Project ideas
Feel free to use any of the ideas here and start a project by yourself.
| IDEA SHORT DESCRIPTION | DATE | PURPOSE |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate to validate AP origin In order to prevent endpoints connecting to some provider which you don’t want to, you could validate the certificate issuer to see if it’s in a list of allowed providers | 2025 | The goal is to prevent man in the middle attacks. A good attack vector is to go with your own AP to the subway and let people connect to your AP so you can snoop on their traffic, but if you, as an endpoint could validate the AP somehow, you could diminish this risk |
| Petition to force Portuguese ISP providers to give the option of only getting a Modem. Whenever you make a contract to supply internet to your house you are forced to get a device that works as both a modem and a router, you can never get them separated and this costs you money, your privacy and freedom of choice | 2025 | Fight against monopolization of ISP services in Portugal and allow more |
| Create template website to track election promises. It’s hard to keep track of what’s done in politics, having a go to place contrast political promises with actual results, with the functionality to validate individual and political party’s records | 2025 | A service like this would dramatically improve knowledge sharing, accountability and transparency |
| Implement Pol.is on top of citizen participation platform. It can be really hard to retrieve valuable information from stupidly large amounts of opinion data, so services like LLMs and Pol.is could be really valuable to retrieve actionable data from | 2025 | Boost civic and political participation with added value from retrieved collective feelings and trends |
| Public Ledger for Digital Creations: A Git and blockchain-inspired system to track original creations and provide an alternative to traditional copyright and patents. Creators would receive a percentage of revenue from downstream products, similar to how GitHub compensates library maintainers. | 2025 | Copyright and patent systems are outdated for the digital and globalized age. This initiative seeks a modern alternative that ensures fair compensation and proper acknowledgment for original creators. |
| Git Credential Leak Prevention: A pre-receive Git hook service that automatically scans for and prevents the push of credentials to remote branches, enhancing security without relying solely on developer vigilance. | 2025 | Proactive DevSecOps. |
| Hypermodern Python Project Template: A Python project template integrating best practices and tools like UV, Bandit, pre-commit hooks, MyPy, and Ruff. | 2025 | Cookiecutter template |
| Implement digital platform for citizen participation. There are platforms like Decidim and Consul and even DemocracyOS that allow better civic participation through digital means, and can deeply enrich local politics as well as state and national level politics, I would like to help create more deployments of these services for different cities | 2024 | Boost civic and political participation. |
| Political Social Media Archiver: A service to automatically index, store, and provide search capabilities for posts from political figures across various social media platforms. | 2024 | Enhances transparency and accountability for public discourse. While platform data is already “stored for life,” this service would enable wide-ranging search and long-term data access for citizens and journalists. |
| Multi-Provider Git History Duplication: A service ensuring redundant Git history across multiple Git providers. | 2024 | Increases reliability and provides essential backups, safeguarding against provider failures or user or team’s work. |
| Political Event Aggregator: A shared calendar platform allowing individuals and organizations to upload political events, providing users with automatic updates which can be filtered depending on location, area of interest and type of event. | 2024 | Boost civic and political participation. |
| Public Contract Anomaly Detection: A service that analyzes public contract data, identifying potentially suspicious activities based on various metrics, and visualizes spending patterns through data graphs. | 2023 | Enforces governmental transparency and improves data communication for better oversight. |
| Vacant Property Reporting App (Portugal): A mobile application enabling users to flag vacant buildings in Portugal. This aims to bridge the knowledge gap in government real estate ownership, facilitating the repurposing of these properties for public housing. | 2023 | The Portuguese government lacks comprehensive data on its real estate holdings; tracking often falls to under-resourced city councils. This initiative fosters civic participation and decentralization to gain a clearer picture, ultimately aiming to increase public housing availability from the current disgustingly low 2%. The idea came from fixmystreet |
| Parliamentary Activity Tracker: An easy to use platform to transparently showcase individual and party voting records, as well as attendance, for Parliament and related activities. | 2023 | Enforces governmental transparency and ensures better data communication to the public. |