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I'm a master's degree graduate and working for around 3-4 years in different positions, mostly consulting, engineering and some devops (so very mixed). Actually
by spcial 8y ago
I'm a master's degree graduate and working for around 3-4 years in different positions, mostly consulting, engineering and some devops (so very mixed). Actually there wasn't one project which was really inspirational (but I hope at least that is due to the lack of experience and only working for a few years)
Nevertheless the most inspiring project was a private project which I did with a friend some years ago. We thought about an Android App where people could post incidents (like terror attacks, fights or whatever) on an app and all the people around get a push notification as well as could see on a heatmap which areas have a high density of crimes. This was at a time where the "refugee crisis" started and there was a public attention in terms of terror attacks etc.
If you are interested, you can look at it here:
* https://www.riskahead.net/ https://www.riskahead.net/
or directly on the google app store:
* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.deke.risk.riskahead https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.deke.risk....
The project was not succesful but I learned A LOT. It was my first android app so I did not only learn to build an App from scratch on Android but also
* Setting and maintaining a web-server with own hosted e-mail server
* Implementing a rest-api with PHP and SLIM-framework
* Running Apache and a MySQL-Server
* Hosting and creating a web-site with WordPress, doing some SEO
* Little bit or marketing (while not very succesful)
* tons of more lessons learned
I finsihed my work, went home and started programming. Had a high workloard for around half a year but it was very inspirational and I learned a lot. Probably because I normally focus on a specific topic @work but for this project I had to do everything on my own (in terms of technical development and maintainance).
Would definetely do it again. But no good idea so far :-)