14 by biscottigelato | 12 comments on Hacker News.
To my naivety, I spent almost 2 years building my own projects. First was a food social mobile platform. Think IG Story x Yelp. Took me a year to build from concept, design, coding, marketing, etc. I would say it's a good portion of Snap’s mobile app interface, built out by 1.5 developers (1 being me). Then did a Bitcoin LN Wallet, from concept, design to code, took only 2 months. I am quite proud of both, even tho they were anything but commercial successes. With funds running low, I spent the past 3 months looking for employment. Hoping these polished project will shine me in good light. Was I completely wrong. Nobody cares. Being a bootstrap developer I admit I am not the most academic when it comes to the projects. I was from an EE background from school, and was in embedded Firmware for almost a decade. I didn't know creating a 3rd table to track Reputation/Likes between a user and a Story is a database concept called 'Joint Table'. I have no idea that creating an equation to decay reputation inputs is called 'Freshness'. I’ve done hundreds of things in the year. I can barely remember half them, let alone with precise terminology in a time constraint settings. One thing I can show is everything is open sourced on Github. If point questions are asked about my demo, I can reference my code and explain everything. It seems like in today's world, nobody cares about experiences or what real product you have launched. It’s all about algorithmic puzzles in 45 min and describe hypothetical systems with academic terms. I can build an entire social media MVP by myself. But I can't get a job maintaining Settings menu for a (shall be unnamed) unicorn with a very similar app, which said app needing a headcount of 3k to keep running... My advise is, if your side project didn't become entrepreneur success, they are useless dead-weights. You might as well spend your time reading CTCI and doing Leetcode. Rants over... Help much appreciated..
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