I’ve been stuck in this mindset where I can’t think of any good website ideas, or game ideas, or anything really. I want to get out of this mindset by thinking, “What should I make?”, or “What do I need to make?”.
I still follow peoples advice on “go take a walk and think about it for a bit” and “you’ll get one soon” and things like that. Those don’t seem to work.
All I need is advice on how I can make myself come up with ideas for projects that would let me do something with my free time. Any help would be appreciated!
My personal advice would be to find an open-source software you can contribute to. While building from scratch is fun it’s difficult to maintain and harder to find inspiration. You also miss out on collaboration and community, which are very important, in my opinion
But if you really want to make something yourself then I’d say be patent and wait for a problem to arise. Practice thinking about solutions to problems you could solve yourself. For example, my friend once complained that Apex Legends doesn’t have a random button, so I made him a website to randomize a character. I didn’t sit down and think about all the domains I know, I came across the problem naturally and was just aware that I could “fix” it