Thread by @oliverjumpertz

I wanted to quickly share my perspective as an interviewer when it comes to portfolio projects.

I see many people thinking way too long about what to build, which quickly becomes an issue for them.

They spend way longer thinking than actually building.

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I'd rather see the same ToDo app over and over again, well-executed with everything I'd like such a project to have, than twenty exotic apps that you could well have started your own company with.

I don't know whether I'm a minority here, but as a developer, you are not ...

...a product designer. Your day job won't be to come up with new ideas. It's, of course, highly appreciated if you supply your ideas for the product we might be working on, but never mandatory.

So, what I try to say is: Spend more time executing and building.

Get your projects right with everything that's usually needed, like

🔷 Unit Tests
🔷 E2E Tests
🔷 CI/CD
🔷 Deployment
🔷 Auth
🔷 Documentation

and spend less time coming up with project ideas.

And that's it. That's what I wanted to say. Thank you for reading! 💛🙏🏻