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Things software engineers will never get tired of:

- Building job boards

- Building static site generators

- Building todo list apps

- Building "personal knowledge base" type apps

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I will do that one day but I want to blog about it as I build them and I never get my blog set up the way I want it.

That's what the personal static site generator project is for.

You forgot "Building time tracking apps"

I'm seeing even more of this effect lately among young vibe coders. Not saying it's a bad thing, I'm saying:

It's reached the point where it's easier to build your own app than search/decide/choose an existing one.

But do they actually use those todo lists and time tracking apps? For example I use iOS and for me setting up alarms works much better than "Reminders".

I read your comment in the morning and it was funny. Right now I just saw this[1] popping in the top and it made your comment much funnier!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44022448

I have built various stuffs in the past few years and have came to appreciate more and more on things that will never get tired of. It can be a good indication that the problem spaces are large and remain unsolved as well as the opportunities. In such case, there are always rooms for anyone to come in to innovate and put their own spin to it. This is sometimes better than working on something that few or barely anyone works on, which can be an indication that the problem space is too small and only affects small set of folks.

Love the list btw. What is an example of "personal knowledge base" type app? Like Notion?

> What is an example of "personal knowledge base" type app?

There's one on the front page right now, keyword "Obsidian" ;)

Thanks, I see :)

I might have built part of a "personal knowledge base" type app by rolling up a custom editor before, so 1.5 boxes check.

Despite all these people making job boards, it's incredibly hard to find one that's decent. I gave up finding ones that let you filter for worldwide remote, let alone time zone range.

Personally I have checked 3/4 boxes here, and actively working on a job board currently for fun...

At least for a job board, it feels like it is useful, and also ultimately not that complex a piece of software. Which is nice for doing some light coding as opposed to things I usually deal with at work.

+1 to this! I have tons of fun while building this job board and having to refactor my code multiple times to generalize a pattern that can pull jobs from various sites. It is so fun to dig into some readings on the trimodal nature of tech compensation and pay transparency laws in the US. Plus it is a helpful site for folks like you said.

What type of job board are you building btw? Does it focus on a niche?

- Throwing shade because other people are building wrong

Static sites are more interesting tbh. Why does everything have to be so meta?

- Building XYZ from scratch

- Not letting you sort by a column

Yup, why cant I search bu total comp here?

Also the table lags on my iPhone 15 when you select All.

What stack are you using, OP?

Thanks for the note on the lag issue! I notice it as well and haven't gotten a chance to optimize it, but I think it is likely to due too many rows (400+) re-rendering, etc.

The site is built with Next.js, Typescript, React, tailwindcss, and deployed to Vercel. The cron job is a vercel function, which I believe is just a nice wrapper on aws lambda.

Thanks for the note! This is an initial MVP, so column sort hasn't been added. The default sort order is based on posted date. Which column are you looking to sort btw?

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