I have a couple basic android apps. Straight out of college I think they helped me get a job. They showed that I could build something of decent quality, even if it isn't fancy, from start to finish.
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Re: Ask HN: Which personal projects got you hired?
#321. I created a bot that would optimize trade routes and buy/sell orders in EVE Online. It made 15000% roi in the first 20 minutes I ran it.
2. Did a bunch of analytics/etc for a guild in a game.
3. Created a neural net architecture that in addition to some task, also learned its own connective structure....in tf1 :)