You could try making something like BuiltWith https://builtwith.com/ycombinator.com. They have a fairly simple front-end(nothing happening in real-time) and you could offer stats about the top 10K Alexa websites, which makes a project look better than having some dummy data, I think.
I also remember about a side project that involves by crawling HN and displaying the most mentioned books in the comments. I think the author was making a bit of money by having a link to Amazon for each book(and using an affiliate code). You could do something similar but for popular Wikipedia articles for example. Or you could use Reddit as a source and instead of searching for popular books to search for sneakers or music.
Of course, I don't know if these ideas are too simple or too complicated, interesting or not for you and the person who will give you a grade.
I also remember about a side project that involves by crawling HN and displaying the most mentioned books in the comments. I think the author was making a bit of money by having a link to Amazon for each book(and using an affiliate code). You could do something similar but for popular Wikipedia articles for example. Or you could use Reddit as a source and instead of searching for popular books to search for sneakers or music.
Of course, I don't know if these ideas are too simple or too complicated, interesting or not for you and the person who will give you a grade.