best coding project to get 100k+ users

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The video identifies a common pain point (manually scheduling meetings) and offers a clear, actionable solution (an automated calendar-to-text tool). The creator also leverages their own success in gaining users for similar projects, creating intrigue and a reason to follow.

Summary

The creator proposes a coding project idea: a tool that automatically converts calendar availability into a concise text format for emails or other platforms. They suggest this could be a Chrome extension that integrates with email and LinkedIn, solving a common pain point.

Structure

1Introduce the problem: need for a coding project that gets users
2Propose the idea: calendar availability to text converter
3Explain the manual process it solves
4Describe the automated solution and its potential implementation
5Discuss marketability and potential user acquisition
6Tease a future video about project success

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best coding project to get 100k+ users

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the best coding project idea that'll actually get hundreds of thousands of users a tool that turns your calendar availability into text you know how when you're setting up a meeting the other person might send you like please shoot me sometimes are you free this week and then I look at my calendar and I manually type in Monday I'm free 3-6 and so on and so forth if that process should be automatic you should automatically list the times that I'm available in a concise email form I'd definitely use that it could probably be like a Chrome extension and integrate with your email LinkedIn or any platform where you might set up meetings maybe it does exist I haven't heard of one but if you build it people who don't know about the existing solution might use it as long as you market it correctly so someone watching this should build it connect to my Google Calendar I press a button to auto format my calendar availability into a text format in my email or LinkedIn or whatever I'll also make a video about how I got 3 of my side projects to get over 100,000 users I think it's pretty easy to get bunch of users if you build a good product and something that people want after that it's literally marketing and I spent $0 to get 200k on all 3 projects so follow me if you wanna see that video