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Building square wheels to better appreciate the round ones. -Sphaerophoria

Making a clone of an app is a very popular thing to do, especially for youtube content. Often times these clones are of popular social media apps e.g. an instagram clone, or a discord clone. However, something way more impactful is going to be learning how to make a clone of a tool that you use to make these apps. e.g. making a text editor, making a database, making git, or hell making an OS. This is what @Sphaerophoria likes to do on his channel.

  • Making a video editor
  • a QR code decoder
  • Zlib
  • Git Gui
  • TV Tracker
  • Linux webcam driver
  • A terminal
  • A File system
  • Image to text Neural network
  • An Operating system
  • “Stream Stimulator” in a game engine

All of these are non-trival and not something you can/should make with web technology.