v/programming: An idea for a techie who has way too much time on their hands...

An idea for a techie who has way too much time on their hands...

3 16 May 2018 02:13 by u/altaccounttwo

A site where people can enter a couple political cantidates' names and the site will do a query on the names listed before returning something showing what each cantidate supports/opposes. This can be kept to, say, hot topics, most relevant, etc. Heck, make a checkbox field where users can select particular fields such as "constitutional rights" or "has connections to satanic baby penis rituals"

31 comments

0 u/RugerLCP_2 16 May 2018 02:17

was thinking to make this too. it could actually make a lot of money.

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 16 May 2018 02:27

That is what I was thinking. It isn't an original enough idea to try patenting and I have no idea how to do it aside from hiring a couple programming people but hell, a phone app, charge for ads if you wanna profit even more, etc. The phone app was my idea though I think I am going to delete that part before hitting se

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 16 May 2018 02:30

OMG wait yes you are right. and no money would be coming from "lobbying interests" either. damn! who wants to make a fat buck? You may have an accident after forgetting you left your revolver in the oven but hey

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 16 May 2018 02:32

I accept all cryptocurrencies or shoutouts if you hit it big. I'll be under my bridge

0 u/WhiteRonin 16 May 2018 02:20

Fix voat ;-)

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 16 May 2018 02:24

No my idea not yours! Way to one-up me asshole

0 u/WhiteRonin 16 May 2018 08:27

Well, I thought you wanted ideas to do with your free time ;-)

As for your idea, I bet word press has a plugin to generate a database of candidates.

You could do something simple like have 10-20 fundamental concerns and then rate the candidate in 1-10 scale on their support of that idea or just a simple yes/no response.

Hell, you could go NPO and email each candidate a survey and then have them fill it out too. Or have them fill it out on your site.

Starting local would be a good idea.

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 20 May 2018 00:47

Not a bad idea on sending candidates surveys. That would streamline an app or website if they have a set questionaire.

0 u/WhiteRonin 20 May 2018 01:12

I would do a scale and let them circle how strongly the feel about it and then give them a content area to let them fill in their opinion.

Statistics is infamous for being able to prove a point by simple yes/no or even rating levels because of how questions can be worded. By giving them an area to fill to explain or argue against the question makes it much fairer.

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 20 May 2018 01:14

Absolutely. If this turns into a fortune, I will do my best to make sure you are compensated.

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 20 May 2018 01:15

Hopefully future me doesn't dox younger me

0 u/WhiteRonin 20 May 2018 01:32

Can you program? Throwing a site like this together isn’t tough.

Future you will just tell you to buy yahoo stocks and when To sell ;-)

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 20 May 2018 01:35

So you're from the future? Do we get a Trump 2024?

0 u/WhiteRonin 20 May 2018 01:51

Yep!

The next President after him could be a problem. I worry about who will succeed Trump.

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 20 May 2018 01:54

Just hope we don't see a single dem say "muh legacy" ever. As well as our children, and our children's children's children's children's...

0 u/WhiteRonin 20 May 2018 02:27

I hope that they don’t either.

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 20 May 2018 01:36

I have been toying with the idea for a while though. What language(s) should I look into first?

0 u/WhiteRonin 20 May 2018 01:56

Age old debate. PHP has lots of easy to access sources and everybody can help. Not the best language but look at what you are building. Do you want to be a programmer though? If so, .net (voat code base) and java make money. Java script / node js has a decent future too. Other languages are obviously good but much harder to find work.

Honestly, if you don’t want to spend a year learning to program I would look for other ways to build this like teaming up with somebody.

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 20 May 2018 02:04

The only reason I didn't go into tech is because I didn't want to be like a certain person. As I grow older, however... I have heard java is good as well but I haven't heard of node or js. This type of site or app could be done with a simple language I am sure but I would prefer to learn a language that I could also use to make animations or the like.

Edited for auto"corrections"

0 u/WhiteRonin 20 May 2018 02:29

Nodejs is the hispter language.

If you want animations then you should look into unity & C+ or Swift.

The site idea is easily done in Ruby or PhP.

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 20 May 2018 02:40

I have heard good things about ruby as well. C+ would be out of my league given I have no programming experience.

0 u/WhiteRonin 20 May 2018 03:02

Ruby is getting stale. PHP is closing the gap fast and many php programmers who went to ruby have come back to php. Ruby and python are solid. Python is good for various types of programming - raspberry pi is a simple and good example of this.

Game graphic programming is C variants. C kills in speed. C is king in many ways.

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 20 May 2018 03:03

How long would you say one would need to study c to become decent at it?

0 u/WhiteRonin 20 May 2018 05:32

How dedicated and how much time do you have?

Decent is hard to value. Making simple stuff probably would take a few months. Sure you can do tutorials and get something together within a month. But C is vast as the ocean.

3-4 hours a day of real study and I’d say 6 months you could be putting together a game like flappy birds. Maybe up to a year. But once you get going it does get easier but you start to realize there is a lot to learn. If you can make flappy birds you probably could land a job as a jr developer. 3-5 years you will start making money. 5-8 years you get close to sr pay grade and that’s where the money is. I knew a guy who read the code for Mozilla for giggles and found bugs all over the place. He worked part time and lived well enough to party a lot and still had cash to burn.

What do you really want to do?

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 20 May 2018 05:48

Right on, I'll give it some thought. Any free online sites come to mind?

0 u/WhiteRonin 20 May 2018 06:01

C isn’t my area.

iTunes university might be a good place.

0 u/vastrightwing 16 May 2018 02:24

I was thinking about a database that linked people using big data to their corporate

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 16 May 2018 02:46

The govt already does that though, it's called the NSA. Maybe if they got involved and made the app?

0 u/The_Venerable 16 May 2018 02:24

This is easy to do. Make a wiki.

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 16 May 2018 02:42

Not sure I understand completely but you did give me an idea. I want an app or website that you can type opposing cantidates into and it pulls up where they stand on what policies you are interested in by doing a search on common websites for you

0 u/altaccounttwo [OP] 16 May 2018 02:43

Off to work!