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Personal Budget Analyzer
Turn a month of raw expenses into a full spending report with category totals, percentages and a text bar chart — the same analysis every budgeting app performs.
Build it →Password Strength Auditor
Build the password checker every signup form runs: length rules, character variety, a scoring engine, and a batch audit that flags weak passwords.
Build it →To-Do Manager with File Persistence
A real CRUD app in miniature: add and complete tasks, persist them to disk so nothing is lost on restart, and report progress — the heart of Todoist, Trello and every task app.
Build it →Sales Report Generator
From raw CSV export to an executive report: parse sales data, compute revenue by product and month, find the winners, and generate the summary a manager actually reads.
Build it →Webhook Event Processor
Build what Stripe and PayPal integrations run in production: receive a batch of JSON events, validate them, compute per-user balances, and answer with a proper API response.
Build it →Server Log Analyzer
Turn a raw access log into the report an on-call engineer actually reads: request volume, error rate, per-endpoint traffic and p95 latency — the same four numbers every observability dashboard leads with.
Build it →Mini Search Engine
Build the machinery behind every search box: an inverted index, boolean matching, and TF-IDF ranking that puts the most relevant document first — the core of Elasticsearch in about forty lines.
Build it →LRU Cache & Rate Limiter
Two pieces of infrastructure every backend runs: a least-recently-used cache that evicts cold keys under a memory ceiling, and a token-bucket rate limiter that decides who gets a 429.
Build it →Recommendation Engine
Build collaborative filtering from scratch — the algorithm behind 'customers also bought' and your Netflix row — using cosine similarity to find your taste-twins and recommend what they loved that you haven't seen.
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