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+# Project Ideas
+
+A curated list of challenging, systems-level project ideas I plan to build.
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+### 1. ORC Protocol Implementation
+- **Status:** `Not Started`
+- **Concept:** A lightweight server and client for the [ORC Protocol](https://github.com/RickCarlino/orc-protocol/tree/main)
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+### 2. Smart Cache API Gateway
+- **Status:** `Not Started`
+- **Concept:** A standalone, intelligent caching layer. It would act as a gateway that uses a declarative configuration (e.g., YAML) to define complex caching and invalidation rules based on API routes, request headers, and data dependencies.
+
+### 3. WASM based serverless platform
+- **Status:** `Not Started`
+- **Concept:** A distributed, self-hosted serverless platform using WebAssembly for its core runtime.
+- **Components:**
+  - **Control Plane:** Manages function deployments and schedules invocations.
+  - **Worker Nodes:** Execute functions in a secure, sandboxed WASM runtime.
+  - **CLI Tool:** For deploying and managing functions.
+- **Challenge:** Building a distributed system, leveraging WASM for fast/secure cold starts, and designing the custom protocols for node communication.
+