I d like to learn how to build a website, say using .Net (Monorail comes to mind). I d like a pet project, something that:
Any ideas, stackoverflow?
Have you considered offering your time to a local non-profit organization? You might review their existing mission, website, and other materials and approach them with an idea for something helpful that you could develop for free.
I find that if a project is "real" I ll put more effort into it than into a "toy" project on the side.
Hasn t been done to death already (e.g. ... writing a blog engine is not what I d consider as interesting, although it s technically challenging - it s been done to death and there are so many ready blog platforms today)
If this is just a learning exercise, why do you care if its been done to death? More than that, it seems like a blog platform involves a lot of the fundamental skills you d need to learn anyway to get up to speed on ASP.NET.
You could also try writing a:
messageboard
web-based source-control system.
wiki engine
SO clone
Music/movie management system
Input two celebrities A and A , output a list of movies where A appears B, B appears with C, C appears with D, D appears with A . See also: Kevin Bacon.
Start your own internet phenomenon. Lolcats, FML, NotAlwaysRight, GraphJam, Passive Agressive Notes, FSTDT, FailBlog, Sh*t Bricks, Keyboard Cat, and JapanWTF have already been done. Find a meme and run with it.
Searchable online taxonomy of species
Decentralized usernames (OpenID), avatars (Gravatar), status updates (Twitter), and currently playing music (Last.fm) have already been done. I predict the next big social network phenomenon will extend the phenomenon by decentralizing another staple of social-networking sites, probably a "current mood" or "signature" that follows you from site to site.
photo gallery engine
a website where people post great ideas for a website.
I d say my answer would be the same as the one I gave to this previous SO question (albeit substitute .Net for PHP).
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