Are you frustrated coding dummy projects in order to learn Python? This article gives you 20 highly practical code projects that you can solve by yourself.
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My Finxter Email Academy email reader Jason struggles with the problem of finding practical code projects:
“I want to do “real-life projects,” but when I read them on Freelancer or Upwork I feel like don’t know where to even start.
I feel what would be beneficial for me is to have a list of projects that would resemble real-world “getting paid” projects that might be in some kind of order and would give me the skills and confidence and “the instinct” to get out there.
These projects would have no instruction, other than what you might get from someone hiring you. They would cover all of the skills that someone would need to at least get the foot in the door.”
As Jason points out: finding practical code projects is a common challenge of millions of Python learners.
That’s why I have crawled hundreds of archived Python freelancer projects (don’t ask how long I lost myself in this infinite corpus of Python projects) on the Freelancer platform.
Ultimately, I have found these 20 best projects to help you gain practical coding skills fast and make money in the process!
Each of these projects has actually earned money for a Python freelancer in 2023 or before.
You can use the dollar amount of the projects as a proxy for difficulty.
So roll up your sleeves, choose your dream project, and start learning Python now — in the most practical manner there is.
Projects 1-3: Beginner Python Freelancer ($20/h)
Skills: Python
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Let’s dive into some practical gigs I found on freelancing platforms for learning.
Project 4: Website with Flask and Python for Data Analysis ($200)
Learn more about this project here.
Project earnings: $200
Project description:
“The project consists of creating a page with the Flask framework in order to let the user analyze textual data.
The idea is to let the user upload their dataset (in format like CSV, TSV, etc.)
After that have some options to customize the upload (choosing the separator, header existing or not, strings are quoted or not, etc…).
Once the dataset is loaded the user can choose the type for each column (numerical data, strings, etc.).
After that, the user selects the columns containing the verbatims and click on an analyze button.
The data is then pushed to the backend where I’ll have python scripts to do text classification and other Machine learning models that I’ve developed.”
Tip: I would recommend that you simply assume that the analytics part is handled by the client. You can simply use any CSV data you can lay your hands on or create a small file yourself.
Skills: Bootstrap, Flask, Javascript, Python
Project 5: Need a Python Script ($20)
Learn more about this project here.
Project earnings: $20
Project description:
“I need a Python script to post questions to my website.“
Tip: Assume that the questions are already given in a text file and you have to read them line by line. Simply find a website to which you can freely post content (e.g. a collaborative writing service).
Skills: Python, Web Scraping
Project 6: Build a Program to Get Quotes in Real-Time From Other Websites ($200)
Learn more about this project here.
Project earnings: $200
Project description:
“I need a script/program that enters user data on other sites in real-time in order to get a quote.
Here is a use case:
A user is on my website looking for renter’s insurance and enters in their personal details.
Once they enter their personal details, this program/script enters those details on 5 other websites of insurance companies and pulls back the price quote from each.”
Tip: first find a few insurance comparison sites and learn how to access them via an API. Decide on the type of user input that is common to all sites (e.g. the age of the user). Now, write a script that takes the user input and asks all insurance comparison sites about a quote for the user.
Bonus: parallelize your script to access the insurance comparison sites concurrently with threading.
Skills: Python, Web Scraping
Project 7: Build an Application for a Website for Selecting a Security Camera ($500)
Learn more about this project here.
Project earnings: $500
Project description:
“Build an app that selected a security camera based on features the customer wants.
For example: Do you want night vision? Yes/No, Do you want Panning, Tilting, Zooming? Y/N
The customer will answer a series of questions and the app will suggest 1-2 cameras that best fit their needs.
Prefer to be coded in Python.“
Tip: Select the cameras first from Amazon. Then, write down different features of these cameras. Based on your data, come up with different questions. Now, write a Python script that iteratively restricts the set of user restrictions by asking the user one question after another.
Skills: Python, Web Scraping, Machine Learning
Project 8: Football (Soccer) Predictions Bot ($210)
Learn more about this project here.
Project earnings: $210
Project description:
“I am addressing this project to people who have already build such a bot and can show me results of their work.
What I am looking to receive is a bot that collects historical data from at least 2 sources and to be able to make predictions for today, tomorrow and this week regarding upcoming matches.
I want to have the ability to set the odds (1.1 to 1.5, >1.5 to 1.8, higher than 1.8) and the bet types (Double Chance, 1×2, Under / Over 1.5, Under / Over 2.5, Both Team Score).
I want to have the results sorted by the highest change of winning. I need to results displayed on a web page. I will provide a VPS that will host the project (if you can recommend a VPS provider that you have used for past projects – I will use it).
This is the first part of the project. After I test the accuracy of the predictions – I will decide if we move ahead into the next phase with more features.
Tip: you don’t need to host the project anywhere — just do it on your local PC. It’s all about making prediction of football games based on some data sets which you find online (e.g. the rankings of the teams playing against each other).
