jpg).

**12. Bookmark extension** 🧞‍♂️ 
- an app/extension that helps you save a link to your bookmarks
- *bonus:* it could also work on slack

**13. Fluffy Alexa skill** 🧞‍♂️ 💕 
- an Alexa Skill that tells you nice things every day
- *bonus:* maybe they are in some way personalized?

**14. Online treasure hunt** 🎁
- *bonus:* 💕 with an option to communicate with others? Or, a leaderboard?

**15. Carbon footprint calculator** 🌍 
- an app that calculates how much carbon footprint your grocery shopping/general habits contribute to and educates you on eco-lifestyle

**16. Water waste calculator** 🌍 
- an app that calculates how much water your clothes used to be created (and maybe invites others to do the same?)

**17. Timeline!**  🎁 
- an interactive timeline of some music history / game history / social justice stuff

**18. Front page generator** 🎁 
- a website that creates a newspaper front page with news of your choosing or with media uploaded by you

**19. City trivia** 🎁 
- an app for people who just moved to the city that responds to geolocation and sends out facts about the area

**20. Browser history detective** 🎁 
- OMG imagine a game in which you are given someone’s browser search history and on that basis invites you to make some guesses about the person

**21. Gamer's bingo board** 👩‍⚖️ 
- A [gaming reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/) scanning app that looks for most common sexist comments, then checks a bingo board and sends automatic comment if more than 30% of the board is checked, like this: <https://www.pinterest.com/pin/195625177536611475/>

**22. Making sidewalks even** 👩‍⚖️ 💕 
- an app that helps you report uneven sidewalks instantly, with a click

**23. Trading app** 🎁 
- a sneakers/Magic the Gathering card trading app

**24. Film production call sheets**  🎁 
- an app that helps you builds a call sheet for film production

**25. End subscription?** 🧞‍♂️ 
- an app that helps you keep track of your online subscriptions
- *bonus:* it sends notifications when the free trial is done or sets a reminder on your phone (in your calendar app?)

**26. Bug tracker**  💕 
- a cute app that helps you and your team log the errors/bugs you got this week and invites you to celebrate as a team every 100th bug

**27. Trivia**  🎁 
- an app that sends you push notifications/emails every day with some very specific trivia

**28. More app ideas**  🎁 🧞‍♂️ 💕 
- an app that generates app ideas

**29. Plant parenthood**  🧞‍♂️ 
- an app that reminds you to water/move your plants.

**30. Horoscopes**  🎁 
- mad-libs horoscope app

**31. To the loo**  👩‍⚖️ 🧞‍♂️ 💕 
- An app that helps you locate the nearest available bathroom, allows you to rate its cleanliness/accessibility, leave comments + has a filter for gender-neutral bathrooms

**32. Data Viz**  🎁 👩‍⚖️ 
- Data visualization of any of the [OpenDataNYC](https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/)

**33. Dating app for social justice warriors**  👩‍⚖️ 🧞‍♂️ 💕 

**34. Humane meetings**  🧞‍♂️ 💕 
- a meeting scheduling app that forces you to include in the agenda 15-minute breaks every 3 hours and an hour-long lunch break

**35. Better carpooling**  👩‍⚖️ 🧞‍♂️ 💕 
- a carpooling app that prevents drivers from canceling on  people with disabilities or PoC

**36. Loving chatbot** 👩‍⚖️ 💕 
- a Slack chatbot that corrects your messages with regards to inclusive language

**37. Weather app??** 🧞‍♂️ 
- a weather app (hold off your judgment) that actually tells you how to dress -- New York's 50F is very different from Berlin's 50F due to humidity