Product Prompts

The following are prompts to fall back on if coming up with a product is difficult.

• Sysadmin environment mapper - Visualization tool that allows IT system administrators to generate maps of their managed systems and their shared or unique attributes.

  • Consider using React or other framework and working with SDSC engineers to built a system implemented live in the SDSC RDS environment.

• Trello checklist item effort estimations power-up - similar to card story points, adds another layer of granularity to effort tracking by adding effort estimates to checklist items on a card.

  • Power-up creation tutorial here: https://tech.trello.com/power-up-tutorial-part-one/

• GitHub code replication lookup - application that can be used to point at a specific GitHub repo and report how much of its code can be found in the set of all GitHub public repos.

  • Consider using React or other framework to get the web application started while in parallel indexing GitHub repo code retrieved and analyzed using scripts running on SDSC Cloud instances.

• Slack game master - integration used to start games with Slack users or channels.

  • Get started with Slack apps: https://api.slack.com/start

• Personal finance incremental game - instead of building a cookie empire, teach players about personal finance management with a focus on returns on educational investment, retirement plans, insurance, etc.

  • Consider using PHP and JavaScript for a simple web browser based game or Unity for deployment on more platforms and potentially better graphics.

• Build an SDSC RDS Services stack visualizer - Customer service tool that lets a user visualize how a stack of SDSC RDS services, like an SDSC Cloud instance with 200 TB of USS mounted on it and 360 TB of SDSC Cloud Storage available for archival storage, would look like when deciding how to make a purchase, and what it looks like after they purchase the stack of services.

  • Consider using React or other framework and working with SDSC engineers to built a system implemented live in the SDSC RDS environment.

• Writer and artist matching portal - allows writers and artists to post samples and match with each other, either by having artists post samples of what they envision the writer’s work looking like directly to a writer “Request for Artist” (RFA), or (less commonly) having writers post samples of what they think the story should be for an artist’s “Request for Writer” (RFW).