Project 9: Using Youtube API to Find Audience Demographics ($170)
Learn more about this project here.
Project earnings: $170
Project description:
“I’m quite a novice at this sort of stuff so ideally, I’d like to be able to find the audience demographics of a certain youtube channel and import onto a google sheet. Similar to what Tubular does.”
Tip: This project is about accessing the Youtube API to get statistics about Youtube channels. To increase the difficulty level a bit, you can let the user type in different Youtube channels and you output a sorted list of channels with respect to their size (number of subscribers).
Project 10: Build an Automatic Email Responder ($1,214)
Learn more about this project here.
Project earnings: $1214
Project description:
“We need something coded in Python 3 that will take emails sent to a certain email, read certain of pieces from that email and send out that data to another email.”
Tip: Crawl each email you receive for email addresses and website addresses. Then visit the websites and crawl them for email addresses, too. Send a reply email to all found email addresses with a pre-defined text. Use dummy email addresses — e.g. throwaway email addresses — to test your script.
Project 11: Web Scraper ($427)
Learn more about this project here.
Project earnings: $427
Project description:
“I need somebody to scrap a website for me: image, price, inventory, size, description. I want to import it to Shopify and I want it to be monitored so that when the prices or inventory changes in the original website I want it to automatically update in my website.”
Tip: Simply select a Shopify website to monitor. Then create a script with an infinite while loop which repeatedly pulls the content of the website, checks whether anything changes, and waits for a pre-defined time interval.
Project 12: A website for Financial Stock Market using Python ($347)
Learn more about this project here.
Project earnings: $347
Project description:
“Create a website using Python Django/Flask.
Data should be pulled into MySQL database everyday from Yahoo/Google finance.
The website should display graphs and users should be given options to search for stock prices.”
Tip: This is an interesting project. Implement it with a minimalists mindset: add only the requested features. Nothing more.
Project 13: Deep Deterministic Policy Gradients for Robotic Manipulations and Reinforcement Learning ($322)
Learn more about this project here.
Project earnings: $322
Project description:
“Input: Image [48×48] High dimensional data
Output: [x, y, z, g]
x,y,z are coordinates
g: 0 -180 degrees
Predict the output values using DDPG for an application
Reference: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.02971.pdf“
Tip: Fortunately, the client provides a link to the research paper. Read the paper and all the background you need to be able to implement this project. This is very advanced but if you manage to solve this project, you know that you are a machine learning master!
Skills: Data Science, Machine Learning, Python
Project 14: Write Blog Articles for Finxter ($25/article)
Project earnings: $25 per article
Project description:
Every Python Freelancer Course student can get their first couple of Upwork gigs working for Finxter to gain experience, learn about a specific Python topic, help the community, and earn some money.
The article usually has 1000 words and addresses a specific Python question. It must be submitted via GDocs.
Tip: Join the freelancer course to learn how to become a successful Python freelancer.
Skills: Basic English writing and the willingness to learn
Project 15: Automate the Boring Gigs with Python ($20/click)
You can replace simple manual labor with a Python script. In this gig, a freelancer automated the conversion from PDF bank statements to CSV files. It’s a simple gig but it’ll earn $20 just to run the script that must be written once and can be reused thousands of times.
You can join the freelancer course here.
Project 16: Python Django Freelancer ($500)
Django is a sought-after skill on freelancing platforms such as Upwork. This freelancer earns between $150 and $500 per basic Django website:
Project 17: Setting Up Google Analytics on Upwork ($200)
Coders have a unique skill set. Doing some simple tasks like including a JavaScript code in a website can be very lucrative—but still helpful to non-techie clients:
Project 18: NFT Marketplace Forks | Blockchain Development | Smart Contracts ($4,999)
Blockchains are on the rise! This is visible on Upwork as well where some freelancers earn almost $5k for a gig that can be completed in a week or so by a Blockchain engineer:
Project 19: Freelance Cloud Consultant ($50/h)
Consulting is just a more glamorous term for Freelancing.
Often it’s a great idea to reposition yourself as a consultant to charge higher hourly rates. This freelancer earns $50-$100 per hour as a cloud consultant:
Project 20: Website Testing Freelancer ($300/day)
Website testers perform valuable work for clients running their own websites. That’s why clients hire them often.
With a couple of testing scripts (maybe written in Python?) you can set yourself up for high earnings easily:
If you think freelancing is for you, consider joining the Python freelancer course.
Where to Go From Here?
These projects are just the beginning. If you need more projects and ideas, read on!
Becoming a Python freelancer is a very interesting possibility to earn money nowadays. You can earn money on the side or full-time. And the hourly rate in the US is more than $61. An average freelancer earns more than a University professor!
To help you get started, I have created the Python freelancer course which is designed to pay for itself after a few days of practical coding. After completing the freelancer course, you will have acquired a new high-income skill Python development.
Starting my first project today. Thanks for ideas.
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