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Many developers, including myself, have one problem when it comes to personal projects: what should I build? Most of the time, I start building something only to drop it a few weeks or even days later, simply because I don't feel it would be useful to anyone. That's when an idea came to me: I will create a tool that helps people like me. You just add an idea and let people vote on whether they would use it, then you check the results. You may ask, why build that instead of using any poll website? I want to make it more useful—statistics, popularity charts, and even project update notifications for voters—everything you need to know to see if what you are working on makes sense.

Recently, I started learning Rust to become more versatile. I read The Book and wanted to build something to gain more skill. I also found a cool video on YouTube with great project ideas for learning — a text editor, a 2D game, a mini OS, a spreadsheet, and a compiler/interpreter. I picked the last one because I also know of a great book, Writing an Interpreter in Go by Thorsten Ball. I don't know Go at all, and I'm not very proficient in Rust yet, but the idea of learning by building and translating examples from Go to Rust clicked with me. Right now, I'm finishing the parser chapter and can't wait to go further.