Ask HN: I'm bored. What's something you wanted coded up?

Do something like this, but actually working:

  https://github.com/justinclift/EventsMap

So a person can see what events are happening in a specific area, in a given time range. It should be:

  * Visual, using a map service background like the above
  * Have time range slider (indicting start and stop of time range)
  * Use the public data sets of conference/events.  There are a few around that show
    up with simple searching:
      * O'Reillys has this: https://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/events
      * Red Hat has this: https://github.com/OSAS/rh-events
      * Eventbrite likely has relevant feeds too (lots of data)

For a revenue source, you could look at adding planning capabilities into it, direct booking, and reminders. Potentially also group bookings, and/or fees for usage.

For companies that want to send X number of devs to conferences over the next 6-12 months, having a good system to know which ones to go to, and accurately track/remind/etc people... is worth money.

Maybe not super rich quantities... but it's unlikely negligable either. :)

Topic map engine that is usable in a database fashion and doesn't depend on some memory hog (no JVM, no MongoDB, no MySQL or PostgreSQL).

Any chance this is your kind of thing?

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11093339

create an app that allows me to find out what fun, interesting events are happening locally in the next few hours - days. Let me filter by my interests and distance. Make intelligent suggestions based upon artificial intelligence.