give me your website-ideas

[myselfolli]

So yeah, I have too much time on my hands and I want to improve my web dev skills, but I'm running out of ideas on what to do.

And that's where you guys come in. Hit me with all of your ideas, no matter how big or small, useful or silly.

 

Thanks in advance!

[Dat Guy]

Something like the Distrochooser, but for programming languages.

[BobVonBob]

A website that poses as a new search engine, but just runs a regex match on a google search.

[WereCatf]

How about a website where people can upload their risky videos, tag them into belonging some pre-defined categories, allowing both the uploaders and visitors to comment and vote on the uploaded content, all tied together with a theme of getting one excited and their heart pumping?

 

 

..oh, wait, I just described Pornhub. Nevermind then!

[TechyBen]

12 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

A website that poses as a new search engine, but just runs a regex match on a google search.

But Bing already exists? 

[Radium_Angel]

42 minutes ago, myselfolli said:

So yeah, I have too much time on my hands and I want to improve my web dev skills, but I'm running out of ideas on what to do.

And that's where you guys come in. Hit me with all of your ideas, no matter how big or small, useful or silly.

 

Thanks in advance!

A searchable database of motherboards, where you can input specific features you need, and it will return relevant results.

A machine learning site where the user draws shapes, and the website converts said shapes into mathematical numbers along a 3d axis, which is then turned into musical notes and played back

[myselfolli]

27 minutes ago, Dat Guy said:

Something like the Distrochooser, but for programming languages.

That might be a decent idea, yeah

[myselfolli]

26 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

A website that poses as a new search engine, but just runs a regex match on a google search.

Like @TechyBen said, Bing is a thing

Also I am not touching google with a ten foot pole, screw them

24 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

How about a website where people can upload their risky videos, tag them into belonging some pre-defined categories, allowing both the uploaders and visitors to comment and vote on the uploaded content, all tied together with a theme of getting one excited and their heart pumping?

 

 

..oh, wait, I just described Pornhub. Nevermind then!

Yeah not gonna comment on that

4 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

A searchable database of motherboards, where you can input specific features you need, and it will return relevant results.

A machine learning site where the user draws shapes, and the website converts said shapes into mathematical numbers along a 3d axis, which is then turned into musical notes and played back

The motherboard-idea isn't bad, but the problem is getting the data to begin with...

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, myselfolli said:

The motherboard-idea isn't bad, but the problem is getting the data to begin with...

Yes, that would be a ton of work, unless you could get the database from manufacturers, or build a back-end that scrapes data from mobo makers, and then puts it into a form that the front end could read. I'm kind of surprised something like this doesn't exist already...

[myselfolli]

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Yes, that would be a ton of work, unless you could get the database from manufacturers, or build a back-end that scrapes data from mobo makers, and then puts it into a form that the front end could read. I'm kind of surprised something like this doesn't exist already...

Well PcPartpicker is a thing, they kinda do that already...

 

I may just build a front end and allow users to add mobos themselves...

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, myselfolli said:

Well PcPartpicker is a thing, they kinda do that already...

Can you search by feature? For example, I'm looking for a mobo that supports Xeon CPUs, has a mATX form factor, and an m.2 slot. Can PCPP find that for me?

But the user-inputted boards would be a great thing, I'm willing to be the forum here would be all over that

[myselfolli]

I don't think the PCP feature searching is that in depth, no.

 

I guess I'll just start building and see how it turns out ^^

 

What features do you think would be most important? What should be searchable?

[TechyBen]

2 hours ago, myselfolli said:

Like @TechyBen said, Bing is a thing

Also I am not touching google with a ten foot pole, screw them

Yeah not gonna comment on that

The motherboard-idea isn't bad, but the problem is getting the data to begin with...

I actually have an idea of a website... and was looking at simple ways to implement it (as in, using gamemaker or similar drag and drop options, as I'm useless at coding).

In theory, it works. Just in practice is gonna be harder to make look nice.

[myselfolli]

2 minutes ago, TechyBen said:

I actually have an idea of a website... and was looking at simple ways to implement it (as in, using gamemaker or similar drag and drop options, as I'm useless at coding).

In theory, it works. Just in practice is gonna be harder to make look nice.

well what is the idea?

[Franck]

3 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

Can you search by feature? For example, I'm looking for a mobo that supports Xeon CPUs, has a mATX form factor, and an m.2 slot. Can PCPP find that for me?

But the user-inputted boards would be a great thing, I'm willing to be the forum here would be all over that

M2 info is probably the most lacking feature. It's a complete nightmare to figure out which mobo support how many M2 slot and are they Sata 3 or NVME.

Also finding NVME drives is completely impossible. With all those confusing connector and missing info. We ordered 2 models that in the end the picture on both website showed NVME and specs only said it was an M2 factor. We trusted picture and part number was not possible to find. They both ended up with different connector and Sata3. At least the return policy where good and we ended up going in store paying overprice to get what we needed.

[Radium_Angel]

3 hours ago, myselfolli said:

I don't think the PCP feature searching is that in depth, no.

 

I guess I'll just start building and see how it turns out ^^

 

What features do you think would be most important? What should be searchable?

Well, a rather large undertaking obviously, but I'd happy donate $$ to the cause if you really want to fully undertake this.

