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Please give me software ideas?

by Edwin Torres
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Hi, I am a coder and need some inspiration for new desktop software to code.

Whats something tedious, or essential that you do everyday that you'd like made into a program?

Preferably suggestions on things mainly about SEO, or marketing? For example something related to making websites, content, backlinks, etc.

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author cloudbacklinks
    Create an image scraper, resizer, and uploader.
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  • Profile picture of the author Edwin Torres
    Anything SEO, or marketing related?
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    • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
      Originally Posted by kytro360 View Post

      Anything SEO, or marketing related?
      I would love to have an app or piece of desktop software that could store my keywords and check Google every 24 hours to see where they were. I'd want it to be 100% compliant with the Google Search API so as not to run into any trouble. I'd also like for it to be able to check the traffic from my server for each site without having to use Google Analytics.

      I don't think this would be too challenging, but I'm not enough of a programmer to have figured out how to do it on my own yet.

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      • Profile picture of the author JohnnyDeez
        It's not too complicated. You could definitely find someone to get this done for you. I'd say 1k - 3k to have a bang-up job done, less for something workable but not amazing.

        WhooshTraffic.com does something similar. By bosses use it and like it ok, but it's pretty expensive, and not always accurate (I have heard).

        Good luck!

        Originally Posted by JaRyCu View Post

        I would love to have an app or piece of desktop software that could store my keywords and check Google every 24 hours to see where they were. I'd want it to be 100% compliant with the Google Search API so as not to run into any trouble. I'd also like for it to be able to check the traffic from my server for each site without having to use Google Analytics.

        I don't think this would be too challenging, but I'm not enough of a programmer to have figured out how to do it on my own yet.

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  • Profile picture of the author JasonJason
    I'd think it would be great to have a piece of software that helps you manage your daily meals and nutrition. Maybe it could even be linked to a large recipe database that makes recommendations as to what to cook for dinner. This would work well for those wishing to better manage their diets to lose weight, or for those who have dietary restrictions. And we all know how HUGE the dieting and nutritional market is. That was just a wild idea that I'd thought about before and I wanted to pass it along. Best of luck in all that you do!
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    • Profile picture of the author minion
      Originally Posted by JasonJason View Post

      I'd think it would be great to have a piece of software that helps you manage your daily meals and nutrition. Maybe it could even be linked to a large recipe database that makes recommendations as to what to cook for dinner. This would work well for those wishing to better manage their diets to lose weight, or for those who have dietary restrictions. And we all know how HUGE the dieting and nutritional market is. That was just a wild idea that I'd thought about before and I wanted to pass it along. Best of luck in all that you do!
      I thought of creating something like this about 2 years ago. From memory, yummly was a great source of recipes + nutritional detail but they don't provide an API - which turned me away from it. I emailed asking them about an API and they told me they weren't planning one.. Something like Yummly that does provide the API could be a good starting point

      Edit: Should have checked first - API now available: http://developer.yummly.com/wiki
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  • Profile picture of the author adimaxjosh
    can you make something which gives daily reports in a person's mail box. i am working with a few people who are very curios about their site's performance but find it hectic to open the stat counter or google analytics
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  • Profile picture of the author carl preza
    amazon software is one
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  • Profile picture of the author carl preza
    software that gets traffic from pinterest is hot too..
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  • Profile picture of the author azurews
    I have to agree with JaRyCu. Being able to keep track of your rankings without having to turn it into a major event would be a huge time saver.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Errr I would love a piece of software that allowed YOU to do your product research anywhere else but the main discussion forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author Edwin Torres
    Thanks for the ideas, anyone else have some ideas as well? I am all ears
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  • Profile picture of the author Edwin Torres
    Anyone have any suggestions for things mainly about SEO, or marketing? For example something related to websites, or SEO, etc?
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesrich1
    JaRyCu that would be one heck of a program.
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    • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
      Originally Posted by jamesrich1 View Post

      JaRyCu that would be one heck of a program.
      I'd forgotten about this thread...kind of glad that the OP bumped it because, even though he's apparently not interested in taking any action with it, maybe someone else would be.

      It wouldn't be hard to do. You setup dummy HTML page so no one could get into your site. Then you create a compliant PHP script using an XML database and the Google API. The script pulls a url/kw combo from the database, calls Google to look for the combo, and then stores the result back in the file. Once it is done, it displays the results in a nifty little window and/or emails them to your inbox. You can setup a CRON job in your cPanel to run the script every 24 hours.

      I'm just not much of a programmer. If someone is interested in partnering with me on this, I could break it down even further and help you create the classes as long as you could write the code for it.

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      • Profile picture of the author tpw
        Originally Posted by JaRyCu View Post

        I'd forgotten about this thread...kind of glad that the OP bumped it because, even though he's apparently not interested in taking any action with it, maybe someone else would be.

        It wouldn't be hard to do. You setup dummy HTML page so no one could get into your site. Then you create a compliant PHP script using an XML database and the Google API. The script pulls a url/kw combo from the database, calls Google to look for the combo, and then stores the result back in the file. Once it is done, it displays the results in a nifty little window and/or emails them to your inbox. You can setup a CRON job in your cPanel to run the script every 24 hours.

        I'm just not much of a programmer. If someone is interested in partnering with me on this, I could break it down even further and help you create the classes as long as you could write the code for it.

        -- j

        The biggest problem with an app of this type is "personalized search".

        The results you would be getting would be skewed according to your previous search patterns.
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      • Profile picture of the author Edwin Torres
        Originally Posted by JaRyCu View Post

        I'd forgotten about this thread...kind of glad that the OP bumped it because, even though he's apparently not interested in taking any action with it, maybe someone else would be.

        It wouldn't be hard to do. You setup dummy HTML page so no one could get into your site. Then you create a compliant PHP script using an XML database and the Google API. The script pulls a url/kw combo from the database, calls Google to look for the combo, and then stores the result back in the file. Once it is done, it displays the results in a nifty little window and/or emails them to your inbox. You can setup a CRON job in your cPanel to run the script every 24 hours.

        I'm just not much of a programmer. If someone is interested in partnering with me on this, I could break it down even further and help you create the classes as long as you could write the code for it.

        -- j
        No offense you said so yourself you're not a coder so you dont know how difficult that would be. Also, Im not a PHP coder so even if I wanted to take action, I couldnt, sorry.

        No need to bold out that Im not taking action when you dont know the reasoning behind it.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnnyDeez
    As far as 'software ideas' go. Solve a problem man. Find something that people keep complaining about on the forum and create a solution with an application. You'll learn something, and maybe make some money.

    People don't know what they want. Asking probably isn't as effective as research. IMHO. But, I'm no software tycoon. Good luck with whatever you pursue! :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author HorseStall
    Why don't you try searching freelance forums and see what types of things of people are requesting and see if you can find any commonalities or solid ideas there.
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