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Kati Frantz
Kati Frantz
@bahdcoder
I get asked a lot how you can improve your skills and chances of getting a job as a developer. Best way is to work on a real-world project, deploy it, make it open-source, get feedback from others, share your knowledge, rinse, repeat.

Here are my top 7 project ideas. Thread 👇

1. 📊 Build an embeddable user feedback form (clone of https://t.co/xFHvT7iFEf) . Have a top notch design, fully working, minimal bugs, open-source, deploy it free on Heroku / Netlify / Vercel. If you can spare $11, buy a domain. Share with the whole world when done.

2. 🚀 Build a product roadmap SAAS.(https://t.co/Rq9DBeCMlh) Users can create new projects, create different stages for their projects. The community can submit project ideas, vote on existing ideas. Project owners pay a monthly fee per project.

3. ⛈️ Build a digital marketplace. (https://t.co/BWd1aeWMt5) Sellers can upload digital products for sale. Customers can purchase digital products and securely download. Sellers are paid out at the end of every month. Don't make it complicated, implement a great design.

4. 👨‍🏭 Build a job board software (https://t.co/EjWoMyqi9H). Companies can post jobs for a price, providing a link to the job application form. Jobs can be highlighted as urgent for an additional price.
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Kati Frantz
Kati Frantz
@bahdcoder
Want to know how I grew rapidly as a developer? I took popular apps, and made a lot of research about how they built their app, and how I would build a clone with today's modern technologies. I have learnt tons this way.

⚡️Here's how I would build a Youtube Clone today 👇

1. 📊 Databases: Apache Cassandra (amazing alternative to MongoDB) is built for scale and can handle millions of writes per second as we scale. Redis would be perfect for storing tiny pieces of data that change fast such as likes, views, upload progress and queue jobs.

2. ⛈️ Frontend: ReactJS has proven to scale really nicely with application size. I'll add Next.js for server-side rendering of pages. Tailwind CSS would be perfect for styling, since we can style the whole thing with literally 25kb of CSS.

3. 👨‍🏭 Backend: Node.JS can handle it ! So Fullstack javascript all the way 🚀. We will also be able to use Node.js to stream uploads directly to third-party services, so that's awesome. It's fast, scalable, and we can deploy easily to any cloud.

4. 😈 Videos: The biggest pain. First I'll stream all uploads from Node.JS to AWS S3. When the file is uploaded to s3, a lambda will pick it up and send to AWS MediaConvert. This will convert the file into streamable .m3u8 format. Can be 2 conversions or 6, depends on the ...
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Kati Frantz
Kati Frantz
@bahdcoder
Want to ace developer interview?

Here is my number one biggest tip for making the best impressions to employers and interviewers, using the amazing @digitalocean as a practical example:

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⚡️ Pay attention to the company values. Visit the company site, write down their values, focus on them through out the interview process.

Practical Guide:

Want to work at @digitalocean ? Here's how to prepare for the interview based on their

1. 🚀 Community. Compile a list of all your community contributions, open source work, conferences and meetups you've attended or organised, and make sure you sing these out during the interview. Capitalise on your passion for the community.

2. 🎉 Simplicity. Take a look at their competitors, analyse how Digital Ocean is different. During the interview, topics will come up talking about caring about the customer to make things stupid simple. Participate by mentioning how Digital Ocean is doing this everyday

3. 🪜 Transparent environment. Understand what this means, and think about the benefits of having such a core value. Go ahead to look at your career and see how changing to such a model will be beneficial. Be able to express why this model would make you a better engineer.
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