I'd love to see the following searchable fields:

 

form factor (mATX, ATX, E-ATX, etc)

chipset

CPU support

RAM type (DDR3,2, 1, 4, 5, etc)

bonus features (wireless, DVI, PS/2, etc)

M.2 slot and what type

PCIe version (1, 1.1, 2, 3)

USB version

 

A very large undertaking but something that, AFAIK, is missing in the world wide web. Could be crazy useful in building systems, especially with older board

 

[myselfolli]

9 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Well, a rather large undertaking obviously, but I'd happy donate $$ to the cause if you really want to fully undertake this.

I'd love to see the following searchable fields:

 

form factor (mATX, ATX, E-ATX, etc)

chipset

CPU support

RAM type (DDR3,2, 1, 4, 5, etc)

bonus features (wireless, DVI, PS/2, etc)

M.2 slot and what type

PCIe version (1, 1.1, 2, 3)

USB version

 

A very large undertaking but something that, AFAIK, is missing in the world wide web. Could be crazy useful in building systems, especially with older board

 

Let's talk about funding once there's something to look at

 

It'd be quite the undertaking, yeah, but only since the data would be kinda difficult to come by with ease. Some kind of scraper would of course be useful, but it'd have to be different for each manufacturer...

 

I guess the searchable fields could be user defined (allow users to add fields when adding a new motherboard), which could then be added to all other boards as well?

I'm kinda hyped for the idea tbh, this sounds fun ^^

 

Edit:

This could essentially be TMDB for motherboards

Edited February 8, 2019 by myselfolli

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, myselfolli said:

Let's talk about funding once there's something to look at

 

It'd be quite the undertaking, yeah, but only since the data would be kinda difficult to come by with ease. Some kind of scraper would of course be useful, but it'd have to be different for each manufacturer...

 

I guess the searchable fields could be user defined (allow users to add fields when adding a new motherboard), which could then be added to all other boards as well?

I'm kinda hyped for the idea tbh, this sounds fun ^^

 

Edit:

This could essentially be TMDB for motherboards

A user-input fields for other things would be brilliant as well, and maybe a general text box for user notes (crappy VRMs, 2nd PCIe slot is only x4, or things to that effect)

You put this out on LTT for users to fill in, and other great sites like ArsTechnica, etc and you could really have something great on your hands!

[myselfolli]

11 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

A user-input fields for other things would be brilliant as well, and maybe a general text box for user notes (crappy VRMs, 2nd PCIe slot is only x4, or things to that effect)

You put this out on LTT for users to fill in, and other great sites like ArsTechnica, etc and you could really have something great on your hands!

 

I created a mockup database design real quick and I think it covers the gist of the project 

 

Essentially most of the magic happens in the feature/motherboard_feature tables, where - well features - would be saved. Different versions of a feature (think USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0/different M2 lengths etc.) would be saved as different features.

 

It's obviously very rough around the edges, but it's a starting point I think...

[Franck]

20 minutes ago, myselfolli said:

 

Essentially most of the magic happens in the feature/motherboard_feature tables, where - well features - would be saved. Different versions of a feature (think USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0/different M2 lengths etc.) would be saved as different features.

You will need categories for the features. If you want to easily search for DDR4-3000 mhz then you need to create 1 feature by speed but you will want to list them on the same line. So a category or group is needed

USB is a good example you could have a category USBType and have example many features like :

USBType A 2.0

USBType A 3.0

USBType A 3.0

USBType C 3.0

 

So when you display the box you can figure with group by and counts that the board has a feature like so :

USB Types : A 2.0, A 3.0 (x2), C 3.0

[Radium_Angel]

24 minutes ago, myselfolli said:

It's obviously very rough around the edges, but it's a starting point I think...

It just occurred to me, and I hate that this is even a thing, but there perhaps should be some kind of voting, or comment section attached to the specs, so people can say "yes, that's correct" or "no, the board is not (whatever)" to mitigate those that would intentionally poison the dbase...

[myselfolli]

18 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

It just occurred to me, and I hate that this is even a thing, but there perhaps should be some kind of voting, or comment section attached to the specs, so people can say "yes, that's correct" or "no, the board is not (whatever)" to mitigate those that would intentionally poison the dbase...

Good point, yeah...

[myselfolli]

18 hours ago, Franck said:

You will need categories for the features. If you want to easily search for DDR4-3000 mhz then you need to create 1 feature by speed but you will want to list them on the same line. So a category or group is needed

USB is a good example you could have a category USBType and have example many features like :

USBType A 2.0

USBType A 3.0

USBType A 3.0

USBType C 3.0

 

So when you display the box you can figure with group by and counts that the board has a feature like so :

USB Types : A 2.0, A 3.0 (x2), C 3.0

The problem with that approach is deciding where to stop. You could of course introduce a 'speed' column in the feature list, but that's be useless for many other features.

 

My idea was just inserting every supported RAM speed as a new feature and every type of USB connector as a new one as well

[Radium_Angel]

2 hours ago, myselfolli said:

My idea was just inserting every supported RAM speed as a new feature and every type of USB connector as a new one as well

This is the better idea. When (not if, when) this takes off, we can add extra features later.

Also, I went looking, TMBDB (dot) net is available as a website (The MotherBoard DataBase)

[myselfolli]

9 hours ago, Radium_Angel said:

This is the better idea. When (not if, when) this takes off, we can add extra features later.

Also, I went looking, TMBDB (dot) net is available as a website (The MotherBoard DataBase)

Let's go fix that