4 Handy Tips to Generate Project Ideas for Your Portfolio
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Projects in your portfolio are the best way to showcase your programming skills.
Picking a good project is the most essential part then developing it.
Here are the 4 ways to generate some awesome project ideas...
Picking a good project is the most essential part then developing it.
Here are the 4 ways to generate some awesome project ideas...
1. Pick Problems From Real-Life
- Maybe you're using some system which is not good, has a bad user experience, is too old or overcomplicated, or you're consumed by that problem.
- There's a chance for you to choose that as your project and solve the problem.
- Maybe you're using some system which is not good, has a bad user experience, is too old or overcomplicated, or you're consumed by that problem.
- There's a chance for you to choose that as your project and solve the problem.
2. Look for Opportunity in Your Circle
- Look into your circle, If you can build software to solve some real-world problems for your friends and family.
- Maybe you have a family business which is suffering due to manual work, you can automate it.
- Look into your circle, If you can build software to solve some real-world problems for your friends and family.
- Maybe you have a family business which is suffering due to manual work, you can automate it.
- Your friends & relatives need some software, but it's too costly or too generic, so you can help them build custom software for their requirements and at a lower cost.
- Maybe your college needs a new website for the upcoming hackathon.
- Maybe your college needs a new website for the upcoming hackathon.
- Or your college website is too old, suggest some new ideas to modernize it or you can add new pages on the existing site.
- Remember, Real-world project adds credibility to your portfolio.
- Remember, Real-world project adds credibility to your portfolio.
3. Clone Applications
- Don't clone some real complicated apps like social media, etc.
- Pick simple projects which can be cloned in less than 30-45 days for eg; Job portals, Freelancing platforms, Appointment booking apps like calendly etc.
- Don't clone some real complicated apps like social media, etc.
- Pick simple projects which can be cloned in less than 30-45 days for eg; Job portals, Freelancing platforms, Appointment booking apps like calendly etc.
- Try to improvise it and add your own custom features to it.
- Idea is to add more variety in your portfolio which can help you showcase different areas of your skills.
- Ofcourse cloning social media is not at all a bad option if you've time.
- Idea is to add more variety in your portfolio which can help you showcase different areas of your skills.
- Ofcourse cloning social media is not at all a bad option if you've time.
4. Bonus Tips
- Focus on Learning, Choose a project which can best showcase the skills you've learnt.
- If you're a full-stack developer then pick a project in which you'll get a chance to design the front end and build the backend. Otherwise don't do that project.
- Focus on Learning, Choose a project which can best showcase the skills you've learnt.
- If you're a full-stack developer then pick a project in which you'll get a chance to design the front end and build the backend. Otherwise don't do that project.
- Always remember a good real-world project will always add stars to your profile.
- If possible, try to keep a repo on git for others to verify your work.
- Host the application on some free platform to showcase it to the world.
- If possible, try to keep a repo on git for others to verify your work.
- Host the application on some free platform to showcase it to the world.
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