!rant
How do you find inspiration for hobby projects? I'd really love to do more programming in my spare time. My head is empty for ideas and hungry for problems to solve.

@aaxa If you're looking for problems to solve, there's plenty to do for non-profits if don't mind working gratis.

Look for these organizations on Catchafire, but don't go through the 'vetting' process. Instead, look up the decision maker, find an email address and email that person directly to skip the red tape.

Approach them as you would a prospective employer.

Be prepared for a semi formal interview, and you should be able to help the people who need it.

You can make me a tool to test the download speed and get file sizes for a website. I know they already exist but I want something that will give me stat's on each page, just by putting in the home url.

What kind of project do you think about? Web, App, Desktop?

@marvvvv Web or desktop is preferred. I'm not into the whole app development world yet

@biscuit Actually sounds interesting. What kind of stats?

@aaxa ideally, page load times and size, individual files load times and size.
Pretty much what you get from looking at re chrome dev tools network timeline.
The real difference would be ability to just put in home url and have it scan the whole site. Kinda like a site map creator and network dev tools mash up.
Oh and some way to time the requests so as not to overload the clients server.

@biscuit That's actually a pretty interesting project. I'll keep you updated when I feel like it's ready for use :D

@aaxa excellent, thanks mate. Will be a very happy beta tester :-D

@biscuit Btw, Are you imagining a desktop app?

@aaxa yes desktop would be preferable. Was thinking about it more and maybe some way to export to CSV?
I show my clients comparisons of before and after, so they can see where their money went.

@biscuit Cool. I'll keep that in mind :)

@biscuit Another question. Which OS? :) I can do pretty much anything in Java but if you're on Windows I'm considering building it in C# :)

@aaxa ah yes, good question... I'm on windows