Title: 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&#x27;s a good portion of Snap’s mobile app interface, built out by 1.5 developers (1 being me).<p>Then did a Bitcoin LN Wallet, from concept, design to code, took only 2 months.<p>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.<p>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&#x27;t know creating a 3rd table to track Reputation&#x2F;Likes between a user and a Story is a database concept called &#x27;Joint Table&#x27;. I have no idea that creating an equation to decay reputation inputs is called &#x27;Freshness&#x27;. 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.<p>It seems like in today&#x27;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&#x27;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...<p>My advise is, if your side project didn&#x27;t become entrepreneur success, they are useless dead-weights. You might as well spend your time reading CTCI and doing Leetcode.<p>Rants over... Help much appreciated..
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