These coding projects give you an unfair advantage

[@JasonGoodison]

DON'T GO TO THAT WEBSITE in this video, I forgot to repurchase the domain and it seems like its some weird virus now. If you want to build your own portfolio website, try Hostinger: hostinger.com/jason10

[@yopidz]

was that tim?

[@geraldgyeabour6610]

I want to ask wouldn't people know you used hostinger to build the portfolio?

[@user-hz7by8pq2t]

Can I get that script???😅

[@10_Roads]

@@geraldgyeabour6610 I guess they would. But if what you wanna show off aren't your website skills it doesn't matter 👍

[@ABalancedApproach]

Can you do a review on shecodes.

[@mosaabemam7867]

Project 1: Python automation script. Project 2: IOT based project. Project 3: Full Stack Application. Project 4: Game development (plus if involves physics simulation). Project 5: Scraping project.

[@RohitRohit-j6h5q]

Always I look for this commenrlt

[@Tassaczek]

thanks, you just saved me a few minutes, which would be waisted.

[@dominicmushayi3771]

thank you for saving me

[@yassine-sa]

I knew the thumbnail was clickbait for the most part

[@mosaabemam7867]

@@Tassaczek Next one ain't free 😏

[@T1Oracle]

If you can get over 1000 people to use your product, you shouldn't be an employee, you should be a business owner.

[@kibeyt]

FAX

[@dot32]

Well, I have a website that gets 1800 ish visits a month, but at only 60 visits a day, putting ads on that wouldn't make any money at all. I'd get maybe 70 dollars a year according to some estimates 💀

[@kibeyt]

@@dot32 there's a difference between website visits and people using your products

[@alihassan4060]

​@@dot32maybe try to sell something on it related to the website?

[@Morbsel]

@@dot32 1800 visits per month is not 1000 people using your product

[@Sussy_Boy625]

my first project was a bot that spammed ping people on discord that I had beef with automatically, every day

[@yousefosman8094]

I can absolutely agree about not spending too much time building a portfolio unless you’re a front end developer. That’s SOO much time and effort you would be otherwise spending on the projects you want to showcase.

[@SkyDread]

Or maybe make the portfolio full-stack by having a blog with some tech article to make it more "worth it"? I am thinking also that, since a portfolio (only frontend stuff) is quite easy to do, make it using less mainstream tech I do think people should still have a portfolio website anyway but ideally with a blog integrated to it. (or in a subdomain).

[@calgary2025]

even FE developer should not building a portfolio from scratch, it's a waste of time. Focus your time on the Projects themselves

[@shadofermusic]

@cjsport1254 dont listen to them, a portfolio is always useful

[@rubita482]

sadly that was the term exam our teacher gave us -_-

[@hadichamli]

My senior year project was a multiplayer game with the university's campus as the map. It had integrated voice chat, and the whole idea behind the project was to introduce a gaming element to online classes and making them a bit more immersive.

[@adnanhasan8558]

can you please list the resources you used for the project ?

[@tetsushiro9589]

Dude that's freaking cool. I hope you dont mind me steaking this idea of yours

[@hamazing913]

@@hadichamli Did you make the map from scratch?

[@hadichamli]

@@hamazing913 Yes. I used some reference pictures, walked around campus, and google street view to get the dimensions and placement of some landmarks around campus. It's a very basic map with the buildings made out of the primitive shapes such as cubes, cylinders and others. I was mostly concerned about replicating it from the outside before even thinking of the interior given that I only had 4 months to start and complete the project by myself.

[@shivanshchakrawarti9289]

can you provide your github link or project documentation? @@hadichamli

[@justarandomguy2478]

I did EXACTLY the same project as you in python (scraping the list of songs on a playlist using BS4 and requests, searching them on KZbin using yt-api and downloading using pytube only the audio stream, then separating audio from the mp4 using moviepy and deleting the mp4) and it took me 4 whole days of scratching my head and debugging stuff. Greatest experience in my life!

[@samueldjodi7983]

Is there any reference on learning making that?

