Awesome Project Ideas for Software and Web Developers for Resume
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First let's look at the things that you should not do. Most students do the following and their resumes never get shortlisted. Most common projects rarely add anything to your resume and might leave a bad impression as well.

Do not copy someone else's code from GitHub and show it as your project.
Do not create a project that uses 10 lines of library code. Most students do this for ML/AI projects.
Do not look for "resume-worthy" projects. To get your resume shortlisted, you need to have projects that help your resume stand-out when compared to other applicants. Building a common project won't help you stand-out.
ML/AI projects are not the coolest projects for your resume. It has become too mainstream to help you stand-out.
How to decide which project to pick up?
Instead of listing out common projects, I am listing down some generic ideas with examples of real products. You should think of specific ideas and products based on these ideas and examples.

You can either think of unique ideas or just build a clone of a popular product. Just make sure that you do everything from conceptualization to building to deployment.

Most of the ideas mentioned below can be built as a website, a Android/iOS mobile app, or both. You can build any of the projects mentioned below as a final year project as well.

Start with one or more of the basic ideas followed by big project ideas based on the available time.

Basic Project Ideas

These ideas are useful while you are learning development or have a very short timeline and need something on your resume. These are the projects that you should start with before moving to bigger projects.

Building these should generally take you 3-4 days if you know the required technologies. If you are still learning then build while you are learning.

Portfolio Website

This is the first website that you should build. Every engineer should have a portfolio website and should try to keep it updated. You need to know HTML, CSS, and JS to build this. Keep it clean and simple. You can host your portfolio website on GitHub Pages/Netlify.

Personal Blog

After building a portfolio, add a personal blog to your website. Start writing articles based on whatever you are learning. You can use something open-source and integrate it with your website or you can build your own.

Utility Web Apps or Mobile Apps

Build utility web apps or mobile apps that you or others might want to use. Think of basic websites/apps that you or people around you generally use.

Some examples:

  • Online Calculator
  • Online Timer
  • Conversion Tool
  • JSON Parser, URL Encoder/Decoder, Escape Tool, etc
  • Speed Test
  • URL Shortener (Requires Backend as well)
  • To-do list

Basic Games

  • Board games like Sudoku, Tic-Tac-Toe, 2048, etc.
  • Card games like BlackJack, Solitaire, etc.
  • Basic number or word games.
  • RSS Reader/Data Visualizer
  • RSS Reader which reads and displays from different RSS feeds (articles, news, podcasts, etc).
    Fetches data from public APIs and displays it with a good UI. Example: Developer Profile using GitHub data.
    You might explore adding recommendation and personalization to create a bigger project.
    Big Project Ideas
    You might want to add more useful features to your basic projects or you can pick up from the below list. The websites or apps that you or others use might help you provide more ideas.

Education Apps

  • Course website/app. Example: Courses made from Youtube videos.
  • Quiz Application or another evaluation platform. Example: Duolingo
  • Rating and Review Application
  • Build a website or mobile app where users can rate and review certain products.

Examples:

IMDb: Movies
Goodreads: Books
Zomato: Restaurants
Practo: Doctors
Tripadvisor: Hotels/Destinations
Glassdoor: Companies
Google/Facebook/Yelp: Businesses
Amazon: E-commerce products
Read complete requirements here: Rating and Review Website | Fullstack Developement Project Ideas

OTT (Over-the-top) Platform

Create an OTT Platform like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hotstar, etc.

Ideas:

You can use Youtube or other free videos on the platform.
Add ratings and reviews.
You can add movie trailers instead of full videos.
OTT for short movies can be a good idea.
Optionally add recommendations.
Real-Time Communication
Create a real-time communication tool that can be used for communication or collaboration.

Ideas:

Chat (1:1 or Group) like WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord
Video Calling like Zoom, Conference Calls, YouTube Live
Interview Collab Tools (Chat, Video, Whiteboard, Editor)

QnA Platform

A community-driven question and answer platform like Quora, StackOverflow, Reddit, Discourse. etc.

Social Media

Build a social media platform like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Follow this order for adding features. Doing just the first one is good enough.

Start with a sharing platform where people can share media (image, video, text, links, etc) with buttons to share them. Example: Product Hunt, Hacker News, early days of Instagram, and Pinterest.
Add a way to like/react.
Add a way to comment.
Add a way to send notifications on engagement.
Add a common news feed.
Add a way to follow others or add as friends.
Add a personalized news feed.
E-commerce
Most of the websites or apps that we interact with are e-commerce platforms. If a website allows you to buy something online, it is an e-commerce website. You can buy hands-on courses from workat.tech which makes this website an e-commerce website as well.

E-commerce is one of the best projects that you can do. Examples:

General Shopping: Amazon, Flipkart
Food: Swiggy, Zomato
Flight Tickets: MakeMyTrip
Movie Tickets: BookMyShow
Hotels: OYO
Grocery: BigBasket, Grofers
Courses: Coursera, Udemy, workat.tech, etc.
E-commerce platforms have very domain-specific designs and challenges. The core e-commerce lifecycle is generally the same across platforms. If you learn that, you can create different e-commerce websites across domains.

Follow this order in adding features. Doing even the first three is good enough.

Create a product detail page/landing page for a digital product.
Add a way to check out that product for free.
Integrate with a payment gateway like Razorpay and allow payments.
Create a product listing page.
Add search and filters.
Add ratings and reviews.
Add recommendations.

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