5 Side Project Ideas for Web Developers

Maybe you can make your side project a real business.

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Learning something new just by theory is useless if you don’t put it into practice. That’s especially true in a field like programming. So, having a side project to practice is necessary if you want to master the thing you are learning.

And maybe you can make your side project a real business. Who knows? ProductHunt, Twitter, GitHub, etc. are built that way. Let’s build yours.

So, without any further ado, below are 5 side project ideas for web developers:

Budget Tracker

A monthly budget tracker web app is not so hard to build for a beginner. But you shouldn’t take it for granted just because it’s a simple app. I mean everyone needs to track their daily expenses. Yes, there’s a demand.

The basic features you’re going to create are nothing special. Users need to define their monthly budget goals. When a user inputs the amount of the money they spend, it will be saved on a server.

To extend it to the next level, you can build a dashboard for management. In the dashboard, users can see finance reports, import and export data, etc. And when users spend over the monthly budget goal, there will be a notification to warn them.