[@justarandomguy2478]

@@samueldjodi7983 Actually I made it with just basic knowledge on Python and then I read documentation for each library.

[@sreesreejuks]

Could you please share the code.. I have been searching for this, I have been using spotify premium for around 3years as of now. and i was planning to switch to local. I have more than 20+ playlist and 500+songs is there..

[@yesman4005]

thanks for sharing, dope idea!

[@justarandomguy2478]

@@sreesreejuks I could, but the code I made works with my specific API token (hard coded) and has specific issues I left unsolved as I had already spent a lot of time and moved on to other projects.

[@karanarora2829]

Best time for this video to come, starting on my first project but had no idea where to begin. This definitely got me thinking in the right area.

[@fazeelayaz855]

I had a similar problem, since there are limitless possibilities. But one thing that helped me a lot was to look at other people's project and do something similar but with my own flair.

[@rhoynedev]

Using a website builder was obviously to promote the sponsor, but this is probably the worst advice I've seen - always build your website yourself if you're a developer.

[@JasonGoodison]

Well, I'd put it this way. If you had $50, would you rather buy a $5 wallet, or a $49 wallet? If you buy the fancy $49 one, you have nothing to put into it, so its practically useless. Students watching this channel generally have limited time and resources, so I definitely recommend building something else. If you have left over time, then come back to it and build the portfolio yourself.

[@moritzschuessler]

Agree even using a template makes it look better. Website-Builder always seems weird

[@dubbyy]

@@JasonGoodison To keep it a buck. I clicked off the moment you mentioned buying SSL certs... LetsEncrypt users and Certbot users are foaming out of the mouth.

[@michaelshort2388]

Agreed, if I were a client looking for a web app developer who used a website builder for their own page I would completely bypass them.

[@ronb123]

Agreed. I clicked off when I saw that he used an advertisement to interfere with the content of the video. Yikes.

[@baltaurrutia1932]

Singlehandedly one of the most inspiring coding youtube videos i have seen. I was hooked. So inspiring and manages to reignite my passion for problem solving and creativity in a matter of minutes. New subscriber for sure, keep up the great content!

[@JasonGoodison]

Aww thank you! Comments like this are what motivate me :)

[@prabinlamsal5125]

For me , my portfolio website was what got me my first internship. It was hosted pretty well and also contained all my project screenshots and detail. When employers have very little information about ourselves, having a self made portfolio site is a great advantage.

[@madlad1]

can u send your portfolio link i am curious

[@DEBO5]

Agree. The interviewer for my first job asked me how I built my portfolio because it had a nice design and really cool css animations (that I stole from codepen)

[@madlad1]

@@DEBO5 what did you say

[@willgriner8965]

can you link me the animations you used?

[@study-me1oe]

did you do it yourself or use some hosting service like hostinger. Also, can you share your portfolio link.

[@ibtehaj95]

Now, although I won't do most of these projects coz they don't really align with my professional goals, but I do want to acknowledge that building a game (or multiple) is a really good idea. I followed Ania Kubow's Free Code Camp video to build a couple of games on (vanilla, meaning pure) Javascript (properly, with graphics and all) and it turned out to be such a good exercise that I got hired despite my current employer needing a React developer (I couldn't do React back then). They didn't even mention React during the interview, but still hired me just by looking at my GitHub projects and the interview performance.

[@sejalheart]

That's amazing to know! I also want to try out videos like these but I am scared of the whole "tutorial hell" thing

[@ibtehaj95]

@@sejalheart You're right to be scared. Best learning comes from building your own projects, with your own ideas.

[@siddharthsingh913]

Even I started learning JS by making games. I prefer it over other projects because making games (however small) is fun. After learning basics of JS, I started coding following along with tutorials on KZbin on HTML JS games. One of my favourites is Frank's laboratory. After I'd made a couple of games after following tutorials. I started my first project from scratch without any help. I tried to make an exact web based clone of Nokia 3310's space impact. Since it's graphics would be easy for me to replicate on Photoshop as I'm not an artist. It was tough, but I'm really proud when the game was completed. I even deployed it online for others to play, but couldn't find much people to give me feedback. Nevermind. Then I moved to learning React and got a job.

