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I always just write another dice roller, or a Magic: The Gathering life tracker.
The world will never have enough of either of those. /s
Joking aside, make something you have some use for. Yes, your version will be inferior to better projects that already exist. But it will be yours, and you'll learn a ton by using it and building it and using it and rebuilding it.
And when you abandon it, you'll still have the experience you gained, and some code you know really well, that you can talk about.
As a hiring manager, I just want to read some of your code.
Your code doesn't have to impress me, to get hired. Frankly, it's quite unlikely to.
If I'm hiring for a junior role, I need to get a sense of where you are in your learning journey. Reading some of your code, and talking with you about it, helps with that.