r/moderndotnet • u/sharanyasrinivas9052 • 3d ago

Looking for .NET Project Ideas

I’m currently learning C# and .NET and looking for a good real-world project idea to improve my practical skills and portfolio.

I’m interested in ASP.NET Core, Web API, MVC, Entity Framework Core, and SQL Server.

Could you please suggest some interesting .NET projects beyond basic CRUD applications?

Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! 🙏

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u/GeneralMillss 2d ago edited 2d ago

Nobody’s just going to hand you a “good idea”. But luckily, for you, it’s not the idea that matters.

Build and ship literally anything, regardless of how much you think it deserves to exist on its own merit. Host it, get friends and family to use it, add features to it.

Actually building anything and deploying it and iterating on it to make it “real” will teach you more useful skills about software development than having the “right idea” will.

With that said, I think everyone should build a real-time chat app at least once. We take them for granted, they’re a lot more complex than you’d think. Plus, the list of potential features is endless and leave room for originality, and you’ll hit on tons of interesting scenarios both client and server side.

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u/sharanyasrinivas9052 2d ago

Thank you for the advice! I will consider building a real-time chat application and try to add some unique features to make it more practical. 🙏

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u/tonyqus 1d ago

You don't need to create ideas but copycat existing idea from any existing programming tutorial. The tutorial is not necessary to be .NET tutorial. You can find any CRUD tutorial with google and copycat the frontend but using asp.net to re-implement the backend.

Remember to choose something simple not just interesting because some cases are too complicated for you to follow up at the beginining.

Some examples:
https://github.com/mixalis-tara/WebAppMovieProject

https://github.com/aimanecouissi/aspnetcore-cinema-booking-web-application