[@theHarbingerOfDoom]

What projects do you have on your GitHub?

[@Loops-1]

Jumping on this to also say that building simple games massively improved my skills. I’m a visual learner who needs real world applications of code for it to make sense and building games like tic tac toe and breakout really solidified so many foundations. I also followed Ania’s tutorial and she was great. Although I don’t really think I want to go into game dev it’s a really impactful way to learn JS

[@SatyamCodesss]

Jason will literally use anything as a mic except a mic😂😂

[@JasonGoodison]

Haha what’s a mic 😉?

[@ABC-op2nz]

Couldn't come at a better time just as my mind was about to explode with the "is this thing im working on even worth it?"

[@JasonGoodison]

What are you working on? Lets chat about it in the discord :)

[@Gvue003]

Clickbait title, and personally I wouldn't do any of these projects.

[@edmundob.guevarra9565]

I agree with you bro but what might be the reasons why you wouldn't do any of these projects? (if u don't mind me asking)

[@Edexus1k]

@@edmundob.guevarra9565i actually liked that idea pf auto sort all files in download folder by their extension in other folders. Just working on it. Short auick but usefull project which will be done in one day and work as windows service.

[@ConorBailey]

That portfolio looks generic and flat out boring tbh.

[@recursion.]

fr like man really said to use no-code builder website to build portfolio rather than html, css and js. It's downright lie and its actually disgusting knowing some people who are just starting will fall for this.

[@forpetesnake]

Okay, multiple issues I have with this video. One, it's sponsored so this is advice is skewed. Two, WP sites are some of the worse for security practices. Yes it's quick and easy, but there is a trade off of being insecure and very hackable if not configured correctly (which is much more difficult than you think). More than 30% of all websites are WP sites, and this leaves a huge market for attackers to develop techniques and practices to exploit. So keep this in mind when pushing out a WP site.

[@jackedup447]

Yeah but you could also setup a WP website as more of a honeypot if you go down a cybersecurity route. Could be a challenge to have a sort of open invitation for random skilled red teams to attack you.

[@Sussy_Boy625]

yea haha all the sql injection and wp database attacks are very simple, just some terminal knowledge and a good tool is enough

[@MgelikaXevi]

But it is hardly an issue for a portfolio website. What exactly is gonna be hacked and why would anyone bother? Chances of it happening are so slim, that you are more likely to become a victim of another social network or google password leaks , rather than see your personal portfolio page being even viewed as target (let alone hacked)

[@tech3425]

Imagine a developer who didn't develop their own portfolio website. Speaks volumes

[@sherifsani]

I'm truly grateful for your assistance. I've been grappling with project ideas, and this video has provided the clarity I needed to regain confidence in my abilities. Thank you once more for your invaluable help.

[@trikooCreates]

this video is misleading.

[@bryantony9836]

Very much true...

[@TasneemMohammad-oj3ie]

whyy? i mean irrespective of the promotion

[@justin.johnson]

It's usually obvious with the Paid banners

[@DenisTrebushnikov]

my first petproject just to myself was the recalculating time if you speed up YT video to 1,25 or 1,5 to save the time for more useful things. Small and silly, however, upgrade python basics to proper level to move further. I did it after week of learning python, and I use git at every step, so I had to learn git basics too. Do step by step, and do your own pet projects by yourself to solve your own problems, and solve problems by yourself, just blindly repeating the tutorials is not enough and is the worst thing you can do.

[@DenisTrebushnikov]

@Jasongoodisonn nice try, mistmatch the YT channels hash ID

[@newuser689]

thats a thing i always thought about but never thought about making it a project. nice idea!

[@DenisTrebushnikov]

@@newuser689 for the step forward, use BS4 or Selenium to grab the video's length from YT directly, and/or write it using OOP and several files as modules. That silly (with some tricky math moments) project really deserve to be written by everyone who want's to start programming.

