Creating applications as a hobby is one of the best ways to hone your development skills. We will examine one of those applications, WhatAreTheOdds, that was fun to make.

WhatAreTheOdds is a lotto application that tries to give you the best lottery numbers based on how much money you want to spend. The goal is to get as many winning tickets as possible.

WhatAreTheOdds was a fun application to write built using Visual Studio, .NET, MAUI, and Azure. We will learn the skills and patterns learned along the way when building this application from scratch. We will see the challenges with creating cross platform features, building community features, reducing costs in Azure, and ensuring performance and scalability.

Best of all, we will tell you how to get started building applications for fun.