# Project Ideas

A curated list of challenging, project ideas I would like to build.

### 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)

### 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.

### 3.1 WASI runtime

- **Status:** `Not Started`
- **Concept:** A WASI runtime for WASM functions.
- **Challenge:** Parsing a WASM module, and executing it in a WASI runtime.

### 4. Animated fetch script

- **Status:** `Not Started`
- **Concept:** A terminal fetch script that displays some sort of animation, be
  it just a random moving thing, or like a game of snake.
- **Challenge:** Creating complex interaction with a terminal.