[@raoufmahdi5114]

i just made the first one, learned so much thank you guys

[@elhammurad2734]

The problem is that the people i wanna "sit apart" from are also watching this so I am gonna end up sitting in the same spot as everyone else 😂

[@cubmedia3448]

If every one has super powers, no one has them😂

[@atlantic_love]

Most people buying books, laptops and courses never really advance to doing projects. There are so many variables that get in the way of that. A portfolio isn't realistic advice.

[@psnisy1234]

Perhaps the biggest thing that I did not here out of all of this is the idea of planning. After a certain point of doing a few projects you want to plan things out. Think about a cool idea that you've always wanted to do or how you can make a pre-existing thing better/different. Once all the planning is done then everything else sort of falls into place from there as you research and build it out.

[@loirinhavix]

i dont think that these coding projects will give you an unfair advantage

[@Girlgetup__]

The girlfriend photo going into trash is insane😂😂

[@r1makan]

Hey, it’s good to see you again! Thanks for the upload. I automated my day-to-day routine stuff by writing a few bash scripts. So, it’s a matter of the only command and a couple of params to deploy a project I need locally.

[@JasonGoodison]

Thats so cool! Share your project so I can use it too

[@r1makan]

⁠@@JasonGoodison, I will bro! In fact, I built it having already been hired as a frontend engineer haha

[@niharikachhabra2341]

@@r1makan Hey, what all did u learn for that and what kind of frontend projects did u build

[@r1makan]

@@niharikachhabra2341 hey pal! The bash scripting I took up at work. My pet project was a website where I could save food recipes from a third party API to my backend. Also I could create my own recipes. The backend was a typical CRUD API app. The frontend I wrote in TS and React

[@nahishady6091]

Never felt in love with a KZbin channel on the first sight

[@Javi11Cc]

Project 1: Python automation script. Project 2: IOT based project. Long AD that lasts 4 minutes Project 3: Full Stack Application. Project 4: Game development (plus if involves physics simulation). Project 5: Scraping project. (i'm just kidding, the ad is well brought with an useful advice, great video)

[@kr0k3tt]

The note about the SSL cert is a little inaccurate. Let's Encrypt will sort you out with a free SSL certificate and will integrate into a lot of things.

[@AmodeusR]

the website portfolio tip holds up quite well if you area of expertise is not web development, but falls short in its solution. Hosting has nothing to do with making a website. You can host your portfolio website in many free platforms by the way, and for its design, just download a pre-designed UI and change the infos you need or add whatever you need keeping the style consistent.

[@AkritiKeswani]

Love the honesty about personal webpages + super useful/comprehensive content overall!! 🙌🏼

[@JasonGoodison]

❤️ ❤️ thank you

[@mariuseikenes9884]

"Honesty" is a stretch as it's sponsored. Definitely make your own portfolio site. It's not that hard to make a good looking one.

[@GTmotions]

​@@mariuseikenes9884you sure?

[@whodis977]

The video was really informative and fun. Thank you for your work. Love creators like you. Keep up the good work.

[@ici6308]

I'm really agree with you guy. Thanks !

[@neelbanga]

Love the collabs 🔥🔥

[@JasonGoodison]

🔥 thanks!

[@TraianMatisi]

The title seems a little clickbait, but the content is awesome!!! And very concise too. There is no filler talk whatsoever. Feels like kung-fu, only with coding vocabulary Loved it. Keep up the awesome work!

[@ahmedanwer6899]

i think sadly it is more marketable to do a project that uses popular, in-demand frameworks rather than a project that doesn't but solves a real-life problem to you. however, finding a middle ground between these two is the way to go

[@aaronomale3930]

This is one of the most useful videos I've seen recently. You have a new subscriber

[@AndreMarcosSiqueira]

I jumped out of my seat on the first suggestion. This is incredible. I need to work of this weekend

[@engkunasya]

On min 0:30 surprised to see that IMC guy actually was on your content too! I only follow these two programmers since April 2023 when I started The Odin Project.

