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Re:Ask HN: What are some challenging web apps I can build? by bobwaycott on Monday May 02, 2016 @08:55PM (#11617045)
- human v cpu rock, paper, scissors (bonus round: real-time human v human)

- human v cpu tic tac toe (bonus round: real-time human v human)

- human v cpu battleship (bonus round: real-time human v human)

- Wordpress clone

- IRC clone

- E-commerce site (focus on the product catalog and shopping cart, with a checkout process that doesn't really have a payment integration, and a history of orders)

- A dashboard that provides visualization of data sets

- Twitter clone

- Facebook clone (basically, take your Twitter clone, remove the character limit, add in some comment and group functionality, and add your IRC clone into the mix)

- Expand Twitter/FB clones with tweaks that let you manipulate how the timeline is displayed to a logged-in user

Look at anything you've used, played, tried that you feel you understand how it works. Then build it.

Re:Ask HN: What are some challenging web apps I can build? by codegeek on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @11:29AM (#11621493)
"checkout process that doesn't really have a payment integration"

What do you mean by that ?

Re:Ask HN: What are some challenging web apps I can build? by bobwaycott on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @12:08PM (#11621870)
Don't bother adding a real payment processor like Stripe. OP said for learning. Tackle that later.