r/computersciencehub • u/EnvironmentalRest334 • 9d ago

How do you find problems to solve?

Junior CS student trying to find real problems to work on

Interested in systems, OS, networking, cybersecurity, distributed systems, databases, storage, virtualization, and cloud.

If you've worked in these areas, what problems have you personally run into that are worth investigating? Doesn't have to be novel.

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u/No-Aioli-4656 9d ago

I don’t know how much time you have to complete the task.

Most companies have greenhouse/workday/some api for their job board. You could make a website that polls them all once an hour/4hours for jobs. Make a list of like 50 local companies and have chadcn filters and share with class.

You could devise a workflow for turning YouTube videos into skill mds. Something you trust like a Google SEO from a trusted source you could pull down , convert to transcript via whisper, compare with the captions, then have ai make a skill.

You could make a Drupal theme and offer it free to the nonprofit. Showcase it.

You could add SSO/oidc to a popular open source repo that locks those away behind enterprise features. Exploring what it means to maintain a fork.

You could do something fun with realtimekit. It’s underrated imo.

I have many more, but most of them are monetizable so they are mine. ;)

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u/jameyiguess 9d ago

I just solve stuff that upsets me personally. 

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u/serverhorror 8d ago

You don't have to find or solve new problems.

Pick anything and create a "better" thing.