[@JasonGoodison]

He’s great! Glad he could be in the vid too

[@valesanchez6336]

I love how you bring the youtubers I watch in one video😍

[@RicardoRamirez-dr6gc]

i realized i'm chronically online when i correctly identified the segway before the actual sponsored section came in

[@techhoseki]

I was watching this video in the feed without clicking on it thinking it would be just another one of those videos where you just end up feeling you wasted your time watching it However, it was different. This kinda content is much appreciated.

[@spaghettx6727]

thanks! this was super inspiring..

[@8rupees718]

Hahah love your spotify scrapper lmao, you gave me a good idea of what makes a good project. Thankyou

[@christobothma368]

That sponsored section was so ass, "something will go wrong". That's kind of the point lol, something goes wrong, you figure out what and how to fix it and end up learning something.

[@HirschDaniel]

The editing on this is nuts.

[@luissiul8089]

That was the most motivational video I've seen in a long time. Thank you very much

[@nariammgonzalez835]

I didn't know Tim was chill like that 1:19

[@adonnisperalta]

These are all really amazing ideas. I have to try at least one of these. Thanks for the video.

[@SinnerSam_]

Skip ad from 2:40 - 5:20

[@TheLastCodebender]

My man, your finally back!!😁

[@JasonGoodison]

🍻its been too long

[@abeautifulwasteoftime766]

Some good inspiration here, will definitely try to start on one of these

[@abuDA-bt6ei]

So should I actually not build my own portfolio website or is he just trying to sell me an ad?

[@aronbjarklind4929]

my thought exactly, vanilla code and going over mistakes and fixing them will do everyone good

[@eleahburman6888]

These ideas are absolutely brilliant.

[@ВолодимирБарибін-е8у]

Thank you for the video you are absolutely right.

[@justinbenito]

Wow, Great Vid Jason. I did the exact 5th project for myself, but didnt know that it was a legit good one. Thanks :)

[@JasonGoodison]

No way!! Glad to hear that haha. We're the same kind of cool :)

[@djee02]

From automating the coffee maker to implementing an embedded facial recognition software seems like quite a leap.

[@Benjamin-Chavez]

Loved the video. Didn’t love that half of it was a commercial though.

[@marthaquintanilla-ramirez919]

This was a very insightful video! thank you!

[@safa-uc1mk]

I love the last tip! Building stuff to solve real life problems in ur life.

[@Moon-li9ki]

3 months, over a hundred of applications, not a single itnerview. I need every advantage I can get

[@ДмитроПеченізький]

4:02 BRO THANK YOU VERY MUCH! AI WEBSITE BUILDER I'M SHOCKED!

[@gooseberry_disliker]

this was a ready interesting video! thank you for all yours insights!

[@IffyEdem]

I’m building a website for my EMS company and I’m just trying to make sure I get certain parts working, specifically an application portion that Emails a notification to the boss or HR, saves it as JSON on the database for record keeping, and then also allows a login feature for HR hiring to view them

[@andrewo.9412]

I thought about doing this for my EMS company. Even for a “portfolio” project.

[@jaimecastillo8716]

Tat Peter Griffin playing with the blinds is just me with everything 😂

[@hellowill]

I made a podcast scrapper, just to get a warning from the website to take down the github repo.

[@DarkPhoenixGaming92]

Not gonna lie, I legit expected the worst idea to be a todo list. You got me! 😅

[@svenbtb]

This is exactly what I needed, thank you! Tried the Web Dev route at first but it really didn't click with me even after making several webpages and sites with front/back ends (definitely did the portfolio website thing too lmao). So then I switched to C# with Unity for a bit, and now C++. Learned all the basics but now I'm trying to figure out WHAT to make and how to get better. So I'll just have to think of a project that's something that I would personally find useful, and then build that.

[@parkuuu]

Goodluck! I have the same thoughts with web dev. I started with C (CS50), got the basics and switched to Python. Learned HTML and CSS, Game development fundamentals with Pygame, Flask/Django backend development, Git, and went back to Python. Still learning how to make goddamn dashboards for Data Analytics/Engineering lol

[@RiRi-ku6xz]

Are any of y’all employed?

