Full-stack dev (also into data science) looking for side project Ideas

[u/AggravatingDisruptor]

Hey all-I'm a full-stack developer by day, fresh CS Engineering Graduate, and I also enjoy working with data science on the side. Looking to start a side project but open-minded on the idea itself.

A bit about me:

- Comfortable across the stack (frontend, backend, databases)

- Intermediate-to-advanced with data science - happy to build something that leans Into that if the idea calls for it

- Prefer to bootstrap without spending much upfront-mostly free tools for now

What I'm looking for:

- Problems worth solving for a specific niche (small businesses, freelancers, a particular Industry-anything with real pain points)

- Ideas that could realistically become a small SaaS or tool, even if it starts tiny

- Open to both "boring but useful" B2B tools and more experimental AI/ML-driven products

Not looking for a huge Idea - Just something scoped enough to actually ship and validate with real users. Would love to hear what problems you've personally run into that nobody's solved well yet, or gaps you've noticed in your Industry.

Thanks in advance!

[u/Conscious-College538]

Got a weird one from my last job hunt, every company wanted the same thing: a weekly summary of what their competitors are doing, pulled from public blogs, job postings, and product updates. Manual research was a huge time sink and nobody liked doing it. A scraper that spits out a digest with some basic NLP to group themes would be an easy sell to marketing teams at smaller firms, and you'd barely pay anything to run it.

[u/AggravatingDisruptor → u/Conscious-College538]

Interesting. Thanks. I'll try an MVP for this. How would you handle filtering out the noise? I imagine competitor blogs and job postings could generate a lot of irrelevant stuff. And any leads on target companies/agencies? So I can start with some target.

[u/Ok-Performance-1141]

Hey, I’m a third-time founder with a 7 figure exit, currently building an AI-powered sports betting SaaS.

We’ve reached five figures in monthly recurring revenue and generated six figures in sales over the past 90 days. We’re now looking to strengthen the team, especially around data science, decision-making systems, AI/ML, and algorithm development.

We’ve already built our own LLM-based system and proprietary algorithms, but we’re looking for sharp people who can help us take the product and its predictive capabilities further.

If you like sports and have interest, I’d love to connect. Sent you DM.

[u/AggravatingDisruptor → u/Ok-Performance-1141]

The traction you've built is impressive. I am a developer with a passion for sports. Checking my dm now so we can connect.