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I’m a 4th-year B.Tech student, and we have to do a major project in a group. We’ve been struggling to find a project idea that actually feels worth spending 6+ months on.

I don’t want to build just another basic CRUD app or something that exists only for the sake of a college project. I’d like to build a software project that solves a genuine real-world problem, even if the problem itself is small.

If you’ve worked on something like this, have a project idea in mind, or know any interesting GitHub/open-source projects that could be expanded into a major project, I’d really appreciate your suggestions.

Looking for something with enough scope for a group to work on for 6+ months.

My company wants to do a tech exchange with Google for a small group of developers. The plan is to present an overview of Google AI capabilities, and provide resources (training, developer docs, support) so they can develop an MVP based on solution that could potentially be further developed for our clients.

I’m trying to come up with use cases for the tech exchange. I’ve have identified the domains (modernization, migration, AI development) and aligned it to Google’s tools like Gemini, LLM, BigQuery, etc. However, our business leads are worried my use cases are too specific and we won’t have the time or capacity to develop it during the tech exchange (7 weeks with 4-6 hours a week dedicated for this).

Does anyone have any resources or recommendations on how I can go about with this? Anyone with experience developing use cases for tech exchanges or hackathons?

I am Mohammed "nick name: Duke" in Batna "where i live" ,and i have created a team of developers from Algeria - Egpyt - Morroco ,i do know that theres too many Competitors in this field,i am working on multiple projects from client and for the team ,and the website
and i want to get some cool ideas to make "will be open source " so i can put them on the website
and i any bad thoughts in my website so i can emprove it.
Website : https://vyre-dev.web.app/

I need to know which one would you prefer if u have that choice java (springboot)backend vs go backend what i should learn if I want to see me as an future backend engineer .

I see advice on the internet about using AI and knowing how to use AI in the workflow to accelerate the process of building projects.

Should I stop learning the fundamentals or watching 5-hour tutorials? For instance, I don't know React, but should I just use AI to make projects that require React? I won't know what it's doing and won't understand the React code. Even if I ask AI to explain it, it's difficult since I'll know it conceptually, and I won't be able to do the same thing by myself from scratch + easy to forget or is this mindset of "needing to understand code and be able to explain it line by line" outdated now? Is it more like understanding conceptually (higher order) and building things even if you don't know any single gritty detail of it?

I'm always getting different answers from people, and I feel lost. Some tell me to watch tutorials and build small things by myself (using AI only for asking questions) and then jump into larger-scale projects (which would take some time). Some tell me to just jump straight into projects with AI and then break it down into chunks and learn the necessary content for each part.

But I also see people building high-quality projects in a short time period, and I ask myself how they do it. Do they learn the fundamentals for the entire tech stack, or do they just learn the front end to make it look good and have AI handle the backend?

I have a lot of project ideas, but I'm lost on how to start.

One project requires me to learn React, PostgreSQL, Next.js, Figma design, etc. I don't know React or Next.js, and I know only PostgreSQL at a beginner level. Should I start by going into Odin Project and learning the fundamentals like HTML, CSS, JS, React and then start the project?

Please help me out with this. I feel lost