When I started off in college, I noticed lots of things that I wanted to automate with Python. I wrote and deployed a server to take care of some tasks, and these are a few of my favorite features.
My first problem was laundry. There are five floors in my building, but only four washers and four dryers. Machines were chronically unavailable, but interestingly you can check their availability online. My first endpoint on the server did some webscraping on the laundry website and returned some JSON data with the laundry status. I then integrated this into an app on my Google Home, Apple Watch, and iPhone. The laundry-related functions can be seen on laundry.py
Everyone has song requests, so the next thing I did was integrate Spotify. This involved a couple of endpoints and lots of functions to handle OAuth. In the end, I had a QR code up on my dresser that people could scan to take them to jukebox.html, which would then send requests to my server. The Spotify functions are available on GitHub.