Ask HN: What sort of side-projects are useful for getting jobs?
I&#x27;m a junior web developer (1.5 years of experience) and I don&#x27;t have a degree in the field, so references are all I have to proof my worthiness. And similarly I have a lot of small (mostly useless too) projects that nobody uses. But I still put them online. I have my own domain for development purposes only and whenever I finish a project to a satisfiable degree I put it on some subdomain amd add it to my list of references. Purely as a quick way for people to check what the code they were looking at actually does.<p>My references vary from simple image-upload site to a (more complex) link-hosting site that does a lot of magic behind the scenes. And a lot in between.<p>Even projects from hackathons. [Here&#x27;s](<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;helpmehelp.herokuapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;helpmehelp.herokuapp.com&#x2F;</a>) a perfect example. The code is opensource (terrible though :D). The project is old, irrelevent and unused. But still no reason not to have it hosted somewhere.