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Zach Silveira
Dec 02, 2016
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Over the past few years, I've kept a short list of project ideas. Some of them I'll never have time to build. For this reason I'm going to share a few ideas today, and also a few domains that I'm willing to give away if you're interested in taking the idea.

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Browser Stalking

A JS snippet you embed on any site, installable through npm, that will track a user's mouse position and scroll position. This will allow you to simulate viewing a user's screen and watch them as the owner of the site. Add heat maps and other cool things. This does exist but the few products I've not seen it pulled off well. I've built something like this for a site at work. Including a live chat system that lets you see as the user types and even their cursor position in the text field, before they hit enter!

Inactivity Tracker

An inactivity app. Can be done in React Native. The basic idea is that you track the hours your phone is sitting still. It has one screen that shows how many hours you were sitting still n…

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