[@TasneemMohammad-oj3ie]

@@RiRi-ku6xz lmao

[@toastymoasty6344]

Thanks for the tip of not programming my own portfolio website! Though I think yours could improve a little

[@j0hnfe]

Great ideas, thanks for them 😮

[@Cryptocurrency69]

Hey Jason, I Loved the video and the project ideas are really awesome! The last project of yours about downloading the songs in mp3 really blowed my mind, so could you possibly create a video on how you did it and maybe share it so others can also use it ?

[@kamergeek2210]

I've definitely built a real estate web app and deployed it AWS on free tier but still feel like I'm not that good enough to get hired😑😑

[@shreehari2589]

Glad you featured Tim, he is really an wholesome guy

[@SergiyPopovych]

Hell yeah, you're back!

[@JasonGoodison]

Woot woot you know it 😉

[@NoobieKim]

the way internet made code got pulled out from the bed though 😂

[@TheFinagle]

Another for don't do (or dont include): any of those recommended coding practice projects everyone does, and there are hundreds of tutorials for. Not that they arn't good practice, or a way to get a grip on a new languages basics - but as a portfolio project unless you do some custom extra thing to make yours really stand out, all it shows is you can follow a tutorial. Not quite what recruiters would be looking for.

[@qwerty_qwerty]

I will never pay money to make a website if I can just make my own for free... (Talking about the don't code your portfolio tip)

[@maestrulgamer9695]

1:43-How is this a BEGINNER project idea?!

[@zainshahbaz6511]

its really a great video, entertainign and educative as well. Keep it up brooo :)

[@bombrman1994]

Worked at a corporate job and quit it in 6 months cuz it’s trash. Now I’m working in my own project that I always wanted to work on. I’ll be able to build multiple service providing apps and market it. If I can get 100-500 clients I’m set for success

[@Wanderer3639]

"Poor design is going to reflect on your capabilities"... meanwhile me trying to be a back-end dev thinking how to optimise my website portfolio to automatically shut down the webapps when they aren't needed to save costs. Design is forgotten when 60% of the stuff you interact with is in the terminal.

[@codegenius757]

Bro i am watching ur video first time, it is amazing and creative good luck while growing this channel u r the best and so interesting thanks man for amazing content

[@codegenius757]

@Jasongoodisonn what a gift bro?

[@zezo_zzz]

I dont know how to start any of these as a complete beginner 😭😭

[@sifou0550]

Dude me neither. Like how am I supposed to know about how do implement every single specific thing

[@MoFiTheMagnificent]

Finally, something actually fvcking cool

[@carsongutierrez7072]

This is great mate!

[@micaiahbeilharz7443]

Just checked out your website after watching this for the first time. It is really great and I can't believe that ai generated the main basis and framework for it.

[@Bombzilla]

longest ad ive ever seen, but other than that good ideas

[@anonanon2031]

You guys are giving people good advice, nice jobs.

[@andresilvaguitarr]

Your domain is expired. I thought you had the 48 month subscription. Is it not worth it?

[@analuiza2677]

Actually I think the portfolio is not a side project for any dev who IS NOT front-end. If you are, you should absolutetly do it yourserlf.

[@InternetMadeCoder]

Still mad that you dragged me out of bed - jk, love how this vid came together!

[@JasonGoodison]

Haha next time you can come to SF

[@deanwahle]

The editing goes crazy

[@theproactivemindset]

Great Content Jason!

[@freqh]

Facial recognition script thing... "That dude that owes you 500$"... That's really hilarious 😂 😂 ❤

[@Mirrox__]

I really don´t know how I could even learn python or any other coding language, like i got the basics, but where do like people learn more advanced stuff?

[@_mati90_82]

A full-stack project - a fully functioning banking system with a mobile application, including transfers and approval of operations via the application, etc.?

[@NubbyGamerYT]

This video was great!

[@Lauren-nr1wk]

Half of this video is an ad?! Crazy